Youtube comments of DXR (@MrDXRamirez).

  1. The problem with a free speech board is that the board defines what is free speech.
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  2. The president left the country and the Taliban entered Kabul.
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  3. The mayor approaches working for the government like a crime boss runs a cartel.
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  4. The mash ups are a great tool to show the hypocrisy of the media...do more of them.
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  5. The headline title is misleading. It should read: “Is China the most serious challenge to the US”. The criticism is meant to deflect from the real threat to humanity, namely, US military might.
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  6. The State saw a chance on capitalizing on a hot commodity by taxing it high, imposing a higher price on the commodity, increase its revenue until the market can no longer bear it, but the officials are not the sort of people who have an eye on the sociological implications of high prices as fertile ground for competition. Federal government does this with other countries, now with Russia, impose sanctions or tariffs. The expectation being the commodity they want to sell more of, has a lower price because the commodity they want to prevent selling was slapped with a surcharge or a tax. California legislators are lawyers or business people. How many of them are without conscience? How many voted on laws donors preferred they’d vote on? It would be up to county prosecutors to determine if legislators were enabling the growth of an illegal cartel industry by raising the price of the legal marijuana industry, and the donor money received are the profits from illegal cannabis. if so, the Cartels have infiltrated the Legislature and Assembly in California.
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  7. 27 seconds of news is what I call in depth analysis and true journalism. A sign that this media organization regards its audience as highly intelligent worthy of 27 seconds of information on a social revolt described as low intensity warfare on American and Mexican border big enough to raise the alarm of high officials to evacuate the streets and towns.
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  8. I am very concerned about this and I know the only way to hold these people accountable is to tear down the whole social structure of the establishment that is built to protect them.
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  9. A promised mass deportation means Mayor Adams of NYC will be voting for Trump. Loyalty in political parties is only skin deep once you are behind the voting curtain.
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  10. To know you are accounted for...in life and in death.
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  11. I can't help myself...whenever a politician utters another politician is lying to the public..my automatic assumption is that the politician is lying.
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  12. The Americans cannot find a pretext to invade Iran or Venezuela. Both nations are crown jewels for the US oil industry to control the world market for oil. Connect the dots yourself...
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  13. He says: “He was not in control”, he wasn’t in control even before he was not in control.
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  14. Racism is a precursor to genocide.
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  15. Americans have been hoodwinked and bamboozled by a successful distraction campaign.
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  16. Trump is not the only member of his class who pays little to no taxes.
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  17. true at the time because you could escape poverty when Steinbeck said that great observation. Escaping poverty may not be so easy this time around.
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  18. Cheap money is intended for rich money to borrow and with that money buy up land, buildings, stocks, bonds and property anywhere in the world. For the poor it means debt.
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  19. At 0:52 ---“It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress’, the former president gives sovereignty of Congress to a foreign people and nation when he says this. Without awareness he means, Congress does not belong to the American people. Americans only elect representatives into office. But in office the American people are excluded from Congress. A general facade of democracy representatives have to make it through to be part of the alliance between political parties of two separate countries. He is partially right when a foreign prime minister is invited to speak at Congress by no invitation of a sitting president was small window of the hubris of the settlement mentality of the Republican party’s support of Israel. And he is partially right that the American people are not a sovereign people.
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  20. The real issue is class inequality.
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  21. Poor factory workers. Right in the path of the tornado. All structures must have underground emergency shelters going forward.
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  22. Baldwin is a wonderful author. No better teacher on race and racism in America than he. For as long as white America continues to be what Baldwin describes Baldwin will always be quintessential.
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  23. Never put number one and number two together in the same craft.
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  24. I love Mr. Lynch’s disposition. Kay Burley is a “Karen”.
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  25. Depressing news, especially the part about the wealthiest billionaires pay no taxes and Americans paid more in taxes than they accumulated in wealth, still the American people tolerate this exploitation is the depressing piece about this scenario.
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  26. Tell me why I should believe the Israel prime minister?
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  27. “ The Battle of Chile” is a live documentary film shot at the time of the actual coup. Incredible documentary. Costa Gavras’s “Missing” , adapts Ed Horton’s story of his son, Charles Horton, killed in Chile during the coup...a chilling film....must see. Ed Horton, a Manhattan native, was played by Jack Lemmon. I saw these movies in 70s and never forgot them.
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  28. America is far behind Chile in terms of social progress, it lags in development of its own working class and indigenous populations in a wide range of human rights and social programs. One nation can and should learn from others on the right track of human development.
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  29. The Students of NYC are light years ahead of the rest of the nation. They and the people of Israel who want Netanyahu and his party of brutes to resign will do the job.
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  30. I appreciate the fact that this was the real Katie Britt because with AI we will never tell if its the true person. She and her peers have yet to make proposals on how to regulate what AI can and cannot do. AI is here now not some years down the road. Cost of living through the roof! She said Biden sent the cost of living through the roof...you know what she is not saying...she is not saying wages are below the cost of living because profits are through the roof! Corporate and private greed is what she is not saying and neither are you saying it loud enough. It is important now more than ever to say what is not being said.
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  31. What right does the City Council have to let the land be sold for commercial development if the 380 acres of forest land is property not owned by the city council?
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  32. Its fun examining the propaganda and revealing its propaganda. Good work Jimmy. You are indispensable.
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  33. The warnings were given by meteorologists. Problem is the governors are not knowledgeable of meteorology to call an evacuation with confidence. If we gave the meteorologists the power to call an evacuation the politicians might learn something.
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  34. A monopoly is when one corporation dominates the market. An oligarchy is when a few corporations dominate the market. America has oligarchies that are active in all departments of its total economy. Some departments of the US economy depend on slave labor or the labor of non-citizens for whom the laws regulating the workplace do not apply and some departments depend on hired workers for whom the laws regulating the work day also do not apply, as all, or most, work 12 hours per day, an extra four hour loss to themselves is a four hour gain to employers. Adds up to a lot of gain for one at much loss for many.
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  35. I totally respect Roger Waters, he takes a stand against Apartheid in Israel.
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  36. Russia weakened...? Russia, even when it lost a war it came out better off than when it went into a war is what makes Russian history a remarkable subject. No other country is the same as this one, a vast land mass three times the size of the US with 150 different cultures and languages, it would be a monumental task to accomplish regime change in Russia, especially coming out of the collapse of the USSR. If you can get through Russia’s natural protective barriers you’d be the first in 2000 years.
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  37. Happy to hear it. Good job Brazil.
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  38. 140 million people organized would definitely do the trick...
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  39. Well, 2 million incarcerated men largely black completely blows Garland theory out of the water that all Americans are entitled to the fair treatment of the application of the law. And when a San Mateo Sheriff in California can send four cops to Illinois to the cost of the taxpayer on behalf of a rich real estate billionaire to shake down the maker to put his Batmobile ahead of the line for delivery the corruption starts from the ground all the way up to Garland.
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  40. 7:09 The coup planner John Eastan (lawyer) who meets with Trump and Pence is a person of interest as a coup planner for others. 9:40 The sweeping election reform Trump called on Congress and 19 states legislatures to impose on the American people is how the Republicans will move toward a Constitutional Convention with 22 states required and re-write the Constitution with one that consolidates political power on a permanent basis. January 6th was dress rehearsal.
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  41. He and his friends should form a new government to replace what we have in the US.
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  42. Don't buy anything from Walmart, spend your money somewhere else until Walmart employee demands are 100% satisfied. Build a movement ready to act as a support.
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  43. Never happened in my lifetime that a CEO would be targeted for assassination. It should send a message to other corporate CEOs, they are vulnerable, and if government does not restrain bad acting CEOs somebody in this great sea of people, will. What a time we are living. To be a CEO was once a respected, admired, envied, and prestigious position in society. Captains of Industry who built great cities and amassed fortunes are today vile and pernicious, obsessed and deranged, vulgar individuals who make you look the other way. The masses have no confidence in this generation, not with the breed of capitalists who today command all the resources, act with malice, greed, insult! Quite a time we live.
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  44. A criminal investigation of the CEO of DuPont was dropped in 2006. We can go back to Plum Island NY 1992 a decontamination site restricted from public use. Further back to Love Canal NY 1978 a decontamination site restricted from public use. Forty years of the same pattern of corporate activity I would expect the worst is to follow.
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  45. Now you know why agriculture contributes approximately $73.3 billion annually to Georgia's economy, according to the UGA Center for Agribusiness & Economic Development. The 2016 total Farm Gate Value for the state was $13.75 billion. One in seven Georgians works in agriculture, forestry or related fields because most are employed as immigrant slaves.
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  46. Amazing that they can survey inflation, the rise of prices, without comparing them to wages that lag behind prices at 4.1 %. They will never talk about flat wages because they know people will demand higher wages from the enormous profits earned by employers and corporations.
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  47. Forget it, Kazakhstan is a big country of strategic importance to Russia and China.
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  48. A day I will never forget. It was morning. I had my cat in my arms. The Challenger blew up. My cat died in my arms as I watched the Challenger. The phone rang my mother informing me my father passed away. I spent that cold morning digging the frozen ground in tears burying my cat before I can drive to my mother 70 miles away.
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  49. This documentary is excellent... eye-opening, a man with a camera, with a real zest for life exposes what is never seen in the mainstream.
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  50. I cannot stand this mayor. I blame him for the callousness he emits as a human being.
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  51. Don’t let the detractors detract you from winning. Excellent interview.
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  52. Vijay could not be more accurate. The US is a moribund nation with two moribund political parties dominated by a military that is networked with the private sector for its essential materials. This is a reason to be against US wars.
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  53. People in the US do not realize they do not have to work 60 hours a week to meet their needs. In fact, getting other people to get people to work over the amount people really need is the cornerstone of American social life. Cut the working day in half and families can pay attention to raising their kids and not grow up to become little Nazis raised by the internet. America can build a house and produce food cheap but people are kept from the value of their product by dealing with capitalists. Their job is to get you to work the hours over and above the general productive average. They want the gravy your work creates after you created some for yourself and family. Described as a rat race the rat race becomes a living hell in the world of work, chaotic, disorganized...anything goes including life and limb. Neglect how you make a living and you also neglect the quality of life.
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  54. People will have to ditch their cell phones if they want their freedom and learn how to communicate with each other the old fashioned way.
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  55. nice observation, she would have added value to society. The officer takes more value from the community than the officer is worth or puts into it.
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  56. The collision proves management at the MTA had spent very little time and effort improving and reinvesting back into the system safety systems and for a long time, had gotten away with it until this collision called attention to this deficiency in management. Same thing is going on at Boeing. The management there care about the quantity of planes and the workers at Boeing are pushed to get as many planes out the door. The quality of the planes at Boeing and the quality of safety procedures at the MTA, in a word, suck because sales orders come first, public safety comes second.
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  57. Warren reminds me of country music, she is right wing liberalism set to music.
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  58. Surprised this video made it through the normal filters. This kind of stuff is never shown to the American public by a mainstream news organization.
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  59. The spring broke!
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  60. If I am not mistaken civil lawsuits filed against police are settled by taxpayers. The personal or organization funds of the police are left intact. Unless a judge orders the settlement paid by the cops themselves they suffer no compensatory losses. Political autonomy is achieved through an economic autonomy, their money is out of bounds, is the unfairness of the system. Problem here is ... a structure of immunity. The City employs the police and the tax payer pays the settlement. Economic immunity is the result.
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  61. If we do not do away with the consumer oriented and materialist society as the model for all development, it will do away with us.
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  62. Bravo! Michigan overturning the Right to Work legislation is a victory for Michigan’s middle of the road working class. A conservative blue collar victory as far as allowed in a republic. We are only as whole as our wallet is full.
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  63. Jury acquitted the cop when they should have rendered a guilty verdict on the basis of the 2nd Amendment and the absence of any other reason to kill a man.
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  64. I have no sympathy for commanders who use their police to serve eviction notices,--- the legal work of landlords. Commanders have a choice. The officers were killed by their own commander though the commander never pulled the trigger the order to serve the eviction notice fired the shot. If a landlord can meet a tenant before the rental they can meet the tenant after the rental. This goes back to your legislators, who never reformed the system from the days when sheriffs served notices on behalf of the Company store and work camps to people or the factory. Why do you even have a legislator when they do nothing to reform and update a system a century old...this is really stupid America.
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  65. It was not a privilege for your grandfather.
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  66. "Collapse", a country at war for 20 years is not the definition of stability, Chuck.
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  67. Reverberating within my head is the slogan of the First International, "Worker of he World, Unite, You have only your chains to lose and a world to gain.", after watching this broadcast.
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  68. Workers cannot get their health insurance through their jobs, that has to end.
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  69. Another perspective on Bernie is that he is the only baby boomer who can redeem the baby boomer generation by taking the US on a trajectory to redeem all humanity.  He may be the last time humanity has a chance at real freedom and real democracy until the next major social upheaval brings it or it never happens.
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  70. Excellent reporting. Get the full story and Americans need to grow up from the immature emotionality media generates in them and be objective not stupid.
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  71. This practice of the federal government dates back to the Indian Wars of the 18th century. Reservations and the Bureau of Indian Affairs, are the two factors of a concentration camp. A concentration camp is the forced exclusion of a culture from civil society.
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  72. Militaries in countries in Africa are not as strong as western capitalist countries make them out to be, to the contrary, they are weak militaries but what they are they represent the only organized social structure of the exploited mass of people in Africa. The terrorists and colonists are foreign elements unwanted by a majority of people harmed by their presence in Africa. The raw material of Africa has and continues to be extracted by colonists is the real story uncovered by the military coup is in the eyes of Nigerians a bold step toward freedom from French and American colonialism and capitalism.
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  73. The decade of the 90s was the only period of prosperity in America after the last period of prosperity in the decade of the 50s. Between the 90s and now its hell on Earth. There has not been a peaceful prosperous future for the last 25 years in the west for nations beyond their own individual wealthy elites since the start of the Iraq invasion. Perpetual war, these people are divorced from the real world. In the last 20 years never mind the last 25 or 30, we saw the rise of the Yellow Vest movement in France, we saw Brexit, a break away vote from the EU, we saw Greece get economically strangled, we saw drought, famine, climate disasters, recession in all of the European economies, a Great Recession bigger than the Great Depression of the 30s, a Pandemic, we saw the rise of digital currency as a way of not using the Dollar for trade and commerce, and so much more has happened, not to mention western allies abandoned in Afghanistan. We saw Russia bogged down by extremists receiving guns and money from Congress as a matter of policy among Congressional senators and to the average American for losing jobs of no fault of their own, a measly check. We saw riots in every city. Children shot in the crossfire of civil society falling prey to police violence and overkill. We saw barbarism in America...2 million elderly dead from COVID and Nursing Home disasters. We are in an inflation. These elites won’t even do what Nixon did to curb inflation. Why should I believe Elites presiding over the last 20 years will bring peace and prosperity in the next 20 years? You’d have to be a psychotic like they to claim they are worthy of my vote in the next round of elections, assuming election are not rigged, another thing we saw under their watch. We saw the rise of Donald Trump as an expression of how much the elites are despised by the 74 million Americans. Now a food shortage in a country that has ample food. They are not sincere on the words they speak. When they get into power the first entity to get the appropriation of the nation’s wealth is the military, year in and year out, as the only program worthy of government funding tells you something about who they are.
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  74. No question a socialist society is far more capable of mobilizing a population than a capitalist society with respect to health and disease and the application of science in society.
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  75. Holland is on the brink of a social revolution as well. I am imagining there are many countries on the brink of having their own internal social revolutions that we are in another age of revolution.
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  76. I'd have to agree Bernie is the only answer to the Trump nightmare and Tulsi is the only answer to the Military nightmare.
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  77. Wonderful guest speaker...so clear and concise is his objective critique of the cost of American imperialism on the working class. I would like to have heard his views on how to make a revolution in a capitalism fully de-regulated.
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  78. This ban pleases me to no end.
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  79. Seattle is a city where the police actually protect the street events that take over the streets and keep the middle classes tucked away in their homes frightened to go outside. The most enabling police force in America is in Seattle. In fact, every city in America has their own weird nightmarish dysfunction going on that none of the police forces know what they are doing or have the skill to control what is going on. Nobody is in charge and this guy talking in the video is the king of platitudes.
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  80. We are witnessing the exent of control the far right has gradually usurped over the Police and the Military.
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  81. In the 70s all eyes looked at South Africa with disdain. It too was accused of cruel and unusual punishment in the same way the US is charged with such crimes against humanity.
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  82. This is a total disaster! America can send billions to fight wars for oil and all the politicians agree but a functioning water treatment system for a city of people the politicians resist doing and disagree it needs to be done at all?
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  83. They insult your intelligence.
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  84. The price of things in a prison is not the same as the price of things outside of a prison. Prices in prison for necessaries or for services are monopoly prices decided in a general way by the eagerness and solvency of the guards controlling the necessaries or the services. Work in a prisons everywhere is forced labor, in combination with monopoly prices and scarcity between who gets what, inside a prison makes the allocation a bloody affair.
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  85. Bloomberg cuts off the interview mid thought on Yellen. She probably said something Bloomberg did not want to hear. “De-risking from China’s Supply Chain”, says it all right there....code language for we can’t beat China.
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  86. There isn’t a Left in the US to organize workers. Unions in the US are corrupted and weak they fight for themselves (own economic interest) at the expense of the whole class of workers. Then there is the race question still unresolved since the Civil War. And there are male politicians who hate women attack the right to their own bodies. NYC is the only international city in the United States that an obscure left still exists. Outside of NYC America is a vast land of religious denominations promoting individualist ideas, voluntarism and theology, these social forces crush worker solidarity between working class families and employers are organized and empowered by wealth as a social class. Workers in America will have to go through privatization before they begin to organize themselves because they are not going to believe the alarm notices of a Left Opposition about their lives under capitalism; so they will learn it the hard way. Eradicated by an indoctrination against socialism the people in the US identified themselves with their own enemy and took without questioning the anti-communist rhetoric of American politicians since the end of WWII. This had effectively reduced a Left Opposition movement in America that many are sorrow for. Don’t mourn, organize, this from a 90 year old talking to you.
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  87. Imagine what that money for that escalation of troops in Europe can do to reconstruct our economy. It could build electric high speed rail coast to coast and flying will get better and safer as a result of the new mode of transportation. Plus, more that it can do...truly, they do not care about “us”.
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  88. Brilliant analysis by both thinkers. Real treasures.
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  89. A lot more is accomplished by mass protests and social opposition than ten years of conferences can ever do.
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  90. The way the Yalta Conference in Crimea, was taught in American history books framed the conference as a meeting of allies in the defeat of fascism. Nazism in Germany and fascism in Japan, I remember reading the chapter still present in my mind 55 years later the picture of FDR, Stalin and Churchill seated together in Yalta. The story was never written as a process of capitalist expansion into the Middle East giving concession to the Soviet Union which became the republics left to fend for themselves when the USSR fell in 1989, they became embattled with their own internal oppositions as in Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Balkans and so on. The history books told the story wrong as we see 80 years later the socialist economies pushing western capitalism back and the foreign policies of FDR and Churchill after the war that were carried over barbarously by Bush in Iraq than Clinton, Obama, except Trump the bump in the road that tipped the carriage of its rails, the aged Biden cannot put the cart back on its tracks. It becomes more clear that the bump in the road would not had happened if the American establishment acknowledged its own failures but it is clear why they cannot admit they were wrong. They did too much wrong to the American people and the people of the Middle East, they did what England did to India in the Middle East. They invested their capital into mining and drilling at the expense of their own industrial growth and progress. The wrong is on the order of criminally wrong. The economies of developing nations have caught up to the productive agency of the western powers. The British are still unable to grapple with the fact that they are no longer an imperial power would influence the US in the same negative way that it too is still a power controlling the affairs of the world when it is not. Living a false reality at the expense of the well being of their own neglected nations and the planet presents the problem of hubris, arrogance, lies, deception, and a fierce tendency to preserve what is lost while conditions multiply into worse shape for a majority of Americans, that now something has to be done to change the polices of the US nationally and internationally.
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  91. Brilliant young woman.
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  92. An incredible life that echoes America's erroneous ethos with grace and humor.
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  93. Scientists have been warning us that new pathogens and viruses will come with the rise in temperature of the planet. We can expect to see virus 20, 21, 22, 23, etc., each one stronger than the previous strain until we reforest the planet and restore nature back to health. Human civilization is simply not equipped to handle the speed with which new strains emerge from animals if their ecology is destroyed by human civilization. China proved, no matter how draconian the west thinks of its methods, tht socialism can handle an epidemic. The numbers do not lie. Can it be perfected, of course, trial and error a socialist system operates on a general interest that it can learn. I don't think the left cannot take the high road on this matter against the right. Since the politics of a capitalist society creates two kinds of politicians. The left suppresses human progress when it is in power and the right when it is in power preserves the economic order. France under a socialist government suppressed, America under a capitalist administration pumps money into a system to preserve it. The ecology of animal life does not discriminate between who is holier than thou on the question of human habitation, ecology and public health. Factory farming and the pet industry is only one aspect of the big picture. The relationship of war to ecology and the passing of bacteria and pathogens from the dead to living humans is one aspect of the big picture. Oil drilling and excavation is an aspect of the total picture. Deforestation is another aspect. Put all together the health of the planet declines. The uneven development of human habitation, as it is leaves one side of the planet completely deforested and the other side of the planet with a concentration of wildlife has less forestation brings animals into closer contact with humans. A collapse in the health of the planet is a driver of new pathogens and viruses. How we work, live and eat (habitation) passing pathogens from animal to humans through family, industry and urban development for 7.7 billion people, consequently, alters our public health, ecology, and industry. If you listen to American capitalists, they would tell you if the government gave money to people why would they go to work? Work is the golden goose laying golden eggs. A worker has no value because the worker creates value. Capitalist societies cannot respond the way a socialist society like China can respond to quell a dangerous and fatal virus for its stops the golden eggs. Socialist societies have the ability to stop production (economy) and not have the effect of a crisis in the same way capitalist societies experience a crisis. If you stop production and circulation in China it is not going to disrupt the economy from functioning but it will affect the social order and this mainly for fear of losing political power. In the US and the EU the impact cripples both spheres of economic activity, our social lives and the economy. And this also bears a fear that is probably on the forefront of losing political power. But in the US and EU if production is stopped surplus value cannot be realized and the entire social order falls to pieces, which is the reason most American capitalists would be opposed to Trump's allocation of money to the 70 million non-essential workers that make this economy run. Capitalist are heavily dependent on workers producing the value they accumulate. The supply chain must keep going for the supply chain is the gravy train. Furthermore, because the supply chain is the gravy train for capitalists what the government considers a non-essential worker is to a capitalist an 'essential' worker and a contradiction arises where the capitalists is antoagonistic to the government causing social conflicts and chaos, antipathy, even anarchy. A worker is torn, pushed and pulled by two sides interfering with the work of clearing a pandemic. China is in a position to help Italy, send doctors and also provide the technique that worked to reduce the viral epidemic. There is no soft way to interpret the inherent failure of the American system of its delayed response to crisis. To the contrary, the US continues to sanction other nations which cripples their ability to cope with the disease. The politics perpetuates the onsluaght of the next strain unknown to science emerges. Deforestation, damage to the ecology, uneven economic development across the planet, and our public health, i.e., poverty, homelessness continue to threaten our existence because of this inherent contradiction of the economic order and damaging effect on people when the supply chain by every means possible must continue.
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  94. More bad news! The stories that caught my attention were the big American retailers withholding payment to Indian manufacturers who, in turn, cannot pay his/her workers who are, as in the footage, all women in the garment factory. Shows the behavior of American capitalists to exploit female labor in other countries for higher profits. A glimpse into the logic of capitalism in that story. How American retailers sell to US consumers cheaper goods for higher profits and the way to do that is to lower the cost price by not paying foriegn manufacture(s), and we get products made by unpaid labor of women in the factories. Nice to know that by shopping at Walmart, the Gap, and other retailers we are spending our money to support a slave trade carried out by these American retailers. The other story that caught my attention there is a war raging in Afghanistan indefinitely and the Brunswick police withholding evidence for two months on the Arbery case, to the story of Mayor Goode behind ordering the bombing of the Move.
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  95. If South Koreans were politically active as French workers the South Korean president would have been overthrown and flown to the US in exile for this edict.
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  96. 9:00,---the Police shooting that black man running away is exactly how a gang would do a hit.
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  97. It should be no mystery to Americans why incidents like this happen in their country when Ecuador and other Latin American countries are engaged in political struggles.. Social and political struggles in Ecuador and elsewhere intensify into a open civil wars. People flee, seek refuge in safer places, believing the safest place is the US. How their journey ends for them is reported in our news today: Authorities in San Antonio said they found 46 bodies inside or near a tractor-trailer in what they’re calling a suspected case of human trafficking. ABC News’ Andrea Fujii reports. A direct link between tragedies at the border and Washington policies toward Latin America supporting military force for the repression of indigenous people’s rights is revealed when fully connected. The more disconnected the events of this type are reported the less the average American has direct power and control over their own speech and freedom. Clearly the American media company ABC reporting what police say it is disconnects the relationship the incident has to American foreign policy makers.
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  98. They should look at the people consuming the services of prostitutes and what may be the external causes for their frequent visitations to prostitutes. Why they may be seeking companionship in places that are not their own individual homes and relations and get a little booty on the side. That would be a far more productive and entertaining way to examine the dynamics of sex in society.
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  99. Productivity and innovation are two powerful sources of human activity that should never be privatized.
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  100. The American people live in an undemocratic society but their state department and vice-president use democracy as reasons for war. GW said the same thing when he invaded Afghanistan, his father said the same thing going into the Gulf War, Clinton and Obama modified the phrase with the 'rule of law' that Americans will invade a country to establish the rule of law. Lawlessness in the name of the law, this coming from an un-democratic government, in an unequal society, that admits elections are rigged by outside influences, invades in the name of Democracy; yet has no respect for proletarian democracy within its own opposition.
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  101. Timing is ripe for environmental conservatism, one that truly defends the right of nature.
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  102. Acapulco is not my idea of a paradise. This in reference to the journalist’s opening sentence. It used to be a paradise until western developers and corporations got their hands on it. One of the most beautiful bays in the world can return to its former glory thanks to Otis. The cesspool of rank excess materialism, tourism, commercialization and gentrification that looks like Las Vegas is no more, finito. With ocean temperature rising and ice caps melting there will never be another commercial development in that bay for decades maybe even centuries. In fact, it may never be the bay it is today as ocean waters rise and take up more of the shoreline. Nobody will take the chance of building there and insuring a project development will render that project completely unprofitable. What is bad news for foreign investment and capital is great news to me. Aca was a fantastic place with its own unique charm and habitat. Foreign investment made it look like any other place in the world that became gentrified.
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  103. And we gave this man the launch codes.
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  104. Its about time someone noticed Henry Wallace. As a Historian I consider him significant. An important historical step he took as FDR's VP, when he reconstructed the American economy out of the Great Depression into the glorious years of the New Deal. The current American working class, what is left of it, owes its middle class status to Henry Wallace more than they do to FDR.
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  105. In that case it is you who are violating your own asylum treaty. Sending people back to their doom via mass deportation is a direct violation. Second this is taking a stand against genocide. Where do you stand?
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  106. Very interesting history and that of all nations so far in the 21st Century having a positive effect on human history it is China. The steps the CP took this country is remarkable. Free the Mind of Ideology.
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  107. When civil rights are taken away we on the outside are the same as inmates inside the prison system in homes that have become our prison cells.
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  108. Doesn't say much for UCLA.
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  109. If the killing was random the body would not have been buried.
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  110. The world is littered with paramilitary death squads and military monsters through the proliferations of arms
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  111. School district is the wrong party to sue. Sue the Prosecutor’s Office.
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  112. Эту литературу следует читать во взрослом возрасте; слишком молоды, мы не привносим в персонажей жизненного опыта.
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  113. Equality is inequality in Capitalism. Equality is universal in society but equality is not universal in the workplace.
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  114. Late Aaron Bushnell joins the late Thich Quang Duc, Buddhist monk protesting the war in South Vietnam, when his image captivated the world. Duc committing an act of self-immolation, burning to death in 1963.
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  115. Class struggle is when employers extract from employees value producing labor and when workers resist and reject the price of labor-power employers pay.
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  116. We keep electing stupid people into office. And, when they get into office they are stupid enough to cling to power and provoke a revolution. The masses are way more patient than I am for a revolution to be provoked. Raping nature is where I draw the line.
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  117. I guess Kemp can’t tell a gang member if he saw one.
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  118. You cannot get enough of this type of news commentary...great team. So real and direct.
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  119. Sounds like the unionists in Ireland are the same as the sessionists in Texas. They don't want to part of the union until they need federal disaster help.
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  120. Bravo Airgas for taking a stand against the Death Penalty. More industries and their workers should do the same.
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  121. Dr. Rachel’s prescription is clear and necessary. Politician’s feet held to the fire and ousting the Oil Industry from government.
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  122. Great victory for the NYC Taxi Drivers. It can be done, organize!
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  123. Greatest threat to the police is to do absolutely nothing at all.😄
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  124. This social function tells me that the society Charle’s Dickens describes in his ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ is manifested in American modern form. Celebrities and business leaders represent the part of the consuming public taking in all the wealth at a function and enjoying the finer luxuries in life while I am stuck in a comment section along with about 14.5 million subscribers, if that number is actual.
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  125. Yes, ---Rude and disrespectful if this be true...I heard laughter female and male @ 2:08 from the studio while the reporter on the street made important comments relative to economic rural development outside of the cities. “Land grabbers”, in short, economic theft from its original owners by real estate and land developers, could be mining companies too that want the land, and the population once on the land are separated from it travel into the cities doubling the population size...creating an urban working class in the cities is pretty serious from many standpoints. It opens up the gates to flooding the job market with hungry new arrivals and for employers the price they pay out in wages just got cheaper for them. Hungry people know how to stretch out a meal to save a buck. But hiring for less comes with a heavy price for society. Employers can take in more with increases in productivity exhausting working people and this is reflected in a loss of 5% productivity and GDP is a substantial decrease of the total pie. The climate changes won’t permit exploiting productivity increases without a breakdown in society. Yet it is done...heading us into disaster...terminal poverty, low birth rate, shorter lifespan, social dis-unification and social alienation are not good for army. Napoleon taught us that lesson. Hotter climate is serious for the military, troops dehydrate from over exertion and die easier. The land that could be farmable is used for military bases is bad news for the society suffering a higher incidence of over exertion...all around this is a catastrophe for the human race for whatever that society contributes to the world market by way of its products...we saw a 15% drop in grain exports from Ukraine and the war there is about to enter into an escalation with newly arrived patriot Missiles from the US. None of this is looking positive for the immediate future or for the long term which is why the ethical position is to end and take a stand against the forever wars of America’s national security elite.
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  126. Had the Marriott honored its contract with them the community would never have felt the urgency to organize a town hall that night on Islamophobia. The event in reaction to Marriott’s decision would have likely never happened. The Muslims would have had their event at the Marriott and left happy. See you next year. Marriott decided to squash the deal. This is the kind of stupidity that never wins in the end.
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  127. None of these people know what to do when a quake strikes.
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  128. Shocking, immoral, despicable, barbaric police practices!
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  129. I find it an interesting anomoly for a rich country to be behind the number of people lifted out of poverty in China. Half a million died from the coronavirus in the US and 717 million Chinese families just got a new home, job, car, and life in 5 thousands formerly impoverished towns. What a striking contrast.
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  130. Literally shameful. A bastardization of democracy.
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  131. Problem here is that reliability of facts. When trust in government evidence and statistics, facts, are found inaccurate, and there is no will for a third party independent review of war crimes.
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  132. Yes but we are not fish.
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  133. Universal Health Care and Family Leave stripped from the Recovery Bill is enough to vote against the bill.
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  134. This is one reason, I have many good reasons, I would join a national tax revolt if there ever was one. I want the Public to decide how to appropriate the Revenue of the State.
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  135. Good report.
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  136. The appropriate and correct thing to do is not escalate the matter with a military solution that is no solution at all, but call the Russian and American ambassadors together and have them not leave the room until they come to a definite resolution and provide admission statements at the next UN Council. There are no grown-ups among any of the characters on the world stage in this drama that its time the curtain come down on them.
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  137. You know things are real bad when this story is the feel good story of the day. Child saved from barbarism.
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  138. Gabor Mate and Harriet Fraad would be a good interview, in fact, the subjective realm is the expertise of both people would be a great combination.
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  139. In the 70s a guy like the State Department guy, a square dude would have gotten his face punched by reporters of that time. There was so little respect for square people, anyone appearing as he does was so allied with the establishment that he would have had to leave the building for his life. The young generation in the 70s were militants ready to tear down the establishment the room would have others holding the state department official with hard questions is the real difference between that room now and in the 70s.
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  140. This is the reality...a failed state for the many but a successful state for the few.
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  141. Don’t be silly the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act works against anyone but the Foreign Intelligence Service. The question why and how is for scholars and historians to answer. Who are they that the means should be theirs to control and use against anyone not in their organization cuts to the chase. That is the decisive question! Who are they, who do they think they are, and What are they in the Foreign Intelligence Service?
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  142. One good reason why housing should be a Right; a pervert landlord can never use your home to extort you.
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  143. Good catch this is the period that shapes my perception of Trump most likely the rest of the nation does not know about Trump.
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  144. Rise of the 99% and the Dissolution of the 1%.
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  145. A 79 year old is too old to not be medically certified to fly a plane. Harrison Ford had a brush with death flying five years before he hit 80. He chose wisely to stop piloting small craft.
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  146. April 15, join the rebellion to happen in all major international cities, protesting everything.
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  147. Very nice commentary from the labor professor, nothing better than labor studies and labor economics for a solid account of battles between workers and bosses.
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  148.  @chiefkaha5650  America does all the time. Israel defends the US. UK defends Israel. Now Japan will defend the US in Asia opposed to China. Economic nationalism has set nations back by around 70 years. Its 1940 in 2023.
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  149. Ms Paris is really talking about institutions with social policies that lead to the destruction of the family. Rich and poor alike. Cost is about $60K per child and if you break down the economics the lesser portion goes to the child. Multiplied by the number of kids in the custody of 50 states and that is whopping amount of the GNP that is spent on this tragedy. Be cheaper on us to give every family $5 grand worth of free therapy.
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  150. The way I see it, Wikileaks is a direct connection to the public as internet invention and Assange as a journalist editor did no more than what established journalists had done exposing crimes of the president and war crimes in 1974. They shortened the life-span of lies, deception, and misuse of the American people.
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  151. The Norfolk Southern Business Plan is the same as all corporate business plans in the most general sense. From the amount of earnings and value accrued by Norfolk over the decades the way to get rich is to exploit labor and the richer you make Norfolk Southern the richer you as its CEO become is the reward.
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  152. America is a society of contradictions...that the majority of people are compelled to work for subsistence and working is not a means of self-fullfillmen in society...says that the majority of Americans are not free to create or pre-determine their own nature. It is a society where human beings are reduced to passive subjects, progressively deprived of the powers of uncoerced choice. The majority in America work to earn their living very few of them are living their lives in fulfillment.
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  153. You describe Ukraine’s president to a T.
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  154. Place to begin to push is in Kentucky, watching the news of the death toll of the tornado a CEO was being interviewed. Its intimidating to be on camera when that is not your job. The most important words the CEO made in this interview was: “None of us are prepared for this.” Its common parlance to say prayers and hearts are with the families. But that is not enough! Prayers might change Jeff Bezos’s behavior but I doubt it. Factory owners may be nice people but in emergency situations their role in production should end right there. The slow to no response Amazon made to not release their workers is shameless negligence, and other small warehouse and factory owners also did not heed the National weather warnings. This is not what I call a ’loving’ characteristic of a people who care for one another. The working people in those workplaces are not objects that can go to cinders with the other objects in the factory or a warehouse. Die in a collapse, explosion or fire without emotion, be treated like objects. This was the point the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Tragedy of 1911. One hundred and ten workers working overnight in a warehouse factory to fulfill Christmas toys was not as important as getting out of there before tornados come! The owners prove by their own actions that a private interest impedes rational decision making. They cannot act responsibly. Odd thing; it was all not just one employer/owner acted the same. You can’t put your life in their hands is the issue. Prayers and condolences are not a good defense against future tornado storms. Society has to make a real decision about production in general. Either owners have free reign over production and tragic yet avoidable events like this happen, or the workers have control over warehouse and factory operations and enact their own emergency evacuations. Because, 1., remote control over work and workplace by long distance management is a failure and 2., direct control by the owners is a failure of over-efficiency. And 3., using the government to enforce owners and workers to do as told is a failure. Who are i a better position to regulate production are the participants, the Workers are in the best position to decide when Christmas presents can get wrapped, or when the mustard and candles get made, not the clock and not government.
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  155. The author misled the authorities to the wrong man. Before her in the line up of all black men were the prejudices of a police system mixed into her own prejudices. She must have felt pressured at the time. Be done with it, they are all the same anyway. Mr. Broadwater exonerated after 40 year long imprisonment. Author becomes a successful novelist and screenwriter. Funny how in the present every human act becomes a historical transcript. So important to be conscious of these historical forces in the present but they come disguised as accidentally related when knowledge of their origins is not one of your strengths, and you receive them as expected never aware the contact is a document for some future downfall.
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  156. Fauci did a lot of damage to this institution. They need an upfront and honest public relations campaign to restore faith and public trust in themselves. An Ad would help.
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  157. A remarkable piece of history.
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  158. Boy are you nieve.
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  159. Indeed a very sad day losing these workers who worked while everyone else sheltered in place during the pandemic, my respects to them.
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  160. This was a good video. Max is a good social historian.
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  161. Landlords have been getting away with this for decades. The child of Eric Clapton fell out of NYC apartment building was the famous case of landlord neglect in NYC.
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  162. New beginnings implies the death old ways.
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  163. This movement is great, historical, and rational. Now is the time for other forms of non-violent protest.
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  164. The real history of US policy is conquest, from its inception its policies were conquest, period. Anyone who believes in Trump's victim card, that the US has been cheated, abused, the victim on the world stage is a dam fool!
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  165. Americans are oppressed under neoliberal policies even if they think they are not. Less government is a neoliberal pillar of thought, less for who is the question? The middle class is shrinking, extreme wealth on top absence of wealth at the bottom levels. Extreme class stratification and voter suppression laws. Right to Work Laws, Cuts in Planned Parenthood, Cuts in Education, and absence of a national health care program, tax cuts of the rich, privatization of services and 40 million people who are poor in America, 100 million living day to day, all 330 million living on credit, some with collateral that credit is handy, most are relegated to the absence of cash. Americans are living in the poorest rich country in the world not a truly affluent society at all.
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  166. Deepest condolences to the Guatemalan family who lost their children.
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  167. $40 billion to Ukraine is a waste of tax payers money too...do you really give a dam about what happens between two countries 9000 miles away...which disgrace is more disgraceful? Money to Ukraine or money to illegal migrants?
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  168. Good time for a working class party in the States. I think the middle majority are primed for a rational socialist program. Looking for a focal point the majority are sick of the incompetent democrats and extremist republicans.
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  169. AGREED! Legislators and council people need to be recalled from their offices for the immunity they give to officers.
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  170. There is no question immigration is weaponized against the working class by employers here and in Mexico.
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  171. If you do not raise your voice nobody else will.
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  172. I do not see how America can change without gong through hell first. A virulent right wing see this crisis as a call for the overthrow of the government or its reduction into a monarchy.
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  173. Acrid Air: They totally ignore the toxicity of the smoke that carries for miles and miles into the lungs of millions of people. If EPA officials had the staff to inspect all factories, warehouses, and workshops in America, explosions and fires would not be as big or as frequent. EPA is so understaffed all it has to curtail workplace abuses are law suits and with judges ruling this way or that way in courts that largely favor property owners whatever injuries workers sustain or hazards the community endures in the post period of an explosion or fire, simply is ignored.
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  174. I was a tour operator, DJ or Hotel Manager yesterday; today I am a climate refugee. My world turned upside down.
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  175. The cobalt consumer in the end is the American and European consumer completely or partially ignorant of the exploitation of human beings by the production process of cobalt.
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  176. Fabulous idea. So should homes. Mini emergency shelters that all builders must install like the old days when farms had underground shelters but modern. Keep thinking these ideas they will lead to a better world.
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  177. Over one hour despite the presence of heavy force. This against one single armed 18 year old is a glaring example of decay, collapse, death, of a social system. The process of disintegration of a social system never looks like a Hollywood disaster film, it spreads over a period of time and aspects of the society begins to lose purpose, relevance, use. Violence itself is an action, a verb, its not a physical force until it is set into motion and comes into contact with a physical object than it becomes a noun. Violence as a force can be controlled. It can be contained like a bomb, or dynamite contains the potential for an explosion. Violence in its objective form appears in many forms. Violence appears in the form of a person and in the form of an institution. The institution that embodies violence in latent and controlled form in society is the institution that is the Pentagon and its subsidiary enforcement agencies, the Police. The high level of efficiency in a decaying society appears as inefficiency in practical life. Cops are useless, lost purpose, and relevance from the top down. Violence has an official and formal appearance in society and it has its own purveyor of violence. Violence is also a commodity, a thing that by its properties satisfies a want of the rulers, therefore, it contains abstract labor like all commodities and compares its value against the time it takes to make some other commodity, and it has a representative owner of violence, acquired by means of a purchase, that is also a sale. The sale contains the profit the purchasing does not. The Pentagon expects a profit from the sale to other nation buyers a quid pro quo, and its subsidiary law enforcement agencies expect from society something in return. Obedience. The Pentagon is in the business of violence by means of war. As an institution the Pentagon is the largest merchant of violence in the world. Violence is its primary product. Violence gets distributed throughout the society in the material form of weapons and makes its way back to the society from which the violence came. Violence circulates through society the way money circulates through the market or blood circulates through the body of mammals. The coordinated and planned mass walk out of the students responding to this event is what the workers of all the gun manufacturers have to do against what their own union leadership would tell them, as an action against the violence. Stop the production of arms and let the whole society fall right in step behind you.
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  178. Good interview and this kind of interviewing is exceptional worthy of a Pulitzer, you follow in the steps of giants, Leacock, Pennebaker, Maysle brothers.
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  179. You make a real good observation of the effect of America’s Mass Propaganda Campaign as exercised through popular culture. As Max said the anger on line has not channeled itself to the streets as an anti-war movement.
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  180. Leave it up to a youth who does not have the historical facts down.
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  181. The pro-abortionist should have added “forced labor” when she said “make no mistake republicans will make this a land of forced births”.
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  182. Behavior speaks to a culture that takes everything at face value.
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  183. Good interview with Mr. Cohen.
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  184. America, land of wealth due to the absence of wealth. Where the existence of private property for the few is the non-existence of any property for the many.
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  185. I have no greater knowledge of this event than I did before I clicked on this channel.
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  186. So true. Monarchies are rarely proactive, in fact, never. Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, etc., face a crisis of legitimacy. Yemen is ruled by neither monarch nor class but by a popular military resistance force turned opposed to western imperialism.
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  187. I really don't think more money should be put into the hands of a people who are dysfunctional anymore than I believe they should have the right to bear arms. Americans are the last people on earth who should have weapons and money at their disposal. That to me is like giving an upper middle class drug cartel a fresh boatload of cocaine every month with which to rot the minds of America's youth. If there is a group in America more worthy of receiving an economic boost than the middle class it would be America's working poor if only to save them from absolute starvation and material degradation in the richest country in the world. Schumer is too middle class to see this himself and Manchin is too rich to understand that without a functioning and materially supported working class this republic has no wheels to roll on.
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  188. At 3:20 the reporter had to be fair, “But international communities are refusing to lend directly to the Taliban.” Can’t blame the Taliban if the Afghan economy is choked off from international lending programs by global banks. This says who is responsible for the starvation of the children more than the reporter did.
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  189. Kornaki can double as a weatherman.
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  190. There are two histories about this whole affair that make many people doubt both and all.
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  191. A business park planned outside of the ground the study found to be sinking, if true, makes me think the study had the purpose of acquiring the sinking land on which the long time community lives for a song.
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  192. Sure, everyone in Border Patrol need to live up to the standards of the 'rule of law', but when the Border patrol fails to live up to its own principals the rule of law is some abstract concept people hide behind and nobody is prosecuted or held accountable for their actions.
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  193. When health is something you can buy... ...the rich live and the poor die.
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  194. You’d think these men would break down and cry...this is life and beyond, no chance of ever getting out.
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  195. dalambchop Hyde -- that might not work for Bernie,. For one thing DM and RNN audiences do not need to be convinced and the other thing, is that we are the rabble his oppnents will use against him if he speaks to that audience. Further, the way America works is by changing Public Opinion which is controlled by the mainstream.
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  196. Barack Mitt Romney Obama.
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  197. Working conditions are deplorable for workers in general. The accumulation of surplus-value always looks like a distribution of surplus-value into various types of incomes, but behind the facade there is a definite class of capitalists whose incomes are derived from the unpaid labor of others; and we can add to the death of workers. Silent sufferers of accumulation trauma! Working in America is an industrial war. This war rages between objective conditions of work and the workers themselves in all of America’s factories, farms, mining, construction and meat packing industries. For workers, this is a serious life-threatening ways of surviving on the job. The workers pay the price and the employer claims the loss in productivity, higher costs in health care because employers accelerate the labor-process for more profits increases the hazards. To me workers have one choice and that choice does not mean compromise with a class that literally hates workers and is killing them!
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  198. A companion poem... When health is something you can buy, The rich will live and the poor will die.
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  199. I like how they framed the Bhudda using the landscape behind it.
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  200. The title to this clip should be "Netanyahu's War Party Leadership Race".
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  201. FBI did good rooting out the KKK members in DeSantis's Florida, they are on the right track.
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  202. The CNN anchor appears to not have expected Fareed’s analysis to be more critical of the US State Department’s reactions to the balloon incident is the impression I get from her facial expressions. I agreement with respect to the meeting with China should not have been canceled.
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  203. This is one man who deserves to be imprisoned for life.
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  204. Huge victory for the people of Honduras of the man protected by a Honduran Land Oligarchy found guilty in the assassination of an activist water protector.  Workers in Honduras know what wages are really worth, there is no mistake about the direct forms of exploitation but in the US where the exploitation is not so direct how much can a person buy for their money in return for the tedious amount of work a person has to do to get that money? None of this would not really matter if it wasn't for the fact that machinery cheapens the means of subsistence and wages if anything should move downward buying more goods instead of downward buying less subsistence and industrial goods and services. That this is not happening and people are giving more of their free time to the boss is a sign that machinery is for a capitalist system at this point of its development, a way to create higher amounts of value and not at all a means for raising the standard of living of the population.
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  205. You have to wonder about all the people attending the Branson concert and where they came from? Typically, middle class looking based on the footage of the crowd. Any public event today is a public event with a political purpose in these times, that the ordinary person, apparently, does not realize how they are used as consumers. Not my idea of honesty when you're out for a good time and the money you spend ends up going toward a coup de'tat! I have to wonder if the bands hired to perform were aware this event was turned into an extortion rally by Guiado forces? This is the problem with being an unaware Public, passively going through life seeking entertainment and distraction, never aware or refusing to acknowledge a fund raiser would become dirty and corrupt money.
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  206. I am not in agreement in calling the first, second and third socialists states a failure when they are surrounded by hostility from capitalist states. Seems the hostile states pressure the new socialists states to throw all their human and material resources to defense of the new socialist republic that the workplace is not democratized. Seen this way even Stalin's War Communism is rational. If this were not the case the US would not have the largest military in the world and a Military Industrial Complex, coming out of the experience of the Russian Revolution and two political parties that agree on strengthening the MIC; cooperating democrats and republicans who make no commitment to a better world unless it means a world without socialism. Which to me is its prime mission. This will come to light when this MIC turns against the American people, particularly Black, Brown and Yellow People who because of and out of desperation from abject poverty become radicalized as a last stand against extinction and slow genocide from poverty.
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  207. The audacity is in the pretending George Floyd was not under a knee at all, invisible, because his death was natural for a drug addict's for health condition.
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  208. Minnesota pig farmers should get a seat at the table in their own legislature and negotiate a resurgence of smaller and more humane pig farming. Congress should have passed a national land reform program that limits the size corporations can get and opened land up to small farming generally to meet the demand for a better and healthier, happier, animal to consume.
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  209. You are doing great work Jimmy.
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  210. I love these satires.
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  211. All of America's road system has to be re-designed and re-built with people in mind not cars.
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  212. When scholars study the decline and fall of civilizations this will be one of its pivotal moments.
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  213. If it is found the land or home was owned by a corporation addressed in Wall Street or the title to that home is traced to several LLC companies to a Post Office box, how would feel about officers serving eviction notices then?
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  214. Very soon the sound bites of the news given to Americans that covers as hard investigative journalism will consist of a vowel and a noun immediately followed by a commercial.
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  215. A song about hardship in Cuba? Hair, make-up, studio cutting, record recording, lights, action, camera...takes a lot of money to produce a video-and record. If I saw Cuban women and children, fathers and grandparents, singing a song about hardship in Cuba I'd be more inclined to believe this production is not western propaganda.
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  216. One need in society entirely ignored by political leaders is a health system that won’t fall apart when it gets swamped with patients.
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  217. We got to this space because hospitals are privatized and health is something you can buy. You don't like but that is how you made it.
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  218. I do not believe the Political Establishment can rely on society forgetting this story; the degree of suffering is too deep and the inaction of the police impossible to forgive and forget.
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  219. She walked into an apartment held by a gang posing as squatters?
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  220. The Arms industry in particular in the US and Britain perpetrate war on humanity.
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  221.  @65minimom  David Madison is right. Read the history of Haiti and racism is clearly the motive of French and American power. Washington's intolerance toward Haiti is consistent with that history.
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  222. The social labor $500 billion dollars buys in capitalism would be this... If total student debt added up to one trillion it would take two installments of this military budget to pay it off. That is how much social labor is contained in that amount of cash, i.e., $500 bn. The more you look at dollars as representing social labor, the working lives of all of us, in terms of time spent working to raise that kind of money the more you realize the blatant one-sided misappropriation of tax revenues in Congress in the distribution of social labor. The GOP and the democrats can never win a general election on policies that spend this amount of social labor on products that produce no value to society but only serve to protect the status quo. By hook or crook the GOP have to shove the scare stories and unpopular policies down the throats of the Public to stay in power and continue spending social labor recklessly and without accountability.
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  223. The working class is diverse in the US, its diversity is its power, but that power will be useless to the working class without its own political party to voice and activate its strength to crush the juggernaut of the billionaire class dead in its tracks.
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  224. Confronting Capitalism...good.
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  225. But as a result of the richer becoming richer through Trump and Johnson policies, a new social standard of living for the rich has been effected that the continued accumulation of wealth into fewer private hands imbues itself as policy mandates in the name of public safety. This would account for not fixing the problems of capitalism and using science to shut down the main sources of working class incomes.
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  226. 19:38 This moment in America’s history is the fruit of the Reagan counter-revolution that began in 1980. That counter-revolution made possible the State enforcing the interests of a particular class and not the interest of all.
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  227. More movement of the masses is needed to expropriate the few who dominate the political world, create the wars, and expropriate the masses. We need way more people for the few to step aside and still more of humanity to alter the course of human history and create social systems that discourage people to exploit people and finally end the practice of discrimination in all its forms.
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  228. A perfect example of Capitalism taking out of a community more value than it puts into it.
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  229. Employers who build and manufacture the necessities of life we all need and consume raise their prices and the social security fund increases go to the employers in the form of higher prices provides a swift way to rob social security of its funds rather than increase the fund through a reduction of military consumption furnishing the demand for higher prices. All the grandparents in America consume not a third of the total products the US military consumes in a year.
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  230. The professor lays out some real important points and ways to start looking at monopoly capitalism with more precision.
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  231.  @glenncanfield5775  Assume American Jewish people had absolute power of Congress and you are excluding the sovereignty of non-Jewish Americans from Congress. The comment he made reveals a truth. Congress does not belong to the American people; its a citadel of foreign interests. You have to get elected by the American people to get into the Cartel. They get in the people go out.
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  232. Workers need to win a battle against their greedy employers with consumer solidarity and worker power in numbers.
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  233. This is the best show on earth.
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  234. Yes, I am wondering if this stage is the stage in which the policies of Washington are turned against them, if the weapons they use to retain power are now working against them? The concentration of trade and manufacturing in one country as a policy are now killing capitalism and the political parties because the rest of the world no longer has to tolerate it! If this be the case the bourgeois classes in American society could be just as divided as the bourgeois classes in Venezuela are presently, and this is an opportunity for a general movement to step in and take power. What happens after power is taken is the hard part. Holding on to power is worrisome, because as soon as the working class takes power the counter-revolution against it is set into motion from all sides. The bourgeois classes through their economic power use their right to not sell and not buy, close down the company, or shut off the power, and the political state uses its right to take emergency measures shutting down it services to society, mostly through the DMV and modifying Traffic Safety Laws prosecutorial measures against leaders and organizations of the working class are taken. The media launches a 24/7 propaganda blitz and black outs, to further isolate the working class, and finally, a coup d'etat in the works installs a hatchet man.  We can learn from the Bolivarian revolution that the working class began immediately creating new distribution systems of the necessities of life to make themselves independent of the bourgeois order of distribution and then organized small farmers and truckers into co-ops while the urban working classes turned their homes into producing centers for real material needs. First order of the day in the life of a revolution is that you cannot change society on an empty stomach!
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  235. The problem here is that military spending and investment produces less wealth for societies. Destruction allows for a fresh start in the accumulation of capital. New roads, buildings, schools, hospitals, factories, etc. that the damaged ruined country can rebuild and be a major consumer for the nation over productive of its own products and in desperate need of new markets. Destruction is a military’s main function for capitalist economies to create wealth; regime change is the political name for the destruction in whatever country a military is active. Lives are killed in war. Young, old, un-borns, orphans, lives are permanently damaged in the process that destroys for capitalism to thrive and generations suffer long term trauma impacting the development of the human species as a whole. All militaries reaching the point of nucelar deterrence are the same. A high cost to maintain, the risks, the slow return on investment, a high rate of dependency; if you shut down half the number of America’s military bases the US economy would shrink, production would come to a standstill and a work force reduced from 155 million to 70 million is how dependent Americans are on the military for their jobs. There would be a remarkable peace dividend that would re-employ that workforce and solve the problem from the cut in the military but that peace dividend would be fought out in a protracted struggle by vested interests in keeping the war machine going. Wealth is generated through employment is the capitalism of today as it has always been from its beginnings, only now capitalism in America is over productive that destruction becomes a regular part of its business cycle or these 155 million by attrition are out of a job. Each generation outside of the US has to rebuild what was destroyed by America’s military is good for all industries inside the US who need to employ workers who are productive of profit ...so when people say they are strong and will rebuild that’s money in the bank for Capital.
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  236. Impressive how fast a community can came together. Coming together in a big way is the way to do it.
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  237.  MsTecnofan  Took the words right from my mouth.
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  238. The Rich do not pay taxes and that increases our debt and accelerates inflation. The republican representative dismisses Tax Cuts a part of the economic surplus the owners of financial wealth consume as private income. That’s welfare for the rich.
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  239. For me to live safe in society I have to be in the womb. O’Connor’s admission of how unsafe society is for a child and mother. But its cheaper to pass laws protecting a womb than it is to make a school safe from violent attacks.
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  240. Chesa is great. He'd be a great DA.
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  241. The US won't last another 20 years.
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  242. Donziger is the Julian Assange of the Oil Industry.
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  243. There are 13 thousand billionaires world wide and 1.3 trillion was accrued by these billionaires. The report fails to mention that at the same time the billionaires accrued this money during the pandemic 100 million people were thrown into poverty in 2021.
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  244. I remember this. DeKlerk made a real contribution to history this day its significance became an example to other ruling classes how to put a repressive social order to rest. A lesson completely unheeded by the US, Israel, Australia at the extreme end and at the modest end all other colonial social orders still remaining in the world. It was the day Apartheid had a dignified burial and presented a new South Africa to the world.
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  245. How much advanced warning did these workers get, the CEO never answered the question, completely evaded it.
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  246. Ned Price reads the script, the formula of Empire, given to him by a class of war mongers in the Pentagon.
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  247. A woman in a trench coat armed with a long rifle – and accompanied by a young child – entered pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church on Sunday afternoon and began firing, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said. Looks to me like a family drama unfolded that afternoon between a mother and the father of the daughter, someone prominent in the church. The woman had also threatened she “had a bomb,” but authorities searched her vehicle and a backpack she was wearing and found no explosives, Finner said. “She was also spraying some type of substance on the ground.” Plot thickens.
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  248. The number of buyers in the housing market has changed from many to few. Housing indicators are thrown off, it looks like a shortage of houses, but its not.  It looks like construction costs are up and slowed down but its not. Prices pushed up from the number of bids on properties makes it a closed market for only high money rollers. One such example, Bill Gates owning 245, 000 acres spread across 23 states pushes people right out of the market. Get educated people.
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  249. You do not need to be an insider to predict the future or tell the past.
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  250. Another reason to get out there and show mass opposition to the American Food Industry practices!
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  251. Will I be able to attract people I want and repel people I don't want at will, is what I want to know! How did this person become a doctor?
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  252. Cities were the place to go to be a freemen in Europe and get out of serfdom. Towns, villages, cities welcomed them and even helped those who got free from their lords in the countryside of England and serfdom. Its a decline of Kalamazoo as a city but it is also a place where freedom has new meaning. Nothing of the city is owned by the city. It is a triumph of two capitalists who with the capital in money they did not pay in taxes to Kalamazoo they lend it out to the city and now control the rate of return on the money the city borrows to run its services. A great transfer of wealth and a legal swindle placing the necessities of the city to function into the hands of two people, William Parfette and William Johnston. In the Middle Ages the courts in England in particular had to determine what a family was. People from serfdom married people who were free. Love does not know class distinctions. But in practical maters the courts had to make a determination when it came to marriage, inheritances, liens, property ownership, the work done for the lords, etc. So what defines a Kalamazooan, a slave or serf?
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  253. I like the way that Depeola character’s paranoic psychosis was cut down by the reporter. His hysterics is a good reason this country has lost track.
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  254. Rule #1: The market value of the dollar rises and falls in relation to gold. This rule applied to these circumstances means that gold maintains its stability while the price of the dollar falls. Persons, or nations holding gold can buy more dollars than persons and nations holding less gold can buy dollars. For the persons and nations who have less gold they will have to borrow more dollars, evidently, at a high rate of return for the lender and give up more of their free time to prolonged working time to make up the difference between what they need and what they can get with that dollar. Let me put it this way: I would not walk down the street with gold chains around my neck.
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  255. The race war Trump is agitating and provoking is a deliberate smoke screen to derail the working masses from joining the struggle against climate change led by indigenous people. The fight for good soil, pure water, and landownership empowerment is the same struggle for big city living as it for rainforest people around the world. Trump cannot afford these two social gorups coming together and have it directly challenge the social relations of capitalism. If the labor force were to become a part, the entire Trump social system will come to standstill and fall apart. The end of a system does not mean the end of the human kind.
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  256. Note the language used : " Foreign Adversary". Yes, if you consider the CIA a foreign adversary.
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  257. City has bulldozers and the military has specialized equipment for every eventuality shows the inequality of resources between city and state. Shows the money goes into the military and very little of it goes into emergency management of cities, not just Buffalo, but across the US.
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  258. Could not have asked for a more conscientious labor leader in Sara Nelson. She'd make a great presidential candidate for 2024.
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  259. Wall Street, Washington, and PR/FCB, the Troika of Bondholders of the Caribbean, doubles as a Wall Street Neoliberal Austerity Plan.
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  260. The residents of the area are so fearful of him they give him what he wants so he can leave.
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  261. 'Yellow Jackets"? He means 'yellow vests' a color that symbolizes being seen after decades of living unseen and forgotten under neoliberalism. In the states these would be federal and state employees, two employee groups divided by two authorities.  Whereas in France it is one employee group divided by one national authority wearing the vests. Social revolutions cannot begin with themselves before they have not stripped off all superstition in regard to the past.  Trump and the whole right wing in America are the past to be stripped of their patriarchy.  Tragically, the Democrats are a patriarchy too! People look to past world history in order to drug themselves concerning their own content.  The social order presents phrases ignoring the real content of this revolution. The here and now, becomes more pressing, the content of life goes beyond the phrases of the old order. American society developed a new content for itself in a revolution centered in the family and in the home, it seems the state returned to its oldest form, to the shamelessly simple domination of the the gun and the cowl rather than to be a tool for this revolution. The Trumps are turning their back on the needs of this new family social structure in society. Trump was the coup de main for white working people who threw at the Democrats an unexpected stroke in the presidential election of 2016, they now give themselves over to the coup de tete of a rash Trump. Easy come, easy go. Meanwhile the interval of time has not passed by unused.  The unrecognized revolution in the household is ripe for another eruption of social lava, a second phase of this revolution.
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  262. Monopoly Capitalism is what we have....people need to read everything on the subject...every industry in the American economy is dominated by high concentrations of wealth into fewer and fewer corporations that started that industry with labor and evolved into a mechanized system of production that gives that corporation the power to dictate the prices of commodities it sells; corporations have reached a power to raise the cost of the means of production to lock out any competitors in that industry. Public health, food, work, and housing to its people are human needs antithetical to monopoly capitalism, humanity is a barrier to its development! Government as an institution representing the general interest of society is incompatible to the particular interests of monopoly corporations. The situation in the American scene the working class is confronted by are a class of individual monopoly interests government regards as more important and transcends the survival needs of good health, food, employment and housing for individuals and individual families.
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  263. The general Public has to take a stand against a state that makes it a crime to be human.
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  264. Great woman.
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  265. We need a vision of a new society to make it a reality.
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  266. Are willing to take up arms in Jan 25 for Trump?
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  267. Nice catch Jimmy, especially the “we grew up equating communism with totalitarianism” part, I do see what’s happening and more need to see it too...way more. There is a great teacher in you.
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  268. Its a good thing the workers and indigenous people resist accepting the economic burden they are being forced to take by president Lenin Moreno. Its not their fault the economies fail so miserably. His government's actions is a frontal assault on working people, I hope they succeed in his overthrow and a new government is established, one that reads on its banners; All Power to the People! Let this be a lesson to all rulers in the world as one failed Neoliberal state after another topples to the sweeping rise of the masses making history, their time is up!
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  269. Perfect. Macy’s building will become an apartment building.
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  270. Jeffrey Denton -- Two war parties in competition to control the war machine is more like it.
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  271. You mean two weeks after he went missing the FBI is only now searching the water section of the preserve...talk about total incompetence.
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  272. Children in America are coerced into formal relationships that inherently unequal and will grow insecure less confident and more likely to die younger from the inequality they have been cast into for their whole lives.
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  273. I love these satires...jimmy is great.
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  274. Kudos to a city providing shelters as an option...something not right about you, fella. Shelters are no option. People are homeless in America because of the rich own the greater share of the land and builders cater to the rich.
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  275. The Turner-Brown contest is significant in that tons of money from outside is brought in to defeat Turner. This is one election where the content (Turner) is more important than form (Brown).
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  276. This invasion is about the eradication of socialism in general from Latin America, not about regime change for democracy. If the American people expect this president to sign into law Medicare4All, they have another thing coming!  Medicare4All is a socialized program of health care. The late Senator Dingle pushed it everyday for the last 70 years in Congress as a right of every citizen. Never happened - Congress passed for signature and made into law the ACA, but that is not a national program.  Eradication of Socialism in all countries of the North American continent is the stated objective of the State Department. Every particular, word and action of government to that end is tied to that general goal means Medicare4All is dead on arrival indefinitely. We are immediately confronted by a clique intent on using government as a means for its own ends.
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  277. This would be the same as breaking and entering your new neighbor's house at gun point as a way of welcoming them to the neighborhood.
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  278. But he did not kill an ISIS combatant. Gallagher is your generation's Lieutenant William Calley of the My Lai Massacre of 1968. The general then, Westmoreland, also ordered a scorched earth policy. His wife said he followed the general's orders; "Take the gloves off". Who is really guilty of war crimes here?
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  279.  @Dtheitalian  Wrong attitude to have. Human energy spent by people in a mine or on a violin is still human energy. You should be asking on whose behalf is the energy expended and how much of that expenditure is against the will of the person doing the expending?
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  280. I would dismantle it too but I would have another plan different from Trump’s plan for education in America. I would model the educational system in China and Singapore who consistently rank high on International Student Assessment scores. They are without question the leaders in this field. Any higher their productive capacity in their societies become they would outstrip Europe and the US in not ten years but 2 years, literally every field. You either get with the game or die, Trump has chosen to die if he chooses to not use these two educational systems as a model to reshape American education. America ranks 27th for math and 6th for reading is a measurement that reflects who gets educated in society and who does not. Too many do not and too few do. Asia does not see humanity in this way, brilliance can come from a peasant child as it can from a rich landowner’s child, any walk of life.
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  281. Society needs to call into question the lawmakers themselves for passing negative laws repressive of Free Speech.
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  282. Incredible job. EMT life intervention has come a long way from the days when response teams were in paired in twos dressed in white and drove a large Cadillac station wagon for an ambulance. Most of you were not even born then to remember.
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  283. What to do about it is the question?
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  284. Implementation Gap is caused by the Senate and Congress. Specifically the Freedom Caucus.
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  285. I see the culture wars as a victory for capitalism. A defeat for the workig class, killing solidarity and unity. By making an economic emancipation of women in the family a culture gender issue evades the class basis of the need for women's liberation. Women were not rebelling against their husbands they were rebelling against the class system that placed themselves and their husbands in a relation of economic dependence for their own development. Polluting class issue with cultural factors allows people to ignore the elephant in the room. Great video and interview.
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  286. Powell: Price instability would mean far greater pain. Pain is distributed to the majority who’s incomes do not come from price. Incomes that come in the form of wages, no matter how big or small, are contingent on price only insofar as profit is included in the price. Profits form the incomes of the sellers and the sellers would suffer if the price-costs have risen and more of the part of the profit is paid out in wages. There would no competition without competing sellers who can lower the cost-price of employment, meaning the commodity labor-power is to be bought at a lower price than before the pandemic and lock downs. Powell has chosen the least harm to the economy is to depress wages for an extended period of time. Austerity and cuts in employment. A general withdrawal of capital from other forms of incomes that are part of wages such as pensions. Powell has opened the door for a class war.
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  287. I remember in my living room and my father on the couch reading the paper. I was watching him for a bit. I wondered and then asked if he had any friends? He answered he didn’t. I asked why? He said they all died and than said to me in this life consider yourself lucky if you get through life with one good friend. His answer still hits me like a stone hits the ground.
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  288. The concept of socialism that the social productive power of society enables people to become more than a detailed worker relegated to one occupation as a prison sentence for life is an idea that will come into its own when the working class decides its had enough of being a slave to capital and capitalism.
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  289. I think the gangs would have had a leg to stand on if they demanded asylum for Haitians and representation in government. Once you ask for money you are not working on the conscience of the beast. You should give the enemy something to work with, give that the enemy may do. Asylum for a hostage, representation for legitimate representation. One side cannot forget the hostages and the other side is giving an ultimatum of conscience. Keep money out of the negotiations, and this keeps violence out of the whole affair.
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  290. The operative word is “watch”. Stop watching history be made by idiots and start actions that make history.
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  291. When you cannot talk about it you do something about it.
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  292. I like the conservator’s attitude: We are in their environment the least we can do is care for them.
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  293. Coming after you not him he is just standing in their way is the most central point he makes.
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  294. Fact is, like it or not, production in the BRIC nations has developed so far that the labor-power of their people can now produce more than was necessary for their own survival. They cannot be bossed around anymore. They now have the means of maintaining additional labor-forces; likewise the means of employing them, their individual workforces acquired a value the west cannot live without. It is a historic juncture at this time between East and West.
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  295.  @antimattv  Very true...this generation on the receiving end of America repressive social institutions belong to the society but are treated as not a part of society. This really makes your generation the generation that has nothing to lose but their chains. I am with you. Your generation needs a form an art movement through which these emotions are expressed for purposes of building unity, solidarity, a new social culture, and finally that art movement can channel itself into real mass social power to kick some ass! The future is yours but you have to take it away from the ruling classes.
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  296. He sounds like a man who sees the needs of his regions' people regardless of nationality.
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  297. Time Stamp 20:40, ----The Supply Chain Problem. In its past life capital employed the largest number of workers to extract the largest amount of surplus-value for the least amount of payment in wages. This scenario has mutated into a new scenario of late. Capital now restricts the supply of products flowing into the US consumer market. The policy has backfired on the US. Our products, the majority of which are produced in China, a highly productive system of late, can change the direction of its production toward its own population’s needs while US policy is aimed at slowing down production in China has minor effect on China, given the manufacturing forces are largely controlled by China’s working classes under the leadership of China’s Communist Party. The Chinese economy has human direction and human goals whereas human needs and goals are subordinated in the US economy by non-human factors. The American labor force bears the burden for the policy of containment in the form of higher prices, and inflation, cuts and austerity, and greater power and concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands coinciding with higher unemployment, material deprivation and hunger. The policy makers in Washington are committed to maintaining hegemony devaluing the purchasing power of the American workforce as a means of restricting the flow of goods from China.
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  298. Hard to imagine the entire population of the US is hostage to the energy sector. But that is the case. We are tied to machines that consume oil like milk is consumed by children. The energy sector blocks a national energy policy and it blocks the development of coast to coast high speed rail. Whatever cuts down our reliance and dependence on cars the energy sector oligarchs act as one class in a consortium of capital to opposes any form of progress in this area.
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  299. Venezuela is an oil-bearing society that has the potential to be a big rival to American oil companies. The shock to the US system could be very severe if there was a oil rival in Latin America. This is the economic reason the US State Department with iron necessity launches attacks on Venezuela, it is only to slow down Venezuela’s capacity to be a competitor to the US. Should Venezuela seek to develop their oil rich reserves through arrangements with Brazil, India, China or Russia, all hell will break loose in Washington. There is an ironic element to US policy in that what they do not want to happen will happen, almost driven to happen, as oil becomes the currency of a nation all currencies want a commodity that will give their respective nations the same or better political and economic advantages. To be king of the hill of the world market today is to own and control two primary commodities very few nations are allowed to get their hands on, i.e., oil and nuclear weapons. All this competition driven by the power of commodities over humanity will lead to a third world war because it cannot lead to anything else.
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  300. Acting as an agent of the UAE. The sovereignty of the American people means nothing to these people. They re not even the same kind of people America represents!
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  301. Do you have any clues as to why Familcide is common in the US?
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  302. That William Bar, the Attorney General, overruled the justices under his authority who wanted to charge the cop(s) in the killing of Mr. Garner, illustrates why hiearchical bureaucracies must be abolished! A chain of command distances the decision-makers at the top of the hierarchy from the Public at the bottom of the hierarchy. This social structure promotes not only abuses and corruption at the top but also develops individuals who are autocratic and loyal in return for a luxury lifesty, to be the repressor of social justice in general at the bottom. When decision-makers are elevated high above the Public the form of government has everything to do with social injustice and atrocities that the Nuremberg Trials of the Nazi justices revealed. William Barr as Attorny General modeling his actions after Roland Freisler. Roland Freisler (30 October 1893 – 3 February 1945) was a jurist and judge of Nazi Germany. He was State Secretary of the Reich Ministry of Justice, and President of the People's Court. He was also an attendee at the Wannsee Conference in 1942, which set in motion the Holocaust.
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  303. Excellent summary of the whole development of the Cold War and the subsequent years of the rise of the Neocons running the State Department. It was the set of trials he had the courage to face at the time that made JFK a historic figure. Courage is a lost attribute in the political world of leaders today.
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  304. Franco is a huge disappointment.
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  305.  @laoben1231  LIAR!
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  306. Excellent straight talk to settle the nerves of the American people grossly misled by this establishment political party.
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  307. Very nice...their struggle is about respect and dignity...good to see labor confronting their demeaning and insulting bosses. The LA Council is their employer, the same dysfunctional council that had two of its members stage a vote strike and went home last year. One resigning for the ethnic slurs and the prior mayor who lost to Bass were cruel to these workers.
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  308. BS talking head...this is going to be one of the best times for Germany...a coalition government is exciting!
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  309. Nonsense! Wallace was always out of his element with FOX. He comes from a earlier journalist tradition as part of 60 minutes. It was shocking to me when I first saw him on FOX out of context of 60 minutes. He has integrity, consistency, I look forward to seeing where this next chapter leads him.
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  310.  @threedoodles  You are only as strong as your ground support is wide.
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  311. This is just one more tool for a family member to make a referral to the DMV against their senior relative for not paying off a credit card debt that isn’t the senior’s responsibility.
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  312. Anyone a teenager at the time remembers these events. The communities in rebellion was beyond what the police could handle, soldiers, jeeps, national guard, Marshall law, military occupation, check points, house arrests, all that was wrong with America in the 1940 -and 1950's came to a head in the 1960's, made the commission react to the injustices of police brutality.
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  313. For reference, you are giving us the function of the amendment; you are not giving us the theory behind the amendment; in other words, why founding fathers wrote it is not explained by telling us what it does. Americans seem to hate the question: Why? But love the questions of What and When?
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  314. So they may have killed a guy who was not even at the scene of the robbery but was with his family in a hotel according to a witness in the hotel was suspected to be an accomplice to the robbery.
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  315. Some people should never be parents. Roar is a great lesson on the whole working of an industry from a filmmaking point of view and from a financial point of view. I'd use it if i were a film teacher because it does cover what is bad parenting, bad filmmaking and bad financing on one reel.
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  316. My respects the family of Pat Schroeder.
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  317. Well they cannot garner the votes on their own to stay in power. Republican party will always be complicit with attempted coups because their policies are totally unpopular to a maority and representative of a small minority.
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  318. Families are separated all the time inside the US and outside of the US. In fact, America does nothing but separate people from people even if they are not blood related. The number of kids separated from their natural parents in America must be in the millions for all kinds of reasons, i.e., divorce, abandonment, political exile, kidnapping, you name it. Government took kids right from Ellis Island and put them into adoption. From Europe these kids ended up with American mid-western farmers. Forced migration. America does not know what family fidelity and unity is naturally, rigid rules to fight against the force of separation. Australia too, a nation of forced migrant children of the poor and often criminals from Europe. From the 1900s to now kids taken from their poor parents was a habit created by the British. British Poor Laws and the British brought this proclivity to divide families that I am not surprised in the least this policy of separation was adopted by the US and the descendents of these children having a hallow feeling about them because of missing biological connection to their natural blood relations, they become resentful, hateful, bitter, and victimizers as victims themselves.
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  319. Young people feel disempowered and stand alone disconnected from each other today is the complete opposite conditions of the baby boomers who led a counter culture movement; and were big enough that conspiracists in their day were socially drowned out by the social scale of the movement. But as that movement died down and got absorbed by the very system it protested more and more conspiracies made their way through the filters to derail the growth of a youth movement in the US. Given they are taught religion at an early age not political science they cannot crosscheck what is fact and not fact in the absence of critical thinking of the political life of their lives and country.
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  320. This case is the equivalent of America’s first case of a youth that went missing that was a child in the 70s called Eaton Patz of NYC. Everyone was shocked that for months parks were empty of kids. Years had passed, how could have a child gone missing in the same block he walked his whole short life was finally answered. America in 2024 has much of the same crimes that occurred in the America of the 1970s it mirrors the same patterns of recession, poverty, addictions, homelessness, characteristic of a downturn in the economic cycle.
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  321. If this happened in the 17th century it would been the subject of an Opera. In the 16th the subject of a tragedy or a comedy. In Antiquity, the subject of war. But in the Paleolithic and Stone Age, the guy would have been banished from his tribe and his parents scorned. Family was very, very important back then. A matter of survival and no time for BS.
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  322. Disgusting isn't it...horrid...the filth, litter, waste, putrefaction of dead animals that litter the suburbs, vile and pernicious.
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  323. This movement goes beyond better wages and health care. It goes to the issue of the need for a fundamental transformation of social structure of which education is just one part. All of it is broken. All of it must go. All sectored employees both private and public are, on the one hand, working longer hours, lousy working conditions, for static pay in the private sector and, on the other hand, in the public sector the political structure is corrupted by the influence of money of US mining and drilling companies.
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  324. I agree with the protesters. They are on the right side of history here. Netanyahu started this war because he knew he would be sitting in prison right now if he did do something..
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  325. Yes, bravo to Kayla.
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  326. And in the end the love you make is equal to the love you take. The dream is over.
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  327. The masses have gained a victory over property owners and financial wealth is what Alexander Hamilton would say about Oz’s defeat in Pennsylvania.
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  328. Real cheap news coverage for something that is a real critical piece of infrastructure to economies on both sides, and people here swallow it down with no questions asked. Lemmings.
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  329. Hasan has hubris written all over him.
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  330. At 4:16, side shot...Llamas looks down at the paper and talking is the expert reading from a prompt. Nobody communicates without a script in the media world, their thoughts come from another entity. The expert is likely not an expert.
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  331. Humanity as crippled and stultified, injured and abused, suffering and mystified, as it is, has to go beyond capitalism.
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  332. Fascinating,---the dynamics of social movements, the fascism in Chile was so extreme it made the left palatable to the majority. Never say fascism will not return. Franco and the military in Spain lost power three times and rose to power three times. Once the social movements swell in size, social power moves government toward the people and the chances of a coup is low.
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  333. That question “where do workers go when machines take over”...was answered two centuries ago. That answer had been suppressed for two centuries in America is why you have to catch up. You need the background info to understand the answer.
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  334. Pompeo never, never talks about his own actions as the actions of his government in any of the controversies mentioned. Questions about Ukraine should be asking what did the US do, what did the president say, and why did the president say it?
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  335. Now you know where and who Hitler got his idea for the Final Solution from.
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  336. The concern here is that the vaccine immunizes and lowers hospitalization but it does not stop contagion or infection. So what is the point of mandates other than social control? What we need is a fully developed all round hospital system that won’t fall apart and not handle hospitalizations. And for those people who did get vaccinated six months ago in this wave are people not vaccinated under new mandates, have to get repeated vaccinations which ultimately are going to affect their health down the road, ---particularly among the vulnerable. If the vaccines eradicated the virus we’d be out of the pandemic. Instead, the pandemic has become endemic to societies because all general production in these societies cannot sustain work being ceased long enough for the infection-transmission rate to drop to zero. These societies partially shut down and the business side of the societies cripple the entire social production process in order to restart, reshape, the workforce to meet its needs.
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  337. Time for state legislators to find a new job. Buying into the Republican strategy will cost them their jobs at the state level.
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  338. What's different now is Bernie, more convinced of what must be done. The Political Revolution. More resolute against the enemy. The Economic Revolution. Instead of the shrinking, shrinking, shrinking middle class the message is the expanding working class.
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  339. The Harvard Professor who came up with Chile's pension reform system should be shot!
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  340. In Volusia County Florida there appears to be a social clique in county government that does not care about its beaches or they would have poured some resources into collecting the sea wax for the sake of the beach. As it appears an apparent neglect shrouds the county government should raise concerns where the money is going if improvements cannot be seen in your own home town.
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  341. Temple University ‘s reaction to the workers who want a fair shake is callous. The institution of higher learning is a cover for a Medieval Citadel of Social Reaction.
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  342. What is outrageous that guns are in the hands of teenagers! Prosecutor has a illegal gun racket under his nose and has not sent one bad actor to jail is outrageous.
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  343. Dyson v. Ms. Taylor. Ms. Taylor wins! If I were a bank and I wanted legislation to go in my favor and Mr. Dyson were a Congressmen, I would give him $50K or more to get the legislation I want passed. Listening to him I feel he is the more susceptible to the power and influence of money. After all as a bank I do not have mass support, all I have is money. If I gave that donation to Ms. Taylor I would be contributing to my own demise.
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  344. The concern is what happens to the ground and dirt, soil, when baked by extreme heat after it is soaked. Soil hardens allowing no water to seep down to fill the ground water table below. “You need the water not all at once”, said the anchor. The anchor simply dismissed the reporter’s point about the hardness of ground the cause of flash flooding at the 2:28 and 2:29 footage count. Hardness of soil is a result of high and low temperatures, wet and dry cycles, why can’t Anchors repeat the anchor who reports accurately the science? What is in it for them to dismiss that reporter’s truth of nature’s actions?
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  345. she forgot to add an important adjective... the church is full of ’armed sinners’.
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  346. Till this event happened I was highly demoralized this young generation would amount to becoming slaves and nothing more in society. When you fight back you win!
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  347. You’d think this question would have been asked before he became PM. People are not choosing their leaders they are chosen for them. Not one idea originates from the leaders chosen the leaders only carry out the ideas written for them.
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  348. Something is on trial more profound than a deranged racist cop who kills with impunity and underlings that just follow along. The entire system of policing is on trial, 1 million cops commandeered by an over politicized system and bureaucracy. The defense will claim Floyd 's health killed him relative to the restraint deployed. But the evidence shows it was the system of policing that killed Floyd.
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  349.  @uttaradit2  True, Marx is always great therapy. But there is an upside. People should recognize that constitutional governments such as that of the EU and the US are legal institutions even beneath the veneer of being composed of individuals. Our government is not a social government composed of individuals. The changes being made in society are coming from the changes in the way work is carried out in society.  People will be working from home and those industries where jobs cannot be performed at home will go out of business.  History suppresses certain branches of industry as it also promotes the development of new ones.  China builds hospitals in less than two weeks is an example of a government that is not a constitutional republic but one that is a social institution responding to social needs in a proactive manner. Instead of spending resources on defense because of national conflicts, government can spend resources on meeting human needs. When work and society are transformed, the family is transformed, requiring a transformation of government to become a central organizer and planner to have all the needs in society met. Humanity arrives at the 21st century and 2020 is that transitional moment that breaks away all the things of the 19th century we still use today. This new way of work will call into question the need for the old economy. Why do you need a stock market or a central bank, or a boss? Why will we need school boards determining school taxes when school buildings are unnecessary when all one needs WiFi and a lap top to educate children all over the world? Why do we even need money to represent working time when work is no longer used to make goods for exchange? Why the need to retain all the things the old economy needed before the virus when the virus has changed the way we work and live giving birth to a new economy? From the changes in work and family our needs will change and in turn, the needs change our products as we become more accustomed to finding meaning in our new family arrangements, less divorce, less juvenile delinquency, less suicide, less depression, less loneliness. With less of the present-day maladies in society there is less of a need for massive military and police institutions expenditures. The major focus will be agriculture, the area of human activity vital to human survival. Search for a better life comes to an end. No more mass migration for societies ravaged by war the need to get them re-oriented to the new way of life the new international mission. Why will we need nuclear weapons if societies are finding more contentment at home? I see many benefits to this crisis. Our fears are really about losing the old way of life we have become accustomed to living. The second benefit to this virus is the environmental change, improving nature as it gets a chance to recover from human damage. Less to no fossil fuel emissions, less chances of infestation, disease and a strengthening of the human body's immune system through the increase of oxygen in our atmosphere and as we know from the paleontological record a greater diversity of life, and a general slowing down of climate change and oceans rising.
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  350. I like that Harris is taking a stand against Netanyahu. About time someone did.
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  351. So far in the history of the United States electoral system the two parties in competition with each other have only alternated power between them and had made no major advancements in the progress of society since the origins of the military industrial complex. The weaponization of the intelligence community in the Sean Hannity clip used in this episode is a reference he makes to the military industrial complex opposing Trump by the Democrats. The implication is the power of the military intelligence community is in the hands of the president until he is impeached than it falls over to the Democrats. One can argue that from 1955 to 1975 the transfer of power from one hand to another took four then 8 years is shortening by the over politicization of the intelligence community, not exactly the same as being weaponized as Hannity puts it. America's military generals were once citizens and former civilians in uniform serving their country they are now political entities choosing who they want to work with as president and through the two parties the Joint Chiefs have a bigger hand in selecting the candidate to lead the American workforce either into battle the factories or the furnaces depending on what conditions come up. They choose who best meets their needs not those of society's needs.  The fact that the military would pay $300 dollars for a hammer is an old story, a small illustration and pertinent fact that the federal budget and accounting office of the government has no clue, no idea, NADA, of how much of the nation's wealth (taxes) gets spent on income and gets spent on living labor-power. This being the case every other statistic the government produces is inaccurate and things are a lot worse than they appear. There is no equal proportion of allocation of labor to the needs of American society in the US, its all regulated by the market. Pension funds are unpaid and defunded upon time to collect and the distance between what we as a society need and what we can produce is so wide that longer periods of growth are needed for someone to get out of their parent's basement and into a home increasing their savings in financial instruments other than home equity. America in the shape that it is in now is a miserable country as a result of the transferring of power, where one might make gains and the other will roll them back, is now a situation where the military fully dominates the whole political apparatus. Its almost better if there were no impeachment clause at all. The military structure consuming much its natural and social wealth to the point of ruin can be de-politicized from the political arena completely and be returned to its original function as serving the country without having the interference of a Congress meddle into the affairs of its citizens with an impeachment that ends up preserving a national military establishment harming the citizen(s) A political system that installs a new leader among a very narrow band of individuals worse than the old one.
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  352. True, but to tax the rich you need an act of Congress or a social revolution, or both.
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  353. So many contradictions to capitalism, where to begin? A billionaire class and political elites doing the walk of shame in an all-out war against the working-class. We will need a mass wrecking ball movement to unseat this right wing from power.
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  354. Isn’t it always the case that what the voters want they never get.
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  355. Tinseltown Cops are Out of Control.
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  356. Nothing is what it was in the 70s. Its all been corrupted by capitalism and willingly by the people. Exactly the same thing happened in Germany, Nazis came to power not by force, not by internal conflict, they came into power because the German people wanted it, a wow and a praise. God and fatherland was their cry. Americans are living under fascism right now, God, Family and Country, is their cry.
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  357. States will have to do something beyond the normal call for longer sentences for criminals if the rich want to be safe in society. Prisons for profit are not retaining prisoners pre-occupied with the bottom line and the justice system has to let them out to make room for more. Gotta come with a better plan and pretty quick because this will only get worse.
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  358. Dangerous times ---Productivity increases but hours worked per worker falls. Humanity has to push for a world where markets do not come between food and people.
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  359. Obviously, all the industries that have the power to control or effect the lives of millions of people materially and intellectually need to be DE-PRIVATIZED and restricted from private ownership.
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  360. For me the concern comes with age when you enter the political world of Washington; eventually you become the establishment because the establishment becomes the dominant and permanent form of government.
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  361. This is what happens when cuts and austerity are the condition on which a country borrows capital to finance its society from the IMF; all public services disintegrate and riots break out. Greece should have turned down the refinancing package and hit the Silk Road for financing.
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  362. Great reporting.
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  363. A worthwhile interview of a state department official is to not ask leading questions like do you think China should be punished. Why not ask the official to start off by educating listeners of the major concerns the US has in relation to China and why.
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  364. Very nice statement, Margaret, if we should ever meet it would be two who thank SA.
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  365. In the theory, the relation is a unity of the particular and the general. In this case with the fired Instacart workers, the relation of one corporation and all corporations to food and technology is to use it in a competitive struggle for survival of the corporation not for the survival of the species.
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  366. For over a century French colonialism invested its capital in mining and drilling and Senegal gave up its native handicraft industries in order to promote foreign capital into its natural resources. Sall is colonial capitalism’s last hold out in Senagal. The Sengalese people got enough of a taste for democracy to want more of that independence from French colonialism.
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  367. Bolsonaro is another thinned skinned politician like Trump. I can respect the issue of insults but this is coming from someone who can dish it out but can't take it! A hypocrite. Oil, metals, wood, beef, soy, sugar cane, are the commodities essential for the survival of the west. They are the means of production Koch Industries own. From these five main products everything we use and own are produced from them. Therefore, we would have to overturn Koch Industries as the basis of existence to slow down or rescue the rainforests and polar ice caps from further depletion.
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  368. Nestle economic genocide.
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  369. You now know why older people alive in that era think young people in this era are a’holes. Don’t know any history much less their own history.
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  370.  @GARY84ROCKS  Is that the reason, seriously, it is not because you are no longer the king of your castle, no longer the bread winner with dependent wife and children, no longer a home property owner and no longer in a good solid manufacturing job. You mean to tell me that manufacturing moving to China is not the reason for your hatred and yet you call that hatred sane? I'd call that looking for love in all the wrong places. Here I was empathizing for your kind, thanks for straightening me out.
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  371. What is amazing is that Americans today blindly (indifference or ignorance) or both are patriotic of founding fathers who were in fact slave owners and the 2nd amendment was for them the key to building a slave republic. From 1786 to the Civil War, America was a slave economy that made it necessary to own guns to overcome human resistance to being enslaved, and protect property of the slave holders. From external threats and from living property itself that shall never be armed. A black man could never be armed in America was the purpose of the 2nd Amendment. The age of our ‘forefathers’ was an age of revolution in Europe, 1789, in France, the enlightenment, but two years later in Haiti a major victorious slave revolt kicks off a more repressive reaction by slaveholders in the US. If the government enforced its own decree,---the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865, the right to bear arms would extend to black people, equal to whites, black militias would be legal and the mass incarceration system of blacks exclusively would have no legal basis to exist.
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  372. Bahamas won its independence fro Great Britian in 1973.  Why is this news outlet and others reporting on the Bahamas and are completely ignoring the Virgin Islands which are part of the US? Do people not see there is a something wrong with that picture?
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  373. Time has come to change the way they do business.
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  374. He’s the Sam Bankman-Fried of the political world. Every industry in America has one. Every corporation and company has one. Every city and town and home has a George Santos.
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  375. Yes, how quickly the Dollar is falling. Our economy will become an export economy because the market is not in the US. American factories will have to produce in treble time for capital to make its profits after export costs. And the factories, offices, warehouse and distribution, the ports, in full operation with a smaller workforce. Its going to lead to class wars between bosses and employees. Market value of the wages paid to workers won’t buy a hell of a lot. What wages buy will shrink in amount while profits go up for people who never work at all making the things society really needs to live as workers work. Whenever value falls less labor-time is spent on production. A job market that offers stagnant wages, pensions and salaries. Elon Musk will take off 4 hours to make a Tesla to bring the market price down for its sale in a market where it can fetch a higher price. Tesla workers working less hours per car will get paid less hours per car while each car brings in record profits sold in China where incomes are higher. Many sectors of the US economy will come to a standstill, small and midsize corporations and companies overloaded with private debt will go out of business and employer owners will attempt to unload private debt by paying out less in wages for the ones that survive. Not a pretty picture. America’s working class will have to reconstruct the New Deal when the Dollar takes its last gasp for air.
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  376.  @vallee7966  Putin isn’t pushing anything. NATO is doing all the pushing. Seriously the origins or NATO perpetuate this antagonism.
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  377. The masses are wiser and made more aware of how media was used in the past as propaganda they can see through the hype and look for more serious and objective critiques on information, society, social relationships, economic matters, etc.
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  378. "If solutions cannot be found within the system then it is the system itself that must be changed", Greta Thunberg 2019. The system to which Greta refers is Exxon Mobil, Shell, BP, Conoco-Phillips, and all oil bearing societies and their private oil producers. The only solution for the fossil fuel industry is their abolition and extinction.
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  379. If this were France the senators who voted down $15 an hour would not be able to leave their homes.
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  380. The problem with the young Deputy National Advisor, Jon Finer’s hypothesis of a past Russian pretext to an invasion is that such a thing never happened in modern history which starts with the development of machine warfare. But since young Americans do not have a historical understanding of present day nations flat out lies is accepted as truths.
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  381. When people who cannot leave and you can this will erode your conscience for life...they never expected a real estate purchase to be the source of such guilt.
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  382. Clearly, the call 'Workers of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains and a world to gain,' is appropriate in our present day conditions.
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  383. Admittedly, the Spanish government's handling of the situation of this secessionist vote shows much of how authoritarian regimes still haunt modern Europe. This fiasco is a case of two wrongs do not make a right. Nationalism was what devastated Europe and nationalism in Europe benefited the US in its rise to power through world war than regional wars and national wars still carried on today and much of the reason the state of the world is in its present condition of continual social upheaval is because of war. In the context of war, a move toward independence as a state or country will always act for itself. Selfish interests had resulted in what we have seen from the past in Europe an explosion of rivalries breaking out into imperial wars that already existed in the economic sphere between states manifested themselves in tensions and ultimately war between nation states. Secessionists want to break away from having to pay taxes to Spain and through Spain pay the EU central bank. This burden is practically all on the backs of all working people in Europe not just the secessionists leading this independence. The right action is to be an internationalist if you are worker. The wrong state of mind is to be a nationalists secessionist as a worker because you are helping them pay the least taxes and doing nothing for yourself. Who pays the most tax in Catalonia is most likely the working classes eager to side with a power that can reduce its greater burden of taxation but the clamor to secede from Spain comes from a Catalonian's rich and powerful manufacturing class who carry the lightest burden of taxes on a per capita basis! You should expect to see more tricks that conceal growing economic inequality in Europe and America. Catalonian people had been taken under the sway of old ideas and its manufacturing class are choosing to turn their backs on the whole of the working masses because they can make money with money in the financial sector and hide that money off shore. The nonsense about national boundaries and borders, distinguishing themselves with a national cultural identity from the rest of Spain, and a national language, blah, blah, blah, it is really about getting out from under Spanish jurisdiction to avoid tribute--its as if the rise of fascism in Europe is starting anew but in the form of a which fascism do you prefer the Spanish or Catalonian variety? The Spanish PM and Royal Crown avoid taxes. All the transnational corporations regardless of national origin avoid taxes through European institutions and the governments reducing their share of taxes facilitate this process. Why encourage this when you can stop it!
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  384. This channel relies on the Col. for opinion heavily don't they? He's great but the there is a real need to get away from relying on one voice and one perspective. Personally, I applaud Moon and Kim, and I do agree the neocons will sabotage it. The neocons are incapable of peace on terms and conditions made by other nations and have a long history of going into treaties and truces to violate them later on. The bigger picture is history itself, the rise of Asia and China and Russia superseding the US as an economic power. All nations make decisions based on domestic considerations because all nations are buyers and sellers. Competition is universal, each and all nations and individual capitals seek to buy cheap, this helps their indigenous industries to sell dear yet below the social average price, helps their indigenous industries and the working people employed in this industries become more developed and middle class. All through the 1980's the US made a ton of profits and never re-invested into its industries. The fault of the working man, they watched it happen and did nothing. All the manufacturing plants simply deteriorated. Underutilization of capacity up by 60% of all industries gone! These were the choices corporations made, the politicians only helped them, to diversify into stocks, bonds, securities and foreign currency and export production where labor was cheaper. The political world failed in that they could have and should have protected the US working class by prohibiting the flight of capital like France and Germany do. The US happens to be in a weak position by its own failures, in that Ford can't make a car cheaper than other car makers, not able to sell dear and make profits, in foreign markets. Alcoa cannot compete alongside foreign steel, aluminum, etc., therefore, John Deere can't sell its tractors, GM, against Mitsubishi, Dawoe. American business enterprise needs every tool in the book, sanctions on nations, a tax on imports to compete, and a tax break to expand GDP beyond 2.2% by resurrecting this dead plants Trump calls the infrastructure and what we, mistakingly, think he means roads and bridges. That do need repair. When you look at how endangered the American oil industry is in relation to the oil bearing nations becoming more industrialized the policy of conquest makes perfect sense. Fortunately, the rise of solar and wind power, will sequester Big Oil and fade away the neocons to their political graves but not without a fight for Big Oil's life, the blood of the military industrial complex. The colonel might be over simplifying the political world as overly mistrusting of the other side's politics at the expense of the impact of the economic forces impacting social changes in world trade and the world market motivating certain actors on the world stage to bring a close to American imperialism.
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  385. Not to mention they hypocrisy of a missile defense system the US taxpayer paid for, the state of Israel decided not to use against Hamas rockets.
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  386. The 300 million dollar contract awarded to this Montana Co., Whitefish Energy, will emerge as another billionaire from those contracts. Puerto Rico is being sacked by means of Trump channelling tax payer money to the military and the government because of Puerto Rico. Enriching others at Puerto Rico's expense.
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  387. They must have known two decades after the Civil War, that the statues would come down in the future to have placed a time capsule in many of them that were subsequently not water tight. It seems the time capsule was more important than the statues or the statues were markers.
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  388. Revolutionary Greetings Professor! An excellent summary.
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  389.  @bigfan1041  You are clueless...less people are poorer than before is a fallacy.
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  390. He made a conscious choice to be on the wrong side of history no matter how you color it. In Powell the Oil Oligarchs for which Iraq represented an oil rich and mineral deposit waiting for extraction, found a perfect public figure who they could utilize to get the ball rolling in removing and breaking down the government of Saddam Hussien, and establish a US presence in Iraq. From that point on I think we all know the 20 year long invasion in the Middle East was only good for the Oil Oligarchs, Terrorists, and the Military Industrial Complex. You can not separate Powell's actions as not conscious choices of abstinence of consideration for climate change as the larger consequence of war.
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  391. Establishment Dana. No wonder CNN keeps losing viewers to Joe Rogan.
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  392. What I love most about Marx is his writing? Incredible mastery of the language, literary genius. We in the present stand on the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Marx. We know nothing of the depth of his thought and writings. He championed capitalism as he saw it a stepping stone to communist society, whether it is a necessary step is the drama of human history? I was also impressed to learn and had verified that the earliest document that is socialist in nature was the Celtic Book of Laws 15th century. People like you and I have the benefit of access to the real documents digitized in virtual libraries of the major libraries in the world through the Internet is how i find stuff to study and learn.
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  393. “What it means to be a Conservative”...for Christ sakes every dam decade for the last 70 years of my life the GOP has asked that question...what a ridiculous party.
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  394. Major corporations were quick to cut their donations to GOP leaders after the insurrection and quick to re-instate their donations to GOP and Democratic leaders. A short pause in the accumulation process.
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  395. Yes he does...he carefully listened to Malcolm’s talking tone. I like it very much. Or he is gifted with the voice of a revolutionist; a direct voice this man has by nature.
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  396. The transimission of racist ideological is passed down from generation to generation. 5 million youths of the Nazi youth then are today aged in their 90s. They had 45 years to pollute the minds of their grandchildren born in the 1950s who are today aged 65-70 and these people had ample to time to pollute the minds of their children born in the 60s, 70s are now aged 40-50, and these are the people active in government today, they hate millennials born in the 90s are aged 30. They regard Millenials as lazy, spoiled, obsessed with technology, the girls of this generation hate the boys of this generation because the boys never communicate with girls directly, eye to eye, flatter or flirt with them, that the dating world for this generation is a disgrace.The boys of this generation hide behind technology and social media and generate all kinds of racist ideology broadcasted through video games and the like. But this generation had been completely corrupted by their parent generationa nd if they are German then the racist ideology went straight into their heads. But there are more than merely 5 million German youths whose great, great grandparents with Nazi and racist ideology close to their hearts spread over many countries, America, Argentina, Australia, Israel, Canada, are all places where Nazis emmigrated.
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  397. The Young Lords were not wrong in their actions. Police may have differences among each other individually but they all conform to race prejudices of the past socially. The past rules the present. The present has yet to rule the past.
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  398. Not many people old enough paid attention when the EU was first proposed and why. It was all about making trade and commerce move freely across states and one currency. The EU was never a plan that would internationalize workers in different European states so that a union could unionize in another country. Or, if wages went up in France they would rise in Britain. In effect the EU was a plan for corporations and banks in Europe an internationalization of Capital in order to compete with the USA. Individually, nation-states were not strong enough to resist American pressure to open their markets to America products. Two generations later the memory of the function and purpose of the EU is forgotten but its consequences, recessions and unemployment, are felt internationally as well.
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  399. The debate had a high school format. Its time to change that. I'd rather see one topic debated by the candidates in free form. Candidates should not be standing, they should be seated behind a table. They can stand if they speak but not be standing all the time. They should also have available a smart board for the public to see the documentary evidence supporting their argument. The subjects chosen ought to be from the audience. They should also not wear suits. But dress informal. A moderator should give each candidate time for their summation and then begin questioning them with particular questions from the audience. Nothing should be scripted and the event totally spontaneous. The audience should experience from this debate an honest view of who these people are. A moderator should allow time for that candidate to begin revealing their true personality. Debates are about opposition and development and first, about unanimous consent of the public.
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  400. Now you know why European police officers wear vest of the same color.
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  401. 'Working Class' as a term referred to working Americans was never used by representatives in the past...how things have changed.
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  402. The views and objections, analysis, dissent and concerns presented here is authentic, a 100% objectivity.
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  403. She has not a problem with mandates as long as they not democratic ones.
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  404. The damage is as bad as if the place was bombed in a war, an act of sabotage. East Palestine Ohio is bombed out, but those same effects of war are industrial accidents. Fatalities in industry caused by human or mechanical error because the whole production process is sped up. Norfolk Southern treats commercial rail transportation as a mere form of appearance of the value the trains carry and that Norfolk possesses. Rail is not a direct use-value to them but an indirect one as an exchange-value and money can be made from the whole process of moving goods from point A to B, as fast as possible, recklessly. So there is nothing unintentional about hazards on the job. Its a conscious choice of Norfolk executives to negate (deny) the real useful purpose of rail transportation to a society by making rail a means of exchange. From this conscious decision Norfolk and others like Norfolk make absolutely no effort to make rail safe for employees and communities. All the energy and talent of people they hire and work for them goes into the useful side of rail as a thing to rent out and making safe the side of rail that involves contracts between buyers and sellers of those values contained in rail cars. The lives and safety of workers and communities are of no consequence to this social arrangement when it is the products that get all the attention and humanity gets none.
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  405. “I want to go to this school”...hilarious.
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  406. You have not thought for yourself if you are focused only on the external form of the internal dichotomy. American workers do not carry with them a consciousness of their existence in commodity production. If they did the economic system would have been no more a long time ago. Fish are not conscious they swim in water as natural as we work in and through air in the atmosphere. Its the same with commodity production and capitalism. Producing commodities for sale is a social relation workers in every country, rich and poor, create as a power over them. Ultimately, students become the replacements of the workers of their generation. They become the creators of the power that dominates them. Never ends. Workers are taken under subjectively and bow to their own creation objectively is hardly conscious and critical thought! When the youth stop becoming the future workforce for commodity production and push to become the producers for the sake of production because that is the relation humanity has with the natural world for the majority of its time is when they have transitioned thought into Being. Who cares what we think its about what we are that is at bottom the meaning of life and all existence.
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  407. Three problems of a conflicting nature converge in this case,1., illegal immigration, 2., under age victimization and abortion rights, 3., crimes against persons. All of which are left to individual states to decide in the exact same way democrats voted for states to decide in the Nebraska-Kansas Act nullifying the Missouri Compromise, if slavery can cross state lines, some things do not change in America, and that decision preceded the outbreak of one of the last revolutions of the 19th century, the American Civil War.
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  408.  @teardrop-in-a-fishbowl  I remember Biden; he was always on the right on social issues and conservative on economic policy, even if he voted in favor of bills of social ills. If he voted for them it was because he knew how to use it to his advantage and maintian his constituency, he was always a Washington insider. He has said nothing about the coranovirus health crisis; that crisis makes a national health program more of an imperative. You will get a national health program from Bernie than you will from Trump or Biden. Bernie is not afraid of the rich to tax the rich. All other politicans are afraid.
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  409.  @jlhanlon1980  I knew someone would step up and answer to the call that no question is a stupid question. Thank you.
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  410. The main political parties are anticipating a disaster of HUGE significance and the republicans will blame that disaster on Progressives. I am voting independent of for a minor party.
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  411. Its only a matter of time the ocean takes more of the shore and all the houses, towns, businesses, along the coast line into the sea.
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  412. Good summary: When people read Vol 1 of Capital bear this in mind the first three chapters are skipped over in many Marxists circles that consequently, the whole economic thought of Marx, his investigation and presentation of the subject matter, is lost when the initial building block of his theory is ignored...so in a sense, Marxists who fail to understand the Labor Theory of Value are, frankly, not good Marxists, subsequently, invent new concepts to substitute for shortcomings in understanding. My advise to new readers is to map out in a diagram or chart the first three chapters, maybe the professor can highlight it in a special video.
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  413. Would you not agree that all the necessaries of life produced by American corporations for mass consumption are contaminated?
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  414. This mayor is ideal if your in the real estate industry in NYC. Landowners love him but they are not a majority to boost his ratings higher than the number of city residents who hate him. This is a city dominated by landowners...big ones. High rents are used to change the demographics of the city. If they want the poor out of a neighborhood the rents are pushed up by the landowners and the poor leave. This is how neighborhoods get gentrified by people who never lived in the city but are rich enough to move in or can work from home. This mayor lets that happen. If the landowners want a tax depreciation allowance this mayor accommodates them. As long as their properties are under a construction with a work permit and placing scaffolds around buildings is enough to get a permit they can be tax deferred. The buildings having no work done to them but are surrounded by scaffolds are the owners exploiting the government for their purposes and this mayor lets them do that, the City Council lets the landlords do what they want too. Its the most corrupt city on the planet fully dominated by a landowning class. He could win people over if he made an alliance between city manufacturers and retailers who hate the high rents and city residents to push the landowners out of the government but this mayor does not have the mind or the education necessary to wage a war against an encroaching threat. He and his entourage are enriching themselves in the process of selling New Yorkers out!
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  415. What a mistake! Machinery was intended to make goods for less and shorten the time people have to work to survive turned out to be the exact opposite. People work longer and the work is more intensified by new machinery and automation brought into the shop or office...so what makes you think raising the retirement age above 62 is not giving employers more of what workers give them for nothing? The deal is workers get paid a certain amount of goods that does not change much or frequent and what they produce over and above after they made their money in wages belongs to their employer. That part of the product that belongs to the employer is fantastically high; according to all reports, CEO earnings are through the roof. It would be the sheer greed of employers to want more additional working time from workers and sheer disdain by the government to propose legislation that gives more value producing labor to employers while life expectancy is down and the quality of life for working people is full of deprivation. This battle is not over by a long shot.
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  416. A total break from the old traditions and ethics of work in manufacturing gave us the disasters we have now. Airline, farming, mining, construction, meat packing, were entrusted, reliable, industries, making real good products before they became hot houses pumping out cheap commodities. A thirst for more profits increases the risks and hazards for so many trades, workers, and jobs and the compensation is never enough if they should lose life or limb on the job is the real world behind the affluent world of celebrities. There is an industrial genocide happening here at home! The celebrities are not concerned about that either.
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  417. Beautiful culture, I hope they create the society they want.
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  418. The professor is productive and puts out a video every other day, bravo! Interesting...competition...explains a lot of things. When someone does their job they are not aware that the money they get in return for the work they do comes from the same value they produce in surplus form. Technically, the money the capitalist pays the worker is not the money of the capitalist but the surplus value of the worker the capitalist uses to pay wages and the work for that day is free labor for the capitalist replenishing the wage paid. The exploitation is subtle and hidden in the exchange between worker and employer is where the inequality begins and where it can end but on the surface the exchange is perfectly equal and legal.🧐
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  419. The Clean Water Act is a good example of legislation that does not go far enough. Here lies the exclusive ability of the two political parties to legislate only that which concerns its own national interest. Even if it is heavily enforced the enactment protects America’s waters... the legislation does not protect the oceans and rivers as one interconnected hydrological force of nature as a whole.
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  420. Imagination is everything said Einstein, and it is everything.
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  421. This is true but nobody in America sees the connection between the production of doctors as a necessary social investment and the distribution of medical services in society as a private enterprise the State encourages through legislation.
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  422. When the political classes are polarized so are the economic relations. Disapproval of Congress is 81%. Happens to Americans that a poll will show 65% disapproval of Congress...still does not change Congress. Congresses make it impossible to get anything done for these young republics. Older, richer, republics love to spend when the spending enhances (strengthens) their rule. Any other time spending is stringent, cheap. Austerity and Attrition are cardinal rules of republics. There are too many small elites usurping the land to sell to foreign corporations a crop by the tons. While the main body of the society are nearly 65% native handicraft industries tied to small scale farming are communities losing more of the land they farmed for thousands of years. Minority Rule would displace more of them into a proletariat for which the low level of industry the minority elites never developed in Peru could not absorb the surplus of free labor, or labor for sale, and off they go, looking for a better life up north. Fully disconnected from the land they enter the world of capitalism as free agents, prey for drug lords, slave traffickers and coyotes,--- waiting to snatch every cent from them only to die in the desert if they are not lucky enough to make it alive. I would say revolutions can not proceed with a stubborn minority holding it back,---the first step is a nullification of the Congress.
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  423. I always said Jimmy Hoffa was buried in what used to be a marsh reclamation area in NJ.
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  424. I am not a fan of workers striking for reasons that are not revolutionary. They should strike for a share of the product and percentage of the sale money from the product, abandon wages altogether. US economy is big enough that tortillas can bring in a better standard of living through a share arrangement and workers should strike for full and no less than 51% ownership of all factories. Its time for this change to come about.
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  425. Certainly a reporter asked students if they knew the shooter and the students who said yes, or had any observation on the student, were cut from what we are watching now.
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  426. I am afraid by the time they figure out who did what a second coup will have been completed.
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  427. Nobody more appropriate to represent a black community than Bowman a former school principal of and from that black community, all respect to him. The GOP is the racist element here.
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  428. She is an opportunist and a political careerist, not unlike many others in government.
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  429. What you are saying is true of other private sectors of the economy where workers are shafted by their employers. The few sectors whose workers are doing well are in Oil, Pharma, Big Tech, Finance. But generally speaking, retail sector worker are also under assault, a good 46 million workers are in a real struggle with their employers. That would be close the number of public sector workers under tight restrictions by their federal, state and city employer(s). Another 50 million work in virtual battle zones for workplaces suffer a high injury and mortality rate. Employers are egregiously exploiting their workers to a great magnitude pushing day into night, working beyond the natural limit the human body can withstand. Conditions you describe are grounds for direct worker strategy to pound some punches back from the juggernaut of assaults both political and economic coming from what appears to be a concerted effort of private and public sector employers against workers.
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  430. McConnell will go down in the history of House Speakers as a functionary for the right wing. He decides what bills get voted on the floor.
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  431. We support the Pentagon at taxpayers’ expense. I’d rather my share of the burden feed, clothe and house for 18 years not 45 years.
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  432. It’s not only in health care that CEOs are murderers for profit; they also exists in the agriculture, chemical, weapons, communications, construction, mining, industries that the whole class of CEOs leading all of America’s major industries and those industries abroad are not exempted, produce products that are detrimental to humanity and the planet! Even more importantly, they create social relations detrimental to the planet and humanity. They love things and hate humanity with the things they love.
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  433. Don and Andy’s lies are catching up to them.
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  434. There are signs of trouble all around us.
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  435. The Battle Cry of the protest opposition to Cop City sends the wrong message if you read it the way the State reads what the demand of the Public are. It should read one message and a very specific message; No to Militarization of the Police, No to Cop City, direct to the point, not a bunch of banners all saying something different. The point of a banner for an American opposition in the US, fractured and divided is one of the conditions causing the left to lose battles, itself has to overcome, and send a message that we are not disunited, we are of one mind, united and not fractured in this battle, is what you want them to think and the Cop City funders and politicians would interpret the movement precisely in that way. Even the mainstream media will report a change in the method of protest in America because they know how fractured and divided the left and you win some national attention. Other communities have their individual battles gong on and this would be one way to show how other communities can push back against their usurpers and start winning battles.
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  436. Students and Youth in New York City are far ahead of their peers in the rest of the country in terms of current events. They are in the center of the action while the rest of the population does its everyday routine.
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  437. I think if Americans really think about this they will find that the growth of monopoly capitalism, first of all, comes from the increasing number of workers under the control of a 500 multinational corporations. One corporation commands a labor force of thousands of people, 500 of them control millions of workers and this fact, gives rise to the need for a specific type of authority unique to all history. Monopoly capitalism is praised for promoting the productive forces for the species is the positive side of this trend. The downside is that the increasing number of workers falling under the control of a few monopoly corporations calls for the need of a directing authority in order to exploit the individual labor-force(s) under their command for greater amounts of surplus-value. In short, the productive forces of the corporations do not advance the working classes, to the contrary, it is for the benefit of the monopoly corporations that their success hinges on the use of science and technology to win over the cooperation of the workers. To make them worker longer and produce higher output technology must make work lighter, easier, less physically strenuous without lengthening the work day from 8 hours to 12 hours legally. As workers resist this trend the entire realm of monopoly corporations organize themselves in preparation of what they know will be a confrontation is one point. I think this is what we are seeing in the Trump-Putin affair a merger of American and Russian multi-national corporations. 2020 is a turning point, a do or die election for the working classes. Put another way, if the workers had political representatives in Congress on their side the anti-Trust laws would have been enforced and the mergers and joint-ventures between Russia and US corporations would cease. But as Congress is moving in the opposite direction against the American worker and Putin against the Russian workers a confrontation between labor and capitalism is inevitable.
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  438.  @hayden1770  If you mean power as an empire in decline, yes. If you mean power itself, no.
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  439. Windsor, Virginia, ---I'll make sure to never go there and spend my money. Town ought do something about their cops.
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  440. I remember this history clearly. Robert Knight covered this invasion. Hearing the reporting when it was produced was more than news. I felt it was a live documentary on how the new imperialism of the US would proceed in decades to follow. He pieced together the places, persons, and events on provided a documentary preserving this invasion for history. When it happened it did without the consent of Congress and shortly thereafter the Congress waved the Declaration of War Act. The Panama invasion was a test case and a prelude to the invasions around the world that has culminated in a new form of fascism in America.
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  441.  @ineverskiplegday3327  Rural America is in a state of depression bigger than the great depression, this is no fucking joke, i lived through it, and I am pissed at how young people retain their emotions with intellectual bullshit. Get off the highway and drive the county roads and see the desolation, derelict, buildings, roads, ghost towns, abandoned animals wandering around unattended, loose packs of dogs, contaminated fields, where people are living in conditions that make Treblinka a luxury hotel. Fuck your apps and cell phones. Get out there and kick some ass!
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  442. They may not like to call themselves a militia but that is what they OathKeepers and Co., are. An army when they all come together. Looked like the same militia style attack except they used firepower that took down the Yanokovich government in Ukraine in 2014 and that was backed or even planned as history will eventually reveal by coup makers in the same government investigating Jan 6. In a way the hearings suggest coups are okay in someone else’s country but not here also suggests that it will happen again and again until people devise a government that is not prone to corruption.
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  443. You really could careless about homeless citizens.
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  444. Of course they want to happen. Preparation for when they come after you.
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  445. Yes,---we tend to not imagine in the names we use to explain what people were back then that they had feelings, and conscience, insight, and had wishes, dreams, aspirations of what they wanted to be when they were little kids was crushed by the social system in which they lived. Putting some flesh and bones behind the economic terminology the manstream media and education system fail to do would help. If I say wages fell and profits went up I am really describing two kinds of people in society. Mainstream finds it okay to say the first part of the sentence but not okay to use the second part of the sentence because by doing so, viewers would develop empathy for the person who is poor. One reason why the press never showed body bags coming off the planes from Iraq and Afghanistan. The person who lives on wages is facing dire conditions and the person who earns their income from profits is elated, free, and rich! The contrast could not be more striking that if broadcasted over the mass airwaves would spark a movement to disrupt the state of affairs. I'd like to see and hear more socialists bring into the terminology they use the human and subjective element. The more human they sound the more authentic they sound to our ears, the easier it is to detect frauds.
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  446. Fascinating to watch what people do and can do.
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  447. Doubt everything helps for me. You actually learn more when you get rid of cable. You begin to search out new platforms for news.
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  448. The passiveness of the masses is what makes dictatorship and revolutions necessary...an age where the masses are the active force in history will be an age when dictatorship, revolution and democracy are no longer be needed as a means for the life process of societies to develop.
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  449.  @lastfreegeneration984  I doubt that... impoverished human beings are less capable of functioning at a higher level transcending competition and monopoly power and control. All capitalist relations impel each to get what the other has in the competitive stages. When one reaches monopoly power and social control, the best the species can do is to break up the big companies into new companies and restart competition. Socialism requires a higher functioning person, people who can cooperate and come together without a boss or authority. Come together for the species as do other species. People who can behave by intelligence and reason as do other species. America ranks really low on the list of educated persons in the world, around 17 on the list of all nations. Not the most reasonable people. Kind hearted, yes. Gullible, defintely. But totally unaware of themselves as objectified by forces external to them through rules and social organization.
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  450. I wonder what Germany gets by siding with the Americans on the Russian pipeline. Germany did a 180.
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  451. I see your point. Price and wages are the economic categories the class struggle between workers and capitalists is the social reality behind those categories. But the difficulty to cut wages was true on the surface of the economy for the workers not true below the surface. Capitalists overcame the difficulty by lengthening the working day; that difference is surplus-value from work performed beyond what is necessary. Inflation is not the only way the capitalists recover losses. The working day itself. The legal working day is 8 hours but there is no law against extending the working day to 14 hours. Not when there is a government whose policy of non-interference into the production process of capitalists will you find an enforcement against compulsory over work. Workers have no ownership over the working day and the working day controlled by capital works against the workers. They have intensified the work itself without adjusting worker’s wages to produce surplus-value with innovation and higher amounts of per worker output. The struggle between employers and employees is less mystified when seen from the standpoint of the working day.
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  452.  @HeresMyView  I read your reply to my question on Trump's attitude toward China as in part socialist, in part not socialist. A contradiction or a a Hybrid, which depends on history.  I am not surprised he got elected. I don't feel you got your hooks reeling in the historical problem. It getting harder and harder for the GOP establishment to get elected. The GOP is running out of fake issues to hang on to the religious vote and the general vote. Pretty soon a civil war can emerge out of a political war. This is not good news for China.  The new contradiction that emerges for the primary 1% constuency the GOP represents is another FDR administration in China. Socialist planning is the antithesis of unbridled capitalism that a good deal of China's workforce will serve a standing military for the party. We saw this happen to Russia, the back of the Soviet Union was broken by constant military defense spending at the expense of the general laboring population's development both in America and in Russia in an arms race. 1991 was a success story for the GOP. Russia has a difficult time with internal problems today as a consequence of restoring capitalism in Russia. Last May Day, the demonstrations were large and Putin called the police. Things are not fine. No New Taxes, Deregulations, Crime Bill, as the underlying oath in the GOP, is supposed to cement among three constituents, evangelicals, blue collar working class, the industrial and financial 1% establishment, a Unity. It is the last group who the first and second constituent group must serve if any of them win a presidency. The first two constituents will always be wrestling with certain actions acting as a president which contradict its own general base and the nation. Serving the needs of the GOP establishment will wear out the patience we see in Pence in relation to the CCCP. So far the blue collar base has produced no one better than Trump who can succeed him. The GOP establishment has to lie to its constiuencies and to the general public to win an election. For this reason it can never make a commitment to anything interest outside of itw own. The establishment must make the interests of its other constituents secondary to its own private interest through coercion.  As the new democrats come of age and become a majority, China will have to deal with a left regarding China as a socialist failure. Common to our three largest economies and nations are three dark histories they each bear on their conscience which is why I claimed I don't think you have a grip on the historical. History is the interaction of two forms of coonsciosness both subjective and objective. The Cultural Revolution of China, the Stalinist Period in Russia, Slavery in the United States, will never stop motivating our societies to stop acting out barbaric behavior toward each other until these atrocities are reckoned with in a very real and sincere way.
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  453.  @simonrodriguez4685  Sounds over romanticized to me.  Barbarism comes to mind as the word that can summarize humanity's experience in the 21st century.
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  454. These are some funky newscasters.
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  455. One the one hand more housing fell into fewer private hands and on the other hand, more people became homeless, is the way I see it. I state no more than what actually happens in real life. Those who see into the mirror and do not like what they see make excuses for what the mirror reflects.
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  456. Police in America are poorly trained in one area and over trained in another area and when it comes to strategies and tactics to assure the security of person, property and rights, of individuals in society, their command structure is under trained in the concept of the police and given too much political power and freedom to be accountable. Plus they are paid very well and diversified financially that they fall in the lower ranks of the 73 millionaire households in America. The police system is a system for rich police. People who the organization extinguishes the class difference between the higher brass and the police rank and file. This case cries for a universal humane treatment of mental illness and Medicare for All.
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  457.  @carlmorris398  Prevention is a pound of cure.
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  458. Good coverage...telling the story as it is.
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  459. All sides must commit to peace I agree but Congress is to blame for the reckless militarization of the planet.
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  460. I think we can agree that departments of criminology everywhere and other academic professions that lead to positions of power and authority in society examine their candidates with more scrutiny and standards higher than a loan offers to an institution of higher learning as a qualifier for admission. Too much sh@*t hides behind titles.
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  461. Never mind, Lenin Moreno de-regulated oil prices and cut the subsidies of oil, therefore, gas prices trebled for all transport drivers. He unstuck the glue that kept that country intact. The transport truckers, in turn, raise their price and this increases the cost of produce to the distributor and supermarket. Ultimately, the poor working classes cannot afford to buy the necessaries of life after all the price mark ups have been affixed to the goods. It shows the breakdown of the system of production and distribution in Ecuador. The situation for the indigenous people, peasants and working classes is such that they have nothing to lose by revolution and have no special interests in the exisiting order to keep it alive. More ground updates and current reports are needed of the situation.
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  462. CEO compensation is the effect of the flight of capital from the advanced sectors of the international workforce.  It was a sign that Capitalists cannot cope with their diminishing share of surplus-value and turned their backs on the American workforce. They went where wages are cheaper and labor is more productive pumping out endless commodity-units. The greater share of GDP were wages in the US. Surplus-value is the difference between what they would have to pay an American for the same work done by a female Asian in a Singapore factory producing a value more than what both workers need to live.  Female labor in Singapore is paid less than an American female worker who is paid less than their own male counterpart. The chief complaint of Big Business; the cost of labor in America is too high. In the 70's the cry was "no savings', but each time a crisis came around the money was found. Increases in CEO compensation reflect how successful in the class struggle the capitalists are cheapening the value of labor-power in America and how not successful the working classes are getting a greater share of the surplus -value they produce.
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  463. Not very a good prospect for humanity when deeds do not match words. In the two most powerful nations in the world, socialism and democracy, are pretenses.
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  464.  @anelifloris5980  More important than that is the Worker Self-Management System Tito implemented. With so many ethnic groups each group had their turn to legislate in the seat of government. A rotating chair of power.
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  465. Was that a guy trying to move a boulder off the road?
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  466. One other thing...Bolsonaro...if there were ever a species in the non-human world found that is a Bolsonaro it would have to be a species that consumes everything and produces nothing. Because, in the human world, Bolsonaro knows the price of everything and value of nothing...a free trader vulgaris.
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  467.  @PoliticalEconomy101  I am not convinced you have a cogent point to make here and your comment does not square with what actually took place in the USSR. You'd have to explain what is the 'false Marxist communism' you cite and what is the 'centralized democratic coordination'?
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  468. If right and left social movements at the level of the society come together to create an anti-war movement that movement will grow, but it will not have the cosmetic appeal of other movements that have no revolutionary substance to them. The very act of coming together by formerly separate individual movements is revolutionary in itself. It was a success in my book to see a variety of people more representative of America come together.
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  469. The transition back to capitalism demolished the social supports of socialism is a constructive assessment of the situation. I like it.
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  470. I will direct my sardonic humor at Oz at the expense of Fetterman who is Dr. Jekyll before he becomes Mr. Hyde in the Senate debating Young Frankenstein.
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  471. Nazi racist cops in Rochester NY...don't ever go there!
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  472. America is being subjected to a Right Wing Master Plan for the 21st Century in addition to committing genocide on black Americans.
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  473. Its no different in western societies, China has to protect itself from religious social forces just as much as western governments protect themselves from non-religious social forces.
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  474. The owner of the Bayou Restaurant, Mark Austin, said protesting the policy of proof of vaccination and ID is anti-American. He would if he had more political power silence any dissent among the masses if this were 1798, but in 2021 he uses the subtle messaging of the media who do not pause to question the comment. The Press are timid and go along whichever the way the wind blows. Dissent is as American as Apple Pie.
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  475. Any excuse to serve as a pretext to fool the American public into war is how low the US lawmaker can go.
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  476. 8:18,----“...you bring up a good point..”, when asked the question why Iran has not retaliated for Israel’s assassinations, in reply the man gives every reason related to an attack but a reason related to peace he dismisses...the thought never occurs to him, that it may be that Iran does not want a war with the US is why Iran is holding back. A lecturer at the University of New Haven and security expert...I would not ask a cop why the guy did not punch me back, I’d ask the guy.
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  477. I turned off the sound on this video to watch the images only. The narration is propaganda. I can think for myself thank you CNBC.
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  478. It will be impossible for nurses to perform all the task expected of them. Incoming patients push the tasks on doctors and nurses beyond the point of physical exhaustion and into the realm of mistakes in the lives of patients hospitalized. That beds are always filled is good business for a consortium of private investors of hospitals with an endless supply of the sick with the virus but obviously what is a benefit to investors is a detriment to society in general and an exploitation of nurses and doctors in particular.
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  479. True to the careerist mentality and idea of using other people's money this governor appropriates federal tax dollars for self-gain.
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  480. The Freedom Caucus in the House are America’s worst nightmare. Apart from that. Its great to see a working class movement in the US coming into its own. Makes it really easy to see who the friends of the people are? But also how the different segments of the working class will react to a labor movement with the same aspirations as they.
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  481. Yes --we should shock the 1% with a critical mass of people who know what's going on!
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  482. Anybody here remember Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock written in 1970, probably not. Toffler predicted the rapid change in technology would change how people interact with each other. Technology would be a disruptive change leading to high transience, a condition where ideas and relationships are used up fast.
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  483.  @m.rebman7221  The concern is the effect on the working class when the general tendency of wages to rise reaches a peak and profits are higher outside of US labor-market. The US working class is left holding the bag owing the bondholders and little employment to cover the interest much less catch up to the Chinese.
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  484. It has not been figured out yet that the problem with law enforcement in society is the problem of law enforcement’s political influence on government and legislation on society. The problem that everyone wrongly emphasizes, i.e.,take money away from the police will not diminish the many political organizations of the police.
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  485. Its the end of prosperity for America.
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  486. Workers unite the world in ways we take for granted now it is the world's turn to unite as a majority with the workers.
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  487. With all the repression against Eric King he is elevated to the status of a dissident political prisoner of the US Justice System.
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  488. Its actually matching the needs with the excess pharmaceutical products in other people's hands in the world given to Venezuela. No middle dealer involved and no money in the transaction plays a role. Simply, individuals sending an excess to a country that has the need. Collected, sorted and disseminated. Common medicine, matching the need with the product- and the labor it takes to bring them together. Simple. The need itself, what brought the need on, how it was created, that a country is without medicine, is political.  Behind the politics, its immoral that oil executives have a nation's health hostage to oil.
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  489. Tulsi is great, Bernie is great, a Bernie-Tulsi ticket would be dynamite....BUT! The American people have to identify their political enemies by class not as individuals.
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  490. Capitalism is America is so diversified into monopoly ownership, creating a social class in society profiting from many sources of income, with portfolios consisting of stock ownership, property ownership, shares in banking and bond shares owned, that is the same person the working class pays when they go shopping, borrow money, rent a house or apartment or buy, travels and eats, or works in the company employing them. Labor in society is confronted by one person who is also the merchant, landlord, banker and capitalist, all rolled into one man, i.e., Buffet, Bezos, Trump, Epstein, Diamon, et al.
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  491. GM cut off health insurance for 50,000 workers who are presently on strike! When they resolve the strike and return to work it will be under conditions more favorabe to GM management. Labor increasingly loses its strength against Capital. I'd like to see a labor government in Britain and Sanders government in the US for that very reason. A corporation responsible for so many lives should have to present to a court its reasons why it cannot provide insurance to workers or why it should even file for bankruptcy, close its door, or move production. Whole Foods cutting off medical benefits of 1,900 workers and Amazon, worth $114 bn, owns Whole Foods. Workers have to be blind to not see the hypocrisy in that. What we see employers doing to workers in NYC is in store for workers in the rest of the country! Coal miners and truckers, field and farm workers, firemen and local police, emergency and hospital workers...you have this to look forward to...community and private small business workers, are not exempt from the free reign of capital, to free themselves from the excesses of corporate capital offering dead end jobs...it will be necessary to increase the ranks and the power of the strikers by striking all at once!
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  492. The Catalonian bourgeoisie are just as bad as the republicans in America who act for their rich and do not want any of their profits to contribute to society but are, in turn, leeching off society like parasites on the subsidies given to the business community through the instrumentality of the government and the average American supports that idea... just like the average Catalonian supports the same idea, 'independence' synonymous to 'tax cuts', frees the business community of contributing to society, no responsibility to the environment their corporations destroy, or to the people who work for them, and to the needs of the societies they live in, its infrastructure, its military. This is the most arrogant display of the kind of rich social classes the world is expected to tolerate and it extends from New York to Dubai and across the globe that this attitude prevails among the super rich. Why the average person would support their agenda is a result of trickery by its media sources. Ignorance on the part of the average person confusing social interests as the same with private interests of the super rich is pure social conditioning. Supporting the hard line action in Madrid is down right reactionary for the average person. The real wants of Spaniards and the Catalonians is being used as a way of evading and/or cutting taxes for the rich. To support that agenda in whatever form it appears is shear class betrayal. The average person is being shammed into carrying the greater burden of taxation for all the things I mentioned above. The situation will become violent because the origin and history of the Spanish government is violence. That is all they know.
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  493. Sanders can pull from many groups and is the only candidate Trump would lose to. You can have any combination of tickets as long as Bernie is first. All the others appeal to their type and no universal appeal. If the democrats give Trump this election you may as well kiss your election system good bye. GOP policies can never win elections and will rig them to their needs even far more than now. You'd probably be looking at a constitutional convention to abolish universal suffrage. Once the democrats snub Bernie from the nomination its over. We lost 2020 .
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  494. 1:50,---'Four years residents who lived here had demanded something be done about the flooding and now their worst night mare has become a reality'. This is to say that residents have been living with a government that does not engineer new projects or deem a flood remediation project something worthwhile for their community? I think Waverly has a real problem in who the people are in their local government and legislative positions.
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  495. ...and it is through the instrumentality of the criminal justice system that their babies and children fall into the custody of the state.
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  496. My opinion: The plea to give health care to part time workers is a dead plea when health care costs are driven up the ‘do or die’ profit system of private health insurance companies in the business of disease as health care. The workers in general are divided as individual groups under individual employers destroys the solidarity that would normally develop as workers thought as one generic category. Everyone is a worker like it or not but not all employers are like everyone, like it or not. Employers get premium health care and workers do not generates the social inequality that serves to keep wages low. The matter gets complicated but the effect is a separation from your fellow compadre. Striking for self-fish reasons when all labor is cheated defies the concept of solidarity. Students walked out in solidarity of the part time workers is the correct course of action to take. They strike to add more power to the strike of the part time professors. Cooperation among all workers is key and central to success. If one is going to strike the strike ought to be about all workers getting out from under the system employers created for themselves at the expense of workers generally. Workers are more worthy of respect and dignity but the system has them behaving like bird hatchlings in a nest screeching for the mother bird feed them bits at a time. Their treatment of workers is un-dignifying as not worthy of the same class of treatment employers rips society into a luxury healthcare system for them and illness and maltreatment for workers. If not for this cancer would be a disease of the past.
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  497. Brilliant critique of the left. A clear and concisely accurate historical analysis of the real relations of China that shatters the propaganda against China to bits! You learn more about the kind of Washington's actions used by understanding China's development Washington wants to stifle. Incidentally, the centennial anniversary of a 100 years of communism in China happened before the date of this broadcast.
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  498. Trump will no doubt be a catalyst for revolution. But one important thing to remember he won't know why. Water is not a necessity to Trump or those like him. Food is not a necessity to Trump et al. Shelter is not a necessity. Necessities of life are freely passed along to their ilk as gifts in their community, a specific strata of social life. Trump and the establishment he represents are more like a combination of many super rich families existing like royalty. To whom he is their president. The president for those who understand necessity as abstract, not real. In our world, in the social strata of life we encounter, necessity is concrete. People kill for water is a drastic social reality. When life hits bottom reality becomes violent. Trump and his class will look down upon this violence as proof of inferiority and crush it with force. No matter what one does the myopia of Trump's social class re-interprets reality through a distorted lens. Senseless violence perpetuates state violence and all attempts for rationality become distorted. For the many, cynicism overwhelms them in defeat. Something more inventive is needed to tear down the Trump wall of opposition. Cause it to fall by removing the lower layers of brick at is very foundations till the entire super structure the rich have created for themselves comes crashing down. Basically a political intervention on a massive scale to bring in the common man for this new century.
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  499. It is a foolish policy in relation to US consumers and producers but to Trump's racist base it means the difference between winning and losing an election. Therefore, the wall and the fake border crisis, is the rallying cry of his racist flank.
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  500. Chauvin the cop has only one thing on his mind and that is to control people by directing them away from him to the sidewalk. He is emersed with adrenaline killing a man which is no easy task. This is hand to hand combat the old fashioned way if his opponent were not cuffed; he totally ignores what they are telling him to do. His breath saying get on the sidewalk is seething with murder. I'd like to know where the Minneapolis Firefighter EMT was when that scene was happening. But in Chauvin the entire manner of policing in America is on trial. While the lawyers blame the victim for his own murder, sick.
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  501. What came out of the Polio vaccine would be the same question someone like you asked in 1955? A viral infection causing nerve injury which leads to partial or full paralysis. Many of the infected persons did not show any symptoms. You make me feel like its 1955 all over again the idiot you and your followers are?
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  502. Morsi died at 68 behind bars. A miltary state dominates Egyptian society. History shows that Morsi was more democratic. One of the many authoritarian regimes in the world today exercising protectionism is Egypt. Not many products coming into the US from Egypt. Its GDP is extracted from its working population through military patriarchism and nepotism. Trump cuts aid to Central America, and the sociological effect is an increase of the exodus into Mexico at the southern border. This stresses Mexico to its maximum. The deployment and expense of the operation to hold back migrants is the wrong approach for the Obrador administration. Rejection of migrants is too costly that taxing the rich in Mexico would become an option. But having an anti-tax opposition party on his hands is not what he or the country needs. The other choice for Obrador is to do what ancient Rome did before its decline and the cause of its decline was when it stopped incorporating other tribes into the city of Rome. Incorporation made Rome great as immigrants brought their own skills and trade with them that cities in Mexico can become integrative meccas for something really great in Mexico. It could lead to a situation where the tax paying public can enoy the luxury of less taxes the rich enjoy because of the incoming rise of new markets and industries immigrants bring with them. This would be a direct blow to Washington in that its policies of kicking people out is a weakness for Americans becomes a strength when migrants settle and begin production of some kind then Mexico can incorporate them into society. .
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  503. Wendy Liu's excellent study is a good read.
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  504. The silence of politicians to factory explosions and gun violence is a sign they do not give a dam about you.
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  505. He did not realize how that line had been redrawn is an admission of guilt. When the line was drawn he played and now the line is redrawn he can't play anymore. Biden does not get rid of DeJoy he is going to lose many senior votes, millions.
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  506. So we need to organize a massive demonstration against the four industries which consitute the "Medical Industrial Complex". Protesting this complex compliments Bernie's message of Medicare For All.
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  507. The other side of that question is how can loyalty be given to governments or a government that lies on a perpetual and habitual basis about the demise of a people.
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  508. It is racist and it is fascism...they will never admit it...and you would be a fool to doubt yourself that it is fascism based on what fascists say.
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  509. There is a real disconnect between the science and what many city workers, cops, fireman think.
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  510. Awful tragedy, totally unnecessary for the US to not have a kill-free mass transit system. The answer isn’t more cars. The answer is reduce the working day and get these people off the roads doing something else.
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  511. The best thing humanity can do for itself is to overturn the rules of world trade. To make it impossible for monopoly organizations to exist and construct a world trading system that is based on cooperation. People need to come to grips with the fact that reality is a product of the preceding actions of nations themselves acting under a competitive world trade system. Fundamentally they have fucked it all up and there is no grounds on which to rationalize or justify a continuation of their form of human behavior as the ideal. The conditions of our world demand a system of cooperation and a corresponding social system to compliment that cooperation.
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  512. You'd have to be a cruel person, callous, to do the work Homeland Security wants you to do. 'Don't come here.', when people are already there really sends a positive message to the world.
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  513. Another mystery solved by the great inspector Clouseau. Vive Le France!
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  514. Allen Kracalik ---The Bush Tax Cuts and now Trump's Tax Cuts, plus tax depreciation allowances would allow them to substract the value of capital invested into all buildings and machinery. You are not aware of this judging from your comment. The news of it must come as a shock to you. I am sure you are not alone. The American people are last to learn of their exploitation by American corporations and when they do its like deer on a highway staring into the car lights ---stunned.
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  515. The FEMA director Peter Gaynor commands 14,000 employees, several huge federal warehouses that can fill three aircraft carriers stocked with material of all types from A to Z, and 13 government agencies. In short FEMA is a standing army and compared to the US military it is small. The military is a force of 475,000 soldiers and dwarfing the size of personnel of the military is a 1 million man police force in law enforcement all equipped as we have seen on occasion when called out to quell riots full battle regalia. The federal government, therefore, has three huge standing armies. The military has at least the same material but four times the amount of all nations combined, that is 127 nations! This is what makes the US an empire. FEMA alone could outfit the entire US with a hospital system in every state making our ordinary hospital system with all its combined resources the size of the state of New Jersey and with that shrinking, overwhelmed, reduced to the size of Rhode Island. The 14,000 employees include experts of all types, engineers, doctors, medical emergency and police, workers and the army Corp of engineers. FEMA could produce material and distribute material. The production of ventilators is a piece of cake if they do not already have them stocked which they do. The society I envision is one where the needs of all citizens can be met for three generations spanning 100 years going forward and a reduced work week from 40 hours per work of a workforce of 133 million people to 20 hours per week for all 334 million and not put a dent in the quantity of material and resources the federal government commands. To give you some proof of one small fraction of this productive power see Big Bertha boring the tunnel under Seattle Washington. One machine, a giant drill is run by four operators at the helm the whole tunnel project 2 miles long employs a workforce of 800 workers. In fact, of all the parts of the society as a whole the Public has the least down to a bare minimum hand to mouth existence from lack of its rightful share of the material wealth and resources its high level of productivity creates. In my view, the priority that makes the federal government insist the Public rely on the private sector for all its needs is its persistence to be a world empire which in this day and age is doing more harm to the planet and the species as a whole. This epidemic makes me question three things about America in order that trust be restored (1) capitalism or the government's reliance on the private sector, (2) ecology and economic inequality in society, (3) public health.
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  516. The one fight that caused a strict reaction from the administration involved the administration.
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  517. The Palestinian struggle has become a catalyst for humanity to vent its frustrations out. Deep seated wounds are not healed but are sore and sensitive to the touch. People are moving in great numbers fast that we are no doubt entering a historical period of significance. A new age and new social organizations in harmony with the potential of new technologies coming into the world comes in a violent way, meeting blocks along the way from the old world that is built on power, race, religion and class...and through long protracted struggles these old ways and systems are dying, governments lost legitimacy, and are floundering...the movement of world history is picking up speed, one message is a clarion message so subtle it is loud, be free or die, a nihilism hexed the masses...and at a moments notice a Tsunami of human beings part cities, towns, governments in half, right at the legs, a city and government are no more. Gone. Permanently closed. Could be a day, a week, or an hour, that all the institutions of the 20th century dissolve right before our eyes leaving humanity to start from the ground up...build from heart, a new age of the common person.
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  518. Very good interview and it would be worth expanding it into a film of other SDS, SNICK people still living to talk about the movement.
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  519. Rise of Christian Nationalism in Texas. Laws being modified to curtail free speech. Eventually become the repression of dissent by the State. Could spread and so far is. Can only be stopped by mass unity action(s).
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  520. Anarchists in Catalonia defeated the fascists in the 30's and Catalonia is the richest asset Spain has today, hence, a separatist movement arose in Catalonia was made possible thanks to the anarchists. The Spanish, Italian and Portugeuse governments are doing a good job defeating fascists and white nationalists parties from winning parliamentary seats. You do what these coalitions are doing to defeat fascism. You bring together all groups ready to act on call for the defeat of fascism. South Africa abolished one Party White Rule. But to end it forever, a total lifestyle transformation is needed to free humanity from fascism ever arising again. It begins by building homes from available free material to produce their own heat, light, water, and food.
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  521. These labor issues have been stewing for a very long time like a pot of beans simmering over a fire starting to boil. Wages have been held constant or fixed since 1980 while hospital corporations earned record profits 400% in some cases, and the conditions of employment for the workers ever deteriorating. The intensity of work heightens the stress and people snap! All the good nurses and doctors left, and who stayed are those who cannot leave. The lower paid strata of the staff should fight for a higher wages and shame on Keiser Permanente for giving the public a hospital not worth a hill of beans. They really do not care about people.
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  522. The law Texas passed deputizes anyone to sue anyone who is an accomplice or a facilitator to an abortion. It make Texas a police state without the police. Fascism in Texas.
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  523. i like Vijay Prashad's critique of the state of the world, he has both feet on the ground. Examining the world from a perspective of labor he understands you can only do so much in a day to construct a new society when the conditions permit it. More of this type of analysis is needed in journalism, a perspective on real world conditions examining the material exchanges between labor and nature in societies thrown into the stone age by the US and its allies. On the ground journalism reporting on how the working classes are coping under their pressures to live and survive and detailing the causes of their sufferings is a better way to examine the behavior of the State. We learn more about the elites and the state when we understand what a family must do to live life with dignity or where dignity in life is established.
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  524. This assassination is such a violation of the sovereignty and dignity of the Haitian people.  It is reported in American news that Claude Josef became PM as the line of succession of the Haitian constitution permits is not story being told here? The story here is that he took power illegally in violation of due process. A coup for which he wants protection from a foreign power. Also, Syrian and Lebanese capitalists seemed to have been involved in corrupt government contracts of Haiti.
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  525. You can only be anti-abortion only if you are pro-military for the simple reason that life conceived by means of rape and violence against women produce fatherless children suitable for military recruitment in their future years as young adults and filling the need within this fatherless population is the need for an authority. This is why the anti-abortion movement is more than a woman's right but is also a struggle against the authoritarian personality in militarism and imperialism including wherever it appears on the surface of the earth.
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  526. Working class income and wealth continues to fall despite the official numbers that the working class is going to react positively to a frenzy of socialist programs in Britain. Nationalizing banks, education, health, utilities is not as easy as it was since the right wing has grown far more conservative and anti-socialist than their forebears were in the UK will call out the police. But the British working class want the profit system overthrown and with a majority to pass Parliament, these programs will see the light of day. This is a remarkable development for England.
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  527. I learned more from this than I ever would from all the papers in the world. Good job Bald, look forward to your next journey log.
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  528.  @SoCalFreelance  I see now, why not then socialize AI and make technology a function of investment. What I mean is instead of nationalizing banks and factories like China, you nationalize technology and science, this way AI belongs to all individuals in society then all individuals are safe from becoming the product. A single company cannot purchase AI as its own private property if it belongs to everyone! Does this make sense? It does to me.
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  529. Well, I hope Boric wins.
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  530. The West is headed toward a collapse of the four rudimentary actions the make up the totality for economic survival. If the people do not abandon their own economic fallacies they will never develop into higher form of human economic and social organization than capitalism. A glaring example of a society eroding the four members group actions, i.e., production-consumption-exchange-distribution, is the United States. In that country, the owners of money control the totality and capital operates and survives through exchange and distribution by destroying other capitals. Exchange and distribution are highly developed while production and consumption are starved of capital and degenerate for lack of development. When the economic order stops functioning the owners of money will leave the country left in state of chaos. Production does not determine consumption in the American system, rather, its the opposite, the other departments of the totality of the economy remain in the form of private property that in order to get the two parts working again, i.e., production and consumption, the people will have to assume full power of the State to access the factories and offices, mines, tunnels, bridges, land, rivers, lakes and canals, drilling and excavation facilities, in short, occupy the total infrastructure to get them working again. As more an more of production and consumption stop functioning or staggers like an alcoholic at hight toxic levels, chipping away at the infrastructure and driving up costs, because consumption determines production, nothing short of a complete revolution is necessary. Survival of the society is barely achieved by the mindset of the owners of money that, a definite amount of production determines a definite amount of exchange in the US for their exclusive individual consumption. Every economic system starts out with production and ends up with production - production in and for itself can only get them running again, is the new principal for this revolution. The question should capital be the starting point of production and exchange and the result of production or should the primary participants who comprise the totality, be the starting point themselves? The main activity that bears life to the human species and for the social order as a whole, is production not exchange.
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  531. Imagine that, in a public place a lawyer asks a judge to remove a member of the public. This lawyer passed the bar exam over 30 years ago. What’s that tell you?
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  532. Proves we want to save the planet and the species that we want Bernie to win. A high percentage of the American people want a change. And, he's the most amenable to that desired change not all want! Pushing back at the resistance to the transformation is what opens new ground for probabilities of change. The next Great Recession; will have to become a movement for a Great Transformation!
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  533. The Biden Doctrine."First the world does not organize itself. We need to write the rules or someone else will do it or nobody will do it which would be worse" In short, dominate before China dominates. I would just like to say that this attitude of a harmonious imperialism is what got us into the problem of Trump in the last four years. This party is really myopic.
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  534.  @laurynasbudinas8552  There are things wrong but its not the vaccine itself. That will protect you. Wrong is the government's policies of monitoring social movement and surveillance through the certificates of vaccinations. That is totalitarian.
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  535. No love lost for the rich in America. Side A is the story of the wealthiest Americans hiding their wealth from the IRS while everyone else pays and many get nothing back. Side B is the story of the rich as elected officials flagrantly consuming the taxpayer's money for private use and future gain. A bunch of real dirtbags that if they are expropriated from their wealth nobody is going to care.
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  536. Psychos run that agency.
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  537. What a fast decline for the US.
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  538. This style of reporting is more of what is needed examining abuses across industries but they have to be real and sincere reporting unbiased and reality based.
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  539. Americans at the mercy of the Taliban...scary story...oh, my!
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  540. Bill Press has it right.
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  541. This will definitely happen with the 2020 election in the US as soon as it becomes clear Bernie will win.
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  542. I yearn for the day when people exist for one another not exclusively as buyers and sellers but as people. “NO MORE TEARS”.
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  543. I tip my hat to the 79 republicans and the 8 democrats voting against the bill forcing the rail workers to accept the contract they previously rejected. For whatever their reasons they voted NO was a stand on the side of the workers though they were defeated by a majority of democrats siding with the corporations. I am sure among the rank and file of the railroad workers unions there are elements unworthy of the praise given to them as an abstract category when thinking of them as labor. They need to clean up their own act for more of the public’s confidence as worthy. Everyone deserves free time but them is the type of struggle lobbied against them and this makes it a struggle for dignity nobody should be without.
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  544. That is one way Capital sees Humanity in the Labor-Process. What they do not see and neither do the workers when capital innovates the labor-process with machinery is the economic reality that value per unit falls. Less labor time in products means less value and less value translates in market price terms as higher prices...this leads to more paper money, printing money, to keep the velocity of money in circulation strong enough to move products and realize that value as profit. Innovation leads to less labor time spent in production. This is a direct consequence of raising productivity. Things exchange because of productivity and socially, productivity means more time off from the job. This is a detriment to workers under capitalism but in a non-capitalist society it is a benefit because in societies where labor is not a value creator but a use-value producer, innovation and productivity, creates a just and equal society, as the profit is socialized not privatized. This is the internal movement of the productivity of labor is not compatible to market laws of supply and demand of capitalism. But since production is a necessity for human beings and capitalism is not a necessity for production, this contradiction gets expressed in a full blown crisis.
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  545. Such secrecy between the public on the one side and the press and police on the others side in these mass shootings about the identities of these shooters is a contradiction in this age of surveillance, technology and law suits over data breeches, that you are made to believe these activities with suspicion of a coordinated campaign of terror, made to look as they are random acts of violence, in some way are a part of a larger aim to pacify a Public.
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  546. Who paid his bail?
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  547. I hate the phrase a “fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work”, its a fallacy. The value produced by a worker in a day in no way is equal to what is received in exchange for work. Anyone here think $7.25 an hour equals what the product’s value multiplied by the number of products per hour per day per year? Excess value produced far exceeds the value in a wage given to the worker for a day’s work. There is no such thing as a fair day’s pay when not a single thing is fair in the relation. That’s the problem with these liberals...the focus of their economic policies is about “things” not at all about the quality of social relations between people at work where most of their lives is spent. The only thing equal between an employer and an employee is when they sign a contract agreement, only then are they viewed by the law as equal owners... but after that...they are unequal partners at work. Liberals, libertarians, conservatives, moderates, fascists, socialists, in America deny this truth to their dying day.
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  548. Propagandistic title; the "Iran-backed Militia" in other videos of the protests, they look like a mass of average Iraqis more than they do look like freedom fighters using weapons, who surrounded the embassy. Bloomberg News is propagandistic.
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  549. Haitians have a great tradition of winning revolutions. You'd think the rulers would understand that! The rivalry between capitalists happens constantly when one reduces the unit price from 16 hours of work to 14 hours and the difference of 2 hours is new surplus-value. The other capitalist lose out and this action sets off a series of actions where they all compete and the competition becomes a mechanism to gain more surplus-value in which they each take turns out performing each other  creating more and new surplus-value in the process. Needless to say, they develop into a complex social class. People call this rewarding bad behavior.  Americans have a knack for disguising social processes by using substitute familial terms and expressions in connection to the individual capitalist when it is the whole class of capitalists are enriched by the mechanism of competition. New market averages which reflects one or a few of them has gained a larger share of the market happens quietly in the background. But this quiet process of accumulation by reducing the labor-time in the object actually decreases wealth because what wealth is created is surplus-value for that class not for the masses.
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  550. morality and ethics are normalized but are subject and defined by class biases.
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  551. The Captain of the 103rd should do a daily walk through his community, buy a soda, and have a smoke, chat. 20 minutes of that will give you 20 years of peace and progress and that will really go far to improve police relations with the community.
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  552. Excellent and objective.
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  553. That's a round about way of saying the problem with the world is people.
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  554. Western developed capitalist countries are failing in the sense that the total surplus product of their societies comprise enough means of subsistence and of production for accumulation beyond the luxury items the total already contains, and yet, the working populations are materially deprived of this surplus, working more than one job, and are dirt poor getting larger by the day.
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  555. Its because employers are highly sensitive to any form of worker democracy, socialism or communism and they know that those systems are far more constructive to people in general and would deprive them of making a luxurious profit off the labor of others. They want American workers to be ruled by them, coddled. Spoiled, anything but be in control of industry and commerce. They know that those systems are not anti-property but are anti-private property. They know they have to have the US Military on the side to crush anywhere in the world where workers make progress in their own lives. There is no other reason to bear such disdain for workers. They know that they must have a government that retards, slows down, rejects, and resists any true human progress and every agency i the government they control functions for them not “Us”. One day what I am saying will make you realize that all these speculations made by you and others won’t any water because the government we have in place strictly exists to crush communism. This is its mission, its sole purpose and is, therefore, not democratic government and not even a good representative government; but is a dictatorship of employers, banks, landowners, super rich religious institutions, who gang up on workers of any class, shape or size, or color, sex, and police are used to intimidate and bully. For this reason they installed Supreme Court Justices who would rule against women, men and minorities. For this reason you and I do not have universal health care. For this reason our public schools are trash. For this reason we are unprotected from disease, economic shut downs, and inflation, they are using all these mechanism as weapon against the American working class. Rail workers go on strike and the first thing the government does is order railroad companies to cancel long distance commutes. Use us rail commuters as hostages and we end up blaming the rail workers because we cannot get to work by train or we cannot get our products in the stores. This is the game they play and they are well organized with money, power, communication between them, they have think tanks, they have institutes, they news media and pundits, they have lawyers, doctors, all working against ordinary working people.
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  556. An excellent video discussion on ancient rulers...Rulers would like to return to the days when they can not be revoked by the people, are not accountable to anyone or thing but to themselves, is history’s greatest teachings to mankind...this is a good way of disseminating knowledge.
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  557. The lives it cares to save are billionaire lives.
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  558. Your ignorance is higher than Mt. Everest.
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  559. Love Michio...he soars in thought.
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  560. Its not 'some' people, its an entire social class of people that lack self-awareness!
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  561. Tip of the Iceberg. This crisis is deep.
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  562. The Massey Family of Kentucky do not send their kids to a school with armed teachers because they attended private prep and Ivy League schools where armed teachers are not allowed.
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  563. Great band.
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  564.  John Hillman  I would not go there...NSA is the empire of lies, Trump is a cunning liar. The higher echelons of the NSA have organized themselves as a distinct social order apart for the rest of us and in their hands the means of power make them the most dangerous organization in the world under their rule and private appropriation. You'd be a traitor to your country to not oppose such a juggernaut.
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  565. I think a better discussion would be about white working class acquiescence with the elites and why this blind faith is omnipresent in their social lives when there is nothing the elites did to write home about?
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  566. I think this shows that Jon Stewart is not a real talent in his own right but a manufactured media talent.
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  567. Escalation, recession and depression are the three words Americans will use in their vocabulary more than modesty, prosperity, happiness for generations to come.
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  568. I hope the next American Revolution frees water and soil from ownership of a handful of oligarchs. This video explains without directly saying it, why US sanctions are placed on Iran, a natural producer of pistachios, the sanctions are meant to prop up the Resnick business from competition in the pistachio world market worth billions. They are not believers of a Free Market. American Oligarchs the sorest and callous losers resort to strangling a society than to lose a fraction of the world market are monopolists and the US government does this for one oligarch it has to do it for all oligarchs. This, on the idea, that what is good for the Resnicks, monopoly capitalists, is good for America...a second American revolution cannot come fast enough.
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  569. Certainly America is a different country than it was when I was kid, it has become a desensitized country. A homeless person was never tolerated in the country I grew up in. Today, to this generation, homelessness is accepted as normal. I began to see this clearly when 65 year olds were taking jobs to supplement their fixed incomes in the 80s. There has been a steady decline in the standard of living of the working class since Reagan was president coincided with a rise of the financial sector of the economy as the most productive part of the economy, productive of growth. There was also a change in what growth means in America. Excess growth versus proportional growth through an exodus of production led to a general impoverishment of society and of individuals, coincided with the destruction of the family in America. This appears to have been the result of 45 years of acclimating people to believe success depends on you as an individual. In short, Austerity. Another aspect of this America is the high level of ignorance in people and the over emphasis on culture and no emphasis on the political struggles behind those cultural matters has acted as a mass indoctrination campaign through America’s schools. There is more to get into on this subject but suffice it to say that this plan is a corrosive plan for the youth who have a higher mortality rate than older Americans from increased exposure to toxic materials allowed by Congress to be used in production as in farming, construction, and mining industries, led to a degradation of the environment younger people have a shorter life span than baby boomers as a social effect of the widening gap between rich and poor. Last thing I would say to this generation is stop fooling yourselves. Currently the America you live in is run as a Mafia government and this government is a threat to the stability of all nations on the planet! Progressives are not progressive and conservatives are not fiscally conservative as both pour billions into military build ups take up more than 35% of the budget and with permanent tax cuts to the rich will rise to half the federal budget are really parties representing a minority transfer America’s wealth from the majority to this minority creates a permanently poor working class. You can expect that when Millennials reach seniority they will be working longer hours forever positioned against a higher cost of living. In short, poor or dead before reaching retirement age. Not a joke in my view but if it is not taken seriously by this youth, they then will deserve what they get, and live to regret the apathy they have today.
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  570. May 1968.
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  571. NYPD diverts traffic when a president comes to town but if it is a protest in town the traffic is not diverted by the PD. As in Kanosha the police failed to protect the public’s right of safety, person, and property. Through their inaction two forces were allowed to collide is a lawsuit no attorney has the courage to tackle.
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  572. This young man’s incarceration is not uncommon if we look at the historical record there have been millions of black people framed and chained. The chains are less visible today but more strongly felt...The Privy Council does not have a role model in Prince Charles’s address, to say anything but the evidence was concocted, the man should walk free. His exoneration should come with an apology though. I would not expect one from this generation. Apologizing is weakness, and you cannot remain who you are if you apologize for being in the same patriarchal family they call the ‘Firm” but of a generation after the holocaust of slavery. Prince Charles dd not have it in him to apologize for the chains and pains of millions. But! He did acknowledge independence from the Crown and the first woman Barbadian prime minister of Barbados. Not sure but I think the UK still has around 16 colonies in the world, Australia is one. DeKlerk acknowledging Nelson Mandela showed more humility than the Prince with an acknowledgement and apology for White South Africa’s legacy of Apartheid. The condition of South Africa today proves that society took a turn for the worse, Black South Africans and White ones under the leadership of the Black African National Congress did not see past the bourgeois order to establish a new society with new men and women based on quality of life not equality in law of the races. Really who cares if the law sees you as equal the important thing is the quality of life is equal for all is the best defense against racal inequality. There are no poor and there are no rich. That society failed to reach this stage of human development. Its never too late, just means that each generation adds more layers on top of the junk pile of unequal crap some future generation has to dig itself out of. We’ll have to see how the other bourgeois republics deal with their sordid past and institutions that still creep in the night. This could be a moment for the UK, and what is ironic a moment to make police a non-political institution, neutralized from making political arrests.
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  573. Republicans were sure to flood cities with guns and democrats were sure to follow with law and order.  The alternation of political power between the two is all too familiar a pattern for people born before 1980 but for those of the post-Reagan era the past is a blind spot and deficit.
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  574. This is what happens when one part of society is on the decline and another part of society is not in decline. We get a government that is weak, broke, and useless for one part and strong, rich and useful for another part. You won’t see this happening in Malibu, Westchester, Park Avenue, Martha’s Vineyard but you will see this happen in Anytown USA.
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  575. Jheez...if ever there was a spy movie this is it! This is a crazy plot which if it does not become a film a golden opportunity is missed; the conspirators must have believed this plot would kick off a civil war by doing it. The undercover work alone is a story and a half about how good the FBI got in with these guys.
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  576. The working class point of view of the Rescue Package is appreciative, we'll take it, but its not a long term answer to unemployment. The system will have to re-train the working class after decades of de-skilling them is a paradox that will terminate capitalism.
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  577. Workers in the US bear the effects of this form of exploitation the most in society. A rotten juridical system that defends an interest of a social class is harmful to anyone who goes before a judge partial to a particular social class. This experience puts average working people in a position to address the concerns of humanity. A higher moral ground is on their side. Far higher than the Military or even the Congress and the White House can experiencing exploitation the least in society, but workers will have to go through privatization before de-privatizing can resolve the conflict in society between science, technology, and their working lives. To be free of the accumulated trauma and the cumulative effects the workplace on workers, they will have to change the social relations of work in society.
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  578. PR is ground zero as low as it goes from a survival standpoint. Meaning that the first premise of all human existence and, therefore, of all history, is that people have to be in a position to live in order to 'make history'. But in PR life is below that baseline, life involves the struggle for food, water, habitation, clothing, medicine, and many other things before pursuing school, employment, government. They have not even the means in their possession to satisfy those needs and cannot even begin to reconstruct their cultural and social life as it once was. PR would be a non-story to us if it were not for this one contradiction. That a population is being maintained below survival conditions in the belly of the richest country in the world unable to reach its first historic milestone of achievement. The building of the means as a fundamental condition of all history. The material world around PR's populace surrounds them in rubble and ruin reduced to a minimum, to a stick and the action to produce a stick is held back by an outside alien force in Washington DC. The second point I would make about the condition of PR and where it stands on the scale of functionality for social reproduction is the satisfaction of the first need (the action of satisfying, cannot develop into new needs). Communities become more stable, complex and grow when a people accomplish the first historical act together. This point applies to most of America, especially all those living in urban and deep rural places where social alienation and individualism as the norm works against cooperation and solidarity. Falling back into a prehistorical state of existence under the neglect of capitalism is a threat to the survival of the human species. It is essential this system be treated as criminal and the masses of people begin cultivating new values and ethics, organizations of united individuals toward remaking their own life.
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  579. I remember this day and it was not strange... it was betrayal.  The King was southern blue collar rock along the lines of Cash and Allman Brothers. Hs screwed up manager sold Elvis to Hollywood, the Military, Vegas. It was a split between clean cut right wing music that the Beach Boys represented and counter culture rock and roll music the Doors, Hendrix, the Beatles and Stones represented.  Elvis was viewed by youth of my age at the time as a "sell out".  Pot was not legal and not illegal at the time but Nixon made it illegal to go after the Anti-War Protesters who were smoking it up as the only thing he had to arrest them. Elvis was his man to build up the generation who decades later were to be Trump's loyal slowly aging baby boomer minions. The King is the Father of Country Music propaganda, he would have been a QAnon supporter if QAnon were around back then.
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  580. “There are decades where nothing happens and weeks where decades happens”, Lenin. Brilliant observation, really important changes happen in a real short period of time.
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  581. @ E Walker,----A very reasonable and rational recommendation to changing the rules of the Senate Court that will never see the light of day. A conviction of Trump could lead to a conviction of accomplice and accessory senators to his crime and many of the senators who are accomplices to Trump are from the same social class as Trump and the same party. An acquittal is the best they can get to avoid losing their jobs in front of voters.
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  582. How do people in capitalism rise above the social creature they are? A landowner cannot think past his property. Merchant can’t think beyond changing goods into money. Bankers cannot think of loan forgiveness and a capitalist cannot think past accumulating capital. It is property, money, loans, capital, wages, things determining the lives and consciousness of people. The soldier cannot think past patriotism, loyalty, to the authority that governs the soldier. On the other side the slave thinks of freedom as a contrast to slavery, not freedom through a social consciousness. Workers cannot think of themselves as producers the term worker is their caste name and class designation. Within these distinctions are subdivisions of social class. People seek out other ways of being to get out of the bourgeois categories by which we live through other forms of consciousness, i.e, religion, spiritualism. India’s caste system in India is only now broken through education and capitalism. Substituting the caste system was a class system that left intact the culture of a caste system gives that country its social character. America’s slave system was outlawed but the practice of slavery was left intact and this gives capitalism in America the character of an Apartheid social system. All the revolutions in the west were never complete and thorough revolutions, leaving intact the old world and superimposed it on the new one.
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  583. You are full of western propaganda, bro.
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  584. These are one of these moments when an insider verifies a long suspected truth about America’s energy independence, that it never meant drilling on home soil although some of that happened. It meant the OPEC Nations could do little to no damage to US Oil corporations in the oil market.
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  585. Must be a lot of worms in this can of crime.
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  586. @danhorn3648,---a lie is told to conceal a truth.
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  587. I learned a lot from this video...thanks Jimmy.
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  588. Then you force them to negotiate. FORCE PEACE DOWN THEIR THROATS!
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  589. We have chosen for ourselves a kind of freedom of absence of any real freedom that makes voter suppression easy for the opposition to enforce. That has to change.
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  590. The last time the US built anything in another country my father was 4 years old was the Panama Canal in 1904.
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  591. Speak English man and quit using coded language “ Identitarian”...really...as a substitute for Pan-European far right nationalism.
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  592.  @ewalker1057  Indeed, the USSR proved socialism lifts people out of poverty and now China's will do the same. The one sided development western capitalist elites imposed idividing the world into rich and poor nations usurped the world's resources to placate its own working masses with a materialism that cannot be sustained, and left the world in dire straights. All China has to do is arrange a pay us later deal with poor nations, the can use your their money to develop their society versus, borrow from the US and owe the US permanent interests and remain destitute. What a contrast, eh!
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  593. Evidently, traumatizing children with stigmas is more important than education for this christian school..
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  594. This is big trouble and should be directly opposed by Americans to keep libraries out of the hands of judges. Lawmakers will shut those libraries down in rural communities. Big trouble, fight this.
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  595. The real story is stated at the end of the video is when the anchor says at 1:49 the AG ordered a comprehensive review of the decisions made before, during and after the fire. The big question who knew what and when is an old question for as long as I can recall as the government’s response to disasters manmade or natural when they end in fatalities. Victims say there was no advance alert or warning and cell phone companies are not taking the initiative proving their tech can save lives.
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  596. @Blazin'Dragon, ---Ha! Never happen. The Senate are not going to convict themselves for the crimes they do. Convict Trump and you have to convict his accessories in the Senate. Trump is not the only one who would go down. They all come from the same socal class, convict one billonaire senator and the other billionaire senators can be convicted too; is a precedent an acquittal will avoid.
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  597. So it is true, -- more than one knows, how half the US labor force produces nothing of value because most of the total labor expenditure of society is in the arms race, military, pentagon, Congress, the presidency, the State.
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  598. Refreshing to hear the Russian activist’s views of what drives Russia in the post-Soviet era. The war began 8 years ago in 2014 is important for the west to accept as fact. The two narratives, Russia cannot be an empire without Ukraine and Ukraine has no right to exist as an independent state describes a mentality inside the Russia’s oligarchy and explains it as a class dictatorship.
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  599. Indeed, and it was shown in this report which is rare.
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  600. Whether it was through three centuries of manufacture that we used our own cooperation to work against us typifies the way human beings shaped themselves from the 1550s and ending in 1790 to the idiots we are today. Buying the rights to an invention makes the invention no longer the inventor's. The purpose of the exchange is to separate the owner of the use-value from the use-value. Separate the producer of the use-value from the use-value the producer created is the purpose of the exchange between labor and capital. You cannot capitalize on a use-value if you don't take it away from its owner by whatever means necessary peering through the annals of human history. The invention belongs to the buyer who is in position to mass manufacture the invention and can now can employ the inventor which is even worse for the inventor's self-esteem than just selling the invention and walking away. In effect the inventor has given up any claim to the share of the market proceeds the buyer of the invention has capitalized upon. Further the inventor may have his/her own lab. But it is often the case that the buyer of the invention has invested capital in their own lab in which case the inventor has no capital of his/her own invested in the lab of the patent rights owner and would receive none of the allowances given to such an investment as per the wonder-fully one-sided and blatant US Tax Code. Now once the inventor is out of the picture from the sale of the patent rights or has joined the new patent producer the next step after the purchase is to produce it, and simultaneously create the demand for the invention n prep for the third step of re-entering the market wth the invention, so many millions of units produced and this may entail a range of tools all purchasable with money. A little imagination will suffice as to how things get marketed in America until very recently where demand is created by scarcity and scarcity is created by human destructiveness reducing the material level of the population to where the needs are varied and great. Capitalism and its economic laws are all about separating people from their own labor, tools and land. Suburbs is a classic case of what no to do in community planning unless you want to make an entire population car dependent in which make it so there is no other way to get to the store.
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  601. By the title of this report the readers are misled. Stuck in the steel factory are the fascist battalion. Holding strong but far out numbered like the Texans were surrounded by Santa Anna’s Mexican Army for three months in the Alamo i 1836. They were defeated from day one of the attack. Biden pointing to the steel factory and people trapped in the rubble are really this battalion he is concerned about. The best thing America can do for itself to gain respect from the world is to join its own International Court and let some of its own leaders be tried for war crimes, even if it means the entire generation of politicians are found guilty for their participation of war crimes. Only then can you bring Putin to trial for his war crimes.
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  602. I love the ending of this video, the We Can Do It part.
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  603. This is what has to happen again. Labor and Capital face to face.
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  604. This station has lost its integrity as progressive.
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  605. The Bretton -Woods Conference 1944 came up with the Monetary System that placed the US in the privileged position.
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  606. Food for Thought: For what the professor explains about a straight forward neoclassical economics department throughout the university system the professor aptly calls the “new corporate universities” should raise concern that the trend sets the stage for a guy like Ron DeSantis to reform secondary education to exclude black history. None of this means the literature in economics and in black history cannot be attained as long as these are made available on line but it does mean that the corporate sector merges with universities to create a compliant workforce cultivated by the universities and with Ron DeSantis reforming education, cultivated and molded in high school a workforce for the 21st Century and beyond. A specialized, well trained and paid employee as a more privileged worker than workers in all secondary jobs ensures the survival of the capitalist system.
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  607. People there will have to adapt to a new way of life.
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  608. So,-- instead of reducing the standard of living of the rich in Sweden the rich legislate to reduce the standard of living of the working class of Sweden. Sweden chooses to prolong the working day to offset the diminishing number of active workers in the workforce is a low blow and insult to working people.
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  609. that’s not why. They still have campaign money left over and can’t spend on anything else. The debates are meaningless like the party is meaningless. @BasicYTHandle 
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  610. In America, stand on line if you want democracy. The only country in the world where you can be unfree and free at the same time. Where wrong is right and right is wrong.
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  611. Sounds to me like politicians are going to have a lot to worry about.
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  612. A quiet war of intimidation and repression goes on in America’s suburbs that suburbanites have not come to the realization it is their freedom being repressed as an effect of random violence.
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  613. Remarkable how far we have come. Not sure if it is progress a rich family is rejected can be credited to the idiotic narcissism of the rich or a social revolution was kicked off by a right wing insurrection in the GOP. Nixon could live out his days in New Jersey. Today an island fortress bunker is necessary for survival. All because some people think they are special! Guided by a soulless privilege...
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  614.  @tmnt10000  Do you think you really changed his opinion with your comment?
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  615.  @_audacity2722  CIA is the reason Americans are under the stresses of repression, conspiracies, pacification, and oppressed by institutional and random violence or force. Funded by the oppressed, the CIA works with the ‘Scum of the Earth” in every nation only to stall the growth and development of People’s Democracies.
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  616. @Max Max -- That is interesting. Organization in the left is when it has the support of millions of workers, as for example a huge party membership, and Bismark's fear of revolution would be proof social security was a class war prize and victory for the workers against the German State Bismark represented or personified. Would it not be more historically accurate to locate the class struggle in Germany at the time as culminating in the creation of SS for workers in other nations just as we would should see a $20 dollar minimum wage increase and medicare for all, a struggle and a class war prize for workers against the Federal government's social welfare program in the form of tax cuts and bail outs to mega-corporations and the rich?
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  617. Good video. The detestable aspect of capitalism upsetting to me is the relation of buying of labor-power with the necessaries of life. We are hostage to our needs and controlled by things when capitalism makes a commodity out of food, cloths, shelter. People are not brought to life in capitalism but the things are. People are brought to their knees at near death by capitalism while things have laws and licenses, permits and inspections, trade institutions and governmental agencies all acting to ensure things are made and sold. The amount of care and consideration we give to people is less than the amount of care and consideration things receive under capitalism. Money being the connection between the necessities in general for all families and persons in particular and by eliminating this very specific economic relation is in my view the key to transforming capitalism.
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  618. Is “ReSet” synonymous to “revolution”?
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  619. The woman who gets raped by a customer is made a criminal if she seeks to terminate that forced insemination by a customer. This is barbarism in America.
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  620. Well,-- the workers better get their act together and seize control of the means of production from the Oligarchs. Talk is cheap.
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  621. Its not stupidity as much as a slick tax structure works for them and if they look stupid fine, as long as the income from the tax structure enriches their class. What the republicans did do is to alter the criminal code to include charging minors as adults on certain crimes. This allows money to be made from an entire class of incarcerated minors charged as adults held in prison past their release date. The state can charge back the community from which that minor and the tax ratables are higher for the homeowners. That money flows back into the upper echelons of the republican and democratic party in other revenue forms communities are required by the state to pay. Its all a sham system when you really analyze it.
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  622. Class, privilege, we all know that these institutions are the gateway to entering the super rich for an individual and that the particular qualities of the the individual counts from the institution's point of view as a quantitative contribution to the institution itself. Along side the creation of a social class of kids who will in the future become the super rich, the political elite, the Wall Street capitalists, the Trump administration is on the biggest spending spree of the nation's wealth in history, giving billions in tax breaks to this class of people who will never work a day in their lives outside of privilege and the institutions themselves give back to Trump their blessing. Money the country cannot afford is spend on ideals that return nothing of value to society. The flip side of the bribes and scams, deceptions that the wealthy commit to get their kids into the social class they belong were the school crimes in black working class schools committed by the administrators defrauding tests scores skimming off the federal grants the Trump administration will terminate in his next budget, federal dollars given to working class school districts redirected for the construction of the wall and more spending on law enforcement. The solution to the problem, a problem of holding on to power, is family separation of migrant children and their parents, an act of genocide, according to the World Court and the formation of a permanent social class of privileged elite, and on the other hand, a permanent working class, tied to the Trump budget as the new vision and objectives for America becomes a caste system.
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  623. It is a good question and if the boats did not hit or come into shoals to sink them than the question is more than valid. Its a case of direct inhumanity world authorities should prosecute.
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  624. Bald is really a great man with a camera. An eye-opening video of life on the Amazon River. Well done Ninja Turtle Man.
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  625. Incredible news line up...a social system in decline...a real striking story about the Trump administration denial of the necessaries of life as un-necessary to the migrants held in prisons conditions shocks a panel of Hearing Judges.
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  626. Imagine Peace. If you want it. We will Live in Our World as One. This is the ambitious project for the human race.
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  627. I’m sure you folks are familiar with Sam Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot”, the Justice Department is Godot.
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  628. There is one problem with Bolton's tweet. Nobody is fighting for their freedom in Cuba or in Venezuela. The people in these societies are perfectly accepting of their regimes. Bolton gets his information from his imagination. To the contrary, the people in Venezuela and Cuba are taking steps to get out from under US sanctions. Obviously, the Trump administration is curtailing the freedom of Americans about who they come into contact in the world they share with others in an effort to destroy Cuba's private sector development. Anything to reduce the standard of living of the people in socialist societies is the main jist of Trump foreign policy.
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  629. Too much in too little a space for the magnitude of the problems to be addressed in this mainstream media format with any real depth and analysis.
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  630. I tip my hat to this commenter for being more informative and exact than NBC News on the state of the economy, society, and the world.
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  631. I think the best way to solve inflation is to not have it at all. End the conditions that permit an outside will to determine prices. Re-organize the system by changing the relationship labor has to capital.
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  632. Macy’s and Bloomingdales were the hallmarks of prosperity of the 1980s. End of a an old economic era.
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  633. Excellent summary reporting from Mike Fox without which little is understood about Latin and Central America politics that can be related to American politics.
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  634. There are many Aarons out there. I hope more service members quit over this. Just because you take orders does not mean you can’t be a human being. The conscience of a nation has been stirred to action.
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  635. The task at hand for the AG is to make sure the president is not found with his pants down in the investigation of Epstein's sex trafficking ring. Some will have to be sacrificed to cover up any such connection that could bring the matter to the senate for deliberations against the president.
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  636.  @rarediamond6868  This is what happens when government is used to use laws to make equal unequal people, groups, and social classes. Eventually, it all falls apart.
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  637. Police, prison correction officers and security officer, even army recruits, are under an illusion if they think their own pension system will remain intact when the US economy shatters to bits in a full blown decades long depression. You can see on a small scale how fast the pensions dried up in Lebanon. Small countries don’t have a cushion to fall back on. But a rich nation does as long as the Dollar has value. Pensions owed to rank and file officers will get paid. But if the dollar sinks in value as it is headed now; all pensions become worthless paper. Knowing this you might reconsider why put your life on the line and pummeling your own citizenry for the State. I see the Beirut security officers reconsidered their position way too late and gave service for which there is no compensation. Same thing will happen to you.
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  638. Big contrast from what you hear in commercial news programs where talking heads paint a positive picture of the economy.
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  639. What a brilliant insightful and in touch man. I never saw him when he was alive but I was alive when he was. If there is ever a concrete definition of what constitutes a man or a woman it is Dr. King. Never not finding what is universal about a particular subject.
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  640. The billionaire wing of the democratic party is Bernie's main opposition in winning against Trump, they are fine with Trump in the White House, and will do what they will to undermine Bernie and the working class!
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  641. I would take this as a victory of the people over the Oligarchs in possibly more indictments of people in offices and private industry for high crimes and misdemeanors, a general crack down on white collar crime, and former presidents immune from prosecution and accountability. By far corporate crime does more damage to society than crimes against property and crimes against persons,--which do not slow down working class development... corporate crime are not even tabulated in FBI Crime Reports, this should change too...where no one is above the law...the law must then eradicate one half of itself as two sets of laws for the rich and another set for the poor...corporate crime is a higher cost to society.
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  642. The high precision weapons of all super powers are precise about hitting innocent civilians and that to me is a force of subjugation of civilians that superpowers use force to maintain their respective spheres of influence.
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  643. The quantity of food needed to feed hundreds of people on a daily basis will add up to a mountain styrofoam and plastic the length of the Alleghany Mountains is what the environment does not need right now in the midst of a climate catastrophe. The food producers sending food in plastic may mean well but how all that plastic will be discarded makes the situation worse. With all public works and sanitation destroyed by the flood the garbage will have to be picked up and collected by hand. Communities would most likely resort to burning the garbage releasing more toxins into the atmosphere or know not what to do and lay under the sun to spawn dyptheria, scrofulus, malaria, rat infestations, COVID and other diseases of contagion. The point in the battle against climate change is to make the changes at the point of production!
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  644. You cannot have winners without losers and the world is getting short on losers.
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  645. This is one of the best treatments of the subject I heard in a while...the internal and external connection of nations relating to each through a sale, and the sale they are relating through is a relation to the world economy.
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  646.  @ibablo  It was. Time does heal. Thank you for your condolence. It certainly makes you more human.
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  647. This story is a non-story.
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  648. The socialist party in Catalonia is a disgrace. In fact all the European socialist parties sold out.
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  649. Once again if workers are not pleased with the deal, the social contract between labor and capital is doing harm to them as a whole, they should then act in unison across all industries for the removal and replacement of that social contract, and come up with a better arrangement that benefits everyone.
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  650. Karl Racine’s case is a pivotal one to watch.
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  651. Despicable isn't it.
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  652.  @chiefkaha5650  not naming the empire is being vague.
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  653. Americans are in no better shape in terms of debt as the instrument used to force the youth to become labor-power for capital. Kids graduate from college with an average of 30 thousand in debt and they have to get a job to start paying for it.  Their parents are in debt for their college, senior citizens on fixed incomes, pay Sallie Mae funded no less by the Bank of London. In effect, interest on all student loans is paid to a bank outside the US through the American government. A bank regulated by the EU not the Federal Reserve receives part of the social security incomes of millions of kids their grandparents took custody of minors living in dysfunctional homes. This to me is far worse than being an exploited peasant forced to grow cocaine to feed an American habit. Americans while being high and materially deprived willingly become commodity sellers of their own youthful labor-power is an economic and social paradox! The entire working class is straddled by debt in one form or another in the US accepted this condition. So who is better off? It would appear to me that the opposition is what is left of Venezuela's class structure as its constituency are not working class. The defunct legislature is occupied with the other social classes in Venezuelan society. A blockade by the US can do more damage as there remains a class structure big enough that uses the dollar as the circulating medium in Venezuela. As long as the dollar is present, prices and wages, rents, profits can become and are, weapons used against Chavez's revolution. Had Chavez expropriated the middle and upper social classes after dissolving the legislature and the interest of the oil companies, the dollar would have been abandoned a long time ago, its national debt owed to the IMF, evaporated, and a dictatorship of the proletariat be the one system as the only avenue toward defending its revolution from interference by the American government. Americans would be watching their government invade with the military Venezuela rather than a coup. When the Sandinistas took power in Nicaragua they did not expropriate the large landowners. Those forces were left intact in society. Whether it was by making a deal with Washington for non-interference in Nicaragua back in 1979 or not Ortega is also about to be overthrown by a coup consisting of them funded by the US. Had Chavez and the Sandinistas before him decentralized land ownership and industry, given the land to the peasants and the workers the factories, the truckers the trucks, a coup d'tat would be impossible without a central dominant social class in society the American government can use to retake power. Abolition of the class system everywhere is key to ending revolutions and counter-revolutions anywhere.  To abolish the class system of slavery the price of cotton was forced downward making it unprofitable and then the slaveholder's property confiscated was what the national government of the US did to abolish the slave class system and allow the next class system to come into being. In effect, to abolish the class system of wage-labor, oil and gas prices would have to be forced upward, so high, the working class would overthrow the government and this, is exactly the condition that gave rise to the Yellow Vest movement. Macron's national tax on gas proposal was enough to push the workers off the edge. For this reason gas prices are kept low and drilling for oil on the rise to ensure prices stay low in order to maintain and sustain the class system of a working class. Americans are in worse shape than the average Venezuelan, there only one legislature ruled, here there are 50 and each with standing armies plus a national government with a military of its own. The American government does not have to worry about sending in an invading force to quell revolts that happen in America's states. The working population is controlled by each state. Plus, in America's class structure a proletarian government inside a given state can exist with the economic class structure outside of the state completely intact. Vermont is a good example, there medicare for all can exist side by side with private health care corporations can only be medicare for some and private insurance for others, leaving intact a class system in health care. There is only one language the government of Americans truly understand, i.e., force. There is no space for an honest conversation with force, if progressives do not like American interventionism they will have to put their bodies out in the streets against it! America's class structure is as large as the working class is divided that the national government can do what it wants regardless of the opinions of a disenfranchised working class.
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  654. Real in depth and stellar reporting right here...a whopping 1 minute and 42 seconds of hard driving news, thanks NBC, you guys a great job as a reliable news source.
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  655.  @tmnt10000  They are. Socialism is a full and complete democracy as long as everyone is of the same social class and democracy is a partial democracy as long as people are divided by their social class.
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  656. Inadvertently, the man may have taught the alligator a lesson in mercy. Thought to be eaten alive in the mouth of a ferociously large trash can the alligator fought furiously to get out and found itself back in alligator paradise when let out of its mouth. A very humane way of teaching reptiles to stay off certain lands where people live. You question if alligators would know. Instincts in them show fear and that is all they need to know. Location and species is quickly remembered.
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  657. There are serious problems when labor-power and the means of production are concentrated into few hands.  Our's is the worst socially organized society in earth! For the few who constrate all the capital into their hands our society is the best organized society on earth.
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  658. Brexit was never a priority. Privatizing the NHS was always the aim. If Britain's health system performs miracles the aim of the conservatives is to turn miracles into money. The priority is making money out of a system that performs miracles which cannot be taken to the bank.
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  659. If McCarthy has all power in his chamber and committee chairs have none there will be no compromise. At some point, if no compromise is reached a coalition from both sides will be formed to ‘vacate the chair’, this happened before in 1923. Walk in there one day and ask for copy of House Rules and if there is a picture of McCarthy in it only one rule matters.
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  660.  @jdnw85  A history that should be further examined and brought to light.
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  661. There is something seriously wrong when it takes a major 20 year long defeat to be a stain on America's reputation. Are the allies that stupid?
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  662. Global Warming benefits capitalism and capitalists not the working classes or the laboring masses in society or the world, the more the population dies off, and the quicker technology advances to displace labor, a capitalist does not have to hire human labor? Corporations can produce for themselves and sustain their own social communities as a class apart from the rest of society. Society is no longer a social order connecting buyers and sellers but now consists of disposed modern day nomads and the owners of money sustaining their own social class through the private appropriation of nature and industry. Is this not what the communists have warned humanity since communism came into being of a tendency in capitalism to create a parasitical social class that deprives humanity of the necessaries of life and the instruments of labor. The capitalist class reached a stage of concentrating the means and the ends, into its few hands, and can turn its back on society by producing for themselves. Make profits on the wars that accelerate the massive consumption of fossil fuel and directly kill humans and natural habitation in the process. Work to a layman means a job, to a social scientist it means social production. Remove the process of creating values and you end capitalism. The forecast for the workers from the social scientist is socially producing for final consumption for each person is dead. Mass production ceases when the owners of money, capital, the means and ends, cease producing for society and begin producing for themselves. Duh!
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  663. This large mass of people who cannot keep up with their current level of consumption are socially compelled to increase their consumption with credit. The banking class came up with credit and easy money to get the working class to buy more. Increased sales and revenue, which for a European revenue is the state's income means taxes, to an American revenue means profit and since there is no other special world to describe the state's income the word revenue is used, they use both words interchangeably to mean profit and income from taxes. Why is this important? Because labor exchanged against revenue produces no profit whereas labor exchanged against private capital does produce profit and when a government's top priority as the primary national interest of the country is the defense of this class of profit producers, it is because the definition of what is productive work and unproductive work rips the country apart into those who get government assistance to succeed and those who do not get state assistance to succeed is decided by its rulers, senators, that what they produce is not added value. In reality, a clown working for a circus is more productive of profit than a senator's work which produces neither profit nor revenue as far as employing workers is concerned. So - can society live and govern itself without senators? Of course it can but a senator cannot live without a society in the form of the state. Can the clown make people happy and still make a profit without the circus owner? Of course, but the circus owner-capitalist cannot live with out the many clown's labor to exploit. "Added value" is another term in the American lexicon that steers people away intentionally, I might add, from the concept of surplus-value. Added value shrouds more mystery over surplus-value, surplus-labor, a central category in understanding society through history and, the productiveness of labor, is not to the American worker the prime mover of society, its overwork, to them, or overtime, causing stress, loss of sleep, ill health, and the ones in charge of the productiveness of labor come up with solutions like having workers sleep in the factories to be refreshed for the next day's grind. The notion that the productiveness of labor can reduce the work day without diminishing the standard of living Americans enjoy consuming- never, never enters their heads for the kind of legislation needed to address the problem of exploitation in society. Also the word labor is not in their vocabulary except as a discipline, i.e., hard labor, manual labor, forced labor, labor economics if they have such a study. To explain the dual character of labor in society, the difference between the work itself and the sale of labor-power as a commodity, you'd have to translate English into their tongue for them to understand it. Hard thing to do. Work describes the activity, working describes a job to an American. Work safety, work hazards, report to work, work is a duty, not working means unemployed. To a European a job has greater social importance than just the difference between being idle and not idle, it is where profit is produced by workers while consuming a capitalist(s)'s means of production. Also the word 'production' is not in their vocabulary except as a project of some kind. As a work in progress, production has no other significance outside of being a horrible place to be eight hours a day. The production process where wealth originates becomes a strange idea to them. Work is not their own, it belong s to another. . Americans do not have a concept of social class or class struggle as the working poor in the US are saturated by an ideology of individualism - so there are no social classes operating in society in their overall view of American society, just 'bad actors', exploiting this impoverished mass of people. It is the exact opposite in Europe. Class does not mean an 'industry' with a bad apple in every bunch has been created; it means a new social class has emerged the question becomes from what source? When it comes to political power the notion of social class is important, crucial, as power is not taken by an individual but by a class of more of the same kind of individual. More than one capitalist constitutes a class of capitalists does not broadcast over to the heads of working poor Americans, who will readily agree with this assessment of society but will never act on it. Workers there have a class consciousness that allows them to act for themselves as a class. That is not the case in America since the 1960's. Two to three generations have grow up with the notion that society does not evolve and social classes do not evolve and social progress is not made through class struggle. Progress is attained when material wealth can be bought and its up to the individual to attain it, a notion that everyone starts out equal to get rich but ends up unequal is the fault of individuals. This leads straight up into the emergence of really bizarre people in American media interpreting the class struggle as a deep and profound hatred for white rich people. Americans put race before class and leave class completely out of the equation. Workers are indoctrinated in America to understand and view the other social classes in society as arriving at generational wealth through intelligence. As smarter than others to have gotten where they are. I recall a movie with Eddie Murphy and Dan Ackroyd, Trading Places, a story about social class and intelligence on a bet between two capitalists, Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche, playing the roles of capitalists had debunked this idea. The fact that this movie was even made proves somewhere in the American mindset is an awareness of class but not of themselves as a class, so acting as a class is a totally new experience for Americans, are denunciated by the other social classes and receives little nurturance from within the working poor themselves.
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  664.  @hoosierbaddy3052  I think it is not because cheaper labor is acquired that American employers hate American workers. Its because employers are highly sensitive to any form of worker democracy, socialism or communism and they know that those systems are far more constructive to people in general and would deprive them of making a luxurious profit off the labor of others. They want American workers to be ruled by them, coddled. Spoiled, anything but be in control of industry and commerce. They know that those systems are not anti-property but are anti-private property. They know they have to have the US Military on the side to crush anywhere in the world where workers make progress in their own lives. There is no other reason to bear such disdain for workers. They know that they must have a government that retards, slows down, rejects, and resists any true human progress and every agency i the government they control functions for them not “Us”. One day what I am saying will make you realize that all these speculations made by you and others won’t any water because the government we have in place strictly exists to crush communism. This is its mission, its sole purpose and is, therefore, not democratic government and not even a good representative government; but is a dictatorship of employers, banks, landowners, super rich religious institutions, who gang up on workers of any class, shape or size, or color, sex, and police are used to intimidate and bully. For this reason they installed Supreme Court Justices who would rule against women, men and minorities. For this reason you and I do not have universal health care. For this reason our public schools are trash. For this reason we are unprotected from disease, economic shut downs, and inflation, they are using all these mechanism as weapon against the American working class. Rail workers go on strike and the first thing the government does is order railroad companies to cancel long distance commutes. Use us rail commuters as hostages and we end up blaming the rail workers because we cannot get to work by train or we cannot get our products in the stores. This is the game they play and they are well organized with money, power, communication between them, they have think tanks, they have institutes, they news media and pundits, they have lawyers, doctors, all working against ordinary working people.
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  665. Is Manchin a Republican Mole operating in the Democratic Party?
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  666.  @Exiled.Patriot  Employers simply get around that by hiring under full time. Full time workers are paid health insurance. Part time workers are not paid health insurance and health insurance is part of a what are called wages, same goes for pensions, and ss contributions. Your employers are not paying into the ss fund by offering part time work and piece work. Accepting this from your employers is a self inflicting economic wound for working people that are legal citizens, a betrayal, and it is a way to keep you down, that, by the way, is perfectly legal under the US Tax Code.
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  667. Quite a struggle...a rail strike would have crippling effects on society. The kind of society we need is one that shapes production for use.
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  668. Reports like this make me question the reliability and acccuracy of government facts and calculated figures when the agency heads responsible for the inquiry into the homeless are employed by the regime promoting "business as usual" in the land and building industry.
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  669. This is why it is best that the capital-labor relationship be a partnership between employer and employee rather than an exchange. The true source of material wealth comes from combining tool and worker, in other words, labor and capital are the only true sources that produce the necessities of life. This family owned business still holds the belief that the whole factory unit together are a team and partnership but in our case with Purell the workers are not direct owners of a share of the product, a share of what comes in from the sale of 400 bottle produced per minute, and this is because they are paid a wage. That it may be a good wage or a low is not the point here. The fundamental point here is that modern America has moved in the opposite direction from its original principal that every worker has an exclusive right to the ownership of what that workers produces, and when labor and capital are united the share in the wealth they produce together is to be divided among them equally. The current belief is the idea that stocks and bonds are the source of material wealth and it is for a particular class not for the general society. But this belief takes away all the praise that ought to go to the social classes that are the real producers of wealth and society. We make the wrong adjustments not in support of that one productive relation but praise and glorify, reward the unproductive relation and construct for ourselves our own dichotomies.
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  670. All American student loans, FASFA and Parent Plus Loans, are tied to the Libor (Bank of England's) interest rate scam needs to be investigated and loans dismissed if millions of parents and student are to be freed of this indebtedness to a foreign bank!
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  671. The ones who ought to be prosecuted are not!
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  672. "Mankind must produce to consume and consume to produce", K. Marx, Capital Vol 1., he was making a statement of fact.  Focus on the ways we are separated from nature and each other in society and the most prominent separation is our relationship to land and our work relationship to the environment. Our houses consume but produce nothing they consume, all water, light, heat, food and soil goes to waste.  They are the exact opposite of the homes our species will need for survival on earth.  Accelerating a depletion rate toward extinction are homes that produce no light, no water sources of its own, no food from a greenhouse, no power from wind.
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  673. Not only would people continue to get wages in the final stage of the decline of capitalism but workers will have become unified with the factories in order to preserve their right to their productive power,--- if machines are taken away, sold from underneath them, so will their productive economic power be sold and shut down from underneath them....workers would not be working for a boss in the final stages of the decline but taking over the factories and running them as before without the boss, in community with themselves and society. Owing to America's productive power, a transition period of socialism, would not entail any material deprivation at all as capitalism crumbles in that transition. Distributors and retailers would refuse to keep shelves stocked as a way of blaming shortages and high prices on the workers to get the public on their side against taking over the factories and distributorships so careful planning and imagination is needed to circumvent the power of capitalists over the circulation of goods to the masses, especially if Congress does nothing to stop the big retail chains and distributors from choking off society from its food and clothing. Currently, factory idle capacity is at 70%. This is not speculation as workers in Argentina are engaged in exactly this type of struggle right now.
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  674. the right wing strategy is to use cultural wars to smother out class wars.
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  675. FBI must be enjoying themselves in a victorious moment if the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are falling apart.  We would soon expect them to be taken off the domestic terror list. Allow a time of peace and harmony to pass a short while,--- for them to regroup and it all starts all over again.
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  676.  @cadebritt8001  Yes, I second that. If Netanyahu's party and Judaism embodied a unity in the state he would not exclude African Black Jews from Israel.
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  677.  earth ocean  Well yes, what you say is true but! As I wrote above, the economy as we know it is an economy that deprives meaning to a species that is all about meaning cannot stand for long.
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  678. Capitalists before Reagan did not have many spheres of social life that were commodified until legislation allowed different spheres of life to become things and activities to be bought and sold as exchange-values and as a privilege in the minds of capitalists doing all of the commercial speculation. Reagan attacked the institutions of labor one by one, unions first, home savings and loans institutions second, removal of these working class institutions paved the way for consortiums of capitalists, to privatize the workplace with contract workers. Dividing employment into new divisions of labor and got rid of the union definitions of work performed on the job. A cultural and social mythology came with the commodification of social life as a corresponding theology of mixed elements of nationalism and evangelical-ism. Christian universities threw graduates into the political sphere of life and by then the Democrats had already sold out the working class putting the finishing touches of the Reagan revolution with NAFTA, which buries unionized labor. Clinton, Biden and Obama later on, boasted they were better at making money than the republicans and proceeded to put in place in a grand social experiment a new socialization of the working class, ---creating a nation of idiots. Thanks to Bush we have war veterans turned nationalists and mercenaries in today's police force. Biden and Clinton's Crime Bill and Welfare Reform nailed the lid on the casket. Our society as a result of this right wing revolution appears to have elements of the past still acting out their old roles in a context that does not accommodate them. As America tries to make adjustments going forward even the most paltry attempt to reform the system right wing elements pull it back. Making themselves very clear to us as individual members of the working class they are to be expelled from power.
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  679. It says that a citizen of the US is a non-citizen outside of the US.
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  680. Haiti does have to save itself. The chiefs of the gangs need to come up with a national plan for Haiti. Nobody else can but the gang bosses. If they can’t Haiti will fall into deeper chaos and famine. Every second counts! They have to keep the lights on. Food distribution. Water, sewage, garbage, before they can talk about revolution.
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  681. Thank you professor, it is important to understand how irrational a money economy is. We are never made aware of how corporations are coerced by competition among other corporations to revolutionize work in society into a high volume level of production making a descent a hard fall.
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  682.  @TRUREALTYGROUP  Too many western nations are older, Japan, Italy, Poland, Germany, China, Philippines, that even if they had kids now despite late in their 60s’ these societies cannot wait 30 years for that new workforce to come about. They are losing their investment base, tax base, and their workforce to a shrinking working class. Many of these nations are led by pro-nationalist forces opposing immigration and that position accelerates the shrinking workforce, and the closest historical example we have when a society had to put in place a new economic model to overcome aging and death, in order to preserve civilization as we know it, was in Germany in the 1840s, a very nasty period. Being first which is what each nation thinks, does and acts means accelerating the decline.
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  683. Fretwell, is that a native American surname or a European surname? Sounds like immigrant surname to me.
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  684. Funny demand...you are asking General Electric Corporation, who is part of the airline industry, and owner of NBC to have its news program stop announcing airline accidents without mentioning the effect de-regulation has on the airline industry. That like asking the Joker to watch Gotham City while Batman is away. The Joke is on you!
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  685. Abbott should have sent them to Martha’s Vineyard or Bedminster NJ not Secaucus, a working class suburb.
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  686. You can start humbling by voting for people not in the Republican and Democratic Party.
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  687. Washington should not be a place where my representation has to fight. There is more than enough food on the table for all to eat. What we have here in this women is an old style neoliberal, Reaganite democrat of the 90s.
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  688. Biden lost my vote.
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  689. The Libertarians in Congress who want to roll back, repeal, water regulations signed into law by Clinton and Bush in the 1990s are anti-American!  The 1990 regulations do not cause the product to be unusable.  Trump supporters need a bad guy to blame for their own misery and Trump makes government the bad guy. They live in a 1950's stereotypical world of good and bad guys. Government did not cause the defected manufacturing of Boeing Jet airliners grounded worldwide. That was Boeing getting around regulations and a corrupt Trump EPA cutting Boeing slack on the regulations to save money in costs for higher profits. Rand Paul never called my house and asked if my toilet, dishwasher, washing machine, trickled water. Obviously, the average family consumer of appliances is always left out and never asked to verify if these Libertarian claims in Congress are right or wrong oon the question of environmental regulations. It seems the average person is not good enough to be asked, or good enough as a citizen to have clean water, clear air. The manufacturers of appliances want to get around the regulations to sell a cheaper product to Americans. They hate Europe because they cannot get around the EU standards. Manufacturers in Britain want to leave the EU for this reason, the do not want government interfering into production. Same here in the States. The first point to make about the "toilet rant" is the connection between manufacturers of appliances and the Trump supporter deceived into supporting. Unless the Trump rallies are filled and attended by the appliance manufacturers's friends and families, stockholders, the average Trump supporter is giving his/her consent to be sold a cheaper product and be responsible for the destruction of the environment. GE, Westinghouse, Whirlpool, Maytag, all profit from the repeal of EPA water standards and the American public are the losers. This is what it means to be a libertarian in Congress today.
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  690. The blunder the democrats committed by not alienating and punishing Israel, is a huge segment of the working class that want Gazans free, the Democrats if elected, will become the party that is anti-labor, or anti-working class. A huge mistake. Buying a home and lowering prices is not fixing the problem of a deregulated workplace and for those who do get a home under some new program still have to go to work and be miserable and paid just enough, but at least they can be miserable in their own house is the consolation the Democrats are offering. Not much of a concession. Lousy job, lousy health insurance, lousy working conditions, lousing boss and management, and a workplace hazardous material war zone to boot. Having a house and more food in your refrigerator is not going to fix how working in America, to be blunt, sucks and as far as I can tell, Israel does not give a shit about your work life.
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  691. War and the politics of war holds back human capacity, development and potential, of everyone...its time to end wars forever.
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  692.  @thinkbeforeyoutype7106  Too bad...the USSR had more respect from the west particularly from the US which is why when I grew up the world was a fantastic place, friendly, fun, wonderful, hardly any wars around the world. The only wars that were alive when I was young started by France was Vietnam. The US picked up the habit from the French and then lost that war but winning a war is not what the aims of the US are when it goes to war. War is the way the US enriches itself. Winning is not important. What is important is the process that consumes arms. FACT: America never won a war for the sake of defeating a true enemy. State Department creates fake enemies, made up enemies, to generate war and profits. In old days profits were made by labor. People got rich by hard work, ingenuity. Not today. Oligarchs get rich off wars. Humanity will never know peace again under capitalism for capitalism depends on war. The lesson for the Russian people is: Once you get rid of communism and become like the west now you re open to the negative competition characteristic of the west. You’ve entered its turf. The west begins to treat you like you were an animal of pure rage and drums up hatred to gin up the negative side of the competition. Bully tactics. Bullies pick on you to goad you into a fight. Bullies have no respect for anything in life and will walk all over you when you don’t stand up to them. When you were the USSR you sent Sputnik up and the US got into the positive side of the competition and we had a fantastic space program creating great minds. Great movies, great art, great sports, everything was great in the positive side of the competition between capitalism and communism. Well all that died when the west fell off the wagon became a staggering alcoholic driving a runaway fire engine, always ringing the alarm, and disturbing the peace. Wars in abundance nothing but war. The good news is that capitalism cannot help but exploit all people and things for itself, it has an addiction it cannot heal from that the challenge now is the government putting our money where their mouth is. How to restrain capitalism from creating slavery, environmental destruction, racial and economic inequality, shorter life-expectancy and all around miserable and lonely population of very limited freedoms.
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  693. Looking at it from the standpoint of nepotism. The second generation of the children of the ruling class of the US from the turn of the 20th century, people born in the 20s rose up the hierarchy of government in the 1940s and 50s. The economic miracle that was the US began to decline with the Korean War. A third generation with origins in the old ruling classes succeeded had made coup-making a social science, perfecting destabilization as an art form that has as its main subject the American people in the current period of decline. The Ruling Classes impose the material hardship on society by their excess consumption and mass disinformation campaign, cultural wars, police repression, drugs, porn trafficking, crime, are tools of the trade meant to keep pacified a working population that they never act as one solid mass against the unbridled economic exploitation that immiserate the men, women and children in America.
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  694. A movement needs reporters like this who can map out the roots of ideologies running through American society. Ultimately, ideologies do not politicize but, rather, mystify conditions imposed on working people in a capitalist society.
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  695. Racism is a subjective social relation that turns black men and women into emotional brutes and white men and women into emotional cripples. Men and women in a racist and segregated society can develop no further than what that society permits. What you think you can be and what the social conditions allow are so wide apart that there is no chance for individual member of society to actualize their true potential. Chauvin could have been another musical genius, artist or architect, but instead the society of which his parents as a social unit deformed his essence early in his formative years of his development. This incident represents and crisis of humanity , a failed educational system, a failed family social structure, a failed community of isolated and segregated individuals divided by material wealth and appearances. There is nothing inherent about racism in Chauvin. Racism is purely a social construct and a product of the mind not a product of nature.
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  696. RR proved peasants and working people can run a society without the ruling classes. RR is an example of a people who wanted to transform their lives from the life they had under serfdom and feudalism. Must have been a real amazing time to be alive. Imagine for the first time in 800 years of feudalism and 300 years living under a monarch the people could not believe they had a voice and say in recreating their society. Ordinary people made history.
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  697. Protest banners should read 'We Work for a Share of the Wealth not for a Wage'.
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  698. Excellent work...on covering a remarkable speech we would never have heard on mainstream media, a powerful speech that is talking to us not at us.
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  699. Frigid freeze...very dangerous.
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  700. Climate justice is not possible without social justice.
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  701.  @FlawlesSanshiro  Its obvious to the perpetrators too hence the Big Lie. Paradoxical is the educational incompetence of the American people who by hubris, or gullibility, are in denial of the imperialism they support.
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  702. This is a great summary of the history that led up to the fall of what I think is the defining event in the 20th century..great job Roman. From a western standpoint, he made concessions to the US that opened to the door for greater American strategic influence because there is always some future acquisition in every deal the US makes.
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  703.  @drumetul_dacic  No, it means you are the commodity, the product is the video, that turns you into a commodity for sale. So the video is only a means to a specific end. The end is the sale of data and the video is the lure, hook, line and sinker. You have what they need. Your personal information is what they need to sell to a third party buyer. They have what you like, a free video, or a cell phone that consumes your data.
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  704. Authoritarianism always leads to revolution once the people realize what was done behind their backs!
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  705. Indeed it was.
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  706. Striking difference in the way Marx himself treated economic categories and the way modern economist treat them. You get no sense from the modern economists of the real production relations behind the categories they use and the language is dry. Lawyers and academic economists really know how to pollute the english language. It doesn't matter what they call themselves or what theoretical stance they have the terminology lacks context, meaning, significance. The word "asset" is generally defined as a useful thing, in economics it means a 'monetary value', in business school it means property or equipment bought for business use. Marx leaves all that behind and looks at what people do in society as a common routine action, they work and they trade property, i.e., what they make, simply, they produce, use and exchange, and here he begins to look at the form of production and circulation in its present reality. If someone is useful their labor becomes a value because it has not value in society. An individual feels their self worth when they are producing value. Their work is the property of another and they are surrounded by the property of others. Real production relations take the form of a commodity. Everyone's work is equal to each others work in every private transaction is the first problem with capitalist relations encountered. Their differences vanish, I think this is a key cause for much worker dissatisfaction with the corporate world. That products of all kinds of labor are equally values and appear as a quantity of value of the products of labor, and from this, you get a society of laws, institutions and classes built around the products of labor and not the people who make the material world of products. In the bourgeois world, academic social science is no friend to labor. Workers will have to read Marx themselves when they decide to overthrow the bourgeois order.
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  707. Why did RFK Jr.’s father as Attorney General authorize the surveillance of King?
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  708. Eye-opening and brilliant discussion and analysis! Essential listening.
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  709. All nations should send a quotient of necessaries for each resident to stay indoors long enough for the ash to settle would be the actions of a united humanity.
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  710. SnowFlake was not considered?
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  711. Donors are pressuring the republicans to get a tax bill passed not the voters. The voters just want tax relief but the voters have no voice strong enough to pressure Congress. This is the real situation.
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  712. Racism is one of several forms in which capital dominates human beings and nature. The objective, therefore, is to emancipate nature and human beings from that which dominates them. Or, more exactly, the objective is to revolutionize the way in which human beings interact with nature through capital. This requires a transformation of capital, not its abolition, but a mutation, a change, from its present form as private property into its antithetical form as public property. There must be a philosophical and political component to a revolutionary movement so that it does not stagnant into a reactionary form of left wing terrorism.
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  713. Gangs are all over the world, they have become a permanent social class with radical chains in all western societies but are not a class of society. They are a total loss of humanity and will never be redeemed by incarceration. If redemption comes it would have to be a through a total redemption of humanity. Gangs are inter-relating to each other through social media and popular culture in more than 60 nations and they are mobile that a gang there extends all the way over here.
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  714. Congress has no intention of regulating production, this investigation will be covered up. Republicans don't want workers to have unions and democrats have unions in their pocket.
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  715. I think the forced labor allegation in China is no more forced than the poor slob who has to work two jobs because neither of pay more than the law permits before they have to give the guy medical insurance. Trapped in two jobs indefinitely is forced to me.
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  716. What guy?
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  717. After 100 years of hostility and aggression from the US and the European west the Russian people see Putin as their protector. Call it Americaphobia. The last episode of American hostility was the Ukraine coup de'tat. Putin acted with strength and crushed western aggression with his forces in Crimea. The question is difficult only to those who know absolutely nothing about the Cold War and America's Red Scare which began with Woodrow Wilson. Wilson is revered by America's white nationalist racists. Strength in leadership is a necessary quality for Russian leaders, especially after 600 years of Czars the last of which was an absolute incompetent, from weak to strong, Lenin stood up against the capitalist nations bent on containing socialism in Russia, for which Lenin is revered.
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  718. Good work. Change is in the Air.
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  719. Too tall an order for Washington to restrict the freedom of gun manufacturers to do business within the US. This is the dilemma Americans face. This Congress will not pass any gun laws more than what already is in place and those laws might even be repealed down the road. People will gradually come to realize when the next compounding event occurs and all forms of protest falls on deaf ears; a total resistance of the Congress and the President to do anything about America's violence or the gun manufacturers's rights. The whole society exists only to guarantee for each of its members the preservation of their person, their rights and their property. This is why corporations had to become people with Citizens United, to be on equal footing with citizens as a citizen. By doing this the government is hostage to money or capital or capitalism, it must enforce the right of the corporations. The only thing that is capitalist in the average person is their capacity to work for which they trade for a wage. The government is taken by big industry it is a government for and by the corporations that is headed in the direction of amending its constitution to solidify itself as impenetrable and immune to revolutions. No matter how bad things get, the tensions, the social conflicts, the intensity of the race war being waged against the black community and the war on female members of society, none of these problems are seen as problems for Congress to correct in the view of the political elite. Americans fail to realize this now but will gradually realize Washington's political elite are only a means for preserving the so-called RIGHTS OF MAN as a corporation with the same rights as you or I, therefore, there is only one course of action to take to eliminate gun violence, racism, and sexism. Enough of the rant.
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  720. Sea Quest is not wrong, they do care about the safety of their animals. They care more about the productive commodities the animals are to SeaQuest than SeaQuest cares about human beings. The problem here is the pernicious mentality of this industry, animals are not by nature commodities. But legally... SeaQuest is not lying. They broke no law. The company is not responsible if people put their hands in the habitats and the CEO is cheap enough to not make it harder for people to touch the animals.
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  721. Not Poland as a whole but parts of Poland as territory widening the buffer zone won from the war...you exaggerate the truth. Therefore, any thing else you say loses validity.
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  722. My respects to Cicely Tyson and Family. A great talent.
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  723. Looks like Why-Dough is feeling over confident now that the calvary has come to the rescue. But I would have to say this US harassment of Venezuela is a distraction from the real problems with American capitalism and capitalism in general. Got to remind people that China and Russia are capitalist societies adopting the employer/employee relationship, the largest perpetrators of global warming are restructuring the world economy. Two places to look for this process, when the US government borrows at interest from its super rich this is accomplished through a tax cut.  Government borrows the same money the rich saved by not paying taxes, enriches America's super rich. This is what is meant by neoliberalism. In other words, a 45% tax cut robbed society by 55% of its own wealth. If the super rich refuse to lend to the US government (which would be nuts for the super rich to not accept such a deal), the US turns to China as its lender. In turn, China provides the labor and the loan money Americans work to repay to apply to its own military development. It is given the technology the American taxpayer funds goes to develop an army of a foreign competitor and country. The world being shaped by these three capitalist entities, the US, China and Russia, is the world we must live under and are inhabiting. A world humanity must abolish for a better world before these three nations lead it to ruin and barbarism. Societies become poorer, run deeper into social and economic crisis, goes on with every breath wasted on abortion, bribery, corruption, depression, equality disparities, financial swindle, hurled out as a distraction from this process. Putting the world on hyper alert sets the stage for nervous disorders in the functioning of societies is accomplished by these distractions while, in the back ground, takes place a reorganization of the way world production is financed ensuring the super rich of each respective capitalist nation come out as the winners.  My suggestion to humanity is to focus on this process of destructive enrichment. In the US, this process is facilitated by Walmart (don't laugh), a partner with China in selling all of China's products saturates the US market. The result of the flooding of China's cheap commodities is, we all work in de-skilled jobs more hours for money of less purchasing power and societies descend into social and material deprivation because wages are depressed in this arrangement the last Great Crash kept depressed.
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  724. There is a rational logic to this system but its not human. What workers sell to capitalists is their expenditure of labor-power. The total working capacity of a population is never fully used in capitalist society. If production were not regulated by exchange but regulated by the law of relative values all 332 million people would have a working day of 4-6 hours and still have enough for hunger and poverty to disappear forever.
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  725.  @lauralafauve5520  This is true. Even watching bodies bags of US soldiers come home would spark mass dissent. They have learned from the past to not have an independent press and holding one as an example to the rest if they cross the line is reminiscent of Execution Dock under the British Crown. The American people on the other hand, had not learned from the past and have been deprived of the changes in the world since WWII that there is an educational incompetence about how this world they are a part of works in favor of supporting authoritarian rule in society. The latest clever approach is to now label all allegations of government misdeeds as conspiracy theories. Everyone is nuts but them!
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  726. Placement of those detection systems is critical in all entrances and exits in the subway system.
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  727. Excellent reporting, without it our news would be completely filtered.
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  728. It is through the mechanisms of the divisions of counties and states that the repressive forces are there and ready, this presupposes that local political offices, are mouthpieces and functionaries of that federal authority.
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  729. The social consequences of government, mainly the chronic covert activity of the State, or lying to the Public, is you get a public that will believe liars.
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  730. If we do collapse the first thing workers should do is take over the factories that produce luxuries, convert them to produce articles for use and prevent the rich from continuing to enrich themselves and the second action; take over industries that produce subsistence products, so these are no longer dependent on the dollar as well. This way the next political party that takes over in managing the collapse cannot manage the collapse to the exclusion of working people, or at their expense.
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  731. Police did nothing wrong is debatable, the racist behind the counter, the store manager, who called the cops did the wrong. However, enforcing trespassing laws is the same as enforcing loitering laws in the 1920's, was what the police did wrong, specifically their captain who probably reflects the same racial attitude of the store manager trickles down to the cops.
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  732. Guns for sale are the exact opposite of the kind of relationship society should have with guns and no part of the nation's 336 million working hours of 336 million people should enter into a deal with gun manufacturers. Your surroundings should be free and relaxed unworried by unexpected and random violence for you to get from one point to another point in your, day in, day out, work lives, free of intimidtion and fear.
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  733. Deserts become tropical and the tropics become deserts.
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  734. This is what’s wrong with DN...when a critical question is posed by their guests. Matt says: “We have a problem here...”, they skip over the problem and ignore it. Go to time stamp 9:00 listen to what Matt says and then hear Nermeen avoid addressing the problem of oligarchy deeper with Matt.
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  735. A country would be healthier if its working conditions were socially determined by the working class. Its about time somebody pointed to labor and its problems, the condition of the American working class, the most worked, the most ill compared to working classes of other nations. Highest productivity of labor in the world and takes no advantage of it for itself.  A class that does not act for itself, rather, gives up its productivity in exchange for the value of its product to employers. The never ending tension between employers and employees is always present in society. Until one day people realize they can still be sustainable without the employee/employer relationship dictating the way people must live. Like magma that cannot be contained any longer by the volcano the American social order can no longer contain the potential of its productive forces. The workers are primed for a socialization of the economy, primed by the experience of privatizing the economy and what holds them back from realizing their potential in building a social system that works for people and society. Even the most democratic states in the US fail at the job of inspections into the workplace. The privatization of the workplace is the central character in the horror story of criminal negligence and abuses when capital has free sway over labor. Factories blown up sky high, toxic chemical and solvents, workers killed, permanently maimed workers sue employers for damages.  In our developed system lawsuits are part of the cost of doing business for employers. Hand in hand a tax system and the legal system never changes the channel from the old reruns of capitalism. It is about time someone raised the issue of working class consciousness the goal this non-thinking social class needs to acquire to unravel itself from extremely stringent and limiting relations of capitalist production.
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  736. Many societies who suffer the same damage of buildings falling do not have at their disposal the means seen in Miami crews, they must use their bare hands.
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  737. It would be a serious mistake to try to change the status quo. In other words, yes. The government is prepared to fire the first shot.
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  738. Under monopoly capitalism real unemployment numbers are reported falsely by the government because in reality there is no way of counting except by pounding the pavement for the real numbers of people out of a job. An employment census would do better to paint a picture of what America looks like than a population census report. Demand falls and unemployment rises as monompolies destroy smaller businesses operating in their field. It is a time for government take action and restrain monopoly formations in the market. The New Deal for all its government investment into public works projects was not enough. It took WWII to pull it out of its mass psychology of inaction and depression but gave rise to monopoly corporations dominating the vital areas of the economy and us through it.
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  739. Meanwhile,-- Fentanyl comes through the US-Canadian Border.
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  740. She’s right. Murder Inc. was a real company became the National Crime Syndicate as umbrella organization of mobs and mafias and were used by Intelligence. Some of this is played in Scorcese’s Gangs of New York. The U.S. needed men and guns, but somehow, the heads of New York's Five Families managed to avoid it. While there were a lot of men associated with the mafia who fought in World War II, the guys at the top (many of which who were still the prime age for selective service) did not. Unless you research this you would not know about it unless you were born around the 50s then it was more commonly known as real forces of evil. If America had an AG as a real protagonist for the people, this young lady would be the Go To lady for who to prosecute.
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  741. They get into office through the county committee members who choose them to run for office.
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  742. Next logical step is an organized working class movement in the US.
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  743. Good advise Ron Duchamp.
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  744. You have to ask the question what is the point of public land if it is to be privately appropriated, that is a contradiction in terms? How republicans reconcile that contradiction is to flip the meaning of the words, "public" and "private", they throw the blame on the bureaucratic bungling of democrats which they are, and allow a whole class of energy corporations to determine the fate of humanity. Total insanity that, climate and environment should be in the hands of energy companies with a monopoly on the natural riches of earth, in their hands energy is misused and abused because it is a product meant for sale.
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  745. In my day this guy would have been running from the press eager to expose the internal controversies of a political party that serves and preserves a tiny minority out of 332 million people rather than the press being run by the controversy itself.
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  746. Be they losers or not, be they something other than they appear, does not change the fact that they are there increasing in size and scale as a political force in the political arena. You do not like what they have to say or not say is your problem not theirs.
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  747. Social revolutions is feared the most by the western and Middle Eastern powers. The real power that can topple all governments, regimes and ruling elites is people power.
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  748. Wow, knowing the real history of China this piece is biased.
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  749. State Department’s aims and strategic objectives may go down the tubes...blown up by its own economy...given the class structure of the American economy getting prepared for the long haul in the conflict with China entails a deep material deprivation in the standard of living of the American people in order to increase the standard of living of the rich, and this, my friend, you will never hear discussed in mainstream media. Hard to sell an unpopular policy of one must sacrifice in order for another to be enriched. For at the same time as the US increases its productive forces for the purpose of containing China, it must give free sway to Capital in all aspects of domestic production, into which an open conflict erupts between employers and employees causing a disintegration of social institutions, and generating social anarchy and resistance.
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  750. Manchin was never honest about his antipathy for the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and uses the lie that restoring the Civil Right Act will destroy the bonds of democracy. What a complete and utter fool and enemy of Afro-Americans. This is one individual who will bring West Virginians a complete restoration of slavery and call it democracy.
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  751. McCarthy should know the problem is spending, specifically budget appropriations...the spending by republicans and democrats throws this country into debt, a la $70 million to Ukraine, troop advisors, fighter jets, and the consumption of republicans and democrats is obscene given there 70 military jets dedicated to Congress for personal fund raising use and junkets, and the Public takes it bent over.
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  752.  @DD-y1v-g2f  American soldiers go to war to secure national interests not to help people.
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  753. I am not discounting this gentleman’s view of the situation of Columbia with the election of a right wing government in left wing clothing and developing capitalism to overcome pre-modernity in Columbia, is not given more consideration of the implications of this for the the peasantry in Columbia. There are people there who have been producing their necessaries of life off the land that has been passed down over ages, live in isolated communities, where the main mode of transportation is a river; how and what they produce and the land they reside on are a bond that will be broken and all their trades, craft industries, small agriculture, destroyed by modernization that brings urbanization with it. For a historical example see what the British did to India. Question here for people interested about Columbia is not the problem of the length of time foreign capital occupies a country. Haiti had three world economic powers on its neck for three centuries and is punished to this day for successfully defeating all three of them. Revolutions are more quality than quantity.
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  754. Rojava are a social class who have the radical chains necessary to bring peace to the Middle East.  The war in Syria is exactly an unjust war as it has no legal or political basis for war between Turkey and Syria to expell the Kurds. The Kurds have been governing themselves for more than a century and present the only viable outcome of the war.  That outcome: democracy and self-governance for every entity in Syria.
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  755. There is some dark days in America’s present. The best way to educate is a new way, try the Aristotelian method of teaching where students ask the questions and answer them by their own powers of deduction, the teacher only guides.
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  756. DeSantis has the personality of an ironing board.
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  757. If this system is to be smashed it needs to be seen in the context of the whole society. We need to see the whole prison complex as a tool, an instrument of production, essential for how that system is organized internally and how society is organized externally, but also for sustaining American social institutions that use deterrence as a mechanism for social control. The prison system contains factories and the prison population are a reserve labor force that can replace the civil labor force in the event of a general wave of strikes incapacitating America’s industries.
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  758. I hate to inform you but this is fascism. The slippery slope is over. The government of America took the road to fascism when Reagan got elected. You do not want to be one of those people who can't distinguish abuse if it hit you on the head. Society is not yet under direct police patrol as if this was 1930 Nazi Germany. Fascism does not look like that anymore, but society is already, completely, under surveillance and strict social control and this constitutes a form of social fascism.
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  759. An Arctic Cyclone...and 7 million people still went to the airport...why are they there?
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  760. Water.
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  761. Riverkeepers of NY should offer up a plan for the waste water the private company wants to dump. Do a little more than just “Not in my backyard”, advocacy.
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  762. What is sickening are the choices of people CCN pays to talk about this are never going to be objective because they won’t get paid if they are objective.
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  763. Poor woman that fell off the wall, RIP.
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  764.  @SkyRiver1  How do you know what truth is when government is not involved in what is used in all products in their manufacturing process, there are 28 thousand chemicals unrestricted from use that go into millions of products and are not checked or tested for their effects on human beings? If the political world does not address this problem the people these products are aimed at for mass consumption should.
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  765. The groundbreaker reporters are the Greyzone, Tiabbi, Dore educates his audience. People should go to them if they like this.
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  766. The Lebanese people have a heroic fight on their hands, a moral fight, they are the dissolution of a society that has made a total loss of humanity. Because of the collapse of neoliberalism as a failed state, now this mass of involuntary losers have the historic chance in their lifetime in a total redemption of humanity. They have nothing to lose by revolution and are sick of being put off by the inaction of the State, they have no special desire or interest in the existing neoliberal order to protect. And, because a generation of youth have been left with no future as fires burn earth, -- they find themselves with no choice but to overthrow all existing forms of oppression. This is a remarkable period for this country, in this single mass act they have already overthrown the most fundamental form of oppression, they reclaimed their social power.
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  767. The problem is budgets are never discussed in terms of how they can be enjoyed as a result of the excess wealth that can be attained from those who accrued the wealth under dubious circumstances. The federal budget expands yearly but most of it is consumed by one part of society at the expense of other parts. Individual states are no less different.
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  768. Working Families Party is a party of the deluded. A working class would be sold out again and again under their ideas.
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  769. Sri Lanka president knows the price of everything but the value of nothing. Value has to do with society reproducing itself; price has to do with exchange. In Sri Lanka, if we assume a tank of gas and sack of potatoes were equal today with the devaluation they are no longer equal and people will not know the proper proportion for the exchange of things. This will lead to social chaos. Plus, a currency devaluation cheats people with less weight in metal Gold. And for a social policy he cuts jobs. This is a blow to the Lebanese people who work for living as their only way of survival!
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  770. Good news, more layoffs, more unemployed people is the raw material for the movement to expand! They ran out of tools in avoiding the class struggle and now the social classes in Germany will come into conflict as to who survives the working classes of the Big Banks. Germany will be ripe not for a partial revolution but a total one. The Dutch Bank knows Italian banks and the all the banks and nations that borrowed from each other, A owes B, B owes C, C owes D, and so on down the line, will collapse! American corporations selling in Europe will be forced to lay workers off in America for lack of sales and profits can is a condition that can only produce more social power with which the economic order falls under its own weight.
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  771. Never knowing how the prosecution will procede in the arrest of activists is an aspect of the repression of protest.
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  772. Profound statement of fact. Free time for the Senate is working time for society.
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  773. Solidarity among workers is important. When workers go on strike other workers should take an action in support of that strike. All workers are targeted in the war employers wage against workers. What gets done to workers in one company will get done to you in your company. Solidarity is when everybody is in and nobody is left out. American workers have to become one unified mass of social power and they have to win political power or society makes no progress toward improving conditions for the majority. Employers adjust the price of goods when they need workers to support them and raise the price of goods as a devise to keep you on the job indefinitely where possible. When you are always hungry politics is the last thing on your mind is the preferred method of obedience employers want from their workers. A whole class of employers have an effective psychological grip on individuals using fear of hunger and death to intimidate workers without pointing directly to their heads a gun to get to work. Solidarity breaks this intimidation and gives power to people from the experience in the company of people in their same class with the same class interest.
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  774. I truly hope the paradigm of empire becomes a barren dream for all nations through the Silk and Road initiative.
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  775. The thing about military jobs is that we will never get clean water from it. Clean environment or healthy foods from the environment from military jobs are incompatible. What we will get is more jobs that degrade the environment in a more rapid pace and we will also get superimposed on civil society a military form or style of work. We will leave behind us a lifeless planet where the last generation of children cannot make it past age 3 months.
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  776.  @robertnicholls9917  Yes, but that is not progress to him...he is part of the war against social progress...using words to fight it.
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  777. Organizers should organize rallies in different parts of the country and I bet the organizers will be surprised of a big turn out they will get especially if speakers are a cross section of the community the rally is happening.
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  778. Russia is three times the size of the US. One foot in the west and the other foot in the east. Its a great country with really great people. More Americans should go there. Expect 12 hour train rides between places. Trains are great. Sights are historic. Food is dynamite. End of American colonialism in Alaska. Russia sold Alaska to the US in 1867. The furthest settlement west in Russia’s mainland close to Alaska became the first autonomous Jewish State in Russia. This was before Israel. The region was sparsely populated and still is and its first pioneers were Jewish. This is a story waiting to be told by a writer or film-maker.
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  779. Thumbs down for deliberately meeting your obligation of informing the public with the least regard for the public’s ability to understand. Should an earthquake put AP services under the rubble rescuers would give second thoughts about pulling you out for such wicked cynicism guiding your journalistic practices.
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  780. Visiting Great Britain could be Trump's attempt to get England to not buy 5G technology from the competition -- may not go over so well with the British. If the British gun manufacturers still want to enjoy the profits the American gun manufacturers are making in the wars carried on today they are going to listen to what Trump has to say. The world economy is shaping up regionally with respect to capitalist development. Whole regions are splitting off into rival camps. There is not a uniform growth pattern to the world economy but there are different regions where capitalist development proceeds uninterrupted and where it is impeded by capitalist rivalry and competition. Where private capital is not interrupted it is facilitated by security forces. Security marred with human rights violations and indiscriminate murder. Where capitalist progress takes place China and Russia are invested and the remaining market share of the US shrinks. Overall, the world market is divided up into capitalist nations constantly butting up against each in a power struggle for higher profits. Internally, capitalist corporations rival each other and take flight where profitability is highest. Violating national interests and that of their own social class where necessary. But with little room for growth conflict, sabotage, treachery, criminal neglect, mercanary wars, destabilization of regimes, comes with the turf is the the only way to expand their market share. The alternative to this world competition of capitalism from various rival nations would be a stateless socialism in all countries, a World Council of Production, is an alternative to the polluting and killing power of capitalism generally.
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  781. True, it will be.
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  782. He can say that again he had not factored in the growing competition from China.
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  783.  @mmoarchives2542  I can extract from you 16 hours worth of work in 8 hours by doubling your tasks, do this, do that in addition to your assigned job description. Boss you around and demote you if I like. Put you in the worst situation, pass you over. That incomprehensible to you isn’t ?
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  784. Netanyahu and Modi in India are doing the same thing, this is the year of the annexation of autonomous valleys by two beligerent and militaristic authoritarian states. The two right wing leaders have a common enemy in Palestinians and Kashmirans, they will never step foot in each other's nations for fear of assassination. Neither of them would care or have occasion for diplomacy as it is a rule within nationalist thought that every country acts for itself, every nation sees in the other nation a limitation of itself, breeding envy, arrogance and egoism, and competition. Netanyahu would accuse Modi of not going far enough, hurting Modi's feelings, and Modi accelerates nuclear production and so the escalation commences between two countries that do not even know each other. A glimpse of what the world would be like if all nations turn to the right.
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  785. Here in the US many were praising China’s strict shut down COVID policies and criticized the US acting too slow to respond to COVID, now we see that the strict policies are the reasons people want to leave China was a mistake, that government should have reacted with policies that were flexible, measuring and testing for Hot Spots, shutting down where appropriate. US actions were wrong as well as it acted in the other extreme leaving things open too long it spread raising the death toll. Governments have no sense of proportion because nothing they do is for direct need; everything is done for sale where proportion is not even a word.
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  786. Historic. But all that is left in Ukraine for America is the acquisition of Ukraine’s minerals, coal, oil. The money making machine changes from war expenditures that make a profit to mining and drilling that makes a profit is for this tiny country a significant source of the golden nectar for the prosperous elite, in and outside of that society, once it is up and running. But it comes at a big price. A price similar to the price India paid when British mining and drilling destroyed India’s native handicrafts industries and manufacturers. This is why this change in policy is historic, it represents a change of an agricultural society’s way of life making the jump into a mass producing gas station to power more military bases aimed at Russia all in the name of Ukraine’s security...which, incidentally, after this war Ukraine will need having angered the bear.
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  787. Starting to realize the realities behind the illusion of ‘everything is fine’ is a good thing. America is like an onion... peel off layers and its all contradictions beneath the skin.
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  788. Be a lot cheaper for NYC to let the protesters have their day. Eventually they will go home. Dumb move by the NYPD.
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  789. Notice: Senators never fly commercial. A no fly list does not apply to them. It applies to the Public. This is a double standard of the class privileged versus the unprivileged classes in society. They write the laws you and I live them out. Religion that opiates the American psyche with mysticism is a big reason for American passivity and apathy; and they can’t see through the thick fog of religion to get to the real social relations behind the theater of politics and a cleverly orchestrated communications campaign derails the Public’s hearing and listening capacity to the point of brain damage, this piece of the subjugation of the Public is the contribution of the CIA, making the American Public the Grand Experiment that it cannot apprehend the process of accumulation the Senate is all about.
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  790. I had a great chance to interview a female baby boomer who said she would vote for Biden. She and her friend another female baby boomer appeared on the scene. Being friendly I struck up a conversation. I am a baby boomer too. We talked Boomer talk for a while. I started off with Peter Tork of the Monkees died two weeks ago to break the ice. I asked her; as a woman does it not bother you that Biden has no respect for the personal space of a woman and every respect for the personal space of a man? He is not accused of encroaching the space of men only women. So it is not an issue of boundaries in Biden that he cannot distinguish someone's personal space at all as in the case with some disabled people who do not discriminate the space of a man and the space of a woman in a social context. She replied; weellll, he's old fashioned. Before this she was saying Bernie is to old. Somehow the age of Biden is ok but the age of Bernie is not despite being the same age. I thought to myself this woman is primed for abuse and I could be dominant and she will submit had she encountered a real scumbag in this public setting. I wanted to educate her as I did my daughter about predatory male behavior in American society. But I chose not to get too personal with her. I calmly rebutted her point about Bernie being too old with; the young need an older role model with experience because they have no political experience dealing with the kind of forces in society making their lives indentured by loans and cannon fodder for wars. Her friend was more in agreement with me. I poured it on, I said there is not a women on the planet who likes being treated as an object except prostitutes, are you a prostitute? She said, of course not then you cannot vote for Biden as he treats women in a milder form as objects prostitutes are accustomed to being treated by men. But on the other hand she can vote for Bernie because in him there are no allegations of behavior, he is a clean candidate, as is some of the others. I knew Tulsi would not get her vote because women of this generation tend to see other women as rivals for being something they are not, or because of their own inadequacies, a man deserves the role of political leader not a woman. P.S. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this stupid spell check that keeps changing the spelling of my words around to what it thinks the word I am using is wrong?
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  791. Conditions in America would have to get worse for a social revolution. Usually, a revolution involves a change in how, why and way, we as a society produce. We may be at that point closer than everyone thinks in 2020!
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  792. Both these "A-Holes" are old enough to remember decades of military defense budgets still being paid on the backs of the American people. But when it comes to the country going into debt to help the American people these guys pull out the Austerity Programs.
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  793. Panama is on the right track toward progress and the only one of all the world.
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  794. A system that cannot defeat a virus, imagine that.
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  795. That was a good assessment from the Colonel. Imagination in the US is dead.
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  796. There is a class of people in America who do all the work in society and in a technical sense because they number in the millions they can be called a “Working Class”, but, I am not sure, individuals in this class regard themselves as a social class with any independent power of their own. During the pandemic they began to get a sense of who they were as a group when everyone hailed them as heroes for working the supermarkets and got some appreciation as an “essential worker”. The acknowledgement was a small sense of independent power was fast taken away. It faded quick and back in the shadows the essential worker went. The kind of work broken down into rote action and measured in units of time has reduced work into refined actions of no meaning has also broken down the ability to see your work with pride and appreciation that many in the working class would sooner destroy the work they do than praise it. None of the work is their own work and there is no ownership for the actions the work makes them do. Work is external to the individual. If they build parts for bombs and bombs are dropped somewhere they accept no responsibility for the destruction the bomb creates. Its all on the owner of the bomb. Trump is a success with this class because they each relate to Trump not as a social class but as individuals.
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  797.  @clarestucki5151  His name is not Surely.
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  798. @Sturgeon ...the imposition of a mask is less the issue, its the vaccine passport, that enables the government to track your movements and impede your movement at will is a foreboding of government control. People saw how China quarantined entire cities but what they do not know is that survival in China does not depend exclusively on continuing or finding a job. Their material necessities are not interrupted or the population deprived when quarantined. But since a job is the only way to survive in America ordering employers to vaccinate workers or be fired is seen by workers as a breech of the right of freedom by the government. So they are not against the employers but against the State. Its a means of social control of the population by dividing the population into two groups makes it easier for government to crush any opposition to its over-reaching power.
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  799. While Isis is front page news the story in the back page is the height of republican hypocrisy that requires your full attention on Trump's cuts to Medicare and Medicaid being decided by 13 white male republicans who have closed their doors to their constituents. How they intend to reform one dollar out of seven dollars that part of the budget that the elderly and disabled depend on, in addition to the poor and needy, is a story eclipsed by air strikes, shelling, and the Persian gulf crisis that should not be ignored.
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  800. Universal health care and education is your only choice next to privatization.
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  801. Hit the like button.
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  802. Its not similar it is a continuation. If you treat it as a continuation you would be less inclined to view incarceration as a spectator and more inclined to take action against it.
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  803. Russia has her Ameriphobes and the US has its Russsophobes in positions of power. The lunacy is explained because the "crazies" are in power.
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  804. Employees should take action since nobody else will has their back.
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  805. Good report. journalism exposing corruption is excellent when it wants to be.
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  806. I dub the Ostrich to be the National Bird of the US. The nation that couldn't.
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  807. the problem is city property invaded by private property...cities thrive when all city residents own the city...cities lose value when private capital takes out more than it invests to own property in a city. In the case of this explosion its reckless nature is a threat to human life but that explosion was enabled the day the city sold the land to the refinery company and excluded it from regulatory standards all city property is subject. Without landownership by city residents communities die out.
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  808. Really is a perfect time for a third party, maybe four, two new ones replace the two old ones and we are back to two parties transfering power back and forth but this time the whole political spectrum is extreme right and far left and a huge group in the middle undecided. I think a Workers Party is right for the times and with a program completely different from the standard.
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  809. It does not help that in America any work done in the home is not paid and work done outside of the home is paid. I can see frustration and violence becoming a vain attempt to control what is out of control emerging on both sides of the extremes.
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  810.  @kaliskunkog2255  There is no democracy in capitalism or in imperialism.
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  811.  @scottarsenault1478  You don't have a free market economy. America is a dictatorship of dollars. You are living a lie. America never won a war. It just lost another 30 year long war. Before that Korea and Vietnam. Before that the Russians beat the Nazis and in WWI. You've been fed lies and propaganda your wholes lives through. No democracy anywhere in the world. No democracy in markets. There is a democracy among the rich but that is not a democracy is it? Looks like one, and acts like one but, it is only a class of rich people who's power of possession of capital decides if they get the grease. You would do your self a lot of good by reading the real history of the US, that is if you can find it. Education in America redacted the real history.
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  812.  @wakeuptheresnospoon  Limiting the number of immigrants is at the same time a process of denial to a better life they seek entering into the middle class of these societies. The policies are against the growth of the middle class because its growth from this generation is largely based on color.
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  813.  @robinramkhalawan468  An enigma you would have to explain.
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  814.  @rhodesphotoco  In Spanish...”moy inutil.” or “son pendejos”.
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  815. Personality type is the attraction to Maddow.
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  816.  @Sheh1000  They do not. Since the director of the Marxist-Lenninist institute was sent to die in a Russian concentration camp I seriously doubt Marx is taught in Russia too.
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  817. Conservatorships is what Britney Spear's father had over her for the last decade she had been missing from the limelight. He was managing her life, income and mind. That to me is a proven form of exploitation. When property is a motive between family members. The property of the elderly is their savings, assets, ss income, pension, mobile property, you can move it. Its worse when an institutions (the court appoints a case manager) takes guardianship because no family members are willing for that elderly. They end up in Potter's Field or cremated, and there is no moving truck behind them with their possessions, it was all distributed to other parties through the guardianship as subtractions from the income and benefits the elder person owns, that encourage others to not work for their own living! Services, nurses, aides doctors included should go to the home as needed for in home care and the home of elders should be exempt of taxation and mortgage would abolish conservatorships exempt in extreme cases of mental incapacities.
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  818.  @highpointadvisors9314  Re-writing constitutions and the constitution won't be worth the paper its written on.
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  819. Imagination is everything.
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  820. True, there is never a good time to withdraw from an invasion and occupation. And there is never a good time for a revolution either!
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  821. Excellent documentary and incredible sights.
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  822. I love how America re-invents itself. It arrives at socialism without calling it socialism. But in this historic episode I sense it is out of necessity that Americans will come to love socialism the word and free themselves of the stigma attached to the word. Hats off, America!
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  823. Is Youtube a platform or a publisher because if they are censoring they are censoring data reporting which censors a viewers ability to think!
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  824. Good idea but it won’t happen unless we make that happen.
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  825. I am 80 years old and the best way to beat Trump is to beat the shit out of him. Dig up his past. The Central Park Five accusations, the gag order on his Ivanka Trump, partying with attorney Cohen, a red bater. Property bought from Mayor Beame for peanuts in NYC. Research will destroy him and then appeal to the rural America on the state of depression rural America is in.
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  826.  @bonitaroache73  My good citizen a similar argument took place a long time ago whether the modern state was truly to be representative of its citizens, the argument went... then the various disabilities of civil life which affect them politically must be removed, was their conclusion. Freedom has to be backed up with a desire in the citizen to be socially free from these horrible, oppressive relationships. I don't think the majority are unanimous about that at this time.   Extremists use violence to make the streets and public life unsafe. If this behavior is left unchecked it calls in the state or military to restore order. The citizen are the only people who can keep extremists and violence out of their communities, streets and towns. Police cannot because they are inherently a post facto institution.  If not met with community resistance the citizen will lose their freedom to a state occupation and driving out the extremists becomes a convenient excuse to consolidate military rule, as if this were Chile in 1976 under Pinochet. America is no longer exceptional my good friend, where things like this happen only in Europe, Latin America or Africe and the Middle East.  The citizen must be prepared to keep the streets free of violence, drive out the far right wing and capture the shame on camera, send it out to the world. Your children will not be able to roam free as you once did as a child without fear or concern of murder, abduction, or some horrible incident using innocent lives to get at the State, the lives of innocent children and people for a political aim, we typically, do not pay any attention. Organize. I think you understand.
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  827. ...because posters are no substitute for real social interaction...
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  828. Turn the camera around and let us see who the congressmen are in the House.
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  829. If workers had half ownership of the means with the capitalist and a percentage of the sale money of the company then the wage system can be dissolved and that would wither away the class system!
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  830. Great report, the first I've seen that compares the social classes in Venezuela and the difference ten years makes among the middle classes who serve themselves and the younger ones who use social media as an economic tool to contribute to society. Another great report was the one on the job fair and college graduates entering the workforce in Indiana; how the social changes of the past four decades of the workforce by capital pushed wages up and the next generation benefits from the rise.
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  831. Trump just spent 45 minutes lying, distorting history, and directly threatening the life of three nations in the UN. This should be the headline across the banner of all the press. As if he was expecting the general assembly to give him a standing ovation for announcing 200 billion dollars will be spent on the US military. The world knows 30 billion would solve world hunger and the refugee problem. What a slap in the face! To free NK, Va, from a 'faithful practice of socialism'. The Trump, is in violation of UN accords per his threats. Iran benefits from his speech. Speech validates Irans claims of US imperialism. Lies about Iran support for terrorists. A sad and tragic character in history. Talks out of both sides of his mouth. African nations present fell asleep on him. A reactionary speech in a world that suffers from failed states and extreme disasters. He used the word' regime' for NK but we all know the the faithful practice of sovereignty in a nation is the target. I would not be surprised if the GA issues a warrant for his arrest if he steps foot in the UN again, or the very least take away the US veto privileges. What an abominable person.
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  832. Yes, I see that. The dangerous aspect of capitalism is that every material object is turned into a depository of exchange for a higher exchange-value.
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  833.  @ahalpert  Bernie 2020. The New Paradigm Movement.
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  834.  @kelperdude  If you cannot prove that than its a lie that you tell.
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  835. Once that alternative energy genie is let out of the bottle there is no putting it back! Americans should realize that for every toxic and man made chemical based product that is used in factory production and every chemical compound that goes into building products largely used in all home and office building construction have a regulation. When we live and breath and work in those environments we are interacting with chemical compounds that enter into our bodies. The first group affected are the material handlers where those compounds are originally manufactured and then the secondary occupations when the product interacts with the worker. When these products are produced and consumed in some work environment the regulations mandate they are handled to reduce exposure to the workers handling them. But the removal of these regulatory controls over the countless numbers of chemicals used in the workplace speeds up the pace of work as labor time and attention given to proper handling, use and disposal can now be dedicated to produce more product. More product translates into lower prices for its seller who competes to capture a larger share of the market with the product's lower price. It is the capitalist method of reducing the cost of 'doing business' for investors. By freeing materials from controls they free the workday from controls. They can exert full sway over the workplace and the workers. They become free to exploit workers. A quantitative effect of increased sales and profits benefits a few but from a qualitative standpoint the many derive no benefit from a de-regulated work environment. This highly sought after freedom to de-regulate the work day and free the subject of labor or the conditions of work from government controls is a blow to all workers and a roundabout way of not violating the legal workday itself.
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  836. Sure it does. Don't rebuild where water went. Build where water does not go.
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  837. This won’t stop real estate developers from building where they should not build and people will get hooked into buying properties where they should not live. This will not change the building codes that enable builders and developers from building where they should not build. This will not stop the largest polluter on the planet from polluting. This will not stop industrial agriculture, mining, drilling. In fact, top priority on the Republican agenda when they get the White House is to expand drilling and mining. Oh, don’t get me wrong, Democrats are equally responsible furthering the destruction of the planet. Biden and the Military, CIA use these climate disaster to topple regimes they don’t like or to keep them engaged in war to weaken their economies. Prayer won’t stop, in fact, prayer enables the destruction. American industries produce commodities that are money making articles for them. The only thing that will reverse the effects on the environment is to coerce industries to produce for use and reduce money to its normal function, only then the NOAA advisories can be heeded. A president can order industries to produce for use and wipe away debt to control inflation but that president would be forced out of office. If Americans want to survive they will have kill the economic system killing them! Sorry but you have no choice other than pray for your grand kids they live which is highly doubtful since everything will be depleted of any nutrients our minds and bodies require for sustenance.
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  838. I am certain his wife will give him hell when he goes home.
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  839. Finally. The CCP are using their heads, next they need an independent inquiry on the violence of protesters and police in Hong Kong. Boris Johnson lost control of his government...he'll be gone tomorrow if Corbyn gets his general election. Sandra Torres used drug money for her presidential campaign, made assurances and alliances with mafia, ruling and international elites, to hold Guatemalans hostages to make servants of them.
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  840. Yes,---a tragic history. US military left Native Americans with no wide field of choice and no arbitrary will or formal freedom. The history shows they were neither made a working machine for another or a thing belonging to another for less than 24 hours in a day. The existence of the latter puts most of us in that category. They were deprived as they still are, of relating as subjects to their own time, efforts, talents, deprived of the act of working. It might not surprise you of the wealth of information reconstructing Native American cities breaks down prevailing fallacies of the pre-colonial era of the Americas.
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  841. Does deadly force constitute a higher altruism than using your body or mind to shield others from harm Penny’s second option? Penny chose wrongly.
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  842. Sweeping under the rug the lack of infrastructure development of Central America that works to sustain a way of life for Hondurans, Guatemalans, and El Salvadorans, to keep their citizens in their own country, clean, healthy and safe, can be squarely blamed on America’s long fight against revolutions and communism that began in the 50s and was carried over all the way to the fall of the USSR. These countries made an alliance with the US and the US used those countries as a launching pad for the military strategic influence in the region. A series of governments favorable to this position were supported by the US had done absolutely nothing for infrastructure development in Central America. American Aid to create individual armies in the region. Well, bombs and guns do not build houses and grow food. Title 42 is nothing more than a diversion that both parties are hiding behind as pure cowards. The issue to be addressed is the lack of infrastructure development in Central America for which the US is responsible in holding that progress back for these nations. Consequently, Honduras is the second poorest country next to Haiti that people cannot survive there and have to move to where they can.
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  843. Exactly, the social character and psychology of social labor is a dilemma of a subjective nature to the individual. Unity overcomes this barrier.
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  844. They never talk about how these hospitals are getting paid. Every hospital in the US is privately owned. Who are they billing for the beds and how much?
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  845.  @rcmrcm3370  Refute the argument and the facts will emerge in favor of the argument.
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  846. Nader thinks the message is lost. Perhaps lost to him in his golden years but not to me. Remember Nader ran and his own party dissed him the way they dissed Bernie. The messaging of the democrats is pretty clear to me and it is not what this audience thinks or perceives, not when the intent of laws are written by think tanks in Washington for politicians in all 50 legislatures. They can be no more than elected functionaries of a political party. For example, I cannot believe that a man like Herschel Walker is a legal scholar or thinker can read the law much less write the law and in all good conscience vote to pass the law. The same goes for Fetterman, Oz, Zeldin, given that votes is the only way laws are passed in this country and think tanks are an arm of a dominant American oligarchy coupled with a Senate of billionaires, who understand capitalism more than the law, it can only be by design to shatter this country for the further enrichment of oligarchs in three separate industries, Finance, Real Estate, and Land, to split this country in half between impoverishment and obscene wealth, this audience would fools to believe otherwise.
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  847. FYI: The experts are always wrong. The US fears it will have to send its own troops to support Israel’s troops into an urban environment and bodies will be coming home in bags. I remind you that America lost to the Vietnamese in a time when Vietnam was a peasant country. The fact that we still have a North and South Korea demonstrates the US is simply no good at war and history acknowledges that war was a loss and for those who mistakenly believe the US won WWII they are lying to themselves. The only war the US won if you want to call that winning were the Indian Wars that preceded the American Civil War. As this war gets deeper into a quagmire the mood of the country will change against the war and its support for Israel will have to end is my prediction. This may the historic turning point of a decline of American hegemony.
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  848. You mean he is a victim of the power of the national security agency. The institutional censorhsip and repression of journalists abolishes your freedom of speech.
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  849. The developing “situation” is the authorities want moved the ones still in their homes but are without power and facing diminishing necessities the authorities are using as leverage to get them to leave. Coercion to go is not the most diplomatic way to get people to leave their places of residence. The authorities are not led by one spokes person but many and the situation gets more confusing arousing more tension and common sense flies right out the window.
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  850. Not voting for Trump or Biden was meant to punish the democrats...the anger in a working class is not a healthy anger. Their brains tell them it’s the economy but their heart tells them to act irrationally against those who ignore their social condition. As a consequence, the opposite side made good use of that misplaced rage and anger. The resentful worker helped usher in a victory for the capitalist class who, by the way, were all present at Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025.
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  851. I refuse to believe that a largely agrarian society like Ukraine would reach the level of production required to actually be a democratic civl society. It would have to have a huge economic surplus and cram in what took four centuries to establish the freedoms of a civil society in one year. People not seeing this war for what it is are profiting from it or not playing with a full deck.
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  852. It goes deeper. Its a very good question and one that cuts right to the heart of the mythology of American exceptionalism that is today a dangerous ideology because a government ( US) believes in its own propaganda. Who are the people that fit into this mythology are the people banished from Europe in history and had to settle a land could never turn back to their home country. It was either do (colonize and settle) or die for the Australians, Jews and the Americans. Settler colonialism and its history is the key to your answer.
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  853. Washington loses no time in exercising their direct political and economic power over Puerto Rico, as an outside utility and financial board, to disrupt the island from its development alongside its other relationships with Caribbean nations needs more direct and overt public scrutiny.
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  854. A labor struggle over the vaccine mandate intensifies around the country. Some states side with workers and other states side with employers. Some employers side with mandates and others do not. The Supreme Court did not side wth the workers but delivered a punch to the chin for workers and victory round for employers in Maine. The human body and their minds (free will) still belongs to the worker before and after work not during 9 to 5 is the opinion of the court. Depends on which body, male or female? Not all laws treat the body and mind as organically one human organism in the American legal system. But sociologically speaking... Worker resistance to the vaccine is coming from the same place workers in the garment district destroyed the sewing machine when that was introduced. The innovation replaced workers! The workers threw the sewing machine out of the factory windows. But factions of municipal workers are throwing out the vaccine not because it replaces jobs. Because it demonstrates how profoundly totalitarian the workplace has become under the rule of employers. This year’s workers resistance is coming from a biological innovation intended to make work safer is shoved down their throats! The indignity that its not your mind ordering your body to take the vaccine its some one else’s mind ordering your body around agitates worker resistance among municipal cops, fireman, teachers, transit and sanitation workers. The vaccine mandate opens a deep wound of the larger problem of powerlessness in workers of their own working conditions of employment and the workplace itself that resistance is developing and frustrations with the lack of control lead individuals to killing of co-workers and managers. This struggle intensifies and develops into a worker’s struggle for control and dignity over their lives and objective conditions.
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  855.  @MrBudha888  USSR was alone. Socialism is not alone today even if they call themselves something else, history is what the masses do and right now they are in revolt with austerity and neoliberalism outside the US. Objective is to overturn the conditions holding back the growth and progress of the working class. Inside the US a rigorous pacification program prevents unity from developing among workers. Inside the workplace is sealed tight which means the whole social order has to be transformed outside of the workplace. For this you have to go straight into socialism as a new way of life from the old capitalist way of life, or nothing works and sociey dies. This is a condition of capitalism's own doing. The GOP and the corporations the government, Congress et al, are inept, so a new form of work has to come about that removes the government and private property from the workplace owing to their general and overwhleming incompetence to run a society. Nobody is left to do this job but one that never had the chance in history, has to step up to the plate, and free the whole society from the opressive rule of government and private industry.
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  856. Americans who work for a living day to day are beginning to realize there will be no other way out of this crisis but to band together and fight the bosses together as one class. The very top of society are fighting among themselves, the middle is getting crushed by the weight of the top and the bottom is suffering a miserable condition of existence.
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  857. I'd expect there will be land battles and Indian wars in South Dakota too...with development encroaching on reservation and private farming land.
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  858. Agriculture sector is also a big polluter about 20% of emissions next to transportation at 30%.
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  859. That would be a violation of Free Speech and a move toward totalitarianism. You would be pulled off the internet next under a censorship. Are you an American?
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  860. A critical point in history for both nations. Imagine that, I heard out of 80 war exercises in the South China Sea the US failed all of them. We might want to try our hand at diplomacy the military is not the way to form a relationship wth China. China and the US economies are inextricably bound together through world trade. If the ‘supply chain’ snaps in half who gets hurt is the American working class. If war interrupts the supply chain American shelves in the market are bare and costly and work hours rise among the American working classes already worn out and tired. World trade positions China as the producer and the US as the consumer of the goods China produces. But that is not the only world trade there is. The Bilateral world trade system emerges under neath the traditional trade relations of the US, bigger and incorporating more than 100 nations signing trade deals with China that raise their standard of living and keep the Chinese working masses busy. It seems time we, Americans get in on the bilateral trading action than try to squash it.
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  861. Is it the case that Trump has amazing ability to escape prosecution or it is a situation where the Justice Department is a means for Trump to win by losing?
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  862.  @daieast6305  You are not imprisoned. You have a developed Justice System, any lawyer can file charges against the Joint Chiefs of Staff and those prosecuting this murder they call war. The case against Henry Kissinger and Bush are wanted for war crimes can never step foot in countries that prosecuted them or they will be jailed and tried. The Generals to Julian Assange to silence him eternally is to intimidate you from revealing their deeds. The Nuremberg Trials is historical precedent. What imprisons the American people is intellectual incompetence.
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  863. The State makes it easier to agree with the idea of capitalism as the premier socializing force for humanity in contrast to a slave economy in the State. Americans are complicit by choosing people who degrade the State into a slave state. Sold a bill of goods and promises which amount to lies they remain pacified. The rulers in the State have learned that people will strive toward capitalism because it is easier and nearer to achieve than the dream state of the future of socialism. Politicians figured out people settle for less. So--you can get characters who seduce your vote and do nothing for you using your money, to boot. Everybody settles, thinking that their ideals will not come to fruition for them in life. Disappointed society did not live up to their expectations they settle into a lesser form of exploitation in private industry offering less wages on average and no career development to avoid falling into a worse form of exploitation at the hands of the State. The more punitive the State becomes and commercialized playing the role of a merchant, therefore, the public is dealing with in the emergence of a hybrid merchant slave state, a colonial state based on slave labor. Devils Island replicated in Gitmo (guantanamo) and down the chain of command to the prison system and its wardens are president, governor, magistrate or local sheriff. Direct exploitation of unpaid labor. Exactly the way a vassal worked the land of the Lord under feudalism and the lord takes the product of the land the vessel produced is the way Chain Gangs and inmates work the state lands and the State takes the product of labor. Done in the name of the tax payer and look upon by tax payers as restitution for their crimes. Chances of white and black becoming slave labor is palpable, can happen. It only takes a constitutional convention to amend the 13th amendment and change the wording from prisoner to civilians to legalize slavery in the US, and 33 states currently GOP states is enough to convene and amend the 13th by one political party, GOP or Democrats. Not easily done but a lot closer than they ever were to achieve their aims. That all this happens not in the private sector but in the public sector points the finger at the American public for letting it happen! The Left, Right or Center can't pin slavery in the US on the multi-national corporations. In my view you could if Jeff Bezos, as an example, offered all his employees permanent employment and housing to work for Amazon.The laws against slavery are in place since the end of the Civil War until one party established a one party state and America begins to look like South Africa of the 1940's. If it happens here it is because the People did nothing to oppose what I see is a Pro-Slavery Rebellion of the Right.
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  864. The American public act as by-standers and look the other way.
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  865. Trump is going to lose his supporters to COVID-DELTA etc., and have no electoral support to run again if this cult of anti-science drive themselves down the road to oblivion!
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  866. How about when the product is not free you are the service.
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  867. Weird, what they say about China can be said of the US.
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  868. All history is a history of class struggles in no uncertain terms is the rock bottom truth about our present time period.
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  869. Frito-Lay is Pepsico owned and Pepsi corporation's stock is trading at $155. per share. If all workers made a universal demand against employers that market value be divided between owners of money and owners of labor-power the world would be a better place.
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  870. I tip my hat to activists who bring out the corruption we would never know was going on if not for them exposing it.
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  871. Lower the age of conviction and abolish the rule that conceals their identity. You can judge from the person’s actions behind the perpetrator how socially conditioned grown ups have become that the incident elicits a dead affect...go pay for your candy bar. It wasn’t the money for the robber it was personal and the cops did not get that information so their intelligence is useless, and it is about the money guiding the actions of the customer not the human relationship gone sour with a gun.
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  872. What can a city like Jackson do to become a model city for others like it? It might begin with a transformation of its environment, change the physical aspects of the city. Turn abandoned properties into functional buildings. It might also want to transform old infrastructure into common parks and walks. It might want to re-outfit old factories and warehouses into communal work spaces and indoor markets. It might also transform unused room and space on empty lots into used space and lots for city agriculture. A city does not always have to rebuild its transportation due to over-use if it can transform where people work. Imagination...imagination...imagination, is all a city needs.
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  873. I've seen the glowing orbs hovering over my northeastern night sky.  Four of them that I saw and the description of the movement of the orbs given was the same as what I saw.
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  874.  @magi6156  Have you noticed Americans do not reply to statements like yours. They do not try to rebuke your comment or affirm it. They bury their heads in the sand and pretend long time allies are forever welcoming and are in denial of their government's behavior.
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  875.  @ArtDaddy74  Stupidity does not think.
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  876. Interesting how this earth quake is treated as not a part of the other earthquake that struck Taiwan this week by this report. The theory of Continental Drift is based on the idea that the Earth’s crust behaves like a conveyor belt, pushing a plate at one end and pulling a plate at the other end that the US continent moves closer to Europe at a rate of one inch per year. The energy of the quake in Taiwan transfers over to the earth quake that happened in Mexico would in my mind be the never idle movement of the continental plate in the Pacific and the ocean water this kicked up in the upper northern regions of the Pacific in combination with a storm pushed water over Alaska as a Hurricane. I am not painting a static and isolated picture of a given fracture opening up at one place the way this seismologist explains. I am saying the entire planet is in faster motion that we can see previously imperceptible to the naked eye movements of the Earth more clearly. The Atlantic generating storms and hurricanes and the Pacific generating seismic movement is one action. We have to see a particular earthquake as a relation of movement to the totality of earth movement versus a static picture of one incident. We have to learn to see everything as a relation. Two incidents of varying magnitudes express the totality of the earth activity. Scientists who do not understand the concept of two things are equal to a third thing cannot make predictions where next this total energy will be released on the crust of the planet is a shortcoming of their view of the world of nature
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  877.  @jordancooke5980  Sounds there is some credence to that assertion. Hoover obsessed with Malcolm X and MLK, the New Left, SNICK, Panthers, Anti-War Movement, etc., he meant to crush any opposition and had and JFK’s many affairs was good political capital as a liability in the Kennedys.
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  878. Left wing Mellenials are coming to realize how the right wing of the democratic party are reactionaries, the closer we get to revealing the web of money relations dominating the political system of the US, the citadel of political reaction itself, the more reactionary and hostile the Washington political elites become, to the extent that there are no bounds or limits to what ends this political reaction will go to defend its position in relation to the world. Money dominates as an independent force, its representatives of, and the owners of, dominate the politics and all governing bodies in the country, suggest that the movement of money through politics is relentless, does not rest until all communities and more aspects of life, are converted into commodities is thoroughly complete. These are the conditions required for one representative out of all the representatives to become the dominant power of the political organization. The 40 year long conservative revolution culminates in a movement of money channeled through the right wing from the center of the democratic party all the way to the Freedom Caucus on the opposite end of the political spectrum cling to power to keep money in circulation regardless of the rules, criminalization, secrets, lies, deception, force, used to keep money in politics.
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  879. They have my support.
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  880.  @zanzikar7  People bossing workers around for the boss. People who do not do the jobs decide how to do the jobs. Looks to me like the American way of doing work is the worst way to do work is screaming for a new way to work.
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  881. Cruel and callous people work for Homeland Security. My sense tells me it has evolved into a fascist paramilitary organization within itself.
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  882. What a great time to be alive!
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  883. Now, if we can bust the individualistic bubble we put ourselves into, we would as a working class be capable of running a society. You do realize that there is difference between a country and a society, why would international corporations, be assumed more capable of running a country in the world and not the society they live in?
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  884. You would hope working people would advance their position in society through active engagement since that is the only kind of action that works, that is, to be loud enough to get the attention and the power to make real demands and win them. No pain no gain.
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  885. Video shows the skateboard guy reacting to shots fired by Rittenhouse went to take down Rittenhouse and was then killed by the same. This reporter said Rittenhouse was attacked and beaten with a skateboard that he killed the skateboarder.
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  886. Justice is guilty of guilt by association to American Cuban bias that the sentencing of the Cuban truck driver is beyond rational.
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  887.  Patricia M  Money was never out of politics, one cannot pretend the monsters are not there.
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  888. The Vatican is a closed society. Our goal on earth should be to live in a society where government and religion are separate.
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  889. The whole movement of capitalism is a never-ending circle, the only thing that changes is the excuse given to conquer, enslave, expel, rob, murder, and control the resources of other nations, is all due to the apetite of the US consumer for oil. Really when you look at it the combustible engine is responsible for our government's actions and our modern day homes, cities, towns, and villages are responsible for the radical climactic changes happening in parts of the world we do not live. If you live in America and wipe your ass, that activity is done with paper cut from trees in the Amazon Rainforest, if you buy anything in America, a gun, a pill, a car, a house, etc., you're creating the demand for more oil. This history of wars carried on by presidents one after another the last one more efficient and adept at deciet than the previous ones, is a never-ending cycle. We keep coming around to the place where we began. The combustible engine and the modern home are the two chief causes of all modern-day conflicts, these two objects more than any other object made by man consume natural resources at a high rate. The demand for fuel and power is constant and the level of consumption of fuel and power is off the charts in the US. This is not a sign of development or progress that country consumes most of the world's reosurces. Its a sign of sickness, hoarding and using other's before using your own property to satisfy this demand is the only type of foreign policy it can have with other nations. Naturally, the world will resist it. The Pentagon thinking on national interest is guided by one twisted notion that if the end of resources happens it is going to happen there and not here, does nothing to retrain Americans away from this habitaul consumption pattern. The risk we run for such a high level of consumption is depletion and continuous wars. Wars, because nations will tend to defend reserves they know the public will deplete, and the whole movement of capitalism moves in a vicious circle. War, resources, higher profits...wars, resources...higher profits...once again...wars...a century and half of this circumlocution that on the downswing repeats depression and wage reductions and we are no better off.
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  890. Its the same contradiction and hypocrisy that a citadel of reaction would devise,--- a policy to have no policy at all in order to maintain political power.
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  891.  @_audacity2722  80s...It was called a War on Drugs but it was really a rise to power of Drug Cartels through drug wars. Reagan’s Contragate scandal with army colonel Oliver North arming Contra fighters with laundered drug money. Republicans and Democrats were backing a dictator the revolution the Sandanistas in Nicaragua led to overthrow that dictator was a well deserved victory.
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  892. The few to many relationship, reflective of the economic inequality generated under monopoly capitalism, is replicated in all of America's industries and in every sphere of American social life is only possible by the acceptance of the many to allow themselves to be dispossessed by the few with the power of the many turned against the many.
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  893. Young Frankenstein meets Dr. Jekyll. The choice is your’s.
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  894. When the use-value of a car is no longer a utility for transportation the car becomes a strange thing of value from which money is accrued. This is what is wrong with American society; everything is a value before it is a use-value and only a use-value so it can be an exchange value. Consequently, all the engineering, work, and manufacturing of that car is buried in the dirt in the backyard of a property as a rusted out relic in the same way Detroit has become a rusty relic of the car industry. There are people without a car and a car is essential in rural and suburban America. This is one car that deprived someone of transportation.
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  895. When are you going to overthrow your elite political class America?
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  896.  @ourcollectiveinsanity  may 9/10ths of the 1% rot in hell then!
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  897. People think that capitalism is in decline and it is in decline its just not extinct. Societies where the capitalist mode of production prevails move backward into fascism because it is in decline.
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  898. Expropriation of the many by the few!
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  899. So much for investigative journalism and not questioning what the police mean when they call it a domestic issue and more obfuscating the crime is the press alluding to a friend of the family...is somehow involved.
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  900. America’s unique type of authority in history depends on a labor-process and a working class that cannot be its own authority. Both men very well explain who does what in relation to the scandalous extraction of surplus value and controlling their individual armies of employees. “We are still a prisoners to these war mongers...” precisely. The feeling of imprisonment affirms the absence of a self-directing authority of the working classes. The working masses get praise for developing the productive powers and the sacrifices this extraction process takes on society by giving our co-operation to no benefit of the working class.
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  901.  @fatemehm2949  On a social-psychological level the point I make about “...the power of commodities over humanity...” is a power objects have over human beings...none of us exercise “Free Will” not even the Oil Oligarchs exercise free will, as we are dependent on Oil or nuclear weapons. The car and the car industry, the workers in the car industry are an accessory to Oil do not exercise Free Will. Government, the Middle Class, Working Class, all Humanity in this era of Oil and Nuclear weapons has no free will and/or self-determination while life in general is directed by commodities in particular.
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  902.  @rmash0  Got the evidence?
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  903.  @richietattersall2122  Words are powerless against landed property and capital.
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  904. Enforcement has always been the problem with government and the lack thereof.
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  905. It is a sign the Israeli State is losing confidence in itself, the state is doubting itself.  Its supporters are thinning at the ranks and dissension begins to doubt their authority. The decline of dictatorships seems to follow the same trajectory, they begin with a repression of truth and free movement, then imprison opponents, and fall to the power of the masses. They do not realize that governments exist because human history either preserves or represses their usefulness in that particular moment or stage of development. Once the achievement has been accomplished the form it assumed in that moment of progress is out of form in the next moment if the state does not change with the mass of humanity. Authoritarian states are the least able to change at all collapse for that reason.
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  906. Police have to be going on two hypothesis: They killed each other or they were ambushed. But with no evidence found as yet the second hypothesis is ruled out but not entirely. There could have been a force that ambushed them in another form. But I would first look at what is their relationship to each other and what led up to the four men deciding on a bike ride and why?
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  907. Only 9 thumbs up...not good, eh.
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  908. The Green New Deal Proposal will fall flat on its face in this Congress. Still have too many, if not all representatives of the Congress allied with the Military and industry to get it passed. Americans have been waiting for socialized medicine since Eisenhower was president, I doubt a Green New Deal will fly. Congress would have to be demonetized of industry (representatives separated from private interests) and the military demonetized from industry (outlaw lobbyists) for Congress to act in the interest of society. Unfortunately, I do not see another way around the conflict between science and society and the conflict between private interests and the interests of society but a social revolution! Revolution is made the only course of action because of the nature of the opposition of private interests in Congress to a Green New Deal.  For Sun Power to become the new source of value for our lives the military and society would have to unite to extricate the fossil fuel industry is the way I see it. Maybe , I am wrong?
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  909. Great comment and use of words. A word person is a pleasure to read.
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  910. Should be compensated with a modest tax break for cleaning off the more public areas like the hydrant and crosswalks. This way property owners are more content. Don’ take the tree down. Build an incline and a decline with the walk stone over the root.
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  911. People should make Leonard Leo’s life so miserable he has to leave the country.
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  912. @Jay Wolf, Yep. Christianized Fascism with a smiling face.
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  913. Wonderful :)
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  914. I would ask the Nurses this. Do you want a hospital system that is run for people or a system of hospitals that are run for profits? You cannot have both America. You must choose. When workers strike for higher wages and better staffing they are not changing anything about the system that continually cheapens the quality of service or a product for higher profits, striking for higher wages enables the profit system. The profit system cannot work unless it has hired labor. Hired labor enriches corporations. As a matter of fact, the employers react defensively to their profit losses if they pay higher wages; so they will fire you. Now,---does it not make more sense to strike for a humane hospital system that delivers quality in all its aspects rather than start a battle that will only intensify into a full blown war or crisis later on? The profit system is the public health emergency.
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  915. Can you prove that?
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  916. And they will never reveal what caused the explosion. It will be swept under the rug. More workplace violence. Just because it is a property that explodes does not mean this is not violence against humanity by humanity. If workers controlled production in general none of this would ever happen. Factories would be safe. All work environments would work and be conducted at a pace where people are not brutally exhausted, burned, contaminated, or dead. In fact, workers would not even use or handle dangerous toxic material but would use technology to handle it safely. Think!
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  917. Jrock--countless other celebrities do nothing more than consume a lavish lifestyle. One guy does something with that lavish lifestyle and you have nothing good to say about it! If you were in that position I bet you'd do nothing more than consume a selfish lavish lifestyle the wealth you accumulated as a celebrity.
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  918. The troubled peace process in Sudan is really a forced separation of cattle from the cattle owners by the forces of the Sudanese State, as an expropriation funded by the American taxpayer appropriated by the US Congress on the advise of the CIA. That is, the money is used to take away their means of survival of independent cattle farmers and breeders of Sudan and freeing the cattle raising land to a new breed of outside buyers for capital development projects, namely, tourism, malls, rental properties, and mining. Nothing as changed since the days of the way of life of native American tribes were eradicated by killing the Bison, the army in Sudan kill the cattle owners and plunder kills their ancient way of life too. It is good that Africa is resisting this process. While the House Far Right Wing in the Congress of the US cannot get its way with some nations in Africa it pushes a “Bi-Partisan “ measure (meaning some Democrats agree with the measure) that contains cuts to social security benefits to some 85 million elderly and vulnerable and the gall to disguise the measure as denouncement of the horrors of socialism is callous, deceitful and shameful. They authors and signers of this measure truly hate and have a profound disdain for the American people.
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  919. Not a declaration of war because they are not sure about where the malware is coming from.
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  920. Ratigan said to think about "...how bad the Democrats must be to have betrayed the American population to side with Donald Trump and the Republicans validates their capacity to sustain themselves in a disgusting and corrupt fashion...The solution is a final and terminal by-pass of these two utterly corrupt political parties." Fine, by what social mechanism is this by-pass accomplished?
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  921.  @dcscot1340  Great comment, I got the sarcasm...it might have gone over many heads.
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  922. NJ Transit should use the governor's comment as a campaign slogan 'We are a work in Progress'!
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  923. Sad, that the real losers are the American worker.
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  924. Unfortunately, the issue is not making government work for people. The issue is government. The federal government is ruled by multinational corporations and the rule of property dominates state governments. When Stacy becomes governor she will find the state and legislature of Georgia is based on a separation of the social classes in her state. Same as in all other states. The state can abolish class, race and sexism within itself but is inept in overcoming class, race and sexism in society even if it wanted to. The state is unable to create a genuine community which is what she truly desires. But the context in which state operates prohibits a genuine community. The state frees itself from all matters of general concern to all citizens by giving no recognition to all matters of general concern. To understand how and why this happens you have appreciate the fact that freedom, liberty, equality, security are limited political rights not unlimited natural rights. Even the most perfect democratic state is not adequate to establish a genuine egalitarian society because it is still based on a fundamental contradiction the political state and civil society. The worst case example of this separation of state and society, and the separation of individuals into social classes in society, is now! Citizens United, Right to Work, Gun Control, Tax Cuts, have transferred all the natural and social wealth of the many into the hands of the few. People cannot rely on people like Stacy to succeed against the political power of the few. The answer is not a formal rejection of conservative rule. But for a social movement to be borne that acknowledges the state is impotent to combat the unsocial consequences coming from the unsocial nature of society. A social power to directly oppose the state is the only avenue for the vast majority of Americans to be freed from the political state.
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  925. This is a repeat of WWI but in the Middle East as opposed to Europe from 1915-17. Instead of negotiating between nations the natural resources of the planet they must posses it and take it by force carving up territory where the resources are found. In WWI the colonies and the products from the colonies were the commodity European powers fought over, today the commodity is oil and natural gas. We never pay our respects to WWI veterans, they died fighting that brutal war in vain, were nothing more than cannon fodder for ruling elites. Imagine that, the war to end all wars opened up two centuries of war thus far. Two centuries of empire and revolution brings us closer to the edge of another world war and eventually, a world revolution. Wnerever empires establish themselves revolutions is not far behind.
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  926. A catalytic converter for a Nissan Sentra 2012 ranges nationally in price from $150 to $1500 for the part itself. The same part has a high price in Malibu and Westchester but in East Palestine a local muffler shop would do the job for around $400. Social inequality killed Wacker the actor. Add tax and labor for installation and your bill reaches ranges nationally from $400 to $4000. The odds are pretty high your own car could be robbed with the prices free market manufacturers and dealers charge to fix a non-luxury car of the masses. Your government has a policy of never to interfere with dealers and manufacturers and the prices they stick on their products. You’d have to be a pretty stupid person to not understand why there is a black market for car parts in the first place.
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  927.  @LazyIRanch  Don’t let anyone tell you America is democratic.
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  928. I share Harvey’s opinion, I too suspected as much that, the sociological impact of ‘Capital Flight” and----“Underutilization and idle Capacity’, of the American workforce in a crisis will be too severe on the working class. In 1972 I remember the stat was 25% manufacturing capacity was standing still (35% unused productive capacity in other industries), by 1974, the Stock Exchange estimated 4 Trillion is all the capital they will spend on American industry, relative to the size of American industry, the Wall Street Capital Investors left a gap of$650 billion worth of unused labor-power and factory capacity. These are the seeds of the Great Recession leading up to the Great Resignation. A certain quantity of capital determines a certain quantity of production (employment). The thirty years time since industry was moved out of the US economy, the Wall Street Investment Firms buy excess commodity production abroad cheap and sell goods higher than their production costs but lower than the competition has led to the growth of monopolies at the same time as it led to the Great Recession, and now with a certain quantity of labor-power, the market has trapped workers into an unbridled exploitation of labor-power in the workplace. Corporations become giants through the value changes in production and through Relative Surplus Value...they can afford to hire more workers...this is not the case for smaller producers. Companies vary from one to the other in their production composition but average out socially the simple value oriented changes of the number of workers in production raises productivity for capital to exploit without government interference into the nature of the exploitation in the current policy of the democrats who hold all three houses, they turn a blind eye to the exploitation. Government, church, jurisprudence, law enforcement, have turned their backs on the working class, due to neglect, greed, ignorance, careerism, power. As social classes, these institutions do not have the character of being, two-fold, as the class character of the working class is double-sided, and whole enough to take control of the situation, workers produce value when they are not a class of owners of labor-power. The other social classes do not have this unique quality.
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  929.  @josephgunsher1022  With climate change disasters the government will fail its own citizens. You have a president who by executive order has pulled funds from FEMA and de-regulated national parks for commercial speculation giving it over to the energy industry. Government will not be there to help you. Church or God will not be there to help you in a climate change disaster. All the institutions have failed the American people will get recorded in history as the youngest nation to die.
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  930. Victories for the people in Guatemala and Ecuador. Nice to see Arevalo succeed his father. People Power! Without the material and financial support of the US Latin American states can fall rather easily under the pressure of people power. But it all comes at a time when economic growth even among the largest economies has slowed down and recoveries are short recoveries. Making it worse recoveries are annihilated by natural disasters. All societies are more conscious and preoccupied with human life that if nations take a new course of development, so be it.
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  931. I think this is something Obama would not have done and that says more about Biden than Obama.
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  932. A government cannot be lawless unless the lawful break the laws. At this juncture in the socio-political world of the US the lawful are forced to act as subject to the lawless as a consequence of violating the laws themselves.
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  933. 29:25: “...protecting their own power within the democratic party.” Is it in a nutshell. And, this attitude of preserving their political base from the corrosive effects of progressivism in their party is reflected in the police who are trained to preserve and protect themselves, as shown in the Uvalde situation tragedy. From attitude to policy proving that attitude is the starting point from which all criticism of the democratic party can begin, a self-conscious attitude of the elite establishment in the democratic party are hyper-sensitive of their position in society,. Self preservation is more important than society for the moment. But in the moment society is wrecked! Wealth must continue to accumulate in one direction making everyone and everything a means to that end. The “Karens” that dominate American Womanhood is a social relation that comes into sharper view when seen in the context of the establishment’s social class sensitivity, where the men are “Karens” too. How many governing bodies are headed by women who make up this establishment roll more heads than the king, how many kings blame others for the crimes they commit? Pelosi and Hillary come to mind of this older generation who holds onto capitalism, Biden comes to mind of the crimes, born-again believers of the last and final social system for all mankind is a market system of money and commodities; they bury their heads in the sand from the exploitative and corrosive effects of capitalist social relations, then blames others for its evils. An excellent interview.
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  934. The Fed better be sure there is a sufficient amount of money in the economy when it raises rates because if you assume average prices of commodities are not a constant ratio and the speed of money has slowed down, the quantity of goods will fall and the money you do have saved to weather the storm becomes worthless paper.
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  935. The point is the cost of empire in the long run if it does not implode on its own has grown greater than the cost of revolution in the short run. So why are we not revolutionizing the military from its cost as an empire in the offense position to a reduced cost of an empire in a defensive position in relation to other nations in the world? A rational military budget and announce to the world a new path must begin sometime and anytime is time for a revolution. Positive idealism.
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  936.  @Dennis-wo9tg  Right. Empire.
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  937. competing rivals are always enemies moonlighting as friends and allies...they will always turn on each other and use their protected status drawn by agreements against each other...
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  938. Working people should take a lesson from the railroad workers on how to stick together. Good for them and good for us that they win.
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  939. The final days of capitalism in America seem to be on the horizon in the minds of the Trump administration. The state of mind of the ruling classes of the leading capitalist countries are panicking at the loss of confidence of the financial machinery long taken for granted the chickens have come home to roost. What will Americans do when banks freeze CD's or close their doors and pensioners cannot access their funds? The world banking system teeters on the brink. Make matters worse, the present is haunted by past patterns of revolution and empire causing a wave of populist movements and protests that is bound to induce a hostile reaction of the ruling classes to these forces of change coming out of this administration. The merger of the state and private industry is complete in the Trump administration, what remains on the agenda are the challenges of submission the question of working class defeat.
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  940. Just like Mayor Adams of New York; she is a tool for real estate investors.
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  941. Conditions of labor are made taboo subjects in America, workers must never reproach their employers over the conditions. They can redress situations but not conditions. But here is what people do to each other outside of the job that they learn from a labor-process that is a torture process. They make it impossible for any redress and there is no reciprocity in the relationships.
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  942. Ohio voters lost 3 to 1 margin to big pharma winning the measure that prices cannot be controlled or reduced for meds. Looks like Ohioans are not as unified as they might have thought and shot themselves in the foot on that one. But Maine got its act together--they voted for an expansion of medicaid despite its Bonapartist governor opponent LePage. Washington state was a democratic sweep! The state is not big enough for Americans to move there. New York will tax the rich with DeBlasio in landslide election win. Good time to be a student in NY. Maybe education will return to what it was there, free of charge. Another victory is the new AG in Philadelphia with Larry Krasner but that is an urban victory. The rest of the state is as red as raw meat. Kelly is a homicidal rampaging flight threat to society whose wings need more than clipping. White Fish, Zinke, and Prepa, the scam.
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  943. Mattias is correct, society needs a government on its side not a government on the side of fossil fuel corporations. Trump's government is not a workers' government or it would be filled with experienced industry workers, scholars and scientists in cabinet posts not former industry executives from the fossil fuel industry. A worker's government would be pulling talent from society to solve the climate crisis. There are a lot of inventive and creative people out ther e who can solve problems. Government can be more than an instrument for private interests. We as the Public should expect our government to be more social than private. Ground government to society and undo the opposite relation that separates government from society.
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  944. And the Court just told residents if it goes in my back yard it goes in your’s too.
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  945.  @bobsavage3317  People short changed themselves all the time here.
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  946.  @muddywater4505  What’s funny about it?
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  947. Well all that is history, you have the exact opposite today. Monopoly capitalism and debt slavery. 21st Century Capitalism is built on the false principal that every worker does not have the exclusive right to the fruit of their labor the multinational corporations have that right. People are deceived about Wages. Wages are not a share in the commodities produced by an individual. Wages are that part of already existing commodities with which monopolies buys a certain amount of productive labor-power.
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  948. Dolly would make a great education secretary.
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  949. Ms. Angeles Solis explained the case against Amazon very well and summed it up with perfect description the nature of explotiation of the workers in Amazon...a highly intelligent worker. The Senate is responsible for monopoly corporations like Amazon dodge paying taxes and the corporations feel privileged when they are on the side of the Senate and hostile to workers with the blessing of the Senate makes Amazon just one out of a whole class of US employers who exploit the whole class of workers and gettig rich off of a medical health debacle and bloodbath. Truly, despicable.
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  950. Guatemala in 1955, Chile in 1976 are case histories Myanmarians should read about to understand the present path of development their country appears to be going through. Formerly, Burma and a trade route between India and China, the small region was made a province by the British for the extraction of oil. The share of this oil wealth overtime resulted in a military junta soon after Burma separated from India in 1937. Burma was on a path of development toward a civil society in 1948 when it became Myanmar, Burma would not be ready for its first civilian president until 2010. This shows the movement of people toward more liberal and social democratic policies corresponds to a new generation to be in line with France and the US where economic growth has polarized the social classes into an absolute antagonism does not give France or the US a leg to stand on, is a paradox entangling the west. By recapturing the government from a civilian cabinet, the military junta slowed down or stopped economic growth, is not going to solidify their survival. Economic growth is a total mess and it appears the military generals are stumped about restarting economic growth which was going well under the civilian president and probably a hell of a lot better if the junta had been dismantled back in 1948. If Pinochet's Chilean military junta had been dismantled Chile would not be hemmoraging with extreme social inequality and riled into protest to eradicate a Pinochet Constitution 44 years later in 2020. Chile would be on its path toward social development without interruption or interference diverting precious resources to sustain a junta had it eradicated Pinochet's Constitution, but it remained even though Pinochet or El Salvador's Samoza had long gone because the junta they created remained intact.
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  951.  @papasmurf6536  Well, when in the room with Myanmarians I think our job is to educate by using case examples that will lead them to see their future of their nation in others that take the same path of militarism.
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  952. Why don’t you guys sneak a camera in those meetings and let it go viral.
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  953. Trump goes to Puerto Rico and instead of seeing people in dire distress he sees how he can turn the island into a Trump golf course would be one example of malignant normalcy. If it were not humanity in the way of two sociopaths I would say let Trump and Un knock each other out.
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  954. WMO says; Best thing humanity can do is to phase out fossil fuel. High dioxide levels in the atmosphere are permanent. Phasing out dioxide producing activities means phasing out the buying and selling of fossil fuel... this is the best thing we can do. This would phase out the oil corporations who produce it for sale. It would phase out the combustible engine from general use and capitalism in the energy sector.
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  955.  @katana_3558  The short of it is...Government is forcing farmers to reduce their output of green house gases but the restrictions is destroying the farmers while government policies opened Holland up to outside agribusiness flooding markets. This action pushed farmer’s products out of the market. Nationwide farmer actions which literally dumped manure on politicians, shut highways, everything...its really incredible to tractors with no end of them in sight.
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  956. You’d be hard pressed to find an American company easy to deal with in 2021 and beyond.
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  957. Good summary...Force demoralizes the person who uses it as well as the nation. There is a lot of humiliation wrapped up in America’s failed wars on drugs, terror, communism that Americans deny is an evolution of force that made force necessary for the overthrow of its economic system.
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  958. I notice the rooms have entrances but no doors and the idea of tall buildings seems a good way to stay off the jungle ground gave a worry-less sleep at night. What an amazing place, I am really marveled by these structures.
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  959. Early educational curriculums in American history classes never incorporated labor history and in particular the 1886 Haymarket Riots that gave birth to international Worker’s Day. So every one in the US is pretty much ignorant of their own history and if they have ancestors in that event carry sore wounds to this day. There was a labor action at Haymarket Square in Chicago for an 8 hour day and a bomb went off ended in a massacre of 7 cops, 4 civilians, dozens wounded. The 8 hour day was made legal. But Congress moved to make a holiday sales event day as a booster shot in the arm for the close of the year’s annual output ending with Christmas sales and called it Labor Day to end summer with. A day workers eat more processed meat, continue to pay their rent, mortgage, car payment, while landlords, banks and dealers take a holiday, its a day of contrivance and mediocrity, apathy and sloth, a day for more eugenically modified foods, a day to end up stranded in a spontaneous American Gulag in a Nevada desert for four days, a day for a mass shooting, another homeless night in Lahaina, and it could be the day Mitch McConnell has one too many seizures and he goes on life support,...at all events...its another day off from school for kids after missing three years of education coming out of a pandemic lock downs, but it is a day to buy more pencils...Labor Day.
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  960. The democrats are a party of law enforcement as is the GOP. They brokered the reforms on crime and welfare in the 90's. Government actions have been leading up this point of mass incarcerations of immigrants and citizens, as a result, of the reforms and the democrats have nothing to say about ICE as they had nothing to say about Guantanamo. In the present they acquiesce with a demagogue in office. Charlie Chaplin delivered a great speech at the end of his movie the Great Dictator, about appeasement and acquiescence with authoritarians and social control. People should revisit the movie for that speech alone. In the event of social rebellion or revolution which authoritarianism breeds in people, the democrats have in common with the GOP will brand you, as a socialist communist, they bear on their chest in whatever form it appears shame to be associated with working people fighting for dignity. Working people need their own party. A separate party from the GOP and democrats. They need a Lulu or an AMLO. You can be sure a Nationalist Socialist Party will appear in the coming decade and more vehement white nationalists will run for president. The GOP held to a certain position on crime and law enforcement and the democrats acquiesced leaving the mass of working people vulnerable to abuses of a police state. They are also in the pocket of Wall Street and promote a standard of living for capitalist investors at least 200% greater than the average worker, and deliver an average rate of return a capitalist demands by enforcing on the workers new work laws tailor made by the GOP's law think tanks. They pose no opposition to the economic forces the multi-national corporations use to meet their consumption needs including the vast resources of the earth. Not even the term 'democrat' befits them.
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  961. Brinksmanship is alive and well in the Pentagon.
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  962. I guess basic economics is rocket science to the American people who just can’t seem to understand the fact that a certain quantity of capital determines a certain amount of employment...if all the the capital is spent sending rich people into space on a whim all the talent and manpower, technology and science, that goes into realizing the boyhood fantasies of rich men that amount of capital buys is also spent on that whim, and leaves society empty handed in desperation the more capital is consumed for personal enrichment by small class of elite billionaires.
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  963. Greatest river in the world is in the sky.
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  964.  @stellartrent1775  How are you significant enough that he should put the time in to explain to you what he means? Do you not see social progress anywhere in the world on your own?
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  965.  @MrStreetninja007  I bet fans are so immersed in their fan hood hysteria that they won’t care, blind denial, as in every other aspect in this country the mediocrity and apathy, shall not demoralize me but rather give me the strength to demand quality and reject cheapness for the sake of quantity American companies spew forth. They are not worthy of my support. Why should they be worthy of your’s? We are more than a number.
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  966. Very good China, the western fledgling democracies who are chronically unable to overcome the inherent autocratic tendencies in their social systems need a mature grown up.
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  967. The intubator is an artificial lung. If the reporter summed him up by asking "so, you'd rather have an artificial lung than a shot?" I think the idiot would have said "I'll take the shot". When language is used high above heads all it does is arouse suspicion and doubt to the ear.
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  968. The case is shrouded with mystery and that is always a sure-fire indication of a thicker plot. The incident is not going to stop parishoners from attending Mass, you cannot get to heaven, without dying.
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  969. Safe from who has the country been made by Donald Trump and Steve Miller, safe from who?
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  970. It could work. Portugal is making their coalition government work.
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  971. I may wake up tomorrow and the world will be a different place...a world revolution has happened!
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  972.  @briansearle6868  The matter here is. He's alive, she isn't.
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  973. The politics of resentment are well manipulated by Trump, Bannon and the Far Right. I like the Sach’s insight into the enlightenment of the world in contrast with the historical ignorance and resentment of a minority in the world. Fits perfectly to describe where the heads (mentality) the western working classes are in relation to an enlightened mass of indigenous working classes in the world. Sachs is a valuable ally in destroying the historic ignorance that separates the US working class from the rest of humanity making historic progress..
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  974. I can appreciate your comment my wonder is why and how did a Drag Queen become a storyteller for a given culture in society and not a straight social scientist?
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  975.  @craffte  That’s my point why not a scientist or artist, or musician, or an older adolescent with a talent for storytelling; why an entertainer meant for adults?
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  976. Civil disobedience has to have an aim and an objective. Otherwise you will be repeating civil disobedience in five, ten, fifteen, five, ten, fifteen years. These institutions that are functionally disabling the economy come from the past. Landlords come out of the feudal past. Merchants come out the 13th century. Jesus Christ dealt with the lenders is how old banking is. Look at what they did in the past and you know what they will do in the future. Its time to break this repetition once and for all. The people born into these social classes have the means to subjugate the labor of others. Likewise, the rest of the world, all 99% are born into a working class cannot escape.  You can quit eventually be back again used by another employer. The Public from A to Z are desensitized barbarians under this modern regime losing touch with their humanity are brutalized and harming each other for the sake of things. They can leave us,---take off to a new country but we cannot leave them. What they do in the present is what they learned from the past. In the Great Depression, they boarded ships and toured the seven seas while Americans were in the throes of a world wide depression and a dust bowl. To add insult to injury leaving millions in desperate straights in a depressed country Hollywood produces luxury liner get away cruises with the stars dancing away in grotesque luxury. Today Jeff Bezos takes flight in suspended animation above the stratosphere with his brother, for fun. They have enough money to produce a rocket ship. The value of a rocket ship could rebuild Haiti into modern economy. The skewed priorities are born from the past. Civil disobedience has to have the aim of freedom from captured from the economics of these social classes of the past. Ghosts, goblins, sorcerers, with money and property haunting the present and the future they are imprisoning millions and resorting to slave labor. The disobedience has to force the present horrible situation of the state of humanity into the foreground and frankly, the civil part of it has to finish the job Zinn's generation started but did not complete.
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  977. I guess nobody here even questions why the identity of the man who confronted police and was killed, goes unidentified in the story?
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  978. Education, culture, parenting are the blame for the lack of skills Gen Zers show at interviews. Besides the problem employers have with Gen Zers is the problem employers have keeping people, “average workplace tenures are lower”, in other words, companies have a high turnaround. They have a problem retaining their workers and production is lagging behind sales. This might be some of the issues at Boeing too. The crisis with Boeing is a crisis of Public Safety. But there is another problem on top of the problem of retention, that is, the problem that employers are cheap, so they blame the family, the schools and the culture...which by the way their products help to create.
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  979. @Anonia Ciesluk,----the salaries of Senators is not what makes them billionaires, they own stocks, land, derivatives, they earn rent, they are tax free...in a rational society which America is not this double standard would not exist.
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  980. Mr. Chomsky’s insight make him the wisest man on earth.
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  981. Bravo, International Commission for enforcing the Anti-Trust Laws against Google. America has anti-trust laws but Congress will not enforce them against their own monopoly multi-national corporations. Everyone is dependent for their existence on a handful of transnational corporations stifles competition and breeds fascism.
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  982.  @mohamedkuyateh5434  He is correct because the Epstein case reveals the class structure dominating Americans. It makes sense that the prosecutor leading that case convict Epstein and raise charges against others ruling elites involved in sex trafficking of minors. But I still believe the racism, bravado and machismo is intended to subvert working class consciousness and derail the working class from working as one group for their own interest.
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  983. I am of the persuasion that capitalism cannot exists without war, and that if endless wars were to end that would entail the death of capitalism. The Generals understand this as well as the foreign policy establishment which to me, explains why Tulsi is attacked by Hillary and Trump is attacked with impeachment by the democrats.
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  984. If stoics like Blinken, Kirby and Miller are the ‘cream of the crop’ of society than we are fn living in a dustbowl depression of talent.
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  985. This is not a story of what Russia has done in Ukraine. This is not even a story. There is a narrator that sounds like an opening to movie and there are images used to draw the audience into the mood. Its mood piece...to make you feel something for something that cannot be verified by who’s hand this tragedy was done.
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  986.  @mauricioamaro5698  Why are you not cheering for him ?
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  987. Non-answering people are out there by the millions. It is called hubris, which is Kavanaugh.
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  988. Justice Thomas...hates kids. Brilliant political stunt on the NRA.
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  989.  @elviajove8289  cheers to that. A toast to you for that thought.
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  990.  @ferrugoog  Trump’s ego is his downfall, had he been independent of both parties as president you would have had somebody to support but he became a part of the establishment he ran against, sucked right into the established order,--taking over the GOP.
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  991. Humankind needs to return to the basics and reconstruct society according to ability and need.
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  992. It is not human nature that an individual class of people should control the necessaries of life of individuals in society.
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  993. True, Obama had the means but Obama was not a revolutionary or a visionary to re-orient the use of those means. He was really a reactionary always looking toward the past, i.e, that is not what America was founded on, not what we are about, we are not going back, etc., talking to the right wing of the Democratic party anxious to steal power from him. Obama was simply not a progressive except for one piece of legislation in order to retain his presidential legacy. He was good at neutralizing the conservative right wing in whose consternation was expressed through racism and impotence. I think there is something to learn if and when a revolution does occur. But as far as the man himself is concerned and those around him it was a perfect time for a true revolutionist or visionary just the wrong person. However, his election does reflect the desire for real change is brewing to a boiling point in the American people.
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  994. Great conference, we need these types of conferences in the US.
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  995.  @brendaann727  The period in which you speak, i.e., the period of religious persecution by states was the period of the birth of the modern state freeing itself from religion. The first state was the British Parliament circa1600s., a hundred years before the founding fathers, the second state was the US Congress and executive in the 1700s. Before all this there were religious monarchies, kings, princes ruled humanity. Interesting, eh?
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  996. American News is ridiculous how they set up a tripod and stand in front of the camera and talk to each other. Talk to the people more. Walk around with the camera. Youtube walking tours is a better format to show and tell.
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  997. Highway Transportation System has become a fetter, it appears as accidental. But its not. The self-activity of commuters is a fetter on the road system and new fetter replaces the old one when police close lanes. Back in the day the population was half the size was accommodated by a highway system built in that age. The system no longer accommodates commerce and leisure since the number of people are greater and the quantity of products is greater than what that system can hold. An analogy would be a flood pushing lake water into a pumping station faster than pumps can bilge and distribute the water. The pumping station’s engines cannot accommodate the amount of water and the whole city is flooded. Jackson, Mississippi is a case in point. Jackson should never have become a city. Cities should have been built where water can flow by gravity and pressure applied by narrowing the channel and then distributed to boroughs. Manhattan’s water supply is an example of that kind of engineering. All the pipes still need to be replace goes with out saying. So with the highway transportation system that should not have been widened but rather alternative roads more serviceable for leisure and the highways more serviceable for commerce to distribute the flow of traffic. Then neither mass transport system robs the free time of people. No planning. No foresight. Congress permitted these features to get worse making no changes on a national scale that pointing fingers is an acknowledgement they failed the American People but can’t admit it.
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  998. Excellent. Our workplaces are halfway socialized populated by people that an undivided workplace would complete the fit.
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  999. Actually this country was founded in a revolution against the French Revolution's nemesis the British Empire. This piece of American history is not known by Americans walking around in 2017, that the Founding Fathers were directly emboldened by the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment coming out of France. It is what came after 1776 that departs from revolution and descends into a reign of terror with the close of the Civil War in the unmaking of a slave into a free man. To be really technical descendants of slaves were forced to be free without rights as a citizen in the US owing to secessionists all the way up to 1965. To make matters worse immigrants during the Civil War were mostly German and Dutch merchants coming into the US through New York and Louisiana began buying land, factories and slaves were illegal. The French Revolution abolished slavery in its Caribbean colonies and all the slaveholders had to run or be killed, they relocated into the US, that was illegal. The French would had expelled slave holders from Louisiana had it not been for the debt France could not pay while fighting three wars on three fronts and a monarchy that taxed the poor to cover the cost of its lavish lifestyle. All this while the French poor mastered the art of cooking rats in a palatable way for food. Like the Catalonian governing body putting out a vote for independence of Catalonia the intent was to secede from the republic for which millions of Catalonians got their heads bashed in, basically for no good reason as it turns out. A futile exercise in law breaking. However, secessionism has never gained footing and never will. Not here, not anywhere in the world. Separatists movements are secessionists movements, secessionists are racists, and racists play on the legal or illegal status of people of any group through a reign of terror to foment chaos and anarchy as a means to turn a democratic republic into a servile republic to their aims. Secessionist are really stupid people and this would make those who adopt their line are even dumber. Considering the fact that all white descendants of immigrants in the post Civil War era stepped foot on American soil were illegal, even Donald Trump's turn of the century ancestor came in illegally.
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  1000.  Laura Lafauve  Its capitalism is a continuation of capitalism.
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  1001. Trump's rivals obscenely rich are not street enough to know how badly their working class supporters are hurting. The only thing Trump did was to listen to their complaints during the election. How desperate they became and dejected by all the policies of both the Democrats and Republicans had made for the last forty years left a bad taste in their mouths for 'Laissez faire capitalism', unknowingly they will get more of it in Trump. Wage earnings and property incomes in their social class are still flat as a pancake. As a group they have bonded into a class and have broken off their relationship with Republicans. Their turn to the far right is purely an act of desperation, leaves one to imagine how they must feel at the growing Trump opposition coming from all sides. The hidden injuries of class are open wounds in them and as far as Trump's big business rivals are concerned, they could not identify abuse if it hit them on their heads, but can identify an opportunity when they see one in Trump. As Trump masterfully uses his injured and desperate base to clobber the heads of his Republican and Liberal Democratic adversaries he unites himself with the military and industrial sector forming an oligarchy of class power over the rest of society and the world.
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  1002. Good interview and sobering analysis.
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  1003.  @dawnpalmby5100  Yes and at that time there were prosecutions, today there are none.
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  1004. The absurdity of the police response makes you want to wish several bank robberies happened across town and thieves got away with millions at the same time as the entire security force of the nation was making a race call on a black owned restaurant.
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  1005.  @menudobucket9837  Well put....a rationalization to be a real cheap, greedy and compulsive. The ancient monarchs took treasures made by the living with them to the grave and left the living makers of the treasure poor in the name of afterlife.
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  1006. What are kids being taught now about American history in American schools, anyone know? Kids never bring their text books home and the textbooks are by design produced large and heavy that a kid cannot carry one home for a parent to see. You may criticize the State for the socialization of individuals but the publishing companies who bring together certain scholars to write the content of that history are shaping their minds. The military and high schools have a relationship that can be seen as funneling bodies through a system of cultural and social activities bearing ideological beliefs about America as a military power. We are not teaching kids for the sake of being educated and well rounded. It funnels them into economic straights when they enter society on their own that the military is there to catch them as they fall.
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  1007. A direct correlation exists between taxation and war spending. Money spent there is not money spent at home. This war as with all prior American wars are how the US economy drifts into recession and recessions have been longer than the recoveries.
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  1008. You make a keen observation on how capital takes more value from a community than it leaves behind. Capital is a system for the production of surplus value, its own expansion is its life-force. The point is Big Steel left a city like Gary, Indiana, cheaper to buy Chinese steel, Gary was left behind as a mess of useless empty buildings and a tax drain. Lesson begrudgingly learned is: build a city for people not business and profits. The social impact hit Detroit, people stuck in those cities were black, and whites fled to the suburbs; the whole system of world trade was no longer what it was. For black and white people a job was found but it meant splitting the family up and the working day doubled. Capital was on the cheap, buying all goods from China and buying female labor-power at home, mothers became workers worked double shifts got paid less than men for the same work, and the corporations robbed these woman of family leave. Not all cities in the Rust Belt are gone forever though. Some like Buffalo will have a renaissance in urban living adapting to climate change. I would not write off Gary. Manhattan will have to make sea walls to surround it and raise every bridge and road that it will have to become a city without traffic. In fact all cities carless except Tuscon. Climate change will finish the life of cities in the west built for the car. The Age of Capital for America ended when American cities died.
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  1009. We do not get to see the body bags of American soldiers and we are not shown the grieving parents.  We are denied by the media to grieve alongside the parents, they go through it alone.  When it could have been anyone of us who's son or daughter returns home dead, there are no answers.  The dead are meaningless and the living are left hanging. But somehow I sense everyone is forcing themselves to get in touch with that grieving process as a way a humanizing the war. Too many wars going on at the same time....15 to 20 wars reducing world population. One live shot of the dead being unloaded from a military plane is all we need to humanize the war. War is a priority to the US government, this policy dates back to 1947 Truman signed the National Security Act creates a permanent war making establishment in the US government. The Military Industrial Complex depends on the enforcement of this Act through a National Security State.
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  1010. There are quite a few Senate faces worth re-arranging.
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  1011. What a broad sweeping generalization Bob Corrado..."...typical american..." explain who fits that stereotype?
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  1012. Money makes an individual see nothing but values in everything. Therein is your problem.
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  1013. What world are you from?
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  1014. Scientist have been warning the public since the 1970's, where have you been? Also what forms of life to you are higher than human life I am curious to know? What War Production Board during WWII? Germany and Japan the rapacious aggressor of Climate Change? You know what I think, I think you are crazy!
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  1015. So, the president's re-election strategy is to use impeachment as another 'witchhunt' against him and the Democrats have become radical far left socialists who cannot win at the ballot and hate America.
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  1016. If the special committee set up to iron out the kinks between the House and the Senate on the package the teachers want fails.  The strike should widen to other states and countries where labor is expected bear the burden of tax cuts for the oil and gas industry.  Privatization is no more than a cover for a process of expropriation of the many by a few.
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  1017. I like that line: “ while the battle between bosses and workers is often centered on...” is to me a key comment, enlightening to the fact that the voices of the business community are class conscious, aware that social classes take different positions around the two main opponents. The battle between labor and capital is the inner-core conflict that moves the whole social system toward human progress or human decline. Who steers society, the workers or the bosses, and who are more representative of society, the workers or the bosses?. The majority are always the ‘losers’ in the game. A poll today can be 80% the nation disapproves of this or that, and the American people will get this or that. The bosses are always the winners in this class war and the workers are busy fighting fascism...that is not good enough the bosses are fighting you while you are fighting fascism spouted out by some homegrown outcast groups. Also not good enough to have a feeling, or sense things are wrong...this is the same thing as standing still in one spot...the progress we are all looking for cannot be made through idle thoughts and chit chat.
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  1018. Why are you only concerned with how the profits of Weyerhaeuser was acquired and not concerned with the chemical and toxic treatment of wood products in the Weyerhaeuser production process that, ultimately, results as the cause of our national diseases? These products end up in all construction buildings and eventually into our lungs, water and soil and our atmosphere. Is this not more important than seeking restitution from ill-gotten gains when the practice of producing with thousands of chemicals that go into the creation of human products is a pandemic itself across most, if not all, of America’s industries?
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  1019. America has the money. It just chooses to spend it on Military Outposts. Money is not America’s problem Mr. Smith, we print money. In fact, if we could not print money, forbidden by law, money would be distributed a lot more evenly than it is now. That we can print it we can burn it up in smoke. You are not understanding the extent this privilege has been abused, Mr. Smith. But if you went to Washington you will be met by a solid wall of resistance refusing to give up this privilege. Mr. Smith goes to Washington, 2024.
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  1020. Just great satire and politics...this is the kind of American Humor that used to be, i.e., Fireside Theater, that I miss and love.
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  1021. Home is not where the Heart is. A family is a thing a house owns these days in America. You have to be super rich for the same family to remain in the same house generation after generation. The Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port Ma, will always have a Kennedy family in it. Even if they do shoot themselves in it. But for the majority of families in America, we are to a house and all its relationships that come with the house a throw-away object. The next family will cover over the life of the family killed in it. Families never stay, for one reason or another they are transient passengers in a box that looks like a house.
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  1022. Changing the system that brought Sistani to power is the same system that brought Trump to power. True or False?
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  1023. @Gary Hoover  Circle one for your best answer. Do you feel that way because you are; 1. Envious. 2. Do not make social security contributions ( e.g. self-employed.) 3. The crime offends you. 4. You are vindictive. 5. All of the above
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  1024.  @PecanRanch  Answer the questions and keep your two cents.
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  1025.  @luiceosorio530  That's progress.
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  1026. The tax code and the legal system have two sets of rules through which the poor get poorer is a thoroughly bankrupt system.
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  1027. You know...I watched this whole thing, to be fair, I find it biased reporting.
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  1028. The proper course of action is to implement all the constructive reforms and repeals immediately then make dam sure the republicans are annihilated as a party, never to return again or else when they return to power your ass is grass.
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  1029.  @c23e  Yes, I remember the Move Bombing. No, you cannot expect anything less. 1. Public health, 2. Environment, 3. social inequality is the content of the new societies to emerge from the failed states and present social formations under them. A far left movement should conduct activities that encourage those subject areas, (1,2 &3) to take hold in certain industries the left identifies as polluters, purveyors of disease in human and non-human health, and offenders of social inequality, shame them loudly to draw the attention of the masses to these areas as away of raising their consciousness and steer the democrats either out of the way or more toward the arch of those new developments history is taking us.  I think it is a perfect time for the far left to come out as Educator and movement builder. Just brainstorming here...
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  1030.  @LeifLovebug  Bravo! Solidarity Forever.
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  1031.  @antennawilde  Why then hasn't an Independent Party emerged with 46% uncommitted to the Establishment?
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  1032.  @integritymatters5162  Fool, Trump is of the political class, always was. You never voted on your feet because he suckered your vote out of you. He was always monosyllabic, I met him in Lincoln Center at a function, the audience was repelled when he spoke almost nonsensically. Silly to think otherwise, fool.
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  1033. Common to all American presidential assassinations the perpetrator is never kept alive to tell their story.
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  1034. This is not a generation ages 30 to 40 who see this as a political problem. They did not grow up with a social consciousness. And American legislators are a breed of lawyer who do not try to solve social problems in a political way. Lawyers/legislators/politicians are trained, instructed, paid to not social problems at all. Local legislators are worse that no matter how may times a building falls or a hurricane devastates a coastline do nothing to change zoning laws and local officials, i.e., county managers et., in most states are too religious to even sound the alarm of an impending disaster. What will happen is FEMA public funds will get cut in the name of servicing the government’s enormous debt before the government lets it go dry from all the claims and private insurers by high premiums will insure the rich. A debt made larger sending weapons overseas. Mar-A-Lago will be covered others not as rich will not. In the end the allocation of public funds for disasters is more than a case of politicians not coming together to legislate remedies to social problems, the allocation rests on a class differences, as to who will get the support. I know this is the scenario that will happen because the planet continues to heat up and ocean levels continue to rise that next seasons hurricanes will strike with greater ferocity and the government’s priority is not solving the social problems of the American people. The next flood even more powerful, the next drought more severe until the whole society is basically turned into a refugee camp filled with Americans who are not rich and are not white.
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  1035. Bravo! Lucy McBath...Bravo!
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  1036. Great premise for a comedy.
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  1037. People need to understand the role job automation has in creating the demand for cheap labor that borders are packed with a fresh supply of willing victims. Machines are intended to cheapen commodities and are only used to shorten the part of the workday in which a given worker works for him/herself in order to lengthen the other part workers give for nothing to their employer(s). The machines they run in their factories, fields and warehouses increase surplus value from this one source of cheap labor. People come. A magnet of industrial machines, technology and science, attracting cheap labor by word of mouth from Canada to Venezuela.If you want to control this flow of migrants you will need to get automation, technology and science, as applied in various industries under complete control away from employers using these forces for one aim. General instability around the world does not help.
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  1038. Not hard to imagine that all of Manchester as the first textile manufacturing city of the world was completely dependent on the cotton produced by slavery in the Southern States of America. For this reason the British national policy was sympathetic to the slaveholders of the South. The North was its industrialized competition. Cotton was the raw material the Manchester industries required for the production of a range of products and clothing. The factory system and a Working Class. The human part of that equation was expected to mature and take over the factories but for a short brief period right after the second world war some industries were nationalized only to be sold in a later period as prime capital merchandize and much of that free market success can be credited not to the Beatles but to Margaret Thatcher. Cities were built to accommodate the factory. When the factory goes the city goes is a thought that must have crossed the minds of the planners of Detroit back then. They went ahead anyway planning a city totally useless if the factory goes under is permissible under de-regulated social conditions the Congress was sure to legislate. When British manufacturing processes were replicated by the Americans the textile industries in the northern states of America had acquired a working class right off the boat the unemployed from Europe was more pressure on Washington to open up the west and the south by clearing away native Americans and the Slaveholders of the South. Make room for the new relationship capital has with labor on the industrial end that is not slave based was a bonus to co-opt the moral elements in support of a war with the South. Technically, the roots of the Civil War are in the Revolutionary War which was a call for armed struggle. Rich slave holders in America with roots in nobilities of Europe enlightened by the ideas of the age for independence from and of kings and monarchs became a vanguard for a new country. The only way to do that was to fight the British for independence. The thriving trade of that age was the slave trade that all partook barring pirates, a natural ally for slaves. So it would mean the founding fathers had another idea about independence than we have. Pirates were a resistance force against the slave trade as a system and way of life. The first establishment settlement before Jamestown was St. Augustine Florida, a free settlement that combined pirates and runaway slaves, army deserters, native Americans, Spanish, African, were all equally free as the next person within boundary of the settlement is really the first dysfunctional, I would imagine, establishment in North America. In many ways St. Augustine is America’s first prison that guarded the free-state inside from the absence of freedom on the outside.
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  1039. Young middle class white youths in their prime are in a crisis and Gabby and Brian are a sample of a tragic social condition; how many out there are experiencing similar interpersonal and social disturbances where love would end in a murder-suicide?
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  1040. Natalie Cline is Utah's Majorie Taylor Greene. MTG is a lunatic.
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  1041. Humanity’s pre-modern history never ceases to be amazing.
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  1042. Military just sent $300 million to Ukraine from its own bank account surplus. The same amount that would house your homeless was sent to Ukraine. All of you can’t be stupid enough to not see the indifference leaders have for taxpayers?
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  1043. Exactly, Alfred Epding, it is a good idea. There are two aspects to labor in society. America's economy emphasizes a quantitative relation the side of labor that performs by the clock! Work is measured by time, duration, expenditure, etc. A specific style of management over labor is necessary to make a worker produce more in a given time. Methods are developed to exact the absolute last drop of a person before they quit to go home, i.e., Taylorism, and now email and cell phones exact more labor and rob a worker's free time turning it into working time. The end result when all this is generalized is the abolition of the 8 hour day if they have their way. Unpaid work increases. Minutes here and there, add up. Management attitude has gone from '..do me a favor...' to '...I need you to do this for me now.' Labor in this form, its participation in the workplace, decreases and the hours of work increases for what little live workers are still left in the shop floor. A never ending process of exploiting labor at some point comes to a head. Workers who work under a form of management that emphasizes ' value' the quantitative side of the relation create 'value relations', producing for a subsequent acquisition for anything quantitatively unlimited. The other side of labor is the work itself, a qualitative relation. The product, the labor, the labor-process. Society reproduces itself through cooperation, hence, the idea of Co-ownership or Co-ops seem logical and natural. This side of labor produces for final consumption and social production defines work if it were applied as Corbyn suggests. This side is also the more natural relation between human and nature as a general relation. Such as Climate is not the same as weather. Working is not the same as the work itself. Conservative right wingers are not able to comprehend the difference and consequently are unable to keep a tight leash on capitalism from its corrosive action on the planet and the species life. Labor in this mode owns the labor-process in the sense that the labor-process is a public place it belongs to everyone not exclusively to a few or one person. Society would move toward common form of property ownership which heightens the tension of its opposite relation, the owner non-workers. Hence the conservative Tories and the on the other side of the pond the conservative Republicans are on the defensive and heightened with alarm, private property is at a stake! So alarmed the Democrats are the owner non-workers of society like their counter-part party the Tory. Labor does not produce for exchange in this form of management, there is no overwork and there is no unemployment, and there is no distinction among people such as people who are non-workers involved in the workplace as owners and those who are workers but non-owners of the labor -process.
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  1044. NYPD diverts traffic when a president comes to town but if it is a protest in town the traffic is not diverted by the PD. As in Kanosha the police failed to protect the public’s right of safety, person, and property. Through their inaction two forces were allowed to collide is a lawsuit no attorney has the courage to tackle.
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  1045. The problem here is that AI will not be applied as an advancement in lowering the working time society must perform to survive and humanity in general to benefit, it will be used to advance particular aims of investors that what wealth emerges from AI will not go to reducing the load on society.
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  1046. An economic model of cooperation of a wide network of industries would come if laws were not passed that made commodities of the products of all industries.
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  1047. The prison industrial complex is also a significant employer of the working class.  All the people who run the programs have jobs processing the mentally challenged into solitary confinement. These people were also transformed from industrial workers into service workers. At the same time as this sociological transformation was taking place corporations were exporting industrial jobs off shore for a fraction of the cost of American labor. Capital flight had divided 70% of the former industrial working class into a new social class of service workers, the homeless and the mentally ill. Basically, one way to look at this social phenomenon, it is a system of exploitation of working people by the working class itself. Government in partnership with private industry supplies the raw material for the complex to function as a prison for the working class to self-expunge its own freedom.
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  1048. And the carbon fiber could weaken with each dive did weaken.
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  1049.  @rudeboy6627  really... in all likelihood this was a heart attack behind the wheel.
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  1050.  @katiekane5247  All ( I repeat, ALL) problems in the public sector are a result of the private sector industries creating a society that works for the private sector not the public. Political parties is the political arm of the private sector stacked up against a mass of politically defenseless Americans. And there are alliances in the private sector that are literally out to extract more value from the public sector than what the private sector produces for the public. Everything is a commodity and Americans are uneducated about what commodities do to living individuals and societies. Misguided and falsely taught to believe. I agree with your point but take your point further to its logical conclusion and you will arrive at the same conclusion of a pervasive domination over people through the domination of things by the private sector.
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  1051. Congressional representative never debate, they read statements of opposition aloud for the recorder.  Turn the camera around from the senator there is hardly a handful of people present. To not debate important social issues, a disservice to the country, only illustrates the timidity of representatives of each other.
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  1052. Assenine comment.
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  1053. Tough situation,--to be fair the victim here is Russia, the Czech Republic expelled Russian embassy officials. The US is putting more sanctions on Russia, NATO calling for deescalation of Russian forces and the West expects its okay it can meddle, as if internal affairs are not Russia's alone to manage.
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  1054. People on average take for granted the fact that the 'spread' of education to the masses, not education itself, which began earlier with Alexander the Great, Peloponnesian Wars of Ancient Iran, and what not! But when people actually were able to read a book did not happen at the same time the printing press was invented and that did not happen until the end of the Renaissance. So the rich, kings, queens, monarchies, lords, dynastic families had at least one literate person in their families that could read a book was not a reality until the printing press was invented. Imagine meeting a prince or king who could not read. We assume they were born with that power. So -- for all the previous 2ooo years humanity was functionally an illiterate mass of individuals that formed some kind of language in pictograph form or song to express themselves. People used marks for they could not even write their own name. An average 10 year old Victorian girl and boy in the 19th century would read a complete book per week. Alice in Wonderland, Tale of Two Cities, Moby Dick, Journey to the Center of the Earth, compared to an average NYC 21St century teenage would consume a book per year. Russia had no pencil factories to even begin teaching people to be literate for 99% of its population. Lenin called in Armand Hammer the American capitalist to open a pencil factory in Russia. Its a regret, that this poor woman and her family fell victim to the incompetence of American administrative bureaucracy which short changes education all the time. School administrators seem to mimic in their own bureaucracy the same hierarchy of law enforcement in how they administer the funds for education, replicate bank culture in how they pay themselves first, and mimic the republican party in setting the rules that children should have no rights in society.
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  1055. CNA's Anthony Morse, accessed some very central decision-makers in the institutions and social organization to interview. A well done documentary of the kind rarely seen or produced in western media, the day to day people who carry out the decisions made by governments, makes one appreciate civil society and all that it contains. The factories, universities, cities and commercial centers, transportation and communications, energy and agriculture, appearing organized, clean, and the real effect policies have in our lives through our institutions, I wonder what the F is going on with the decision-makers in Washington, and a political party that has kept national income too low to cover the social costs of survival for half its population?
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  1056. That is the paragraph, lol.
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  1057. Speaking generally, the inflow of migrants and the inflow of cocaine are driven by the same economic forces. General consumption habits for cheap labor and cocaine among the US population.
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  1058. Immunity laws...prevent cops from being charged.
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  1059. Any mindset that does not facilitate profits is considered not the norm...and in the extreme, mentally ill in America.
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  1060. Wow, he broke into the regular medical prescription supply chain and had scripts sent to who?
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  1061. The term, 'Food Insecure' is a bourgeois term that does not have the guts to call hunger, hunger!
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  1062. 8:00 - Imagine that, we can have a genealogy website for non-immigrants but not one for migrants is a glaring inequity.
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  1063. Exceptionally good video. A must see and hear.
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  1064. The national economy should be in the control of one national government not two political parties.
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  1065.  @bigfan1041  Show the proof.
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  1066.  Heather Larson  Interesting...being socialist and anti-community is no contradiction for some people. Since capital is anti-private property in the sense that nobody but a few have all the property that would make the Nordic concept of socialism nihilistic going against their own interests and that of the working class theoretically. No?
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  1067.  @greygtv6  You've been duped.
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  1068. How America became the poorest military power in the world is a problematic question? The life of modern industry has been a series of separate periods of moderate activity, prosperity, over production, crisis and stagnation for the working class. Birth, Fertility, and Mortality rates has been at stake for the whole of the industrial life of the working class beginning in 1833 ending in 2008 to the present hour. Mortality is usually the motive for revolutionary movements generally, apparently, not when it comes to the working class in the US! For the whole of the 20th and the 21st century corporations were the beneficiaries of the productive might of the working class. The country became poor for the following reasons... False concepts in economics, the lack of social science and false patriotism, false ideas of freedom, liberty, obscuring the reality that the individual bears the weight of personal human needs is at the bottom of existence. Each person is to deal with their survival on individualistic terms perpetuates a self-consciousness, Me first attitude. You can grow ever more frustrated expecting a lopsided economic system to work at full capacity. Its lopsidedness is full capacity. America comes way short of realizing latent talents of its people--your frustration might change into revolutionary action if you came to revolutionary theory in a rational frame of mind. But so far the social order has created higher intensities of frustration transferring the irrationality of the whole social order to the isolated individual who is the source of sick and crazy. Breaking away from this brand and stereotype is going to require each of you turn yourselves into a social power rather than waiting for a political power to break you away from the poverty of social life.
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  1069. Could be that. Could be... she is a slowly aging Jewish American Princess.
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  1070. First thing wrong is that the clean up crew are not building from the material they clean up but are throwing it away. In other words, old tires, plastic and glass bottles are use-able as material to build with can be reprocessed for structures producing their own energy, light, water and food. Secondly, the act of throwing it out speaks to the lack of knowledge of the participants. Road to hell is paved with good intentions, the trash ends up on the shores of other nations killing sea-life with man-made material when all tht trash is carried by the oceans. Adding to it is illogical.
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  1071. Sub par reporting. AP editors are too rich for their worth. After Fukoshima and the government of Japan let the tritium be expunged into the ocean from the nuclear fusion reactors contaminating sea life is as real as gravity on Earth is real, and we really do not know how the contamination spreads to other sea life, consuming any sea food produced from those waters is a gamble, I won’t take. Lets see if birth defects in Japan rise since the dumping. Compare rates before and after. This would tell us how safe the sea food is for mass consumption.
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  1072. Its not like these guys would be a big help to resolve the duality of world systems...they won’t be missed.
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  1073.  @dswynne  Of course there is equality how else can you get inequality from it is the question? Everyone are equally owners as buyers and sellers in a free market. You and your employer are equal when you contract your labor to that employer you are both equally owners exchanging equal things. Its when you begin working that inequality dominates the workplace and you are now an unequal partner with your employer. Something about what you are doing at work that makes your employers fat and rich and you thin and poor. What would that something be?
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  1074. Hemp is a source for electrical power. The hemp industry in the US was crushed by US Oil Companies as a direct competitor in the 30s. Hemp can power a town, city, or car.
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  1075. The underlying cause was not the Paris climate accords, it is the continuing fall in the value of labor-power which hit its tipping point with the French working class at the same time the government committed tax cuts to offset losses the CO2 emissions reduction would cause to the industrial polluters. This has been developing a long time that jobs and wages, pensions, working hours and condition of work, have been reformed to favor employers, investors, bankers and corporations as a means to increase production output and, consequently, Co2 carbons emissions that acts out in natural form with severe storms, floods, hurricanes, without any consequences or responsibility for the total destruction brought about by industrial and agricultural production.
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  1076.  @HeresMyView  How do feel about the Trump's administrations' attitude toward China as socialist if China is capitalist? If you voted for Trump that action contradicts your theory; assuming, of course, you are a voting American.
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  1077. I am taking this channel to be a mouthpiece channel for the CIA; Ukraine can speak for themselves and seem to have nothing to say about this?
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  1078. If he makes it past his presidency I will expect to see him in his own Master Class for Leadership.
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  1079.  @queenmommie8295  His comment, Earl Gibbs, is a pessimistic view of the social effects of the divisions in society and a view that accommodates the divisions.
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  1080. @MBN networktv So, black people and the police are not on the same page about a rigged election? Lame.
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  1081. Mexico's working class is about as desperate as America's working class as both are inching toward revolution, they both have no special interests in the existing order to protect. The only way they can free themselves from their oligarchs and big corporations, drug cartels, and death squads is by establishing universal freedom, by overthrowing all existing basis of oppression. The working classes are the only ones who have the courage to carry through a total emancipation of society from the grip of special class interests, since their treatment by the rulers in society is to exclude and dismiss their interests as inconsequential! They will act from the desperation of total deprivation that comes with every profit success story and realize they are a class in society who has to fight as a class of society for the economic surpluses they naturally produce but do not own.
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  1082. Capitalism and corporations were in their infancy at the time of the Founding Fathers, not even on the American landscape. I don't see why the consitution would say anything about it. The dominant social inequality of their time was slavery mentioned indirectly in the 13th amendment.
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  1083. Police bureaucracies hire their cops without having a mental health evaluation to qualify to be a cop. This incident happened 6 years before the George Floyd incident. The institution cannot reform itself. How do you fire a cop who suffers a mental illness?
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  1084. Trump makes them money is why they are loyal to him.  They see Capital and the making of it in Trump. Trump acts as their king and they act as his subjects. He adores them...calls them great people.
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  1085. Vance reminds me of an modern American version of the French historian and politician who crushed the Paris Commune in 1871 and died 6 years after . Louis Adolphe Thiers became the representative par excellence of the French bourgeoisie, he accepted every form of government in the 19th century as long as he could fill them up with bourgeois content. Vance would fill them up with conservative proletarian content.
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  1086. Most workers consider production just as a labor-process. To most, a company, or a plant is a means for making a living. But work is also a business, and the business devours the worker’s time and energy. The life-blood of the company are the workers are words uttered from many CEOs. American workers pretend a fraternal relationship between labor and capital is the American Way until the catastrophes come, than the illusion of harmony between the workers and owners fades away fast and the materials and the objects of work in general in a plant and the tools become more evident, even to the youngest child, they are only there to absorb the work of others. Whether it is forging metal, spinning cotton, drilling for oil, gas, mining, farming, a process of absorption occurs, incorporating living human beings, into the material constituents of Capital, and the company grows into animated monster, behaves as if it is “consumed by love”. Since work creates value only in one definite useful form, and since every particular form of work needs materials and tools with specific use, machines, etc., work can only be drained out of people by annexing them to machines.
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  1087. It should be interesting.
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  1088. OPENNESS,--- the fact that every person is left speculating is all you need to know there is no transparency in the Pentagon.
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  1089. To a billionaire the debt ceiling is a stupid idea because the wealth billionaires accrue has no limit.
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  1090. It may not be replaceable if industries are also destroyed and the products they need to start rebuilding are difficult to obtain. I have to remind people that there are millions of people out of work and many more people not working in making things but are working in service industries that are not making the stuff needed to rebuild and if the roads have been destroyed they have to get rebuilt before there can be a replaceable flow of products as before. If anything the rebuilding is going to result in a lower standard of living than before and this is because of high prices, and the economy is stagnant in a recession.
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  1091. All democrats across the country have to do the same thing.
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  1092.  @SoCalFreelance  Help me to understand what you mean? Are you against companies making money through fees and not against companies making money through ads and selling your personal data?
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  1093. Amen.
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  1094. What happens behind the scenes is more important than the anti-semitism that covers what goes on behind the scenes.
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  1095. Perfectly predictable. Ground is a solid and water has nowhere to go but to find low lying man made channels.
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  1096. The Railway Labor Act allows Congress to insert itself in labor disputes but it does not mean the state must insert itself. Not all disputes between bosses and workers pose a greater threat than the entire shut down of the economy during COVID in 2020. Rail way workers have significant power but not that much, and this is one reason a strike would have been resolved early. The bosses lose tons more money with a strike is how valuable the rail workers are to the carriers. Cheaper to keeper, relative to earnings posted on the Exchange, paid personal time is not a lot from the overall rate of profit of the industry. But it is a reduction in surplus working time worked by workers, consequently, an increase of paid free time from the job for whatever reason needed is a nice thing to have from a job if you can get it, and therein, is our problem. Nobody who works for a living can get paid personal or sick time from America’s employers. This is a labor dispute Congress should intervene as its threat are greater than the lock downs pushing day into night and night into day, running a perpetual production process, pushing humans off the edge of endurance, a free reign of terror and exploitation threatens the nation’s stability, and stability ought to be in the interest of the whole society that its citizens are healthy.
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  1097. Repressing Abbie Martin to the repressors goes without accountability of the repressors means it will happen again to another Abbie Martin.
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  1098. The white portion of the working class fear being replaced by the black and brown portion of the working class come with two rationalizations of two competing movements. The rationalization reflects the actual preconditions as the causes for mass discontent. The fraudulent election and the lose of rights are the distortions in the mirror. The actual precondition is the greater share of material wealth of the country is consumed by the wealthier social classes that the two working class groups are competing for crumbs.
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  1099. Lets see if the students acquired from the education the will to fight back. The same ones who voted to relieve the tax burden of the rich are the same ones who voted to not relieve the debt burden of the students.
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  1100. Excellent reporting and investigative journalism on this subject. Ray Suarez is a true sociologist. It is the case that most if not all or America’s government institutions were built in a time when the American economy was in its peak performance in the 50s have not adapted to the changes in the economy on the descent.
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  1101. Great report!
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  1102. NBC treats historic events as spectator news, never taking each event serious enough to have a discussion or analysis of the event. NBC people narrate the event. Every subject reported lacks history, perspective and analysis of events.
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  1103. Everyone really should attend New Years in Time Square dressed in some kind of sailor uniform. That would be a tribute to sailors and harbor masters who used a ball for all to synchronize their chronometers.
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  1104. Capitalism has already lost its legitimacy. I am wondering when the working class will step forward to replace capitalism!
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  1105. I like the way they say stuff like at 5:51 : “...our investigation reveals Walt Disney World employees are arrested year after year for child porn, etc., “ when were they going to release their findings to the Public after countless children are victimized and become victims? I also notice the majority of pedophiles in the Florida operation busted share a common background as “employees”, not coincidental that the accused pedophiles in Florida are middle aged employees. A very insincere way of treating the problem of pedophilia as specific to theme park employees and not to Bishops, Senators, priests, Boy Scouts employees. Not one female pedophile is among the list, I guess there are no female pedophiles in America? This piece of investigative journalism is the type of journalism that boosts a specific entity in a good light, its soft propaganda to move emotions in people to take an attitude against a specific type of person.
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  1106. Where is the AG Garland in all this?
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  1107. 5:08 “...and if they did...our government must throw the book at them...” did you hear that Mark Zuckerberg? If Trump applied the rule of proportionality to himself he would still be owner of his wealth. Monopolies beware.
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  1108. The relations of exploitation and the world of individuals for the Trump administration has a narrow moral compass. Under the Trump administration the fossil fuel industry executives have become a class whose condition of existence are those of our whole society! To them the question is how individuals and relations are to be used, to be exploited.  When the campaign pits Trump against a democrat, he will criticize only those relations handed down from a past era and are an obstacle to the development of the energy sector. (This is why Bernie must changed the subject of Medicare For All as a need in the future, as Trump will always be looking into the past to criticize Medicare For All, and rationalize a free market position.)  Iran and Venezuela would not be a national security threat if the energy sector had no major role in the government. The mishief created in Central America to repress Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution has super militarized the military in Columbia. But something more sinister lurks in the closet of Central American leaders.  They have close ties and well connected to elites in the US. Duque, Hernandez, Sanchez, Morales, have the full support of the Trump Administration for it to say nothing of the reign of terror and violence behind the exodus of Central Americans. Drug cartels, government, military and American foreign corporations are at war with peasants, workers, students and unemployed youths, local police, journalists and organizers in a battle to privatize agriculture, education, medical health and pension, lower wages and lengthen the working day, essentially the free sway of capital over labor.
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  1109. On the one hand, the relative commodity conceals a social relation, and on the other hand, the equivalent commodity is a social value because of its own useful properties. This neoliberal economic law, is a social paradox and a social dilemma that imprisons living individuals of a society to a life cursed by a value-relation that is purely social by nature and transitory pending the social response it gets from the enormity of the crisis it creates. A system that cannot equate the content and substance of things to itself directly, -- but must use an intermediary medium and equate things of equality as an abstraction, forces itself on the natural internal value relation of things. Instead of a blessing of more equality for humanity, the rule of equality asserts itself through crisis and inequality for humanity. The utility of political crisis brings the abstract down to earth to the concrete in order for the value relation between things to start working again. Many die on the way down. By working again I mean the social relation or the value relation is hidden again until the prices of things go so far from the value substance of things again that another crash is expected and is required to bring things into equality again. Price and values deviations expressed in differences in currency values to gold values is measured by its substance found in both commodities. The whole society of individuals live life in a state of tension for the sake of things being equal is a crazy form of existence! Equality among things is the abstinence of equality among people becomes a central pathos within society's cultural life and people assume the purpose of life in general and the state in particular is to insure social equality because economic equality is always moving in the opposite direction of equality into a crisis of inequality, and all the aspirations expressed in this social order, its thoughts, opinions, criticisms, biases, and its politics, even its candidates of all persuasions, work toward the goal of achieving this equality among things presumably because it is perceived to be the closest act of creation mankind can get to God. The psychosis of the public is truly a historical paradox in the west and in the US in particular where anything goes. In reality, all we need to do is to stop treating things like people and people like things and equality will emerge natural from society's total capabilities.
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  1110.  @ralphbernhard1757  It was also a socialist government.
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  1111. Two issues, both shooters, Uvalde and Highland Park, bought their guns legally. This means that every mass assassination thus far has been from a legal gun owner not from the people proGun rights people call “criminals”. Those people, the poor, black and brown communities, get armed and become targets for assassination because Cops know they are armed with illegally obtained weapons or assuming they are not armed, become armed with a plant at the scene of a shooting an illegal weapon to make them criminal ‘offenders’ and cry foul play. Parents are being played by prosecutors and police on the one side and pro-gun rights advocates on the other at the community level of the assassinations. Parents are dishonestly played also by two other groups on the national level of this issue. Leads me to believe the legal gun owners have much to hide opposing stricter gun laws. What would states dig up on their past that would disqualify them from owning a gun is my suspicion in addition to their racism driving the whole movement to crush poor and black people into some kind of subservience that has yet to be made clear eludes to secret and clandestine para military organizations within their ranks. The president on the other had is the other issue, he does not want to restrict gun manufacturers with gun laws that would tell them how to make their guns or how much to sell them for and where. Parents are being dishonestly played by now four parties, the president, the gun makers, on the national level, and the pro gun people, and the cops/prosecutors o the community level, while the deterioration of youths into violence and incarceration is taking place in the background. It appears until verified for parents; that parents need to take control over more than their children but control over the whole political superstructure working against them!
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  1112. Trump is not the most powerful, the office is the most powerful. He is not a god. We should get that straight in our heads. To the Left, its totally sexist to not criticize white women who integrate themselves into white supremacist groups and perpetuate their kind. You cannot have a white male supremacist unless you have white female supremacist giving birth to one. I'd like to ask Picciolini if his family had any influence one way or another that led him to white supremacy.
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  1113. It appears the youth of America have been completely pushed out of the productive aspects of the US economy that what is left in them is anger and rage at those who have not been pushed out of the productive aspects of the US economy. Futureless and nihilistic children with access to high powered weaponry. This incident shooting is an example of gun rights in progress. With the right of owning guns comes the right to use it in whatever way the rage uses the weapon. Is the right to bear arms worth the price of life? Ironically, owning a gun brings imminent death with it. Be easier to get these kids into programs where they can develop themselves into happier human beings.
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  1114. The only common ancestor of mankind found by paleo-archeology to day is a 5’ 4” woman called ‘Lucy’.
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  1115. The airline industry is one giant transaction. The end and aim of a corporation is to make money off a plane and cram as many people into the passenger space, limited in size the seats are modified to make two rows of seats three seats tightening the space between people, which, in a pandemic is a callous disregard for human life to arrange passengers tightly contained 2,000 feet in the air with people you are not sure are COVID free? Board of Directors have their own Boeing Leer Jets, and never take a commercial flight and never will for the reasons I just said. In a rational world of people not driven by exchange but driven by health concerns the number of passengers to a plane should be reduced, spaced out, not crowded like a Brooklyn tenement building. The days of traveling on a whim or because your boss gave you two weeks every Christmas should come to an end and travel plans by persons should be customized. Book your flight when the next plane meets with your schedule and the time off from work is time you decide to take not when the boss and the commercial calendar year says its time to take a flight somewhere.
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  1116. I suppose the mental health of the society as a whole has nothing to do with the mental illness of the individual, huh? Family dysfunction has nothing to do with how people turn out in life. Is it mentally healthy of a society to stigmatize a mentally ill person like a contagious leper? Who is society to talk, out comes the risks to our safety and security. Add up all the dysfunctional families in America, rich & poor, and we all are in a social system that needless to say, is a sick society. Sick societies tend to produce sick individuals and instead of dealing with wrong warped and twisted social relations in our society with education; we look to a chemical industry to repress our inner most dissatisfactions with society.
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  1117. The US is coping with the fact that it is no longer the industrial producer of the world and it is shamelessly throwing the burden of its decline on the backs of its working class. In a background of a world economic shift to the east as the center of economic activity and the industrial producer of the world no longer the US or Europe, it only needs the Middle East to make the Yen the world currency more trusted than the dollar. India is pulled west and east make its internal conflicts a case of neurosis. Trump is helping this process along with his war provocations which is really all he and ilk know what to do. An honorable decline of power demands humility the man in office does not have. The last chance to restore world dominance according to all his advisors to which Trump appears to be persuaded by is war.
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  1118. Why do people leave Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala in droves is never examined in the media and very little in these platforms. People don't just get up and pack their families to trek north unless there are definite reasons. People of the Third World are actively running away from war, crime, poverty so the question is what engenders war, crime and poverty?
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  1119. American manufacturers are challenged 9:20 getting the people to work three shifts. Operating and managing three jobs shifts of say 50 workers per shift to work the factory around the clock and not be hampered by raw material or parts for machinery not on premises is a challenge. Production is so bad that even if there is a threat of a major tornado the Candle Factory night shift will go on or the workers on that shift will be out of a job. Threatening to cut you off from vital means of life is an act of terror. What would it be like under the same circumstances if the workers owned the factory? For one thing production would never leave the community. The factory will never close and move to Thailand. That’s a plus. Second thing one worker would not be allowed to work two or three shifts, hours that exceed the human limit, and be bled of all energy from an intensive labor-process. The Candle Factory would have been close the day before landfall of the tornado. That’s a plus. Third, the pay would come from contracts to produce N95s and peripherals. Big contracts enough to cover factory costs and higher wages for labor. Money is not going into the private pockets of people with some very expensive lifestyle habits like Joe Manchin, yachts, luxury mansions, expensive lawyers to defend you, etc. Some big plusses to consider as an alternative to the present day nightmare of privatization. Not the America it was in the 70s, personal circumstances were right for that generation, no rent, no bills, cheap prices, more freedoms, people could make enough to look for America. Amazing how rapidly the American Dream went from a home in the woods for around $20K to park city tents. These jobs are minimum wage and no benefits till at least three months into the job. From the workers point of view the job sucks because production is not regular. Manufacturers could potentially lock workers out because there is no raw material to be had until the supply chain gets it there. Owners of these companies cannot offer consistency of employment and they change the work process to raise the bottom line makes the job a lethal weapon. The answer to this problem is obvious but the obvious is not on the mind of a Congress that looks the other way at the damaging effects of production on working people in this country, they turn away and hate work, a part of who they are, the factory owners turn a social activity that should give you pride and dignity into a nightmare of horrors!
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  1120. When it comes to protecting the State both parties are completely united. The State depends on allies and if one ally goes down the State itself is threaten. The State and its legitimacy is at stake.
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  1121. Is it Trump who does not pay taxes or is the tax structure that does not charge taxes to the rich? Its both but on the other side of this extreme, are the many who pay all the taxes.
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  1122. 4:15 DAVOS not Munich...Zalenski without realizing it revealed who is behind using Ukraine (the small country that is it is next to Russia) to expand into Russia replacing one oligarchy with another. The Ukraine War shapes up to be more of a war between rival capitalists nations an identical pattern in the first world war, a war between rival colonial powers seeking expansion. NATO being the military adjunct accessory to the western capitalist expansion into the east but not before the economic expansion of member corporations of DAVOS into the east. If this hypothesis comes to light then the US tax payer is arming a country for DAVOS Corporations to expand into Russia and the East, ultimately confronting China using American military might. All sovereignty of the American people has vanished...and I would say further the killing of elementary school children in the US is a direct consequence of the gun trafficking trade this plan generates in Ukraine and that guns for cash re-distributes assault weapons back into the hands of dejected and broken youths futureless and demoralized easily succumb to propaganda and become domestic terrorists. Kissinger is not wrong about Ukraine; he sees a small country permanently embroiled in war with a large one and is not a member of DAVOS.
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  1123. Germany was in the selling position during the Great Recession and China was in the selling position, while the US, where the Great Recesssion originated, remains in the buying position. A nations gets to be in the sellers position when it has the greatest capacity to produce all products and replicate them for less the cost than the nation from which those products come from.  The contention surrounding China not playing by the rules is all about China's productive capacity to replicate brand products shrinking US markets for its brand products, a tremendous amount of income is lost to the US, less of its GDP capitalized is a potential time-bomb, a toxic concoction of a combination of glut, over production, too little money in circulation, and wage reductions, interrupts the normal cycle of capital accumulation. There is nothing a nation can do short of bombing the other nation to smithereens or by some means overthrow its government to change its rules to reduce the productive capacity of its people. Pro-Democracy movements in Hong Kong is fertile ground for creating chaos to disrupt the working day of China.  Eventually, the US will cave and make new arrangements in market sharing, the pressure to do this will come from its own farm belt. Europe is in the buying position on the same side of the exchange process as the US and Britain's decision to leave the European Union would amount to one less buyer for Germany. This would cause a fall in GDP and productive capacity in Germany and the reaction against immigrants will heighten as the job markets shrink. The world today is not what it was under the Cold War or under the single monetary currency of the dollar. The USSR provided a healthy balance between the West and the East when the US had the most amount of gold, and a solid industrial base, but in the past 45 years we have seen an extension of capital and markets with serious sociological consequences of capital flight in the US. It brought more nations into the US market as sellers, the sum of whom acting in the same way to realize most of their GDP into capital. Reinvested into production to raise their productive capacity. All but one nation followed this rule, the US capital and finance hollowed out the productive aspects of its workforce.
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  1124. What’s more upsetting is your opinion and I seriously doubt you would step in yourself and you should not have to be the Dark Avenger on your way to do your business anyway. NYC has a police force of 36,000 and there are 472 stations in Manhattan multiply 472 stations by posting 2 cops on each station and we get 944 police allocated to monitor all NYC train stations. This leaves a balance of 35,056 cops to deploy in other boroughs and as back up in all boroughs. Well over what they need to administer the entire police force in all five boroughs. Additionally they got a huge allocation of money from their Chief Cop, Joe Biden. Crime can be brought down to zero. They are politicizing crime for political gain to meet a political interest. You cannot tell me the PBA, Police Union, Mayor and Governor give a dam about the people who work in that city given the numbers. To be frank,--- they are full of Sh*#t and its high time that city get rid of them. Problem here is the allocation of police and resources not the criminal justice system or anything else. What NY has are two dead beat politicians as governor and mayor the worst people ever and police union milking the system for their rank and file.
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  1125. In Cuba, energy and resources, is community owned. The population is quickly mobilized to cope with tornados. The State bends to the will of the community. Imagine if they had the technology and what they would do with it. Whereas the country that invented the technology can't see in Puerto Rico an application for it? Pure BS. Instead, it sees prime real estate for magnificent hotels and gold courses. An island it can pick up for a song relative to the average Boriqua's notion of what is big money. PR is now mired in Trump's Art of the Deal. The historic role PR can play on the world stage is a missed opportunity for mankind to not speed up climatic changes. PR could lead nations straight out of the fossil fuel era and into the 21st century of light energy if the country put some will into fighting its opponents who are eager to rip away every facet open to real human progress.
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  1126.  @ramunasstulga8264  I am reading your comment as sarcasm...correct? There is truth in sarcasm.
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  1127. Dr. Harriet Fraad presents a valid subject about working in America for women.  Technically, the government should not compensate any employer for parental and family leave a worker requires. Because from a classic economic point of view, all labor is unpaid labor. Parental and family leave is already paid for in the surplus labor consumed by the employer. Past accumulated labor paid off the time a worker's maternity and parental leave would cost the US. Employers in the US accmulate the product of present day working hours far surpasses the amount of time it takes to raise a family is how many hours per worker gives free of charge to the employers. I realize this concept of truth comes hard to believe but it is mathematically proven, the calculus is real and infallible on this question of surplus labor and surplus value. On these grounds which can be proven, the anti-abortionist have absolutelty no right at all, not even two cents worth of an opinion on whether a worker should have or not a family. They are forcing women into the workforce at lower wages in the present and this labor adds to the already accumulated labor of the past employers capitalized. If the evangelicals are repressing sexual values in society that is forcing women into the workforce as a lower paid strata of the workforce, it is because they are acting out the demands of the employers for cheap labor that social conditions would compel women to work and raise a family on their own. Making a working class family a single parent household unable to rise above that social class for individuals in that household as wages remain regulated by the market.
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  1128. Morbid social culture, Americans vacationing on watery graves...is a macabre way of life. Surprising not one day a body rose to the surface amidst a group of young family campers on holiday. Interesting that we can find 200 year old sunken human remains in ships in oceans but not recover bodies in America’s fresh water lakes.
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  1129. America should be redrawn on the map with 20 states not 50. It will never step into the 21st Century as a democracy under the current division of states.
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  1130. Anyone who knows the history of the US, it would be impossible to conclude, Washington is not the primary foe of humanity
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  1131. Violence will always be a necessary aspect of societies that prop the world up as a relation between things. Things being responsible for your lack of heat or home, food and medicine. Things like inflation, unemployment, austerity are responsible for your lack of good education and transportation not the social relation of working together...as unequal partners... that is responsible for these deprivations... the prevailing dogma of denial in social thought hides the relations of exploitation and in a fit of hypocrisy condemns the social relation when it is dragged out into the open.
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  1132. Yurii Sheliazhenko makes a lot sense to be a war resistor.
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  1133. Steven Yourke--- You can say the same thing about the banks and corporations and the government!
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  1134. America is so scared to deal with its past.
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  1135. How do you know which skill is more productive than another when all skills are reduced to average work time in their compensation? All skills are used in one step of a three step process that the corporation is able to capitalize on production and then accrue $20 bn in profits from sales. Auto workers are obviously not an equal partner with the corporation in the production phase as they were before in the negotiating stage with the corporation. They were equal as seller and buyer and they exchanged agreements but they come out as unequal partners in the production phase where skills are used to create $20 bn in product in anticipation of its sale. Value is added to the investment. The corporation wins the value the workers lose in the value they made in the finished product. Seems to me the right way to resolve this inequality is for all skills own a share of the finished product and 51% ownership of the factories to prevent plants from ever leaving the country. The wrong thing for labor to do is what the Biden administration wants them to do, a contract settlement in the old fashioned way a double-standard job not a career and no change in Labor as the unequal partner to the corporation in production.
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  1136. Its a paradox how American politics never ends with the results it intends. To a highly motivated and driven 14 year old the reward for illegal entry into the US is a new life no matter how tall the wall is.
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  1137. Do I want a president who is a member of the hair club for men or a president who is bald? Decisions, decisions, decisions...
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  1138. Dave Towers should get down to the park and talk to the homeless and find out what's going on in their lives about what brought them to this point.
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  1139. The foregoing statement by the Professor marks the essential difference between an academic Marxist and a Marxist. A trained Marxist adheres to the principal of a general theory of history and a particular theory of capitalism. Class institutions, property relations and social institutions evolve not out of causality and chance, or by accident, rather, they result from class struggle regulated by law and custom. One nation is not only relating to another; they both are relating to a world economy as the agency of world development. The professor’s view is an eclectic view ranking nations according to economic power and slaps ideas on top of ideas. The scientific method traces the origin, development and finality of a given social organism. The end of a particular arrangement of nations occurs through a world economy in its variations of development is the reality of the condition of reproduction and survival for those nations. A movie produced and directed by Otto Preminger stars Paul Newman and other notables is called “EXODUS” 1960; makes distinct reference to Zionism as the settlement in Palestine of Jews and the intent to build a Jewish State/ homeland for the Jews in Palestine. Overall the movie is empathetic to the Jews but it does explain Zionism defining existence as a, “knowing of oneself”, “identity politics”, as it is defined today by the forces on the right. Gay, straight, binary, etc..The 200 year old tradition of philosophical thought defining existence as an a-priori notion of knowing who you are blocks the road toward arriving at mortality and existence as a condition of reproduction and existence. These standpoints are historically obsolete, yet the simplest reversal of the Spinoza’s axiom “I, think, therefore, I am”, to “I am, therefore, I think” grounds reality, life and mortality on a foundation of biological materialism. What is genocide? We define genocide from the standpoint of biological materialism as the slow or immediate suppression and elimination of life-giving elements. Water, power, food, hospitals and youth. All of which Israel targets to eliminate and all of which the US targets to suppress the longevity, reproduction, and existence of the American working class.
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  1140. Oil production stay high so gas prices stay low is the reason western democracies enable Saudi Arabia's behavior would have been a more direct way to begin criticizing the Trump administration. Start with the form, the economic relation, to explain the content of the social relation. The form is the concrete. You start talking about an aspect of the social relation like the Democrats do, its a long uphill climb trying to figure out the concrete manifestation of the abstract. The relation with the Middle East and the US is oil. Been so since oil became the staple for gas. The concrete is oil and gas and why these commodities became the content of the Trump sale of arms to Saudi Arabia US oil reserves are untapped, it is still pragmatic to import oil from the Saudis, as long as gas prices stay low for the American consumer AKA, the working class, the Trump administration can leverage itself against public opinion as doing something good. In the deal the Saudis get the bigger share of the US market for oil a market. In exchange the King buys American weapons products and pays for American 'know how' protection of the Royal Family and Kingdom. What the King does with his arms is his business, if he arms his son a feeble move by the King arming a child with a gun and the Power has gone to the young Prince's head, well, there have been worse things. As long as he stays in line the Monarchy can be defended. But any critic of the Prince's is silenced by abduction, disappearance and presumed dead is a proven method to restructure the kingdom and weed out its disloyal factions. Nuff said on this. The economic arrangement creates a dependency of the American consumer on a mad Prince. He sells us oil cheap enough that our own reserves are efficiently self funding, in return gas prices for us stay low. But if the Trump administration does anything to cross the Prince over this disappearance of an average reporter, he can retaliate and gas prices can shoot up! The whole Trump deal with Saudi Arabia falls apart. More land acquisitions empower the prince further to extend his kingdom into Yemen and the American consumer AKA working class carries the guilt of inaction for the sake of low gas prices. This consumer AKA working class demand has positioned the American government in relation to Saudi Arabia as unable to intervene on the wholesale slaughter and genocide of the Yemenese people. Its the same kind of consumer working class demand that rides Harley Davidson's motorcycles and peddle bike frames manufactured in Thailand and China. The concrete world from which these things in exchange through governments happen is a big fucking mystery to the American working class, why gas prices are cheap(er) than the rest of the world and why a president can criticize and shame a corporation for closing its factories in America are still selling their bikes to the American working class. Why an unassuming woman's criticism of the hypocrisy in western democracy criticizes the ruling parts of western democracies and not the working class part of western democracies for its own hypocrisies enabling the economic relation to begin with.
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  1141. If Congress legislated paid time off from the job people will not have to crowd the airlines one day of the year.
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  1142. A cab driver would be abetting and aiding a crime if that crime is an abortion. This is fascism.
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  1143. Shawn Fein is this country’s next president.
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  1144. But they are never against defunding the CIA who do what they accuse what the FBI does not do.
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  1145.  @tokenspirit6140  I would not know how syrupy the coffee is I never spent a nickel in Starbucks but apparently you have.
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  1146. This will only lead to the formation of gangs. And that will be a larger problem than random attacks by individuals. An individual would never go up against a police force and national guard alone.
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  1147. China’s new path of human development is a major breakthrough for humanity. Good clear reporting.
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  1148. The question "Is a New Global Financial Crisis Imminent?", was poorly addressed to the exclusion of the sociological impact all crisis has on the working class. Anybody who pays attention to the development of capitalism in America knows periodic financial crisis, stagnation, depression and unemployment, plus war is inherent in American capitalism. A sign in a store that reads "Everything must go!", or "liquidation sale", means the profits of businesses and particularly, the factories of workers that make all this stuff are under attack because profits tend to fall under capitalism. The inability to sell that which is produced and throwing people out of work is how crisis in America is expressed. The only people who do not know a financial crisis is imminent or chronic, are the people who don't know the history of American capitalism. Said twice to emphasis the point. It is a crisis in itself when crisis analysis in one economic sphere of activity, i.e., the financial sector, and no analysis of the impact of the financial crisis on the other sphere of economic activity, i.e., production. jobs, the workplace, the length of the working, displacement of workers, automation, signs that fewer people and companies become super rich when human exploitation is out in the open, direct, driven by hubris for higher profits. Problem with these guys is they never worked in a factory to know reality. For them the human element exists only in the financial sector and its relation to the government, the human element in production is for them non-existent in this interview. Crisis is an ongoing occurrence in all places of work under capitalism and in America exploitation culminates into a system crisis, because all businesses do the same to counter the falling tendency of profits. They consume less and less of the human resources in labor in society in correlation to the degree they invest to raise productivity with technology and science. They produce more with less workers, saturating markets with commodities to the extent sales fall precipitating a crisis.
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  1149.  @stephaniecarrow4898  Thumbs Up.
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  1150. Pregnant at 14. She will be 24 when her child reaches 10. But when she reaches 70 she will have about 10 grand children and 5 great grandchildren of age to take care of her. The rich have the money to care for them at old age the poor have offspring for that job. But when you have a society that can make all this unnecessary that is when the problem controls you and your life and not the other way around.
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  1151. A problem Chinese communism has in its history is minimizing a crisis when it has one and the problem American capitalism has in its history is ignoring a crisis when it has one. But it is not even the communism or capitalism part of these countries that make them failures; it’s the fact that they are neither communist or capitalist. They are and have become militarized bureaucracies that make them a failure as a model of governing a society. The abolition of bureaucracy as a form of government is the struggle of this century.
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  1152.  @frigidworld  You have to stop using paper and plastic products and products made of plastic and paper if you want stop drilling by Big Oil in the Middle East and stop cutting by Big Lumber in Brazil. Then you have to stop eating meat if you want to stop greenhouse warming and animal werehousing. Basically, starting from scratch everyone in a home that produces its own light, heat, water and food, would change the entire economic paradigm.
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  1153.  @Retalak  Thus...the wage system...and...a class system in production, prohibits the consequences of automation from benefitting society. Agreed?
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  1154.  @alphaomega1351  Yes, ---indeed, the social relations of capitalism (the market) do not include avenues through which people can develop aptitudes in fields useful to society. Capitalism allocates the disposable labor time of society through the market which behaves like a staggering alcoholic one day and rampaging lunatic the next day. Conscious planning of production is feared by the US ruling class. So much so defenses are constant military build ups. Oddly, conscious planing is applied in The Military Industrial Complex but as a Command Economy for this reason, the General Economy of this country they let to go to shit. But you are right about the fact that US labor complied with productivity increases to the point of inefficiency. Labor does not have to be useful in capitalism it just has to look useful to be merchandisable, professional et al. The intensity of work has led to complete inefficiency due to the effect of automation throwing people out of work. Through conscious planning and social control, behavior modification, management has been able to overcome these obstacles including worker resistance, and placed non-users of the technology (the IT industry) as the ones who know the least of the labor-process in charge of designing production.
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  1155. I agree...
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  1156. Americans have a military complex that hangs like an albatross around its neck, a burden and a national stigma holding the world and its people hostage to it.
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  1157.  Steffen Zander ...they are the law.
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  1158.  @GOODNOIGHT  As long as there are enough of them coming in, yes, republicans need them and punish them for needing them would be a form of psychopathology.
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  1159. Same thing here (US) right now bloggers and vloggers canceled are one step away from being “domestic terrorists’ for speaking out against a certain law. The hysteria in governments rehashes early 20th Century Red Scare tendencies.
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  1160.  @letmelive2006  that was a very disturbing image to me too.
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  1161. This is one big enemy for a strike to take down. One of the largest landowners in the US is Columbia next to the Roman Catholic Church and NYU. Columbia was established in 1754 the land purchased then was fields and wood surveyed until it became the upper West Side of today, bought for how much did the story we were all told say? Trinkets and $24. cents was the amount paid to the Manhattan Indians in the 1700s. Only Columbia has possession of the deeds to show whether they paid anything at all for prime land of NYC today, imagine the properties owned in the Big Apple and beyond, as far as Nova Scotia to North Carolina...out West, incredible to conceive but the total value of Columbia is infinite. Comparatively the magnitude of Columbia infinite assets make the student strike who struggle for a portion of that infinite wealth and assets, a wage that barely allows them to survive, and fails to bring dignity into their work lives, a David against the Goliath. 400 years of ground rent...that’s why I say this is one big enemy for a strike to take down...but the prize is a redistribution of wealth that never ends. Maybe David will be the spark that re-directs the ‘gravy train’ world wide.
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  1162. Its a gathering of a social class of billionaires.
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  1163. Do you feel the same way about Ghilaine Maxwell?
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  1164.  @Mitoubacklund  That does not quite explain the question which is a good one...why advertise when nobody has money...the question is worth probing for it goes over everyone's heads how social relationships are based on the net result of transactions.
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  1165.  @katiekane5247  Exactly! We must crush capitalism!
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  1166. I can only conclude from this the wife of the governor is also a racist. Affinity with racism is the abstinence of animosity of racism.
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  1167. 10:35 he should also have said the river is 20% lower than 20 years ago and 20% percent warmer increasing the risk of continuing species diversity in the river itself.
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  1168. You are missing a key concept; homeless, crisis, unemployment , growing inequality, all those social defect you pointed out are inherent features of the system.
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  1169. A despicable individual, and I might add an Ivy League Jackass!
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  1170. They reflect a racist agenda as much of Trump small business support are racists.  But the mass shootings are phenomena of another sort. The manifesto left behind by one of the perpetrators gives insight into the hidden injuries of social class on America's youth. Abandonment and neglect owing to 'automation' and 'education'. The writer's disjointed survey of American society is pseudo-scientific, he uses facts but not fact supporting fact. But as a document revealing the inner tensions and reactions to a social system that uses automation for progress and creates a lack of social progress there can be no other stronger evidence of that than in the last 45 years of America's decline.
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  1171. Rescue is made impossible for first responders, this is a horror scene.
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  1172. Dismissing this point is foolish and stupid. There is a limited number of young recruits in a nation of 43 million that in a nation of 146 million surpasses in a war of attrition.
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  1173. County or state of Nevada never hired lifeguards for Lake Meade which could have prevented drownings and the lake used as a body dumping ground for a crime, nice going Nevada.
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  1174. Prepare! You’d rather let it happen than stop nuclear war...somethin’ wrong with you, son.
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  1175. Dan A -- Corporate NPR media is elevator music set to politics without the country music set to right wing populism. That's what NPR is.
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  1176. I won't stand behind $15. It is too low. $25 an hour is reasonable, I'll stand by that. The other way to raise the standard of living of the working class is to fix commodity prices in general. Highly unpopular. But, if you start high you end up with better than $15 with the force of a general strike behnd the demand.
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  1177. A stock market is a social institution of buyers and sellers. Stock are up means sellers are buying and can make money selling at a higher price as the volume of trading expands. But when that trading volume shrinks there are left fewer buyers and sellers. Stocks go down to be sold at a pace before losses are incurred until they cannot be sold become losses for the holder who did not sell early enough. Fluctuations of stock prices is no way to tie something that is a constant to a thing that is a variable. For example, working 40 years is a constant, produces a constant amount, and grows in a slow constant way whereas, stock prices are variables, rise and fall, in a short cycle of time. Utter lunacy to tie this to that, incompetent and irresponsible economic thinking is what it is.
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  1178. Despite all the apparent evidence to the contrary his partner claims he was dedicated to safety...this is the kind of denial that ultimately is responsible for the reckless nature of this whole project.
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  1179. That song is old.
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  1180. Throw out the old form of government and come up with one more inclusive. Its time.
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  1181. Can't forget the Iraq War Veterans, so angry at the liberal establishment who at the time was Joe Biden put them in harms way using 9/11 for a call for freedom and liberty against Sadaam Hussien and liberate Iraq. Congress went along with it hook, line and sinker. They gave AlQueda a place to fight Americans. The Vets came back destroyed, and used the only power they have to elect Trump, a spite vote against the liberal establishment. What did the left do? Nothing. What did the left do when these same vets showed up in Virginia armed to protest Northrum's gun laws on MLK day 2020? Nothing. The left should have been there arm and arm with the Iraq vets. Biden was then and is now in the pocket of Lockheed. Grumman, GE, all the arms makers. He then became VP to Obama, hand picked by Obama to initiate another war, the war we are in today. The next group of Veterans sent to war are not going to come back because now they will be fighting entire nations in the Middle East. As for Trump, he is the wrong man for the job. Wrong, because his path is not to deconstruct the arms industry and wrench the grip the arms industry has of our government, his path is to become an autocrat. The people supporting him never went to war. An autocrat is natural to them, they are chiliasts, believers in the second coming of Christ, God, Family and Country. They are NASCAR enthusiasts, rich evangelists, rich, spoiled Americans, country music stars, with pro-fascist leanings. Only Bernie opposed the Iraq War. Only Bernie opposes the misuse of the military, opposes invasions, opposes the arms industry, opposes industries with the highest carbon footprint. Vote Bernie if you are going to vote, its the last chance to restore America back to its original roots of American progressivism.
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  1182. Militarism is a scourge on humanity. The day when all humanity abolishes militarism, nationalism, racism, sexism, classism, is the day when humanity becomes truly human.
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  1183. So what do the “rebel groups” want?
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  1184. The military overthrew al-Bashir not the Sudanese people, although protesters are pleased with the overthrow. In all key historical events, as in Venezuela the military there supports the government, and in Sudan a military coup takes power from the government, in both cases the military is key to holding on to power. But this is not true for all states of society. True among societies in the lower and higher stages of capitalist development but not true in social democracies and socialist societies in lower or higher stages of development that the military plays a key role in the retention of the State for what the state can give the military at the expense of society. A parasitic side of the military comes out in the open when it decides to seize power or leave it in the hands of someone that diverts the resources of society in their direction. As a consequence the military develops the science and technology for itself, and society is deprived of that benefit. This would explain increased defense spending and cuts in social spending programs presidents do that retaining power depends on the support of the military.
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  1185. You cant fight your way out of it without a working class majority either! @intorpere 
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  1186. Rapid pressure change and inner ear compression.
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  1187. The mortality rate in the US is short, very short. The baby never had a chance at life. Officials and citizens are desensitized to that fact. No outrage.
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  1188.  @GNOBNX  You have a rational position but the society you live in is irrational...how do you reconcile that contradiction? An institution that is racist cannot stamp out racism unless it stamps out itself. It does not appear to be willing to annihilate itself at the present time.
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  1189. Solid point, attrition, targeting for elimination, the parts of government republicans dislike and strengthening the parts they do like. This makes the shut down not a negotiating tool for a Wall, the Wall is merely a device to use a shut down as a weapon of attack on the dignity of the lives of workers as having no right at all to life! Trump fired the first shot in the war against labor. American workers should follow the French workers example and stand up to Trump and Co.
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  1190. The extraction industries pay a lot of money to their workers. A worker can earn in five years enough money to escape the rat race if they save their money. Extraction industry workers who do the actual extracting should be shamed for selling out to the fossil fuel industry.
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  1191. In the 21st Century, capitalism dominates the kind of property that dominates people.
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  1192. Nothing the professor said in the video is irrational to capitalism. According the inner laws of capitalist society this is how things should be working to the detriment of the workers. I am not sure people get that paradox, that every action of a capitalist is an action in abstinence of self-imposed poverty, hunger and homelessness which means that it is us not them who will poor, hungry and without money.
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  1193. Hillary is a product of the career politicians that emerged in the 1980's in both parties. They both have total contempt for working people.
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  1194. Is that a demand that I should stop driving my car?
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  1195. A Cold Christmas, chilling. A cyclone of frozen crystals darting down and sideways. A person can suffocate on their own breath in seconds if they turn the their face into the wind. You’ll be fine by staying indoors and on the ground. Warmer days are ahead.
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  1196. The richest will recover in a year. The poorest in Texas will perish in a week.
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  1197. Trump quotes Goebbels on the Big Lie...he's real Nazi.
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  1198. I tend to think in a low field of abstract thought to take in more aspects of reality versus other occasions when a high field of abstract thought is needed to analyze fewer aspects of reality. But whatever may come of the evolution of capitalism, the workers struggle for freedom is unchanged, the fact remains that the worker must break free from the compulsion of work based on average labor-time and people must learn to work by their sheer will power. Because will power is the power that breaks all value relations Dr. Wolff eludes in his well-marked opinion. Average labor time is the Achilles Heel, if we break it, we are freed from its rule and domination and replacing that rule and authority of average working time over all individuals is a national will, collective and individual, to work, own and live. Make society a real place to thrive over a place that permits mere existence. And not just any work but the kind of work that restores health to ourselves and our planet, changes all industries, and changes the division of labor, and if we use this division of labor and its power of productivity as our own, the world can heal, thrive, and grow, without social inequality bestowed upon us through the conveniences of the clock, time, average working time, that presently, happens by chance, accident, and causality, if mouths are fed, and sick are healed, and minds are taught. Individual will supported by the mass of individuals, directs this energy to each evil to eradicate, to become a member of a species not a member of a social class is the reason all working people need to free themselves from this social category of “working-class’ , and never again shall people who enjoy working should be called a worker but just a man or woman who makes useful things by the power of their own will, gets credit for their creations, is the struggle against the rule and authority of the principal agent of capitalism, the clock and the capitalist.
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  1199. Frankly I think the Quincy Institute position is contradictory. On another note... Assume capitalism is an expansionist social system then the whole globe is covered by competitors. All nations are competitors because each nation are capitalist. Not all nations obviously, smaller ones are still using older social systems of work. Bigger ones are competitors, all bigger nations are rivals in competition, it acts upon them as a coercive law, to undercut your competition’s cost of production. France tries to undercut Germany, and Germany undercuts Britain for their economies and so on. Higher States use wars that mess up the competing nation’s ability to produce. Successfully producing the same product as your competition but at a lower cost enables you to increase your revenue stream of profits sounds like a rule of capitalism and it is. Each nation struggling to do the very same thing, acting out on this rule of competition, on each other creates a world system of pure anarchy and chaos for products to change hands. In the old days, a ration card system did a better job than the commercial jungle of competition. Mostly though, it is the cause of poverty. Innovation creates poverty. The more each nation innovates the poorer their people become. Innovation cuts labor cost and leaves people idle, without a sufficient income to survive, the economy is deprived of fresh investment and renewal but the individual nation or company benefits from the cuts brought on by innovation.
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  1200.  @Will_Moffett “...focus money on politics better...” social movements create political talents not money or campaigns.
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  1201. These are small seizures he is experiencing that will lead up the Grand Seizure. That will put him on life support. That will put Congress and the republican party on life support.
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  1202. I wonder if the other Gutierrez cops in the department got the message that their supervisors will throw them under the bus to save their skins. This reign of police terror will end with heads rolling. The middle layers of the police bureaucracy will fall. What will bring it down is the Chauvin Trial. Police pensions and police unions will undergo audit and investigations to locate the inner sanctum of corruption and middle management are the sacrificial pigs in order to keep intact the entire institution from public demolition. Chauvin is a goner unless the jury is stupid because there is no defense for the murder of George Floyd and since the reaction to his killing set off an international fuse of mass protests the ruling classes in many countries sent a message to Washington, this cannot happen in America because revolution will happen everywhere else if it does! The jury could be that stupid, we shall soon hear.
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  1203. I am impressed...bravo.
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  1204. Top down form of class warfare. Class warfare is the new terminology for class struggle. Class warfare between workers and capitalists. The other social classes in society are not involved in this class warfare as direct opponents. Not unless the general population has had it with neoliberalism will the other social classes become agents of class warfare on the side of the workers. The workers then have a huge responsibility that goes beyond simply opposing, stiking and demonstating against its neoliberal government. A responsibility to keep the other social classes functioning and not shut down the society or otherwise the workers will lose this war against the neoliberal repressive state apparatus. They need to take this a step further and come up with an economic plan the country can rally behind and overthrow their neoliberal rulers through that plan. Let the general population do the work of putting the workers directly in power. Once the economy is shut down the next thing to do is to shut down the government and restart the economy as soon as possible. Waiting for the general crisis to make landfall in France from the world economy coming to a standstill is not a good idea. Get ahead of the crisis and prevent it.
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  1205. The success of the Haitian Revolution over the French and British signaled revolution was possible to American slaves over their plantation landowners. But history shows that it would be capitalism and the emergence of the State that would overthrow slavery and the revolution was suppressed until the 1960's. The Haitian revolution embodied a humanizing force for all slaves whereas the abolition of the institution of slavery by capitalism and its government did nothing to abolish the racism of the institution. This shows that revolutions are not technical changes alone, they re evolutions through social changes or they are not revolutions at all but merely reforms.
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  1206. Capital is impervious to flooding because capital is not a place, its moveable property.
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  1207. I am certain Ursala Von Der Leyen was giving a description for the removal of hair dye as a prescription for the crisis in Europe.
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  1208. Truly disgusting the Supreme Court’s attitude on Samoa, that court reflects the attitude of US to the people of the world as purely racist. What a let down to Samoans. This news station did not cover the peaceful civilian protests happening in massive numbers in Haiti with any depth. The one Haitian protester said it plain. But there are no images of peaceful protesters in huge numbers. The masses say no to Canadian and no the Americans arms and forces, exactly opposite Alberto Gutierrez is calling for. They do not want humanitarian UN forces or US forces as Blinken intends to send. But here we are completely walking over what the people of that country want. Haitians are saying the problem are government installed puppets, they want the current puppet to resign, who they see as the cause of the conditions of poverty in Haiti. How do you believe the rest of this report when one report is so biased...you can’t?
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  1209.  @areaunderthecurve9918  👍
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  1210.  @savethem50  This country was NEVER a White Country....you are not even Type O...get out! I deny your comment based on your comment, its stupid.
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  1211. To Marxist Soccer's point: I say. The one party in South Africa was an Apartheid state (one party state) yet all the parties before that experience emerged were part of the ruling classes just as the Democrats and Republicans are both an aspect of the ruling classes, as a two-party state. A one party state is not unrealistic a forecast in Jason Stanley. Should the GOP turn toward a constitutional convention and make changes to the constitution, a one party state will emerge. Right now they are not far from calling a constitutional convention. In my view the only difference between the two parties, as it stands today, is who makes up the party, a quantitative difference is all I see in them.
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  1212. Distract attention away from the entire complex of all of society's capabilities concentrated into the hands of a class of capitalists instead of supporting life and a green New Deal for society. Distract your attention from the Big Picture and cry wolf, the mighty power is falling to pieces and needs money, it cannot handle the swarm of invading marauders engulfing the Southwest!
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  1213. You better care about his politics its your money he would be spending.
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  1214. True what you say the long history of US intervention in the tiny nation of 11 million would by now have at least one hospital in every province, four libraries, and 16 elementary, middle and high schools and two major universities including a national budget surplus if all the wealth were not extracted from her by US AID for the last 41 years of the 108 years of foreign occupation Haiti endured. That is why I am hoping this struggle becomes Haiti’s second revolution and one that spreads to build a revolution against all forms of human exploitation.
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  1215. I am reminded of Lord of the Flies when I hear stories of the republicans and democrats.
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  1216. Hardly any workers work the machinery and automation in the toymaker factory in Pennsylvania and overseas in some Asian country the employment of women seemingly over the age 20 work by hand without machinery and automation together on a huge quantity of toy products and in large numbers. The difference is glaring. Automation and machinery is a powerful weapon in keeping countries poor.
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  1217. What you need are lessons in grammar.
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  1218.  @phillippac.7469  Is it a reset or land grab for agribusiness is what I wonder?
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  1219. The only story western audiences will be given is the story written by the powers that be. I seriously doubt General Electric who owns NBC will broadcast news that will damage their interest as a Defense Contractor for the Pentagon would be one small example of a conflict of interests. The other two sides of the story you will have sort out through social media where the same retired generals and government experts are not interviewed and where the camera shows what is happening on the ground. If you do this it will become as clear as day to you that national commercial media is pure propaganda and lies.
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  1220. As soon as a second commodity is used to compare the first one we are in trouble. Any object of utility never takes the form of a commodity in isolation. But as soon as we introduce a second commodity of a different kind as an equal to the first one we are no more than possessors of commodities. Every trace of humanity is erased by us becoming sellers and buyers of the things we own that the things we own are interacting with each other instead of ourselves interacting by our own will to each other.  If we can get over this habit of using money mediating the interactions between ourselves and the natural world the social world will be a better place to live.
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  1221.  @jimmyrank6730  How much of the total population is inoculated in Britain? There are 64 million, 70% of that is 44 million. That leaves 20 million unvaccinated and infected, spreading the virus. Vaccines only work when all 64 million people get the shot. I predict Great Britain will be a dead country 5 years or sooner.
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  1222. Is Jake Sullivan of the State Department any relation to William Sullivan, Hoover’s intelligence chief?
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  1223. I think it has to do with Haiti being the one island country that defeated three empires and repressed slavery that makes Haiti so scary to Washington. I really think the Washington political elite fear a Mass Black Revolt in the US that nearly happened at the time of Reconstruction the Haitian people are still punished for.
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  1224. I like this commentary; it reaches the soul with truth. If we can only act as one we can accomplish in a day what talk media cannot.
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  1225. 4:28, ---Life Expectancy Study, People die when the Working Day is extended. Corporations push managers and managers push overwork on workers that they are robbing each other of the normal moral and physical conditions of development and activity life can offer. Jobs produce stress, premature exhaustion and death in workers. All this happens when work extends the worker’s production-time within a given period (8 hrs). It shortens their lives. Governments with this high of a mortality rate on their hands cannot be interested in maintaining a working class. Life expectancy on the job is a measure. Low expectancy of death caused by the job and work falls within normal range, high expectancy and work fall outside normality, this condemns a working class to certain early death. It costs more to keep up the energy needed from worn out people.
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  1226. Excellent reason to oppose Oligarchy today,--- for the good of the people and against people eating bread by the slice and not by the loaf. See 7:57.
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  1227. Aristocratic lineage is a caste system. Based on this Britain is not a democracy at all (not even close); even if the monarchy is symbolic and the population votes. Aristocratic lineages were vanquished in the ancient states (Rome, Greece, Egypt) because of their disposition in society as castes based on kinship. Their locality was determined by where the caste aristocracy lived. All the work done by the workpeople of their locality was done for the caste system as private owners of the soil. While the Romans abolished the aristocratic lineages the British made the aristocracy the largest consumer of the labor of the society. Suffice it say the UK is still a Monarchy and not a Republic. Birth rates have a higher frequency of occurrence than the speed with which an heir inherits a Crown. The life of an individual can go up to 100 but the rate at which people screw each other and make babies is about every 7 minutes. Inheritance laws is what jeopardizes the existence of the Monarchy, and conversely, the birth rate is a threat to the monarchy. Charles waited some 20 years before his mother died to inherit the Crown. In that 20 year period millions of kids were born with no affinity to an old fart dressed in royal regalia except as a fairy tale character imported by Disney. When they become adults the Royals take on the semblance of one large family on welfare. I reality what looks like the royals are on the dole is actually the usurpation of wealth by a single Gen (family). People who sit around waiting for an inheritance instead of working are not admired for their maturity but are seen as spoiled. The problem the British government created for themselves is they cannot change the line of descent. The laws of inheritance have to be terminated and consequentially for everyone else which includes the lawmakers.
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  1228. It looks like the new government will have to make a deal for gas with the Russians to lower gas bills for 35 thousands Berlin homes. This is too big of a problem for Berliners to not make a deal. American sanctions on Nordstream are counter productive to German-American relations.
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  1229. An educational institution for elementary grade schoolers is a defendant in a case against gross mismanagement and neglect. If that is not a sign that you do not have an educational system worth sending your children to than what is? The functionality of that school has been thoroughly corrupted by functionaries. I wonder how many young couples will settle in that school district given this history? Its not the individual but what that institution does to the individual that induces neglect in this system, places such as Uvalde, New Jersey where a 30 year old posed as a middle schooler, not even this school is immune to the national crisis of America’s, basically, factory-like educational system. Its the institution itself that fails children. An institution modeled on the factory system, bell-driven, and now with the cuts in social security disability, so many more disabled children will simply perish. Currently, America ranks 17th for education and literacy in the world. Yet in some states a significant portion of American history that details the American Civil War and Slavery are erased from the curriculum on racist grounds. You might have a powerful military and all the weapons to wipe humanity off the face of the earth but you do not have a nation!
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  1230. poodlesusan: Internally among the agency the goal is 'reunification' after they separated child from parent and then to avoid reunification with the parent the goal is 'permanency' for the child, to rectify the original separation. Pretty sick logic, eh?
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  1231. Acquittal is within plain sight.
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  1232. 3:43 A Civil War can, and most likely will, be turned into a Revolutionary War.
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  1233. I am not sure this should even be considered a threat. China is still very much a country that only came out in the world a lifetime and a half ago, which is not a very long time, it is still a young modern nation, with a long history of isolation. We should keep national phobias in check.
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  1234. The videos do not present a theory of history, meaning where in the historical timeline does slavery, feudalism and capitalism happen is not presented as a continuing saga, a story of mankind with dramatic beginnings and endings, so that particular events are not seen as expressions of the whole process of human development and the videos suggest development stops right here with us right now, and that in itself, assumes permanency. History shows nothing is permanent. The present feels permanent because mass movements are slow to develop. When they reach a certain pitch of intensity mass movements change the world overnight. We don’t feel the force of Earth’s tectonic plates until the plates drop on top of each other and break open. Only then do the invisible forces become felt. The education system is polluted with right wing politics because of the bureaucracy of education, not in spite of it, it brought this opposition on to itself by centralizing power. Any opposition to it must come from within, a take over, a coup dé etat, kick out the liberals and install the conservatives though infiltration,--- is the way to destroy the bureaucracy. The education curriculum is only a catalyst to that end. The kids are still undermined.
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  1235. Its a shame this generation does not see the Gig economy disguises as a program for the prolongation of the working day. Do the math: If one worker holds three or two jobs to make ends meet and the workforce is 132 million people, that leaves 44 million with odds two to three times against them finding a job. The legal working day of 8 hours is not violated by employers. One worker is working for two employers, sometimes three and each employer stays within the legal limit before they are required to pay health insurance, a factor that is part of wages. Wages are reduced as a consequence of staying within the legal limit of the workday for the employer and the duration of work doubles for the worker. This brings forth a mortality and health related contradiction of the effects on individuals by the intensity of work and duration of work that is never balanced out in the realm of capitalist production. A shame this generation misses this piece about their lives to act on it as a galvanizing social force. The other thing is: As people’s jobs become more intensified and the work is prolonged indefinitely all of social production where people are working two jobs in one becomes completely inefficient since the effect of this in the next cycle of investment is less new hires, cuts in pensions, and wages held constant, (wages never rise never fall below their value and survival), remains a sphere of social life free of restraint as employers have free sway over production and the workers working one, two jobs, three, have none but are constantly subject to unrelenting and successive tasks decided by non-users of the technology (the tools the workers are to work with on the job). Planning is done by those who are the non-users of these forces of technology...the ones who know the least about the job(s) and of the whole labor-process. Its a self-evident law to me but not to the person who needs to know this in their bones is a tragedy in itself; that people in their daily lives of work and working will never realize a balance between life and work in a sphere of social life that takes up the most of their time and reproductive capacity. If a balance is reached it will be hell getting there. America is home to the most dangerous gang on earth. All the political activity of the super rich against international rivalries, wars become means of coordinating and planning the prolonging of the work day of all workers in all societies through mass social control.
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  1236.  @LazyIRanch  Keeping the world out is made impossible by the camera phone as long as everyone has one and it appears they do. Now the question becomes who controls the internet so all the eyewitnesses to abuse are not shut down.
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  1237. Texas will never be the same again and it will never be the citadel of free market laisse fair capitalism of the Ted Cruz variety after this natural disaster. It will not even have a normalized market or a functioning industry. Texas will be a test case of what it means when survival is decided on individual terms. Republicans in Congress will put the whole state on the dole quicker than they can cancel food stamps for a single parent mother. As contamination spreads Texas is uninhabitable for 2.5 million souls raises alarms to the rest of the population of what next comes if natural disasters become as intense and more frequent to a country that cannot cope with disasters but can pull all its social resources together for war.
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  1238. This is positive. The long history of capitalism since 1929 is racked with crisis and revolution as a pattern. WWII rise of Nazism in particular and fascism in general and the Chinese Revolution in 1933. Out of that crisis the US come out clean and enjoys a 20 year long period of prosperity but by 1950 the patterns starts all over again. The Korean War and the Cuban Revolution breaks out. Out of that crisis comes a period of prosperity but by 1963, that’s right... the crisis is the Vietnam War and this ends all prosperity with a long US recession, cuts, unemployment, austerity. double digit inflation and an Oil Crisis for the whole decade of the 70s. Capitalism hits bottom at this point. But not before a 10 year period of growth and international banking structures get built up setting the stage for the next crisis to come when the Gulf War breaks out in 1980. From this point forward the American working class take the brunt of all the burdens for every crisis not created by them and the working masses blame the less fortunate victims from poor nations for the increasing misery and material deprivation the richest nation imposes on its people famed for having the poorest population among all the rich nations. Crisis is now how the economies of the west grow at all. Without crisis prices would have to be kept high by other means which in this day and age the price-setters can not draw attention to themselves and fall under public scrutiny, the best way is to generate wars and create a demand. This keeps a shortage going and prices high. Economists can blame inflation on high interest rates the masses won’t know any better. So now there are multiple wars and multiple resistance wars that are stimulating growth for mainly one sector of the economy. All sectors are made to bend to that one sector performing well in sales that all other sectors must modify themselves just to survive. Its good to see the German public is less gullible than their ancestors many of whom were far braver than their descendants in fighting Nazism, Germany still has unfinished business, a revolution that began was diverted by the first world war that broke out in 1914. This is pivotal moment for it was a decisive moment that put the above pattern into place for the rest of the century. The pattern of war and revolution. When Europe was completely leveled to the ground, broken, when Germany looked like Gaza today, wrecked, pummeled, demolished, capitalism migrated and settled in America and took its tool box of economic principals with it thus starting the robbing of generations of their chances to be the rulers of their own lives!
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  1239. Just as a general statement I think it is perfect ignorance to assume a landowning social class ruling over them would be progressive.
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  1240. Re: 10:11 ---The GOP wing that is responding to the base would care if the base had an internal challenger(s). GOP senators would convict and impeach if that internal challenger(s) was becoming a new brand of conservatism, making something old new again that is distinctly progressive-conservative American and not nationalstic and European by origin. If you can't change the mindset of the base of the party than you need to primary them and bring up new candidates to replace them. I think the same should be done in the democratic party to replace people like Joe Manchin who stand in the way of social progress at every chance.
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  1241.  @samudramanthan8645  Everything is choice but how much of that choice is left chance and causality? People in ravaged war torn and economically drained countries have no choice. Choice is the issue for them but not for you who can afford choice. More relative to your circumstance is causality and chance, not choice...you don't choose which bridge or building is going to fall next? The chance this building and bridge will fall is the threat to your existence. The rupture of a dam. The spill of oil into water. All left to causality and chance makes choice a false argument complicit with destruction.
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  1242. Actually, Trump accomplished what Soleimani was trying to create, a defeat of Turkey. In fact, everything Trump does produces an outcome he never intended.
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  1243. A House America Act is pending. An immigrant in every senior citizen home that wants one or two and make retirement homes for seniors housing for the homeless.
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  1244. Also,-- buyers on line really do not care how items are procured. The small shop person and the on line customer will never see each other face to face to express remorse the hard work is made pointless and productive for others not for the shop keeper so in a sense, the shop owner is working for a new middleman, the thief.
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  1245. This thinking might be at the root of fascism in its present forms. Some fascism is narcissistic and chauvinistic and some fascism is expressed with direct repression against social movements that want freedom, and some fascism appears as ideology that manipulates public opinion through a mass indoctrination program of persistence of an idea that false thinking fits well with the exploitation arrangements the ruling classes make with the exploited masses. A pessimism and nihilism that ends with violence as its answer to the exploitation of man by man, goes like this; considering the problems of the world are man made...why not leave the world...the world solves its own problems without humans very naturally and humans are problematic beings that cannot get along socially. That makes humans the problem for the object that is Capital to expand and enrich itself through human exploitation, and for which fascism connotes mass extinction is the answer. Humans enter the capitalist world healthy and strong but at the end of their life cycle they come out of the social system, scorned, jaded, fried, burnt out, useless to society, one-sided, because society is the world of capitalism. Some of this thinking appears in the prophesy of the Apocalypse found in Christian theology, variations of the same theme in Catholicism, and members of that political body all bearing the same religious overtones justifies violence in defense of that ideology.
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  1246. If its cheaper to pay the ransom than to invest and sustain safeguards the collection of private sector industries will pay the ransom.
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  1247.  @DarkMAGAOfficial  Answer my question, you said the country is safe, I asked Who From, SAFE FROM WHO? Quit beating around the bush and answer the question?
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  1248. From the point of view of electoral reforms it was silly to have even brought the subject of leaving the EU up to a referendum. But so be it, we have to work with what we have. The public voted for leaving the EU because they are sick of the political games of the established 'order', 'order', 'Order', and anything the established elites would want the British working class will reject. Before moving off this subject one thing must be said, the tiny island off of Europe, wet, alone, disconnected from the mainland is its future if the British do not stop this nonsense. Amazing to go from a world empire to nothing. Perhaps this is the way America will disappear as well, despite its military might. The real issue in America and in Britain is the class struggle, the working classes in a state of economic insecurity and the super rich doing just fine, to use, Obama's pathetic language. I cannot believe this, folks, the Wall, Brexit, the invasion of Venezuela, etc., etc., are distractions from the class struggle. It is the same thing the American public is going to do when Trump's budget gets passed and pulls off sweeping cuts in pensions, social security, college funding, welfare etc.
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  1249. Good material for a political comedy, Trump's letter to Erdogan and the Three Amigos.  The wealthy Oregon hotel magnate is a national security risk for his lack of experience in the role of ambassador to the EU. Government jobs at the highest levels are bought and sold is how this wealthy hotel capitalist got the job. Campaign donatons is the price of those jobs while other civil service jobs at the lower level of government are allocated by examination. A federal workforce is created by rank through the civil service test but the higher job of decision-making consequences of the federal government are obtained by wealthy donors. Only the rich can pay for those jobs creates a system annexed to the system of birth right of the wealthy. Through the purchase of those higher jobs they access the use of the federal workforce's resources in equipment and labor-power without paying for it. Military flights for government officials is an example. As an official ambassador to the US the rich hotel magnate does not use his own jet or security nor his own residence. He lives free of charge and his own wealth is preserved and productive of profits as a hotel chain owner. This is a civil service system that promotes parasitical class relations. The civil service system blends with the private system of wealth inheritance when the sons or daughters of the rich hotel magnate buys a post in the highest levels of government tthrough political donations, i.e., quid pro quo, we establish an order or a social class in power all the time! Especially when it is a capitalist class let into power that the system becomes contaminated by money, corruption and unaccountability. With the police in the US we have a system that is poitical and not revocable by the Public so there is no accountability for police actions detrimental to individuals in civil society. America has three systems crippling its social development, two public and one private, that are parasitical relations promoting abuse and corruption in government all paid for by the taxpayer.
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  1250. I am waiting to see what New Yorkers do to the governor about Rochester, home of the Nazis.
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  1251. Yes Nancy. At some point the American working class will ask why are the workers better off elsewhere than I am here? If it were true but it is not. Workers elsewhere are worse off and the American worker feels grateful they are here and not there is the effect of such a condition. The job of the Pentagon, its objective, is to sustain that condition, perpetuate it, to never raise the level of workers elsewhere, and if they do, slaughter them, deal with it militarily, no one will be the wiser and the slaughter is forgotten, this so that the American worker makes the comparison they'd rather be here and not in the shoes of workers elsewhere, and this makes palatable to them that if there is to be nuclear strikes better it happen there and not here. The US military and government is in the business of protection of its capital industries which includes the workers of those industries. Mob rule of the neighborhood. This cycle of social conditioning or engineering, getting people to accept the conditions that disempower them is on the same order of the cycle of domestic violence in society. The only way to break a cycle is by smashing the condition of the cycle.
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  1252. Glascoe Bowie -- that the behavior of the ruling classes has been going on for centuries that behavior is not native to America, the ruling classes of Europe migrated to America. This proves two things, that it is only by a social revolution can the ruling classes be overthrown from their perch and second, people living under a class system appear to come to a social movement to overthrow the rulers after a long period of oppressive social relations in society. When the ruling classes migrated to America (new York City) they brought the class system with them and superimposed it on the communities already here on the continent.
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  1253.  @UnchosenMr  I want to see Russian Ladas driving the streets of Paris not tanks. Make them Vote No Confidence! Thank you and be well, solidarity to you.
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  1254.  @claudemadrid4950  Beautifully correct and retirement at 50 won’t put a dent into the wealth people produce once you subtract the money gong into unnecessary deterrence and wealth leaving employees to go to employers’ personal funds of consumption.
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  1255. J.L. Goodman; others have not quite answered your question. Because your question is about science and technology as a weapon in the hands of the MIC and about the power of science and technology used against human needs.
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  1256.  @ironfreak7270  Standard dumping ground for the MOB. Secaucus and Budd Lake NJ.
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  1257. DM is a major television broadcast studio with its own dubbing technology. Management can produce this in Spanish in a day with a translator, editor, and mixer for around $3000 budget. Why don’t they? Money is no object.
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  1258. Militarized police, security is the supreme social concept of civil society; the concept of the police. Its what allows a city and society to exists, and its reason for existence to gaurantee for each of its members the preservation of his/her person, rights and property. Your taxes are spent heavily into law enforcement so that you have a sense of security of your rights and property are safe. Its a class issue when failed policing does not takes place in all communities but in certain communities. This displaces the sense of security for each citizen and distorts the idea of security. Behind the policing is social control. Cops making false arrests and barbaric practices of assaulting black people preludes the social control of a black population. There have been 433 police murders in Brazil in five months. Opposition protests are developing in response to the social control exercised by police and the miltiary. How many in the US, LA, NYC, Chicago? Anyone counting? In Honduras the military killed four in demonstrations using live rounds just yesterday 6/23/19. Policing is fully militarized in the sense that the police are equipped by the military. Ethiopia the violence begins with the actual government officials carrying out violent coups to topple one another and in Sudan the military killing demonstrators calling for a change in government policy is the intensity of the violence breaking down the concept of security and therefore, civil society shatters. These are moderate demands made by opposition groups that do not warrant a violent reaction from the State. Reckless and incompetent behavior at every level of the hierarchy in law enforcement, government and society and there is not one institution that can rectify this contradiction except the people and victims of violence themselves.
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  1259. Sorry...the Cop was provoking the yellow jacket guy. Man in yellow finally decided to leave the Cop drew him back and pinned him to the wall the stroller left behind. There could have been words exchanged. The Cop did not let him go.
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  1260. Only 7% of the total workforce (300 million) and in the private sector (120 million) are unionized and that number is shrinking as more American workers become more reactionary and right wing in their politics. Workers are divided and voted for Trump, it was their show of defiance against the Democrats and Liberals on the Left. From 1980 to the present, the Democratic party (Clinton) got four major pieces of legislation passed that gave the advantage to Walmart and Co., Wall Street, Silicon Valley, the Military, the Financial System over the American working class. NAFTA, bank reform, welfare reform, crime bill, had set the stage for the destruction of unions and the workers degradation on two levels, material deprivation and wage suppression. At the time the unions were behind Clinton's reforms and to the average worker receiving the brunt of those reforms coming home to roost after the crash of 2007 led to Trump(ism). Effectively, the Democrats have successfully destroyed the economic base of the masses and constructed a capitalist communism for the elite ruling classes that the American working class has no chance of a revolutionary transformation of society without France, Germany, Britain, Brazil, China, India, and Russia or Latin America being the center of another world historic proletarian revolution that can spread to American workers. This talk may sound vintage but when you consider the worldwide trends of labor struggles they become more intensified in hard times. The condition of the American worker is worse than their counterparts that a major upheaval in breaking down the empire is necessary but not possible without the cooperation of workers everywhere since America's capitalism extends that far around the globe. Economics and climate change, war and disasters forces our consciousness to take account of this necessity.
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  1261.  federal reserve  You are such an ass! Thanks to your inability to educate or respect people, this conversation descends into a fight which perpetuates the very thing you are against, you hand the right a victory. I am totally aware of what your taking about. But not even the most unenlightened American will trust you. In any revolutionary movement, you are the reason the left loses, each and every time. You are an easy chump to get over on and the right laughs behind your back!
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  1262. Health is not an area for a class struggle. The republicans are running scared and are using the most vulnerable aspects of human life to shield themselves from a direct confrontation with the public. Parasitical cowards using the democrats to do their dirty work.
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  1263. Same mistakes the left made at the turn of the 20th century, they chose to reform capitalism instead of active protests and the formation of a worker's party, they instead became reformists and capitalists themselves that today we in America the reformists are corporate Democrats who are anti-working class.
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  1264. Bureaucracy is at fault. Poor emergency planning. Too many chiefs no Indians. A Classic American syndrome. I would be curious to know the toxic condition of the area as no readings have been done for radiation, chemical in soil and water debris contamination...none reported by officials in any of the hearings thus far, that I am aware of... in my mind, the ferocity of the heat of the fire reduced material into dead elements. Sifting and separating work more than a environmental remediation problem. There isn’t a openness of the method of approach coming from officials and a latent hesitancy beneath the surface of the formality lingers. No process of elimination has been announced of a methodical approach to recovering singed body remains, water and sewage repair, and distributing necessaries are three big problems the authorities do not seem to have a handle on. When the mayor says Lahaina is dangerous...none of the officials behind him come forward to say “they know this to be the case because they conducted water and soil testing,” nothing to that effect. The Public will have to face it going forward that bureaucracies are designed to function after the fact and when they have nothing to administrate they are useless in a situation that calls for recovery and rehabilitation as their main purpose is not prevention.
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  1265. Kamala Harris is a disaster. As soon as there are labor discontents in any organization means that organization is failing. Its management had failed to organize the work process in a way that develops the capacities of people working. How Harris organizes labor-power in her own office adds nicely to the already existing chaotic nature of working in society. This country is going to die from its obsession with race, class and gender dictating its provincially minded petty politics.
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  1266. Your comment is premature and for the millions of starving working class actors serving you in restaurants and working other service oriented venues the agreement keeps actors and writers divided and weakens their strength as a class when each deal reached with their employer/film producers. You pound your chest too soon too quick. One group gets a good deal and folds weakens the position of the other group to get an equal or greater deal. Divide and conquer.
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  1267. Thumbnail title is misleading, the Amazon was lit on fire by loggers, mining employees and ranchers. Logging, mining and ranchers are burning the Amazon! The message being the wrong Amazon is burning.
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  1268. The pattern of behavior emerges from this administration, a tactic by conspirators operating within the government to divide and derail the Public are at hand. The timing of leaks is one of these tactics. Multiple news leaks and revelations from Wikileaks arouse suspicion and mistrust of information and their sources distract attention from other deeds at the level of the White House and Paul Ryan and Co. Use of repetition in mass media is another pattern. All media outlets regurgitate the same message and headline using phrases that are designed to negatively stereotype any rational form of opposition. Almost simultaneously, whenever a regulation is repealed such as opening up of national reserved public lands to commercial oil and speculation, or whenever a significant issue like climate change is put on the world stage, or gutting medicare and medicaid to subsidize logging, ming, drilling, and showering tax cuts on the 1%, suddenly an array of controversies are let out, Mueller's investigation, Trump's meme on Clinton, Trump praising a military parade, splits up and quells the Public's capacity to oppose policies on a national level and in unity.
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  1269. Utterly pathetic...here is a on-the-stop-reporter who actually felt the chemicals in the air and has seen the deadly effects of the chemicals on the train and does not mention the conditions on the train exposing train workers to the chemicals for long periods of time. I think the issue here is that the workplace endangers human life inside and outside of the workplace and a train is a workplace.
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  1270. Nothing like protecting the properties of landowner(s) with tax dollars landowners do not pay!
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  1271.  @williamabbott9437  468 people holding the purse strings of a country of 332 million is an oligarchy.
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  1272. A working class has no ideals to realize like the neocons and the far right wing. No future vision of a society or world they want to impose on the world. Working people are going to have to free themselves. Develop their own society within the old and use what the old system created toward a new way of life to emerge. Distance themselves from the State and the rest of society for the perpetual crisis, i.e., the broken system society and the State has become.
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  1273. Northam is another white privileged baby boomer. He like many of his ilk dodged the draft in Vietnam.  Affluenza comes in as many forms as there are as many affluent white male Americans in a patriarchy.  He does not wear the pants in the Northam household. The governor may not to be governing Virginia at all. A similar generational thing happened that led to the fall of the Ancient Roman Empire.   The early creation of the Roman State was a union of the first three tribes, Quirinal, Palatine and Capatoline. These formed the original Roman people --the "fathers", the "patres," whose descendants in later times like the rich descendants baby-boomers of the elites of the WWII generation, organized themselves as a distinct class or order.  In Ancient Rome that generation did two things that led to the fall of Rome, they fought to maintain exclusive rights, and exclusive ownership of the public domain and they ended the practice of incorporation of distinct settlements forming the original city-state. They ended immigration and soon the ingenuity and the soul of the empire withered away like it is in the US today. More exact to the way the patricians ran the empire into the ground the baby boomers are running foreign policy in the same way through continuous conquest, i.e., perpetual war. Americans in the Military in American society have Spartacus as their example in overthrowing this capital-owning oligarchy of the social and political elite. Certain generals resigned from the Trump administration is a sign that a revolt is not palpable by the military at this time. But one never knows when a putsch is brewing that can lead the American people into a full blown rebellion against the patriarchy of this privileged social class. Time will tell, but the point is the past mirrors the present and the future.
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  1274. A fine example of how powerless the American people are about withholding money from governments that violate their own principals as tax payers that the power only comes from CEOs (individuals) to move institutions in the direction they want the institutions to move. Money is the power and the people who produce it are powerless to decide where it goes.
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  1275. Good reporter. I am wondering if people realize that inland Florida will become uninhabitable as it floods into the ocean. Its just a matter of time.
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  1276. America is starting to develop a feudal nobility. The .001% buy land and become the newest members to join the other three big landowners in the US, the Catholic Church, Columbia and NYU. Less and less does America look into the future society it expects to create and starts to look and feel like a modernized version of America in the pre-Civil War Era but with the people as serf-leasing arrangements for millions of small farmers and food dependency on landowners for the whole population.
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  1277. Incredible journey. Bald could not be more right about the rail system unchanged since it was built. Its ideal for a film. Pakistan, its rail materially unchanged in 150 years is remarkable and quite beautiful. Great documentary of the daily life of the Pakistani people.
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  1278. You must have been in your 20s when you were in the Navy, a boy. It must have been hard to make the adjustment from the authoritarian social structure of the Navy to a open and unstructured, free society. I would imagine you function best under authoritarian rule and by the narrow and detailed assignments the Navy imposes on service people when they return to a free market society the society you returned to must look to you as a sheer anarchy, is a mixed message. How do you reconcile your own free will as a member of society with the lack of free will in the military?
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  1279. @E Walker, --- so few like you do not even question the commodification of education, why is that? Simple answer might be that you are making money from it? Education is serving as a commodity for people to buy and sell it and make money from it! Strange. Europe and Asia do not see education as a commodity with a price so high only a loan would pay for it. The majority consume the use-value of an education as a widening of horizons and experience and a means to excel in some field. This is why the skill to pay ratio for American labor ranks 17th and the more educated workforce with a higher price for their commodity is in Asia and not in the West. Its counter productive to economic growth the focus of education in Asia that student loans exist but highly productive to lenders in the US where economic growth staggers.
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  1280.  @jkrogs1843  Funny. one or the other in power constitutes single party rule for that party in power.
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  1281. What do we want? Do we want a political or a human emancipation?
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  1282. “Top of the food chain”, really, is that how you describe ‘Hierarchy”? A food chain lies flat and horizontal on the ground; the prison hierarchy is a vertical social structure of command. Before your opinion holds any weight better know first what goes up and what goes sideways in the world.
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  1283. Did you feel that way when the railroad workers struck?
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  1284.  @haleybrown2836  18th Century to be exact.
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  1285. Some quick reflections of the news items... Who would have guessed that Fox News would be among the critics of Pirro's rant. A nun wearing a habit should get elected to Congress and the matter of a hijab is settled. Eric Prince is the Oliver North of the Trump administration seedy and cunning. Interesting how the American people are comfortable with this spoiled elite running their lives. The Trump administration hangs around the neck of the public like an albatross and it is tolerated by the public is a real paradox.
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  1286. Thumbs Up, professor.
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  1287. All black men who do the bidding of their oppressor against their own kind are too oppressed to know how they are oppressed get fired by their oppressor is a lesson learned the hard way.
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  1288. It is telling that nobody notices the measurements of infected COVID people are among the working classes, people who’s travel time takes place on the holidays as their only free time for the year; not the people whose holiday is travel all year round, so where are the measurements of those people? The measurements of infected people working from home are another group never reported, the general populace is treated like a spectacle and specimen at the same time in these reports.
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  1289. Excellent video...my respects to the Dr. and family, for his loss.
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  1290. Its a paradox that the conditions for revolution are ripe for socialism without the need of a state bureaucracy in the US but not materially ripe enough for the working class to overthrow capitalism. The productivity of labor is the agency for a true socialist society but this agency is not conceived by the working class to be its own faculty and, therefore, does not use it to promote a new society. Rather, the productivity is made into an external force operating against the working class as a weapon of material deprivation to sustain the existing social order, below that level the material conditions ripen for revolutionary theory to find an audience and following.
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  1291. President of the Chamber of Commerce, Jackie Wallace, with her pet Chihuahua. Some of the things a chamber of commerce does has enormous impact on the lives of working people. It is an organization of employers and if job, wages, and working conditions are important to you then the chamber of commerce is a committee you'd want to democratize. Or live with the only voice in town dealing out the cards. Choose apathy and you get what you asked for by not caring about it. Chamber implies a gathering, in this case a gathering of employers or local people who are business owner and hire labor.  All of us have complaints from not enough cashiers and open registers at the supermarkets, the crazy circle they put in town, or clock, or the handicapped parking fines and regulations are too rigid, or there is no way to cross this street without getting run over, are issues that are addressed in the county committees. So get on them and quit moaning and groaning. Employers and business owners use their influence on politicians and a Chamber of Commerce is their voice to make conditions go their way and its the highway for you. While the mechanics work on her Mercedes Benz and the Chihuahua is taken for a pet facial massage, an important decision that could make the life for the community better is not made.
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  1292.  @clarkhull7546  Why are you so dependent on the market...is a question thrown right back at you...your attitude against government praises the private sector, which, is doing well itself... but without government buy back of private sector stocks the private sector can’t employ people.
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  1293. The politics of the US the ideological ground on which the politics rests, creates a deeper psycho-social problem of making individuals only willing to part with their commodity for those commodities whose use-value satisfies the individual’s want. People are motivated by self-interest right from birth in American society and all societies like it; because the commodity they own by birth is labor-power, later in life parting with that labor-power, putting it to use, in a job from its condition of idleness without a job, is only done by an exchange for other commodities, a certain lifestyle supported by certain income for the use of your personal labor-power by a corporation. After the private exchange between person A and Corporate B has transpired, they struck a deal, the corporation buys your time in production, Capital confronts workers through its office rules and machinery, like tanks in a battlefield bombard an enemy firing, rounds of work demands as bullets at the workers. Production in general is made into a hostile place by which a third of one’s life is spent and work in particular is detrimental to the worker performing the work and to the end user of the product that worker has produced, destructive, are the main reasons for a human emancipation.
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  1294. Weird...be curious to see the scale and size of that 'Justice for J '??? rally in 4 days. Should give an idea of what 70 million Trump supporters looks like imagine 132 million non Trump supporters and another 75 million on the fence.
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  1295. A murder-suicide, the tragic saga of a modern day Romeo and Juliette. Sounds like a third of the US population flunked English Literature.
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  1296. Great read Jimmy.
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  1297. It is fascism enabled by capitalism, the reason there are so many immigrants in Italy is due to the increasing demand for labor-power by capital. This is step one in the law of accumulation to exploit the labor-process for the production of surplus value. There is no other way of getting rich under capitalism but through the exploitation of labor-power and this is offered up for sale through a huge immigrant population, refugees and immigrants supply cheaper labor power but more importantly, they produce surplus value at a higher intensity when they do work, they impregnate the finished product with more value, exactly what capital requires for its own expansion and accumulation, for very little investment in the person and as an outside illegal class of workers they get used by opportunists and career politicians to set the groundwork for a fascist reply to the social conditions Italy's working class is up against. But it is all a distraction from the real process of exploitation for the sake of accumulation. Same thing is going on in all western capitalist societies. Only the US is different. It has not taken in refugees and immigrants, to the contrary, by turning away asylum seekers which is illegal, the US claims to protect its industries and working class from this reserve army of labor is a fallacy because the cheap labor supplied and the increasing demand for labor-power by capital took place during the early stages of this development in the 1990's. The outside illegal workforce was already here working in jobs American would not do or were not trained to do because the working class had been abandoned by capital flight. There was no capital investment in industry in the US, it all went overseas. The US depends heavily on its military to hold this empire together. Italy is no such animal as a capitalist state. It is country led by economic rapists out for themselves for what it is worth and it is a dam shame the Italian working class have not formed their own coalition government to replace the criminal one! Italy is a carnival preyed by vultures.
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  1298. Where he is standing a hundred years ago at time stamp 3:00, would have been higher up not 30 feet underground. The washing machine industry could stand to make machines that use less water, they can, should but profits prevents them from innovating.
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  1299. There is hardly any coverage in the American media inside the 'Northern Triangle' countries, check with Telesur.
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  1300. But that view cuts short history as a story of value relations of production. Slavery and serfdom, wage-labor, are forms of production and production is value, hence, they are value relations. What form will value take after capitalism is the question? Capitalism is not the last stage because within it is the two sided nature of labor stuck within the value relation of capitalism and labor cannot be two sided forever. At some point labor must belong to itself...and so...production belongs to itself through it. History records more than wars, kings and monarchs, it records how people produced and production is always a relation between labor and nature. Take the most significant activity that has bearing on survival and reproduction and judge capitalism by that yardstick and the picture is very grim. What to do about it depends on the creation of a new value relation, a new social form of production.
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  1301. @marcushyu,---The notion that has to be discarded is the notion of mortgages on homes and real property. These are notions to you but they are real tools for cornering masses of people into being consumers for landowners, bankers, merchants, government, industry, who can act as sellers to the millions of people who have become consumers.
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  1302. From what I understand the national warnings were given two days before touch down of the tornados. Why was the graveyard shift of the candle factory in particular permitted to work and the factory not closed the day before the tornados?
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  1303. The US position is predicated on pressuring the parliamentary factions to come up with a coalition to run a government but first the terms of the government have to be consistent with the long term aims of the US occupation. Interestingly, the speculation about the American occupation in Iraq is confusing and runs very high among Americans. The opposition to US intervention in Iraq is low among the American public. A lack of understanding of Iraq's economic situation. On the one hand, Iraq has a situation that is not dissimilar to the situation in the US for its own population. High unemployment and low investment capital in to industrial and agricultural sectors, non-universal health care and low functioning education, a violent society, has led to disenchantment with the US occupation for the average Iraqi, is the same disenchantment of the average American voter with their own liberal and conservative politicians leaving defenseless the communities that make up society be raped as the tax payer for corrupt government. The average Iraqi justifiably suspect sectarian political factions of exporting into foreign banks the reconstruction funds intended to rebuild Iraq is not much different than 'Dark Money" channeled to Senators to vote against climate change rules from the Koch Brother's money juggernaut. The many reasons to oppose US foreign policy can be summed up in two words; Peace Now! On the other hand, US/Trump's continuation of the US occupation in Iraq, is the Achilles Heel of US domestic policy.
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  1304. Comes down to land acquisition that thousands are propertyless in Utah and millions across the county. Land is concentrated into few hands. Only a national land reform package can disperse acres of land to more people in society. The concentrated ownership of land if to house more people and not be homeless and also ensure farmers can sell their land to other farmers and not only to the super rich would have to be broken up. I think large-scale farmers and rancher would appreciate the new owner not be Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates but be an actual farmer in a position to perfect agriculture. Land speculation in Utah runs high and causes homelessness. Its a disease that land is something you buy where the rich live and the poor die. A few purchase acres equal to, or greater than, the number of people an acre would support in society. Competition for land among developers is a coercive force, a kind of pressure of mutual interest, takes over their souls and all they can see are single family homes that are more profitable than homes that would support four families, to solve homelessness. City zoning laws encourage this process of land acquisition fueling homelessness and climate change because of all of the deforestation to build suburbs. Only in America are people this homeless that a national land reform package is long overdue and critical for survival at this point.
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  1305. Single housing developments should be illegal. Excellent video.
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  1306. Excellent summary of the history of the White House.
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  1307. U.S. Officials know nothing.
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  1308.  @carbonara2144  I agree, having thought it through your assessment is correct.
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  1309. Wow! What a report. I would advance one thesis; the Trump administration will be the last antagonistic presidency this country will ever see. I cannot see it moving back from a head on collision with the rest of humanity. It has Britain and Israel committed to it as allies but the deeper it goes into racist ideology it will lose those states to internal revolution. Just in the last 20 years the social critiques were saying capitalism would perish because it cannot sustain its insane rapacious consumption pattern of private appropriation and the people carrying all the debt. We see now those were cries and whispers from the people carrying the national debt not from the people free of the national debt. Actually given all the wealth Wall Street has raked in that alone and the wealth of the Catholic Church can pay off the national debt with their money alone. It looks to me although too early to tell, that the fools in the White House will bring about the end of capitalism to spite humanity. The real end of capitalism is nowhere near us but it is in the minds of the people in the Trump administration who will, in turn, bring about the end of capitalism, a direct result of their ideology. The death of ideology which presupposes its opposite, science. With capitalism gone science can be for the people and a new age for the common person is ushered in. That is if it is not too late! How far to the right the US has moved in just 20 years is indicative of one thesis. The American empire is in decline, a simple thesis, and has been since Nixon. It has lost control over grand areas of the world to independent nationalist movements or to communism, if you want to call it that these days, that the Trump administration is in a psychotic death struggle against the rise of underdeveloped countries. In effect, the elites are running contrary to all human history and it does prove Marx's focus on the class struggle as having a double character to it, not only a bloody affair as a war over Oil, or territory, or wage and price wars, it is not only a 'condition of humanity' as psychology would suggest. Progress is found through human conflict is its other side. The US declines and formerly backward peasant societies begin to come of age and this is how we deliver suffering humanity into the light of day of industrialization with a nuclear option, to blow them all to hell! America elects a New York Nazi sympathizer to the presidency ought to be the headline.
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  1310. This writing is probably too deep for this format but perhaps for some it is not to start a higher level of dialogue. Both sides of Congress are defining their position on Obamacare. Party leaders want to know how many flank the centrists that the ACA would become an expanded medicare versus how many want it completely abolished to come up with a compromised package deal. On the one side hangs the balance of 20 million Americans entirely cut off from any form of medical care and on the other side, the hideous juggernaut of capitalism, profit absorbing health establishment. Their next vote will help them form a national policy but it will not be at the expense of the rich establishment. Somewhere, somehow on the backs of another segment of the American people, a national policy will cost society more than society can afford. It is at this juncture the realization strikes party leaders that every sector of America's material infrastructure and social structure has been for so long neglected that 330 million people are living in 19th century conditions. A single payer system is all society can afford. Raising the debt ceiling has reached its limit so to spe After the Civil War of 1865, the rise of communism in Europe and then in Russia created a monster in the US. A monster absorbing all of the productivity of Americans for its own development. Along with that monster, a prototype personality for all to copy, mimic, mime, and be a part of the monstrous being at its core, that the very animal usurping America's total capacity to survive today had one complete century to improve upon its own being and the type A personality. Communism had a son and it is called the military industrial complex. Inside this monstrous complex society is intact, well-nourished and suited for growth of power, venality and hubris. Outside of the military society falls to pieces, here life is cosmetically coated to work for 50, 100, 300 million people over the course of a century as a bare working average. Cheap schools, cheap food, clothes, everything cheap in quality and quantity. Inside the complex the best of quality and quantity. Two different worlds and a social system implanted into the larger social body, a parasite now turned into an abscess, to use a medical analogy. A double standard flows from this contradiction, a broken pair of hedge cutters to do the job that requires a chain saw. Cheap investment for maximum output. A 19th century railroad system still in place, a dangerously decaying lead water system installed at the turn of the 20th century, a dangerously depleting environment from a hundred years of mining and experimentation. High mortality rates of the American people found in the places where they work and in society where they live. America never developed a civilization from the ground up. Its law enforcement divisions developed an institutional copy of the Pinkertons and Murder Inc., former bounty slaves bounty hunters gradually reformed to become a police force. Now Veterans become private security hire-ees. The cost or repair is so high that it can only come from one source, i.e., the Rich who won't give in. Americans have a social revolution of no choice on their hands. An apartheid system within the walls of its death star that Capitalism was too busy absorbing the productive power of previous generations under conditions that were first slaves and then wage earners let get larger and larger. Too large it will break the spine of the country. What happened to society that it has come to this point of total exhaustion in one corner and rapacious force in the other corner was the Cold War and every war following the Civil War. Financing these activities exceeded the total productive capacity of its people that something new had to replace the finite limits of a gold standard if the circulation of America corporate products were not to perish in warehouses. Fake money was invented but far too fake up against the all too striking reality of decaying social and economic superstructure. The only place where Mind is not fully developed but the body is developed is in the Military Industrial Complex and where Mind is highly developed but the body is decrepid is in society. Where matter is lacking thought is rich and where matter is plenty thought is poor.
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  1311. Mmmm...Antiquity was built on slavery. The Middle Ages on feudalism. Modern industrial age on free labor. All of these ages were built on the babies born into them from other people. Steven King needs intensive individual deconstruction.
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  1312. We are fortunate to have a strong judiciary.. In other less developed countries the judiciary is usually subordinate to governments that are really informal dictatorships in disguise. I am still waiting for Trump to make his pivot and act on his campaign promises. He gets deeper into this and we'll have four years of pure unadulterated bullshit for a government. A government worth impeaching and I am sure republicans would rather have predictable Pence as president. You do realize that some countries in recent history had several re-writes of constitutions before they establish themselves in one form of a republic or another, because of their internal fighting and weakness, between the bureaucracy, judiciary, the president, the military, power flips from one hand to another. Always the people are screwed. That America is coming to this is revealed in the fact that an artificial crisis is created to divert mass attention from real problems; nothing is done to raise the condition of the poor, the working poor, the elderly and the young and lower middle classes from poverty. This is the poorest rich country in the world. Why foment a constitutional crisis to render all parts of the government from enacting their duties? The continual bickering and haranguing the public with negative laws, the poorest are victimized, in time rights taken away and all that is left to do in their societies is to do nothing, flee or fight back. Once a total ban is in effect then special considerations are granted on a piecemeal basis, a long wait. I do not think indigenous people of the world whose fates are at greater risk will have much patience given their social condition when they encounter the next American outside of the US. I think this will enhance the forces of terror. Maybe that is what they want. If Hannibal can cut through the Alps with elephants and take down the Holy Roman Empire in one battle than you have to wonder the degree of incompetence of the generals who had 15 years and universal dominance on land, sea, air and space at their disposal and cannot take down ISIS. Other reasons explain the delay not incompetence. But for clarity sake, there is a difference between the fighters fighting the US and the masses of people thrown into the stone age and need help!
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  1313. Republican right wing attorney generals in alliance with the Attorney General in Washington would make a cabal of American Jurisprudence in suppressing dissent. The American citizenry is tyrannized and the non-citizen is punished.
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  1314. Giovanni Thorpe is right! Melenchon is the best choice for France. Just like Bernie is the best choice for America. And Corbyn the best choice for Britain. This is the last hour of life for capitalism. These three would be the best choices if we want to change the framework and treatment all the dilemmas that face us now. Beyond that they may not be the best choice at all. Because when it comes down to facing the dilemma of discontent in the west we are often faced with our own selves in a totality that has complete power over the individual.
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  1315. This episode was weak in substance. The fossil fuel industry, the Koch brothers specifically, don't care about what foundations say, do or want! It is still profitable to be in oil and worst still the entire US military is totally dependent on fossil fuel. To add salt to the wound Koch International, Exxon, BP, Conoco, could give a rat's ass about the bottom line of industries that are not in oil or coal production despite how damaging fossil fuel emissions are. The daily activity of Americans is driving back and forth to work. The auto, chemical and aeronautics industry executives are what the Nobility was to the French Revolution's Jacobinites, a force of reaction and destruction to the world at large. A scourge on humanity that gave birth to the idea of 'planned obsolescence' through products and inventions have subjugated an entire population to their productions. They substituted arms and legs and built everything necessary for mobility for a machine. The State that considers the oil industry 'the' vital national interests of the county. The rest of us are secondary, what they call a 'special interest'. They can recover from divestment and return again to exploit the natural resources of the world to meet the demand of the US military dependent on oil. Until this dilemma is freed from the encroachments of Big oil and militarism in Washington nothing will change. In fact, the foundations promoting renewables stands to be defeated and crushed without the total support of the whole population. They should be addressing how lifestyle and culture must change within the American people for they are the ones buying their products. Oil seethes from every pore of the American consumer, it is under their feet in asphalt, they sleep in homes made from poly carbonite material, polyurethane in plastic in their homes, in rattles and diapers in all cribs and on babies. Every product in America is an oil based product. The social phenomenon of mass consumption of oil based products in American life and culture presents itself as immense accumulation of plastic, rubber and poly fluorocarbon elements and styrofoam is in every home, garage, business and government structure. If plastic rules oil rules and war is necessary to extract the raw material to keep oil in everyday life consumed.
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  1316. All the products of private industry look durable and useful against powerful natural forces and pass all government standards but in the end they crumble for their cheap construction. Building products are not produced for their use to withstand earthquakes. Building are not planned and designed with material that can be easily sifted when it is rubble. The earthquake disaster brings together a confluence of everything wrong with construction industries.
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  1317.  @surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531  Is he out of power, last I heard they were working on it? Yeah, -- I think that is great, but a non-fascist alliance has to be formed to defeat fascism's resurgence. No country is safe from fascist expansionism. As long as fascism persists a non-fascist alliance has no choice but to build an offensive movement that overthrows all conditions giving rise to fascism. You can rest easy after the conditions dissolve.
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  1318. This war in Ukraine is about NATO expansion. Its about America fighting Russia there in Europe and not here in America said Senator Schiff to Congress on Ukraine. once in a while the truth comes out of the mouths of politicians. This is one of those whiles unfortunately, this channel and all the other channels decided to not talk about. Pretty basic to me that the US war machine wants NATO to be its primary purchaser of weapons and NATO wants to control the gas and pipelines in the east that it wants Ukraine to join along. The question I am concerned with is how an invasion is expected to resolve the Russian speaking Ukrainians who want to break away from Ukraine to stay in Ukraine as one nation?
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  1319.  @Abraham_Tsfaye  May not be an island if nature has anything to do with it.
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  1320. Too bad the Spanish Europeans were not at the level of technology and geology the Mexica were and took the cheapest way out to solve the problem. If only the Venice of North America were taken by the Italians or the Dutch than the Spanish what Mexico City would look today.
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  1321. @Animated Adventures Yeah but, don’t you think they know what to expect and out number you since the registration of the gun you purchased all leads to you and your address? I think that purchase put you in their data base.
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  1322. Hate to be a pain in the ass...but if this subject was not expounded upon in great detail by socialist thinkers it must not be that important. It can only mean that there is a sense of flexibility about what the character of a socialist society ought to be, even what road it should take is not as important as getting there? Typically, people learn about their own exploitation of each other by going through it. Experiencing the class creating effects of privatizing the means of production is the exact experience required to rule out government and the private sector, a big lesson that the workers should have full control and management over the forces of production.
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  1323. Well then, ‘equilibrium’ is a pipe dream. Worry when the price of labor sinks below its value. This brings about conditions ripe for revolutions. Employers are resisting wage raises above a value mark established over the last 45 years of wages kept constant. They had lowered the cost of production by adding innovations to production for higher output. The paradox is that innovation displaces labor and re-hiring at a lower price from another pool or community of workers is made possible. Prices rise against wages held constant has been a steady decline in the value of wages. The scenario is a classic case of a class struggle.
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  1324. “Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.” FZ.
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  1325.  @Seekthetruth3000  nicholas schroeder is not wrong. There is a huge difference between people who lost relatives to fascism because of their fascism and the people who lost people fighting fascism.
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  1326. I thought you were going to say people who benefit from this system do not have a problem with people killed by the system...they really don’t care about you...but you went off track on that soft stuff and, frankly, the soft approach on capitalism is not flying.
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  1327. @AFDAL MAGHREB Capitalist are only capitalist because people see themselves as labor-power in the exchange between labor and capital. Once people stop seeing themselves as useful to another and the other as useful to them for their survival the relation between capital and labor will dissolve. If you want Big Oil to go away than the car, truck, van, bus, airplane, ship, are the things you have to stop using.
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  1328. The people who went through an apartheid system perfectly understand the position of the American people being divided into an apartheid society when they read about what is going on in the US. You have an apartheid social class developing a segregated society where blacks, native and hispanics and other ethnicities are walled off and never come into contact with whites who hold the power and the wealth. An Apartheid in the US will look like you can share the same roads but not the same jobs. They went through it and we will go through it before we can reach the place where they are now.
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  1329. Every man for himself he said.
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  1330. You know what I think. I think the family is right. There is more behind the cameras that were are not seeing.
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  1331. It isn’t an identity; its an economic interest made into an identity. For example, let’s say you and your wife are billionaires but cannot have children. What happens to your billions when you die if you don’t have heir(s)? If the State makes adoptions the only choice people have you would support that State’s position on abortion for increasing your chances of passing down the wealth to a legal heir. Christian and Muslim legislators who pass laws prohibiting abortions are really reinforcing inheritance which perpetuates a wealthy social class or a class system. The mother bearing a fetus of an unwanted child is forced into adoption and the economic interest of the wealthier in need of heirs to their wealth is met. So you see the identity issue is merely a social con game of pressing buttons, causing mischief, distraction from the laws being passed behind the scenes against a highly sensitized population who had been in the closet for decades comes out into the world with no knowledge of the economic forces at play and why they do play. In this particular town they were played for the expediency of Muslims to win power and once in power the Muslims scapegoat them, is a consequence of being nieve of the economic interests and motives backstage.
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  1332. It does not appear the workers will seize or are ready to seize the railroad from the owners of the railroad but in all other countries except the USA, the railroads are nationalized property.
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  1333. If wealth and money is absent in your life and you remain unconnected you will face jail time at some point in the course of your life is consistent with American domesticate social policy that promotes if you are rich and connected your life will not be ruined.
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  1334. The perception of a perfect government in the view of Democrats also makes the claim Hegel makes of the Prussian State, the American government is the final achievement humans can produce in the political world. Hegel rationalized the Prussian State in the same way. Rationalizations are relative rationalizations, relative to the moment they live, purely subjective. Doing more work than what you are compensated for; is not the Marx’s theory of value and use value, value, concrete labor and abstract labor are the four elements that go into the formation of the concept of value at the level those economic categories developing through the history of work. The history of work, or the history of labor, is the subject-matter, and when people have no clue how things are made, why they are made, or what work in society looks like... in the history of work. Must not confuse surplus value and where it comes from with these categories. Where Surplus Value comes from is answered not in the first chapter. Use-value and value and the concrete and abstract labor contradiction composing value have moved into a new form, more complex, they reside in commodities and this contradiction is resolved with the introduction of money. There is no discussion about the nature of Capital or Capitalism at this point. Not even a definition. Not even a mention of Capital. The categories must originate from themselves and Capital is a category that does not emerge or come from use-value, value, concrete labor, abstract labor in their form as commodities and money. Workers in every century exchanged products as commodities and money for thousands of years and a Capitalist was never in the picture util the 16th century. Capitalism and free markets are not mutually dependent; we can have exchange without a capitalist and still have surplus value. Not only do the categories have to emerge from themselves in the treatment but they must be accurate, a clear and exact picture of reality, of the subject-matter; presented always along the lines of deductive reasoning. Essentially he is dealing with aspects of reality when on the level of discussing the circulation of social matter in society. For instance it would be wrong to bring into the discussion of the elements that constitute value in operation through the circulation of commodities and money in society when the subject-matter is production. We need to see these elements in their transformation through production and here we begin to see how surplus value comes into being. “Nuff said; go read the book yourself.
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  1335. Democracy is dead in the US.
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  1336. The prime minister is AWOL! He’s be crazy to do a Novalny number and return to where he will get killed or be a hostage. These are armed youth who want the PM out of power. This youth are Haiti’s radicalized poor.
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  1337. @malikl3643,--- before this ever happened it is highly, “highly” unlikely you had given a single passing thought about tunnels under hospitals in Gaza and why? You’ve been spending your adult life totally asleep.
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  1338. Good confrontation with John Podesta. ...organized militancy.
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  1339. You cannot have a rules based order with a competitor knocking the rules around. We are in decline is the comment from the Senior Fellow, that even in our decline, he says, we are a much more powerful country than China (6:35) . Decline is the key word that is not used to describe the US economy in the mainstream. Historic legislation reflects this decline as efforts to save a declining system appear to be too little, too late, in many cases, but how the decline is told is myth. The decline is; if US industry was at 90% industrial capacity in the past it is today at 20% capacity and in decline with a deficit of 70% under utilization on top of aging infrastructure. What is accelerating the decline in the society is the use of high interest rates domestically to slow inflation. This has the bigger effect of lowering wages and war spending abroad raises prices. In a system in decline its primary monetary and fiscal social institutions engage in policies that contradict what the economy and society needs and what people want.
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  1340.  @mywifesboyfriendisfire  my answer is smaller privatization.
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  1341. What they are not talking about is more important than what they are talking about.
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  1342. The reporting on the political struggles in Central and South America is not balanced in the sense the US role in those struggles is never exposed.
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  1343. An apartment in the Bronx is worth the amount of body parts you can get for it these days...one man’s body parts is exchanged for another man’s apartment...is a bizarre and barbaric barter arrangement... whatever happened to money?
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  1344. Unbelievable that a Doctor was paid to go on air just to say it was not a flaw in the ride but we don't know what the mans' motives were. Would not hurt to use your doctor head giving a sociological perspective on the deep social alienation in society even after saying the ride was not responsible. Thinking it was stunt is an attitude of indifference and alienation that is no better than the doctor's opinion also a form of social alienation. It is pretty plain to me more individuals in American society are 'out of touch' with their own mortality. Worse than a lost generation, a waisted one.
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  1345. Meanwhile, an ever shrinking number of capitalists in America get rich in secrecy and the American politicians gin up social tensions to make people protest and argue with each other about racism, sexism and wearing masks...to draw their attention away from the ones becoming globally rich.
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  1346. These are all the values needed for a sane and just, virtuous society the values learned in kindergarten. No kicking, biting, fighting, share, wait your turn, be respectful. These virtues taught at the elementary school level become their opposite by the time a child of age 5 becomes age 10 in high school. By then children learn the values of a moribund civil society that teaches maximum output in opposition to the virtues learned as children. In some countries the change of virtue into vice is blatant and brutal and in others it is subtle and cunning. What is common to them all they teach the values of the past and no values on how to cope with the future on the planet we occupy.
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  1347. In the context of an aggressive competition there is only passive aggression and passive resistance that are the actions and roles the participants can play. The participants alternate becoming one or the other in the relation of the competition into which they are engaged.
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  1348. What if a life saving drug that cost a dollar to make but sells for a $100 to buy was all the driver needed to arrest his seizures behind the wheel would you support socialized medicine than?
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  1349. Production and distribution are two moments of a whole economy the other two moments is consumption and exchange that all products of labor must pass through if they are to become commodities. You don't have this going on you don't have a functioning society. You have a breakdown in the unity of the four moments of a totality not working.
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  1350. One more problem the leaders are unable or refuse to fix. I am not sure which. The market is too dangerous. A lot of bad things happen in markets. People cannot go shopping and the stores will lose money. It spirals downward from there and the politicians are quiet. Too quiet a sense of betrayal and abandonment overwhelms a population expecting it is their job to do something about the violence. Cries and vigils that never get answered.
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  1351.  @废材-h2k  the fault is your’s.
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  1352. @Loren Tedford...that is vitally good work you are doing, you should start your own channel for the rest of us who cannot get educated on the patterns you are finding in mass commercial media. Good work, man. Do it.
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  1353. It appears to me that America is not modifying old circumstances with a completely change activity, it is more like we are continuing with the traditional activity under changed circumstances.
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  1354. The political elites in America and Britain are truly arrogant imposing their will on a nation that has fought and resisted all foreign invasions. Leave them be.
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  1355. It isn’t an empire in the field of industrial production but its social classes are still very much intact as an empire. The empire appears to have two economies within it. One which the empire itself has organized into a command economy and a general economy outside of the empire that is organized around free market labor-power and exchange. Whatever happened to the rich peasants and the farm workers working for themselves in England and America in the 15 th Century. As long as they were enriched over the centuries the descendants should still be around with a long family history of early day farmers who became growers famous for their product and what ever happened to the mass of people made poor because these past ancestral peasants and self employed farmers exploited the farm workers they hired in the 15th century became the steady flow of migrant workers supplying the labor-power growers need in the 21st Century? Are migrants employed by the new age organic farmers, animal breeders, and slaughter houses of today? The empire in its decline took other lands away from the Public and rented it out to ranchers. A Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was the daughter of a rancher. Ranchers enjoyed 3 centuries of enrichment through an augmentation of their private lands with federal lands. This greatly increased their stock in cattle, practically for nothing of a cost, while the cattle themselves yielded a richer supply of shit (manure) for the cultivation of soil. These social classes are still intact as aristocracy and land positions in the highest court of the land as the empire declines. Large scale farmers who specialize in one crop in vast quantity run farms long term, 99 year long contracts. What reforms would change the relation of the social classes? These social classes are constant, implanted in the soil, while the humanity that fills the role of supplying the labor-power is always changing with fresh new faces increases the difficulty of redirecting the decline of empire to help them.
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  1356. The good news about the recovery of his manifesto is that some of the aspects of reality the writer talks about are facts.  Automation is a fact, automation in the hands of employers has a specific use to them that is no use to workers raises the question of economic inequality and the growth of specific kinds of institutions in society. This question of how automation is used specifically to raise productivity from fewer workers is sure to enter the debates since it led to a massacre. It also shows the need for a revolution in mass education, a total change of curriculum to eradicate ignorance, superstition, racism and sexism. His manifesto also gives insight into the social changes in his family which is common to many families in America that have experienced loss in many forms. This would be my starting point, the family and what families need, we fortunately live in a time when science and building construction can merge into a self-producing homes making a job unecessary and a thing of the past.
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  1357. A tragic act of desperation of a family is an effect of a recession that forces families to live with each other in conditions unsuitable for their co-habitation and with no other resource to be independent and survival is left all up to them they annihilate each other.
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  1358. Big guy has access to the market the little guy needs and the little markets the little guy uses to sell usually does not sell as much in quantity to make up the difference if he did not sell to the big guy.
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  1359. Obviously, Bragg is not the man the NYPD want as DA.
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  1360.  @chrisj984  How do you end up with inequality in your society when you start out with equality? Marx has an answer and you don’t...the problem is not Marx. Only a living person can be a problem and I take it you are alive.
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  1361. @teachercharlesamericanengl2098 This is not a rhetorical question for you but a serious one with respect to “price gouging” : Do you really not know what it means to deregulate buyers and sellers in a capitalist society?
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  1362.  @stephencorsaro954  Very difficult for people to let go of ideas that came with an age that is dying out, they lived under it too long, ideas centered on the idea of individualism and uniqueness have been debunked but people still cling to them.
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  1363. IMPEACH TRUMP!
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  1364. Land can lose rent. Rental income is a feature of land can lose without losing any inherent features like its fertility, in the same way machines have nothing to do with profit...its time Americans start thinking this way.
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  1365.  @RheemQ  Besides which the national guard never served in WWII or in Vietnam or in Korea. This is strictly a new use of the guard established after 9/11.
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  1366.  @maggydasmauschen373  You mean...The Director of the ML Institute, Riazinov but its first director is a more interesting history, Nikolai Bukharin. You'd swear the evangelical right wing from the Jerry Farwell days had copied the Russian Marxists with their own universities to prepare a cadre of trained to run for Congress graduates, the way the International Lenin Institute hand picked their cadres and sent them off to communits parties in several countries. Patterns appearing are more concerning then by whom they appear.
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  1367. The Roots of NATO in Five Sentences. It was founded as a means to contain socialism. To limit socialism to only the USSR. At the time, the US formed NATO in the later part of the 20th century on the basis of the League of Nations formed in the early part of the century after WWI. The League of Nations founded as a means to contain socialism is the precursor to NATO.  NATO's history begins in embryo form with the crushing of the Paris Commune of 1871 and any working class revolt thereafter. That's it. Postscript: The military could be used to crush a real working class revolution in the US but if for some reason the military could not be used then the dominant political class would use NATO forces to crush the US military and the working class revolution in war it sees it can come out on top as absolute ruler against both. This would be an interesting configuration of alliances where the two combatants are two social classes and two militaries engage in battle on American soil. A war on American soil shall not occur is the No. 1 Commandment of the Joint Chiefs of Staff can easily be violated by a powerful economic social class and its Capital the world depends on for its existence including the US military. Get a guy like Trump and he'll call out their incompetency. All the world is a slave to capital is what guy like him understands best. Those who own capital rule the world. NATO forces being commandeered by the capitalist class of rulers and the US military mutinied because the incompetency of the Generals failed to protect the mainland is not an unlikely scenario in times when societies come and go. Big mistakes are made by the ruling powers to protect that which is sacred to them, the working day, in a vain effort to repress the working class from ever making its own mistakes a worker can never be anything more than a worker, they fight to subordinate labor as instrument of capital, the military fights to preserve honor, freedom and mainland, the working class fights for its dignity and self-emancipation, -- the other social classes do weird things uprooted in the social turmoil. In the interlude of various battles the forces merge into one against a foreign element of national origins in what becomes a war of a working class emancipation because no other social class is functional enough to resolve the crisis. Workers win by default and necessity to end its own role in the social conflict of the capitalist paradigm.
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  1368. We are far from self-activity coinciding with material life. In order to realize self-activity for each individual control over our material life has to be in the hands of all people.
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  1369.  @edifying  The establishment receives its income from money markets and as public officials are paid salaries from the tax payer. They receive incomes from two sources that are distinct from each other, separated, in the tax code as having two sets of rules, private sources and public sources of income. Is this not a parasitic existence?
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  1370. Bravo! We need to control the material forces of production and cease giving them permission to use us for their economic benefit. This would socialize profits and privatize the losses.
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  1371.  @antonimonti355  Don't forget the ruling classes in American society have a sufficient surplus and can wait out a decline of a cruel system but the working masses in society who have an insufficiency of any surplus, none at all cannot wait it out.
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  1372. 0:01 Imagine all the aquatic swamp life that has been displaced... The heat, humidity, rain and all that swamp life regenerating. 13:00 Americans evacuated an airport in the region the region itself is not evacuated of Americans!
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  1373.  @cynthiadavis1324  Little is not the World.
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  1374. Define ‘good standing’ ?
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  1375. hopefully the protests will call for the “demilitarization’ of the police not the defunding the police... that will come when police are trained to police society to guarantee safety and security to every person, place and thing not trained to be a invading force.
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  1376. This is what happens when society is split down the middle between one side of the tracks where the grass grows greener and where nobody dies from gunshot wounds, hunger or the freezing cold and on the other of the tracks where social cohesion can’t be put back together again. Two completely different worlds joined together as No Man’s Land and a Shangri-La and a wall in between them.
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  1377. The Nazis failed in Europe and are trying to conquer the US.
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  1378. If the vaccine were a color and not clear would you take it?
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  1379. Any attack of this nature is a test of strength of the victim by the perpetrator. The weaker the victim(s) the greater the attacks.
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  1380.  @chezeus1672  ...right...but too far behind our time, hopefully.
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  1381. This great and peaceful man was taken from humanity for being a threat to national security, a man who never once harmed another human being.
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  1382. Imagine that, living in a society where you can be prosecuted for affection and get away scot-free for tax evasion! When a series of companies that are set up without listing who the owners are and who owns what you end up with a system that cannot regulate itself much less prosecute tax evasion. South Dakota are for banks what Panama is for tax havens should raise an eyebrow on how deep the iceberg is?
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  1383. NBC is awful.
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  1384. After seeing this I bet many men my age would elect to have vasectomy. I would probably disown my daughter if she was like this...a total reflection of unstructured and undisciplined parenting...I would consider myself a total parental failure. If I knew in advance, see into the future, a grown daughter like this; I would elect to not bring this person into the world to contribute to a world already off its natural rotation. She would not have survived my structured and conditional parenting. My kids are in the mid 30s, successful and stable today and if they had issues with my parenting they would not let me near the grandkids. If HD did fire those workers I would never spend a dime in that store. She is a sad commentary and disgrace to American womanhood. Further more she will have no place in society, left behind, when society passes through this phase of narcissism and when technology democratizes all the sciences and education and social life.
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  1385.  @asleepawake3645  Where everyone is the same one party can work. Everyone in America are not the same two parties is not enough.
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  1386.  @dahadahaful  Oh that. Structurally that is how the poor get a share of the economic surplus, they get a tax return, to spend into the immediate economy for survival; its a revenue share of a fixed amount that keeps the poor poor.
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  1387. Bravo! It takes significant dedication and intellectual will to pour over the life cycle of a given industry. Workers who ran the factories took them over in Chile very recently. Wish I can recall the details but I do recall the worker's action was a fact. Why didn't the workers in Maine take action to the next level and claim the factory? The case of the Chilean workers holding the factory and continue to produce from the factory though they sleep in the factory and guard it at night is being litigated in court for worker ownership. Once off the premises the owners will lock out the workers so they stay in the factory 24/7, wives deliver food, stay a while.  The factory continues to pump out products and the public is supportive of the workers action and legal fight to own the factory(ies). Its a struggle for dignity that this action is not a strike but an effort to not lose a value-producing industry in the economy hits a chord in everyone. The workers filed a claim for the factory on grounds the owners broke the contract agreement before the terms of the agreement could expire or come to fruition, or be fulfilled and in doing so the workers are deprived of the source producing their wages in the productiveness of labor the factory represents, ---take away the tool and you take away their livelihood plus an industry plus a value asset to society. The Chilean owner capitalists would not have had a case against them had they waited till the contract expired and then lock the workers out. It appears certain decisions made in management led to the decline and decision to close the factories withdraw what capital they had left and shut production down is a case in litigation as I write. The capitalists blew their chances and this gives the workers a chance to take over. They will blow their chances again. They always do and when they do workers should step up to the plate take the factories over and score big.
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  1388. Capital is accumulated in Nigeria through the suffering of the masses.
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  1389. The rail workers should go on strike but not for paid sick time while everyone else does not get paid sick, family, or personal time. Americans are without health insurance until they get a job. If you are out of a job your next option is Medicaid if you can get it. In transition from a job to no job at all COBRA insurance covers you. Cheap coverage for a heavy price. If you going to strike you should strike for all workers to get out from under this system. The other point of this is that the government did not have to get involved in this dispute between labor and capital. I bet the strike be resolved quickly and the workers would have won paid sick time without the government stepping in. These are two wrongs here. Wrong to strike for your own interest and wrong the government interfered. It will be a long time, next to forever, when the American people get on the right track toward their own self-emancipation from capitalism.
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  1390. Breaking News: Texas secession will be temporarily suspended for another 150 years due to Hurricane Harvey.
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  1391. Nothing will change socially until change economically is enacted.
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  1392. What a justice department can do but has not done by turning its back on the growth of slavery of agricultural migrants ( read Joh Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath) or do Americans read Steinbeck?... where all our dietary needs are met by the hand of enslaved people.
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  1393. More truth in fiction than in non-fiction...great job.
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  1394. Oration is a lost art in America.
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  1395. It is self-evident that a republican is preferred than a socialist to right wing democrats. Talking heads are paid to speak. Their opinions, thoughts, feelings expressed on the shows they speak are not their own opinions, thoughts and feelings. These are people with equipped with language skills but not a thread of original thought belongs to them as individuals. They are mouthpieces for, by and of an organized interest.
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  1396. CBS cuts the story midway. Real journalism at work. Every dollar spent on defense is a slow down on jobs at home. I’ll give the American public one week before that support to fight Russia using Ukraine begins to fade away because of soaring prices of goods and fuel at home. When the first boat load of Jet fighters go out the door is when prices will go through the roof. War give every employer a fine excuse to raise prices.
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  1397. Good point, people are thinking and questioning, satellite imagery of troop build up is always ready to be used as proof of a foreign threat but never are they used to show there is no threat. Pentagon and the president are truly lying to the Public, and Congress is deaf, dumb and blind...this is very concerning that the man in the White House is the threat.
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  1398. This might be fine for those nostalgic of the past but when it comes to getting necessities if internet is down or intermittent the circulation of goods is disrupted and what you bought may never get to you. Payments may not have been processed at the time of purchase. Or payments processed without a purchase. More trouble everyday with this system.
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  1399. The furnaces of the crematorium for the owners were nothing more than a means for personal enrichment when the owners should have regarded themselves as involved in a sacred process was to them the same thing as making money not on how we take care of our deceased. Its in the fine print between buyer and seller that the relation of exploitation of man by man is allowed to flourish in the State of California.
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  1400. Horrible news! The part of nature that is home to human relations and the part of nature that is home to nature is on a path to extinction.
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  1401. Replace them with what...you failed to mention that?
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  1402. The right of a majority of parents to a safe educational environment for their children is undermined by the right of a minority of families who mostly likely have children educated in private schools and are vaccinated wearing masks is a newsworthy question. Whether the governor and his kids are educated in full safety and on the other side of his mouth the children of other family members of society are said hostages to COVID. On a ship this edict would be worthy of a mutiny!
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  1403. Pity you don’t have a government that shares the same sense of community...authorities who have the means to assist...never show up.
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  1404. That would qualify her as being canonized a “Saint”.
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  1405. Heartbreaking.
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  1406. Russians have some apologizing to do as well as the Germans, to each other.
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  1407. They can get away with so they do it.
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  1408. I'd say her appearance on her own stepping out of the shadows of her husband is a sign of confidence of four more years of Trump.
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  1409. Nikki being selected would open up the door for the next generation. For a republican who wants out from under Trump the best option is Nikki. An upset election for the nominee. Age is a factor in this election, she would win against Biden because there is nobody else. In her fourth reelection cycle is when the next generation would step up to run for office. By then, hopefully, the next generation of democrats will have got into position to run for office as well.
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  1410. Hard lessons.
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  1411. How far to the right... a black democratic strategist has gone, when he calls Michael Hayden a screaming liberal, which he is, but one who would embrace RFK or McGovern who would have ended the Vietnam War before 1973. That Fox segment captured how far to the right the Democrats have gone that they lost all contact with the working class. The political situation for the American worker is dismal. There is not one institution, party or voice, out there for 143 million working people is a tragedy.
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  1412. He is proud today that his family came together and said something against hate crimes. He is educating and guiding his flock how to let go and be okay with some reforms that provide solace to the unfortunate. He is telling them that if they re to have a renewed America a renewed and invigorated class of people are needed to do all the work. A social class cannot be berated and pummeled into submission is the wrong approach, you catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar. He just told the far right wing of the GOP they are the taste of vinegar in politics leaves a sour taste of them in the mouths of this particular community of the general public. Hate can have no safe harbor in America is already a law that needs to be amended to include the different colors of hate in America as soon as it is signed. As a single measure it relaxes the worries of Asians overseas in Hong Kong and South Korea who expect to be treated with respect on American soil if they are to be allies of the US in its covert conflicts with China. Thus, Americans who are anti-Asians will get the long arm of the law after them and further enrage their hatred at their own government. They blame democrats for abandoning America's white silent majority working class and they are not wrong is the contradiction. So much pain so little absolution.
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  1413. Human failure happens when rank and file workers do not fight to keep their workday within natural limits. Keep the bosses out of your workday. Bosses are relentlessly quantifying work at the expense of the quality of work and the Public is endangered. Its all about the numbers to them. But workers take it lying down is a problem. Poor leadership, ignorance or cowardice, I am not sure which is responsible. I do know doing nothing is the most undesirable outcome for workers, not fighting back is your death knell. Overwork rather than real, quality work, will kill you sooner than you need to die! On the other hand, a normal workday and quality work resulting from that workday will increase longevity and you will live to see how your future turns out.
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  1414. Excellent and one of the first young American to examine the subject with objectivity. Bravo!
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  1415. Wow, a real class struggle that is really tight between the opposing sides. Somehow average Americans are going to have to realize, to avoid a Brazilian style of a class divided society in the US, that the Federal government’s main role and obligation is to represent all of society and not be the executive of a single class interest.
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  1416. When American society was young and prosperous at the time when the Beatles were famous I remember the press producing imagery of what the Beatles would look like in their old age. It was the first media obsession of many to come that culminates into this obsession with the Laundrie guy. Now that America is mature and failing the media obsession reflects America's denial of its decay.
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  1417. Michael raises a point about the value of the dollar in price terms is high for nations who buy US products and dollar’s value falls in buying power in relation to US products spells out a catastrophe for the American people who are paid in dollars of little worth or no worth at all. It is a dirty trick to give in exchange for concrete work a currency of abstract value.
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  1418. The formal beginnings of the creation of capitalist relations of production is the creation of labor and commodity markets. Let me describe this process US foreign policy pursues. Gradually labor becomes separated from its products and the entire division of labor in society, manufacturing and the factories is separated from labor. Products, tools, equipment, land, become independent commodities for sale, this gradually destroys an entire class of small commodity producers originally united with tools, equipment, land. Gentrification is how this process appears. The whole society splits up, falls into chaos and war, as two classes are formed. This is the historical process of capital creating itself commodity markets and labor markets in foreign countries. Out of the ruins of these small commodity producers in less developed nations, capitalism has created a new kind of working class of them as people forced to be ‘sellers’ of labor-power, torn away from their products, people that were independent producers before the change are now wage-workers, dependent on Capitalism for a living, and people who were formerly owners of land or merchants, bankers, lawyers, doctors, before the change lose their character as professionals of any legitimacy and become a class of capitalists opposed to the newly formed working class but totally dependent on them to sustain the relation of capitalist production. This is how and why fascism has great appeal to newly formed capitalists derived from the middle classes. Fascists subjugate and repress labor and force them to work for capitalists. Objective conditions are torn away from subjective labor occurs in successive phases in the history of work. People undergoing changes from the first day capitalist relations become the norm. This process is dragged out over a long period of time in the history of Europe. In the history from the first invasion in the Middle East, i.e., Kuwait this process is immediate using force as its midwife. The above historical process is the part the Libertarians do not acknowledge as the sociological and historical effect of the privilege of printing money and the Money Supply Theory.
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  1419.  @ol7490  What have you heard?
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  1420. There is no discussion on these videos, no panel, nothing. Commentary, observation...nothing.
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  1421. $40 billion to beef up a foreign military would have been better spent on correcting the problem with domestic baby formula manufacturers and who knows what other industries who do not know how much to produce, when and with what, because all of them use the market as their guide which is no guide at all. For a sense of scale, $40 billion could end homelessness in America.
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  1422. So far the government of Trump and the Congress are not saying too much about the horrors of abandoning the workers health care and jobs by a transnational corporation not because GM cannot compete and needs help. God forbid the other 499 transationals don't start doing the same thing as GM. It seems GM is cutting back on the only commodity it can cut back on without losing that world market status it is enjoying as highly profitable and successful. It cuts back on health care the most expensive payroll deduction for its American division. It seems healthcare is not a deduction for other GM employees in countries where production plants are not closing because healthcare is socialized in some of those countries and where it is not socialized it is not as costly as it is in the US. No wonder then the Trump government and the Congress are relatively quiet on a hot issue, Medical for All, and plant closings point to signs of a weak economy. It is a subject too thorny to be allowed on stage joined with the climate crisis they want out of the debates. It seems the problems keep piling up on the Trump government and the Congress. Pulling a magic cap over the heads pretending the monsters are not really there. Both institutions fail to level with the people they would rather let industry move away than give Americans socialized medicine as to the reasons the problems pile up. If government is so willing to let industry leave why are we so willing to let stay a Congress and president that will not accomodate industry with socialized medicine and spare the humiliation of workers pleaing for their jobs? Not to mention keep Capital and Labor home.
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  1423. Lift the tariffs on China and the US farmers will love you for it.
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  1424. Interesting. China and Hong Kong are one nation and Russia and Ukraine are one people. Give an inch to the west and they will take an arm seems to be the guiding policy of both nations and not without a foundation. Hong Kong returned to China as a British closure of a treaty and Russia’s security interests are validated by NATO’s expansion to the east. In both cases the treaty of Hong Kong and NATO are vestiges of the past, the former was resolved but the latter remained open ended. North Korea has an unsettled claim for reunification with South Korea, a third vestige of the past left unresolved with North Korea that divides the Koreas is the Armistice, a cease fire agreement settled back in 1953, would be the next hotspot to flare up and all superpowers are lit with nuclear weapons that really make no society on earth not a target since one of the enemies has bases in nearly every nation, the US.
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  1425. Climate change is proving to be a spark that brings us in touch with the bottom of human existence.
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  1426. Pathetic...according to your logic @ahrdee3014,---because it is not within the pay grade of a cop the high financial criminal commits no crime his pay range and job description duties permits to arrest.
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  1427. The rich and super rich cannot win elections because they are a minority. Another reason their economic interest is not a universal interest the community. This is true nationally as well, therefore, the absence of a majority is a deficit and weakness to holding power by the rich and billionaire social classes which consists of industrialists, bankers, landowners, merchants, ---do not add up to over 30 million votes, ---compared to the working class alone of 136 million voters, assuming all were active voters. To offset the voter deficit the billionaire social classes pool together through various Think Tanks attacking various aspects of working class life as part of a multi-pronged assault on working people, and sabotaging the integrity and legitimacy of an electoral process. With respect to Mass shootings as a growing social phenomenon, the behavior is a measure of the extent and degree of working class frustration with society. It measures the profound suffering that I read as a success of the general assault on the working population by the dominant social classes spearheaded by these Think Tanks in Washington. Aims to maximize stresses and torment, deprive and shut out, immigrants and women in the US labor force through policy measures and media. A grouping of social classes who have an agenda to create the groundwork for a rise in worker productivity in exchange for low wages which is essential if American imperialism is to keep the billionaire class from leaving the country and taking production with them. And, if not to defeat, the least contain its imaginary enemy in China and Russia. The democrats are a party who demonstrate to this mighty social class of billionaires from various economic sectors of the economy they exploit US labor better and with more finness than their right wing republicans who carry a cross of fascism in their flanks.
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  1428.  @justintime470  White people are cheated of their own humanity and sensibility in their position as master in the master/slave relationship. White people can never be anything more than a master, in this sense, they are under a form of social discrimination that limits them and is handed down to them. A sea cannot be a sea without shores. That white people are more comfortable in that alienation does not preclude the class alienation that divides them and them to others underwhich they live... cannot be denied. So, yes, the class system discriminates whites at the same time as the same class relations discriminates the slaves.
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  1429. The “We” is the working class and developing a working class opposition in mass form is the main task at hand, a movement that is big enough the forces of the state have no chance of suppressing; a social revolution. Part of this movement involves all the methods that shut down the system and other parts are political but all parts are moving to eradicate a specific social injustice of general social significance, versus the habitual way of reaction of individual movements acting on their own interest.
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  1430. Poverty is a Public Health Threat!
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  1431.  @thinkbeforeyoutype7106  You and your children’s children will never know what peace is. Think about that and think hard.
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  1432.  @allcatall3931  they can’t and that is the final point about them.
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  1433. Looking at this from where I sit in France, your president is saying elect me the second time and Phase II of the trade war with China will be resolved. A trade war that did not have to happen waisted an entire year of employment and industry for 137 million working Americans.  Meanwhile, China has two years to buy the first part of the trade arrangement and can do it in small drips the way your president described water leaks from a faucet.
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  1434.  @mariarichmann430  You are missing the point Mary Racine is making in the last part of your comment but in your first three sentences you agree with her main point. She made no assertion to the effect that the elites will take care of migrants. You re in denial of the US role in Central America.
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  1435.  @annarehbinder7540  This is sociology, why aren't the sociologists talking about this...the answer has to do with sociology as a discipline has been thoroughly gutted from the universities? Use as you see fit. Only 8 thumbs up is a sad, sad commentary on the level of intellect in the US.
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  1436. For everybody's information it is not Public Land that is being commercialized. Public land is the land dividing the major highways across America. The forested meridians, the highway itself and rest stops on highways are on Public Land, State(s) maintain. With federal assistance because highways cross states is what constitutes the national highway system as the only nationalized industry next to energy utilities America has. The laws for highway public land are different from the laws of state and federal property. National park land is Federal Property and State Parks are State Property. This is state property being commercialized and it appears to be perfectly legal. State land can be appropriated only by the State legislature. Federal Land is appropriated by Congress. Taxes do pay the State and the State does collect fees from the public for its State property. If it can do that then it can also sell or rent its land to a private party and adjust or cancel tax revenue from land it sold and end the fees it collects from the public. This would be a case for the Supreme Court because there are three forms of property intersecting each other's conflicting interests. There are four parties, two of which are public entities, and two are private parties involved in a transaction involving three kinds of property law, is a nightmare case for Utahns.
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  1437. There is no will in Congress to do that, to the contrary, the will is not there. The will in Congress is to send money that could be used for those kinds of projects domestically to defend Ukraine to tune of $40 billion per month.
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  1438. P.S. In Washington a gaffe is when you accidentally tell the truth.
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  1439. The discourse that should be happening and is not in the traditional political process is how the working class is expected to adapt to a society that cannot assure 'freedom' and economic security. I would not call half the American workforce involved in producing nothing of value to society, freedom. I think people would rather choose to do something useful to society than be employed making things that only enrich a few and do large damage to everyone else! According to the Pentagon's own studies the percentage of workers employed in industries directly involved in the arms race, makes the Military, Pentagon, Congress, the State and the presidency fully responsible for engaging half the workforce to make things of no value at all to society! If a war ends so does their contract with Lockheed, General Electric, Boeing, the first to go is their workforce despite how well paid and well supported they are by that industry. None of their engineers, chemists, computer scientists, can produce something on their own, something useful that improves the soil or resolves waste contamination in the water in society without violating patent holdings, and 2, cannot afford the capital to go into business. Not to mention recent presidents protect the top military industries with sanctions on others not doing business with the top military industries. Closes the market to enterprising individuals. The other half of the workforce is engaged in producing the necessaries of life, things we need everyday to live. This group is dissatisfied as they also feel the economic insecurity from competition slowing their work down for the same necessities but made in other societies. Wages stay the same for an indefinite period of time for these millions. It is time to the discourse follow the writing on the wall, the working class is under assault and the ability of the society to reproduce is threatened under monopoly capitalism.
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  1440.  @mypetcrow9873  Definitely, Lord of the Flies...perfect analogy for Trump and Co. GOP is split between his gang and the Koch gang.
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  1441. Cheapening labor-power is the basis of productivity increases and imperialism. Its a pre-condition of capitalism that the suppression of wages is necessary for the expansion of the capitalist system. Expansion can only happen if production is revolutionized which in our period means bombing societies to oblivion and starting fresh from the ground up the new method of capitalist production overseas, in turn, reacts on the continent on the other side of the ocean in job cuts and unemployment, cheap goods and products lowering wages. A certain capitalist class which in our period is the oil industry, initiates an accumulation process on a grand scale a race among capitals to produce cheaper and this becomes the sum and substance of American foreign policy to clear out the old method of production in other societies for the importation of a capitalist method of production. In addition to the cheapening of labor-power providing the basis of imperialism, machinery, technology and science are applied in the new method of production to increase worker output from factories afar destined for consumption in foreign markets that Dollar Stores, Family Dollar, Walmart sell for less the necessaries of life lowering the value of labor-power in the home country from which Capital has taken flight.
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  1442. One day if humanity is not extinct a movie about the Hot Line will be made and it will have two characters deciding the fate of two nations that will close America's war on Korea.
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  1443. Biden made it easier for the opposition to contest the next election as fraudulent but this time the results will be canceled by the electoral commissions and election boards at the local level rather than by a coup d’état at the federal level from the president. While democrats sleep the conservative right gets into position for the kill.
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  1444. The domination over humanity is made possible by the corporate control over things the government allows or enables. That is the relationship between government and the private sector the American people as taxpayers, and as consumers, and as producers, must abolish if they want their country back.
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  1445. The extreme sentencing is coming from appointed judges with extreme views on crime and punishment. Your problem is the appointment of judges and the source of power that appoints extremists to the bench. You need to go after the source of this problem; your president and the Senate who control the judiciary and law enforcement. This is an obvious form of repression on a particular race of people.
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  1446. Great Report! MLK Jr. 1st., is not wrong, barbarism is the Supreme Court. The SC striking down everything built by the New Deal is war on working people and lawyers that have no idea what they are doing legally for a defense is a sham.  A conscious sham in creating nothing short of an Apartheid. Why? The Supreme Court is actually the major driver of inequality for two reasons: (1), educational inequality, and (2), lack of a progressive tax system. . .this adminstration will make the carona virus vaccine inaccessible to working people and this Supreme Court would rule it is unconstitutional to stay home from work if you are sick! Who will do all the work if everyone stays home? Employers will lose profits. Congress gives priority to profits it gives the Trump adminstration the approval to turn its back on the poor and working class. This Supreme Court would also strike down any motion to compensate people who can't work because they are infected. The only way to overturn the Supreme Court is to oveturn the economic system on which it rests, the real economy has to change to worker controlled, and then the whole house of cards will fall.
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  1447. Incredible, but the Mexican government learns from the best in this kind of behavior.
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  1448. The strategy appears to be a Grand Social Experiment to get people to adjust to a lower standard of living in the aftermath of a crisis or disaster. Many people who cannot afford to reconstruct their homes and property following a disaster move because they lose the use of the home or land and it becomes property that just sits there producing and consuming nothing but what rots on it. People have to move on. Continue to live their lives looking for opportunities and jobs to reconstruct their lives is a compelling reason to downsize and accept a job paying a lower wage, work two jobs if necessary, in towns and communities where growth happens in one but not the other. Their Master Plan for the 21st Century is to have a workforce on demand for less the cost it takes to maintain a workforce, and unless life-threatening already the duration of work for employees working for less wages would be left to each individual employer not left up to the state or the federal government to decide the length of the working day, would be their political goal. They can get away with this for two reasons: 1., the State recognizes both people to have the same rights as owners, person A and B are equal, and 2., they have the Capital, we do not!
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  1449. Propaganda News. LIES.
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  1450. The lands from which the Rhohingya leave become important elements in the formation of capitalism in Myanmar. The country is entering a new stage of development, it is connected to the world market through its own rich industrial and banking class. As the government and its military grip controls the process, they preside over a dissolution and is opening up to foreign investment and land commercialization. The destruction of the homes regardless of religion opens up this land to commerce and exploitation. What is happening is that the formation of capitalism in Myanmar and the former Rhohingya property relations are incompatible and cannot co-exist, capital must dissolve in a historic process the former property relations of the Rhohingya for land development and for capitalist production to take hold. This process is, at the same time, a process of acquisition of one of the elements required for capital to develop, it needs free labor, in the end the refugees become free labor and the best way to produce a labor market is to dispossess people off the land. If capital under the Aung San Suu Kyi government is to enter into its next stage of progress a process of dissolution has to take place. Literally, this is the birth of capitalism through the destruction of old property relations as witnessed by the dispossession of the land of the Rhohingya. An older, ancient, social system of production being replaced by the capitalist mode of production. It would be as if we could step back into history and witness the formation of capital in the United States during the period of the Civil War, its expansion, and consequently, the dissolution of the native American property relations of common land ownership. History records the fact that it first tried native reservations, beggary, vagabondage, crime, in other parts of the world under this transition but has herded off the road on to a narrow path which leads to the formation of a labor market and working class by means of military repression in Myanmar. This report is an overview of the crisis. But it does not attempt to define the crisis in any way, shape or form relative to the prerequisites of capitalism.
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  1451.  @bungkusi2432  it takes mass social power to do that.
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  1452. History confronts this generation in a new battle for freedom. "Us, versus the so called "Them". Depending on which angle you read that maxim it still spells out the word, 'separation'. They way things are shaping up, it appears this separation will become the mother of all battles. I hope this generation of youth define themselves better. After all the young are a majority of non-princes, kings, monarchs, or CEO's and presidents. People given only one chance in life at success deserve a chance to make the world their own. That chance has to be taken! Waiting for that chance never happens. The old concepts, ideas, theories about emancipation are relevant again.
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  1453.  @andersoncheif2836  Its either going to be barbarism or socialism.
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  1454. To say it is pure of racism is foolish; to say racism is an obstacle to unity is wise.
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  1455.  @cinthiuxdemelon6887  The meat industry is a part of the agricultural sector.
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  1456. Where was Nero when Rome burned?
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  1457. Sometimes a little black humor goes a long way.
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  1458.  @inthemiddle2004  You have eliminate the republicans if you want a real, decent and humane, rational society and not one that works all the best ways for them but one that works for You! The Little Guy.
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  1459.  @kn0wmore126  Yeah..that’s right.
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  1460.  @kn0wmore126  That was when the economy was young and not over developed as it is today that WWII generated industrial growth and full employment. Those days are long gone. Industry produces outside of the US and the population is three times as big than in 1940, plus the balance of payments and a trade surplus was favorable to the US economy which is the opposite today. Debt and IOUs unfavorable to the US. The theory that war stimulates the economy gets revived by looking back not forward.
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  1461. I can imagine the same technology is being applied by growers of mass commercial food. We lose the variety of foods in the commercial use of land that grows one crop.
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  1462. A generation of children has come of age to be a social class in society but does not belong to society; in short, a total loss of humanity.
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  1463. People with your intelligence should organize an Anti-Racist Political Party, give hope to the oppressed.
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  1464. They should put the prices on that menu of weapons.
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  1465. I’d rather see them protest for the release of AI technology as Google property on top of this invasive project. AI must be de-privatized.
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  1466. I think the working day and the struggle to reduce it is key to changing this all around. The US can afford to reduce the working day to necessary labor time without losing its productivity. It would require a change of attitudes which is easier for the young and hard for the old, not easy at all for the poor or the rich to watch their world disappear. Easier to imagine now how the Southern slave plantation owners felt about the introduction of wage-labor by force. We'd know much more about how far the industrialists of the age were willing to go to get the south to submit to capitalism had the southern confederacy not fired the first shot. I'd expect the same reaction from the super-rich, the rich, the less rich and even the least richest members of our society to be hostile to a movement that is calling for them to give up their world of plastic cash, supermarkets and malls, and be part of a new world by working 4 hours a day for yourself and for your immediate community assuming the level of productivity is high enough to support a new world. The attitude that society exists for them is a real problem that America will many versions of Juan Guiado to contend with, many.
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  1467. Republicans in Texas are in the mood for a public hanging at the Capitol of democrats stalling a voting rights act that would repeal UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE in Texas.
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  1468.  @larisal1500  Yes, while on the subject, the Constitution had a special place in the world of Colonialism as a revolutionary object that there was another way of life without a king or monarch, to which that document restricts. Some 242 years later that very same Constitution as once a revolutionary object is trampled on by very large and complex capitalist institutions that, instead of holding the country together, it is splitting it apart. We might want to consider the Consitution and the type of government resting on it as too weak to defend a nation from forces its writers never foresaw.
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  1469.  @earnesttbass8107  The corporations would refuse a tax, capitalists won't pay taxes. Taxes are for the common person to pay. The two owners of Silicon Valley don't pay taxes. Wall Street bankers do not pay taxes. Oil and Big Industry pay no taxes! Trump pays no taxes. The taxes are for you to pay with true grit and pure sweat, pay it without a peep, Earnest. It all comes out of your pocket. The cost of empire, is all yours Earnest. The cost of slowing down economic growth in the world does not come cheap. The only way less will be taken out of your dollar Earnest, is when the empire stops slowing growth down here and everywhere . I have no illusions about who bears the cost of empire, do you?
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  1470. Nihilism, when nothing matters, there is no meaning in life, people lost sight of the value of life decide to take action against living. Nothing behind their eyes, soulless barbarism.
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  1471. It takes a mother to enable a father to enable a son and interchangeably a brother to enable a sister. If you are going to blame than blame the family. When you have more than one family in a similar condition than blame society.
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  1472. This is what happens when you build your economy not on what people need for the worst but on what they don’t need during the best.
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  1473. The US cannot adapt to the changing nature of global trade is one side of the problem, it is opposed to bi-lateralism and clings to one dominant world currency. So, ---internally, a class struggle of anti-afro-American ideology emerges as the other side of the problem of the global transformation of trade becoming less reliant on the American dollar.
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  1474. Horrible! India will do to Kashmir what the US military did to Afghanistan, leave in its wake social anarchy and terrorism. Barbarism! Amazing how fascistic neoliberalism is, it take the destructive path to growth and security when it is so much easier to plan security and growth for everyone. A real lack of imagination in the world of politics says there are no high functioning thinkers in politics. As Trump calls it, "low energy", he among others are 'low imagination', which is what it takes to change a world. Don't expect any great changes coming from people with no imagination...if you want a better world...you'll need 'collective imagination' to envision one and make it real.
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  1475. A government that does not have its own secure data system is vulnerable and prone to abuses that it cannot be trusted.
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  1476. All settlement cultures develop a rational for settling in regions where other people already live.
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  1477. What a pitiful protest. No wonder “Officials” go ahead with the least constructive plan for handling nuclear waste. That protests should be lined with people by the thousands rejecting the government’s plan, period. Instead its a handful of fishing merchants concerned their product’s reputation will be damaged and profits will fall.
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  1478. Overnight the air traffic controllers must work pay or not or the whole flying public runs the risk of flying crowded skies of jets, planes, and commercial airline traffic are bound to collide without the controllers. A shut down does a number of things. One of which is it gives the private sector a freebie. The five private air carriers get free of charge the service the air traffic controllers provide to society and if you factor in the law that prohibits federal workers to strike, Taft-Hartley Bill (1947), the controllers have no choice, they can quit is all they can do. They would be right to quit. Nobody can work for free but the skies are full of human lives depending on them to guide them down back to earth safe and sound. Quitting is not made easy...it will be on many a person’s conscience if planes crash and burn. But to go from wage-earner to indentured volunteer servant as a consequence of a shut down is a blow to the working class in this job market. What happens to the military during a shut down? Technically they become an all volunteer army through a shut down. Beyond the paycheck their oath to the Constitution will be tested to be a stronger or weaker bond than money. What happens to all national park officials? They work on a voluntary basis through a shut down. Who has final authority over them, technically the president does the rest of government is shut down and departments go into skeleton crew. Post Office workers, will they continue the post office? Without a post office technically the US is not a country if all 50 states cannot get their mail. This is a big deal and the demographic of all these workers, largely female and black. Army Veterans services would experience the same effect. Everybody’s lives stay suspended and broke until the democrats agree to give what the far right MAGA republicans or the Freedom Caucus want. They want an austerity deal, cuts in social spending, less food for pre-schoolers and high schoolers, less benefits for the needy, they want a deprivation of the working class. Delta, Southwestern, United are not about to hire air traffic controllers of their own. The government has put the working class who got into this job in a very bad spot. Cruel, actually, and oppressive with no means of bailing out in the event of a shut down given a rotten choice between forced to quit or forced to work and be used by the private sector as unpaid labor.
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  1479. A 'system' rigged by the Democrats. A class system, cruel to the workers, a callous disregard to workers. Tax breaks to the rich is the default line of the top democrats down, they create the inequity between social classes, where the working class pays more taxes than an owner of a luxury hotel. But there are more than one luxury hotel owners in America, 100 hundred of them, in fact, many of which are international owners of luxury hotels. More than one constitute a social class. It is the entire social class of luxury hotel owners the democrats rigged the tax strucutre to favor not just Marriot. What consitutes a class is, i.e., more than one, we have to include Trump Hotel Resorts and Casinos, prominent among this class who treat their workers in varying degrees but in the same way. Looking at it this way, not much has changed since Washington was president of the US, a landowner and slave owner in political power. The second point is that this is a landowning class of capitalist luxury resorts, each unit they own is a rental to the public and a commodity for sale to each other. A continuous stream of profit income dazzles people into belieiving this is the way to exist, rich.  Depending on how much of the earth's surface they own will determine if they constitute a landed aristocracy. In which case the democrats are not the ones inventing the rigged tax structure but are selling that rigged structure to the working class, presents a third point about how we should be relating to this social class through the democrats. Right now this landowning social class share in varying amounts 54,200 hotel properties in the US to which they can acquire. This is a substantial amount of land producing no share of revenue to fund society's needs is held by 100 landowners. America has this pattern of inequality in all sectors of its general economy where the same working class is subsidizing the existence of a few accumulating capital gains and no taxes.
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  1480. Just like nobody remember the promise of 9/11 Never Forget as that generation is dying off. This generation is a lost generation.
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  1481. What are the American people, divided and powerless, going to do?
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  1482. Where do we find Jimmy after he is censored from YT?
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  1483. The conflicts in much of the world is a historical drama of an expropriation of the many by the few. It happens behind a veil of violence, war, class and political conflict that land is appropriated by a small political class leaving the masses dispossessed of land, property and capital and in desperation. Historical analysis would suggest people will reach a higher stage of human development but not without actually experiencing the stage where societies are split up by a few dominant political elites putting in place certain drivers that make people act as sellers of the only thing they cannot be divorced from as individuals; their labor-power.
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  1484. The best thing that can happen here as a victory for the working class is the kick to former president out of town! He'll have to build in communities where property values do not play by the same rules as property values in cities. Where will Trump build his library? Manhattan no doubt. He might be the first to break the practice - building a Hotel instead? If he does at least the question of how and why the practice comes from in the first place, the act of a president building anything that is less useful to the communities and more valuable as a trophy of personal ego, will be on the national conscience. Why not a rural free university system since presidential libraries are paid for by revenue and maintained by revenues. Who's revenue is paying for this? Not revenue from the rich those were cut very recently. Who then?
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  1485. A summation more valid today than the day it was made.
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  1486.  @SoCalFreelance  One World One People is your answer to all these problems.
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  1487. NOBODY NEEDS AN AR-15 IN SOCIETY.
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  1488. The impression of American society in the eyes of a foreigner watching American News is that this is a country that has no government. Amid the chaos, crime, natural and social disasters, there are no politicians and there is no voice out of Washington D.C. reacting or commenting on the chaos, crime, natural and social disasters, at all. The whole political class is absolutely quiet, they say nothing, do nothing, hear nothing. Yet outside of American society, you cannot shut the politicians and Washington up, they are loud, aggressive, pushy, bossy, traveling from country to country, shoring up friends with arms, and have a lot to say about matters the American people have nothing to do with it or even care about.
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  1489. There you go making these wide characterizations and abstractions to make the real archeological record fit into your idea of the origins of Europe.
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  1490. Capitalism is doing to your stomach what it is doing to your brain by starving it of critical thinking you are easily led to consume the science experiments sold at fast food chains are actual nourishing to the mind and body meals.
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  1491.  @philbarone4603  Well the part of the world that is becoming poorer is the west compared to that part of the world becoming richer is in the east. People in the east and west are not the problem. Governments in the west have decided to do the opposite of governments in the east and so have created a new division of rich and poor nations that we are feeling as a decline, which it is.
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  1492. The imagery of the Taliban hugging the security forces who surrendered to them after US troops left and handing out money for the captured security forces to go back home is not an image of the start of another war. It looks more like a 'we give up we were forced into this', ...'don't worry we will call on you in the next struggle but for now go home...'' is a scene that does not contrast well with the US troops quietly leaving the country. Its the end of GW Bush's war. He is still alive I wonder how he feels about the victory he declared amounts to a defeat 20 years later. This is a significant moment of an empire fading away into the background enabling a new role for the military to be used constructively in the service of humanity. We should all not hope but demand this is where we go. Why are the translators a problem if the security forces are not a problem with the Taliban...why not verify with the Taliban if the translators will be punished...such an admission of guilt they were used wrongly for the wrong reasons in a wrong war, now to over compensate a problem is created out of thin air?
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  1493. The logical thing is a nationalized health and property insurance disaster fund versus the friend in us relation of private industry of health and property insurance companies....I think it would matter more to people a National Disaster Fund covers the recovery cost of their property more useful than knowing people have a stingy friend in AllState. Be cheaper to nationalize. Privatization does not work. Devastation occurs too frequently, year after year. Helene was a water event. Milton is a wind and water event. Might be able to keep a few of the insurance companies alive but I would not advise it. You’ll only be dealing with them again as their only purpose is to make money and not spent it on recoveries they cannot afford given their frequency. They will still find customers through the banks insuring mortgages still owed to banks more than they cover the house itself and the homeowner left in a tight spot. If We, as a nation, expect to survive we have to embrace science.
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  1494. Its declined because there are more people who do not have the extra money to spend on Cobblers. But this is not really a decline as much as it is a changed market and changed industry. There are few people with a lot of money in the market like hand made boots that the cobblers are able specialize and personalize their labor to high end work. Very lucrative business that is small and yet big enough to get a piece of the action all hangs on how good your designs are.
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  1495. Prosecutor could not throw this kid in jail without indicting his own police and sheriff department in Kenosha. So he was told to build a weak case. Kid walks or is convicted the state does not care. The state cares more about criminal police conduct and culpability that brought these deadly elements together in the civil suit.
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  1496. @genefire --- You pose an interesting question, the private interests of an oil industry is more important to the government than the soveriegnty of its own people. Do Americans want their military in Syria, is it by unanimous consent of the American public that its resources should be spent so industry executives can maximize profits controlling another country's resources? No it is not and that is why the War Powers Act of Congress has been crushed, so that, the American public have no say over the resources of their military power and how it can be used. Money dictates who can use the government's power and influence. Its time to collect $10 bucks from 336 million people and take back their own government. After all, the private sector never built the government, if government is a problem according to Reagan than he sees the American people as a problem, and if it pays no taxes to the government it should not be able to rent it so cheaply from the American people. But the clarion call is not less government to these republicans, the call is Big Government, big military spending and big intervention in Africa, Syria, Asia, in the four corners of the world the sun does not set on American military stations. Soveriegn rights of the American people surely appear to be undermined by Big Industry and Big Government as allies. The violation of the soveriegnty of the Syrian people by Turkey and the US reflects the interests of Big Oil acting through the instrumentality of the American military to enrich themselves and appropriate Syria's oil, is a big dilemma making Americans an enemy of humanity.
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  1497. The fact that you have to identify yourself as black and for Trump or white and not racist, is racist in itself.
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  1498.  @tommyob4762  Trump's GOP has to be smashed politically not literally.
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  1499. The most effective economy is that which takes out from the aging working populations in their countries in the shortest space of time the utmost amount of exertion people are capable of putting forward. How long people work, duration is not its method. The point of this effective method of economy, is the creation of a servile class of workers among nations, hence, many intra-wars.
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  1500. An audit adds to the tax dollars spent? They throw good money after bad.
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  1501. This is a piece of American social history that will never be used to teach children in schools on what a healthy and happy society they are not entering should never do. Another way to look at this is that its a reason for cremation over burial. The practice of burials is Egyptian, 2000 years ago. Kings got buried wth stuff. Common folk got buried without stuff. Romans told you who they were on their headstones. At least they were creative; Here lies Octavia, beloved Hairdresser to the Governor’s wife, DOB and DOD. Early Vikings and Native Americans honored their dead by cremation. Good way to avoid desecration by vandals, and invading tribes from the outside. But for cemeteries to be a thing of the past the population would have to give up certain religious beliefs against cremation. If we were a society that taught children the right way we would incorporate a video with no words, as a way to show the damage, like fire-setters are court ordered to see Burn Units, going through the damage in the cemetery marked by graffiti and broken headstones will show the kiddies that the living among them have no respect for the dead, regardless of race, and let the kiddies see and identify what they see in the video on a sheet of paper their responses to the video and send the assignments home to the governor, principal and school board officials to read it.
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  1502. So that makes the working people in three boroughs under attack by three separate departments of the city; the department of transportation’s neglect to solve hit and run accidents in working class neighborhoods in Queens and the department of housing’s neglect of maintenance, repairs, and developments in public housing for Brooklyn’s working class poor. Two assaults that are deliberate. Inside these department the low level managers can do what they want and as people these managers come from a mindset that they are better than the working poor is a disdain for humanity that the mayor of New York enables. A third department of the city, Manhattan Transit Authority, did not fall under the sway of arrogant managers controlling the resources as in the other departments. MTA introduced changes to the subway system that improves its function which is to ensure the working poor in the boroughs can get into the city to do the jobs; but under the same management, the deliberate neglect in housing and transportation, including sanitation given the number of rats, roaches, in boroughs, are conscious attacks on whole working class communities. Fourth would be the neglect of Con Edison of the general water main system known to be over 100 years old and avoided till it cannot be avoided any longer doing the necessary upgrades. The Social inequality in Manhattan is expressed by how obvious the burdens of life always falls on the working poor in city neighborhoods and for those living off the main island and never on the rich elite on the island itself means that working people have to take a more militant stand against these abuses.
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  1503. Probably around 60% and humanity about 40%. Hard to say since both parts are variables, it could be 50-50.
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  1504. Nothing worse than a monotone voice.
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  1505. No room at all to build on pure individualism with a SCOTUS and the legislature creating conditions that stifle individualism.
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  1506.  @donaldduck4403  It is more of an instutional branch of the entire political elite. Part of a whole state superstructure over society. The Bretton-Woods Monetary System imposed on the world by the US at the end of WWII was gone by 1973. Golden dollars rolled off the printing press against the yellow metal sweated out of the South African mines by super exploited black workers, is a spoiled privilege the US no longer enjoys. If it prints dollars it prints against the backs of American super exploited workers and the worth of its commercial property the products themselves, if it uses force it forces the dollar as the primary trading currency. What America is not secret but an outright form of aggressive imperialism.
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  1507. A minimart like that definitely has a high volume of cash. Thieves watched for the the number of times the cash was taken to the bank before robbing it. Learning the habits of management and studying the layout paid off. This is a society where Big Thieves rob each other and small thieves rob other small ones. And each thief has a war chest of savings; Big Thieves, Big War Chest, small thieves, small war chest of reserve capital. The consumer is the person who pays to be robbed by both sets of thieves. This robbery happens every week the consumer cannot live without the Bodega that the losses are made up over a short course of time.
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  1508. Medicare For All.
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  1509. Apathetic Americans assume too much and expect too little. The proprietors of a given number of private industries came into this town/community to make profits is a success story for the proprietors. They certainly took out more than they put back into the community leaving it unlivable for the community. But this was done with the full cooperation of people who work in those industries. Owners are not the ones doing the work of extracting pure water for the purpose of manufacturing, it is the workers themselves, the chemists, engineers, the machine operators, etc. The function of the State in this scenario had special importance to ensure a community does not have the means themselves that delivers fresh, clean water to their homes in order for outside privatization schemers raid their town. This is a small example of the Predatory Capitalism occurring across all 50 states in America.
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  1510. The Great Land Acquisition; Kashmir Valley. Accumulation of land is the first requirement for a dictotrship to get established.
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  1511.  @JonROlsen  Your are wrong...fear in the American public is an indoctrination that begins at a very early age by means of socialization. Your parents indoctrinated you by passing down their values to you as a child. If their values are racist, capitalist, religious, sexist, than a five year has already acquired such values as indoctrination. Media ony sustains the indoctrination, continues it is proof that it begins at a very early age in the family.
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  1512.  @CitizenAyellowblue  By all means chime in with your political and economic analysis. I write more than one sentence, can't you do more? I am waiting to hear it.
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  1513.  @epa2349  CIA is directly to blame...either you are CIA or just ignorant of its history.
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  1514. Can't forget the Iraq War Veterans, so angry at the liberal establishment who at the time was Joe Biden put them in harms way using 9/11 for a call for freedom and liberty against Sadaam Hussien and liberate Iraq. Congress went along with it hook, line and sinker. They gave AlQueda a place they could fight Americans. The Vets came back destroyed, and used the only power they have to elect Trump, a spite vote against the liberal establishment. What did the left do? Nothing. What did the left do when these same vets showed up in Virginia armed to protest Northrum's gun laws on MLK day 2020? Nothing. Biden was then and now in the pocket of Lockheed. Grumman, GE, all the arms makers. He then became VP to Obama, hand picked by Obama to initiate another war, the war we are in today. The next group of Veterans sent to war are not going to come back because now they will be fighting entire nations in the Middle East. As for Trump, he is the wrong man for the job, wrong, wrong, wrong. Only Bernie opposed the Iraq War. Vote Bernie if you are going to vote, its the last chance to restore America back to its original roots of American progressivism.
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  1515. America desperately needs land reform on a national basis to stop climate change. The right of the market to decide how to use the land and produce from the land, how much to expend of labor and resources on the land, cannot be sustained.
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  1516. The entire thing happened because the police are not a police force... they are trained in combat tactics not policing. They need an oder to act and when their unit commanders are absent the separate units are stumped. Big difference between a soldier and a police officer. They may go under the name of police but security of person, place or thing, which is the supreme concept of policing for any society is not their mission. If Americans want a real police force they need to get off the couch and demand one from their elected officials to de-militarize the police and recreate a new definition for policing including a new form of organization of police.
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  1517. Another Stanford/Harvard class-based privileged politician deciding the fate of our lives.
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  1518. The host commented this: Change happens when people get tired of how we are living and do something radical about how we are living. Change starts in the home is not how the action happens, unfortunately. We live in a divided society of Haves and Have Nots in the extreme, and a big class divide between average families to wealthy families and the businesses connected to them. We are at one end of the canyon and they are at the other end. There are no businesses in the world of the Have Nots that even compare to the businesses in the world of the Haves. Life there is greener. Where we are life is bleak. We know the story but we choose to disagree the story defines who we are and take the path of self-destruction. Altering the path of destruction is taking the first step of acknowledgment that we are not the center of the universe. A huge world out there of people, nations, cultures, that we are a part of. Change in the family has happened already. Government is late to follow and changed itself to be against the family that is no more a 1950s family. Government has been changed into a Mafia permitting the exploitation of powerful private interests to break the family up from the means they can make a living into tiny fragmented individual with the cheap importation of foreign products, credit, and low wages.
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  1519. The indigenous candidate for president, Maria deJesus Patricio, recently injured in a road crash in Feb 2018, is followed by an earlier assassination of Luis Denoldo Colosio, the ruling party candidate in 1994. Assassinations is one tool of the trade used in Mexico's political class struggle, acted out between the left and right, escalating the conflicts is the violence used to silence journalists, choosing not to talk about these issues enables and leaves intact the conflicts inherent in free market neoliberalism. That Gregory Wilbert did not include the 6th candidate in the discussion at all, as if she never existed, dissed by the Real News Network, is an indication of the timidity of this internet media source, its real news only skin deep. Eighteen families own 60% of Mexico's GDP, leaving 40% of GDP available for productive consumption by the society. In the US, 500 families own the greater amount of US GDP, same is true in all the western capitalist countries that oligarchies and monopoly social formations usurp the social economy of their nations following the same pattern. In this age of mass internet media these oligarchs and monopoly corporations are far more organized and connected than the working classes of these respective countries, they plan and cooperate with each other for the preservation of their position through a master plan led by the US. The working classes do nothing of the sort, they have only reacted to the actions presented and have done nothing to fight a common enemy. Lulu's Worker's Party is the most organized, it should go international; this way what one oligarch does in one country can be countered in another country and the working class can never be at risk of violent intervention or arrest by their home oligarchs. The working class can create through technology an impenetrable force disabling oligarchs from dominating the world where the US is leader of an international league of oligarchs.
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  1520. I would make Richard Moore’s life a living hell. This is a good example of how one party spends recklessly under the name of conservatism and the other party diligently enforces the State’s power over individuals in the name of democracy. In reality, both parties expropriate land, wealth, and property from members of society as a means of suppression.
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  1521. Government has back up resources for itself in times like this so it can continue functioning. Industry and the military has back up resources so they can continue operations without interruption. The largest churches and landowners can relocate to parts of the country into other properties they own where power is working so they can function without interruption. Banks are virtually unaffected as electronic systems can move money from branches in all parts of the world their property is highly mobile can recieve payments. Its the payer who is affected when power is down and late charges continue to incur because power is up in all banks. Merchant property is insured and they recover in due course viz a viz tax credits and allowances. Everyone but the American working people have the back up resources for themselves in times like these. Funny thing,---the merchants, banks, churches, landowners, military, industry and government are not producers of the resources they possess. They are the consumers but not they do not do the essential work themselves in making the material resources for continuing their existence in situations like we are seeing in Texas. The American working population crushed under this life threatening storm are the real producers of those resources. This failure is a crisis that magnifies the real producers get no part of the resources. If they did gandma can get out of the house and in with her niece in Chicago and not have to burden the niece's life because grandma has resources. Everyone would have resources greater than men in orange suits in a search and rescue mission for you and your family. Americans need to seriously re-evaluate whose country it is?
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  1522. Good video...very informative.
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  1523. Now we know why Brian Laundrie is on the run.
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  1524. I am sure land and buildings have nothing to do with privatization schemes of administrators.
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  1525. We would never be seeing events of this nature if capitalists were able to cope with their diminishing share of its surplus-value since the greater part of what they accumulate is paid out in wages. The corporations are only profitable and work best under conditions that allow them to sell below the social average price but above the individual cost of the product they make. In lockstep all of the major American, French, British, German, corporations do not invest in domestic industry but seek labor-power at a cheaper price elsewhere to manufacture their product. Thy divide among themselves what parts of the world is their’s for exploitation. But in their respective home country if they must spend their accumulated reserves on higher wages, the corporations push for the removal of all legal limits to the exploitation of the domestic workforce, to make up for the losses of their share of the surplus workers got in the form of higher wages or from some previous victory. This is why we are seeing more workers strike over working conditions and wages in the west and more proxy wars and mass destruction in nations that still produce in the old and ancient ways of their ancestors.
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  1526. There are many empty homes and buildings in all parts of the country that can supply the housing. There isn’t a material shortage for housing that is America’s problem. Its an antagonism of two extreme sides in Congress and state legislatures is what keeps migrants in a state of crisis,--used as pawns, is America’s problem.
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  1527. Man has no shame. Woman was a late judge of her man. Probably showed signs of being a psycho when it was too late. RIP Miss.
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  1528. REVITALIZE THE LABOR MOVEMENT NOW!
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  1529. Age is taking its toll on Amy Goodman. Its time to put some fresh life and real journalism into this news organization.
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  1530.  @aichpvee  Problem with the stupid is that Trump has an answer for them and the Left does not! Those who have been shat on by the two political parties and by society and its institutions and a dickhead like Trump points the finger at the democrats to take over the GOP...then the White House,---the Left should consistently point the finger at Wall Street.
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  1531.  @jgalt308  Wait a minute Paragraph 1 is wrong. A capitalist sells and a bunch of capitalists are a class of sellers. They ensure they are always in the ownership position in relation to the means of production in a system of production and exchange.
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  1532. Great topic and good question...monopoly capitalism and capitalism based on competition seems to become each other through each other.
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  1533. Japan dumping radioactive water into the ocean is a disgrace and disappointment. Why should people respect national boundaries drawn out in treaties by governments and corporations who do not honor allegiances to country and just go ahead and poison water and soil, the material elements on which we depend for life, and enable the criminal neglect to go on without consequences?
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  1534. Here is what I think. Not all understand there is no difference between Obamacare and the ACA, but it speaks to the gullible nature of Americans corporate media exploits. It also speaks to education and the demoralizing character of education as a factory based system of learning that a population can be uneducated and misled by the educated. Bannon went to Harvard, look where he takes the country. Likewise the people whose brains are used to manufacture weapons of mass destruction are they any more moral than their less educated counterparts? The chemist who provide the elements for industry that generate climate change and the medical establishment submissive to market capitalism. Bob Dylan said we all serve someone. His poetry rings true from the lowest to the highest. The issue relates to the 'serving' and a journalism that does not meet the need of eradicating this submission to ignorance is disloyal to itself. It is not enough to criticize is what I think. You have to educate through your dialogue or you will forever be another stagnant platform for news.
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  1535. Reporter said: '...The world's democracies against the world's autocracies'. Only a trained literate political scientist with a lot of reading under their belt knows what this comment entails. In common parlance, she means the presidents, kings, queens, princes, and prime ministers versus dictatorships that threatens to take for itself the wealth extracted from the 'toiling masses'. The toiling masses wait for a call that never comes.
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  1536. Bravo, bravo, bravo to this man speaking to me through this video. Time is Now to Act!
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  1537. The Acme of Professionalism... is to never use American soldiers in any conflict on behalf of the US empire. The strategists and technocrats all strive in making sentry states of other nations, arming them to be cannon fodder for the protection and expansion of the US empire. All this cannot be justified without a fabricated enemy. So involved in their professionalism they forget China and Russia should not become allies is a main tenet of the Nixon-Kissinger Doctrine.
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  1538. Why?
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  1539. I listened and there continues to be a myopic treatment of the contradictions in the economic order by officials. A good half of the workforce are women, a third did not return to work after the pandemic. Low pay no child care, plus the job has risks. From a missing third of the female part of the workforce the value they produced for their employers clamoring for a rescue plan, disappeared The entire workforce needs to be restructured and its compensation amended is entirely evaded by this Congress.
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  1540. The Youth need to establish themselves as one national force, be organized as a legitimate political party, be the rational choice when the system fails completely. The only way to end genocide everywhere and reverse climate change everywhere is to unseat the current Establishment from power.
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  1541. The question is what will the Attorney General do to prosecute? Nothing. The State has a rule of Statute of Limitations into which crimes of sexual assault cannot be prosecuted by any State's AG. It stands to reason that the public applying pressure on Rome to do something about it is a misguided last resort for action but not frivolous. The institutions themselves must be abolished or subject to prosecution for its abuses as hot houses and nurseries cultivating victims who later repeat these actions on the next generation of youths. Pedophilia produces pedophiles, at the same time, bring about the destruction of the family and thus society. The hypocrisy of the victims is that the cumulative effects of abuse comes out as a cry but the cumulative effects of the incarceration of young people in the border is a moot sacrifice. Likewise the cumulative effects of poisons exposing workers, janitors, etc., with illness that turn up in the future are not prosecutable offenses. All this says the State is not grounded in society but emerges from society as a political institution that has no responsibility in resolving abuses in society and the abuses of industry, church and state on the public. Perpetrators are rewarded and promoted is a means of dodging accountability to the society they regulate and control through its laws. In effect, all individuals in society are subjugated by these institutions. Going further the recent 24 deaths of youths in New Haven Park, Connecticut from heroin and synthetic marijuana are victims of two other institutions of the State's doing. Cartels and the drug war prosecuted by the president and the black market the State does nothing about.
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  1542. I think this means that the Left needs to make educational mass videos on Laser Light Fusion and emphasize how the social relations of capitalism are not promoting this free and clean energy source as the alternative to the mining exploitations of the masses taking place in Africa for cobalt and lithium...is what I think.
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  1543. Gain a lot more traction disqualifying Biden from the presidential run through this impeachment of Trump.  Trump got on the phone and demanded a foreign leader do what Trump wants is an impeachable offense. He acts as a king, monarch, exercising unilateral powers for personal political purposes. He wants Biden's demise but this is not what the nation wants. The nation does not want to prosecute Biden for improprieties they want a chance to not vote for him but Trump does. He failed at representing the US but succeeded in representing himself.  We live in times when losing the keys to the state police car will get you fired but arresting a 6 year old citizen while in your capacity as a police officer will get you desk duty with pay.  Using foreign powers to undermine and defeat opponents will one day open the door for a foreign social class to defeat a nation. We could all be workig for Russian oligarchs the more America sells its assets to them. It is a dangerous precedent and it does have to be punished with impeachment even moreso in a world where control of a nation depends on who has the most powerful technology to control a nation. We should be looking at the rise and fall of the American economy as a rise and fall of social classes in the economy not the economy itself. Social class is an international category. Billionaires in Russia and China, work with billionaires in America and are group a consortium of capital, there is no allegiance to a nation when it comes to billionaires. Tax shelters are the proof of that. Our true national interest is the recovery of revenue income lost to the interest of a business class to have international tax shelters. Sometime the interest of the individual capitalist undermines the interest of the business class. This might be what we are seeing in Trump and his nationalism versus globalism. Capital and labor are international, they go everywhere together. Trump wants both to stay home. Corporations don't want to come home. Corporations invest in China, China as a major competitor undermining the national economy of the US contradicts our national interests when corporations are producing in China and not in the US.
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  1544. I can’t tell who you are either?
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  1545. If you freeze frame the shot at 9:16 and examine the picture all persons seated and standing in the court room, arms folded, hands clasped, chins held, eyes to the ground and Murdaugh hearing his verdicts, you will see Buster holding his chin about three pews back, in a moment of stoicism. If this were a painting and I the artist wanted to tell people what is going in this painting I would have made Buster not hold his chin but the only person in the room to be resting his head on his arm on the pew to explain what is going on in this scene. Buster appears to be looking in from the outside and seated not near to his father was a choice of his own. His father receiving the sentence does not break him down; no action of remorse, or sorrow, over the losses this family endured. Not a man of innocence who would had expressed an emotion at the wrong being done and not a son able to express emotion.
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  1546.  @danchristian7282  But no one will hold them accountable...the people have to set up their own Tribunal side by side with the Official Investigation, and when the Tribunal finds their have been orders to fix the problem the Official Investigation cannot bury that finding.
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  1547. Even if progressives took over Congress and had a president in office there are still many forces in the State and a whole class of capitalists poised to take down the new government. A political victory is only half of the revolution needed for a working class emancipation. The other half is the economic revolution that has to happen simultaneously with the political one. The working classes and their struggle for dignity is conditioned by a complex of two political and economic forces that when combined puts workers in a very tight spot. The worker's cause is not advanced if the economic relations are left intact in society but they have more of a voice in politics now that the progressives have won an election. For this reason economic relations have to be formulated into a new economic plan the entire working class can support and see through it a road to freedom from modern exploitation.
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  1548. Once you lose parental custody you are longer bound to pay child support. Legally you are no longer the father of the children and no longer responsible for support of those children. You lose visitation rights and parental authority which means you cannot sign them into school or take them to a doctor, make any decisions on their behalf. As a consequence the real biological relationships of the children is destroyed, they lose their father or mother in such scenarios. Scarred for life and defiant of anyone assuming the role of parent. Your employer garnishes your wages. To change that you must get a new court order other wise the state continues to receive your income indefinitely including your social security. In the beginning the child support does not accrue a balance util a job is lost or some other crisis happens. Inevitably, a balance owed grows and grows that people could are paying support way after the kids have become adults and left the home. To have the support calculation assessed you have to harass the agencies to give you a summary and balance. This to ensure the State is not messing up the numbers causing you to owe more. Hearing officers largely handle support modifications and rule in favor of the party who appears against a party that does not appear as default mechanism. For average white or black, brown, red, green working class Americans the money for a lawyer is too high to file a motion and doing it yourself requires a person with patience and legal writing skills, plus tolerance to file motion papers. Without a copy machine, secretary to collate the servings to all parties, and the costs of sending a mountain of pages through USPS to serve all parties involved. The clerical work is daunting and not cheap. Odds are truly stacked up against you. Not to mention the motion has to be written with evidence for reasons garnishment must be lifted or modified. In this system the foster care system is presupposed. Children run the risk of placement into care from the trauma experienced in divorce. It would be way cheaper on society to cut a check to every family to meet their every need than to divorce. Parents become a citizen denied a passport and depending on circumstances lose the right to drive, get any kind of license. The whole system is meant to denigrate and punish and kept the natural family broken and apart becomes the norm of the family that many families combine of parents and children unrelated to each other biologically but brought under one roof as a social family. Quitting a job and harming yourself becomes a way out. From there one lives a life of a non-citizen. Children are weaponized used as a means with which to punish a parent, who for one reason or another cannot raise children in harmony with a mate. Men and women are turned into hostile enemies and there is always the problem of bureaucratic error with state guidelines for support. Support amounts are calculate the income of head of household where the children live; the owner of the property. If the owner rents to several people that income is not factored in state guidelines for support, they still use a model out of the 1950s when father knew best and Donna Reed was a homely home maker, to modify the support paid by garnishment of a parent’s wages or salary.
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  1549.  @deemac3470  High prices and high interest rates for borrowing is a direct attack on working people. Think of your credit card rate, and forget about buying a house unless you’ve $250,000 for a down payment. No...I don’t think so...I am pretty certain the American people are going to get a rude awakening when officials come out to say there is no room to add to the debt ceiling the cost of running basic community services like plowing roads, collecting garbage, running schools, water treatment and sewage repair and maintenance, and county pensions cannot be paid to pensioners, and without higher property taxes and borrowing (bonds) at a higher interest rate, another crash is going to cause a mass reaction of hysterics and violence. People are going to really lose it when everything shuts down.
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  1550. The generation the Grand Social Experiment of Austerity of the Capitalist Order targets is youth. It is by increments of generations that Austerity is successful and wide spread. For two reasons: first austerity defines society as a society of individuals to deflect awareness in youth and replaces the theory that holds society develops within and through a class struggle, the two primary protagonists labor and capital, and in the process of using economic downturns shifts the source of wealth from a majority to a minority. The economic paradigm that finds labor is the creator of wealth is effectively destroyed. Austerity uses a trifecta of monetary, fiscal and industrial polices to crush each generation of workers for the preservation of the capitalist order is amply supported by the evidence. Austerity is not merely CUTS IN THE BUDGET, it is constantly moving as a political program carried on by each new elected politician ascribing to these aims, no matter how popular they are and always in the direction I cited. Austerity is permanent war on labor. Further, austerity was never about curtailing inflation and balancing budgets as Americans falsely believe and are falsely told. Austerity is ‘the’ method and means to the greater end of preserving the capitalist order which police, unions, schools, religions, popular culture, scholars and scientists, fit into so well to preserve the specific class relation that cannot function without force to sustain it. Permanent states of war to crush any form of opposition to this aim, ---a rigid and punishing form of totalitarianism. After 1918 and WWI, the crisis of capitalism caused a reaction of historic significance among States in Europe. Acutely aware and highly sensitized were the concerned about the survival of the capitalist system and its corresponding class of capitalists to crush socialism, a new powerful economic force in history, The system was shaken at its very core in 1918. You don’t know this, you are most likely not an economist nor old enough to have lived with the oral histories of a generation of that era. America exemplifies this social experiment; the State’s political objectives, to crush the alternative and make itself the main producer and regulator of the workforce. In short, fascism,--- the merger of state and private Capital through technocrats and economic advisors. Workers and the majority of citizens realized at that time up to the 1980s, they could be living in a different social order, and the State, city governments began to crush the alternative social order with policies in the three areas of economic life coercing workers into greater exploitation. Chickens Come Home To Roost: The high level of crime, proliferation of drugs and guns, war, criminalization and material deprivation of working people, is at the same time the social process of preserving capitalism, and the entrepreneur class at center stage of the State, for whom the police serve and protect, become the drivers of economic growth. Austerity shifts economic resources from a majority to a minority, the fall of wages and unemployment kills the worker’s voice is the lesser share of the wealth in wages your parents enjoyed when wages were high and their grandchildren will not enjoy as wages fall ( assuming you are born two decades before 1980). Labor or the working class’s incomes deflates into a material deprivation through economic downturns (inflation, unemployment); these are the tools for the preservation of the Capitalist order and for the subordination of the working class into permanent poverty.
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  1551. The hypothesis of the author can be tested once it is found out what the US does with the dictator. Given a light sentence or a new life or prosecuted will tell us if the Angle list is a rescue list for dictators who do the bidding of the US corporations and the military.
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  1552. Spoken like a true white proletarian. As long as black wages are kept low white wages cannot rise is the implicit social policy formula of the neoliberal wage system in the US. This positioning of the political parties in relation to that policy on wages has forced through its facade a contradiction only white workers can over come, that within the wage system white wages can only rise alongside black wages rising at the same time. As a white worker in America overcoming this dilemma of perpetual low wages not keeping up wth prices and profit earnings of big corporations and Wall Street vulture capital firms but rather indirectly suppressed by the use of low black wages in order to keep white workers from demanding higher wages and unionizing is a text book example of what employers do to defeat a working class movement from ever emerging in the history of class struggles. The standard of living will always decline for white middle class workers dragged down by the lower standard of living of black and brown, yellow or red workers, getting together on this dilemma is the only way to break the neoliberal model.
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  1553. Ironic had attendees honored the protesters at Burning Man all of these people would be home safe and alive. But no...they had to tear down the barricade and proceeded to enact a series of days in the desert stoned and the Indian Reservation police removed the protesters sent the mass number of people through. Now ordered shelter in place. Police are not acting in your interest people. Diphtheria are the conditions, no sanitation.
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  1554. The only part of the plantation system in the South that can be considered profit is (was) the sale money from the agricultural and durable products slaves made over above what they required to live and what the landowner required to live. Field and commercial products the plantation's slaves produced were exported to England.  Technically, the term is not profit, its mercantile profit, excess incomes derived from trade or the sale of goods (exports) to other countries, otherwise, the slave owner's plantation was a self-contained unit of consumption by the plantation owner and family. The slave owner land owner was a hybrid merchant capitalist not an industrial capitalist whose economic category is 'profit'. What the slave landowners would call a way of life was destroyed when Grant dismantled the plantation system. Even the purchase and sale of slaves was a merchant business the way people today raise pure bred canines for sale derived a merchant profit. There was no such category in existence the described the income of a industrial capitalist until one or more appeared as in the case of the American Civil War. Without these critical designations of various forms of income the State ( federal government ) could not build a tax structure that creates the conditions for slavery to disappear. Your question is a wrong question. Plantations worked slave labor for the personal consumption of landowners and their lifestyle. The incomes (money) they derived came from the buying and selling of goods of which a slave is a good is all mercantile profit. They did not work for profit because they were not wage workers working on the property of an employer who employs tools, equipment, material, machinery and labor only to produce profit. Slavery was brutal when an African slave runaway and it was more often than not the landowner doing the work of bossing slaves around with a whip because that runaway was an expensive commodity. If the plantation registered 100 slaves and it fell to 50 because of runaways, half the value of the landowner's plantation itself will fetch that much less upon its sale. The enigma in Wolf comes from you never visiting an actual plantation to learn the difference between slavery and capitalism, you should put it on your list of things to do.
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  1555. @A.J, maybe not developed for this context but let's see here: a serf is not paid a wage but is paid in land by a Lord who, in turns, expects a certain quantity of produce from the serf or labor from the serf. What the serf does with the land is the serfs business. Typically the serf farms his portion of the land and the unused portion he rents it out to peasant farmer families with lots of kids into crowded little huts to eat a living out of the land growing potatoes and this is the way it goes until a famine breaks out and all the peasants die. The famine brings to an end the lord -serf relation this feudal rural set up of an economy. What in this feudal relation is still with us today? One thing would be the practice of subdividing land and of course, land ownership, rent is still with us from the days of feudal society. These would be the external things still with us today and have grown into monopolies corporations which, incidentally, banks and corporations were first created in the feudal early Middle Ages centuries before Leonardo Da Vinci was born around the time of the Inquisition and the Guttenberg Printing Press invention. You might say Free Speech is handed down to us from this period wth that invention. If a husband expects from his wife the cooking, cleaning, washing, managing the household, child rearing her full-time occupation then we can even add pleasure as energy expended on the pile of unpaid labor then the exchange is a bartered exchange, she gives one use-value and he gives in return to her another use-value. Tenderness and reciprocity in marriage are use-values that each partner give to each other. Joy and laughter, touch and attentiveness are use-values inherent in humans and form the bond that is broke by modern divorce which turns those use-values into exchange-values and money enters the picture. Intact families have a lot in common with serfs of yesteryear's families and divorced families which make up the majority have nothing in common with families that are not buyers and sellers, lender and borrowers to each other, injected by law into their relationships.  In our society money is involved. Money invades the relations in the home between a man and a woman through divorce and separation, the state rules children go with her and fathers pay the mother the expenses of raising children. Before the split it was strictly all barter between them. Share and share alike. Barter was the way husbands and wives related to each other for thousands of years as serfs and slaves when money was never an intermediary between them under feudalism and slavery. I think there is a lot of commonality between housewives and househusbands to the feudal serf family unit.
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  1556. The Banks ruled Americans under Obama. The Oil Industry rules America under Trump. Next it will be the giant landowners who will rule Americans and then it will be the giant merchants will rule Americans. Americans ruling Americans; never happen self rule and sovereignty is a foreign concept to Americans.
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  1557. Well -- the history of America consist of two histories, parallel histories, a people's history and a ruling class history. For example, the Dutch and British, et al Jamestown and Plymouth Rock was a founding of the beginnings of a settlement but it was not the first settlement that was a founding of America. St. Augustine, Florida 1565 is as much a founding of a new country and even more so than Jamestown or Plymouth Rock. Another example, the US military was founded in 1775 formed of civilian-soldiers, militia became a Continental Army was disbanded and has no connection to the history of the modern military industrial complex which came into being in 1935 as the dominant history maker in 2018.
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  1558. Must be in the meat of today because when I became a socialist I ate meat everyday and that was 70 years ago. Anyway the two long term consequences of the particular scenario capitalism follows to get larger profits, is unemployment and wage reductions. The logic of capital is: cheaper goods --- larger shares, and larger shares -- lowers wages, and lower wages are larger profits for employers. I think young people have to define what it means when a society has developed the means for a new society, a new way of living, in spite of the exploitation of technology and science by capital, but through the use of technology and science, end all conflicts and stabilize humanity with habitats made from the waste of civilization.
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  1559. Put all cities under the control of citizens. The non-functioning Councils that run cities are antiquated systems of government. Cities need a parliamentary form of government representing all citizens.
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  1560. Remembering does not appear to be an action aging men value high enough to exercise on a daily basis. Like any muscle in the human body, memory gets soft and eventually withers down to bone. A thick skull.
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  1561. Nice summary Patrick Holt.
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  1562. El-Sisi is Trump's favorite dictator. Other world leaders are not his favorite for reasons, I assume, do not have the same qualities as El-Sisi. So what is it about El-Sisi's qualities are so cherished by Trump and how does Bolsonaro feel about not being Trump's favorite? This video alleges El-Sisi is corrupt and used public funds to build palaces for himself, has a tight control over a faction of the military and responds quick to repress protests. There are fault lines in El-Sisi government Trump does not see. If Trump is impeached or loses his re-election to Sanders, El Sisi, Bolsonaro, Macri, and many other authroitarian dictators will topple overnight.
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  1563. Other nations will benefit, grow and develop, but Americans will suffer and decline the weaker the dollar becomes. Of the above panelists Garland Nixon had the more rational analysis. How are you going to react when your government uses Austerity to force you to work double days and double time because the paycheck from your boss buys less and less and your government needs a hell of a lot more dollars to exchange into pesos to buy food from Mexico to fill your supermarkets; when the price of Tequila is a thousand dollars a bottle and an Avocado is ten dollars, a 10 oz package of Dates from Tunisia is $15 dollars, etc.? And if you resist austerity you are met with the full force of the State? What are you going to do then?
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  1564. G Perbitis: One problem, normal people do not exist in capitalism. It is not normal or natural to be a buyer or seller, a worker or a capitalist, these are social roles manufactured by a certain property relationship. People will be looking back at us as primitives the way we look at the pilgrims as a Medieval Cult.
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  1565. I like the explanation put in a reflection of what the capitalist gets as a result of the use-value of our labor-power. Its sets up the social structure of a capitalist society resting on this one exploitative relation of the use-value of working people's labor-power. The legal and political system works, as its chief aim and objective, to renounce any claim to the product of labor and any share of the market value brought in by that annual product workers may have or want in the event of a 'revolution'. So that there are very specific laws aimed at weakening any power workers may have such as Taft-Hartley Act at the national level and at the state level legislators pass, most recently 17 states anti-gay legislation. Whether you are a homosexual or not is irrelevant the legislation attacks anyone who becomes a worker in society as many gay and lesbians become wage-earners they are validated as workers in a class perspective not a gender one.
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  1566.  @kirstinstrand6292  Exactly, American have not learned that the crisis is capitalism.
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  1567. A couple of things hang on the balance. Someone's gain is someone else's loss in capitalism. Why? Because all the social classes and institutions in society would not exist without the work of 124 million people expected to make the sacrifice and carry the burden of the cost of war, in lives and in labor, endless labor. I can imagine people sleeping in US factories, especially in Texas and Florida, permissible to keep the perpetual production machine from stopping or slowing down as the bombs go off and the rockets burst in air. Who do you think is going to get the bigger share of the economic pie? The actions of the rulers do not suggest war is coming to an end and the dividend will be Medicare 4 All. VP Harris's trip to Vietnam an action overshadowed by the Afghanistan evacuation and the strange health recall of US embassy staff coming down with nausea, memory loss, dizziness from the 'mysterious' Havana Syndrome are happening behind what is going on in Afghanistan. Are they talking about Medicare 4 All? US war games in the South China Sea with Harris cementing allies in Asia against China, and the response from the Russians, Iranians and Chinese to the war games is more war games in the Persian Gulf. War plans in the making in the post-Afghanistan period. Once again the American public will be asked to make the sacrifice and forego Medicare 4 All. Harsh social realities at home.
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  1568. Labor, i.e., the working class comes into creation when separated from its objective conditions during successive phases in the history or work. I would imagine its formal beginnings dates back to the day the factory destroyed the division of labor of commodity producers and made these skilled workers available out of need and desperation, no doubt, available for hire by capitalists who own factories. Ever since that fateful day three social conditions are continually reproduced by capitalism, 1., separation of product from workers, 2., work refined into detailed operation and a de-skilling of workers, 3., a labor-market where every producer has to sell their labor-power!  By this definiion we can conclude China and America are rival capitalist nations. The factory system recieved a lot of praise and glory when it came into being. This must have meant that a son did not have to learn his father's trade with mother mediating conflicts between them. The son could leave home, leave Pop's business, and the dull boring life of a small town division of labor, to work in a factory, earn a wage, move into a room in the city and become whatever that person chose to make of themselves, derilect or not. Leave behind the provincially minded folk of his small town or valley. Many stories are built to this effect. One comes to mind, the Great Gatsby.  A recent case of a murder in Port Jervis NY is the story of a local shoemaker/cobbler shot and killed during a robbery. The sons after their father's funeral liquidated the cobbler's business despite the fact that there was still a market for it in Port Jervis NY. They lacked the foresight and skill to keep it alive. They could have given another the chance to make it a success. If the sons had put their energy into the cobbler's business they would be far richer than they are today working their father's trade as niche market for handmade shoes in a worldwide market. The sons made a poor choice and maybe their wives encouraged them to make the wrong choice. Their wrong choices enabled in their own way the three social conditions I mentioned above to continue. The factory system was a complete break from the old traditions and ethics of work in manufacture. Now that we are many centuries away from this break and embedded in a factory system of work is computer technology and science. Labor management programs used to increase worker productivity and a cell phone that connects individuals to capitalists does two things in addition the the three mentioned above. First, the capitalist has successfuly controlled his/her workforce through the workforce against other workers, and 2., workers carry with them in their pocket the market the capitalists aim to penetrate with their products. Five big things are happening to the detriment of the working classes, they are consumers of the the technology and science investment made by capitalists and are consumers of the product the capitalists sell. These social conditions are a bigger issue than commodites having the power to walk and talk and have there own social institutions, though, that is important to know and understand, I think, their use and reliance on captitalist computer science and technology has made them vicitims of their own doing and totally dependent on working more hours under the worst conditions than ever before while the capitalists are enriched by the workers.
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  1569. The problem with Disney is the same problem with Washington D.C., the heirs to the empire are heirs. It happens that aristocratic lineages, heirs, are usurpers of the great mass of wealth a nation produces and in history the source of all revolutions in the west.
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  1570. Pentagon official says they find Israel to not be in violation of international humanitarian law. There is nothing in the law that outlines what one can or cannot do with respect to the conduct in a war and the provision of humanitarian assistance. It’s time to scrutinize that law and the interpreters in the Pentagon of that law. Subpeona Matthew Miller and others to testify to Congress.
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  1571. America sits on reserves it never used since WWII. Its age of imperialism in the 20th century enabled this savings. What made Trump possible is an unfavorable trade balance, which is settled in gold and silver as money, and reflects a low exchange rate with other countries in the post WWII to now. The ‘savings’ in reserves of the raw material for production offer a lower cost of production and an investment he can sell to foreign manufacturers and start to re-industrial the country. Technology will reshape the workforce and require new worker training is a golden chance for labor to exert itself with more protections against the recent past experience where call capital went to Asia and China. Labor has a great chance in winning a higher standard of living with a little organization. It really is a historic moment for the US that had never unleashed its productive capacities without war and imperialism except for one short decade that ended in a Great Depression and since then its industrial classes had been stuck where trade is most favorable of profits in a military industrial complex for the last 75 years. An institution that rationalized its existence on a bet that socialism was evil incarnate through a mass psychological campaign of fear. This era is finished.
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  1572. Dumb argument to make since Ronald Reagan started this.
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  1573. Wonderful...documentary, more than a travel Vlog, probably the best sociology to come out of England in a century, a man with a camera. The enclaves can be accessed by mule or horse.
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  1574. Waverly is leveled. Down to the ground the homes, stores, warehouses. Factories? I have not seen any reporter covering what some of these devastated communities produce if anything. This is the town that will never be the same again. Building where water goes is going to be a major battle between residents and the town. This is the flood that breaks the camel's back for the residents of that town flooded three or four times before.
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  1575. Looking forward to Part II. Nice work.
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  1576.  @johnwattdotca  A republican party restored under the Mormon Church of Latter Day Saints...great, just what we need.
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  1577. @Asherah 1147 His personality got the better of him. His presidency was killed the day he denied COVID was real. Sheer incompetency.
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  1578. I read Percival Sweetwater's comment and the others who replied. In the week of October 18th just past, 15,000 workers in Warsaw demanded of the government an ownership share of GNP.  Not higher pay, not low gas prices but an ownership share of what they produce. I think city/urban workers in the US should demand the same thing.  Rural and suburban workers in America are terrorized and isolated, they have no capacity to organize or lead. In the US, the Fed has been wise to keep inflation down. Employment in the US in Main Street is still sketchy, dicy, and dangerous. Employers at the street level are not a diverse industry at all, one can find a job but in some generic capacity, not in line with what a person hoped to become in life. Disappointments are huge in this working class. America has a gazillion malcontents and ingrates. It has no social mechanism to assist the unskilled trying to fit into a socially changing society. If you create a socially changing society then put money into it. One of the ways America creates its social diversity is through war. When it invests it goes overboard.  The ideas and the way the politics are viewed by the average person are upside down and backwards. Immense confusion and false thinking. For example, the Democratic party, why be kind to immigrants and not be anti-war as the best form of kindness. They stay home. Problem gone. To the Republicans, why be anti-immigrant and not be pro-war. Desist war if you hate immigrants so much. These irrationalities follow a motive making social diversity a necessity or a dependency by the economy. This irrational men shooting up Jews and Blacks would mean something if they turned their guns of the makers of war. But since bullets went in the wrong direction of the makers of these irrational policies the actions are remarkable of ignorance. America has a powerful working class that is at this time, ignorant as hell of its rightful claim to the economic surplus. Wall Street owes its existence to the American tax payer. The right wing decided to give that money to bankers or the game is over for them. That decision never would have happened or been left to the right wing exclusively if the workers had ownership of GNP. The Polish workers are smarter than the American ones but not as strong, just strong enough to feel confident enough to demand it. America has a news black out active on this event. Violence seems to emanate from all pours of the body politic and the social economy to feed and keep secure 130 million workers, among these only 30 million are industrial workers and only 20% are union, 6 million union workers left. Its a stupid way to live as a worker but a smart way if your are not a worker. Claiming GNP is that much harder, easier to organize 15,000 than 6 million to launch off a campaign for security and sustenance never to be used against you. The advantage the Polish workers have over American ones is that they do not have all the social barriers impeding them from a head on collision course with the right wing, a face to face challenge is not diverted by all these episodes of abnormalcy as it is in the US. Everyone has to work in Manhattan to achieve their dreams. A huge separation exists between town and county in the US. This is maintained by the difference between federal, state, and private lands, that keeps industry concentration in the city and prevents the spread of industry across the population. This opposition is really sharp in the US. The right wing do nit care how their cities and countrysides develop. Considering that unionization failed and the government failed to unify the nation with its productive forces that leaves the products backing the dollar that should be claimed as worker equity and, therefore, ownership. Poland enjoyed a good economic run in the previous decade and the workers felt they were the ones responsible for digging Poland out of a recession, they marched before the capitol; no incidence of violence reported. Their position is why accept wages when you can go for the whole pie?
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  1579. The acceleration of the hydrological cycle. Weakening the Jet stream and sharpening the narrow band between warm and cold winds. Storms stall out in a deluge of water over land masses to the South. Anything we can do to reduce carbon emissions gives nature a chance to rebound to its natural state. It would take a moratorium on all human activity for nature to recover. The question how much of a moratorium matters? A capitalist system uses all time as working time and spares no time to a moratorium of its production. A moratorium from fossil fuel production can only happen when time is not working time but free time. Easier to solve the problem of social starvation than to hope the ice sheets reform in the Arctic. But the day has not arrived when time can be something other than working time, such as a moratorium from work to reduce carbon emissions and fight man made climate change. Working time is perpetual, a ceaseless process of capital producing and consuming itself stops for nothing and nobody. Fighting man-made climate change is a class struggle because climate change starts in production and ends with production. Droughts! Heat waves, heavy precipitation. Warm water current happening in a natural way in the Pacific Northwest and the loss of sea ice in the Arctic will simply get worse because time is all working time.
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  1580. The obnoxious voicing of newscasters.
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  1581. Economics from a historical standpoint is very different than the economics of Sowell. Same categories are used but very different conclusions are drawn.
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  1582. The only way to disrupt the policies that keep the world in a state of war and violence is to disrupt the working class. The policy-makers make it very easy for this class to get to work. The policy makers know that work is what makes the powerful and the elite a ruling class. Work is made into an absolute essentiality, creating many jobs, and selling the notion of job creation to the Public is lauded as a positive thing. It all gets really strange when the positive becomes a negative and workers cannot live with out making others richer. That is when they look for answers and typically find it in some weird character appearing out of the woodwork. Elites get nervous at the prospect of someone not of their class moving in on them and do everything possible to remove that person from that spot, forever. Protesters have to provide answers and explanations or they lose the political war against genocide. But for now, Israel herself is doing a fine job of turning the world against her.
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  1583. Sounds to me like the Pentagon is finished, a defunct institution. The Embassy is a city in itself with 2000 people Another loss for the US. For those who do not know...America in its entire history won one war. America starts wars it cannot finish.
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  1584. When Speech is a thing you can buy and sell, the rich tell, the poor, ---to go to hell!
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  1585. Workers are owners. Society consists of many owners in battle with few owners. You paint a picture of reality that is not accurate. Its not workers and owners. Its owners against other owners.
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  1586. Remorse is the foundation of forgiveness.
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  1587. Capitalism leaves humanity in a state of desperation and deprivation in its quest for a larger share of the market.
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  1588. Its ridiculous that after centuries of struggle for freedom people still, have not gotten beyond the social institutions and social classes subjugating the (m)asses!
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  1589. I would not be so quick to side with the NY Times on this issue of racism. Take race out of the equation than the class system is bare naked in your face. Easier to organize a movement against class than against race in America. Put fairness into the equation and the class system is harder to see as the prime force of oppression. If you want a universal emancipation from a class system to take place then race is an obstacle to that end. Just look at Venezuela, racism imbibes the opposition movement there against darker brothers and sisters trying to break the class system in that county. As Marx said, "Black labor cannot be free as long as white labor is branded." Republicans might be doing a revolutionary movement a favor. Your thoughts, if you have any?
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  1590. It is not merely for reading the bible and their faith that concerns states. I think its their economic power as an international organization that concerns states which could become a destabilizing social influence on the political life of the country. I fact, have in the past become a powerful economic influence that funneled nations into wars over religious interests.
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  1591. Before you start thanking anybody better check the police are not a part of this problem. Stings are set-ups and you might be the one they are setting up. An illusion of justice being done.
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  1592.  @TheStonerKoala  Its a big club and we are not in it. I seem to remember a joke about that. Good observation on your part.
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  1593. Yeah but she won't get the votes.
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  1594. The Federal Bureau of Prisons of New York no longer receives federal money under the Trump administration.
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  1595. She is white??????
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  1596. I guess it is really difficult for people to penetrate beneath the surface of capitalist society.  The surface being circulation that obliterates the deeper operations so that production determines circulation.  Trade capital that develops money, or hoarding, that withdraws money from circulation would all take place on the surface. When David Harvey says the economists cannot see the compounding problem beneath the surface they either ignore it or are blinded by how merchant's capital takes control over production and from that point forward the subject matter or the elements under view are lost. I found in a letter Marx wrote to Engles dated April 2, 1858, how he divided the study into 6 books.  Book I dedicated to Capital, book 2 dedicated to Landed Property, book 3 dedicated to Wage-Labor, book 4 dedicated to the State, book 5 dedicated International Trade, book 6 dedicated to World trade. Ultimately he recreates the whole system from these seperate books when finally completely read by a single individual. The published books after his death came out as three volumes of Capital and three volumes of Surplus Value really diverges from Marx's original plan for his work .But it is still far more comprehensive than traditional economics which does not even go past the realm of quantity when looking at the economy is strictly at the surface of society.
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  1597.  @rolandthethompsongunner64  Rude
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  1598. I do think we can dispense with the electoral college.
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  1599. Great line Shane Frasier.
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  1600. TicTok has not deviated from US law at all. I prefer it banned when and if it does deviate from US law which by the way, there is no law when it comes to Artificial Intelligence in US law as he speaks. Why not?
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  1601. @Erik Bailey Americans make education and medicine a thing for purchase and sale it goes without saying you end up with a social culture that is fetishized by commodity relations. I think it is a conscious choice Americans make, to be reified as commodities themselves, you have to be a commodity to consume commodities in the system dominating American society. If it is not a conscious national decision to be zombified by money-relations than what is it because Americans are intensely hostile to the alternative system many nations are choosing?
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  1602. It is the case that power is never relinquished to the people.  From ancient Roman times to modern times, over a thousand years, the State increasingly concentrated power. And now that particular nations in this particular time period have reached a stage capable of handlng power States become supersensitive to losing power.
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  1603. Its a dictatorship when crime is the State’s only purpose and when a judiciary supports policies that are anti-crime. Problem is people can’t distinguish a dictatorship when it walks and talks like one because they were too young to experience how past dictatorships operate. Another tell tale sign is the para-military hardware which is not produced in El Salvador but appears through some foreign arrangement between El Salvador’s regime and another country is a stark contrast to the material standard of life of the people in El Salvador. Where is the money going?
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  1604.  @jpaffluent1709  You are missing the point when someone alleges an economic sector wins again!. The reasons big oil and gas win has nothing to do with the reasons your talking about. You are talking about the technical side of the energy field and its limitations is irrelevant to Darlene Shiver's point. The energy sector does not produce oil, gas and coal for any of the reasons you cited. (Incidentally, this person interviewed is out of touch with a historic peace agreement signed between Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia through which gas will be a main trading commodity between these four countries is not using gas as a "weapon". But since world history is not an American interest the information the Public recieves can't be trusted as accurate.) The energy sector in the US produces for quantity and profitability. Oil, coal, gas, water, soil, wind are useful to the energy sector only as exchange- values or commodities. The idea of producing in proportion to need with a combination of oil, gas, coal, water, and soil is impossible for an energy sector that only produces for exchange. For them it is all about quantity and profitability, these are the people with motives that stand in the way of resolving the technical limitations of solar, wind, thermal, contained waste. Point the finger at them for holding your desires to see improvements back.
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  1605. Americans are far from concieving their country the way William Petty of the 1700's puts it, "..labor is (the) father (of material wealth) and the earth its mother." Right now the only faction posing a threat of social transformation and revolution on the right with an ideological conception in creating a society of their vision are the evangelicals. Four states have passed the heartbeat law are steps in that direction, as a creeping form of religious fascism; believers of the mellinium, when America will be the land of justice, universal equality and prosperity will come when each saved individual. Accepting Christ will become a qualification for citizenship in their vision of society. Washington becomes the pulpit and the nation its congregation with the military as its standing army. Andy is right about them.
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  1606. Socialism works fine when capitalism is not there to sabotage it. The basic struggle between capital and labor is the two sided nature of production... capital seeks to impose its own form of work, i.e., minimum wage work, and drives everyone into it. Meanwhile, workers tend to exert an anti-individualistic attitude and choose to remain owners of production. But since this form of capitalism has taken ownership of production away from the working class, this separation more complete in the US, than anywhere else where unions are still partners in production with capital, the American working class will tend toward socialism, or a form of common property of the community. Capitalism brings a kind of freedom that appears as a 'true freedom', in its own eyes, but, as a natural fact, the freedom to choose any buyer means becoming an individual seller of labor-power and the world of a seller in the US at the present time for the working class is 'shit' compared to that of a buyer! Concentrated ownership, i.e., public ownership in the past was state socialism. A partial socialism, is not an economic socialism. The economic side of socialism has been tried and obviously done very well for all the peasant societies that now threaten the mightiest capitalist empire does speak for socialism in those societies, where the state became and is the citadel of power for the party. In those societies the working classes were last to learn about their exploitation of each other as a 'class oriented' society persisted the exploitation. Wherein it is written the workers should have full control and management over the forces of production, no private ownership is permissible by law and the law is in unanimous agreement about the class creating effects of privatizing the means of production, had never happened before in human history. State ownership is a form of concentration and privatization of the means by the State. State property is private property in its own eyes and that of the law. Ownership falls on a party as opposed to an individual.  The belief about humanity and the working class in particular is that working class will have to learn the effects of privatization through experience. The working class will have to go through it, to know of its solution. The poor and working classes bear the direct effects of exploitation. Because of that exploitation, they are in a position to address the concerns of humanity. De-privatization could possibly resolve the conflict between science and society, workers might get universal health care from it, but the workers intention is more than universal health care, the plan is to free themselves from the cumulative effects of the workplace by revolutionizing the workplace, change the social relation of work. De-privatization removes the enslavement of science to capital, by law no economic interest of a particular kind may dominate the workplace, except the interest of humanity! This kind of social revolution was never tried before in all human history and it is an open field for a first. A working class that achieves this level of high cognitive political organization and functioning will become the first social class to embark on a mission to abolish itself as a class and all other classes with it as a consequence of its own abolition. Will history produce such a working class, only time will tell, but it don't hurt to start talking about it?
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  1607. Israel's political actions appears to the non-religious individual as an external limit to his freedom if you are not Jewish. Its become the only nuclearized Roman empire of the Middle East. You cannot be a citizen of Rome unless you are Roman. Its a state that has no checks and balances; whatever party dominates, is the ruling party. Fundamentally a totalitarian and hierarchical social structure imbues cultural and family life to a form of slavery as father and mother share unequal powers in the home. The family structure is premised on one subordinate to the other, therefore, its political life is going to be the same. The encroachments of land for its expansion follows the same historical pattern of western expansion of the federal government in the US in the 18th and 19th century. The American Indian Wars are nearly identical to the Australian Boer War in eliminating the aborigine and similar to the land encroachments of Israel. They follow a pattern of mass expropriation. This was done in Britain with the Enclosure Acts in the 19th century and led to a pauperism. Australia is also a story of expansion and follows the same pattern of development that took shape from the period of exploration to the colonial occupations and finally, modern industry. The pattern of conquest and land expansion is not unique of other nations. Most other societies developed internally by means of revolutions in the mode of production. France and Britain entered the industrial age, one by industrial powers abolishing feudalism and the other by introducing a capitalist as the modern way of producing food and etc.. These are societies that transformed under the weight of their own exegesis and not externally by means of conquest. Russia's expansionism is only recent in history. For thousands of years the Russian expanse and wilderness was already under the dominion of the Czars. Under communism, it took an expansionist turn for defense from the west, which was always suspicious and hostile of Russian backwardness but the revolution proved an ideal place for American business, Koch, Armand Hammer, Bush, to do business with the new Russian government. Denying America's economic ties to Russia is pure ignorance. Needless to say the Russian people share a national complex of being east and west and played very honorably for their own defense from tyranny and oppression. The Russians defeated the Nazis. If America turns fascist, Russia would not be on its side. Neither would China and NK, Europe being subject to Nazism is a story of the victim becoming the victimizer and having such small space they are losing their caucasian identities to the wars caucasians commit themselves to. Leave people alone and they won't leave their own places. But the nation-states created by means of conquest are inherently defensive, highly sensitive to loss, and heavy on prevention and military defense. The State is fortified against social revolutions. Things like checks and balances make it a highly insecure republic implying it can dissolve easily under the pressure of the social classes coming into conflict and therefore the founding fathers had to ensure to ratify a Constitution akin to the Enlightenment. As a colony they could not expand west but the King would through them. You have to remember the founding fathers were British transplants born in America, they were sons and daughters of pastors, slave holders and colonists and workers who were influenced by the age of enlightened thought. Fast forward to now, society can fall apart and turn into sheer anarchism on the streets but the State will still function for itself with a standing army alongside it. The problem with the State in the form of Israel, Australia and the US, they are the first of its kind to distance themselves from the society they emerged. So that whatever problems exist in society, riven as it is by conflict, (religious, economic, etc.), competition, egoism, chauvinism, in short the whole gamut of private interests, constitutes a kind of universality that appears to the individual as an external limit to their freedom. They choke off any sense of real freedom and Individual Will.
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  1608. One thing China does do that the west does not in converting the forces of production into private property is the intent of doing so is to support the growth of the Chinese working class, the quality of production, the product, and the level of productivity is excellent in China whereas, these elements are deteriorated in the west. If the world market collapsed tomorrow the factories and fields in China that had produced for the world market will shift to producing for their own population. In the west the factories and fields would closed down entirely and you are on your own for survival. In the west technology are powerful weapons with which to rule over production and the working class itself. The difference between support and rule is huge. Market forces control production and productivity in the west this puts the entire population at risk of collapse due to market forces. Obviously the system that is better is the system that puts production before circulation.
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  1609. Name one war the US started and won?
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  1610. Big 3ye -- A farm that produces its own light, water and food could change all that...instead a million acres farmed by one farmer have a million new farms of 50 acres each. Make them all self-reproducing of their own power, water sources, and vegetation and put communities into self-reproducing homes of power, water sources, thermal heating and cooking, food, and the old system you described vanishes. Self sustaining homes and farms can give marvelous impulse to a revolution in the use of land. Land would not be a tool for human kind to produce and consume, rather, human kind would become a tool for nature to consume and produce.
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  1611. That would not be pragmatic on Putin’s behalf to bite off the hand that feeds you. Germany buys Russian oil is a plus for Russia and a plus for Germany since American gas and oil is more expensive for Germany to import. It would be a concern for Germany to know the facts for a determination on where they stand in relation to the US foreign policy establishment. I am pretty certain this will end up in back door meetings to keep secret what actually happened to Novalny.
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  1612. @Katherine Richards,----You make a strong observation...the heart and courage to stand up. Cowardly lions is apt description of the people who materially support this form of oppression by their actions in their home country. People who do what is expected of them by the social order. Work and shop, a simple life really, nothing extraordinary, and easy to do. Stop, pray, give thanks, have a beer and go home while the country is on fire.
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  1613. Finally, a report that is not propaganda coming out of CBS.
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  1614. Facebook's Libra currency will permit the rich and super rich to evade taxation.   Zuckerberg has no ability to think on his feet. Unlike the majority of Americans taxation is as certain as death because our bucks are not big enough to make evasion worthwhile.
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  1615. Low viewing numbers DN? What are you going to do about your low numbers of viewers?
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  1616. Okay, but who are the middle class to you? Professionals like lawyers and doctors, celebrity actors, are middle class, perhaps on the high end, most celebrities can be billionaires. As such their money is capitalized and forms a part of the whole economic order. A mid sized corporation of 500 employees is a middle class business and there are businesses with fewer workers that are middle class and some are national and employ 5000 people to a class of workers who lost their middle class status, wealth and property that depended on an industry not leaving town left a scar on this end of the middle class. A real injury that could cost Biden the election. This wounds of that era never healed.
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  1617.  @roigrose5045  even npr.
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  1618. Its a shame that Herschel Walker is the better candidate than Rafael Warnock who voted to fund Nazis in Ukraine despite signing a letter of protest about funding Nazis two years before. Walker stinks for black women and Warnock sucks for white progressive men and black people. These are the poor quality of choices of character given to black and white voters. The higher ranking politicians choose a certain breed of people to deliberately divide the vote of the working classes. The one good news about this is Walker’s son may have energized his generation to take the actions necessary the rest of the population above his age group have so willingly conformed to not take action against war, poverty, race and class,---we can only hope.
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  1619. Jimmy should request MJT on his show.
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  1620. Strangulation of a people by economic means. Modern western man has evolved into a medieval sadistic individual to not consider this form of deprivation a declaration of war.
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  1621. Inch by inch, step by step, the cowardly Congress develops a spine as it is dragged into an internal struggle with its other branch. It takes being confronted by a threat for this Congress to take relative action in defending the republic. Lesson for progressives, if you like politics and want to be a part of the body politic, determine your destiny, rectify capitalism's contradictions of which the Trump administration is a manifestation, you cannot be a wus like this arm chair Millenial being interviewed by Wilpert. This is probably as far as Congress will go fighting the executive. Too many of them have a vested interest in the defense industry and will not bite the hand that feeds them. War is the sale of commodities (i.e., weapons) and the interest of the war industry is to keep Americans employed as weapon makers. In effect, Congress is a hostage to that specialized workforce the defense industry employs. For progressives that specialized workforce is your conservative class enemy unless you can re-allocate that labor into another industry rivaling the standard of living they acquire from the lucrative sale of weapons. This specialized defense industry working class will form an opposition to progressives and the progressive agenda. Money talks and bullshit walks is their creed.
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  1622. The US cannot follow China's lead with a national policy and cut fossil fuel financing because it would be considered a capitulation to socialism, therefore, it must maintain the position of neutrality at the expense of its own society, in particular, the communities affected by the huge number of financed oil operations off shore that everyone knew before hand would lead to a catastrophe.
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  1623. I like to imagine what a post-capitalist society in America would look like?  Let my mind soar for a moment. From the smallest person to the biggest how an individual life in society would be transformed when Will power is no longer a forced activity in itself. A society dedicated to the development of the mind charged to society. For the first time the average person has some say in what they want to do and be and society offers the means to that person without discrimination. Call it the first phase of emancipation where people are confounded at the realization they do not have to report to work under the compulsion and rule of a single entity, they report to work to put time in for their own reproduction, or develop into careers based on whatever they choose to be. People receive in exchange for their labor time not a static wage and isolation but a life of choice and conscious  social interaction. When your imagination is allowed to soar you know more than you think you know. Naturally you still need laws to reorient the psyche of society from its one dimensional existence to a universality of choice. I can say a lot more about this, but here is not the place. It is enough to imagine for the moment...
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  1624.  @jgalt308  If you don't like the State then smash it!
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  1625. Josh Barker is right. Bill Gates is the newest big landowner on the block. The land beneath the houses for some future acquisition of value is the real interest for the acquisition of lands by large consortiums of capital. This is like a repeat of the Corn Laws, pushed out is the average working American and middle class American.
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  1626.  @BrianHolmes  The other option better than shutting Boeing down and losing a huge chunk of aviation industry to rot and rust, is an employee take over of Boeing. Litigate and sue Boeing management and get a judgement to force sale its shares to the workers. If an American bank won’t fork up the money for the litigants to buy Boeing there are plenty of international ones that would. China would be one. If they are in lending position. I am sure there are ultra billionaires around only too happy to partner with Boeing employees in a split ownership. Russia, India, Brazil. What difference should it make who lends the money much of the US balance of Payments consist of foreign liabilities. IOUs. Senators have been selling America to foreign investment since I can remember. If the Senate blocked the sale of Boeing employees the senators would be guilty of an act of treason. Ironic isn’t it? Admittedly it would be stupid for a US bank to not lend the capital to Boeing employees and stupid for senators to block the sale. An injunction to block the sale would crush America’s first employee owned industrial producer won’t shine so nice come election, anything can be made to happen. I see this time a chance for American workers to take the road of co-ownership of primary and secondary industries, leave the ones who remain responsible and dedicated in private hands. But an airline industry should be 100% public to ensure excellence and safety.
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  1627. States can re-outfit prisons to become factories to re-employ the community of displaced workers from prison closings.
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  1628. Southern workers have nothing. Northern workers have more. Those who have the least to lose are less conservative.
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  1629. That should read; Trump's loss is the end of capitalism in America not America herself. People do this all the time. IT"S THE END OF THE WORLD, when in fact it is the end of a social system. The world will still be here; social systems come and go. Russia is still here but the Soviet Union is gone. Could it come back, sure it can. Can capitalism come back, sure it can. Can feudalism come back, sure it can. Slavery, sure it can. Societies are transitory. To the right wing and the right wing democrats socialism is a cult of death. But to us, its a new beginning and birth. The cold sweat panic is manifested in the Christian evangelicals. The second coming of Christ and the millennium, a mystical religious doctrine of the Chosen. Hence their affinity with Israel as the Chosen. A thousand points of light said GWH Bush. In Greek the word for ' a thousand', is chilias. The American Christian evangelicals are a modern form of Chiliasts, dangerously counter-productive people. 1000 of the richest families on earth are GWH Bush's thousand points of light. Pelosi is a christian and as such shares this chiliasm with the evangelicals and the US connection to Israel. Paul Ryan is a christian and now sits on the board of Disney determining religious content in Disney movies for its spread. Christian evangelicals operate like a cadre of revolutionary forces spreading the word of the Millennium. Religious order formed as a social class right under the ordinary American's nose. Trump is not an evangelical christian, he comes from the religion of Norman Vincent Peale of NYC, he does not have to be an evangelical as their president commander in chief. He just have to give them the power of the State. Chiliasm first appeared in history during the Fall of the Roman Empire in early Christian times. These beliefs were widespread in the teachings of various medieval sects has been constantly revived when empires decay. Americans are being ruled by a sect desperately myopic about socialism because it views religion as a release in fantastic dreams of deliverance resulting from unbearable suffering and guilt.
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  1630. It wasn't trustworthy when Hoover ran it. That tells me where you are at.
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  1631. The suspect has no remorse and he is justified in having no remorse. He could not stand the abuse at work any more than he had to. Same with most working people in this country abused by management and supervisors. America’s corporations exploit their working people and make them miserable toward each other become victims of rage. Treated like crap, over looked, ignored, spoken to like they are idiots and made to work long hours for low pay in jobs that enrich the company and the CEOs. Once working people get on their game to challenge these abuses individuals stricken by the pain will find relief in many working people voicing their opposition to this treatment and we may find a way out of the violent tendencies of managers and corporations who create such conditions at people’s jobs.
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  1632.  @AtheistEve  I was going to say the ‘middle ground’ was the period after WWII to 1973. This current period of extremes is the post ‘middle ground’ period.
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  1633. Could be that NBC has no long term interest in perpetuating this war and have decided to be more objective, honest, truthful, using their media more responsibly as a public interest organization. The NBC interview of Crimeans is worthy information to re-disseminate.
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  1634. The mainstream economists never measure the depth of the value lost in a crisis in terms of how much labor-time society must spend to get out of a crisis. For instance, three times the amount of US GDP was the cost of the subprime crisis of 2007. It was three times more than what the American people averaged in working hours per year. Each dip in employment levels extends the years of debt does more damage to erode the value of the dollar paid to workers of all types. Each rise in employment shortens by a small percentage the debt load per year and per person but weakens consumption as America's industries require less labor-time due to automation. The economy runs the risk of over production as automation creates ceaseless production, there is no way society can pick up the slack of an entrenched mass of unemployed. With the uncertainty of a market based economy national debt is an open ended question for each succeeding generation to pay it off. As a result of speaking in abstract terms the mainstream economists and the corporations misuse the tools to govern mutual economic interests. They had nationalized the debt only to make the next big financial crisis a global crisis in proportion that the expense for one social group is too great to carry considering the tax payer is not responsible for the misuse of the credit system by banks. The opposite of privatization of the public sphere is the nationalization of debt of the private sphere to every man, woman, and child with the future of the rest of their working lives .
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  1635. Haiti will ever make a headlines in Democracy Now. Why not?
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  1636. More of this type of video will go far to educate people, compare societies.
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  1637. 6:18,---“A feudal lord could not take the tools of a person’s trade”. Not true five centuries later. This is not the case in certain American states with respect to property forfeiture seizures.
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  1638. Nothing united about the United Nations. The relation of history in general to particular nations and periods is currently being authored by multi-national corporations, oligarchs, monarchs, militaries of separate nations. None will intervene to assist the fledgling democratic republic because none of the above in the developed world are democratic themselves. The intervention that will help Myanmar become a democracy is the intervention of the masses on a world scale removing their own ruling classes.
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  1639. People do not pay attention to profit, price and wages but the ruling powers do. They use these economic categories in their struggle to extract more value from working people. This is why American working people are so destitute. By raising price in circulation and decreasing costs in production they achieve a specific result of money prime. But American government lets the market regulate price, profit and wages, and that means profits comes first and prices are protected.  Government protects manufacturers prices as the Trump government is doing to protect American industry from the competitve pricing of China's products. Wages lose their values with every artificial increase in prices of Chinese goods and the working people having no representation in government buy less of the necessities of life. This scenario is not good for the worker, it amounts to economic stagnation and insecurity. An increase in the minimum wage works with a freeze on prices but this is not a pro-worker government wise enough to do such a measure. If wages reduce profits too much employers increase the duration of work in the working day to offset the profit loss and the government has little to nothing to say about it. This government has a pro-business stand that on wages, pensions, health care, parental leave, retirement, hours of work and working conditions, workplace safety, it has no stand at all and makes no committment to these economic categories. None of the reputable business school curriculums in the US require a course on worker safety for MBA graduates. Nowhere in the American industrial landscape is their a combination of employment and education, the working people suffer from underdevelopment, under education, undernourishment because the government is pro-business.
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  1640. I too enjoyed and admired that home and very happy its preserved as is his house in Cuba.
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  1641. Trouble intensifies everyday.
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  1642. An employee versus employer confrontation brews under the surface of COVID mandates.
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  1643. Sinking Creek in Knox County has risen.
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  1644. Capital Flight has huge sociological consequences for society.
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  1645. The skyline as seen from a NYCHA housing project apartment balcony overlooks a Trump Golf Course in the foreground and a Trump building in the background.
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  1646. A man who takes his escape from prison plan from a scene we have all seen a million times before in movies tells us that his captors are truly imbeciles.
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  1647. Great inspirational video...should produce one of these once a month to boost morale. Its propaganda that is not negative but positive propaganda to fight the ideological war waged against the working class. We need this. I am not worried if biden wins because I know now that a movement continues despite who is in office. If we reflect back it was a democrat who was in office when a movement against the war and against racism reached a point where a republican who got into office had to quit or face an inevitable impeachment. The corona virus as a crisis leading to a shift of this scale indicates that the conservative movement has reached a point where it cannot be tolerated any longer. The conditions become ripe for a social transformation. Fight on, folks!
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  1648. Meanwhile, the real white collar crime of money laundering connections between the Trump family and the Russian Oligarchs go entirely ignored. Smart lawyer to have when you want soemone who knows not, how to spot a crime.
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  1649.  @GNOBNX  Nah...the real deal is this...there is an organization within the institution itself, granted a minority but in control of the majority in the institution. The institution itself is prone to this form of infiltration and corruption is why it has to go. When I say "...it has to go", I do not mean abolition, I mean stripping law enforcement of any and all political influence and power, and rooting out corrupt and pro-violent forces from the sheriffs down to the rank and file officer.
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  1650.  @haleybrown2836  Roosevelt got elected on that promise. It has been deferred ever since by the Power Elite. Yes-- you are 100% correct.
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  1651. Why is it called a Basking Shark...does it bask?
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  1652. No its not amazing, he controls the Justice department, he can use the AG as a buffer to protect his clique just like he can order the miltiary to arrest you. Its a dictatorship.
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  1653. If working class communities do not organize themselves then outside institutional and organized groups will come into your communities and run your town.
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  1654. This would be unheard of in the 70s. There have been remarkable changes in America. What does need to change is the traffic going over the very spot JFK was shot, road engineers should have traffic encircle the very mark or figure some other way to isolate the spot from being treaded on I find to be disrespectful on that sacred ground.
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  1655. Every human being should be a Wombat to find compassion in humanity.
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  1656. It happened in one of the chains where Cracker Barrel headquarters in Tennessee is based...it happened right under their noses, as irony would have it. Headquarters must be in complete chaos.
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  1657. Good point Luis: Nice way to take away your rights and not use the military to kill their own families. Disease epidemics, measles, etc.
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  1658. America needs a Disaster Relief and Modernization Fund for Rail. Make it so that you cannot operate a business in American without a nominal number of cents on the dollar earned by a corporation going into a fund for disaster recovery, relocation, modernization of the railroad and whatever else it takes to use rail better for the nation as a whole.
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  1659. Powerlessness over our own lives is half the problem the other half is the powerful. We should position ourselves as the subject of power for ourselves not the object of power for another.
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  1660. Money for this is money that does not go to you.
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  1661. The 1% has a social structure into which everyone acts as owners. As owners we are all equal.  If we had a constitution that based itself on real relationships laws would be based on our differences as people. Instead, we have an artificial equality on the surface and below it we have an inequality stretching the limits of society to extremes. Inequality does not come from the legal superstructure if equality is found in the law. Anyone can sue and be sued. People are only unequal in their differences, natural and social differences, in the Law of the 1%, we are all owners and, owners are citizens and citizens regardless of social class we come from, are therefore, equal. We have to look where in society does equality become its opposite that pumps inequality at an expanding rate? Why does poverty exist and where does wealth come from that you can have big institutions surviving and contributing nothing back to the community it serves...is really a relation where the community serves the institution(s).
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  1662.  @AppleCinnamon1  Completely right...its an establishment who’s time must come to an end.
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  1663. Well, not much has changed except the characters. On the one hand, you have the direct form of exploitation ----where the vassal works on the land of the Lord. On the other, you have the indirect form of exploitation ----where the worker works in the factory of the owner. The question of the lesser evil is chucked out the window. DNC people and the GOP reveal themselves as evil to the public by their own doing. The Public can't understand why? Of course, they cannot understand the whys, watching the bully process all day does not help to identify how they are bullied themselves. Americans are covertly bullied, corralled, tamed, lulled into submission with abstractions, myths, escapism. Bully trickle down theory, is based on attitude, a conscious attitude toward property and possession that a selfish child kept in restraints by factory legislation, law suits issued by nazi like bureaucratic watch dog agencies, has been cut loose of its chains. Even given the right of possession of public lands now open to commercialization, speculation, mining and drilling. What was the EPA, what were the Factory Acts, what are the Labor Laws, what did these restraints mean that have been taken away? They were what society demanded from a capitalist things he/she cannot do in society! Thou shall not do list to capitalists. Punitive parenting of the child. These restraints were got rid off and you have Flint, Michigan's lead poisoning of the population, an exercise of genocide. Americans are prone to genocide. Who's to stop if another exercises genocide in their country--- what has the US to say about that? Nada with moral center of its own. As long as infant formula profits are not threatened who cares if you practice genocide. Not much different from other people on the planet. Evidence of apathy is found by the slaughter by deprivation of the Rhohingya and Yemen. Nothing exceptional about America if one can find evidence of genocide, mass suicide, cults, and social deviance and material deprivation among its people. This proves evil is practice within the government(s) where society's moral compass is corrupt. Depicted as a fat baby blimp the European honeymoon with Trump is over before it began. Now Trump has decided to test the material strength of the American people to withstand a drop in living standards against the living standards of the Chinese, Russian, Venezuelans, Cubans, in his war of attrition. A war between 143 million America's working population versus 1.2 billion should prove interesting to see who wins. With most Americans relying on credit the banks are ready to lend fresh consumer capital it can deduct from the GNP as its part in the tariff war effort.
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  1664. Problem here is that anyone in that social class are ever prosecuted for such crimes unless they want that person removed and out of the way. Trump wasn't.
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  1665. The only way you can get back the assistance and services humans gave her is by committing an act that harms yourself and/or others. I’d say the Otter learned how to manipulate humans and the system very well...highly skilled and intelligent creature.
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  1666.  @numbersix8919  Explain ‘real democracy’ ?
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  1667. America has real blood on its hands.
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  1668. The biggest threat to democracy is social class.
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  1669. What will replace the FBI when it is dismantled? Constructing something new is always a dismantling of something old.
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  1670. A gift to Trump.
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  1671. America has been waiting for a national health program since Eisenhower was president. Its time to get that promise realized. The British have had a national health program since Churchill. That is how far behind America stands among nations on health care.
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  1672. Essentially they are still a tribal people, three tribes in a modern context.
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  1673. Working people are experiencing the effects of privatization but if they have no idea what could be better, they will simply assume they can never represent the concerns of humanity. Most Americans ages 18 to 45 going through the effects of monopoly capitalism are people who will never own a home and totally propertyless have little to show for so much time and energy invested, they know the answer is de-privatization but, they are not sure if de-privatizing is enough to resolves bigger conflicts in society. They know the social relation of work has to change and move away from the vertical shape work takes in society but private accumulation and productivity are driving everyone to an early death. Something more has to change, namely, the way science in capitalism is used to advance a private interest. Know that work in society can be divided horizontally if you want it.
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  1674. Excellent point Jeremy Scahill makes at 13:40 about the role of the right wing in relation to imperialism. American government provokes negative responses from nations and are falsely reported to the public as "aggressive actions". This is how nationalism is bred into the brain of parts of the public who can't see any deeper than the fabrication put in front of them.
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  1675. The European working class is not taking it.
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  1676. Shooting down a balloon worth $1200 bucks and missing it with a couple of missiles at the cost of millions, is down right stupid. The Chinese diplomat was too kind.
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  1677.  @arthurneddysmith  The problem here is workplace violence not gun violence. The epidemic is not gun violence I repeat. You keep thinking that way and you will lose your right to bear arms when time comes you really need it, and I do not mean against your fellow citizen. The comment you are responding to @Teresa Ordonez is right and wrong. Wrong because she is searching for something inside the person that makes them flip. Right because outside the person there is a power greater than the person. This is workplace violence, period. Cost of firearms would be very low if people were happy in their jobs and given respect, dignity. Shooting people would be the last thing on their minds. I am not wrong because this is happening in many industries and that makes this no coincidental or isolated incident. Making you think it is a psychological problem just diverts the attention away from the abuses all workers are taking from their employers in America, and that is what America must accept or reject, as a way of life. Do you want to subjugated by Oe Size Fits All kind of laws and lawmakers or do you want to be happier people doing what you do most of your time; working?
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  1678. CEASEFIRE NOW!
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  1679. That is because commerce and trade are independent exchanges for the sake of exchange and torn away from the exchangers themselves is the value of their own product of labor.
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  1680. Collier Gwin said he finds it hard to apologize frustrated when the City (though he called the police who are not social services) does nothing about its homeless population then hoses her down is truly a despicable act. The man is not a class act despite his class status. The homeless are homeless because SF refuses to change their laws to build single homes only happens in the context of a huge land and real estate collusion with real estate interests.
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  1681. The intelligence of the voters is reflected in Boebert.
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  1682. Hinkle is not as progressive as he thinks was my take.
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  1683.  @LeRoyBoxley434  Hey LeRoy! Do tell LeRoy. What is fascism, otherwise, kiss my ass, LeRoy.
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  1684. Maybe this tragedy will bring an end to the era of de-regulation and bring real changes about who decides/enforces the safety protocols in the production of all things humans use for consumption and transport.
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  1685. 40 years ago this would be considered a headache a capitalist would welcome and for a capitalist economy, a boom that stores could not keep up with the demand.  Today its a crisis. There is something wrong that agricultural and manufacturing production cannot produce enough and distribution cannot keep the shelves stocked! Capitalism in the sphere of production cannot meet the needs of human society and the free market is not a democratic institution where needs can be met equally for all citizens.
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  1686. Disappointing editorial. Time to stop watching this channel along with NBC, CBS, PBS etc.
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  1687. Voting will not be enough to take the government back from billionaires.
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  1688. The state of emergency in Haiti is becoming a full blown second Haitian Revolution. The first one scared the pants off the slave owners in North America that it is built into their constitution a Right to Bear Arms as a defense against freed slaves bearing arms against them in the new republic after the Civil War! Haiti went up against three empires and managed to get its independence the fear was the spread of this revolution to former slaves and their descendants. We are coming into the last chapter of this era in the history of the Caribbean.
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  1689. This woman is the last person on earth to be sincere about the precarious position of workers in America.
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  1690.  @Eric-zl1kn  The Plague set in French Algeria is a great novel...I am happy you know it.
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  1691. American capitalists and their industrial agriculture and industry are the methods of production the world must overcome to defend the further extinction of species life on earth.
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  1692. He's a racist using reverse racism. Blames the victim and vacillates whichever way the wind blows.
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  1693. We learn from Italy DO NOT go to work...stay home even if it means the economy collapses. This is a tragic lesson to learn. It is not worth your life to keep businesses alive and profitable when it means a pulmonary disease will kill you and others around you! Not one single medical establishment in the world has a handle on the nature of this virus that you can put your faith on 'chance'. Plus, so many health establishments in so many countries are like Italy's, underfunded and unable to cope with a pandemic.  If that is not fixed there can be no confidence public health is secured.
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  1694.  @wallaceahtone6149  Well, when people are working in society they are producing use-values of some kind, so the work that they do is not all the same; but in American factories work is all the same, all the different kinds of work people do on every part of a company's production is value-producing work that rises and falls as a response to sales. When factory orders are high value producing labor goes into high gear and overproduction glut markets with cheaper goods and when factory orders are slow the value production is reduced the workers lose their jobs as a consequence of preserving ownership of the factory or more depending on the size of the conglomerate by one party sustains a world wide depression. For which the only way out is a war has been the classic answer to this problem of capitalism. The problem you will understand this time around is that the conglomerates or capitalism in general is the current form that human labor takes in our historical time frame. They are value-producing labor that people comply to be a part of, al beit out of need, not out of want.
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  1695.  @CaliMilli  Life happens when you least expect it.
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  1696. 8:12 The shortage of N95s, tests, and the lines growing by the day this time last year was dress rehearsal for the what demand exceeding supply will look like this year. Revealed through this shortage is a failed economic system of private producers of masks and test kits unable to meet this need in society. A developing shortage crisis threatening our existence because N95s and test kits are manufactured and sold globally and if large retailers do not order them to fill the stores other retails in other parts of the world will, the problem is America does not have its own domestic production. Production is cheaper outside of the US economy and GM, makers of medical peripherals, spend a great deal of money in Washington lobbying Congress to vote no making any changes to what is highly profitable to that industry.
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  1697. Similarities to Brian Laundrie. It takes two to not know what they are doing to each other.
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  1698. The corporations or the single corporation that owns many subsidiary pharmaceutical producers of medications have made the decision to no longer produce the over the counter medications the public needs in the middle of a triple pandemic is a callous blow.
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  1699.  @josephmorrell9954  Its not fascism. Fascism and communism is not the same thing and America has never been down this road before. You need help.
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  1700. Child tax credits would be a working class family's piece of the total social labor of society, i.e., a value increase in the cost of reproducing labor-power for the capitalist which then gets intensified in the workplace as a class conflict, and the market place, as the battlefield fought with high prices.
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  1701.  @jeanmoke1  Its not always true they choose who wins. It is true the 1% in both parties control the US and its population. But the 1% are not the political establishment. They do not control the political process so they have to influence the political elite who control the political process. If we were an organized mass of people of 330 million voters we would control the poltical process through the politicians we elect from the ranks of ordinary life.
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  1702.  @danialhillmann5374  Yes it was the old way of growing food that made healthier people, healthier environment and animals. The GMOs, pesticides, and herbicides are all science related products themselves being used by farmers to enhance the quantity of food they grow for a corporate distributor. I see a failed agricultural system in America. In Russia and this is a result of the Russian Revolution the land was given to the peasants and those plots of land are still owned by the descendants of that peasantry. On them are houses and garden plots. To own one in Russia is of no important social significance because this property alternates its use between Russian families of the same ancestor of 1917 to own and use as summer retreats from the cities. Russians like to garden are food producers for the extended families and on family gatherings the Russians will never go hungry. This system is way better than a mono-crop system that if it fails huge segments of the population starve!
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  1703. Polish grain is selling higher than Ukraine grain in Polish markets harms the Polish farmer... Polish merchants bought the Ukraine surplus grain at cheap prices wholesale...are responsible for the import but they are not the cause of the class struggle. That was the Minister’s fault. A minister who knows not how to administer diligence and fair market prices for the same class of products. The grain they bought has lost its luster sitting as surplus for two years unused...it also lost its value directly competing with Poland farm produced grain. One Polish minister quits because that minister allowed the importation of cheap grain. The social reaction to this move shows how strong a community can be when it is organizes itself into an opposition. But it should not take a crisis for working people who are in this case farmers to react. They should know in the system of exchange commodities are cheapened by competitors as economic weapons against competitors is a never ending process...take your eye off how competition works in rival land and you take your hands off the wheel...the consequences open up class conflicts in society. Agriculture is not limited to farming so when a minister fails to ensure the varieties of industries that depend on agricultural products can exchange their products with each other using money and not credit is preferred; that is a definite sign there are incompetent morons in government serving as tools for some larger scheme that has nothing to do with the progress of general production.
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  1704. If you believe capitalism is the final stage of human development you would also think like the conservatives.  The premise of all their political thought is the preservation of capitalism, they understand capitalism can deteriorate and take that as ' its not perfect, but nothing is perfect'. Egoism, avarice, competition, therefore, is accepted within their mindset as the ideal personality of a social system. Capitalism is permanent to liberals and conservatives...what can I tell you? Within conservative circles we are stuck with a system that is the highest stage of human development and the only stage higher than American capitalism is in the netherworld of religion where God and man are finally united as One. Facts such as the Lost City of Angkor Wat and the Maya, Ancient Societies, civilization come and go are replaced by new ones never happened.
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  1705. To hell with Stern and his love for the Clintons. He's a dam neoliberal.
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  1706.  @stephanie5249  Sick or dead from an oil spill will affect wildlife and habitat of wildlife without wild life kills habitats i.e., migration, polination, even the tiniest creature has some purpose to another species affects wildlife everywhere in Washington, Oregon and beyond. Living things move around in greater or lesser numbers is an affect on human life if wildlife is ruined by ruined habitats.
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  1707. You do not have a government of national unity if the society is divided by social classes. Social classes are like geologic structures. They are never permanent, always changing. What you have is a government that has become the center ring of a boxing match between the Right and Left through which the social classes express their class interests. For now there may be a lot in common and compatibility between political parties but behind the veil of unity is the hideous and monstrous face of social and economic inequality has to be dealt with before there can be any sense of national unity. Unanimity is impossible in societies of different social classes. None of the governing parties are ever going to get a majority to hold for any long length of time for the simple reason that one formula does not fit for all. The best a government can do is be unanimous about not applying generalizations to every particular difference in habitat, community, tribe or socal order. If one county lacks roads and the other lacks electricity the wrong thing to do is nothing.
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  1708.  @2091killarneydrive  No - Trump bamboozled everyone. The US has divisions that go way back. Class, race, gender, income, divide a country, your's too. This closest people to the president decide policy.
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  1709. “The state of the economy is what it is”, this implies the economy is unchangeable. A market system through which employment is attained is forever is a silly notion. The set up of the economy is permanent, cannot be changed, and the set up is the way Nature intended is made in the foregoing argument. The way we live, work and produce, is natural or created by God. If you cannot change the relations of production than change the relations of distribution and the result is socialism. When investigate the relations of production; there we find the extraction of wealth comes from the extraction of human muscle, tissue and bone, occurring within a fixed time period. If this cannot be changed then the socialists will never remove the extractor of value from human labor in production. Exploitation is never removed from the way we live, work and produce and the people who do the working see in socialism and socialists an enemy. This is why being a socialist places you on the wrong side in the struggle working people have against their primary exploiter(s) and the other workers doing the dirty work of extracting more work from workers for the same payment for the boss. Production can be changed and it will be changed because it is also a consumption process. Not only consuming live human beings ground down to the ground from overwork and exhaustion. It will change and must because it is a consumption process of Nature. Nature recovers slowly but can change rapidly into a state of inhabitability by small degrees, one degree too much, human habitats will die.
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  1710. Actually the 22 year old good samaritan added one more casualty to the violence, he did not eliminate the violence in the shooting at the Indiana Mall.
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  1711. Both home owners are an appendage to a tiny piece of land divided by a property line where one person’s freedom begins and the other person’s freedom ends on land that is identical on both sides of the line. If water were the issue and more of it were on one property and less on the other the right of property the contradiction would break out into war. But this is not water a life essential breaking out into a war its over something less important, trivial, signs and symbols of an attitude, a non life essential, that makes the accusation against one owner a “Karen”, basically ridiculous and a projection of what the women is not. This contradiction would not exist as a social conflict if the community as a whole were co-owners of the land. The individual would be suppressed by the community or banished as counter-social, or anti-social individuals harming the community.
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  1712. Workers need organization. People cannot win anything on protest alone. The higher unities of society will not feed, clothe and house you, or stop fossil fuel, wars, genocide, crisis of any kind, in a period of decline and disintegration. Ruling Elites, Church, State, Banks, Landowners, Merchants are out for themselves and being for yourself allocates the remaining resources into industries and jobs that service them. If a reason is needed as to why working people need organization it would be to oversee the allocation and rebuilding of society into a true socialist society. People should expect a counter-revolution just as what happen in 1860. Civil War was a revolution and Reconstruction was its counter-revolution when all the forces of a slave based society were re-constituted into power that by the time all Europe was decimated and reconstituted by the US after WWII, the same ruling class gave itself the privilege of printing dollars while everyone else had to buy dollars to participate in world trade. All of this is coming to an end. The Internet can bring all the separate movements together for the aim of a just and humane society in an instant, but organization is the only way to win.
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  1713. Young people should be demanding a better future! The future in store for them is a life of degradation and indignity, poverty. Private ownership does not exists in Columbia or in the US. If the direct producers (working populations) did have ownership of the means of production; technology and science would not be the fruit of no-workers and non wage-earners. And since these forces of production are converted into private property they are promoted not with the intent to develop and support the growth of the working class but to defend and protect the rule over the work carried out by people in the labor-process. Medicare For All, will never be a reality for this reason. The individual has no ownership of the labor-process and no access to its progress except by means of selling the labor-power in workers for a subjectively decided wage. Since the labor-process is also a wealth creating activity of human beings, technology and science is applied for a specific purpose, to enhance the wealth producing activity of workers in a labor-process, whatever may be that process, whether it is work carried on in fields, offices, factories, the State. Technology and science becomes further socialilzed spread into whole branches of industries that go into the creation of the product. The entire foundation of the production of commodities in agriculture and industry shifts from a social system that for centuries was based on a system that denied a particular individual the private ownership of land and tools making land, tools, etc., the private property of the community, i.e., social cooperatives versus individual private business. Duque and his people in government push monopoly control over the means of production by a handful of multi-national corporations. A program to break up this monopoly up directly attacks the capitalist class in the US and the foundation it has built to extract the wealth creating activity of a working population from Latin America, and US working people. This is why Duque has nothing to offer his country. What he offers to the multinational corporations is a program that gives them the ability to produce below the individual costs of the unit and sell below the average price of the finished product. To maintain this economic relation he must repress his working population to conform to the rule of capital.
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  1714. Crushed by the trade war is the 99%. This is because the 99% are the primary consumers of foreign goods from China. The 1% are in the primary sellers of foreign goods from China leverage profit losses by less hiring. Either way, the 99% are hit on both sides.
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  1715. The “everything else”, put last after profit and wealth by the elite 0.001% of the population, is production. Protected and isolated wealth reflects how production in America is established as an external power independent of its workers. The gravity of that consequence is forced labor, overwork, within a certain time frame. Production works for the market the market does not work for production is our contradiction. To the degree that work is independent of workers there is a gap between the product as product and product as exchange value that widens. Its a contradiction that comes off as a transcendental power of money that “everything else” becomes a money relation.
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  1716. People cannot move out,--- if they do they lose everything and starting over is impossible. If they lose the house they still have the mortgage of the house. People have a bank relationship that demands the new be built on the old. A new house is built where the flooding recurs defines the irrational in our society. A senseless repetition of the same crisis over and over again.
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  1717. Wow, the force of the storm pushed the yacht down to sink fast.
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  1718.  @mikecorbeil  Relax, kiddo, search on Youtube, Extinction Rebellion, On Contact Chris Hedges.  You mean you could not search the word; extinction? I googled the word extinction because on my mind is the concern that my kids and grandchildren's future are over, thus looking for evidence of extinction, I googled the word, and the Extinction Rebellion website was number one ranking on Google, it came up! I am 90 years old, I do not operating on the basis of 'supporting links', at my age it appears I am more skilled on the internet than you are? Not to insult you but, really son, you could have done that without my assistance.
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  1719. Bernie should understand that a corporation and its owner(s) do not get to be the biggest in the world by not having working conditions conducive to exploiting workers. Work must be performed beyond the point the workers have earned their wages to make a company rich. This is an important fact as it is the area of human activity that de-sensitizes people to the real condition they and other people face. The lack of equality in the work place and the over emphasis of equality outside of the workplace produces so many social distortions the normal functioning of society is crippled.
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  1720.  @JC-kv1vn  News like this is internally blocked in the US corporate news. You must have searched for it.
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  1721.  @owesteen-hansen2152  The Continent of the Americas are fools to not see the historic dissolution process of their own societies from North to South. Every necessity is thrown on to the exchange market and this to them is freedom, it is a freedom from everything except labor-capacity but to revel in it is sadism. The more separated from their mouths the food becomes, transforming use-values into exchange-values the faster they fall into the domain of the supremacy of money wealth.
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  1722.  @owesteen-hansen2152  Truth be known there is the Capital, ample and infinite Capital in the hands of the Capitalist Class.
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  1723. Incredibly hard not to believe a narrative other than the actual events is being created from all the establishing the officer is talking about.
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  1724. A Congressional Subcommittee on Banking and Finance should investigate and recommend legislation a wait-verification period on amounts higher than $1000.00 for wire transfers.
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  1725. Land of rugged individualism; everyone is on their own.
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  1726. That is the difference between real demonstrations, revolutions and coups. Coups are financed by a consortium of private capital, real people movements are funded through their organizations.
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  1727. The governor of Wisconsin has more leadership and common sense than the Wisconsin Supreme Court overuling his cancellation of elections...unbelievable, that a right wing court has great power over all the citizenry of a single state you can imagne the US Supreme Court having that kind of power to cancell an executive presidential order if a specific national act of a new presient does not agree with the Supreme Court Justices. Dissolving an institution like the Supreme Court would mea a dismantling of the Justice Department, which is not so bad an idea considering the Alt-Right is still actively dismantling FDR's New Deal and Social Security through Trump, that which they call the "Administrative State". In 1865 the Supreme Court was so partial to slaveowners it ruled blacks were not even human! Today one Supreme Court rules exposure to contaminated coronavirus public places to the Public Citizenry is okay with them, does not regard its citizens human either, not much has changed sicne 1865, an attack that is not made of bombs and rockets but made through an enforcement of the law. What needs to be done here is push Schumer and Pelosi aside from controlling the party, an internal revolt, by a new left made up of Bernie's movement and fight back the blows of the Supreme Court justices of the Trump administration through a take over the democratic party, become the direct opponent of the GOP and the far right wing of the GOP, for the removal and election of a new president nominate a new candidate and if it were me in charge of a workers left caucus wing of the democratic party I would nominate one of the more progressive governors or one of the more left mayors to run against Trump. A long as there is a far left caucus big enough to win seats from the progressives and center right democrats running on a Medicare 4 All platform will liekly be a winner and Trump can be defeated. Thanks to Bernie, he built a large enough group for a left caucus in the party, they should drop their campaign goals and form a left wing faction in the party and push the progressives and democrats out of the way, for a direct fight with Trump. Its time the enemy be face to face with the working class and get all these proxy opponents out of the way.
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  1728. Wonderful News that monarchies and dictatorships will fall and become a thing of the past.
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  1729. A world-wide political worker uplift is needed. Proletarians need to take over capitalism everywhere. Become the new owners of property and private property. Invest in labor and let labor produce its wealth with its power to produce surplus value. The conservatives and the right wing are fundamentally deceitful. Worse, the productivity of labor is a tool for their own enrichment. Still worse, the government(s) have become petrified wood. False ideas, myths, and are out of touch, totally not proactive. This is a problem. How to stop being taken for a chump by these regressive social forces is the problem? Workers do not need to enrich someone, they need to enrich themselves. Workers need capital and markets not the capitalist and corporations. Let's see how long it takes for the proletarian volcano to erupt and reshape the capitalist landscape?
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  1730. Excellent and critical!
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  1731. People are toxic because...people are denied the means to live. Not because they live beyond their means and need more money. The debt relation is a wealth transfer from borrower to lender. The wealth is the land, house or car, material assets of any value, the transfer is the foreclosure. The investors buy these loans and are ultimately the receivers of the interest-bearing capital accrued from them. Wages have not risen; stayed flat for 50 years was one objective of the Republican Party Ronald Reagan fulfilled. Nobody felt it back then; made no complaints because prices were stable and the job market was stable but now that the job market is unstable , employers are firing workers using Zoom, this is a second blow following the first credit crunch blow, and the pandemic firings when they never called workers back, now prices are going up! Rent, food, gas, oil, electricity, phone that not fighting for higher wages back then in (1980) was a mistake we are paying for now in 2021. This is why people are toxic.
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  1732.  @pottedrodenttube  If you are a war veteran of the US you sided with the empire too.
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  1733. Funny comment... the times you live is the same as the time your ancestors lived.
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  1734.  @intermodus2180  I agree...its good reporting, objective, to ask the witnesses what happened...I take it your assumption is subjectively motivated.
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  1735. The American public and Princess Diana have this in common. Both are told lies.
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  1736. The Age of Capital comes to its end in 2020 would open the 21st century as the Age of the Proletariat. Capitalism began to evolve in the 16th century and matured in the 18th century, our century is a century of revolution with the coming of its decline.  Be great if the mistakes of past proletarian revolutions and societies are heeded and we avoid the failures of communism of the 20th century. But with the most powerful economy in the hands of workers real socialism has a chance of a normal development. North Korea would not be starving in order to build an arsenal of nuclear weapons, takes a big chunk out of what can be made from their present stage of social development as a socialist society.  With China and Russia on the path of capitalist development, I doubt we will get along with the Chinese and Russians because there is a commonality of socialist elements all share. A socialist America would be wary of Russian and Chinese capitalist expansion and to have two countries not one be aggressive like America was in its pre-revolutionary history is a big concern. The change of staff in the state department would be conducting missions on how to convert Russians and Chinese working people to overhtrow Putin and Xi and the party and establish worker control is an interesting vision. Anything is possible. Most likely the US will stop meddling and use a lot more diplomacy to get countries on the right track of a real socialism that is environmentally and socially conscious. Not cheap on human needs not excessive on wants. Wars may not end but they won't be fought the way 20th century wars were fought. Young capitalist republics like China and Russia can transition back to organizing production via worker's councils when America does the same thing. I doubt a socialist America will restore the environment and end climate crisis, but instead of pulling out of the Climate Accords it would be first in line leading the world in how to fight it. A socialist America can do a lot of good for Americans, give purpose and meaning to their lives as long as all the errors and mistakes of socialism in its 20th and 19th century infancy are not repeated!
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  1737. They just got 1.5 trillion from the Fed, of course, it bounced back.
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  1738.  @milenprada55  Odious thought.
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  1739. Need water to grow food.
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  1740. You cannot hold police accountable if the community and state are in opposition to each other, race and religion are political weapons in America. Police organizations are organized as a national political association, the associaation of sheriffs could become a national political party overnight it is so organized, the whole police institutional social structure is a political struture to itself, it emulates the social structure of America's elite academic institutions with its own academies and branches of study, and as a large class of police with a tremendous amount of national resources they can afford to pick and choose what political candidate they want to work with. They can pressure representatives to be a major opposition and resistance to a president they do not like or law they want repealed. The police would not like Chessa Bowdoin as a DA in LA, cop organizations will pressure representatives against Chessa. Make his work and life miserable as if they hadn't from the day he was born. Manning is arrested and Snowden lives in exile, Assange is about to get extradited. The people who could have led a revolution are incapacitated to lead. In revolutionary Russia, the four of them would have been organized into Lenin's party in exile, come out in the open when the revolution in the US was ready for the next step in taking power and control from the police and its branches of standing armies. The teachings are in history of how revolutions are made and what to do next with the police is taught to us by the Paris Commune. Two lessons the American progressive left had not learned, chose to ignore, the lessons of the Paris Commune and Lenin's revolutionary strategy the American right wing took advantage of.
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  1741. kurious49...the foreign policy establishment would include Hillary' wing of the democratic party and the Joint Chiefs of Staff who are terrified by Tulsi, and guess what...terrified of Bernie and Trump too!
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  1742. You got it partially wrong Tim, the public does not have a government and "these people" have organized themselves as a dominant class with the military as their protector. If necessary they will go to war with you. Even the business community is nervous that the actions of Trump, Pompeo and Bolton, could and will lead to their expropriation in other countries, they are hoping these officials know what they are doing. America is their last domicile on earth for them which means the American people must be kept suppressed and repressed. look around: do you many people who have money and are content, satisfied? Bartolomeo's face says it all, how self-conscious the business community are becoming following a second failed coup attempt on Venezuela one day before International Workers Day. They obviously did not expect there was a world wide working class movement. The situation with the business community is fairly easy to grasp, imagine a dinner banquet with very rich people entertaining each other, with all the nicities of life, and suddenly a construction wrecking ball smashes down the wall of the banquet hall.
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  1743. He advocates an extreme shut down in a country that prides its freedom of movement and assumes that under this presidency freedom of movement will be restored without question. In the United States a total shut down presupposes all 50 states would be shut down at the same time. In China there are no individual states that the country can be shut down. Provinces make up the demographics of China, Korea, and in the countries in Europe that the entire country can be shut down but that is not the case with the US. New York can be shut down and Pennsylvania can remain open. California can be shut down and Nevada stays open. This presents a more complicated scenario that would also break down interstate commerce and more people can die from starvation as the Walmarts in the states that are quarantined can accept no truck deliveries. The other issue is that assume the virus does pass over what assures anyone thinking about this rights would be restored?
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  1744. Exactly, which means that the militaries of other nations strong and less strong ones are defensive militaries. The picture if it were drawn on paper would have the US on the left side of the page and all other nations on the right side of the page. On the right side militaries that are getting very good at defensive weaponry against the US. On the left side the US losing to this competition. To make matters worse every dollar spent on defense (really we should say the military and war) is a dollar not spent on domestic spending and the wealthier social classes use their leverage and power to shift the arms build up on the US workforce its cost to bear.
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  1745. The hostages than do not have a guarantee the Azov Battalion will not kill them if an exit were negotiated. Used as shields would expose the Azov Battalion as cowards not heroes supported by the US. Hostages would never leave alive to tell the story. Too big a liability to the campaign of falsely persuading the public to support this war. It would open the door to the US signing on to the International Court and for its war crimes face prosecution and punishment. If were in the position of the hostages in the steel factory I would sabotage the battalion holding me because I would have nothing to lose and my life to gain if I did. If I did nothing I am certain to die. What would you do?
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  1746. Mr. Mayorka, ---How is this not the same as placing a censorial person in charge of censoring information?
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  1747. You have to stop co-operating with the system, the more people work for it the more powerful the monster becomes. Comes a time when you have to accept the facts and take action knowing the facts justify your actions. Even if it means a single person throwing up a sign in front of the Pentagon that reads, "Biggest Polluter in the World is Behind Me' and it goes viral to mass action. These actions are justified under the conditions we live. More than justified they are necessary.
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  1748. The Erie Country Official did not think before he spoke.
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  1749.  @chiefkaha5650  You are too vague.
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  1750. The guest established a good argument for dictatorship. " We, don't care.", about the kind of havoc we have created in the world was his point. Instead of breaking alliances with a murderous outlaw prince we facilitate his rule and we do not care. Passive publics, apathetic people, make society prone to dictatorships. A passive public is not unique to America, I would take his comment to not mean we are a mean spirited people, some are, but it is unique to republics as a form of government that the Public be a passive one. Ill-informed. Asleep at the wheel, pacified. Constitutional republics depend on a tax structure and the history of taxation has always been a bloody one. Its a fragile state of existence to be a republic but the longer people are conditioned and socialized into believing taxation and external war are permanent features of the human race. Nothing we can do about it mentality reigns supreme. So to lead this passive public into war requires an attack and to lead this passive public into a revolution requires agitation. Eventually the passivity of the public creeps over to a position where all things being done are absurd and takes on an active role re-arranging all the crazy social relations until it comes up against a republic that no longer serves its function and topples it. A smooth transition of power would land it in the history annals as uniquely revolutionary. The only difficulty is the opposition who in their position in connection to society's strengths put up a fight, resist, tearing down what a new society could use to construct itself. Counter-revolution begins early and methodically to disable the new society from coming into being.
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  1751.  @yarazooom  Good point. Politics of this system and the politicians on both sides are really about suppression and preservation of the economic order. The left suppresses humanity from making progress when in power and the right when in power preserves the economic order.
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  1752. The railroad has no business being a private railroad company because it traverses the whole country. A country is either a nation or not. That’s like privatizing the Post Office. Without a post office you are not a nation. The US is the only country I know whose railroads are not nationalized and this confuses the country about what it is. This would have never happened and they never do where railroads are nationalized. When was the last time you heard of a train wreck in Europe, the Middle east, Asia, Latin America...of a wreck of this magnitude, exactly, NEVER.
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  1753. It matters not if you are black or white when you are poor. Poverty fuses together material deprivation with chaotic, arbitrary and unpredictable behavior. The inability to exercise self-control...comes from being poor... it is not that people in poverty do not want to be wealthier... moving up is still seen as the way to establish dignity for one’s life...and dignity means, specifically, moving toward a position where people can deal with the world in some controlled, emotionally restrained way. Educated people are supposed to have this capacity trained into them. They should have gotten the skills to tame the world with out force or passion... they failed...
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  1754. If everything is fake then you won't believe the CIA exists. People make it easier for abuses to exists by getting caught up in a cycle of denial. Intricate and incredible webs we weave when we set out to decieve.
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  1755.  @Tokinjester  always more to it, lots of stones to turn over in this mindfield. But the stones are quid pro quo deals with oligarchs all over the world winning over political leaders for the sale of the country, more foreign investment capital coming in and more national ownership going out, betrays the constitution and the soveriegnty of the American people. Concentration of capital into fewer hands is a real threat.
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  1756. Good idea...@haleybrown2836
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  1757. No, I respect the court but we are going to do it anyway.
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  1758.  @richardarriaga6271  antiquated braking system
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  1759. Great reporting giving us the full picture of the players.
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  1760. Absolutely right.
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  1761. In this phase of monopoly capitalism the emergence of a new society occurs through its very exploitative nature. You just have to find the answers in the problem. The old adage that applies to everyone’s relative applies to monopoly capitalism; capital is its own barrier for its own growth. (Automation) decreasing living labor is less surplus-value. Converting output into profits for all corporations to share is shrinking and as wages rise a tension between employers and employees gets worse. Society makes progress but its hell getting there.
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  1762.  @MrStreetninja007  As long as there are IJ fans willing to pay half a thousand dollars plus the boot manufacturers won’t care about this channel. Profit, profit, profit is their creed and the expense of the fans.
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  1763. Then it is the corporations that should be thrown out, the codes are just the rules.
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  1764.  @Perurikun  yes...corporations are not taxed and with the incomes from profit they earn they spend it on the media and the politicians, and consequently, shape public opinion to their favor.
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  1765. Ridiculous that politicians should have authority and control over such a precious thing as the environment. That's like putting a kleptomaniac in charge of closing the bank vault every night.
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  1766. I can imagine with most of the middle aged men and women in the armed forces and working all the time for the private sector, there are very few to fill jobs not as attractive or paid well to be a home inspector for a large percentage of the population as the elderly in America that this happens a lot. It’s all about priorities where human resources are to be allocated.
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  1767.  @kevinschmidt2210  Very disappointing that out of 17 replies, none agree the value theory of labor is not disproven from the original commenter. Value is subjective and the worker is the subject creating value in production and surplus value is realized in circulation. The subjective experience of the worker’s own exploitation in production is the subjective side of the value creation process. The commenter, James Adams above, is attempting to place the value creation process outside of the worker from the exchange process as so may use-values combined by a capitalist to create a new use-value for sale. That is not the labor theory of value, nowhere near it.
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  1768. But you are missing the point behind inflation and unemployment that a shortage of goods will cause. Many Americans are under a false impression that prices, money, commodities are forever when they are only man made and are a round about way of connecting people to their own creations that are now stuck on boats in the high seas. The point is to separate people from property and in this way wages can be lowered. If 5000 industries are to return to the US two conditions must be satisfied. Wages must be lowered but not below its own value and the working day must be prolonged. Otherwise, as in the past, other presidents have used the reserves but there was no political will to depress working people wages below those of Europe and equal to those in Asia.
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  1769. Not funny because King is in an office of decision making power. Even when a decision is not made the effect of that inaction is as powerful as if a decision was made depending on the bill reaching the floor. A person who occupies the power of what bills are to be voted is not King but McConnell. As speaker he can stall social progress and he does. In his use of this power as Speaker of the House, delaying bills from ever reaching a vote, McConnell covers for others like King to rally and organize reactionary forces against the working class in the background. He occupies, or a better word for occupying a political position, he 'hoards' the vote. An abstention could be a death sentence of programs essential for the life of the working class and poor. I think it is a real disservice to not discuss King's political position in the State, as an obstructionist along with McConnell, as people who stand in the way of social progress. To mock his religiosity without examining the power that comes with his office is infantile and does nothing to advance the election of Bernie or some other pro-working class politician. Shame on TYT. For not realizing behind the religion is BIG MONEY, very powerful people, owners of money, wealth, businesses, the recipients of big profit, and money talks in Washington; bullshit walks.
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  1770. Excellent video, very educational. 11:11 But I think the “wishful thinking’ of our leaders of the economy is on the march is not wishful as much as it reflects how much our leaders are talking to the corporations not the people in comments about a recovery. Capital on its march of progress, develops itself, while human development digresses. The comments sound to us as delusional because there two realities, two economies, and the leaders speak to the participants of the primary economy that for for all us in the secondary economy not developing but rather, falling apart, perceive those comments as utterly delusional.
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  1771.  @jeffmoore9487  You have class inequality; corporations, landowners, merchants, bankers, industrialists, finance capitalists, professionals, and a working class that is one part a middle class and another part working poor, all in conflict which each other in the private sector. In the public sector a huge homeless population that includes the incarcerated, prostitutes, juvenile wards of the court fall into the lowest rung of your class system, people living as groundskeepers, or in the woods, campers, are technically homeless people. People with mobile property not fixed property and some own more property than others. Who gets the water when the lakes go dry in this class system? When people are no longer divided into these social classes then we can talk about democracy and even then you will need a governing authority before they learn how to be beings in fidelity with their species.  Very few species annihilate themselves n the non-human world of nature and the species that does annihilate itself in human world of nature are people. You'd be a fool to expect people socialized in a class system for over 200 years to suddenly become democratically and socially conscious human beings in this capitalist stage of development. People will have to be trained in democracy.
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  1772. @cellonpot,---This is what I call wishful thinking. Do you really believe the politicians will establish term limits just because Americans want that? If you really want that to happen then you’d have to get out there in the streets and scare the Be-jeezus out of the politicians. Bullshit walks.
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  1773. Jobs like that are built innate to the civil social structure of the United States that only the people that fill them go away.
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  1774. The judiciary in Honduras is not independent if the president has absolute authority of the judiciary. Honduras is dress rehearsal for the re-election of the Trump oligarchy in 2020.
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  1775. The Progressives are right....its time the American people get more than relief but get on track with other nations as rich as ours and have all the safety net provisions in place for their populations to work and live with dignity.
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  1776. Fight Monopolies by Unionizing!
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  1777. Good show.
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  1778. The living brother has no reason to live anymore. This is why it is important to put all possible resources into shaping, cultivating, educating the Mind. It’s too expensive to be stupid! Intelligence in the Public is an asset and ignorance is a detriment. We need a new social system that re-prioritizes the means and the ends so people can leave this world in dignity and respect.
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  1779. Keep at it Jimmy...you and the crew are doing great. Thumbs up.
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  1780. Just look at the list of then and now: The industry group consisted of: Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (now BP) Gulf Oil (later part of Chevron) Royal Dutch Shell. Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal, now Chevron) Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Esso, later Exxon) Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony, later Mobil, now part of ExxonMobil)
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  1781. Competition leads to monopolies and monopoly capitalism leads to competition is the repititous cycle that keeps American labor from developing further its potentialities. In effect every generation advances no further than the previous one and under the two economic systems America alternates the same two character traits appear in people. Bullies under monopoly capitalism and thieves, liars, cheaters, under competition. Never are people in America free to develop their potential on a personal and on a social level. Prohibiting social and individual progress are the two modes of work that appear under competitive capitalism and monopoly capitalism. This is why the US ranks poorly (17th) on a number of social realities, as in fertility in men and women, income, education, social well-being, personal contentment and happiness. The rest of the world will excell in these areas solving concrete problems through a cooperative model of work, finance, trade and commerce. This will happen because monopoly capitalism functions without competitors but is dependent on two factors, wage-labor and a mass of consumers. Competitive capitalism is dependent on many competitors and a mass of consumers and wage-labor for its work. The monoply stage is broken down into parts creating a comeptitive stage and the market in a competitive stage inevitably leads to a new monopoly formation of capitalism as a never -ending cycle. Capitalism is dynamic up to a point but it is cyclical by nature. Personally, I think it is a played out and boring social system that produces miserable and horrible people, social barbarism, superstition, and ideology in society and fantastic fantasies for escapists. Enablers and escapists are the sub character traits people acquire under capitalism, are formed in the family and then socialized in education.
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  1782. Imperialism in this time period is based on a competition of the material needs of the west that intervention of the south takes the form of destabilization of regimes. Unlike the imperialism at the turn of the 20th century this period is unique in that capitalism is enigmatic and indifferent to the economic relation of material wealth of the world. The reproduction and survival of a specific international class of corporations for the free exploitation of raw material and labor globally defines this period of imperialism.
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  1783. Well done Jimmy. Tear down the deceit on the left and the right.
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  1784. You should read Aristotle’s Ethics.
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  1785. GOP is richer than the Taliban is the only difference I see.
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  1786. This is what a decline and fall of a society looks like when elected people serve oligarchs exclusively and not society inclusively. Never happens to billionaire kids in billionaire schools it only happens in working and middle class urban and suburban schools. Society is split right down the middle with inequality in the distribution of drugs, guns and crime, but with ample jobs that kids are unsupervised and can acquire weapons made available through the de-regulated markets.
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  1787. Be a great day for all humanity when the American people, strung along, played with word games the same way the Sri Lankan people are played, take the White House from America’s Bush Doctrine blaggards, inept and greedy politicians, bullies, and philistines.
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  1788. I dislike pubic officials praying for anything. A public officials should present the facts and the status of the investigation in a report form to the camera. I also dislike public officials thanking the network the official works for and with. This is a quirky custom that was never a part of American political life before 2000. I don' know where these habits are formed but they are lame.
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  1789.  @ejuju1  That’s why you have to organize outside of the workplace. Outside you are free inside you are captured.
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  1790.  @sireorcry  Thank you. However do not despair or mourn, Organize! Workers in France are leading the charge, England follows and I expect German workers to do the same. The American workers still have a long way to go but news trickles into the States about the general strikes in Europe, despite the news blackout and censoring, is beginning to shake off their apathy. We have many factory explosions and train collisions here that workers are questioning de-regulation of work-places connects these incidents as deliberate not of sabotage but of working conditions and hours imposed by their employers. One thing is important: End the Wars!
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  1791. Ukrainians are the unfortunate victims in this war.
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  1792.  @ludmilaivanova1603  I thank you as well for your insights. I grew up in a family that lived by a creed: Never Borrow Money. And I had an aunt that hated bankers,---stashed her money in her home or person. Depression era folk. To this date the best mayor NY ever had was LaGuardia, two cops on every platform and on most streets. Subway stations had food vendors selling clams. Doors were open in all places and kids were all over the place. Movies were a $.75 cents. A slice of pizza $.15 cents. Women were beautiful and men dressed great. A lot of style in the city and laughter no matter what your class background you were welcomed. The Met was free. Natural History was free. Manhattans’ universities were free or no more than $5 grand. Leonard Bernstein taught kids on Saturdays for free with a full orchestra. NY public library was a second home. Boomers benefitted from that era. A car was bought with cash at a price of $2000, more outside of the city. But you were crazy to have a car in the city since mass transit was excellent. 1970s was a the turning point. Central Park’s bandshell could be booked by anyone for a public performance. You know what’s funny I never went up the Empire State Building until I had to take a Norwegian cousin visiting to it in the late 80s. The Village was loaded with scholars, painters, artists, and lofts in SOHO were factory buildings rentable dirt cheap. Compare then to now, this is a decline and fall of American society. So I really feel for the deprivation kids are going through now as completely unnecessary. Well again, thank you and be well.
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  1793. Capitalism must die!
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  1794. Yes, I agree...your's in particular Emma Evans. You are apparently quick to blame workers and not the management treatment of workers by large-scale retailers.
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  1795. Incredible how a tiny Fusi chain worked massive ships.
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  1796. Might be for some people.
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  1797.  federal reserve  No, I have not noticed, care to elaborate on that beyond one sentence for such a huge subject of profound political significance to the lives of 332 million Americans?
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  1798. If you feel this way why are you not a progressive when those points you raise are progressive points.
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  1799. Gabriel Wilson made up his mind what he was going to do after his exchange with his superior about a request for a transfer to another store. That transfer was most likely denied. He could not tell the boss to take this job and shove it. If he could he would have. He was trapped. He did not get what he wanted and staying at the same worksite appeared to have been out of the question to Gabriel, this brings to mind what were his reasons for his request to transfer? The likelihood is that Gabriel's time working for Stop and Shop was torture.  Employees in general are in a timorous position in society. Work does not happen in America unless a business is started out of it. If a business fails the employees are out of work is a life-threatening disadvantage. Having to find a new employer is a job in itself, a worker lost a job with higher pay only to find new jobs available with lower pay and benefits do not kick in till months down the road. When you do start a new job the first paycheck received was two weeks. Four weeks if the new hire has to wait two pay periods, and it is a big one, but not in comparison to what workers make in those four weeks. Someone could have made forty kitchen cabinets worth $2000 wholesale and got paid $890 after taxes at the end of four weeks work.  Did the wages do not even come out of the company's profits n this example. The retailer bought the cabinets at a mark up and of that the cabinet worker got 15% of its value. Wages are paid in this case by the retailer and not the wholesale kitchen cabinet manufacturer.  Worker are placed at a disadvantage in many ways, they have no claim to the product. No claim to the factory used to make the product, all this the second they sign on the dotted line and complete the W-2 form. America is no Shangri-la in the workplace. The workplace in this country is the leading cause of death on a national basis. I can imagine the treatment this man got from a crude management and a rude Public was punitive and harsh that at a young age too, which is tragic, became demoralized by his employer's practices and society to want to end his life and destroy the world of work under what he probably did not know was capitalism.
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  1800. All types of characters in the city. Its pathetic of city management that citizen residents need a media corporation program, 7 on your side, the title itself reveals the citizens are all alone in a forest of wolves. But what does it take to get the city management and maintenance to do their jobs? For what do you pay city taxes? A city is more than a place where garbage has to be collected. Imagine a political party taking power on the promise the eradicate all injustices but can’t fix a sidewalk and cannot eradicate an injustice at the same time, how totally absurd would that party or candidate would be...well, that is what is happening in city government!
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  1801. OIL, Oil, oil and Iran is the crown jewel of the Middle East for OIL. The US government is a predatory government for the extremely perpetually lucrative oil industry. Of course, until the crust of the earth can't replenish it as fast as they drill for it. There are two countries in the US. The US and America, two distinct social classes that are diametrically opposed.
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  1802. Should talk more about health care and employment as an oppressive relation. Workers will be signing away their rights as a requirement of a job. The relation worsens the position of the working class in the US and forever eradicates the notion of freedom in America.
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  1803. Opportunists are pushed off the cliff by the people they archly defend.
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  1804.  @davidcanatella4279  Organize 200 families in your community, collect from them $50 dollars a piece, go to several local farmers with the $5,000.00 dollars and open up an account with them for a monthly pick up of vegetables. I am sure the famres will love you, they do me. I have eight families so far committed. My goal is 50 families. $50 a month for food that will fill a refrigerator is a real good deal compared to a weekly food bill of $150 spent at a supermarket. If I had a bigger truck I'd get more families. Get a truck, go get the food, bring to a location where the community put all the food into bags, and distribute it to the families the proportions they need. Do this on a monthly basis and you will begin to change your persepective. Become a food brigade. Cut out the middle man and buy direct from the farmer(s). The food you are buying in the stores are all grown in a way that is contributing to global warming and are foods that are gentically modified. That's action.
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  1805. The professor is a gem. It was never made more clear how Capitalism takes out of communities more value than it puts into them leaving in its wake the skeletal remains of a once thriving community of workers.
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  1806. You agree the US is not a democracy, I said Americans live in an undemocratic state and their president and state department use democracy to invade nations and your telling me to get over ti because the US is a republic and not a democracy, frankly, I think you can't read straight enough to get over your idiotic reply. @postmortemarg 
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  1807. An excellent critique of the incompetency that heads the US State Department and presidency that it fails in its own form of imperialism.
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  1808. @Charles Shapiro, its not a coup until the fat lady sings. No song, no coup. US back Intervention is plan B. By your own inadmissibility.
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  1809. From where I sit the drives and power of a particular culture of people in Saudi soceity are turned into the drives and powers of Oil. There is a mystification surrounding the Saudi public and what they think of this situation, of all their oil wealth spent in destruction and barbarism, by their king and prince. Iran had a king and he was overthrown in 1979. How deep is their indoctrination or oppression that they continue their lives without remonstration in face of mass genocide by their rulers?
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  1810. So true Jimmy, because its all about the votes and the retention of political power for the two political parties. They can play the working class from so many different angles; crime, race, gender. cost of living, jobs, inflation, war and revolutions. The ‘playing ‘ with the heads of working people distracts from a process that takes place behind the backs of the working class: Fortune 500s convert money into capital through the US military. And the agencies of government are made weak to never interfere with how Fortune 500s conduct their business on the job or out of the job. There is an absolute supremacy and command over the American worker’s labor and social reproductive time that conditions workers to not think or act as a class for themselves. They are poisoned by a philosophy of individualism which shatters any form of solidarity workers may develop on their own. This is why you cannot organize labor in the workplace; to organize the workers is a job that has to be done outside of the workplace, during their free time and what little of it is left. A movement is built locally.
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  1811. If you look at the people sitting behind the Teamster Union Boss they do appear not to be middle class farm owners or owners of plumbing business turned senators. There is a real difference between owners in that hearing. Owners who are union workers and owners who are senators may be equal as owners but they are unequal partners as citizens.
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  1812. Holy Smokes...this is incredible...beautiful figure drawings of real life activities on rock that lasted this long is remarkable. Dated 2000 years before Christ as we are 2000 years after Christ is a distance. The ancient Egyptian artists were the originators of story telling with pictures. I am thinking their depictions on the walls are their way of keeping record of who does what in the division of labor in society.
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  1813. What is personal about Ortega Jr. , he absorbed racism into his Being growing up in a racist border town, Gallop NM. He consumed too many old Hollywood westerns growing up. But how do you extricate racist forces from your life when the business established by your father is fixed in a racist town and by law the business and property goes to you if your the only kid? I knew people who had more and still left their racist home towns.
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  1814. I think, the key to our real transformation is in a change in property relations. Soil (land) belongs to none therefore to everyone brings about a new consciousness and attitude about property relations. Everything will change when we change our economic relationship to Nature. When we regard the material relationship of our production to nature as having laws of its own our present form of economic production contradicts has been resolved with the dissolution of that antagonism is when our history stops recording a class history of conflict(s) and records instead a chronology of human achievements.
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  1815. The term 'prosperity' is used in a narrow technical sense to describe an upward swing of the recurrent business cycle. I would use the word in the general sense, cyclical swings and mild recessions affecting capital accumulation and unemployment. In reality the US has fewer customers abroad. A big chunk of our current balance of payments in the red comes from not cutting down on our imports, Oil being the biggest US purchase. Remember when GW Bush said America is addicted to oil? That financial obligation would have to be paid eventually came almost 15 years later when Trump sold military equipment to the Saudi Prince. Some billions balanced the ledger better. Was it an effort to break this addiction to oil? Definitely not, Congress would have had to order the Pentagon to cease being the largest consumer for oil and carbon emitter if that were the case. The need to continue this highly privileged position depends on the US using a certain amount of restraint in resorting to the printing press giving money to other countries more than they need as additional reserves after settling their own international obligations was violated. The US was shoveling out dollars at a faster rate spelling trouble that came in 2007. But as the leading producer of agricultural and industrial products the US enjoyed an excess of exports over imports, a favorable trade balance from 1899 to 1970. This is no longer the world we live in today. The US is not the only leading producer of agricultural and industrial commodities and its main source of inflows and outflows US trade has been cut off and diminished with sanctions and trade tariffs the normal cycle of capital accumulation and unemployment are disrupted. Prosperity is over. Cutting back on government spending abroad, cut back on providing shipping and insurance to money owners abroad, on foreign investment and foreign diplomacy, cutting back on economic subsidies to client states, eliminates the foreign exchange costs of controlling a world wide empire of the last half of the 20th century. America will lose the status of the leading world currency, and America will no longer provide the US working class a middle class standard of living by means of extracting the wealth of other nations by force. If the material resources cannot be had from other nations because of a loss of client nations than America must turn to its own resources to maintain its military costs. That cost is borne to the society in two ways for the average working person, unemployment and a longer working day. To other social classes in society it curtails their purchasing power and property value but to the average worker, the majority of the American public, it entails longer periods of economic stagnation and unemployment and a working day exceeding human tolerance. This is why the GOP is big on Right to Work laws that break Unions or make absolutely impossible for workers to organize not only on the job but off it as well. They anticipate a discontented majority and the backlash occurring at the polls from this backlash push gerrymandering voting districts as a necessity to maintain political control. As in Brazil and other places, particularly England, the backlash from workers against the austerity and attrition to rectify the end of prosperity is expressed by rude and crass, vulgar and bigoted right wing conservatives, are causing a sweep of new worker demands. Demands that object GDP fall into the hands of arrogant rulers undeserving of the economic surplus they want to use to close budget gaps crippling accumulation for an elite and festering unemployment for the mass of working people as a consequence. In Poland 15,000 Polish workers marched in Warsaw demanding the government give the workers title to GDP, the prosperity of the last decade is their's not the government's. A remarkable working class development is certain to spread. The Argentinian mistake was to take more than it needed in IMF loans and now must cut back government spending by a minimum of 25% and lower to secure the reserves built into the loan are not depleted by inflation running rampant. America working people are next on the chopping block and should be observing what other working class movements are doing to follow suit.
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  1816. People who work for living and are not rich need to pressure the rich, multinational corporations and the billionaires in Congress through taxation. Taxation is the grindstone that stops the inflation.
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  1817. What a shit of a man the mayor of New York City is, to not have that avenue policed. The mayor is derelict in his duties. He should be sued by the family. And after the fact look at how many squad cars on the scene.
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  1818. The flag is not politically charged but the removal of it was. Put up an American flag in Afghanistan and you'll know what I mean, its removal would be politically charged too.
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  1819. There is more to this story that told in this video
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  1820. Well,---its a little more complicated than that...this is a case of two Rights that are not compatible with each other ...they clash...and are also Rights not in harmony or in step with the Right of American women to choose which brings it to the Supreme Court.
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  1821. He'll steal it again. It seems the middle of the road American does not take seriously the far right wing of the GOP as a fascist nationalist element Trump is towing behind him.
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  1822. Going to be a bad Christmas for all the kiddies. Daddy out of work, prices are high. Mommy out of work, prices rising. Main Street totally shut down but one bar. All the kiddies should send the presidents a piece of coal for Christmas.
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  1823. She could have been anything but a musician and gotten out of the shadows of her father. A writer would have been a good choice.
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  1824. He was talking to the rich nations, the corporations, he was not describing the people of the world as sleepwalking into disaster.
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  1825. In the context of an aggressive competition there is only passive aggression and active resistance that are the rules of the game and the actions and roles the participants can play. The participants alternate becoming one or the other in the relation of the competition into which they are engaged.
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  1826. It is a condemnation of the way society treats its children. Among the homeless population in LA, 12% are children. From that one urban statistic alone it is easy to imagine the social condition of children in America are living lives without rights in nomadic enslavement.
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  1827. Matricide,--- very conflicted family and chronic hatred in the kid toward his mother.
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  1828. Good driver ed material, this is an extreme example of the common mistake driver’s do. The SUV driver did not look over their left shoulder for the blind spot the fire truck drove into. Driver’s fail every time at parallel parking for the same reasons.
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  1829. People who think class is not a stage of human development are deniers. They believe class is a permanent feature in human societies and can never grow out of class divisions. So far all written history is a history of social classes naturally, this leads them to believe class is here to stay. There will always be landlords, bankers and merchants. There will always be kings, monarchs, dictators, presidents and capitalists. There will always be a working class divided into various social groupings. Deniers of class conflict may be the rationalists and non-deniers the idealists in this argument. The idealist reacts to the class struggle in ways they think they can rise above class, all one has to do is not think like a slave or a auto worker, to rise above class. This may be true too...there are plenty of smart peasants and plenty of smart auto workers...but none of them are enough of a number to make any real impact. Too many think they are permanent features of class too few who fell they are not is not enough to act like one class to end class.
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  1830. Trump has been in politics since he dodged the draft for Vietnam. Stop kidding your self. @Lonewanderer30 
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  1831. Wages for the purposes of selling labor-power belies an internal contradiction in society. The contradiction that a thing is not used for what it is but for its value. Buildings, tools, cars, food, are made and used only for producing commodities, otherwise, if these material things are not used for making commodities in some way or another they will not be used by people at all, period. People become landless and sick from a separation manufactured by social policy. Science and technology get used by the general population only when that population is busy producing the commodity that needs science and technology to make. GM workers never get to use the plant during hours when operations are closed to make their own car. There is not a single factory in the US open to the workers who work there except only when they are making the item the company uses to make money. The state creates this contradiction between use and value as well. A teacher can use the school for school purposes not for teaching a personal expertise unrelated to the school and still be a teacher of that school is a negation of what a teacher ought to be...a person teaching. A pretty narrow reason why not to use these productive powers more generally for the whole society has never been more amplified of the need in past episodes of capitalist crisis and stagnation. But now every contradiction of capitalism is a global contradiction from its internal source of contradictions that it can only be resolved by re-integrating the productive elements of society into new architecture and not the factories.
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  1832. This is serious. It will become more serious when it comes to your town.
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  1833.  @Seekthetruth3000  Absolutely not. No evidence for it.
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  1834. Americans are more proletarianized in greater numbers everyday that they are at the same economic level the rest of humanity in poorer countries stand, actually, worse off, as owners of nothing but the ability to take on three jobs to survive. It takes three jobs to survive, three separate employers and three paychecks, taxed three times by the fed, state and city. Americans can only free themselves from proletarianization by establishing universal freedom. In other words the rest of humanity must be freed from poverty if Americans want to be free of poverty.
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  1835. I think he should follow the same path as his great intellectual forebears and build a movement in a community that is not Harvard.
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  1836. Bolosnaro is Brazil's Trump and Modi is India's Trump.
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  1837. When authorities are helpless to prevent crimes is when communities have in the past taken matters into their own hands and formed vigilante groups. One case in a village in Mexico residents organized a militia to battle corrupt police and drug cartel gangsters invading their town. They armed themselves because the gangsters and cops were armed shooting at each other. Other communities do not have be armed to be vigilant. Mass intervention would root out the a criminal element if enough people confront a suspicious character and give them two choices, turn themselves into authorities, or face intense social pressure they disappear. Residents have to form their own civil guard and rotate citizen/resident patrol groups of five parent individuals never any number less than five people together staggered around the clock, self-policing the neighborhood, ARMS Not Necessary, pepper spray is enough and cell phone, apprehend a person when ready and needed, be witness to an incident, or hold for police. Criminal elements will get the message they can’t do that here. What other choice do you have when all systems fail to protect and give you security is the question?
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  1838. The only way the American people will get what they want is to fight its oligarchy. Government officials are not holding Americans hostage. An American class oligarchy holds the politicians hostage to career and wealth. Its not a failed government system, its a system that works for the oligarchy. The system of an oligarchy fails as a system for society. The view you are presenting does not help to develop a class awareness of this oligarchy. It not the NRA, its the gun manufacturers the NRA represents.
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  1839. If workers ‘not one worker’ but all workers, do not like this deal that a CEO compensation would rise to 23 million while the workers struggle to survive on the wages paid, they should then break the deal, break the social contract, do not exchange labor-power for money, and you will break the social structure that encourages this type of exchange. An alternative exchange would be a share of the profits from the sale of the goods made or sold and 51% ownership of the company itself. This is theory. Putting into practice is the struggle. The theory is simple but the practice is hard. There is no other way to accomplish a new economic system and a new way of make of living for all people in the society but through a mass action. If someone has some other way to accomplish a social change of this magnitude, I’d love to hear about it.
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  1840. I wish people would stop quoting people and presume that quote answers it all.
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  1841. So true, ---a good point, a person who can turn down the temperature in the political climate is every reason to place them into a position of power.
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  1842. John Baker...all I can say is I feel sorry for people who give you an audience.
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  1843. raising the wage would also allow people to afford children and not have to consider an abortion as a way of lowering the cost of a family. Pathetic how they use a low wage to perpetuate a choice between a child and food on the table in this society.
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  1844. Pure insanity! They will punish the kids who killed other kids. On the one hand, the punished kid’s life is killed, and on the other hand, the life of a kid was killed by a kid. Justice is as bad as the perpetrator if not worse. How about the gun manufacturers stop producing guns and the weapons dealers stops selling the weapons to the kids through proxies...think that will work instead?
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  1845.  @Col_Panic  I think it is because America is ruled by an oligarchy that rules the world and any change within that empire will cause it too fall apart, as it is fragile, and lately unable to gather the forces it needs to secure a decent life for its people. What the American people need or want themselves is considered a special interest to this oligarchy while what the oligarchy needs is considered a national security need, thus the people are completely left out of the political process that, if anything, they would have rage and anger at this oligarchic rule before they can make the changes Chile is making to their society and the American oligarchy knows it.
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  1846. A political party is completely bankrupt of ideas when it does nothing but react to the discontents of the masses with more repression, a real sign of a dead party.
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  1847. They are also public servant paid by the taxpayer.
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  1848. There is the matter of the quality of oceans resulting from the interaction between humans and nature needed for the production of the product that cannot be overlooked.
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  1849. It is proving more trustworthy to come to alternative media and get away from the talking heads hysteria in corporate news to get informed.
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  1850. People are wrong if they think the banks, legal system, police, accountants, insurance companies, corporations, reflect the US and the UK experience under the two last nations of earth of Anglo-Saxon Capitalism, to the contrary, the rest of the world of western nations mimic the class and social structure that oppresses the working classes in the US and and the UK as their model for economic development.
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  1851. *Obviously outside forces (the usual suspect is the CIA) are causing a series of actions in Iran in order to overthrow the present government that the movement started by women demanding emancipation has been corrupted by that outside interference. *Better late than never for a people in the US to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear war. *Picasso, Van Gogh and Elsie the Cow would have approved of the action taken by protesters against oil and agribusiness.
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  1852. @Eugene Burns,----Racism is deeper than you imply it is shallow. Its very deep in your own society. Accountability for the family is one thing but for society this is about ridding itself of all the baggage of the ages to get in shape for a classless new society. Class and race are inseparable and have to be treated as a unity that for too long had been treated separately resulting in higher and more intense class and racial tensions causing society to fail to reproduce itself in the present moment. Racism dissolves with the abolition of a class system shaped as a pyramid. Its that simple, we are at a historic point to build a new social paradigm. One shaped horizontally as a transition piece for an easier dissolution of class. Could be done in one generation, it has before.
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  1853. Lulu and Evo should organize a Congress of Latin American Workers and Peasants and do exactly as you say.
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  1854. Some people have no concept of personal space.
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  1855.  @vercoda9997  No its just that there are so much more heavier human rights abuses that people cannot tolerate any longer they force their prime ministers to resign is a more significant crisis. I think humanity is more interested in getting rid of their rulers than saving Nuns who do not appear to be in distress. The Nuns are not detained, handcuffed, or marched at the point of gun to get out of town. Now that would be a story for concern. Sometimes guests have to know when to leave the party.
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  1856.  @RowanNey  Easy way out is to dismiss without supporting your dismal is...a cheap shot.
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  1857. No finance capital. No local bank to either process exchanges between money and goods or finance a water project for irrigation.
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  1858. The first question unanswered in this report is where the guns come from...I do not accept the premise, a poor nation like Haiti can afford to buy the weapons and ammunition no doubt with a US brand name on them? Second question unanswered in this report why the popularly elected president was assassinated and why elections have been postponed for ten years going forward? Third question is why this secretary of state appears on the scene only after a crisis has erupted and never is he on the trail visiting nations in trouble first and more stable nations second working to cement better relations with the US? This report leaves me with more questions than answers about how gangs became more powerful than the elites who employed them. The docks at Port-Au-Prince are owned by Haiti’s elite business class so what were the arrangements made with this class to permit receiving cashes of guns through Port?
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  1859. They most likely went to their white supremacist training grounds in the woods preparing for battle with the Cops when they arrive.
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  1860. Getting all employers to copy Barry is the challenge.
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  1861. From a working class standpoint the aim would be as free and equal in our daily work lives as we are in the market in our relations with one another. Putin or Trump and fall of democracy are not relevant to that cause unless they put in place more obstacles keeping a working mass of people unequal and enduring more indignities for more than half their lives.
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  1862. “You get what you pay for”, a truism of the modern world is true for the ancient one as well. The magnificent sarcophagi from the classical period eases death knowing ahead of time your tomb is a work of art and can never be put in the ground. Remarkable sculpturing, not likely the modern hand can replicate the hand of the ancient sculptors.
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  1863. Another leader is not the answer. This era in social movements is unique from all past history of movements in that there are no leaders. The people have to push their present leaders into another direction for a new society or be mowed over by the rise of the masses.
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  1864. A thought provoking study and video. The political landscape has decayed. But it does not mean the policies accelerating decay will discontinue. The social inequality that has reached crisis proportions between owners of property and workers in general is that they are not the same person in society! American workers own little to no property, CEO’s are an oppositional force with their money. Without property to productively consume and production does not happen unless there is a market for it the condition of the working classes worsen. Work should be organized for itself and be an end in itself. In the empire’s setup work is organized around a time element, the amount of working time on average it takes to make an ounce of gold is the Rule of Equivalents. People are not equal in this set up the commodities and money are equals and because they cannot talk for themselves they have representative speaking for them. Not all countries have gold or most of the gold reserves are in the hands of few nations. These nations can buy dollars with the gold they have by selling it, convert it back into money. All is good here but not there. Not so easy for nations without gold. These have to sell resources, and allow acquisitions, sell land for dollars in order to buy gold. Trouble starts when there is little left to share.
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  1865. Assuming by some incredible revolution the NSA was abolished and with it the whole surveillance system that oppresses individuals, and this was done to save the current form of democracy you have now,---the right of free speech, right of property, right of security, you will still come up short of a complete and a full democracy. Government falls far short of its constitutional ideals, and in the American Constitution, articles and clauses presuppose a class system.
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  1866. Their incompetence is in your favor to get rid of them.
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  1867. Organize Now!
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  1868. People should forcibly de-board the board room of stockholders and CEO Munoz from his office in the same undignified manner they dragged this humble citizen off the plane. Give 'em a taste of their own medicine and drag their asses off to the street in the name of making room for a worker controlled United Airlines Company. Americans can't be afraid to confront their masters of indignation. Silence is moral abdication. Think big, and show them how to run a real airline business, you can do this as one united mass.
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  1869. Russian interference is a distraction. Not false news but a ruling elite divisive strategy of re-directing the anger and rage of the American working masses at the Russians and away from US ruling elites, is why Nina Turner has not challenged the Russian interference with the election. Based on this I doubt many people will check out your latest Youtube channel.
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  1870. A government functionary in the Office and Budget Management cannot be a christian fundamentalist for the simple reason that eventually the Constitution would be Christianized as these people use their experience in government to proliferate in all states for a constitutional convention.
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  1871. Massive demonstrations. I am going on the assumption that the American empire is losing its world dominant power and that all these upheavals are the effects of a collapsing empire in the west. Even the rationalizations and the alliances made by the elites and politicians are effects of a system falling apart. He is addressing his government's acceptance of Trump's policies as a struggle they need to overcome does not mean we can not join their opposition to policies that are incompatible with our own environmental and social struggles, they seem interconnected and linked on an international basis.
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  1872. The GOP is on life support. In six months time if they do not begin impeachment proceedings on Trump that party will be dead.
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  1873. I wonder if any Democrats on the Hill read the comments section of these videos. My impression of them is that they cannot identify a social class when they see one. Or they are to timid to call it for what it is? Part of the reason Democrats are floundering while the party of Order is continually obliged to increase the power of the executive, at the same time as a racist ideological war to erase there was ever a black man in the executive is thrown in their faces, has to do with the idea that the State itself is in an inverted world where the real human beings, me, you and everyone else, exist on paper and a universal community can exit in the State but not in society. This is why no compromise is a principal, you cannot bargain with power, it can surrender or be defeated but cannot be negotiated. They will always use the rope you give them to hang you.
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  1874. I like that analysis, an intrinsic inequality in capitalism makes it short of a classless society. We use the negation to abolish the negation of the negation. The next step is revolutionizing practice in a post capitalist society.
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  1875. Seems to me the opposition is protesting against their own mafia in the black market of goods. If the retailers bought the goods from the communal farm committees the retail chains would be contradicting their opposition to the government. Rather than to be a part of something that advances the poor from their condition they chose to buy from a black market which pushed prices up and caused a scarcity. Objectively, the blame can be placed on the big retailers. This would like Shop Rite and all the others buying from Archer Daniels instead of US independent farm coops and communal agricultural committees to sell us genetically modified substances as opposed to home grown and Archer Daniels muscling Shop Rite with a mafia to oppose the government it does not like or threatens its economic position in society. I can see this happening in the US. If and when farmers and people begin to form new alternative economic structures for good and healthy food and end food insecurity as a way replacing the food stamp system, I can see Archer Daniels sending its legions of lobbyists to get government to crush the alternative structure. As a hypothetical can't you?
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  1876. Americans have a dictator who uses Twitter to announce government edicts as though he were King George. This is a preliminary step in the conversion of a nation-state into a police state courtesy of Brietbart's Bannon and Miller, in order to cleanse the military of its homosexual orientation, the military must be all white and all male before it goes to war with Islam.
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  1877. Here is your immediate connection between ideology and social policy. Before the US is taken internationally to the front line of the war with Islam, if you agree with Bannon's conception of history, the US must first purge all of its non-white and non-straight military and be cleansed of it transgender and non-christian social elements. Without doing this first the chances of winning a war with that part of the world that is Islam is compromised, in other words, transgender people and the reversal of Obama's Don't Ask Don't Tell policy is critical to transforming the nation-state into a police state. As Donald Trump speaks in Long Island his speech written by neo-Nazi ideologues exaggerates the invasion of gang violence in that community, and to a gang M6 that prides itself on being the most violent the speech has the opposite effect from what the real working class community believes it will have, and for the community's law enforcement the event covered by national media conveys a myth blown out of proportion the rest of the country believes hook, line and sinker. Once fascist elements convert the nation state into a police state the rest is preservation and survival until destruction. Translated into social policy the police state gradually replaces the nation-state is Bannon's ultimate aim. From here forward everything this administration does will be in effect done with the intent of forming a police state over the whole society.
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  1878. Encouraging sign that the governments of Mexico, Canada, Brazil Argentina will not recognize a vote cast by 80% of 31.5 million people in favor of the Maduro government agenda in Venezuela. For the governments to not recognize a popular mandate like that the tremors of mass protests worldwide must be making them nervous in their home countries.
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  1879. Society has grown up, older, wiser, more complex in all its facets that a High School Diploma for a cop is not enough! At this point the minimum should be a Masters Degree to begin purging all the machismo from law enforcement.
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  1880. Prelude of what is to come.
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  1881. As the easiest president to get over on, Trump would be a puppet of the Generals.
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  1882. Probably the best analysis of the situation other media outlets ignore.
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  1883. Definitely...the rigidity inside the workplace is a division between men and women encourages objectification and personal alienation. Eliminating harassment has to come directly from leadership enables harassment. That position avoids the separation of men and women in departments which is the basis of harassment. If I were CEO, I would give the harassed the assignment of eliminating harassment because they are sensitized to it and have the will to get rid of it just on the grounds that it kills the bottom line.
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  1884. Obviously, the oppressed classes in America have to go beyond restoring the democracy that has incubated a virulent right wing in America and throughout the world with its material support. Conditions could not better as capitalism fails to produce the necessaries of life while controlling the means of production both proves its functionality is perverse internally and externally in the world market. The proletariat may after all prove to be the savior of humanity as the conditions for its progressive march toward a new society is helped by the stark contradictions inherent of the social order and its protagonists.
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  1885. The solution to the problem of exclusion is too radical for Americans at this time. Objectively they can do way better, subjectively Americans are not convinced they can do a better job than the other social democracies to improve on the delivery of medical services to the Public. Its own form of socialized medicine has not been made obvious to them in the problem of ownership of medical devices. Ownership in its private form has created a system that even the disabled are a service to capital. The practice of medicine like everything else that is routine and rote treats people like a machine and the machine a person. Medical assistance is accessible in the work week because that is when the entire functioning medical apparatus is ringing up costs and prices and profit based on the services it provided a disabled person. It pays to keep people disabled. A weird inverted reality has become the current condition of the American Public that its public health policy has vanished. Ownership of all medical equipment and infrastructure in its public form has not yet crystallized in the American imagination as a viable way to keep its citizenry free of diseases and pathologies in better health than in other nations. For this reason America is a failing society, the object of the game of chance in health is to never be seen by a doctor, and all medical technology should be used for that specific purpose for early detection and easier eradication, the rest is a healthy social life and capitalism is far from producing a healthy social life. Way too many individual afflictions are man-made afflictions in America. A gun is one example. The choice to live in a violent society is not a true independent decision of the individual, the choice is a limitation from becoming free of violence by that individual. Violence is used to eradicate violence is simply more violent than the original violence even if it is official violence. Drugs have this same effect on free will, it defines boundaries around which free will can roam and decide as an external limitation the individual cannot exceed. Health has the same effect of limiting free will to a narrow sphere of activity in life. Money in society has the same effect on limiting free will. Free will can be exercised more and make one feel like a more developed human being or free will is exercised less depending on how much money you possess. Controlling violence, drugs, health, money, controls how much free will can be exercised early in life to where it loses the imagination to conceive of an alternative way of life.
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  1886. Don't be suckered people. Our society is nothing but mandates. Anything compulsory is a mandate, i.e., driver's license, education, registrations, certifications. One more mandate about health care should be no issue for you. Its only an issue for republicans and the companies they represent who see anything compulsory or mandated as an infringement of the rights of large scale private property.
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  1887. Crashes are the symptom of the cause of over producing that comes from the drive to compensate for the loss of hands owing to innovations corporations use in production. Profits come from higher output or producing more with less labor in this day and age, more people in the past and thus more goods on the market is more profit once they are exchanged for money. More people are thrown out of work from innovation and innovation makes more work for more output with greater intensity, speed, a car, house, or a tool is made and out the door. Of course, to have those goods sold people have to have money in their hands, hence the credit card and low interest borrowing, people call 'cheap money', but money has nothing to do with production where the bubble begins and everything to do with circulation where the bubble finally ruptures. Not even Thom Hartman gets this.
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  1888. The American proletariat is in for a historic fight with its capitalist class.
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  1889. According to this report the police have no idea what the relationship between the two brothers with the same surname as if that is important, and have not identified the stabbing victims, they identified the crime but not the victims and do not announced what that crime motive is...plus the police chief said this kind of crime some victims appearing targeted, other not, is a significant event that has never happened in her province before. This kind of reporting is ghost writing and suspicious of covering up the real story. No facts given, vague and empty words and platitudes. WUSA9 sounds like a propaganda tool spreading non-information as disinformation. Wake up Canada!
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  1890. Fulton County Prosecutor is acting as a tool for a political smear. Prosecutor has no proof.
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  1891. Haitians are escaping starvation in Haiti. The gang violence is inevitably the way the poor who do not attempt to leave Haiti and challenge the waters are trying to feed themselves since you need money to buy food and necessities the poor do not have in Haiti. The reporting of this as a criminal episode is defamatory of the real dire conditions the society is experiencing that cannot meet its needs being tied to the collapse of the US economy.
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  1892. I suppose the synagogue would be the first thing to control if you want to influence the flock.
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  1893. Not only white southerners lynched but white northerners lynched is a part of the story not being told in that study evidently.
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  1894. “...by asking for X dollars right now you will prevent 10 x dollars down the road...” this is the logic behind the reasons the US is in Ukraine giving billions to that country to fight a war with Russia...down the road Ukraine will save the US a lot of capital by fighting Russia today. It appears this man (James O’Keefe) suspended was a victim of the same logic of the logic an empire with aims of expansion and rule. This was a small coup. I came to this by the report I found of Pfizer’s CEO admitting the truth and acting like a stupid little cry bully at his interview captured my attention that this pharmaceutical corporation is a threat to humanity in the hands of such clowns. Best thing to do is to boycott Project Veritas and let it die.
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  1895. Brilliant young lady. The argument that debt cancelation is unfair to those who paid their loans can be easily put to rest with “ they got the jobs that cleared them as debtors”.
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  1896. Right - - a political solution can only be a social solution.
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  1897. On April 10th, 1948 a letter was sent in reply to the request of Shepard Rifkin the executive director of the American Friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel, seeking an endorsement from this individual; the letter said when a catastrophe happens in Palestine the first responsible for that catastrophe are the British and the second responsible are the Terrorist Organizations built up from our own ranks. The author refused to meet with the misled and the criminal and signed it, Albert Einstein.
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  1898. I would think the middle to low level managers get shat on a lot by the upper management but in reality the capitalist would have to do the bossing around, they replaced him or herself of being in charge, and in the past that led to many serious confrontations with workers. By not being around the warehouses and workplaces the capitalists can hold the managers responsible when things go bad. A higher paid unit of workers than the ranks to do the bossing for the bosses. You end up with a cold and icy strange relation of workers bossing workers and then off the job everyone is not the boss of me is the prevailing escapism that cuts out any chance of the two groups of workers coming together to raise that $15.00 an hour and you won’t need a unit of managers to boss people around. Either the person is a total coward, a worm, to use a gun on his own kind, can’t see the storm through the blizzard, or the person is psychologically ruined. Brain dead.
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  1899.  @uhhuhsure  Not dumber more emboldened and more aggressive in overturning government for the people.
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  1900.  @gabbyvaz4911  The movie, Idiocracy, ignored its social basis in slavery.
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  1901.  @eljefescientist5726  You are correct...the modern constitutional state recognized no religion and in this way placed all religions on the same footing, it declared all distinctions in society as unpolitical. And there are other reasons too that cannot be explained in this short space.
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  1902.  @ItsOgre  You are working class. Also consider how class relations have formed within the family that makes the political elite and the capitalist class become more reactive and less effective rallying the working class to their aims. Because the working class is multicultural, a case in point is the Royal Family becoming multicultural will inevitably dissolve the Monarchy as represented by Anglo -Saxons. But class consciousness is different. It is harder to reach a level of class consciousness is debatable. Bosses control workers from A to Z makes the workplace NOT the place to organize workers into some kind of movement. Class consciousness develops outside of the workplace where the rule of the bosses ends and the rule of the state begins.
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  1903. Though reparations are relevant and due, we still have to deal with capitalism and the social relations of work in America.  Working in America is still an oppressive act for some 130 million people and not working in America is an oppressive act for some 20 million people. Admittedly, nobody working and not working in America are whipped into submission like a slave but there is a form of slavery with invisible chains on people who work in the US as wage earners. Workers when they are sellers have to keep selling themselves in the job they hold and when they are not sellers but are working as workers in the job they are not their own boss and take no share of whatever it is they produce. A worker's reality is a different reality when altenating between the social roles as seller and producer from employers as sellers and employers as producers. As producers the product is theirs and taken away from the workers and as sellers they accumulate the value of that product. A slave produces a product but still keeps it, a worker does not. A slave cannot be separated from the means of production a worker can. In the position of a seller the worker's survival is their own and in the role as producer the worker's survival is measured by the quanitity of the magnitude of its value. Outside of work a worker has no value but as a worker working for an employer a worker produces value. These anomolies turn people into monsters and if this contradcition between the social relation of work and working in America is not resolved, there will be no humanity in the manner of the way we work as a civilization.
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  1904.  @showmeyamoves6427  The Spanish were not as advanced as the Aztecs. The Italians perhaps. The Spanish built buildings Spain which were largely the result of the Moors, but not waterworks to any large scale which involves engineering, mathematics, surveying topography. They never taught you this in history did they?
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  1905. I cannot write too long on here because people will not read it. Attention span is short in the web. So let me just say this... Why only Amazon workers should have a union when 102 million working people in the US should have a union? Situation is pretty desperate for them too.
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  1906. Another swindle. ‘Forest Credits’, great imagination though. I lost a billion in the pandemic. I have 500,000 barrels of crude oil inventory and the government wants me to stop selling it to reduce emissions. Before all this the government ask me to pump more oil to lower gas pump prices, I said I can’t; you just told me to reduce emissions...make up your mind. I told Uncle Sam if he wants me to convert to alternative energies than pay me for the conversion. Government called me back and said they came up with a scheme that sounds clean, a program called ‘Forest Credits’ Man, I’ll tell ya’ all you can ever expect from conservatives and liberals are Great Swindles. Uncle Sam should be renamed Big Swifty and Associates.
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  1907.  @Thecosmiccrashout  ...what would you do if I said your are not wrong and chillwill 120 is not wrong but neither of you are right?
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  1908. The US is not wasting resources, they come to you, don’t they and you do vote leaders into office who make sure you can use these elements in your lives? Whoever you elect has no choice but to conduct the same policies of military expansion or get extricated from office. The US State Department ensures gas, oil, diamonds, lithium for your batteries, tons of raw material required by your military, i.e., uranium and cobalt, and food is made available to a population who does not think about how their lives are made by the US State Department re-arranging the affairs of the world. The US does not produce these things itself and other countries moving away from this arrangement can not be stopped from leaving the orbit of influence of the US. They can be threatened with bombs but they cannot be stopped; and you do not have to earn your money as a nation. You print it. Without that privilege America would have to work for a living. The provision of billions of dollars for long term foreign military financing as Blinken called it would put millions of Americans, literally the whole population minus the super rich into absolute poverty. Worse is the sale of America, everyone will be working some kind of property in America bought by foreign investors and/or a foreign country. I do not think you’d want that to happen where America becomes a third rate nation of super rich foreign landowners employing Americans as serfs, peasants, and slaves. Benjamin should be calling for the removal of the State Department itself and its sister agencies, although ending all war is a start.
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  1909.  @saramae9878  It would not. Rescind the right to bear arms and every legal gun owner becomes an illegal gun owner, plus the State has your information.
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  1910. Dick Hamilton: Income levels is like a snow blizzard while social class is the mountain range the blizzard hides in the storm. You, my friend, and your compatriots are flying into the range itself in a broken wing and engine plane called England about to crash.
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  1911. It was unpopular at the time to go against the Catholic Church but oh how wrong popular opinion was. Or how duped. Pope John Paul II led a dark papacy as history reveals he corrupted Poland’s Solidarity Movement and shielded Catholic pedophiles. Sinéad was right to take a stand against the Catholic Church and the masses owe her an apology for the wrongful and false narratives they acted upon!
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  1912. I have to consider all the micro storms and climate activity happening around the earth as a process effected by industrialization. Its never one person's actions in this day an age its billions of people acting the same way that has the greater impact on the earth's changing weather patterns and geology. We have to step outside of our locality to see the larger effect on the hydrological cycle of the planet and how water is distributed by the earth. When it had longer intervals and steady seasonal changes over period of time favorable to industrialization is transformed into short intervals of storms depositing water making industrialization useless and industry runs on coal and water. The more we use water and coal for energy and more industrialization the worse it gets is the downhill spiral we are on.
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  1913. Actually, if I am not mistaken, the Senate is largely made up of landowners large and small. More than one landowner in Congress or in the Senate constitutes a social class of landowners.
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  1914. Sean Penn is advocating ‘collective punishment’. Punishing the many for the actions of a few. Same thing Israel is doing to the people in Gaza for the actions over Hamas. Penn has fascist values either he actually is too stupid to know it or is acting like he does not know it.
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  1915. The far right in the US is not the fringe neo-Nazi groups, they are vestiges of the 20th century and have no political power at all. Evangelical Christians and rich business owners (large landowners) and politicians with military backgrounds are the far right of the US. Christians led through their international organization of churches and billionaires with evangelical beliefs, these could be commercial business owners in the west and large scale landowners in the developing countries, they have no country but to dominate a country the military of that country is instrumental for their aims. Their ultimate aim is to seize all political power of the state and the most powerful of states in the world is the US. The left is misled and does not even explore this alliance.
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  1916.  @jaridkeen123  You are 100% correct. Do not second guess yourself. Its not because of crime it is because of union movements growing across the country the crime fanatics are obsessing over...they are losing the fight when they come at you like this.
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  1917. Go after the politicians the Gun Lobby has in their pocket they are perfectly fine getting rich off the death of kids.
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  1918. The American people are up against a very powerful and tightly organized social class. No guerilla level tactics is going to beat a Goliath. A class of Oligarchs with extended families. Owners of property and financial wealth. They must all add up to around 5 million people that control the whole economy, the State, and World Trade.
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  1919. The economic analysis of the debt structure by Ms. Kasparian is inaccurate.
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  1920. Her story tells us that the mental health issues involved were for her a source of strength and fortitude for adaptation and survival making society's mental health issues questionable.
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  1921. Pathetical surreal and images of men in toxic waste suits up and down a creek and another train passing the wreckage on the same tracks as if nothing ever happened last week in East Palestine, Ohio, is sad.
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  1922. ---the higher power than the president presumed representative of the people is the military
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  1923. The people have to confront the 0.0001%, literally that is 20 million people out of 365 million people (ridiculous if not tragic) , by waging an anti war struggle...this will loosen the knot around the working classes and cut some slack to society. The exploiting social classes are consuming the greatest share of national budgets. This is happening in all G7 nations, leaving the working classes of these nations desperately poor and unable to pay their debts. It is a coordinated action by a united 1% and a highly organized financial system that the people have no other weapon greater with which to confront the 1% than with mass occupations, disruptions and demonstrations. The rate of consumption of the 1% is directly linked to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine. Biden’s government spending is through the roof, absolute wasteful unproductive consumption, in pursuit of a new world war for a world order suitable for the exploiting nations is a crazy reason to go to war! So it must be stopped and You have to stop 20 million exploiters or they will stops you!
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  1924. A high mortality rate in Mississippi.
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  1925. @Nikki's notebook,---Its not even that...its structural. Companies have no idea how much to produce. The market is glutted with goods the overproduction has led to a decline in manufacturing and since wages are static the companies producing those goods are going to lose sales and profits, and the cycle will repeat itself deepening the numbers of unemployed. A crisis of too much to sustain.
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  1926.  @scoobertmcruppert2915  I second that motion.
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  1927. @John G Well, actually, I think the US is a slave society. 13th Amendment gave the rights of an individual as a free individual to emancipated slaves but took individual rights away from prisoners.  The moment prisoners were put to work producing a social product in prisons was the moment America resumed its former status as a slave society. The 13th amendment moved slavery off the plantation and into the prisons. Slavery was never abolished it laid in hibernation. With the spurious growth of privatization in the prison system large infusions of private capital investment join a prison worker of no rights with the private capital of all rights, as private property in the concrete form of machinery and technology is put together to produce a surplus. A new division of labor based on slavery is created and the inside detainment structures become the new workhouses for society, making all parts and products for the US highway system and infrastructure. At an outlay of wages paying $.60 cents per hour to a prison population a slave system is reconstituted. Capital is joined with an army of prison workers. The traditional capital-labor relationships exists on the outside of the slave system inside the prisons corresponds to pressures unable to hold back and slow down socialism in its new form of property of the East, the unrelenting growth of 6% GDP is a direct competitor to US dominance in the West. Strangely, the west is not too disturbed by the Yuan taking the spot from the dollar as the reserve trading currency in the world. The world appears to be more worried about having to finance America when China stops financing its wars. America is going to be robbed like Germany was robbed by the Colonial empires at Versaille, not even present at the the Treaty signing.
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  1928. Its sad, mothers are mad, and do not know who they can trust. For one thing if the working day were reduced and our dollars were not going to wars overseas day care would not be a necessary choice to a parent. The dollar would buy more stuff, one parent can stay home, and if homes were not single family homes but multi-generational homes the extended family can provide the extra support living under one roof. Reliance on day care would factor little into the lives of working families by making those two changes in their lives. After that kind of a change families wouldn’t even consider day care or assisted living a real choice and substitute for a real family. People who depend on day care do all the necessary and essential work needed by a society they deserve dignity and respect and a change of lifestyle. Nobody is going to do it for them they have to get it done themselves.
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  1929. Fair analysis about the difference between Lula and Bolsonaro, a difference between factions of the same property relations but more in touch with the dying masses versus the other out of touch with the sufferings of millions.
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  1930. The economic conditions of our time includes the fact that women make up the bulk of the workforce. It is not the workforce it was coming out of the second world war. And it is not the fault of women for entering the workforce. Employers found in them a cheaper source of labor that at the same time offered a way out of the unpaid domestic work as mother and housewife. There is the element of a class struggle which was aimed at education on the one hand, and de-skilling the workforce with automation on the other hand. Capital decimated the American family household and dehumanized education with politics, which also affected girls. The old divisions between skilled and unskilled labor, union and non-union, became a new generation of industrially unskilled future workers to meet the needs of monopoly corporations owned by around 500 dynastic families. A steady stream of profitability requires a compliant workforce. Today, nobody is skilled in the labor force. All this came about through NAFTA and Reaganomics which brings us to austerity in the present. It proves that capitalism cannot function without unemployment and economic crisis and the social conditioning of obedience of individuals through tyranny.
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  1931. If you are ’over the hill’, pardon the reference, this protest does not really affect you except as a father or as a relation to the younger generation. America’s christian right wing are going after the young generation to change their values, but for you a quiet war is waged, we see it in the airline business with airline employers pushing early retirements for pilots. A war employers in general are waging to lower the cost of labor. By the time the younger workers retire social security for them is gone. For those now inflation reduces the values of pensions retiring soon is a worry or made not possible. There is nobody in either party who has you back which gives you a special advantage to change the whole picture around in your favor and allow the younger generation to resist the makeover the Christians want to give them. Do not give the republicans or the democrats your vote. Vote in protest to reduce to total number of votes and let many of them lose re-election. The effect is to fill the seats with people who do not think alike and make it more difficult for the right to push their agenda through. Regarding the methods of Gen Z and Millennials versus the Supreme Court, the vulnerable against the invulnerable. The Supreme Court fired the first shot in this war if the justices require more tax payer induced protections for them and as a result this additional tax burden the over the hill gang is deeper in the hole that Vote become all the more reason to use it in protest.
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  1932.  @MaryJohanna  I would make technology a function of hedge fund investment capital by law. You cannot invest in this country unless you upgrade the technology in every field investors seek to go into.
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  1933.  @MaryJohanna  Corrupt politicians will lose only when the exploited are fully engaged in their struggle for dignity.
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  1934. Lame report, not thorough. Should interview more than one neighbor. More than one official. Get better shots show the distance of the mansion to neighbors complaining. Go into the mansion talk to the staff. Dig for your information NBC News. Remedial reporting.
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  1935. Actually, the $8 dollar subscription check mark was exactly what was needed to show the effect of social media in the hands of the user and by the damage it did to profits its power in the hands of corporations without the check mark.
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  1936. Cuomo belongs to that democratic establishment of the 1990s. This is a group who hates it if Validimir Putin stays in office for another 15 years!  But would love it if Cuomo is in power for 25 years total if re-elected. Its absolute power this group loves and an individual of the same flock. We can find no universality in this section of the party.
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  1937. I noticed they NBC mentioned another train derailment in North Carolina following the East Palestine train wreck but did not show the NC wreck or report on it, why? We cannot trust anyone but ourselves.
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  1938. I don't want my ride to the movie theater to be the adventure I am going to see on the Big Screen...you understand what I am sayin' here?
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  1939. Since the Dutch left the Congo the Congolese are still without the education and the means to develop the rich resources the Dutch left behind despite decades of UN involvement. Why?
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  1940. This is an example of the kind of disruption to the social process a monopoly can have on a society. It sets the price on the market of the commodity in question and other producers are forced to undersell as related to the cost of production of their own commodity. The monopoly then positions itself as a buyer of land by the assistance of a government that throws land into the circulation process and the other producers are forced to sell the farm and the store. We have this problem in several industries that are dominated by monopoly corporations in the US. Amazon is a monopoly in the distribution business. Social media is monopolized, arms manufacturing, mining, drilling, news, entertainment, hospitality, retail industries are all dominated by a handful of monopolies. Make no mistake the setting of a market prices of commodities is a weapon of attack on all the social producers in the society. In the past the social producers had the government on their side and when monopolies were formed the government broke them up was a way of re-setting competition back into the market. This is not the case today, the government(s) are against the social producers and are on the side ot the monopoly corporations, leaving the social producers without any formal power with which to defend themselves except the power of their numbers. When I go to the store and buy a gallon of milk and look at the change I have left I know it is not enough to buy the goods produced by any monopoly as the price is set high and they define our lifestyle, nobody else produces a competing product, or if it is its a fake copy not worth the money spent on it. I am being channeled by this price manipulation to pay the monopoly price. This is not freedom; its coercion.
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  1941. In 1992 Clinton’s State of the Union Speech is a fiery imperialist speech, his statements on border policy, incarceration and law enforcement build ups are purely right wing. Listen to it today the speech is downright racist, and if you listen to Hillary in 1992 black people are born criminals is her mindset. Biden pivots the matter of a changing social reality in America into which whites are in the minority as not a crutch but a benefit but on border policy; he defends replacement theory in practice and gives lip service to detractors he is against the theory. Even Bernie Sanders admits if the borders are not secured the price of American labor-power will sink to the level of the price of illegal labor and employers will drive the price of American labor downward. This is why Bernie if he were president would be a friend to border patrol and law enforcement, in the name of protecting the price of American labor-power, Bernie is a left wing protectionist. A Trump protectionist but not for the protection of billionaires. Bernie is for tight border protection. Focusing and censoring news show hosts like Carlson, or Social Media is a democratic party attack on Free Speech and the Internet. The authoritarianism in the governor from NY is an attack on Free Speech and the Internet for the elimination of any criticism or opposition to their rule.
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  1942. An independent commission is definitely better but what does independent mean between the two dependent political parties? What good is a commission of inquiry when there is no agreement among the two parties about the independence of the commission?
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  1943. Horrible racist. To think he and his kind are behind the policies carried on in the name of the American people shows no respect for the American people.
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  1944. The hatred between Muslim and Jew is a hatred motivated by their respective religious doctrines
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  1945. You cannot change an attitude in a person if people have that same attitude. People have to change before you can change individual attitudes in a person. They have to be fired but the attitude of the cops is the same attitude of the people who hired them is the real problem.
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  1946. Its a society whose material basis is oil. All that we see are oil based products from the roads, buildings to the cars are re-configurations of oil. The producer's vision of an oil based society is what America has become, a realization of the oil industry. The oil industry through the government have become the ultimate authority in the appropriation of nature, they have placed the world on the path of tipping point of destruction.
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  1947. It looks like the US military is taking advantage of their Commander-in-Chief's mental handicaps and going forward in the Pacific antagonizing North Korea with his yet uncertified mental health issues.
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  1948. McConnell can be seen in photos with the Confederate flag behind him.
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  1949. Good play but still not the exact truth of the kind of dictator Zalenski is. Trump did a great thing to break the cycle of the US backing every dictator in the world. Getting easier to see the European elites have been feeding into Zalenski’s ego and are clueless of the real situation in Zalenski’s Ukraine.
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  1950. When health is a thing you can sell and buy, the rich live and the poor die.
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  1951. Man blames society for its development he should first and foremost, blame himself as a product of that development.
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  1952. Not so great, he let a story on the earthquake in Taiwan get reported as warnings were given which is not true. Warnings were not given the experts expected mild shocks they habitually register on the scale and thought this quake would be mild...Tom should do better; not as outstanding as you think!
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  1953. rail is nationalized in Mexico. Not sure about Canada?
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  1954.  @SweetSunrising  for some reason? Do you not know the EPA does not have enough inspectors in relation to the number of America’s factories and rail system. There is no for some reason in that. EPA was cut down so that it cannot inspect inside workplaces. Democrats and republicans are responsible for that. Nothing to worry about is better than saying sorry we can’t tell you if it is safe or not...we can only sue on your behalf.
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  1955.  @SweetSunrising  The bureaucracy is what Americans are really talking about when they use the term “government”. You do not have a government, you have a bureaucracy layered from here to Timbuktu...is definitely responsible for this tragedy as bureaucracies cannot make decisions because bureaucracies are a chain of command of a million Indians and no chiefs. Indians can’t make a decision. That my friend is not a government. Its a thing. Governments are people not things.
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  1956. RFK Jr.s is still a part of the entire class of dynastic political families ruling over the State and America is the disappointing aspect to his legacy. This doesn’t mean he is biased and will do harm to working people personally it means that without a working class perspective on the economy and world affairs he cannot explain why policies start out with an ideal end up as the opposite of what they intended. It is not enough to condemn capitalism in general and than react to crisis; it is more important to root out the exploitation at its source. He is too emotionally involved to his own family that he could not flip the economy to work for working people without his own family’s class interest holding the short end of the stick.
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  1957. The pundits on this show are horrible.
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  1958. The Chinese are not bluffing.
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  1959.  @chuckleaf8027  Before the pandemic America had an unfavorable trade balance but not as severe as it is now where its gold is drained out of the country to pay off its debts worth more than all gold reserves on account. Over exporting and over importing, or what is the same thing, buying too much and selling too much is what all nations in the west did. The high productivity of labor in the US was used for the wrong purposes accounts for prices during the pandemic holding steady but since the lockdown that unfavorable trade balance slowed productivity down and production resuming at pre-pandemic levels is impossible. Now no western country can pay off their IOUs all will go bankrupt not paying its loans amounts to a declaration of war which is why you see the US military continuously appropriating more money in preparation for war against its biggest lender, and the sudden attention to the east (Taiwan) after losing very quickly in Ukraine to the Russians sounds the signal to the Chinese that Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan is expected to say we are not going to pay the debt to China, with a lot democracy hocus pocus talk,--- goes in Biden’s stead because Harris is an asshole and Speaker is next in line of succession when a president is incapacitated. Biden is demented and mentally unfit for the trip and the job, in fact, you may be watching a hologram of Biden. He has been MIA five days in row. But that’s okay, the American public has all kinds of theories and weird shit to make them feel like they know what’s happening that both sides of aisle are shoving down your throats a war to fight on behalf of their gross and criminal negligence of your economy and livelihood.
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  1960. The thing to remember is that the commercial social order exists before the individuals constituting that order existed because of the ‘forever wars’. When all history is erased or revised it will appear as if individuals were always bourgeois.
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  1961.  @h2lo704  You cannot call out the US for being anti-American either? We are forced to make a choice when the US aligns itself with behavior Americans would find offensive if done to them.
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  1962.  @h2lo704  A material deprivation of a people the American public has been supporting ever since the creation of Israel by the British.
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  1963.  @windyhawthorn7387  You paint a picture of Hamas as stealing money that should go to the Palestinians. This may be so. It is partially true that so called organizations that call themselves a champion of the oppressed skim capital for themselves is true in the case of BLM in one case I know. It happens. Question: What is the source of Hama's $700 million?
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  1964. Unfortunately you cannot sue the property itself unless it were a big international corporation; a franchise operation is too small that the owner has to get sued for damages, etc., --you have to sue its owner is a drag. They work hard for their businesses to succeed and can’t afford to hire a business property defense squad. If the city owned all the small businesses and rented them out, a lease to own program, than the city could use its police to protect those businesses, there isn’t a stake on the ground saying this is mine and that’s yours. In some places a merger could work real well. The other side of the coin is the presence of a growing desperation cities let grow. Debt borrowing specifically. Cities and towns are financed by debt. Cutting programs to the poor in places are callous attacks but the real gut punch are letting speculators in the housing market push out working people from their communities. Too many earn not enough to get ahead in cities and too few earn more than they need took over neighborhoods a working class family could no longer afford to live in. America is truly cheating this youth of their future. This youth will come back to bite America in the ass. In other places it would not work. Business councils and a free association of merchants, a small body and a large one, this is flexible gives the room to make the adjustments to do well in a changing market which means you need a forward thinking city council that does not charge endless and stupid fees for this or that but uses fees to enrich that project in the community; bureaucrats are good at dividing to an infinitesimal degree, fees, and even better at keeping them. There’s more to governing than just cutting everything in sight. A fee proportional to scale and making those assessments honest accounts for the public record redirects capital back into the community.
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  1965. Rand is criticizing the America First faction of the party as a faction that is putting America Last. I think you are confused.
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  1966. FREE SPEECH CANNOT BE A PUNISHABLE OFFENSE, if it is punishable, than it is you (the senator) who write the laws and pass them who are the first responsible, is the short answer to the right wing senator from New York I would have given.
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  1967. America has a police force of 1 million strong...that is a standing army...more police than there are military...this police activity shows how easily and quickly Marshall Law can be enforced in Georgia and in other states and how fast a town can become a concentration camp overnight.
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  1968. “Antny” is an idiot. Now every action the idiot makes America take will have consequences. I take this as good news. An idiot in the State Department, and two monosyllabic morons as president and speaker, ironic the speaker can’t speak straight. America is run by a collection of disabled individuals, a virtual freak show.
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  1969. People who follow Olberman is more of an issue of a divided “Us”, they exist among us in society. Olberman lives remotely out of touch with society he doesn’t take the train or bus shop at Piggly Wiggly’s but a fascist in the making might be the person collecting the shopping carts at Walmart!
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  1970.  @kasegiyabu5030  Left should not have any ideology, the tradition of the left historically was not ideological it was always revolutionary, a movement that fought against all forms of oppression. Its only in America that the left is ideological and cannot side or support any movement that reacts to the same oppressor. A true left is about solidarity against all forms of oppression no matter who or what spearheads that opposition. Its mission is to support and encourage humanity to free itself from its oppressor.
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  1971. Much of that defense spending and renovation freed up durable equipment to the police is a mistake they care not to address.
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  1972. You can bet this flooding will be a recurring water event year after year. Saturated lowlands, flat, wet, heat, ideal conditions for tornadoes. Have to watch for sinkholes developing beneath ground.
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  1973. @chriswertz,---Re-listen to the interview. Take it from the Russian Military 7:00....and learn something.
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  1974. A revolution is real when philosophy and the people are united. When thought becomes action and action makes thought critical.
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  1975. Bravo, my young friend...I agree with you totally; Neither party are humane on this issue. It means that may never vote for either party. I am not in agreement with the policies or lack thereof, of the two parties. There is no other political entity I can vote for, is what it means. Change is made impossible through the ballot and the inaction on reforming the system is decidedly not the position of the two parties or things would be different. And change must come to those border states or their methods, anything but idyllic, spreads to all states as a permanent feature of society. A solution is a real and honest restoration of Central America for them to live their way of life.
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  1976. Moderators are your problem not TYT, the moderators have abdicated their role to ask the questions necessary to really determine who is more left than right and more refective of the mood of the politics?
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  1977. Join the RWU. I did.
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  1978. No, taxation is not a form of socialism but a lottery ticket is a tax gotten from you because the rich refuse to pay taxes and the state capitulate to the rich. A scratch off here and there adds up and covers the money that would have been gotten from the rich if they felt they should pay a tax, after all they also use the services society provides.
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  1979.  @victorialeif9266  A party of the people is too soon too weak without first having an organization that would make generic the diversity of the American working class by its social characteristics, customs, culture and sociological positioning in society that many workers would not gravitate to it.  A worker's party needs an organizational boost for legitimacy to get workers to join and vote for its program. The task is to overcome the differences and diversity in the working class for them to become one unified force. An unskilled worker to a skilled worker, must find something in that party that they can identify with. Not all workers are the same and not all workers come from one branch of industry. An alternative political organization A Congress of Workers Representatives, where delegates from each industry chart out their purpose in making the working class one unified generic political mass.  The right wing has copied this format from the left. A general body and particular political leadership consisted of the whole movement.  The America National Sheriffs Association, which the police use as their political spear in Washington and the NRA is an example.
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  1980. When Bernie is elected. Larry David is going to need secret service security for life and the American tax payer will have to pay for it since we put this actor onto the world stage, anywhere he goes, poses a risk to his life if he is mistaken as the POTUS. Least we can do as a republic is foot the bill for Larry. He is well loved.
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  1981. Human activity in particular not climate change in general is polluting the environment. This channel gets it wrong and as a result the extraction industries get a pass.
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  1982. Assange is in prison because the White House guilty. If the White House was an honest institution they would have nothing to fear. If the Kremlin was honest the White House would not have lie, cheat and steal and vice versa. If the CCCP of China were honest the Kremlin would not shelter a whistle blower. If all the governments were honest we would not have to be going through all this crap!
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  1983. To the contrary, it is not how an empire appears on its decline; when you see expenditures for its own people the empire is on the rise and when expenditures are for its own strategic interest is how you know the empire is acting for its own preservation in the world and not for the preservation of its own people.
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  1984. No excuse for the deplorable treatment of prisoners or refugees. The enemy here is Syria. The prisoners and refugees are victimized.
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  1985. Billy OldMan - Great comment. Three political forces negate the class struggle.
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  1986. So,---Trump’s strategy or I should say the Heritage Foundation who are the brains behind the whole thing, is to gut the government and overload the prisons. Overloading the prisons changes the ratio between staff offices and inmates, when it had been 2 to 1 it is now something like 5 to 1, more inmates than officers. Outnumbered, and stressed out prison officers are resorting to strikes. Inmates are resorting to riots. Together these disturbances throw society into chaos and distressed. I would hang the American Flag upside down from here forward. Gut the federal government of its employees and all the services the government provides to all constituents in all 50 states the whole population serviced in one way or another by the government are thrown into shock and awe, mesmerized that benefits, passports, licenses, whatever, are stopped. Do these two things and the last thing standing is a presidential cabinet in charge of a military and a judiciary that has been bought off. Technically, this is a coup détat, and with a Congress in league with the Heritage Foundation’s Doctrine of Anglo Christian Nationalism, a dictatorship hovers over a segregated society is established. Democracy in America is Dead and in its place is a Christian Nationalism that cannot decide if it is to be a christian state or a government of billionaires. Trump’s government is going to collapse and not make it through the four years, his coalition between the corporations and the christian nationalists will further deepen the Crisis. The way I see it Trump will side with billionaires and throw the christian nationalists under the bus, they lose their goal to make a theological state, stained by Tump’s transgressions and raise Hades against him.
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  1987. I am not certain keeping the right of religion is the way to go. Religion to the state is a non-political thing.  The State cannot stand to claim to be acting in the common interests of the citizens if it did regard religion, or wealth, education, occupation, race, gender, as political interests. The contradiction is that religion is political when it has access to political persuasion. Just like wealth, race, gender are political when they have access to political power. Religion or race cannot be treated as a-political social factors by state officials and legislators, in a society full of prejudice and bigotry. Canada like many other western societies has an unrepresentative character of their so called representative institutions. The state is of this society, it does not stand above society; if social life is prejudiced and bigoted so is the state.
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  1988. The mayor is in a position to determine how much production he wants in his town. I always thought the heart of a town was a baker. A baker and a vineyard and anything is possible. How many of his town's buildings can become small employment centers with a modest conversion and incentives to attract small or new businesses? What building can be a small hotel or Inn, restaurant? What makes a village charming is free space to walk and ride a bike. Streets that discourage car use works to attract people from the cities. Keep everything proportional relative to the village or town. He may want to see what buildings can be annex's to other schools as a trade school of subjects for late adolescent youth.  I would repurpose the town for new life as 1/4 light industrial and 3/4 residential mixed agricultural and entertainment as industries that retain its youth the future.
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  1989.  @davidlancaster6941  He is only right when the church and state are not one and the same thing and the Supreme Court has religious justices.
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  1990. Can you give me a link to Russian television.
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  1991. When you cannot believe the agencies then don’t believe in them. They become untrustworthy. Would you sail on a ship that is not sea worthy? Uh, this was one shooter against how many cops?
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  1992. It is because the political form of organization of rules of order and procedures is to them a more productive form than the destructive effects of that form on the community if you compare the positives with the negatives. They have no idea that there is a another form of organization a community can use, grow and develop and many times I think the community of protesters have no idea either, of a new form of organizing a city that guarantees water out of the tap is pure and the garbage, pot holes, and sewer drains and licenses and revenue can be managed and allocated on a more equitable basis. They use a free market form of organization based on private property that relies on revenue spending to work and this encourages higher forms of taxation.
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  1993. Hopefully, Venezuela will release them before they become a liability setting goals and priorities for the country.
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  1994. Don't forget Yosemite Sam running the State Department with the pugnacious Pompeo.
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  1995. No matter who gets into office they will be facing a huge ground swell of a huge part of humanity long left out by excuses, lies, and corruption, of their share of the economic pie. At the rate the masses have been mobilized and showing unity in support of protesters confronting neoliberal governments and military forces the solidarity is unprecedented and remarkable that governments can be toppled in a matter of days and hours. Civil societies are paralyzed at the moment and the policies are widely unpopular that no government will stand the pressure not for reforms but for revolution, a total change, of everything. In Lebanon, and in other places, Egypt, and in Latin America, Carribean, the economic conditions of inequality in these countries make revolution a human imperative.
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  1996. Aaron Rodgers has a personality disorder, its called, being Aaron Rodgers.
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  1997.  @LuisAldamiz  You should read Capital Vol I. first three chapters very difficult but the rest is easy once you undertand the first three chapters containing the theory. Not even the European left understands the first three chapters makes the left a failure is Why? Engle's his partner misundertood the first three chapters as did Lenin and certainly Stalin never read it and neither the German Marxists, Bernstein, one exception of this crew, Rosa Luxemburg understood it, and the Russian Mensheviks Trotsky, Mao, Castro, Maduro, Xi, did not understand it.  Americans never got the book until the late 1970s. American progressives haven't the foggiest clue of what the book is about. They are the least educated on the subject matter and are highly susceptible of resurrecting fascism and empire in their mistakes.  Amazing is it not that my lone voice from nowhere over the internet is the only one who undertands the chapters I cite. But not really amazing. Marx was very careful in his procedure, like a surgeon, to build the chapters in a way that only patient people like him can get it. He would have made a great surgeon for his miraculous degree of patience and detail. Not even Marxist academics of which there are probably two in all America understand the first three chapters of Vol.I. You should know that Buttigieg's father is among the academic Marxists and look at his son, an opportunist.  It contains Marx's methodology and scientific inquiry in full bloom. Its the Double Helix of his scientific thinking and a real weapon, it will raise your own power of intellect to heights you've never known before. When Watson dicovered the Double Helix look what that did for science, when Marx discovered the economic cell-form he revealed the economic laws of motion of capitalism. I share it to whom I can, to whom I sense are open minded and inquisitive thinkers.
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  1998.  Johnson Li  Money goes to the Wall Street. Jobs are gone because employer wage offers are below livable means on purpose, they do not want to hire. The labor shortage story is bulltwang.
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  1999.  @cinpeace353  Distribution and proportion are key to understanding what capitalism cannot do right. But here is an acknowledgement, employers are not hiring, they are not spending their money, they are not raising wages, although wages are going up, because of the counter movement of workers fighting for dignity in their jobs, is forcing employers to capitulate. Other factors at play that change the dynamics of this worldwide struggle. For the most part...your observations are well grounded.
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  2000. This is one case where I can say the baby has a chance at a good life without them but I am not hopeful because the two ‘clowns’ that fought are the offspring of other ‘clowns’ who raised them. Good luck to you child you lost your natural family before you could complete a full sentence in your vocabulary. America is not a place for children. Its a place where you work till you die.
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  2001. If it were not tragic it make fantastic comedy.
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  2002. What is another failure is the State’s Law Enforcement, regarding migrants who jumped the city cops. Role of security is not to lock people up. Role of the police is to ensure society is civil. Its not civil because civility is not taught past kindergarten. Education fails to teach immigration and civility together as a whole as a lifetime project for everyone. Law Enforcement having no civility within itself can only punish incivility. Demands are made for more force for enforcement of laws. Before long a standing army occupies society. Consequently, society becomes barbaric. Migrants are processed as would criminals be processed so that before they enter the US they are already criminals let go into society. The slightest infraction they do once they are in America a Cop has the data and that person gets imprisoned to perform slave work in prisons where legislators have legalized penal slavery. American officials are setting up the whole society as an out door prison to accommodate an indoor prison of labor, as it seems, is the direction the society advances.
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  2003. Are the American people going to continue living as if they do not have to change their ways in connection to Earth’s changing atmosphere? Can they really be this selfish and stupid about their own existence is part the reason the atmosphere has changed? Over saturation of water is not the kind of rainfall drought stricken areas need. This turns the landscape into a desert and water evaporation is high. Long, slow, steady, even light and long drizzles is ideal rainfall for an agricultural region. The Sahara was once a tropical rain forest and the civilization built there failed and eventually got buried in the sand.
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  2004. So I read the comments here and listened to Chomsky speak. The complaint from the peanut gallery are about the interviewer's style of interview of arenouned dissenting voice never heard on mass media or given the chance to appear on mass media. If you follow Chomsky's thinking about Clinton being the lesser evil than Trump and apply his logic to the peanut gallery. A bad interview is better than no interview at all which is what Chomsky gets from American mass media. He is ignored and this is a form of Free Speech infringement. I'd have to say, the peanut gallery is as much the problem and morally bankrupt going after the interviewer and not commenting on the substance of what Chomsky is saying.
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  2005. Work for the working class is made compulsory and necessary is a throw back to the 1930s and 40s not a step forward where work is not necessary or compulsory because the necessities are made scarce and what’s worse made scarce by high prices decided by employers in an economy that has enough food on the table to go around and feed everyone. If working people had the freedom which means if the necessaries were in their possession they could have stayed home and waited it out.
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  2006. “I Deserve Answers”. Powerful words. Only the cop(s) who fired the fatal shot(s) know what led up to the killing. The videos recording the event are suppressed by a police state in Georgia. Mississippi and Georgia are prototypical apartheid state governments. A South African visiting these US states would feel like they stepped back in time by 75 years under a set of rules that are contrary to what this country stands for. Nothing more than a property damages is all that is needed to support the charge of domestic terrorism is definitely meant to suppress any movement. No Habeus Corpus to the charge, you are thrown in jail and there is no appeal. The law also makes it easy for one cop to pretend to be a protester, light up a building, run off and cops move in to arrest protesters. No question these are fascist laws other states will adopt or have already.
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  2007.  @jenniferhagan6695  Too bad your socially controlled by your cell phones. Its stops you from applying pressure on your leaders to make your world and society safe. They do not want you in the streets. They want you to be constantly consuming the technology that belongs to them and works against your interest. Rise up and oppose!
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  2008. Nothing is sacred to anyone anymore is the saddest commentary on American life. If there is one there are others.
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  2009. There is a class war that Americans are indoctrinated to not believe exists. It is conducted through various ways. But there is no denying a class war is present. Elites ready to engage in armed struggle against unarmed people. Too quick to use the gun is a sign of weakness. America is destroying young people’s financial and social future. Students are under relentless attack as are America’s working class. When you factor in the fact that it takes less and less to produce the necessaries of life and, therefore, making social reproduction easy the masses begin to question why do they even need a capitalist, to get things done, and question why only a certain quantity of capital is invested for a certain quantity of employment as a cycle when development and growth can be even and steady, regular, and consistent; why only invest in the market, why not invest in production, why shouldn’t employment and mass education, health and nutrition be enhanced by capital investment, comes down to the problem of the concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands, that these life-giving activities are not invested with capital but oil, coal, diamonds, rare earth metals and biological weapons on a mass scale take all the investment capital leaving the rest of the world desperate amd deprived materially; so the only way a dominant social class can stay in power is to destroy the necessaries of life, i.e, the soil, food, water, and than, financially the banks do the rest of endenturing the masses into lifelong debt. Banks use Universities as conduits for lifelong debt servicing. The masses owe money and depend on everything through their employers. No employer who employs only for profit means No job, no health insurance, no income, no food, no housing and so on the means to obtain the necessaries of life are privatized enables a single social class of employers, large and small, to obtain the kind of means that controls the lives of billions of people, through a grand social project of “EXPROPRIATION” and “SOCIAL CONTROL”.
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  2010. This channel is obviously a biased piece of propaganda. Trump’s mental acuity is about as faulty as the mental faculties of Joe Biden and a sitting president with old age dementia appears not to be a concern for this panel of talking heads. Dementia is only a concern if you are outside of the White House not in it!
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  2011. What a chaotic method of organization of the work of extracting oil and refining it. Wherever the geologists find oil reserves is where they will dig even if its on Mount Rushmore, nothing is sacred. The internal combustion engine cannot disappear fast enough to hold extinction back from the continuous string of private industry disasters!
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  2012. Well put.
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  2013. Our (America’s ) problem that we must face and, frankly, democratize is the Military Industrial Complex and the presidency and the workplace that has become and independent power over society dominating our lives with ruthless and reckless hostility or respect for life!
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  2014. The work of a clown produces profit whereas the work of a politician usurps profit. Which is productive labor? @songOmatic 
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  2015. I love the photo story.
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  2016. One Party System with two factions dominated by US Oligarchs.
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  2017. Looks like a bucket load of water behind Nicholas is going to deluge inland Texas.
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  2018. This is not news. You the viewer are given a talking head. What did this man do that he became a fugitive? What murder, who was murdered, where is the investigation going in those murders? Why are the relatives of those victims not interviewed by a reporter? How did he end up crossing over the NJ? Why that house? Any connection to him? Who lives there? How many people?
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  2019. The astronauts are stranded in space but the text written for this story makes it sound like being marooned in space is not the crisis it seems. The News does not want you to believe what you see. Words are used to make your mind doubt what your eyes see. Deceptive reporting.
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  2020. People forget and people do not know that inflation and unemployment are tools behind which are people in an institution who regulate the prices of goods with these tools. Interest rates is another tool, the amount of currency in circulation is another tool, and the goods in particular that a shortage of goods will cause a fall is wages. When people say 'what can we do?' , that is an expression that these tools dominate and rule over people,---how about that man creates a thing and then has to bow down to that thing,---horrible condition to be under but under those conditions we are.
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  2021.  @DrEcho  Ranking 26th for math and 6th for reading has been a problem for the last 45 years. The problem has been known and both parties for the whole of your lifetime. The two parties had conspired through their inaction to put a solution through to let the problem work to their advantage. It will be interesting to see where American corporations upon opening up their shops in America, where the workforce will come from who have the brains to work the factories and make the technical products that require higher levels of math and reading. That crisis is pending as this society only knows how to move forward through crisis is in complete contrast to the educational system in China, where testing admits the brightest to its leading universities free of charge. Society paid for this and got in return, 700 million living better lives, and a huge economy, value far greater than its investment is what will win the war with America.
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  2022. The US labor movement is a far cry from even the most modest reform movement in the economic history of mankind that it is doubtful even these strikes will satisfy its members, a far cry from becoming a united trade movement or association of all unions. Rail, transit, screen actors, electricians, etc., are all broken up into subspecies of trades and have no power of their own cave easily to the demands of corporations. US labor is a far cry from enforcing through Congress boys and girls working as slaves in the meat packing industry much less in a position to make transitioning measures for a re-organization of society! The necessities of life are held hostage from labor in the US.
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  2023.  @ohgawd  Are you asking a question or are you being sarcastic?
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  2024.  @tiktokmfr  What you do depends on your environment. In cities the worse thing to do is to run outside. Outside the facades of buildings come off first and from a great height facades fall hard and deadly. In towns running out of the building is less risky but the best thing to do is to get under a hard table with a bag of emergency supplies. Flashlight, change of clothes, water, easy stuff you can eat, in case you are trapped under rubble. Atlanta has fault lines more likely to have sinkholes due to the soft ground unlike Manhattan with solid bedrock older buildings will crack and topple in a BIG ONE.
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  2025. If journalists interviewed each 193 other presidents and prime ministers of 193 other countries the same questions posed to Putin as to how these relations affects them,--- we would get proof of which super power is genuine on their words.
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  2026. Panda was beautiful....I am hoping we don't lose power in this storm.
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  2027. People have long since identified themselves with everything but with what they truly are in any full blown developed capitalist society. Of all the movements to identify yourself with, whether political, social, cultural or religious in nature, only the workers movement dissolves differences and promotes unity, solidarity, and dignity for all individuals. This movement emphasizes all the things promised in Heaven here on Earth,. For all you believers ---we do not want peace in the afterlife but in the here and now. The numerical power of the workers is the key defense against capitalism. In this way men, women, children of the working class are not left vulnerable to the abuses, scandals, lies, hypocrisies, and malicious policies designed to do damage to working people.
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  2028.  @chrisj984  If the productiveness of labor were not independent of the workers and can put a yacht in everyone’s life, fine. But if the productiveness of labor is independent of the workers as it is in the US and high enough that one person owns a bigger slice of social labor in the form of a yacht, mansion, diamonds, cars, and another person owns a tiny slice, one used car, a dirt patch of land, lives in a tent, the same social labor that went into producing a yacht, not fine. Do you understand this?
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  2029.  @chrisj984  “there is no such society” ...and because there isn’t it cannot be done...is that your thinking?
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  2030. Best way is to stop watching it and demand corporations, bars, all commercial establishments turn it off in their lounges and do not purchase the products advertised on main stream media. Since 9/10th of all commercial ads on mainstream media are pharmaceutical ads, you will have to demand your doctor take you off the meds or find a source outside of big pharma.
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  2031. There you have it. Florida Power and Light, a generic name for all the power and light utilities. In one aspect utility companies operating for profit divide into two types, 1). infrastructure which serves a working population and, 2). infrastructure that serves a non-working population. The non-working population unproductive of profit gets no prevention services. No back up in defense of a storm. Left to die. Someone who gave birth to you rots in a nursing home because you are too busy emulating individualism. The working population gets all the immediate recovery and prevention. Because this social group are productive of profit. Not for themselves but for a collection of rich capitalists deciding how to appropriate your wages in the form of a Utility Board(s), Banks, Private Industry They are plugged into all Chambers of Commerce offices across the land and own the infrastructure (hardware). Electric power is a necessary means of subsistence. To keep a population divided they must own an control the necessary means, things required for life. The productive working population and the captives whose hearts were offered to the Gods by the high priest of cannibals are both victims who willingly accept their demise. The productive working class are wonderfully spoiled in preparation of the economic slaughter by the high priests of capitalism. Florida is a laboratory of the free market experiment and it is now the epicenter of class conflict. Prevention services in the commercial sense translates into 'preservation services' of the economic categories in the historical and sociological sense, for in the end, Utilities for Profit perpetuate the same capitalist relations that divides the population into productive and unproductive impersonal economic categories. This explains the recurrence of such tragedies from WillowGlen in Long Island in 1973 to this one in Florida. Circumstances slightly different the social relations preserved, profit over people, triumphs.
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  2032.  @McCoy-j2w  Revolutions do not stop either, that’s progress.
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  2033. Well , ----my first initial observation is that the town is not safe for habitation. And, we are dealing with a failed state. Personally I would not return to live there but if my business is there I would fight like hell to get other businesses together to pressure the government to reveal its findings and pressure the town council to file a lawsuit against the Biden Administration and the EPA. I’d bother civil lawyers to file a civil class action suit at Northern Southern Railroad for damages and compensation, its liability and complicity in the biggest catastrophic rail train wreck in US history. That is what I would do as a resident of East Palestine, Ohio. It should be what all residents should do when the next derailment happens carrying more of the same toxic material.
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  2034.  @aquiles2375  You are a flake, my son. I could not support Trump if you gave me three lifetimes of free rent. Just because someone pokes holes in your thinking. Is any comment slightly questioning your position not a threat to your existence?
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  2035. The protest signs should read: Overwork for Them and Underpayment for Us. This implies there is a surplus produced that bosses accrue from the overwork of the students. Overwork and underpaid does not describe the exact relationship workers have to their bosses. This is important because how you express your struggle tell bosses how weak you really are because bosses understand the real relationship while the workers-students do not. Its secondary importance is that non-student workers can identify with the exploitation they experience to the exploitation the students experience. If students are going to be serious about their struggle they should really get their heads wrapped around what that struggle is about for all workers. By not making it clear and concise and universal they are wasting their time and will lose every battle they undertake with their bosses.
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  2036.  @Em-df4ww  When you make your protest sign be sure you write the bosses get the whole pie from us and we get the crumbs. Right now in the US the entire population is an inert mass of morons manipulated by two cunning political parties. They crushed the railroad workers strike, even took the right to strike away from them. Students will get nowhere demanding a pay increase for themselves and not for other workers in the same class as they. The left thinks bosses are stupid and they are smart. Flip it around. The political left are corrupt and stupid and the bosses are corrupt and clever. Bosses knew the strike would win and they would lose. So they ran to Congress for help and willingly the Congress complied. Four republicans voted the Congress stay out of the strike, most democrats voted Congress intervene..that should tell you something about who your enemies are. Had the railroad workers struck for healthcare and paid leave they would have gotten the support of all workers in the same boat as they forcing Congress to pass healthcare for all. The idiocy angers me to no end.
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  2037.  @rachelrees2502  You have not step outside of your neighborhood to see how the other half lives and you have never been to South Africa to see the segregation in that county during Aparthied, as I have in 1963, having snuck out of the country the first movie exposing Aparthied, it is identical to the segregation between the races in the US. Walls are very typical of Aparthed states. Isreal’s relation to the Palestinians, Australia’s relationship to the Aborigine, and America’s relationship to Afro-Americans, are segregated relations is their common feature.
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  2038. The removal of an administration can happen by impeachment or by mass public pressure on Congress to impeach.  Mass public pressure has to reach the Senate to begin the process.  Only an overwhelming mass opposition calling for resignations and the impeachment of the president can break the alliances in Congress and the Senate to the president. Continuous and constant mass public pressure starts the process of overthrowing an administration.
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  2039. As a precaution: Do Not Assume tomorrow the power will be working and the goods will be on the shelves, or the gas will be supplied, or others will not snatch and hoard the necessaries when there is a general need for them. The US financial system is more resilient than the US economy, unfortunately for the many. A credit card will work but nothing will last long enough worth using it in the stores since the economy is the supply chain and a third of that chain is broken down under the ferocity of an Arctic Cyclone. It’ll be up to the ingenuity and cooperation of the many to re-create a US economy that can live with Arctic Cyclones bound to happen again. Supplying in new ways given the materials they have and from the ground up re-organize the means at their disposal.
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  2040. Excellent reporting.
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  2041. Then plant a variety of trees indigenous to that environment, if science cannot replicate diversity then what good is it? There is always an answer.
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  2042.  @edifying  Oh that’s it...I was expecting something more. Okay its too simple to say the government is not living up to its ideals because it is a hostage to capitalist forces whether that force is a social class and its main economic interest that holds the government in a straightjacket, or it is a party (more than one) that shoves the American people out of the governing process. Either way, the government of the US since 1865 has been under attack by such forces the American people have allowed to happen through no fault of their own except for lack of awareness, intelligence, and a major propaganda campaign that indoctrinates from cradle to grave, have enabled those forces to assume political power. Americans have a real bad situation developing in their society, real bad. One example is how it is arming Nazis in Ukraine, to the tune of $50 billion, and Ukrainian forces sell those American weapons for the money they bring in the illegal market. But Americans think they are using them to fight the Russians...pretty dumb, eh. How your tax dollars are spent b those who pay no taxes. Did you know that Strom Thurman was a lifelong Klan member and Senator, and Clyburn who runs for re-election now in his district was friends with Thurman, both had 70 years between them to do something and had done nothing but made things worse for Carolinians. Clyburn is black. Weird. Not really. Ever read Plato’s Republic or Franz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth? In California the Democrats are literally equal to the Nazis in Policy. In NY Hockul is censoring speech thinking that will curtail hate and violence...wow...a Nazis that does not know she is a Nazis. The whole system has been flipped on its head serving a particular interests and excluding the interest of the majority. This should be less simplistic of an observation. Now here is my prediction. Republicans will take the house, senate, and the White House, and move to amend the Constitution, abolish the legal workday, and dismantle social security.
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  2043. As a father of a daughter I can imagine the grief. Grieve as long as you need and don’t hold back. Weeks after you thought you were done grieving and feel ready to resume your normal routine the emotions are still raw but less exposed. They never go away and each time they rise up to the surface in you these feelings bring you closer to a place of pure and unconditional love.
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  2044.  @davidbrown8303  Your a descendant of a peasant and a descendant of a poor innocent child ripped away form his natural parents owing to poverty, theft, or what not, sent into a poorhouses of England and transplanted the US. We have too many Browns in this country. You have to leave.
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  2045. When I come across people like Abrams the only true measure of character is the difference between what they do and say and who their friends are.
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  2046. Stephan Morris -- the US voter participation rate trails behind the UK. You have a lot of reason to be on the edge of your seat.
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  2047. 3:20 -- One can say the best copiers on the planet are human beings. 4:10 -- 10:48 Branches of industry, those of the state and those of private producers, bonded together by social controls and guided by a conscientious program.
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  2048.  @timahlf694  Its not a question of how hard one has to work to become a billionaire in society. Its a question of how well you can exploit the labor of others and use the money of others to commence your exploitation that an entire social class encourages and supports. Before setting you free to be a single billionaire or Senator, or both, you are typically a member of a privileged class in society given leverages that opne doors for you.
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  2049.  @grmpEqweer  They do not do the same kind of work you do and yes, the system, I like to call that system the "workday", where two things happen: (1) work has no value of its own because its role is to create value for someone else, and , (2) the final product of work is a billionaire and an army of workers of their own.
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  2050.  @theenemyofthearrogant4784  You are not wrong metaphorically but you are not right empirically. Not sure what you are?
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  2051. I think Tucker’s show does not depend on ratings and ad revenue that he is free to express objective facts on a corporate owned media news organization or there is a relationship between he and FOX that is more than meets the eye.
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  2052. I can't believe that you find this unbelievable.
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  2053. She is talking to me, average American, but she is out of touch with my reality, not even a part of it. I know more about her than she knows about me and I judge people by the friends they keep. Her friends cast a dark shadow on the planet.
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  2054. ... I guess poverty was too tough for him he had to expire himself.
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  2055. A boycott will unfortunatley hurt the Brazilian people but a boycott is going forward anyway regardless of what I say. Be a different effect if the goods to boycotted were of foreign origin, i.e., boycotting Israel goods helps the Palestinians. But for the upcoming global recession, it will be a good time for indigenous people, workers, peasants of all countries to unite and overturn their national oligarchs and bigots. But first know your class identification because there is mass confusion out there. Some people may think they are peasants when in actually they are workers and vice versa. Some people might think they are rich when in truth they are poor. So keep an open mind, discover your mass potential, and learn more about your class status in this upside down world of capitalism. Remember, if it upside down so are you! The only power that is going to put you right side up again is mass power.
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  2056. You had one failed attempt already lets see how 1776 goes for you.
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  2057. Thomas’s wife is worse than Thomas.
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  2058.  @deplorablefederalist7908  Sure. The person who can’t vote because they are working on Tuesdays and their job takes them far away from their voting district and there are no absentee ballots, is a person with a valid ID in good standing with the state, voting is ‘near’ impossible for that person. I answered your question. Happy.
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  2059. City governments using a labor shortage as an excuse for not collecting the garbage in New Orleans is worthy of a social revolution as a response.
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  2060. Skies are not clear of human debris.
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  2061. The structure of evil comes in the form of institutional violence.
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  2062. What a fatal tragedy. A deep earthquake. High magnitude on the Richter Scale, aftershocks are heavy. Earth is a living Planet. Earthquakes, floods, and volcanic activity are the main producers of how life on earth changes and the planet changes itself. Natural forces are greater than man’s own productive forces. The active participants in a labor-process are people appropriating through their labor the productions of nature in a form useful to human beings is the most general answer to the question of what the bottom of all existence is.
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  2063. What happened? Don't assume people know history, Sebastian Guo.
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  2064. Well put.
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  2065.  @PoliticalEconomy101  As a socialist then you of all people should know the purpose of the 1st International, its mission of solidarity, i.e., Workers of the World, Unite. So what kind of socialist are you...a Stalinist...socialism in one country only? With a handle like State Socialism that would fit the bill. Revolutionary movements are to cultivate a movement worldwide for the overthrow of capitalism not make discriminitory comments that give the capitalist class the leverage to repress a genuine working class emancipation.
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  2066. The response you got from "V G" is a stupid one. @Lawyer ---Relative to what foreign buyers get in relation to somewhere in terms of houses, is citizenship one of them buying properties in the US ?
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  2067. I think this generation of Americans are in shock; to learn America is a fascist country after their (great) grandparents fought fascism in Europe.
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  2068.  @vallee7966  You describe your own country perfectly. Billionaires and mansions, yachts, and travel junkets, golf courses and prostitution, oh, yes drugs and guns, and the people in great need, devastated by tornadoes and low wages, unemployment, no functioning medical care for diseases and surgeries unrelated to COVID. Surprising you don’t act as militant to the people who rule over you?
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  2069.  @harveycasey1900  That’s not how international finance works...people like yourself who know nothing about it should stay out of it. You poison the room.
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  2070. An educational system that is based on facts is potentially revolutionary as it gives a deeper conception of what a principal is.
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  2071. I beg your indulgence but I must intercede on a very important and ethical point wth respect to the uniformity making all places indistinguishably the same and your career a part of that uniformity of culture I see in America as the cause of its descent into barbarism and fascism. Careers were made possible by the car and the car is what destroyed Cairo. Roads and bridges are antithetical structures for multi-generational family structures. Also they are the most ineffective form of energy consumption and are the least effective use of land. The result of this ineffective use of land and energy the single family homes came into being to resolve this incompatibility between environment and human habitation, at the expense of Cairo’s former history and glory. This paved the way for banks to dominate the economy. The city of Cairo like many American towns that are today ghost towns were all destroyed by the internal combustion engine, roads, bridges and dams. Zoning laws and land use were changed to accommodate the car and the population lost their occupations and careers to become consumers of credit. Suffice it to say that all careers and occupations required to make the car the single mode of transportation in society are careers and occupations made by the auto industry not by the will of individuals. The absence of free will among individuals in society is the presence of totalitarianism subordinating individuals in society, i.e., conformity. This is why there aren’t Frank Lloyd Wrights in America. Architects design commercial habitats designed for a commercial interest conform to the mold. The worst case scenario of this crisis is the building projects of Intel corporation who will leave behind a monolithic useless structure when the ground water it purifies as raw material for the production of its microchips usurps all the water below ground and the entire city surrounding Intel Corporation dies as a result. Coca-Cola is another culprit. Real shame, I think. I could not be an architect for this reason nor could I be a soldier for the same reason, or a cop, or a realtor, or a mayor, or a governor knowing that my work had something to do with the destruction of the lives, livelihood, environment and occupations of human beings.
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  2072.  @kushking949  I think you are embarrassing yourself. I made to comment to show how often our projections are colored by our racism. i wanted to see how many would react to the word "color". Racism is not only overt, direct, vile attacks of black and brown people but it is also a psychological weapon, covert, creeps under your mind, subjective, and remains there for life until a question that brings out the racism. I never used the word "brown" I used the word "color', Look what racism in your society has done to the word through you! You've channeled racism through your mind and body. I know you are not a racist. But f you cannot see how racism distorts anti-racism and turns it into racism to turn the tables around on people of color than we will never be victorious and vanquish racism. It is racists to be a victim of race as collaboration with your enemy. It is racist to file lawsuits against cops when it is the city that pays the lawsuit and then makes up for the loss by raising taxes. When the attacks are not done on Park Ave but the cops make sure they commit there crimes where black and brown people live and not where rich white people live is racist. The is when you do not sue but you force the police unions to pay from police pensions the damage done to people. So even suing cops turns out to be nothing more than promoting the racism. Do you see what I mean? P.S. Think before you speak and have an analysis of racism. Read Fanon, X, DuBois, Marx, and many others.
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  2073. The social, political, economic effect of the war against Russia on the America workforce is double-sided, first effect is the duration and intensity of work is prolonged indefinitely for those not displaced by machinery and technology, and the second effect, of increasing the intensity of labor is at some point, it becomes complete inefficiency. Piece work at home and attrition abroad in so many measures culminates into a collapse of the economic order.
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  2074. Americans are really confused about the migrant crisis in general that its hopeless. They are in the middle of an international competition that demands cheap labor-power to undercut the competition and produce cheaper. If Biden cuts the flow of cheap labor he would undermine corporate America, currently not reaping enormous profits, as the FED interest rates have made the cost of investment to go higher not lower. Products are not getting to markets. Natural disasters is ripping apart a neglected and weak infrastructure designed almost a 100 years ago for distribution and commerce. They are not making money from industry, producing and hiring labor, the profits they accrue are from government handouts for stock buybacks. The higher the cost of producing rises the more intense becomes the competition the crazier the world of humanity appears. Corporate America is looking at a prospect that they may have to shut down all industry because, in relation to high interest rates, there is no profit in housing construction and manufacturing. America’s industrial economy has been decimated, destroyed, was a process that began with Reagan. The demand for cheap labor falls and cities and states are stuck with the excess population to house and feed them. This social condition tests your humanity, blame victims and let corporate America go scot free, is where the cockeyed heads of Americans stand at this moment.
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  2075. Finally some good news, thank you North and South Korea.
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  2076.  @burningknight7  You will get only what is tolerated within the democratic party with Bernie.  With Bernie you will still have the poison but in less doses.
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  2077.  @jonathanoneill8011  The corporation is not a permanent institution, its reaching its limits in our time period. Boeing has been cited as responsible for the several crashes of its jetliners is an example of the limits the corporation has reached. The corporation is a form of production, and forms don't last, they melt under conditions which always change. Mutate into new form for adaptability or die is the law of the jungle. The limit is the point at which human life is in the way of its production of surplus-value, to get more jets sold, human life is given absolutely no regard or consideration represents an organized form of industrial and commercial terror and violence to the Public that Being treats planes as commodities for sale. Government gets involved way too late, and under this form of government, Boeing gets aways with deliberate mass murder. I don't see the logic in keeping either social form of government or corporation at all. Feeding this form of government and corporation only enables the same problem now and in the future when the guard is asleep and the dog escapes, your grandchildren will die in some of other transportation vehicle. Why keep it?
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  2078. I have not heard the panelist discuss the nature of capitalism in the 21st Century. Guiliano touches upon it. I like Guliano’s perspective about countries solving their problems locally. This is a groundwork for a new social organization of society. Competition is one of many of the expected social relations of capitalism; people are socialized to compete because the social institutions are based on coercive laws of competition...behavior is determined by the social organization is a general rule of thumb in social science. Social science also accounts for anarchy, chance and causality, chaos as a form of social organization suitable for the growth of capitalist relations.
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  2079. I call it a delayed reaction that the working class has arisen, a 45 year long delayed reaction to the decline of the economy and wages of workers everywhere. The government of the US collects taxes from the American working class and republicans want to make it a permanent feature of the US Tax Code that the rich not pay taxes and the working class carry the burden of repayment. How? IRS enforcement is how. In codifying (to make permanent) the Trump’s tax cuts to the rich they are in effect sending the bill to the working class indefinitely to pay generation after generation money owed to foreign investors. Foreign investors have a claim on the US economy and can shut down 40% of it if they are not paid as retaliation. US government made this choice...it could have taxed the rich for the money the economy needed to get running but Washington was more interested in a grand military as a way out. War.
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  2080. Just kick up the heat and they will hatch sooner than later.
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  2081. Totally agree with you on this point. Its demeaning of the Public to have secrets.
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  2082. On a serious note: People who chronicle the society in this medium have the advantage of a power of a medium that can end the exploitation of man by man. Why the mainstream media does not enables the barbarism they report on. Our society can materially afford to end this scourge of humanity. Build a society where nobody is without means and subsistence. Take the reverse direction the Establishment does not want to go, consequently does not take us to develop into social human beings of intelligence.
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  2083. County committee members, school boards, and local sheriffs on one side and parents, teacher, principals, students on the other side drifting further apart from each other.
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  2084. The use of land for a vineyard is okay with trepidation but the use of land for the sale of wine is strictly a social relation we really do not need in a drought period. The governor plays a role of the prince of thieves, stealing water for his vineyard from household use in the surrounding township; no profitability if money cannot be made from sale of his property if not well watered. As a government official his private interest clashes with the public’s interest in cases where the lines get blurred. Water is where his private interest ends with his consuming the most and where the public’s interest begins consuming the least of the water under conditions of a state of emergency from fires and drought. It gets worse as this torture continues...time will tell...how fast workers in California realize water is the governor’s Achilles Heel.
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  2085. Putin would never let this happen in Moscow or anywhere else in Russia. You’d never see homelessness and crime in Russia like it is in America. For one thing mass transit in Russia has one purpose only, to move a working population the best way possible.
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  2086.  @bonitaroache73  Its good these arguments are settled before hand for when the time comes talk does not take up precious organizing time. You know how people are...difficult and what not. Simple conversation in places I go I drop the idea into people's heads,---organize.
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  2087.  Ricky Spanish  The Fed prints money.
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  2088. The real predators are the ones walking past the assault as if it is normal.
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  2089. Not likely this company will be prosecuted for criminal negligence but these actions are a part of the general collapse of all protections in society... you have a billionaire in the White House taking a chainsaw to consumer protection agencies monitoring and regulating the use of lethal material by corporate entities, such as the one is question.
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  2090. Coalition warships is a big expense for the people of the countries those warships come from to have them patrolling an ocean performing after the fact responses. I would think there are cheaper ways to settle disputes than to have taxpayers foot the bill for tankers that are going to get hit if they carry Israel’s products and for warships to play a game of Whack-A-Mole on the High Seas.
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  2091.  @sandyallen1523  Agreeing with that comment is hysterical, as if humans can channel the winds...
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  2092. “ICE CREAM”. :)
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  2093. Every dollar spent on defense is a slow down in the rates of economic growth of the socialist economies is not longer true. Tulsi would be a break from that orthodoxy. However, in the context of a threat of imperialism existing give impetus to socialist economies to improve and surpass the former industrialized nations in the west but as a policy in particular, imperialism and defense spending, military build-ups, imposes a heavy burden on the US workforce that is permanent as long as imperialism and the containment of communism is the foreign policy of the US. Since 1955 the international arena was premised on the Cold War, and the hostility of US ruling classes positioned themselves as a powerful citadel of reaction...a reactionary force to this day. There has not been a dictatorship cruel or extreme enough the US State Department, Pentagon, president and Congress, had not given military and economic support. Dictatorships and fascists got anything they want as long as they proved their allegiance to America’s “anti-socialist ” group of reactionary nations. The US workforce is forever burdened supporting regimes like Chiang Kai Shek in Taiwan, The Shah of Iran, Batista in Cuba, Armas in Guatemala, Pinochet in Chile, Marcos in the Philippines, and in the late period, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, were all sentries for the containment of communism...with internal oppositions that later evolved into plethora of anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-Christian terror groups. Needless to say America has shaped the world we see today and the current president the most reactionary of all promises to extend the chaos to America itself.
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  2094. the less food they find due to warmer temperatures the juicier beach goers look to them
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  2095.  @Gigika313  socialize enterprise. There is a difference... not nationalize. I think we've had enough nationalism on both the right and left sides.
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  2096. We are not going to find parallels to what is happening now in the 60s we will find, recurring patterns increasing in scale. How America makes it entry into war using democracy as its cover is a recurring pattern. Recessions are a recurring pattern increasing in scale and depth. The wreckless nature of American captalism is a recurring pattern. True then as it is now a general overwhelming feeling of dissatisfaction with a socety that does not live up to its own ideals. Being short changed is a recurring pattern. If anything the 60s is a prelude to a more general revolution, it was a yearning for a better world.
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  2097.  @ANPC-pi9vu Food is mass produced and there is something wrong with mass produced food. Standards are low. Everything about the quality of the product fits into a discussion of food as a mass product. Distribution of food is another story of a circulation system that gets food where it needs to go is a piece of corporations that is not inherently ‘bad’, these are the means, the question about the means is that these are also heavily socialized means. A large population makes its living as drivers, movers, packers, shippers, rail, these people are not striking a balance between the intensity of their jobs and the duration of their work in these jobs, they are all pushed by management to the limit of human endurance. Its proving to be a living hell getting to that balance! A small number it is that America has only 2 million small farmers out of 332 million people on one side of the nation’s true total capacity to produce, and has monopolies who set the price of land as a weapon against competition, limit production on the other side of that capacity to produce.
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  2098.  @nunyabiznez6381  The medical system is broken for people because health is a thing the medical establishment can sell. Health in America is a commodity for sale. More health you buy the healthier you are. You cannot sell health to healthy people. It was easier to let humanity fail than to use government as a means to free people of harm, poor health risks, danger, exploitation, etc., was the response of this generation to its material conditions. Let me real concrete about this.  Chlorine dioxide is raw ingredient used for the lining of water tanks and water treatment holding pools. During your adolescence water entered your body willingly from the tap. 1500 chemicals are in use in farming, mining, construction. That is a lot of people affected by the de-regulated use of chemicals in the workplace traced to cancer, hepatitus, leukemia. The government took notice and began to regulate how work should be conducted handling this chemical and it regulated its quantity in water to generate healthier bodies in children. Yesterday a private contractor welder died in Texas. Blown to smithereens welding the exterior tank on a scaffold. The Chlorine Dioxide in the lining of the tank pressurized by air was a bomb and the welder was the fuse. Work in welding as an industry is broken because a welder for a week or a month is a thing the government can buy for a week or month. Welding is a commodity for sale how this type of work is to be applied or used in connection to the chemical in that specific workplace,-- the outside of the tank, after the government purchased the use of a welder was left up to the welder.
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  2099. You never been fired from a job in your life before...is that why...you cannot identify with the shooter?
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  2100. Awesome, food, love and affection is all we need for a good long life. Thank you Mr. B for teaching me that.
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  2101.  @artimidz3451  Funny because the job is where your country takes your time and keeps you from enjoying the country.
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  2102. Nothing like getting the news from an heir of the Vanderbilt fortune. Hannity was always an opportunist POS.
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  2103. Good one. Turtoise is slow but in the end wins the race against the hare.
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  2104. America is not a failure for the super rich. The super rich know how to fight for what they want. They cooperate with each other and get political with their wealth. They use it to ensure all things go their way. But for working people, America is a failure with each passing day.  The most powerful working class in the world economically is the most powerless working class politically. The working class does not get political or cooperate with each other to use their collective power to make things go their way. It seems the paradox of working class apathy is what 'Makes America Great Again' for people who make a living by not working. People who avoid work, internally despise work and workers, find America a great place to live, here labor is a passive free agent and mostly illegal labor. While working people wait for wages to rise, something happens that can be read as a message to other super rich people in the world that wages will never rise but only by modest amounts. Notre Dame burns down and instead of the Church's own insurance paying for the restoration/rebuilding with the government, in one day millions is raised by private donation. A sign that the super rich have no intention to raise wages if they are not compelled either by the State or by a class struggle, would rather spend their wealth on a building than on the working class for higher wages.
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  2105. Mortality rate in Mississippi is the lowest in the country stands at age 45. To compare, people in Sudan have a life expectancy of 30 where Sudanese citizens are killed by two warring factions of the military. In Mississippi a silent genocide happens, in Sudan the war is overt genocide.
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  2106.  @5british5  Interesting. 5british5 replies to my comment accusatory of plagiarism , for nobody, in his mind, ( he is a man, for no women would be so arrogant as to assume an individual cannot be original in their thinking, falling for the ploy, 'he' got trapped into revealing the colossal stupidity that glistens across this individual's decaying brain. Unable to punctuate grammatically a a paragraph and a cogent sentence, 5british5 writes the following: "Your nonsensical tangent is none sensical." Not bad for a British fool who disgraces the English language with poor punctuation and spelling. First time I ever met and Englishmen who writes so poorly and calls writing a waste of time.
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  2107. I gave you a thumbs down not because I do not like Richard Wolff. Because it is extremely nieve to assume that a man like Wolff could even function as a president much less not be removed from office by means of a coup or by force. For a man like Wolff to not end up like Allende in Chile in 1973 or like Pedro Castillo Terrones president of Peru removed from office in 2022, you and the rest of the working class of 133 million people would have to be a united social force big enough to literally remove those forces from power entirely and commence a dismantling of the State that represses all Americans. Americans are not there yet precisely owing to the intellectual ignorance of the American working class. They have not come together as a class to act in their own class interest to be able to shut down the entire economy the way the French workers today have shut down France, ditto for the British working class. US government is captured, a hostage, of the dominant ruling classes in society. Revolutions are change in the mode of production is a concept the American workers will come to understand the hard way and naiveté, despair, defeatism, mass confusion, in addition to the other social divisions capitalism relishes for its survival are in the way of workers coming together.
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  2108. Seem tame like donkeys. I wonder if they could cohabitate with Donkeys? Kangaroos and donkeys are both desert animals. But one is a marsupial and the other is not.
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  2109. Vote by age. If Nikki Haley were are car she would be a hybrid car with a little more than the basics people like about cars. Unlike her opponents they are both gas guzzling muscle car relics whose time to retire has come and belong in a museum. Vote by age in the next election cycle the door will have opened up to a wide array of new candidates from a younger generation.
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  2110. Side issues that are important were skimmed over by A. Goodman. When someone asks if you are looking for work and you answer yes, you have just offered your labor-power for sale. Its that simple and it is upheld in a court as a word of mouth agreement or contract. The formal mediator in the deal between migrant and owner of money is a merchant agency. The migrant said: “Not a problem...I can do it.” Well, ---Doing it is the commodity you offered up for sale through the merchant agency. One important point is the hypocrisy that comes out of the Legacy Fund. You have just entered the world of capitalism. Now capitalism is going to compensate you for its own abuses? Get real, the FIFA guy is profiting off the exploitation of migrants. The migrant does not realize “I can do it” was the doorway into capitalism subjectively but objectively those words seal the fate of the migrant as a “free agent” to be used in any which way for capital. Not quite we are accustomed to. slavery unless the migrants are the commodities for sale. Capitalism arrives at slavery by getting around it. For Europe, the migrant is always a migrant when the doors to immigration are shut and the owner of money in Qatar, the migrant will always be a “free agent” in need of a job. A “free agent” is a slave to the market. “Here’s some money to tie you offer...till the job starts”. “Thank you” says the migrant. The migrant just entered into a debtor obligation unbeknownst to the migrant with the owner of money. Forced slavery could never be so easy. No whips, no guns, no slave patrols, no police force, no forced labor camps...its all modern and clean looking on the surface until you get down to work. 2 million migrants and the $20 million are joined. Now its time to work...time to lay the foundations and change the face of the environment into a modern city oasis arising out of the desert. There is a climate change consequence to building a city in a desert is a missed point. All these educational points, I state in dialogue form, are missed in this interview and the interviewee is a good one...knows her stuff was not allowed a platform to open her observations on what happens to the migrant after they said: “I can do it”, and what happens to us when they do say they can do it.
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  2111. Cromwell was a killer too. Washington was a killer... ...All of them are killers. Too bad history has to be written by them.
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  2112. DN tries again, fails again, and fails better, to use a Sam Beckett phrase. The structure of our creativity is framed in the suppression and preservation of trial and error.
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  2113. Sorry...Llamas...your explanation of the migrant crisis is inaccurate...there are five states that practice slavery in two economic sectors, agriculture ad retail, in the US that migrants become the labor these sectors employ and are highly profitable as a result, creates the surge of flow of migrants. Migrants already employed in servitude in the US or as cheap labor send word to relatives describing conditions better than home is why they continue to come. The flow of migrants into the US would stop if the governments of those states cracked down on the employers of those states behind which the demand for cheap labor-power is created. Not showing the real relations, the fact that the agricultural sector in CA and TX, are big lobbyist and donors bought off the representatives of both parties in these states and the big retail industry in SC and FL does the same to do nothing, America has a immigration crisis while these industry private interests profit and own sufficient luxury enough to bribe Supreme Court judges, if necessary. I say no more than what actually happens.
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  2114.  @Archived0  Nationalist militarism gives to the Hungarian a rise to the level of being the 'Hungarians' in the international arena. Your third paragraph was the best of the three, for me.
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  2115. Peter Jolliffe...socially necessary labor-time as a rule or principal is easy deciding what is necessary is the hard part.
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  2116. What a stupid comment. You are blaming the parents, likely the single female and black parent and incarcerated father, for guns that are stolen and unregistered by urban kids. Your thinking makes you part of the problem
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  2117.  @431Stone  sure they do...its not called the same thing but they do...your education is just very limited is all.
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  2118. Hey, money is money. It arises out of a commodity. The commodity does not care if you are legal or not! What they are stealing is the average rate of return on capital the commodity brings to its first owner. To bring this economic behavior to an end than manufacturers should stop making commodities and go back to making products. Money is a commodity and goods are commodities but money is the only commodity able to play the role of money. The other commodities have to end up sooner or later into someone’s hands. If they could talk they would say “Buy Me” sensing your presence. All of them want to become money the question in whose hands does the money with its special powers become.
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  2119. If they are appearing on shores the sea is expelling the ones that have not become permanent features of the oceans. If the pieces were not useful to someone else as value units they never would have entered the seas in the first place.
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  2120. Wrong Patrick McCormack...development of social systems develop through revolutions not through evolution. Evolution does operate at one level in economics but it is at the level of the development of tools, instruments, machinery, automation, generally a subject modern economics avoids profusely in its curriculum, that the modification of tools is carried on through a process of natural selection the social division of labor is the mechanism by which tools are suppressed from use or promoted as useful plays in their development. Social Systems however, are a result of human action and revolutions is a big piece of that social action.
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  2121. This is another part of Anytown USA falling apart; this never happens where the grass is greener. On one side of the tracks is No Man’s Land, and on the other side its a virtual harmonious Shangri-La.
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  2122. If Americans were given the true reasons for the tensions in the world today they might be more careful who they support.
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  2123. I question Schumer’s allegiance to the US. I bet there many senators who would trade American interests for Israel. But anyway... The relationship American capitalism has to land, soil, and water, is a mining and drilling relationship. One of Trump’s favorite lines is “Drill, Drill, and Drill.” For thousands of years land, soil and water were revered for their life-giving properties, vis a vis, agriculture. But for modern science and industry drilling and digging for its mineral elements produces a commodity that can control human lives, is a relationship revered for its monetary value. The Lithium King. Nature is science and it is also the original fund for material wealth, but this reverence for nature changes over the ages that when we arrive at the age of capitalism, nature is a freebie for capitalism, of glory and decline.
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  2124. Its is not unusual for people to explore places and things that tap their curiosity. What matters is that you left the place the same way you found it that determines the character of the person exploring a place for whatever reason they have. Millions of people do this all the time. Youtubers do it and video their excursions and a are not shot or chased by vigilantes with guns. That’s the first problem. Why white people of this social class feel the need to act as gatekeepers, guardians, vigilantes, for objects is a social conditioning problem in the US. The problem I see as propaganda that men of color are possessed with the white man’s idea of criminality is the same as believing a person cannot swim will sink and drown because they believe in the idea of gravity.
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  2125. One port of entry which happens to be the main entry for Fentanyl is the border with the US and Canada. The southern border entry is the main entry for migrant families.
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  2126. Never ceases to amaze me the evasiveness people have toward the free reign of capital over labor and the workplace has been the custom or habit of workers, and labor leaders, since the 1980s and there has been less material improvement in society that grand social experiment promised. The interests of workers and employers is the beginning of all the economic conflicts to get intensified in society because of the failures to raise wages and the economic standard of living of working people in this country and it will spell the end of all the cultural ones when de-regulation can no longer be ignored as a threat to the survival of society.
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  2127. She represents a social class that are the people in the room who give money to Trump. A billionaire class, very different type of people totally unrepresentative of the nation, with a particular profit interest in Trump’s promises.
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  2128. Good report on the Department of Labor’s investigations into the hiring practices of the meat industry who claim their hands are tied and the corresponding businesses dependent on that meat industry giving out a free sandwich is not the way an industry of hiring minors is going to change.
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  2129. The danger here is the loss of individuality. All those people reading the script are part of a sinister form of mind control and none of them think twice about it! What this media organization is showing us is how the lives of their news anchors have become pre-destined. Their position in life and their personal development is assigned to them by the corporation. So, we see, a subjection of separate individuals to private property and news anchoring as the activity for which they are paid, takes away every fiber of humanity. To illustrate the point, imagine WC Fields hired as an anchor, the force of his personality would have him fired. Groucho Marx, the same, Jerry Lewis, the same, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Einstein, even Dorothy of the Wizard of Oz, all let go for failure to not be for 8 hours day the anchor they want, but for an ingrained inability to permanently become the one dimensional being modeled by the corporation. Sinclair has accomplished this with their employees and other employers will follow this model considered to be the success model for the development of the corporation. A paradigm that represses the natural bonds of human beings such as, passion, love, community, solidarity, with a social model of existence as a quiet force of occupation.
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  2130. I think many are coming around to the fact that there is a tiny minority wrecking our economy and that it is really a conflict between “Us or Them”. The middle class and working class have a common enemy in certain institutions that really are obsolete and have to go. Unions and Monopoly Corporations is an obsolete model for work. Better to sell companies to the employees than to list it on the market for another owner to come along. Unions would not go for worker owned because the need for them is obsolete in that arrangement. To exist they need a monopoly. There is common enemy when big corporations are the only ones who can afford land and access capital and decide price. A common enemy in a government preserving the status quo. A common enemy in de-regulation and wild speculation; lots of common enemies to an important segment of the population.
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  2131. Social conditions are becoming ripe for a military dictatorship or a president elected by a minority on the basis of law and order in the US in 2024; with the violence in communities targeted in rural and suburban middle class America moves them to likely vote for a nationalist pro-law and order agenda.
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  2132. Its true Adam did not have a gun in his hands when the police were positioned face to face with him and it is true Adam had a gun and ditched it and raised his hands when he was face to face with the police. Police saw the gun before he ditched it and apparently are trained to kill not police. Responsible for this are the agencies that train police, the individual police officers and police unions agreeing to this form of training, providing the bodies to be shaped and molded to be a force of repression and intimidation to a black and brown working class population as an agenda. Why does a 13 year old have a gun? Why is the mind of a child more into zombies and guns than physics, science, art or music? Guns, Movies and Media are the opiate of the masses. Once discovering the reasons are larger than just obtaining a gun by one individual but a result of a glut of guns in every pore of society the movement that wants greater investment into their communities can connect the general production of guns with the particular consumption of guns in incidents like this and many other tragic cases of repression.
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  2133.  @panoptijohn  This generation doesn't know the difference between a slap in the face and a slug from a .45. If its anywhere not in Asia or in the East its a failure.
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  2134. It is a question. Dr. Wolf is fantastic and so was Marx. Marx is telling us... Religion is the sigh of the heart of a heartless world of capital. Religion is the soul of a souless condition of capitalism.  These simple and clear words cut to the chase describing what capitalism as a new form of religion in the 21st century does to people.
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  2135. What does her mother think about the action?
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  2136. When empires go out of existence they spend a lot of money senselessly. So when they fall make sure they do not come back again!
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  2137. Pathetic.
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  2138. This is a really bizarre show. Part game show, part Sunday Morning Live? Weird genre.
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  2139. “The world needs more Joy”, yes it does but the world prefers to use its time not for many to enjoy Joy, it uses its time to create sadness for many.
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  2140.  @no2party  Government has its own community that is apart from the social community.
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  2141.  @Hayyyward  Pretty bad state of affairs that the means are in the hands of employees who hold back the means from a person in the community working with less means. Helping is not a paid action by the company or in their job description. Commercial society moves products and services through people not for them.
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  2142. Well, ---you cannot have cops without any criminals. Same as saying you cannot have a king without people imagining they are subjects that a man becomes a king. As long as people collaborate with the notion they are criminals they will create the need for Cops.
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  2143. The idea is to work to live not living to work but there is a right wing that pushes the clock back to a time when living to work was a necessity tries to jam it down the throats of working people this idea of a ‘free worker’. Its really an 18th century idea that no longer fits the times. A free worker sells nothing more than a certain amount of forced labor as opposed to the worker who is unfree, enslaved, owned completely to one individual; is a human machine, whereas the free worker is only partially owned by one individual. But the attitude that we are nothing more than a machine for forced labor has gotten worse among employers creating a workplace dangerous on many levels, we are merely tools for their use, in a working process that dominates what we do day in and day out. Our bodies and minds are broken down by the detailed work assigned and repetition as part of this perpetual production process. This is because the times we live contains all the powerful tools to reproduce the whole human race if those tools were socialized, freed, from private hands, specifically because in private hands the technical and scientific basis of production are used as powerful tools for the creation of more value,----- for private hands and the total working capacity of society that goes into creating the technical advances and engineering goes toward sending a rich guy to space versus the improvement of the lives of working people. This would be fine if everyone had sufficient abundance and did not care or can afford to spend that much of society’s total working capacity and talent on space trips for rich guys but the facts are, the mass of the American people and specifically the labor-force are burnt out, fried, tired, and in need of a better way of life, a life where all work little to produce much and live more focusing on the important things in life such making memories, there is not much more humans require to live fulfilled lives than to be there for others, as an obligation to friend and community and above all to be connected to the world.
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  2144. Thumbs Down to the BBC for producing a pretentious, obnoxious and insulting to an audience, piece of propaganda.👎
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  2145. @paul rollings,---- I appreciate your criticism but I think you are missing the point about how violence is normalized to set the stage for a president of law and order to get elected. Crime has been a tool used to manipulate American voters since Nixon and it has excelled to a point where Americans will gladly vote away their civil rights for the sake of law and order if it means people can go out and not be killed. This is what is going on behind the scenes never shown or discussed in the news. Notice there are never any serious conferences or panels talking about the quality of life in America. Doing so would raise the Public's awareness of the function of violence to attain certain political aims. If republican want to regain the White House and cannot get elected on their own programs then they need win over the Public like they did in 9/11 to go to war. But this time to establish law and order in society with increased social controls and a permanency of their power.
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  2146. Maybe this generation thinks it is modifying the old circumstances it inherited with a completely changed activity. But from the looks of it. Its really a generation continuing the traditional activity under completely changed circumstances.
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  2147. British Prime Minister’s turns what is actually a very noble gesture by a people from another country willing to fight for the relief from bombardment a people under what they see is an occupying force and that is not their own relief they seek but for another. Honorable. But the British PM turns that into a crime. It might be crime in England to feed a hungry person under this PM. A real self less act of solidarity is respectable and this is what the Houthis said; they will not stop until a cease fire occurs in Gaza. Prime minister turns that around, saying they fight because Palestinians are oppressed. There are no competing narratives at play here as far as the Houthis are concerned. They said: Stop the bombings and they will stop the assaults on maritime trade vessels. The prime minister invents one story and the anchor invents two narratives on top of the PM’s invention right on the spot, he says the Houthis are attacking vessels in support of Palestinians in Gaza and the US is protecting maritime channels. Bull! The US is firing back at Houthis and other resistance forces because they were fired upon in many US bases scattered around the Middle East and the Houthis are using their attacks on trade to leverage a ceasefire. These are the real relations we need to talk about not some invention by an anchor. Western media is a serious problem.
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  2148.  @marcosmedina6940  Biggwill NYC drinks the liberal left koolaid and is brainwashed; he’ll be the first to banish truth tellers and seekers from their jobs. He goes along with the US using Ukraine. He does not now the bombings of civilians in Ukraine are documented as the work of Ukraine’s Azov Battalion’s paid by Biggwill NYC taxes, fool that he is for being so blind on how US support operates when it wants the gas market Russia has in Europe.
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  2149. Another way of measuring the success of nations making COVID go away is by how socialist they are not.
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  2150. There are only 7 nuclear nations and Iran is not one of them! Whereas, the US has roughly ten times the military fire power than Iran and could incinerate the entire nation if that were possible. It is really a pathetic equation as far as war adversaries are concerned. But this is not to say that smaller foes have not defeated larger ones in history. The larger more powerful nation can fall more easily when it knows nothing about its enemy's potentialities. Iraq is to take steps to expel US troops was a vote of the Iraqi parliament. This vote makes any action by US troops open to Iraqi prosecution and sentencing, and lawsuits, if an action is a crime violating Iraqi laws. There are 4 thousands fresh new troops in Iraq, I wonder how many of them are advised American soldiers taken into custody by Iraqi police will be tried by crimes their government committed in a foreign country? The new arrivals landed in a war zone from the tranquil and peaceful life of their suburban homes with their families must come to them as a serious culture shock for this new crop of veterans.
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  2151. Every president since Reagan has pandered to the religious right wing. This is the largest conspiracy working people in America ever had to face, a hostile fascist element.
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  2152. In the Big Picture, the workers in the entertainment industry won a better deal from their employers than what the auto workers voted down as offered by their employers but both classes of workers are stuck dealing with their employers on their terms. The market basket of goods in exchange for the labor the employees struck about so passionately. These are two industries I would nationalize and are perfect for nationalization because these industry control the life and mind of the country through media technology and through transportation. The way Big tech and Big car makers organize society is to make everyone dependent on them under the illusion of independence for you would be impossible without them, is propaganda that indoctrinates. Workers need to see the Big Picture more clearly.
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  2153.  @oldwoman2121  You have more than the power to speak out. You guys are not thinking BIG! Your power is a global power. No I do not mean the military power which is the first thing people think when they are alienated from their power. You can end this nightmare in three days or one with your power. American working people do not know what their power is? The power the military has or the power of Charles Koch's capital is a power you give them. The collective power of the American people is the power the state and the capitalist system uses and becomes a dominating power over you. You just have to put all that individualism together and cease giving that collective power over for nothing. Giving your power to someone else is really what is going on here, and what that someone else does with your power against you is a dilemma. The way to increase unity and everyone taking back their power, ---is to REFUSE COOPERATION!
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  2154.  @ThaOneChrisJONES  Don’t mss the point the fascist you are replying to said: His point about “independent judiciary and court”. Under the Third Reich the judiciary and courts was not independent but an instrument of the Nazis Party ad State, to him any accusation of Orban’s variations of fascism is not fascist but by us not getting his point enables a creeping form of fascism to tie the judiciary to a political party and program.
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  2155. Government orders employers to have their workers vaccinated the question becomes who’s body is it? Is it the body of the workers who are employed by employers or because employers own the workplace and the worker for 8 hours a day does the body of the worker belong to the employers? The political parties are an outgrowth of this contradiction between labor and labor-power. The commodity the workers sell to employers cannot be used by employers unless workers comply with the government mandates yanks this contradiction out into the open and expresses itself as a freedom movement not a movement to end the contradiction itself.
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  2156.  @kennethfisher7013  You should answer them that your SS check is the sum average of your own contribution of 40 years past not their’s 40 years into the future and their’s is their own contribution 40 years after you’ve gone and not your’s 40 years after your own lifetime of employment. A bit confusing but it makes sense. The calculus of SS is a guarded secret for political reasons could have been so easily dispelled if every math teacher in high school demonstrated how the social security fund works to high school students. I bet you never heard your math teacher use the fund to solve calculus problems so we are left ignorant of the foundation on which that fund depends for its reproduction...the family. The more babies we have the more of a fund there will be... the less babies we produce... the less the fund will be. Had the family become the center focus point of economics in high school instead of privatizing education to inject the Bible into the family,---you’d have three or four grandchildren who would be the future contributors compounding growth of the fund with other three or four grandchildren, by the power of 4, multiplied by the average size of the workforce of 132 million, the fund will grow and if this math were not taught with numbers only but filled in with living people there would be no ignorance or nihilism associated with it in the young about the fund. SS is associated with old age is consistent with individual(ism), isolated old people...America does not associate the fund’s relationship to the family because it would be impossible to dismantle social security, pure political suicide to do so.
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  2157. Richard Tattersall --Bingo. You hit the nail right on the head. I don't think the left can take the high road on this matter against the right. The ecology of animal life does not discriminate between who is holier than thou on the question of human habitation. Factory farming and the pet industry is only one aspect of the big picture. The relationship of war to ecology and the passing of bacteria and pathogens from animals to humans is one aspect of the big picture. Just as oil drilling and excavation is only one aspect of the total picture. The big picture is human habitation. Human habitation and urban development as uneven as it is leaves one side of the planet completely nude and the other side of the planet  completely exposed with less vegetation. Insects and animals we would normally would never see in a lifetime come into contact with each other through bacteria and excrement, and, in turn, interact with humans, is the driver of new pathogens and viruses. How we work, live and eat (habitation) is the primary driver passing pathogens from animals to humans through family, industry and development that, consequently, alters our public health.  We as a species are taking up all the room exposing different species of animals to each other. Ecology, industry and public health is the new frontier of study.
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  2158. At the same time as the democratic insitutions fail the population consisting of all working masses, the ruling oligarchs sinking the ship and taking down with them the British and German economy, have enough capital of their own to withstand the economic shock. They have their own necessaries of life whereas, the British working classes have not and must set a course for themselves to produce with out oligarchs and without the government of oligarchs, this is the only rational action to be taken.
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  2159. Its a double defeat for the Council and the Mayor by choice. They can’t move the trucks and the police are not carrying out orders.
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  2160. "However, being a backward feudal society...", that my friend should be your starting point. Historical and material context.  Raise the standard of living of your people first and deliver the goods for mass loyalty to the party. Every ruling class has to do this. The Soviet leaders of the party were the rulers, they launched the arms race with the US when they launched Sputnik. I believe this launching of the arms race was unintended by the Russians and SPutnik was a symbol of success for science. I don't think they knew that it would strike a deep nerve in the Pentagon of 1955 and launch an arms race.  Stalin was last of the leaders to do any writing on Historical Materialism, though thinning out, there was still a line of academics, scientist, and intellectuals developing and testing the hypothesis of historical materialism in various industry and fields. Science was a big one. I've seen something along that subject coming from Kruschev on the development of the sciences in Russia but these writings do not even enter into the classical line of literature of Political Economy dating from Marx.  In the Cold War period all the intellect was coming from individuals in society. Dissidents and anti-imperialists in the west which, I suppose, of this line Trotsky would be the first Stalin era dissident that started a new line dissidents in the post Stalinist era critcizing political party and imperialism. They, the Soviet CCCP, had to enter the modern world of changing fashion, styles, appearances, that came with industrialization in the west, i.e., consumerism and a new generation of babies born the day Sputnik was launched in 1955. Don't forget, religion in Russia was not wiped out, and religion there is not like religion here, more an orthodox affinity and patriarchal from Czarism affixed to the State. Russia still has many veterans who fought on the side of the White Russians like Cuba and Venezuela still has it enemies in Miami. East Germany had state television, one channel and it broadcasted the cold war all day as a war against the vulgar materialism of west Germany penetrating east Germany. People were afraid to say anything that they may have liked about western industrialization. Socially, the CCCP were out of touch with the effects of modernism, which, at the time, you could say saved labor. A washing machine and dish washer was the future women in the west stepped into and in the east, women were still far behind in the old world washing by hand, housework and working the obschina. Then, automation saved labor, today it replaces labor. The social development of girls in the Soviet Union was still repressed compared to the sexual revolution the mass produced Pill unleashed on girls in the west. The CCCP could not handle such intrusions into their project, the original theory of revolution was to them about the productive forces of society not the social relations of production. The social relations of production was tied up in a defensive war against the Americans, eventually that war broke the back of the USSR and set the stage of a restoration of capitalism in Russia. Puts all of us in an interesting situation with the Russians, we have a lot in common with them. They have the dark period of Stalin's blunderous aims to industrialize and we have the dark period of slavery to reconcile with.
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  2161. Writer’s Guild of America want a livable wage,---so does the unemployed and working poor. I do not think the American working class will support the writers in Hollywood...not when they reach into their own pocket and a dollar is all they have to their name. A Hollywood writer with earnings that reach $200K plus annually and with residual income. What they write about is never impartial. The average Joe gets no share of that residual despite the fact it is their eyes, hands, and brain choosing the show to watch. Personally the Alliance for Motion Picture Producers (AMPP) are about as evil as the Writer’s Guild. This is a case of two very spoiled institutions with too much power that comes from a bygone era and is keeping America trivial, trite and stupid.
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  2162.  @Unfamous_Buddha  Good thing you did not waste your vote on RFK. It is not uncommon for famous, insightful, creative and very talented people in history who had children to gave birth to offspring that do not live up to their parent’s stature and greatness. Napoleon, Kennedys, Chaplin, none had children as big as them. You would be projecting your feelings for nostalgia had you voted for RFK. Both parties are dead end parties for the working class, they are lifeless, and not grounded in your real world as an Establishment Oligarchy, a tight nit fish bowl community, alternating Washington’s institutions under their command who need the Public once every four years appeal to the working class to remain in power. When the spell breaks the working class will get rid of them. Frankly, you are not living in a democracy when an Oligarchy controls access to all the means and necessaries of life. If this were not true, a third of the US population would not be living in dire straights and neglect, poor, broken, shattered lives.
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  2163. The tax payer always pays the cost of a crisis in capitalism. This is because the difference between productive consumption and individual consumption is surplus value. The tax payer are workers and workers are productive beyond the point ("the" edited to: "that") it takes to reproduce itself. Wages is its own fund and the length of the working day defines "productive consumption". This is the first historical point we encounter about the progress of civilizations culminating after millions of years of development. The capitalists take the 'cream of the crop'. The cry of the capitalists class is that since they come up with all the inventions they should be paid! Americans call this payment a 'bail out'. The truth is that the capitalist class owes its existence to humanity and of labor-power belonging to prior generations of long since dead workers. The question is why does the American worker not feel a sense of ownership of the surplus value since they produce it and should the surplus value that bails out Wall Street through its Congress be used against people? We also encounter a working day for workers out of which wages are reproduced and work carried on beyond a certain point becomes a process of creation of surplus-value. This generation of American workers, et al the millennial generation, do not have an awareness of a cumulative growth of wealth through the ages. Their understanding of capitalism, is the free exchange of money and goods, the market where all things are equally commodities and money arises out of this equal relationship. The only difference is their quantity undermining the quality of a worker's productivity and subsistence level or standard of living. They do not see how inequality emerges from the equality of all things in the market, buyers and sellers, equal in the eyes of the law, that inequality takes place at the interior level of society in the workplace. They do not understand as it was never taught to them that past labor determines the exchange of labor-power and living labor determines the use-value and its consumption. Buying and selling of labor-power in opposition to the absolute production of surplus-value. The first part of the workday is a consequence of the second part of the workday. Existence depends on the creation of surplus-value and surplus- value makes the wheels go round under capitalism. But they will soon feel this naked inequality as their lives of work become harder and longer with each transfer of wealth to rectify the crisis under capitalism.
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  2164. The problem is everything is relative, including principals.
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  2165. America needs to vanquish all aristocratic lineages of castes and kinship inheritance in its society if the center of economic activity for the nation is not to be a country where few large real estate holdings have full possession of the land and a mass of people homeless.
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  2166. The people of Denmark would see the Texas Border Patrol Officers as Nazis in the same way they were treated at Antwerp in 1943.
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  2167. The living standards of the American people deteriorate because of Trump’s Tariff War. The American people do not have a Congress on its side to protect it from its economic impact on small farms, middle class businesses and the working class.
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  2168. 1. No only is the property and monetary wealth of nations seized by the US government but inside the US individual state governments, modeling the federal government, seizes the assets of individuals in our own society. Bureaucracy in America are replicated in three sizes, i.e., national, state and town or city government. America is in 5th position of nations with a industrial workforce, 12.9 million factory workers. Indonesia is ahead of Mexico at 15.8 million. Vietnam is in 6th position at 12 million. Mexico is ahead of the US with 13.9 million factory workers and India has 18.4 million. China has 120 million factory workers and with the development of robot factories and robots making robots supplanting human labor in factory work, China’s working class is positioned through universal free education to cease being a working class. China could be the first society where the average intelligence level of all its 1.2 billion citizens exceeds the rest of the world, in medicine and science, math and engineering and living a life of other pursuits or more leisure being freed from the toil of work of 8 to 10 hours a day. If the same happened in the US only 12 million people would be feed from factory work out of 332 million people, twelve million former factory workers would have to find employment since other pursuits and education in America are privatized fields of activity. Need a loan to get schooled. And twelve million is not enough to make a dent for a transformation of society, 30 million would be enough, but with the side effects of AI robotics and technology, science and automation, in the labor-process supplanting more workers in other fields are going to hit a wall, finding monetary gain in other pursuits such as theft, corruption, crime, illegal trade and trafficking...or in revolution, all because education is privatized pushes workers out of other pursuits and occupations that would improve their condition in society. The seeds of revolution are already planted in the ground my friends.
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  2169.  Angry Combat Wombat  senseless rebuttal. Where is the butchering in the two worded sentence; "Assenine comment."
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  2170. The payback is having a judge rule in favor of your business while your business, harms, robs and corrupts, and is taken to court.
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  2171.  @AudioPervert1  I doubt it.
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  2172. ​ @aaronanderson4894  I have no clue what you are talking about . There is no subject to your sentence and you refer to person...Wolff I take it. But who knows?
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  2173. Brutal is the effect on the mind and body by a division of human beings into social roles in order to get work done in society. The day will come when everyone works for the need, the time and the means, to get things done for themselves and use the rest of their time to do whatever it is that they want without harassment or being harrassed. Work does not have to broken up into hierarchy or a command structure to get things done...there is more food on the table that all can eat in America.
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  2174. Organize a national fight back!
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  2175. Peace is got through communication and negotiation.
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  2176. If the likes of Al Roker steals your heart you should meet me.
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  2177. A credit to the Bolsheviks. If not for them a unipolar world of imperialism would be the only world the world would know.
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  2178. Competition leads to monopolies and monopoly capitalism leads to competition is a repititous cycle when you live old enough to experience it. In effect every generation advances no further than the previous one and under the two economic systems America alternates, the same two character traits appear in people.
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  2179. Sturges people as children grew up without limits and as adults don't like to be told what to do.
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  2180. The Progressive are right to take a stand and defeat the watered down infrastructure bill and the Florida legislator who said she would not be here if her mother had aborted her is not wrong but not right, that was her mother's choice. No all women are the same, nor men. Time this country start trying to fit everyone into the same square box and get its priority in people not wars, guns or drugs, as its main priority.
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  2181. People who are not religious need to kick those in politics who are religious out of the politics, period. Even if force is required, this emergency grows toward levels of extinction as all the fires and the emissions from cars, factories, refineries, continue to pump away by the command of those religious in decision making positions, i.e., inaction in response to the quantitative difference in the chemical composition of the atmoshpere. And these degrees of carbon bring about a qualitative change where life can no longer be sustained and huge places of the planet are uninhabitable.
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  2182. Health care is a wage issue. Wages are how working people access the necessities of life this makes health care a part of the value of a wage package workers receive in exchange for the services of their labor to employers. Trump is without a doubt anti-working class and the democrats are too soft on the right wing.
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  2183. Don’t forget the Biden Administration turned its back on the unions.
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  2184. It comes to my attention that the origins of this pre-meditated attack is not the cause but the effect of the attacker’s intellectual confusion.
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  2185.  @redroverredrover5311  In your case as with millions in your position their ss increases transfer to property owners...sure, price as an economic category, is the money-name of a commodity but it is also a mechanism, a tool, by which wealth ( in this case a piece of property) is the commodity that changes hands from a tenant to a landlord.
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  2186.  @LHoover  immunity laws prevent cops from being charged.
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  2187. This new definition makes vulnerable to prosecution the millions of people who live in places without leases but as tenant producers do something for the landlord in exchange for rent or less rent and for month to month renters who gave deposits but have no lease, can be treated as vagrants, and if prosecuted hauled off to jail. Millions of Americans go on a handshake basis, sublease and rent rooms in houses without leases, a hidden social contract between buyer and seller that guides them can be criminalized. The law needs a document as 30 day proof of residency.
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  2188.  @rickyl7358  Don’t think that poor spelling has nothing to do with a poor mind.
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  2189. A McDonald’s restaurant is a franchise. The franchise itself is the commodity the corporation sells to individual buyers. The corporation will not pay the higher wage, the franchise owner pays the higher wage. The franchise owner will raise the price of the meat because unlike the “corporation” they are not sitting on top of billions of dollars from the sale of franchises The meat in a bun is the commodity the franchise owner sells to the Public. A franchise its bought by an individual and the corporation is the provider of the meat and marketing the meat. The franchise owner who bought 6 or more franchises around the country is rich enough to pay a higher wage but this class of merchant is typically more profit hungry that a higher wage is at the same time a drop in profits for that particular meat merchant.
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  2190. Closed captioning is completely un-intelligible for the hearing impaired...shame of CNN.
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  2191. The religious right has dominated the political sphere and will push for a constitutional convention. At which point, there will be no impeachment and there will be no separation of church and state.
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  2192. There is no reason to celebrate when the author of the no knock warrant is still at large. Arrest the DA and DA’s of that ilk.
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  2193. Congratulations to RNN for hosting a European left perspective, a good way to rebuilding and revitalizing the left as a whole.
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  2194. Nihilism thrives in society when people are forced out of the most productive parts of the economy.
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  2195. Would you do what he did, I would? No answer means you would not.
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  2196. The story of the children lost in Columbia who survived is a story of never giving up. Compare the attitude of Columbians searching for the children to that of the officials in Indiana who were ready to tear down the building with a survivor in it and you have the reason why America is a failed and decaying society. One society loves life enough to never abandon it the other society hates life sufficiently to snuff it out by any means necessary.
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  2197. Well,----the first problem is competition. Competition is too great a coercive force pressuring owners of all the privately owned companies in social media to cooperate with each other without censoring...to hide competition the censoring would have to excommunicate one of their own in a charade, a sham intervention made to look like someone is castigated.
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  2198. One thing is for sure the smiling person in the picture alleged to be the assassin will be legendary famous, if not already, for filing a defamation lawsuit that will bankrupt the city of NY.
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  2199. It is a difficult paradox. Can workers inside a corporation do what the executives do? CEOs make a colossal marketing campaign out of a mere phase in the production of the yearly product before re-investing the sale money back into capital again...and so on...assuring a smooth process...reconverting the sale money back into capital, or re-buying or buying all at once the right quantities of material for that level of production...you can see how quick rulers acted to clear a main artery for this process on the Ambassador Bridge Truck Convoy shut down. CEOs use market stats to decide if they buy again...the process generates extreme economic inequality. The general rule is a certain quantity of capital determines a certain quantity of production...have workers figured out the laws CEOs use to guide their decisions in order to level the playing field? The consequences for an empire built on social classes of other countries get a share of the corporations’ profits and in many cases no profits at all just jobs...and borrowed dollars...to bring the jobs back the work at home will cost more, and the profits fall, interest and inflation too high, producing the military effect to deal with rampant international unemployment and agitation. Do American working people understand how these relations are considered productive labor. That, if you take away from capital, labor bought at a rate of $.50cents a day, capitalism will perish...and so the American working class perish along with it? ...and if labor is bought to high for its own cost of production, too many people are producing nothing of value by not working for the corporations! Here a formula or a prescription is needed: if you cannot bring your jobs back and cannot let social classes, allies and friends down who make up your empire, then WTF do you do? ‘tis a complex and problematical paradox, the one social class that has the power to do it can’t because it does not have the intellectual or the theoretical power to do it.
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  2200. 2024 is going to be very, very interesting.
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  2201. Labor produces value it does not produce wealth. Wealth comes from Nature. Nature makes an industry not the other way around. Industries in America produce values and the value they produce is expressed in prices. And you cannot have prices on things of use without having buyers. It is wrong to think labor produces wealth. Labor produces value and less of it given the rate of technological advances. In every product American labor makes in all industries the value part of the product is less and less. Diminishing value is shown in rising prices. The double action is Value goes down and prices go up. The split between value and price shows up when in society corporations make more value by shoving people out of jobs. Tech advances makes it cheaper to lose them than to use them.
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  2202. 14 years. sucker born every minute in America
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  2203. There isn't a thing in America that is not a weapon. The entire US population is embalmed, surrounded, encased, embodied, infused in somebody else's private property. A car, house, buildings, elevator, land, food, cities, etc. are all used as weapons against the individual because nobody who uses these things, which is 99% of the population have full ownership of these things.
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  2204. Excellent analysis, thank you.
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  2205. Well actually he did create a fictional character. The character running for Congress is a work of fiction. The real George Santos is an actor playing the politician. His true claims are nothing to the claims of the politician he portrays. You give your consent to this opportunism when you vote for it.
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  2206. Stack up against working people in the US is a Power Elite. Most people see this group as a conspiratorial "Deep State". I think it is more of a superstructure of class and not a state at all. The Power Elite in Washington are composed of lawyers playing different roles as advisors, consultants to the president, they come law firms and from think tanks and from Academia. They are out of touch with the new generation who grew up under their policies and have fallen back on doing what they do best which is to make deals for the sale of arms through their political influences. If you want to rattle the 1% , break the bubble, you express the attitudes of your generation politically, you do what Steven Miller did, agitate the Power Elite, leave California, Ohio or wherever your from and bring all your high school experiences with you to impose on the rest of society by holding the 1% hostage with your votes in your pocket. The problem lies in the individual society produces that working people are their own worst enemy and are misled to be the fall guy. Miller and Trump, Bolton are second rate high school minds with attitudes formed in their adolescent years had never grew beyond them are people enamored by power and where the power comes from does not matter as long as it keeps coming. Working people keep giving them that power like there is no tomorrow. The vast majority outside of the Washington bubble, are categorized as a 'special interest', like Special Education Kids are stigmatized in high school by the mainstream the Power Elite stigmatizes all working people into a special category as outside the mainstream, implying there is something inherently wrong with the working class, came from a democrat, that it must need 'help', is premised on the notion, that we are all human, so -- how is it that the few can succeed and others cannot if it is not for personal and subjective reasons like being a deplorable person of sheer apathy and ignorance that the working masses cannot be rich? The facts are stacked against the working class because educationally it does rank low, 17th for literacy. People are stupid because they do not read, true or false? False, they read junk, not the stuff that will teach them to run a state. With the many different professional occupations supported by the Power Elite, which includes celebrities and philanthropic organization, theories become the weapon to prove the working class is defective and, therefore, should be excluded from the Public Domain because the Power Elite are not defective. The Power Elite are chosen or born into it, gifted and talented, they are the authentic religion, all other religions are copies. Offspring must be not be exposed to each other fearing contamination and spread of the defection the Elites called in science to come with a gene selection program for a perfect child as one way to battle the spread of working class imperfections and another way, a slow genocide, annihilate the working class. Fortunately, a Pope the other day dispelled that notion and advised the people to rise up against the Power Elite for its war crimes and inhumanity, but the message went over the heads of Catholic working people, confused by their leader, and Jewish working people confused by their nationality, and black working people confused by their racism and white racism, native Americans demoralized by destruction of land, Hispanics divided by a wall, everything is both real and imaginary at the same time, makes the working class appear psychotic, split in opposite direction on a range of issues that determine their lives are disunited while the Power Elite are united living in the bubble.
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  2207. You'd never know from this news what the country is going through.
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  2208.  @freyfaust6218  I don't think Marx was wrong about a class of people in power unwilling to give up their power without a fight...I wouldn't give up my political power, wealth or property would you if you were Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg? I seriously doubt Trump or the Pope would give up their riches and power without a fight. I doubt very much the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist party would give up power. That aspect of your comment on what Marx said about the "bourgeoisie" makes perfect sense to me. Re: Schools...I doubt you will find one professor in the entire world of Academia teaching Marx unless you are in Harvard, Princeton, or Yale, and only then in lecture form and they are posted as lectures on Youtube. Frankly, they are boring and the professors are non-dialecticians would make a worker leave the room they are that bad. NOBODY reads Marx in the US certainly not his great opus Capital. I am interested in the problem of purging from society the old oppressors who are resistant to change. I do consider the upper middle class in the US an oppressor class but not a direct oppressor of the labor of a worker in production such as the 500 big corporations exploiting the labor of workers in other nations, although there was a capitalist arrested for storming the nation's Capitol extolling the virtues of freedom and Trump. China killed to purge these anti-communist elements in society. Venezuela incorporates their youth into working with the working class and this seems to allow the older generation to live out their lives without being purged by violence and the younger generation of the upper middle classes more amenable to the working class. This is working out well and Venezuela's General Assembly, the political body of reaction, is gone along with the Guarimbas ( no different than the type of people who stormed the Capitol). However in Brazil the uppermiddle class are nearly all sons and daughter of runaway German Nazis. These people are so demented they may have to be purged by violence or forever locked up for their racism makes them savages unable to live in civil society without expressing violence,---if the working classes of Brazil get into a tug of war with the Bourgeoisie of Brazil. America's upper middle class as virulently racist as Brazil's. Would have been different if the North completely took the southern plantations from the slave -owners but such is history. The upper middle class dominating the political field in the US, $500K and up are the liberal political class fractured among themselves, split by two camps, one part personally violent the other part institutionally violent, one actively violent and the other passively violent...their willingness to bend to the working class owing to their racism prevents change, transition and death from occurring naturally when a society reaches its point where it must change. On state control. One example is all I have. Social media. The means of communication are totally a social product. The form social media takes in our society contradicts its nature as social leaving freedom of speech to be decided by those who own the means of communication. Nationalizing social media makes perfect sense and is more fitting than privatizing it.
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  2209.  @freyfaust6218  I, personally, am viewing events and actions of people in motion through historical categories in their own development, change, transformation and death the same as any other natural organsim, whether in nature or human history, ---the necessary subordination of individuals to external conditions, --that takes place in a process independent of human beings and in conflict with the permanence of ideas. That is what I am intersted in. A conception, another way of looking at human beings.
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  2210.  Brighton  Americans cannot leave the US. For one thing Americans are walled in, and second, an American citizen is denied a passport if they have substantial debt. Third, if debtors they do get out, there is no return. Fourth, for all the damage the US has done globally, an American citizen would meet their doom. Basically, rich Americans and poor Americans are imprisoned together in cell called the US.
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  2211.  @rocktheboat1  Psychology in the US is a weapon of oppression, it is primarily used to sell commodities, not help people, and used to crush any form of independent thought or revolt against the social structure, it is a part of the medical establishment in the US. Education in the US became a weapon of oppression in the last 45 years, became a pacification system and a vehicle to create indentured servitutude to a debt for the next generation. Both medical "professions" are responsibe for 99% of all deaths in the US.
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  2212. Start loading water trucks with ocean water.
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  2213.  @greygtv6  That's the dupe talking. Change your hande to 'Duped", fits better.
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  2214. TheYoungtrust - Out of all the replies you got your question remains unanswered as to why actual socialists running are not mentioned. It could be a blindness. In any case you should bring it to his attention the socialists who are running and recommend a program on it.
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  2215. There is one of your men behind the Jan 6 coup.
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  2216.  @booz394  If you are not just like everyone than your only worry is information and a verifiable source.
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  2217. Hard for me to understand your point or argument much less your grammar and English.
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  2218. Cop needed to ask Brian some questions about Gabbie's face and never did.
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  2219. A congressional baseball game? Congress plays baseball, and works in session for 160 days out of 365. That is a lot of leisure time while Americans work all year long, year after year. Privileged leisure class.
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  2220. Governor Kemp decided to punish Gwinnett County Georgia Election officials for not having their act together. For it seems it is the F-Troop of the Electoral System and not the only one nationally. A few Florida counties and even some in New York Brooklyn that after every election there are problems with who voted or are not voting and the entire ballot has to be counted from beginning to end three times. The consequences of their screw-ups, if any, which there are, makes constituents feel like they lost an election by cheat and they begin knocking on the governor's door to do something about it. What can the governor do to people who are irresponsible? He punishes them but that does not remove the irresponsibility of election officials; it might but not likely. One bad policy after another culminates into voter suppression. What could have the left done to remove the incompetence and correct voting problems in those counties that are mismanaged nationally?
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  2221. Carnivorous Chinese, we should boycott a specific Chinese product sold in the US.  Laser focus our mass consumer boycott power by taking aim at one corrupt company at a time.
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  2222. For us who allow this to happen have a responsibility to change our relationship to our own product. We create the wealth (product) the banks steal and we treat ourselves as dependent on the thieves. The banks, government, and corporations become a power independent of the people is a cartel that stole government from the people.
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  2223.  @lyraserpentine894  a house to a homeless person can be a care package. The point was not misunderstood.
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  2224. It was most likely the world's first apartment building for many families to eat, live, and sleep with defenses built around it from the animals of the time, not a temple, but a common long house.
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  2225. There is an economic transition going on that is totally ignored. The migrants and homeless people become the problem and the target of contempt by the Public and politicians is shameless. The council and the people of Chicago are ignoring how land and development real estate projects are being built in big numbers and could easily house the migrants and homeless and then some but they are not being built for sale, they are for rent. Developers are large scale landowners and landlords, they now build and continue to own rather than build to sell, or build to suit to whoever wants to be a landlord. Your friendly neighborhood retailer like WaWa or Stewarts or Quick Check still buy what developers build but there are corporations getting in the game of buying land and developments and this group are becoming large scale landlords. Properties that go for rent is the change happening and this change has a side effect of throwing people out on the street creating a homeless population. The other change going on caused by the inflow of migrants are replacing American women of the workforce, women replaced men in the workforce 40 years ago, during the period wages were held constant. Women become the new class of managers, overseeing the new workforce of illegal migrants. This is a change that depresses and lowers wages since migrants are labor with no rights or protections. Their numbers is their only power as we witnessed the Las Vegas hospitality industry workers who walked out for higher wages around the time Autoworkers went on strike. The Las Vegas worker’s strike dropped out of the news suddenly. This is because their numbers won a higher wage. That is a message employers do not want broadcasted to America that other workers would get the same idea. Shameful how Chicago is boasting a proud ignorance at this problem without realizing that when the process is complete the American dream of owning a home has become a nightmare of anonymous corporations robbing that dream right out from under them.
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  2226. Good news report.
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  2227.  @jannibal9273  No, prior studies done on soil would indicate a porosity of soil for water well drilling. I bet if you stole those studies since they are private property which is another form of not disclosing to the public the land the buyers will buy to live on. In the earlier studies they should reveal if the ground is sinking or there would not have had houses approved for habitation on those sights. Or they fudged the earlier studies for the sake of the construction corporation building and selling homes and the most current study reveals the truth about the soil, thus rendering it less valuable, for a repurchase,. They can even expel (evacuation) by order residents from their homes based on the current finding. Of course that would mean the courts forcing te expropriation is as corrupt as the local government. So they did it in a less contentious way by using science against the people, weaponizing science for profit. So it is not a plot hatched ten years ago. It was graft that never would have surfaced if not for the want to build what the town planning board wants built there. Big difference from what I said to what you think. I know you will never reply because that is how Americans are when they are wrong, they run away from the truth.
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  2228. unum septium - that person praising Trump is obsessed with winning which is a synonym for becoming enriched by Trump's policies.
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  2229.  @tonyfat2458  too early to tell. Nixon was great but history knows him as a crook.
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  2230. Mayotte remains a French colony in the 21st century and the home country is expelling 300 migrants from Mayotte living in slums. Objectively speaking, this makes France look despicable, cheap, crass, callous not to mention totally racist. I wonder if Mayotte has a independence movement?
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  2231. Then Bolton says the US will review all treaties with Iran in the way of an invasion calling Iran's complaint baseless and politicized complaint. The National Security Advisor, Bolton, then says the US will not participate as a litigant in the International Court. Like a child who takes the sand box away because others in it want to share it for play any claims brought against the US will not be respected. That the American people tolerate this level of functioning from their government is a reflection of the abstinence of self-respect.
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  2232. This is retirement in America. Work 40 years in America going into the workforce all bright and bushy tailed and you end up a destroyed human being at the end of your work life. You young ones have this too look forward to. Soft on crime is a secondary problem. She is you in the future is the first problem.
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  2233. Armies in the West are paid armies. It would be better if they fought out of passion not duty.
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  2234. Men who are republicans in the GOP and make cultural issues such as “ Women’s Choice” on abortion political are doomed to never get elected again! Women do not want to lose this freedom, period. Sneaking anti-abortion laws into bills last minute is a low blow and it truly reflects how devious the GOP can be.
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  2235. If you agree Cheney should be locked up than Trump agrees with you. When was the last high profiled individual in politics ever agree with what you believe in? JFK? JFK was a long time ago. You must be stroke starved for the attention and affirmation and he gives it to you.
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  2236. A GW Bush accolite on Fox. The world from where he sits is a filled with evil demons.
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  2237.  @snowcindyharris9971  :)thx.
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  2238.  @rogbrogb5341  Nice...thanks.
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  2239. Its nice to see smaller less powerful countries engaged in diplomacy, figuring, working, solving, as it gives us direction of what other countries real interests are versus the artificial interest they had to live with imposed on them by the US and bent over backwards to satisfy, they lost much and are now getting back on track. And when the artistic touch is applied it becomes rather miraculous what human beings will fashion from nature to meet the needs for nature, themselves and others. All it takes are the means. Someone like John Bolton would do the opposite of what the world needs. He’d fire the ambassadors and close up the store. He’d tell nations in needs they cannot buy any pumps, cars, tools, devices, widget, screws, or hammers from any of America’s stores. An action that deprives, restricts, holds back, disallows the means from getting into the hands of the masses for use of their development. No figuring, solving, no working together...none of that is allowed. And who is he to tell others what they cannot do? Every nation will have to work with what is left after it has been ravaged by privatization and by the action of natural forces; how to get on the right track for its development without restriction of the means as imposed by the US. This is the next phase of human development; a humanity undivided by social roles as kings, slaves, serfs and lords, employees and employers. While prosperity is over for people in the US and Europe they do have going for them a universal power to put all nations back on track again. They can expropriate the expropriators and usher a new Age of the Common Person. From their position new openings for development emerge solving concrete problems across the planet and from what is left of the devastation by catastrophic social and natural forces a blossoming of invention, new science, new thinking, new way of Being...and literally this world of presidents, kings, princes, monarchs and oligarchs will appear and understood by all as, indeed, the last antagonistic stage of human development and a distant past.
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  2240. Ridiculous. If you are not in the 'Situation Room' you are not getting the straight facts. The 'straight facts' are released per their sensitivity to national security. Nobody gives or receives the straight facts, its all filtered and disseminated in pieces. We don't even have the 'straight facts' on the Kennedy assassination and its been 58 years! What does the BBC have over this inherent bias?
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  2241. The problem has been the delays and obstacles put forward by uneven development which can only be reversed to bring into proportion production and consumption by developed nations reducing consumption changing their habits which is not likely, in order for developing nations develop their production, should have been done long ago before emissions are too high its too late!
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  2242. Excellent observation Kirk makes at 25:51. Really good Kirk, more should be thinking critically like you verifies to people the mass propaganda campaign that is put together by intelligence operatives and journalism. Frank Zappa made the observation in Joe’s Garage, that magnificent album is the half way benchmark of how long Americans had been subject to psychological programming through mass media that began in the late 70s.
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  2243. Ridiculous...and inconceivable that Ukraine can win a war with Russia...if Russia controls the percentage of wheat supplies coming out of Ukraine it’ll be because the White House continues to be the quiet aggressor.
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  2244. Clean, that would be working to live. This is a case of a someone with a deep aversion to work I am going to guess America has around 15 million hoarders wth an aversion to work.
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  2245. Biden government has a very good track record in delivering promises never made public during a campaign but made privately with private interests. In that government’s view that does not look at society as composed of social classes only counts the number of promises made and kept not the quality of the promise itself.
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  2246. Well, if you step outside of the box the answer is pretty clear. Political ideology is as far as the box allows the mind to go.
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  2247. Man (Blinken) lies to your face. Pure evil. I have a better question Jake. F the How question! How did the generals not see cities and towns and provinces taken over one by one by the Taliban and not do anything?
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  2248.  @dominique217  McConnell is continually elected purely by mechanical means as in voter suppression.
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  2249. More good news I see. The oil spill in California, finally a spill bigger than Valdez. Ah, yes, shall I add the FHA rules actively making it harder to get a home for the working class people but easier for the 1% to buy land. Americans cannot put their finger on what is wrong with the system that fails its citizens, they weep, mourn, and lay in sorrow and resign the catastrophe of capitalism to God's Will.
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  2250. That’s $15 bn of the $40 bn that could have gone to alleviate ‘some’ misery of the American people. Americans have money to burn don’t they with the way money is spent in overseas wars?
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  2251. Vance should be saying NAFTA and the sweet deal with China was what American industry wanted at the time and Joe Biden gave it to them. American industry will want something in return from Vance if Vance wants industry to return to the US and revive Middletown Ohio. American owners of industry wear the pants in the family.
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  2252. Well, all I see is that in the past people never worked machines bearing value ( i.e., AI, EVs, Cell Phones, Video Gaming, Trucks, Cars, Ships, Bridges, Tunnels, Buildings, Cities, Land, Water, Air, etc.), people made value by working and whatever machines and tools they used were just that, tools. Tools and machines were not capital investments when modern infrastructure projects were built. Only when technology shrank them from the size of windmills to the size of a digital microchip processor did tools become investments for speculation. Everyone is divided as a manager or a worker not only because it was seen as better than being socially divided into masters and feudal slaves or serfs but more so because the technology and machinery was getting smaller in size and more specialized that it accommodated more people be involved in employment than a small limited population of slaves or serfs doing all the work. Now that technology and machinery has become smaller and more portable it made work lighter and less skilled. The smaller the technology the less skilled the workforce became to the point that nobody knows how to fix a door or a leak and only knows how to repeat a task and never go outside of the boundaries of their particular task never mind make a decision!
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  2253. Right! No dam alternative to the right wing, people turn to God, and so many were already born again in the 80's added more to the religious mix. With nothing but negative choices to escape the misery of working class life and the separation of the elite from society the vote for Trump was a cry for help despite how ugly or proudly it was expressed. The vote for Trump are the hidden injuries of class coming together in someone powerful enough to challenge them. They can only hope he will challenge the elites and make working class lives better. That their vote was not wasted on the quintessential moment that could have turned things around for them, The moment the Tea party stole for the republicans and the democrats were too blind to see. They (We, Us) can only hope the vote was not wasted on a man the republicans and democrats do not steel or is defeated as so many before had been cut down from them. Religion heels and brings back a fundamental yearning for stability in working class family's lives. Lives totally disjointed by social instability is always fertile ground for a rise of movements of any persuasion. What accounts for the blindness in democrats is class distinction. What accounts for the blindness of the working class is oppression. What accounts for the power of capital is labor. At this historical juncture, this particular generation of workers, are not at the point of realizing their strength is in their numbers, nor have they come to a realization that the antidote to a corrupt civil society is not religion or free markets but in their own class awakening. Economics is the big thing! Social and political economics in particular that the next generation will use to accompany its collective strength as they react to working class strangulation by the financial machinery of Wall Street.
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  2254. True. The historical evidence is plain. Exploitation of labor dates back before the Roman Empire.
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  2255. All products have an exchange-value to them or money cannot be made from them. So it does not matter if they are bought or burned. What counts is that the money to be received from their sale or destruction is realized. Home Depot exchanged a million in Capital and opened a store full of whole range of products worth a million. One form or another the million is still present and intact even if the place burns down. This is one reason why insurance companies exist so that money can exist.
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  2256. ironic that right now she knows the difference between fascism and democracy.
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  2257. Invited by the Cardinal to Go to Mass! That tells you who you are dealing with America. I think I would organize a protest right in the church. Their indifference is despicable.
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  2258. Seth Harris, the Biden pick for a top "Labor Advisor" would not be able to leave his house if this were France. All of the appointees of Biden are no better than Trump's.
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  2259. Problem here is that Americans are dogmatic and lean toward fascism, they interpret the First Amendment as a separation of church and state when in reality the First Amendment establishes a contradiction between the political state and civil society, and this contradiction is exploding in the US. The political state cannot claim to be representative of the common interest of all citizens unless it recognizes no religion placing all religions on the same footing in relation to the state is the general meaning of the Fist Amendment. But in America, the education of its citizens is not as advanced as it is in Europe or Asia that its citizens interpret their Constitution as a split between religion and society. The amendment establishes a the creation of a political state by its founders from religious individuals and communities so that one religion is not empowered by the state becoming an extension of a religious monarchy, king or prince, of a religious persuasion.
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  2260. The answer is to stop building cities requiring a car to get around.
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  2261. De-classify this and you have to declassify everything and with so much to hide full disclosure would be a threat to the national security agency not sure if the country will be harmed if the NSA goes away, people will still get in the car and go to work, like any other day. When people stop working that is when you have a threat to the nation.
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  2262.  @raymundogonzalez6450  It is tragic. So was Rome.
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  2263. Thom is right on this. Get the political power.
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  2264. He was the best back seat driver the Queen ever had.
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  2265. really that would dictatorial capitalism because employees are not free in the workplace to decide anything democratically.
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  2266. Americans have the false idea that Marshall Law would make society look like a concentration camp. A gulag with armed guards and check points. Marshall Law suspends elections and after Marshall Law is lifted elections must be held immediately is the Law. Society can look as normal as it does now and elections would be the only part of the democracy that would not take place with Marshall Law evoked. I predict this is what Trump will do if elected.
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  2267. America is in a quiet war getting louder and louder.
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  2268. Why is social media anti-social?
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  2269. Religion is mere front for their true religion Capitalism. The fundamentalist and the evangelical teachings are religions appropriate for the economic and social conditions of the 19th century and if in power the economy of the US would slide back into the levels of production of the 19th century, essentially all economic, social, scientific and technical progress, made thus far would be crushed! Why they are against abortion has to do with their own fertility rates diminishing and a separation process of the biological family is possible only through political power. Two reasons and motives explain why adoptions are a solution to infertility and a way to save people from the immiseration of capitalism. Immiseration to the religious is a personal choice not a societal condition. This to avoid having to criticize capitalism for social inequality and the sufferings of the masses. Emphasis is given to the subjective person. While on the left the criticisms of capitalism are given to objective conditions. Both extremes treat objective and subjective conditions as mutually exclusive. Both are wrong. Immiseration is a technical term used in social science to encompass the detrimental effects of crime, alcoholism, abuse, drug addictions, have on the working poor and working class creating apathy and nihilism in people, where they do not care about themselves or others around them, engage with the world through their rage, anger, hatred. In short the two polarities are antithetical and mutually exclusive in sharp tension with each other. At bottom the whole matter hinges on political power and who gets it? A true religion is one that is supported by individuals and their faith not supported by a general tax fund they do not have to pay! Religion is still the Opiate of the Masses, in other words, it is what pacifies people from taking political action in the Many and the prime ideological tool of the Few for the retention of political power. What is important is to see their actions as a group, as a social class, they exert their economic and political aims but as individuals in contact with the suffering you would never believe capitalism is their soul.
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  2270.  @Bcompassionate  ...imagine a real community where individuals obtain their freedom in and through their association. Can you imagine that? If you can make it real.
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  2271. “ ...subversion over an unofficial poll.”, that says nothing to me. What exactly was done and what law was broken? Anytime there is vague terms and language in news reports the Public is deceived.
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  2272. But the employers ‘ relationship is between many employees; why would an employee’s relationship be private to the exclusion of many when the relationship the employer has with employees is a social relation of many people?
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  2273. China’s government serves its uneducated people well by keeping western propaganda out. The more people are educated the harder it is for mass propaganda to fill their minds with lies, deceptions, and misfacts. This is why a revolution can never stop at the point of victory it must also make everyone a critical thinker.
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  2274. Voting matters, the two political parties have dominated the political life of the US, a virtual monopoly over the life of the country, for over a century. They are able to retain power for that long because out of 330 million people only one fifth of the total population, around 60 million vote, keeping it that way changing district voting rules to follow the social changes in the districts is a primary mission of the two political parties. Mexico shook off the monopoly the two parties, PRI and Pan, had for a more than a century when Obrador got elected. None of that has happened in the US, the two parties still rule the political life of the nation, the only change that has changed the complexion of the Democratic Party is America Far Right. The Democratic Party has moved more to the left where it was back in the early part of the 20th Century, becoming more a party of labor inclusion. But more important than all this, a social transformation has happened that America needs to redo, redraw, and make fewer states, roughly 20 states not drawn along lines of race and language but along lines of universal elements of Nature, all need for survival, i.e., Water, Soil. Population is so dense that you cannot have one city in one state consuming all the water other states need for their progress, rivers, reservoirs, lakes and aquifers run through many states, and you cannot have a small class of agricultural producers consuming the soil and water in great quantity choking space for growth. Nothing in the form of economic policy right now in the US is compatible with a socially transformed America.
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  2275. Employers and managers accelerate the labor-process and KaBoom! Farming, mining, construction, meatpacking, transportation, sectors where people spend most of their lives working are accelerated work processes for more profits. Heavy equipment, buildings, bridges, tankers, in every workplace across the US is made unsafe with incorporated hazardous raw material into the work process and expose workers to the dangers when employers want to make up for higher costs. The labor-process is where machines work people beyond the point of human endurance. Crashes cuts, explosions happen. Notice how causes to these workplace hazards are never made public they are always under investigation is the routine answer. They do not want the public’s attention on the industrial war raging between the workers and the objective conditions of work in our society. This could incite a labor movement they fear because the work taking place in America today in her factories, farms, construction, packing industries, mines, are life-threatening for the workers performing the jobs.
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  2276. History denotes the GOP as a barbaric scourge on humanity.
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  2277. This mayor has a black heart.
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  2278. I wonder when and what will it take for those Jewish conscripts to resist the draft?
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  2279. The civility of the Sri Lankan people, their patience, is a gift to a real organizer. The conditions are ripe for the formation of teaching teams, medical teams, security teams, transport teams, sanitation teams, made up of the people and replicate the process in rural and urban communities; start building grassroots schools for the kids, a new social system for the distribution of the necessaries. The government has completely cut itself off from society so it is perfectly useless as a method of governing life.
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  2280. More politicizing of a viral epidemic that has more to do with the relationship of ecology and planetary health with respect to our relationship with animals than it does with Donald Trump. I swear the left in this country are a pack of loons that it is no wonder they never get beyond where they have been for the last 60 years. If Karl Marx were alive today he'd throw the book, Volume 1, at you lefties. Marx was a scientist the left are just plain poltical junkies. The left should be politicizing the link between industry, ecology and public health, not Donald Trump. Iran is a cluster fuck of religion, politics and public health that SARs corona virus has struck it so badly. Venezuela the driver of SARs corona virus is driven through the family and in Taiwan the family and churches. In the US through homelessness and urban development and commercial deforestation. In Italy through a public health system that is as backward as it is in the US. In the UK through an underfunded national health system. What do you get when the temperature of the panet rises above normal, you get locust. What happens when religious freaks are in government and a swarm of locust popualte the Middle East and Africa you get a crazy idea of biblical plagues and inaction from government. What happens when you cut down forests where bats normally are not in contact with other animals, you get a spill over of the virus to animals and what do you get when you have an exotic pet industry and industrial development deforestation and the practice of hunting animals, you get SARs corona virus transmissions to humans. Even if sanctions were stopped yesterday, the ecology, planetary health and public health is still "the" problem. Idiots!
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  2281. De-privatize Humanity.
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  2282. 8:18 “ Travel has not been impacted negatively by OMICRON”, the traveling pubic are the arsenal of the airline companies. In response to the increasing demand of people wanting to be with other people the industry managers came up with a system of detailed tasks performed by detailed teams of workers, who’s actions are timed to keep up with the timing of the whole operation, each person’s work is so critical to the timing that the skies are never without a plane(s) in them and given their preparation process that runs like clockwork to get passengers off and on planes and cruises, the Public is the least aware of this process, the least informed and the least interested but are the essential pawns driving the entire operation. An operation that has compounding effects on health and environment that the respiratory systems of human beings and other mammals who need to breath the same oxygen are compromised does not even enter the minds of crews or the Public that the work they do, and the life of travel they lead, profits the industry but is detrimental to the planet and all life on it.
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  2283.  @lseguy  I don’t envy you. Having to walk around suspecting everyone around you is a potential threat to your person, property and rights...you are doing the work police ought to be doing and not getting paid for it. I think you just made yourself an unpaid civil servant performing the work of police for free and enabling a law enforcement system to get paid for not doing the work you are doing for them. P.S. if a cop gets shot they walk away a millionaire...if you get shot you walk away with a bullet in your body permanently maimed.
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  2284. Well put mastorione.
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  2285.  @jamesmedina2062  Start building a broad coalition of the left. If you don't how to do it then look at Portugal and how they built a coalition party and defeated the neo-liberals on the left and right. Get labor going too. You need a labor movement like a baby needs diapers.
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  2286. Fox news must be a great place to get laid.
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  2287. That's it Blanken failed. War with China is imminent. A human concern has become a pretext to the state department.
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  2288. Totally shameless savage capitalism.
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  2289.  @earnesttbass8107  $.60 cents out of every dollar is taxed Earnest not $.70 cents. Your share of your wages and earnings is around 20% for the last 40 years and with a slow GDP rate, the tax rate is not likely to be low enough where you won't feel it. Next year it will be felt big Earnest, really Big. I really don't think you have a choice but to vote for Bernie whose tax plan will collect from the big guys, lessening the tax burden on the middle and lower.
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  2290. And this is more important than the racism of the police in America. The extreme racist behavior of American police versus the protection of secret documents of former and current presidents.
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  2291. The Supreme Court did more damage than it knows. America has become a pariah in the world community of nations. Working with China was just made a lot easier for Europe. American society has disintegrated and the last remaining spheres or democratic activity will be snuffed out is not wrong. The working class pulls itself together or annihilates itself is its only choice for itself in the disintegration.
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  2292. It has a tilt rotor. It can go up or down and forward but it cannot fly an 800 mile course? When things really begin to disintegrate and new leadership is needed to manage the decline the last people I would want at the helm is the military.
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  2293. The Great Red Scare followed WWI, it is an incredible story of a true phenomenon surrounded with so much mystery, exaggeration, and fear. Marked by rank intolerance and mob violence it is the most important occurrence in modern times that demonstrates what happens to a democratic nation and its people when faith and reason are supplanted with fear. Seeds of excessive hate and intolerance were fairly dormant developed into a malignant tumor that spread through the whole social system. I would suspect the neo-Nationalists/fascists will be recruiting through gaming technologies targeting young white teenagers. The Red Scare was a short period from 1919 to 1920, the people then can teach us valuable lessons to study the current phase of National Hysteria.
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  2294. The earth's core governs the temperature of the planet.  The core is heating up the planet causing ice caps to melt and sea levels to rise.  The earth is releasing its heat trapped by an atmosphere that we are compromising by our own industrial activity. We refuse to acknowledge our industrial activity as constituting an environmental relationship between humans and nature and, therefore, we incur our own demise sooner than later. People are not good at quantifying their certainties and uncertainties but they are also not good at distinguishing a slap in the face from a slug from a 45.
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  2295. I like the way they tell you the price of the treatment for cancer but never do they talk about that price tag of that treatment and why is there a price. When health is a thing you can buy, the rich live, and it is the poor that die.
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  2296. This is really a stage for polemics not news, I think McEnany deserves and expected better.
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  2297.  @RacerRobo  There...fixed it, thanks...how that happened escapes me...must have been a knee jerk finger action on the keys.
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  2298. I think the majority of the commentary here is weak on the history. Overpopulation poses the threat of slavery in all societies and the history of ancient Rome is a classic example of that. When that happened most societies weigh the proportion of land to population very heavily as the consequences of slavery are disastrous. I perfectly agree with the criticism that China is not a socialist society but not by the definition made by this moderator or by the commentators. Any society in which the commodity labor-power exists is a capitalist society, the two chief charactersitcs of a capitalist society is a labor-market and a money-market. Western economists separate production from circulation, separating subject from its object, and circulation becomes a dominant sphere in which the accumulation of monetary wealth occurs, thus, all the economic forms peculiar to this sphere are mechanism for the accumulation of the economic surplus, i.e., bank nterest, trade, government finance, hoarding, are historical sources of monetary wealth. On the question of what percentage China spends GDP (the economic surplus) on military defense is to me strictly a political variable.  Relative to the US, spending 7 times more than all countries of its GDP, China takes the place of the USSR not as a socialsit threat to US hegemony, but as a capitalist rival is a function of the politics of protecting and preserving the world economy from competition. Iran wishes it could spend more of its GDP on defense when Saudi Arabia purchases defense products from the US is an example of the politics of hegemony. Causing a nation to spend on its defense more of its GDP deprives the working class of its necessities and can break the back of an economy. The politics of the Cold War caused the USSR to spend its productive economic forces into military defense as a response to the threats of containment. See George F. Kennan, The Nuclear Delusion; Soviet and American Relations in the Atomic Age, 1982. It is not the style of the moderator that is abrasive, but rather, his pomposity in the treatment of the questions are void of their historical connections. Otherwise, having the decision makers in a forum meet the public is brings the state down to earth is a positive thing.
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  2299. The "little people" making good use of their jobless free time threw a sucker punch at the investor class, a band of whiners and panzies, calling in the federales and lock up the little people! Sign of things to come when everyone can play the game and these guys are crying foul the little people have no right to make money! Good for the "little people".
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  2300. This war brings out the glaring disparity of fire power between Palestine and Israel that it would lead the religious to the fable of David and Goliath as another fulfilled prophecy of the Bible. Israel's Missile Dome Defense Shield defending itself from a low level missile system of Hamas and the damage incurred significantly less than the damage any slingshot can hit a giant unless it got struck the right nerve at the right place and disabled the Israeli (i) command center. If it did it would be sheer luck. The poor attacked by the rich and the poor attacking the rich both sides defending themselves from the aggression that encompasses their entire relationship is at bottom a land acquisition for Israel when this is all over and Palestinians move. What makes this social relationship antagonistic is the science and technological promoted for purposes that are no good for the Palestinians ( p) as it is used by Israel (i) to rule over (p). The individual Palestinian has no access or possession of the science and technology ( s and t ) in the realm of medicine and warfare now in education and construction. A material deprivation of (p), versus the material abundance of (i). P's civic lives stands in stark contrast to the individual Jewish citizen in possession of science and technology. Made possible because s + t = i - p, palestinians are cancelled out, regarded as inconsequential beings undeserving of the growth and progress the more advanced society uses to repress them is Jewish racism, identical to the racism experienced by African Americans and Indigenous people in all parts of the world from conical western powers, nothing has changed from the 19th century in this aspect.
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  2301. I wouldn’t have labelled Mark Robinson the Trump supporter as a Holocaust denier and Gay trans basher, the way the MSNBC describes him. I would describe him as a Black Capitalist representative of many in his class and Trump equating MLK to a black capitalist is proof of how mentally off Trump is on real history.
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  2302.  @silvao6589  What was the official explanation on how the cargo vessel got there?
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  2303. Reality asserts itself when you take account of a declining US hegemony, and nuclear power is the key to diminishing US hegemony. North Korea's latest nuclear power test stumps the Trump administration's efforts to control Asia. I can't see this administration tolerating another nuclear power in the Middle East and not prevent it. A nuclear power in Iran would free the Middle East to set its own course of development apart from Britain, Russian and the US influence. With Venezuela and Cuba showing alternatives to US hegemony that part of the world is lost. This administration is bound to pull trigger somewhere at someone and when he does all hell is going to break loose from all the chaos and destruction unleashed by catastrophic natural events making it impossible for nations to contain their crisis from spilling over into regions already thrown into conflict.
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  2304. Individuals are not harmed by protesters law enforcement harm individuals.
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  2305. @Asherah 1147 It changes the inflection if they are called what they are 'anti-abortionists'. And no. It is not best to pro than anti, to the contrary, anti is proactive because your society is completely poisoned by a negation called 'pro-life' as a cover, a lie. Your own comment is a negation of a negation. Pretty sick, huh!
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  2306. Before 1970 there were different ways one could increase their wealth. Banks offered CD's, mutual funds, even insurance policies increased wealth for the individual. I had $5K saved from CD's alone by the age of 25, from a CD that matured in 5 years and with money I put in from check deposits All that disappeared the only place wealth is produced in the economy for the majority is in homes paid down by their owners. Equity. The bankers offer no other form of savings except in the form of a mortgage/house. Equity conitnually being eroded through re-financing to pay off other loans. The banks took all that equity and left 33 million Americans with no other instrument of wealth creation in society since 2007. All but Bernie have their dick up their ass about the crisis, and debate corporate media moderators abandon their obligation to ask real questions. Before you is a sham debate. Now the same people who took that equity made their way from Wall Street to the White House and are running the economy. Trump invited them in. It is not rocket science that they they intend to subjugate labor to demands of employers in the next phase after weakening the economic power of working homeowners. No question Trump will deliver on jobs, that is how the wealth is created but he will give employers what they need to reduce wages and extend working hours before the jobs are created.
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  2307. War and revolution in the 21st century.
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  2308. Since history is not taught to Americans in any meaningful way in American schools the roots of this conflict are not understood. The Middle East conflict is identical to the opening of the West in the US in the 19th Century when the Native Americans stood in the way of settlers from the East and slave holders from the South, both competing for land that the US Calvary was used to remove the Indians for the expansion of settlers, a race against the Confederate South would seize the land for slavery to expand into the Mid-West. In the case of America, it was the British who expelled millions from Europe and poured thousands of immigrants on the lap of the US through NYC. It was also the British back then who made the Middle East what it is today.
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  2309. A more immediate step people can take to change the culture of war in society is a mass boycott of Hollywood Big Budget War Propaganda Movies like Top Gun and James Bond, the romanticized versions of imperialism, and if you must see a movie spend your money on a film that deserves it. Boycott all war media propaganda. Another immediate thing people can do to change the war culture of America is find the food companies serving the military and don’t buy their consumer products, not all manufacturers produce for the military and for the consumer market at the same time but many do, this takes a little research but you learn a hell of a lot about where to put your money and where not. Further down the line is divest from bond holding companies in league with arms contractors and banks too.
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  2310. You should strive for a higher form of government and not settle for a representative government that cannot reach its ideals.
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  2311. Bernie should really stop lying to the Public about what he will do when nothing he says brings food to the table for the American people.
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  2312. ...sadism is cruelty in the moment, punishment is never not cruelty...and greed is not stopped by enforcing limits to sadism by means of punishment...that is insane...that amounts to being sadistic...what gives?
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  2313.  @ascenscionstallion2993  Classical liberalism has become Neo-Liberalism which limits freedom and individuality to a political class
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  2314. This should continues year after year and the more it dwindles down the last to opposition protesters standing, is a sign that the opposition is fading out. The Proud Boys are out numbered and Patriot Prayer, Portland is home to white supremacists.  If the Russians got to them they would lead a seccession movement from the US.  Andy No is a real masochist to put himself in harms way. Antifa as a broad coalition of groups in society can defeat neo-fascism and racism.
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  2315. The labor-force in the US equals 175 million and work an average of 8 hrs, a day. They produce a total of 1,360 million working hours a day equalling 16, 320 million working hours a year. The value production in the US is the highest in the world and the most productive in the accumulation of an economic surplus that the cost of educating one child equals 3 hours of the total hours of the whole workforce produces in one year, thereafter, education costs measured by total labor hours expended in average labor-time is less and less with the shrinking of technology. Compared to the amount of the total hours it takes to produce a Navy Aircraft Carrier, one child's full lifetime produces more value to society than the entire military naval fleet ever could in one war. The irrationality is rational when you understand the nation's productive power of society is steered in the direction to serve the military and not in the direction to serve the child for a particular interest. What this says is that the workforce is the only social class capable of resolving education in society because it is the only social class who's work produces value.  The only class who's work produces value in any shape it wants; whereas, all other jobs create work without the element of value created and cannot shape reality to fit the needs for mass education? A job this big can only be done by government or the working class directly. The government has opted out, educating the future is left to the working class.
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  2316. How about a Church as a venue? Many churches, particularly Black Churches would be receptive to host such an event. Especially if the topics relate to the violence in America a theme inextricably connected.
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  2317. The full effect of the Trump Tax Bill will be felt two years from now when the roads gets worse and the complaints begin to flood the municipalities that the city coffers are empty and need to be refunded by cuts from pensions, community services, welfare, medicaid, social security and property tax increases on working class and lower middle class homes. The messengers of this bad news being the Democrats. This is when the masses will realize the Tax Bill allows the rich to invest less in employment and more in diversified investment funds that finance things like NY Subway system of the Port Authority and the Tennessee Valley Authority, and take more from society without paying for it. The next big area of reform in restructuring the economy is in employment and the actual workday to complete the social order of billionaires. A social order based on a crime bill, a bank reform bill, a welfare reform bill, a tax reform bill and missing is a right to work bill in all 50 states, and the new order will be complete less the abolition of amendments to the US constitution.  With all these modifications being made to the laws the working class on the bottom of the new social structure bears the full weight of the cost of the new order of the super rich.
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  2318. We still have a very strange society even after the police are made accountable. America is loaded with people that have strange ideas and views its hard to imagine anyone of them can come together in agreement of something. I think a disaster is the only thing that can break the spell of individuals, culture and society of the US, in a perpetual state of competition as the eternal nature-imposed order of things.
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  2319. Grassroots Republicans have made the decision on which way to go but the middle of the road American has not made the decision to go with grassroots republicans.
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  2320. America has a land aristocracy that owns the greater share of the land that homelessness is present in society. Look at China, a society that does not have a social class of land owners, and it is not a very large country geographically but it has ten time the size of the US population and nobody is homeless. In Cuba as bad as people think everyone owns a home. To own land means to have others live in abstinence of land.
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  2321. One gets the impression that this is only happening here in the US from this channel. A worldwide news station that has no news on the effects of this weather event on other societies. All the products America consumes for its own social survival is not made in America. I would imagine this would be a big, very big story for the news, about how this effects places that service the people of the US. A big interest that the societies we depend on for our well-being can cope and continue to produce what America consumes but it seems not or perhaps things are so bad they choose not to show us. The world is round and the Jet Stream wraps around the globe not just the US.
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  2322. It occurred to me that as mammals other mammals are eaten by humans and under extreme limits of starvation humans would eat other humans. Some human cultures have (ed.) eaten humans for reasons other than material deprivation done on occasion for ritual religious beliefs. Mammals in general never commit murder or mass murder on another mammal and suicide is not a practice within the animal kingdom. Mysteries around why dead animals come up from the sea to the shore are unexplained phenomena. Kills are consumed by animals for energy and reproduction. Mammals in the animal world cannot produce their sustenance but they also do not have the need to re-produce their subsistence. They are equipped to live just by what is found from the natural world. The natural world reproduces itself and gives life to humans and animals. The biological skill human mammals never had and lost is the cooperative ability to live in the wild 10,000 years ago. The species was happy to give up the nomadic wilderness life of hardship and tight togetherness of the family where every abuse under sun saw the light of day. This is one reason I feel the Catholic Church will survive its pedophilia for another 2000 years. Humans are abusive creatures capable of horrible atrocities and it is worse in the family the society only reflects. The animals humans eat are manufactured by humans. Copies of natural beings. The 5000 pigs daily slaughtered in Smithfield farms are reproduced daily by human labor. The number of the species of farmed raised pigs is governed by the production of man. In reality, we have no idea how a real pig, chicken, fish from the wild tastes and if we do industry makes an animal suited for the taste of a human which can be far from what is natural. Nothing natural at all about eating man-made mammals. This action makes the manufactured mammals a social creature of human created not nature evolved, created by human labor, this is, is consistent with the theory of creation (ism) when you strip away theology the hand was the first tool that made transition from ape to man come to light. Star matter created life. The hand came eons later. Labor is their father and the modern industrial farm is their mother. In fact the mammal part about being human is less and less a feature built into us and what we have become as a result of thousands of years of making our sustenance by farming, extend and support a growing population of humans, is a manufactured human! Physiologically, we may not even be mammal/animals any longer extracted from wild nature for so long?
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  2323. The history of containment of the USSR since 1955 leading up to NATO incursions eastward to Russia in Ukraine in 2014, makes it not possible the US is acting benevolently, not while the Monroe Doctrine over North America, expands into Africa, Europe and the Middle East. History proves China is right.
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  2324. People have matured and their horizons are global with social media connecting them to the totality of social life beyond their own borders and small towns, violence is a part of history is what they see but historical development is not a part of violence is what they know.
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  2325. This deal is such a good example of what capitalism is...”...we will get $400 billion dollars back”. Trump is special. Not only does he preside over a decline of the US economy but he is also its the Last Capitalist. If he fails to control inflation and interest rates and does not raise GDP to 5% from a low 2.5%. He’s finished. What then? After Trump and the MAGA republicans, the democrats are no option for a solution in a downturn. So who then takes the helm? Trump and Musk are reshaping the US economy the way billionaires would shape it, they want to lower the cost of production in everything. Unfortunately, you cannot fire technology and machines. A strong and powerful MAGA movement in Trump’s party are clashing with the ideas of the billionaire section of the party but that clash has not developed into ideas for a struggle for power. Will billionaires be the dominant class coming out of reckoning? As the billionaires position themselves to control the kind of property that controls people and Trump facilitates this, MAGA becomes a social opposition movement, I bet than a lot of politicians will come out of the closet as the leftists they were all along... when more of MAGA spreads into other sections of the population...look to MAGA for the plan that strengthens the concerns of MAGA, social security, healthcare, inflation and jobs, who will care if Ed Montana or Marylou Oaks of Nevada has socialist roots going back to the 30s. They have an economic rescue plan the others do not and they are running against the billionaire class!
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  2326. NYC has a police force of 36,000 and there are 472 stations in Manhattan multiply 472 stations by posting 2 cops on each station and we get 944 police allocated to monitor all NYC train stations. This leaves a balance of 35,056 cops to deploy in other boroughs and as back up in all boroughs. Well over what they need to administer the entire police force in all five boroughs. Additionally they got a huge allocation of money from their Chief Cop, Joe Biden. Crime can be brought down to zero. They are politicizing crime for political gain to meet a political interest. You cannot tell me the PBA, Police Union, Mayor and Governor give a dam about the people who work in that city given the numbers. To be frank,--- they are full of Sh*#t and its high time that city get rid of them. Problem here is the allocation of police and resources not the criminal justice system or anything else. What NY has are two dead beat politicians as governor and mayor the worst people ever and police union milking the system for their rank and file.
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  2327. Meanwhile the airline industry has become the mass transit subway system of the skies. Lear Jet industry cuts corners in production. Loss of oxygen in the cabin is a production problem.
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  2328.  @lieshtmeiser5542  I thought about. But then said F’ it. I thought let me scare the crap out of the reader. I made a point to myself to keep sentences readable on one breath. Practice makes perfect. Stretching the attention span of modern readers would pull them out of their existence as lemmings falling over the cliff.
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  2329.  @lieshtmeiser5542  I appreciate your suggestion, will do.
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  2330.  @dn665  Looks like the laughs on you.
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  2331.  @JoseGtassh  Last breath of fascism and nazism in Chile, fading away into history.
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  2332. I think you miss something about the nature of today's working class especially the new recruits with less experience in the work world. With more of the older workers enjoying work from home the younger ones are looking for organization in the workplace and want a couple of days in the office. Management and labor are far apart and there is a generational gap between the two. The class struggle seems to turn on capital pushing labor out of the production process while another industry inserts in technology into the private lives of new workers and more of their free time becomes work time.
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  2333. It has not been revealed yet or investigated what deals Olaf of Germany made with the US to have changed his position from not siding with sanctions against Russia? Without some form of deal fighting with your main energy supplier looks like sheer madness or idiocy. I suspect the American Tax payer is subsidizing Volkswagon’s manufacturing energy consumption in that deal.
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  2334. America needs the National Recovery Act.
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  2335.  @adriaticheart82  Neanderthal in the caves of the Mediterranean before the the sea was a rainforest, evidence of their diet appeared, while digging the cave walls. Exact location I forget...been years since I thought about it. They were not dumb or macho and had not the values or instincts of modern man and woman. They died out with the onset of the ice age. The way we will die out by climatic changes if a meteor does not hit us first. Generally, I believe it would be the Mediterranean region that Europe emerged through the intersexual relations with other genus.
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  2336.  @adriaticheart82  Malta at that time could have been something other than an island. Earliest habitation of Malta goes back 5900 years. Malta was an island back then and the Mediterranean region, a Sea. Neanderthal and their material found in caves dates 430,000 years back in time. The caves that face the sea today are the same caves that faced a sea-less landscape the Neanderthal lived. A difference of 424,100 years for that terrain to transform. It was all land for a long time before it became water: Why wouldn’t Malta which did not exist back then be a connection to the origins of Europe. The age of the underground Chamber can’t be more than 5900 years. If it is the geological record dating the first populations in Malta as the Neolithic, going back to the Neanderthals is Eons of time.
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  2337. Hey Barack, show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.
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  2338. “WHY” does not mean more accountability, it means an explanation into the causes that led to inaction. The Cops at Uvalde were not interviewed to learn their individual SUBJECTIVE reasons each officer did what they did or did not do. Accountability does not give us the Why; accountability punishes and punishment hides the underlying subjective reasons of actions taken.
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  2339. Why does this channel (The Damage Report) have a Trump survey ad before it that asks several questions to find out about our attitudes on socialism? Is this man John Iadarola a mole working for Trump?
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  2340. What’s clear from the Rittenhouse Trial is the use of police or military drones the protesters exercising a constitutional right of dissent were likely not aware. The American people are under constant surveillance in their movements without their freedom of movement as a right infringed. The evidence is the drone footage itself. The movements of police, protests, and the Rittenhouse vigilantes were not droned, only the movement of the protesters, the citizenry. The right that is infringed is the right of privacy and the right of the preservation of person, rights and property of this citizenry.
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  2341. Older black baby boomers voted for Biden, this generation has not died out yet and they are not going to bet their final years on a chance that a political revolution will succeed. By succeed I mean, a peaceful transition to socialism, they are the young faces seen in the crowds in the footage of MLK Jr., speech in Washington D.C. and they know Biden will drive the racist forces away who resurrect for them the fears of their experience of the period of Jim Crow. This would mean that the younger generation will be four years older after Trump and by then the baby boomer generation will decline, recede into the back ground and the final stages of 20th century immigration will be fought between two European imports, American progressivism and nationalist fascism, internally taking over the political parties replacing the old democrats and the old republicans. This will be the time for Millenials to transform America into socialism assuming the right wing has not obliterated government by then. That's my take.
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  2342. So far there is not one nation on earth that has ended the class history of their societies. Not one has taken that step to commit to creating a full Egalitarian society since 1980. We are all stuck in this class history of presidents and kings, governments, militaries, and never get a chance to make history. Every society is screwed up by their own individual dysfunction among social classes that nations relating to each other in this period lost direction and all objectivity.
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  2343.  @juanreza4500  Not for nothing the bourgeois state has to be smashed when the time comes to smash it.
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  2344. Workers in Canada, the US and Mexico do not have a vision of themselves in society as something beyond just being an ‘individual’ until conditions make them think and act as a social class. Mexico is the gateway to the other America in the central and south where workers are uprooted and because of the wealth gap, conditions are worse, they have little to be conservative about like their counterparts in the north. These are ideal conditions for Washington, that workers in all three wages for all three Americas are staggered and ranked from high to low is a problem the Left from all regions must address. This formula is a capitalist formula and it has arisen when the capitalist class is given permission by the relative states and governments in which they reside to satisfy it’s quest for higher concentrations of monetary and material wealth. The owners of financial wealth and capital tell “Shorty” just get us the markets and we’ll take care of the business of production, work and employment, and how things get produced and when, why and why not, among the three Americas. Who’s shorty? Shorty are the Pentagon, the White House and the State Department. The other problem is the thought process of the working class itself, i.e., individualism makes people not view society as a creation they can decide. Society is an external entity belonging to the super rich as the dominant social class, a vision of their own kind of workers society, does not enter their mindset as a possibility. Left voices from Canada to Argentina have a lot of dispelling to do to get the workers and peasants of all three Americas, north-central-south, united on one thought process, i.e., a better world is possible and probable for their kids. Yanis provides an answer to the question of what socialists on the left should do about gringo individualism, but it does not go far enough to develop a hemispheric unity of the working class, numbering close to a billion workers and peasants, all sacrificing for their kids sake. India’s working class population nearly equals all three working populations in the Americas. I would start by showing them what Europe has become without working class solidarity, a place where one success story of capitalism after another, also coming to the Americas, is a never ending story. A success story of capitalism is always found wherever there are pockets of mass poverty and desperation. War, genocide, poverty, degradation are vehicles of primitive accumulation. So,---the thought process ought to be where the working class is worse off is where capitalism succeeds and wins magnificently and, conversely, where the working class is better off the capitalist class fails magnificently, this describes the two poles of capitalism along a north-south alignment. In Argentina the US World Bank scores great, a glorious flow of profits from the periphery to the center, and in Canada the world bank is hardly a lender. With this sketch the migrant question is fully explained with minor details left to fill in but overall the spell is broken by the facts becomes not as important as the social inequality in the working class generated by the violent action of primitive accumulation in the Americas.
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  2345. State legislators will lose their jobs over the decision to make abortion illegal. This overthrow of Roe v Wade completes the strategy of the national leadership of the republican party in Washington but it leaves state legislatures vulnerable to a very angry electorate. High rapids ahead. Any republican or democrat who campaigns on devoting resources to enforcing the Supreme Court decision at the state level will lose their jobs.
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  2346. A child grabs an apple from another kid, is that greed or hunger doing the grabbing? I don't think you can tell the difference.
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  2347. Unfortunately the way the system is structured, truck driver Durr in twenty years will become what Sweeney is today, the establishment.
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  2348. The US warhawks want what Iran has so badly they are willing to provoke a war for it. This man's point of view is a valid one. But what does Iran have that we can all agree is the motive to force Iran to make the first move? That these men are so desperate to have? Iran's geology makes it worth the sacrifice in lives and cost. The counter weight to Africa, China and Russia as rising powers extending trade in the middle east is Iran's geology. Oil rich Iran and it has the raw material from which an army could arise to directly challenge American hegemony in the region is the first threat. The second threat the middle east is another market lost to American corporations, a big chunk of change is gone.  The Oil executives and the energy sector become intolerant of the loss of profits make war with Iran imminent.
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  2349. Everybody is against this but there is no organized left channelling public condemnation of Trump and his retrogressive policies. In the Cold War, a client state had to be anti-communist to get the full backing of the American taxpayer.  My question to you, the taxpayer, are you anti-communist enough still like the generation before you in the 1950's that your money should go to this policy? Are you rich enough to afford this kind of policy? Because Trump is a McCarthyite in his tactics, and social life in America was like living in the 1950's America, a repressed society where everyone was spooked to say anything. The difference today and then is the legal and surveillance muzzle over everyone. Seems you want open relations with Cuba but persist in lowering the standard of living of Cuban people because they are a socialist society and you are not. You are a capitalist society, with capitalist relations, but so is China and Russia. We are not seeing money, property, the patriarchal family, breaking down in China and Russia as we are in the United States for internal reasons. Stability and sustainability in America is a blindly working average because of an incessant impulse to alienate GNP as a piece of merchandize. No dignity when GNP is treated as unattached commodities with no connection to useful trade work that ought to be developed with investment. Instead, your capitalists are about investing their money somewhere else, leaving you and as a taxpayer short on freedom, liberty, and security to defend factories in other countries.
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  2350. Why is Victoria Newland walking around not harassed by protest(s) to drop her neocon stance on Russia?
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  2351. People remember as I do, Russia, then the USSR, supported Mandela in South Africa and never once forced its interest in Africa because the USSR was not an expansionist political system. In contrast, European capital and American capital expanded into Africa and dominated the country leaving it in desperate poverty for a time equal to three lifetimes, three generations of poverty. To this day the mining industry excavating COBALT for the tech industry works kids because they are nimble in mining fields. Of course then there is the notorious Blood Diamonds featured in films made in this decade. I watched a film the other day made in the 1930’s and it showed a mining operation employing children digging the landscape for its mineral wealth as part of the drama in the plot. So, ---how long has this been going. There are kids digging for COBALT right now as I write this comment. Dirt poor children. Employed by a foreign mining operation. Lets be real here. Africa is freeing itself from all brutes. It is a continent whose time has come to be one united Africa and do away with the map the British drew out for that continent. Israel is a product of British geography. Come on people, emancipate yourselves. Africa, this is your century; the Age of Capital is fast approaching the last chapter in the book with a transformation of the continent. Latin America is next to free itself from the Monroe Doctrine of the 1830s of the 5th president of the US. Seriously? The US SENATE’s actions are the actions of this doctrine to all of Latin America.
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  2352. ... impartial jurors are on trial in this case...the juror who had a good experience with their insurance provider...is a rare bird, ---especially a hung jury that cannot decide guilt or innocence...the insanity plea is the only way to avoid a jury...Mangioni will have to admit guilt for the insanity plea to apply. Even then the life sentence he gets in a state trial is the highest penalty under the insanity plea. Luigi is not an insane person as we all know. Will not is my guess plea guilty. It will be interesting to see how the Law channels this case to where it does not end up in a national restructuring of the healthcare industry that states can decide to be a part of or not,---under the presumption of State’s Rights.
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  2353. I think another federal holiday filled with hotdogs, hamburgers and backyard barbecues is not what the rage over the murder of George Floyd intended.
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  2354.  @toyotaprius79  Yes guns, unfortunately, will be needed to back any people's movement because inherent violence is in the right not in a people's movement so the guns would have to be strictly defensive to hold true to the claim of non-violence, or you lose the ideological war against the right.
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  2355. 6:00 I like Mike Memoli's reporting style. America can redeem itself but not with the present Washington Elite. The eyes of the world are now on the Pentagon and will they follow through on their words. Senator Jack Reed's call for hearings on this 20 year long debacle is a good call.
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  2356. The description of the police as dazed and confused said by the earnest eye-witness is not reassuring Law Enforcement has all its marbles in place. But hey, who in America does have their marbles in place, the main honcho lost all his marbles, I cannot expect everyone else is dealing with a full deck. It sorta looks like the police are dazed and confused on purpose but really they are not. They are not called into use until the crime has happened and only called in if it happened on their turf. Crime is always one step ahead of the law is the first paradox and the law is divided into jurisdictions is the second paradox, also the law can do nothing to prevent a crime or predict a crime as that would be illegal itself...is a paradox, the institution that is the law is set into motion after a crime has happened can never, by its very nature, make a safe and secure society for its members. The entire legal apparatus cannot exist without crime in society is a society that can never live without criminals, they have to be manufactured and driven to crime by external manipulation or the whole criminal justice system loses its legitimacy and disintegrates.
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  2357. Exactly, partly projection, partly not...your comment is the most insightful here so far.
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  2358. A functionary.
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  2359. Yeah a failure of the left to unite might be responsible for the destruction of the planet and species life. Pretty serious lesson for the left.
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  2360.  @fl00fydragon  Much obliged to you for being sincere.
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  2361. In New York unless things have changed a blood sample is taken willingly or not, when there is a fatality. These actions is stone cold barbarism.
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  2362.  @subs4794  Cut me a break...you must be a cop...the Public is endangered everyday by far more dangerous elements in society. Guns is one of them. Domestic violence is another. Drug infiltration, prostitution, gangs, armed suburban militants, tons of other places the Public is at risk. Their jobs chemical and toxic poisoning, factory explosions, workplace violence....you must be a cop...to think like a cop.
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  2363. ​ @42stea , you are dead Wrong!  You failed history, the US has always been about building an anti-socialist alliance ever since the Russian Revolution of 1917.  A white ethnographic-state would do nothing to vanquish socialism, in fact, it encourages revolution and socialism. Socialism is a theory more natural to the working class brings order out of the racism, sexism, anarchy, more natural to the capitalist class by overthrowing it. You obviously pay very little attention to what happens in your own Latin American backyard. Denial of that history is a form of racism in you, belittling its importance that when Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua are identified as a 'Trioca of Terror', it is because they are socialist states. This fact goes completely over the heads of people like you!   A 'barrier' in the form of a wall is not a symbol for racism, or an edifice. The promise of restoring controlling interests in Venezuela's resources is a promise to the Oil industry requires a Wall, a 'Troica of Terror', and an anti-socialist alliance of a handful of Latin American states to execute and prosecute a counter-revolution in that country. Your ignorance of America's relations with Latin America makes you as a supportive but silent ally in that counter-revolution as belittling and dismissing others to push your ideology forward on a personal level does 'Nothing' to overthrow capitalism and its social relations of race, sexism, class. To the contrary, you encourage it.
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  2364.  @Onelovej  Your knowledge is dank, perfect handle for you.
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  2365. The political relationships will always be a mirror image of the economic relations of society. If your society has a top 1% and a bottom 99% all the social institutions you create, large or small, will replicate the same contradiction everywhere. You'd have to redistribute wealth in the area of production to a 50-50% balance of ownership if you want a true democratic government. Otherwise, you get what you deserve.
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  2366. Americans are getting a free course in Capitalism 101. Never mind reading about it, the lessons of its class struggle is the best teacher of socialism. Getting kicked in the ass by shameless capitalists, the Murder Patrols in the southern borders, and the deranged virulent and violent fascists inside its law enforcement, its opportunistic Justice System, its predatory military-- the only possible recourse is revolution and socialism thanks to Donald Trump. He has done more popularize socialism and empower workers, men and women, even children, to fight back as the central figure at the head of the capitalist class and its organization is found right inside the Republican Party, the Citadel of Violence and Hatred.  Children, Women and Men of the World, Unite for Earth, Peace, Life, Bread, Freedom.
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  2367. The poet William Butler Yeates (1865-1939) understood with clarity ' the center cannot hold because things are falling apart', ----the two political parties have a really nice thing going,---a monopoly over all the things absent in the bottom. An establishment on the republican side and an establishment on the democratic side have worked out a nice arrangement for themselves. They unanimously agree to support the system which for them there is no other system comes into the foreground through this pandemic to be their main objective despite how things are falling into ruin in civil society. From the start of the pandemic to now what we have seen,---out in the open are the petty disagreements between two parties on how to run the system which is very different from fixing a broken system falling apart as Yeates understood.
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  2368. Problem is not population. Capitalism is anti-family and anti-private property is the problem.
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  2369.  @rb032682  apologist.
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  2370. Yes but, your beliefs implies they are not conscious of what they are and what they do which is not an empirical assessment of the situation.
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  2371. This is America! Not where you would think child labor is a general practice of the slaughter house industry but there it is because government in charge of ensuring child labor and slavery does not reappear in society was gutted under America’s Rule of Law. Child labor does not appear overnight. I takes a long process of putting families in a position where their children have to work to supplement what a parent cannot supply in raising a family. Its been the result of a series of many economic blows suffered by working class families in America in their ability to live with decent housing and make enough money to support their families and keep them in schools that child labor appears.
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  2372.  @Leela_L  Nonsense...you don’t get out much or associate with migrants to cast such a judgement. Not unless you are multilingual and nothing between you and the non-English speaking migrant gets lost in the translation.
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  2373. This happens here too to countless people thrown in jail in America and the reaction is nothing like the reaction Griner is getting thrown into a Russian jail.
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  2374. Pathetic how the BBC uses footage that cannot be authenticated by something in the footage as happening now and there, they really must think viewers are stupid!
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  2375. @tamaragerkin,---Same theory applies to Netanyahu, he perpetuates a genocidal war to avoid prosecution by preoccupying the state with a greater evil, fabricated or not, than if the state were free of conflict to prosecute Netanyahu himself.
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  2376. Everything has to change, period. The way we produce our food, housing, our subsistence, cannot continue to be produced as the mass of commodities for sale they are. Products have to be produced by ourselves in or around our homes. We can no longer draw water from the ground and deplete that reource. We have to harvest water from the sky and we have to use it for all our needs from washing to waste management, and we can no longer burn fossil fuels and extract coal from the soil for our electricity and heat. We will have to rely on thermal light and heat, and we will have to end the use of super bright lights of big stores and malls, buildings, bridges, tunnels, that use way more light the human eye requires to not be walking around the dark. We will have to rely more on our common sense and work in cooperation for the common good and tackle all the ways life will have to change. We have to initiate this task and assign it to a government big enough to administer it. We are talking about unleashing the full potential of science and technology the US has, to re-arrange an entire economy and society!
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  2377. Very nice assessment on a candidate.
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  2378. Can't forget the Iraq War Veterans, so angry at the liberal establishment who at the time was Joe Biden put them in harm’s way using 9/11 for a call for freedom and liberty against Sadaam Hussien and liberate Iraq. Congress went along with it hook, line and sinker. They gave Al Queda a place to fight Americans. The Vets came back destroyed, and used the only power they have to elect Trump, a spite vote against the liberal establishment. What did the left do? Nothing. What did the left do when these same vets showed up in Virginia armed to protest Northam's gun laws on MLK day 2020? Nothing. The left should have been there arm and arm with the Iraq vets. Biden was then and is now in the pocket of Raytheon Lockheed Martin. Grumman, GE, Exxon Mobil, the largest oil dealer to the Pentagon. Biden formerly head of the arms services committee then became VP to Obama, hand-picked by Obama to initiate another war, the war we are in today, the war with the Russians to build up Ukraine. The next group of Veterans sent to war are not going to come back as close as it came with the assassination of Solemeini of Iran, because now they will be fighting entire nations in the Middle East. His America First policy puts all of Europe in the untenable position to choose between the US or Russia and China. With half of the British parliament invested in Hawei, England, France and Germany slides into a deep stagnation with Trump’s trade war on China.  As for Trump, he is the wrong man for the job. Wrong, because his path is not to deconstruct the arms industry and wrench the grip the arms industry has of our government, his path is to become an autocrat. Undo all the wrong wrong-doers prosecuted by the liberal establishment and create a fealty of the justice department. The people supporting him never went to war. An autocrat is natural to them, they are chiliasts, believers in the second coming of Christ, God, Family and Country. They are the NASCAR enthusiasts, rich, spoiled Americans, country music stars, with pro-fascist leanings.  Only Bernie opposed the Iraq War. Only Bernie opposes the misuse of the military, opposes invasions, opposes the arms industry, opposes industries with the highest carbon footprint. Vote Bernie if you are going to vote, it’s the last chance to restore America back to its original roots of American progressivism.
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  2379. The other way of seeing this is as a transition from an agriculture based on a community of private producers to an agriculture based on modern machinery of one crop for the world market. Capitalism.
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  2380. This reasons given in this report demonstrates there is no time that is a perfect time for a mass revolutionary movement to lead the rest of the working masses in the world into a new age of development. A grand historic project will resolve more problems than a million conferences can achieve in a year. The west has been talking about Climate Change for example and doing nothing about it for 79 years; that it has degenerated into a right wing denial of the climate crisis. The military industrial complexes is the power in the west and this power is constantly sought after and transferred exclusively between, democrats and republicans, a small minority of the world’s population. World population has been rendered an international working class in 2024 this is a huge social power from the days when the working class was a minority in Europe in 1871.
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  2381. Nevada is a fascist state and Alabama is a fascist state.
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  2382. Fascinating and revealing talk. This video brings what is going in America the things we never think about. What are people doing that is fomenting new social movements in America? I think fascism is a word like the Christ; a designation. What it has is an enigma of generalities without real definition that refer to a social movement. Its not a movement that is very clear and specific rather, its abstract and general. The Nazis are different in the sense that they were on a mission to eliminate a race of people. Genocidal racism was a part of the fascism they were. The Klan and Nazis are genocidal fascists. The carpet bombing of poor countries by rich ones is a form of genocidal fascism as well. I think the fascism of the 20th century and that of the 21st century are adaptations of genocide have a position against emancipation by any social class, any self-emancipation is suppressed, targeted a threat to its structured authoritarian form. So many variations of fascism in our society. Military is authoritarian as is the Democratic Party shutting down the convention because Pro-Palestine protesters is an anti-democratic move by the DNC. Authoritarian social structure vary. Family is hierarchical. Children have no rights till 18 is a fascist social practice. All these relations maintain the existence of a perpetual victim is fascism by a wider definition of authoritarianism.
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  2383. You know, when I read comments that bear an opinion on a subject without explaining the subject they opine about, I suspect the opinion maker does not know what they are talking about! I take you to be a romantic not a historical scholar if a restoration of artisanship would fit perfectly in this late stage of capitalism by your opinion. Law of value is, (A=B= TL), calculus, there is nothing foolish in the use of a formula to demonstrate the concept of value arising from two things equal to each other in exchange, a private transaction expresses a value-relation to the total labor of society. The problem then becomes if two equal things exchange how does one party in the transaction get rich and the other party poorer. I wouldn't call Newton foolish for discovering the law of gravity, here you are, calling Marx foolish for using the same calculus as Newton...to explain to us the operations of the economy are not abstract but very real, just not perceptible to the naked eye.
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  2384.  @brucecampbell6578  Yes, Ghandi's non-violent civil disobedience did free India from the British. Extinction Rebellion does that in the UK now. Getting more effective as people grow more aware of environmental problems. Thanks.
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  2385.  @brucecampbell6578  Lovely...a man of clear thought and wisdom...I do much of what you say already and I thank you for reminding me.
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  2386. Pro-lifers are actually pro-death, pro-torture, pro-war, and pro-genocide. Most evil people on the planet are pro-lifers regardless of religious persuasion they are suffering from.
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  2387. States compete for corporations to set up shop in their state by selling their people short, keeping wages low, proving you can control a population with force, all of which Perdue is completely about.
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  2388. Now that does not make any sense. The NSA has a primary constituency, i.e, the military and the GOP has a primary constituency, i.e., the mutlinational corporations. Cohen is totally unacceptable to that establishment. If anything they would try to corrupt him for his knowledge, if not, isolate him. He is unelectable from a GOP standpoint, they need someone who can get two important votes besides your vote, they need the religious and blue collar vote. Trump stole the blue collar vote from the establishment, I doubt, he can win the evangelical vote with his background.
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  2389.  @kirstinstrand6292  “War is Over if You Want it” was the idealism I grew up with.
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  2390. Man are you Americans Fd up. Thumbs down. Americans are concerned about their taxes only when it goes to the very poor and destitute but when it spent by the Pentagon on wars that force prices upward Americans are fine with that. I thought Germany was pathetic but black Americans are really blind. I think it is because the pressure on your own downward spiraling incomes is making you do and say things you would never say. One oppressed group attacking an even more oppressed group. Shameful. MLK Jr., flipped in his grave. “Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere”. MLK Jr.
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  2391. Air travel perks for United but for Spirit...I don't think so?
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  2392. It is the celebrities who should be boycotted for their association with a War Party. The politicians are politicians for the very reason they can tolerate opposition and deliver unpopular policies. The celebrities are not, they are frail, impressionable, politically unaware or ignorant and depend on their audience and fans to maintain their celebrity status in society. The celebrities produce the income the politicians seek. It makes more sense to protest the celebrities at their premiers, theater openings, galas, court events, wherever they go to pressure the politicians. You get to the politicians by going after the celebrities in the same way you learn more about the Sun by studying the Moon.
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  2393. More than a lot, the whole management system in this country is counter productive and destructive to workers. You are nothing more than a number to management and how to boss employees around is taught in Business Schools creating more unwell people ready to enter management positions to become a small army of unwell people. Workers can manage themselves if only workers built up their own confidence and business acumen and took more control over their own work lives.
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  2394.  @mermer58  Would that mean you would no complaints about personally being violated when someone (individual or institution) robs you because you are nothing but a number to them?
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  2395.  @TentinQuarantino_  You might be confusing or, rather, not you per sé, but HR employees confuse or misidentify the company with the company’s profits, prioritizing a thing over a human being, because the work of a human being in the company is the source of profits.
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  2396. She accepts the premise that Israel has the right to defend herself makes her a committed voter for Biden’s support of a genocide.
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  2397. The American working class is able to see through the hypocrisies of the military state. This is about the passing of an age of militarism. Might takes two decades for this state to finally die. But making it go away quicker is more important than anything else and can be done with the help of other nations in agreement with disarmament; but do Americans have the courage to confront their king and carry through a political revolution, what Bernie called for when he first ran for office?  The only power that can defeat the power of a king, his court, and military combined, is a social and political revolution, a fight for political power. Earlier generations showed this quite clearly and died in that effort. We owe them the dignity of implementing the ideas they believed and died for. But crucial to our being is our history. The Civil War, and all the stories we have come to know about that post Civil War period, can be seen as actions that led to the formation of the modern working class. The period of Reconstruction and its display of strikes, lockouts, raids, battles, riots, revolts, lynchings, incarceration, drugs, domestic violence, guns, all shaped the modern working class and the 8 hour working day. The modern working class of today un-attached from the natural and real material relations of production have been made dispensable. Its social power is needed as required to operate the machinery used to advance America's industrial revolution in the abolition of slavery in the first part of the century and into a military industrial complex in the middle of the 20th century. Every culture leaves behind their mark in history. Ours is the Civil War Reconstruction era introducing capitalism in the early part of the century and the military industrial complex in the later part of the century. Dazzling is the technology, to what end is nothing to marvel at. Whether future archeologist will find the remains of such institutions and decipher from it our civilization is another question. The material left behind is contaminated. It was the formation of working class and the introduction of the capitalist class that the Civil War was fought over. It took the capitalists almost 100 years to fully dominate the society with major interruptions in between, such as the labor movement and later the New Deal. Socialism was always in the forefront of their minds the ultimately enemy. I suppose now when the question comes up about dictatorship to the average American the answer will be I'd rather live under a people's dictatorship than a king's dictatorship, for militarism and dictatorship is the story of the 20th century.
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  2398. Insightful.
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  2399. The rule of a certain class is only the rule of certain ideas. America's problem is that its society and political structure is organized around the principal of class rule, in theory and in practice, which is to say, that as soon as it is no longer necessary the political parties represent a particular interest as the "general interest" of society, than the general interest as the ruling interest fades into history. Race and class are the driving forces of American history, they are the ideas of the 19th century that keeps this country under its influences. Americans need to separate what the rulers say to what the rulers do, what counts are the conditions they rule over, and base their actions on the real historical conditions they occupy.
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  2400. Banning tic toc would be a BIG mistake. Meta/Facebook will become a monopoly dominating the entire market with out Tic Tok. Zuckerberg would want it banned. Social media should not be banned at all. It should be made into a public utility.
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  2401. If there is going to be more gangs or a state of anarchy in this country the first graders of today will be it. A generation is coming into being who belong to our society but do not feel they are of that society. Not a good place to be, do you belong or not but we are producing enough of them to become a huge social problem in the future. The trust between individual and institutions have broken down when a 6th grader purposely blows away an elementary school teacher by means of a gun. Lack of respect of authority comes from no authority in the child’s life from birth that the child does not recognize what an authoritative figure in society is. I seriously doubt we will see any real action from Congress about the state of crisis of the children in the US.
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  2402.  @cherylscott8576  That is the point. You know it and I know it,--- the better your public education is the better your citizens will be. Politicians on both sides fail at preserving the safety of a person, their property and their rights, in the basic fundamentals of policing and have poured tons of money to destroy public education.
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  2403. Small minded middle class Racists like Hemphill hurt the nation, cities and communities. If you start the news with the headline that ends this show the significance of the conflicts of the Middle East do not cast a dark shadowy impression on the rise of workers in France and England against conservatives that want to take away workers retirement age and rights in the minds of viewers. The positive becomes a negative when the negative is the starting point of the program has a subliminal effect on viewer’s minds. You can prove this yourself right now as you watch this program. when its over review the story line up backwards and notice the effect it has on the violence in the Middle East what will come to our own societies if masses of workers remain passive. Media manipulation of stories, images, even sounds impresses viewers minds with negative information dampening the uplifting effect of positive information such as the worker’s national strikes in Europe. DN’s editorial board uses what Hollywood has done for a century and that is to attach sound or score characteristic of negative emotion only on Indians attacking the Calvary in Westerns but upbeat and light music when Calvary is present in the shot. When Darth Vader walks into the room the music is dark. When Hans Solo is in the room the music is complimentary and light. Everything in the US is manipulation of mind and body and behavior modification leading to subjugation of the human will and spirit occurs psychologically and materially.
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  2404. Comedians employed by any network corporation are not free to be themselves. They are owned, bought off, if they want to remain famous and wealthy they must never go against the hand that feeds them. They are in the same position as the vast majority of Americans, the only difference is that they are paid more.
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  2405. Pretty stupid thing to do if you ask me. But if a trucker wants to lose his job that is fine with me. If my product can’t get into the Manhattan markets I’ll replace that carrier with another. My business and its 50 employees is not going suffer because truckers have no other way of expressing their support for Trump but to make an already hard situation even harder for a small business and its employees. Morons.
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  2406.  @rohanmarkjay  Yes, i know...isn’t a spectacle of the bourgeoisie (US multinational corporations) to react to what it fears the most,---Bolshevism, the parlor variety it lives with and the Russian experiment it cannot live with. The problems and conflicts of today are necessary for the realization of goals established in 1919 or rooted therein. There at the conference at Versailles the European bourgeoisie of the dominant colonial empires, already industrialized made plans for the century and thereafter in perpetuity. The Plan: Eradicate any opposition to nationalization and expand capitalism. Pretty simple mission. This coming from the experiences with the Paris Commune in France; the revolutions of Germany; culminating with the Russian Revolution and decade later the Chinese Revolution, the world colonial bourgeoisie was surrounded by communism taking hold in societies still in their peasant pre-capitalist formations and a lot of the blood relations were expropriated by the masses. Contempt for the masses was forever cemented in the breast of the bourgeoisie. They want to recover that missed opportunity Bolshevism in their view, robbed. The conference observed this fact and hitherto the more anti-communist a ruler could be the more support they got. US General Austin is in the Philippines concretizing plans for military support to the son of Ferdinand Marcos. The Philippines is on track to becoming a sentry state for the US follows the plan of 1919 perfectly, we can expect nothing short or long of this coming from the US State Department by way of foreign policy. The Good Neighbor days are history the US ensures the pre-capitalist societies in the East get industrialized by America’s related bourgeoisie of Europe’s bourgeoisie. Of course this means the American working class is no longer industrialized. American society becomes a society of a lot of lawyers and a lot of hamburger flippers who consume mass quantities of products made in other countries. Objectively, Russia was first to model industrialization for pre-capitalist societies to follow, the split in communist movements hinged on supporting bourgeoise wars for the west. But for the pre-capitalist societies in the East the colonial empires not coming in and industrializing their countries for themselves was appealing. Africa, India and Russia are intimate and the US gets a cold shoulder. A missed opportunity that would employ American workers for decades and generations given we are talking about markets of billions of people. That’s big. You can skip over capitalism and go straight into socialism was Lenin’s April Thesis that contested the Marxian linear growth of capitalism before they can develop socialism. Western bourgeoisie takes this very seriously. Anyway, there can be no progress without deviation is a law of nature and we are not genetically modified people yet. Bearbock must have an encounter with Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution, hidden in the family tree,---that is connected to 1919 somehow...I do not know her family history. Russophobia is a real phobia. It could be purely ideological as in the US or materially and biologically relatable in the offspring of the bourgeoisie as in Europe.
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  2407. She is a good state functionary, she can describe the weather pattern of extreme weather but she cannot equate extreme weather and conditions to social, industrial and commercial activity.
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  2408. Typical...keep everything split and divided. A national policy on anything is never to be expected from conservatives and liberals.
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  2409. So he evaded all that hardware. How embarrassing for the high command that a 30 year old got away. If there are enough distractions in Centerville and activity Joseph Manhard has some time to escape as a fugitive. He'll become a legend if he gets away.
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  2410.  @Madasin_Paine  black males have a shorter mortality rate than white males in the US...not sure where you are what that stat is...but your point is valid. Ground zero for San Francisco is its geology on which tall condos of the rich will sink deeper into the ground the more saturated the ground becomes. The news black out on the American Public is orchestrated between the multi-national corporations that own the media in conjunction with Homeland Security is why.
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  2411. Why don’t they rob ARCO instead of the customer? More money in Arco then in the customer, idiots!
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  2412. America has not taxed profits since Ronald Reagan was president but it has been taxing tips since Eisenhower was president, that covers four generations of families of waiters and three generations of families of heirs to profits, that this inequality has been in existence. Elon Musk is a beneficiary of the Reagan Tax Cuts, his grandfather is from South Africa and his son moved to Canada that by the time Elon became an adult moved to the US from Canada with a hefty sum of capital inherited qualified for the Trump Tax Cuts.
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  2413. Oil and gas and minerals. Guyana is going to have more holes in the ground than farm space. Everything will be price tagged to allow the richer to do the exploiting of this natural deposit. The paper industry is killing the rain forest. Oil and gas deposits are open in the US. So much oil the price is falling. Making it cheaper to emit more carbon. Accelerating wars. Burning up money like there is no tomorrow. More industry and more consumers use up more than what nature can replace. Most of Guyana’s land would be lost to drilling, mining and excavation. These companies mine, excavate, and drill for the world market. Tons and tons of rock and mineral. Oil wells and refineries and shipping ports boom. The pace of accumulation peters out eventually. But it starts out with a massive amount of foreign investment capital and ends up with a massive amount of more capital. Many will be dispossessed of their ancestral lands of generations present with price offers or by force. If there is less farmland and more people in cities and not enough employment Guyana would be in trouble. It will have to borrow big and owe more. Bigger prisons, police, justice, army, bigger hotel industry, bigger everything and buy more from the outside than what Guyana herself can produce inside. The motive is a repeat of colonialist exploitation of the 19th century but for another kind of raw material and resource is the only difference. Seems hard to imagine; the past still operates in the present.
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  2414. In the same way the super rich use money as a means of dominating government through lobbyists the CIA uses classified information as a means of cover accountability for torture.
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  2415. Is the US prepared to pay for South Korea’s defenses? The American People just bought a ton of guns and missiles from defense contractors for Ukraine can the Establishment pull the wool over the eyes of the American Public for a second time in arming Taiwan? I have other ideas where all this war money we are financing on the backs of people not born yet could be used for our own social development. Its not like the US does not need it.
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  2416. Sooner or later, if total annihilation does not come first, there will be no dignity in being undignified and our destiny of absence of any destiny in the American people will morph into the midwife of a new society.
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  2417.  @shellibelli4387  A lot of people love Barbara Streisand too. That did not stop her from leaving the limelight. When its time its time. That does make me an agist, I am 85. Yes, the views I admit I do not like, I would cut the hands off the writers, if I could. As a writer I am sensitive to editorials. But more disappointing is the story selection, very poor and unrepresentative of what is going on in society.
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  2418. An anti-human attitude if I ever heard one.
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  2419.  @kecward78  Indeed.
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  2420.  @a1b1c184  I gave you a thumbs up because nobody on this channel will.
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  2421. This movie is the death of cinema in Hollywood.
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  2422. The Insurrection was dress rehearsal for the coup to come in 2024 is my take.
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  2423. The program is cut short...here. You’ll not find the academics, politicians, and journalists criticizing the Queen with anger and vitriol.
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  2424.  @TheControlBlue  Small businesses like Trump, big business likes China. But since small business is suffering the whole lot of them are lining up behind Trump as their protector.
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  2425.  @ትኒጧትንኝ  I see, yes, a facade...this is true, I researched him.
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  2426.  @sam70000  Yes, the state in the hands of the neocons in Israel, cannot overcome its contradictions without destroying itself. To survive it has to defend itself and by then world opinion is against it.
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  2427.  @yasuke9317  Still does not give you a right to be cruel. Just because humanity jumps off the cliff you want to go with them?
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  2428. I read the comments America and I disagree with you. Nothing short of a threat of an overthrow will get you want you want from Washington. You have been baptized with a tax bill into a class war with the transnational corporations and the military state.
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  2429. Up next is the Fox News interview of Capt. Chuck Nash, an overnight sensation in the field geopolitics discusses the beating down Iran to a pulp by US sanctions.
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  2430. Economies are made up of people is a Keynesian concept. The herd psychology of the free market that crashed in 2008, prices go up and people buy more, led to an overconfidence that today has morphed into hubris,--eventually the bubble bursts. The Great Depression added urgency to Keynesian ideas, to solve the indefinite slump and job losses, came after his death. The US government invested 3/4 of a trillion in federal loan guarantees for alternative energy in Arizona and the revenues would come from higher income earners. This was 80 years ago, FDR followed Hoover, demand decreases and unemployment increased. Some 40 years after FDR, Reagan initiates Star Wars. And 40 years after that Trump initiates a Golden Dome Project. The two programs, Star Wars (Space Force) and the Golden Dome, would be paid for,- by the lowest income earners in society. Low income wage earners through the power of the State, will pay for the protection of the highest income earners of society,--is Keynesianism in reverse was accomplished by converting labor into wage labor, for example, 40 years ago doctors, professors, lawyers, were not hired and did not have a boss, a corporate and private entity did not employ them that they would today be fearful to speak out they learned to comply, or conform to authority, places us all in a time where there is no freedom in society.
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  2431. Haitian youth still have real ties and bonds with their parents. They have empathy for their parent’s everyday struggle to survive, bring bread to the table, work long days and hours for less than what it cost to buy milk, eggs, coffee. This social connection in the family is something entirely absent in American culture and youth who break off and even murder their parents nor care to identify or feel empathy for their struggles. Youth acting as a mass are far more higher functioning than youth i isolation and alienated from society and family, ---waisting their lives away. The family in Haiti is still intact not shattered as it is the US. Kids form gangs to steal from society that robs them of their future and youth. Kids in America do not form gangs to express their rage. Instead they individually plot mass assassination events and annihilate themselves in the process as a way to get back at life controlling, cheating them.
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  2432. Is Citgo Chevron?
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  2433.  @kyul9357  You were obviously not a New Yorker before 1970 when it was the safest city in the nation without vigilante groups and when cops were on platforms. You have nothing to compare your experience, I do.
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  2434. I don't think you grasp that PR is not in a position to 'make history'. Its devastation throws it back a couple of centuries to a pre-industrialized society, and worse, as the island does not support hunting and gathering, the people are also conditioned to modern conveniences, they are suddenly existing in a post industrial era devoid of skills suitable for survival under conditions of scarcity. Had they owned their island, stood as united individuals, and developed an infrastructure designed to cope with conditions, without the US holding them as a territory, ruled as a quasi-colonial dependency, but were an independent island nation like Cuba things might have turned out differently. Without the basic infrastructure in place for eating, drinking, habitation, clothing and many other things making history is not in the cards for any society much less PR.
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  2435. Sounds like the Myanmar military has over stepped its bounds and made a huge mistake banning social media. It does not look good for the junta's survival to deprive a population of a popular leader and their cell phones symbolic of a hopeful future. Military is creating their own gravediggers.
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  2436. There is a class of people in Congress who profit from gun violence in America and they are perfectly okay with profiting on aimless crimes, the pain they cause is a direct result of the profit schemes they make, it is this class that is responsible, this class that must go!
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  2437. Good story.
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  2438.  @eve36368  100 million employed multiplied by 8 hours a day comes to 800 million working hours in a day mulitplied by 365 days equals 2,920 billion hours of total labor capacity of the American workforce alone can cover the cost of family and medical universal leave and care forever. Instead, this value is allocated in the USA by Washington elites in the form of a military budget. It costs this amount of labor to build and support the whole US Naval Fleet! It would take the cost of one battleship to cover the cost of family leave for one year for 100 million people --you get the picture? The Big Picture is clearer when you compare real working hours to other working hours in other things.
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  2439.  @eve36368  We cannot accept the pack of lies given us, we must refuse the lies.
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  2440. America has a huge fixation of interests because of class relationships and the division of labor in society. Some people think 'desires' and 'thought' create the fixation but that is simply just not so! Our battles with the corporations is not in our hearts and minds, its in the society in which we live. In real social conflicts between men and women, class and race.
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  2441. Sad thing about this is that the apathy of Americans is so entrenched that it takes a celebrity to motivate them to take action against their own Mafia government. Americans have to get their heads out of their ass.
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  2442.  @Castro727  Is it true Australia is now a police state?
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  2443. His epitaph will read very little on his tombstone, just his name carved and date, remembered for all the things he did not do that humanity would care to remember him very little can be said of this small man. Short reading for his ancestors.
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  2444. Fix your health system America and Americans won’t be looking for medication in another country because they cannot afford at home.
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  2445. Actually, I think it was a pretty stupid move to not have those guys be attached to a rip chord from the ship to their person. Really dumb, you’d never see a mountain climber not have repelling chords attached to them.
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  2446. We are back in the 1950s when schools were so bad in the 40s they became juvenile settings in the 50s and there began summer school, grade repeats, and reform schools that so many grandparents went through. Many opted to join the army instead fight in Korea and then Vietnam. The rules in society disintegrating as every decade passes by because of the Great Sell Out of American industry. This country is doomed because it can even learn from past mistakes that it all appears done on purpose to benefit a few.
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  2447. Great solution for housing and homelessness if each person in America could have 2500 square feet of living space the proportion of space to need are perfect.
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  2448. A Green Vote as a dissent vote is a better vote than a democrat vote.
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  2449. Oliver North is a worm. But he is barometer for how fearful losing power is to the right wing.
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  2450. Washington D.C. has basically been turned into a foriegn embassy compound. True to American form and style, ---the far extremes from no protection to over-protection. Moderation and the military part company when the threat is ephemeral and enigmatic, cannot be seen or heard. It is then we see the true face of self-conscousness and insecurities of an empire play out through its central characters.
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  2451. Aparthied, USA.
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  2452. I feel I missed the Saturday Night Live parody portraying the small part of the public in airports who are rude.
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  2453. Your thinking on the use-value side of the equation of the construction industry. Your thinking on the value side of the equation of that industry is woefully nieve.
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  2454.  @brian-beeler  Neoliberalism appears to be alive and well in the US. With 1% controlling the material wealth and the 99% having no control out over the material wealth the 99% produce. I would say neoliberalism is dying in Chile as we speak with the ongoing protests that has grown in scale and size has moved the whole country not only to oppose Moreno, but also the neoliberal state apparatus, smae thing happening in Lebanon. But, I would not say neoliberalism is dying in the US, Britian, Australia, Canada, Russia or China. Are you in the US?
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  2455. It’s safer than me telling you your not!
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  2456. I am not going to criticize him taking a stand on this issue... its time.
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  2457.  @koolkitties8552  Blacks do not have to worry about Latinos. Latinos do not have to worry about Blacks. Whites have to worry being pushed out by other whites who worry about blacks and Latinos.
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  2458. The hypocrisy of the West enables Putin to dismiss the west of any sincerity.
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  2459. Wars begin with peace treaties as well. Most are designed to be broken to trigger wars.
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  2460.  @markm3869  Nothing no ordinary person can achieve...just read the right books...exercise discipline and purpose to your reading...open your mind, channel the writer(s) through you, become the scholar, I emphasize books not articles, scholarly material.
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  2461. Landlords as a social class were outlawed in the USSR in 1917, the same with Usury by banks, that to this day even under Putin, a landowning class has not emerged but for a few in Russian cities and these are limited to commercial properties like, industry, malls, hotels, etc.. But where people live rents are proportional to the building maintenance costs, if it’s a small building, rents are low, a larger building; rents are larger. Most Russians have no idea what a mortgage is. But here in America, a landowning class is huge and public and private debt is high as a result. In turn, taxes rise, endlessly spiraling higher and higher. They are an aristocracy of land owners, very powerful and the biggest of them are the leadership of the Senate. All senior Senators are large land owners with controlling interest in rents. Trump is a landowner. Jared Kushner is a landowner. Why these types are popular with Americans are for reasons that are ideological not for reasons that are pragmatic and practical because these men are not interested in being kind to renters, they are in business to make Capital. Of 332 million people who live in America more than half of them live on land that is not their own. NYC is a microcosm for the nation. All who work in the city work on the property of others is the same for the nation. Nobody in America that is not a part of this class works on land that is their own for their own subsistence, some bought land in remote places for homesteaded free of landowners, (a bank holding a mortgage is a landowner until paid off) and make products they can sell for additional income except for a collection of heirs to a property paid off by their parents or grandparents. And among this group, very few actually work the land for their own subsistence and livelihood.
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  2462. What is obvious to me is that lack of reporting over islands Fiona passed. Why?
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  2463. More than half of America's non-unionized workforce comes to around 170 million working people who are forced to work under mandatory arbitration work rules. Only 7% of America's union workers number 20 million do not fall under mandatory work rules and can sue their employer in class actions suits for damages wrought by the job. The rest cannot sue their employers because the self-employed cannot sue themselves, not yet anyway, and for those who work for themselves and their families not unionized are a shrinking middle class compared to the vast concentration of wealth into fewer hands. When you peer under the official description of the working class and throw light on all those unofficially described, the numbers are even more staggering. Mind you, all this is on the assumption that the total workforce is employed. We know in reality unemployment by official statistics are inaccurate.. Those who are subsidized to work the balance of these workers number 110 million working people are employed by the largest retailers in the world. These workers number into the millions in agriculture and domestic workers. The number of workers that will fall under the Supreme Court decision on right to work rules will number 280 million working people subject to mandatory arbitration work rules. That leaves 80 million people to be accounted for, are either MIA from society or distributed among the upper middle class of millionaires, billionaires and the super rich. The class system in America looks like a pyramid while its wealth architecture looks like an upside down pyramid superimposed over the class pyramid. If this is 'Great...', then I say... Workers of the USA, Unite!
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  2464.  @BlastinRope  The Great Reset...someone will have to explain what the great reset really is. Sounds like computer lingo doing history. You reset a circuit breaker. You reset humanity? Humanity does not reset itself. People do not reset their lives. Societies can revert to a past but they cannot reset the present. All they can do with the present is modify it. From old to new but never leveled and reconstructed. If people did do this it would be what the world needs, a great reset would be great. There has never been a time in the past where that would be possible. In the present resetting the way we live is more possible than ever before but is it probable with powerful monopolies. I don’t think so.
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  2465. Remember Mary Trump... Detractors are common in rich families. Senator Warren defends Big Pharma against RFK Jr. Caroline Kennedy defends Big Pharma. They are ready to use you when they need you and discard you when you are not needed is true for the rich as it is for the poor.
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  2466. Be a great day when unity can emerge out of an awareness of the fact that appropriating the labor of others is a crime.
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  2467. Holding children as hostages to get their parents to come forward and be arrested, detained and deported, is a psychotic criminal act of child abuse.
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  2468. I recall a NY Times article , Monday, October 29,1979: Decline in Productivity in the US, spurs intense debate and study...the point is, productivity in the US in 2025 has made strides. This comes from the last 50 years of lengthening the working day and shortening the necessary portion of the workday that productivity measured by its value creation is high. If you were to get into the mind of Musk or Bezos, they worry less about losing their power to workers working more than the work time needed to keep them on a payroll as a workforce; Musk and Bezos do not care if the value their workers create is greater than the value Bezos and Musk pays them, or their workers give them more value in return than the value their wages can buy. The main concern and this is what the article is about, reveals the logic of capitalism, is the amount of use-values the workers consume during the workday must always be smaller than the amount of use-values the workers create. A surplus must always be left over. Were the workers to work only for their own self-consumption, there would be nothing left over. The last 50 years, the continuous testing and observation, medication and indoctrination , not to mention study after study on working people for the modification of their work behavior was to lengthen the working day and shorten the necessary portion of the working day with technology, to transform money into capital. What a waste to have thrown so much capital resources into improving the ways a 1% can accumulate capital. If youtubers do not produce three videos a week they lose monetization and, therefore, income modifies the content the youtuber brings to the audience. Were the youtubers to produce content they want they would not produce a surplus of videos in order to monetize their product. So forget about the social conspiratorial analysis of capitalism and use the science and logic of capitalism against itself is the lesson here.
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  2469. Excellent speech given by the council person in NYC in the end of the video program.
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  2470. Nothing will ever change if all continue to sell our labor-power to the capitalist wherever that class dominates. The capitalist corporations keep us all apart from the whole division of labor in society, and the world, so it is through forever wars and forever capitalists that the sale of labor-power, finding a job, is perpetuated. The point of emancipation as conceived by King, '...the long arc of history...' speech is to develop and enrich more than one bond a person may have to all the resources of society spread evenly across society and not concentrated into the hands of a single capitalist class. Because this kind of concentration negates 'private property' and without the means at the disposal of all individuals freedom from necessity (need) is impossible and also a forever state of being suitable for a capitalist class to operate.
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  2471. They are right to fear the loss of their primacy in Europe. The sabotage of the pipeline shows how far they would go to preserve US hegemony.
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  2472. The CEO of Arkema Inc., can remain silent. What allows him 'silence' is the legal system. I am sure the corporation Arkema would still operate its business with a profit to boot, if it had to disclose all chemical solvents to the EPA for regulation on handling dangerous materials. If there were a government that represented its population first and foremost all dangerous chemicals workers handle in worksites would be monitored for proper use by the workers themselves. They know what the hazards are. They are the ones who, after all, suffer the long term injuries and fatalities of production quotas. They just need the current science and that can be given to them very easily. They need power and autonomy too. Industries need be located where in the event of a disaster catastrophic consequences are not as catastrophic! Common sense legislation would not upset the fortune 500 's as much as the extremist and sycophants want you to believe.
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  2473.  @ourcollectiveinsanity  Am I stereotyping if I say may 5/10ths of the 1% rot in hell and the other half in heaven?
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  2474. Have to wonder how many...what the number of people in the workforce are fed up with capitalism?
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  2475.  @tammywilson1638  For sure...in Germany the government has the opposite effect where the government offers freebies like Yoga or podiatry to compete with private insurance in order to keep the cost of private insurance down, prevent the profiteering from occurring. Its going to be a carzy mix in America because much of what America does is not planned in advance the habit of free market is deeply engrained in the culture. That is why a single payer is the best way for the US and just do away with private insurance companies in my opinion.
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  2476.  @donnaroberts4309  How about listing all candidates and placing a letter (R) and a (D) or an (I) before their name, why all the rigamarole and complications? Open and closed primaries, this or that form, purposely made to discourage participation. KISS. Keep it simple, stupid if you want a true participatory voting method.
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  2477.  @donnaroberts4309  Good point...in fact...Americans and the Mexicans share the same political life in that a two party system, the rule of the PRI and the PAN is 150 years over Mexican, like the two party system rules Americans since the American Civil War. Alternating power within one party between two different wings or factions. Ping Pong Politics. The same in Europe. Essentially, Mexico and American politics replicates European Republics. Mexico broke the cycle of 8 yr PRI and 8 yrs PAN with Obrador before the Americans have had a chance to break the repitative cycle with Bernie, they are ahead of you politically. Meaning the people in Mexico are more aware of their political life more than Americans are aware of their own political life. Why such as system can last for a century and half is due to making elections as complicated as possible and politics as dirty as possible that people are discouraged and disgusted with the lesser of the two evils as their choices.
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  2478. Good job Jackson...you were consistent.
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  2479. Excellent narration skills, clear, concise, description of actions. Cool videos too.
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  2480. Too bad there is not a third candidate alternative who could be taken seriously.
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  2481. Here we have a very important subject and the feeble professor goes straight into 'unofficial unemployment', people not looking, people working more than one job. Then into the global competition of workers, and what workers should do about this competition and the recommendation in addition to union, strike, protest, is legislation. Get the state to raise wages, as if the state, meaning Congress, poised to overturn the Affordable Care Act, is going to legislate wages be risen at this time. The repeal of the AFA is itself a fall in the value of wages. When repealed workers will have to buy medical services if they can afford it which is promised to be kept cheap by president Trump when he unveils the new health care plan in 2020. Economist should first define what wages are, to clear up the mass confusion in people's minds about what wages really are? A wage is not what it appear to be and people get easily sucked into the appearance of things. They see the surface of the water but not what supports underneath the water from draining away.  Wages appears in our society to be the price of labor, as a certain amount of money is paid for a certain amount of work. People speak of the value of labor as if it were the natural price of labor, wages go up and down around its necessary price. But this all falls apart when you compare the output of a day's work versus the amount a worker is paid per day in wages. Wages can give the illusion it has gone up if commodity prices fall, this is pretty much what the republicans are banking on, that employers will not be greedy and raise commodity prices because the cost of production for employers has gone down, due to contracting with China, Thailand, Singapore, making their products overseas. But greedy as they are they remain unwilling to raise the wage for the American worker, keeping it flat, steady, slow variable increases, crumbs. The president calling Harley Davidson cheap for exporting jobs from Kansas. The reason is simple, too simple for people to accept, expecting more than meets the eye is appropriate when studying wages, but not when it comes to production do people have to search for something mysterious that motivates employers to enjoy the benefits of a higher volume of product, turning all that excess into cold hard cash or gold, has never been easier in America and the worker's productivity is their's to enjoy for as long as worker's are obedient performing the productivity of labor management imposes on its workers.  The professor lives in a world outside of the realm of social class struggle, and his own class of workers in Academia are equally as obedient as workers participating in productivity despite not getting a share of it, work themselves to the bone even death. The professor would instinctively know the difference between the two values, i.e., wages and productivity if he were a member of the working class. The social lifestyle of Academia puts the intelligentsia in a separate social class from workers and, therefore, wages in simple terms, i.e., 12 hrs. work = $125.00 per day, and the 4 cars per hour, or ten million loaves of bread a day, the output of 12 hrs., multiplied by 5000 workers are examples sold at the unit price, shows wages are held constant while productivity is variable and both workers and capitalists are dependent on the productivity of labor is a class struggle that is based on products, wages, price and profit. What is productivity, let the professor answer what is productive and not productive, so we may experience more eye-opening analysis on the condition of the American working class.
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  2482. China does own property in the US. That does change our relationship to ourselves quite a bit, we become part of the property they own since we work in them. That would make us lassaire or leased slaves and serfs to the properties they sell. One part of American society treats another as the mere inorganic natural condition of its own reproduction. Owners of these properties find buyers on the world market, Dubai, China, Singapore, Russia and arrange to sell their properties preferably already a turnkey structure, they sell the shell and all of its contents and leases which binds you and I, to the type of work tenant companies renting these buildings want. The need and want a workforce for 12 to 14 hours a day. Violating the 8 hour legal workday with a gig economy, all this to avoid rent to foreigner investors cutting into their profits. Unless you have a rock for a brain and worm for a heart there is nothing funny about people's hard work and creativity being used for 12 to 14 hours a day and having absolutely no relationship to these objective conditions be serfs and slaves. You have obviously not thought out the social ramifications or are slave driver yourself to trivialize the exploitation of Americans by Americans. You walked into a room you should not have gone. Where you thought you would get a laugh you got stung for putting your hand where it should not go.
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  2483. The oligarchy of the Clinton Family is only one family in the oligarchy consisting of around 5000 family ties. Lock up one family member and another related member of the oligarchy takes her place. Its endless. Generation after generation of oligarchic rule since the 18th century. Trump Family oligarchy slips into power if his main opponent is locked up. Trump was right for himself but he was wrong for you or me. The individuals are not our problem its their class existence that is the problem.
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  2484. This landlord’s building is what gave him up to a lawsuit. If it were not for the neglect of conditions catching up to him he’d have gotten away not paying the penalty bill like so many others in his class get away.
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  2485. ...when you look at how FORD, GM, etc., refines the activity of workers in their factories into detailed operations this internal management process has an effect on how work is organized outside of the factories... externally other businesses and industries depend on communities where workers live on the continuous output of cars, trucks, etc., even if it does raise climate temperature promoting more mining, more drilling, and higher emissions. It appears the transformation of an entire way of life that has us trapped in a deadly cycle needs to happen. The nature of work in America today is no longer defined by skill, not by essentiality of the work, nor by the quality of the product, for the survival of the community and society.
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  2486. RR conditions shows two factions could agree on a common aim for a transformation of society.
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  2487.  @DavidSanchez-vx4bv  Did not allow for too much room for those liberties is more like it. Great observation David.
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  2488. In theory, the less people use their air-conditioners the better off they will be and the temperatures will come down. Air-conditioning emits metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere which changes the chemical composition of the skies where nitrogen, oxygen and carbon, form into severe storms, floods or droughts. It does not help when Hollywood stars travel to their movie sets in multi-million dollar jets and luxury yacht liners. Combine this with the circulation of goods in commerce and you have a never ending process that emits billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide and this is coming from one state, add to it all 50 states, the trouble is not the earth but ourselves. People in California number 39.35 million, a third 13.11 million continue to emit carbon dioxide trading long term atmospheric consistency for satisfaction now. Is a glaring case of selfishness runs deep the environment they live with means only what they can take out of it and this selfishness is emulated, copied, by other groups, and by other nations. Why are these people not shamed and discouraged? The shaming that should come from social leaders who in California are pretenders and hypocrites! These people present no hope for children and the natural world and the hubris in them is a danger to humanity; a vice of satisfaction now.
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  2489.  @willlienellson7451  Who do you mean 'they'? Our own Generals who made the decision to abandon hardware.
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  2490. It is in times like these when masses are in motion that a theory of social change and transformation is absolutely necessary even more than the Bible.
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  2491. Why make a Hate question? No Hate going on. If anything allowing protests and counter protests to occur is democracy. The language terminology used in this report, “hate”, “escalate”, “unrest”, are provocative and chauvinistic terms.
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  2492. On 21 October 2012, Haitian President Michel Martelly, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson, Ben Stiller and Sean Penn inaugurated the 240-hectare (600-acre) Caracol industrial park, the largest in the Caribbean. Costing US$300 million, the project, which includes a 10-megawatt power plant, a water-treatment plant and worker housing, is intended to transform the northern part of the country by creating 65,000 jobs. This foreign investment took away food that could have been produced in Haiti. It destroyed the livelihoods of small private producers by taking away the agricultural worker who went looking to get hired by this new project, it attracted farm workers out of necessity to the new power plant and water treatment facility, like a magnet, there were no food markets in which a livelihood could be made thus, the project changed Haitian society, and Haiti began importing its food by 80%. The famous people named above manage to make wage workers out of farm workers pulling agriculture right out from under the feet of the average Haitian destroying or making poorer 80% of the population. Thins Sean Penn and Ben Stiller would ever realize this catastrophe is part of their doing out?
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  2493.  @ivanfreely6366  Assuming you are in the US and a registered voter. If we know who is going to win in advance then you may as well vote for Sanders as a protest vote.
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  2494. Great report!
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  2495. The prince is a right wing Mellineal and his adminstration so top heavy, so costly, his effciency is an example of inefficiency, that he could not compete with Russia as a leading oil supplier.
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  2496.  @noelvoss6744  Then the property owners and financial wealth miscalculated. They chose to remain out of touch with the masses. They should have selected their man to be Fetterman and go with the promises and the demands the masses want from Fetterman and who in Oz, those demands would have been snuffed! At best, tunnel vision is their current malaise.
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  2497.  @noelvoss6744  Of course, if the little guy has no work the little guy cannot enrich the big guy. You don’t get rich on money alone unless you are Wall Street. Work is not an avenue for financial freedom in America. This has been the case long before Fetterman arrived on the scene; not much of a reason to discredit him over job losses when the jobs frankly, suck! Is it that easy for you to call so many DNA are proving innocent, criminals! The last time I checked financial wealth and property owners have stolen billions in COVID Relief Money and in jail is a tiny fraction of how many ought to be in jail is worse than criminals being released. Legalizing drugs can mean anything? Pot, pharmaceuticals?
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  2498. Question is what should have Italian prosecutors and defense lawyers done that they did not in the Amanda Knox case?
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  2499. Labor unions, civil liberty unions, medical and scientific community, academia, news corporations, have their own Trump supporters. The middle class professionals and the associations they belong, Golf Club Association, Kiwanis, Merchant, Bank, Better Business Bureau, Entertainment and Hospitality industries, all have their Trump emulators, acolytes, supporters. Trump world is Las Vegas in Washington D.C.. Trump has surrogates with US military and Law Enforcement backgrounds and training on the front line willing to do the intimidation necessary at leadership daring to go against Trump. Civil War can be a real thing. Trump’s social momentum has a model in Mafia social constructs, criminal organizations, classic pyramid structure, and its world wide. Many foreign big capitalists are Trump emulators and competitors at the same time. There wasn’t a movement behind third party candidates for them to be remembered that is why two stand out. Trump is no third party. He’s a splinter in one party alternating power with another . Eugene V. Debs was a third party and Donald Trump. Mention Ross Perot and its like Who? Trump could get re-elected and he could be jailed. He could be president and in jail. If what becomes the case his second term will be nothing short of a revenge mission to destroy the democratic party. America can kiss any opposition goodbye. Trump supporters are everywhere even if they are a minority, they are spread across a wide range of social institutions big enough to disrupt those institutions, whip up trouble, mischief, that the heads of all leading institutions are dead silent about Trump’s constitutional transgressions. America is today what it would be like to live under Franco in Spain in the 50s and 60s. Mouths are muzzled.
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  2500. I would not consider the US to be the world in its craziness.
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  2501.  @itzenormous  Not you again?
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  2502. Neolibeal states are guilty of parenticide in their behavior in society and how people procure their subsistence in these states is through parricide.
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  2503.  @franniesfarm  The form of government you have is a bureaucracy and all bureaucracies run slow. You need a government of direct action and reply not more red tape.
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  2504. This is the kind of journalism needed when governments become dictatorially heartless and soulless. It puts a human face on the numerous effects of sanctions on the individual. It took too long for journalism to migrate from the high place of objectivity to the the street and community to the lone place of subjectivity where damaged bodies are found. Journalists are scared too. Street documentary is the only way to change mass opinion. Mass opinion is what the 'experts' manipulate, the tools created by academics, polls, surveys, think tanks, media, serve to change or immobilize your attitude on a given subject. This is why you as an individual were never shown through media the body bags coming back from any of the invasions. This would sensitize you to its immoral and unjust nature. We know now that the "anal retentive personality' developed during the Bush years of the Self led to fascism. Germophobes, and all relations reduced to the common denominator of desease. "As Good As It Gets', is a depiction of a world in chaos and disorder racked with germ killers through the eyes of obsessed individual. "Taxi Driver" depicts a social world of leeches seen through the eyes of a obsessed vigilante. Subtle depictions that lay the groundwork of acceptance of fascism. Fascism depends on order and all things have their place, a circle in a square disturbs the fascist order of the universe as an abberation, an anomoly, everything is reduced to the one source of all creation; the Father, any deviation from that one source is an aberration. Darth Vader is Dutch for "the Father", five movie episodes spanning two generations of people cemented patriarchy that in the series dessimates a matriarchy and the rightful heir to power is nepotistic. Popular culture and political opportunism are key features to the rise of fascism in the US. In the political real world individuals pre-socialized in the fascist order of things translates into a top down social structure with diminshing rights the further down the ladder of soceity people are born. Such personality disorders are compatible ways of being in a fascist state. The formal suit replaces the restraints of military regalia of Nazism. In the private sector, individuals are selected, hired on this criteria. In the public sector they are tested for selection and placed in waiting for a spot and then rise up. The State has grown from being mere tax collectors six senturies back into an organized syndicate of agencies and 'technocrats', where upward mobility is more tangible than in the private sector. The more we are shown images of force in all its forms, the more desensitized a people we become, callous, insensitive, inactive and unwilling to take a political stand against dictatorship. Other societes are preplexed that so little opposition exists to what they see are concentration camps despite how sanitized they are made to sound.
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  2505. Paragraph 5 interests me. The formation of the division of labor in society when production is classless. No capitalist and no labor-power in production and how that would look in America?
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  2506. I completely agree with him that the atrocities ought to be investigated and going further, all atrocities on the same scale deserve equal prosecution regardless of the war or the outcome of the war. He is wrong to say that NATO should conventionally attack Russia for striking Ukraine with nuclear weapons. Effectively, such a maneuver by NATO would cancel, dismiss, nullify, renders moot, the political sovereignty of Ukrainians. They would lose their nationhood status as a Vassal State to NATO. Furthermore he is basing the relationship between NATO and Ukraine on the difference of strength of the two entities that a strike from a more powerful foe would justify but drags NATO into a direct conflict with Russia and a direct conflict with the US through NATO. Two wrongs don’t make a right with all respect to our Polish representative they make WWIII.
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  2507. He is an FBI Mole planted by the CIA. His arrest was all staged to not be a part of the insurrection of the Capitol and the high powered magazines were a pretext. A Guarimba.
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  2508.  @themarxistproject  Thanks. I believe that would be in your department to show how S&T can be applied to meet the needs of society or humanity in contrast to how it is used to control populations now, i.e., the Palestinians as guinee pigs in monitoring the movement of people. You have a show that can reach people. I don't. But what I would like to see is more concrete case samples of real people stories that illustrate how a way of life changes by their own actions, such as my example of the murder of a cobbler in Port Jervis NY.   In my view, there must always be a particular case that illustrates the general theory. Otherwise, people have a hard time understanding that every action they do effects a capitalist revolution to their detriment and demise, and every action they can do can effect a revolution for themselves, but either way, a revolution is effected whether they like it or not. It is just a question of what direction should that revolution be guided, for society or for a capitalist class. S&T is central to this thesis in the role it plays as a weapon for capitalists and not a weapon for workers. So far all Americans aid and abet the capitalists revolutions which look like war, security, intervention to them, is carried on behind all our backs. So- you need illustrations to break the veneer demonizing software writers, publishers, producers is less effective than exposing them for producing the weapons of totalitarian social control. Keep up the good work.
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  2509. The owner of the Wall Street Journal is a billionaire capitalist Rupert Murdoch Jr., and Sr., and pays absolutely NO TAXES to the American federal government. As a news monopolist he owns several publications in the world between England the US and Australia and lives a life of privilege, never experiences a need, travels by Jet polluting the skies shaping public policy through his media empire. If it were not for the Murdochs there would be thousands of independent newspapers in America still operating offering journalists an alternative over working for one corporation where they are kept with a muzzle over their mouths about the truth in news.
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  2510. His last comment is accurate you are not a liberty to infect other people and disrupt the normal flow of business as usual. Fact is, people who think they have a liberty are using the idea of liberty to cover for an action to exclude themselves from the group and cannot accept they are the same as everyone else, seemingly they think of themselves as special, and ought to be treated special apart from the rest, that they must broadcast these internal sentiments in a way that appears to those outside of them, as insane. It amounts to the habit of accepting hubris and ego as a virtue that the inability to socialize as a member of a larger community is met with personal resistance. They cannot crack that shell of individualism. When their children die of COVID in more concerning numbers these people will be prosecuted for their inaction that not only infects others but also caused the death of their own child(ren). Its not a far-fetched idea jail is where their belief system will lead them-- no longer a part of society. The Crumbley Family is a good example of the first crime of criminal neglect to be charged against parents and there will be more to follow if COVID raises the death toll in children.
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  2511. You know who were even crazier than Pilgrims were white American women in the South in 1965 who if they saw a black man on the street the women would freeze and start screaming in absolute terror right in front of the black man the poor guy would be in total disbelief that a white women would publicly freak out they were seeing a monster in the presence of a black man, they we absolutely NUTS! I witnessed such an event in Alabama in 65’. @schloughed 
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  2512. Free market capitalism. Land is bought and sold. Buyer can be anyone. The seller has to have the rights to sell the land. There is no law that says this deal is illegal. American Congress de-regulated America so that buyers and sellers can buy and sell any commodity they like. Gonna take a long time before Americans understand how unbridled capitalism works and by then they will so poor they won’t do anything to prevent it,---powerless in subjugation to economic forces and anonymous owners.
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  2513.  @iqbaltimol2676  Who’s comment?
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  2514. Smart thief. Stupid comments about the thief.
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  2515.  @tonybaroud6820  You are anonymous; there can be no friendship under those conditions.
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  2516.  @R.McP83  If that personal relationship breaks out into violence outside of the home is that a domestic incident?
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  2517. I can imagine the psychological torment gambling addicts put themselves through when they don’t win.
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  2518. Price violates value all the time! $15 an hour's worth of labor in the year 2020 is equated to the labor-time of when it was made (cost of living) of an earlier year or decade when the individual reaches the age of majority. This equation has no effect on price. Wages last were changed in 1979 and it is still based on the index of 1979. The best capitalism has to offer working people is a sobering reality, the end of prosperity is implied.
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  2519. And the lower rung of workers who do the separating get paid .20% to .30% of the $775 a day per child, roughly a cost of $150 to $200 a day for a cop per child. I f the number of children is 1000 detained that comes to $7,750,00 per day on the low end explains why Trump took FEMA money to pay private detention centers. The landowners of the properties are getting rich off the taxpayer. Ultimately, if the private detention services are not the owner of the building and land then you have a separate social class enriched by this set up.
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  2520. Impossible the social movements opposing restrictions will not spark the same across the US.
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  2521. Of course, they could...its the 'if' part of the problem that obstructs that kind of activity from happening.
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  2522. Impossible to trust the health establishment in the US with your health and life.
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  2523. Americans do not value safety and security. They would rather have freedom. With the freedom to choose not to get vaccinated they got fired and when the government gave the airline companies money to not fire people during the lock down the airline companies pocketed the money with no conditions to the airline executives. Now the public is flying high in the sky with pilots right out of customer service.
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  2524. I guess this is one way lakes are made by the Earth. Have to see what is going on beneath the crust to find out why the surface is changing. Humanity changes the surface through housing, farming, industry, but internal forces change the planet through earthquakes, eruptions, floods. When the surface makes farming, housing, and industry impossible, where does humanity produce its food?
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  2525. Invariably, the metamorphosis of China's commodities into money in the American market is a metamorphosis of America's products from money into commodities in China's markets. So the US finds itself losing money as more Chinese goods flood American markets and its own goods in China's markets are not selling. The crisis the domestic American economy faces is a paradox of a super abundance of Chinese made products with prices that should fall from the excess quanitiy of goods China produces but in order to satisfy the American manufacturer's appetite for profit the sanctions step in to raise artifically the price of Chinese goods in the US market. Which could work if a government controlled the rate of profit the manufacturers want to charge against the effect of depressing wages for the American people. US manufacturers accelerate profit rates, however, without government control and planning, so the American people always end up as the losers, earning less purchasing capacity by the day the longer this form of protectionism is carried on. The Trump administration decided to levy a tax on China's goods, and this has a double effect on working populations. The corporations moving production to another coutry to escape the tax has its sociological ramifications of displaced working people in the community from which the corporations are leaving is a particular effect on communities in that locality. And the general effect of the imposed tax on foreign Chinese products for all working people tranlates into less purchasing power as wages have remained a constant over the last 45 years going forward. Congress has the option of legislating the manufacturers cease being the recipient of government bailouts in the form of subsidies as this is a misappropriation of a public interest serving a private interest. Given there is no political pressure on Congress to take action against tariffs that react negatively back on the home market the financial condition of the American people will only get worse way before it gets better.
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  2526.  @lynnewaugaman9695  Its a nightmare right now with the US controlling the World as the Superpower...are you saying China would do a worse job running the world than the US, for some reason? Secondly, what other friends, the Trump administration alienated the EU nations and has Israel and Canada (waning its support is Canada and Israel has nothing to do with the trade block in Asia)? What friends? Third, you express no concern over the depression of wages as the effect of protectionism which indicates to me you earn your living by some other form of income or what you could be earning without a protectionist government from higher wages has not sunk into your head. Shall we continue this dialogue or do you want me to show you the door?
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  2527. II doubt this guy’s explanation. Its a weird story and makes the whole operation weird. But in context it makes sense. We are not given the context so we are forced to speculate... Tunneling would make sense if the synagogue has connections to Netanyahu, and the secret entrance and escape way shelters him from capture this faction believes he would need depending on the outcome of this war. Most safest place for Netanyahu is back in the US where he began from Brooklyn raising money for a Zionist movement in the 70s. Tunneling appears to be an Israel fetish as they built all the tunnels they are now bombing in Gaza. Why would they not have the construction plans to make rooting out Hamas less destructive a process for the whole society? Because as a my good friend, Flaco always says; “so mush (much) bushee (bullshit) hee (here)”.
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  2528. The great, great, great, great, nieces and nephews who share a common ancestor in the making of the political policies of their invasion of America from 1615 are not all united in making formal apologies and there is evidence the actions of the State Department in the conduct of this war using Ukrainians as proxies is a modern equivalent of shielding themselves behind women and children the way Custer had in Washita that not much has changed and waiting for a change will never come unless the change is made by all Americans.
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  2529.  @gloriahayleyk  Who's they?
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  2530. Two parts to why US policy in Syria is aggressive. Political containment of Iran is one part. The other part is economic control over geological minerals and oil for US mining and drilling companies. To that end,  our material way of life is supported but not sustained. As more of our resources are poured over there, here, there is nothing to show for it, but a rising stock market.
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  2531. Good I hate these stores. They kill small business. They sell crap. They are parasitical.
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  2532. Mmmm...plausibility and probability...intrinsic likelihood and how far is plausibility and probability from the realm of normal experience, if plausible is it probable are quite the questions? The source compared with other sources of the time and same place. Independent witnesses of the event the earlier the better. Friend and foe of the event increases the probability the event happened. Information with no axe to grind is reliable. Is it at odds or embarrassing to the source make it a worthy source of information. Guides that indicate a usual tendency, or something is endemic, as a part of the nature of the subject, inseparable from it, make it a trustworthy piece of evidence or attestation after many points of views arrive at the same conclusion...there is a common ancestor for our genus is a logical deduction of an historical event preceding the birth of Jesus by millions of years and the historical source written about the event 100 years after the life of Jesus has less authenticity as a source than the Fossil Record does about the Human Species.
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  2533. Instead of being a subjective doer humanity once again finds itself subsumed within the belly of the beast. The machismo directing the US president and the North Korean Chairman has us living on the edge of a potential conflict erupting in two parts of the world. Humanity lives in fear of a chain of events helpless, falling into defeat, despair and depression because MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is one minute away from annihilation. Beyond the world leaders and their personalities, in the real world, our immediate condition on this planet as a species demonstrates humans have no mastery over humanity; machines and nucelar weapons are the master of mankind?
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  2534. Having a surplus reserve of people willing to work for less as a way to get out of life threatening conditions does put a lot of pressure employers can use to lower the wages of their citizen employees or not raise wages as workers strike in larger and larger numbers should be a consideration when conditions for American workers worsen. The administration that floats this mass of available labor is the administration making conditions for the US labor force worse in their struggle with their employers and here lies the reason why the American worker wants a wall to keep migrants out. Like all commodities subject to the laws of supply and demand the commodity labor-power is no different. The price of labor rises and falls but rarely below where workers cannot survive unless a sufficient amount of unskilled labor enters the market that employers can buy as a means of replacing labor-power more costly occurs to avoid bankruptcy of the company.
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  2535. 14:23 the extreme heat and tornadoes. Private insurance companies and their need to make security a thing you can buy and sell are the barrier to accessing government resources for the recovery of natural disaster of victims in society. If ‘security’ were not made into a commodity the municipal bulldozers and garbage trucks would be out there cleaning up debris like a civil defense corp block by block, all the private homes damaged and the rebuilding would include a carpentry brigade. But as long as “security” is a thing you do buy and sell, you will always be a taxpayer, and the heavy tools and equipment are free to be used other ways that keep the individual property owner dependant on private insurance corporations, to get back on their feet! This set-up that excludes a citizenry of the material resources of municipalities, held on reserve for the sake of an insurance market, is un-American. Trump falls short not saying that all municipalities have resources kept in reserve from use of for citizens are rigged for disaster, to place a homeowner in need of insurance,-- this way of life is a life of subjugation to a private party.
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  2536. I dub thee 5353 Jumper the Great Reformer. You would follow in some big footsteps. Alexander, Peter the Great. The French has some good laws defending workers from nasty capitalist corporations. Like they can't just announce bankruptcy and pack up and leave. The Russians did some good thing too. Legislated all corporations could not hire more than say 1000 workers. They thought about companies getting too big the whole population becomes their leverage against the government. Like here in the US a corporation hires 5000 workers and you can't touch them without harming a whole community sometimes an entire town, Too Big Too Fail Syndrome. Something different must occur beyond reforms. A total and comprehensive shift in how human societies are organized and make a living is what I am thinking.
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  2537. They do not want to go down in history as the ones who destroyed civilization in general and want to evade prosecution for their crimes in accruing their fortunes in particular. They do this by controlling what gets seen by the public, filtering the most critical parts of the trial that would shame them before the American people, and would constitute a crime, and therefore, impeachment and removal. The filling up of the court system with right wing ideological justices is another filter, that a criminal case against them is screened and does not make it through to a trial. Dead before it gets there.  This is a political elite that cannot be removed from power without a revolution. Republicans want to be protected from the judgement of history is a good point. Not if a people's revolution can help it is the counter-point! People make history, is true ever since the 18th century. Rulers may write the wars as history but they only make wars not history. History is made by us. We should start writing it now! They do not want to be seen as the people responsible for the collapse of the capitalist system descending into a world wide depression of wars and revolutions, consequently. We all know how complicit the democratic party has been, how we recover that party is through a mass landslide election of Bernie Sanders and a mass turnout in the streets demonstrating what Jane Fonda is calling for,--- mass social power every Friday, 1789-2020!  The party would have to be re-branded, re-named, the police and justice system entirely brought down to the ground floor for reconstruction, out with the old in with the new, and Bernie would have to do that if he is elected. A massive deconstruction at the same as as a massive re-construction of America takes place will have to be charted out for this century of the common person. Our votes would have to be directed in disbanding the wing controlling the power by a changed Speaker of the House. Speaker decides what issues this nation ought to be addressing as first order of business. Senators and congresspeople would have to fight out the real tough issues this country faces and the Speaker would have to hold them to it takes a person who can see the Big picture, knows what bills meet real needs and what bills meet fake needs, to appropriate those tax dollars in an equitable way. The absolute corruption of the GOP and the flawed democratic party dissolved and permanently banned from entering politics until some far future point of a solid and concrete redemption of their evil ways restores faith and credibility which if they succeed in brainwashing children with fake history will return with a vengeance as they have returned disguised as civilized fascists from the Nazi era. It is the farmers and working people in this country who will have to restructure the economy with the money they stole, period. Re-invest the capital currently in the hands of Bezos, Buffet, Gates, Sorros, and the rest of the class of billionaires. Capital to be used for a massive re-investment into the American economy, and the working people and farmers of the US must take a stand, or permanantly live under the rule of plutocrats.
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  2538. Could be that republicans looking less favorably on capitalism are less favorable of monopoly capitalism and the survey does not distinguish the difference between monopoly capitalism and competition in capitalism. They may have favorable views of capitalism in its competitive stages versus negative views of monopoly capitalism that has the effect of interpolating the many against the few. The part about the changes in the socialist world Americans are clueless about because of the Cold War, is an incredible revelation of our own poverty of intellectual development. The Washington elites' solution to slowing down the progress of socialist nations was for the capitalist world to make the American people educationally incompetent. Unable to act as a social class for itself unable to distinguish right from wrong, because it is at the same time a class most capable in the world today of an affluent worker's democracy. This is probably the most devious of crimes. A crime against humanity.
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  2539.  @jackalope7395  taxpayers pay in the form of higher taxes and fees after all settlements of the suit are finalized and the city wants to recooperate that loss. This why police unions and officers person funds should be the only entities a suit will allow to be filed against seeking damages in wrongful death suits.
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  2540. 2:21 look how this reporter grins at the camera while reporting a climate catastrophe impacting the planet.
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  2541. No information on who, what, when and why? Prays from the community and patience from the press. We have enough critics in our community. Thanks for watching. Man, American media sucks.
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  2542. Ratings and polls show the American people are disgusted with mainstream media and political world.
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  2543. @ Victor Lustig: Sounds like you are preaching to the choir, son. Don't tell me tell your neighbor. The poor is not a subject of my comment. You live in a class society, thus, terms have to be concise not loosely used to describe people. Is it illegal to be a working class person in the 46 states? No it is not, in fact, it is encouraged by all states. Working class is a money maker for capitalism. The poor are not exposed to workplace exploitation because they live as paupers on the street. So why are you telling the Americans are insensitive to the poor? Are you insensitive to the poor because your state government has criminalized poverty? The working class and the poor are two distinct classes of people in society. Common to the poor at one far end of society and the super rich at the other far end of society is that neither of them work for a living by means of a paycheck and neither the super rich or the Poor contribute materially to the survival of society or the human species for that matter. This is why the super rich turn to philanthropy and the Poor are on State assistance, because neither are workers creating or adding value to the economy, both are takers, the former consumes the most for the self and the latter consumes the least for the self, this makes them unproductive consumers created by what is Neoliberalism. You are probably a working person which would make you the subject of my comment. So why not tell me about your experiences with workplace exploitation, whether by man, women or machine, as perpetrator boss or victimized worker? Which are you? Sometimes people are gaslighted both, physical or mental, on the job. They become de-sensitized to the exploitation itself and become victimizers to others because they are powerless to retaliate against the real perpetrator of the exploitation. If you re one of these people don't take it out on your family or other workers experiencing the same degree of exploitation. Direct your angry at the true source and encourage others to the same and America will not be the "... home of slaves".
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  2544. Things change is the point here: On Feb 1 Germany refuses the send arms to Ukraine but on Feb 7th Germany’s Chancellor changed his mind. So there is internal dissension in Germany. Siding with the Americans is falling easier into place from the position of not siding with them on arming Ukraine. Germany’s solution is to keep Nordstream as long as Russia stays put and switch on renewable energy if Russia invades. Nordstream would be spared of destruction by the Americans.
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  2545.  @holytrashify  Fascist!
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  2546. I understand Trump's foot size is a 14.
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  2547. @Seventh Anubis What are trying to say in this sentence: “All the cold war because communism is part of the laws, rights, and overall government.”
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  2548. Such a resonate point that if there is anyone who cares about climate change and the environment are the oil companies. Oil companies employ an average of 130,000 employees. Not many workers out of a workforce of 132 million workers. They are highly paid and accumulate enough money to go into their own business in a relatively short time, while, 70 million people of 132 million of the domestic workforce will never accumulate enough money and must sell their labor-power every day for a life of poverty till they drop.
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  2549. Stand your ground laws...you have no duty to abandon your property whether you are the owner of a house or owner of a 1000 factories across the US or owner of 1 million acres of land...force can meet force. When applied other forms of private property the law takes on a new meaning. The largest property owners can defend their property with a greater force and do. Big ones hire mercenaries armies. Smaller ones hire private security. Individual smaller property owners can have a stash of arms. Monkey see , monkey do laws. The law applies to all forms of private property that force can be used in the event of a perceived or real threat that occurs on the property itself. Its not a people law. Its a property law that looks like a people law giving a right to use force against those of lesser force and be not held liable for murder because the violence came to them. Once again its a stupid way of expressing freedom for the masses but a perfect way to defend an Oligarchy from revolution, revolt, or protest opposition. The original intent of the 2nd Amendment was to ensure settler property owners are defended from non-property owners which at the time the amendment was passed the Congress were largely worried about black slaves and native American Indians.
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  2550. People don’t know the inspiration behind the character of Miss Piggy was Ivana.
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  2551. The US taxpayer is being played big time with all these wars and adventure.
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  2552. @Andrea Mitchell,---You cannot “mistakingly” shoot a person holding a white flag, Andrea. A white flag cannot be mistaken Andrea. Do you understand Andrea? Andrea...I’M TALKING TO YOU!
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  2553. The least populated places in America are excluded from development and progress. The squeaky wheel always gets the grease the mid west squeak is not loud enough to get any grease.
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  2554. If Steven Miller is not a Neo-Nazi he is certainly a racist.
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  2555.  @anthonybaiocchi3028  I re-read it, I should have broken it down to smaller sentences. Well- thanks, I got my point to delivered to a decent human being is all that counts. Make sure you stay a million miles away from lead in your home and work if you have ADHD.
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  2556. The pattern has always been what America wants the Congress ignores. Congress does not belong to America; it belongs to a class of owners of financial wealth and property who live in America.
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  2557. You don't destroy the sewing machine because it is used against you in the factory. You free the sewing machine from being used as a tool to exploit your energy, vital life power within you, by a factory owner. Facebook is the sewing machine and Zuckerberg is the factory owner.
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  2558. American news media gives very important and highly complex subjects less than one minute as an obligatory mention because the media is really an ad platform.
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  2559. The chart is explained for political opinion not for its social ramifications. For the higher median number gets older not smaller in size. The same quantity of people in that median age group is carried into the future while the number of younger category age groups are smaller in size. Consequence, America has less children and a shrinking and disappearing working class that carries the burden of a higher number of older Americans. The social ramifications of this is significant for all departments for the future of the US economy because the social nature of the family is no longer what it was at the height of US prosperity.
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  2560.  @myonlineaccount7447  You really hate the woman, huh?
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  2561. What if a fatality is involved could blood be drawn without a warrant?
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  2562. As a assumed right...this is a second Haitian Revolution and its general is a remarkable leader. The proletarian gangs have made it that if America wants to dominate their country they will have to send in American troops because the proxies are finished. A united front against a corrupt system. Protesters have stormed the presidential palace in Mexico City. Gangs on the outside organize prison rebellions on the inside. Freed prisoners, armed occupation of granneries, slaughterhouses, factories, are general uprisings of the proletarians of the world is a powerful message bound to catch on.
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  2563. Despite appearances of material deprivation greater than the owner who lives in a house the homeless person is still an owner in the eyes of the law and has the same rights as the right of the owner in the home has in the form of security, and the preservation of person and property. The property of the propertyless is their labor-power who as owners have the right to dispose of it as they see fit. The law treats this commodity the same as if the owner of the house decides to sell or take it off the market, an act of free will. The only commodity the propertyless have is their labor-power and the law recognizes this commodity as no different than any other commodity. The homeless can sue the owner of the home for infringing on the right of the person without a home for a number of crimes if they impede or harm in any way or shape or form the sale of labor-power by the owner of that commodity and all the homeless person needs is a battery of radical lawyers to challenge the law itself with its own precepts and collect millions for a revolution.
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  2564. Novalny should have worked outside of Russia to change Russia inside he would have accomplished more as an exiled activist than becoming a martyr.
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  2565. Walmart is the outlet for everything China produces. If you don't like socialism than your rich and powerful should not have opened the US market to products produced in communist China. Take you anger out on the Walton family and their political representatives in government...ask them why their money is in China and not in the US? Trump was aggressive with his tariff and arrest of Wahwei executive. This is an act of denial. Biden gave some hope that he would not continue Trump's posture toward China he instead doubled down on China. This was an act of denial. The US can't get any European allies to go along with this new but old Cold War policy Trump resurrected as the way to deal with China. They are pursuing an independent foreign policy from the US is a split of historic significance and America pretends this has not happened. This is an act of denial.
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  2566.  @MoonIntheCove  Politics young lady, the cops are a political power and should be de-politicized...this is all political. I know they are, I worked with them. They got a grip on you.
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  2567. You mean Trump's face? If so, I can easily agree.
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  2568. @Lee Lindsey, ---an excellent summation...beautifully succinct that could not be said better in any postscript.
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  2569. I cannot understand how the inflow of migrant families are not seen by the American public as a supply of cheap labor for large scale employers in various sectors of he economy. Meatpacking, assembly, agriculture, entertainment and hospitality...just go to any of the big retailers (Walmart) and look who are working there. Large employers competing with each other to lower their individual costs depend on hiring labor at a lower price. This is why wages have not risen in 50 years.
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  2570. The greying of America, Congress has done absolutely nothing to restrict the power of the president which has become more authoritarian over the 50 years. When billionaires have the power to undermine national sovereignty the changes to protect that sovereignty become necessary. Summary: The president's cabinet and prime minister positions are not dissolved but the power to choose who becomes PM and ministers in the cabinet decided by the Duma (Russia's Congress). Limits the presidency to two consecutive terms, --banning dual citizenship for all government figures,---citizen of Russia requirment to hold office. An impeachment procedure through the Federation Council and federation laws reviewed by the Court for their constitutionality. Mandatory indexing of the social security and minimum wage payment for the Russian poverty line. Limit the supremacy of international law.
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  2571. The problem with the legal system of these various modes of production is that: if climate and soil changes while people are slaves and masters the master will drive slaves to produce the same product even as the soil and climate no longer supports that product. There isn’t the versatility in slavery that comes with a free worker the legal system under capitalism makes certain people are and there is not a worker in the world that cares so little of the kind of labor they do as long as it brings them a buck than the American worker.
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  2572. Very good. Her book comes at a time when brown people cannot be free unless black people are free from social inequality.
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  2573. The political elite and interventionism: The foreign policy establishment Ro Khanna speaks about are a military and industrial alliance of private sector executives and officials in the public sector, they interlock, with the political elite of the state. By interlocking I do mean literally through social relations that they are connected to one another, marriage, extended relatives, families. The industries that produce the modern military are the vital industries protected by this political elite. The political elite consists of political families some of whom go back to the 18th century in American politics, are groomed for the roles of political power, through Ivy League Universities and live lives of endless chances, recklessness, a world were money is not a necessity or used as a medium for exchange, services are gifts, gifts are deductible for the giver, comes as form of a subsidy disguised as a tax benefit, the fashion industry and entertainment industry and the media industry also interlock with the political elite, the secondary industries which serve this political elite, consume the majority of the nation's wealth in the style of a King's court, with lavish and conspicuous consumption; they even have their own special events all the Mozarts the society has to offer on grounds separated from the mass of the citizenry. And others more recently join this social class through politics have but one chance of entry into the political elite. If people can get into this political social class by getting elected then one has to understand the military itself as another component of the state through which people of the society can enter into this political elite. Professional soldiers become generals, and generals form a group of their own as the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a council to the president on all military affairs, civil and military life is the bread and butter of America's political system as a unity of internal oppositions. In the economy itself the largest corporations produce this social system of the political elite as a society within society. The first to appropriate and consume the economic surplus before it gets distributed to the other social classes through wages, profits, rents, tax returns and exemptions, dividends, stocks etc., is the political elite. To keep the reign of the political elite intact the Supreme Court establishes law and the State enforces it. In effect the anatomy of a social class as a complex social organization of social institutions dominating the field of all human life based on, A is non-A. Non-A, is all of us, we are not what the political elite are or have, we are its opposite destructive side, victim and victimizer, crippled and destitute. When taxes are cut the non-A listers owe the government for a tax cut means the government took less taxes from our incomes. For the A-listers a tax cut creates an economic surplus and becomes a pool of capital the government borrows and lends to all non-A listers.
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  2574.  @kristinab1078  Right now there is money to be made from the unvaccinated because of the increased time spent hospitalized. The money to be made in obesity is in the fast food business. Apply a little logic and the fast business creates obesity which in turn creates COVID and COVID creates profits for the medical establishment. I am thinking this is how the insanity is playing out. The unvaccinated are making big pharma and hospitals richer by choosing to get sick and that commitment is a form of vigilant martyrdom and self-sacrifice to control a situation that is controlling them.
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  2575. What a good way to understand and re-experience historical events. Great job Bald.
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  2576. You don’t get to be rich in America by not exploiting labor. The domination over people is exercised by virtue of, and through the agency of, the domination over things. There could not be a more clear cut example of that relation than in the debt ceiling deal being rammed down the throats of the American people.
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  2577. Good talk and realistic analysis of what will happen in this country falling on deaf ears.
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  2578.  @dianahill5116  Imagination is everything.
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  2579. People thought that about bacteria yet the killer germ contains its antidote.
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  2580. If you want to get on NBC you'll have to be connected to a tank tank. The think tank in question is a punitive one.
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  2581. This is a guy who hates people. People want a break and create a holiday and he comes down to crush their cultural enjoyment. How about that. You put in 60 hours of work a week and a kid who has not even put in more than 10 years at a job, a non-worker, and he wants to take it away. He’s got balls, I’ll give him that. In the meantime he wants a job where the working time is literally 8 months out of the year averaging 6 hours a day plus tax paid universal healthcare even when he leaves that job to go into another political office. He is here to stir up a war that does not exist. Than plays a race card to stir it. All the republican candidates are like paid actors. Fake people. None in their personal life really believe what they
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  2582.  @Tetragrammaton22  thanks that was an error.
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  2583. Argentina has such a low national income that it can only afford a small share of the world’s gold supply. That should give you a good picture of what is going on. The US would have to finance what the country needs in gold reserves to be an active partner in trade. Industries will work their people to death so the nation’s output can exceed what the nation owes.
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  2584. People should start developing revolutionary phone apps!
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  2585. You are just too kind toward people who bombed a parent carrying jugs of water to his family!
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  2586.  @eo3064  It took a couple of days for me to develop a sensible reply and getting out from under this avalanche of information. What borders on conspiracy is the government's silence about its projects that weather modifications come off as conspiracies. That said, if it is not carbon emissions trail a jet than it is a chemical revolutionizing the atmosphere. This idea is within capability of the US military and its team of military scientists. But what would be its other purpose beyond the thing that gives it a conspiracy as a technology working against people?  Robert Malthus's theory of population might have an answer because in his world the problem is too little land and too many people. If they can change the atmosphere from its natural proportions of oxygen, carbon and hydrogen, it might be to make soil productive. Sheilding large scale agriculture from economic ruin the fact that it feeds the world, and the smallest natural insects hydrocycles produce can wipe out a whole crop of futures and stocks can go under. But the government is secret about it. Weather modifications must entail a use for defense. Big industrial agriculture using air as a means of production for crop production on a large scale. If industry manufactures air, then they would be making a commodity out of a natural necessity, like bottled water, and own it while, the process of polluting Earth's hydrology creates a market for bottled water, and only those who can afford it get the best water. Conspiratorial or not, its still poisoning the natural with the social.
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  2587. People in the audience applauding that statement are in denial of the fact that their justice system has incarcerated black people later exonerated by DNA. Stripping the rights of a suppressed population is fascism.
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  2588. Imagine if the professor got a dollar from every working person in America. That would add up to 132 million dollars. The professor would be a serious contender creating a new path for growth and development. The thought that Capitalism is nothing more than collection of commodities relating to each other is a mind blowing revelation that challenges our basic premises of life right from the get go, why products should be commodities in the first place! Commodities obscure the work process in society. Makes mysterious the role of industry, science and technology in a work process and obscures the material exchanges between humans and nature, a relation of perpetual transformation, and when the work process consists of 3 billion humans on the planet, transformation happens quick! One commodity is the same as a any other commodity, so dissecting one commodity is all it takes to expose these general laws of capitalism is a challenging position. This means... Workers are bossed into making commodities every day from 9 to 5. A fixed period of time rules work, they have to make enough commodities that a profit motive becomes the end and aim of production, or there is no work at all, humanity is a hostage to a social condition. Before this happened there wasn’t a social condition to work, a watch was a town crier or a church bell, a time element was not a social program all members of society would participate with. Before a time element came into the work process, if a thing had to be made, or food had to be harvested, it was done by slaves, serfs, artisans, but when the same work had to be done after a time element took over work, and how people harvested the soil and made coats, hats, shoes, clocks, guns, they had to become free people, before they can be hired as free workers, before slaves and serfs can become known as a family of tailors, milliners, clocksmiths, gunsmiths, their very sustenance has to be torn out from under them by means of economic conquest.
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  2589. Pro-lifers are homicidal religious freaks. Their leadership have ambitions to run America. Merge the government with their religion. They sit in Congress and dominate legislatures. Pass laws that result in a theocratic dictatorship.
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  2590. Jac Flasche ---Salaries are not beyond reason nor vulgar for the lower grade school teachers nationally. Why is that?
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  2591. Not good news for the working class, working people depend on cheap gas prices staying cheap. Trump will protect the fossil fuel industry by using the damage the divestment movement will do to the working person and he will be right! The industry will only raise gas prices to save their asses from the divestment movement killing their business. You think the divestment movement will also pressure Congress to bail out the working class while this energy change over happens? I doubt it. The working class has to organize itself and fight for its own interests because nobody else will. It is excluded from the capitalization of new energy. Personally, I am suspicious new industries producing panels are out to make a buck on a new energy trend. I also don't like the idea of the southwest desert and other natural landscapes covered with panel solar collectors. Collectors which are still primitive technology compared to what the military is working on for solar power. This is a case where a movement is not coming from a working class standpoint even if they are working class people in it.
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  2592.  @maybeja  Anyone who cannot see more than one truth to a thing is nuts. Truth is composed of many truths.
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  2593. Who is this Porter woman another progressive social democrat? The best analogy I can give that nails a social democrat as actually more anti-working class than the conservative right wing are the labor unions. Trades Unions work well as centers of resistance against the encroachments of Big Business. Progressives work well as a pocket of resistance against political republican encroachments. But both of them, unions and social democrats, fail in the injudicious use of their power, they limit themselves to the effects of the existing corruption on he working population, instead of using their forces as levers to free working people from the corruption, that is to say the ultimate aboliton of corruption
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  2594. Wildlife officers euthanized the 75-pound cougar, which are also called mountain lions. The animal's body will be reviewed and tested for diseases, its age and body condition, wildlife officials said. A second cougar was also reported being seen in the area, officials said, but it was never found.
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  2595. Actually before the CIA installed the Shah Iran was very progressive and western. No Ayatollah’s. They were a fringe minority in that society. Even under the Shah, Iran looked like Manhattan in the 60s; dress, style, fashionable. Cold War America ruined all that. @richardgoddard37 
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  2596. Well, workers do not produce everything, if they did 'value' would not be the substance they produce for capital. The labor of workers is only useful to capital as a value producer and it is this quality as a value creator in labor that is the only reason capital produces anything. The 'everything' workers produce are use-values, the value they produce for capital enriches capital in the process of producing use-values. Later capital takes those products and converts them into the profit they contained in the form of surplus-working time or value in excess contained in the total product. People, I find, confuse wealth with value. Soil and water is natural wealth and the economists confuse surplus-value with profit. Profit is a reflection of wage-labor, and wage-labor is historically specific; whereas, surplus-value reflects the standard of life resulting from the general history of work.
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  2597. Ukrainian journalist never mentions NATO’s role in this conflict.
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  2598. Everyone should read Marx's Capital, at the very least the first volume.  Get it a copy now before it is banned and made unobtainable precisely for the very reasons the professor elaborates.
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  2599. Excellent...should be good.
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  2600. Well, ---the American people have to come to terms that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, CIA, Pentagon, State Department and the Treasury are the central institutions of political and economic power and those at the head of those institutions are a Political Elite, a social clique who act in their own class interest, they are the actual decision-makers in society. The rest of society outside of this ruling elite must come together and take action in their own interest as a class which has to do with ensuring society not only functions but works to reproduce the material standard of living of the American people as a whole. This is the primary interest of the American people, a good standard of life, but this standard is robbed with every dollar spent to cover the cost of supporting the class interests of a powerful Political Elite.
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  2601. Kids are money. Bought by child porn addicts, often very rich white men are into child porn. Very rare, so rare we never see black children abducted by other strange black people. Never happens in communities of working class origins. Primary target are white kids or fair skinned children. This crime is a white collar crime committed by caucasians. It is the reason it is not prosecuted heavily because the color barrier raises questions about law enforcement not prosecuting powerful white men. The abductor gets jailed for taking a chance at making several thousands of dollars for the sale of a minor.
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  2602. @NickJohnson,---Drugs and mental illness is not the cause. You had major retail corporations pack up and leave their properties empty is one part of the cause and you have an excess of single home constructions going on that meet the needs of a single elite real estate community is the other part of the problem. You should get your facts straight or become known as a purveyor of false information. San Francisco is not a city containing many industries with a working class. Its an outdoor mall more than it is a city and when the merchants close shop its a ghost town with an under developed economy, culture, and political system. The presence of police makes SF a city of surveillance, there to protect properties. Assume the people were not pacified by drugs there would be mass protests and riots, revolts, burnings, over the conditions of poverty and social exclusion in SF. Drugs entering the community is desired as a devise that pacifies a population into subservience. SF politics is nearly identical to what the British pacification programs in the Opium Wars achieved; a humiliation the Chinese people will never re-experience. Pity San Franciscans don’t feel the same way.
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  2603. What is interesting in this story is that a huge anonymous deposit of money, I mean really HUGE, went into a little, tiny, provincial rural bank in Luxembourg around the time this case began to emerge about the Deutsche Bank. So if Trump in the future takes a trip Luxembourg, it will not be for rest and relaxation or possibly to escape prosecution, as the case may be, with his family after his presidency.
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  2604.  @z.s.7992  I hope you do follow this story. It needs an investigation. You are young I am not, build your career with it and nail the bastard.
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  2605. State power soaring high above society is the greatest scandal of our society and the very hotbed of all its corruptions! Its own rottenness, and the rottenness of the idea of the society it aims to save.  The intelligence community deviated so far from the Church Committee findings, Congress needs to return to them.
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  2606. 9:19,---“...Markets need to be liberated.” From what? Regulations. If the EU Parliament and the EU Commission relax regulations on markets the European market will get flooded with American products formerly barred from sale in the EU countries. Washington loves this economist, they sing the same song. Economists often forget, undermine, or do not know that industry is guided by economic laws of its own not compatible to market laws. If they deregulate production and industry than the two main side effects of automation on the job for workers is a higher productivity from less workers, and the secondary effect of automation is less working time on average is required from a working class to make what the economy needs. What happens to all the displaced workers in a new economy where it takes less working time to make the goods a given nation needs? Large sections of the working class remain permanently unemployed is what happens. A breeding ground for a new form of fascism and socialism. Economic stagnation and chronic unemployment generation after generation will bring the EU to its end.
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  2607. @ Papi Elric, are the teachers in France also on strike...my support to them from the US?
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  2608. There we go again, the 'One Size Fits All' mentality in government.  Government functionaries who love to punish the public like unruly children and private well owners like grown ups with respect.
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  2609.  @MissOne  Then we have ethics in common.:)
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  2610. China won the technological revolution when it made DeepSeek for a fraction of the cost of investment the US will make powering AI systems.
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  2611.  @mrsmucha  If you mean polluted ground and well water is a direct consequence of fracking, than yes. But does polluting ground water and wells have to be polluted as part of a plan to get everyone to buy bottled clean water, than no! That plan has to do with a set of industry executives who found a way to use soil and water, by ruining it, by extracting one commodity another commodity is created. Bottled water links a bottling industry to gas fracking industry by way of contaminated ground water. Out of this relationship comes increased sales and therefore profits. Its a conspiracy by industry executives and the EPA as far as the findings of their own scientific impact studies reveal their products lead to polluting effects on the environment and the findings were hidden or kept secret from the Public.
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  2612. Workers have it better in Europe. American workers should build on that. Do better, if not, be just as equal to their counterparts.
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  2613.  @marimbadearco  Contraction is the opposite of expansion. Contraction and expansion is a simultaneous process, so how can you dismiss this simultaneous process...in what she says...what grounds?
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  2614.  @alexv1269  Ukraine is your new Afghanistan.
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  2615. Tip my hat to this small new organization for reporting on an event American media would never report.
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  2616.  @coastalseasider4634  alcoholism and a drug addiction are the job’s occupational hazards.
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  2617. Tech industry laid workers off because tech products are not paying off,--the money lent out to start ups were not repaid to the bank. Bank A owes a long chain of other banks; we will know if banks are skating on thin ice or not this coming Monday morning when markets open. The SV bank was a tech industry venture capitalist bank puts its money in tech firms. Tech workers are treble losers if they had their payroll deposited into this bank and personal account they lost their job, paycheck and savings. I don’t know how many there are but I would imagine they can be trouble when the rubber meets the road and they can’t find a job that supports their standard of living.
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  2618. The US has roughly 5 million companies that employ under 500 workers, that comes to around 25 million workers employed in companies that have under 500 employees. All of Trump's policies are helping these companies in the sense that federal standards of safety are unenforced, does explain why so many companies have workplace catastrophes, explosions, fires, contaminating solvents, oil spills to the ground or have product issues like Boeing corporation. Also, they are benefitting from Trump's tax cuts. American corporations and manufacturers are solidly behind Trump as are their legions of 25 million workers. That leaves 138 million working people not benefitting from Trump's policies are divided by all kinds of categories. All of which need to be overcome in order cause the stock market to crash to defeat Trump. So the more hell people can do to cause the Dow to sink the better the chances of defeating Trump.
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  2619. If there ever was a country so immersed in self-hatred it is Israel.
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  2620. Shutting power off and going to a hotel is not an option when the hotel's energy bill is just as high and the room charge goes up. The public has to expropriate private appropriation from the energy sector it is too critical to be in private hands.
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  2621. Kurt makes a great sidekick for Jimmy...he’s got brevity.
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  2622. Gei Xiong They are a paid army.
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  2623. Why is the Big Question and What To Do About It is in the Question: The Owners of Financial Wealth, Money and Capital use the working class’s capacity to work beyond the necessary point, to get at the value in commodities. There is a condition to this relationship that the owners of commodities and the owners of money become mutually exclusive and yet dependent social classes on the productivity of labor, and that is, through the worker’s own productivity of labor completing the product, ----capital recovers the value of its investment in the labor-process, the cost of machinery, technology and science, from the sale of the product. Money buys and sells would be automatic if it were not interrupted by a production process of human beings, rendering people the obstacle of capitalist development. The relation is reciprocal and contradictory, a potential efficiency for any society is the amount of surplus that can be used for further development is a natural necessity, but in the capitalist epoch this aim is politicized, turned into chimera and senseless social antagonisms from social classes that come from markets live their lives buying cheap to sell dear; rarely are social classes emerging from production in the whole history of work. The capitalist epoch is not only young in the historical timeline it stands out like a sore thumb, as a historically specific class struggle between employers and employees as the main form of social production, is not the end of history. There is further development obviously humanity must undergo. The highest stage being a classless society. Ultimately, a stateless society. That would presuppose all human beings are 1., literate, 2., multi-lingual, 3., have critical reasoning and have successfully matched needs, products and labor, and 4., relate to each other as conscientious species. America ranks too low on the scale of human emancipation, trapped in a deadline employers with the aim of extracting surplus labor from people are too busy regulating production by what happens on the market, and try strike a balance between intensity and duration in using the worker’s own productivity, the high stage of capitalist development has intensified crisis and the lack of improvement in the lives of millions of people is reflected in low military recruitment standards.
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  2624.  @jaywolf4183  its a faceless face behind the smiley face.
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  2625.  @rb032682  No
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  2626.  @jennyberry5002  Ridiculous reason. Do it or don’t do it for the reasons based on fact not speculation. Don’t you pay attention to what is said: Time Stamp 8:15, the FDA is not clear what they are trying to do with the healthy population and this doctor does not believe everybody benefits from boostering. For the elderly with underlying conditions or people younger with immune compromise systems the booster shot keeps them COVID free and this among the JJ vaccinated group being tracked. FDA approves a booster based on the data.
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  2627. The social structure of the working class, broken up into individuals, and separated by incomes, parts and divisions, does not permit a focus on nothing more than expanding society’s productive forces to deal with natural disasters and there is no natural disaster fund to speak of, but when Trump talked about getting rid of FEMA he planted a seed for a national disaster fund.
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  2628. Aye, "Teat" not tit. Fealty as in the Nazis justice department, fealty to Hitler as revealed in the Nuremberg trials.
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  2629.  Deborah Lawson  You don't get it if you deny the following. Being a politician would not be for the betterment of society today, that idea is past. Today the common good of society is way, way less abstract, and a hell of a lot more concrete, it is about what class takes absolute, dictatorial and total control over the workplace and the livlihood of all its participant, along with the politicians who believe it is for the abstract common good that business people know best, what it means to be a family, what it means to be sick, what it means to work and be a mother, what it means to be stripped of dignity destroying young men's minds. It is about who should possess the wherewithal for society. The murders, corruption, threats, attacks and mass killings, jailings, the sexism, the racism, are tactics, tricks of the trade, to subordinate you, me, all of us, to a power we depend on for survival.
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  2630. Americans have been waiting for socialized medicine since Eisenhower was president from 1953 to 1961. Pity, that the lifespan 63 years of a single individual went without a National Health Program because the change of administration and the Cuban Missles Crisis put Medicare for All into the category of being a communist plot. The bigger a circus the McCarthytes can put out the less the people will think about Universal Health Care. It was a perfect fit for the establishment right wing to politicize health as a tool of infiltration by Soviet Russia. It intimidated a generation. Is this the generation of democrats who can see past the Cold War ideology? Not be intimidated by Trump who comes from the McCarthyite era of New York anti-Communists. Americans would rather be American than socialist is their call to being patriotic to an idea of a free society of individualism or their conception of what the US or socialism is not! Its an indication they are guided by fear and fear is their worst enemy. The conservative working class wing of the GOP are the most persuaded by patriotic ideology, do not have answers to the contradictions of capitalism. Trump is this wing of the GOP, he is seen as fighting every step of the way against the establishment he was never a part, is also a McCarthyite anti-communist, a chauvinist, and embodies all the characteristics of a non-pompous establishment elite, will argue Health Care for All is socialism. One democrat will have to confront Trump on that question and call it as it is. I'd say to Trump, it is. What will they say to him? If Bernie confronts Trump with, it is socialism, an entire Cold War history comes to an end and the beginning of the era of Universal Health Care ends the century old strategy of holding everything hostage to socially control individual members of society.  But in the meantime Beoing is under some intense pressure to solve its software problems and get their planes back on the market. The product in its repair mode is eating up the billions of dollars in profits invested into making the dam thing, and to save this company from collapse, it needs that sale money, and this initiates the American president to open channels and line up buyers. Boeing is ready to re-enter the market once the software glitch is fixed. But who in their right mind is going to stick their neck out and with public funds purchase Boeing aircraft with its public safety record marred by three crashes, without being muscled into it? An idiot is who, a Juan Giaudo character, making sure people like this are positioned in decision roles in government solicits the work of Secretary of State and the help of an international network who can supply troops. People who make these decisions have to be manipulated and bought off are used. The Boeing situation solicits the work of national security experts the billions of dollars in market loss is a national security concern. Boeing, before going under, and as a handful of aircraft producers salivating for it to die surround Boeing like Jackals waiting for the kill, will become the subject of another bail out the government will impose on the American people. A patiotic bail out is likely to be the spin on Health Care, less important than the billions of profts in market share, cannot be taken for granted as a lie, or exaggeration when the Jackals are real. It would become another trick to divert attention from Universal Health Care, another effort to defer the American people of the natural right of good health, if competition in this field did not exists, if China and Russia, the Jackals, were not aggresive in defense build up.
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  2631. Presidents should but since people have no voice power in Congress, a special unit of the FBI for the recovery of missing children in the US would never be assigned.
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  2632. While Voting Rights are attacked the economy under the effects of climate change is wrecked. Silly man with his multicultural squad behind him has silly ambitions to be president of what will be a republic that cannot produce to meet the needs of its citizens. Before feeding someone he’d criminalize them for being hungry. The climate change effect on food commodities we buy in stores is felt a year later. We experience the price effects next year for what our climate had done this year to our crops and livestock, farms and large grower output. This means that with conscientious politicians something can be done one year in advance of prices rising but with the likes of people not conscientious of the food requirements for the survival needs of the Public DeSantis as governor is the last man to have in that seat. A quick glance, this year was worse than the year before. Your attention is taken away from the rise of prices to come from the effects of climate change in 2022; a life or death hit in 2023 that can last for a while. Starvation is a real probability because over 35% of world output for food was lost to climate action an effect greater than the effect the Ukraine War is said i media to have on our capacity to produce was and still is a cheap tactic, to get us to blame the Russians. All of you have seen the daily reports of climactic action devastating agricultural output, crops and livestock, locusts, farming, mining, products in general ruined by fires, floods, drought, in combination with man-made action has major producers of food, US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, at low output. Low output from the global south taking the brunt of climate change. The farmers in India have done something the farmers in the west should have done to win more mass support and force the government to slam the breaks on neoliberal reforms. Farmers are the first to broadcast a true forecast for the economy. They farmers in India did not take up the space in protest interrupting life, shutting down Pennsylvania Ave or Quebec; dumping shit on the front lawns of politicians that in the end failed to effect a change in policy; they shaped it for the citizens to continue their lives unhampered by their demonstration and it won public opinion over to their demands,-- the Modi government backed off pushing the reforms. Florida is an agricultural state its cotton output is down 35%, cotton fields look like barren sticks in the ground. The clothes you buy next year will be polyester clothing not cotton! Put DeSantis in a polyester suit with a plate of ten beans for lunch...for abdicating his state’s responsibility to qualify registrants on 20 unidentified voters made more important than the condition of agriculture in Florida and the necessaries of life for Floridians than your enemy has been defined.
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  2633.  @threefeetpete2010  You are reacting to NEOLIBERALISM, Reagan's conservative philosophy of free market capitalism and the destruction of government that Trump represents. Ruled by corporations instead of a government.
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  2634. Good commentary for us all.
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  2635. How much working time went into the production of the 19 year old’s specific gun he used in this shooting spree and how much of total GDP is that gun worth or can buy? How many units of the same gun were produced and in how short of time and how much of that quantity of stock can buy of total GDP? Ten cars, 100 cars worth or maybe three mansions worth of money can the total stockpile of the same weapon buy of GDP. Now ask yourself why should a gun maker have in their possession the means of creating enough value to buy 1000 times more GDP value than the person with no means? What makes the people making the guns the employee the management the owner of the gun factory deny the fact that if not for them a 19 year old assassin would never have seen the light of day?
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  2636. I notice PBS and FOX disable their comment section. NBC hasn't but the other have are not interested in hearing little voices in the comment section.
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  2637. The most important news is placed last is revealing of perverse priorities. Its a story about human consumption too much for nature to keep up. As a consequence, prices go through the roof despite any regulatory intervention in the market. We lose species of plant and vegetable life that are used to make products suitable for human use to demand. Its also a story of nature changing society as we are in the process of changing nature through society.
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  2638. The protective tariffs the US imposes on foreign imports will only divert the American consumer to buy American. The tariffs put the price to pay for an electric car from China higher than an American car which is already high. The American consumer will buy a car that is not as good as the Chinese car at a higher price thanks to the protective tariffs. The tariffs imposed do not deter other nations buying direct from China.
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  2639. Republicans are sounding a clarion call among themselves for hits on the DOJ and the FBI, ---a projection of what they intend to do they accuse of others of doing to them.
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  2640. With the power of the workforce of the US the transition to socialism would be a cinch. If you don’t have the money to buy from the capitalist the working class goes without and the capitalists do not have the buyers in the working class. Money makes the working class a class of buyers for the capitalists and the capitalist class, a class of sellers, to the working class in the market. But in production both social classes of employers and employees are dependent on the productivity of the working class and in this dependency arises a contradiction that neither of the social classes are fully emancipated from class and productivity is not freed from its constant tension between work and the commodity labor-power for the working class, always working to live while the other social class lives to work constructing a social, political, and economic superstructure with the free time the working class produces. The question by what political right is the free time produced by the working class the property of the capitalist class has one answer found in the social transformation of society not in the library or law books but in society itself. An excellent video, thank you professor.
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  2641. It certainly is a perplexing problem. I won’t pretend I know the answer. But I do know Doing is better than Waiting for elites to come around to make the changes in industrial consumption to meet the climate accords. People would be more effective if they began their own industry councils, train and place. Grab old land sights and projects abandoned by Big Industry and repurpose them for a new lifestyle, economy and community. When the current economy ceases to grow and starts to contract America will need those councils well organized to function as a new government to preside over the decline because the new AI economy will lay off millions of workers, estimate about 60% of all jobs be done by artificial intelligence,--- them and the overseas jobs are not coming back,---a total of 30% plus 60%, of 332 million people is a big number of floundering souls, at least 180 million destitute and jobless, and I don’t see the democrats and republicans extending unemployment benefits without a government shut down that hurts someone else like your children to make that shut down more justified than making a Jobs Bill.
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  2642. The fact is, there is no avoiding making the connection of the corporate political structure of the world economy with production. Production is the point of departure for life in general and for the survival of the transnational corporations in particular. Production is where it begins and where it ends, that is, where the state and the corporate social structure evolve, where they produce materially, where they operate, and where they work under defintite limits, and make laws to control the participants of world production. Another model of development is a model of cooperation the world market basket of goods distributed on the basis of real relationships between the actual producers. One part of the world provides food the other part provides industry and education from which all nations contribute and can draw using money of account. Skip over a stage of nationalism and into an international system of cooperation is a natural draw and tendency for humanity toward normalcy and away from the tensions and conflicts produced by the competitive corporate social and political structure of the world market.
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  2643. Voting for a black middle class academic et al Cornel West and for a white rich oligarch like RFK Jr., will guarantee a Trump election.
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  2644. Even if a movement is accused of a “self-interest” as not truly against the neocolonialism this does not make neocolonialism (France) any better or more worthy of restoring itself to power in Burkina Faso. Furthermore, assuming it a movement of self-interest, not an emancipation movement, but a military dictatorship...in that case revolution is inevitable and only a matter of time. With a country’s heightened awareness about its oppression a military dictatorship won’t gain much traction of internal support but from outside foreign forces and we are back to the original place we started, i.e, neocolonialism. Either way, history is taking this country whether the colonizers like it or not toward emancipation from neocolonialism.
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  2645.  @nicklang7670  You are welcome and thank you for agreeing with me. I hope my observation penetrates millions more. Go over the heads of the employers. They will only continue to do as before raise profits whether by means of raising prices or lowering costs. The polls suggest that the American people oppose the government’s policies to date...well, then as they ignore the wishes of the people, the people should ignore the wishes of government but as one large mass of people where the power is the greatest and produces the fastest results.
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  2646.  @jennh2096  You missed my point entirely. The inability to see beyond your nose is your downfall.
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  2647. The Medical Establishment should come forward.  If an unknown brain deterioration can be classified as a disease like Alzheimer's why not racism?
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  2648. That is a great quote.
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  2649.  r9000333m  Neo-nazism in Germany 1930's was a function of blaming immigrants and semites coming from eastern Europe durng German Re-Unification. In reality reunification of Germany was nothing more than a society divided along racial lines, hatred etc. Neo-nazism in America is a function of blaming immigrants coming from Mexico. Just like the German government was too slow to respond to the violence it has yet to heal relationships. White nationalists refuse or are unable to integrate into the social changes in society. Same thing is happening here, the American government is slow to respond to the violence, comparing the unemployed in Germany then and the ones now, they produced dysfunctional groups advocating simplistic and radical solutions. Substantial historical parallels that do not discount my views.
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  2650. Too bad Americans are economically illiterate and have been excluded from its study on purpose in order to force down their throats the shitty life we lead today in the US. Economics goes far back, ancient Greece, it became a science in the 19th century and then disappears from the academic world with witch hunt trials in 1955. But there is always a late blossoming of science. Look at China, a nation of backward peasants, a thousand years of feudal dynastic families, and are now producing cutting edge technology epitomizes the truth, it’s never too late for a revolution and than after that revolution a, cultural revolution to remove as obstacles to a new China the people, social classes and institutions, who cannot, refuse or resist, letting go of the old ways, habits and attitudes.
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  2651. Great interview, it is a piece of documentary evidence that demonstrates the social, physical, moral and spiritual degradation of the white working class in states that have no legal limits of exploitation. He would have a full set of teeth if he had a nationalized health care program covering him. This Floridian worker thinks employment in the US carried on beyond the point necessary, is a sign of a prosperous economy. Prosperity measured by not one six pack but two six packs of beer and a little extra cash for the Mrs. He does not realize that his life is shortened from the exploitation the Florida legislature permits in the use of hazardous toxic chemicals on or during the job in the workplace of his employer. His life is immaterial to his employer as the workplace is turned into a living hell and virtual war zone in which to eek out a living.
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  2652. Absolutely wonderful.
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  2653. All China has to do is engage US troops on the ground in Taiwan and its over. It will be impossible to prevent leaks of American boys and girls returning home dead. US troops will suffer loses by the sheer scale of millions of Chinese troops overwhelming them in a swarm. US attacks would have to target the mainland to cut off supplies going into Taiwan. But US intelligence on China’s capabilities leaves a lot to be desired.
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  2654. About time. When they leave they leave a vacuum. It should get more exciting with the new generation. The high leadership of the GOP and the democratic party have failed people, roughly 170 million people, in one way or another own nothing, and who sacrifice their lives suffer and endure losses for every government shut-down, crisis, catastrophe, had government turned their back on them, or defer their needs to police the world, they tolerated a lot of bullshit for decades. Europeans scratch their heads in wonderment why the American worker has not already made a revolution! Late in coming. The GOP/ Dems are minor parties, they represent a small percentage of the total population, thus leaving a vacuum for a another party to pick up a majority. Why are they leaving? The leave because the writing is on the wall. What they know as insiders catches up to them and rather than fall in disgrace they make their exit. They know at some point the State will do to them what is done to Donald Trump. It’s not the institution itself people hate, 19% approval rating for Congress, it is the parties that have dominated Congress have become irrelevant to the life process of society. The two oldest parties in Mexico are now minor parties had ruled the State for a hundred years until Obrador got elected, the parties became insignificant and irrelevant, to the life-process of society. This why I say revolutions happen in America all the time they are not revolutions involving armies as they are outside of the US, they are social, they change because relationships change.
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  2655.  @DennisMartinezCalifornia  I agree.
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  2656. Make sense that the social classes in the sphere of circulation, i.e, merchants, banks, would get larger than the social classes in the sphere of industry especially with the passage of NAFTA. Conversely, the industrial social classes emerged in another part of the world and the industrial social class that could not move with production was left behind.
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  2657. NY has 16 Correctional Facilities.
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  2658. I never liked Mehdi Hasan’s interviewing style. In this interview I really got no further insight into the nature of Chinese society as it relates to nations in our time period. Nor the level of importance of the Whys and Wherefores for policies the Chinese Communist Party takes in connection to nations and periods. Victor Gao would have provided much more insight had he been given questions that require explanations, open ended questions.
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  2659. Now that Biden is going to tax the billionaires the timing could not be better for nationalizing health care in the US.
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  2660.  @purpmoose  No actually the Ukraine Oligarchs is who I was talking about...should have been specific. Congress has a law against funding Nazi organizations and that would pertain to the Azov Battallion.
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  2661. She would be more useful to history making change if she built a coalition that could become a government at the right moment when the change happens.
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  2662. Owners of companies and corporations invest more capital in machines than they invest in labor. Overall the cost of production falls, and less labor is far more productive with machinery. But this results in a contradiction that has no apparent resolution except to work people to death. The machinery never stops, which means production is ceaseless. Day or night, storm or calm...the labor that is working wth the machinery becomes so intense it renders itself inefficient. Management has to overcome all the human barriers and finely tunes the factory into a machine free of restraint. The planning is done by those who are non-users of the given technology. The ones who know the least about the labor-process and the self-evident law between how much work can be intensified and the length or duration of that work is never balanced. There is evidence in this tendency in Amazon in Illinois where production is ceaseless and the workers died in the plant and in the Candle Factory in Kentucky, where production carries on into the overnight. Workers died there too. If ever there is a case for unionization both these incidents are it.
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  2663. You would think the CEO was president of the US given the amount of security the Mayor and police department of NYC decided to allocate to Mangione. Good commentary from Status Coup. It’s is not Mayor’s Adams’s personal money he spends for his Perp March, in a way he signaling to the president-elect, a loyalty to defend at all cost the elite class of CEOs living and operating out of NYC, the heart of the world economy.
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  2664. Don't get your hopes up. They never checked people's social media backgrounds and now they will is the big change.
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  2665. Need more than 50 million Americans to retake the House and Senate from both wings of the Party of Law and Order, controlling the government now. Filling all the seats with average Americans has to happen at the ground level in each municipality of all 50 states then the federal level seats in Congress and the Senate would change complexion. Trump and the GOP have a grip on a 3rd of the population, a 100 million. But these are voters not people in government. If 100 million average working Americans were in government at the local level that would leave around 30 million working class people to swing the vote for a radical agenda or a progressive agenda. The richest members of society can never win an election and they are a minority, they depend on a mixed bag of 90 million to stay in power. Working people do not have this kind of support, benefactor(s) with capital, so they have to congregate, assemble and form organizations to collect even if it is a dollar from every working person in America a $130 million dollars goes a long way, to launch one of their own for president.
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  2666. Olaf, making amends for the Holocaust does not mean you bury your head in the sand at another holocaust. The party that got him into office are fools.
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  2667. Well, that would depend on how much Washington will tolerate of the changes Petro wants to make to the economy and how the billionaires and corporations of Columbia, its real estate land interests, its foreign banks interests, and foreign extraction companies take to losing profits to rich and wealthy business owners and employees taxed by the new government, plus will the military be on his side? Once in the State the whole picture changes to another reality. Easier to imagine how Bernie would have been held back by the right wing in Congress from enacting orders to tax the rich. Elections empower People outside of the State to place someone of their choice inside the State wherein the time between elections much damage is done to weaken Petro, even oust him. The pattern of the right wing in their struggle to be victorious over the left has been to use the legal system to oust an opponent. Charge them with trumped up charges, trial and lock them up. This strategy has been highly successful in eliminating any opposition. I would say the left, the social democrats, have a lot to worry about as the country could experience a far more reactionary regime after Petro. No...I think the answer is a social revolution, people power is the greater power not social democracy. I would prefer the People knock out the yoke that oppresses them and rebuild a government that is truly democratic by rebuilding an economy that is truly inclusive and responsive to need. Otherwise, we are back to the same BS but worse.
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  2668. The parade already change traffic patterns in the city that it is a disruption already. Today is Thursday, a workday for millions of people. The protesters merely have to flow into the streets where traffic was diverted from the parade and you have an effective double disruption resulting from both sides of the political spectrum refusing to compromise peace and stability. Business will never go on as usual for as long as that conflict is not resolved is the reality for business and government. Like it or not the protesters have a point. The more work day disruptions the system has the worse things get for the working person and if things are not improving for people working the cities in the US, particularly in the financial capital of the world, they are certainly not going to improve for nations dependent on that financial capital.
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  2669. Eisenhower gave the warning.
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  2670. DN reports 3:54: “White House Officials say the visit to Venezuela were not related to a possible easing of US sanctions on Venezuela amidst the Russian oil Ban”, is not an overt lie and not the truth by either DN or the Biden Administration. Its a deflection with carefully chosen words; a deception. I understand the Biden administration sent a envoy to Venezuela for oil over this past weekend. I remember hearing Biden in 1997 when he headed the Arms Senate Committee boasting about the US having total control over Russia weakened after the fall of the USSR, predicting Russia would turn to China and if not China then India and good luck with that, sarcastically phrased and the room applauded him. He said the time was good to incorporate the Baltic states into the EU, he added. Ukraine among them the most contentious to Russia, Biden praised the move, then came 2014 but before that Biden and his senate approved installing biological labs in Ukraine...Marco Rubio had Victoria Nuland ( author of the 2014 coup) on the stand in a hearing as late as last week testifying those labs are American were bombed by the invasions and that the administration is attempting to make those biological weapons labs safe from attack but to no avail, in her deposition her body language should be observed as she attempted to lie about the connection to Ukraine forces and American biological laboratories. She was further attacked by Schiff, Trumps’ primary political enemy, “ we are using Ukraine to fight Russia”. On the map of the Russian bombings they correspond to where the labs are located in Ukraine. When you pay attention to these hearings the US empire policy of no policy at all to maintain the posture of dominance before it is filtered by the media, is revealed in the testimonies, by what is not said as opposed to what is said in the testimonies. When Biden in 1997 and the entire Senate applauded him for NATO expansion, they did not anticipate back then China would become a major economic power and Russia a major producer of oil that US control would slip away from the Senate, that this failure is used by the opposing republicans to discredit democrats to win the election, especially when Biden sent an envoy to Venezuela requesting forgiveness for its hostile treatment of Venezuela’s social revolution, . The next working day, Monday, the day he announced a gas boycott, he blamed Russia for making Americans poorer. Doubtful Venezuela will help the country that tried to overthrow it and the same for Iran the other big oil producer. In the end, the Democrats and the Republicans are not worthy on any level morally or intellectually of leading this country...Americans do not have a voice in their cartel...and have only one recourse to replace them, a social revolution, as the only way to unseat this cartel from Washington.
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  2671.  @superbalaur1297  Gonna be pure hell getting to that middle...
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  2672. This small business owner is being squeezed by the large businesses that move into his neighborhood and subsequently every shop, factory, retailer of a small size does not have the capital to survive against WalMart.
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  2673. Bernie resigned himself to be the conscience of a political party that had turned its back on the American people 40 years ago. He should have ran as an independent when he had the chance and be more than a conscience.
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  2674. Biden's constituency is one among other constituencies, but this consituency is a class of people who have privilege and influence in society now and at that time Biden was VP.  Its about the social group of people behind Biden and their position in the number of seats and allies they have in Congress. Too many and they have a majority and too few they lose to Trump. They are the last hold outs of the Clinton democrats standing in the way of the progressive democrats. They would rather lose to Trump than have a progressive win the presidency. They will undermine Bernie at every turn, the only democrat who can beat Trump, the Biden democrats will betray, leave it up to the states to decide if they want democratic socialism or not, they become overnight architects of state rights the republicans used to shun Obama, and use the same pretentiousness against Bernie offering a tangible program to the Public.
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  2675. Not protected from the ravages of multinational corporations means we need an alternative idea of property to the society as a whole as a message to drown out the corporate idea of property as a relation of ownership. US soil should belong to US citizens and the U. S. Citizen belongs to the land through citizenship.
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  2676. I think the more important issue or question is the fragmentation of the American working class and its inability to politicize its existence as a social class apart for the others. This in terms of identity politics, the American working class for ideological reasons and owing to repression, social control, an atomization process whereby the exchange between labor and capital is veiled by the commodity form of the product, is not able to identify itself as a class for itself, thus every ounce of class conscious evaporates because they cannot separate themselves from the other social classes who do identify themselves by race. For the oligarchs and the political elite, the State, Law Enforcement and Justice Department and Department of State to identity themselves by class would be their death warrant. The race identity is the reverse of identification of self by class. For the working person who interacts with people of all races and color, on a daily basis, its actually the destruction of self into social class and an empowerment tool for the ruling class. The point is to destroy social class as a way of dividing a population of humans. Its like being dipped into the acid bath and coming out dead working within that framework. Capital forces labor to negotiate on its terms. The terms being the cost of living index when negotiating with labor wages not the market basket of goods. It bargains with values in exchange not use-values produced per need. The market basket of goods is the product of labor taken away from the workers and confronts in the capitalist form as the cost of living or the commodity form of the product intended to be represented by wages. In the same way when we engage in race identity politics were are accepting the terms of communication, language, ideology and social relation as established by racists. What needs to be done is a universal action to break away from all the vestiges of capitalist relations such as value, price, profits, wages, race and class and become a class for itself, take action for itself, to be as greedy as possible in reunifying the product of labor with itself as a labor movement seeking to reunify with its product, fights to remove all barriers to that effect at the sometime as ti fights for its dignity against a virulent right wing and this is the kind of revolutionizing activity that is quintessentially a Marxist tradition, in developing a theory workers will need when they become revolutionary. In effect, Marxism does not belong in academia where what is taught is contrary to revolutionizing practice. Student are not taught how to overthrow the fascist regime in American schools, or claim their dignity in the workplace, they are indoctrinated to exist as predicates to the state for subservience to capital. We can view 'Jobs', employment and the reserve army of labor, in the same way, as the capitalist form of the social division of labor in society into which illegals are on ones side and legal workers on the other are used against each other for the leveling of wages. Competition and cooperation are also in capitalist form are to the detriment of the working class, its own productivity of labor in the capitalist form of production, is a weapon against the workers and the true source of wealth to which derives absolute wealth. I can go on and on about this. Fact is, the American worker if fragmented and is ideological stultified, intoxicated, and will probably not rise up until it is treated like blacks were treated in South Africa's Apartheid. What it needs to do is be exactly what is happening right now (April 23, 2019) Algiers, a mass movement for the complete resignation and prohibition of the entire ruling elites from power and banned from politics. See that happening then Marx become more important to you.
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  2677. Both of you are correct. The slaveholders/colonists and the American Founding Fathers in 1789 were pretty rational people. In 1791 Washington feared the Haitian revolution would spread a revolt of African American slaves the colonists possessed, and the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms was a right slaveholders wanted as a measure to preserve slavery and property. Washington punished Haiti ever since 1789 subjecting all of Latin America to the Monroe Doctrine. 235 years of oppression is a long time. Time has come the oppressor quit being an oppressor.
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  2678. Where are your facts? What nations rejected slavery? @Lorrdd 
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  2679. You have to be a lunatic to vote republican or Trump who supports the government shut down of the republicans, if you are a fighter fighter. Cancer treatment stops during a government shut down...this is not what the cancer ridden firefighter needs right now. They really don’t care about you so why are you giving them your vote when they ask for it?
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  2680. You have to listen to this man very carefully because Peterson speaks in a language of determinism whereas, in Marx determinism is sharply criticized. Hierarchies do not exist in nature nor a nature-imposed necessity. A hierarchical class structure, is a mental concept of humans, a form of social organization for appropriating the labor of others. Nowhere in the animal or in the natural world is there a species that indirectly or directly exploits another species like the human species exploits its own species for its subsistence.
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  2681. They are not communist news organizations. They are privately family owned corporations and they do have an integrity problem.
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  2682.  @williamhodgden8970  If you think it all lays on democrats your head needs to be examined.
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  2683. “Eliminate any Opposition”, for those who want to know, the long term strategy of the bourgeoisie for world dominance has its roots in Versailles, France, 1918 includes this strategy as on-going, part of the business of preserving (republicans) and defending (democrats) the State. Red Scare began in the years 1920-22 in the US. As a footnote: The 2nd Amendment was written (1751) to keep the slaves unarmed. From that point forward the Right to Bear Arms was a courtesy to white society in the event of a slave revolt. 20 years after the signing of the 2nd Amendment that slave revolt happened in Haiti 1781...and when American slaves resisted to be slaves any longer emancipation meant enlisting in the Northern army in 1860...for others emancipation meant the Underground Railroad...the right to bear arms was suspended only for the time they served in the military. Upon returning to civilian life after the war and by the landmark ruling of the Supreme Court these Black veterans in Plessy v Ferguson, were subject to the doctrine of separate but equal. The privilege of the right to bear arms came 30 years after they served. How the State uses the 2nd amendment to keep black people disarmed in the present day is done by sheer naked force that the two doctrines originating in two different places and time periods are incorporated into our time period ...merged for the preservation and defense of the entire social class across national boundaries.
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  2684. An estuary water preserve should never have been turned into a crop field. This is a total disaster.
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  2685. There is no corner of the Earth a history rears her head to bite the US right in the ass for policies emanating out of Langley Virginia.
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  2686. It looks like bullying and it is but it is more the way the US divides the world because its constitution is based on a separation of people, is only capable of laws like the Helms-Burton Act, Taft-Hartley Act, or laws restricting any interference on liberty, property, and security. What this does do for white people in America is it forces the average white person to re-assess their alliances with a racist regime.  You cannot be a progressive and not a racist at the same time unless you directly oppose your own kind in power who are racists!
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  2687. “Freedom and Necessity”, the side of society that works for a living works out of relative necessity and on the side of society that employs workers as labor-power lives in absolute freedom...the masses remain as the masses out of necessity and freedom is consumed in full by a few. I can relate to Harvey’s point about expanding the opportunities that help us leave the realm of necessity behind us but for every move we do to that effect, the opposing side moves twice as hard restoring the foundations of necessity for the many. Small incremental moves toward an emancipation won’t work while the opposing force works double time against you. Every action we make has been studied for a more virile and hostile reaction by the State. But as an organizing strategy the shortening of the workday, decreasing the length of hours people work, and lowering the intensity of work, are solid organizing points that does bring us closer to leaving necessity behind but only with a well organized and mass movement for equal access to health care and housing, education.
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  2688. On the one hand the interpreters were a part of the 'axis' destroying Iraq and your saying they should be given visas to flee that which they corrupted? Did I get you right?
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  2689. A great loss to humanity in Mr. Kevin Gray.
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  2690. Historically, unions were never a vehicle for revolutionary change if you are looking for that, but if your society is going to be a capitalist society than a union is the best way to bargain with capitalists,---better to set the price of wages as a group than to be powerless alone with an employer offering you a deal. On the other hand, as a whole, there is a division between workers that confronts unions as its own nightmare when employers use this reserve to beat a strike and hire scabs, when workers unionize there are always workers not unionized, and this does not advance a change in our work relationships. We take for granted that all workers are confronted by people who are landowners, farmer, business owners, bankers, retailers, churches, non-profits, public officials, as capitalists to get our necessaries of life.
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  2691. We live in a country where the reliability of facts is important! Our own government facts and calculated figures fall short of accuracy makes every opinion under the sun pure conjecture.
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  2692. NY needs more ballot measures.The only thing in NY that was on the ballot was a bond fund on environmental remediation. Vermont, Michigan, California enshrined abortion rights into their constitutions through a ballot measure. Kentucky,---ballot measure to make more difficult a ban on abortion was defeated. Montana,--- rejected the ballot measure that criminalizes abortion providers and makes abortion illegal at any stage of development of a fetus. On legalizing Pot in States... Maryland and Missouri, legalize pot. While Arkansas and North Dakota pot legalization was defeated. Alabama,Tennessee, Oregon, and Vermont voted to remove slave language making slavery a form of punishment but Louisiana voters rejected the prohibition of slave labor in prisons.
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  2693. This is not a generation ages 30 to 40 who see this as a political problem. They did not grow up with a social consciousness. And American legislators are a breed of lawyer who do not try to solve social problems in a political way. Lawyers/legislators/politicians are trained, instructed, paid to not social problems at all. Local legislators are worse that no matter how may times a building falls or a hurricane devastates a coastline do nothing to change zoning laws and local officials, i.e., county managers et., in most states are too religious to even sound the alarm of an impending disaster. What will happen is FEMA public funds will get cut in the name of servicing the government’s enormous debt before the government lets it go dry from all the claims and private insurers by high premiums will insure the rich. A debt made larger sending weapons overseas. Mar-A-Lago will be covered others not as rich will not. In the end the allocation of public funds for disasters is more than a case of politicians not coming together to legislate remedies to social problems, the allocation rests on a class differences, as to who will get the support. I know this is the scenario that will happen because the planet continues to heat up and ocean levels continue to rise that next seasons hurricanes will strike with greater ferocity and the government’s priority is not solving the social problems of the American people. The next flood even more powerful, the next drought more severe until the whole society is basically turned into a refugee camp filled with Americans who are not rich and are not white.
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  2694. Let me put it this way. This is not the man I would want patrolling the streets of East LA or Southside Chicago. What use does society have for someone trained to be a military marks(person)? Not that he is one but the cop who shot and killed Brianna (my pardon for the misspelling) was a marksmen.  The young drunk Sergeant's military training is not compatible with policing, contrary to what you may think. Police and the Military are similar because both are allowed to use force. But that is as far as the similarity goes. This drunkards military service training exhibits who he really is uninhibited by the alcohol and it is the subsurface reason why military service "men" and "women" ought to be restricted from serving as police in society.  The military trains to repress the true individual from the individual and makes on pain of expulsion that individual conform to a command structure. This is why America's police are not police but were kids when they went into the military and came out of with a military indoctrination while young enough to be cops and carry that baggage over to the police as a separate institution. In addition to the military service benefits the police benefits add to their compensation which is why to control their behavior it should be made law that wrongful death suits are paid out of police pensions as a way to socially pressure racists and overly repressed individuals from acting out their true emotions on the Public because they have a perception of the public that is estranged to begin with. The military for some people who cannot be human is the parent they never had and an escape from a really shitty life growing up. Where else is a trained sniper to find a job in society upon their discharge from the military? Police work is social science in general and criminology in particular and it is the science of forensics and detection closely related to archeology and paleontology and medicine in determining what went down, how the offense was committed, working to reduce the risk of you and I crossing the boundary line between what is safe and what is harmful for civil society to function.
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  2695.  @tinasmith1391  :)
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  2696. The high commissioner of human rights' report is one-sided. It is only one sided as long as it operates outside of the society that undergoing a social transformation. Of course it is. Lies or not while the west figures out what is happening from Geneva, there is at least one decent professor who speaks truth. Remarkable is the stage of human history where the power is in the hands of the People as the established ruling orthodoxy in Venezuela. This is a dramatic historical change from its colonial epoch, the social classes who were formerly in the position as oppressor, the old controllers of political power, are a combined outside Opposition to the Maduro government in Venezuela. The Opposition can last as long as its sources of funding lasts. Political power in Venezuela does not take bureaucratic form as it does in our society. The people power in Vnzla is a social power backed by a military, a series of community based organizations of millions of the expropriated are the expropriators, the formerly oppressed under colonialism have made private property, social property. This ha been encouraged through the sanctions pressing the republic out of necessity to organize.  Vnzla embarks on a new age of power of the people! The early stages and beginnings of class dissolution which is its most treacherous passage before entering the realm of a society free of social classes. As the commenter said 9 million are not going to rollover, when a society reaches the point Venezuela has a civil war on the Opposition side is to the Maduro side a class war and struggle for emancipation is a war about using the complex of all of society’s capabilities by and for the People.
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  2697. I notice that there is no reporting of the events going on in the west and in the south. The fires and the floods are not reported by FOX News.
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  2698.  @fredricksmith2562  It is shameful to us but it is just a practical response to a situation their generals feel is a threat to their existence. All militaries in the world but one military are defensive militaries, and only one military is an offensive military, capable of destroying all militaries which has all militaries on edge and specialized in the use of defense against a strike from the biggest military in the world or a strike from another military. Two militaries keep the big one in check, but all the others like in Myanmar and other places have militaries strictly geared for defense not invasion. Invasion is a role held specfically by the US. In the military world arranged in such a way the psychology of its leaders have to be practical but to us, average citizens, the balance of power in the world is completely insane. I might be wrong but that is how I see it.
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  2699. Could this right wing be so retrograde as to cause corporations to leave the US? The one thing about this right wing for me, is summed up in who the January 6th insurrectionists were the day in the name of Trump and a stolen election the Capitol police were beaten with a Blue Lives Matter Flag pole. Actions speak the police were being used as a cover for a violent social class. The far right gets more political power the corporations don't have to stay. Levis is an international corporation employs several thousands of people in Asia, North America, Africa and Europe. The more retrograde the far right tightens around itself only the industries they care about or that fit into their idea of the state, the others and the more conscientious the orations of CEOs with 5 thousand international employees the far right can give a rat's ass about. In their use of the state certain corporations and industries can be driven out for not fitting into the general idea or promoted to favor the general idea.
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  2700. That could lead to force sterilization.
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  2701.  @shawnchurch316  If you are in Japan: Can you make me a muffler for a Nissan Sentra and for a SAAB? Seriously.
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  2702. A clue to what is being threatened is at the end...US foreign military capability...could be all US bases are at risk of being shut down...who knows...time will tell.
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  2703. Trump is a mealy-mouthed opportunist. Out for himself. He is really saying he would use US Forces and US Dollars to keep a tight lid on HAMAS and the Palestinians than Biden ever could to defend and protect Israel.
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  2704.  @elgatofelix8917  Why not?
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  2705. Its a motivational fantasy movie using real institutional characters like the CIA that are not fantasy. Does the CIA operate in the way the fantasy depicts the CIA to operate in a fantastical situation with imaginary characters in an imaginary world?
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  2706. She is not wrong...average Americans should know better about their history. She is not wrong about knowing the present through the past in order to make the future. She is just a real bad speaker. But as long as she reaches people that is all that matters.
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  2707. This is the flood that never should have been as disastrous had the state developed a flood remediation project with the town and maintained all the drains on a regular basis more frequent than cleanings maybe this year or the next! Waverly needs to elect a dentist to head the department of sanitation and highways, a dentist knows what frequent cleanings do. People got to be sick of people who get into these public jobs and don't do anything for the public!
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  2708. Fraudulent hearing a rich man talk about entitlement when entitlement is privilege and working people have none.
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  2709. 3:54 The corpse of the river dolphin of the Amazon is the extinction of that species. If one dies they all die. Whatever function their long beaked mouths served to another species in that river system has vanished! By one dying off the entire ecological system is brought to an end.
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  2710. Our house is burning! French President Macron took center stage to douse the flames of the earth with a tweet!  Meanwhile the DNC committee does not care about Macron's sentiments on climate change, they voted the debate have no part of climate change.  A loyal committment to the energy sector leads the party of the majority. Shows how really disconnected these people are from the real world. The DNC denies climate change even when it kills them. Bernie proposes a total transformation of the energy economy into a renewable energy economy as a mandate to save the planet and all species life.  The cost of inaction is far higher, its what Extinction Rebellion had been acting on all the while, i.e, planetary motion beyond our control. The Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs on how to power their whole apparatus could be open to the idea of endless and free power.  I guess civil society will be renewable and the military part renewable and part fuel. Once homes that will produce their own light, heat, water usage, contained waste, and food, come into being, a mass conversion and modification from traditional architecture, homes and buildings, will no longer consume those utilities. This eliminates the need for a job for working people and the need for expanding markets for Big business comes to an historic end. There will no longer be a working class or a capitalist class involved in producing our subsistence. Our renewable homes will free us from working to pay bills, and a working class for lack of knowing what to do with themselves will need supportive services to make the adjustment to free time. What will a coal miner of three generations be doing after his 12 hour day and coal is gone? Be the same fate of the capitalist class when there is no money to made in all goods would put a serious dent into their lifestyle that a need for mass rehabilitation must become part of the Medicare for All plan. How will society wipe out all of the crap of the ages from its shoulders? We'd have to convert the schools system into a year round all ages education program and take away every gun from every person because its not the gun that kills its a sick society of individuals who kill. We can't leave it to chance but to take the NRA's stance on guns literally. America is not socially skilled and competent enough to handle an endless stream of guns. Individuals are afflicted with vestiges of the past, racism, sexism, breeding violence in the home and in society. The NRA is right we can't put lighter fluid in the hands of an arsonist; we can't put guns in the hands of people who kill because its a sport or because they hate people. The 2nd amendment and all the other amendments that look at us as half human, or criminals, without rights, etc., have to go. The constitution belongs to a past era and America needs a new basis for a society, it will need a new constitution because the old one is why its government is sick and cannot rule! If the government is unfit to rule then the people in it are unfit to rule poses the next problem for the American people who no longer have to work to pay bills but can now concentrate on governing themselves.
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  2711. Hello Alina and Bald...from NY. This was a great video...I loved the plane...beautiful piece of machinery and flight...gorgeous landscape and the end with the class was a perfect ending.
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  2712. When the FAA Chief says Boeing’s product failures are caused by Boeing’s culture of production as a priority and not on safety and quality. There is nothing wrong with emphasizing production but it should follow after safety and quality”. The FAA chief said Boeing does not have a choice. He is saying profit cannot be the end and aim of production, the end and aim of production should be quality and safety of the product. When this change occurs in Boeing what will change for the worker on the production line is the number of hours worked per worker. The good news is that planes will get built better and safer but it will cost the Boeing worker less hours and less payment since labor has no control over production. Boeing does not belong to union labor to decide the pace or speed of production and the quality. Labor can make suggestions to Boeing management but that is as far as worker control goes, and that is not enough of a representation for what is at stake from shoddy aircraft. Worker owned is compatible and compliments Public Safety...another reason for a change of ownership is to ensure the habit of making money for the sake of making money is not repeated, a change of ownership is the only way, a Board of Owners will fall off the wagon. The accumulation of money for its own sake, just to have it, is a force that overpowers human will and corrupts the Soul. But if labor did own Boeing there would be no need for unions but there would be a need for the FAA to oversee Boeing production. Workers are human too and make mistakes. Granted worker-owned would make far less errors than Boeing owned as a private corporation and the antagonism between government and the Board of Directors of Boeing would go away if the Board are removed as owners. This is a no brainer. Air travel is not a privilege, or a luxury, it’s a necessity and a utility essential to the whole economy. It is one industry that should not be privatized with so many individual private companies chasing profits obscuring production, safety and quality, as they go. The last 55 years all employers have been fighting tooth and nail through their political lobbyists in Washington to keep the government out of their production. Worker fatality in the US is high. Maybe we reached a point where the ‘relationship’ between the individual in particular and production in general cannot be divorced from each other anymore.
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  2713. Where is the second American Revolution...the political parties that rule America are an oligarchy of extended families connected through intermarriage and form a social class. A dominant social power themselves, they have hijacked the government and use it for themselves as protection from the effects of their social policies. This is the kind of serfdom and exploitation by an oligarchy a King was fought in the first revolution.
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  2714. The Chinese Ambassador won this exchange.
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  2715. @Mike Raby ---There are people who Un has killed but there are no facts that tie him to killing millions or thousands of people whether directly or indirectly, which is more than we can say for all western leaders past and present. The only gangster here is you! Moron.
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  2716. One way to interpret what the Col., is saying; the American taxpayer is trapped into supporting a foreign policy of conquest of Syrian and Iraqi land, partitioning these countries for the overthrow of the government of Iran. Put this way, the conflicts, regional wars, Israel's attacks on Palestinians in the Middle East, are preparation and dress rehearsal to that end. The revenue the government collects in order to fund its military ambitions comes as a voluntary payroll deduction in the sense that employees and employers comply with the law. Changing the tax laws would be the place to start to effect a 'policy change', and cut off the revenue stream, is a reform that will never happen considering the Congress did the opposite and voted a tax exemption for the rich, not a tax exemption for the poor and working class. Next best thing would be to get the Democrats to vote against appropriations to the military and increase social spending instead. But the Democrats don't do much at all, they are not going to do that, considering the benefits outweigh the consequences and how aligned they are with the republicans on this policy of conquest. The final option is an internal social revolution, the American people are not inclined to be revolutionary but you never know what people do when pushed up against a wall. So, it looks to me the rape of the taxpayer will continue. Until bled to death, ending the republic with the working classes holding the bag.
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  2717. The problem here is America's car culture. Car culture converts oil and gas into products with a higher value than that of the capital advanced. Kill car culture and oil and gas will be treated as the natural elements they are, lethal.
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  2718.  @nonyabizness.original  Hemp is your answer for housing electronic products and steel, aluminum, alloys work too. Everything is probable, we have the means.
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  2719.  @judymeyer4315  I did not know that..very cool thank you for that information.
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  2720. Too bad all that trench building and manpower isn’t going to end up as new plumbing and sewage for modest home construction in the area. What a waste.
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  2721. If this tragedy does not usher into humanity the final end of the capitalist mode of production in the housing industry nationwide than humanity is truly a cursed species bound to fail and disappear like the dinosaur. Cities are built on fault lines. The demise of dinosaurs was of no fault of their own whereas man’s demise is his own fault. Capitalism does not put aside a social disaster fund for societies. Every mammal in the animal kingdom accumulates its sustenance. Human mammals accumulate for accumulation sake. The dominant reason things are built in the first place is not for a social recovery plan. The dominant reason is for some future acquisition of wealth. Wealth for an individual of the species not for the species in general that all resources are used. Either you have enough money to rely on the market or you don’t, if that, to dig out of rubble. Single home construction has two purposes. When people conform to the laws a consumer quantity, a requirement for construction based on sale of building properties, is created is the first purpose and the second purpose is to provide homes. But where human beings are a source of value at the sales end and in the production end, as consumers and producers, there is nothing in that social relationship that constitutes a form of social insurance against natural forces or natural disaster recovery and rebuilding.
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  2722. It was never taught in schools the difference between the value of labor-power and the value created by it. Surplus-value had been taken for granted by several generations of the educational system of the US, low ranking in mathematics, economics, physics, and generations grew up assuming all things were made by something other than human labor, never taught a view of the nature of value. It is a 2000 year old classical discipline. The value created by labor is a surplus value, and this surplus value is distributed among individual social classes in society in many forms,. The economic categories are forms of the surplus-value such as taxes that go the government, prices that go to merchant businesses and corporations, rents that go to landowners, profits that go to entrepreneurs and investors; so the whole society can be seen from the vantage point of value, the two roles of labor in society. One form being itself a specific form of work and its other half a value form of labor. The forms appears through the ages as slave and master, than peasant and lord, merchant and artisans, capitalists and workers, all social forms of the surplus-value humans create because they must, or die. The professionals in this field dive into the origins of this surplus-value and have located in society the productive agents creating the value that adds to the total wealth of society, and it is not just one or the other, it’s the combination of both social classes. They are a combination of employers and employees and only when they work together can they become productive of value is the general idea. But when sellers and buyers do not exchange and employers are sellers and buyers and employees are sellers and buyers, things do not move, things tend to rot, become unproductive of value and drain what value was created. You can begin to see the real life consequences in this preview. For us, both are true. Farmers make more than they need to live and earn money selling what they make and it is also true that the combination of employers and workers engaged in manufacturing are creators of surplus value. The only way out of a depression, when employee and employer, are split too long, the lack of investment becomes the threat to the existence of society is dictatorship or revolution is what keeps them working and producing a surplus-value. The choices are double sided consequences, a dictatorship of a general social class or a state dictatorship of a particular class, to keep the trains running on time.
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  2723. Of course the banks know PR cannot pay it back in one generation. This arrangement preserves the economic relationship is the point. Two or more generations the usury and peonage is extended. PR has to fight for its freedom.
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  2724. Americans need to look into their own souls, expansion and war runs through its veins. A country cannot move forward if its trespasses are denied. Such denials are intended politically to deprive relief for the offended the will to forgive.
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  2725. An obvious bias that gives ammunition to a movement to cancel student debt and more when a Supreme Court Judge can have a personal school debt paid off by a donor.
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  2726. Journalists are not the only ones whose lives are violated by this institution but all Americans. Its a power that stays even when governments leave.
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  2727. I believe they were the first ’lost generation’ of many to follow.
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  2728. Low yield of soy beans, corn and grains, produced north of the river and high shipping cost on the Gulf Coast south of the river truly shows that it is no longer known if the quantity of necessaries will be sold if the cost is passed to consumers. Consumption rate is also down. If the production of goods does not extend to more markets as an offset to high prices this will cause the rate of profit of individual farm businesses to fall. The quantity of necessaries are now a variable changed by historic drought from the previous levels of the river offering stability and regularity to the supply chain from land to store, maintaining the shipping costs at a low level, this regularity is gone, and the river to lose water a vital tool and accessory to the whole process employing an average amount of people, is gone or will soon be gone, further weakening demand. If I am right the effect will be a recession.
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  2729. A Shakespearian family tragedy of ego, murder, greed, nihilism...not that different than the Royal Family.
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  2730. Excellent comment!
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  2731. Its a compensation package for the value of the tons of coal and oil they will lose to the conversion of new energies. A conversion in production costs money and what happens to the inventory that does not get sold because of new carbon emission rules? Their race to get credits is a; Here’s your chance to recuperate losses from the last two years through the pandemic too, moment. You call this genius, I call it a great swindle.
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  2732. The right has all the reality but no imagination and the left have all the imagination but no reality to ground it.
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  2733. NO,---this is what happens when lawyers are paid with YOUR MONEY.
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  2734. Where’s the danger? No cars are moving. Disruption I can see but danger...that is more than a stretch Sonny Jim.
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  2735. A ‘siege’, ‘blockade’, ‘an illegal occupation’, are words used in Parliament to describe the Trucker’s Convoy is not a good sign. Its not the language of transformation. I always liked the idea of a higher stage of human development where human beings behave as a species. Life outside of the life of a trucker and a farmer disrupted by Covid restrictions have been a strain. But the greater strain on the lives of workers, merchants, bankers, landowners, manufacturers, impeded by the Convoy, are offended as they lose incomes derived from that bridge the Convoy decided to hold its protest action. A bridge that channels streams of incomes the other social classes who are not farmers, cowboys and truckers, depend. There are merchants, landlords, bankers, workers, civil workers, depend on the relative income the Ambassador Bridge delivers. They take offense and pressure the state to act for the removal of the Convoy. Without the streams of income the social classes begin to dissolve. Dissolution has meant in the past losing everything. But in 2022, losing everything is a thing of the past. A merchant may still own the store but is no longer a merchant. The landowner still owns the land but is no longer collecting rent. Banker still lends money but is no longer charging variable rates, a worker still works but is no longer a worker exclusively. Every object known to man is given its attention because people want to give it the attention, people develop a new culture and attitude of work and property.
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  2736. A “no strike first” policy would mean the nation that does strike first better have weapons bigger than those that strike back or face annihilation, is what a “no first strike’ policy entails. The policy creates an escalation of bigger and more powerful weapons that is nothing more than a marketing tool for the manufacturers of weapons.
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  2737. You can see the difference in the quality of leadership between Kennedy and Trump. The neocons in 1961 hated and probably assassinated JFK when the president opposed the invasion after its first failure. Trump is owned by the military and the neocons of 2019.
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  2738. The economy will slip into a unrecoverable recession cutting off vital resources at the worst possible time to communities suffering catastrophes, if it shuts down. Lockdowns would sink it into an abyss of social disasters. If you were president of the US this would be the scenario in front of you. Living with COVID and its variants is the lesser evil and why states are mandating masks and vaccination that employers are doing the same. All the western governments are reacting to COVID in the same way, UK is in recession, Boris shuts down and its over, France imposes travel restriction against England one more COVID patient will devastate the economy, Italy, Germany follow suit. All the economies that are not compatible with shut downs to end a virus are in a spiral free fall in disarray are teetering. Vaccinations are seen as the alternative to a complete shut down. Close, trace, treat and isolate the patients till the virus dies; our economies cannot do this. This problem and treatment is the same as when an individual gets sick with the flu,---stay home for two weeks, ride it out, get better return to work, because China can do this the western governments want to do the same all economies are thoroughly integrated with each other, however, the governments in the west forget that their societies are not the same as China’s. Employees are still working from home and big companies are closing stores in the west, people in the west are sharing home purchases (co-buying) is how changed the home market will change the family and society,---but with COVID?
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  2739. Hit the like button.
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  2740. Makes sense sorry to say.
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  2741. The spiritual death Dr. King talks about is today not tomorrow. Spiraling downward into a state of barbarism is when a 6 year old is pepper sprayed by a cop. That cop has spiritually died and that child's dreams of a life without fear, died. The spiritual death is when food abundance is the cause of hunger and too many homes is the cause of homelessness. When these are the outcomes of society always living short of its ideals and cutting people short it has lost its soul. That is where we are today...
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  2742.  @LyndaHill  Not a who but a what that has a logic of its own and parts of it contain its own inherent laws that make people of no choice of their own exists for each other as representatives and owners. All the relationships of work of humanity culminating into commodity relations. I exist for you because I have what you need. Vice versa, you have what I need. If we had it to begin with there would be less reason to accumulate money. If we lived in a society that did not separate the want from the need we would have relationships a lot more profound and meaningful than coming together for one purpose as owners and representatives, ‘stakeholders” unite the need with the want but only through an exchange. Form has everything to do with it! The form of wealth. The manner, treatment, approach, method, is where our whole society fails over and over again. A one-sided method; it depends on the condition that one’s misery is another’s profit.
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  2743. So judges get a national policy to conceal their residences but the nation cannot get a national policy on gun violence. See how fast Congress, so against a national policy on guns, health and education, believe strongly in a national policy when its their asses getting killed.
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  2744. The cunning logic of capitalists is a criminal logic. A gang can run a factory better is how depraved and criminal white collar management is. Government looks the other way.
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  2745. Some economic history helps... 1948 to 1960, the US economy sustained unemployment levels of 5 to 6 million people, largely African Americans out of 135 million people. C. Wright Mills called this period the "Great American Celebration". By 1979, 13. 5 million people lived in poverty in America and 9.9 million were chronically unemployed. By 1991, unemployment levels exceeded 35 million. Nobody in the world of economic academia dared to call the US an affluent society. That is a word stricken from the annals of economic thought since 1979. It had been realized that the US economy no longer sustains the economic growth levels experienced 35 years ago for the working class. The facts are hardly 'inconsequential' as dismissed by the elite superstructure and those who accept their words as final are fooled to follow as gospel. Quite frankly, US economic performance is disastrous! However, it may be soothing to know, despite the dismal facts of American monopoly capitalism, real progress has been achieved owing to the class struggle. The current phase of monopoly capitalism versus the objective potentialities for the emergence of a new social order is for the first time an objective possibility. Accumulated scientific knowledge and the means for an affluent society had not existed in the past in any of the socialist projects endeavored in human history. Exploitation and waste of monopoly capitalism has laid the foundation for a truly affluent society in this decade or very near future. This fact, makes the class struggle a positive force, a reason to engage in the project of building an affluent society in America. The obstacle to an affluent society is the rule of the capitalist class over the vast resources of natural wealth and over the productive might of the working class.
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  2746. Over intellectualizing....you cannot have Tony Soprano writing Parking Tickets, it undermines the ticket’s authority. America is Tony Soprano, the Ukraine fascists are its parking tickets. Western fascism will always be a threat to Russia.
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  2747. NORAD powers itself by the Sun harnessing quasar energy. Cars could have been powered by the Sun from the date NORAD was built is how long ago America would have been OIL-FREE. What stopped this new economic potential is the same group that stops it now, i.e., the GREED of BIG OIL LOBBY in WASHINGTON. Joe Manchin gives Big Oil his vote because they give him Big Money is who blocks this new economic development. Get rid of Joe Manchin and the future will be closer than your think!
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  2748.  @mikehayne538  Except that we are not slaves. A slave is a machine and is owned by one person, its master. A slave is a thing. We are not serfs either. A serf is an appendage of the soil like draught animal. We, on the other hand, are not slaves or serfs. Our labor-capacity or labor-power as the commodity we sell to the capitalist belongs to nobody outside of ourselves.
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  2749.  @ProleDaddy  Yes, your point is well taken, we cannot live without selling this labor-power. But we are not subjugating ourselves; it feels like it is but it is not the We part. The 'it' is doing the subjugating. We are the subjects consumed by the objects. Governed by them in laws that speak for them. Money, land, factories, buildings, cities are the it, what employers buy from us is the right to use our labor-power without government interference in production, to transfer their investment in the 'its' spread over more products and labor-power is the measure of that value; what we sense and what damages our health and well being is a certain amount of forced expenditure to a particular capitalist.
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  2750. the opinion itself is audaciously right wing.
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  2751. Evidently, the Modi government recognizes Hinduism and does not recognize Islam as the authentic religion of India. It makes a point in not giving Muslims equal footing with everyone else in the CAA.  Further it makes no effort not recognizing any religion to be a secular state. Since it is not a secular state it would have to be like Iran a religious state. The amendment would compel Muslims to renounce their religion for citizenship if they have no other place to turn. I think it takes advantage of a precarious population coping with their separation from their country of origin.
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  2752. If poor nations want to take the path of the American model for capitalist development they will also have to take the American style of ceaseless and reckless production that goes with it.
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  2753. On Debt: Banks own education, housing, auto, commodities, if to obtain these goods loans are required.
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  2754. The US in the 70s produced a huge number of writers on fascism. The 70s was 30 years out from the effects of propaganda at the end of WWII that American scholars were able to assess fascism with a sober eye.
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  2755. Catalonians do not want to pay for Spain's fiscal instability with more public debt. Debt is already the size of Spain's GDP, owed to the financial sector.
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  2756. I agree “mass migration is supposed to happen’, the inflow of cheap labor is a suppressant on the wage of American workers. Profits can only rise when wages fall. Someone is not rich unless someone is made poor. Things that are supposed to happen implies there is a certain logic to a crazy society.
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  2757. If inflation and the cost of living is a concern to working people in this country than they should be pointing the finger at the cause not at the effect. Supply chain breakdowns, gluts, drought, shortages, internal warfare, invasions, military build-ups; are all actions that force prices to rise and stay high as long as these actions persist. This is the actual connection between the flow of displaced migrants from their own national origins as the effect and the negative actions the government pursues internationally is the cause. If you re old enough to identify the pattern you can easily predict what will come next for working people. Following a general rise of prices which is, at the same time, a drop in the value of wages (despite the increase in the minimum wage) comes a coordinated assault from the Congress, specifically from the Speaker and Schumer, to have working people pay for all the losses each crisis generates, i.e, Austerity. Cuts in jobs and pensions and social spending. The Speaker is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, a group of near 40 senators with ambitions to cut social spending down to zero will not use their votes to approve anything unless there are cuts in social spending. Ironically, if the Freedom Caucus gets their way and funding for Ukraine is cut off, that would actually free up a lot money for domestic purposes for social spending. There is an Achilles Heel in the posture of the super conservative wing of the republican party. The working public will lose out because there is no opposition coming from working people in this country to redirect that peace dividend back into their lives. Naturally, if there is nobody saying no you can’t use this money for the military the military will gladly take it and an entire generation of working people remain poorer than they were before. In which case, working people failed to exploit that Achilles Heel in the Republican Party to get what they need. And what do you need...you need a normal workday, you need education, you need healthcare that works for you, you need housing, you need products that will not kill your babies, planes that don’t come apart in the skies, you need trains that stay on the tracks, you need clean fresh water, clean sewer drains, you need a workplace free of life threatening risks, you need your house or apartment to remain standing, you need a Park, a good school, you need a violent free society, you need your teeth fixed and you need mental health services, you need internet connectivity in rural America, and above all you need work to live. You do not need a life just for work and be overworked. Why does this happen? Well, its not a very difficult problem to figure out. It can be answered by what working people in this country do not have as stated above. If you can feed yourself and family from the fruit of your own labor, working the land or producing your own clothing, repairing your own car(s), owning a rental asset, or small to middle-sized business, or have enough money to buy what you need from the market despite inflation, an ever shrinking number of billionaires accumulating wealth at the expense of a majority would not be your present-day reality evolving into a nightmare. Stop blaming the effect and blame the cause. You will thank me for it later.
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  2758. Venezuelan migrants in the US are the innocent victims in this armed struggle the US State Department pushes in Latin America and at Venezuela in particular. Ukrainian people are innocent victims of an armed struggle the US State Department pushes against Russia. America is the cause of the world moving in a multipolar direction that America cannot do anything to stop, except total nuclear annihilation. Given the US is the only nation to have actually used nuclear weapons on another nation the world arms itself to the teeth with nukes to deter and contain aggressive US policy. US sanctions on the oil sector of the V’s economy is aimed to slow down the growth of Venezuela. The employees in the State Department do the work of pre-occupying the agenda, so that workers leaders, trade union leaders, do not get wise to the schemes to make powerless Venezuela’s economy, fragmented and atomized, isolated, deprive the working people of Venezuela of their own gross national product, and then set up the situation to blame it all on the person they don’t like, childish, but it works to get over on a working class stuck in an individual mode of thought, in turn, this policy creates and provides the purpose, need and objective reasons for a revolution. I would imagine officials in the State Department are aware the potential for a true working class revolt if they are seen connected to events, so they must operate covertly through surveillance, secrecy, detection and deterrence, and have the media evoke fear, use drug addiction and conspiracy theories by secret societies and police to keep a working class fragmented, racist among its own class ranks, sexist among its own men and women and families, and thinking false concepts to keep the working class from politicizing its own existence. What a job to be a state department official but it is easy to do when you are enclosed and tucked away from society and never see the negative social and mortal effects of the work they do as an official. People in the beltway are desensitized human beings through their own isolation from society.
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  2759. If this were England I would be in perfect agreement with Dr. Wolff, however, this is the US. Feudalism was not a mode of production in America.  The dominant mode of production in America's pre-capitalist history was not feudalism. As we all know there were two modes of production in America's pre-capitalist history: two forms of property relations. The first and original form was Native American Common landownership, and the second form, was the imported mode of production of slavery. In America the introduction of the capitalist mode of production dominated and completely wiped out the earlier two forms of production. A master bought and sold slaves and the black ancestors to Afro-Americans today were chattel slaves.  So, if Thomas Jefferson sold his Mt. Vernon estate the slaves were included as a package. He could sell slaves without land but he could not sell land without slaves. Capitalism had to change all that by changing the property relationships making property moveable (money) and not fixed (land). This took a Supreme Court decision to change the relationships but nothing phycsically in life changed at all for the former slaves in terms of work. Former slaves stll worked Jefferson's land and home, the change required Jeffferson pay a wage to his slaves now considered a 'free worker' under the law. Transitioning into socialism under capitalism in America would have to start with a worker's movement to bring the matter to the Supreme Court to outlaw wage labor to abolish capitalism. It is not likely the Supreme Court will rule against capitalism without a worker's movement since it would involve its own destruction as an institution. Some brilliant set of lawyers would have to file a petition with the high court proving socialism is in the best interest of the majority since capitalism has been in shown in court, without a doubt, to be a system that is destructive to the majority of citizens in the nation.
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  2760. Yeah but guess what...a billionaire can still get an abortion in any state in the US. Some prostitutes in the porn industry are rich enough to go elsewhere. Billionaires are not impacted by this law. An abortion can be bought and preformed in the confines of their own residence and nobody would know about it. They just have to find a doctor willing to do it. Not hard to do. Money talks and bullshit walks in America. I knew a billionaire who died at home in a special part of the house converted into a mini-hospital room with all the equipment a hospital has. Legislators with billionaire friends and allies will say nothing and do nothing to enforce the law on special donors. So this is really a law cracking down on people who have no means or little means and certainly are not billionaires.
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  2761. There is another way to look at these complications and that is by looking at the conditioning of the personality. A Stoltenberg will always be a Stoltenberg determined by his relationship to NATO, he could never be anything else outside of his class. Same is true for the rest of the world leaders on the world stage at present. As a person, the class individual he acts and the personal are fused inseparably and this is generally accepted as an aura of professionalism but what it truly entails is a subordination of pure individuality by every person in that organization powered by suggestion that only in this form of social organization can the imagination and freedom of the individual be reached by anyone.
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  2762. Class war is a part of all cultures. But Sudan’s war looks like a factional of two militias at war. I claim the two militias are fighting for the same oppressor...
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  2763. The Baby Boomer generation, Mellineals and Generation X-ers, are divided by age and sex. Capitalism creates a natural division of labor between along race, gender and age under a social division of labor of work along lines of income and jobs. Divisions that prevent generations building solidarity among each other. The separated and divided groups do not relate to each other. At work, workers take on more responsibility bossing other workers, supervisor and worker relationship, a top down social structure in management. At home, parents are out of it, old school, and not tech saavy. These are divisions working their way in breaking down solidairty and unity. General social attitudes, and low and behold none of them are united and within them politcally divided. Anyone can be a candidate just by running on one single issue pertinent to the thing that divides them is how deep the divisions run. Bridging this generation gap is Bernie and Tulsi, are the only people who talk about making your life better, the others are their to divide your vote. However, the point is, the latter two generatons are last to have grown up not socialized by America's social institutions broken down by privatization. This makes them less inclined to be socially obedient. More inclined to overthrow capitalism as a fraudulent authority the more radically right wing it becomes. The other divisions in this generation is structured in a labor hierarchy. GM workers have three tiers, workers with seniority, workers on a flexible schedule and workers employed part time crushes the idea that they are all workers and solidarity. The GM strike was interesting because the workers knew a strike was necessary but for what demands to strike about was less concrete and forced the worker (union) to demand changes in the division of labor of the factory. A division in the factory that is magnified and multiplied in the division of labor outside the factory began to break down the division itself and the whole authoritarian social structure built on it. Breaking down the divisions in society is the most important issue for workers in America, whether the president is impeached or not is not going to change that which divides all workers, if anything, whatever the outcome the divisions are perpetuated.
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  2764. I could not disagree more. Economies rely on how far developed labor in general in society happens to be, not individuals. American economy is dependent on the power of China’s industrial ability to produce. There has not been one president or one Congress in 45 years in this country to change that dependence.
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  2765. Heavy economic pain for consumers and workers ahead. About 3 million workers will be let go this winter. This means there will be no capital turnover. Corporate buyers will not buy from the market, not produce and create jobs, and not return to the market to sell. Buyers are not selling and sellers are not buying. Prime capital comes from these turnovers without them we get more inequality, unemployment, cuts.
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  2766. Fool! Judges the scale and size of the opposition by who shows up?
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  2767. “Reagan's economic incompetence cost George H.W. Bush his re-election because people blamed him for Reagan's incompetence.”...the two personalities, Bush representing the national security apparatus, in the period of the Gulf War, and Reagan representing free market capitalism, in the period of Thatcher, was a republican reaction to world events and historical trends, the end of the USSR and the rise of China, to secure the national security state’s dominance in world trade and finance for US banks, corporations, landowners, military. The Pentagon and CIA found more allies for this mission in the democratic party in the same period. We are all witness to corporate democrats expelling any and all working class, et al progressive opposition through cancel culture. There is no place or room for the working class in this mission. Liberal and progressive workers that did not join MAGA before Trump when it was the Tea Party became the losers. As Trump moves into position of the national security state, the two political parties stand opposite of him, no longer is one party on the same side as Trump, and the other party opposed to him. The blue collar working class opposition to the national security apparatus is far more radical, defensive, and more aware of their class unity as MAGA in the GOP is a real force of power with the potential to make a revolution, that the progressive movement in the democratic party and its working class opposition cannot. This wing is broken, weak, and impotent. A Bernie resurgence can draw MAGA and progressives together, or if Bernie dies and leaves a vacuum, the progressives would have to make allies with Bannon to oppose the New Establishment under Trump. ...terrorism became a factor in perpetuating war,--- cementing the national security apparatus as a permanent feature of the US economy. The accumulation cycle and the business cycle are two cycles, one measuring the length of time an economy can last with no investments before dying and the other measuring the frequency capitalists in particular re-invest and how much in their businesses. Rising debt and war spending and the cost of sustaining expansionist ambitions is the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
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  2768. Guo Mashi, I agree. Clear to the point.
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  2769. No she represents a percentage of the population in Maryland who pay no taxes already. Who will care will be those who do pay for the sweep up of dead bodies.  It's is not hierarchy, its about ideology of her constituents exactly as the doctor said. So why would this anchor contradict the doctor when his argument further's the anchor's argument? Why? Why not be consistent with a winning argument instead of undermining a case with another concept, i.e., hierarchy.
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  2770. Totally barbaric.
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  2771.  @yellowbird500  Lachkey kids refer to kids in child care because women entered the workforce, they were not left home alone...not as a consequence of women getting a job, that is a myth.  Secondly, the feminist movement was originally a working class movement focusing on class and race, that if women were entering the workforce they were demanding equal pay and equal rights. With funding from the FBI, certain middle class women, i.e., Gloria Steinman et al, hijacked that movement from working class women and trivialized that movement into a gender battle of the sexes.  Thirdly, 8 out of 10 workers today are women, paid less and racially segregated in jobs, these women had placed their bets America would deliver equality. They were wrong. Men were fooled.
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  2772. This period of American history from 1980 to now, 41 years illustrates how man-made productive forces became a detriment to human life and the planet starting with the Vietnam War but were an aid in a past epoch that began in the First World War. What is on the brink of its last breath is the Age of Oil, its highest social expression is the Pentagon, where invasions and low intensity conflicts are staged, planned and executed, could potentially take with it the whole of life on earth.
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  2773.  @hizzlemobizzle  Those with that available purchasing power are few relative to the total size of the working class. Cuts to the heart of making social inequality illegal as a societal mission.
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  2774. Smart car technology has something more concrete to offer than national security concerns. It solves the problem of contaminating further the Earth with fossil fuel car emissions but we still need coal to produce electricity to keep charged the vehicles. To stem the tide of dangerous weather and natural disasters, we need technologies that are not a polluter itself and do not make producers of the object that pollutes. Wind and Water, eliminates the need to extract coal from the soil. Soil is untouched by mechanical industry. Quasar power is Star power yet unharnessed and magnetic power is under utilized, all iron objects of motion, such as trains and rail can be magnetically moved. So the idea of smart technology that moves people is a national security concern exists only in the political realm, cancels out the material aspects and applications of the technology. For these technologies to really come to full bloom and work in conjunction with each other a new mindset is needed.
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  2775.  @richardgere4713  America is a Rotting Corpse. Progressives in the democratic party were more progressive when Trump was in office. In a similar pattern the New Left and the Black Power Movement of the 60s grew to become more anti-war when Nixon was in office. But when LBJ was in office the counter suppression of the State on the anti-war movement was a its peak. Biden holds office and the Progressives in the democratic party commit suicide the minute the progressives voted to fund the war in Ukraine. Bernie’s wing voted for the war and that vote was The Death Of American Progressivism. So it was never a break in the continuum of decades of repression and suppression that begs the question of a Grand Social Experiment on the American People. Who the enemies of the working class are; are never as they appear in history. Whether it is the warm and fuzzy modest nature of Warren Buffett or in the nerdish character of Bill Gates, or the feeble minded old man in Joe Biden, its all a brand, that sell out the American people to war mongers and thieves.
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  2776. His firing is sufficient evidence his allegations against US Media are founded. He is being silenced. Closed off to the networks who own the satellite airwaves. They can silence anyone and do when seen fit to silence. Murdoch saw fit to fire Carlson. I believe Tucker is heir to the Swanson Empire if I am not mistaken? What good are satellites if there is no content Murdoch can make money off of? People act against themselves. Carlson was making money for Murdoch. High ratings is cash in the bank. Strange. Is Murdoch is rich enough to not care...he demented like Biden...or on his death bed and does not care to take down the empire with him...lawsuit was a lot of money to lose plus reputation...compelled by internal or external relationships...had subjective reasons...does not matter...its the general trend in journalism that to fire Carlson a prime money making commodity Tucker was the only one talking about content while all the rest were pretending to be journalists. This may have been the difference that no matter who you are its how authentic you come across to people seeing your face every day that counts...and what his peers seem to not possess in the make-up of their personalities.
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  2777. I seriously doubt this guy Chris Swecker was ever a real former FBI director. Todd McGhee was a former cop? This video was an exercise in propaganda.
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  2778. Problem: This video tells us nothing about the whys and who the protesters are in relation to the Taliban or to the country.
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  2779. I am not sure its all me, me, me that is operating to make people do nothing, I think its constantly being pushed, bossed, abused, that people are desensitized to the point where they can not recognize an abuse if it hit them on the face!
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  2780. No its not, Telesur covers better than DN.
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  2781. Now that we have the class concept understood the struggle concept of class is the hard part that comes next.
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  2782. This reporting stinks!
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  2783. Buttigieg is a DNC-Trump mole or stooge like Juan Giaudo. Its a good thing hindsight is 20/20.  Had the Sandinistas in the 70's trained the Central American people on how to use arms and military tactics, a training school of their own. The Central American people would not be in the condition they re in now. They would been able to confront the American trained military and give them a real fight for their money. Hindsight is 20/20. I do blame Daniel Ortega for not building a People's Army like Trotsky built the Red Army. A secret army that today would have come out as a victorious army catching the right wing forces by surprise and expelling the US from their country. It is more dignified to fight than it is to be corralled like cattle headed to an American Gulag. Reasons why this never happened might be valid, but that the indigenous people were left to their own devices without training and arms is a failure of the left. Its a betrayal of revolutionary principals. They would have had 30 years in which the children of the Central Americans fleeing the homeland would have been ready to fight. Armed insurrection was good only for getting powwer but once in power they should have gone to work in preparing the people of what was to come in the future. The Central Americans do not have a Simon Bolivar or a Jose Marti in their history but could have. This ought to have been the long term project of the left rather than to be laser focused on the immediate moment. I say this because the US is a major military power that can destroy in a heartbeat all the work the Sandinistas accomplished in building a decent and independent society in Nicaragua. They should have expanded into Honduras, Gautemala and El Salvador building very queity an underground military force from Columbia to Chiapas. Think how the Drug Cartels would have been suppressed if there were an armed peasantry. This generation would not be suffering to the extent they are today had this been a plan. When I see Honduran troops shoveling indigenous people around it pains me to see them comply. Like the Jews, except the Warsaw Ghetto Jews in Germany, who did fight the Nazis, the majority of Jews willingly complied with the Nazis that none of them had guts to fight back. Psychologically this instills a mindset of victimization becoming the victimizer as we see Jews doing to Palestinians today. This is a holocaust of great magnitude and it falls directly on the left for permitting such an environment to come about. The Spanish Left in Central America should have learned the example of the American Lincoln Brigade who fought Franco and the Catalonian anarchists who fought the fascists and made Catalonia the richest province in all of Spain because they fought the fascists and armed the peasants and workers. Not to mention when looking at footage, the Honduran military looks like an easy army to beat. There is something so denigrating and immoral about living under the boot of Washington that the feelings of Central Americans are going to one explode into a form of barbarism sometime in the future when these victims become adults.
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  2784.  @georgefurman4371  That is the historic paradox: the most powerful working class is the dumbest (least intellectual) of them all, ON PURPOSE--- is what angers me most. This is a healthy anger if everyone got angry at government not educating people on purpose. Generating spite and despite in working class people feeling constricted, stifled and stagnant, with no voice in Congress, futureless. The Left has to regain authority and respect from the working class and hold daily live panels commenting on live broadcast feeds of current events directly affecting the working class. Show how policies hurt them! Do it all on line. Have all the heavy weights on at the same time. We need a healthy round of brain boxing to gain ground with working people, even some not on the Left, when the Left and pull together and stay together.
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  2785.  @georgefurman4371  Mainly because the American left, particularly the New Left (baby boomers), the Women’s Movement, Progressives, react to the contradictory nature of capitalism and oppression in sociological and individual terms, through culture and identity, not through class struggle, is my assessment. Lacking is the emphasis and understanding of the double nature of “production” under capitalism. A ‘Front”, would be a great.
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  2786. There is a scholarly view that is not represented here in this panel, a view of the anatomy of the world economy from the point of view of the product of labor that has become the prime commodity of political events in the world today, these are, Oil and Gas. Oil and gas; use-values that run the physicality of all societies are also exchange-values that run the sociality of societies. As one panelist said Dr. Laurie Mulvey, subjective experience counts and this is the physical effect of gas and oil consumption in the improvement of our lives, the objective experience are the wars and instability the exchange of oil and gas prove to be as detriments to our lives and all work associated with that detriment form an immoral relationship of exploitation in the world community.
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  2787. Biden might never get up from a fall again. The End.
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  2788. A black, brown or red person knows this like the back of their hand. Now that whites are discovering this what are they going to do about abolishing fascism in law enforcement the heart of the GOP? Comments below is demagoguery
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  2789. Excellent interview with Bill McKibben, from him we get an honest assessment of where everyone is at, in the climate crisis movement inserting itself in history and making history itself. A turning point comes next. People are taking a political stand and there is no turning back. Greta submitting the Meteorological Report as her testimony to the House Foreign Relations Committee is classic. She threw the book at their doom along with the ones providing the lifeline to the fossil fuel industry! Quiet an event.
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  2790.  @daleburrell6273  A broken hydrocycle?
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  2791. We are witnessing a rapid expropriation of people from their property and possessions become a slow and gradual, almost creep like, usurpation of the land from its owners. Spearheaded by a government in my opinion is unworthy of the people it pretends to serve. Land and buildings that have been in families for generations free and clear of any mortgages in the incineration rubble make the properties unidentifiable for their owners to claim become land taken in possession by the State. The Mauii catastrophe is a wet dream for bankers if the State takes and re-sells land to a particular group of buyer/investors foaming at the mouth for future gain. Long and short term high interest bearing loans to a hot rich clientele market ready to buy is easy money. But as social process, an expropriation is a social conversion of person’s formerly owners into non-owners inevitably to become individual sellers of nothing but their own capacity to work, if they can find work, and as displaced persons they have been reduced to a status of a plebeian. The Civil War in England (1600-Cromwell period) in the transformation of its peasant owning class into paupers and vagabonds primed for the factories in Manchester as exploitable labor share the same key features of a usurpation of the many by the few.
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  2792. Trump is doing what the militias are doing, triangulating the Iraqi people to take sides in a conflict with America and/or Iran, when it is the Iraqi government the people want to overthrow.
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  2793. Okay.they are dinosaur tracks but what do the tracks say about the river bed? Was it a river bed when they walked on it or was it something else?
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  2794.  @Decoywitha3  The meek are the people in the US who alone have the power to end wars but have meek intelligence on that subject? What say you of that paradox?
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  2795. @Michael Riley Calling the stupid stupid won't bring the stupid any closer to realizing how stupid they are! First you must shatter the vision they have of themselves in the relation of smartness as dumb people and shatter the dumbness in the smart people.
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  2796. Problem with your premise to keep democracy safe and not give an enemy the votes is your abstinence of any follow through on not funding Israel. You never do it.
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  2797.  @chrismaestas3974  This country has about 20,000 miles probably a million miles of lead piping in one direction from coast to coast of lead piping that has to be replaced owing to the criminal negligence of this generation in government. Instead Bg Oil gets the piping.
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  2798. Alabama will never get a cent of my money.
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  2799. Indeed. Political parties, leaders, legislators, representatives in government, none of them are capable of coping with the historical changes in patterns of consumption and production of land, they strictly rely on the oscillations in the market.  The market is only the surface --underneath which, is a constantly changing and dynamic labor-process of human beings changes the environment and changes us simultaneously. This is why, in surveying the nations in the world, climate crisis has amplified; there are too many small banks or too few big ones, too much over speculation or too little investment, too much overproduction and too little production, and too high a number of debt ridden farmers and too few big farmers with no debt, too much human labor in certain industries and too little labor in others, these are the anomolies of the capitalist world, the uneven development between social systems, are the objective factors that drag the world economy downward into a depression.  What to do about the uneven development in all things natural and social the politicans have not the faintest idea, the governments are incompetently too slow to react to crisis, and there is no centralized authority or government who can control the excesses and disparities from developing inside nations never mind outside and between them. The labor-process of human beings on a world scale and under the control of capitalism has run amok and needs to be put in check by its own human participants. This is a time when the workers of the world should unite under the claim of taking responsibility for correcting the climate crisis capitalism accelerates. This is labor's doing in the form of capitalism. Stopping the repacious exploitative nature of capitalism starts here in the US, with the US working class.
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  2800. All of us know how government and private industry use automation and technology in communications as a way of shutting the people out of the things important to them. I want to see technology in every industry and sector help people not hurt them.
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  2801. The next Trucker Caravan would have their donations protected if they register themselves into off-shore accounts because the powers that be would expose themselves of the same if they sanction the Trucker donations. Use the weapons they use against you against them is the basic idea.
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  2802. We seem to be spinning our wheels and going round in circles about how little control we have of our lives. This is very disturbing trend. Before capitalism, in a time of simple reproduction, the payment of services of the king and the king’s armies contained the profit and all spoils went straight to the victor as the appointed owner of the wealth of the society the king annexed, was a crowned affair. It was easy to locate the source of repression and oppression at a king, monarch, dictator but when it comes to capitalism its harder to point the finger at one person or thing. In capitalism the whole thing is elusive, an enigma. Capitalism is about money making money, money must buy before it can sell, money has to buy social production where its product is injected with social labor or value producing labor before it can realize that excess value contained in a finished product in circulation in a sale. Capital cannot by-pass production but social production can by-pass capitalism is an important point people should remember. If it feels we are spinning our wheels at the lack of control in our lives it is because the general movement of capital(ism) is circular and repetitive from two distinct points, M, money and M+, money prime. All humans are interacting with each other from one of both points. Buyers when they become owners of money and sellers when they become owners of things to sell. As a capitalist, Elon Musk, is a buyer and seller, and the others in his social class are the first appropriators of social production but they are not the ultimate owners. Past labor is what the unpaid labor of others produced in the past, a dam, a bridge, a factory, a road, a utility plant etc. Capital uses these things today but does not or had not paid for their production. How you might ask did one social class come to claim a share of the surplus-value when they have nothing to do with its production? America justifies someone owning an unpaid quantity of labor as natural; and what do the capitalists do with the natural offspring of labor? They throw back into circulation and it comes to the rest of us through the various incomes we earn whether that income is profits, rents, interest, taxes, and the work we perform today is paid from the unpaid labor of past workers. Add insult to injury, everyone advances two weeks labor before they get a paycheck and the value they produced inside of those two weeks is unpaid labor. Even our payment in wages is a roundabout thing that already paid for itself. These revelations may be shocking...its get better... Merchant capitalism and banking are peculiar to circulation, of which credit and interest, are a part. People in this realm of social life who make a living from it are as trapped as the rest of us, pushed and pulled, driven by external pressure, in the general movement of capitalism.
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  2803.  @nathanlewis42  Yeah me 2
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  2804. Everything is a no in America. Setting limits to what you can do. The amount of freedom Americans have can be counted by the amount of money in their check book. Banks have all the freedom in the world leaving no room for freedom for the greater majority who have no choice but to use the services of a bank if they want to live. You want credit unions get your freedom first from these commercial banks.
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  2805.  @dijidal  The last bastions of Anglo-Saxon Capitalism are the US and UK, which means if SA is a conquered indentured state in your view than so are the people of the US and the UK, particularly black Americans and the black UK population. Imagine an army, whose general goes over to the enemy on the day of battle best describes how the black working class leaders in both countries ruin themselves and disorganize their movements because they involve themselves to an agreement with bourgeois white supremacist radicals.
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  2806. I cannot assume the regular Maya, the everyday people were born able to read. Reading your language and learning to speak your language are not the same thing. The stelea were the Mayan black board and the scribes were teaching the Mayan children while they were carving? Scribes had to have been developing a written language but also a readership for the language.
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  2807. You can blame it on the form of wealth chosen in American culture and society. As a value a coastal residence is worth ten times more than an inland piece of property in most cases more than that. Trump is a product of that real estate, landed property culture.  He will level against climate science the way Christianity levelled against paganism if it means he cannot turn a profit on land. The husband who voted for Trump has been betrayed by now two parties not one. His next choice is an independent candidate and hope he is not betrayed a third time.
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  2808.  @robertduluth8994  If you notice only I related the subject matter of this film to the present historical situation of our time with respect to coup dé états while most, in the comments have nothing to relate it to only comment on how good the documentary is. This subject is not a dead subject from the past Americans thinks it is or how the past is presented to Americans. This is very much what goes on in all governments including and even more so, in our own government. The part about the Soviets (workers councils) and the part about centralizing power in the new communist state are manipulated to emphasize the concentration of power and de-emphasis that socialism looked like from the point of view of the peasants and workers. As long as we keep feeding the systems that spend all of a nation’s resources in competition with socialism are doing more harm to everyday Americans facing mass evacuations, propertyless-ness, high mortality rates, repressive criminal police conduct, etc., the more dictatorial does America become as leader of this anti-communism.
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  2809. Commerce! You should read what is said about commerce, the history of commerce and the theory of commerce, and there is hardly anything honest about it.
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  2810. People are purposely made unaware of the fact that Capital is creating itself through us. Money is being transformed. It is changing form creating incomes. Money finds its way into industries where it can become profit. All the other categories we are creating below do the same thing to reproduce themselves, ultimately, these objects (incomes) are the master of all subjects (people). Profit income, wage income, interest, tax, rent, price, these are all incomes social classes that correspond to those incomes depend on for their survival. The end product is a social order composed of antagonistic social classes with incomes that are derived or accrued to them through nefarious and exploitative methods.
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  2811.  @rosemiller4622  Its not like she has a choice. Money was meant to be a means. It is now an end. And that’s our problem. Money has made everyone dependent on markets in the same measure markets are independent of everyone. If you look more closely, Money is a commodity like other commodities, and at the same time it is not a commodity like the other commodities. Money is a new source of contradictions that makes expansion a necessity, only to separate money as king, an end in itself.
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  2812. The only black people that benefited from Biden’s policies are black people in politics. Outside of the political system the other black America got no benefit from Biden. The same thing is true for white Americans. The other white America not in the political system are broken, down and out.
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  2813. Banks rob from other banks when they pay off loans issued by another bank. When they assume private ownership of loans with high returns does not mean the same loans were not profitable for the selling bank. The bank selling in one country to another bank buying in another country. If the deal goes sour a series of banks in the long chain of buyers and sellers of the same number of commodity-loans offered for sale goes sour. Finally, the cities in the world financed by loans go under. In the deal the exchange consists of buying cheap relative to the size of total capital owned for the buyer. The bank doing the selling of the loans prices above the cost and below the average price relative to their profit expectation in the transaction, ---essentially, it is money making more money and money making people assist money making more of itself. An upside down world. The banks are international and bankers are buyers and sellers of money. We never have to wonder what a person we know is doing in Europe and America if they are a banker. The bankers have their own chief banker emulates a beehive of different strata of bankers. They are buying and selling money because they interact with these objects as logical economic categories of an international system of exchange. It is a world in which a person exists inside the circulation of money and the loans bought and sold is their sole activity on earth. If the rainforest disappeared tommorrow the banking system would try to sell a loan to its inhabitants. Practical wisdom goes out the window. But you could not say the same thing about another kind of owner that stalks in the social jungle of capitalism if the rainforest disappeared tomorrow. This animal welcomes its destruction, sees it as an opportunity to sieze the land, no longer of any use to its inhabitants, but very useful as a commodity to a landowner/developer as a commodity for sale. And there are little brothers and sisters as cousins depending on the usurpation of the land for its sale to the banks and share in the profit distributed over the skin of this animal. A skin covered with an evangelical cloak veiling an enterprise of usurpation, murder, arson, terror of the former inhabitants of the rainforest.
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  2814. Biden can only lie about his voting history. At the time...and I remember well the 1990s. The Democrats, Biden et al, were all filled with hubris. They were elated, they believed they were responsible for the demise of the USSR and capitalism outlasted communism led to this hubris. This is why so many of them are brazenly right wing in the old footages of them.
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  2815.  @skdjirrrdjdm3926  Better...John Stewart was paid by a corporate network. Jimmy is completely free of the wages and salaries of employers (owners of money).
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  2816. School buildings and their age, unchanged air filters and poor ventilation, windows that do not open. Small rooms, too many bodies. No outdoor accessibility. The lack of a plan. Poor conditions that make the spread more likely. Under staffed. Lack of administrative support. These are some of the concerns of workers who are not teachers in Chicago and Boston.
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  2817. America’s political officials refuse to tax the very people who are causing social problems in housing, infrastructure, education, health sectors of the economy by their naked self-interest. Political leaders in America are cowards and bend a knee to the rich.
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  2818. This trial is going to be a farce. Everyone does, if they don't should, realize going down is a sham of a sham. This Congress is not unified and there is no consenus to convict. It will be a trial on how a man in the law dodges conviction.
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  2819. Imagine the money that escalation could do to fix your infrastructure, build a new high speed electric rail from coast to coast, create homes for your homeless problem, create new industries and new jobs, fix your broken health care system and help to pay off personal, federal and corporate debt. Imagine what all that money can do for Americans...
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  2820.  @jeffb896  More like to prevent encroachments from the West.
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  2821.  @ik1408  Or the US.
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  2822. I think freedom is a moot point when mortality and survival show a failing system in the US. The level of violence in the form of guns, weapons, law enforcement, military in the US is so high that these forces take an automatic reality of their own outside of their users. The other half of society is deprived of development. We are dealing with technology, science, in a state of ceaseless production going the course against its own natural development. Every advance occurs through industrial processes joined with the military and its direct participants have no claim to the advances in technology. I guess you can call being free of ownership of these forces is a form of freedom. But as long as science and technology serves the state as a means for social control and used to lengthen hours of work in business, freedom has two realities. Free as a modern nomad and free of ownership.
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  2823. Not Satan, his loyalty is the Capital(ism).
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  2824. No doubt it is reprehensible but! To break down the divisions that exists between union and non-unionized workers and come to some kind of unity destroying the old structures that separate labor is essential. It is almost as if everything labor built in the era following the second world war served to maintain the real powers has to be broken down for labor to reunite on common ground and return to its original mission of emancipation. No doubt a unity will come after a series of deadening blows to the working class as hard lessons have to be learned how important national unity is to the movement as a whole. In America, I see this taking shape under many coalitions with many factions each advocating their own thing but the important thing is, mass solidarity and a national union for the creation of labor's own political party.
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  2825. You don’t remember the baby Trump blimp do you?
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  2826. Everybody wants a whiff of Leo.
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  2827. It is the end of the Islamic Republic that began with the the first Ayatollah Khomeni brought to power in the revolution of 1979. Then the Shah of Iran (Persian Monarch) installed after the second world war was overthrown by the 1979 revolution. If the Trump administration was truly in support of this current national wave of protests it might want to use an apology for its role in the overthrow of Mossadegh to get whatever new regime comes from this revolution in discussions on the Obama failed nuclear deal. These two issues are central to Iran's understanding of American history. Parsi is right the messenger has no credibility.
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  2828. Americans have to take a political stand! Quit Morning and Organize!
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  2829. Be great to have an authentic individual as president.
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  2830. Americans will have to fight large corporations at the local and municipal level because nothing will get done at the federal and state level to curb the exploits and abuses of large corporations in communities. And whatever is passed at the state and federal level such as this bill the republicans did not support they will repeal when they get the White House. Whatever was given to the American people is taken back. For instance, repealing the Inflation Reduction Act and making permanent the Trump Tax Cuts. I think they also want to install Trump loyalists into key decision making jobs in the civil service bureaucracy to place tighter restrictions, make it hard, on the American people for licenses, certifications, identifications, more controlling. This worries me as it would be outright fascism. They would then move to open national parks for oil drilling and increased refinery capacity in the US. A real dilemma as the Republicans are positioning the American workforce into a very tight spot. What can be done about all the product recalls and the inflation that does not raise the price but shrinks the product has to happen at the federal level with national policies on how things are made and with what, currently not enforced, is a struggle that will depend on electing people with guts and conscience to enforce the law that regulate producers of goods and product. Right now there are baby formula shortages, about 50 soft drinks with microbial contamination, to name two off the top of my head. Eliminating abuses by large corporations can be done locally when communities start passing local laws protecting their communities and the workforce just coming of age. For instance, Chipotle has around 112,000 violations of child labor violations pending before the NLRB. Chipotle is in every town and city. Locally what can be done to end this abuse of young people working in violation of labor laws for Chipotle can be done through city and town councils. If a corporation is going to close their shops, stores and chains because workers want a union then the city has the power to take the store, shops, from the corporation through Imminent Domain, and buy the restaurant(s) for resale to the employees, and overnight employees become entrepreneurs. The corporation loses a franchise would make them think twice about closing shop and leaving the town with a boarded up eyesore. But if they do pack up and leave workers becoming owners and unionized worker/owners to boot, could move like wildfire across the US.
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  2831. Well, at least he knew not to run over the innocent Public.
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  2832.  @johnthree1611  You do not live in a Republic the 1% do. You and I, and all the people to whom you reply as the 99% exist outside of that Republic. You can't tell your boss not to use lethal chemicals, or change the production in the factories, offices, farms, textiles, you cannot control Big Tech, Big Oil, Big Retail, Big Banks. All owned by the 1% every workplace, not even your body is your's and that is not a dictatorship to you. You are lost.
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  2833. Well, the way I see it...there was a coup in 2014 and that coup led to this current Zalenski government, and a war in eastern Ukraine between pro-Russian separatists and pro-western Ukraines. Pro Russian separatist want no part of the government installed by the coup and pro-western Ukraines want no part of Russia deciding a government for Ukrainians. The solution is neutrality. Stop me if I am wrong here. But that is my understanding. Being neutral however is not likely with the pressure of two empires leaning on Ukraine. Layered over that conflict in Ukraine is a larger conflict between two super powers and both are fueled by gas and oil interests who include Joe Biden’s interest in Ukraine. In my mind that puts Biden as one among all the Oil and Gas Oligarchs who are interested in Ukraine for this resource Europe needs, evidently Germany needs the most, represents a big market bonus for American oil and gas and co., versus a big market bonus for Russian oil and gas oligarchs and co., who include Vladimir Putin’s interest in Ukraine. I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis and this larger conflict between super powers over Ukraine is the same thing but on the other side...with the Cuban Missile Crisis we were a hairline away from nuclear war. The Kennedys and Kruschev saved us. Today there are no Kennedys, today running governments in the super powers are not conscientious individuals of character and strength, political classes run governments in Russia and in America, and for the most part, none of us here belong to that political class.
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  2834. Its not only in America that Ohioans are dumb. The price of stupidity is death. Cynics say Americans deserve it. Its time believers put their money where their mouth is. If you believe capitalism is "the" primary threat to life on the planet as we know it then it is time to act on that belief and shut it down. Move toward a sane and humane society.
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  2835. What is not examined by mainstream economists that are typically featured in mainstream news is the increase in material wealth that changes the magnitude of value in goods and services. For instance, a person works for one hour produces a value of one hour’s work, if that output is one unit. But when there are two units produced in one hour of value the ratio between input to output has changed the amount of value from 1/1hr to 2/1hr. As a worker’s productivity rises and creates, 3, 4, 5 flutes in one hour the value falls in each flute 3/100, 4/100, 5/100 ths of one hour’s work. In terms of price this movement should be reflected as $1.00 dollar, $.75 cents, $.50 cents, $.25 cents that a flute would sell for, instead with the greediness of the flute producers raises the price of flutes per market demand, as more kids enjoy playing the flute, prices go up and more profit is made as a result, for instance, no profit for the flute made in one hour but two flutes a gain of $.25 cents, three flutes a gain of $.50 cents, four flutes a gain of $.75 cents, five flute a gain of $1.00 dollar per flute, multiplied by a million flutes for a million kids in one million bands made the gain is 1 million dollars clear profit. Each step along the way the materials and machinery and the labor to make the flute is transferred into the flutes is a cost that paid for itself in production the day two flutes was the going rate of output. As time goes by output is increased because inevitably new machines are made by machine makers. In the meantime the worker making the flute is still producing one hour’s worth of work at a rate that has been established as a minimum wage of $15 dollars a hour. The flute maker grows larger and becomes a monopoly flute maker the more flutes are sold and the worker becomes poorer the more flutes they produce, hence, the economic inequality and the rise of oligarchy. This economic law occurs in every branch of industry despite the intentions of the product maker or the worker making the product because the product is never made by one person but by a large number of workers all working to produce in one hour a mass of products multiplied by eight hours of work the product quantity is an excess and we have a surplus of flutes. This should lead to a new kind of society but to avoid it from becoming an affluent society the economic law is forced back. Prevented from happening. If the product maker cannot sell the mass of product the profit falls and the only way to recover from this is the let workers go. After all you cannot fire a machine. And if you do not use the machine the value of the machine itself depreciates, rots away, becoming a dead machine and a loss of money invested in the machine to the owner of the machine. Congress steps in to correct this dilemma for all the owners of the machines and offers a tax depreciation allowance for the loss of value of machines. A factory is one giant machine. A city is one giant machine, and an incentive is created by the government to let machines rot, factory rust to pieces and cities to become abandoned shells while, in the meantime, the lost jobs creates homelessness, poverty, disease for the people that settled there because there were jobs and now cannot move, they are stuck! To correct this problem Congress then says okay; lets put money into people’s hands and allow the machine owners find other places in the world to make their product cheaper to continue selling flutes, they deploy all diplomatic means or the last resort use the military to this end, and we have wars, a surplus that cannot sell, and a bunch of poor people in society without homes, flutes or clothes on their backs, plus they become mentally and physically diseased but are debt ridden and gradually fall into serfdom, pauperism, even slavery.
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  2836. Life is full of wonderful surprises is it not? Trump speaking to his social class had successfully blamed the loss of jobs on the tax code and not on America's balance of trade deficit. America's balance of payments picture is dismal since the 1980's. Eurodollars (US dollars) owned by Europeans have a claim on the US economy. Short term debt in the form of deposits, government securities, individual liabilities owed to foreigners. Nothing in reserve and a trillion dollar deficit. The US sells (exports) less than it buys (imports). Oil is its largest import. You would think a Nobel Prize economist would talk about this dismal balance of trade's effect on wages in the domestic economy? The money working people are paid with is worthless currency does not appear to be a serious enough issue to be brought out in the open. The purchasing power of the dollar shrinks because of this balance of payments deficit and people turn to a credit card to get the extra value the currency does not command has become a knee-jerk habit for working people. What they need to support home, car and family, is all on plastic. The laws changed where their children will inherit the loaned capital they raised their families on. Wages ought to have risen to offset this value deficit but they have not since the 1980's is an inconsequential subject. But for Trump and friends higher wages cut into profits and profits is the end game to their existence. Credit substituted wage hikes and this was a good way to get around raising wages and for banks to gain traction on the world economy from interest rates on loaned capital. All this is left intact; nothing has changed except the condition of the working class with less goods their fixed wage can buy. Steiglitz did not mention this balance of trade deficit has become an instrument of a more blatant form of class conflict opposing billionaires against American working people to bear the burden of a reduced income. This relation persists because these are the terms for the value of the currency forced on the world economy. Steiglitz could have mentioned the threat to the planet and species life is the predatory nature of Trump's capitalism to re-arrange the politics of the world in order to rectify contradictions of its own system. Diplomacy to re-arrange the affairs of the world is non-existent with Trump.  Force and there is no belief of a harmonious imperialism in Trump and friends is their solution to this crisis.
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  2837. An Establishment that depends on the permanency and preservation of the Establishment through its elites and politicians cannot be expected to pass term limit laws on itself.
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  2838. It should be no mystery to Americans why basic American freedoms are eroding. The incidents like this happen in our country is a direct consequence of policy relations between the US and Ecuador and the US in other Latin American countries. Cause mischief, provocations, an arm a redundant male population that could be doing something more with their lives. Instead of internet services or other tangible product that meets a human need, put dollars into their hands to spend on guns and weapons, be they engaged in political struggles good for the gun business and tough shit for social development. Social and political struggles in Ecuador and elsewhere intensify into a open civil wars. People flee, seek refuge in safer places, believing the safest place is the US. How their journey ends for them is reported in our news today: Authorities in San Antonio said they found 46 bodies inside or near a tractor-trailer in what they’re calling a suspected case of human trafficking. ABC News’ Andrea Fujii reports. A direct link between tragedies at the border and Washington policies toward Latin America is obvious when reported in context, and too radicalizing for the America public. So it is reported as isolated. Unrelated incidents to not reveal the repression of indigenous people’s rights is at the same the acquisition of the raw materials and natural resources required to sustain and support the American economy for its consumption.
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  2839. @Thaddeus JANCZEWSKI -------What makes the people in the People's Party not prone or any less prone to corruption than the Democrats and the Republicans and if the democrats and republicans could not restrain capitalism what in the People's Party program will?
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  2840. Apply supply and demand to the commodity labor-power and the free market regulates its purchase and sale, I think Adam Smith's dream becomes a living nightmare for the working class. Capitalism needs free labor and free labor is sold by its owners as a commodity. Its value is determined like any commodity's value. Buyers (owners of capital) cannot force an individual seller looking for a job into a job, the seller has to be willing, not compelled, to let it go to the buyers. This throws fresh light on the subject of cutting off federal benefits to unemployed workers. People are compelled into becoming sellers in order to compel them to dispose of their labor-power voluntarily? The government intervenes on the 'free market' where buyer and seller constitutes a private exchange between two people and a voluntary act but in general all the sellers are forced into an exchange is an involuntary act. The buyers are not compelled. Employers are voluntarily purchasing the commodity but at a price they can afford. Government is setting that price for them by cutting off the benefits. Contradictions are inherent in capitalism. Anyway, capitalism is not delivering the goods...
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  2841.  @Max_Mustermann  Yes -- I am in the US, developments here are developing at a snails pace owing to the fragmented nature of the working class and the economy functioning by the skin of its teeth, if reasoning with fascist elements were possible you would not have had the 20th century unfold as we know it. Revolutions would not be necessities. How do we broaden this movement and bridge our movements together to fight fascism? I was just talking to 70 year old Russian women on a comment board whose political acuity is high, we are alike, yet nationalism drives a wedge between us, you and me from others. Remember nationalist are the first people to use repression as a tool to split and divide People Power from resulting. The development in Algeria with the overthrow of the entire ruling elite is the direction Europe and America has to go and the direction nationalist aim to repress, prevent and crush.
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  2842. We might want to look at the public’s social reaction to police violence as a process of becoming a revolution of the Public itself despite the police violence and in spite of police violence a social revolution of society. How many here truly get my point?
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  2843. The first problem for Americans is to break the ice. Many people have an inner feeling this is all wrong but the air is to thick to slice it. People have push up against the social and peer pressure on being silent. Stop over intellectualizing and follow your gut...then apply your knowledge. Break the Ice!
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  2844. There is no doubt that Obama was the end of Hope. Democratic Party turned its back on people like Chache Lewis. Cache Lewis of Denver Colorado is working six days a week 16 hours a day. But divided among three employers each employer is extracting from her 32 hours of work in three days. Her work has intensified. Her physical limits of endurance is compromised. Under the law she is not full time. But three employers consume nearly a full time week’s worth of work from her. Her three employers pay no more than 96 hours of pay at $7.25 an hour. A monthly wage expense for one Ms Cache Lewis, $696.00. Yearly expense of $8,352 for her wages per year. Peanuts that equals not the amount of labor they extract. In this arrangement, its a one way street, more employers can buy labor-power cheaper. A cheapened labor-power has the effect of lowering the success of the working person as a good means for survival where a college degree did not matter. Trades jobs are high end jobs and the number of workers in those fields is small not open to the mass of people living on minimum wage. There is nobody Cache Lewis can turn. She may as well vote republican and end the misery quick than keep a democrat in office extending the misery as slow torture. The chance of a Cache Lewis revolt are higher with a republican than with a democrat in office and this makes the logic of voting a republican into office a better gamble. Notice how quickly political progressives turned to the right abandoning their more radical blue collar aspirations when Trump was in office.
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  2845. Excellent discussion, but I find it extremely concerning that labor is treated only as a means of production itself for capital by both male or female of this young generation on both sides right and left and labor is not treated with any respect the production process as a means of production for labor as an end in itself. You cannot have a capitalist without a worker and vice versa is true. What joins them together is the production process and in the US, that process serves only one side and deprives the other side. It is perfectly logical to extend the concept of means of production to how objects and subjects in the world are consumed in the world of work. Cows are a means of production for milk, land for food, labor for capital. Cows can serve as means and as a subject of labor. A cow is the subject of a butcher. Point is; it depends on what position it takes in the whole production process whether a subject or an object can be a means or an end in itself in connection to survival. A couple of examples illustrating the theory: Both humanity, animal, and tools are a means of production for their consumption by society. But in American, milk, food and capital are made for individual sale treating animals, land, and labor private property. Survival is accomplished through a sale. Socialism sees society as a means of production for the individual. Land, labor and capital are instruments of labor and the subject of labor, there is no double role in the way capitalism sees society as a means of production as a double process. Capitalists do see themselves as a means of production essential to the production process but they are not essential to the social reproduction process of society. People instinctively know work produces the necessaries of life for survival. They have to be socialized (indoctrinated) to believe a capitalist must be created before food, water, air, shelter, is produced for survival. Therefore, food, shelter and water and the working class are separated. Everything must become capitalism's prima facia, a commodity. The survival of the capitalist comes before the survival of society in the view of the capitalist class. I cannot imagine Donald trump telling the Public, folks, you do not need me to produce for yourselves. He would say you need me because I have the money that starts production, without my money there is no survival. The point of production (jobs) is not for the creation of capital (industry in general), ie., more jobs. Production under capitalism is a certain type of production unique to all past historical forms of production. Unique because its initial premise is separating living labor from capital and buying living labor as a commodity for the production of profit. Do I believe that in the last bastion of capitalism, at this present juncture in history, is the working class capable of producing without a capitalist class I would answer the nation is doomed.
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  2846. The city is obviously a microcosm of the racial conflicts exhibited across the country.
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  2847. America is necessary for the existence of the CIA but the CIA is not necessary for America to exist.
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  2848.  @barracuda861  👎
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  2849. 1. The Economy 2. Voting Rights. 3. War and Afghanistan 4. COVID 5. Climate Catastrophes
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  2850. The American tax payer can live without Israel but Israel cannot live without the American tax payer.  I have no doubt this condition is unconstitutional; a dependency of a sovereign people to a foreign power. The American tax payer is no longer a sovereign subject when their income embodies more concessions to Israel than American conservatism itself supports Israel with its own capital.  Happy to give other people's money to a foreign power to boost their economic prosperity, is one side of foreign policy and on the other side, an open ended foreign policy for appropriations in the form of humanitarian aid with which to strangle other foreign powers -- are contradictions which violate the sovereignty of the American Public.
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  2851. I will.
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  2852. Connect the dots between the domestic crisis of the children killed by guns to the international crisis of war policies in your conversations. Reasons are simple: Guns produced for the domestic market come out of the same gunmaker factories the government buys for war. Change the staffing in the Pentagon and you can change the conditions destroying young lives in America. The demand the Pentagon places on gun makers forces gun manufacturers to cut jobs and use automation. Labor gets the short end of the stick. Policy aims of the US internationally and domestic policies are linked. The only way people can recognize their role in this double and simultaneous crisis is to emphasize they have children in schools too, their’s can be next. The unpredictable chance and causality factor gives communities everywhere in America a political reason not to gamble the lives of elementary youth to a social genocide and march against politicians who do nothing to arrest bad actors in America’s gun trade. Its only a matter of time for the next tragedy to strike.
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  2853. Where he says, “Madam President...”. At 3:30 tax evasion disclosures of enemies is the primary reason for an IRS expansion.
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  2854. Nobody in the Trump administration knows what they are doing including Trump. He is in way over his head and the State Department is leading him by the nose.
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  2855. The last person on earth I am worried about is a bin laden successor to an institution the CIA created. And you were worried Trump would be doing this kind of stuff?
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  2856. The historic imprint is a stain. The GOP's primary constituency are the largest venders of arms the world over. Chemicals, carbon, plastics, toxic substances, radiation equipment and weapons material expsoses all the troops in war. The GOP will walk away from all those veteran's on their return to society. No New Taxes! No new health care.
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  2857. A good mask will not let you blow out a candle with it on.
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  2858. I love the critique professor. I learn more and pay good attention when dubious material is presented in a critique. Deconstructing the revisionism in (who is the guy, incidentally?)
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  2859. @aomanchutube,----In the world of competition you forget that individual capitals devour each other for larger shares of the market, competing firms fill in where the other capital drops out to sell their products in the market. This pressure will coerce American companies to fire workers and overwork the remaining number of workers for higher output because of a fall in chip output and, in spite of the fall in output.
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  2860. The mask is a symbol of the relation between kings and servants that servants see themselves as nothing else because there is a king.
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  2861. What is informative and enlightening and shocking about this video is how little Americans know about the world they live. People will come here just for the history that was never given to them by the historians and educators. The learning disabilities Americans have are man made disabilities.
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  2862. Point your anger at the US Supreme Court they on the bench are the ones who provide immunity to police in society.
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  2863. I definitely think an independent candidate would win... if a man like Trump can win indicating the conditions are so bad for the working class that they are ripe for an independent to win is a no brainer. The question is personality and temperament in the independent candidate that that person not be a rote, flat, monotoned, speaker. The working class is rejected in their own respective political parties, betrayed by democrats and criminalized by republicans, that an independent can pick up on the tensions seething below the surface of those parties. An independent would have a direct challenger in Trump who would split the working class back into their respective loyalties to their parties. Such a classic Trump move would shrink the size of the voting pool for the independent. The independent would have overcome Trump’s divisiveness with an economic program that even his working class supporters cannot refuse and what Trump failed to deliver to them when he was president. Trade war with China, vetoed safety bills, etc. The independent would have exploit every criticism conservatives have of Trump in their party preference in who they choose for the nomination; this to push people on the fence in the democratic party about voting center right if the nominee is a culture war hero of the Right and get this pool of voters to vote center left, even if it is for Biden. The greater enemy to an independent for a run of the presidency in 2024 are the Biden camp of the party. They are entrenched incumbents. Losing the White House to an independent would wipe out their integrity in the party and become a minority. It would be important to keep your enemies close to you as an independent, know what they do and say, and keep them guessing what your move will be. An independent would be wise to be not dogmatic, contrast emotions with words, express real anger where appropriate real remorse where appropriate, acknowledge shortcomings as strengths, and speak into the camera lens to the people without a script. Work the media, give them something to video, a whole new technique and approach to everything is waiting in the wings. Speak to us on the outside looking in.
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  2864. I hope writers do strike not because they need the money ...lifestyle of this writers puts them in a whole other class of worker than the $7.25 an hour worker... I want the slime oozing out from our TV sets to end is the real reason. No shows, no stupid programs, no corporate news...gives pause to the extraction of brains and imagination from average Americans. People will be forced TO THINK!
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  2865. Psychosomatic phobias, tunnel vision, insecurity, inability to process the facts and unable to navigate social reality...these are weird people who are not the vulnerable segment of the population with disabilities and old age, who are coping with it, on their own. They are the spoiled people.
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  2866. Jordon does well doing street interviews and it gives us a chance to put a face behind the rhetoric. A good way to expose moles. In reality, Trump is a landlord and landowner, an owner of land, we have a landowner as president the same as if Andrew Jackson himself was a landowner and president.
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  2867. Its like the subliminal messaging used in Hollywood films that audiences would not see the 2 frame shot of Coca-Cola in the 24 frames per second film passing though the projector gate but leave a psychological imprint to desire a Coke on your brains. Only then it was 18 frames per second in the silent film era that subliminal messaging was common. In any event Congress outlawed the practice. This Congress will not outlaw the practice because the media this brainwashing occurs is not in film for which there is already a law ending the practice in that industry and corporations and the NSA psychological divisions have figured out a more subtle way to brainwash the public. Congress is full or morons who can’t determine for themselves the practice is a repeat of history and, apparently, this is a generation that cannot tell they are repeating history.
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  2868. The public’s interest in the mystery about how the crime was done undermines the social significance of the crime itself. America has a generation of youth deprived of social interaction for two years and then the Public, consisting of parents, family and community, expect everything to resume as it was before their long isolation. Two years is a long time to be living in your mother’s basement that plotting the next attack on a gay bar and learning from spurious sources on the internet who to blame for your internal discontents with society, has obviously proved to be a powerful tool in shaping the minds of youth. A grand social experiment substituting human interaction with machines. Isolation is everywhere in America. People are isolated in their own cars, homes, stores, are never are they interacting through some form of custom or tradition, which is why a bar and a church are the only forms of socializing individuals get in America for the last 50 years. America socializes three times a year. Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas, are the only three days out of 365 days Americans interact with each have are obligatory experiences, not at all spontaneous, but rather mediated by commerce. There are no cafe’s, or sufficient public spaces in which to congregate, and just hang out. No free use of public space to put on concerts, dances, sport events that people can create without the authorities giving permission. America is a tightly controlled society. The individual live in a very narrow sphere of activity. Work, travel, home, store, repetitively. Food is commercialized when it should be a key element for socialization. I am not surprised in the least that the young would suffer the effects of America’s social alienation. You cannot even get a rescue animal by simply attending the same space with the dogs, being there for a while and the one that connects with you naturally, forms a bond. Everyone and every animal has to be matched, and this is pure social control that represses the natural aspects of human beings to be social. The only area in life where Americans bond is with babies and even that has become a bond destroyed by separation. I would say none of the family members of the deceased really know their relations and police are expected to sift through the social experiences and social conditioning of victims for leads through a scant amount of material evidence and interviews to come up with a killer. What they are coming with is a social history that makes no sense with the material evidence.
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  2869. It is possible what Baldwin says about Muller indicting Trump and Trump resigning and the Republicans losing all three houses in 2020. Very possible and the bigger a Trump opposition gets the possible becomes more probable that the Republicans will lose all three houses. This would be an electoral consequence of the Republicans, getting the brunt of retribution of the masses, as they would be baptized into becoming a minor party, the party of hate. But! There is always a but in politics. The rapid roll backs of government have penetrated society deep enough to disrupt the election and even cripple it left for a friendly leaning Supreme Court to resolve the contest as we saw in the GW v Gore election. In effect a legal coup de'tat of one election after another in a series of long drawn out legal suits contesting the election.
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  2870. A decay of civil society into 'barbarism'. America is a society where every objective material form of Being depends on the sale of labor-capacity. All of your needs are met through an employer and all access to the greater benefits of society is attained through employers so when employers no longer require labor capacity all the necessaries of life are again separated from individuals. Like a roller coaster ride people are objectless, propertyless, people in desperation and sick and when capital hires labor again people are reconnected to the necessaries of life with an increasing distortion of what a necessary is. Barbarism.
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  2871. Sure its good for the world to have balance, but this time the US is not willing to share a balance of power with anyone, it is losing everything and is desperate. Its desperation locks into a corner, expecially with the knuckle heads the presdient has surrounded himeslf with amatuers. Why do you suppose the Military hauled Bolton, Trump, and Pompeo into a meeting if it was not to educate these idiots of the real realities of war with Iran.
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  2872.  @TheRCish  Do you live in the wilderness?
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  2873. A post office is significant: taken for granted by this American millennial generation. If you are without a post office you are not part of a nation. Its significance that this generation was never taught its importance in forming one nation as it can used in breaking up a nation too. As no longer a part of the US; East Oakland can declare humanitarian assistance when the utilities shut off and thousands of foreign relief organizations would descend on East Oakland. This would humiliate the US Congress and the governor of that state. If it does not belong to the nation how can a community belong to a state that belongs to a nation that cut off the community from society? It cannot. It is a community without a country or a state. Some young black scholar can leave their mark in history petitioning this matter to the US Supreme Court as a challenge if America is even a Republic when a Federal System disconnects a community from the society. The Post Office was invented in Europe. It was introduced to the US to make a United States by connecting all the territories and states then formed by Ben Franklin. In Europe, the post office connected Spain to England to France to Great Britain and to Germany, was the forerunner of the railroad. Technically, East Oakland is not a part of the United States without a post office. This black working class community is a community without a country at the moment. If the Russians came to East Oakland that would not be considered an invasion of the US because East Oakland doesn’t belong to the US. East Oakland residents consume gas and electric from American utilities that are private corporations. This fact does not reconstitute this black working class community as belonging to the US.
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  2874.  @namarupa3015  True.
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  2875. Mark Green was a Central Park Ranger when I was a kid. Then the Upper West Side Advocate, a career in public service...he is a good man. Be interesting to see if Roberts does choose to preside over a sham trial in the Senate. Americans are the experts in sham commissions and kebuki trials the skill goes back a long time in American history. But then we can say that about anybody can we?
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  2876. Show us the way France.
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  2877. “...to encircle the developed world...that time the democratic world...with the emerging nations...so this is an old Maoist strategy that has become an economic strategy ”, Jonathan D.T. Ward has a lot to learn. Washington think tank millennials have no grasp of the historical relations between east and west.
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  2878.  @change1996  I am afraid it is a little more than that!  Production under capitalism only happens when two social classes come together. Beyond that, people are stuck without work, is a huge problem with capitalism. The answer to that dilemmma of the experience of people thrown out of work is to undivide production in general and remove the class system contained in that area of our lives. This will insure permanency of jobs and longevity for people as the human body is designed to be physically engaged, a tool for growth and development. Capitalism does the opposite to a human being it stunts the mind and body. In doing that the other social classes not involved in production (industry) but are engaged in commerce or transport are not encouraged to distinguish themselves as something special as social classes themselves, we get less egoism, false pride, arrogance, indifference, discrimination, etc., from people in society. The unequal relationships is located in this class difference where work takes place not in society where a market makes everyone equal as owners, in theory is capitalism. In practice the US fails at making everyone equal owners of commodities, by nor re-investing profits back into production. It is difficult to claim America is a capitalist society as it retreats from trade and development. Without trade and development people remain as they were a century ago divided as owners and non-owners in society. But in production people are distinguished by their social class as unequal partners in the results of that production.
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  2879. I wonder why top diplomats are even needed in a society? If you notice everything that a society needs still gets built no matter what top diplomats do or say. Where in the deal does it say that society comes to a standstill without them? Furthermore, none of them, even the worst of them, would order all work in society cease.
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  2880. I have to point out something. The barrier to this ceaseless system of rail road work day and night is the subject. The worker is the subject the ceaseless system is the object. Mankind is the subject and ceaseless production of technology and science is used to reduce the resistance of the subject to the object. The corporations (managers) make the detailed operations the workers are to do lighter and with less workers is how they break down worker resistance. There is a social conflict between the labor-process and technology and science and an individual conflict in the subject’s personal relation to the technology and science, the objective of management...is to break the resistance of workers to a ceaseless process of transportation, distribution, circulation, production and consumption...is too important for these operations to be dependent on sale.
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  2881. How do we know the satellite image is truly an image of North Korea?
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  2882. You got a situation where sanctions have the opposite effect of expected destabilization goals and political elites have lost the skill of diplomacy. None of the economic tools in which to muscle a nation into subservience work, is a sign that the neocons are on their way out.
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  2883. By the same token some male and female child will learn how to have explicit heterosexual sexual relations pushed on them by a society, the internet, and the media, where individuals are free express their views, values and opinions. Christians and Muslims hate each other, and this will not change, but they my come together because homosexuality confronts heterosexual religions with core values of patriarchy at this time. However the true conflict between Christianity and Islam is a question of authenticity of their religion as the true religion and all other religions are inauthentic. An age old problem with religions is the sectarianism in religion. Religion is still the opiate of the masses. Intolerance will only drive Woke LBGT people to become intolerant and hostile, ugly, retaliatory and dangerous. I am sure the kids hate this as they wonder why their parents are fighting each other and school boards. The children are led by schools who are not teaching the essentials of industry, trade, commerce, where the future generation can make a life and a living but are being bred or socialized to question nothing, ideal subordinates, accustomed to hierarchy, totalitarianism, to be no more than cannon fodder for the military and furthering the problem of militarism, fascism, dictatorship, in society.
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  2884. While less advanced capitalist nations share the economic surplus with the working class in the form of universal health and education, the ecomomic surplus in the most advanced capitalist society, is individually consumed by a few capitalists to further enrich themselves. The accompanying attitude on property relations of this clique of capitalists is to leave the working class with no property at all except that which a worker bore by their own personal individuality.
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  2885. Nicely said! The social class in society that is not a class of society are women, they carry the 'radical chains' to bring about the dissolution of all classes. Women can redeem themselves only through a total redemption of humanity, they have nothing to lose by revolution, they have no special interests in the existing order to protect. Only by overthrowing the existing bases of oppression can women be universally free, freed from one class society to another in the world is to be free from all class societies.
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  2886. The Establishment forces are counterpoised against the productive agencies that enable a working class to voice an opposition, the Far Right were more effective using these agencies to spread a simple message, blaming the victim. The Left has done a poor job popularizing street politics of its own not hammering home their message through social media since becoming part of the Establishment, they have become out of touch with the productive agencies broadening the scope of the working classes. The Left would have been so much more popular hammering class struggle as its main theme and came out politically when those conditions spell class struggle on the wall.
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  2887.  @SkyRiver1  Don't forget that families in this country before the industrialization of agriculture were in possession of land and property sufficient enough to feed themselves and sell over and above what they produced. The movie the Wizard of Oz, did not use a farm family for its opening scene because America was a bankers paradise. The old system for subsistence production was demolished for the new system of subsistence on a mass basis. I am afraid the situation is so bad that Americans will have no choice but to implement a conscientious political program that governs all production, the Third Rail, of privatization. Or die as a nation.
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  2888.  @marcrow9114  To do that you will have de-privatize the workplace. In other words, take the capitalist who uses pesticides to increase their profit by a greater quantity of products, out of the production process. A revolution is what you need.
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  2889. RIP OJ.
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  2890. Congressmen means well but lacks some imagination for proposals... the US has over 800 bases all over the world and many of these bases can become centers for processing migrants avoidng the trek of exploitatioon on the road to the US.
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  2891. It should be no mystery to Americans why incidents like this happen in their country when Ecuador and other Latin American countries are engaged in political struggles.. Social and political struggles in Ecuador and elsewhere intensify into a open civil wars. People flee, seek refuge in safer places, believing the safest place is the US. How their journey ends for them is reported in our news today: Authorities in San Antonio said they found 46 bodies inside or near a tractor-trailer in what they’re calling a suspected case of human trafficking. ABC News’ Andrea Fujii reports. A direct link between tragedies at the border and Washington policies toward Latin America supporting military force for the repression of indigenous people’s rights. Clearly the American media company ABC reporting what police say it is disconnects the relationship the incident has to American foreign policy makers.
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  2892. She’s reading a script...these are not her thoughts. The people sitting on that couch are pretenders.
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  2893. I perfectly agree with you.
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  2894. “Bro, can you spare a dime?”, sums up Trump’s policies. Protection for American Made is a depression for the American workforce. The workforce is shrinking because Wall Street is not investing in America. It was a Trump promise to restore America’s industrial base. So far, “nada”. NADA! The strangest bedfellows in Trump’s bedroom are Harley Davidson motorcycle riders and christian evangelicals. Both groups have investments funds and strategies to continue investing where profits are highest, that is in Asia and India.
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  2895. Oh please...stop capitalism...where is the pipeline going from Vancouver to where, California? If so then why are the Californians, Nevadans, Utahians, Dakotans, not out there trying to stop the pipeline? I feel all these American comments are actually encouraging the annihilation of a people by praising them for their actions. You can't disprove my charge, if along the pipeline route outside of its starting point no mass protest exists. Shameful hypocrisy in the American masses themselves. To avoid annihilation by a corporate army, make a deal for your tribe. If mass opposition existed in the US supporting Vancouverite natives I would not recommend making a deal, I'd rather see you alive than extinct.
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  2896.  @stephanie5249  Finally, someone explains...thanks you. You'd think the reporter would throw up a map or something. Also, wasn't there a pipeline highly contested that went through and did erupt or break in the US, or was that fake news? Tarsands pipeline?
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  2897. I’d like to see your voting record.
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  2898.  @zombieninjatedsmith1301  You are one of " Them".
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  2899.  @done9921  Taxes used on irrelevant things to you or I but not to the oligarchy extracting taxes.
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  2900. It is interesting that among all the western leaders, Trump and Trudeau, put their reasons forward to protect and develop their workers and industries but human development digresses under both of them. A clear case of the behavior of a state falling short of its aims or there is no intention to socially enrich their workers and industry just industry. What are the reasons for tariffs advancing American capital, technology and science, if the aim is not to undermine the cost of the competition and enable a protected industry to gain a larger share of the world market? Trump's measures develop one side of the total capital invested and this leaves the other side deprived and desperate, and in increasing poverty. By his idea, US industries can move forward, or stay in existence, by one capitalist destroying another. Given this strategy and economic environment what choice does Trudeau have but to retaliate with tariffs and behave like a capitalist?
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  2901. It does not appear the recoveries are long enough in the US economy to make up for the recessions. Also it is quite more likely since stocks trading volume has risen that employers need fewer workers to produce the same rate of profit or better . Either way, not a good picture for American working people, in fact, it’s more of an assault on working people by the Fed.
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  2902. Great subject, and guest and host fill the void. I also note the physicality of actors in the silents were incredible. Amazing stunts...Keaton...Harold Lloyd. Laurel and Hardy Film has yet to make its own biography of its birth that I am aware of. A documentary is not what I mean. A movie can be made with great detail of WWI but why hasn’t a filmmaker made a movie about the social environment film was born? Altman showed the industry is a character in the story in Nashville. A range of characters floated in a out of that industry. The industry film came to be was less the theater and more the circus before talkies. The circus and sideshows were the opposite of theater as the art of the working masses and theater and Opera the art of the rich. Both art forms were eclipsed by film as “the “ 20th century art form of America at the time.
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  2903. If you ask me the days of single home occupancy of the single family are over. Nature forces a change as multi-family structures get built using ancient practices to solve heating and cooling and people giving up the single suburban home lifestyle and the cost it takes to live it. Makes more sense to have four related families in one building with four apartments with built in shelter and equipment to cope with all the needs people have than to rely on the State for assistance. Too much instability and transience encourages crime.
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  2904. Americans are unconscious of the risks involving the mortality of human beings in the workplace. Colleges have no degree requirement on worker safety courses for graduating MBA students.  Medical and Law colleges have no degree requirement on workplace hazards and fatalities for doctors and lawyers to determine with hard science direct cause and effect injuries and deaths consistent with machinery, automation, tools, chemical solvents and all that stuff. Workers walk into factories blind and the factories hire management with no experience or background in worker safety. This puts an individual worker in a very precarious spot being ordered around by an idiot who never worked tons of material into product by big machinery. A worker is on their own, employers don't care! Employer and management care about getting the work done or be fired and maximizing profits!  Republicans and democrats have passed legislation in 20 states ( if I am not mistaken) for the right to hire and fire workers at will.  Not because they are mean and evil greed personified that working people are treated like commodities, bought and sold.  The external demand of 300 million people keeps growing. This growing of new needs forces we work more that national diseases are transmitted from the workplaces of America. Lung cancer, leukemia, heppititus, deformed births, infant mortality, are the risks working people suffer on the job across these United States. The primary killer in the US is the workplace. The workplace is where everything from building a house to wars are made probable even concievable.  Worker safety should be the first requirement in education yet in America it is the last priority on the job. Chemical and industrial workers are in contact with ammonia peroxide, hydrochloric acid, phenol and 2000 types of regular chemicals under heavy use and in America most of them are de-regulated. Republicans and democrats respond to this de-regulation ignorantly adn dismiss the subject. A sure sign workers don't matter. Indoor pollution: a by-product in the name of energy efficiency the use of treating buildng materials posions indoor air. Some people like that new car smell but if that smell lasted for the life of the car you'd be dead from the car. The Firestone Plant that exploded in 1987 was nothing compared to the rate of plant explosions in 2019,---make a missle attack harmless in comparison. Workers are exposed to Benzine. I feel sorry for you if you work in the technology field working wire below and above ground, communications and the level of radiation posioning exposure is so high for a great number of workers; its all Accumulation Trauma for workers in America. Capitalismus accumulates surplus value but the worker under capitalism accumulates internal and external trauma. The man who never works gets the health care he does not need and the man who works gets the disease the health care system cannot treat is a deepening crisis that comes from the commodity-form of the worker's product in the workplace. The workplace is a public place engaging the whole society producing a public product that its exclusive ownership is a death sentence for all workers.
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  2905. Halloween was never more exciting than this year in California. Grandma has a scream worthy of horror movie.
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  2906. If there were not a flag behind the podium this conference would be the same as a Mafia head holding a conference of the families on foreign business.
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  2907. Under funding workers pensions...California will look like Argentina's public sector workers striking for the same reasons. In the minds of the California and Argentina's public sector employers, workers are dispensable. Tools not meaningful human beings. The right of a worker to retire after 40 years of employment is attacked. The workers struggle is about dignity and that is an indignity if I ever heard one. Its about time American workers recognize an indignity when it hits them on the head. I was getting concerned that the abused are permanently damaged people. But their militancy and organization can be stronger and more robust if they all wear Yellow Vests. Far more effective, yellow is the color that signifies the workers struggle for dignity and visibility. Though I find the American labor force is the least class conscious in the world. A private sector worker employed in the oil industry works 70 hours straight and two weeks off. A relay system of oil workers produces oil non-stop. Individually, an oil worker is paid high but is the most exploited worker in the private sector relative to the quantity of riches in oil they produce for their employer. This worker must earn enough for old age while young, expected to save. The coal miner workers follow the oil workers in their exploitation by the coal mine owners. Even worse, the mine owners do nothing to protect workers from cancer whereas this risk of black lung for the coal miner is not a threat to the worker in China. Transit workers are also treated like SHIT! Women in the work force of which they comprise 58% of the workforce are under attack. Very alarming that the attacks on the labor-force in the US is not commonly understood by the American worker as attacks.
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  2908. A little rich fro Cruz to call out democrats of stealing an election while he spends all his time trying to overthrow the Venezuelan government by various coup attempts and election frauds.
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  2909. A good example of how our economy is a double economy; the military is a command economy that operates independently inside a national market economy. In the former, entire divisions of workers are laid off and production stops on command. In the latter economy, workers are laid off and production stops when there is no profit in it. In either case, individuals are not in control over their working lives. Everything hangs on how well wars are going and how much can be sold.
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  2910. You still require labor to run a city no matter if that city is Disney World, the Vatican or Cayalá. Who does all the work?
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  2911. Any construction worker that works on the building of Cop City in any capacity is scum.
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  2912. Aid and comfort is not enough. You need a conviction based on witness testimony for the charge to stick.
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  2913.  @jimyaekel7385  9 inches of rainfall or a 100 inches of rainfall follows a path of the lowest elevation. Restrict construction of any kind where elevation is low enough to be covered by water at a quantity just witnessed or greater. NO EXCUSE!
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  2914. An organized Fight Back, is a winning strategy.
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  2915. The professor offers some very solid counter points on which one can topple from their perch the prize-fighters of capitalism and their points but for now, I think it more important that, the US labor force take stock in who hold the reigns of power in the Senate, a right wing faction understands and comprehends less than we, the concrete origins of the current crisis as man made, they believe, instead, austerity accelerates the arrival in the second coming of Christ and that the crisis of capitalism is predestined according to biblical teachings, pose a very serious threat to the working class. A Speaker of the House who believes cuts to medicaid are not on the table but if the clients so chooses to be removed from the program the agency, this man thinks a medicaid recipient will self-deport from medicaid,-- will do everything in its power to render the service of discontinuing the person’s medicaid, yet there is more, a senator who proselytizes from a cemetary an apology for the comment made to an angry audience about how everyone is going to die anyway, let it be sooner than later, is not exactly what Jesus would say...be very interesting to see how the senator’s staff persuaded itself to go ahead with this insipid video, to another senator with a background in medicine, and who in good conscience cannot vote for a bill that adds more to the national debt than its effect on increasing mortality rates. We come finally to one senator who for the reason he gave sounds pro-working class but in actuality stands on the interests of hospital corporations who will suffer staff frings and closures without medicaid. The medicaid recipients, all living, breathing, people of need and in need, are treated as objects be extremely self-absorbed and tunnel vision minded jackasses in Congress!
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  2916.  @june3557  That's right...minds in the US are indocrtinated to look at life in absolute terms and not in relative terms.
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  2917.  @amad8466  If you go back to Obama's speeches when, 6/10th of what he said where basically illusions of prosperity. Trump is the same way, illusory. And, Obama had the right timing to flip the switch the other way and not bail out the banks, he had massive public support as an heir to a failed economic system; he had the chance to make reforms strengthening pathways to the middle class for working people.
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  2918. The clip they used was not wrong. Corporations do set prices. Federal Reserve Chairperson sets interest rates to slow down employment. In combination, people are made to work longer hours and the increase of more people out of job keeps wages down. Corporate price setting and high interest rates by the Fed place all working people in a very tight spot.
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  2919. If a working class left candidate is not on the ballot in my state, I will vote republican. Black establishment candidates are more anti-working class than white republicans. Democrats need to lose, lose and lose and be pushed out and forced to the far left if they want to win my vote. They are too loyal to the system that oppresses working people and are divisive. I'd rather have a dictator who galvanizes opposition than a Daniel Ortega who sells out his own country in the name of revolution.
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  2920. He is one of America’s Oligarchs. Being opposed to oligarchs in general would mean being opposed to what oligarchs do in general as a class to meet their economic needs which is to enlarge their fortunes. But American society emulate their oligarchs, they are idolized by the media and the public. We are not going to see working class Americans challenge the oligarchy on war, poverty, inequality, unless that working class through a long protracted battle reaches the point of intolerance for oligarchy. Warren Buffet is beloved for his lack of opulence and modesty in lifestyle. Trump is emulated for his opulent and excessive materialism. Where the American working class stands in relation to their particular brand of oligarchs is a mystery to me because working people since 1980 have idolized the super rich, monarchies, and self-starting entrepreneurs,---American women especially. Trump in the end had substantial evidence that would completely discredit his enemies but he did not use them. He also had the worst people in his cabinet. The next outsider to become president has many lessons to learn from the Trump experience. The Senate and Intelligence community would guarantee he could not run for president again through impeachment. Pardoning Edward Snowden went directly against the Intelligence Establishment and de-classifying the JFK Assassination very damaging to them and he had popular support; why did he chicken out? Musk would fit right into the foreign policy of neocons bent on a war with China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, Africa, Palestine.
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  2921. The policy that is influencing the information the people get to see is a policy of austerity domestically for a policy of expansion abroad.
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  2922. The best thing to do is to organize a debate, each person from each side get in the space dividing them, time them 8 minutes to state their case, Why the Occupation, and Why not the Occupation, 8 minutes up switch to another two individuals, a street Congress and ask the cops to set the rules, nobody fights but listens, when it is over occupiers go back in and the cops disperse the opposition, leave two cops behind to make sure the oppostion does not come back and start some bullshit. The cost of this whole confrontation adds up, milling around like Zombies represses the anger. Then you'll have public pissed off at you. It comes out in the wash in overtime in enforcement. The cities don't print money from thin air like the Fed. Plus, the Public has to understand what it is you are trying to accomplish and standing around is not doing that.
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  2923. @John Galt1469. I know a certain group who are never held responsible for their actions. The Sackler Family. Hunter Biden. Donald Trump. Bill Gates. There are many rich people who feel privileged enough to believe the wealth they inherited or made 30 or 200 years ago puts them above the law. “Taxes are for the Little People”, said Leona Helmsley. Poor blacks kids and rich white ones are just opposite expressions of the same level of hubris and arrogance America breeds into its people.
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  2924. De-politicizing the police and removing their political influence would be a good start!
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  2925.  @vasquezv244  Meathead who was a counter culture anti-war hippie with long hair becomes in old age the right wing conservative Archie Bunker he opposed in his youth hits the nail right on the head.
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  2926. One thing to think and act on; is that for every dollar spent to slow down other economies in the world with our military is a dollar not spent for Americans in need and in trouble.
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  2927. Comment Observation for the Day: A capitalist buying the utility of the labor creating the use-value desired by the capitalist as an object for exchange buys living labor as a value for use which de-values the workers.
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  2928. Yes but having so many alliances is also a weakness if one breaks the pact the whole chain is broken.
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  2929. There is an international panel of nuke scientists. America arms the bombers and the bombers keep bombing the panel cannot go in and do their job. The Russians are not in the way of that process.
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  2930. You have one shot...you better be good and remember there is always someone better than you are...if you miss and he takes you he will have been given a free AK-47 and we have you to thank for that. P.S. learn how to spell “battle”. courtesy of @AcornSmokes420 
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  2931.  @letitburn449  Right. Everything has something profoundly wrong with it, that no stone is left unturned.
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  2932. Can you handle this truth? Americans have this false idea that workplaces they work at are safe. Society has no clue of the risks to the mortality of human beings because there is no requirement in colleges for worker safety courses in MBA programs. A generation grows up believing that worker safety is not a part of management, and the employers don’t give a damn! Cancer, leukemia, hepatitis, deformed births and infant mortality are on the job diseases in America’s workplaces. Safe to say, the workplace is America’s primary killer, industrial chemical, hydrogen oxide, phenol and 1500 other types of chemicals are regularly used and are deregulated! Indoor air pollution poisons indoor air by the treated building material used to build offices and homes. A Firestone Tire Manufacturing plant explosion would make a missile attack on Ukraine by Russia harmless in comparison. Chemical solvents, carbons and plastics, toxic substances are worked into our products in closed environments. This adversely affects workers and they suffer ‘accumulation trauma”, while Capital accumulates surplus-value the workers accumulate trauma. Wealth in America, the place where one can get rich, looks like it is distributed by markets that one becomes a billionaire but that is the lure, the myth, many are goaded to pursue. The incomes are a facade. Rent, profit, wages, interest, prices is how the economic surpluses appears in this society. Behind the facade are a definite class of owners who make their wealth off the unpaid work of others; and we can add off the death of previous workers, is the stark truth of America.
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  2933.  @phillippac.7469  Mmm...monopoly ownership on the land...the golden age of farming in England was the end of the 14th century when a farmer lived in plenty and accumulated wealth. After that poor farmer-worker was depressed to the earth. Landlord and tenant kept the agricultural worker down. This is how people ended up with religious parishes, and parishes deciding the poor workers wages back then. Knowing this history joining a parish was adding to the misery of the agricultural worker. Today that would be the immigrants that would pour into the Netherlands rounded up for deportation. Private charities made good on the difference for the wage deficit the industrial capitalist farmer paid out to the small farmers turned workers spent out by force. They jump into survival mode and become contractors, proprietors, fabricators, sales reps, bankers, security contractors, and before long every town is the same; everything is uniform and the charm of Holland is lost to fast food strip malls, parking lots, the way the north eastern seaboard in rural America is now. Generic and sterile.
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  2934. Sheriff will never win over the respect of the community. He may as well quit and offer a personal apology in public and leave town.
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  2935. Good observation. You know, not to interject, but... the original formation of Capital happens through the destruction of older ways of work and doing things. This is when people and the old methods of working for their livelihood are taken by force out of their possession. Arson, riots, insurgent fighting, drug invasions, crime, is how it looks in poor countries. In the rich nations if the land is to be freed from possession of millions of small homeowners and landowners they pull out a certain 'tool' to force millions into foreclosure. etc, this is an on-going, I should say, a repetitive process of separation of the life-giving objects the working class had in their possession now taken away through crisis and depressions. Capital can now exchange money for the live workers who have been set free from the objects that afforded them a living no matter what economic storm may come, ----security of property ownership before they were forcibly separated from the land and workshop was a guarantee better than any insurance policy. At one time the landscape across the US was dotted with small producers, workshops and bustling industry. Off the highways lay the ruins of a past era. The residents of Any Town USA were made free to be or become an objectless worker, propertyless, with a guitar in hand free to jump the train and head to Chicago. Capital at the time did not know how to make a guitar a commodity. But it is really only a geographic difference between the cotton fields of the South and Chicago for the dispossessed Haitians to reach Texas though the Darien Gap of Columbia, a migrant trade route that has been established now for 30 years, and this process of separation is taking place in our current world at a fast pace and to great degree cannot be held back! No,--- the landscape of old industrial America lies a baron wasteland. Malls cover over farmland. There is no need for this mass dumping of labor-power; there isn't the Capital is a mounting crisis of historic significance.
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  2936. Why is this man not taken out of office? He is letting a shameful Senate profit off the death of Americans. This is a man who should be the last person on earth to occupy the office of the president. A worm of a man. He's committed to sanctioning health care so that it never becomes and expanded universal health system and exonerating his friends in the Senate getting rich from it.
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  2937. The question becomes what do you do about it when socially the country is still intact? There are cracks in the social order but non amount to a social force that seeks the complete dissolution of the social order and the creation of a new one. 🧐
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  2938. Soon to release a new Beatle song...that is going to be amazing for people who grew up with the Beatles...the world will forever remember.
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  2939. Lack of information is tied to the problem of the state university system operating as a closed education system open to all rural employees. Open if they want to pay for it. Closed if you cannot afford to carry the loan for it. The Adult Education usually the least costly are courses typically center around GED College Prep, Law, Business Professional, Substance Abuse. If you were to submit a course on Fascism and Right Wing Ideology in the 20th century the course would be denied by the University. Its even worse for women in rural America, where trade and certificate course for Administration, Beauty, Cosmetics, Nursing and Home Health Aides support an entire industry for a rural aging population. If you were to offer a course in AE on Women, Class and Marriage, the University would shoot it down. Those subjects don't even appear in the regular curriculums in most if not all star universities at the lower level. The information they obtain comes to them from mass mainstream media and word of mouth. Every social activity is an escape in rural America from the industrialization of city life urbanizing more of rural America.
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  2940. @Isaac How are you not a barbarian yourself to call others barbarians? Who are you?
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  2941. Victim is not cooperating with the investigation as he recovers in a hospital from a gunshot wound tells me the plot thickens the shooter is intimate with the victim and a gun got between them.
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  2942. We need a general acknowledgement democracy does not appear in the workplace in Europe or in America...and where there is no democracy in the workplace... a master-slave relationship is carried over from the past and resides (infecting is a better word) in all employer and employee relations...this is a form of production that was fine as a substitute for slavery but now the highly developed productive forces call for equitable partnerships in production.
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  2943. The family of baby Emilia are fine people. I wish them well. They can get more help of Congress if the wealth of the nation was not in the hands of an 81 yr old mentally incapacitated by small seizures. They deserve better.
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  2944. And why would they vote this bill through? Because...the state has risen so high above society. Not all wrong if you thought that, partially that separation of state and society is a big dilemma for the American working class, and is at the same time the greatest scandal of society. No, this has to do with "When Companies Get Too Big To Fail", see Businessweek written January 27, 1975. Corporations, as part of the various branches of industry connected to the defense industry have become such important centers of jobs and income Congress dare not ever shut them down.  The price for this is our freedom. At the same time as corporations have become so important a national security factor and its defense budget passed year after year; the distance between state and society has separated the tax paying working class from the science and the state that budget comes from. The military becomes the exclusive place where an individual citizen of the urban and rural working class and technology are joined together for the purpose of war, invasion, conquest, and that it is not a natural union betweeen science and society is what makes a military social reality Orwellian or fascist. Obama left a $618 billion, Trump increases it to $738 billion. At this rate we know the next president will increase this to a trillion. The US has 8000 tons of gold in US Reserves with a book value worth $42.2 trillion dollars, not going to change anytime soon that this Congress will change course and stop funding the Defense Industry with tax payer dollars Bernie Sanders would use to fund the Green New Deal and Medicare for All. How will Bernie defend that wealth without a defense industry capable of annihilating the world? This Congress dare not stop funding the corporations and dare not use its own gold reserves to fund the military. It can't. The military is a public insitution qualifies it to be a tax funded institution. If the military were entirely privatized it could cease spending and the military would have to use its own capital not the capital of the Public's. Food for thought?  Another reason why all this continues and never will we see a president the likes of a Lincoln, Kennedy or a Bernie is Congress thinks America does not have the resources sufficient to scale down the dependency factor of Americans on corporations. They have been covinced by corporate propaganda of chronic capital shortages for continued bail outs from Congress and so the same economic relationship is kept going looking like this relationship is something new to every generation born in the US.
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  2945.  @stanleydorsey2884  You never read Lenin if you interpreted step back in order to go two steps forward. You must have been born not before 1980 to not know that revolutionary line. Typical, Americans were never taught the history of socialism but the rest of the world was taught; how will you(meaning your nation) ever relate to rest of the world beyond being a Cop on the Beat. The Answer; you can't. War is how your nation relates to other nations and the only way. You need to overthrow the cartel running your country, I think you call them political parties.
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  2946. Its an important strike to support. Everyone is feeling it they honk horns going by. The fall out from this strike on other businesses will be significant. It may even wane the support of the strike. It would be in the office of the AG to use anti trust laws to break up monopolies. Part of the problem of permitting capital to grow so big is that the extreme monetary wealth accrued does not come without labor getting poorer and I believe the CEOs know this. The kind of person inside the AG office of the prez, either allows monopolies to form or prohibits the size corporations can get is the decision of that person. In the eventual showdown the extreme wealth is to their advantage as a war chest to wait out a strike. A parts division stoppage is critical in countering the ability to add more into the war chest. In the 1930s the employers had the right to close the factory and deprive work to workers in the battle for higher wages instead of a fat war chest of capital. Attitudes have changed. Public Opinion would frown on the CEOs if they shut production down. They earned too much. At least, 700 times greater in income of the average wage earner in one year. Not to mention the bennies on the side and golden parachutes. What is significant are the independent auto shops and mechanics inconvenienced by the strike and their customers waiting for repairs to get done. Probably some 40 million people involved with independent mechanics and car shops are going to get slammed with no work. They will be interviewed more and more in mainstream media. Cut in a way that the interviews work on behalf of the media conglomerates invested in GM, FORD, and STELLANTIS ( the word origin is Stello, to brighten the stars). Mass media reporting was even before this strike anti-working class. The fall out has a ripple effect on the secondary work force. Auto workers want the tier system inside the factory system abolished. Fine. There is a tier system outside of the car maker’s factories replicated in society. Job listing ranked by their annual salary these jobs are middle management jobs over a crew of workers. Many firings to come. Jobs that pay more for more responsibility which in the end means less bossing around work the employer has to do themselves is done by workers bossing around other workers. All of these intricate and detailed oriented relationships that look like moving up the ladder are built on extracting the most work from people inside of a definite time period in a tier system of jobs.
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  2947. I think the more important question is why are the fast food retailers not experiencing the shortage of meats consumers are experiencing in supermarkets? Beef is beef and comes from ranchers and meat processors in the US. Why haven’t the prices of a fast food burger gone up if a shortage exists? Why is there more pork than beef in stores and pork is not used by the fast food retailers enough to raise pork prices by the pound. Pork is relatively cheaper than beef in supermarkets but how much cheaper is beef sold to the retail food chains? Another question that should sow doubts about the stories told in media on the supply chain. Most of that chain starts in China. If China locks down a good 3/4s of the US market would be empty on the shelves of millions of product, yet they are not. Home Depot is packed to the gills. Lowe’s too. No shortage in that consumer market where 90% of the products are made in China. I’d have to suspect this is an artificial food shortage the result of other influences and forces and not the result of a internal supply chain still filling the shelves with durables but not with perishables has some other explanation not investigated thoroughly by this NBC report.
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  2948. Sad, a population that has been made ignorant of capitalism will never overthrow it but succumb to it.
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  2949. If you agree with his reasons for the invasion, i.e., destabilization, then listen to this. The US strategy for all invasions to repress any opposition that may emerge politically in the country it invades that would stop the conversion of a country into its own image happens overseas and happens to Americans!
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  2950.  New Leaf  You can tell me the mortality rate is low but you cannot tell me what the actual rate is! Okay bud. Take a walk and get outa here! .
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  2951. Right now the heads of Lockheed, Grumman, Westinghouse, General Electric, IBM, Wall Street and the Military Generals listening to this speech are saying the mission was to start a war not end one Joe. So effectively a higher number of troops are in the region just not in Afghanistan. War = Profits.
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  2952. Why isn't the health of the environment that has become a concrete factor of public Health not a part of the infrastructure plan?
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  2953. @firespinnr Not so sure he is...the political revolution he talks about confronts the power of the old society but not the old society itself, is my concern. In that sense, his political revolution would be a partial revolution and is lacking an accompanying social revolution to overthrow the old society with the political power of that old society. What happens when white working class armed realize Trump has sold them out and he is selling them out? They will be a gift to the state, and a similar experience exists on the left, if Bernie insists on a political revolution he sells out the working class to the old society as they coordinate and plan for an eventual restoration of political power of the old society many react with violence and we have not moved one inch forward. The old society has to be struck down from two angles, political and social, to be a complete revolution.
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  2954.  @AlexanderDunetz  Yes, it is likely.
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  2955. @bina nocht How is it different when the same families acting as monarchs, princes, kings and queens, although we have less queens in the world than we do kings, are still in the present and foreseeable future. All the higher unities are still present, i.e., the Pope, we still have the Pentagon, we still have the CIA, we still have the same welfare state as they did and in 1919; we still have the same type of wars and conflicts between freedom and colonialism, although it is called a battle for democracy. We still have a 1%. In the 1930s had Howard Hughes, 2022 has Elon Musk. So what has changed in your understanding of history? Nisi insulsi insultare populo.
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  2956. In reality, the social shenanigans are meaningless politics dancing around the reality of the state of science, technology, all productive forces have no need for the State.  Problem is Americans lack an alternative vision for a social model other than the 'permanent state', most people call the 'Deep State', which I personally think is not accurate a description.  How deep the layers of bureaucracy is less important than the bureaucracy itself as a permanent feature of American society and one that perceives itself as Devine providence. What would America be like without its permanent state? For one thing it would be less subject to abuse. If the state is permanent than so are its internal abuses. Presidents come and go but not the Pentagon, National Security State, the Military Industrial Complex. Is this kind of state a necessity for a society to operate? The state can be an aid but the bureaucracy it forms is a cost. The answer is in the problem.
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  2957.  @Weiner-Worm  To make that a reality 'careerism' in politics would have to be abolished!
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  2958.  @harrymills2770  Do you have a point here or not? You are all over the place that I can count at least three, incompetency in government, lack of 'control', and closet fascism on the left.
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  2959. …the law that protects your rights is the same law that keeps the police from infringing your rights...it’s called the First Amendment of the US Constitution.   The working class does not know this because they have not been given a decent and well-rounded education in their schools, and they also never took an interest in the subject…to learn about it themselves for whatever reasons. So, it is time they get a crash course on it.   Women like Veronica Ortega need to start a group made up of women like Veronica, poor women, and use their apartments/house for a study group on the First Amendment and how to defend their rights. The same Constitution also gives them the right to bear arms and the right to assemble. The cops can do nothing to stop this.
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  2960. The dangerous truth held by the government is well guarded by the elimination of whistle blowers. The instrument the People have for truth telling is the Press and clearly that has been co-opted.
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  2961.  @nasonguy  that is why politics cannot be separated from this topic.
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  2962.  @kayakMike1000  Let me chime in. A small group of scientist have taken a stand against governments on climate change. When are you going to join that group and break your silence publicly?
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  2963.  @kurious49  Agreed. I am of the persuasion, pretty convinced, in fact, that capitalism cannot exist without endless war, permanent war, and that if endless wars were to end, the death of the military industrial complex that concentrates trade and manufacture would throw more than half the working population of the US out in to the streets.
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  2964. Absolutely, Americans would be three generations deep into a socialist society and China would never have become a leading destroyer of the planet's climate along with the Pentagon and the Russians. Vacationing in Cuba would have been a normal everyday experience with the family no matter how socialist they became Americans could drive from NY to Florida and get on a boat to Cuba, stay a while, come home with complete freedom of movement. Car culture would not be what it is today. The internal combustion engine would have had a short lifespan, until its replacement by a less volatile fossil fuel, a 100 miles to a gallon would have been the rule and alternative energy would have been developed 40 years ago.  Congestion pricing for NYC would never be on the table in the Mayor's mind the traffic intolerance would have been solved way before it got to the point of causing asthma. Oil would have been eradicated as the main important commodity by around the time the Beatles became popular. Universal health care when Eisenhower wanted it and JFK would have lived to old age or died of Parkinson's. Coal miners in Kentucky, no more Black Lung. Vietnam would not have happened and education would have been made free for all citizens. McCarthy, Cohen, Trump, racism, sexism, class inequality would not have existed. Reagan would have died in California as a B actor. Instead of Obama as president Shirley Chisholm would have been the fist black female president in 1969. King and Malcolm would have lived to old age. The KKK would have been outlawed in the 1960's. The internet would have been already what it is now in the 1960's. Cancer, old age dementia, autism, ADHD, like polio eradicated in 1940 in the population. Pence and his evangelists would have been no more than a church and not in government. Elvis would have lived to old age as drugs and the drug war would never had happened. None of the central and South American dictators would have come into existence and all native Americans would have increased their numbers fully integrated into society instead of reservations. Finally, Einstein would have locked secret the atomic bomb formula and Oppenheimer would not have been the coordinator of the Manhattan Project, a whole generation of Japanese people would have not been incinerated by the Pentagon. Germany would never have been divided and Stalin would not have been the ultimate paranoid monster he became. NATO would never have been conceived. Henry Wallace was your man he would have made a totally different world than today. So yes, he would have spared America of all the things I mentioned.
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  2965. The two students should have their student debt cancelled, they made the right judgement call.
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  2966. Do you folks realize that you could be organizing an opposition movement to the government from your platform but like all the rest with their small news shows you'd rather be commentators like the political struggle is some kind of sport and not real life.
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  2967.  Justin Marion  No, she is not Al Gore 2.0, she is a child. And children are watching her, listening, and she is their inspiration. She shatters the boys and girls who indoctrinated by all the forces you are against. Without her that generation has no reference point by which to assess how deep their indocrtination lies within them. Her being assures that there will be anti-capitalist social force when I pass away and all you can fucking say, she is another Al Gore 2.0! These are the boys and girls who are going to dig your graves in light of the fact that your generation has done shit to overthrow the conditions placing humanity and the natural world at risk! The hope is they will finish the job you did not!
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  2968.  @Antechynus  Mass demonstrations scheduled this weekend in many cities around the world...are you going?
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  2969.  @Antechynus  What you are doing on a personal scale needs to be done on a social scale. Industrial Agriculture has to be replaced with individual farming preferably indoors, bring the land into the house, then have it isolated from the rest of the house exposed to sunlight.  Cities have parks and areas of vacant land that can be turned into community gardens. Buildings can harvest water from the sky and filter it downward to get three uses of water before it goes into a self-contained leech field. Wind and solar is adaptable to buildings. A lot can be done. Timber building is a climate change contributor of deforestation. The future of your own land will fall into the hands of timber producers. When we take everything there is to take; we have to set ourselves to produce or die. This is why People need to demand these changes even if it means overturning a government. Sometimes and these are those times when government stands in the way of a real application of the science behind self sustaining home construction that a revolution is made necessary.
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  2970.  @willarth9186  They hate the truth.
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  2971. At least the Russian people are protesting a message that is anti-war in general not anti-Putin in particular, is a “No War”stand. A war in Ukraine will be the convenient excuse to raise prices (inflation) on all goods and fuel the American people need to live that this war is not in their interest have been silent. No anti-war message coming from Big Oil, to the contrary, its all good news, stocks briskly profiting Wall Street. Democrats are silent, republicans are silent. Not even the Truckers have anything to say against this action which will throw another 4 million people into refugee status. Not phasing Americans will be paying so much more in diesel and regular fuel, home heating fuel, gas, and electric that for people who watch this stuff the fuel is going to Europe to replace fuel not getting to Europe from Russia in Nordstream will account for higher prices at home for fuel. Things are not looking good. America’s poultry industry is infected which will account for a scarcity in poultry and less to haul. This America’s main source of protein as beef prices are already high. They know its coming, high inflation and high interest rates, and high unemployment. There is an economy for powerful elites and there is a general economy for us and the ideas and principals that run each economy are incompatible.
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  2972. I wonder how many are truly reflecting this comment and relating it to their lives at work?
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  2973. Too bad, --- Biden's new secretary of state, Tony Blinken, reflects a continuation of the same Cold War hysteria that drove the world close to the brink of nuclear war in the Bay of Pigs, and what made America support every horrible dictator no matter the evil these dictators were as long as they proved they were anti-socialist/anti-USSR. Contain the spread of socialism and be a buffer state that ultimately fell apart like a house of cards.  Socialism for the Latin American countries is really a system of commonlandownership among several inter-related families and tribes as practiced for thousands of years,---not a luxury arm chair thinker's theory but a protection against the robbery of land by force. When we invade Central and South American tribes of their land with force we are repeating the exact destruction of the system of Commonlandownership of Native American tribes during the Indians Wars of the 1700s. When the result is a reduction of 60 million native Americn inhabitants to 20 million the solution becomes the problem,---the policy itself. The cause of millions of uprooted workers of all types is the result of narco-capitalism and its one crop economy to which the largest economy in the world is the biggest consumer of narco-products. The cash circulating between officials and drug lords, miltary commanders, and police operate a tyrranical state with American support, turns American society into a non-functioning social system racked by disabilities, addictions, high mortality rates, infertility, and state child dependencies while the narco-one crop cash economy circulates turns horrible evil people into billionaires,---we should reconsider this neoliberalism in foreign policy as a 75 year long step backward. Biden should develop a rational and reasonable military budget the American people can support, use a strong diplomatic corp, literally, turn back and bury the Reagan Revolution.
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  2974. Liberal progressives are well trained in setting up working people. There is also capability in working people as too forgiving and nieve of the Law of Accumulation. Every political event liberal/progressives stage is a commercial event to position labor and capital to orchestrate an exchange process all of us take for granted. They learned how to make money by selling out the working class and with that political profit they buy into corporate stock, bonds, dividends, profit share. More they do this the more they become the owners of capital the less they are the politicians meant to represent the public interest. The liberal and progressives in the party like to live in the positive side of Life, what Marx notes in the German Ideology the '...positive side of the opposition. ' They will never acknowledge their behavior in the negative side of the opposition found in the general corruption of things. They facilitate wealth and force it to maintain its own existence but also force it keep alive its own opposite, the working class. In this sense the Democratic party liberal/progressives, pro-war stance is no stance at all ends up supporting a military regime Dr. King identified "...as the biggest purveyor of violence is my own country." Progressive liberals ensure they end up as the party who appropriates this wealth to the rest of the social classes in society. Every dollar spent on defense working people lose more of the necessaries of life to a debased currency. This rule of thumb liberal/progressives dismiss with anti-working class smug sentiment. Losing more of a chunk of the necessaries of life is not a political issue, they regard any and all social and class differences in society outside of the State as 'unpolitical' and give up on making the state absorb social conflicts because that would entail its own abolition. A process the republicans can claim victory when the welfare state is dissolved and its just the social classes in society. Each class, landlords, banks, merchants, capitalists, working classes, all fighting for their share of the economic surplus and with no governing body to share it out except for a Military and an Autocrat, the State moves in the direction of a dictatorship. Outside in the world at large, the military in charge of foreign affairs positions itself as the leading citadel of reaction to slow down the growth and standard of living of socialist economies, planning war, a cost the American taxpayer bears because the tax cuts freed the other social classes from the tyranny of the liberal/ progressive government. The one class that is not freed, emancipated from the State, is the working class. The republicans completed a partial emancipation by freeing the incomes of the other social classes from taxation but had not freed the incomes of the working masses. To the contrary, the working class is subjugated to government taxation by law. How does the working class get freed from taxation and freed from bearing the cost of imperialism? It has only one power at its disposal, social power, and with it, it must declare a complete emancipation, freeing itself from taxation entails a universal freedom from war, imperialism, and the hybrid military/welfare state. Its slogan should be "Everyone In and Nobody Out' as an appeal for the abolition of America's class system.
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  2975. Then comes the rude awakening as the workers all fall into the abyss of unemployment with 40 years of work delivering no pension. They learn Congress has been launching a coordinated assault on social spending the safety net is gone. One by one over the last two years there have been company closures but what we are about to experience is a total collapse far worse then the Great Depression of the 30s devastating more than a 3rd of 332 million people and all mostly from America’s working class. A crisis of humanity right in the heart of the richest nation in the west. Workers will need a political party of their own.
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  2976. There are people in America who want Trump to have the power. And the people holding power fight to keep power. The central problem is the nature of power not who takes it or loses it. Power is a relation that cannot exist without losers and winners. The winners get fewer and the losers get more numerous each time power is taken. Americans are in huge denial about the nature of political power by focusing on the winners and losers instead.
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  2977. UN Secretary should not blame humanity for the climate crisis 4:15 and not blame capitalism. There should be no cancellation of the particular by emphasizing the general and conversely. Man and Nature are engaged in a double process of erosion and formation of natural and social elements in the process of shaping nature to suit human needs. The interaction is not static The participants are human labor and Nature and both are transformed within and through this interaction.
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  2978. The settlement paid from taxpayer funds, replenished by higher taxes or by a continuation of taxes, is the reason why the victims families should use other legal means to garnish police incomes in lieu of settlements.
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  2979. The US is not a perfect model in which to study capitalist development because its statistical information is partial to biases. You cannot rely on what government reports when hidden by the reports is a low survival rate for the whole working population of the US. The one thing the statisticians cannot hide or fudge to reflect a better mortality rate for the working classes are the standards for recruitment by the military falling below previous levels which indicate the health from the population they most recruit is poorer. Americans are not in good shape and it is attributable to work, working, conditions of work and the materials in contact with people in the act of working, that the health overall of the working population is as low as age 45 in the State of Mississippi. A life expectancy of that of Sudan where a practical genocide is taking place is equal to a life expectancy of a working class individual inside of the richest nation in the world shortens the lives of many to extend the lives of a few. “When health is a thing you can buy...the rich live and the poor die”, 19th century anonymous poet.
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  2980. Anyone who works in the city and lives out of the city can add about another $4000.00 dollars per year to your commuting cost. Congestion pricing is a fall in wages induced by city government policies. It is happening because the city and the city council are unable to coordinate a plan that falls on the heels of another social transformation of the workplace, people who work from home and employed by companies in the city. An opportunity is seen here to lower emissions. For those who’s workplace is the city cannot work from home your emissions will cost you more even if you walk to the city and leave no carbon foot print. It does not appear you have a democracy when one group lives off the backs of another. If working people do not want to see their wages fall and have their voices heard by the council and mayor they have to make a lot of noise and disruption to get the city to come up wth a better plan that is not an unequal distribution of a burden.
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  2981. The problem of war criminals is a problem emanating directly from the US Congress whose members are not revocable by the Public.
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  2982. Crashes are the symptom of the cause of over producing that comes from the drive to compensate for the loss of hands owing to innovations corporations use in production. Profits come from higher output or producing more with less labor in this day and age, more people in the past and thus more goods on the market is more profit once they are exchanged for money. More people are thrown out of work from innovation and innovation makes more work for more output with greater intensity, speed, a car, house, or a tool is made and out the door. Of course, to have those goods sold people have to have money in their hands, hence the credit card and low interest borrowing, people call 'cheap money', but money has nothing to do with production where the bubble begins and everything to do with circulation where the bubble finally ruptures. Not even Thom Hartman gets this about capitalism.
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  2983. Same argument goes for Dreamers. They have been working and contributing to our economy for decades and are not citizens. People kept in limbo. The low tier Auto worker at $17 an hour is also kept in limbo is working a job not a career. It appears people are left hanging by their employers inside the factory and outside the factory by their politicians.
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  2984. Every story headlined in this broadcast amplifies particular social relations of society in crisis. Crisis at home are connected to the decline of US capitalism both nationally and internationally. China talks peace in Ukraine and the Pentagon sends weapons to Ukraine is an act that contradicts the direction the world wants to go. A man imbibed with fentanyl is murdered by health providers and officers at a hospital. An American oil company will never drill for oil at the sight of the Walling Wall in Israel out of respect for their religion but will desecrate sacred native American lands for oil and the State uses a religious site as a weapons training ground is mined with explosives. Pretty sick country, aimless, lost run by idiots. Maybe somebody should splatter oil on the Walling Wall to illustrate the point. Time has come to make the BIG SOCIAL CHANGE in America before capitalism destroys you and the society you live.
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  2985. Cops do not protect you. If you think they do you are a fool or you never grew up in the city and are gullible. Their job is to protect property not people. They are compensated well for this purpose. When you go on strike or protest conditions that is when you will see what the real mission and function and purpose of the police in society and in Manhattan is. Instead of posting police where stations are most vacant of people where crime is most likely the MTA close off the station. In short, crimes against persons used to only happen in the city now happen across the country. Manhattan is a microcosm for the rest of the nation in terms of the police not protecting people but property specifically.
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  2986. Bring him down but don’t give the power to Trump.
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  2987. Rascal --The relationship of war to ecology puts you on the right track about the passing of bacteria and pathogens from animals to humans. War is only one aspect of the big picture. Just as oil drilling and excavation is only one aspect of the total picture. The big picture is human habitation is the driver of new pathogens and viruses. How we work, live and eat is the primary driver and pathogens pass from animals to humans through family and where humans congregate. We as a species are taking up all the room exposing different species of animals to each other. For example, we do not interact with bats and spiders but because we are taking up the spaces bats live they come into contact with animals and pets that interact with us through our industries. Ecology, industry and public health is the new frontier of study.
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  2988. It appears to me the great conflict in this century in the American scene is between US labor on the one side and the struggle to retain control of the state on the other side by the owners of financial wealth and property. The planet ‘s health and the safety of humanity are barriers to the unity between private Capital and the National Security State. This inverted relationship constitutes the real threat to the planet and humanity ...and a form of Totalitarianism emerges in government from this twisted relationship...and making a living in a one-sided economy of monopolies put all workers on very shaky grounds...in a tight corner... are economic attacks...done for the purpose of subordinating labor to capital and representation in the State taken away by lawmakers is the main aim and function of lawmakers as a political elite.
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  2989.  @rdreeves2332  How will UBI resolve the titanic struggles between American corporations and the intra-rivalry among capitalist corporations of separate nations from escalating the arms race and destruction of the species?
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  2990. It is wrong to not say its the Taliban undoing America's version of school. We have problems with our education system that we should not be trying to set up other societies to copy our own flawed educational system is really the first point to make here. I would be another story if our educational system was exemplary but its not. Scandinavian schools system far better than our own should be teaching us how to educate our children. We have 6 year olds walking into schools with firearms murdering their peers. The second point is the family in Afghan society is a patriarchal family. Lines of descent is through the male. Property, wealth, money, possessions, everything is passed down from father to son as head of house hold and if not for the fact that the property did not come with a women attached this society is one step away from chattel slavery for women and girls. Male lines of descent include forced marriages, also a popular thing among Americans in certain parts of American society. Fathers in Afghanistan would have to marry daughters off she goes to her new chosen husband with a dowry. Becoming a doctor breaks the lineage of property descent and therefore the entire society founded on this line of descent. Everything a man has worked to accumulate over his lifetime would be become property confiscated by the state which is where all unclaimed assets end up. This is reported by amateurs not well at all. What is causing this vicious reaction to attack the victims of patriarchy are the owners of their wealth and property dissolving as a social class with an ancient tradition. It is not a society where inheritance passes down from mother to daughter and excludes a husband's own male children from an inheritance. Women and girls need to emancipate themselves in the political realm before they can become the way western television show women and girls as liberated lawyers and doctors.
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  2991. What do you do with these people, how would a socialist society deal with racists extremists in society? If America ended all its wars and aggressions and stopped serving the transnational corporations the peace dividend would be so huge that every man, woman and child would never see a day of crisis in the form crisis occurs in a war driven economy. Mass unemployment would be a thing of the past, hunger and poverty, ignorance and bias, solved in short span of a year and one generation given the might of American productivity working at full capacity. Right now capacity under the transnationals is at a grim 40%. 60% is idle and rotting away. Imagine what a 100% capacity could do without a private sector sticking its nose in the business of writing real history books or real food, or real functional cars that go 500 miles to gallon, real mass transit not some system that operates by the skin of its teeth. If given this chance, unfortunately the wrong phrase, the chance has to be taken away from the culprits misusing American productivity for their own advantage, take that away then the world would be sustainable and even recover from all the dead zones in the Seas and Oceans caused by commerce and consumption and all the social disequilibrium that comes with that pattern. We can change all this muck if we put our mind to it. America would be the most incredible country because it knows how to solve all these problems that foreign service would have a another age of glory, if America took this chance, in fact, I really do not understand why Americans don't simply sidestep the private sector completely and apply all the technology straight from the military to the Public. Every innovation and invention was founded and created by the military not the private sector. Innovation is already paid for by past federal budgets. Let's see the internet was invented by the US military in 1969. That means in 1969 the federal budget paid it off. So why do you need a middle man when all it takes is a team of government IT pros to wire rural America via satellite or tower. What do you really need middle men for?
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  2992. Pity the Biden government is too stupid to meet up with Colombian officials and stop the Migration where it begins. Migration starts in a place where US troops are actively engaged in low intensity warfare, namely, Africa, Columbia, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala and ends at the US border. This explains why the Biden government is using high technology surveillance to detect migrant movement rather than to end its military involvement in these countries tearing up the civil societies these people come from!
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  2993.  @Rebel377  What stops you from building an out door fire assuming you know how and don't cause another catastrophe where you live?
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  2994.  @mzdankmuzik  That is because at the very local level the Nazis run your schools and towns. For example, Oakland Union Elementary School District Board Members resign after caught on a hot mic mocking parents. You have Nazis in your own middle class communities who are repressing working people and their kids from having a voice. Look it up. Contra Costa County CA. Local police, sheriffs, mayors, school board officials, infested with fascist middle class Nazis.
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  2995. I wonder if you know why Meuller left the decision to Barr? I totally agree with you but I wonder if you know the real reason. Even among the people with a 'brain', there is a real split.
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  2996. The shill on the far left of your screen is part of a concerted effort to obstruct any real outside investigation from taking place.
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  2997. The revelation makes the last 40 years of US military history nothing more than brute imperialism. Everything from the first Bush invasion in Kuwait to the murder of Koshoggi, stagnant wages, bail outs, tax cuts, to present day polices, relations with Israel, the UK, all built on total lies using the name of the American people and polluting the mind of the country so that a Military Industrial Complex can hold the world hostage.
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  2998. Big shift to world war is what it is.
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  2999.  @maxmercor5772  Well, there are two sides to the social structure. Competition and productivity are useful agencies to capitalists in cheapening the cost of production. It could be useful to the American people but they choose to not use their own productivity for themselves is itself a perplexing historical paradox. They have the power but not the intellect to end competition in the world. If there was any will involved in the decision to export production (CO2 omissions) it would have to be the will of the masses in America responsible for the loss of manufacturing and higher polluting factors on the planet. Productivity and competition belong to the American people but are what corporations use to make profits. There can be nobody else to blame for decisions the American people make in expanding their market needs and the needs of the corporations in the market at the same time. Call it generosity or gullibility, stupidity, or ignorance, it all applies to the paradox. Instead of using the fall in their necessary working time to reproduce the whole society for the benefit of society it is given free, unpaid for, to the benefit of corporations. In the competition the whole international class of corporations for a piece of the action, intensify that productivity with speed ups; work harder mandates, more labor time, tighter rules, higher output, in the workplace sets off a competition, to sell more, a result ending in a market expansion. The paradox is bound up in two distinct social realities, simple reproduction is made easer in less working time and 2., how simple reproduction appears as a false motive of the entire international class of corporations from the US, EU, UK, Japan, Australia, SA, Middle East to lower emissions when it really is raising productivity. Want proof: ask anyone who works if there work has become enjoyable, satisfying, an act of affirmation of skill, talent, rewarding, and if they answer no, they gave up their will to the capitalists.
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  3000. What is it about the reform that has gotten people so angry? Reform is the wrong way to phrase what amounts to government actions to unload private corporate and government public debt on the backs of working people. Debt not of the making of the working people of France that shoving it down the throats of working people takes this conflict to a level of refusal to work at all! A society that does not work will die not in a month but in a week and in the death of a given social organism is the birth of a new society.
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  3001. None of the politicians in Minnesota will stop Embridge and the Fires, that state's population has been abandoned.
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  3002. America needs a new social system.
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  3003. Precisely.
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  3004. Anti- Freedom Convoy protesters carrying signs that say ‘F*ck Truckers’, “I hate hate”, lined up with a line of police in front of them are paid protesters. This station did not pick up on this. Things are done for the safety of others by people who do not practice what they preach. Stacy Abrams poses for a camera in class of toddlers in a school for Black History Month. Kids in masks and Abrams is not. Or when Magic Johnson and Governor Newsom and Mayor Garcetti are maskless while people can lose their job without a mask is repression. This protest should spread in the US, behind the mandates a tiny minority of people are getting rich off this pandemic. Mandates deliberately provoking anger in the Public.
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  3005. Jurisprudence is on trial in this case. The very judicial sentencing system that quantifies punishment in punitive years or for a death penalty appears to change based on how the guilty pleas. Is that right?
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  3006.  @bennpierce2990  Your point is well taken and verifiable. Ignore the mealy-mouthed detractors, they are only there to derail the message.
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  3007. Nice job exposing the moles and worms operating in and out of the defense administration in Washington.
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  3008.  @haleybrown2836  I don’t like the card analogy imploding. It is not accurate. I like the dinner party analogy and the guests are having a blast that it is impossible for them to leave on their own accord, even as approaching the banquet comes a wrecking ball crew preparing to strike the building the dinner party refuses to leave.
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  3009. The absurdity of using markets to remedy the problems markets create but that is all capital can do. Markets to capitalism is an end in itself. Markets should be a means no an end in itself. We should be using money as a means for exchange of things of use not waisting human talent on things made for sale. Given it is a system that produces for exchange the industries it has taken control over no longer use money to exchange products for use between them. They no longer produce a surplus to sell the remainder as goods for a market after they acquired the necessities for their industry and livelihood. The entire underlying economic structure of industries is run over by commercial and financial capital creating drinkable water, or useful oil, and necessary gas, in maximum quantity for sale and when there is no market there is no gas, water, oil. This would never happen had the underlying economy been made stronger and kept intact. So that when corporations stop producing ventilators and masks there are still industries producing them in the US to make my point of what an underlying economy means. It is a system that cannot produce proportionally and cannot consume within proportion because its main objective is growth beyond proportion and growth is made dependent on sale. Laws can be used to stop the exploitation of nature and people but the lawmakers do not write the laws themselves in the capitalism that is America today. Think tanks formulate measures for the lawmaker who passes those measures on behalf of the largest donor operating and financing the think tank. A revolution is what America needs and one that overthrows the rule of markets over industrial activity is the message history is telling the American people.
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  3010. Last year it was Afghanistan, before that it was Syria, than Iran and before that it was Iraq, before that it was Kuwait, today its Taiwan. Forty years of ongoing war.
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  3011. Liberty under capitalism means everything is individuated. All that has happened in the 20th century is the tranfering of power between republicans and democrats. Power never fully rested in the hands of the people. Putting power in the hands of the people is Bernie's message and program. Vote Bernie!
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  3012. You also have American suicide bombers. Never existed before in America before the Iraq Invasion of 2002.
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  3013. Conditions come attached with the donations but the central relationship is the control of humanity through a prior control over things by a class of donors.
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  3014. @Chris Ramsbottom Isherwood; totally agree. People are objectified as targets and then as victims as soon as people want to be sovereign subjects.
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  3015.  Richard Henry  You have to stop generalizing and lumping Americans with the use of the term "the US", when the enterprise you are referring that is the most criminal in the world, guilty of this travesty, is the GOP. They are the 'parasites', they suck up the riches and enjoy a lifestyle the world cannot sustain, the GOP threatens world peace. Ok?
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  3016. You cannot believe a problem that has existed for years in the military is small in number.
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  3017. Gangs as a sociological phenomenon occur as outside elements to the formal social structure. They belong to the formal society because they are born into it but they are not of the social structure that lives over them. Gangs started in the 17th century, when millions of soldiers found themselves out of a job and took up piracy. Then the gangs were after Gold; Code of Laws, exercised a unity as they do today but the currency of value has changed; from gold to drugs and guns. Gangs have evidently been allowed to get too big too fail like their counter parts in the legal trade are too big to fail from their own stupidities in bad business dealings they should have gone bankrupt but had not; a new gargantuan prison complex is the same thing as a Bail Out. Elites anticipate more gangs and more sectors of the economy to collapse leaving many people’s lives without the necessaries of life. American government over the last 70 years had done nothing to keep the growth of gangs, monopolies, racketeers, from becoming Too Big To Fail. And so, what began as a small social phenomenon is now the norm. The screwballs have moved from the outside fringes of society to society’s inner citadel of power by virtue of economic size and capacity to violence. This is a threat to the Establishment social order. Its a threat to every unaffiliated gang related American. Its Terrorism. Competition on steroids makes a prison this big a necessity and a country to be the new Alcatraz is not an achievement but a real serious digression of society corrupting leaders.
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  3018. Evidently the provision of the IWO that says patents be suspended during emergencies does not go far enough in preventing signatories from violating their agreements. It is necessary to make all vaccines non-patentable to avoid future outbreaks and lingering pandemics.
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  3019. Its a sign that is calling for new and fresh faces and talent to run for office. People are ready for someone new with a real program that she the wrong person won by a landslide. I’d like to see new faces and young talented and imaginative people run for office.
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  3020. My Condolences, ---- suffering in American families is unnecessary in a rich country. Poverty strikes one out of every ten homes in middle class neighborhoods in America for too many families this is one way to get out of it.
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  3021.  @seanthe100  Your 401 K is partially invested into Peruvian mining and the stability of your 401K depends on the exploitation of economies in your hemisphere is how fragile Wall Street made your retirement. Should it drop suddenly you lose not Wall Street.
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  3022. Excellent, and factual, if the machines are taken away the productivity of the workers are taken away. Machines have more of a natural relationship to labor than they do to capital as the power that sets them into motion.
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  3023. She could have said he was the one who bought the early Christmas present gun and she had nothing to do with it, and in his trial I am sure the defense will argue that Jimmy’s mental and pediatric health was her job in the family. The school could have checked the school bag and they would have confiscated contraband in the form of a gun right then and there. A tragedy of errors by adults, error as parents, error as schools, error as families, error as sons, a breakdown, complete and total failure of a social unit the whole society based. 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter, she had a duty to prevent a rampage, how does one prevent another’s rampage?
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  3024. Come on, man. Anything that comes out of the Defense Department is BS.
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  3025. The Decline of the American Empire is not going to be good for Gen zers right in the middle of the decline, I hope they form some kind of alternative movement to bypass this crisis. I think we can all agree we need a new social system.
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  3026. Automation has a double effect on society and a double result both negative and positive on the economic structure of society. It can be used to consolidate a class system and it can be used to deconstruct a class system. Immigration is a non-issue because the jobs where automation is used in production do not employ illegal immigrants, they employ foreign workers eligible to work immigrants. Ownership of automation is really the heart of the matter, if it is already socially used by society, it is one step away from becoming the property of society and thus, should not be stopped by a class system that uses technology and science for its own progress.
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  3027. These are people who were socialized, trained and taught to be warriors by the military. Using their former military skills have gravitated toward a false thinking to make a false enemy in which to destroy by means of force. As such they are unfit for civil society where there are no military missions. But from their actions we can see how ruthless they must have been in Afghanistan and other places they served. In the end the military is responsible for producing people who cannot function in a democracy. They fought for democracy overseas but at home they fight to destroy democratic institutions. In reality they were always fighting against democracy. Their deception is revealed.
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  3028. I believe all this repetition between aristocracy and oligarchy will come to an end when time is no longer used as a general measure of work the two systems depend as a basis for existence.
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  3029. The hypocrisy of social inequality is fully displayed in American society.
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  3030.  @codymontour7816  Poor english, poor thoughts. A crime was committed the crime committed was perpetrated by the police failing to live up to the supreme concept of civil society; the concept of the police. Kenosha became a hot house because the preservation of person, rights, and property were abandoned by the police department in Kenosha. They either sided with one faction or not trained to manage protests from becoming rebellions; I doubt the latter, a crime enabled a second crime to take place. Second, no judge will ever admit the arm of enforcement of the court wronged the city of Kenosha in a trial or in public and any entry of the context of this activity is disallowed in the trial. Rittenhouse cannot get a fair trail in the US. He’ll spend the rest of his day being retried till he breaks down again and admits he was an aggressor and finally take his sentence.
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  3031. Canada is one of the places many Nazis fled. The US, South America, Canada and Central America are all places where Nazis emigrated to avoid prosecution. Nazi Youth in 1920 were in their 30s by the time the Red Army defeated the Nazis in Berlin. German Nazis could not flee east so they went west. Eventually they restarted their lives and had families born Canadian or Guatemalan. This history as fact comes together with different meaning, indeed, “the villain lived long enough to become a hero”. Communism still drives the anti-communism of the west. Good video, guys.
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  3032. We can boycott Starbucks and Amy’s kitchen...that would help them tremendously.
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  3033.  @jeffmoore9487  Human democracy is a real abstract term...what is it and how does the working class use it?
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  3034.  @jeffmoore9487  You have a class problem to overcome before you reach the highest stage of human development.
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  3035.  @jeffmoore9487  If you are an activist, organize your comrades into a movement and a party, Sudan is in water crisis. Lebanon is a collapsed society. None of the people in Sudan or Lebanon there have a cohesive organized movement to run society by means of tearing down the repressive barriers and organizing the working class not to rule it! America does not have an organized movement and does not have an organized, principled, analytical and with an economic plan, a brain child of its own to lead into power. Small gets big really fast in times of flux and desperation.
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  3036. I think the concept of “empire’, is a European term to describes a mother country in possession of other countries. This definition fits the development of European modern history that European antiquity city-states became subject to another city-state is a history leading up to the Roman Empire. In the Americas the city-states of antiquity appear to have functioned independently of each other in succession and the religious aspects of each settlement reflects a uniformity of acceptance that they were probably extensions as opposed to ‘subjects’. Land or the soil does not appear to have been distinguished as city-state property from a collection of families or tribes in possession of land forming two distinct social classes as we see in Rome. Enlarging an area of shared land between various tribes as the domain of the deities an individual became owner of the land by becoming a member of the community through marriage or some other ritual. That there are two primary gods, of rain and corn, is a view of the soil and sky as gods not belonging to humans but were given to humans for life that life was sacrificed. This is a completely different attitude toward land than the attitude toward land in the history of Europe. I am not a archeo-anthropologist to really sink this theory into hard evidence but in listening closely, I see nothing in the cultures that resembles an empire controlling land in two forms of property, i.e., public and private property. I am not even sure the warriors were exclusively soldiers of a king or royal court of some kind. This would be a description consistent with how an empire behaves using force to maintain its hegemony against enemies who want to take down the empire but were more a combination of hunter/warrior in society that went after the big meat the average population did not hunt for sustenance but farmed and fished for sustenance, and these two groups formed a division of labor, thus producing new gods in the form of the jaguar, snake, eagle, to honor the contribution to their diet the warrior/hunters provided. In that division of labor are all kinds of skills and specific kinds of activities. Artists, sculptors, stone masons, embroiders, tanners, potters, metal smithing, fishing, farming, hunting, gathering, and there appears to be scant evidence of domestic work distinguishing work done by women, boys and men in the home, thus the work of reproduction was done in common or as a group and the domiciles relegated for sleeping high off the ground where wild life crawls and walks. Perhaps while watching a ball game they ate and drank. If cannibalism became an activity in the later stage of development of antiquity of Mesoamerica it would then make sense, to me anyway, that the city-states of an earlier stage had abundant meat source the later stages did not have or lost due to excess hunting and who, because of this scarcity, substituted human flesh as sacrificial of unfortunate victims of a religious belief of more blood you gave earth the more fertile the earth will be just went wild. Overkill if you will to give life to make life. Size of city-states: I think I would aim to draw a link between the geology on which the city states existed to the availability of stone the masons worked with in making a city with temple, courts, and how much rock could they quarry that determined the size of the city-state in addition to the climate. Mmmm, I wonder.
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  3037. More like a standstill, without a quorum the Council cannot conduct any business or pass resolutions. The city’s work stops. Silly that this form of governance is used for a city of 4 million people. A better system would be elected neighborhood members form their own assembly and allocate the resources by unanimous vote,--- completely by-pass the Council. Effectively, all essential services happen as they did before two council members decided to highjack the Council and sabotage its ability to work. If that work was shabby before a deadlocked Council it can only get worse. Protesters should place the city under their control and abolish the Council. The city’s population is not going to get smaller but only larger that one city wide organization is best and they should change what it means to be a city resident. Other cities do things better and councils are not the method nor the only method of governing.
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  3038. I do not think the employers are desperate. Productivity is high. If anything the shelves in stores are stocked with massive quantities of goods. Before the pandemic employers fired workers. Job wages after the pandemic are lower than the jobs workers had before the pandemic. Frankly, I think employers (companies) who hire more than 300 workers do not want to hire. Why should they hire when profits are really good. Workers are getting the shaft, ---that is my opinion.
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  3039. The total workforce is all alone on one side of the divide in America.
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  3040. Big vacuum left behind in his government from this death. Who will rule society, the king, the masses or the political establishment? Before WWII,---revolutions took a decade to complete on average. The masses took power, rebuilt society, and they moved on. But after WWII ever since the rise of America’s political establishment, revolutions that should have happened decades ago, linger as festering wounds create deformities in the political life of a nation. The American political establishment is the reason nobody wants to deal with America and would rather deal with China or Russia. The political establishment likes thugs and criminals, easy people it can win over with money and weapons, people like Diddy Combs, and can eliminate win they go back on their promises with the political establishment; while 9/10ths of the nations in the world are serious about making progress for their own people.
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  3041. People who think their employer’s interest is the same or even on the same side as their own are deceiving themselves! Is a factory blowing up in the interest of the workers? The employer had many chances to put in real safety measures...the interest that made the employer not make the factory safe is not the same interest of the workers...whatever you think will benefit employers will not trickle down to you just because you think you share the same interest as your employer. The “we are all Americans “politician is throwing you a curveball.
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  3042. People are simple. Are they not in this world to you?
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  3043. 37:50 This Remake America Package that just passed in Congress with a good number of republicans voting it through has money for a Federal Artists and Writers Project, people will be needed to write, design and decorate the new infrastructure. But what good will that money do if people's sensibilities to artistic creation is reduced to an imbecilic acceptance of a digital poster covering as art, hopefully some real artist will emerge in the coming era. See the poster of Apple's Mac Start Up Page framed on a wall, how commercially cheap are the times we live!
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  3044. @X- Ennial Have you ever questioned profit, price and wages as three very bizarre and strange social systems we use to make a living as completely deranged giving rise to very strange and bizarre people or have you never questioned it at all?
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  3045. 41:06, “If he had been a black man from Brooklyn. He’d be in jail.” Class privilege, the Kennedy Political Family Clan are the epitome of class privilege all other rich families tend to emulate. There are 15,298,070 millionaire households in the United States, into which privilege and hubris keep their children out of jail.
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  3046. Excellent news report and interview.
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  3047. That's simple, Iran is a geologic gold mine for military might.
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  3048. That was short and brief. I liked it. That early experiment (USSR) never understood the relations of production. If they had understood capital as a relation. Could the revolutionists have turned the government of the Czar(s) into a government of the People? Capitalism is when production is no longer owned by the producers. Three elements involved, production (owned by a) capitalist and the workers. If we join production with workers, they will produce for their families and society. They might not produce for the revolutionists. The producers might develop the will and certainly have the means to use production for other purpose than to build nuclear weapons in an arms race. Assuming the producers are current on world affairs. Many are not. Many live in the dark ages mentally. In Russia they could not even read. America has a better chance at uniting production with labor. Average Americans can read and are not isolated from world events. The fear workers could reunite with the means runs high among America's capitalists. It could be the death of them. Nothing is forever anyway, extinction is life. The point I believe would be to make something from nothing. If there is ever a rational for workers to take production back as it was for centuries in Europe and America, it would be to make something from nothing. Right now---America has oil. The ancient Egyptians had sandstone. Greece had marble. Romans had concrete and volcanic ash. Every civilization was dealt a different geological hand until it moved into the elements formed in the Big Bang. Why are we stuck on oil which has no values leading to greatness compared to the elements of the Big Bang, which has greatness? America has scientific workers, none of them are born here is a problem, but they are here. Average workers can work jointly with scientists in production and government can become a government of the People if we want. It only takes Will Power to remove oil-based capital(ism) from general production.
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  3049. They found a new strategy to silence the desires of the masses. Shut down the internet deprives the masses of what is going on. Cut off, like shutting off the power and a state of confusion emerges, about election results in the small country in Africa. The big countries in the west can do the same to silence and deprive the masses of their voice, hopes, desires, and wants. Its not just any tool they want privatized its a tool that has the power to control people they want concentrated into fewer hands.
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  3050. The 1% and white nationalism are allies against the 99%.
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  3051. Nationalism means a sovereign nation not a sovereign individual.
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  3052. Walensky gets away with lying because she is privy or a part of a failed, I would say, Grand Social Experiment her employer is engaged with other parts of the federal government... the Virus Scares are a way of testing the resistance of the American working class to austerity, cuts in pensions, higher job losses, and freedoms ...coming down the pike...when the economy can only produce billionaires on the cliffside above and there is a turbulent sea of growing discontent and deprivation crashing into the shores below...kept in check by force...another factor is China...presenting a challenge to the plans of America in the 21st Century dominating the world. One must always link the domestic relations with international relations to understand events in particular and events in general.
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  3053. If I were to guess I would say America has roughly 10 million of the 24 million kids the age this kid who fired at his /her teacher live in a state of crisis.
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  3054.  @fightignorance3598  Empires rule over other people and their own people.
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  3055. Great reporting.
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  3056. A video is needed that demonstrates and explores who are the main combatants in America’s current day class struggles. I think it is time for clarity against a background of many conflicts and hypocrisies. Refocus the defusing elements on the real conflicts work people have to deal with.
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  3057. The draft constitution of Chile that was voted down was written in really beautiful language highlighting the rights of nature, animals, ecology...human life, water, soil, a really beautiful document people should read for themselves.
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  3058. Critics say the Navy should retire ships that will never likely be sea bound again. I take this to be a valid point but see it in the context of a domination over things that is being exercised through the criticism. Also see in the context of the interaction between nations in this particular historic time period. The critics are jabbing the “State” with darts dismantling the establishment control over things to their control over things. The US military is a prize to capture. It is a citadel of political force. The only time wealth was never about a domination of men through the use of things was in the ancient world. There is a basic law of comparison and evaluation the critics are not using here is where it concerns humans investing energy into rehabbing ships has become a determining cause for keeping the economy going with jobs will call for reforms and reforms introduces, as history has proved, time and again, fascism and totalitarianism.
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  3059. Why speculate on what individuals in history think and why not hold a mirror up to the historical reality that presents itself in nations such as US or Russian military standards for recruitment to health and mortality rates; compare statistics of their respective working population. Show us how each society is more capable of surviving as a nation.
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  3060. America's response to 9/11 is a legacy of terror, domestic surveillance and drones is a horrible legacy to have. Now its response to COVID is an abomination. This new station softens the abomination that it really is.
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  3061. Elijah Obadiyah Cheers! You are exactly right. But not even Europe wants their American cousin(s).
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  3062. A question to all you commenters: How can there be guarantees of freedom of speech when civil society falls short of its own freedom?
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  3063. The derailment of the freight train and why that happened is the cause. Why?
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  3064. @Ross Harris,---This was tried in the 30s by FDR and from the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes, capitalism was saved and restored...but look what has happened since the 80s when this present day Billioniare class was first being created. They grew up on Greed is Good, Thatcherism and Reaganism’s individualism, parents bought into it and created a new individual with a mental attitude and they embarked on a mission , acting in unison as a class, began dismantling the good wages and employees will make you rich theory. The Car industry typifies what is being done. Ford Motor Company will never again make the F-150 the symbol of a working class vehicle, it will make super expensive cars and profit no longer on producing for the masses but instead will produce for the very rich, a car and truck, the masses will never afford. A distinct class separation where the grass is greener on one side and the lawns are mud on the other side, a society of princes and paupers, where the masses will use, buy and sell, used cars, and the dividing line between lawns of lush greenery and muddy knolls, rickety old houses and wandering dogs stand the digital sentries of the State on guard protecting the world of the super rich from the incursions of the world of the very poor, is the future society of America. This trend killed the theory of Keynes and the work of FDR, and build back better from the middle out, is a lie, a myth, a carrot dangling before the noses of the masses to follow while this separation is cemented. When it is cemented and the final stone is placed on this wall, will be the day when they will no longer need your vote to hold the office of power and military might,---democracy in America died in 1980 and buried in 2024. Emulating the rich, idealizing them, and favoring them, all contributes to the mortar in the construction of this separation, the masses themselves help to create have bit the carrot. This is why I support the railroad workers strike and I am not a railroad worker, for I see where this is going, and what the railroad workers have done is remarkable. They joined together, strength in numbers. When I see Starbuck workers on strike, I will not cross their line, I will not spend one nickel on anything that contributes to this trend. They should open a coop coffee shop directly across the street of their Starbucks and kill the mighty corporate giant that aims to kill them. Its a war, an economic war, that should be fought by thinking workers unassailed by the distractions.
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  3065.  @briankoski2532  That action by the Secret Service is another side of the corrupting influence of the private consumption of public resources by a single billionaire. If the billionaires are not removed from power in the next election, it will appear the American people will have an unavoidable class war over the working day and wages.
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  3066. Money is all it takes.
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  3067. This case screams for socialized medicine. The Crumbleys had some insight into their kids’ attitude on society. Bet quite few conversations within the walls of their home thew light on Jimmy’s crisis. A hospital out patient charge of $10,000 dollars would be the only rational reason the Crumbleys did not intervene and the kids resistance to treatment would not make it worth the effort. A medical for a script for psych services, evaluation, after care recommendations is not 100% covered in any Americans insurance plan except for people in the same class and category of income earners as Joe Biden and Donald Trump. These people just keep getting richer. Everything is a gift for them. Not the case not for the Crumbleys, they brought guns into their crisis and situation. There was another family in rural America that committed familicide this past January,---casualties in the war on the working class. News in America never talks about the money side of health care. If medicine were socialized that would have been half the battle. The Crumbleys could have gotten the psychological treatment they needed eventually the kid would have joined after seeing some progress or at least at ease of tension. But America has a whole class of Crumbleys that make outpatient treatment and services are not enough to manage their struggle which is both objective and subjective.
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  3068. "Whoever has the Youth has the future", A. Hitler. This line is a good starting point to correct one myth around our present-day conflicts average people have about political leaders. In the US, Trump is constantly equated to Hitler for his outrageous statements and policies by his detractors, but I cannot make that analogy at all about Trump or any of the more horrible leaders in the world today. Hitler had an ideology, he was not a businessman or a manager of a large business. Like the other leaders of the time period, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Ghandi ji, Sun Yat-sen, Mao, were all men of ideology, men of a single-minded purpose. Mussolini wrote: "Revolution is an idea that possesses bayonets". Our present day authoritarian leaders are not ideologues. In my observations, the one country where ideologues are in power and exercise the methods of the ideologues I mentioned to take power by means of coup d état is in the overthrow and exile of Evo Morales of Ecuador. There the acting president, Añez, is a born-again Christian, and Christianity is an ideology, and a woman who vows to inject by law the bible in the youth of the country. Hitler formed the Nazi Youth for the same reasons, 7 million members, all of whom pledged obedience to Hitler not their parents. Rather, people like Macron, Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro are not ideologues but are business managers and the difference between business management and international trade or finance, if anyone has taken a course in either subject, should know that the two fields are entirely unrelated. The bad policies we see emanating from their imprint on societies stems from this one fact, in my view. The fact being, an international trade expert knows nothing about running a business and a business manager knows nothing about international trade and finance. They are focused on the particular functioning of a business and run government the allocation of trade and finance in that manner. Consequently, we get a crisis of another kind, unique from the crisis that led to the second world war as a war of political ideologies. We get economic crisis, depressions and stagnation, and mass dislocation of workers and corresponding wealth extraction benefitting business leaders and other kinds of billionaires.   "Whoever has the Youth has the future", is a line that is more appropriate when applied to industries of our day learned from individuals of the past. Whatever industry has the youth has the future and the industries taking possession of the youth in our time is media and the tech industry. The gaming industry, the cell phone industry, the military industry, garment, sports, have the youth.
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  3069.  @veganpotterthevegan  The general public does not throw money at corporations...your representatives who you elect throws money at corporations...you keep electing the same war parties who act against your interest!
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  3070. Back then, America’s big bosses and big industrial enterprises were a special class. Today, they are a special class whose conditions of existence are those of everyone.
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  3071. He should interview more world leaders and become a journalist in his own class.
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  3072.  @mikecorbeil  Observe the economics of war and then see them not as individual companies but when you put them together as a whole, they form a class and war is their market place.
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  3073. Something like this happened in Russia’s past. Russia moved troops into China to protect its port in Vladovostok which was no where in China. That was a historic blunder that provoked Imperial Japan. It did not work out so good, led to a defeat at the hands of Japanese forces, but of course, a huge failure for the Czar. A war on both fronts, 25 million lives lost. Poland is another story completely and on the other side of Russia from Vlodovostok, Poland is the west European gateway to Russia, it would be really unnerving to move troops into Poland. Looking back at the behavior of the western European powers carving Europe into shares they moved troops in an out of places like it was no tomorrow and all met up in No Man’s Land in the trenches it would not surprise me NATO would make such a blunder move. Russia helped Greece fight its independence from the Ottoman Empire...this did not please Turkey or flatter Turkish nationalism... there is a long history of troops movement that culminated into the first world war. Old wounds are still present, the Finnish War of 1808 with Russia leaves its mark in the mindset of NATO russophobia. Europe is a case study in mass psychology when you examine its history. Germany stripped of its colonies by colonial powers and through rapid industrialization, a German retaliation in a second world war. People should understand this historical legacy as millions of Russian Jews migrated out of what is now Poland to the US are by now third generation Americans. US has to traverse delicately in Europe. The extremist say stay out of it. But the world market ties us together. This is why Brexit was a exercise proving England can’t live without the EU. Historical circumstances have changed that former USSR republics are free to decide their own fate but in many of them they are presently home to a virulent nationalism that would love to see a war between NATO and Russia. Poland and Romania have not industrialized yet. When they do we will have to worry of a resurgence of a militarized state nation-states in Europe seem without fail have a habit of creating. This is role modeling they will follow; it worked for the colonial powers it should work for us. NATO is a growing threat to Russia. And Russia is not wrong about NATO. History does not favor Russia in winning wars but in every war she lost she came out gaining more territory and more powerful as a consequence is a trend Putin is not about to surrender to elites in Europe flirting with pro-nationalist forces.
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  3074. More evidence of a Class Oligarchy that rules the US Labor force, consisting of political families and super rich corporations, they pardon, appoint and excuse each other are related to each other through a concentration of wealth and marriage, ---while individuals in society in desperation struggle for survival.
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  3075. If your entire economy depends on it is rather stupid to not have the original land phone service nationwide in place. Especially when the infrastructure was already built. Stupid America. This will happen repetitively because there isn’t a national service for internet in America. This technology is in the hands of a collection of private corporations who when they compete they degrade the quality of the technology itself. It serves them only as a value to be transferred to the product for sale. The cheaper they go the tech itself is not worth a dam for society. Not to mention everything is random, chaotic, out of order, out of proportion, mismatched, misidentified, under qualified and over efficient. America has become a psychotic nation under a despotic collection of corporations, that it cannot even function as a society, and the bureaucracy it has created for a government is so far removed from the original meaning of governing a society it can’t anymore.
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  3076. Chief says the proliferation of guns on the street is the worst he’s ever seen I say the proliferation of cheap and vulgar materialism that makes the US a trash can is the worst I have ever seen.
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  3077. The American people will never know prosperity and affluence again as every dollar spent on Defense will enrich the military economy of defense. The civilian economy will be trashed, starving for investment, and designed to work only to make enough bodies to furnish the military with recruits! America will strictly be a land of the super rich and all else living in the shadows as a consequence of billions raising new heights of economic growth for the military not civilians. Washington has a serious learning deficit problem in that it cannot work on the side of history that is constructive for human life. The US Power Elite are always on the destructive side is a deficit of a serious nature calling for their removal to make policy on behalf of 332 million people, is how poorly they rank in Public Opinion.
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  3078. All well in good in a fantasy world, name the freedoms you cannot do today that you had done before---in the real world the private interest of individuals is incompatible with the universal interest of mankind, how your dreamworld fits into that reality is pure denial.
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  3079. Someone outside of the America’s privileged political elite can never be in charge of the empire is the other way to see the big picture. It would be one thing if Trump was not wrong about the establishment but he is right too often of times! Democrats have become a party of appearances, empty of content, substance, and the level of betrayal to their own base is horrific. They keep going in the same direction white and blue collar straight people will vote for Trump.
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  3080.  @marygard4608  facial hair.
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  3081. Here are some facts too. In 1860 what cost a $1.00 was something someone could not make themselves, they were self-sufficient in every other way, meeting their needs, but say they needed nails from the town hardware store because nails were not made on the farm. Agriculture was still directly a means of subsistence. In 2022 the entire population needs everything and are a mass of people completely Not self-sufficient, not even efficient, were made dependent on sale and a supply chain that is the economy. Prices can rise with the demand as all agriculture was taken over by a small number of corporations. They have excluded nature as a means of survival; people can only get to nature by market relations mediating between them and nature. Buying and selling became the way to fix the problem of landless people and this made money a necessity. But something happened that Americans give up too easily if you ask me. Over the period of 160 years a nail that was forged by a blacksmith at a rate one nail per minute is now a million nails per minute produced by machine. Very little labor involved except the button to the machines in the factory were pressed by one engineer specialist who grew to become a person that could do nothing else was soon de-skilled and made dumb compared to their distant relatives. Another fact, none of this was chance that agriculture (land) formerly a tool for individual survival became a tool for mass production. All of this was so planned out to be so efficient that the slightest interruption in the supply chain would threaten the whole society is how fragile the US economy has become.
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  3082. Technology and computer science on the one side and no labor-power on the other side is an equation that will damage society. Musk is his own liability and to the economy. It will, in the long run, be used to reduce any form of resistance in society to extending hours of work. People will become automation’s primary enemy and all machines, factories and offices, they will have no awareness of themselves as an object in the object repressing them as subjects, they will never correspond to each other and bring about a social catastrophe.
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  3083. Good report from the professor. Based on his assessment. I would consider it pretty irresponsible and immoral putting the working people in Catalonia in harm's way. Spanish government is not messing around. Working people are the ones whose heads will get clobbered not the business class in Catalonia or the government representatives pushing for autonomy. I think the working class holds a better card to strike a peaceful settlement with Madrid's PM and acquire more democratic freedoms and tax rate. Arguing working class power can bring down Spain's economy if the working class is not shored up with more income. Because of servicing its debt, the entire social class spends less of their income on non-durables and durables, they sacrifice and are ready to strike if necessary at the injustices. I'd, rather than to cut a deal with Madrid and let the Catalan business class reap the benefits, I would cut a deal with Madrid for working people and get more democracy in the workplace, if there is going to be any deal making at all. The king sees the business class perpetrating a constitutional violation; they are his enemy. The opportunity exists to bring working people one step closer to emancipation is better than no step at all which is where this thing is going if they follow the business class. Catalonian right wing is not going to deliver on independence nor a better tax rate for working people. If anything the business class will pass the cost of Spain's terms and conditions to the Catalonian working class in the form of higher prices. To Madrid's eyes Catalonian business class has gotten to big for its britches. A better deal can be struck for working people by using this crisis as a example of what will come in the future if they get too large. In fact, like in the US too big too fail. Sometimes you get more from a hard liner under certain conditions and this may be one of those times perfect for more working class gains. I hope they see it that way, of course, this is based on the assessment given by the good professor.
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  3084. I hate how America media regurgitates the same news repeatedly.
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  3085. Salient points made by Chomsky. Assange's extradition to the US by the UK is one such attack on Free Speech. All the murders of journalists in Latin America, i.e, Mexico, Brazil. You tube algorythms that search out comments with more than 100 words, find certain words like communism, socialism, and fail to post comments are attacks of Free Speech.
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  3086. Totally false and nieve...get educated about capitalism.
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  3087. It appears BoJo's domestic policy is suspending Parliament, thereby, bringing about the ruination of social democratic institutions and suspend economic growth! The UK has a nihilist for a prime minister.
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  3088. The goal is create use-value and value.
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  3089. This organization TYT should come out and prove it does not employ Ukrainian/eastern European immigrant children of the 1990's.
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  3090. Nothing like mixed news. The man is losing in the battlefield and at the same time Ukraine is at high risk...which is it ABC?
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  3091.  @kevinfagen5865  That’s because if it is profitable that is where the investment will go. If things were not commodities all the capital would not be concentrated in one place or one activity; like performers are today the investments, rather the investment will get spread out across the population and there would be more than one designer, more than one famous artist, and more people have the chance to realize their dreams.
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  3092.  @fredmasse6451  Thank you humble sir for your compliment. I am itching to do a road trip myself, I’m 67, I want to make a documentary on America. What I do need is a person who can do the editing, a problem I will address when the time comes. If you have those skills lets meet. Either that or I am considering going to Guatemala and teaching English to Mayans who speak Quiché. I figured out a way to teach English to non Spanish speaking Mayan children using post cards and my voice since I would be in remote areas without modern teaching tools. This I would do not through any agency but simply by myself or with a travel partner. The abundance of time on my hands summons me to do something. We shall see what happens in Europe now with Putin placing tactical nukes in Belarus I would imagine Putin’s move will galvanize the European working class into a broad movement in opposition to war in general. Time will tell...
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  3093.  @nouriaasrorova8986  ...and 50 or 55 ought to be the cut off age from forced labor because employers will never hire a 55 year old. Not because they are ageists, far from it, because 55 year olds need more money to live. 55 year olds are established into a fixed situation. This to the employer makes younger people less costly and more pliable to get more value from the work an employee creates. Problem here is; youth wasted on the young. They enter the system bright eyed and bushy tailed only to come out of the system as shrunken broken down human beings under capitalism.
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  3094. America is no longer the nation Alexander Hamilton noted when he said: “The masses have gained a victory over the property owners and financial wealth”. The masses have lost to the property owners and financial wealth. Non-owners are not legislating for the owners of property and wealth. 24 states are legislated by property owners and the rich which is enough to call for a Constitutional Convention and re-write the US Constitution if that is their aim, ---republicans and democrats are in the main billionaires of financial wealth and property personified, Joe Manchin, Boebert, Obama, Biden, Pelosi, are the big names in the Senate but in 24 state legislatures the names we do not know are not in general non-owners of property all of them are millionaires and billionaires. Wealth is political in America yet we are treating it as though it were not despite how it provides access to political persuasion in your face without concealment or tact. The uneducated person is not in the same position as the educated person with respect to formulating meaningful social policies. The political opportunities of the rich is not the same of those opportunities for a mother of gunshot children in Uvalde, Texas. Race and religion is full of bigotry and prejudice in the society I see where a public place is now deemed open for religious practice.
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  3095.  @devioux4082  Your comment is an admission that foriegn aid is used to project a global military dominance. Imperialism. Contrary to the popular belief, aid is used to help the impoverished in foreign countries should be going to the impoverished in the US. Your assertion is premised on a competition for global dominance between US and China. The same premise the Cold War projected against the Russians. Have you not seen the world is not the same world as the 1950s?
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  3096. Arab nations not wanting to be a part of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza would be forced to go to war on Israel the more evident it becomes that Israel will not cease and desist its campaign. The US has absolutely no soft power to influence the Arab Nations or Israel.
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  3097. I do not share the same opinions of most I hear on these types of channels about what wealth inequality is in our society. Wealth inequality is not based on a skewed income distribution in my opinion. Rather, it is the separation of labor from the means of production that produces wealth inequality. Under this paradigm where only one social class has possession of the means of production makes taxation the only way to distrbute the wealth to all the social classes short of a total revolution. Wealth comes in many forms.  Natural wealth and social wealth are two different things. Neither of these two forms of wealth, natural or social, are responsible for creating a paradigm of a 1% to 99% division of the population as a formal economic relationship. What does create that paradigm is a value relationship, strictly a social relation, that perpetuates the separation of the means of production (machinery and technology) and labor as two separate forms of investment. So that, my investment in machinery, land, equipment, raw material, is one purchase with a total value and how much living labor-power I need is another separate purchase has a value of its own (wages). The two values are constant and variable, capital expands in value is constant and labor has no value because it produces value is variable and what these two depend on, therefore, employers and employees, are both dependent on labor's output fight it out through wages and prices a class struggle between them.
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  3098. Ukraine first, New Yorkers later.
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  3099. Out goes the old threat and in comes the new one.
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  3100.  @andrzejnowacki1563  am aware of that...that is why I said what I said the part nobody talks about. No fault of their own are pawns in a proxy war of the US.
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  3101. Interesting...It will be a major blow to authoritarian regimes in the Middle East when Iran and Trump re-negotiate the Iran-Nuclear Deal. It will also be a moment where Trump will have to demonstrate humility for breaking the treaty.
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  3102. @Al Jazeera, ---the US built a pier to deliver relief to Gazans, to the tune $32 million. The Gazans got no relief, the pier is gone and so is the $32 million. That is the extent of the US plan for Gaza, a totally feeble plan. Proving that the Obama-Biden wing of the democratic party the celebrities and billionaires give their money too are enriched from policies that are a detriment to American workers feeling the pain of higher prices in general and falling into more hardship and material deprivation. Be a challenger or be nothing at all, why be nice to brutes?
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  3103.  @prophetemmanuelchinonso1728  Imposter! Public beware of this imposter!
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  3104. Evidence of the continued importance of Darwin's methodology to explain the past. Climate change and natural history; we shall soon know if cataclysmic systems of natural forces explains the past or if natural forces do too little to change organisms. Organisms evolved or not over long periods of time or catastrophic events changing environment acted to preserve life and suppress a species from life. Evolutionists want to use the anatomy, physiology, behavior, variation, and geographic distribution of modern organisms, and the fossil remains in our geological record, to infer pathways to history? This appears to me the main theme amounting to an obsession with the past. The diversity of life is so expansive a common ancestor must be found.
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  3105.  @SandcastleDreams  News people are Plastic People.
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  3106. Obscurantism is malice and propaganda against the working class.
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  3107.  @mildredmelusine6970  You can start with one piece of knowledge and that is dogs in shelters grow more numerous in population and have less chance of adoption because the pet industry output of breeds and puppies is high. Like foster care, people tend adopt babies but rarely adopt toddlers and adolescents. Subsequently the shelter dogs are euthanized.
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  3108. Totally historic.
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  3109. England was the first country to have a parliament. France was second, America third and Russia was fourth to have created government. Parliament, congress, duma, various names in different languages for the same thing, the rest of Europe, Middle East, and the East was ruled by families of lords, kings, monarchies. After the outlawing of the slave trade a shortage of slaves became an issue; losing slaves was an issue and having to expand for more land (American Indian Wars) an issue and following that the revolt of slaves (the Haitian Revolution and the famous rebellions in America) was absolutely terrifying for the slaveholders in America. Democrats facilitated this slave expansion with the Missouri Compromise. Earlier in time the slaveholders wrote in the 2nd amendment and had its Supreme Court decide if slavery could cross state lines and was an African captive a sub human species that should never be armed or participate in government. The world of 1789 was pushed forward by this trend of creating governments to which America’s slaveholders were no exception and set out to establish a slave republic identical to that of ancient Greece. This would set them apart from the rule of family lords, kings and monarchs. America had not one family ruling society but many families.
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  3110. This is becoming a news story about the police more than about solving the crime.
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  3111. Steven Schneider, it is not only the working class the real left ought to represent. The left forgot to represent Earth, the basis of Marx's concept of Man. It is easy to say post facto the ecological solutions cannot be realized in the context of present day capitalism. Had the left politicized the reckless nature of capitalism on the environment and therefore, society, I believe a Green Party would not have come about.
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  3112. For that matter the homeowner can shoot anyone approaching his/her door...that could have been a Jehovah’s Witness...or the postal person...a census worker...a cop...ready to fire... makes the home owner a threat to commerce and society...so much is delivered to homes that if everyone shot everyone who delivered some product to a house the whole economy will collapse...the homeowner sets a precedent that prohibits a basic function of society. I’d charge the man/woman with murder and let his/her lawyers prove me wrong. Odd chance the jury still finds him guilty...great...the message I’d send is don’t bank on us defending you when you do stand your ground.
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  3113.  @CaptainGoldberg  That will depend on how many actually do get re-elected. You could be looking at 20 years before they get full control again. If we are still alive.
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  3114.  @Christopher_Bachm  The absence of policy is what we have now and the conditions are deplorable as a result.
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  3115.  @paulkern7229  Americans do not view the US Senate as a dominant social class, they see the members of that body as elected officials. American believe the officials elected into the Senate are revocable by the vote and the older Senators spanning a lifetime in the Senate were just very popular and well liked they got re-elected over and over again by their constituency. Some Americans see the problem of lifelong careers of senators should be reformed and the reform they see is term limits. I am assuming you are familiar with Roman history? How do you understand the Roman Senate, do you understand that body as a social class dominating Rome; they were also elected officials yet history has the Roman senate down as a dominant social class exercising democracy among themselves and enjoying all the privilege of power and wealth in the number of slaves each senator owned. For Americans there is no history. The US Senate is the final form of democracy humanity can achieve but history will assign the US Senate as another dominant social class ruling society in its own image.
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  3116. The bones cannot be left buried under the debris of a residential area forever.  A monument that will go there is eerie enough with buildings in the immediate area built the same time and age as the one that fell! Sometime inevitably in the future bones will be found and headlines will read 'They were never buried properly'. Is this what you want for your family, I don't.  What happens when nature saturates the ground below and bones jostle free from the soil and debris loosens up a 110 skeletal remains float onto the terrain. It is a monumental tragedy of historic proportions when a nation this advanced cannot assure the safety of being, person, to all individuals. You do not have a society at that point, what you have is a low stage of development, entirely uncivilized to not exhume the remains now. Time to call in the Fed and let government find them. Private contracting is not enough.
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  3117. @ Nathan Dwyer, --- All the more reason progressives have to revitalize the labor movement.
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  3118.  @busterbloodvessel4147  His job was not to push carts around. His job was to tolerate the carts pushing him around all day for seven days a week. Store did not invest in this carts for nothing..., they want you to buy more. Consume as much as you can come back for more. The waste thrown into the oceans pollute the seas. So if anything yes, he should earn $600 a week. Short term no more than six months then someone else can earn $600 to be pushed around by carts all day and night. Stepping stone job, do it, save the funds, move on with your small fortune. Americans would rather enslave a person to tolerate being made an object than to use the job as a way toward a future. Cart pushers have great power only as a group, alone, they are weak, and succumb to the will of the carts and the goods. Looking down at a shopping center from a bird's eye point of view, the store goods and the carts push and pull people all day all night long.   His job is to be pushed and pulled by the process of the store's conversion of goods into money. The store's business went beyond human endurance and he snapped.
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  3119.  @kbstudent  Snap out of it...when a flash protests takes place, called a Putch there are no PERMITS. The job of the police is to uphold the safety of a person’s body, person’s property, person’s rights. When they allow two opposing forces to come together whether one force is a hit and run car or a crowd of protesters coming in contact with anti-protesters their job is to protect YOU from the spillover of such violence. That means keeping the sides apart. In Wisconsin they did not do that and in NYC they did not divert traffic. What kind of teacher are you that you don’t know this?
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  3120.  @hairywhodini3429  Vague generalizations is all they have. The problem is the vast majority of the working class fear and lack the ability to pierce through the abstractions, i.e., gender, race, culture, nationalism, patriotism, blah, blah, blah, by not taking a stand against the concrete reality of their own oppression the vague generalists enact behind their backs!
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  3121. Militarism is a big polluter...if not the biggest driver of heating up the planet and melting the icebergs. Add this to billions of people performing everyday habits of consuming and producing we and the militaries of the world induce climate change is a mass assault on Nature. Our economic relationship to Nature is vile.
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  3122. David Canatella ---This is why we get nowhere! You are suggesting no more than what has happened in the last 600 years of capitalism. Never mind, 600 years.  Longer, for the entire history of humanity that revolutions kick out the bad only to bring in the worst. From Bush we get Obama, from Obama we get Trump ---bad to worse. A redistribution of the way we work and live is not a revolution against the way we in society meet our needs. The real definition of revolution is changing the way we meet our needs. You re not suggesting in the least we do away with labor as having no value of its own but to remain the creator of wealth for this purpose. Our needs are met only if we are wealth creators is the doctor's diagnosis of the problem. The liveable share idea perpetuates the rule of classes in society and in that framework all workers do not count as a social class. Workers are not recognized as social class like the others in capitalism. To be a worker in America or in France, China, Russia, Latin America, everywhere, is to be an invisible human being subject to abuse and exploitation. Workers are not slaves but are partially enslaved by their own labor as a thing that creates wealth. Other people (corporations, banks, landowners, merchants), concern themselves with you for your labor that creates wealth and nothing more. If wealth can be created out of thin air the entire working class would be left to die. If health were something you can buy the rich would live and the poor would die.  People are not people, but are tools, a means, who live a liveable wage and work as value creators for the system at large. Condoning this relation is what I call a pretty weak imagination of what can be, given the potential of our productive power. Workers have no clout as a social class which is why the street is where they convene and not inside the walls of the decision making rooms changing how we meet our needs not reallocating and redistributing this thing you call wealth. But in changing theway food gets on your table, or when how your teeth get fixed. In our time, assuming you are a worker, work for living, we are powerless individuals in an individualistic society who need to get real and get into the seats of power and perform a major surgery on the economy as a whole.
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  3123.  @davidcanatella4279  Go for it!
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  3124.  @randyhilton6629  You read the thread of our discussion the part where I say organize some families and buy direct from farmers in your area would be a start. I hope you consider doing it yourself.
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  3125. The 'strengthening of work requirements', as said by the Dir of Office of Budget, Russel Bouht, is a key phrase for exploiting workers more. The backs of the working people in society will carry the full weight of a military empire. A largely female working population that is. Employers will not carry any expense for this military empire instead, they are given the opportunity to form themselves as a class of birth right privilege above the law. If you had noticed from the first day in office Trump would attack the intelligence community but not the military. He gives the military the money working people in society could use for themselves. If you had noticed the jobs are numerous but are second rate jobs just enough to barely live less than human. Being straddled with personal debt and national debt, people who need jobs will have no choice but to comply with employer demands. Given all this, there is one movement that can identify with the situation American working people will face and they are the Yellow Vests in France. This movement pushes forward the interest of working people.
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  3126. If this was a live shot at the time there is nobody digging through the rubble below for lives. So the firefighters are waiting for the next part of the building to go down before going through the rubble. That is wrong.
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  3127. The democrats should have gone more Left when Obama was president and immediately crushed back then the movement on the right that was to evolve into fascism today. But they cannot because they are an Establishment party. Not much attention is paid to historical developments by the democrats they have a trail of abandoning and alienating the voter they need today to defeat in a landslide a movement they enabled to get this large and powerful trough their own policies fought out with republicans. For example, had they universalized healthcare and education there would never have been a period of fake universities made up by a right wing such as Trump University. Democrats have a proclivity to bargain away the future in the present, Truman was a democrat and he enabled the zionism in the present of 1948 to become the future war in Gaza. Democrat deeds always come back to bite them in the rear. Johnson and Vietnam enabled a right wing of law and order. The list of failures is endless is fuel for Trump. Now they have the problem of becoming the old Republican Establishment bearing the same old policies, basically, hijacking the the torch that was passed to a new generation. What a fix for Kamala. How can she separate herself in policy and get the support from her own party is now harder with her bedfellows coming from the other side with a history of alienating the working classes. This is fascism and we should be using the term, calling it what it is.
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  3128. Nothing but bad news.
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  3129. I could not agree more with the retiring sergeant and this is the reason the five black officers charged for killing a black man got charged. They really do not care about the rank and file cops, especially if the racial composition of a police department is white at the top and black in the bottom.
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  3130. It is true the end of the era that was created in 1955 premised on the Cold War is fading and a new form of capitalism is emerging. America does not have the same ruling classes that existed at the time. Coming out of the close of WWII the US emerged as the most powerful citadel of reaction as a matter of policy; or no policy at all. There wasn’t a region more corrupt, criminally negligent of the vital interests of the people, no dictatorship too extreme and cruel to be denied economic, military, and moral support (i.e., US AID) of the leading power of the “Free World”,---as long as they prove their allegiance to an “anti-socialist alliance” was the so called “Deep State”, the CIA. With respect to China, not much has changed. So far Trump is not talking about a military build up. And not cutting the military budget. This would suggest that less dollars spent on defense would not slow down the rate of growth of communist countries, as an undesired effect Neocons on the democratic side welcome. The threat of imperialism does not exist with Trump, so far. Traces do exist, however, his vision for Gaza is imperialistic. In ways he is embodying two social systems. The Deep State that is over, finished, done or the new one of dollar cooperation and peace through strength, in which case, the Deep State has been destroyed by capitalism. Capitalism destroys its own capitalist forms of existence, the burden on the taxpayer is not lifted unless there are cuts to the military. In many respects not much has changed. I would say Musk and Trump head a capitalist restoration without the New Deal.
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  3131. I am going to ask Stop and Shop Food Chain workers to answer my question to them, by show of hands, how many are loyal to the republican party and if they do not answer honestly I will cross their picket line. Then I will ask how many are loyal to the democratic party, if they are dishonest I will cross their line. But if they do answer honestly they have my support on condition they get together and publish their own charter for a new food distribution system and stand behind it to replace the Stop and Shop business model. Planting the seeds of revolution is to lay them into the ground one by one.
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  3132. Pareto did not see the particular and the universal united in the class struggle between workers and capitalists.  I do not think you have to go that deep into the volumes to find Marx's thesis. Its found in the very first paragraph of his book. I guess the title of the book is a little misleading if you cannot understand Marx's subject is the human activity that reproduces its own species. Human labor is the activity.  Human labor produces and consumes simultaneously is what makes industry unique from all other activities engaged by the same species.  Industry has a form in the modern era, a social form, and that form is a capital-wage labor relationship. The rest is all positioning.
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  3133. Dr. Fraad’s subject matter recalls to mind an observation: Hollywood never made a movie of the FDR programs in a serious way showing its strengths in the construction of a new society coming out of a Great Depression, and it certainly never made a movie of the alliance between Russia and the US, in ay serious way, and there are only a few that give history justice are part of the literature America’s Right Wing are banning from Education, are still unadapted stories for the big screen, this compared to the many films Hollywood made of the Confederacy, FBI and American Indians, Military. Mosfilm is Russia’s main film producer and they churn out a lot of good movies depicting the sacrifices of Russia during the war, they also produce a lot of schlock, but film in Russia serves less as propaganda than film is used in Hollywood to depict government as inherently evil is pervasive starting in the 80s to the present. Is all done to win over Americans on their plan to dismantle FDR programs. The main subjects of Hollywood were dominated by a California rich elite of the publishing field and its own political right wing who hated FDR and went after communist and socialist screen writers. Hollywood film was always in the hands of the Right Wing and Business Class projecting patriarchy, law and order, religion, the way they saw it to rule over the Public. From film the conservative Right Wing from California jumped into television, to project and deny, America’s real social history even deeper as a secret from the Public and are now in the Internet doing it more intensely, and desperately. out in the open through the Military and shamelessness is their hubris. I learned a lot from this talk and thank you for this education. Thumbs Up!
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  3134. What is your solution then?
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  3135. The countries listed are capitalist countries. The socialist countries carving another path for social development are not the polluters. Why would you continue to side with and support an oppressor of people who want to try another way? It is far less attractive and alluring to be on the side of oppressing nations and far more rewarding and attractive to be on the side of de-colonizing what the oppressing nations have imposed on a majority of people. I am speaking rhetorically, no need to take offense as I am not pointing the finger at you personally, that would be disrespectful of your dignity.
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  3136. The Trump administration can only get re-elected by prosecuting a war. This time focusing their attention of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, to overthrow these socialist states. The arguing going back and forth in the media and among Americans, finding all the rational reasons for and against a Wall, plays perfectly into the hands of this administration. The promise of restoring controlling interests of major oil reserve deposits and geological resources of the US Oil Industry, were lost to the Venezuelan revolution, will preoccupy for the next two years this administration. While a government shut down for Wall funding, conceals from public view a counter-revolution in progress that goes undetected at best, controversial at the worst.  This counter-revolution involving an anti-socialist alliance of neighboring Latin American states receives the moral, economic and political support of the US military for the overthrow of socialist states in Latin America is the chief goal for a New American Century, to which this administration is committed.
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  3137. The winds must be changing that Mitch may sees light at the end of the tunnel for his survival in the GOP.
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  3138. to the contrary...if he was a Trump supporter they would keep it quiet. Think about why I say that. Reverse your logic and you will have your answer @Darthdoodoo 
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  3139. The “suspect” is most likely a migrant worker the bourgeois Chapel Hill neighbors called the police on.
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  3140. The US cannot any longer suck into its processes living labor presents a dilemma for its economic system. The US economy depends on living labor without which there are no profits from the sale of its merchandise. Washington must be dismayed and disheartened that it is harder to get Africa to sell their right to control their labor-power in exchange for the necessary means of subsistence. This is what it boils down to when US Aid is pledged to nations; they lose their rights to their property, power and person and become dependent on perpetual US Aid and the chance to develop an economy for themselves. This is certainly a sharp blow and reflects a falling apart of the US economy when it cannot expand will make it harder for people inside the economy to improve their lives and standard of living. Poor nations are catching up or have developed enough to support themselves to trade their own surpluses on the world market. People in the world are not going to take it. American corporations will have to devise new ways to control the right to control its own domestic labor-force the way the poor nations were kept poor for so long, is about as good as long term planning gets with Republicans and Democrats holding all the cards. Excellent interviews.
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  3141. Its a sad repetition of the same across generations the wars fought had the same effect on societies and individuals. It reduces humanity to barbaric lows to live with the consequences of violating life when life is too young to understand itself. Exploitation of man by man strategized by old men but fought by young men is a dormant relation during peace is a fact that does not mean the relation is idle or no longer alive. Youth is wasted on the young is half true the other half of the whole truth is who does the wasting of the youth.
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  3142.  @jordanallen3078  Your answer has no basis in historical fact. Rumsfeld was not even in Bush's cabinet and influenced the military. Second the only policy the military has is to get as much from the federal budget as possible. Its rules are not policies, its rules are bureaucratic.
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  3143.  @reality6968  But I don’t want to choose Nazi Republicans.
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  3144. But in leaving the teaching field the military becomes the alternative and wars becomes the future of the kids you left behind. School is no place for you the teacher of mixed marriage but you can leave the kids cannot. Kids become more anxious to get out of school as soon as possible at age 18. They are offered an education paid by you and I a doctorate degree through the military but the private sector. No developed workforce for the private sector. The same economy you are stuck with incidentally is the economy that will suffer. Your pension won’t pay out in your old age if the private sector does not have a skilled workforce to produce wealth. You’d rather let fascism destroy your public schools than fight fascism in your town reflects your own selfish level of functioning and personal greed.
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  3145. The reporter said very clearly, listen again from time stamp 9:52 “...will you order an attack...” is the question...if Israel attacks Lebanon...is the stipulation...don’t make an issue out of nothing Cenk. But to answer your question about not enough of a reason to go to war just to save Israel from higher prices I’d have to say migrants at the Border can easily be given citizenship as conscripts to be boots on the ground in Lebanon.
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  3146. Yeah, for sure, science and tech are powerful weapons against labor but also for labor. We can use tech and science to turn revolutions in favor of workers by promoting revolutions on the economic reality that ‘value per unit falls’; less working time is needed to sustain life. No reason things should cost more than their value since everything can be made for their use-value. Our economy has reached a high stage of development; we can afford it. The adage: There is more than enough on the table to feed everyone is based on fact, reality. The material wealth is reproducible for capital; it can be reproducible for all working people as well, this when tech and science become independent of State and private corporations; it has no other interest but a human one.
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  3147. People in the American government perfectly happy getting rich off of the misery and deprivation of human beings is a degradation of character itself of a people unworthy of the positions they hold.
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  3148. Great video,---This to me is better than watching the news if the world is what you want to understand and get to know.
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  3149.    You just told me the root of all evil is money.
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  3150. Meaningless words when the violence, intolerance and wars, are started by your own government...
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  3151. A very good open and frank interview, and a new trend setting style of social journalism.
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  3152. Actually, the FAA should use the Military’s air traffic control system which is above commercial airline space but can monitor the traffic on the ground with great detail. I would take the responsibility away from private airline companies to monitor air traffic. What you have now is a cheap or stingy private system for air traffic and a powerful robust government air traffic system acting as a defense shield over the nation against incoming missiles. But I think Americans cannot walk and chew gum at the same time because the heavy air traffic control system is used to deal with light problems and the light private air traffic controls system is used to deal with the heavy traffic in the skies. Stupid Nation racked by contradictions.
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  3153.  @williamabbott9437  you must have at least a third of the total population actively voting to break the duopoly monopoly...and you must redraw the map of the whole US. Its long overdue along with a national land reform package...everything, no stone left unturned, must undergo a normalization process.
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  3154.  @williamabbott9437  Pleased that out of all 45 replies you chose me. On the other hand, one out of 45 with a critical insight is not a good ratio, a long way to go before average Americans awake from their stupor. I would agree with you. No stone must be left unturned as per all of the mistakes of prior revolutions barring one or two, a key factor in history perpetrating coups and counter revolutions is the military.
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  3155.  @jameswhite8429  You are speaking a language that nobody understands. What do you mean by "C America"? Is that a typo or some concept I am not aware of?
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  3156. No estoy fuera de acuerdo con lo que dices. Bravo.
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  3157.  @johnsuder7671  Well, the nation is not an oligarchy but it has an oligarcy in the nation the multinational corporations most other nation's oligarchy's do business with...notice throughout this entire social explosion the oligargical private sector is quiet. The law I will state is an economic law not a political one. In human history the division of labor alters earlier forms of labor exploitation. Plato called it the "curse of mankind" in his Republic Bk I. Applied to now the earlier form of exploiting labor during the height of America's economic successes is gone, vanished by the deskilling of labor and more automation making the objective conditions so organized that more subjective freedom is lost in the process of reporducing individuals and families in society. I will state that the progressives have completely embraced the democratic party's approval of these new objective restrictions taking all our freedom away and subjecting us to a modern division of labor Plato would call not the curse of mankind but the death of mankind. If you cannot see that it is the oligarchical political establishment the far right is reacting with anarchism and violence, fearless, has scared the bejheezus out of the entire political establishment that all of them on the left and the right have united as one social class against the people who they cannot distinguish if one is an anarchists or neo fascist militia except now given the technology, they have a profile and made arrests. This constitutes my point about objective restriction resulting in arrests of anyone for any reason. None of the apprehended earn a living by a minimum wage but it is the whole class of minimum wage earners who are subjected to no freedom at all.
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  3158. Two things: What happened to her in Russia also happens here in the US. Acting “Holier Than Thou” is pure BS. Getting real, this country is at war with Russia and China and at war with allies they may cultivate in this war. War is the context into which citizens are the victims. America does not have the highest incarceration rate in the world because it is right or holier than other nations! Lets grow up here.
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  3159. 10:11,--“subprime mortgage”, money sold below premium price for money. Deprecated money, cheap money. In this case, cheap money flowed into the banking and urban/rural real estate industries encouraging rampant speculation in the housing market created a boom and a bust. 26:21,--- capitalism is a social relation not a system. Capital exploits labor this constitutes a social relation of exploitation. People exploit people. These are all social relationships that determine how we interact as human beings in circulation and production. Equality as universal in society but not universal in the workplace is a social relation of exploitation. Equivalents exchanging in markets that result in surplus value is a social relation of exploitation of money for more money, equality in general and inequality in particular is a social relation. Individuals and private parties control the means of production is not a good definition of capitalism...if it were than state ownership of the means of production would become by your definition a capitalist system. We would never leave the capitalist paradigm behind for a new society if we saw capitalism as the highest stage of human development. State property is a form of private property and thus, a private party that exists as a bureaucracy owning the means of production is still a social relation of division and exploitation between labor and capital, citizens and the state. a perpetual opposition, the point is to construct a world without antagonisms and oppositions. Capitalism is a social relation like slavery, feudalism, etc., are social relations that still exists and social relations come and go not on their own and have a component of habituation tends to linger is why you need vigilant economic thinking. You need an economic theory and definition that captures the transitory nature of capitalist social relationships as history and the potential for more meaningful relationships in and between nature and society as historical.
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  3160. You now know for those who do not leave or follow an order of evacuation; their are other ways to make you leave that do not involve the police to make you leave. But even if you stayed how will you replenish the necessaries required to live on when all businesses are shut down by order of an evacuation?
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  3161. I think the behavior of cops in California in their gangland style ambush is no different than this incident. Two wrongs do not make a right. This is retaliation for violence which begets violence. But it appears Americans are beneath that wisdom and choose to annihilate themselves in a race war out of sheer stupidity and ignorance.
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  3162. Building material gets redirected into luxury housing versus government housing because the same building materials fetches a higher dollar in the luxury markets. Sowell also does not, apparently, or dismisses the fact that rent controlled apartments are not government housing projects in the city. He treats rent control as discouraging investment, seems to me he is for opening government housing to market speculation. That would end up as a purchase of government housing cheap and a sale of former government housing before after it was flattened to the ground made into new building of luxury apartments dear to a wealthy class of people. Gentrification ---I would imagine the people commenting on this video are pro-gentrification if they agree with a process that turns out to be an expropriation of the poor from their homes. Cleverly disguised prize-fighter for capitalism listening to this in 2017.
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  3163. All the tech industries laid off workers by the thousands and this announcement adds to the list of industry giants cutting jobs. Why? AI. A new technology. All hamburgers made by machines. With AI and industrial tools and If everyone had a shared sense of obligation to work 2.5 days a week to make all the necessaries of life for all in society than the workforce would consist of all 332 million Americans no the standard 125 million people in the workforce, and the rest of the time is off for the whole population to develop themselves using the resources society has available to them, we can reduce a workday from 8 hours to 2.5 hours and still be well off, would be a historic blunder to not take that road. A society where even the president takes off two days and does some task necessary for social reproduction alongside a janitor or teacher. And one would never know who is next to them making new airplanes at Boeing...could be Tom Cruise doing his obligation to work for society. The rest of the time they go back to their careers and for the other millions of people time to raise a family would be a breeze. But AI is not a public utility, therefore, AI works as a private commodity and this will lay off retail food chain workers. Massive firings ahead. We better install a mandatory shut off chip into all the robots humans are making. Shut them off when they get too smart and dangerous to humanity, you know they will. In the background of another Great Depression but greater this time. Is the very real problem of loss of land mass due to the melting of the permafrost. Our production and consumption habits are heating up the planet and the permafrost loses its seal releasing gasses. AI can help reverse this. But for now the not good news about AI for a growing human population in need of more land is having no access to land because you have no money.
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  3164. 0:47,----“...our brilliant and Darwinian system will produce another leader...committed to take Britain through tough times...cutting burdens on businesses and families...cutting taxes because that is the way to generate growth...and the income we need to pay for public services”. Well there you have it a contradiction in the flesh. The Darwinian reference goes back to the days when Geology was coming into its own as a science and proved the age of the earth was older and time was longer....waaaayy longer than the age of the earth and creation told in the Bible, since then its been a battle between creationism versus evolution ever since. Geologic time was the key for Darwin’s process of natural evolution to be convincing and the evidence for it he provided. But how do you cut taxes a revenue source of the government and expect to cover the cost of public services said in the same breath by Boris Johnson? His now you see and now you don’t economics in speech is in practice cuts in social spending. The Darwinian principal in his head is applied as, ‘the richest in the economy survive the poorest do not!’ The very same ideas floating in the heads of the GOP, Neoliberalism or Social Darwinism, they would do on day one in the White House is make permanent the Trump Tax Cuts, undo all of Biden’s executive orders, open public lands for commercial exploitation in drilling and mining, refinery capacity to cut the import of foreign oil, cut taxes again, raise interest rates higher, do nothing about inflation because it is profitable for select businesses, and make it cheaper for more businesses to start up by incubating more jobs with less pay and no more social security contributions for both employer and employees. Very little difference between the GOP and the Tories who find Johnson a liability the British public is ready to hang.
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  3165. No BIG Farmers = More Farmers = more food = more variety = more life = more industry.
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  3166. THE ISSUE IS NOT THE GUNS, ITS THE MANUFACTURING OF GUNS FOR PROFIT!!!! We live in a society of metal detectors because the gun industry has free reign on marketing their product, they are no longer in the business of making guns whether for sport or military uses, they are producing commodities as guns and commodities must be exchange for money if the manufacturer is to gain a profit. Its not the guns, its the production of surplus-value by means of the gun. A gun is not a social product like soap or a sponge, everyone needs one. A gun is a tool and the manufacturing of this tool should be restricted for use only. That it is not legislated for use only, is telling you that the politics is all about creating a market for the production of profit not for the defense of rights. That is just a distraction to keep your eye of the profiting schemes of manufacturers and to denigrate the government as responsible, specifically the stupid liberals. Soap and sponges remedy chronic filth and disease, are soap and sponges stockpiled because someone in politics is telling you the government is taking your right to shower away if they regulate soap and sponges? These folks come off as progressive in this show and they are to an extent, but they blame the government for lack of action and this distracts the public from the production of surplus-value through the use of guns and this makes them as conservative and right wing as the gun manufacturers themselves are profit hungry.
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  3167. Great backdrop that would say it all, if a Catalytic converter theft process was taking place behind the governor very quietly removing the parts from the cars and going off unnoticed.
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  3168.  @Owen-hd3oq  Be my guest and sum up everything right about the western right...we are all ears.
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  3169.  @garyjohnson1466  you are right about arming themselves. The question is when and for what?  As long as the military or private armies insists on defending a vulgarized regime with force the people should be armed. That answers the for what question. But if they stay neutral then the need for arms is neutral and that avoids more heat and fire on top of a burning rainforest.
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  3170. First problem are the people in the west, they do not have to work as much to reproduce the wealth they have. This is a thought that leaders never educate their working populations about because work in these societies is a source of wealth for the leaders in society, that is first order of business, reduce the working day and replace leaders with those who’s interest are society’s interest not their own private or other private interest. Second problem, as long as leaders are connected to private interests in any way and become rich as a result their voting record will always be in conflict with the interest of society and with the condition of the times. A new structure of organization must be built that is not prone to corruption.
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  3171. What a stretch of the imagination.
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  3172. It does not appear that your interests in a safe home and community does not jive with the State’s interest of a secure society if this many escapees is on record in your state. Something fundamentally wrong with the penal system itself,---wrong might be the reliance of the public that system receives without scrutiny. You better start paying attention to who you are putting into powerful decision-making offices.
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  3173. This is good the Military Establishment has never been in front and center of public scrutiny before. I wish reporters would ask more blunt questions such as: Was the chance to study the technology on the first aircraft lost? Shut up and listen. A Yes is an admission of incompetency a No is a denial and a roundabout answer is a Yes but, and an honest answer is We did lose the chance and we will learn from that. I wish the reporters would ask more blunt questions.
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  3174. Resist, resist and resist more...there can be no progress without deviation...the people won a victory against America’s oligarchy when the Grand Jury said lock him up!
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  3175. 10:17 ---Excellent idea. Take their pensions away. Guilty is the bureaucracy that has everything perfect on paper and does everything wrong in practice.
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  3176. Will Smith in a very early interview with Arsenio Hall had ridiculed a bald person on television with the same condition.
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  3177. Socialism has not been achieved and still is yet to be developed in Venezuela, both the US and Venezuela are capitalist societies. China and Russia are capitalist societies which means societies evolve into class societies. The point of socialism is to develop into a classless society, and therefore, bring class struggle to a close, end competition with cooperation. Whenever social classes make up the whole social order there is class conflict, tension, always present in these societies though at times subtle, handled, and other times blatant, mishandled by the ruling classes in power. Only fools bamboozled by indoctrination deny the presence of social class as a source perpetual conflict even when its form of appearance is a racist one party rule state or as a social democracy with parliamentary procedures. There are societies still in this world with one foot in the 18th century, societies with peasant social classes, slaves, loyalty to family, chief, tribe, communal lands and the other foot in the 21st century with kids loyal to the Almighty Dollar and America's car culture. Get a grip on reality of the state of the world, its a starkly contrasted place where socialism has not even taken root to make a difference. The class struggle has been and still is the engine of human history.  Its time people realize that fact, deniers have amplified social conflict into an international struggle and competition for survival. We can talk about socialism's mistakes and opportunities when class conflict is no longer driving societies either forward or backward until then Trump will aways remain a demagogue likely to end as America's King Lear.  Venezuela and the US are a competition for oil markets that consume the most oil. The larger the quantity of oil consumed the bigger the profits.  Any vacuum that is created in this competition is immediately filled by a rival and this is the Achilles Heal of Trump as an individual who uses people and then leaves them flat. As the US and Venezuela are rivals in the oil market, the use of sanctions by the larger capitalist nation is a weapon in that war of competition.  In competition the main aim of each rival is to destroy the other, both have the same goal, when one dies its market share is absorbed by the winner. Winner takes all making the winner a monopoly capitalist organization controlling a greater share of the oil market. All this drama rests on the American consumer demand for oil, that the wars of competition start out as economic and end up as political wars carried on to meet a particular class interest. In the 1970's oil-bearing nations were a threat to the American oil industry. Expansion was held back by OPEC rivals. Never again said the American oil executives. Venezuela is in that position to supply the largest oil consumer with the lowest price. America is addicted to oil said GW Bush. America's car culture is the reason for the addiction. Auto, aviation, fabrications industries is where all high-end technology developed by these industries goes into vehicles than it goes into homes, buildings, infrastructure. Oil will always be still the biggest import commodity of the US to support its car culture. Survival depends on the car because jobs are not dispersed out from the cities and into the rural. Behind the distraction campaigns the Trump administration deregulates oil drilling permits off the Atlantic Coast.  What has radically changed from the 1970's is the 'free world'. The world today looks more like what the world was in WWI with a smattering of 8 rival capitalist nations with colonial ambitions. Its everyman for himself, all nations on their own, as it were, divide the world by means of war, winner takes all, brings us closer to a situation of a world of empire and revolution with more dictatorships than empires and revolutions bursting at the seams and the earth bleeding. CIA is playing Whack-A-Mole, trying to quell terrorist organizations. Since terrorism and the state are bonded as rivals, they need each other to survive, terrorism cannot exist in a world of cooperation but only in the context of competition as an instrument of the institutional violence. This is my answer to Trump claim socialism failed.
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  3178. Old age in America. If you are in your 40s the golden years have turned to copper years. Old age is fast becoming obsolete as many more die young in America.
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  3179. The factory system is the model for education in America. 45 minutes sessions dividing 8 subjects into 1000 students. This is the wrong approach to how we know the brain develops and what parts of the brain do we want developed in young people, a completely wrong approach.
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  3180.  @kathydb613  He was a threat until he ceased being a threat. The critical lesson about Bernie here is: not to sound pious toward you, is how movements cannot rely on electoral politics to make changes in society.
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  3181.  @kathyslage7059  I like the part that the Establishment cannot undo what Bernie accomplished. Awakening people to the extremes in the political structure is a great contribution.
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  3182. ​ @therevolutionwill23  It would mean the quality of products produced in the US would no longer be the oil-based products they are. A change in quality that brings about a new industry out of the death of an old industry. The plastics industry changes over to produce products made from a source other than oil when the world stops trading oil in dollars bringing the decline of the oil industry. A new commodity other than oil will serve as a universal measure of value of all products will not change. Time in the abstract sense is still needed to post values so we know how much things are really worth.
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  3183.  @AcmePotatoPackingPocatello  I think when people read your comment they freeze up because you are shattering their delusions of being a wealthy nation with a higher standard of living than most workers in other nations. I think it strikes them as unbelievable that the government and the poltical elite they envy and mimic would be so cruel to them after all the devotion and sacrifice made on their behalf they would treated with disgrace and indignities. I think they do not know what to do about their situation, how to improve it, and by what means. Furthermore, the antagonism between the two social classes is absolute eludes them of the "tools" used to keep the American worker apathetic of the systemic repression that runs through the entire history of the US from 1700s to 2020. Americans might be the first historic tragedy the rest of the world will use as a model of what never to be, emulate, mimic or copy.
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  3184. I seriously doubt they will not submit to American interests. I think it nieve to assume elites electing themselves will take a path to develop Ecuador. To me it appears the wealthy classes profit under the heel of US agricultural, mining, and financial interests so why would the self-elected change or bite the hand that enriches them when the Ecuadorian people are the ones working for the repayment of IMF loans the self-elected borrow in their name. Ecuador is nothing more than a gravy train of free money for the wealthy. If anything it looks more like the formation of a larger plan to contain communism around the world with a series of sentry states pointing guns at Nicaragua, Cuba, anywhere else willing to not submit to US interests. I think historians will write this phase of neo-liberalism as a dark chapter in Ecuador’s development.
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  3185. Bargaining what it cost to live from the market basket of goods in Peru is a tremendous sacrifice for the indigenous populations that might produce in one hour a fraction of what the US would produce in one hour. It is no wonder they protest. The conditions are forcing workers to work over what they produce extra and get really nothing in return.
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  3186.  @nah-y4e  Unfortunately, a truck has made you a slave to oil.
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  3187. In the 1920-30s the strategy of employers in the US reacting to the growth of the labor movement was to lock workers out of the factories! This was a right of property, if something is the property of capital that something was a force for capital,---and what allows for a greater resource for other activities, is used as a productive power of another. Same thing with water and soil. As soon as soil and water are contracted out they become the property of another for the duration of time they are contracted; at the end of the contract and upon refusal to renew the contract the mass of people are deprived of water and soil. Soil in the form of water, land, or air do not revert back as utilities or use-values to the community under capitalism without mass consent. Water and soil are only useful when they are commodities, and can turn a profit, a privately owned contracting service pockets when it collects from the State. In the end the population for whom water and soil was previously in their possession as public utilities managed by the State are cut off (locked out) from nature in their form as commodities that blame for the poverty and degradation of the working class can be placed on the politicians. They failed to solve a social problem in a political way.
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  3188. That is the point of gymnastics that the potential of the human body can be used as a tool within natural limits and without force.
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  3189. I hung out a rich club in Manhattan and I never met so many people who were anti-government. Come to find it was the republican club for the hott
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  3190. Empires cannot exist without holding on to power which make a military an extension of the rulers for one thing. For another, we have reached a point where its the individual’s turn to appropriate the totality of the productive industries, not only for self-activity, but to safeguard our very existence from empire. We are looking at a long period of time since the atomic bomb and fossil fuel came into existence with the combustible engine that empires have continuously brought the crisis to this point. The answer is not more war because war has no aspect of itself that has a universal character heavy enough for all individuals to accept or embrace as grounds and a reason to take away these productive powers from the rulers that be. What does carry such weight on everyone’s minds is species extinction.
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  3191. The eugenicist was Woodrow Wilson not Margaret Sanger.
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  3192. There is no greater example than in law suit settlements where a thing’s value exceeds what the thing is really worth. The purpose of the commission seems to be that it has no purpose at all. Abolish it!
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  3193.  @danialhillmann5374  You got a lot to learn Hillman.
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  3194. Be great day when powerful leaders make it their primary task the wiping off the face of the earth the scourge of human exploitation in all its forms.
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  3195. The collapse of the fossil fuel industry is next.
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  3196.  @melaniel.s8990  When you listen to the economists on TV make forecast it becomes a little easier to see they know the price of everything but the value of nothing.
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  3197. Here’s what the Theory says: If we were slaves or serfs we would be the means of production, the direct property of the owner, but as such we are not slaves or serfs because we are only a means of production for 8 hours a day. SUMMATION: This relation makes us an indirect property of the owner and the owner is only an indirect employer to us, not our 24 hour master. As a means of production for only 8 hours a day this relation makes the means of production an outside force to us when it is not worked by us so, only when we are employed that the means of production and us, work together to produce value, but when we are not working, the value of the means do not become new capital, higher profits and more surplus-value and this absence of wealth is how the means works in the form it takes as private property works against the working class and only for the working class when value is being produced is the capitalist system of production. More Theory: When employed the means of production are social property and when not employed the means of production are private property. This is the arrangement of soil, water, air, land, they are used by the rules of a certain house, family or class, and not used outside of that house, family or class when the mass of workers are separated from the land, soil and air as means of production. The society and its laws are constructed on the means of production as private property is the form of society of the capitalist system. SUMMATION: A society and laws constructed on the basis of the means of the production as social property is a society that has yet to come into being in the US where we are no longer partially for 8 hours of 24 hours in a day, a means of production for a capitalist. In a socialist society the social property of the means of production have only one value, as useful they make the workers using the means useful or not to society, the pressure is on them to produce the material wealth society requires if it is to continue living. A party is always necessary because there are powerful enemies in the political arena constantly working to destroy what the workers aim to build as a society. The US labor force is ready to take over the means of production but are the American masses in support of the labor-force taking over the means?
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  3198.  @trentgay3437  You are correct to spot out a commodity when you see one.
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  3199. No news about Holland and Dutch Farmers nationwide dumping shit on their politicians... the country is in practical disintegration and no news about that here...captured media.
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  3200.  @josepablolunasanchez1283  More profitable than the Union model for business is the capitalist model for business. Profits, profits and more profits. Expansion, domination, control, of all the little workers and little countries where the little workers come from, work, work, work, than die. BIG PROFITS.
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  3201.  @josepablolunasanchez1283  What is the issue, according to you?
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  3202.  @mpalfadel2008  lol
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  3203. You’d never know from this history the thousands of sub-feudatories to the feudal lords were more powerful than the next feudal lord was determined by the number of peasant proprietors on the lands the lords owned. We’d get a more balanced picture of the social world Henry VIII ruled over as king and less about people who saw themselves as subjects because Henry was king. This was also a time of urban prosperity. Henry VIII lived in a historic turning point. The turning point was the end of the feudal system and this made possible privatization and gentrification of property by separating the serf and peasant from the land. Not the main subject of the artists of the period of the English Renaissance in Art in the Court of Henry VIII. But he did legislate wisely on holding back the number of acres a peasant can have shelter and all. It would be a Queen who has to deal with the pauperism. Its easy to be liberal at the expense of the Middle Ages.
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  3204. Women are going to take down their president as more of them use the Democratic party to get into office.
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  3205. Maybe you (this audience) should be less pro-free market capitalism and stop electing these a-hole politicians that a screwing you over because you can’t tell the difference between market freedom and real freedom, and your manufacturers will stop producing things only for sale and start making things for real use and endurance. This is why China has your ass over a barrel. Wake up.
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  3206. I like any news of Europe just make sure it is objective.
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  3207. Marx's economics is not as one-sided as the mainstream of American working people believe? To account for the wealth of a nation is objective economics, to account for how workers are used in society, is a subjective strain in mainstream economics. Because it is strain the economists in the mainstream speak to the mainstream of working people strictly on objective facts and ignore the subjective individual and that person's employment as an allocation of labor in society dictated by capitalists. So that there is not one person in the entire working class who knows what their future will be. The whole society is planned behind the backs of working people. Planning a life, a family, a future is virtually impossible as working people are hinged to the decisions made by a class that rises so high above social reality that all lives are objectified as dispensable beings, able and ready to go where capital goes, where the jobs are, breaking the bond with their children. Marx's position is to demonstrate the life-process of a system, expose its internal logic, and explain its origin from the progress of human activity. I brought this up, because the video contains biases against Marx that are plain outright lies. The man is not alive to defend himself and these people never read Marx to know what he is about, they, in turn, follow the party line to malign anything that contests their status a 'communist revolutionary', scares the mainstream working person into believing capitalism, and their current status, is the only choice. Coupled wth fear, intimidation and repression of the State, a hopelessness overwhelms the working class wrenching from their souls a sense of defeat.
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  3208. In another country that is not obsessed with liabilities and safeness to the extreme that the government enforces a real separation of people from basically all objects, the pastor of the ravaged church would hold service right at the spot and the congregants would join and pray, cry, absolve, to restore and live again. But in America the people are denied this right of assembly for fear a lawsuit may be generated violating an obscure thousand page law that will bankrupt the city, town or municipality and tarnish the puritanical reputation of the legislature. If it is not manicured and perfectly picturesque the village, town, church or nation is treated as a Chernobyl sight, off limits to humans.
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  3209. Tell me...are you prepared to make an exodus out of Las Vegas... what are you plans when Lake Meade goes dry?
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  3210. The only way for ordinary people to either live a normal life or accumulate substantial capital is through the drug economy and its various extensions. 2. Nobody believes their children will live better lives than their own. 3. The longevity rate in Mississippi is the same as Palestine or Libya. The liberal world view is that nothing can be worse than tyranny but it is not true that tyranny is the worst thing. Political and ethical life is a series of options and choice that keep recurring in different forms. 4. After Biden the next president will have no legitimacy and most western governments will enter a phase of illegitimacy as well. Moving beyond capitalism is the most important fact for the Left.
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  3211. The western Establishment that now resides in the US as the main citadel of power never got over the Russian Revolution. France’s Establishment never got over the Paris Commune of 1789. The Establishment lives in fear, the only nation that was not socialist at the opening of the modern era were England, France and Germany. Capitalism was back then in the minority and the working class was but a baby still in its infancy during the first industrial revolution compared with the world wide working class of 2024. The majority of the world at the time was a world of local production based on common land ownership. Back then the whole of England, France and Germany never saw or knew what a banana was unless it came through a sea based port. There is a banana in every home today. Most of the world manufactured by hand and powered its machinery by water, mule, oxen, worked for their own needs and never depended getting their necessaries of life from a market. It took around 600 years for the early city merchants and business people of Venice, Paris, Berlin, London to grow into multinational corporations, many of them going the way of the Dodo, many remain merged in business and marriage, flourished, grew into monopolies, became the modern Establishment with new offshoots for business development all on the backs of a Slave Trade and the Industrial Working Class. Guilt and fear rule the souls of the Establishment. The big fear now is that nations that were socialist in their roots and the communist have perfected capitalism, excelled into a second world economy the Establishment cannot control. Losing grip of the reigns, on a world market, is grounds for mass hysteria among the Elites, they get more nuts every day. We enter a period where one of their own falls off the deep end, a wild card in Netanyahu, threatens the Establishment even more. The great sea of humanity is out to get rid of the Establishment. The range of pathos of the super rich is borderline obsessive compulsive to downright psychotic at the prospect of a world market shrinking.
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  3212. Odds are they don’t have the real perpetrator and they picked up a ‘usual suspect’ to be a propaganda tool to win over the public.
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  3213. Trump calling the democrats a witchhunt and a coup could not be more exact of his intentions. Any senate investigation committee in that case is a witch hunt. He'd like it if investigations quit altogether.  Is it a witch hunt to investigate the use of chemical solvents linked to the death of workers in the chemical industry? To Trump it would be. The chemical industry executives have a good relationship with Trump. Is it a witch hunt to investigate the high number of oil refinery explosions? It would be to Trump oil executives contributed a million or more to Trump. If it is a witch hunt to investigate any aspect of society to Trump than America is not the best country for Trump.  A Trump Monarchy is un-American because it is a monarchy, it has frightening implications, that the American Revolution meant nothing in the eyes of the world.  Will we honor our revolutionary independence from monarchy and crush it or be crushed by a Republic with an Absolute Monarchy?
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  3214.  @kenlandon6130  Forget him. He’s a prize fighter for capitalism.
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  3215.  @Col_Panic  I like that Baby Bommers” did you intend “Baby Bombers”? I’m a baby boomer. Tail end of that generation. 1955 NYC, I grew up at the right time. When NYC was a working class town, pizza and a double feature was $.15 cents and a double feature a $1.00, matinee $.75 cents, a subway ride was $.15 cents, the brownstone I lived and grew up was rent controlled. I could fish off the NY Harbor and bring home dozens of crabs for dinner, free! McSorely’s Bar sold beer for $.75 cents. Concert tickets were less than $10 bucks depending the venue even less. All universities, museums, high schools, were free, doctors made home visits...me and my transistor radio in my hand and Miriam, my first love...ahhh what a great time to have been alive. But at the empire level the war raged on against communism as it does now against China, Russia, and the working class lost NYC to landowners and banks, then Wall Street, then Hollywood, then came the government, rents shot up, a slice of pizza less affordable, education, health, housing, all became commodities for sale, leading the selling process was Trump in competition with the Helmsley Landowners.
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  3216. Trump steps on the scene not as a mere man among others but as a class whose condition of existence is a condition of existence of the whole world. Street arrogance is his appeal. The only possible progress in the world is Trump progress, Trump's progress and Trump's poverty of progress. A guy like Bolsonaro makes Brazilians and non-Brazilians wish for his demise for his burning down of the rainforest, like cops are never around when you need them, where's the assassin? On the other hand, the PM's nievete', Mr. Mette Fredericksen of Denmark, about the days of buying and selling countries and populations are over is laughable because those days are not over Mr. Fredericksen! Trump backed off on universal background checks is an indication that NRA knows its members are criminals with histories of their own.  The shift to mental illness could produce a positive law protecting the public if it becomes law a person submit to a pych evaluation as part of the process of owning a gun(s) and ammo. If the psyche eval comes back clean you got the gun. But was the Trump do about the black market for guns that fall into the hands of people who refuse to cooperate with the law or new law? He can give incentives to turn in and melt those guns into useful material of another kind if he were a mindful of the Public and not a president of limited mind.
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  3217.  @rsavage-r2v  Looks like your alternatives to liberalism are fascism or socialism.
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  3218.  @rsavage-r2v  Are you sensing from the behavior of the nihilistic liberals the start of the decline of the US Empire is really the thing going on?
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  3219.  @rsavage-r2v  No, we cannot give up on the future but we must first put ourselves in charge of that future before we can not give up on it.
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  3220. The Founding Fathers did not establish this amendment because European refugees exiled by Kings and Monarchs of Europe were religious people, such as the pilgrims. The Why the amendment was established was in response to Kings and Monarchs of a religious persuasion who legislated the political state its personal weapon. What has happened is that the force has become the personal weapon of the political state such as the CIA has become the personal army of the president. The content of a political state is ‘force’ and force in the hands of Kings, Popes, Princes was a threat to all communities of all religions. Today the president is the threat to all religions and communities the office has a monopoly over force. In practice we say: Oh, God this elected man has his finger on the button, but for some reason, when discussing that button theoretically force and the executive office are united as one entity but never seen from the other point of view as divorced from all other entities at the same time. All the founding fathers did was to recognize all religions by recognizing no religion and this placed all religions on the same footing in relation to force or the political state which is the same thing. Force can be used against any of them who plot against the state was the Why part the framers were addressing. After all we are talking about the 17th Century that was part of a thousand year history of dynastic rule and a British King that tried to overthrow the brand new American government not once but twice despite the American Revolution. Americans seem to think the founders’ motives were benevolent and at the behest of poor slobs from Europe landing on a rock on an American shoreline. In fact, there is mounting evidence the American Revolution itself was a counter revolution to the British Crown incited by the Crown’s abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade led by founding fathers as the first generation of American slave holders themselves.
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  3221.  @Amite-zg2ob  why?
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  3222. Win me over to your side. Why should I support the RIght?
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  3223. Lets assume the US gets its way in Asia and China which it won't. Based on its track record it won't know how to govern or manage Asian and Eastern societies because it does not know the first thing about them.
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  3224. Pointless to report on this if you have nothing to report ...whatever military disciplinary action they have on him the man evaded it by a defection. Really the defection is the story...when was the last defection of an American to a communist country? A News Broadcast Company that gives you no news or gives you old news as new news is an insult to its audience’s intelligence, and worse, cannot examine the defection itself as subject -worthy, what a pair of silly girls. The State Department has to negotiate with North Korea for the release of the defector. Extradite him. In exchange North Korea and the Armistice still in place since the 1950s comes to a historic end with a signing the US lost the Korean War and has no claim at all in the region. After Korea, America lost another war in South East Asia. That was a flat out defeat with the Fall of Saigon unlike the partial defeat and partial victory if you consider keeping the Korean people divided a victory, which the State Department does consider it that way. The American people may want a reunification but the State Department does not. And what they want matters more than what Americans want. The Korean War was for the US symbolic of its historic decline. The State Department has gone from one war to the next, bringing about a defeat and a decline of the whole economy, and from decline to disintegration of social institutions in a span of 70 years. Assassinations and secrets made worse a decline with a deterioration of trust of the Public in State and Federal government. This event is historically significant for a lot of reasons the average person never thinks about and the two anchors appearing clueless don’t help!
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  3225. Trump is a landlord and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is a slumlord. Why did you elect him to be president America?
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  3226. The workers that have to go to work, do so, because they cannot afford to stay home. They are paid just enough for living in the city. Of all workers that make up the total workforce of the US the low wage and hourly workers need to be organized and strike! Who will push all the hamburgers and the boxes that come off the ports of Newark without them? Profits tumbling will tumble deeper. The economy is broken without them.  All workers should cooperate with the low wage and hourly, an effective wage increase and sick time, better still their work should be one of choice, a vocation, and society compensates them for all their needs. Some people like to pick up garbage, or clean, or load and unload boxes, run big machines at airports and trains stations and drive cars for a living, I see no reason the essential work that they do should be treated any less differently than a rocket scientist? I can find more reasons for it than against it. Only a national health system can work for them and all, the current one is not even a 'system', its a cabal, a squandering of masses of energy and material. Half the population could have been innoculated by now if doctors, nurses and communities had a national service, especially the scale of one the US could build. Its not a poor country, probably won't even make a dent in total tax income compared to the squandering of 1 trillion!
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  3227. They must be removed permanently from government.
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  3228. People like this degrade the academic field. Is the problem the academic field itself that individuals can acquire a PhD using bad science and revised history? Should there be some mechanism where the body of work of an individual can be assessed for its credulity and revoke the title if not credulous?
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  3229. She is smart enough to understand middle class complacency as a market niche for making transactions not of her own money. She learned from the best who use other people’s money for their own investments. In old days she would have been the highway robber hitting up all the stagecoaches in the forests where they are miles from anywhere. Today she and Wall Street have mastered the art getting rich from theft unsuspectingly right in front of our noses.
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  3230. A general strike is not going to happen but what can happen to bring them together for a general strike is a brigade of activists going to the strike line with cases of yellow vests. Workers do not have the confidence and the experience of class struggle. They need a larger movement to emerge themselves into.
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  3231. Putin is right about the West declaring itself the victor. The West/US began re-arranging the affairs of nations for a One World Order when the USSR collapsed. Three presidents walked away from nuclear treaties that were coming to expire with Russia and each president, Obama, Trump and Biden, let them expire. Zalenski is completely dependent on the US Tax Payers, he resists a ceasefire at your expense and those treaties remain open ended. World trade is today a multi-polar order and the developing nations do not need the US. The US by itself, Britain by itself, Canada, dependent on China. Mexico like Germany struggles to stay attached, and Central America through Africa get linked up to Italy, Spain, Portugal, and the Oil bearing nations, all inter-trading with each other connect with Asia through the Silk Road. The true colors of the might of the US government to do right by its own people are tested in its own domestic affairs. It is failing the test and society is disintegrating into impoverishment with crime, homelessness, drug addiction, poor education and health standards, racked with product recalls, unstable prices, falling wages, longer working hours, and a diminishing standard of living, above all, the destruction of society’s cornerstone the family. The One World Order was tried and failed at the expense of America’s working class.
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  3232. The Walton, Broad, families are part of the US Oligarchy consisting of super rich families on the wast coast and the west coast who collaborate on policies favorable to their business interests.
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  3233. Its monumental step for a nation who’s children score low compared to other nations but has the best educational infrastructure in the world. American has the best means but scores the worst minds is the main problem cited by all major ranking systems on education in the world. How will a Bill raise the intellectual score of Americans is the question. The Bill addresses a social problem; it does not address the intellectual problem of low ranking. The same problem is found in health care. America has best medical infrastructure but the worse health outcomes and a Patent Bill of Rights has not improve America’s medical outcomes at all! That a nation even needs a Bill of Rights for patients in health and parents in education is evidence the real barrier to improving minds and bodies are the social relations of health and education. This measure is like a dart missing the dart board hitting the wall and falling on the floor.
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  3234. The only persons of the same generation and of the right wing who has not been on the J Dore show is Joe Rogan, Musk, Trump Jr., brothers. Not many prominent leftists have appeared on the Greyzone. There are 15,000 coordinated and organized right wing radio stations beamed straight into where the working class spends four hours a day, in their cars, in America,--- and of the Podcasters there are a zillion people with their own show and their own opinion, fragmented podcastors can only be seen on a cell phone or some other portable device, ----not united that would bring their audience to a more critical analysis of social reality in America. The right wing has a captured audience and the left has a fragmented audience. Additionally, the devices themselves, i.e., cell phones, laptops, absorbed the free time of workers in part, by their own volition ( they will develop scoliosis of the spine in their older age) in part by the will imposed on them by their employers. This is partially the reason the left lost the election. Apart from the fact that the Far Left by not galvanizing their audiences into electronic, panels, conferences, task groups, zoom with Latin American and European movements, allowed the centrists in their party to decide all the working class issues in the party for them. A democratic left that was cheated of a primary as irony would have it.
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  3235. Capitalist are only capitalist because people see themselves as labor-power in the exchange relation between labor and capital. Once people stop seeing themselves as useful to another and the other as useful to them for their survival the relation between capital and labor will dissolve. If you want Big Oil to go away than the car, truck, van, bus, airplane, ship, are the things you have to stop using. Easier said than done, right? Easier to click on overnight delivery than it is not hit the button at all is a mental form of weakness. Given the diminished will power nothing I am saying will happen. With all efforts into that one goal by all walks of life Big Oil and the elite superstructure that is constructed on oil as the centerpiece of the economy, and all its corresponding forms of thought, would wither away in a year. Why a year? Why not weeks? The pandemic that struck the US during Trump's term raised alarms among the establishment that the social order was falling apart without the continuous feeding of human labor-power and Trump would have to go if he did not order the economy open. On his own he would have let the economy stay closed and the superstructure would have begun to melt down really quick bring about his own demise too. I do believe he is that insightful.  It was the creativity of the people who kept things alive during the pandemic make shifting their companies and this proves that if the superstructure built on oil did fall apart, a new economy was already in place ready to get built up. Well, Biden stopped that transformation process and brought us all back the pre-pandemic days of everything is fine. All would not have been lost if America abandoned their vehicles tomorrow. In fact, I believe with nature freed from human action there would not have been the fires, the animals in distress, without the compounding action of 2.2 billion human beings all driving in vehicles consuming oil in the process and emitting greenhouse gases giving nature no chance at all to rebound. There will be another shut down and the elite superstructure will decay, a second stab in re-inventing America, at which point the masses should turn its back on reconstituting the old ways, and transform their immediate locality into a means for a secured existence and survival. If fast food want to sell fast food then make them deliver in electric cars. Next time make your school administrators hold school outdoors on good days. Perfect time for field trips is during a pandemic where people can spread out. Next time the keep the parks open and order police to facilitate mobile living not send them off on their way to a state closed parks. The craziness comes from not having national policies on anything that the country is a harbinger of lunatics.
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  3236. We, as a people of the same species, will never solve the UK and the US question of inequality unless we change the way we ask questions. It is useful to us to compare the rise of poverty and the collapse of democracy in two countries than it is to examine to death developments in one country the same general laws of capitalism. Even though you and I are different people we are individual members of the same species. And, as a whole, it is the development or lack thereof, of the species that forms the individual. In the same way, the UK and the US are different manifestations of social inequality but are of the same economic system. In that system the economic laws of accumulation of capital (ostensibly called "tools" in the modern lingo) as carried on through exploitation in both these countries producing an extreme polarization of capital and labor, -----and the antagonism between these two social classes is absolute! Not relative. By what means does this law operate so that the conflict is revealed? Putting aside what we know about the opinions and intentions of the participants, how are these economic tools used in such a way as to create an a-political working class? The point is not to be mechanistic or find a solution that takes politics out of the hands of working people but to expose what is operating behind our backs that makes us a conscious, semi-conscious, and unconscious, instrumentality for capital.
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  3237.  @alrightyru  practice, practice, practice. The better life inside our hearts and minds is trapped and must be freed.
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  3238. The material conditions are poor in Caracas, though clean, but the social relationships of Caracans is rich. Video did change my views.
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  3239. I'd like to see a video that explains what the beginning of this virus in the positive sense. People should recognize that constitutional governments such as that of the EU and the US are legal institutions not social ones. The changes being made in society are coming from the changes in the way work is carried out in society.  People will be working from home and those industries where jobs cannot be performed at home will go out of business.  History suppresses certain branches of industry as it also promotes the development of new ones.  China builds hospitals in less than two weeks is an example of a government that is not a constitutional republic but one that is a social institution responding to social needs in a proactive manner. Instead of spending resources on defense because of national conflicts, government can spend resources on meeting human needs. When work and society are transformed, the family is transformed, requiring a transformation of government to become a central organizer and planner to have all the needs in society met. Humanity arrives at the 21st century and 2020 is that transitional moment that breaks away all the things of the 19th century we still use today. This new way of work will call into question the need for the old economy. Why do you need a stock market or a central bank, or a boss? Why will we need school boards determining school taxes when school buildings are unnecessary when all one needs WiFi and a lap top to educate children all over the world? Why do we even need money to represent working time when work is no longer used to make goods for exchange? Why the need to retain all the things the old economy needed before the virus when the virus has changed the way we work and live giving birth to a new economy? From the changes in work and family our needs will change and in turn, the needs change our products as we become more accustomed to finding meaning in our new family arrangements, less divorce, less juvenile delinquency, less suicide, less depression, less loneliness. With less of the present-day maladies in society there is less of a need for massive military and police institutions expenditures. The major focus will be agriculture, the area of human activity vital to human survival. Search for a better life comes to an end. No more mass migration for societies ravaged by war the need to get them re-oriented to the new way of life the new international mission. Why will we need nuclear weapons if societies are finding more contentment at home? I see many benefits to this crisis. Our fears are really about losing the old way of life we have become accustomed to living. The second benefit to this virus is the environmental change, improving nature as it gets a chance to recover from human damage. Less to no fossil fuel emissions, less chances of infestation, disease and a strengthening of the human body's immune system through the increase of oxygen in our atmosphere and as we know from the paleontological record a greater diversity of life, and a general slowing down of climate change and oceans rising.
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  3240.  @Tonixxy  All nations produce use-values for needs and allocate labor to produce require resources but not political power.
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  3241.  @breft3416  That amounts to a 6 months share of surplus-value as a return on their investment, in short, every six months the tenants must submit to an exploiter acting as a landowner, a percentage of their incomes in wages is the manner in which your society allocates and distributes this surplus value. Until this changes tenants must live with the indignities and humiliation an exploiter imposes on them. If ever there was a reason for a revolution this is reason enough.
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  3242. A mode of production would be the social form of interaction between human beings and their tools ( forces of production) that the professor finds at one end of the polarity, people with property and at the other end people without property but this is not right, because the capitalist and the worker are owners and own property. But for Marx the Earth is a force of production. Anything that produces in order to consume and consumes in order to produce constitutes a force of production. How social institutions interact with this interrelation is the problematic for capitalism. Illusion versus Reality: Both capitalist and workers are equals recognized by the law as owners of property is the illusion, but in production the two co-owners become unequal partners is the reality. Why? The worker after getting a job is now engaged in the physical transfering of capital invested in overhead, machinery, tools, materials, etc., to a product intended for sale. The sale product has a lot of money tied up into it that cannot be converted into cash if it stays in the workplace. After producing a product the capitalist returns to the market for this conversion to complete itself. The professor forgot that labor-power is the commodity unique to capitalist relations and it is a form of property that cannot be found anywhere else but in human beings. The commodity labor-power is not the same thing as the labor of workers actually working on the job. That work is the work of the capitalist and it is a process of producing surplus-value as it is producing things useful for human beings, and labor in that process becomes the value producing agent for the creation of surplus-value, lose this and you do lose the distinction made early on in Marx, between use-value and value in the commodity from which more complex social institutions emerge from two-kinds of surplus value capitalist and worker depend on becomes the difference between labor that produces use-values and value-producing labor inside a period of 8 hours. A capitalist is legally bound by a fixed period of time but not legally bound to cheapen the life of the workers in order to produce this surplus-value. Unfortunately this is what we are seeing today with respect to genocide and individuals profiting from genocide; a process of accumulation by a process of desecrating human life. Getting rich by killing people is as cheap as life can get in the capitalist enterprise.
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  3243.  @God-Emperor_of_Mankind  We cannot change the course of history but if I could I would have driven Perestroika out of Russia. A restoration of capitalism in Russia never would have happened and Ukraine would never have been given to the west.
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  3244. The GOP is the threat not the USA. Must distinguish an establishment from the general majority to understnad things better. The primary constituency of the GOP are the US mulitnational corporation establishment, they are the threat and bullies. The American public is unaware of that, and divided about that fact.
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  3245. The tragic part of this story is the DOT. The DOT cannot come up with a solution on their own but have to be pressured externally by the community is a sign the DOT needs new blood and its current staff ought to be demoted to crew work. Some parts of the DOT are excellent. The management is not one of them. It is more of a Department of Transportation that cannot divide traffic space from concept to reality.
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  3246. 20:20 Matt Newman’s story when he nailed the shot that won the game for his team is the same story of bases loaded in the last inning and the last out and I was the last player to finally get off the bench and do something. July 10, 1969, Central Park Baseball Diamonds, the Young Devils vs. (my memory fades) on the third pitch I hit a straight up the mid-field ground ball chopper, I watched that baseball bounce over the pitcher and I took off to bring all bases home. A wonder year for me as it is for you, a BIG glory in our little world. Cheers!
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  3247.  @seanohare5488  A point that falls on deaf ears and dense minds. Government for the people and by people is a government for oligarchs and by oligarchs. I bet you cannot name one senator that is not a billionaire and a landowner or both at the same time? Not one...not even Bernie.
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  3248. A small elite in Washington D.C., gives the military our money to the biggest polluter on the planet as if there is no tomorrow. This has to stop!
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  3249.  @johnathanwoods1223  Affluenza as a endemic disease among the privileged could appear one day in the American Journal of Medicine as a 'pathology'.
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  3250.  @flowersinherhair  You have a point, well taken. I would only say that the climate changes occurring and the pandemic are forcing a change upon societies; and certain social strata are at this time highly resistant to accept and adapt to the transformation. Other nations are accepting this challenge better than we are because they are not preoccupied with the fear a declining empire has in its last days.
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  3251. Not a good move...he’ll concede because the US wants him to concede.
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  3252. It doesn’t work that way. If it did the railroad company would happily pay the values of homes before the crash. A jury of peers in lawsuits filed against the company will award home owners way above the value of their individual homes before the crash. Each around 2 million would be my guess for a class action law suit. In fact, you’ll probably end up sharing the burden of the cost because all the lawsuits will bankrupt the company and the clean up will remain unsettled, mired, in bankruptcy court before the government assumes the clean up.
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  3253.  @Kevin-pv3kg  What state are you talking about because there is no national policy for child support guidelines and rules, each state does their own thing?
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  3254. Cabinet Officials in Government in charge of departments with the job of overseeing workplace safety have done everything but make workplaces safe. The government’s response to crisis has been a record of doing nothing to punish bad actors except to slap a charge on their derelict and reckless behavior of neglect. The integrity of the office they hold as a Public Interest is compromised. They see no defects in a system that is designed for accumulation and appropriation by fewer monopolies as a system that cannot be fixed but has to be be broken down if survival of the species is to be unthreatened.
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  3255. The Temple of Doom describes UPS. Slaves work in the back and up front is a facade of corporate harmony. Somebody better come up with a solution to the heat problem in the trucks. A shorter work week is a better solution than equipping trucks with air-conditioning. Abolish the two-tier system, institute same job same pay, and end the war in Ukraine pushing food, oil and energy prices up and wages down. Make stock buy back programs illegal.
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  3256. Man-made CO2 emissions can be stopped at the level of production in society but not without the abolition of private interests in society. One interest you have to get rid of under capitalism, if you want to control general production and consumption from killing species life by altering the conditions of life on earth, is the dominant proverbial elephant in the room nobody in Congress wants to tackle, namely, the private interests involved in general production! Sorry folks! there is no happy medium of this contradiction, its either capitalism goes or you go and the private interests have already declared through your government it won't be them to go first. There is no science but social science that deals with the abolition of private interests. That social science has been turned against you. Academia and education has served to pacify the masses from imagining the prospects and the necessity for labor and capital to lose their private character; if we want to de-accelerate consumption and production patterns to adjust to human needs and sustainability. If not, then die! The earth will never know we were here and gone.
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  3257. It is a Public Service to expose Democrats who have become “Unhinged McCarthy-ites”. I absolutely agree.
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  3258. I find it ironic and disturbing the very object that will destroy the present day economy and society had destroyed American towns and cities of the past is the very object the video-maker is using to get around. His car.
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  3259. What “Cuban Crisis”? If Benjamin or yourself mean to say the US has a crisis and its called Cuba, and leaving out another player, Turkey, in that crisis, its not coming out that way in the choice of wording.... Cuba had a revolution and revolutions are all about problem solving. The day Cuba stops solving problems is the day there is no revolution and society reverts into crisis. America, therefore, is a society is in a state of chronic and multiple crisis. Chaos in production, chaos in circulation is constant...the torture/repression never stops. The day the Left becomes revolutionary and pushes revolution into the heads of its people will be the day the mass exploitation by a class of exploiters of America’s people (polis, politics, et al people) nears to its end.
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  3260. I am not ready to throw my hat into this crowd as a supporter given what i am hearing. The things going in the Trump administration are not the things going on with the Biden Administration is a given, but sacrificing Ukraine to bleed Russia was a despicable Biden plan, and a war crime in itself did not meet up with much internal democratic opposition. Not to mention Gaza.
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  3261. Pedophilia is a problem located in society. Its a social pathology and an individual sickness that runs rampant in the family as a social organization and in communities, its institutions and social relations.
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  3262.  @KryMoore  The correctness of Kanye’s anti-semitism is not a correctness based on the a criticism of the US government’s support of NATO, EU and Azov Nazis, its a correctness based on racism. Kanye is half right and half wrong.
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  3263. What do people really think about a store of goods when they walk into a Home Depot? Are they walking down the aisle acknowledging each product is an entire industry or are they just blindly going for the object they need?
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  3264.  @federalreservebrown2507  That will fail and fall upon you like an H-Bomb! Anti-Semitism is an easy defense to crush whatever attempt you make to rescue humanity. What they cannot defend is the class structure. Now you have a reason to overthrow them. If Blacks were the oppressor would anti-semitism even be a thing?
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  3265. Laws like this make a population more subversive. The logic in this is ass backwards. GOP may hold power but power is inevitably temporary. If power could be permanently held the Confederate Congress would still be alive and well in Montgomery.
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  3266. Got nothing from this report other than a bad collision involving fatalities.
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  3267. I doubt the Democrats would have been willing to meet with Kim. So rigid is their ideological world that a villain is required. A villain of some sort is a permanent feature of the liberal democratic ideology. Someone or thing to rationalize their idea of imperialism. Hillary would have been insisting China make democratic liberal reforms agitating Taiwan to break away, and that would have plummeted US-SINO relations into an abysmal war in the Pacific. The only thing that might have stopped Hillary in her tracks is the threat of nuclear war, but as far as acknowledging her faults, forget it. The world would have been stuck in a rigid place of continuing tensions till something disastrous broke open the impasse. This is all about the Pacific becoming the next greatest highway of trade for the US. Asia is the final frontier for western expansion. Britain gets a piece of it with the revival of railroad container transport on the route of the ancient spice trade. I never liked Trump but he seems to realize or his advisors realize this is the last hurrah for capitalism. Reducing nuclear weapons is the next logical guarantee that US-Sino relations remain mutually beneficial and balanced. But here's the problem, for every one nuclear warhead a given villain country possesses the US would have the relinquish four nuclear warheads is how deeply armed the US is. This will never occur under the Democrats and it remains to be seen if a step in this direction happens under the republicans. World pressure is in favor of de-escalation. The century has two choices, a continuation of the 20th century or a new form of international relations of east meets west. I suspect it will by virtue of the the fact that American corporations.
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  3268. Pruit is a two faced fucking liar, lying right to your face! He said these are essential to protect makes it sound like he is on the right side of protecting the environment but when you increase the case load of EPA employees who do the field work and the actual case by case basis which part of the country needs clean up weakens the protections as industry can pollute at a faster rate than the EPA can stop. The accumulative effects shortens human life.
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  3269. Vault 7. Diabolical surveillance agencies, what a life, to see everyone as a suspect and an object of interest is plain weird? On another note, since there is so much to comment on, I agree with the Chinese ambassador's steps for peace and de-escalation between the NK and USA. Moving along, it is an atrocity that a society amasses such discontent that inequality is so strongly felt and access is so strongly denied that a general strike is necessary to rectify it. That to simply live sufficiently in society results in poverty amidst abundance as a forced issue. One has to shatter that glass that holds the poisonous wine. Imprisoning immigrants and mass deportations of them in Hungry is a resurgence of a pogrom directed against a certain people not necessarily Jewish but destitute. In a word, fascism. Sad day in history for Hungarians. What more, Lynn Stewart, may she rest in peace. Not enough attorneys are a Lynn Stewart. Let's see what humanity brings tomorrow?
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  3270. Machines produce products. The copy machine is the camera's machine counter-part. The copier itself is a product and the product produces a product in the copy. The use of a copy machine preserves so many professions that rely on paper and copies it creates a perpetual effective demand. Only the raw material for paper involves nature and human labor in the harvesting of wood and that takes place in other countries where the wood is in abundance. Wood extraction in the rain forest by industry accelerates the destruction of the rain forest. Machines are ubiquitous and pervasive and intrusive to the extent that our lives are dictated by them. The human element of spontaneity and free will vanishes before us. We are controlled by machines by a security oriented social system built around them and by the social system built around what they are as the property of a particular individual or company. Machines that make machines is another stage of human progress that eliminates human labor. Labor-processes adapted to machines is a machine process involving less skilled labor produce more product. These machine processes produce a finished product in abundance, But that abundance is measured in GDP by what portion of it is sold. Measuring only what is sold leaves undetected the up-side of modern industry in its accomplishments of infinite progress of material wealth with less labor required to feed and cloth the population. For all intents and purposes the work processes that are run by machines are nearly an automatic process that frees up people with more time to get involved in other activities. Continuous production is an advantage to society, assuming Congress passed laws to promote this productivity to end poverty, this would be step forward for a more healthy and balanced society. This would lead to the eradication of crime, drugs, and poverty in society. A bold new social program toward a new social order comes up against the barrier of the ownership of machinery as a separate class.This class benefits from the discovery of an eternal source of energy used to power the system of machines on a continuous basis. Slave holders in America numbered 300, 000, a minority controlled 20 million federal US army soldiers to extend slavery into territories. See the Kansas-Nebraska Act 1859. The machine holders take the same position the slave holders took controlling the destinies of 325 million people through the instrumentality of the state.
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  3271. Want more debate panels? Demand it.
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  3272. Aid does not go to help people it goes to construct our form of society over theirs.
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  3273. Organize Now!
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  3274. Historic events are unraveling very quickly and they are intensifying the antagonism between East and West. We shall see how the US political and industrial elite will re-arrange the world according to its ability and according to its needs. People of the world unite! You have only your chains to lose and white labor cannot be free as long as black labor is branded.
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  3275. Ever wonder what people would look like without eyebrows...think about it the next time you are talking someone face to face. Automation's double role is never analyzed by anyone in the Left, ignored by the Right, as the key source to wealth creation it is kept a secret by the heirs of the first owners of the means of production dating back to the 15th century the early origins of capitalism itself. Until now. Right of property is the right of intellectual property. In the present historical period automation is non-issue to Koch, Tillerson, Trump, Pruit, Mnuchin , men who are interested in American capitalism retreating from imperialist policies into national policies and this means opening up America's lands to mining, steel, and commercial exploitation. Beyond this these men can give a rat's ass about what Nick Dearden of the global justice organization want or demand, yet, automation is the key to understanding how the working class is exploited and how these American industrialists get rich. Talking more about this will help educate the working class to realize they are the key to closing the gap in wealth and ownership. People can get rich in other commercial schemes but one sphere where they become really rich, a minority of ultimate rich, a class onto themselves, is by ownership of the means of production and through the exploitation of labor. The world can fall into the hands of a few in the sphere of production. The dirty work both in deed and in mind, all the world's resources flow in and do not flow out. Interestingly, a Single Payer slogan is similar. Everyone in and nobody out solves the health crisis. Even if it is only two men who operate the strip mining technology of today versus thousands of miners boring holes in the earth, the material output is what counts. The economist do not even factor into their equations of wealth and progress the MP. The MP is a flat 0. In your face they will tell it has no impact on growth, it just displaces labor, poor guys. Growth is something of what you make it. Personal happiness amidst destitution. The MP is not measured and its progress as a new tool in mankind's tool box is not measured at all. So what is measured? Labor time from its application measures wealth, 1/100, 2/100, 3/100, 4/100, then 5, 6, 7%, crash, new automation extracting more surplus labor-time till there is none for the workers themselves, a vanishing human factor in production, mass poverty the excrement of machinery and technology. So needless to say the solutions to poverty, social and economic justice, are right in the hands of the ultimate ultra-super rich. I think Dearden gets this, but not in a way that conceives the actual historical potential the MP can play in restructuring world production to get humanity back on the right track of progress, certainly Americans don't get it and the entire European working class is freaking out at the possibilities of a another Hitler, they've gone off kilter and sick of the bullshit handed down to them from all the G20 governments. They are going to make socialism if they have to beat it out of the heads of parliamentarians. Unfortunately, its like the blind leading the blind, because the G20 have no clue the MP holds the key. I would say otherwise if there was evidence of rules that promoted the forces of production but there is no such evidence, its all been beat up the bad guy politics. They attack it with legal and binding rules to tighten its applications rather than to reapply it applications by freeing it from ownership so that the world is no longer denied the product of its own labor. Are humans stupid then? Of course they are when separated from their own labor, i., automation, when they are not they are geniuses using their tools against nature to eek out a living and subsistence and politics becomes a philosophy of life. The same applies in agriculture, control the MP and you control the world. The question should be a statement, our ancestors connected to the MPs historically were way smarter than we are separated from the MPs today because of that we are going to perish by own product! True phenomenon occurring here for extra terrestrials to archeologically piece together what happened to a species and a planet that suddenly their disappearance cut off the evolutionary progress. Fortunately, they have Youtube to help figure it out. Thus I say imagine the faces of people without eyebrows, looking at the one source of pleasure of tragic comedy, the faces of people with eyebrowsI In understanding the beleaguered masses they can no longer endure the ailment of alienation as Dr. Marx diagnosed. Our problem is the economic category that does measure wealth in production in three laws; the most prominent law of which is, less labor presupposes a high level of automation and output not in the form of free time but in the form of labor-time accumulated, or he called it, surplus labor-time. What measures GDP is labor-time, how much excess labor-time denied to humanity. No one pays attention to the material substratum of automation but it is the national interest that requires the role of force to access and control the raw material. These men do not insist in breaking down trade barriers because they feel like it, it only because the country contains an element that leads to the basis of economic power. The role of automation, is two roles in one action, it creates free time that becomes for its owner surplus labor-time as the property of the capitalist. The worker or nation is deprived of surplus labor-time, thus its second role as a creator of wealth and free time. People can live in harmony in the world when the world as their product is no longer the source of their anxiety and separation. War and degradation is an expression of this dilemma. This is all the understanding the world needs to lift the dilemma. The super rich can claim hypocrisy and dismiss the left, if you have no answer to a guy like Trump who comes along and he tells you in your face to sit down, shut up, you're fake, hypocrite, you love what we produce no one forced you to buy my products and the entire movement against capitalism is stumped because you did buy all the stuff imperialism produces, that part of the ailment, would take a lifetime of psychological treatment, internalizing this contradiction and further repress the yearning for unification. The conditions are ripe for this new world restructuring and the owners of the MP's are ripe for social suicide and mass destruction. Choose.
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  3276. In the final analysis "time' is the common denominator in all production. An Indonesian worker is paid a dollar an hour is an example of how time operates against the women in the factory. Factory time robs them of time in general. Low wages forces free time to become more working time, time as duration of labor, expended in the factory on the basis of longer hours of labor entraps women from developing beyond submissive social roles. Time is money to the capitalist exploiting the labor-time of women. They produce for the factory owners, given Indonesia is a patriarchal society, most likely a him and not a her is the usurper of labor. He receives a greater quantity of value than given in exchange for the work of the women paid by a wage. And in the face of America's own history of labor struggles against its own capitalists, its young generation are the guiltiest usurpers of the labor or women and children. Downright immoral. The rule of 'time' as a theory of compensation for labor measures the value of a wage in terms of the market basket of goods is violated by the rule of labor-time in the factory. This is true wherever factory production is capitalist production. But Ivanka Trump is not the owner of the Indonesian factory. G3, the retail chain store owners, do not own her merchandise, they carry it as their product line in stores and Ivanka is paid a fortune on its total sales. How this new form of capitalism operates is by controlling consumption or in liberal language, i.e., markets where products sell dear. Products can only sell dear in markets where credit is used as a substitute for higher wages. Thus consumers are entrapped by banks and forced to use credit borrowing as a means of circulation. This is a situation that is rigged for the rich only. It is clear Indonesia has joined the rest of western culture that splits people of the same national origin into groupings of the oppressed and the oppressors. Workers there are perilously oppressed by their own capitalist factory owners. A clear case of a female based class struggle the mass of people in the West pay no regard, more especially the so called 'feminists' in the West. The sale of Ivanka's brand of clothes like any other celebrity brand name involves many class struggles often ignored at the factory level. If not for the celebrity status of the Trump name, these class struggles would be whitewashed down to 'personal responsibility' that working people's lives are savagely abused by the tyranny of the 'factory clock' and the effects of labor exploitation. The presence and persistence of the exploitation of the labor of women, children, is used in a political controversy by enemies of Trump as an 'opportunity' to derail power is a cynicism in western capitalism. Both right and left criticize each other of the same evil they both perpetrate is the height of hypocrisy. Time is everything and labor-time is specific in that the immediate work of a person in a concrete labor process is everything to that worker, it is important for social reproduction and development that employment is consistent and worth the time involved, while factory time purchased from the worker as wage labor renders employment a threat to survival to that worker on a daily basis is a reality all capitalists deny.
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  3277. For the exact reason you cite terrij, a proletarian revolution is required. They both operate within the narrow limits of the social order they are products of, the same context but on opposite sides.
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  3278. The GOP and the Democrats are the 'they'.
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  3279. I think the forced removal of the doctor on a United airline flight is a game changer. A spark that makes people matter.
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  3280. Where is the opposition to the repeal of the ACA? It is going to take a whole lot more than watching and waiting for the American people to get universal health care. I don't see Americans moving in any direction but still on all the assaults on their social condition coming from its right wing. Conditions on all the fronts they are being attacked will have to worsen before they take any unified political action and by then the far right will be too entrenched for reform to take any positive effect. The cost of apathy will be a public health crisis, disease, and higher rates of infant mortality. Wake up people!
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  3281. Well, the comments here are jaded! The system is rigged and filled with corruption to the core are the cries. The whispers are cynical. The bourgeois institutions are inept. Unable to stop a Cholera epidemic, unable to end human trafficking across the Mexican and American border, unable to close the gap between rich and poor, and unable to stop the total annihilation of life on earth! Some feel so jaded, 'unable' is a word too soft to use against 'bourgeois institutions'. They attack the citadels of power as 'unwilling' to rectify the aberration of contradictions period. They say a war on humanity is being waged through the Fed, the IMF, the ECB. And it it is fast becoming a restructuring of the old social classes into new ones giving way to a world dominance of a few money suppliers. But! I say to these conspiracists, by no coincidence, are the usurpers in possession of all the world's resources in their raw form are to be exempt as culprits. Controlling matter guarantees the world can be shaped by their ideas. Unbelievably stupid to ignore real economic power and control is in owning the innovations of science. Whoever owns the bone owns the tribe as chief. The tools supplies the material need the new structure of society can exist. We enter the new age of geologic science from a point of existence of an old age of capitalism where these citadels of power clamor for a place. Strip mining is an innovation, our laws permit people to speculate on the innovation for the sale of tons of coal or iron, metals for a profit. Why innovations are purchased has to do with Congress not enacting laws prohibiting its purchase for private ownership and the same goes for GMO, an innovation in agriculture that hardly any human knowledge is required for cross fertilization. Farming has become as rote and monotonous as factory work has become partitioned into detailed operations. Low cost of production guarantees an edge over the competition is all that matters. Eventually all these competitors will have no competition and just one monopoly corporation in every sphere of life. But, according to the inept governments, this time monopolies won't get broken up selling off its subsidiaries. Stupidity runs high outside of Congress these days, by the time the American people 'get hip to it' the anti-trust laws could be rendered unconstitutional along with everything else that was constitutional. A constitutional convention is only four states away for the republicans. In this racetrack they have a lap and half lead on the American people. This new arrangement of social classes, a few usurpers using the many worldwide, leaves out many who do not profit from the productivity of innovation and have no money to invest in it drives a new compulsion forward, more war for the creation of new and cheaper labor markets. Perpetual war to extinction.
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  3282. Clearly all the old world divisions are collapsing under the weight of inequality and the yearning for a just world.
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  3283. Thanks, I would remind people that the US laboring population never had a labor party of its own. Not like Europe. It's class consciousness is anti-class consciousness in a conservative direction. It never advanced its own political interests nor made its economic interests political except on an ideological basis. Its experience with revolution is counter revolution of which it was subjected itself. It has been a passive element throughout the history of elites governing it that its pent up anger could overnight become class conscious and revolutionary at the treatment it receives and the condition it is in if worsened under Trump. When it is ready to vote with its feet it can it begin thinking about taking power. But there is no head, no leadership, or political party to take its message across states and into cities and towns to steal voters from liberals, conservatives, republicans and democrats, to build support to end the wars, build industry and end food and material deprivation. It has no supporters to chip away at the artificial divisions to begin dismantling the bourgeois order and embark on a new order. Most Americans are coming from a place of unity that everyone in America starts out equally and the divisions were solved long ago. Unions were necessary in the beginning but no longer are they necessary today and they willingly give up unionization. Slavery was abolished when Lincoln emancipated them and when civil rights laws were enacted. Americans believe a black person is not free in society when he or she are free on paper. A real learning process is necessary, a form of mass education to shatter the illusions and myths.
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  3284. This is a powerful expose' and a serious one. Historically, social classes take a long time to come into existence and a long time go out of existence. More billionaires were created from the period of 1980 to 2007; a short period of time and more proletarians were created in the same period. Unfortunately the American proletariat is not a unified revolutionary force though it can be a great one and it may not have a choice but to become one. I think we are too late as a people in reversing the agenda of the right wing. They will next carry out coup de'tats to retain the White House because they know their agenda will never win a popular vote. With a Supreme Court favorable to big business petitions can be struck down and laws favoring labor will never see the light of day. Congress and the Senate and most all states filled with republican legislators, billionaires, social conservatives, nationalists surfaced during the period I mentioned above as a majority in each house completes a political revolution of the right. Where they may fail is in an economic revolution.
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  3285. My five point thesis against the American government is: 1. Political or religious emancipation is not the final and absolute form of human emancipation. Rights of liberty and freedom of speech and press that is grounded in a constitutional framework preserves a non-interference policy of teh State.
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  3286. Look at the morons standing behind him. They speak volumes more than the man in front of them.
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  3287. The good news is that there will always be a strong opposition to the billionaire class in the movement formed under Bernie Sanders, they may be discouraged in defeat now but someone will arise to re-awaken their defection from electoral politics for a stronger comeback. The right wing will have a less easy time ramming legislative policies down the throats of the American people. The bad news is that time is not on the side of the American people nor on the side of the masses of people in the world facing starvation and destruction which is the reason for a total divestment from the bourgeois order, to stop it in its tracks, a pause in the counter momentum running in reverse throwing people off the train as it derails. The second most important reason is the scale of the train and its counter momentum is too large and powerful it can squash reforms in a second. They can legislate the minimum wage downward below subsistence to subjugate labor in one legislative session. A progressive movement must challenge the political force of capital with an equal force, namely, its economic force en masse, take back its productive power of labor and its power of consumption the rich depend on to realize profits, and grab hold of the levers of capital, namely, technology and science, price, profit, interest on capital, rent, wages to conform proportionally to those incomes. These are the levers regulating the American public in the hands of the political engineers of the train that are to be wrestled back into public control.
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  3288. C'mon David Doel! Tear down the Democrats and decimate the conservative right wing. Nina is concrete and not abstract, truth is the concrete, the real, but she is not the end all of politics . Not while the opposition negates the concrete everyday. You and your generation must end that opposition en masse. So start talking about Bernie's political revolution and add to it an economic revolution.
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  3289. We must cease using or saying in media this presidents last name. His surname is a commercial brand which needs to be de-branded, each time it is used we inadvertently promote the brand and we are doing his marketing for the owner of the name.
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  3290. What happens to all that free time (unemployment)from driverless cars? From the job creator's pov, intensifying the work of those not laid off by technology wrecks their lives with more on the job stresses. Higher truck fatalities on the road to deliver faster. Companies compensate for the loss of 'hands', by making up for it in duration. From the worker's pov, its a mortal leap into a society that endangers the human species. So take your pick which is the lesser evil? The third option is to avoid this condition in the first place and make technology a publicly owned entity. Then you won't have companies compensating for a loss of hands every time they buy a new piece of technology. Really---companies are not job creators and they are not the inventors of technology. Companies are buyers out to make more money on what they bought.
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  3291. I second your proposition for disarmament, sanjuansteve.
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  3292. Whoops sorry about that...I seemed to have had a computer malfunction that posted my incomplete thought below.
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  3293. The systemic problem is an internal problem in that officers are trained from a premise of fear of the public. The public is held in contempt by law enforcement officials, they design training programs that instruct young inexperienced officers the specific types of crimes mostly reported versus those that are under reported and concluding society is not safe. Any citizen is potential threat is the running ideology. Training programs come from academia. Academicians are usually good at citing a source. Stinson did not cite his source for his claim and how he came to the conclusion that a person is killed by a police officer every three minutes in the US. Not even Congress has a complete picture of crime in America specifically the data of police homicides. No senator can write a bill to reform a problem that is structured on a privilege of unaccountability, to answer to nobody is a special social status, when the privileges are unreported. There are no consequences for this behavior, it is encouraged by the system itself. The frequency and rate of police homicides cannot be established, therefore, needed more than reform, is a mandatory reporting of police homicides to get a true picture of reality and from that premise a total dismantling from the ground up of an antiquated law enforcement that has its origins in the Pinkertons. Academia designs program based on data from the Uniform Crime Statistics. Cops do not report police homicides and the data compiled paints a false picture of reality. Senators can't write bills to address a problem and if they did then there are senators who would oppose bills that challenge 'white privilege and power' in society because 'white privilege and power' makes them the subject of any type of far reaching bill aiming itself at 'white privilege and power'. If the data is false so is the educational training component and so are the law enforcement agencies and its new non-veteran cops.
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  3294. This international wave of virulent right wing conservatism that is now out in the open covers the earth's surface with blood, violence, and destruction in the name of free markets and austerity is a means for the concrete manifestation of more commodity-markets using money mediating the way the working classes around the world complete transactions. This is done through developed institutions created to facilitate new commodity exchanges, opening new markets for the conversion of products of labor into commodities at home and abroad, this becomes the dominant feature of capitalism with a life of its own. With a life of its own, it is important to understand how the elements of the labor process, 1., worker, 2., subject of labor, 3., automation, involve nature and mankind at the most general level defines human activity by labor, and at the particular factory level automation lengthens the working day promotes higher amounts of product output, forms a continuous surplus for its owner(s)because workers have been paid for the labor-power. Workers are in a position to advance productivity as their own property as a general union of labor and the means of production, at which point, capitalists are unnecessary, or move to exchange labor-power for a share or profits along with a wage, this would a restoration of liberal status quo, or quite possibly as a way to abolish the wage system entirely, a complete ownership of the subject of labor and the means of production would be the extreme end. These measures would stop the formation of new commodity-markets and the conversion of products into commodities... But at the present rate of exploitation it does not appear time is on anyone's side before degradation makes it impossible to live. The workers have to make a decision and act on it sooner than they like, or we all live under barbarism.
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  3295. Our revolution Nina heads is an internal revolt of the changing of the guard in the Democratic party. Nothing more than a "hey, move over, let me drive the car' revolution, a mere casting aside its old guard. Not a real social revolution at all. I have to question anyone black aligning themselves with a party of compromise and trickle down reforms given the history of the Democratic party from its birth during the early start of the Civil War. Democrats traded off with Tories territories, Missouri for Maine where slavery could exists and not exist, for the sake of expanding the Union and industrialization was done only to gain more state status to strengthen the Union but slave emancipation was never enforced to this day since the Missouri Compromise and the counter legislation of the Nebraska-Kansas Act of Congress in 1829, or the Emancipation Proclamation of Lincoln, that is a long time to have emancipation deferred. Not until Dr. King did finally blacks gained rights and in one fell swoop lost them to Democratic incompetence. Our Revolution is certainly not a proletarian revolution because there are no proletarians in the Democratic party just special interest groups, lobbyists, and corporations. Democrats are in only four states and not one single organizing office is located in a proletarian neighborhood like Detroit or Camden NJ. Like they say, these pockets of proletarian places used to be campaign stops when the neighborhoods were clean and not devastated by revolutionary reforms a mere 40 years ago. Nice places to visit but they will not live in them. I never heard any black Democrat talk about the rise of proletarian movements in Greece, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba, in connection to the dispossession of their own people by American corporate banks, forget it, Democrats never pushed to lift any of these oppressive policies on a consistent basis, it is always a trade off, haggling, bargaining, quid pro quo. In a nutshell they show a lack of affinity with those at the lower rungs of society. The word 'revolution' has become a commercial brand no different than Trump is a commercial brand name. Even the conservative right wing used the term revolution in their political ascendency. And revolutions did happen. The Reagan Revolution culminated in a Young Frankenstein elected into the White House and its brand name is , 'No More Taxes'. Everyone other than the proletarians in America has a revolution going on for themselves. Revolutionary austerity on the right and revolutionary reform of the left. A business revolution, technological revolution, a revolutionary diet, revolutionary new pill. But a revolution in the way we work and live a proletarian grown-up can identify with does not exist at this time in the USA. The absence of a proletarian revolution in fact makes America's proletarians the object of revolution, never the main and primary subject of revolution. The term is very popular among proletarians in mind as a wishful thinking, an abstract concept, it exists in mind only not as a practical and concrete necessity for survival and deliverance from oppressive forces. Proletarians are far more inventive and willing to externalize their ideas through invention. They take chances if an idea will fix the problem. Sometime the chance they take backfires in their face. But nine times out of ten the ideas they generate become the standard for the world anyway. Big business does not nor are they inventive. A proletarian invents a unique answer to a mass problem by trial and error and with little capital and practical sense compared to the oversaturated skimming of capital in waste and fraud that corporate Americans are ladened by a solution costs very little comparatively. They re the visionaries who get smothered and stamp out. Proletarians look toward the future, tomorrow, how will overcome yesterday's hassle and never experience it again is their logic. They are experts in the forever fix it mode of being while their counterparts exists in a trapped state of being, frozen and condemned to repetition. Society would benefit greatly with proletarians in charge, they have no malice or desire to abuse people, steal or rob wealth, cheat because all they know is how to produce and produce effectively and anything they make on their own is by instinct a 'social product'. Something we all need. Truly the most selfless social class in existence on Earth, the complete opposite of what we have now in both wings of the bourgeois world. Not too mention food. Nothing better in life than proletarian kitchens cooking up stuff far beyond a French Chef can imagine, in fact, all over the world celebrity Chefs travel the world to learn the tricks to proletarian cooking that hunger worldwide would be abolished in a week if they owned more than two pots and pan. This is my rant like it or not. Peace my brothers and sisters in revolution.
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  3296. Americans have to answer the question, Bernie poses, in a social and cultural revolution, to learn how a minority ends up appropriating the reserve wealth of the many worldwide? Because so much of that success is accomplished by the cooperation of the American people. Once they begin to unravel themselves en masse from the bourgeois institutions that hold them accountable to those institutions, a cultural and social revolution can begin to take shape and a new society can emerge. Basically, Americans have to rescind their cooperation and withdraw from the political and economic roles assigned to them en masse.
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  3297. The Democratic party is in a state of crisis, disarray, splintered by factions, and evidently does not have the wide support of the working class that voted against it. It lost the House, Senate, Congress and the White House. This was a major defeat for the party. Speech or not, this is the reality. All self-doing, party officials could not select a person for their nominee to be anymore disliked than Hillary Clinton to the segment of society that lost jobs to trade deals and tipped the election against her. The country has changed so dramatically in a short period of time following her husband's reforms that the leadership could not recognize they needed to tap into that loss with the same instincts Donald Trump tapped into. It was a colossal defeat. They should have had her concede to Bernie,
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  3298. Ryan Doede --- Chomsky is never interviewed in American media and when he is interviewed by a media organization this is all you have to say?
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  3299. Trump's working class supporters are a disaster for supporting him thinking he will save their jobs and restore America' s 20th century industrialization.
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  3300. The momentum for world revolution is intensifying. Capitalism can easily be overthrown now that it has no socialist rival as powerful as the US. I say this because the working classes can now directly confront the ruling classes, whereas in the past they had the Liberal State and the USSR, suppressing the class struggle giving some stability to the world, a sense of order under two powers which has now completely vanished. All the remnants of the Cold War, are gone, even the Liberal State has vanished and literally the ruling class dominating the central government in Washington isn't even an executive branch of all the ruling classes, each nation with its own ruling elite are acting out of survival for themselves. Some national elites are really feeble and others desperate, everyone for himself is their battle cry, because their own working classes are confronting them en masse and this exposes the real agenda of the right wing, its political aims, function and purpose were cliques promoting the growth of and for the super rich exclusively. Americans will have a great revelation realizing capitalism dead once they expose the internal government of the superrich and its military apparatus the lies and deceptions endured over the last century in human terms was a loss that never should have never happened. But Henry VIII should never have happened, Napoleon, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and under the rule of the working class, they never will. The political structures are destroyed and need to be thrown out start afresh with new political structures that are anti-ruling class, people based and democratic in nature, in some cases, perilous death awaits them or permanent imprisonment, thus all the ruling classes actions are 'desperate measures for survival'. Facing a reality with sober senses the cloud of ideological indoctrination blows over to usher in a new age of saving the world and humanity by a class that can no longer keep its old skin given to them by the old order and becomes, in a word, revolutionary.
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  3301. This is a case where the working class is not developed enough to acquire the productive forces of society. Venezuela has become a carnival of thieves.
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  3302. Americans have to wrap their heads around the notion and reality that a few usurpers they envied and had aspirations of becoming themselves, have gone from innocent commodity producers into mega-monopolies on an international scale, subsequently, have no love for the American people or their country but, just see the culture and country, as an opportunity to siphon its natural resources and wealth as it would any other country that has a resource vital to its military might. Multi-national corporations are up against new serious rivals that put the American people second on social spending and development and first on fighting forces bent of breaking the control the few usurpers have on the world market on subsistence, rare metals, and oil, the main economic commodities that make American labor productive, without which, America would be another third world entity with immense poverty and social alienation spread across society. This new century brings to the fore the question of what means to what ends should the mass of the American people take a political stand on, the aims of a few usurpers or the aims of suffering world?
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  3303. Clowns and Neo-fascists are probably overrunning America but on the local level the effects of them running the country is intolerable. Their actions is the cause of so much dysfunction of local communities facing disastrous situations as a consequence. At the national level their actions lead to the formation of a class oligarchy of billionaires and private industry. They are clearly motivated in tearing down all reasonable form of governance a nation of different communities needs to function. No mind paid to quality of life issues. At the same time as they abstain from governing they are dismantling government as a move to render society incapacitated, fall into chaos, making America second in line to shareholders. Even if you are miles away from a fracking gas plant the effects can still show up in your blood stream through water and food sources. You may think that power plant or pipeline is harmless until a medical doctor finds an industrial connection to a high incidence of cancer, asthma, and what have you. By then the work of the dismantlers of democracy and government have positioned themselves to take America under siege and rule it as a monarchy and a plebiscite government would rule a European 19th century republic. To add insult to injury to the American people its own big revenue capital investments benefit shareholders over society.
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  3304. Henry is back! Trump grew up in the Nixon-Kissinger era but on the Norman Vincent Peale side of New York City. During the war he stayed home. Romney went to France. The rich kids evaded military conscription. The poor kids didn't. Fortunately there was a protest movement that was big enough to bring down the president or Vietnam would have been a part of the on-going wars today. Kissinger was a brilliant detente' strategist but he laid the basis for an American empire with one dominant enemy at the table. Today there are many dominant spheres of influence. Too much dysfunction and disorganization to cope with and in the end none the better for it that from its chaotic nature has to come simplicity and unity. Everyday people can influence the political world but only as it was done in the past through organization and mass mobilization. That is the only way to channel the size and scale or volume needed for these rulers to hear the average person(s) voice and movement in the course of human history.
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  3305. The kind of jobs that will come down the pike under this administration are serial manufacturing jobs. Anything serialized involves a detailed operation of putting together from other partially finished products the main product, i.e., cars, cell phones, computers, buildings, bridges, factories are made by this process of serialized manufacture. The work itself is repetitive, mindless, narrow in scope. America will become one giant sweat shop. Forced labor a norm. Social activity limited to the family and work refined into a detailed function that when put together each detailed member form a whole social mechanism. Unwittingly preserving and suppressing each activity that is not detailed than if it were detailed according to company policy. America will resemble George Orwell's 1984 on steriods and its workplaces will resemble Dante's seven steps of hell, the Inferno. Suppression and suspension of civil rights and absolutely no worker rights on the job.
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  3306. If we follow the logic of the DPRK the US would have to take the first step in denuclearizing its arsenal and this president is not about to denuclearize and the DPRK neither. This puts (us) in the middle of an irreconcilable contradiction for it is our lives hinging on the balance of force being used to reconcile the contradiction. If we follow the logic of the US, the DPRK stands in the way of the aim for a united Korea on the basis of the production of profit, i.e, liberal capitalism. The eyes of the world are on the US and what it will do that will determine if this historic irreconcilable contradiction between capitalism and socialism ends in a mutual destruction or a resurgence of socialism. America's forgotten war is suddenly being remembered and the evidence of the war damming.
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  3307.  @durrellhairston9607  The horrible events that take place in society are not the actions of good or evil. When you remove one evil another one takes its place and when one good is removed another good takes its place and on and on the morality wheel we remain spinning within the cage that binds our freedom.
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  3308. Trump is a master manipulator, cunning and a born-leveler. Anybody know if Jeff Sessions is a descendant of the general who fired the first shot at Fort Sumter in April 12, 1861? Beauregard and Sessions would be a direct link to secessionists of the old South and the new southern strategy in the post Civil Rights era.
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  3309. Good night folks, tomorrow is another day to asses world news, see you later.
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  3310. A new party can emerge but it is not a substitute for a true movement of average working people. No different than the party of the rich is a substitute for the movement and political organization of the rich that dominates it. A movement must be bigger than a party and make all parties agree to dissolve themselves when the economic divisions in society are dissolved.
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  3311. Sadi khan speaks in contradictory terms about safety. Being the safest in the world and at the same time doing all they can to be the safest implies the unpredictable mess terrorism in London entails. Civilians become the counter terrorists by no choice of their own. Do citizens want to be the eyes and ears of the police in deterring terrorism when their own are suspect of the police?. Gradually the anonymity of violence makes it impossible to sustain a tourist industry and cities become desolate. Still the critics of official policy and the officials themselves do not speak to the deterioration of the quality of life in preserving the economic life of a city. The more terrorism strikes London, Paris, the more reactionary the ideologues become, desperate and appealing to far right nationalism, to rekindle a military surge in the Middle East.
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  3312. @Bannon, I'd be damned if i let some Catholic schoolboy tell me what to do! @ America, Gotta be a bunch of pussies to believe his horse shit.
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  3313. You cannot have an independent media if it is owned by a corporation or several corporations have controlling interest in that media organization.
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  3314. Nothing funny about this alternate reality business. School system is a dead end. Trump over inflates the murder rate. The existence of law enforcement depends on murders, crimes against property are not enough to rationalize the spending. Soon law enforcement will be broken away from the power of the judiciary and placed under the direct the direct power of Trump. America has an apartheid government in the Senate and a dictatorship in the executive branch.
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  3315. To be or not to be, un-American, is to be silent forever.
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  3316. I do not think the American people have a choice in this matter. The two party system has put on the lap of the American people a choice, socialism or capitalist barbarism. The longer the American people hesitate to act the closer to barbarism it gets. In a twist of historical fate the least revolutionary working class in the world has to lead a world wide revolution themselves.
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  3317. Who follows Israel in forming an apartheid state? Russia, Paraguay or the USA.
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  3318. Standing Rock's native American resistance is under surveillance and COINTELPRO, this fact, will not produce outrage in the American public. Not as long as the American public is already subjugated by law enforcement and the party of law enforcement. Everywhere the sign 'Support our Police' are on suburban lawns. There is absolutely no evidence in the American public of an organized response to the sum total of repressions in this era of their struggle. Thus far, the American public observe these incidents as spectators not as participants. It is a contradiction that protest strategies will deliver justice when justice serves the economic interest of corporations. The scenario is clear the pipeline will be installed and some years down the road the pipeline will burst, leak, and be fixed rendering the land uninhabitable, tribes and other communities will be compensated and dispersed to break up the unity they developed, a pipeline as all products manufactured in the United States are planned to last only so long. Did Katrina residents mobilize to expel BP, did the coastal fisherman lead a fight or just simply waited till the compensation was distributed? This is the greatest country in the world for capitalism to exist. Its working class is the complete opposite of those filthy rebellious Europeans bent on clean air and equality. Americans would rather be clean themselves and water and air be dirty. There is no revolutionary backbone in this generation of Americans, never was. How is it possible a people on their own land can be labeled as 'insurgents' begs the question how was it possible for Henry VIII to forcibly evacuate millions of peasants off the land to give the factories in Manchester, the labor it needed to jump start capitalism yet that is what was done through a series of parliamentary enactments? To be an insurgent really means the beginning of mass expropriation. How can a simple, humble peasant be criminalized for growing food for his family and selling off his excess to get ahead in life is the same question. I know, big words, not good, more simply, get off the land or be jailed and sentenced to death was how, brute force. I can understand an illiterate 16th century peasant complying with the King's edicts, simply packing up the wife and kids and going off seeking work in factory mills for 16 hours a day, but I cannot understand how a 21st century average working class American can be reduced to the level of a peasant without an ounce of mass resistance.
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  3319. I don't know where we can make a judgement. Capitalism has not worked in Venezuela for its indigenous people for most of its modern economic history and if you think reservations is a shining example of the achievements of the richest form of capitalism is any better for Native Americans than you are just plain stupid. What makes you think a lower stage of capitalism will perform any better then the higher form that proves over and again it can't and refuses to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation for the last 150 years and cannot universalize health care in the 21st century? I do not see how we are anyone to judge what native people do to change their destiny.
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  3320. We will know soon enough if capitalism is on its last legs. A good barometer is the class struggle itself. If more demonstrations are about unjust taxes, low wages, corruption, working conditions, cuts to working class credits and benefits, health care and social security and less about global warming, race and gender then the demonstrations are moving away from the abstract issues toward the more concrete injustices of daily life under capitalism. Capitalism cripples itself it does not kill itself, for that it needs to be a direct threat to workers. Corporate and political blows and attacks are not a direct threat of the ability of the working class to survive, I suspect would be considered a success for capitalism.
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  3321. In most revolutionary periods the forces of production are more widely consumed for the production of surplus value as a way of preserving the class position of the entire capitalist class relative to the State. Productive power is concentrated into fewer hands. In this way bourgeois society begins to dismantle the state of its legislative controls over capital and begins to amplify inequities in salaries and in communities. Capital is a social relation between capital and labor and a duality of science and technology is present in that social relation. Playing a role as, innovator of production as an element of latent progress and as potential to end inequities. However, no matter how productive capitalism is material deprivation is its outcome, which obviously, hinders social reproduction, therefore, the link between the forces of production and material deprivation is expressed under capitalism in the form of class inequities. This aspect of the relation ought to be a critical component of any critique of capitalism. For the concern is the development of the human species that the forces of production facilitate a high degree of productiveness of labor in combination with the instruments of labor; to afford a change in the social relations of work. This is a big task to harness the energies of labor in society to think uniformly of their role in production not only as common users of the means of labor but also as the agency for a new society. There is a long tradition of economic thought began in the late 16th century at the very start of the age of capital which dates from 1660 to the present. Marxists praised capitalists for making advancements but more to the point their observations are unanimous that capitalism, despite its advancements and contradictions, contains a rational premise for a new society in the area of production. United labor should lead the rest of society after it restores the original unity, its means of labor and subsistence, toward coop ownerships in agriculture recombining individual producers in industry but also, a re-orientation of the organization of production for the development of the human mind in general. This way capitalism already in its late stages of development is divorced from the forces of production and these forces divested into a vast arrangement of alternative uses, re-orienting humanity away from the characteristic fallacy of economic growth of excess individual consumption and into a future society based on practical intelligence toward an even economic development of world systems. Basically a new form of property relations is critical at this juncture as time runs out for the human race. Humanity is 200,000 years old the Earth 2.3 billion years old. The world and humanity will rebound as something else without the destructive influences of corporations but how much of the resources are left to accommodate 9 billion people will require a change in the methods of production based on need not profit. Given the descent of mankind through capitalism many species went instinct by means of climate and environmental degradation mainly because humans were and still are self destructive.
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  3322. What a missed opportunity the Democrats let go through their hands. They alienated themselves from this working class generation forever. Future ones, as they say, a sucker is born every minute might recapture the Democratic spirit, but for now, that spirit is a wash with republican detergent.
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  3323. Not the end of the world but certainly the end of the human species as a product of the biological evolution of the world.
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  3324. Stephan Walt's analysis is great. Every time the American people are ready for a change it is stolen by the right wing. That's my take of his assessment. The country is ready to go in the opposite direction of Trump. He blew it. But did he blow it? There is symmetry and consistency in his actions contrary to what we expect. The US made mistakes, the problem is, our mistakes should not excuse what Russia is doing today. I grant you that Mr. Walt. Military action against Iran means a definite war with Iran and the Islamic world. I grant you that Mr. Walt, it does. But at the same time trying to get help from these countries is contradictory. But is it? A point of view could be said that it is in perfect harmony for Trump to build a coalition of Muslim and Russian monarchs and oligarchs to defeat ISIS. After all, ISIS and Al Queda oppose the region's monarchies as they do the super rich of the US. Why shouldn't someone of that class rally their brethren in the face of extinction? Another point of view is that Trump is looking for assistance in the elimination of ISIS and will do business with the devil to accomplish that. To Trump the US is no better than anyone else in terms of the allies and enemies it created.
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  3325. The News gets thinner because the Crisis in America gets bigger.
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  3326. END MILITARISM!
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  3327. It is amazing to be witness and see the collective conscious shift from reformism to revolution in America.
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  3328. They are bourgeois women, upper middle class, privileged women, housework or other work society needs for its survival is not the work they do.
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  3329. He makes a good point about Trump. He does leave a wake of lives ruined behind him. Not a constructive person you want in charge of a nation. Yet that is what he accomplished at the expense of those loyal to him. Working class republicans paying Trump’s legal fees is self-denigrating because they voluntarily give him the money.
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  3330. Oh, brother where are their heads? Don't they understand that competition affects the price of any infrastructure project in three different ways? The Defense Production Act would cost less when five, ten, twenty big corporations cooperate to produce a new infrastructure project. If they love it so much they should pay for it. Competition among sellers forces commodity prices down when they want to sell. But there is a competition among buyers that they don't tell us about that is the spoiler. Here among buyers the price of the commodities they want to buy goes up. Lastly, competition does another thing. All buyers and sellers compete to buy cheaper to sell as high as possible. All of this sets the stage for a battle where only one of the three kinds of competitions going on at the same time wins. The chaos of competition will generate sheer social anarchy in society. Sellers and buyers and sellers competing for the greater share of the Emergency Rescue Package Part II the American people will be made to pay for generations to come.
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  3331. The world is a real big place offering more than what Israel can offer the world.
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  3332. This is what is forcing the US to leave behind the republican party and make the investments in America. China and Russia are making major investments improving the material foundation of what is making them competitors to the US. The republican party of today are intensely focused on internal and national issues like immigration and voting rights suppression. Not focused at all with the external changes in the world market and relations between nations. World competition imposes its own pressure on world leaders to bring labor and capital together again from its separation during the pandemic. Without a strong working material foundation brought up to date America loses the competition easily becomes the platform of the democratic party. One party looks forward and the other party looks backward in the context of historic changes in competition between nations. All the chickens for America have come home to roost. The republican party created the greatest displacement and suffering and damage to workers in the US than in any other time in its history swung pendulum in favor of labor over capital.
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  3333. The Bongo family were expert usurpers of the mass of the wealth of the people and the coup was an expropriation of the expropriators of the Bongo organization.
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  3334.  @YARDMANMX  Doesn't mean the politicians have to be morons and callous because the masses are lethargic. They need to get out of their idiocy too!
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  3335.  @GreatBigRanz  With what he/she knew and when he/she knew it, their career is doomed.
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  3336.  @lynnjackson2699  People solve things not money. Wrong people with a lot of money is Big Problema.
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  3337.  @thekurtcobainfoundation4200  I just walked over a dam in NY serving a population of 3000. Cracked, aged, no visible signs of repairs, built in 1952. How many governors is that?
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  3338.  @rolandthethompsongunner64  Hot air balloon would have worked. Maybe all communities should more homes built into the earth rather than on it. Maybe zoning laws should permit the construction of more tornado proof structures instead of approving house of the same quality.
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  3339.  @bonniewatson178  I guess that is the lesson of Pompei.
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  3340.  @GreatBigRanz  That's the reason why education was invented. Its not education Americans are taught that endows the mind with more reasoning power; to the contrary, education is a process of de-skilling people in America to suit the needs of Big Business.
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  3341.  @user-RLTW  Sending millions is how Haiti’s economy is purchased. It may be a very poor and destitute working class it still produces a surplus product as an annual product American capital buys and re-sells in your supermarket at a higher price. At your end the swindle is inflation and their end the swindle is deprivation. Getting screwed in different ways by the power in the middle.
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  3342. The hold monopolies have on the open market is the control of the price of the means of production.
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  3343.  @PoliticalEconomy101  While you argue what is what (semantics) your life, country, future, is doomed by that which you are trying to name. Incidentally, Mr. Pol Eco., have you read Capital, K. Marx? Secondly, go into your books and read the acknowledgements in the foreword or after it as the case me be. That will tell you the audience for whom that book is written to establish the language they want to inculcate in minds like your's and take you away from the revolutionary aspects of the theory of pol. eco. in Marx.
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  3344.  @RobwLPOC  Thanks I am with u.
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  3345. He should have sent them to your house. @ChromeZLord 
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  3346. Your blame does not go deep enough...its way too shallow...blame deeper, wider and go further back is how your blame needs to travel, many.institutions and individuals are to blame...@JamieGAdaire
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  3347. What America has is one party with two right wings, who are democrats and republicans. Environmental racism insofar as zoning plans concentrated whites into suburbs and people of color into cities and bad management insofar as there is a general pride in not governing as the definition and meaning of a politician.
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  3348. Anti-communists are virulent terrorists.
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  3349. Most leftists of the baby boomer and Millennial generations in America, Canada and Mexico believe Karl Marx was the father of socialism...because of this misinformation the work of past generations aiming to make a better world for themselves and the future is not carried to its completion by the current generation of the goals they started.
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  3350. CLIMATE CHANGE: Warmer climate leads to more frequent tornadoes ...so how many people make up the communities devastated by the 300 tornado storms is not mention in the report though we can estimate the communities in Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Texas, will be devastated next year and the year after from warmer climate storms that produce tornadoes, hail, floods?
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  3351. Shows the US government is falling apart exactly what Trump's benefactor, Robert Mercer, wants. Not Russians doing this, to the contrary, its pro-nationalist/seperatist Americans disabling government. They prevent and obstruct government from being any service to the people in a time of crisis and from interfering with their super rich benefactors.
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  3352. Obviously there is a black market for stolen cars and if kids can make money, why not. Lame pundits.
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  3353. Thanks...I'll look into it. Valid and relevant, indeed.
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  3354. A social revolution is America’s only course of action and this is because totalitarianism breeds revolution.
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  3355. People watch the news because they want news. New news not old news.
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  3356. By abstention you condon a genocide. @drewdrew7968 
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  3357. Wishful thinking. Weapons made here end up into the hands of criminals both legal ones and illegal ones, the people would have to fight with sticks and stones if they decided not to run away. The people never got the support the US has given to “these people” not for decades, they never got it, it went to elites, the rich, the military...circulated to gangs through the sale of Fentanyl and pot, this is a fact. The proof of this is in their militaries, they are equipped and outfitted with American gear and weapons, modernized, which they could not afford on the merit of their own devalued currencies. AID was used to buy the services of US military advisors and companies and training. These republics were turned into client states. AID never went to the peasant farmer. A refrigerator in “these people’s “ home market costs a fortune, do you think US weapons and military gear can be bought with pesos? Sure but they would need a billion pesos for ten machine guns. If you accept the premise, all our millions in AID spent was spent to arm an ally, so that US corporations can sell higher to us in the American market the products they buy cheaper from them. Buy cheap, sell dear. Than you are enlightened, if not, you are asleep, groping in the dark for answers. Even today, despite all that is going on, they still bamboozle, trick, lie upon, the US taxpayer. Now that you know this aspect of the whole truth what is your opinion now? This is the truth you need to face.  @msudawgma 
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  3358. Human beings do harm to other human beings but this exploitation of opportunity for oneself in that general social relation does not start with a gun.  A man robs another man because he sees his own property as a limitation compared to the property of the man he robs. Both men have property, one owns less property than the other provides the eternal motive to which a gun serves one man as a means to rob becomes the criminal and the gun serves the other man for defense as its end becomes the hero in the (his)story that completely ignores the property relation between them.
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  3359. Question: Is air travel the best way to move an average of 132 million people a year?
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  3360.  @gabbyvaz4911  Cynic.
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  3361.  Ohno's Out!  Your heart is probably in the right place but your words are not!
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  3362. It is pretty clear that the part of society that is the least productive of citizens and the most destructive know how to appropriate for themselves a great part of the ‘material’ wealth of society, partly through the sale of their ‘immaterial’ commodities (AI) and partly by forcing their will on other people (the State, officials, military people, artists, doctors, priests, judges, lawyers, and more),---would find it an insult if they were compared to clowns and menial servants and to appear as people partaking in excess consumption,--as parasites on the actual producers. They the Gods of the Lesser Tribes, who with hubris, the halo and the superstitious venerations they normally get from the public and from others in their class cannot be profaned. Pretty clear this period is a period of parvenu people who are totally unproductive and came from their own organizations.
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  3363. Well at least Americans are coming into contact with each other that is not for the reason of buying or selling something to each other. It never happens anymore people greet or help or talk to each other to be civil and friendly, pass the time, that this is better than nothing. Humans are stroke starved for attention. There isn’t a rule saying you cannot carry a dildo in your bag. If millions of people carried dildos in their bag the whole program might just go away out of sheer embarrassment heavily guarded people might resist the job. There are lot of actors in Manhattan, very talented people. There is no rule against a couple of people or one person performing a dance or magic trick while on the platform to the camera and have the world watch them when it leaks out. Checking someone’s bag is a personal thing usually that happens after the first date a wallet or purse is investigated by the participants. Point is protest can have many forms just as effective as mass demonstrations.
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  3364. This is not a generation ages 30 to 40 who see this as a political problem. They did not grow up with a social consciousness. And American legislators are a breed of lawyer who do not try to solve social problems in a political way. Lawyers/legislators/politicians are trained, instructed, paid to not social problems at all. Local legislators are worse that no matter how may times a building falls or a hurricane devastates a coastline do nothing to change zoning laws and local officials, i.e., county managers et., in most states are too religious to even sound the alarm of an impending disaster. What will happen is FEMA public funds will get cut in the name of servicing the government’s enormous debt before the government lets it go dry from all the claims and private insurers by high premiums will insure the rich. A debt made larger sending weapons overseas. Mar-A-Lago will be covered others not as rich will not. In the end the allocation of public funds for disasters is more than a case of politicians not coming together to legislate remedies to social problems, the allocation rests on a class differences, as to who will get the support. I know this is the scenario that will happen because the planet continues to heat up and ocean levels continue to rise that next seasons hurricanes will strike with greater ferocity and the government’s priority is not solving the social problems of the American people. The next flood even more powerful, the next drought more severe until the whole society is basically turned into a refugee camp filled with Americans who are not rich and are not white.
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  3365. What is wrong with relying on a people or a person? People should be relied upon this way all people become reliable to each other.
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  3366. The small business owner turned politician uses language rooted in social chauvinism and opportunism.  His opinions of the failures of social democracies in Europe and Latin America have to do with human history and social progress whatever their form not because a given party had policies unleashed this potential. Nations do have minds of their own and see the diminishing role of a super power over their lives as a relief to grow the way they want to grow.
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  3367. The police detaining them handled that stop as a domestic dispute. Do your laws consider a van on a highway a home?
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  3368.  @onceinawhile7  the Fourth Turning as I just read about it, is the ‘perceived’ threat to a nation’s survival expressed by a crisis of war or revolution. So no matter what kind of revolution it is or war that is provoked; its a threat to a nation’s survival...in street talk this is pure bullshit. Academically, its a rationalization. War and revolutions threaten the governments of that nation, the nation does not go away, because governments go away. Revolutions or war threaten the existence of governments. People say the world is coming to an end. The world does not end because societies end? See the difference here? I think The Fourth Turning makes the mistake of not pushing people to realize their lives are treated by this society as any commodity on the market when they should be treated according to their value, dignity and worth. If it doesn’t make you want to change society, its junk theory.
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  3369.  @Antidragon-nl7by  And Trump was to the right of the working class, imagine if he were on center with the working class blue and grey collar, how much of a stir would have been made that the democrats in California would have had to pass Med4 All and not vote it down. But he came at a time when the white blue collar working class was being decimated and channeled that anger for his own gain. NY would have followed CA and the rest of the country the pandemic the critical unifier. Pity he was a right winger himself.
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  3370. An RN pushing a defribrillator behind the delegation is missing in the scene.
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  3371.  @Melanin_Move  The cop was stupid too. Four sources of stupidity and social alienation.
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  3372. As long as the threat of China, Russia, Venezuela, Iran, owing to their growth and development impedes the realization of the New World Order of Capitalist relations some country or many countries will be on the receiving end of a physical blood letting accompanied by a virulent nationalism with the US as its leader. The world capitalist order had been leading up to a new mode of production in how world production is financed. If threats to this plan for the 21st century persists the US will unleash a ferocious war to keep nations hostage to the dollar. That is the first point to make, world war is inevitable. The second point is that working classes are expected to be bear the burden of a reduction of income for this New World Order to come about.
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  3373. ​ @jd-py5nm  Facts show that white people move too...how is this important?
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  3374. The scoundrels might be thrown in jail but it will not be in this system that they would get locked up. The system itself cannot dissolve itself nor will its representatives take responsibility. Any new government that comes into power assuming Snyder are locked up it is the bondholders who will demand their money from that government assuming the banks are allies with Snyder and Co. That government will not find a lender. It will have to do what Venezuela, Cuba, China, and Russia had to do in their revolutions and expropriate the lenders and be prepared to defend it. Americans are not going to commit to an expropriation and a nationalization of commercial banks and super rich. Americans have been fighting against the expropriation of the big lenders and the super rich in their war against communism for the whole of their history that to expect they will overthrow that which they have thoroughly incorporated into their being as the final stage of history is absolutely preposterous.
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  3375. Pope Francis had a conscience and sensibility for the struggle of the oppressed and scolded the oppressor, he is respected for that the world over. Although we are not privy to the conversation between the Pope and Vance, that fact that not much of that interaction was described and reported by the News is a clear indication the Pope showed Vance the door in that meeting.
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  3376. Wow, if ever there was a state more against the citizen it is there in Nevada. Nevada’s state criminal justice system is out of something you would find in Kabukistan or Myanmar, totally regressive.
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  3377. Since when is the pandemic now a subject of authority by the Energy Department?
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  3378.  @pleiadesstarr453  The news about the pandemic is not fake....there was a virologist, two virologists, one from China (Wuhan) and the other Australia (Queensland) studying Bats. Article in Scientific American appeared featuring the Bat Lady’s work on Bats and was deleted at the time the question into the virus’s origins 2 years ago. Meanwhile in Queensland Australia, Bats were swamping the town with feces to the extent people had to sweep the crap to ope their doors it was that bad. Park’s were closed. A real mess and fears stoked by infectious bat disease. The virologist in China goes by the nickname ‘The Bat Lady”. Fauci’s association with the Bat Lady is in the way of funding the Wuhan Bat Lady in her Wuhan Lab of money acquired through the US military, and this is when and where the virus goes public. Fauci was not the amenable virologist he appeared to be and the public adored. The fake news part about this is concealing the true story from the Public of the virus’s origins. Why the Energy Department weighs in I think has to do with the general disorganization and incompetence of the American government. But it is definitely a subject for a good reporter to learn why other agencies are acting like the lead government institutions. As when the FED treasurer Yelle went to Ukraine to deliver a billion bucks to them. As the administrative branch of government is made weak other agencies of the government come forward. Could be the beginning of the end of the presidency as the top office of the nation.
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  3379. Accountability begins in Israel and ends in the US Senate.
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  3380. mmm...indeed.
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  3381.  @wl2486  That it does. Prairie Fire. The structure of our creativity is framed in the suppression and preservation of trial and error. We try, fail and fail better.
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  3382. A raid of a newspaper here, a social control situation over there, its not safe for you to go back home here, governors asking for more shelter money in their budgets over there,---these are all actions done in the name of “safety”, actions which look and sound good, friendly, but add up to a changed society and a repressive state.
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  3383. I think political observers would not be surprised an ultra -conservative got elected. The more conservative we become the more conservative they become seems to be the trend worldwide as far as adversaries to the US go. I bet inside the Pentagon are a lot of people are happy a hardliner got elected. To their disappointment Raisi is not a brinksman.
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  3384. Church tells government what to do says Boebert...not the other way around, she is sick of this separation of church and state crap! What a overly-sensitive ass she is? Historically, the state came into being when the great material wealth of rulers of the past and their servants which were many fell into custody of the state and became matters of public concern to every citizen, or that is how the state came to be in the history of Europe. Pretty much the same way with differences how things and people became wards of the government and a matter of all concerned in America. All national parks, Indian reservations, did not fall into the hands of the Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, thanks to TR; they became wards of the state. Curious to know what Boerbert’s Theocratic Church-State would do with the Indian Reservations and Yellowstone, the Continental Divide, and all 17 million foster kids with special needs? Americans like her are base and debasing people.
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  3385. So the real battle here is about keeping the gas and other minerals in Haiti that the police in Haiti are unable to resume taking the gas out of Haiti. Haitians are resisting the police who need American assistance and resisting/ refuse American intervention. Well, the gas as a natural resource of Haiti belongs to Haitians and not to foreign oil companies from the US. A point the Haitian people are making with their blockades that I find hard to refute or denounce. America troops are not going to be met with joy. US forces would be acting on behalf of outside oil interests. Apart from this is a misuse of the military and Haiti is not a threat to national security. Kids coming home dead for a raw material is not my idea of patriotism.
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  3386. No they don’t but they also cannot escape the same relations in other employers offering jobs. But employers can escape you. Think about that. @billyturner2396 
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  3387. How do you know which skill is more productive than another when all skills are reduced to average work time in their compensation? All skills are used in one step of a three step process that the corporation is able to capitalize on production and then accrue $20 bn in profits from sales. Auto workers are obviously not an equal partner with the corporation in the production phase as they were before in the negotiating stage with the corporation. They were equal as seller and buyer and they exchanged agreements but they come out as unequal partners in the production phase where skills are used to create $20 bn in product in anticipation of its sale. Value is added to the investment. The corporation wins the value the workers lose in the value they made in the finished product. Seems to me the right way to resolve this inequality is for all skills own a share of the finished product and 51% ownership of the factories to prevent plants from ever leaving the country. The wrong thing for labor to do is what the Biden administration wants them to do, a contract settlement in the old fashioned way it is just a job not a career and no change in Labor as the unequal partner to the corporation in production. @ripperwrestling6587 
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  3388. Auto Industry should produce the necessary car for rural America, one that never breaks down and runs 50 miles to a gallon. Like the Russians produce the LADA, a fabulously well built mechanical and reliable car covers a land mass three times the size of the US. States need to change their old world bureaucratic DMV policies. One national license, one national registration is all we need, and a once a year rendezvous market for the transfer, sale, re-use and trade of all vehicles, a progressive tax to these transactions to be self running and independent as a national motor vehicle agency.
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  3389. No wonder Americans are religious post mortem is the only way to attain peace and justice on earth.
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  3390.  @Thecosmiccrashout  Well thank you but for the ass part, I can only say no more than what actually occurs. Both are negatives even as one are the opposite of the other. Leaving the country is a negative and not stepping outside of the box is a negative. It posits a barrier neither can surpass. The powers and drives are our own but we pretend they are from other sources. An excuse for being accidental in life.
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  3391. Amazing to me that the military has not devised an escape plan for sinking subs. Sheer neglect is the only reason. You would think there would be 53 scuba outfits on board ready for such an emergency and a hatch for the crew to exit before pressure crushes them.
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  3392. Summers is calling for higher unemployment because he knows Capital cannot expand without labor-power. The creation of a labor-market and the creation of money markets is what capitalism does as a system in foreign countries using the military for this purpose. Capital will not come home until the price of labor-power sinks to where it is profitable. I know not all but I know enough to know the problem here: Capitalism is not understood, how it works is a mystery to American workers, but the upper echelons for the Democratic Party, a party of Big Business, know what they need to bring inflation down. Inflation is the other way Big Business accrues its profit by raising prices crushes workers. Since everyone is pressuring Biden to bring inflation down Big Business is saying; OK, Joe, we as a class will fire people and the ones fired will be absorbed by the industries in need the labor-power. It should be recalled that the multinational corporations own most of the industries workers would be absorbed into. Is it a class struggle...it sure is. American workers will learn class struggle politics through experience. Of course, this will cause working people to scramble around and compete for jobs eventually the average wage will creep up to attract workers and the workday further prolonged where those workers found a job creating surplus value for the boss will not be curtailed because of unionization. It will help but capitalism as a relation is still the main problem.
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  3393.  @Doood692  Right, what people miss from what I read in the comments is the combination of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and oxygen, we produce from our patterns of production and consumption that determines life or death. That would be the point and the reason adjustments in our habits must be made.
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  3394. Gold is not reflected in dollars. What is reflected in dollars are commodities. It is not that the currency has increased in quantity and is chasing more goods on the market. No. You would be mistaken. Inflation has nothing to do with the high price levels for gold. It’s the currency reflecting the values in commodities, less labor in individual commodities that the high price levels for gold are high. World market price for gold is higher in relation to gold because vast quantities of commodities are made in less time than gold. Because commodities are expressed in dollars gold prices are high and will go higher the more commodities have less and less value. Gold has its own productivity,---comes out of the ground at a certain rate is a constant magnitude that is being compared to items with less value in them. What makes less value in commodities is the innovation individual corporations apply to their production involves less of the value creating substance, namely, the ratio between people and machines has changed. Commodities have less human labor in them. Before there were more people working that formed the value substance in commodities. Today there are less people working with higher rates of output in industries where there are more machines that the products are cheap to make. If a given nation wants dollars, it has to buy them, and a country of less advanced means would have to give up more of its industries as collateral to buy enough dollars to buy gold, or even trade with the US and other countries. The seller of dollars does not buy its dollars; the seller prints its dollars. This poses an unfair advantage to all buyers of dollars. At some point buyers will buy some other currency that more accurately reflects the real values of the products of all their industries, and the sun will set over the seller who prints dollars for sale.
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  3395. Nice reply. America's private corporate debt is 9 trillion and public debt is 21 trillion. You can imagine what will happen when the US economy crashes again. What is corporate debt? In 2008, the banks dropped rates below zero to make credit free. Corporations were salivating. They borrowed money at zero rates and bought their own shares to drive up the value of shares to accumulate capital. Nothing invested in production or industry. Nothing. The government issued free credit to corporations and the government borrowed from China and the super rich, the cash to debt ratio is at 12%, when the economic downturn comes a monetary panic will ensue worldwide and there will be no other place to borrow. The government and banks, the super rich, will put that burden on the working classes. The so called recovery only hid this economic reality. The banks are doing the same thing that caused that crash. When it happens, I will be interested knowing how this will impact the European scene?
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  3396.  @YourLoveIsKing...  Religion is the opiate of the masses and you belong to that mass.
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  3397. The Press disguises a revolt of armed gangs, not as a revolution in Haiti but as a rebellion of criminals. If this were true the gangs would not have the support of the Haitian people in a universally accepted clear objective to take political power and overthrow what is essentially a dictator backed by outside foreign interests. The PM cannot return to the country. The insurrectionists vow to take the Capitol in the name of the Haitian people. This is a revolution outsiders are fighting, and... the state of emergency declared is a last ditch effort of the so called prime minister, really a dictator’s resistance to capitulation.
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  3398. Yes Mr Fry, China is our adversary. But not an adversary to Wall Street and American corporations who reside in the US. The only part of the country not dependent on China and sees China as an adversary is Washington D.C. That might explain why things are the way they are.
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  3399. Not the first one to rob entirely a nation by a swindle. The first swindler was a Scottish guy who went under the cover of an academic economist called John Law died 1721. Google him.
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  3400. This fracas can be seen as a process of unraveling gender bias in society among non-conservative social groups or it can be seen as a dead end. The only way people are going to get over their own racism and sexism is through a revolution that strives for a human emancipation. The beginning of natural differences in one community. For centuries the Jews had been denied political rights in Western Europe, look at them now denying rights to Palestinians. The Jews exemplify the shortcomings of a political emancipation, it does not go far enough to remove the class divisions in society. Buying into a system did not advance the Jews toward a human emancipation they became victimizers in the course of being abused for so long. Napoleon elevated the Jews to citizenship before the Jews achieved any citizenship status in Germany, and Germany at the time was going through a German Enlightenment period. These were the days of early racism still buried in colonial institutions of European empires was racist to its core. All this gets caught up with talking points against each other and we are acting as subjects not citizens when sides and splits are formed. Divisive maneuvering and when a leadership says nothing all the more suspicious of an external agency lurking in the movement, the divisions deepen to become fertile ground for social control, in fact, it is social control. Masterful and artful social manipulation likely to come from an obvious right wing source with a vested interest in subverting new political movements, moles, operating in the Bernie movement, CIA money is in there somewhere hitting on the more vulnerable to weaken Bernie's growth and popularity as a real and viiable opponent to Trump. Why should these free minded Bernie people retain their own movement when they refuse to aid LBGT people in their own struggle with the established orthodoxy, is a thought all non-conservative elements feel and experience in the context of a divided people. The Women's movement was subverted from its original premise as a class movement by the right wing propaganda machine and turned into a story of the war between sexes not social classes. So be mindful not to repeat the same thing previous generations ignored.
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  3401.  @pyotrkropotkin406  the subject of socialism, what else?
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  3402.  @pyotrkropotkin406  What will you do with the names I give to you? Just kidding. Precisely my point, socialism is hardly mentioned in any writings of Marx, Proudhon, Owen, to name three thinkers that did not get into the subject of a future society. Science fiction has depicted future societies but not in political economy will you find speculative thought. The reason is simple, after examining the reckless nature of capitalism and the severity of exploitation of the workers, the political economists on the left could not imagine a working class consciousness would not develop into a revolutionary consciousness. But for one country a revolutionary consciousness never came to fruition though close. One economist insisted the workers need more than a dream, a future vision of society, they need a science for when they do and should take control of the means of production all of society's capabilities would be used to alleviate human suffering in all its forms, something the employer(s), now the corporations, or the American government, inherently cannot do.
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  3403. We can expect from the endless Pre-trial Hearings of 9/11 mastermind another endless pre-trial hearing. Obvious the master mind of 9/11 was not a man but an institution.
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  3404. The real danger is when Politicians make decisions based on false knowledge or when the religious take office and use government to carry out aims specific to their ideology.
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  3405. While Trump, Liebermann, Netanyahu cronies fleece the Palestinians, I'd be more concerned about the effect Trump's trade tariffs with Mexico will have on the purchasing power of American workers. This opens the way for a greater and more intensified exploitation of the American worker employers will benefit from. Everything from Avocados to Zinc is going to be more expensive and there is no intention of the administration to protect workers from this effect. The effect of a higher tax imposed on Mexican products raises the price of the product working people in America will pay from wages that have been stagnant now forty five years. Meanwhile, in Trump's trade war with China, corporate farmers, cattle ranchers, landowners, get a tax break big enough to offset their losses demonstrates an apparent favortism to the upper social classes in Trump's White House and the Congress appears to be no better by its inaction to defend working people from an intensification of work and low earnings working class people are expected to endure in two trade wars.
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  3406. Biden is spending millions; way more in his polices than the amount AIPAC is dumping to undermine progressives.
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  3407. Interesting where they positioned the world leaders in the photo-op. Doesn't match how I would rank the nations on the stage. The Queen's remark: 'Are you supposed to be looking like you are enjoying yourself?' Not pleased with the company is she?
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  3408. The bad spot we are in is that above age 12 people in the advance western capitalist nations are pacified in their misery that a given 12 year old would see as collaborating with their own oppression.
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  3409. Bravo to the republican, State Sen. Jason Brodeur of Lake Mary, Florida, who authored the bill and to the credit of DeSantis for signing it into law. Democrats would have never passed such a law because the democrat of today are the ones who have the most financial wealth and property to conserve and hide while a republican of today took a stand for the working man. Not as bold a republican of today can be for a bill on a tax plan proportional to income and property. But still this law is a victory of the masses over the owners of financial wealth and property in Florida.
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  3410. Crumbs.
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  3411. If Biden steps down than Harris would have to defeat Trump. There would be no difference in administration but can she beat Trump? Is she strong enough to not be defeated by Trump? Harris would also have to beat Haley. It’s possible Trump’s legal problems could propel Haley and win the GOP nomination. She is the last woman standing in her party against Trump and she criticizes Biden. Can Harris defend herself against Haley? Haley and Harris are positioned as possible new nominees and both are pro-Israel. What does Harris have that she can criticize Haley with any real meaning when it comes to Israel, the Border, Migrants, job losses, homelessness, Haley will certainly used against Harris. Haley is a woman, less likely to be a staunch pro-lifer.
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  3412. Incredible Universe!
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  3413. One time in 1970, I talked my best friend into convincing his parents to host a homeless man from the Bowery for thanksgiving since I was going to be with them as well. They went for it. We drove in the family car down to the Bowery in an Opal, picked up a homeless guy, middle aged, not bad looking, large, disheveled and brought him to the apartment where our friends prepared the meal, we watched him eat like there was no tomorrow. Funniest memory I have of my altruistic youth in NYC.
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  3414. In economic terms value compared to the mass of the means of production falls because there is more capital in machinery and technology than in actual living labor. This is bringing down the American economy as less people are employed. New uses of machinery and technology does not increase the cost of machinery is something people take for granted the capitalist class does not, rather, they exploit it to a maximum extent. Machinery that is cheaper to produce also makes the product of labor cheaper. Capitalism is unaware of the side-effects of increasing productivity, consequences, in reducing actual necessary working time to reproduce a family and a society of millions of families. The amount of capital invested into machinery in the US is high but also, it is a smaller amount compared to the investment in older technology and machinery. The drive in capitalist corporations is to make the product of labor cheaper. This drive creates a never ending cycle of increasing the material output of labor. A higher level of industrial consumption and production, more lethal gases and high levels of carbon emissions directly caused by higher output in production and consumption happening around the clock and pollution all for a capitalist aim,--- to make commodities with less labor.
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  3415. Black militias would put an end to the random violence in their communities but the level of organization a militia brings to discipline individuals raises the level of fear in the white establishment of a major Black Revolt! The Haitian Revolution still weighs heavy on the mind of the people in power. The sole reason blacks are criminalized for gun ownership and whites are not is to prevent black militias from emerging.
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  3416. Somebody does not like sweet sixteen parties. Could the motive spring from that kind of subjective insecurity?
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  3417. One has to reject the model of current thinking to understand what is possible. The ruling ideas have to be junked to let in the new ideas and technology supporting those ideas. Potentiality becomes reality when new ideas are grounded in the real world. Mainstream ideas are, well, that's just it, grounded, as ruins of past ideas unwilling to be let go by very ideologically oriented people. You have to throw out the framework and introduce a new one that is able to focus on the elements. More of this kind of argumentation will take place where the mainstream has nothing to say. Bankrupt ideas that carry on repeating themselves for the sake of those corroded ideas will come off very funny in some mainstream talking heads.
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  3418. Coming one line short of the legal definition of Genocide, Israel maintains its Apartheid State over the Palestinians.
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  3419. Agriculture is equated to value that hunger and starvation is measured. They can only count those who buy food. People who cannot buy food are not counted because you cannot trace exchange based on one use-value for another use-value. The only exchange that can be counted are those where money was used to buy food. So if you have a certain number of food that was produced and was sold that will not tell you how many died from lack of food. This crisis will get amplified because there isn’t a single commodity acting as equal to all the others and transactions are not the same thing as values people might use or other people can use for that person to use as currency itself to get food. You can never know the real level of starvation because all goods can be a equivalent for others. You’d have to count the starving by actually compiling deaths due to starvation and subtract that from the total population to get a sense of what that country has going wrong with food. This cannot be done from a computer.
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  3420.  @hawkeyeted  Nah, Murdaugh committed his crimes in a red state and the value of his crimes are higher than the value of crimes some punk would not get away with in a blue state. You know your full of it, right?
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  3421. @Blue Shorts TV Read Phillip and Eric Foner’s History of Labor in the US, this contains several volumes, an extensive and concise series.
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  3422. The substance of this internal revolt, I believe, is about Senate committee chairs having no power and the Speaker having all the power. What power? The power to bring bills to the floor for a vote. Freedom Caucus does not want to see a picture portrait of McCarthy when they open up the House Rules Book as the only rule in the book. When committees are done reviewing aspects of the American economy in need reform or legislation the Speaker has the power to not snub the committee’s work et al investigations by not bringing bills to a vote, so they can pass, to become legislation. If you are a conservative right winger and want to dismantle social security your committee might come up with a piece of legislation to cut social security and the Speaker will never bring the bill to the floor. Vice versa, committee investigations on the democratic side has a Speaker, Hakeem Jeffries, will not hold the floor from a vote on their hearings, but in becoming legislation brings on the campaign to win over a few republicans. This is where the dirty work of politics comes in...this is when you strong arm or threaten a few republicans to vote in favor of the bill. The democrats have an aggressive method of pushing legislation down the throats of the American people through their representatives. Does the Freedom Caucus mean what they say? Committee assignments mean a lot when you will never have one as an elected senator. It will be a cold day in hell when George Santos heads a committee when he gets sworn, ---the isolation treatment he’ll get will kill his career in the next election. So committee assignments do mean a lot contrary to the words of Gaetz. What NY-ers need are ballot initiatives to make recall elections the law so the state does not waste a senate term occupied by a sitting duck with have no effect of representation in Congress while he is there. What is this internal revolt mean? We saw what it means when LA City Council could not function without all its members and do its business the homeless problem in LA got worse and more infrastructure was damaged from storms the city is crippled and relying on private contractors for work does not happen was a microcosm of what happens when Congress cannot function; the national economy and the foreign economy intersect in conflicts and the Federal Government is helpless to intervene. Good video...Jimmy as a guest on his own show...is brilliant.
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  3423. "Whoever has the Youth has the future", A. Hitler in Mien Kampf,  (My Struggle). This line is a good starting point to correct one myth around our present-day conflicts average people have about political leaders. In the US, Trump is constantly equated to Hitler for his outrageous statements and policies by his detractors, but I cannot make that analogy at all about Trump or any of the more horrible leaders in the world today. Hitler had an ideology, he was not a businessman or a manager of a large business. Like the other leaders of the time period, Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Ghandi ji, Sun Yat-sen, Mao, were all men of ideology, men of a single-minded purpose. Mussolini wrote: "Revolution is an idea that possesses bayonets". Our present day authoritarian leaders are not ideologues. In my observations, the one country where ideologues are in power and exercise the methods of the ideologues I mentioned to take power by means of coup d état is in the overthrow and exile of Evo Morales of Ecuador. There the acting president, Añez, is a born-again Christian, and Christianity is an ideology, and a woman who vows to inject by law the bible in the youth of the country. Rather, people like Macron, Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro are not ideologues but are business managers and the difference between business management and international trade or finance, if anyone has taken a course in either subject, should know that the two fields are entirely unrelated. The bad policies we see emanating from their imprint on societies stems from this one fact, in my view. The fact being, an international trade expert knows nothing about running a business and a business manager knows nothing about international trade and finance. They are focused on the particular functioning of a business and run government the allocation of trade and finance in that manner. Consequently, we get a crisis of another kind, unique from the crisis that led to the second world war as a war of political ideologies. We get economic crisis, depressions and stagnation, and mass dislocation of workers and corresponding wealth extraction benefitting business leaders and other kinds of billionaires.   "Whoever has the Youth has the future", is a line that is more appropriate when applied to industries of our day learned from individuals of the past. Whatever industry has the youth has the future and the industries taking possession of the youth in our time is media and the tech industry. The gaming industry, the cell phone industry, the military industry, garment, sports, have the youth.
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  3424. Tough to speculate since the future is not here yet. Damn near makes no sense to pros·e·lyt·ize /ˈpräs(ə)ləˌtīz/. Just have to wait...and time will tell. Old Joe, here, is a used car. You ain’t gonna make it up the mountain with Old Joe. In a straight line... he’ll will get you there and back... but he won’t have nothing of the things you want in a car.
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  3425. Long will die in prison for his racist crime and has the death penalty over him if he does not behave, ---individual barbarism meets institutional barbarism.
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  3426. The national security advisors of today in Washington are the equivalent of the functionaries of the Nazis Party for their complicity with a holocaust after WWII.
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  3427. Democrats cannot stand putting money back into the hand of people and republicans cannot stand giving money to people. Two parties hate the people they serve.
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  3428. People are working longer are forced to work longer for the extraction of value from labor. If it were not for the legal working day of 8 hours; people would be working longer for one employer not two. But two employers are necessary as wages are held constant against a background of rising prices; and/or the employers would be found violating the law employing longer hours on their employees. Britain’s leading political parties are not about to intervene on the severity of the pain workers are going through and so we see the conscience of society intervene at the injustice. This makes a weird situation where the mass of workers are expecting a solution in government when the solution is in directly confronting employers to end the practice of prolonging the working day. Therefore, the working day has doubled from 8 to 16 hour days for each individual worker(s) and the amount of value extracted from 35 million working people working two jobs has multiplied value production six times for employers. Jobs have become further intensified and the duration of the work is prolonged indefinitely has reached a point of complete inefficiency due to the effect of having one person work two or three jobs that others are thrown out of work. Many obstacles and hazards occur as a result of the social anarchy of the workplace and from overwork calls forth a complete re-organization of the economy.
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  3429. 'Just put your hands behind your back, Sir'. Funny culture. Woke on the left and flakes on the right. If kids had rights the parents and schools would have a fight.
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  3430. A Vote for Trump will have two major and severe consequences for American people. The first is a tariff on imports that will force every American to pay up more in price for the same product that is American made. American manufacturers do not sell direct to the Public but through agents and dealers who add to the price of an American product. The second negative effect a vote for Trump would entail is the death of the American Gulf Coast Fishing and Farm Industry resulting from more ‘drill baby drill” policies on the Gulf of Mexico the spills and big rigs tear up the coniferous habitats of shrimp in the Gulf Coast. The disappearance of shrimp is a vote for Trump. There are social effects to having a demagogue like Trump in charge. Protectionism is one part of the problem, the other part is the shrinking size of the US workforce. Harris refers to this shrinking workforce as in need of “opportunity”, she is right, there is no opportunity for the workforce under the economic conditions of the past 45 years. As the economic slowdown procedes breaking up and changing how America does business is the least kind of policies we need. The policies needed are how America works, how to expand this workforce, adding value in communities versus extracting value from them, leaving them desperate and broke. There are only different classes of workers stuck in different industries serving a life-sentence while the expectation this workforce has for itself is “opportunity”. A vote for Trump will further shrink this workforce, millions more thrown into poverty, homelessness, shoeless, and mentally unstable the whole society is a hot house for the mentally sick. We can go deeper into this but suffice it say, a vote for Trump is a death sentence for Americans.
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  3431.  @Seekthetruth3000  I believe the “Political State” and “Civil Society” are incompatible and are split apart. The former, a parasite and the latter in a state of social chaos. I believe,--- civil liberties fused religion with state and a right wing evangelical Christian theocracy has developed as a result. A total failure that now only a social revolution can get rid of.
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  3432. The British left and the American left rarely agree on things too. Then came Sanders and everyone did agree; there was hope the Democrats would return to their roots. That never happened. It did not happen in Britain either. The PM now is a rich banker. The president today is a banker’s representative. Fundamental Problem here is: Revolution is not understood by the Left. They cannot bring social criticism, demonstrations, strikes and protests to their logical conclusions. The answers are in the problem is a method aborted by the American and British left. The Left will die with the death of that social organism because they are not about revolution. The meaning of revolution is when life develops within an organism. Life is not central component in the Left. It cannot deliver a child when the child is ready to be borne.
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  3433. Aldermen should but won't because they don't have the mindset or tenacity to file a lawsuit against the gun manufacturers, the gun retail association and the NRA for the mass proliferation of guns in society as a crime against humanity.
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  3434. The American government has never supported a Left government anywhere in the world since it declared it never would in Paris 1919. By that posture, Lula is not a Leftist but is left of Bolsonaro like Biden is left of Trump. He has the support of the Biden Administration by that standard would place Lula as a popular centrist. In all the rich capitalist nations, only one side of the political spectrum is operating the left side of the spectrum is completely obliterated and offers no opposition candidate to the spectrum of candidates active on the right. What has been achieved here is a victory for the property owners on an international scale and a defeat for the masses, Lula being less of a defeat than Boslonaro would be for Brazilians.
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  3435. The masses need to be agitated into taking action. Committees and hearings testimony of atrocities are not enough to stop a juggernaut of genocide. If committees, hearings and inquiries by authoritative structures were an effective way to curb violence the juggernaut of complicit alliances, small in size and number, would have stopped but as it is words are powerless against force. The only force proven in human history of eradicating violence in all its forms and exploitation where it appears in society is mass social force.
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  3436. America is entering a period of hysteria when a news network is asking a suburban housewife if found garments in her backyard are a threat to national security. The level of neurosis can’t be more deeper that that and, frankly, not even the most creative storyteller and writers can drum this up from their imaginations. Chrissy must be desperate for money to be a guest on the show or flattered the national security question hangs on her findings.
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  3437. I doubt black people expected miracles from the Conviction Integrity Unit, its still part of a bigger problem of law enforcement as a political institution. The CIU is a creation that comes after the fact. With such a long line of falsely incarcerated individuals to investigate and re-investigate it serves to delay freedom. I would say if this office were multiplied and staffed across all jurisdictions a difference would be made to correct wrongful convictions and deconstruct the private prison system.
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  3438. A better and more rational society would come from the removal of human exploitation involving family members in society. Not surprising there would be a high profile case of the kind of exchange relations that has poisoned society and reached the heights of the wealthy. Elderly and conservatorships are common in an aging population of baby boomers, mental health conservatorships, power of attorneys, all have to do with exchange-relations and are not social arrangements made according to the needs of that particular family member where they live in the home of their home but ought to be to avoid the proclivity in people with needs of their own to exploit for expediency and to get ahead in a society that is failing them.
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  3439. This recession will deal the working class a body blow to the knee, neck and stomach.
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  3440. From the point of view of employers, workers produce more value than they are given by their employers and a worker’s role production is to create value for non-workers. The general set up is pre-determined by who owns production.
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  3441. If you have to spend this much time on a story that impacts nobody you become the problem. The world does not spin around Trump.
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  3442. The FEMA director Peter Gaynor commands 14,000 employees, several huge federal warehouses that can fill three aircraft carriers stocked with material of all types from A to Z, and 13 government agencies. In short FEMA is a standing army and compared to the US military it is small. The military is a force of 475,000 soldiers and dwarfing the size of personnel of the military is a 1 million man police force in law enforcement all equiped as we have seen on occasion when called out to quell riots full battle regalia. The federal government, therefore, has three huge standing armies. The military has at least the same material but four times the amount of all nations combined, that is 127 nations! This is what makes the US an empire. FEMA alone could outfit the entire US with a hospital system in every state making our ordinary hospital system with all its combined resources the size of the state of New Jersey and with that shrinking, overwhelmed, reduced to the size of Rhode Island. The 14,000 employees include experts of all types, engineers, doctors, medical emergency and police, workers and the army corp of engineers. FEMA could produce material and distribute material. The production of ventillators is a piece of cake if they do not already have them stocked which they do. The society I envision is one where the needs of all citizens can be met for three generations spanning 100 years going forward and a reduced work week from 40+ hours per work of a workforce of 133 million people to a 20 hour work week for 334 million people and not put a dent in the quantity of material and resources the federal government commands. To give you some proof of one small fraction of this productive power see Big Bertha boring the tunnel under Seattle Washington. One machine, a giant drill with a circumference of a 5 story building is run by four operators (4?) at the helm. The whole tunnel project 2 miles long employs a workforce of 800 workers. In fact, of all the parts of the society as a whole the Public has the least down to a bare minimum hand to mouth existence from lack of its rightful share of the material wealth and resources its high level of productivity creates. In my view, the priority that makes the federal government insist the Public rely on the private sector for all its needs is its persistence to be a world empire which in this day and age is doing more harm to the planet and the species as a whole. This epidemic makes me question three things about America in order that trust be restored (1) capitalism or the government's reliance on the private sector, (2) ecology and economic inequality in society, (3) public health.
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  3443. If the modern theory of value is correct than robots replacing human beings in production, making the products society needs in factories and in the field, would soar in price at the market. Why, you ask? Because the value production process of all industries using robotics in the US has not changed the value production process but what has changed is the value producing agent, the robot replaces a human being. Instead of the living worker, a human, enriching the company, robots enrich corporations with ever cheaper products... and robots just have to be re-charged, they are no barrier to a production process that never stops. Eventually, the sales price manufacturers set has to cover a return on investment in robots, who are not cheap, but their use is indefinite would spell the end of a wage system.
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  3444. 12:30 The Burke Building should be taken over by the community and used as something useful for the community,---just take it over. The building was a prison but it can become communal apartment homes with a little modification and if the State or the Board does not like it than let the People's Justice Center sue the State or the Board on grounds that state property is common property supported by city and county property taxes. The takeover by the community is not a violation of state property. This does not solve the immigration problem but it does prevent the encouragement of the immigration problem as more of these facilities expire their contracts with ICE and are taken over to become communal residences with no bars attached! This does solve the homeless problem which presents itself equally, as does the immigrant question, an important injustice, a scourge to be removed forever from society.
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  3445. Food, where it comes from and what its for? At one time the farmer was revered by society. A farmer was inventor, and agronomist, the source of wealth. It was great to be a farmer for thousands of years until... modern industry in farming took hold and replaced the farmer with machines. With machine farming came the growth of bacteriological and chemical industries and new commodities in order to raise the quantity of food. Highly likely the virus transmission between human and non-human world is mediated by industrial machine based agriculture. It is a crisis that assigns the new role and purpose of humanity is the produce the subsistence of all non-human world of nature. It is not the non-human world of nature that transforms nature. The living non-human world of nature are nature's productions. Nature is changed by only one species and only humans compose the human world of nature and in changing nature we change ourselves becomes the dynamic of the new classless society. All work and our lives are vocational and dedicated to Ecology, Public Health, Social Equality. The new consciousness is about producing to consume and consume to produce promoted by the proper use of science for the health of nature. Before this new consciousness can come into full bloom a social class of usurpers must become history.
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  3446. There aren’t policy and procedures that would bring liars to account in a federal or state bureaucracy. An official can get fired immediately for losing the keys of a state or federal car is a greater infraction than stating to the public a policy that was based on a lie.
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  3447. This is a brilliant way to teach young children history, fashion, and the politics of any age. The researchers will come to you for historical accuracy and for which they will not compensate you with not even a thank you prohibited by the commercial world they live but for those who watch to learn, they are given a priceless treasure.
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  3448. This is a historic moment that will test the true character of the US. Will it take its decline with grace or with malice?
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  3449. Getting dicey up there....better wear your booties...all that snow can make a pretty frightful force of nature. You understand what I am sayin’ there! I thought the CEO is a fine person; raising wages and making the changes and hiring people a positive outlook for the season is an optimism that is worthy of my vote. Nice report capturing the humanity in people. Very nice.
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  3450. Biden’s speech addressing the campus protests was vague. No reversal on policies. More of the same. “Workers of the World, Unite.” This is May Day. Anvils across the world are struck by a Mighty Hammer. All the world is lit up in a movement to free themselves from a tyrannical and chaotic Rule of Order,-- holdovers of past centuries. The workers in America do not celebrate May Day as a day of Labor Solidarity. Two reasons for this. The American calendar replaces May Day with Labor Day as a holiday. May Day is not a holiday but a day in which workers across the country struck for an 8 hour day in 1886 and won. It’s is not a day to roast dogs and burgers, drink beer, watch a game, in the backyard. Americans workers do not see themselves as members of an international labor movement and do not see their position in society as a result of struggles and sacrifices fought by their fore bearers in the labor movement in America. A big chunk of American Labor history in the United States has been erased under the radar from the textbooks. “...Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains and a world to win”.
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  3451. Fighting fights they really did not want to fight fighting their own kind is a war of siblings, a civil war. The North won the battles but they dd not win the war against the South. The third wheel in this civil war is the US labor force both sides will have to reckon with that the North did not have in the Civil War of 1860 and neither side are workforce friendly since 1860.
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  3452. I wish there were video shot of the trucking of uranium with which to go viral. It would draw more public attention to this environmental injustice. Uranium is not transported through Sadona Az is it? You have to take the camera out of your studios and into the real society in which you live.
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  3453. Simon Harris nails it!
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  3454. Obesity and starvation in humans is created by an economic motive for profit that extracts food from the world cheap and dumps vast quantities into markets where food can be sold at a higher price. Food merchants are on a never-ending chase for profit. This is why there is less food over there and more here. The world is divided by countries of people in starvation and countries with people in an obese condition.
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  3455. This is not good news and this is not how a democracy works. This is a process of disintegration. This is a governing body with more power than it should have that it can take out an unpopular president and a popular one as the case may be.
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  3456. Too bad modern industry and particularly the oil industry in the US does not use its high level of technology to solve the problem but made the problem worse. Between the Spanish and the Americans, it is remarkable Mexico City rose to the height of an industrial city.
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  3457. Americans are the last working population on the planet the US Ruling Classes can exploit...the Global South and Middle East have all rejected American corporate capitalism and many of them have overthrown their ruling elites...and have caught up...capital must have labor to exploit. If it can’t find it abroad it will find it at home. Americans of this generation have no background in labor struggles except in documentaries of unionism and labor movements were necessary in the past but not necessary today is a predisposition that provides comfort and consolidates political power to the multi-national monopoly banks and corporations.
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  3458. Pretty local title for a video when at stake is the integrity of the US.
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  3459. Foriegn policy of the Trump adminsitration is no policy at all. This way they can flip and dance around the subject that corners them. That's the whole problem with American society, a single constituency dominates the political life of the nation through the Trump administration. This constituency has delivered more blows to working people and continues to do so enabled by democrats is more glaring from a working class standpoint. Republicans cannot openly represent this particular constitutency and expect to win a general election is a dilemma made increasingly more difficult for them to get over as more Americans fall on worsening conditions. Whenever Trump is right and the democrats are wrong that difference ought to be seen in the context of neither side grasping the reality of the situation.  It suggests only that Trump is more in touch with the logic of the monster than the democrats understand of the monster they created but neither understand the real nature of the beast. The last to know are working people, who the more they work for this beast the stronger the beast becomes puts them and their survival on timorous terms from doing anything beyond electing a thug in protest of the GOP establishment. It'll be up to working people to decide who they vote for next and how to fix that election so that the general working class vote is suppressed is the best the establishment parties can do to save their skins.
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  3460. The institutions that make seniors homeless are banks.
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  3461. Read the papers of the MAGA architects if you don’t know what is going on.
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  3462.  @elaineklein2385  Google “All Scott Bessent Articles”, and in the articles find the references to search the papers.
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  3463. I still ask why Americans are not able to meet their medical needs in the US?
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  3464. Those poor souls...such a fatal tragic end. A moment when life is indescribably precious. If life were so precious why then perform drills to kill it and potentially be put in a situation of inevitable quick death?
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  3465. Yes, tariffs are a tax and they add to the price of a commodity but I think in the exchange relation China is the seller and the US is the buyer. Currently, commodities China has produced are parked out in the ocean prevented from being sold in the US market and their values not realized in money, consequently profits are not resulting for China, no factory orders...question becomes can socialism in China re-allocate this segment of its labor force so that they are not chronically unemployed by this trade war. For the US, products used for its own production and consumption are more expensive and are not bought. On the one hand values are not realized in money for China and on the other use-values are not productively consumed by the US. The dollar is backed by commodities. No commodities; no dollar. The normal workings of exchange is obstructed by a trade war. The buyer (US) is stuck in the same position (recession) and cannot move into the second position as a seller (prosperity) for lack of its own factories to replace the shortages, due to the absence of any real productive consumption of commodities it stopped ordering from China’s factories.
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  3466. Americans should find foreign news on this for the truth.
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  3467. Good report. Thorough and critical.
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  3468.  Laura Lafauve  Nobody is free of prejudice in a prejudicial society. Is race and religion not political in a society full prejudice and bigotry? I said capitalism in China is a continuation of capitalism that originated from the west. You are not in agreement with that statement are you?
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  3469.  Laura Lafauve  Who's we?
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  3470. What makes this video propaganda is its dead silence on the lying and corruption in the democratic party.
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  3471. There is a dilemma the American people have to take ownership of, and answer the problem. Americans do not want Big Oil drilling in America. So Big Oil drills abroad. As a consequence, government is used to protect a US national interest, Big Oil cannot go into other countries alone although it is possible but none of the Big Oil executives want to be in the spotlight doing deals with who Americans see as ‘bad guys’ for gas and oil right now. Government is used for that. All the ground work is set up by officials. If the president goes the exchange already happened. The Executives never have to appear in public and can decide the world price of gas and oil without public pressure, and they are not alone in moving their technology equipment abroad. Other industries go too. Textiles was the first when NAFTA was signed. Millions of jobs lost in the domestic economy NAFTA was the first of many continuous blows to follow to debase the US labor force. This feeds into the normal process of capital expansion, that is, to lower the cost of operations, and of the competitor’s. Government is used to find cheap labor abroad or create it at home. In the 80s high technology equipment is manufactured abroad, cars and trucks, parts and tools, at an accelerated rate, Beijing in a thick smog of industrial smoke; the labor conditions are cheaper than the conditions at home and money markets for the stock exchange developed a foreign banking competition in the 90s. Industrialization is a Capitalist Tool to make new rivals and deals, at the expense of social development for the US labor force.
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  3472. If Barbara Star is right about the military than Trump does not have the military behind him and his coup dé tat. Russia is not behind the cyber attacks. The targets fit the theories of Steve Bannon about the abolition of the administrative state.
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  3473. Lavrov is saying don’t let NATO expand east and there won’t be a nuclear war. These words are falling on deaf ears in the west. When the brinksmanship backfires on the faces of the Neocons we, not they, are on the receiving end. Already we are on the receiving end of Biden’s constraints against Russia and domestically the failed policies of the last 50 years continue to erode the foundation of the economy. Treaties are the last thing we need. The Neocons and Oligarchs have to be extricated from their position in the Pentagon and the US economy if the Kremlin is to extricate their own neocons and oligarchs from Russia.
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  3474. This is CNN doing great job bringing down the establishment within them.
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  3475. The Repo Car Merchant Industry is built on Usury and Extortion. It should be outlawed.
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  3476. Looking at this problem of excess consumption government is nowhere to be found when it comes to advising and educating the public of its eating habits? The fast food producers have the science on how their food should be consumed but the government overlooking food in America do not have or choose not to impart the science to the Public the risks of commercial food...a sign of decline. No. A sign that the republican and complicit democratic parties are not in government to govern society but are in government to facilitate commerce and finance and if the consumer dies of medical complications from the product the answer to that fatality is a legal settlement which is paid by the consumer as a taxpayer. You pay for your own death in America.
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  3477. Gates is in that position because media made idols out of entrepreneurs in the 80s and the public swallowed the mythology lock, stock and barrel.
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  3478. Come on Americans you have to stand up for yourselves! Surround them with your numbers and chase them out of town. You can't let these jackasses boss you around.
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  3479. ...is the Plaintiff suing Trump a war vet?
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  3480. Vance is a sycophant. The commodity he sells is his lack of principals. Sycophants come out of the woodwork when ruling class elites are losing control and become desperately myopic for their own survival. .
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  3481. There was only a change of generals not a reduction or a consolidation of the work generals do by the number of generals. A political purge in week three of his administration.
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  3482. Trump was looking for 50,000 votes from Georgia. This is the start of the next Coup attempt by Trump that makes Jan 6th insurrection dress rehearsal.
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  3483. Still,-- as if it were an unconscious reflex, America makes health something you can buy! Creating a society where the rich live and the poor die.
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  3484. Assange did a service to the American Public, he exposed why the US lost all respect from its own allies much less respect from leaders in the world of non-allies. What Washington says and does is two-faced and has no moral authority to use over other violent states for war crimes. This is foreign diplomacy advantage over the US. America’s shit stinks as much as the next guy! Even more than Putin’s that the State Department would go so far as to attack the Constitutional Right of a Public to Know how they are prosecuting and conducting a war. This case illustrates the immunity in government containing people not revocable from their office. Careerism in the State, they do not change when presidents do, is a form of control over the presidency. A president new and fresh only learns the real deal in their second term in office does it become clear the State Department and a Corporate Industrial Military Complex operating behind the scenes are always ready for an armed struggle, attack or invasion, and never ready for peace. This institution is a yoke around the necks of Americans. A permanent war party inside the political parties that no matter who you choose the American people lose.
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  3485. They understand the Forbidden Fruit Theory in banning books they just do not want it in their lifetime. Unfortunately, they do not die before the living generation that wants the change, their lives correspond with that generation. This make achieving the change only possible by a revolution or the generation is lucky enough to be alive at the time of a collapse and can make the change before dying.
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  3486. Wait a sec! Human embryos (humbryos) are children? Wouldn’t that make eggs at the store be relabelled as, 12 dozen chicks? We cannot exclude our mammal egg bearing cousins from the new definition of what an egg is? How is that going to sound when the hunter has to put up on his sign Cut Fawns for Sale? Grown Piglets for Sale. Butchered to your liking with a picture of what was an embryo has grown to become an adult piglet all chopped up in a plastic wrapper for sale.
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  3487. Jane Mayer will not name names. I think she should identify this group, why not? Who are the very well known and very rich individuals connected to Koch in the 400 group? If America moved off fossil fuels it would mean the end of Koch Refineries. This provides a clue they are the right wing of the GOP. This group of 400 part oil exectuives from across the fossil fuel industry and part finance capital from Wall Street with pension invested in oil stocks have a direct interest in seeing the Green New Deal and its advocates crushed. A direct interest in agitating their investor organizations to oppose the Green New Deal, and a direct interest in rendering government powerless to tax the super rich. So that all that would remain of the federal government after slashing social spending completely, is the executive office of Big Business in charge of the military.
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  3488. 2.936 billion people use Facebook, and all of them are monitored by the CIA and FBI agents who now work for Facebook, or Meta. They sift what news we get and sniff out threats to the American government and Military through social media. If you see them they look like nice people but that is not the point. Its their decisions which has nothing to do with looks but everything to do with their brains as what they let us see and read and what we buy through social media. As trained former CIA and FBI personnel in communications their training is detection and suppression, how to keep people down and then wait for the offense to happen. When populations help with this they are enabled. The wrong people are in the most crucial positions of power is my point and that has to change with you becoming more aware of how little racism has to do with this. Populations incite racism among themselves and harm themselves out of personal and social reasons, ignorance, racism, hatred and for money. So its a matter of priority, public pressure and awareness of the right job with the wrong people, that a nations’ youths are laid to waste.
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  3489. When a corporation merely has a buyer/seller relationship with a supplier that corporation has no control over the production of the commodity being supplied. This is why the Transatlantic Slave Trade lasted for 400 years, the colonials in North America who bought slaves had no control over the capture and selling of slaves in Africa. The buyer/seller relationship protected the slave trade because the seller always found in the colonial settlers, buyers, as the Congolese Cobalt Suppliers employing child labor in the mines do today with the Big Tech Corporations who need their product. A government who truly held strong to the beliefs of emancipation would not be complicit with child-slave labor by turning a blind eye; it would actively be working to abolish the contract relation of buyer and seller for Cobalt, to eradicate the suppliers child-slave drivers in the Congo. On the other hand the Big Tech Corporations by not taking a stand against child labor can still buy it until government rectify this contradiction but they don’t have to like it. Their silence is complicity with child labor as well as all consumers of their product. Capitalism degrades everyone.
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  3490. All form no content. Than there is some form and some content...followed by form without content and content without form. Who is to say this is content with form or form with content? Nobody is to say because the content is not universal and, therefore, the form looks ridiculously out of touch with reality. If Federman got the country back on track as a president he could look like Frankenstein and the working class won’t care!
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  3491. The social order in Mexico, the same in the United States, Canada, their institutions have become institutions to themselves. They exist for themselves inside a civil society composed of a rich and robust urban and rural working class. They usurp the labor of this population of its own social output (wealth) rather than investing back into those communities for development. They take more than they put back in. Selling guns for drugs. Guns and drugs find their destination in the destruction of a human being and money in circulation generates profits. Money which would otherwise be in the hands of civil society if not for usurpers taking it by means of guns and drug sales. Cartels, agri-business corporations, arms manufacturers get larger more powerful and influence government. Julian Leberon is correct, a 100% correct.
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  3492. A helpful aspect of western workers going on general strikes across Europe is; it has the power to change the course of history, it shows those countries in eastern Europe that becoming capitalist gives them second thoughts about joining NATO. Doubts about what may come to them by opening up their societies to western capitalism, particularly from the US given its poor track record of raising wages and unloading private and public debt on the backs of the American people. This doubt and reticence is needed more in Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Netherlands etc., it would throw Ukraine into an even deeper isolation and force a ceasefire, a restart of the original agreements, or the China plan for peace between Russia and Ukraine and the people there can stop suffering as the inconsequential victims of a proxy war. The western workers do have the power to change the course of history when it is not the US world leaders are going for answers to perplexing social problems in their societies. This is in itself a historic decline as the rich capitalist nations are examples of failures they do not want to become.
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  3493. You have to be optimistic that there will be others like Dr. Jonas Salk in the future.
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  3494. Disgusting! $70 billion for Ukraine and you can’t get internet straight for your kids. This officially means the American working class gets nothing. The US labor force works for the material well being of Israel a direct consumer of American dollars. The elite leaders of the democratic and republican party raise a middle finger to the American working person and they are in your face about it, shamelessly lauding the profits the military industrial complex is yielding from continued war and intervention on the planet! The longer these wars remain the more lives are killed the higher the profits and there is not one progressive democrat in the democratic party that stands up against this! The immorality of this political leadership, the Citadel of Power are the Speaker, the President and the Pentagon, could not be lower and more barbarous. The American First crowd are really arguing for an America Last Policy. 61% of the US population of 332 million people live paycheck to paycheck, roughly 221 million people that if they lost their jobs would be homeless and destitute in a month,---this mass of people need to get off their feet and get political quick!
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  3495. Good video. Exposing the mass media disinformation campaign of the CIA through CNN.
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  3496. Good Report. Excellent, in fact.
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  3497.  @jaynewallace8592  A good idea that can only happen when parents and society in general march in the streets and pressure lawmakers to the point of actual fear to pass legislation for just that and more, and to repeal policies enacted by Nazi-like School Boards. This is all done on purpose.
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  3498. The case suggests that you are better off dead than alive if you are a person with severe mental illness. 11 shots, 7 people, type of gun used by the perpetrator not identified by the police. Why?
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  3499. This brings into question our own sovereignty in relation to the sovereignty of the German people as both powerless, canceled out, when the nation not in possession of the prisoner is the party that receives the demand for an exchange of prisoners. What the State Department should be doing is restoring the nuclear treaty Trump let expire with Russia. Russia is free to do what it wants under no treaty at all that if Russia is cornered and its own sovereignty is threatened why wouldn’t Putin use nucelar weapons. Any rational human being would defend the sovereignty of their own selves, or family or nation.
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  3500. This was two morning ago....this is old video...where’s the follow up??????????????
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  3501. The government works for the ruling class and the ruling classes work against each other in a world of coercive laws of competition. In fact, they use one another to annihilate each other is more exact of a picture. The reason there is competition among the ruling class for whom the government works is the double effect the working class has on the capitalist class when it doubles its capacity to work for their employers. An increase in the unit price is possible when workers produce a value of work of 8 hours in 6 hours. The difference of 2 hours value is the surplus-value. Elon Musk is making a Tesla for $24Gs. A cheaper Tesla made at a lower unit price per car than the competition’s average car. Employers do have the edge. Tesla employees are making this possible for Elon Musk by the increase in productivity they fuel the world of competition headed by their chief in command. The new automation or technology, or the new scientific discovery, doubles labor capacity and output, less hours worked per car, to undercut the competition for a greater mass of surplus-value. Workers can do the same if they owned the automation. Having no other interest other than promoting the automation and they have put together and built a really cool car the unit cost price and sales price would reflect a true ratio between supply and demand, ---who wants the dam car and who doesn’t. When the working class doubles its workload and workers do this almost voluntarily in the US is a habit they should break; it has two separate side effects on the ruling class both social and economic. By increasing worker output, productivity, gives a result of more hours worked per fewer workers. The pandemic did not allow employers to lengthen the working day to keep workers in the office for reasons cited, employers want workers back in the office; but its too late to get them back, the pandemic sent them home and the whole production process by some new innovation had been adjusted to allow a four day work week become a permanent feature in the lives of workers. This is a win for workers and a defeat for employers in the war between bosses and workers. In wars the opponents retreat and attack it is the same in the economic war but there are many new recruits into the workforce not covered by laws and assurances that the class war is bitter scene and conceals slavery and slave production by famous and well known American corporations to be the fate of this slave population who make up a big percentage of the American workforce. Another double effect of increasing productivity; it creates a reserve army of cheap labor during the retreat and for the attack comes back with a lower wage package to offset the 1 day loss of surplus-value. Capital and the Ruling Classes are never idle to satisfy needs that are not your’s and mine and a deal is only offered for some future acquisition it can profit from.
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  3502. Ukraine will become a sentry state for the US is what the Colonel is saying. However long it takes to make a Ukraine a bonafide sentry. Instead of military bases in foreign countries the countries themselves will be US supplied bases. Problem with this scenario is that the country that becomes a sentry. A sentry state is all it can be may not be so attractive. They could end looking like India or the US with extreme wealth, vast poverty and a high mortality rate because their society is not about health and life. Its about their own health and life maintaining a hegemonic power.
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  3503.  @mauracassidy1762  I like your comment because the next time you go to work and do work for your boss you’ll remember to use the kryptonite against your boss at your job where democracy does not exist for 12 hours out of a legal workday of 8 hours, 365 days a year, and you can expand democracy for more than 8 hours a day during which you are not at work in your personal life. I believe the expression Americans use if “Life Begins After Work’.
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  3504. If there is to be an empirical finding of the link between the particular social conflict in people’s individual lives to the more general social conflicts it would be where human activity is most spent. The workplace. Abby Martin had Blinken where she wanted him, a brave first step, but there is method to the approach of confronting elites: let them hang by their own rope. Poignant questions that they must answer by historical fact and when their fact does not jive with reality the next question is the noose around their necks.
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  3505. 1:51 of in-depth reporting and analysis right here on NBC. Everything you need to know in that short time span. Incredible journalism.
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  3506. Forcing the Vote will only result in forcing the vote back. Dore should discourage this fake reliance on the electoral system to change things. Mass social activism, protest, demonstrations, agitation, makes change not the political system?
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  3507. He should not be posing as a restaurant. In reality he is a curator of a side road popular culture museum that sells food.
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  3508. America, Florida in particular, is also home to millions of parasites looking to make a buck on the backs of the dead.
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  3509. Nobody cares...keep doing what you are doing...let them get all frustrated with you..they are not the world’s end. The Kulinskys do not represent a majority of humanity. The Kasparians are not ritualized by the proletariat. Just keep doing what you do best...we (I) all appreciate you.
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  3510. @Dhakti Zero,---The problem with law enforcement in society is a problem of the political power of law enforcement in society. Their political influence on government is the problem.
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  3511.  @MJ-px2df You can take away their money but that will not take away the political they have. Political power is what allows them to be a glorified legalized gang. The cart does not pull the horse. Political power pulls the cart.
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  3512. In the past the Espionage Act was used against social opposition to the aims of oppressors now it is applied to an individual oppressor against the aims of the oppressors. Whatever it may be the fact remains the oppressors are chosen by the people and become representatives who oppress us in Congress.
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  3513. Its not about feeling better about the crisis that they are cosplaying some civic activity they are actually creating the crisis by not revolting against the crisis.
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  3514. What is true but falsely reported in the west as the Russians did it was the apartment buildings blown out in eastern Ukraine. You are not getting the full story from here or anywhere else in the US.
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  3515. Why? Because Obama and the party he heads are incrementalists. Failures are part of the process, fall back to go forward, of gradually reaching the next millennium when justice and equality reign. Making a better world to incrementalists is not achieved when people fight for it. It all has to be created through the State and laws. Its a crazy philosophy that goes back to early Christian times wit the belief of the second coming of Christ.
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  3516. The captions beneath the talking heads has more accurate information as to how locusts are born than do the talking heads in their so called "professional roles" are providing to the public.
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  3517. The reporter's face tells it all.
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  3518. Unfortunately, all this fantastic work by these talented people of any finding that leads to a power in the universe that can be harnessed by the military will not be used to help humanity but to subjugate humanity and other nations. Whether it will resolve the question of a God will never be answered even if the earliest universe is found because we are alone and that loneliness is an inadmissible truth.
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  3519.  @johnpatrick1647  If it were left up to you the national bird would be an ostrich.
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  3520.  @nnikkij7777  The preconditions of mass social discontent eludes a huge number of people. But it does not elude the people at the top who are more worried of internal threats in the military once vets are discharged to civilian life in society and there are 10 million people in society like John Patrick crazy and mad enough to believe a bullshit line these military trained vets dish out to recruit them to their cause. Loss of their rights to people of color, Bejing Biden, Yada, yada, yada...used as pawns for their aims. The John Patricks of America are people who are perfect meat for the trained military tactician is the worry (national security) the people at the top of the chain. They worry that some Patricks will engage in violence and other Patricks will support the violence and not partake in it. A big worry for the military and the president. Because the ones who are not violent use the vote to take the presidency and they did, i.e., Trump, and the ones who do the violence can reek havoc on society, cause it to fall for the leader to come in with the big guns and restore Order. Law and Order which really means a dictatorship. I know it sounds like a plot...it is a plot...it got thwarted with Biden's election...but the plot is not gone, the plot that uses whites and people of color to fightwhile
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  3521.  @johnpatrick1647  Did you vote for Trump?
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  3522. @Not RealThis argument is probably the dumbest I have heard so far.
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  3523.  @charlesvan13  A clear acknowledgment that the commodity people own is labor-power subject to the same laws of supply and demand as all commodities. The difference between this commodity and all the rest is the mortal being behind it. Pushed and pulled by the laws of supply and demand, desensitized by a process beyond their control. An Achilles Heel of the American Way of Life.
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  3524.  @charlesvan13  True only your mind.
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  3525.  @pedronunes8766  I never said that. Don't put words in my mouth. The wage system itself is the problem in my opinion. If you must know. Are you one of those people who believe the wage system will last forever and you have to accept it and make adjustments to make it work. They said the same thing about slavery and serfdom.
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  3526. RE: NYC Subway Crime: The governor’s plan for safety is not a real plan. Two cops on every train and two cops on every platform would be a plan. Whoever is running the show there now has three divisions available to them, NYPD, National Guard, State Police, concentrated in one place is not a plan. With AI technology on the train itself a passenger without a paid ticket stub would be detected and carried off at the next stop.
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  3527. Today’s general crisis shows the incapacity of the rich nations to manage the forces of destruction threatening the planet! People should be demonstrating their rejection of policies that do nothing about tightening the lid on that jeannie. This is what this group of people don’t get. Its not enough to talk about it. You are already dead if you take no action.
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  3528. The workers in GM, Ford and Stellantis are not the only workers subject to a tier wage system. There is a definite tier system of work outside the car maker’s factories. The “tier system” in society looks more like a hierarchy of wages. Pay corresponds to the task. Jiffy Lube workers perform the single task of changing car oil. They are not compensated like mechanics. Mechanics do work on all aspects of the car. The more detailed the work is or becomes the lower the wage is how work in America works. Compensation cannot go so low that people starve or cannot buy the goods. This will defeat the whole purpose of capitalism. But if car maker workers want the tier system eradicated it makes perfect sense workers in general eradicate the tier system they have to deal with from all employers in society.
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  3529. Conspiracy theories cast an aura of anonymity on the enemy that enables the enemy at the same time.
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  3530. Does not say much for the Royal Family when one of their own finds it literally life threatening to remain a Royal.
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  3531. @Null Pointer The opposition is out of sync with the majority.
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  3532. I agree with the Progressives on their stand to hold the vote and prevent the passage of a bill that completely dismissing the needs of America's working population. Its time they be given dignity and respect for the service they provide such as the food in your mouth and the bed you sleep on, the car you drive, their contribution is a life-giving one the takers have spoiled for themselves!
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  3533. Just shows the extent of the power of the energy sector when governments lie about pollution. It looks totally asinine from where we sit that politicians lie but when the fossil fuel exectuives start rolling out billions of dollars to give you, it is quite easy for governments to roll over. Only one government out of 195 governments has the military might powerful enough to back its money as ruler of all money. Other governments have to rely on what they can sell by honest means and hard work. Money talks when work is too hard. See how many governments are taking advantage of the political conflicts rather than coming out and telling the Public of a looming global eco-disaster. We might also be having to deal with the reality that governments are unable to act and, therefore, more radical methods will be needed to work with nature to repair the harm done to this lonely planet and its dominant species.
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  3534.  @whygohome172  That is a generalization that comes from someone who does not spend any time with the poor. Most don't pay attention to the media to consume its propaganda much less be duped by the propaganda. Day to day existence takes up all their time. When the poor see other social classes organzing they will want their share and are smart enough to organize themselves in an imperfect way in the beginning. As to your other points about the weakness of the left in America...the left are the democrats and the right are the GOP, both are highly organized but the democrats as a matter of survival are ready to absorb the middle classes against the Big Industry and Big landowners. The middle class are the last ones to change their lifestyle for a society that would advance the working class to a higher standard of living. Winning over the middle classes to a working class movement is less likely than the middle classes aligning themselves with Big Industry and BIg landowners in a deal to crush a working class movement. I find your point of view exemplifies how the middle classes are controlled by Big Business and government through taxation and by propaganda.
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  3535.  @JustinMoralesTheComposer  Good observation, truthful and objective. Best thing to do with that undecided free time is do small individual actions like a boycott and tell people why they should do the same.
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  3536.  @swiftxrt  It is more accurate to say the stomach are full enough...as a condition of the middle classes.
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  3537.  @manlymanmann7592  I think you have another definition operating for the word 'fetter' that is not its meaning. But that's alright. Main thing is we can claim exclusive right to what is produced only as a collective. As individuals we can't claim diddly because once we enter into a contract they will pay for our subsistence and we will give them the value of our product. This is not a fair and square deal because as a class of people we produce a greater mass of value than what is paid each individual for their work. We are making them richer everytime we work and ourselves poorer for it is a grim reality that work is torture, an evil we have to face square in the face.
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  3538.  @bradleyp3655  I suppose you have a plan?
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  3539. This report is lying to you. Sad part is, you do not realize its propaganda.
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  3540.  @itzenormous  How would the world feed itself without agribusiness?
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  3541. @B G Haywood,----Still have to deal with the contradiction between the labor that is used to produce commodities and average labor. Ecological and biological matters are embedded in the relation of a particular kind of labor as part of a labor-process of human beings in general. Value is average labor that the small farmer seeks to accumulate real value against. Concrete labor and its abstract form is labor on average. The farmers' labor makes the food but average labor decides the price of the farmer's product not the farmer. When the farmer does dictate the price of their product it is usually higher than the average price of the most purchased product on the shelf because there is a sufficient demand for the product, but per unit the individual cost of the food grown by the technology fetches a higher price. This farmer directly reaps the benefits of the productiveness of labor but the same type of small scale farmer in a country of less sufficient demand would go broke against the large-scale farmers producing for the world market. This says that the large scale farmers produce for a world market a sufficient quantity of food to meet world demand at the expense of the quality of food and the small scale farmer produces high quality food that few people can consume accommodates large scale industrial farming, or leaves it alone! Pushes not for land reform and reacts only when that particular niche is disrupted or endangered.
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  3542. The reading about more cops is not the answer to the problems describes what American imperialism does to societies around the world.
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  3543. Stop kidding ourselves....America is a partial democracy and not a full one and pulling it in the direction of an incomplete or a dummy democracy as a fascist state is the GOP.
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  3544. The fact is that the American working class takes no political stand on their own class interest for reasons that are more ideological and material. Repression in America takes several forms that are material in the sense that blacks are killed and incarcerated and immigrants are held illegal, whites are abandoned. Fear and repression are evolved by the Media, drug addiction (pot legalization), theories of conspiracies by secret police, contribute to the fragmentation of the working class. In addition, to the social repression, racism, sexism, education and false consciousness (religion), all distract the working class from politicizing its existence.
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  3545. So, the new rules on real estate make it an incentive for agents to actively sell large more expensive homes and forget about the smaller cheap working class homes in the suburbs because the agents commissions are no longer guaranteed. The business of buying and selling property went from bad to worse for people seeking their first home and for people in their final home and want to sell it. Federal Prosecutors should file charges against the National Realtors Association the new rules cannot be applied evenly across all property owners the Law excludes some 220 million small home and property owners from the market makes the case a Supreme Court matter. The Reform sets the stage for a bad actors in the market of home sales by owner and scrupulous sellers, the owner absent of any regulation in that secondary market open to abuse and corruption. Young families and old homeowners become prey.
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  3546. No different than using a commercial price index across industries. Industries do use money to buy and sell for use. These are industry trades that set the price for a tractor, machine, parts, tools. Commercial credit is a latent crisis that these products will stop buying and selling.
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  3547. Thumbs down.
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  3548.  @grmpEqweer  Yes that is true but I am limiting my point to the left and the messaging they cast off to the Public and to the enemy. I know who are the real rulers of society. My observation is limited to the form of the opposition, the method of protest is fine, its how it comes off, they have something to say and the form chosen in which to say is not consistent with their intentions and objectives. Its about what Cop City represents. To me it represent the rise of the mercenary cop. Militarization. It would be a powerful action if the activists protested the contracting companies in multiple ways. Contracting companies do not all have their residences in the same state a strategy of multiple protests in their home state would be the form of action. Appearance is another thing. Look more civil than the enemy. This is not Europe where perception is not important.
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  3549.  @pegmarinello4175  Yes, the point is a good one would say Chauncy Gardiner of the movie “Being There”. It is especially true for the US in particular because the left was unified in the 30s and then was fractured in the 70s and never recovered from the blow. The simpler the voice as one chorus the better and stronger that voice sounds.
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  3550. He mentioned 2014 coup dé état; so it is true what the left had been saying about that coup and it s clear the allies dismiss that event as provoked. This war in the most corrupt country in the world is an unjust war.
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  3551. Good, I am happy the people have no choice but to protest. Americans have stood by and done nothing on every human rights violation their government committed since WWII. Including violations wrought against them! I can go before WWII but I can't hold this generation responsible for the actions of dead ones unless they persist with the old ideas are still valid like Jeff Sessions thinks.
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  3552. Bizarre,--- graph skips over the Korean War when the debt was low due to US prosperity and skips over Vietnam War that drove debt high and caused a recession. The graph should start when the US got off the Gold Standard in the 70s. So right at the start of this program the graph is wrong and the people in it are talking wrongly about wrong stuff. US did not start borrowing money from banks and bondholders until Nixon came into office. Credit money and national debt is a Nixon/ Paul Vocker doing. Nixon did this to eliminate the destructive effects of dollar speculators. They were debasing the value of the dollar selling them cheaper than the US sold them to other nations and making a profit. But as far as the jobs being juiced on this he is right. BRICS are not head up by Russia they are head up by China. The reserve currency is no longer the dollar because BRICS have to buy dollars to trade. Why bother when they can trade among themselves. That the US can print dollars is a privilege the US abused plain and simple. Dollar supremacy means the US sells dollars to other countries. Washington is the seller and 190 nations are the buyers. Getting them to buy is dirty work of extortion to get them to give up a big chunk of the GDP for dollars. Washington fears it will be like any other nation and change position from seller to buyer.
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  3553. If you get a second job you also prolong your working day. Work 6 hours at two jobs and you are working 12 hour working days. Intensity of work and duration of work come into conflict in a person. Many other social consequences happen... Employers write off each worker as part time ineligible for health benefits. Wages for all employers are a lower outlay of capital for every one worker working two jobs. Employers get freebies... Productivity of one worker produces the work of two workers in 6 hours while the individual receives payment for one job. Employers double their value production. Work 8 hrs in two jobs and you are working 16 hour days out of the 24 hour natural day. Employee free time for rest and relaxation, family activities is reduced to 7 hours. Overwork doubles the stress, doubles the intensity...in double the working time for working people. Power consequence come from this struggle... Employers can replace employees but employers are not replaceable by employees. The nature of work is double sided and the relation between employees and employers has double standards. Two different sets of rules for employers and employees gives the advantage to employers are amplified in larger social conflicts.
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  3554.  @robertmarley8852  THE WEB WE WEAVE WHEN WE DECEIVE.
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  3555. SAFEGATE: Too bad...would have made a great ad for a safe manufacturer had the FBI couldn’t break the safe. Big slump on sales for that industry. Now the super rich will park their wealth outside of the country should the FBI link one of their own to Trump and more workers will be laid off from the impact of nothing is safe from the FBI. But according to Paul Kruger Nobel Luareate in Economics: the economy is what it is. I would imagine the safe was the best you could buy.
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  3556.  @bikesgoodgasbad  Where are our weapons going in Ukraine?
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  3557.  @lesslycarthan4963  😄😂
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  3558. I wonder how many teachers voted republican in that state? How many Democrats voted with and not against privatization of education in that state? How many 99%-ers liked the idea of cutting taxes for the 1%? I wonder...
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  3559. It would take a lot more for representatives in the American Congress to disrupt parliamentary sessions to meet the wants of the American people, a lot more than a canopy killing 15 people to move representatives to demand safety. 65 people died by a collision between a military helicopter and a commercial airline over the Potomac River and Congress has not reacted at all to that disaster. Not to mention several plane mishaps, crashes, space rocket explosions, factory lithium plant explosions, chemical contamination and falling debris from the skies, oh, ---drone hoverings that have happened are still ignored. One gets the impression the democrats are the Walking Dead.
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  3560. I hate the reporting style...too many words...too many angles....the focus of two opposing sides is lost in translation...bad writing...and no history... if transmissions and engines are not being built the union’s combined action will cause the CEOs to lay off the other plant workers who can’t do any work any way without trans and engines installed into the car bodies, chassis, and frame. Its a strategic strike. Laid off workers go on unemployment and the divisions on strike stop production in general. Sitting on record billions of dollars in profits the CEOs probably expect to live out the strike and force workers to accept half of what their union’s are bargaining for. But there is external pressure on the workers and the owners to resolve the strike. There are recalls that will be delayed and consequently more dangerous highways the Public will tire of, there is climate change impacting where cars will be made and used, there is the social pressure to phase out fossil fuel, there is a broken infrastructure, and there is the competition; and there are electric cars that will replace workers. This strike is unique. The first since the 30s when Big Business ganged up on labor by closing down the factories and labor fought back with a candidate that threaten the Establishment. CEOs of small, middle and large workshops, companies, offices, and corporations have been on slow mode attacking all labor. The car workers are not the only ones under attack!
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  3561. What’s there to talk about between the State and the Unions? Police are an institution of organized violence of the State that outside violence only escalates the violence of the police. Violence begets violence is something to talk about. The State meets violence with greater violence. When or if they do talk about the nature of violence in the form of the police they will come to an impasse, society cannot be annihilated on the one hand through the instrumentality of force in the form of the police and a finding for a practical solution to the contradiction on the other hand; the State must be smashed!
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  3562. For a good discussion on Individual, Class and Community in reference to Mark Zuckerberg, read The German Ideology, K. Marx, pg. 82 International Publishers.
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  3563. If it were left up to you the national bird would be an ostrich.
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  3564. So it was a balloon that went off course originally used to spy over American military build up in the South China Sea and other places in Asia concerning Taiwan fast becoming a hot spot of another Cold War.
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  3565. The Media can’t say a pregnant black mother handcuffed at gunpoint...such a title would shatter the mythology there is no racism in America. Also they could not say working class mom handcuffed at gun point ....that would highlight an on-going class war in America that is also a race war. Black women make up a huge percentage of the workforce, more than black men and white women and white men. Employers conduct a class war hiring the least costly type of labor they can find in society and the police conduct a race war on this segment of the working class. Employers can’t cope without profits and people are disbarred from work in this country as long as work is a source for higher profits to an employer.
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  3566. The case against Trump is stronger than before and the Senate lawyers are not presenting the evidence of the facts for the public to make its mind up on Trump through a Senate hearing.  People not old enough to remember or lived through the various commissions the Congress set up to investigate crimes of the president, the assasination of the president, war crimes in Vietnam, would never know from listening to these democrats that that is what senators are supposed to do, they are lawyers who present evidence in the senate. If there is nothing, there's nothing. But it is for us to decide, the nation. They should be deliberating the facts and the more we here the facts the faster Trump's poll ratings will fall. Insuring this process does not take place helps Trump. If history proves Trump was guilty and pardoned then the democrats carried out a disservice to the American people by not opening proceedings. Pelosi has no spine is the problem. She is wrong about the Nixon comparison being very different. Nixon was milder of a crime, this is full blown treasonous. Senate hearings should take place and the facts be revealed through hearings builds the case. Impeachment is the only way the democrats can win the White House. Unless the people decide that neither party should get into office and they elect Bernie or Tulsi to spite the establishment.
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  3567. Its a perfect storm McConnell drives on the road of demise of the GOP. The US is not South Africa of the 1980s or Rhodesia.
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  3568. He is still in the race because there are a sufficient number of racists out there who support him.
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  3569. What happened in the past is written a hundred years after what happened in some cases more than that, centuries. Written by writers in a time when eye witness observation and word of mouth was the main form of communication, so how credible can it be when not even the eyewitness testimony of a 21st Century person recalling what happened last week or a year ago, is faulty, loaded with handicaps, not useful for a conviction in more cases than not? If eye witness accounts were perfect accuracy we would not have a need for surveillance and body cameras everywhere and on every Cop. The Bible is not History and history is not the bible.
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  3570. Your individual right does not supersede the interest of society. Problem here is that the unvaccinated are in no position to determine what is in the best interest of the society in which they live. Their right to not be vaccinated stops at the door in the same way an alcoholic's right to be drunk is limited to the home or bar but not behind the wheel where they encounter society. The unvaccinated are a collection of individual people with opinions and attitudes about their freedoms which, in effect, does nothing to allow people to go about their lives without facing harm. Their freedom does not put food on the table or keep the children clothed, in fact, if anything the longer they obstruct the progress of society from going forward eradicating diseases the worse off the children are, as time for them does not stand still, but time for the unvaccinated is at its selfish end.
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  3571.  @patricaowens  No,--- so explain the presence of people building your houses are people who crossed illegally.
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  3572.  @truthonly7699  have you seen the new home constructions in Colorado and in New York, New Jersey, stunning work. None of these constructions are affordable to the contractor’s hiring illegals, so is the case in Florida. Valued at 2 million average at 6% interest, only the rich can afford a home. The rich absorb all the talent of the nation to enjoy space travel and new mansions,--- cheap off the backs of foreign workers, and you got a gripe about Chicanos and natives of the southwest doing inferior work for people who hate them at low, low, off the books wages! Trump played your racism like a fiddle. Now that he is in office, it is you who and your ilk he will betray. I give it four months into his administration and the US will be in a severe depression from which it will not recover. No beer cans in the walls of NY, NJ, Colorado, NJ. Explain that, my angry friend.
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  3573.  @truthonly7699  P.S. the contractor of the work you are citing as inferior is not an illegal alien. You need to take this up with your American employer not the quality of the workers that contractor chose to hire.
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  3574. Americans need to take back the Senate or get rid of it, choose, one or the other. The Senate is in charge of investigating the health and mortality of its citizens with its power. The framers never intended the Senate hold the keys to power while sitting on golf caddies across America and chewing the fat while students are not fed in schools..
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  3575. awannagannaful -- After decades of the working classes, You not the politicians, selling out the store and the farm to Big Industry, your argument is insulting and all resentment.
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  3576. The US economy is so bad that the Suburbs are producing their own criminals.
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  3577. Citizens in other societies share the same liberties and freedoms as Americans if not more because they are gunless cultures. That America is a gun culture from its beginnings is a myth unless you regard a mule, plough, spade and axe, weapons. America was founded by farmer/settlers. Its gun culture is purely a new and modern thing I date to Star Wars (1980s) that it became obsessively militarized and back to WWI that gun manufacturing became machine based manufacture that Congress gave free sway over the market to gun makers.
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  3578.  @hiworld7185  Classes of humans use other classes of humans as a means of production. It is revealing of you to declare what class you belong.
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  3579. Awesome video.
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  3580. As a society, i.e., Clean Water Act, we have laws...in place regulating every chemical compound and alloy under the sun that go into products.The problem is the lack of enforcement of the laws, lack of will, in the political world and the economic world, the power and dominance of money corrodes the power of the government to prosecute, so that all the politicians are bought off by Big Industry. The general public does not have a voice in the political life of the country big enough to compel politicians to enforce the laws.
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  3581.  @phoenixblanco3892  That is ridiculous a true progressive tax plan would tax property and nobody has to go extinct or to jail in the process of rebalancing man and nature...what is hard to address for Americans is taxing stocks, bonds, annuities, these financial instruments are lucrative and not taxed at all, they are also property, satisfying a true and progressive definition of property which accounts for mobile and fixed property. Republicans and democrats tax one kind of property and never tax the other kind, thus the entire tax burden falls on the average American who owns an acre, a house on that acre, a car or truck or both, a boat, a motorcycle, and has a job. Both are private property, the former are stocks, bonds, and the latter is land, building, income, ---private property also... the most heavily taxed property is working class property. Never taxed since 1980 in the US is the property of the rich. If you own a factory and you are polluting nature and killing life that cannot fight you back, or as a consequence of the pollution the life you kill is a threat to another species, or an entire ecosystem of species, then you should be tried for a crime against nature and your property will still be taxed...just a matter of what property is taxed more than others...that this society has rotten.
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  3582. A economic decline does not have to be catastrophic.  Its not all an epic tragedy that the life-process of societies come to an end, disintegration of the institutions and laws, economy, are part of the natural cycle in human history. We can come to our end as an empire gracefully, Gary Cooper style. The British did not take their decline to well, it sort of happened, they were no longer the dominant power in the world, pummeled by Germany and destitute. Can an old power restore its power? Biden is doing exactly that and the EU nations are lapping it up. When a nation has a little bit of life left to it there is a potential for a revitalized social whiplash. In the 23rd Century, money in the Star Trek series does not exist and neither do the money owners. Nobody in the Starship Federation becomes a banker, a capitalist or a wage worker, landowner because money, means of production, labor-power, land, the commodities which correspond to those social roles are gone. Land is land and labor is labor and a tool is a tool, all things people need in the Federation to be a federation are not exchange-values. Go to a place like the Congo and the life-cycle of that society is premised on two social classes that mutually exclude each other but are co-dependent on each other. This relationship is a lot more subtle in a place like the US, rich and poor and employer and employee are becoming more distinctly separated social classes but are not co-dependent on each other for their survival the way rich and poor social classes in other societies coming into capitalism as opposed to those older societies leaving capitalism would rather take every one down in the ship with them than to clean up their own act. Because to work and earn was fun and healthy for a generation and like a "Candle in the Wind", Wall Street blew out that flame.
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  3583. I’d rather have a Black Nazi than a democrat arming republics to be sentries for the State Department armed with US made low intensity nuclear weapons. I’d rather have Trump than a democrat who make an enemy of Russia, Iran and China, as prequel to WWIII. I’d rather have the party of preservation, neglect and abandonment than a democratic party that conducts, on a regular basis, foreign coups against those they do not like. Kamala is not a new direction for America just because she is black and a woman and the workforce is 65% women. Working class jobs are filled with women because they are less costly for employers and if you ask me none of them can buy a house today in America. Societal changes are not a reason to vote in another brinksman a qualification to be a president according to the Washington Establishment.
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  3584.  @katalackatt76  Law Enforcement is a racist institution the social composition of Law Enforcement supports that allegation. Like it or not, the difference between high command of law enforcement and the rank and file is the skin complexion between the high end and low end of that organization sets the stage for indifference and ultimately, its own demise.
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  3585.  @thegeorgiacreekwalker491  Law Enforcement is a racist institution the social composition of Law Enforcement supports that allegation. Like it or not, the difference between high command of law enforcement and the rank and file is the skin complexion between the high end and low end of that organization sets the stage for indifference and ultimately, its own demise.
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  3586.  @mywifesboyfriend5558  It happened to you I take it?
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  3587. Forms of thought the president enunciates are socially valid, and therefore objective, but they belong to commodity production, they are not thoughts revealing things plainly as they are. This becomes evident when the speech is heard by a tribe in the Amazon or in parts of the world still operating on another mode of production and life. The president's categories and terminology are common to this audience, that even when translated the concepts lose their meaning in the context of more primitive and less developed or advanced regions of the world, of which the world is still in 90% poverty. This is why a real gap exists between nations. Nations of varying stages of growth and development that are not at the level of a developed money system cannot relate to what the president is saying.
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  3588. Someone needs to make a political satire (movie) about American Generals and how they sit on the Boards of Corporate defense manufacturers as retired military generals and then are able to come out of retirement on a call from any president, leave their seat on the Board to command a battalion or an Infantry for the Pentagon and get paid millions of dollars in the process from two sources, the government and the shares they own of the defense manufacturers, and they are not even the owners of the corporations...imagine their power and wealth as a class of people we never hear and see. A filmmaker as accurate as Stanley Kubrick making a movie such as this would be making the movie of the century. In this war the American taxpayer paid to outfit an army that could not fight without the help of the military generals, so when the generals leave the army falls flat on its face before the enemy. The cost is in the trillions that you, me and all our off spring for the next two generations will pay!
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  3589. Hilarious....lol. Definitely fun. If that is what we do on a routine basis, we are doomed! Talk at each other and not to each other. We should abolish institutions that seal off the the individual from the personal world of human experience making the individual in the institution immune to human perception, emotions and sensation. Such institutions only produce the worst in people the kind of people who are one sided in their development: they can hear but they cannot listen. They speak but they cannot be spoken. They can live but cannot work. Putting all their energy into the opposite of what is and is not.
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  3590. Its all manufactured. They cannot explain Space Debris of human origins and non human origins interacting within natural forces in the stratosphere? Obama is as clueless as the rest of Americans. He was given so much information as prudent and no information when he left the presidency. If you can throw the weight of both old goats together by the strength of your own person then you can trust them. But I can't. UFOs ridiculous.
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  3591. You do not fight fascism by having talk shows America.
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  3592. For people who believe it would be worse to disrupt the global economy and monetary system, and greed has supplanted wisdom, and for people who assume the ownership of governments by corporations is a permanent relation, nothing can be done about it, stand in the way of social power becoming the one and true solution to the crisis.
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  3593. Why do Americans decry capitalism in the home but praise it outside of the home? What is so bad about capitalism that if Johnny were to sell his homework to his sister Mary, his parents would ground him for weeks on end. These days Johnny would be selling some gun rounds to Mary not homework but you get my point. Why can't Johnny sell his mother's home cooked meal to his father for five bucks and pay mom a low wage from the five he got from dad. Food doesn't cook on its own and the laundry does not clean itself. Why not pay the labor that cooks your food and cleans your room and clothes? Everyone is already an owner of something outside of the home why not be owners inside the home too? If capitalism is so great why restrict it from the home? What does labor know about blood ties, labor is labor, burning calories, brains, muscle and bone is the definition of paid work outside of the home why should the definition be different inside the home? If is paid outside of the home it should be paid inside the home is logical to me. America is one confused country, which is it going to be?  Capitalism in and outside of the home or feudalism in the home and capitalism outside of the home. You can't have both.
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  3594. How little you really know about where the hold up is in Congress on fixing this problem. Its with a small faction of far right republicans called the Freedom Caucus and the Speaker at war with each other over nonsense both refuse to put an immigration bill on the floor for a vote.
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  3595. That is always a justifiably view until the day capitalism is no longer than that hypothesis is put to the test.
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  3596. Because Puerto Rico is devastated and not producing any goods or services the quantity of money in PR is zero for there is nothing to exchange. Production, circulation, exchange, have come to a halt. Whatever products do remain are probably under lock and key. What money are in banks are inaccessible and frankly, worthless currency without products. The need for money has vanished by a hurricane. The population in an uninhabitable threatening environment have been reduced to its original social organization, the family, as if the centuries were rolled back to a pre-Colonial era. This tragedy turns into a genocide by neglect the longer the government refuses relief and rescue.
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  3597. Jimmy, billionaires that run everything in the western world is not what is going on. Going on is the wealth from your own labor passing through the hands of the billionaire class before everyone else in society gets their share. Workers are paying the billionaire class a greater value, economists call ‘surplus-value’ than what workers receive in payment from billionaires for services rendered. The workers creatoring that wealth have no share in it, is what is going on Jimmy. We pay the billionaires to work us, and the billionaires pay the rent, wages, taxes, profits and interests, after taking the greater share. This means that you and I, Tom, Dick and Harry, have no share of the wealth we create is one effect and the other effect the wealth we create dominates us like a alien force. The largest share of the wealth is a continuously augmenting share of the annual product. The augmentation happens because yours, mine, individual labor never stops working! Overtime for us is more gravy for them. This set up that makes people believe or think the actual owner of the wealth is the billionaire class even if there has not been a law passed giving the billionaire class the right of ownership to America’s wealth. Property rights get changed not through laws but through revolutions. Reagan made this revolution, we are seeing the fruits of that revolution tested against reality. A billionaire class dominating all the wealth of society constitutes a social revolution by means of concentrating the means and necessaries of life into few hands.
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  3598. What will Australia do when American Imperialism is finished?
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  3599. Because prosecutors in the US are your enemy behind the scenes. They are never exposed as the legal arm of your oppression. Follow the career path for prosecutors and the final goal is the Senate. @212caboose 
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  3600. The political elites in power cling to power with desperate means.
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  3601.  @spacecraftcarrier4135  My mistake...happy now.
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  3602. Its a serious and huge subject, a study of 3,066 workers by Rand, Harvard and U of Ca in LA, American Working Conditions Survey is the first survey of American workers that is recent and targets specific questions about the work day in general, the study found, common to them all, a hostile management, dangerous conditions, intense physical work, no prospects for aging out well, no control of the schedule of tasks assigned and no control of total work hours worked. A division of labor that separates college educated and non-college educated workers based on privilege that this sample of the working population are found to have in common in their workplaces. The workers are not from the same workplace so there must be some truth to the realities of workplace abuses. The question ought to be at this point after examining the workplace relationships is the class interests involved in the commodity being made and how the people whose commodity is employed for the purpose of being the measure of value in the workplace works against them? Why are workers so disgusted with the quality of jobs because the jobs are a means not an end in itself. Machines and technology purchased by private employers are designed and purchased to increase output. The dichotomy that they supplant labor causes management to compensate for the loss of hands and increase the duration and intensity of work. In a perfect world without private class interests involved in production, machinery and technology would be designed to perfect the skill of a worker and the product of that worker. Instead, objective factors annihilate both. If the workplace, product and worker are employed to measure labor-time than average labor-time rules the particular worker with every new innovation. A person feels this alienation in them as being just a number to the company causing great dissatisfaction among the working population and the need to enforce work arises. Incentives, certain shares, privileges, marketing campaigns, are all forms of making workers compatible with a company's technology and workplace management rules. Rules that are simply designed to absorb the greatest amount of labor from a falling number of workers into their product. At this stage, working in America entails a consequence that is historic when one observes the damage to the environment is permanent from workplace hazards has made the workplace a virtual battle field of which labor and capital are the two opponents and its victims. There are no winners in this game but all lose.
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  3603. So, the Bat Lady was right about the origins of the Coronavirus from Bats. I'd be worried if I were Queensland, Australia.
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  3604. The race riots were sparked by the racists not the victims of race in the US.
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  3605. Prolongation of the working day is how China and India are becoming wealthier.
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  3606.  @whywouldudothat2914  The law needs to stop breaking people.
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  3607. One thing that if it does not unite you it will shock the world, is when you are thrown out of work!
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  3608. Disgusting how they choose apologists and spineless British intellects to talk about climate change.
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  3609. The public has no evidence that this is not a hologram.
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  3610. Disgusting! Youtube owners are spineless cowards not to challenge the government.
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  3611.  @squarepegroundhole8211  It was noted in the video.
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  3612. Cannot trust buildings because the building is not your's. Across the board people do not have any ownership in properties that are not condos and houses. If you owned the building you'd take care of it to last a lifetime and more. Many apartments, many owners, short term owners. No you do not pay rent you pay into the maintenance fund administered by one of the owners. Miami hates Cuba so much yet in Cuba homes don't collapse because people own them. Neglect by a tenant and landlord is an American thing. When things are your's you do take care of them is basic common sense nowhere to be found in Florida these days.
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  3613. Nixon ended the draft for Vietnam because all the middle class baby boomers did not want to go fight. This is what started that generation to oppose the war. There were rich baby boomers and poor ones in the 60s. The poor ones got drafted if not in school and after high school they got drafted. College kids did not get drafted. this is why you got a lot poor working class into college. They knew if they studied they would avoid the draft and get into college. Back then a four year college floated around $5000.00 total tuition. People had the cash back then. My own father walked into a car dealership in Manhattan and bought a Chevy Impala with cash,--$3 Grand, it stunned me to see so much cash that young. Subsequently, many great thinkers came out of that social class, poets, musicians, scholars, Chief justices, they were scared of the draft they studied their asses off. But the poor white dudes from middle and southeastern America were drafted disproportionally higher with black kids in city projects drafted higher than middle class white and black kids living i the same or close to each other. People from two sides of the tracks got together and the war put a wedge between them tore families up. Becoming college educated had nothing to do with Affirmative Action. People like Donald Trump, son of a rich NY real estate builder, got out of the draft and dodged selective service. Rich baby boomers and rich millennials will not fight this war. The generation behind them will and those after them. Working class kids will fight it and the rich will hardly hear about it. They will be off the coast of Almafi Italy, yachting while some black and white kid’s flesh is burned off their face from bombings. Working class kids will die for all the wrong reasons in an immoral war that simultaneously is a threat to the health and well being of the entire world. In the critical sense if you are not in that class and social category you have every reason to oppose war, the oligarchs, democrats and republicans, and nuclear war. You can force the re-instatement of the draft by exerting your social power the way the non-rich baby boomers exerted their social power that brought Nixon down and forced him to resign. Social power is key, you need to organize that generation behind the millennials and get it together.
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  3614. Democrats never gave you medicare for all did they...in fact, I do not recall much they did give but the progressive wing of the democratic party will tell you to continue to voting for centrist republicans like Joe Biden. From a European standard Joe Biden is right wing and conservative and progressives are centrists should tell how much you have to move that party to the left.
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  3615. That is a total lie. Gas was $1.83 a gallon when Bill Clinton was president and $3.25 under Trump. You always make things up Margaret Sprague?
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  3616.  @sweeeetteeeeth  yeah, its a shame Biden did not do anything to undo what Trump did including the managing of new viruses, that’s pretty shameful too. $60 billion to Ukraine is shameful, there is a lot Obama-Biden, Trump and Biden, did that was shameful...would you care to admit that?
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  3617.  @NONAME-mw1mj  The war that is going on is in your house, communities and in your workplaces.
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  3618. A commission? Typical of party functionaries and bureaucrats to set up a commission. Its not a party if it needs a commission. Governments set up commissions to investigate social and economic problems. Parties are a collection of social groups or a single social group. Lol, I am laughing that the reform commission is nothing but a sham commission being rammed down the throats of progressives a sham and none of them have the balls to jump over the commission and steal the populace right out from under them and get elected. By the time they get their shit together the planet will throw tons of millions more into poverty. Progressives for too long gave up on crossing the mote defending the GOP, to seize the castle from the democratic opposition.
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  3619. How do you stop someone from raising the price of their product when their are millions of buyers in the market who will pay a higher price. Problem with this scenario is that it undercuts wages and workers go on strike for high pay and the problem with higher pay is that it cuts into profits and the problem with cutting profits is job layoffs. Inflation is more closely connected to merchant sellers activity in the market. Its an interest to fetch a higher price for merchants. All merchants raise their prices walk away richer and say; I sell what the market will bear. Buyers are stupid enough or made dependent as social conditioning they shop.  @stevenmitchell5319 
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  3620. There are some creative and correct policies coming from state senators in the republican party becoming law this January 1st. In Florida, and this one is going to catch on quick to be an excellent weapon for a new political opposition, is the measure in Florida that requires total financial disclosure for all candidates running for office applying to all still occupying an elected office in the new year passed the state house and DeSantis signed it into law. This is a positive law. An everyman law. A victory for the masses and it came from the right not the left. In this country the left is the enemy of the working class and a friend to the international corporations and military complex. The right in this country on the passage of this law, is a friend of the working class. If I were a progressive democrat I’d do more with a republican state senator to pass more bills that would put the country back on track than I would my own party affiliates! This law purges money from government, exactly what is needed nationally and federally is something a majority would agree.
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  3621. This billionaire moron is going to plunge us into war with China with her visit to Taiwan. China is not bluffing. Times like this is when you really see what the progressives are.
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  3622. A real historic and tragic paradox that the potential for a workers democracy in America is high but the educational incompetence of the working class is low and oppressed by science and technology, concentrated into the hands of a few, to produce harder, exploiting the workday and working lives of people, as a tool for capital; when the American people can be exploiting that labor-process as a tool to promote real and self-gratifying honest work for all.
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  3623. If the US intends to win a war with China it will have to become the producer for at least 137 nations. Right now America can only produce for itself what we see here in the South China Seas and that is not going to put any food on the table for Americans or the rest of the 137 nations.
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  3624. Patronizing little schmuck isn’t he....M’am...M’am ...uh...Ma’m...I answered your question. Actually he missed the question rephrased better later in the video, “...does the president consider his poll ratings when making a decision about the Middle East?”. Valid question. His poll ratings are down, very low. Is he aware of that? Potentially an escalation of the war sets the bar lower in approval. Possibly, hubris takes him over and he doesn’t care what public opinion wants or says. But we will never know because of the shroud of secrecy surrounding the entire political system of the US of which the Pentagon is a hornets nest of secrecy.
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  3625.  @STScott-qo4pw  Utterly shocking!
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  3626.  @ChrisTopherBunnell  Do not presume is the first rule in life. How do Tsunamis form? Where did you look?
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  3627. The drugs were never fully decriminalized is why it has not worked. The Fed has to decriminalize the drugs in coordination with the states. This was never done so the experiment is a flawed experiment on the partial decriminalization of drugs. Try again but this time make it a national decriminalization.
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  3628. Why? Well, when you make health something you can buy the rich live and the poor die. Don't make a health a thing you can buy and hospitals will not become Amazon monopolies.
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  3629.  @terryarmbruster9719  I got the last laugh.
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  3630. The mass of people do not have to accept the kind of society Trump is designing. New worlds are shaped by social classes not Gods or individuals. Classes that have been around for a long time including the working class since Rome as a generic entity shape old and new civil societies. The ruling ones coming out brazen and confident the policies they put forward are uncontested by the mass of American people. Hit back! Perhaps the majority agree what happened to Greece, Argentina, Puerto Rico will happen to New York City police, firemen, and teachers when the pension system is broke and the federal government is nowhere to be found except in the form of a standing army. The only direction that it can go when liabilities exceeds national income by three times as much. Before it comes to this the Public might want to organize a fight back.
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  3631. Cut down on your use of all things requiring coal as its energy source. Start by changing your own habits.
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  3632. Putin as a right wing nationalist is the most interesting of the bunch, I find. Xi would be another second to Putin.  Russia had traditionally looked to the west for development but it is now expanding east and forming economic ties with China in a really big way. Both China and Russia have communist revolutions in their history, they see as, liberating from past colonial and imperialist forces, and they are not wrong. Whenever the west adopts an anti-Russian stance it gains very little traction from it in the east making the west more defensive. Billionaire ambassodors unless they moonlighted in political science are not trained to see the histories and legacies that form international trade relations in the present -day world. The east represents a definite rival shrinking the size of the world market the west has to divide among themselves.  With the progress Russia and China are economically making the world market for the capitalists nations shrinks. American capitalists would rather join them than fight them as long as profits is the main part of the equation with China and Russia, it seems the Leninist theory of economic central planning appeals to western capitalism. A peculiar acceptance when their governments are anti-planners for society but are all for it planning for themselves and their own institution(s)! I guess the ethos that a worker or peasant should not be so lucky to own more of the weath they produce has to do with the 5-Year Plans Lenin introduced to industrialize Russia. Lenin took all the chance of business failure and causality out of equation. Russia took off and China followed the same path, the Marxists left a legacy and a practice or a discipline here to stay, were way better capitalist than the capitalists. Western politicians were pouring money back into the banks while they were pouring money back into worker and industry. Failure at business in America was a tough shit on you situation. Government did nothing to ensure your business got the business it needed to grow but the Communist party did enure this to the industries emerging in China and Russia. If communism did not have to curve this line of progress by defending itself from external forces and threats Mandarin would be taught in our grade schools.
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  3633.  @itzenormous  I think right wing in the context you are understanding it is not the same right wing in the context I am thinking of it. That's what I think about the labels. Besides the program put Putin in among the nationalists right wing who came to power. Let them know you have a problem with that.
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  3634.  @Korean_Autist_AbsoluteMF  You are not wrong in your points. Putin and Xi are to the right of Leninism is the message the thread is or about or waht I am taking about in my comment. Lenin was by no means anti-capitalist and neither are Putin and Xi. To the right of Obama we get Trump and he is far to the right of Putin and Xi.
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  3635. He did not write the Development of Capitalism in Russia for nothing.  @themysteriouswanderer185 
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  3636. Hi Professor: Perusing through the archeological annals on line I did not find much on the Maya and their Maritime History; evidence of a boat culture exploring the Gulf of Mexico or Lake Atitlan in Guatemala, is there archeological evidence of a Maritime Mayan Culture?
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  3637. Trump is a “Drill Baby Drill” candidate, pro-Oil. Oil executives love Trump’s free market approach to oil drilling. Under a Trump administration all the zomby wells on land and sea will leak. Under a Kamala administration the zomby wells will be fixed. But it was under the democrat’s watch the Oil executives were able to get away with leaking oil wells in the first place. The Democrats create the damage and the republicans refuse to fix damages. One party is evil and the other is a party of changing nothing, neglect and abandonment and both rule as a Gang. The Democracy is a democracy of oligarchies changing places to steer the ship. Today it’s this gang making decisions, tomorrow the other gang rules. The 300 million Americans who pay for these gangs to have their democracy are coerced by addiction to buy what these gangs sell them and are powerless individuals against the sale. For them there is only capitalism and handouts not democracy. This is what America looks like from the outside looking in.
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  3638. Americans would do themselves well to see the USA as getting more isolated from the world and that... is not a good thing. Its allies are falling apart at the seams. A consequence of isolation is people falling behind other nations in education, science, technology, industry, agriculture. It won’t be Barron Trump or the kids Brad Pitt who fall behind, it’ll be average Americans who will never get the chance of leaving their rundown poverty stricken isolated neighborhood, town or city, and the world and what it offers. The primary economic resources and talent of people in this country is used to keep other nations from developing. This foreign policy relation to the world deprives America’s working class the resources for its own development. There is a bitter end to American capitalism that looks like the end of the world when its really a change in the social relations of the world who are building new markets, new ways to finance production, do trade, commerce, exchange arts and culture, education and Washington recedes from this, instead, aims to suppress with force new currency relations while acting like it promotes the new forms of trade and intercourse...ideas of Washington belong to an earlier era and it adds to isolation. Nobody takes Washington seriously except as a lunatic with its finger on the trigger! A nuclear WWIII can’t be fought because too many nations have nuclear weapons it would mean the end of life on earth so the alternative is war where the main weapons are currency related science and technology used to shut down critical operations and to disable economies and have them starve in to ruin. For that the American people will lose their pensions and social security, a decent education and access to health care, their rights to dissent, and be driven into submission by the weaponization of food, homes, medicine, energy, through manipulation of prices and interests rates.
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  3639. The actions of governments does fly against the theory of historical materialism because the actions of governments spring from ideas not from reality the initial premise of historical materialism. For example; the Political Elite in Washington (Neocons) and the ethnic hatred of Russia and racial attitudes toward China spring from ideas as there is no basis in reality that grounds Russians and Chinese people as inferior to a White Anglo Saxon Protestant Capitalist. We have to cut through the Bootstrap theory of Capitalism too. All American billionaires are not self-made is the reality. Racist ideas and rugged individualism have no connection to the real material needs of the society they come from and will have no effect in raising the standard of living of people in society but are the ideas of the Ruling Social Classes who impose the greater burden on society of the cost of supporting their lifestyle. There isn’t a Left in America because the Left has no Political Economy and the Labor Theory of Value has no audience in America.
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  3640. Unfortunately too many are working class. Period.
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  3641. Average people have trouble in the US seeing how one president lays the groundwork for another to follow through on the Master Plan. The republican party being more overt and the democratic party more covert relative to the Master Plan for the 21st Century. The agenda is suspicious enough and lends itself to wild speculation and conspiracies among an insecure general public who are not included in this Master Plan, although they are protected by it. Essentially the American public is the Goose that lays the Golden Egg and the main source of funding for the debacles and crisis a Washington ruling elite cannot live without as a means of maintaining their status quo. Like a ping pong ball played by only two players political power bounces back and forth never ending the game of crisis and debacles, scandals and mythical threats the average hard working person and their family are forced to watch from the bleachers. Stuck in between two extremes and tired of being used.
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  3642. Sad looking group of democrats...got the world on their shoulders...second thoughts about going forward with what would amount to a circus trial with no witnesses if the Speaker can help it? It is biased that the Speaker is working in coordination with the White House Council.  You would never see the Chair of Parliament so aligned with any party in power, and decide together who and who ought not to be cross examined and what discovery is admissible in court.  But on the other hand the British do not have institutions that remedy Monarchies like America.  Kibuki Theater... a sham trial...a show trial...a fair trial left up to the Senate...not this Senate. Only going through the motions outlined by the Constitution does not help the current dismal situation of the American people I regretfully report to say.
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  3643. America is a place not a country or a nation but a collection of estranged and socially alienated human beings.
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  3644. Excellent Roman, good job, the breakdown could not be clearer...thumbs up! Funny because I was wondering where you were and then this video turned up. Happy to still have you around.
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  3645. He came out with a product that will find buyers like wildfire the very next day after the court’s verdict. Who here bets Trump will build up his war chest and come back to slaughter his enemies in the same way Edmond Dante, the Count of Monte Cristo, devised an ingenious plan for his revenge?
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  3646. What did the women do? Female work of Neanderthals not discussed....mmmmWhy? Who did what work in the family? And what were the climatic conditions of fossils found? I want to know the physicality of the landscape when Neanderthal was around... 7:21 some populations had healthier diets and some not. Agriculture had a detrimental effect on the health of groups in the Neolithic Era needs explaining. Tool fossils would suggest how the natural division of labor in the family of Neanderthals between the sexes existed and the tools themselves suggesting how developed male and female hands were giving us an idea of gender strength and weaknesses indicating the opposite. Men and women did the same work including rearing the children Neanderthals. Where is the data analyzing the solidified soil same age as the fossil finds? We can deduce how mobile Neanderthals were or how settled by the data. Animal fossils found in the same region would also corroborate the relationship between Neanderthals and farming. Did they domesticate animals? Nobody walks on earth without at some point digging into the ground with their hands and begins to find other life forms useful to their survival. What position in the labor-process of Neanderthal’s mode of survival did wildlife and the soil, water and land, play that gave them a presence on earth and a disappearance?
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  3647. China has its own hardliners just like we do who have their finger on the trigger.
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  3648. The under 18 yr olds in America are more organized than the left.
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  3649. Losing Catalonia would be a loss for the Spanish Republic. Happy enough to subsist on double taxation. They ( conservatives in Spain ) are unresponsive to the state levies of Catalonians. From the outside the referendum looks like a break away form of nationalism. It is and it is not. The average Spaniard is a patriotic nationalist, anti- Catalonian in the guise of democratic inclusion. It seems the Spanish government is preoccupied with locking people up and are on their way to a new Franco style dictatorship.
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  3650. Now I know why Biden pardoned pot prisoners,---to make room for the violent and criminal element in society. Police won’t protect subway riders until the Justices have room in their detention centers. Making the regular person pay the price for life at a game of chance they may encounter a criminal element. And I have to say to the regular person, good job, refusing to use the subway does not make you a pawn in their political wars.
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  3651. Pretty lame to blame one present-day bureaucrat for the drug and slave trade that has been happening for the last 50 years at least since the 70s.
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  3652.  @dab0331  the proliferation of weapons in society began in your time in your society. Before your time and your society crime in London was low in our gunless island.
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  3653. Consumption is the sphere of human activity that must change and this is happening when more cities and localities shut off or close down the largest polluters of greenhouse gases. The problem is the unessential polluters disguise themselves with the data of a low offender for greenhouse gases and the Public buys it because government science has been undermined, cut at the knees, for decades a whole generation has grown up with the notion the government are the bad guys, inept, jackasses, and now are the personification of evil itself.
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  3654. Haiti's political elite did not like Moise. Solage must have had the backing of the political elite if he was so bold as to claim the presidency. But he is not dead so a trial should reveal who his supporters are? This would be like all landowners in the US and those who own large scale property in the US who are not American giving their full backing to Trump, a landowner himself, if he succeeds in stealing the presidency from Biden.
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  3655. ​ @user-rl3iv2jk9q  Its birth control to the individual but to society its a form of social control.
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  3656.  @trashpanda3837  Right now it is not a human right until all humans have that freedom. Until then it remains a privileged freedom for a select few nations. But I do agree with you on one level. A court deciding the fate of the social and sexual reproduction of females proves a privilege right stops short of a universal freedom for women from patriarchal social institutions this Supreme Court exemplifies. This inadequacy calls for its abolition! The western states where abortion is not codified are not truly representative of its citizens but more interested in maintaining the disabilities of civil life. In the US not abortion un-codified as a political Right is game to affect Americans politically. This is a barrier that must be removed. America has not codified abortion; France has.
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  3657.  @gl3913  Define a Right in the first place? The Law to ‘this’ SCOTUS is not a boundary line between two fields marked by a stake in the ground. This panel of Judges (SCOTUS) purposely put itself right in the middle of a boundary line that was already there under Roe v Wade and ruling further to destroy that line, crossing the line, that this institution is interfering with men and womens’ sex lives. This SCOTUS is a lever with which to eliminate all Rights.
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  3658.  @JulianaMaritzaSoto  The issue is not about high risk pregnancies and abortion it’s about the low risk pregnancies that occur when someone or a couple do not want to be pregnant due to life circumstances. As a woman you should know this, shocking!
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  3659.  @KarlMarcus8468  Who is the “we”, who appreciate anyone’s contribution...” ?
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  3660.  @gl3913  Stop fighting each other you have a virulent fascist right wing dominating government that cannot be defeated without unity, solidarity, and MASS OPPOSITION among all races, ORGANIZE AND FIGHT BACK!
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  3661. Blinken, a racist who thinks he is not a racist, or pretends, spends no time in Latin America at all to iron out crisis.
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  3662. It takes a thief to know a thief and it takes a hypocrite to know a hypocrite.
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  3663. A humane economic order is not probable within the framework of social institutions dedicated to the conversion of the concrete into the abstract. A bold and new government has to be composed of separate task forces instead of cabinet level bureaucracies! Task forces made up of people their are concerned with dedicated to dismantling the bourgeois form of America's social institutions. All based on total social control for the conversion of products into commodities, the concrete into the abstract, America's institutions punishes the poor and working class to complete this conversion. America's poor and working classes grows more inhumane and desensitized through the practices of institutions set up to fail. Failing is not failing when someone succeeds from failure describes what is really going on. The concrete manifestation of labor in society is a commodity and in a commodity producing society products are the subject of exchange, traded for each other everyday, using money mediating to complete the exchange where products passively express their values in money, in billions of transactions a day. Products interact with each other through their values interacting with a primary source of value and interact with the human race through social institutions in real need of change.  Social institutions created by republicans and democrats, through legislation to facilitate and create new commodity and labor markets. The new Democratic socialists needs a strong abolitionist wing of its new party when it eventually becomes a national party majority. Abolitionists dedicated to the abolition of the old social institutions holding back the aims of emancipating the poor and working classes, all labor in society, from the commodification of products. A new party faces a monster that gets larger, more powerful, the more people work for it.
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  3664.  @chuckleaf8027  KMA
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  3665.  @georgefurman4371  You bit the hook.
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  3666. Its deeper than that...odds are going through every human bone in all the museums starting with the Smithsonian will reopen cold cases. What better place to hide forever fragments of bone of a murdered contemporary person(s) in exchange for a cut in the deal that murder accrued whether it be cash donations or special treatment if it means ensuring a sitting president or powerful Senator is not indicted for murder,-----you' d have to be born yesterday to assume that does not go on. The Public is kept clueless.
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  3667.  @tjmichael8773  What I thought was interesting was seeing in her face and body very subtly reflect her mind repressing and not repressing the implications behind the discovery the bones were from the recent past and not the distant past.
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  3668. Bannon is wrong that 65% want "transparency", 65% want impeachment.
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  3669.  @jugganuat6440 well... the old problem is solved but not the new one.
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  3670.  @rowstone3019  Yawn.
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  3671. I hate the fact there is not a third party in all state legislatures that can break a duopoly. They exclude a majority and break up the majority to stay in politics and than deprive the majority of politics.
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  3672. Is the working class is under attack from an alliance of social classes who are not the producers of the wealth of the nation? If so, that signals a call. But who among the social classes leads this alliance? Is the landowning class, merchant class, banking class or the capitalist class spearheading this campaign against workers? It appears all the attacks are coming from each social class. Landlords charge high rent, merchant inflation rates, bank fees and high interest mortgage rates, employer forced overtime work, all coming from social classes that are non-workers aimed at working people. The working class has to learn to act for itself and become class conscious of the fact the social classes attacking the working class need the working class more than the working class needs them. Bankers, landowners, merchants, capitalists, are all dependent on labor productivity which workers alone are its owner. This fact is recognized by law but where work is concerned under their economic agreements, workers are unequal to all the non-workers and the non-workers become equally the owners of this vast material financial wealth and use it, politically, to collectively force workers out from appropriating their own productivity.
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  3673. Identical pattern to how South Africa built Apartheid after WWII, through isolation. Isn’ this what capitalism does to members of society, isolate them from each other. Isolate nations from each other to keep the world community out is what abusers do to keep neighbors out.
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  3674. If women want freedom in Afghanistan the American military is not the way to get it. You don't seek to be freed from the same person who enslaves you. If you need an example,--- look at how women in Chile are winning their freedom.
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  3675. Looks to me like the city government in Baltimore is completely broken and cannot guarantee the safety of person, property and rights of Baltimore’s citizenry is the final line a city cannot cross. Gangs and guns have created a reign of terror. Its economy will naturally be next to collapse. Baltimore is not the only city disintegrating as we read. LA’s City Council is broken down from its own scandal but as a consequence the city cannot function. Political organizations a city needs to run are polarized by their politics and are unable to work together. It seems to me that the citizenry have to find a way to get all the political leaders out of office.
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  3676. The kind of leaders we have in our (USA) government are people who; 1., want a nuclear war, and 2., are people deaf to the voice of the nation against war. These are people who give real weight to the overwhelming evidence of their stubborn resistance to peace and solidarity among all nations and people that one option remains for all humanity; an outright revolution...get rid of them... as the only way to put an end to their decline playing out as ‘hubris’ in their competition for hegemony. It is time to end capitalism.
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  3677. Excellent film critique.
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  3678. Once the mass of people have pronounced their movement a revolution the people need to organize themselves into battalions with strict tasks to disable the police in order to topple the old regime holding on to power. A revolution needs strategy and tactics to prevent it from descending into chaos and an economic plan to restart the economy with a new political program.
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  3679. You need to work on your writing skills. Sorry to say you are not alone writing poorly.
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  3680. Who authored the bill? @nonplayercharacter6478 
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  3681. The reasons why a total overhaul is necessary are many. I wonder how many would argue systematic reform does not go far enough? A land re-distribution plan has military roots in General Tecumseh Sherman's Land Red-Distribution Plan in the post Civil War period. This plan would have abolished the economic basis on which the races are divided and the Jim Crow Era had the plan not been shot down by Johnson after Lincoln's assassination would never had been. I consider ths re-distribution plan an incomplete chapter to America's development that is still feasible along wth Wallace's agricultural plan that by this time the corporations were the pre-eminent social power in society. As they say its never too late, look at China announcng 717 million people lifted out of poverty. Abolishing poverty is key to never giving the chance and the conditions for fascism and racism to arise. No need for it when everyone has food on the table.
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  3682. When the war is seen from the point of view of the factory and its workers making the ammo. The war has a whole other appearance of reality. Questions, doubts, reservations, motivations, reasons, circling in their minds. They are not making enough bombs and missiles in plants that are largely all mechanized to keep up with the Russian battery of assaults and barrages. The war would be over if production stopped completely.
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  3683.  @fpsreeves9731  Could be dress rehearsal for a takeover and lock down at some point down the road...you’d be foolish to believe a suspension of rights cannot happen here...one suspicious indicator is how information through the press is dispensed. No press investigations on who the perps are and everything is an ‘ongoing investigation’ in the police to avoid questions it appears is the standard answer given to the Public, and wrong information sets up an atmosphere of confusion, chaos, instability, that can only get worse are conditions for a crack down.
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  3684. These products are banned in Europe because they are not real food.
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  3685. Algeria has a real revolutionary movement going on! It looks like Iraq has a real revolutionary movement happening there too. Hard to tell the information coming through the channels is scant. But in Algiers, a people's revolution unguided by a political entity has a collective vision of a new society and now has the will plus the mass to make that vision a reality.  It sees elections as a part of the problem and wants the government a museum piece by tomorrow. It takes any concessions by the government, to be fraudulent, it completely and resolutely rejects any offer they may make and this sea of people aim to free themselves by establishing universal freedom, by overthrowing all existing bases of oppression, its remarkable to witness the difference between a protest and demonstration to a movement that wants the entire civil social order replaced! The Mayor of New York better get with the Commish to tame his department and keep fares down affordable for the poor or NYC will be dealing with a mass revolt bigger than what happened in Santiago Chile over fare hikes.
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  3686. Its the wild west out there; doctors are your access point to disability if you think you really need it and nobody knows better than yourself the threshold of pain you are willing to tolerate. Disability is the Small Oasis under the Sun from mounting debt or lack of treatment whichever kills you first. Health establishment have an investigation ahead of them that could reveal a lot of what is wrong with the establishment on the nature of the doctor/patient relationship.
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  3687. Taliban does not want huge amounts of capital to leave the country of course they are going to monitor bank transfers. Karzai fled the country a billionaire. That is a lot of currency to be taken out of circulation disrupting the amount of cash needed for the amount of goods that country produces and exchanges to get into people's hands for their use. Imagine if Jeff Bezos took all his wealth out of the US think what that would do your food prices. People are not smart enough to see the effects of money nor understand money. Prices go through the roof when there is not a sufficient quantity of money in circulation and this is not a country that can print money when it wants! If there was a time to exit the country it would be now when the Taliban and the US are in negotiation for the evacuation and not after the US leaves! The country is under a straight jacket of restraints, Taliban are not going to kill people they can use as leverage to loosen that straight jacket or get out of it completely. First come first serve basis is the procedure at the airport. They have to fight against a wave of desperate people. The straightjacket hurts the population not the Taliban and the expectation is that the population will get rid of the Taliban. This never works. Why the Pentagon continues to use this method of torturing a population by depriving them thinks peasants are too stupid to realize the US is causing their grief is the stupidity of the Pentagon officials. The opposite would work. Sanctions breed revolts and revolutions and this apparently is what the US strategists want to happen. Either that or they are plain sado-masochistic in the Pentagon.
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  3688. On the lamb while South California is on fire.
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  3689. If the hypothesis holds true, people are personifications of economic categories, than all hope for a contaminated-free world is lost! The attention given to categories in American and European countries will directly benefit the people who embody the interests of those categories and the class relations those categories bring to bear on those people to act against the interest of humanity. The proper position to take in this controversy is to abolish the economic categories, simultaneously freeing those people from the categories they behold and the real relations of production placed in their proportional relation to human use.
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  3690. The new concepts for the field of sociology are: 1. Proletarian impoverishment 2. economic crisis 3. class struggle These concepts have come into existence thanks to capitalism, science and industry, and the world market. Impoverishment of the worker is generated by the growth of the detailed worker and the standardization of routines in production. In popular talk, dumbing down the American working class. For numbers 2 & 3, the basic weapon of capitalism is also its Achilles Heel. Capitalism reduces everything to abstract social labor. In popular talk, resolves everything into cash.   And workers become aware they are the whole basis of production acquiring knowledge of their own class interest in the class struggle. None of the candidates spoke to any of the above social realities.
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  3691. Incredible story, we never tell the history of mankind through the eyes of the handicapped. This is the first I have seen...a remarkable video history.
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  3692. Ok now you heard the right wing response, The Great Reset, to the crisis you are living through now hear my response. In a social system designed for people the lost luggage would be sent to a clearing house for distribution to places like Good Will store. People can buy what they need cheap and the material wealth gets used not thrown out or sent into indefinite exile. Lost luggage owners compensated for their loss. In a social system designed for money and goods and services meant to be exchanged planning at the national level is impermissible to a market system of exchange. Society as a whole is forbidden to take a role in solving huge problems in a market system. Society is punished when it tries. Taught and told never to use its mighty social power as a collective power. Society would get in the way of the market system. The market system deals with natural disasters, lost luggage, gun violence, crime, political corruption, climate change, natural disasters, pandemics, market crashes, recessions, inflations, stagnation and depressions, wars, all the ills in society at present, in an individual way between small property owners and individual companies. Companies who must balance the service against their profit at all times or die against property owners asked by the government to bear the burden do the private companies do not die. Social problems and social conflicts are too big for the private market place to handle and the individual companies in society run away, close stores, hide, are scared, chicken, or swing the opposite way, give back, try heroics, even cause mischief. Populations bury their heads in the sand as individual entities cannot cope, deal or handle the conflicts, crisis and contradictions, run to the government for help on an never-ending basis usurping the total economic surplus that when we really need it the problems too big to be handled by a market system the economic surplus has dried out. This is ultimate stupidity of a market system that will destroy America if society does nothing about it the way the government does nothing about it. Society has a role to play and and a valid place from which to solve the general crisis government and private companies cannot fix, incapable of fixing, crisis too large reforms proposed over and over again cannot fix! Society can fix the general crisis in a month. If society can fix the crisis why do we need government or private industry is why society is constantly held in a state of need and desperation, hobbling on one leg, injured, to prevent its collective power from taking a role finally freeing humanity from the curse of the ages.
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  3693. Horrible institutional abuse in the death of a baby left in a Day Care Center’s Transport Van, a barbarism that need never happen in a country that is no way as poor as 135 other nations. Americans are beyond the point of humanity when they cannot raise children. But on another front “...some of his policies have been good for the country”., I agree, they have. Depending on who benefits from his policies. The infant that died in a van did not benefit from any of Biden’s policies. Biden cannot over come republican cuts on resources to millions of infants just born in the US. Face it when you give money to the military the child that has no rights until the age of 18 gets no share of the budget for life education outside of the traditional share that gets eaten up by multiple agencies. Biden’s problem is a democrat problem. A business cycle to Biden is just a fluctuation. Prices rise and they fall, tomorrow they rise again and fall. Policies fit well into that paradigm. But the paradigm itself is junk economics! Its junk because all the policy emphasis is on the sphere of consumption and there are no polices in the sphere of production. This gets them, the democrats, into deeper trouble every time when more working class black babies die and new ones face republican institutionally constructed odds. A myopia of one-sidedness. The weak points in democrats are strong points for republicans. Market fluctuations since the “COVID pandemic” on gas prices do not show the changes in the gas and oil industry of the many companies in the oil and gas market, making the rules as they go on their own, are exposed to wars and other political disturbances, good and bad harvests etc.. You can’t drill cheap if your money has to go to higher wages to cover the crew’s accommodations and meals. Even a modest increase in food prices can cripple production. Strikes is another, there many strikes and big ones too that stops the process of work from going on smoothly in society. Its not all about buying stuff its about production not breaking down and work in society has broken down.
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  3694. 0.35 If Americans were paying attention to Trump's press conference they will have learned by Trump's own words, that: The federal budget in its entirety is the economic surplus. The total annual income of the government is derived from taxes and more than half of it is consumed by the military. Because Trump was talking about the Moon we learn more about the Sun. Technically speaking, and by a galactic analogy, we learn the true source of the total revenue annually produced receives no actual share of it. Like the Sun gives energy and light but takes none of it for itself, eventually the Sun burns out and becomes a dead planet like the tax payer eventually becomes a dead person. The individual is the true source of revenue the giver of this military life and the individual gets no part of it in the form of real wealth.
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  3695. Any country that builds up its military will make their working populations poorer. The higher the level of military expenditure a country has the poorer its working people will be. This is a guarantee. The money you spend blowing people up is money that never gets spent in the economy. Bombs do not make butter. Youth need to use Art as a political weapon.
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  3696. It is a good discussion but how capitalism gives rise to a reactionary left and an ideological crisis on the left is equally important if not more. There is a constant rehashing in the left of the big abstract and general issues but no focus on the concrete ways people to channel their anger and rage at the forces of oppression. How the left conspires with the right to exclude the people or a people's movement is just as much a valid discussion as how capitalism gives rise to far right extremism. Exclusion is never resolved or brought to a conclusion and the left moves onto another subject, a lot of multitasking that accomplishes nothing concrete. There is no tolerance on the left for discussion on changing the conditions of a particular kind of oppression. Just as a hypothetical case, for instance, if 3/4s of the population is straddled by debt, the left prevents the people from coming together in a movement for a debt moratorium. No asssistance no facilitating. Its all about putting everyone's energy in voting out the bad guy. But something like Real News Network should counter that effort by touring various towns and cities for people to attend and make contact with the people.  Fascism may be extreme but the fascists are not the ones stopping the working class from actively and independently making its appearance on the world stage. The fasicst use that anger and give an outlet to the working class and this is the problem with the left, they facilitate the far right.
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  3697.  @kasegiyabu5030  All the little piggies in Orwell's farm never took power for themselves. You better re-read the book. Power was merely transferred from one tyrannical piggy to another tyrannical piggy was Orwell's message. I would have given you an F if you were in my English class. You don't know what's good for you. Worse still, you can handle the truth when it is put in front of you. You wanted hope and change you got Obama, then you wanted something different promising change and you got Trump. One tyrannical person after another tyrannical person, one ideology after another ideology, nothing revolutionary in that at all, yet here you sit powerless and broke.
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  3698.  @kasegiyabu5030  you are verifying my point but you are not seeing how the piggies took over the farmer's class system. A revolution is when the farmer's class system is completely erased. The piggies became the new rulers is not an abolition of the system of class but just became the new rulers and kept the class system intact. We no longer have white masters we have black masters too. Do you see that? A coup d état is not a revolution. A revolution by definition is a change in the mode of production and a mode of production is a complex of two elements the forces of production and the social relations of production.
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  3699.  @kasegiyabu5030  What happened to you? Did you see the light or not?
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  3700.  @kasegiyabu5030  B+, Now you are thinking on your feet whereas before you were sounding like so many of the jackasses calling themselves Marxists. I'll have you know that Engels, Lenin, certainly not Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho, ever understood Marx's theory of value, the cornerstone of his system, laid out in the first three chapters of Capital, Vol I, subsequently the whole communist experiment was wrong from the very start. But why you insist on being right is the product of the narrow mindedness of men thinking with their little head between their legs. Machismo, ego, self-fishness, hubris, all the qualities the class system promotes in men and women, bourgeois social values. It would do you good to shed that ugly skin. Back to the Piggies in Orwell's allegory, the collective they ran was not a class conscious collective. They were never armed with an animal militia that would defend the de-bourgeoisification of society's individuals. It was subject and prone to abuse and continuous see-saw and, on going, coup d état, by people emerging from the class system they did not abolish. One tryrant to the next tyrant, Obama to Trump, is an example. Orwell never understood the first three chapters either. Implimenting the Law of Value for the equalization of value and price, requires the class system be gone and the property relations be egalitarianized. This way technology and science would become a function of investment capital, eradicating inequities, in production. All he saw was revolts not revolutions in the mode of production because in his day of 1945, only two books of Marx was published, the entire collection of his manuscripts and correspondences, numbering about 30 were published in the 1960s. The world before 1960 did not have the benefit of Marx's complete system. By then the coup d état method of top down revolutions was perfected by the ruling classes they observed, studied and acquired from Lenin! Hopefully, you can see that our very first conversation in this dialogue was an abortion! Petty squabbling on who is right and who is wrong. Collectives are not a new system, the Iroquois Nation was a collective of tribes. The Fabian socialists of the 1800s built collectives, the Amish are a collective, the Shakers in Ohio, a collective, but none are these are socialism constructed on the theory of value. A kibbutz, but all of these are gone and absorbed by capitalism, defenseless and unable to stand on their own. This is perhaps Orwell's meaning. Collectives are closed systems with limited applicability to the larger society without the Law of Value integrating them into general production and necessary labor time. Of course, how would they know when this law was hardly known at the time and capitalism had not, in some cases, not even fully developed as it is today.  This is enough for now.
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  3701. Mr. Chomsky raises a point at 4:24. Why should the US have the power to control other nations? A reason could arise if the US got on the right path of historical and social development, it can lead by example. It is a matter of changing the mode or form of activity not a different distribution of this activity that is to be changed.  The form of wealth has everything to do with the condition of the domestic economy and the state of world affairs. Since we are not exactly clear on what specific form is directly responsible for turning the world upside down we are clear that every form encountered in present-day society must dissolve into its opposite for none of them are working for the greater mass of people.
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  3702. More than a hundred years ago in order to render extinct the native American population the Bison was slaughtered by the US Army and average Americans firing from trains across the plains to shoot the Bison. That was more than a hundred years ago. You would think the Bison species would have rebounded from extinction since that time. So who and what killed brought the Bison population to where it is now and what was done with the carcasses?
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  3703. They never did but the Congress should have cut back on foreign investments a long time ago. From 1950-1971 was the time to save capitalism. All was okay before the government over issued paper money requiring more gold to back it up. They had to exploit the South African mines more, black human labor for more gold out of the ground. Seems like Congress at the time never asked the question why should the US issue new currency to other countries more than they already held? The answer might lie in the fact that other countries can begin their own miltiary defense buildups. This would over time change the favorable trade balance the American people enjoyed because foreign countries would buy military products from industries with the excess dollars. The corporations then became too big to fail. From 1950 to 1971 was the time Congress ought to have dealt with the problem of Too Big To Fail. The American farmer, factory worker, office worker exported or sold more goods than they bought from other nations, from the 19th century up to the 1970s.  Money came in from trade the people were able to save money. Now money leaves because of trade. America buys more foreign goods than it sells its own goods. Farmers sold less and the shortfall is subsidized in an artificial market contraction and too large of a percentage of people are not able to save a dime. Before climate change, the classical answer to this disaster that is now America is a massive infusion of capital into industries that can first create a surplus in the domestic market cheaper than foreign produced products saturating the domestic market and with the excess export to nations. This would put the American people back in the swing of recieving the proceeds of trade. Re-open circulation once labor and capital are joined in production. But climate change changes everything about the way we produce. America has to turn its friends and allies into real friends and allies for a new way of being and living is a foreign concept to the leaders of American society, a provincially minded group. Be like talking to the Pilgrims in the 1600's the world will become too small for the human race, action must be taken now to avoid catastrophe and they would burn you at the stake as a heretic!
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  3704. I wonder if you are right for the same reasons I am right? Weather is not the subject here. Earth will do what it had done for the whole of existence. This is about the total break down of America’s economic and social life as it was was before the pandemic. That America cannot be recovered no matter how much the government tries and employers insist. There are so many examples of failures in every aspect of our lives, the old way of doing things is no match for the pandemic and the extreme storms, floods, record freezes and snowfalls, tornado touch downs, fires, floods, droughts. Before the pandemic the roads were the way this country got its products and got around from place to place.
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  3705. US Air Strikes are an example of how the aim even if it means violating physical limits of human endurance is applied to service Capitalism. The Suez Canal is a tool for capitalism as much as it is a natural seaway, it becomes an instrument, in a larger process of trade that has a devastating effect on the people who perform the work and make it all happen are people paid in wages and salaries. Its technology and its science that goes into making that canal work for trade to continue on a constant basis has reached this level of use because of how cheap it is produce products today. Spread over more products is a great deal of value that in money terms represented in them becomes capital upon their sale. Here is the reason why wages fall for workers in the home country in tis scenario. It is not the diversion of traffic on the seaway that establishes for workers a new average cost for survival at home its the productive power of manufacturers. They never stop producing because of ever increasing levels of output to the detriment of workers a given rate of profits. Factory technology runs itself with no help from its participants. Work is an automatic process of pumping out cheaper products in mass quantities that a fall in wages for workers in the home country is an increase in profits for those who employ workers are constantly fluctuating to establish a new average cost of living between them is expressed in a class war. The disrupted sea lanes have nothing to do with the reasons Americans are given and are paying high prices and working down to the bone beyond human endurance, except for reasons the manufacturers and not the workers set the price of life. To this end in this scenario the US Air Strikes are really a waste of time and money and can only be assessed as a irrational military debacle offering no real gain or purpose or benefit to humanity at home or abroad.
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  3706. Russia has her own production capability for weapons manufacturing and its own factories why would China provide weapons...that is only something the US does with nations that do not have the production capacity like the Philippines just got weapons and training from the US. Only telling it like it is.
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  3707.  @orangeblood307  a nation that has their production will buy a competitor’s product if not to copy it than to learn how far they have to go before they can copy it and by then, technology has developed into a new series of generations the nation holding the secrets has progressed, even as they have capabilities they remain at a low level of introduction, to their own detriment, since warfare is not the only way to develop industry, science and technology, secrets is primary objective of the State and heavily guarding secrets is its function on earth.
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  3708. The next shot right after Kamala Harris says '...COVID rates in your community will go down', should be a shot of grade schoolers circled on the floor.
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  3709. You weaken Israel and end its genocide on Palestinians by forcing the Ambassador of the United Emirate States to leave Washington, for he is the biggest lobby-er backing the actions of Israel. Without Saudi Arabia's support of Israel the conflict would come off the streets and into the negotiating table. To weaken the Trump administration and its support of Israel, you boycott all Jewish run and owned businesses. If you can overcome your addictions to gambling never entering a casino would be a powerful move to force Washington to cut Israel off. So much of that money goes to support Israel more than our tax dollars do. The ordinary casino junkie provides Israeli more of their $$$ than at&t gives money to Israel. If you want to end the sale of weapons to countries than you demonstrate your opposition to war. The whole option strategy is wrong confronting exclusively one character. The movement needs to focus its strategy on eliminating the key foreign players who are part of the overall plan for re-dividing the Middle East and dominating Iran.
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  3710. Why isn't Biden dead already? What brought him back to life, how was he resuscitated? When Bernie said Biden could beat Trump on national TV was the moment Biden was rescuscitated from the dead. Proves progressives can attack the republicans all they want but if they attack the people in their own party their dead and the American people lose every f'n time!
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  3711. There would be too many claims...the frequency of weaponizing a car is low and weaponizing a gun is high...the problem originates in the amendment itself.
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  3712. These images of China's factories and the people in the stores shopping or workmen in a shop, apartments buildings, avenues, streets, are centers of activity not separated by private ownership. This is a city where poverty is not possible, homelessness and hunger are not possible because the city itself is the factory and the necessaries of life, housing, food, education, are needs satisfied by the entire city, these are factory cities. They are not cities containing social classes, not cities with a population divided up into so many merchants, capitalists, landlords and workers. Without social classes the whole population works. The working day is never beyond what is necessary for the individual given the magnitude of the total labor allocated. Everyone in these cities are workers and all departments are contained through out the city, there are no suburbs or outlying industries that do work for factories, there are no independent producers who produce for consumers, bakeries and restaurant feed the whole city population because the city factory produces for all needs a city requires, and no ordering of parts from fabricators in Ohio for the product waiting in Seattle to be finished. It does not work the way westerners have been doing work for centuries. No towns built around a factories, a factory city is like a college mega-campus with production facilities for anything. The population living in these factory cities run the entire city, the State administers the city's contracts and makes the deals with outside corporations in the US, Europe, Middle East and Latin America, so that corporations in the west have their products made in one of many of China's city factories never exploits labor directly for profit.   This is the emergence of a new mode of production, change in the way of life, cities without social classes, cities that work and live as they produce everything in-house on a large scale. Everything is fabricated as the need arises and the city just grows from that point forward. People selected from all parts of China are accepted. Mostly young people willing to leave their old communities behind for a new life apply like we apply to colleges for acceptance, into one of these cities, enters a training program, learns a skill moves up to heading a department, of whatever choice I assume a person is proficient at, nobody lays to waste, rots, or dies from property. Eventually an illiterate peasant accepted into the city as an applicant becomes a literate department manager. We, on the other hand, produce for exchange, use is secondary. Producing for use is not something we understand in the west as our mental orientation is quantitative not qualitative.
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  3713. It is wrong for a people in a society to respect the privacy of individuals when it is precisely individuals left alone in privacy, isolated and cut off from society, who become victims of perpetrators.
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  3714. Why would this be shocking when China is a capitalist society run by a communist party. I’ll tell you why. Because in general capitalism and socialism are not understood. Capitalism treats workers badly no matter who is running it. People don’t know that. Workers in America are treated badly by capitalists and it is run by a two party duopoly. People do not know that either. They feel something is off. But the reality from what it should be in their heads and how everything goes down is a real difference to involved to explain to people with no patience to explain it. Those who study this can take advantage of the situation and do. You know who they are, the super rich and famous. Everything is produced by American corporations in China. US corporations get cheap labor and high productivity for their money; everything in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, is made in China. So all capitalists of all countries do the same thing. Monkey see Monkey do. If there is no production elsewhere but in China then it is all capitalism with socialism in name only of an elite party being capitalistic, having no real aims to extend the socialism the rich enjoy to all people. China tries and raised 700 million out of poverty out 1.2 billion is a stagnant run. By now a 1. billion should be at least enjoying life at a low cost to society. What were old peasants a generation ago are now a modernized working class. China has become an expert in making a mass of products that are actually very good. But its all One Size Fits All. You would be unAmerican to not be pragmatic about reality; traditionally Americans do not bury their heads in the sand. China is socialism and the West are democracies, is all talk and no walk. Democracy is not between the people who work for Walmart; all the democracy is for the super rich and well-connected, is reality. The lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, emulated by people who want the same but are prevented from having, is the difference between Them and the workers and mid-managers at Walmart. People blow themselves up in these places literally are practicing Nihilism not Democracy. Target, Shop Rite, Piggly Wigglys, and all the mechanics working for Midas, Quick Lube, and RockBottom Repair Shops, exercise democracy at home to the best of their ability between their kids and spouses. They decide nothing at work, they follow a routine formula of work. A change in the formula, or routine, is handed down from above and decisions are done by someone else in Manhattan, nowadays a thousand miles away if not across Continents! Call that democracy...puhleeeze!
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  3715. P.S.. Across Continents is a democracy in latency.
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  3716.  @haleybrown2836  If you cannot see how the doctrine of one system two parties, perpetuates the class relation you never will!
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  3717.  @haleybrown2836  The religion of Catholics is not a doctrine but it is the doctrine of the Catholic Church, why argue semantics with me...when you know what a doctrine is? One system two parties, what you see as a tiny minority controlling the country is partially inaccurate, true in the economic realm of society but it is not ture in the poitical realm that a tiny minority pulls the strings. You have two parties that transfer back and forth in seperate intervals of time the bureaucratic-military state apparatus known as the Industrial Military Complex. If you ever wanted to smash that bureaucratic-military state aparatus you would have to abolish the two political parties. That money has corrupted both parties and infiltrated them to the point that they are corrupt only insures the MIC remains in the hands of one faction the source of the corrupting influence of money, as well as the whole of the industries the MIC requires to be a bureaucratic-military state machine. That money is considered speech was the Trojan Horse of the capitulation of democracy by the Supreme Court with the passage of Citizens United.
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  3718. The first chief of NASA the real creator was a US imported scientist who defected from the Nazi Party after WWII...why would NASA elect anyone else who is not in the Nazi lineage of successors when NASA has never experienced any other form of leadership? That’s like taking a permanently caged dog for a walk on a leash and expecting the dog not to run away.
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  3719. The Freedom Caucus supports Santos for the simple reason one of their own ideologues holds the seat the republicans would lose to democrats if Santos is removed, its an excellent vice grip on moderate republicans that are pro-establishment and pro-military, and they are pissed off about it, and the slim majority they now have against the democrats they would lose. Its an excellent strategy that one or more of this growing faction can take down the republican party leadership by faking to be a republican. Progressives in the democratic party should take a lesson or two from this. This has nothing to do with ethics the way these talking heads are beating the bush about.
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  3720. I think it is important to keep our eyes on the ball. What is more important is tendency of the State to maintain the preeminent status of the CEO in society and treat where it surfaces exploitation with kid gloves. CEO’s are the leaders of how we work and live in a system of work and production in society that is of their making is way more important than the individual moments of failures of that system. All individual parts of the medical establishment have individual workforces of their own, some number in the thousands of people employed, are working to produce profits and giving up their productivity to enrich a single competing company among an array of competitors, are not getting rich themselves in the process, they remain, a working class deprived of the necessities this medical establishment buys and sells. Cuomo has not discovered that the resistance to this system has its own peculiar form. A form of resistance that builds itself up within the system of wealthy social classes and in doing so, destroy that class system. This contradiction is not preventable, rather it is, predictable and the health establishment in its quest for higher profits, is the place where a CEO is only a CEO in the interest of its shareholders just happens to be where this internal contradiction reveals itself in brute and barbaric form.
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  3721. COVID transfers from animal to animal is a sound hypothesis even if it originated from a lab extracting pathogens from bats by a human which according to all modern science a human is a mammal and mammals are animals because they share the same organs. COVID transfers from mammal to mammal is 100% accurate. Scientific American published the article of the origins of COVID about four years before the outbreak from the Lab.
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  3722. Boeing is history. The corporation that manufacturers flying commodities for sale is finished. Among all the airline corporations Boeing and a few others will go bankrupt. The culture of commodity production of corporations is a culture that changes one thing only the cost of production. How do we make more planes at less the cost is that one thing. I don’t know about you but I weigh every product as a check against the weight it claims to be. Coffee producers are notorious. The weight of the can is added and the weight of the contents of the can is subtracted, less coffee. Old habits are hard to break even if the law orders you to produce safe planes Boeing will go back to the only thing it knows how to do.
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  3723.  @andrew_owens7680  Oath Keepers and Proud Boys cannot be deported. This is not the 17th century. Deport them...ridiculous...they are citizens. Crazy and ideological citizens I'll give you that. A violent social class f you let them. The Constitution guarantees their right to bear arms over your right to infringe upon it. My comment was a sarcastic remark on the insincerity of FBI efforts in general as theater.
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  3724.  @andrew_owens7680  They can end up in Guantanamo (which is not a deportation as suggested in a prior comment) as enemy combatants imprisoned without Habeus Corpus...this is true, but will they?
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  3725.  @speedking1353  Coz he is right.
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  3726. If the airwaves were not privatized news and information, education and entertainment would be the primary content of the whole world of national media, social media would gives us a way to develop individually.
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  3727. Literally, small minds live in Littleton, a town of fascists with fascist female state senator.
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  3728.  @robertfeller1672  I am glad you replied. I ought to have been clearer and not discuss property from a historical and theoretical perspective the differences between private and public property but did not out of haste. Your point is well taken and I appreciate the clarification. Three agencies with three agendas. Are compliance standards of the three agencies identical, or does compliance by the refinery cancel the three out as adjustments to comply to one, subsequently, falls out of compliance with the other(s)?
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  3729.  @robertfeller1672  What is the condition of the Delaware Basin, healthy or unhealthy?
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  3730. No doubt about it. Novalny is what Trump is to our Washington establishment, a threat. The kind of threat these men represent is directed at an entrenched social class of powerful oligarchs the establishment powers in the Kremlin are. All of it revolves around oil and oil markets. What cotton was the American Civil War oil is for competing oil producing nations. Europe does not produce its own oil. Europe is the prostitute constantly visited by competing western and eastern oil Johns. But through this dependency competing ideas for global control are like an elixir and made drunk with power the need to enlarge a sphere of influence and control over markets and we are caught up in this titanic struggle. Novalny and his movement are Russians oriented to western middle class values the old Russian bureaucracy fears considering around 30 million of them started a civil war in Russia in the past there is no telling what could happen in the future. That is just the thing, all world leaders and the masses of the world have no idea where we are or where we are going as a race on the planet or as a collection of nations, everyone is poking in the dark and doing their own thing. I only wish there was far more world news coverage than they are giving us. A hundred and ninety five nations out there surely there is news to be found in them. So blocked off from events in the world Americans will start contesting actual world population numbers are a hoax since they never see what 9 billion people on the planet are doing.
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  3731. Excellent Dream Defenders and CODE PINK....teachers, nurses, doctors, worker of all kinds...EVERYONE more civil unrest is needed to TAKE YOUR COUNTRY BACK!
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  3732. The one thing Bernie’s brand of socialism should talk more about is how machinery, technology, automation is appropriate to socialism because it creates disposable working time. Every society passes through separate stages of production and certain industries are more applicable for machinery,--- there is a displacement of labor to machinery but workers can be guided into other areas if a program of change also had a vision of a society that worked for the society not for a particular class in society. We need practical solutions to levees that break, water that is foul, health that is poor, housing that is lacking, food that is toxic, and exclusionary education taught to our children. Working with what we are and have, a new society is put together through a movement that solves those problems one by one by a certain time frame. But it did not reach that level of organization that would draw centrist democrats to its movement despite their anti-working class nature. We are two maybe even three steps back. Only a great leap forward is the only chance we have the next time.
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  3733. I am not a guitar player.  By way of an anology, I will say the secrets of magicians are sacred never to be revealed or the magic is ruined...ineffective, this is how I feel about people who break down the secrets of guitar players, it diminishes the effect and what is special about that player is lost.
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  3734. I am going to guess the professor wants to live out his days in quiet seclusion and to his dismay all hell breaks loose!
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  3735. Gas not sold on the international market will be sold to Russia’s own gas suppliers. The surplus of gas will help the cost of gas to down inside Russia. This crisis generated by NATO comes at the expense of the German people helps Russia brings to light another huge failure of western elites who will not contain this crisis which will lead to cuts in jobs for workers everywhere.
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  3736. In the dark Trump minions moved classified documents to Trump’s private plane...how is this any different from classified documents found in the garage in the private home of Joe Biden? There is a slight difference. On the one hand, Trump is attempting the theft of documents, and on the other hand, the documents found in the private home of Biden are a completed theft of documents. Right there in a cluttered garage. An attempt is a lesser crime should have a lesser punishment. But in contrast to the treatment of the greater crime as unworthy of any punishment at all is a crime in itself. A trifecta of wrongs and wrongs are criminal behavior...wrong in the Justice Department and wrong in the two presidents of the US. Similar scenario with the Trumpee Hur “grilled” on Capitol Hill, a minion meant to be a political weapon for personal gain is a corrupt use of a human being not a proper use of a prosecution who is supposed to be filing charges against usurpers in society. Usurpers of the National Trust and Confidence the wellbeing of the nation is actually not sold on the world market and remains secure in the hands of billionaires enmeshed in a world market is not a scenario that will work out well for the American people.
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  3737. Ajay -- read my comment above yours and tell me if you feel the same way?
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  3738. "...shut your mouth." Ajay. The Korean people have been ready for re-unification from the day North Korea was divided pummeled and decimated by the US in 1945. "President Moon engaged in diplomacy", as if Korean families had nothing to do with pushing their leaders to this point! Your in a news black out; your media does not inform you; that your media do not cover any social opposition is official policy. And, for the many survivors of North Korea, pummeled and decimated by the US. Un's actions dispels any notion that Un is the oppressor American media makes him out to be. He put NK on a footing the US understands best, force. and then pursued peace and reunification to neutralize American diplomacy. You have not noticed 'diplomacy' is synonymous to 'force' in your country. Yet you live inside force, killing, murders, shooting, invasions. This makes your mouth full of force telling people to shut up, ultimately, your brains and consciousness, forced. The North Korean people yearn and pressure their leaders to act, to see their families once again and visit the graves of the victims, and you say this reunification happened because of one man, one single individual had the sense to engage in diplomacy to minimize the direct use of force of the US. The only credit worth of giving Trump is calling Un, "..one smart cookie". The WPNK outwitted the neocons that control your brain. There is tremendous social opposition to Duterte, Moon, Abe for their ties to the US. Essentially, they are seen by this opposition, virtually unreported to you, as sophisticated puppet regimes. It is you and your people who are in a news black out. They want to keep you separated from the masses of people are coming to realize US influence in Asia is moribund...and you say..."Trump deserves credit for accepting to meet with Un" as if this had more to do with shaping historical events! You've been watching too many Disney movies son. Next time you tell people to shut up make sure you got something real to contribute or say nothing at all or did not your parents teach you that lesson?
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  3739. Awesome. Gonna be one hell u va tasty and delicious night in Chicago.
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  3740. The rich surviving and the poor left to burn is only the first act! The following acts come in the aftermath of the destruction of handcraft industries and small scale peasant farming, acts 2 and 3 are the fresh investment in land by rich nations. Land that was parceled by millions of small property owners in Pakistan and in the global south are sold brings an era of societies based on private property to an end and life for these people transformed. They become a social class of day workers selling no more than their labor-capacity and fully proletarianized by the third act of this historical drama, the force of continued climate change impacts that comes with the increase and concentration of capital, et al industrialization, provokes a proletarian revolution out of the masses, and societies enter a phase where expansion and accumulation never rises above a permanent state of poverty.
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  3741. Moderna is last among its competitors to be let into the market by the government (CDC) it seems. Each day Moderna loses a share of that market to Jansenn and Phizer. Unless the government is willing to lose its position as a true guardian of the public interest. Waiting for Moderna to gets its act together may not be an option for the government monitoring the pandemic. Vaccines are vaccines to the CDC but to Moderna the world of competition has it trapped, stuck. Coercive laws of competition to lessen the cost of making the vaccines act like inexorable laws on business. They demand inevitable results. We don't know if the CDC standards are low or high between the vaccine producers because the vaccines are also commodities. Commodities only have one purpose, being a means for people to buy and sell, or exchange is a commodity's sole purpose. That is why it is important to know what a commodity is that 99% of the population do not. Vaccines in the mind of the CDC are measured by a fluctuation tolerance, what the country can withstand of the pandemic before something serious happens. What measures vaccines as commodities is something not inherent in the usefulness of the vaccines.
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  3742. Farmer says the government does not have the money to fund the transition but the trust in government the famers do not have in the government is the biggest issue for them. Why is that? What in the government does the Dutch farmer not trust and if that trust is doubted why are the politicians not out there making the case to build that trust? Generally speaking, a market economy of any kind Dutch, British, American, Chinese, is not a system designed to resolve crisis of this magnitude although it creates a crisis or contributes to one it cannot deal with a crisis this big through individual companies interacting as buyers and sellers. Buyers and sellers do not fix environmental or social problems. Buyers and sellers fix problems that stop the flow of goods from hand to hand so they can make money in the process and this fact leads me to believe there is a third element involved that conditions have to be changed for it to develop further and the farmers are in the way of that process. I do not buy the Great Reset theory at all, to me that is pure bunk and explains nothing; it only misdirects people to act in regrettable ways for its own purposes and is used to distract from this third element involved that wants the farmers removed.
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  3743. The two main opponents in the war in Ukraine are Russia and the US. US or Russian defectors can be pretend defectors.
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  3744. It occurs to me that PMs are non-workers and are clueless of... the working day... as the field of battle for the next ten years not China.
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  3745. Listen to the experts on terrorism and you become an expert in projections of subjective opinions. Despite holding over $1 trillion in proven untapped mineral deposits, Afghanistan will forever remain one of the least developed countries in the world without an extraction industry of its own. Ensuring it never has its own capabilities is the total substance of American foreign policy with respect to Afghanistan not unlike other nations kept poor for the same reasons. Tools of US foreign policy are tools to disable, disrupt, and keep poor the poor nations. Imagine the social and economic tools be used to keep wealth proportional to the actual size and needs of a country. Constant growth is not the only way to live. One extraction industry producing enough income for 37 million people to live would be enough for this country to be a happy people irrespective of religion. Something in the mentality of constant growth stunts and deprives the mind of breaking out of its mental limitations in the west forever dependent on theft of wealth by trial and error.
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  3746. What is done to Katie Porter is done to millions of people everyday in America.
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  3747. At 7:30; the question of too much capital in too few hands and too little purchasing power in too many hands, a problem not going away, is a problem of the social form of labor in society and the form of property relations occurring in the economy. If a nation is going to transform itself it better know what it is it needs to transform. Don't get this right and you end up with a situation worse than one you just came out of. One of the main aims of the ruling classes in Great Britain since the beginning of civil society in the 16th century has been to deskill the working class from ever learning the skills of political administration so that if they ever did take power they would not know what to do with it, and the ruling classes, can react back in accusatory style condemning the 'revolution' and proceeding with a counter-revolution to crush it. This attitude toward property gave rise to elite schools to ensure this power is inherited within the ruling families generation after generation. We have only to look to the recent past to see how the goal of transforming society to break this cycle, failed to include the 'ourselves'. The subjective being ruled out of the transformation process. It is harder to transform yourself than it to transform objective reality. In this historic episode of social transformation coming, the center of the transformation has to be about a human freedom that transcends modernization. A move that takes us to the next higher form of social organization in our lifetime or at least creating the foundations for a new world here and now we owe to all those before us embarking on that course.
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  3748. Rowe is an idiot. Employers are the problem not the workers.
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  3749. I understand the point being made in this video but why didn’t the interviewer ask the Trump-ers what did Trump do bring down insulin prices? At times it is necessary to get people to question their beliefs as misbeliefs and put them on the spot but my theory is that Trump supporters want a civil war and Trump is a catalyst to that effect. They would become a legitimate secessionist racist and nationalist movement if Trump is defeated. His defeat would signal a civil war to them. The guy who thinks Trump will get 90% reflects how many white voters are primed for a civil war. Civil War is close to a probability because 80% black, brown and Middle Eastern votes are alienated from Biden makes the total that would have voted for Biden in a landslide a smaller total Trump can defeat with his social backing. Think of it as a Color Revolution or a coup dé état in the works because that is what the Trump movement is. Democrats have been enabling it, crushing the progressive left by initially taking the nomination from Bernie gave legitimacy to the criticism of the democratic state. This is a pattern that goes back to what the democrats did with McGovern in the 70s works against democracy. Alienating youth makes it easier for people with no socially redeeming values to get elected. This has worked for centrists democrats for a long time comfortable in capitalism until a guy comes along and voices the damage done to social groups the democrats have alienated. Suddenly the dejected become a weaponized democratic problem rather than a republican one. The individual and mass shootings have been education on what the capabilities are in your foe. You learn what kind of weapons should be used from all the “I want to thank our law enforcement and partners” press conferences. It really is laughable if it were not so serious how the centrists democrats have conducted party business. Sad situation is that innocent American people are clueless as participants in this grand social experiment. Really the Trump story is really the story of the end of the Democratic Party and Establishment, a modern illustration of how Cortez with 500 Spaniards was able to take down the Aztec Empire. The strategy of cultivating so many tribal enemies with taxation made fertile ground for the Spaniards to use against the Empire. Cortez was like Trump, a con artist. Those day, of course, taxation meant your life would be sacrificed to the God of Rain and the Sun God was enough of a terror tax to convince the tribes to join the Spanish without much convincing. What chief of a tribe wants their daughter’s heart taken out if it can be stopped by joining the guys dressed in metal. The democrats hand Trump less generous reasons to join the fight to dismantle the Establishment. White nationalist fascist youths are itching for a fight and linked with others in eastern Europe.
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  3750. Globalization has a crippling effect on economies, a multipolar world is the answer. The poor and destitute from 190 nations facing economic crisis and climate change moving to a handful of rich nations is absolutely insane. There has to be a shift to a multipolar world economy where buying from the world market does mean they have to buy dollars to develop their own economies.
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  3751. Behind the scenes of the president’s disabilities are abusive handlers. The presidency can be called an institution of elder abuse.
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  3752. I am well aware capitalism comes off to people as a personal difference between greedy people and people who give the shirt off their backs. People persons are dumbstruck by a mode of production that does nothing if it does not result in a sale is shown to be an overt barrier against and insult to humanity and dignity when the matter involved is life or death. The greed the law prosecutes as criminal individuals is only the tip of the iceberg of the greed inherent in capitalist relations. Relations that are fake, skin deep, product relationships that perpetuate an illusion (with the help of Hollywood) the system that does nothing unless there is a sale conceals no greed on the surface of society. One has to dive into the water beneath the surface to expose where all the inequality and exploitation resides...in the workplaces of the US, workplaces are the interior guts of a society...it’s inner workings. You don't have to be an economist to know the callous disregard for human life and indignity that come from the capitalist way of doing things, work, workplaces, factories (if any left) office and warehouses. All these forms of exploitation residing inside the corporate policies of institutions are expressed on the surface as lawsuits for compensatory damages to individuals who lost limbs, mind or body, wealth, happiness to corporations.
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  3753. Separation of property from its owner(s) is a key aspect of the logic of capitalism. Why would a leader of a capitalist society provoke a separation of a piece of real estate Taiwan from China if it is not to create independent and free labor and money markets in Taiwan out of the separation it provoked.
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  3754. Through the actions of the US government everyday Americans are made hostages to a wide spread complicity of a general holocaust of human beings. It will require an international social revolution in the west to overthrow the American government that has become a scourge on humanity worse than the Nazis was the point of MLK Jr.’s speeches on the Vietnam War and Militarization of American society. Through government’s policies, Americans are positioned between a rock and hard place by their own political representatives who make these decisions are the incarnation of institutionalized amoral evil.
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  3755. Why are there no senators stranded in airports or never a part of the horror stories of our transportation system? It seems the inert mass of the American working classes need the connections drawn out for them that the inequality of classes in American society has, ---they do not get a sh*t about you, ---written all over it, when not one politician at the level of the state or federal government and not even the prominent officials of political organizations, celebrities, are ever stuck among the class of people dependent on air travel as a commodity. The airline companies service the working classes not the travel needs of the rich. The same disappearance act of the upper levels of bureaucracy is seen when cities fail. Emergency services in cities have been deprived of investment and made inadequate against floods and storms because they service the working class not the emergency needs of the rich and prominent. A two tier economy is the US economy. One for the rich and another for the working classes. A distinction that appears as never in their neighborhood or town that water mains deliver carcinogenic and polluted water as in the towns and cities of working poor. The crossfire of gun fire taking a child of their own on Park Avenue never happens. When migrants were bussed to Martha Vineyard the matter was quickly solved by the military but if that were Newark NJ no higher unity of authority would have done a dam thing to stop it from stressing out the city of Newark.
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  3756. A slow disintegration of American society.
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  3757.  @danferguson71  Are you an America or Canadian?
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  3758.  My Tale  An immigrant is used by the employer against the American. An immigrant is a pawn, a political tool, a device in America.
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  3759.  My Tale  I know. I am not one of them. I am Type O. Admitting that is important and too frequently ignored by this generation of Americans lacking humility and are so ladened with hubris, this land is not their land as they claim in all their political rallies. Critical Race Theory does not include this aspect of American history does it?
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  3760. Perfect time to re-organzie the National Organization of Women into the National Union of Women and call a national strike!
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  3761. A report that American reporters are not allowed to talk about. Americans do not get to see this in their controlled news.
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  3762. Part of it is meeting history in the flesh despite what may think of Trump and the other part is the table conversation that drew the ire of Trump a third part is no room in the republican party for white nationalists or anti-semites. They will never get elected president is a direct message to Trump making his second run.
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  3763. People need to look more at how the industry objectifies the value of these commodities into which a day's work is objectified.  This creates a social division of labor that works to sustain a fossil fuel industry. The Green New Deal is not going to make allies of the workers in this sector as long as the miners, drillers, excavators, get top dollar from the industry. The workers sacrifice the big picture of climate change to the immediate needs of their families because the communities they live offer no other work, and not working at all, is not an option. That Kentucky is so unevenly developed with jobs concentrated in cities and rural life handed over to the mining and drilling industry, a GND, would have to radically transform this imbalance by eliminating those jobs for other jobs a family, no matter, where they are located can live with dignity.
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  3764. Hypocrisy is outstanding in Americans. The beaches in Gaza is a luxury wet dream for Israel that a genocide is happening.
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  3765. Funny,---the retiree saying he never expected to use his money saved for retirement for retirement as he sits at a bar not working but retiring.
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  3766. This is an industry should be abolished and outlawed!
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  3767. Bravo Milley. I agree with the General not about the finger pointing the press obsesses over but for the realism of his position to start talks with Russia while you are ahead of the game. He knows the Ukrainian forces refusing a peace deal is an interest that is against the interest of the Ukrainian people who will suffer unnecessarily. Smart General, dumb president if he does not heed Milley’s realism.
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  3768. Too late to be the champion of the American people. Trump forsakened the people when he denied the science and called workers criminals protesting for a higher wage. History destroys Trump.
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  3769.  @roberts7873  China born flus is Kool Aid. Friends you lost are your problem. Thank your lucky stars you are not in a job that produces no value for you and you are no longer in an apartment that pays someone's mortgage.
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  3770. Entire cities are financed by bonds. Here's a heavy thought. Every apartment, building, office, housing, factory, school, hospital, churches, houses, vehicles, stores, distributorships, roads, canals, bridges, tunnels are workplaces built in the past. The city's workforce working in the cities are the only people who are not owners of any part of this material social structure. The past value that built the whole social structure is now materialized in the product as dead labor on which the living workforce adds new value or equity built up from the action of each generation entering the workforce are transforming a city, and the city's administration draws an income which furnishes new material for money to become commodities and then converted into capital in the eyes of a lender. In short, Bondholders finance the total social structure and the living workforce pays it off or in our case never pays it off but makes the bonds sellable to buyers who may be other governments looking to enlarge their own capital. A bankruptcy would have consequences for governments who bought those bonds. But another thing with ripple effects just as big is COVID. No new value is added by the living workforce if they are not working,---- the pandemic threatens the expected rate of profitability of the bonds on maturity. It is the workforce who is made to work through the pandemic risking life and limb for the sake of money accumulating more money.
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  3771. The government is only an institution it’s the Oligarchy in control of the government that makes that institution an enemy of the people should come into focus.
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  3772. Federal Workers have a Court Order they must be rehired and with that their Union could launch a strike taking advantage of their status in limbo as not employed and partially employed exempting them from federal laws that prohibit strikes by federal workers, can be argued for years in court because both are right. They can shutdown the government themselves, inserting their power to force the parties to agree to Union terms for a CR or keep the government shut till it can be resurrected again by them without the two parties. The government shutdowns played by these two parties as weapons against each other causing damage to the real economy can be crushed forever. The Unions must have real shitty lawyers on their side to not council them into this kind of action, and the Union leadership must have no tactical vision in winning a fight when they are being provoked into one. The blind lead the blind among the ranks of federal workers. Here a California federal judge hands the federal workers, a Trojan Horse, a gift, and they are letting it slip away....for reasons that reflect on them as people who have no higher goal in life but to be controlled by others.
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  3773. Ukraine would not happen and future Ukraines would not happen disrupting the normal working day lives of millions of people, to become refugees, people without a home, if the whole political system between governments was not exclusively about the purchase and sale of arms...what happens when there is no purchase...a country is left defenseless and open to invasion, especially when in their backyard a larger nation that supplies the fuel that powers the arms feels threatened...this only calls for a catastrophe which in my view, is a crisis of use-value, and value. Are weapons of mass destruction in the hands of superpowers a real use-value to humanity? All of this behavior proves there is no normalcy of fluctuations and at the heart of it, our survival as a species is threaten with every sale the politicians make between each other. Odd thing is the masses see and watch leaders sit in a big room with dignitaries around are talking about world problems when in reality all they are doing is closing billion dollar contracts and deals for the sale of WMDs, and a diplomatic mission these days in the west, the US, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, shameless about making profits on people’s misery, is a sales call.
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  3774. Dear Ben: Your home is absolutely beautiful. I am your American counter-part.
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  3775.  @annarock8966  Youth need to feel inspired and be engaged in the world to make it better. They must use art, music, science, to teach each other another social order is possible and necessary! Anything I can do let me know.
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  3776.  @annarock8966  Thank you for that lovely introduction to you. I am honored by your presence. You are only 7 years older than I. Still vibrant and lovely as always, I am sure. We had a wonderful childhood didn't we? Best years of my life was high school. Life made me love life. You, where you are and me in New York, we appreciated every living thing and every little action.  I listened to the telling of your story and followed it well. In my time, I was born under the crass spell of anti-communism. Sputnik was launched and the Russians sent a dog, then a man to space, this had Americans in a panic -- the Russians were coming! I distinctly remember asking myself why would a nation be so terrified about communism? This led me to read Marx, to learn and compare what our government was doing against the USSR to what the Marx actually said. I started with a biography of Marx, His Life and Times by David McClellan, as I grew more mature I tackled Das Capital. Your English is very good --- keep writing me, love to hear and share more. Don't send your email address to me on here, too risky. If we become pen pals I'll make a new email address I won't care about.
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  3777.  @annarock8966  ok, sleep well.
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  3778. Exactly professor! Truth be told, a private exchange system strips labor-capacity from the working class. Labor-capacity is turned into a commodity with a price on it is only possible when factories, offices, cities, are all privately owned. In the classical view, the forces of production, represented by industrialized machinery and tools, technology, cities, transportation etc., even science, were once in the possession of the workers as the property of the workers but never as the property of the working class as a whole except in Russia and China where a worker's state in the name of communism in its own conflicts was, at times, communism in the name of a worker's state, I view as historic lessons and examples of socialism evolving, but in the period preceding capitalism going as far back as Ancient Rome, the means of production were the property of the workers. In some places the workers were property alongside property as slaves, but when workers were made propertyless, lost their workshops, land and tools, what is left in them is their labor-capacity. In exchange for wages representing the necessaries of life is how the working poor acquire the ability to reproduce their labor capacity in the capitalist epoch. The right wing cannot argue against a criticism of privatization when that criticism looks at privatization from the standpoint of the working poor in society. The conflict that arises in a person finding their labor-capacity produces value for its buyer but nothing for its owner, is a raw deal and the wages received for that work can only buy so much and not enough to live is far lower than the value created on the job is the basic schematic for a capitalist society.
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  3779.  @ExPwner  My GPS tracking device tells me you are behind a desk in Langley, Va.
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  3780.  @jgalt308  You are not wrong you are a tool when you call yourself a means of production and you are, after all, a product of labor yourself, both socially and personally, and not like a slave you do not have any value because you produce value, a slave is a value. Slaveowner history proves how valuable slaves were. You are a separate part of the means of production and you do create capital for the buyer of your labor-capacity. What are you going to do to resolve that contradiction?
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  3781. An empire quietly comes to its end is made evident by its reckless and misguided spending.
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  3782. The Pentagon’s criminal logic,---is, if we install criminals in every government of the world we will never have to justify a war to the American Public. The criminals will do all the convincing themselves to the American people, who alone, have the power to annihilate the Pentagon. If we do install partner criminals in key positions in all governments we can position our military to use boots on the ground that are not American, train and supply all the equipment to degrade any adversaries defenses. If you consider Al Capone as a notorious gangster his criminal organization actually operated in a mere three American states. The Pentagon’s operation is world wide.
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  3783. Excellent summation. The rise of fascism is cloaked by a right wing (bullshit) criticism of America.  They want what we have and hate us for not having it. Cancel culture is a projection of what they are and intend to do once in power.
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  3784. The rich nations not leading the coalition have no reason to coalesce with the US. How much European business goes through the Suez Canal that warrants a war with the Houthis? It appears it is not worth the trouble of keeping prices low for Israel who depends on the trade route Houthis are controlling. The world learns there is nothing special about US Elites.
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  3785. That would be an example of assuming the role of passive resistance on the part of the US in response to anything constructive. Passive resistance makes the other side aggressive on the defense. @Shenzhou. 
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  3786. The enemy of the working class that is not religious and those who are religious enable their enemy, are the christian evangelists in position to control the power of the State and are using it for their aims. The same thing can be said of the Muslim world, religion there have created a theocracy, and this is an enemy of the working class in the Muslim world. Religion is still the Opiate of the Masses. The west has not shed its religious skin. China dealt with its superstitions in its revolutions. America has not. Europe has not. The Middle East has not. It’s not the state itself that is the problem, it’s who control it. Christians slaughtered more people than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao put together. So Mr. Wong if you are a Marxist you would than have to agree with me. @chriswong9158 
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  3787. I think you are not reading me correctly, we should correct this miscommunication. @chriswong9158 
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  3788. The democrats have been so demonized by the right wing the FDNY could face expulsion from its republican ranks if they take the vaccine.
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  3789. China already owns the technology why does it have to spy?
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  3790. True what they say about capitalism. The only barrier to capitalism is capitalism. It hires labor and then fires labor. As long as Capital produces its quotient the demand for labor can drop like a stone. Comes a point where people cannot borrow or buy and very little labor is required to produce everything. Ideal conditions are to have vast amounts of people unable to feed themselves and unable make a living on their own. The risk capitalism runs is its overthrow when it sets about to create the conditions ideal for its own survival.
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  3791. Good to see there is some confrontation happening...unfortunately, more school safety which means more cops and more therapists is not the answer. I hope the confrontation with Grassely was about the ‘guns’, the guns are bought and sold in two markets, one legal and regulated and the other de-regulated and illegal. Both markets are highly profitable which any reform must not restrict is the dance of American bipartisan politics.
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  3792. This is one way democracy turns into oligarchy and feudalism. Ruin people and you ruin society; the super rich to get so powerful society becomes impoverished. Impoverishment is not limited to material wealth. It also means people become mentally impoverished and become brutes. As in Ancient Rome and Greece the oligarchy got so big they created their own Senate. So in the US an oligarchy is ‘too big to fail’, the phrase of 2007, the Senate is their government. Police are governed by the Senate, all law enforcement takes its marching orders from the Senate controlling the Judicial branches of government, for your information.
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  3793. 7:20,--- Western Powers are retreating into themselves, it’s possible a third world war among them similar to the first world war in the 19th century, can ignite. All the western powers have territories and colonies, the first war was a division of the bigger colonies and territories among them, the Versaille Treaty of 1919; the new war is a retention war. Holding the power and losing possessions of small republics to popular anti-colonial struggles gaining steam in small Caribbean and Pacific island territories of the Great Powers.
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  3794. The only power that can take back government from its captivity by multinational corporations is mass social power and a well organized people’s movement.
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  3795. No Parra. Parra has a lot of cash. He could be anywhere. Ripping off cell phones pays you a hundred bucks for every cell phone you take. Parra strikes a gold mine of credit card information, grand theft. Parra knows how to make a profit. He builds an organization of thieves, pays them for their labor, they go out and connive like the artful dodgers they are and haul in a bounty for their employer. The story was written down in Oliver Twist, Parra is Fagan. And a capitalist,--- are we not a capitalist society? We should be praising him not chasing him down like an animal. There is absolutely no essential difference between Parra and Chase Morgan and Stanley down in Wall Street except the scale of Parra’s operation. So,---how did the police get entangled in this tirade suddenly?
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  3796. The State in Chile is a failed state and it mirrors the kind of failing of most states that modeled themselves after the US. A pattern that marks the birth of a new economy and a dying political state. All the solutions to the failing states are in the problem with constitutional republics. Time. When they came into being the world was a very large place and populations were less mobile. Economies were agrarian. Time was slow. Time was not used to measure work. Few countries were industrialized and the ones that were carried over the Republics that were built on Agrarian Economies. Argentina, Canada, Mexico and the US were on the industrial path of growth with political institutions that would in a century be so outdated the political world could not be limited to a few political families; the growth of industry and the mobility of the masses brought new ideas, new people into making history. America’s Civil War was the last the of the bourgeois revolutions to happen in the economic history of mankind and it reaches its critical point where the political institutions, if not changed from a constitutional republic, and into social democracies, where students do not have to protest to get student funding and support, where baby formula does not go dry, under which school children are not shot down in schools, where people who work for living can attain dignity, will perish under fascism.
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  3797. I don’t buy the rationale given here for a ban on TikToc. Congress is an institution that is far behind the times and its members are largely stupid compared to the intelligence of a younger generation of today. A simple remedy is to nationalize the Internet and it would never fall into the hands of a private corporation who has the right to collect and sell data. Another remedy is make the sale of data illegal. But it is punitive and stupid of the FBI to force a sale of TicTok with an ultimatum that ends up punishing the users of that medium. Incredibly stupid and easy to do since hardly any of the users on TicTok have parents in the FBI or in the White House.
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  3798. Trump says its a sad day in America. He could have said sadness is endemic in America and took the tragedy off himself.
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  3799.  @olliefoxx7165  I think the arrangement with presidents and the Political Elite is this. Elites say to a president who comes into office bright eyed bushy tailed soon becomes a new member of that Elite in an arranged deal with the State; they say we will give you protection for life and you give us what we want from government. From that point forward the deal is cemented in all of the last six presidents. It would take a strong willed president to refuse that deal, a president so loved by a Public that has that president’s back to fly worry-free on any commercial flight in the country.
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  3800.  @ex0duzz  Grow up!
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  3801.  @OSTARAEB4  Copy and steal is what all empires do. US copy and stole from the British. Of course, I forgot...you are too young to have experienced how the US ripped off British technology...and quite naturally...that theft was not taught to you in school, therefore, you are under the illusion that it was all invented by Americans. Very little was invented by the Americans. Chemistry by the Russians, Biology by the French, Law by the Roman, Art by the Italians. Aviation was robbed too. But you were never taught these things. This is the crisis of American education.
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  3802. The man is a sociopathic liar. But the grain of truth in what Santos says to his defense is the depth of deception in government is not limited to him. A substantial aspect of government is deceptive.
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  3803. My hunch is that production in China and distribution in the US are responsible for the spread of the virus. Most likely the Pet industry. Just a hunch folks, not intended to spark a panic.
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  3804.  @LuisAldamiz  Yes, I should have been more clear, I was basing my comment on the Jump Transmission Theory, the virus strain developing in animals to human in China's unregulated production and the market ( a tourist trade is a market of exchange between money and commodities,i.e., distribution) transmitted among humans as highly developed in America. Capitalism and disease. Have you ever read Marx?
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  3805. The short of it is,---- the Democrats will lose the House, the Senate and the White House. Truly a party of Jackasses. JD Vance was chosen by Trump because he is young.
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  3806. Meeting with the FBI, Marshall Service, prosecutors, Law Enforcement to provide protection to the Justices. When the dollar collapses from inflation and high interest rates they will take the pool of money in the Social Security Fund to pay not only for their protection but also pay the bondholders the value of the bonds, stocks, munies, CDs, they lost from the collapse. I seriously believe they are deliberately causing this collapse and are putting things in place to insulate themselves while lying directly to the American People about it.
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  3807. I seriously doubt this government and Congress has what it takes to get us out of the woods.  I get the sense that technocrats cannot think outside of the box.
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  3808. The republican logic of capitalism turns everything on its head. What is not, is, and what is, is not.
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  3809. Nuclear armageddon threatened by the one nation that deployed nuclear weapons on Japan and Nagasaki will not get votes for you!
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  3810. Pressure at home will break the US from NATO and NATO can fight this on her own. New business for arms manufacturers will not improve the lives of Americans.
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  3811. This is why domestically the children in America are killed by guns. Guns produced for the domestic market come out of the same production line of large scale guns the government buys for war. The domestic lot gets into the hands of traffickers and then into the hands of dejected teenagers. Guns that are produced for war during a war speeds up the production of guns, highly profitable. Not only profitable for the gun makers but war is profitable to the energy producers. If a politician legislates against the gun makers at home then our political aim to put Russia and China in their place is compromised the politician’s career is destroyed. The gun makers will retaliate against the political class as will the energy producers, and America as a world power will collapse. If kids die because of this...oh, well...that is what you have to deal with as a citizen, parent, and individual.
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  3812. Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican senator from Louisiana’s 6th District since 2007 is not wrong when he calls the Student Loan Forgiveness a “transfer” just as the “Tax Cuts” for the rich are a “transfer”. What are they transferring? Wealth, specifically, material wealth, more social labor is consumed by the rich thanks to the Tax Cuts. Taxes you do not pay as a rich person or family or corporation means more social labor for you,---you can buy more products and bigger ones changing your lifestyle even getting richer by the day, hour, second. When student loans are forgiven a mass of people can now purchase more social labor for themselves. This exchange is a transfer of that material wealth from the rich to you, you now do not have to work as much, part of your workday working to make your own ends meet is easier but other parts the majority still are made to pay the cost of the social labor the rich consume because the transfers, both Tax Cuts and Loan Forgiveness, is only about whose buying power is greater, who can buy more stuff? It does not cut to the chase where the problem belies a deep contradiction; if your day meets all the ends in your life why should your workday be longer?
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  3813. Gas prices in the US will rise and the Trump adminstration will not release its reserves to keep the price under $3.00 a gallon. High diesal gas prices will impact American truckers and anyone else whose livlihood depends on transportation. A shame because Trump was around when oil-bearing nations blocked oil to the west in the 70s and gas lines formed for hours. People will start changing their tune about Trump when the price and cost of living shoots up.
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  3814. Arrest Mark Meadows. Inside man to Trump. So many are loyal to Trump. They have to be, Trump is the party, they have to be loyal and defy the lawmakers if they want a career inside the Republican party. The GOP is a Political Cartel ginning up mischief and stoking false fears, delaying this process, as a way to weaken Biden’s EO on the release of documents.
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  3815. The suggestion here is that young Americans are too desperate to not see crumbs as victories.
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  3816. Law of Markets are working! Jean Baptiste Say would agree. Every market has buyers and sellers ready to sell and buy, sell again at a higher rate, so things are fine. It’s only when a seller decides not to sell but stays in a position as seller that monopolies dictate price. As soon as this happens we start to see defects in production and what is normal in markets is not normal in production is expressed in cataclysmic events causing mass fatalities in the society both in terms of what happens when people lose their one form of making a living and when the process of making a living is a war zone with a high death rate. Normal for capitalism to have wage reductions at home but this is extreme... unless wage reductions happen outside the home economy others can suffer more than people here. But if, America is more like India than it is like Europe the comparison would be wage reductions in India match those in America. Meaning it would be cheaper to live in America than in India as far as the cost of living is concerned. More like its the other way around. Productivity and innovation provide a capital advantage to an individual capitalist but the real power is in who controls or owns all the surplus value currently providing the advantage to the whole capitalist class in America. This is the part of the relation that is about social control. Normally, capitalism increases productivity to produce cheaper. This is accomplished by decreasing working time for each unit produced and the sum of all innovations in industry are intended to give one company and capitalist the “competitive edge”. American CEOs are expert wage reducers in order to increase surplus value and start a monopoly situation in the market.
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  3817. The more others see the hypocrisy of policy-makers to champion women's rights in general and not make a declaration and a political stand on rights of women trampled on everyday in the US in particular, the better.
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  3818.  @thetourguy8651  Frenzy is the state of affairs.
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  3819.  @raymaster  America is not the threat. Capitalism in America is the threat. The military under capitalism is a direct and indirect threat to other societies using direct and indirect force. The chains around you as an American are invisible and economic. Poverty, ignorance, disease, violence, low life mortality rate, crisis after crisis, mass incarceration, racism, sexism, are threats to the human race. But if you are a victim of any of these threats they will not appear as threats to you. The poor do not see themselves as a threat to humanity but they are. The rich do not see themselves as a threat but they are.
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  3820. Like I said: what used to be a commercial airline industry is now an industry of airline disasters and near misses.
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  3821. For sure a double standard. Be nice if a state existed that gave you the deduction. But we must remember no matter what form of society is in existence a working class is essential. No getting around the fact that human beings have to eat and sleep. The biological imperative to work to produce our own subsistence will never leave our being(s); so it makes sense that everyone is formed into one social class composed for the majority of citizens as workers. Everyone is a worker in a worker's society guided by a pro-labor state system that we can eliminate after everyone is no longer divided into top, middle, and low level of social classes of buyers and sellers. This way a husband can still own a business and be married to a nurse and there would be no class friction between them since nursing is no longer an occupation bought and sold in this country as wage-labor and sole ownership is perfectly compatible with what people like. Work only to sell becomes a thing of the past. This would mean the working day is transformed from 123 million people working 8 hours to 332 million working 4.2 hours. What the total population can produce in 4.2 hours depends on the state of science, technology, its productive forces. Do we make a society composed of one class. Make everyone a Rosie the Riveter and there are no Kardashians or do we let everyone just buy stocks and bonds, get rid of the continuous presence of a small number of buyers of stocks and bonds and tax accordingly for a state that normalizes the use of money. Do nothing about the Kardashians getting a job working 4.2 hours five days a week. Just break up the monopolies and re-start competition and start the whole repetitious cycle getting worse each time the wheel gets a flat and can't go round. I guess I am saying... what kind of society do you want? America is only limited by its imagination.
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  3822. Out of all the journalists, editors, commentators, experts, NOT ONE CONGRESSPERSON demanded Fedex explain how someone can walk into their workplace with an Ar-15? They must get a residual fat check every month from the gun industry to keep their mouths shut!  The story here is the gun not the person. A gun is still a popular commodity in the market that makes money for its manufacturers. The person is a destroyed person which is a result of another set of social relationships of his own life which the gun had nothing to do with. This, my friends, has to do with a complicit political class that has sold its soul for the price of life of their own people to a specific industry.
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  3823. America perfects efficiency that it has built a society that can collapse in five minutes.
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  3824. The right wing objective is to cause massive short falls in revenue to make the claim there is no money for social spending if the American people want to be kept safe from terrorism at home while it creates terrorists abroad to present as proof to the American people the risks are extremely high. I may be wrong but I sense this is one side of the overall strategy of social control being used on the American people, particularly the US labor force. Only one incident of terror will convince the entire population the threat is real, therefore, social programs must be cut for a strong military. Media corporations previously broadcasted the US military is in need of dire upgrading is an effective use of mind and thought social control. Plants a seed in people's heads a rationalization for deep cuts if they can scare the daylights out of the American public. Military build up that began when OPEC cartels were the threat in the 70's has reached the point where a military regime can be established with little interference or opposition from the Democrats. With billions less in tax revenue the government can only afford one service and it is not going to be social services spending of any kind.
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  3825. Yes, the CARES Act is not for the care of the public as people but as bank customers for the care of Bank Capital in general. The whole collection of commercial capital is preserved and accumulates itself,----money makes money is a banks function. The Act is to restore and resume this function and the banks' obligors in relation to it. From a people's point of view the Act can be called the "Bank Preservation Act".
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  3826. Great video. More educational than the official history of the region.
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  3827. We live in historical times and its time to think historically about present events as we are nowhere near the end of history but more likely a couple of steps away from making history.
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  3828. Millennial investor capitalists want to expand their capital and set in motion a juggernaut of gentrification of an area suitable to their bank accounts. This is why there is a war in Gaza. Gaza is a beautiful chunk of coastal land that appeals to Jewish Capitalists for capital development in tourism and trade but the Palestinians are in the way of that as are the poor of Torrance are in the way of Californian Capitalists from profiting on gentrification. Gentrification stems from the word, Gentry, a leisure class. People with money and can work from home are a modern gentry that a consortium of capital is put together from separate rich individuals and become an investor class using land to accumulate capital for the sake of capital. The State of California like the State of Israel facilitates this process make both States identical in that they support private property over private ownership. Class struggle in America are more exposed especially when the commodity engendering a struggle between social classes is land in the process of becoming a thing that can be bought and sold, where the few are housed and the many are homeless. This is an EXPROPRIATION of the kind that occurs in underdeveloped parts of the world, places like Albania, Latin America, Middle East, are the investment strategies brought to the US.
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  3829.  @3800ThaBizz  Thank you. I see this is an anti-colonial mass movement. Long time coming.
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  3830. Joe Rogan was the beginning of the censorship, the start of it. Rogan is an American not Russian that the American Political Elite and Establishment censored. McCarthyism originated in the US, like the Russian people Americans will be on the receiving end of censorship. The aim of the National Security State is its own preservation by any means necessary shutting down one after the other all places where free opinion is formed.
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  3831. One central authority can access the view seen of the city streets and subways from every CCTV camera positioned from a high place or building is a real breech of freedom of privacy. They only need one conspicuous article to track the movements of anyone in a city or suburb.
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  3832. Religion is the effect of man’s intellectual confusion not the cause. War is no different.
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  3833. The relentless run of severe weather is the reason Trump cannot campaign in these states, too high a chance of a social disaster, if a rally of Trump supporters get pummeled by tornadoes. This would be the first presidential race and election to be decided by states in the northeast and the west where the Jet stream is not as severe.
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  3834.  @kayewilkins7735  Only a lemming would believe the comment to which you respond. The life he describes is the life of the Super Rich Wall Street Investment Firms not the politicians.
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  3835. 166 million in the labor force times 6 hours daily equals 996,000,000 million hours of surplus hours of value, it takes 6 hours daily for workers to reproduce themselves, 6 hours extra value produced enrich their employers. This income taxed would easily cover the cost of arms. Before tax it creates the .0001%.
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  3836. @Stranded NYer Just like little children litter all over the place and trash/pollute when unsupervised the younger capitalist nations do the same. We are an old capitalist nation and its time we act it!
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  3837. Worms is what they are. Worms.
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  3838. Eventually, climate justice will come when social justice is universally achieved.  The main social and economic paradox of the era of modern industry is the effect of machinery to displace labor and rape the planet. Creating a redundant population too large to support and over working a smaller number of the total workforce all because the high price of things is meant to perserve the value of things. We can begin to understand the natural history of work as a sequence of developments of productivity of labor in general. But first you have to understand how value works in capitalism. If a house says its price is $250,000 and car says its price is $20,000, the house and car are saying they are equal to each other through another thing. You may need 12. 5 cars or another $250 grand to equal the value of the house for an exchange to take place between buyer and seller but essentially the thing that makes the house and car the same is their value and the work embodied in those values was at the time of their making value creating activity or value producing labor. The day we do not have to do this to ourselves, label ourselves and be value creators in a value creating process called the corporation disconnected from us, when we can give up the value equation of everything will be the day work can be simply, work. The day when work (industry) is the primary focus and not work (industry) as a value creating activity the primary focus of all our actions is the day we become freed. Free of technology and science as an independent power over us as human beings, driving us toward i.e., total extinction or annihilation which ever comes first. That day will be the first day we actually take control over our lives and destinies freed from the law of value turning all things into value units including human beings. When industry and productivity are used to meet society's needs will be the first day our lives will be felt and truly lived.
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  3839. “When is enough, enough?” The rhetorical question will never be answered because there isn’t a social institution responsible to society to answer it. Society is the last interest to have its needs met after all other interests have their’s met in a democracy. If you have no voice as a society you are not included in the democracy the social institutions enjoy. The enjoyment of democracy by a few comes at the expense of society made undemocratic for the many.
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  3840. Excellent position for a critique. How intelligent are we truly, if the ignorant and cruel, are in positions of power?
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  3841. Title should read 'Lake Meade is a dead pool of water.' Have NASA go down to Lake Meade with one of their Rain making machines. I understand those machines are big enough to create a storm and rain in the sky. Right, I forgot, the Public's interests is not the same interest as the federal government's interest in private interests.
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  3842. I have no faith in the British government to solve this problem. The British have a long history of making bad situations worse. Case in point is the history of Parliamentary Acts pushed by every prime minister since the Irish Potato Famine right up to Brexit is a history of economic catastrophes. Seriously, the British government has been a disaster for the planet for the last 400 years that I wonder if the British people voting for Labor and Conservatives have rocks for brains!
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  3843. Ian Reis -- That's great...have you thought about doing open mics to explain Bernie's platform to people?
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  3844. @K How about La-La Land for the Masses.
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  3845. The Russian oil and gas market to Europe is behind all this.
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  3846.  @Smooshes786  My one paragraph is not a dissertation and you got the point...they can do the same thing...by the mere addition of a paragraph, speaking of course of the editors of DN making an audience aware does not take a dissertation!
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  3847. 2:52 Funny...holier than thou hypocrisy...as if Biden is the only one who lies. Allies, media and Congress lie to the Public. The Public lies to itself. Congress lies to itself. Biden lies to himself. Media lies to the Public. These talking heads are propagandist liars. Posing for power. There are grains of truth in what they say but that is all mere grains. American Exceptionalism, the only place in the world where any idiot can buy a AK47 is the exception not the rule.
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  3848.  @Soleilune1995  I do not want more CEOs and there are women who are CEO's. A CEO is a Capitalist and you cannot be against capitalism and for the creation of capitalists be they white, black, brown, red, man or woman. If this is the left position than you might as well move into the factory and be its permanent slave working till it kills you.
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  3849. Twitter strives to separate every kind of property from every kind of labor. How does it do this? Well, --the more Twitter servers are financed as private capital and property the more Twitter employees are separated from Twitter servers as not collectively owned. If there is no collective ownership of Twitter there is no democracy in Twitter. Twitter remains private Capital under a new owner. And capital must expand to pay off its private debt in the billions. Employees must generate that wealth for Twitter therefore, the production of wealth must be extracted from its employees or Twitter gets bought and absorbed by some other corporation that buys it cheap after bankruptcy. Employees sleep in Twitter, live in Twitter’s property for the value creating process to begin consuming Twitter employees. Twitter strives to create a market before bankruptcy becomes a reality, it needs buyers for the realization of that wealth converted into profits and hard cash. The buyers for Twitter are the sellers of fascism who gravitate to Twitter can use Twitter to launch a world-wide pro-fascist movement against all western democratic institutions, amplify January 6th but on a world scale in nations where fascist elements are rooted in western societies, disseminated and planned through Twitter, constitutes the threat to democratic republics when words lead to deeds, when ideology becomes violence. It all is in the hands of Twitter employees, whether Twitter becomes their property or the property of Elon Musk, to decide the fate of the use of Twitter in society.
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  3850. The problem is western governments are not corruption-proof and a representative government can be bought off by large powerful financial interests that the very form of government becomes a fixture that does nothing for society and everything for the private interests.
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  3851. A Bric Bill could be a system not much different than what the Euro is the West Europe, the Dollar is the US, the Ruble is to Russia, the Yuan to China, etc. Workers of all types and varieties are still compelled to extend in duration of work more labor time than they are paid in wages. In all of the money based systems, some less so than others, some far to the extreme, workers are always paid a sum of material wealth in the form of objective labor (wages) far less than they give to employers in the form of subjective living labor (personal action on the job). This is one of the cardinal rules of capitalist growth and development. There is a neurosis attached to wanting to please the boss consumes individuals into a valorization process as subordinates deprives workers of the right to democratically decide how much, when, why, where and for what reason, things are to be produced, persists as the dominant and common worker’s relationship to trade and commerce all over the world. The day far more work is given up than is supplied in wages ( food, clothes, health, hardware and material), will be a day worth remembering.
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  3852. ​ @ronalddecker8498  The few who believe they deserve more are not going to voluntarily abandon the notion they are special or deserve to possess everything are they? Few will shed that skin but most of them will perish in the storm. What gets whispered in the winds is heard by the trees.
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  3853.  @ronalddecker8498  In our society with its productive might; privilege is all they would have to give up next to political power. But to neutralize them from garnering a counter force, invoking a civil war, by using their wealth, to re-establish their privilege and power, it will be necessary to freeze their assets in my view.
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  3854.  @ronalddecker8498  I never speculate...simply because the future is not here yet to become a fact.
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  3855. Russia is an enormous country and no other country has had its share of invasions by hostile coalitions than Russia and no other country has ever come out with more than it had when it lost a war than Russia. Despite all its losses, Russia always wins.
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  3856. If I were the family's lawyer I would have said exactly this to the press: Families no matter what their color or size cannot provide any reason in their lives for police intervention. The judges and cops have internal conflicts and boundary issues. Administration and rank and file rival each other over matters of the conditions of work, policy on cameras, reprimands, demotions. Families in the community do not want to get caught up in the middle of bureaucratic in fighting is my warning. Its not a case for the police if there was a problem of neglect but since the charge is abuse, I move to vacate the case and give it to social services, and there is no sign of physical abuse. Cops are not trained in social work. But now my client (family) is mired in a bureaucracy of child welfare concerns that will be monitoring their lives every six months because of untrained and, frankly, stupid cops. There goes the plans for a camping trip. They have to be home for a case worker. If a college professor can state an opinion why the lawyer of the family did not state an opinion to the press is the kind of timidity this country does not need. Look at the situation from a bird's eye view, the police are not policing the stores and downtown businesses, they are focused on families in the community and parts of the community more than others are monitored. The banker's house on the other side of town does not have a tail for corrupt dealings, if any, but Joe and his family out of a job or looking disheveled can be a likely suspect. Give any reason for police intervention and you get caught up in the bureaucratic odyssey that will not end before your kid's 18th birthday.
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  3857. Last summer was when Ukraine should have cut its losses. Even before that when Mark Milley, US General, wanted Ukraine to negotiate a peace. Foreign policy establishment sent Boris Johnson to kill the deal Zalenski was in process with the Russians. Now it’s too late. The Ukraine army has deserters and are in disarray. Ukraine is in a death spiral. Russia is now in a war economy mode. But it will come out that the foreign policy establishment in Washington, Blinken and Neuland, held accountable for the blood on its hands as this will become a historic catastrophe. Embarrassing for the foreign policy establishment because it tells every nation on earth the Americans cannot be trusted! With all the stuff going on there is no chance the US will manage to get out of this one. Already we are seeing top party leaders in the Senate leaving the Senate as every crisis is magnified into a global crisis and all evidence points to this establishment. Realists are concerned with global hegemony of the US. The US engaged in small separate national wars that for some reason democrats feel the need to do needs to be challenged.
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  3858. Cutting corners wherever possible is the pandemic.
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  3859. @Taya Graham---why don't you and your partner host a tour in towns and cities and do what others are doing, i.e., Jimmy Dore, Graham Elwood? They have a website and list where they will appear to host a panel and do live shows ---get out of the studio. You have enough followers and attandance will be positive.
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  3860. Be a great spoof if in the background we can see thieves stealing the catalytic converter of the car while DeNiro is cursing at a crowd person.
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  3861. John Sununu as Chief of Presidential Staff under GW Bush started the habit of politicians consuming the taxpayer’s money for political junkets ad official trips that since then every new generation of politicians consumed more of economic surplus increasing the rate of underutilization of society’s resources is the chief cause of America’s high volume of unproductive labor and inefficiency.
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  3862. It is because machinery, technology and science is the property of the west that nations in the Middle East, Latin America and Africa are poor. The poor nations sell their natural resources to obtain the limited version of technology of the west because the secrets to the building of the superior technology is held by the west as private property. If you think this is bad its worse for Americans who produce both levels of technology with no connection to it except as consumers in production. Worse because the technology is abused by them and the technology abuses them forms a vicious cycle into which they are trapped. All because they are separated from technology and do not own the products of their own labor.
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  3863. I see it as another success story for capitalism but I do not see the workers in this boom better off from it! What I do see happening, ---on the corporate side of the economy are jobs blended together for a greater resource of other activities.  But on the working class side of the economy less property becomes more widespread and generalized and more tedious hours or work.
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  3864. @Elysian Fields,---Hard to call America a democracy when America is half democratic. When you become a full democracy you can make that claim with pride but until then you are still a republic and a half dictatorship. Why do I say this because there are two parts to every society; a part that puts wealth into the hands of all and the part that makes the wealth. In the second part where wealth is produced democracy does not exist. Work is dictated by an authority. You don’t like there’s the door the Constitution of the Republic has no authority in the workplace. Outside of the area where wealth is produced is democratic; you are free to tell the boss to kiss your ass, as long as it is not on the bosses’ property, the cops will leave you alone; so in the sense that everyone is equal that just is not true once you enter the world of work as a partner involved in a job that you did not create.
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  3865. Einstein never ran the business of atomic energy yet he created it...I can say the same thing for Eli Whitney never had a slave plantation farm yet he invented the Cotton Gin and Prescott the author of the definitive history of the Conquest of Mexico never left the Boston Library to write it, and the list goes on...if business to you is some kind of sacred secret and individual place where no one or government should venture than you are hiding a horrific form of exploitation...nothing more than a prize-fighter for capitalism.
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  3866. This is why single issue protest for a single aim as in a cease fire don’t help to build a real social movement. You end up blackballed. Real social movements are based on concrete abstractions, for example, genocide happens everywhere in direct and indirect form. Movements are built on universals that are concrete when they state No More Genocide and “Not in Our Name”, is a good one. Cease fires presuppose a war will resume. No more wars in our name keeps the movement on track in changing the direction of all humanity. A protest for an end to genocide and mass killings, is a universal aim as it is open ended for a movement to act on particular nations. It has concrete application to wherever genocide and mass killings happen which happens to be 16 separate nations into which victims of genocide have no place or movement to help them is the utter bankruptcy of the western Left. The point is to build a worldwide movement for a world without genocide and war...this is a perfectly reasonable goal that becomes more concrete the deeper America capitalism sinks into a depression dragging with it half the globe. The State as guided by the present head of the US Justice Department and the Treasury are extremely self-conscious of the threats to the dollar as the reserve currency for trade and commerce world wide, that crypto-currency presents as an alternative to the standard operating procedure of loans for dollars into the economies of other nations and their transactions, purchases and sales, flow back to the US in greater quantity can only take place using dollars that if it were crypto-trade there would be no trace of any transaction carried on that the State can pinpoint and sanction or restrict suspicious foreign economic activity. If that transaction be weapons to a magnitude lethal to the power of the US the more overt will we see Janet Yellen and Merrick Garland’s faces on TV even more than the president because they occupy the real institutional power structure of capitalism.
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  3867.  @handlethisnut  There is no sitting on the fence in this coming battle between labor and capital.
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  3868. The economy is going to crash when the two sides fail to raise the debt ceiling this July. They can't agree on a commission into what potentially would have been a take over of the federal government much less raising the limit on how money the government can borrow and are the republicans going tax the super rich in the upper 0.001% as a way of paying for a recovery of a two-sided economy, one side over developed and the other side an abysmal swamp of underdevelopment if they don't, and the government becomes useful to the military and useless to society falling apart. They will have agree to tax the rich and the rich will be taxed. Taxes are no longer for the little people when the rich live and use society. The amount of catastrophe occurring in society will cost more than what the government can borrow if the limit is not stretched past the current limit and interest rates are going up. People who normally lend money to the government want to get pad back by the government, when that can't happen then everything the government pays for goes broke.  forebears received, way less, proportional to the cost of the catastrophes, no person or social security. Instead, intensified labor of increased value production to get the economy up and running again causes a depression to their amazement, what went wrong? A=B is what went wrong. It does not work anymore. New ways of living is changing the whole face of industry. You do not have to spend $400 bucks on air conditioner when air conditioning can be built for $20 dollars. Why buy a $20 K car when you can buy a $4k car. The industries supporting the old products running on old fuel are gone and new ones in their place spring up. Total working time becomes the rule for the new economy forcing value and price to match up, the issue then becomes well you broke it then you pay for it because our working time is too productive of what can be done than to have it used for what was done.
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  3869. Neglect.
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  3870. I’d love to see the progressives do that to the democrats what the Freedom Caucus did to the republicans. There is a lesson for them in this to stick to their guns and demand something real. Now it might too late for progressives to recover from their capitulation in their battle with Pelosi. I really think that was the day the progressive wing of the democratic party died.
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  3871. The big mistake the capitalist political world makes repeatedly is to make a special class out of the working class and not count it as a social class. Davos has no idea they wrote their own death warrant by not counting the working classes as a social class alongside the other social classes with as much or equal class interests; because when the conditions arise and working populations takes to revolutionary action they will have no desire to continue the existence of the capitalist order and the other social classes that make up that society, they will not recognize any of the institutionalized cultural and social values or nationality or religious designations, but treat all the same in the reconstruction of a society under their movement; for them it will be the only way to throw off the centuries of oppressive forces within them and make themselves fully humanized in a world struggle to naturalize the differences in people and unseats the main ideas and structures of the old system with new ones.
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  3872. US State Department approves $165 million dollars to Israel. The entity that appropriates is not the owner of the money it appropriates, and Americans believe they live in a democracy?
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  3873. Nieve assessment Fresno Bob because once the 1% are gone you still have to deal with how to resolve capitalism and imperialism in the United States.
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  3874. Its weird because there are two sides to this matter. On one level we turned out fine but on another level we are the worst species on the planet.
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  3875. The wealth inequality means life in society as the object that opens access to the necessities of life will never correspond to an individual’s subjective goals and desires.
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  3876. If you listen to Trump speeches they reflect the aims of the oil industry, higher tax cuts for the rich made permanent and a repeal of Biden’s electric vehicle mandates, and when he says the US economy was great under him and got worse under Biden, Trump is really expressing how Capital(ism) is a system that continually expands and the last round of profits it made is not enough, it must produce higher profits in every turnover of investment, every year under every president or Capital in the person of the executives decry an armed struggle for its own existence. Some people see this expansion of capital as the personal greed of executives, really the objective factors: the rate at which oil produced and the rate of profit the refined oil accrues to its owners, accelerates the production process to meet the demand wars need to be wars.
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  3877. 0:16 Cops look like real out of shape, scared, empty-headed ’goons’. Recruitment standards for the police is real low and low functioning.
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  3878. But it appears the GOP in power are radically downsizing government deliberately in areas of government were enforcement of court battles they lost cannot be enforced.
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  3879. Good time for the left and the radical groups also go on strike and make the prisoners' strike the symbol of everything wrong with the criminal justice system.
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  3880. false threats can be made upon any institution, today it happens to be schools, tomorrow it is something else...individuals motivated to commit such acts have a something deeply lacking in them that society has to get to the bottom of...the whole society is hyper-sensitivity and super thinned skinned...is an internal and subjective weakness.
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  3881. A hard head also leads to a dead animal. Dumb cop did not use his tazer or his Maze spray.
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  3882. Propaganda of Democrats and corporate media is the same when it comes to propaganda of Republicans and corporate media. What viewers are finding more and more is a corporate media and a political elite that lies to them...this explains why small podcasters are growing in size and viewership. The Public are finding answers to problems in other places and corporate media has lost credibility with the Public. Corporate media professionals would have the Public’s confidence if they can debunk mis-information. Choosing to censor the voice making the charge they are spreading mis-information themselves is a strong admission of guilt. Continue the dishonesty and it won’t be long when the politicians lose the confidence of the Public foreshadowing another coup, Democrats will fall right in line profiting on Trump’s successes.
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  3883. I agree Tariffs can control trade and it can keep trade balances equal but that presupposes government intervention of world production and the world market, coordinating production of separate nations with the needs of each nation with the ability of each nation; humans are close this level of functioning with AI; hence the threat...the very thing Trump and the American corporate class do not want is a world coordination of production by taxing the products of one nation so they would reduce the amount of products they dump on the market, drawing more of the market away from this corporate class. who cannot share the market and must control and own the raw material which all societies use; their objective is diminish government, cut it off at the knees, make government ineffective as a tool for the people and effective as tool for the corporation class of billionaires in a free market environment, business friendly, low taxes, high profits, and wages; they decide the amount of material wealth for workers, they know what is best for you is the corporate view of humanity. Lori Wallach speaks a world where humanity is not divided on the basis of nationality and can apply AI to match the needs with productive capacities with precision. Trump is a nationalist, but more importantly, as a Pay to Play proponent, he thinks profits do not come from inside a country, but only in exchange with other countries. He is not only wrong but he is stuck in a mercantilist system of thought that the profits a country makes takes the form of money (gold and silver, bitcoin) and trade balances are settled in money. “We are going to be rich again...like never before...a new golden age for America”. The Big Shock to the Billionaire Class comes when the value of money is made worthless because the real cost of making products is so cheap, a machine, robot, or automation in general becomes accessible to everyone, --they have no reason to be even involved in making cars, they will self-deport themselves or be forced out of production and ownership of it is their last stand. Endless court battles. When profiting from humanity is no longer profitable off to their island paradises they go, some will perish, others will flee and hide, but all will be forgotten because we simply do not need then anymore, they become as obsolete as a Civil War southern plantation owner of slaves. Before this happens, no stone left unturned, to roll back everything that gives humanity the edge in this battle will go to the wayside government as founded on a constitution and a restoration of citizenship based on property ownership.
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  3884. America’s political leaders all look like Ghouls. America’s youth are self-absorbed. America’s millennials are anti-social. America’s babies are disabled. I am not optimistic America will even survive.
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  3885. Sounds like you threw in the towel on direct action of the masses as the midwife of historical change and calling the coming together of leaders historical. The war machine will not abolish itself!
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  3886. 2:35 ,---“Asylum is escaping fear and persecution from your home state government because of your race, religion, or political affiliation or participation with a specific social group.”, there are many American social groups who meet this definition. The wording in this makes a real subject, government, the predicate and the real predicate, persecution, a subject. One cannot escape from emotions like fear and anger unless one represses them with drugs, substances, alcohol, but one can escape from a tyrannical government using force to oppress or annihilate a race of people in a genocide. Now the wording has changed leaving doubt about the certainty of the first definition of what asylum means.
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  3887.  @erasingtheuigours5560  Punished for not supporting Israel is a policy truly unworthy of the support of the American people unless the American people think of themselves as jackasses!
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  3888.  @LorenTedford  Nonsense...you don’t need a degree to show how ridiculous the news media is? Confidence, man, where is your confidence...millions of people like you are being poisoned with 4 second rehashed footage and sound bites?
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  3889.  @skywind8030  And if conditions generating the need to protest worsen...what then?
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  3890. Let's put it this way if Klobarchar did not send a black man into jail for no reason at all she would not be fullfilling her function as a democrat. Every case in America whether, in civil court or family court or criminal is handled by lawyers with no common sense of the sociological ramifications or implication, why do think people kill themselves or go on a rampage, not because jurisprudence is benelovent and equitable.
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  3891. Well,---unfortunately, Americans have to be scared into doing something. This passivity can be a good thing but they figured out if they fabricate disasters, wars or enemies, and lie about it Congressional consent can be avoided. Its just easier to by-pass the American people.
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  3892. This is not a news program its a talk show.
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  3893. Once a catholic always a catholic right; why should be any different for white supremacy? The ubiquitous baseball cap and beanies is a dead give away of racists extremists. It takes 9 months and 13 years to make a racist in America and if you have one racist the cost averages to close to a half million dollars for the first formative years of shaping the life of a racist, cost of paraphernalia, summer camps, gear, tackle, ammo, laptop, and social media, social activities, trips to racist retreats, memberships and donations, youth groups, its not cheap to be a racist in the US. The generation of racists today averaging age 30 grew up watching Barney when they were babies and Blues Clues when they toddlers and then jumped head on into the world of video war games and social media. The beginning of a new society is always overshadowed by the the decay of the old one does not mean the new society has not already taken hold. Judging by the reaction of the decaying old society the new one has already planted roots.
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  3894. The social class in society that is not a class of society are women, they carry the 'radical chains' to bring about the dissolution of all classes. Women can redeem themselves only through a total redemption of humanity, they have nothing to lose by revolution, they have no special interests in the existing order to protect. Only by overthrowing the existing bases of oppression can women be universally free, freed from one class society to another in the world is to be free from all class societies.
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  3895. A bias is found in this reporting as the entire focus of the UN Pence address to the Security Council, is on 3 out of 194 nations represented. Classic bias, if you are not a major economic force you have no voice or presence, invisible, like the vast majority of the American people are invisible next to the billionaires. It seems what capitalism has accomplished is creating human beings who collaborate with their own oppressor just as Plato wrote in his Republic (Book 1) about the Slaves, he cited they chose to remain unfree even when their chains were broken!
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  3896. Cops do not protect you. If you think they do you are a fool or you never grew up in the city and are gullible. Their job is to protect property not people. They are compensated well for this purpose. When you go on strike or protest conditions that is when you will see what the real mission and function and purpose police in society and in Manhattan is. Instead of posting police where stations are most vacant of people where crime is most likely the MTA close off the station. In short, crimes against persons used to only happen in the city now happen across the country. Manhattan is a microcosm for the rest of the nation in terms of the police not protecting people but property specifically.
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  3897. Is Trump a Treasonous Traitor? I would ask treasonous to what 'capitalism'? Capitalism is a system of production it is not a country. One cannot be treasonous to an object, a thing endowed with social relations, just because people dress funny and interact through force i.e., the Law, Justice, capitalism and everything in it is still an object. People are objects in a capitalist economy, and as long people like being treated as an object Trump has been very consistent in delivering that treatment. Nothing treasonous there. Can we establish there is different between a county and economic system when we need to understand confusing situations. A county is a subject, made up of human beings, with emotions. We interact, we need each other for survival. On the other hand, a capitalist economy is a world of objects. In a society, a person is a subject and in a capitalist economy a person is an object, if that person lives in place that moves matter from here to there, by means of representational objects than that person is an object and subject simultaneously. An incomplete individual, partially free and partially enslaved, partially sane and partially insane, a half assed copy, a shitty representation of true freedom, a fraud, an object of ridicule and of praise, a partially developed person and impartially under developed, hence the expression, 'he's all brawn and no brains'. Lol. Truth tellers who lie. If we do not accept the difference between a subject and an object hypocrisy becomes a universal norm in the society. Who's words can you trust then if you cannot even trust your own? On the other hand, Trump is not treasonous to the country and has not thus far, betrayed anyone. As long as people accept the treatment of 'being ' an object when the subject is an object there is nothing treasonous or betraying to American society, or to the political elites, they are objects to. Its just better to be rich and an object than poor and an object. Trump is pursuing capitalism because it is easier to treat living subjects as objects. Its too hard, too much work, too much effort to bond with another human being on an emotional level as two or more subjects engaged as subjects. People in America who are good at bonding are young boys and girls. Grown ups do not bond as such, they see in each other their limitations. People like this can never commit to a social revolution. Revolution is about love, passion, pure emotion rising to a status of dignity. People struggle for this and die for it eternally with honor. There is no pay for this kind of fight. Like religion nobody pays you to realize your historic mission to be seated next St. Peter. Labor has a mission just like the anyone else. As a mass collection of people -objects in society, the treatment is the same, everyone is equally an object. But people-objects annihilate each other, you can't keep them in the same room because they are abusive to each other; they target each other, hence 'the exploitation of man by man'. I see nothing treasonous about a capitalist breaking down old institutions to expand capitalism. If the profits are in the heart of the Communist party of China, Trump will find a seat in it. Thus far, as an ailing capitalism, Trump tries to resuscitate a dying working class and seeks business where ever business can expand to revitalize the working class. Far too late in my opinion but be that as it may. If anything he is loyal to his objects; he's one sided but true, therefore, not loyal to his objects as subjects. Americans are in crisis because capitalism as an object stifles the desire of the subject to become something more than an object. Every social institution is designed to treat people as objects and they are doing their job well. The Police, the Courts, the Congress, the Church, the Employers, Big Industry, Big Pharma, the Banks, Big Media, Big Ranchers and the Big Farmers, the Big Landlords, are sticking to their business and philosophy. The individual subjects are the ones with the problem, they are unable to stick to their business because they lost what their business was. The reason for life and living for all is lost. The vocation and historic mission to converts objects into subjects is lost, the people-objects are dazed and confused and still treated as objects by a capitalist economy as a working class they can only find this freedom in each other. Self- Emancipation. Freeing the subject from being or becoming an object is the historic mission or vocation of the working class. Like the religious go to church every Sunday -- the working class should be building an economic system for themselves.
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  3898. Bad optics. Careful of what you do in society. Whatever five seconds of fame you got its your’s for life.
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  3899. We committed $60 billion to a guy who cracks down on dissidents and independent journalists and his economy is a vicious assault on his working people. Everyone goes along with this? Worst thing about that Congress will appropriate more $$$ just as long as it can continue making an enemy of the Russians to the American people. Ask the State Department official if they worry about not spending that money on the American people. They don’t care is the answer. While the money sent to the most corrupt country in Europe to fight Russians where it can, otherwise be crushed by them, completely distracts everyone’s attention away from a massive military build up, funded by us, to fight the Russians only where it can, as mentioned, but really to be used to crush protests, uprisings and rebellions of the Ukrainian people when they react to employer job cuts and inflation.
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  3900. STAY HOME! All the worse elements of the Trump administration will be revealed but not if you go to work and come into contact with confirmed and non-confirmed cases. The FEMA director Peter Gaynor commands 14,000 employees, several huge federal warehouses that can fill three aircraft carriers stocked with material of all types from A to Z, and 13 government agencies. In short FEMA is a standing army equipped with medications to cover the needs of the political elite, yet compared to the US military it is small. The military is a force of 475,000 soldiers are mostly out of the country sequestered from news and information back home and cannot help to confront another standing army potentially used against the American people, a 1 million man police force in law enforcement all equipped to quell and detain rioters in full battle regalia. The federal government, therefore, has three huge standing armies. The military has at least the same material but four times the amount of all nations combined, that is 127 nations! FEMA alone could outfit the entire US with a hospital system in every state. Our dismal private hospital system pales in comparison een with all its combined resources which would equal the size of the state of New Jersey. This virus would reduce the private care system to the size Rhode Island. The 14,000 employees of FEMA include experts of all types, engineers, doctors, medical emergency and police, workers includes branches such as the Army Corp of Engineers.  FEMA has the capabilities of meeting the medical needs of all citizens for three generations spanning 100 years going forward. The productive capacity of FEMA is beyond the expectations of the average citizen of the quantity of material and resources the federal government commands. To give you some proof of one small fraction of this productive power see Big Bertha boring the tunnel under Seattle Washington. One machine, a giant drill is run by four operators at the helm the whole tunnel project 2 miles long employs a workforce of 800 workers. In fact, of all the parts of the society as a whole the American Public has the least of its rightful share of the material wealth and resources its own high level of productivity creates. This epidemic puts everything on the table about America's material wealth, included under three big headings (1) capitalism or the government's reliance on the private sector, (2) ecology and economic inequality in society, (3) public health. But if we are dead and dying from the coronavirus and by other subsequent strains and mutations, the political elite(s) have all this material wealth for their own social survival. STAY HOME. Together and alive they will have to surrender because it is through our productive capacity that FEMA, the Military and Law Enforcement replenish and reproduce this vast material wealth and power. We are essential to the economic and political power they control because we are its primary producers of that material wealth.
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  3901. The US using Kenya as a proxy to do the bidding of imperialists is an oversimplification Jimmy. Haiti’s troubles are a distillation of the problems facing several dozen developing nations, most prominently Kenya crushed under debt: “More than 3 billion people across the world live in countries that are spending more on servicing their debt than public spending on education or health,” Binaifer Nowrojee, the president of the Open Society Foundations, wrote in Foreign Policy. For Kenya the money paid to send troops to Haiti is money that helps Ruto out of a serious crisis in Kenya is more the motive than meeting an imperialist need. Your show when talking about the plight of Haiti should be about what happens when bills are passed to increases taxes — they include a bevy of taxes on everyday essentials like cooking oil, diapers, and bread — on a population already suffering from inflation and high rates of unemployment in countries like Haiti. Your show should talk about how much of Haiti’s debt is owned by foreign creditors, like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). If Haiti doesn’t pay it, the possibility of borrowing in the future will become more difficult in the short term; over time, higher unemployment, more poverty, and overall worse outcomes for Haitians. Kenya owes $35 million of its $80 billion debt to China, IMF and World Bank. Now you might understand Ruto’s motives. As far as why the only solution out there is higher taxes to service the debt is popular has to do with alternative media dodging the question, your generation do not make the ones responsible for debt spending pay a debt crisis; there are no other solutions coming out of your own generation demanding government restore the 90% tax on the rich as it was from 1929 to 1980,--- raise taxes on the rich as a way to get out of the crisis! I hate to say it Jimmy, your generation are chumps.
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  3902. The military took them in. Took them to a base and off the island of Martha’s Vineyard where Barack Obama has property. Pretty clear to see the class structure of American society when a contradiction becomes a full blown crisis. The French working classes of 1798 saw it fit to decapitate King Louis and Marie Antionette for the same class based social bias and vitriol the peasants and working classes in France felt coming from royal Monarchy and the super rich. History is loaded with the misappropriation of public resources like this in both the Communist and Capitalist world. The disease of accumulation for the sake of accumulation does not care who or what you are but it does breed revolution more than authoritarianism breeds revolution. The Military has a role in keeping this structure alive. The resources produced by the working class used up for the 1% and the Military uses up the minds and bodies of the 99% is the structure holding the relation in place. Militarizing society is their solution to cement that relation in a Mass Indoctrination Campaign of America’s youth in order to keep the class structure in place. Future generations will never know this oppression is not the norm. If the republicans were smart and truly represented the working classes they would launch an investigation into the misappropriation of America’s military resources to social classes that do not produce those resources and by the members of the political state. A political state that recognizes only the 00.1% can not claim to represent the 99% since the interests of each social class are not compatible but contradict each other. Congress cannot investigate itself without mass hypocrisy and cover-ups, so that won’t work to alleviate the affliction. But it will make a full blown crisis in the political world. The January 6th insurrectionists started something that only the 99% can complete when the 99% are basically, fed up. Trump made the historic mistake of trying to prove to the 00.1% he was tougher than the Democrats on immigration, border control, and sanctions. This never addressed the crisis, in fact, made it possible to deflect the crisis from view. He roused a drama the military did not like but the 1% were satisfied and this approval rating kept certain generals from sabotaging Trump. And what about the State Department? Do they have a role in this class structure? They service the global interest and property of the American 00.1%. With cash and arms appropriations to foreign governments willing to sacrifice their people, and way of life, for its reconstruction suitable for the needs and into the image of the 00.1%.
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  3903. So why couldn’t the press summarize what you did so well when summarizing is what they are paid to do? Corporate news insults the American people. Paid so much for so little product. Thank you for that report. I see his assaults are on his family like many others, American families are in crisis, individuals in the working class lost so much or have so much discontent they can’t contain their anger anymore. @Sfoxey 
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  3904. Not even a note to that effect in the description, very lazy @emm8357 
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  3905. I lost track of the story but I was told from friends that “Andre” was not in the home the SWAT teams surrounded but was down the block and was spotted than arrested...is this true...if so...how stupid can this generation be? @emm8357 
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  3906. What about this report that he was not in the home the SWAT teams surrounded...was caught seen down the block, any truth to that? @samanthab1923 
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  3907. Two things: the workplace needs to be removed from a single authority. Second: Prostitution should be legalized and the proclivity of politicians to get their rocks off on their employees will never be a problem again.
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  3908. Yes the 1400s precisely, I am eluding to a hybrid social class of rich peasants and self-employed farmers where a labor-market consisted of a agricultural day workers. Migrants today are day workers. The most exploited members of the working class are migrants. Exploited by rich American farmers, manufacturers, builders, contractors, etc.. Exploited because employers can pay below the legal wage. The government does not interfere in this exchange between labor and capital . The Left operates in a de-regulated environment. Two hybrid social classes, examples of them are present in places today in Latin America are as old as the class formations...in Europe when they specialized, rich peasants became full time merchant capitalists and when small farmers began to hire more workers, they were a pre-capitalist formation becoming manufacturers more than farmers; a transitional period of early class formations giving the origins of a capitalist class that is today a global social class as origins in many places that it wasn’t a linear development, but a process of decay of older ways of working. Almost like we o longer use this tool because it was made for a machine that has been obsolete for 30 years. Now the new guy is the tool for the new machine and an evolution of a social class of many people becoming tools for the new machine has been made complete without people realizing it. “Too Bg To Fail”, remember that one? Restrict the quantity of labor a corporation can hire and they will not become too big to fail would be a policy in a new society. Examples of hybrid social classes, (the term is a biological reference for an organism), apply to life-giving social classes, meaning they produce more than they consume the latent potential to become what it isn’t are everywhere today. Self-destructive social formations, self-damaging, self -corrupting. If people are going to fight back they are going to need a Revolutionary theory. Without that they cannot locate where in society the class struggle occurs and works with social class formations and social class behavior, function as oppressors, always the general and the particular, within the framework of its existing potentials, no guiding principal of a theory on how to make a revolution, there can be no true freedom. Revolutionary theory pummels and pounds out the universal from the particular, blows it out of proportion, makes a mountain out of a mole hill on a subject of real and concretely important to working people; not on issues of no relevance to moving the working class closer to holding power. For example: Man is slashed in the face on a train in Manhattan the safety factor implications for the working class is enough to agitate for a universal strike against the mayor and Council, impeach the mayor, force the council to police the police for pretending to be police upholding the supreme concept of a civil society, security of person, property and rights, instead these are attacks the working classes. Reaction to such an action always opens up several pathways to revolution.  @jgalt308 
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  3909.  @jgalt308  Thank you for that insight and correction...much appreciated. Those are the three stages of surplus value, et al feudalism, mercantilism, industrial capitalism. Viewing the stages christened and baptized by classical theory (the official version) conceals the laws operating surplus value and value creating labor and useful labor. You lose the economic reality of the historical aspects of the Working Day, “the” primary occupation of the human species. There is an exchange between man and nature operating behind the exchange people do as business the working day embodies, a general and a particular interacting on each other. In the way there is a nucleus of a cell forms the body the two kinds of surplus value and the two kind of labor form the nucleus of whole social system. This is a far more dynamic and fluid way to treat economic forms than the boring standard method of classical theory. Historical and social forms of human labor broke out into its own branch as anthropology. If an MBA graduate wanted to know what kind of labor he/she will be dealing with in the working world they curriculum would include an anthropology of work and a history of technology, only there would an MBA graduate get a window into real life on the ground literally as peasant, artisans (guilds), and proletariat as the forms of work under the classical categories. CEOs never had a Worker Safety Course! Talk to Musk about work safety and your sense of him is, stupidity or lying. People can grasp the social forms in the evolution of work in society but as changes brought on by civil wars, revolutions, coup dé état; those forms are hidden motives to the political events, eventually these theories make their way into national security policies, in all nations, is where the danger lies. The achievements are many. All victory steps for capitalism and all negative outcomes for a swerming mass of uprooted human beings. America had artisans, peasant family farm producers, slaves and the source of surplus value were its slaves. Native tribes before slaves came upon these shores worked in conjunction with nature’s bounty. The Battle of Little Big Horn shows the degree tribes developed cooperation as a form of human labor. Surplus value was created through hunting and farming was more than the native farmer required for a living was therefore productive labor. If left intact millions of white men would have gave up the modern way of life for a native way of life in America,--it was simply a natural way of living and many who did were Jihadists of their day, rejecting civilization. Official thinking changes the definition for productive labor The producers of surplus value were native peoples and imported African slaves. They produced more than what it costs to keep them as slaves would say their landowning owner(s) on the floor of the Senate. Nay would say Musk, a productive worker is the worker who sells his free time for working time...that worker is productive of a more than the worker needs to be a worker. If you do not fit into these definitions than all the members of society who ascribe this this kind of slanted thinking are treated as criminals. So you see the class formations begin to happen with every change of the definition of what or who in society adds to society and does not take from it as the society becomes more populated with workless people. The destruction of all native handicraft industries and agriculture is a story of Dutch Conquest in the “New Land”. A prehistory of work erased. Through marriage a European man could live off the same hunting grounds the tribes mutually owned. Property formations and social combinations of work producing surplus value shows us that it is not we who decide what we are it is the distribution of surplus value that decide the things we do, all measured out in working time. I also think back then the clock had no importance to people as it does in the period of machine manufacturing period. The only concept of time we had was how long daylight lasted. Everybody was like a film director then hastening the production crew to produce the scene for shooting before they lose light. There was a natural working day for he and his own versus the social working day of many for many, the surplus value we produce is a gravy train of gifts, luxuries, health, for a few. Bernie is right, heed his latest message.
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  3910. No cracks or potholes on the roads. This was a time when standardization did not exist.
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  3911. Some thoughts on this subject of socialism... I differ with Dr. Wolff, the workplace has not been democratized and transformed, neither has the working class been democratized and transformed under socialism. It is not enough to transform the interior of society, i.e, and leave intact the exterior of society and expect exploitation to never appear again. Workplace democratization will not change the social form of work. There is only one way a working class can be transformed and that is by not being a working class. The focus of society in order to render a class a non-class, the whole of society would have to entrust in the working class to move forward with its agenda, its special project in dissolving itself as a class, in doing so the other social classes dissolves with it, and everyone is socially equal could use the working parts of the government to enforce laws against activities that could lead to the creation of a working class and, therefore, exploitation. An emancipation of labor happens when labor in the factory and offices is free to decide production but moreso, a job market, no longer separates the social power from the individual. But in the present society, we have a more difficult problem, that might be best to let die out on their own rather than force a conversion of social classes into non-social classes. Since possession of the means of production are not in the hands of the state or any social class the means belong to all social classes there is little worry law enforcement or other social class could launch a counter attack on the new socialist project as long as they are also democratized to the Public, they would depend on the public who decide outside of the workplace the allocation of social and natural resources. Also, capitalism does not automatically disappear, in other words, in a transition and transformation we still have commodity production. In the post-capitalist society what does not exists is the production of a special commodity. People will still be producing commodities for sale but they will not be selling their labor-power to produce commodities in a post-capitalist world. In the pre-capitalist world in America, people as slave holders produced commodities and used a commodity in the slaves to produce commodities. In the capitalist era, labor-power is the special commodity that produces two things, workers make commodities of some useful form and the act of working produces additional value in the commodities from which the owner(s) of the commodities can extract a greater value when sold on the market. Capital derives its wealth from the act of working and from the work itself. In both instances at work, it is one and the same individual split in half between the two functions of their labor in society pressuring to do this or that within a specific time frame. The act of working is another process separate from the work itself producing a useful thing. Governing the actions of workers becomes the job of a capitalist and inside the corporation is a virtual dictatorship over the work and workers that makes life as bad as it is outside a free zone of relief for the workers. When the sale of labor-power no longer exists the management of capital in corporations should dissolve along with it and so should the division and subdivisions of work within the hiearachy of work in the workplace.
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  3912. Authorities are following the law its the lawmakers who prohibit the spontaneous cooperation of community members. Cooperation and collective power teaches the community another way of life that is compatible to the community but incompatible to the authorities as a hierarchy. Cooperation versus competition. America, Canada, Mexico are societies based on cooperation used for competition. Cooperation provides individual members a collective power normally used for the benefit of big shots and big industry comes together in people who want to live. This is a historic milestone for people. Its a cure for all social and psychological barriers as they mean something to each other which is a great feeling of empowerment, realization, awareness.
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  3913. Cops are being used by the rich and powerful acting as a private army to keep the homeless out and enforce oppressive laws. They should walk away from protecting the communities of the rich and things will change real fast. As long as the rich are protected by the cops the rich will continue to use the government to make it work for them and oppress every one else. Lastly, the pensions of cops are not protected as well as the cops think.
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  3914. Lovely Pandas, they are what peace is, great comment from that young lady. What species can America send to China in return for this peace exchange. Wild Turkeys are natural to America and they do not prey. Ben Franklin would agree.
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  3915.  Jon Dhoe  There are no orders to conquer a people, issued in the manifesto, its a rant and rationalization to intimidate through violence an innocent public. You haven't read it.
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  3916. Push school choice and you are trying to privatize their field provoking unions to come back strong on you...what do you expect?
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  3917. Creatures come out of the woodwork in a sick society like there is no tomorrow. Never ceases to amaze the keenest of observers how modified the species has become to manufacture a human being like McKenzie. America's "crazies", focus their attnetion away from covert operations to world war strategy against China. Nuts. Americans are way too lenient and tolerant of their own sociopaths.
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  3918. The international arena in 1955 was premised on the Cold War. The Treaty of Amity made Iran an ally of the US in the Cold War when Iran was ruled by His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Iran. The Ayatollah religious clerics who came into power after the overthrow of the Shah in the the revolution of 1979 did not dissolve the treaty. No reason for the new government of Iran to pull out of the Treaty, the revolution ignited was a response to decades of the Shah's retrogressive secret police supported by the US under the Treaty as part of the good relations with Iran. America gave the Shah the full support of military, weapons, aid packages, and other means the Shah used to create a secret tyrannical police. When the US give support to dictators what they do with the money is their business but when the people of a country overthrow a dictator what they do with their people power is a threat to US national security and no longer their own business. Hypocrisy is obscenely remarkable in the state department. For Bolton and his gang this Treaty represents an obstacle to an all out invasion and overthrow of the Iran's Clerical Muslim Government. So, they resolved to dissolve their part of the treaty and dishonor its commitments to a mutually beneficial relations with Iran. The pattern of making truces to violate them later is classic US imperialism. A tactic Hitler used against Poland. A tactic Pompeo uses with Iran. Pity Aaron Mate' did not bring this history and comparison in his introduction. Now re-listen to Pompeo's, Sec. of State, he frames Iran as trying to lift sanctions and using the Treaty of Amity to do that and then concludes the US will pullout of the Amity Treaty. The International Court ruled correctly, the treaty in force since 1955 is violated by US sanctions. It speaks volumes the Trump administration's proclivity to leave it to the 'experts'. The experts in this case are without the expertise of history behind them. Ideologues who continue to do damage to the US by contradicting their own country's record of diplomatic relations before the world court.
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  3919. 22:45,---Such a tragic story said the anchor while bearing a smirk beneath those words about Tammy impaled by a harpooned umbrella. Turns out the story is really a comedy sketch about how the government wants you to prop an umbrella up in the sand given the story does not interview the Senator or the regulation he will propose.
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  3920.  @paulcarucci7936  Stunad.
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  3921.  @tiktokmfr  you are welcome
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  3922.  @skizztrizz4453  So,-- you are suggesting people not get trained in earthquake safety because people came out of disasters by the skin of their teeth.
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  3923. 12:35 the secret history of the war of Vietnam is the history of the Washington Establishment using American troops to contain the Soviet Union and Communism since the defeat of the Nazi Germany that Nixon and Trump as outside that establishment are removed from office. Either failing to contain communism as in the Fall of Saigon, or in the case of Donald Trump, as not anti-Russian enough! The secret history is no mystery at all to historians who study the Washington Establishment’s response to historical events.
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  3924.  @kerwinbrown4180  Depends on locality. A place like El Paso brings two nations within walking distance of each other and locally the people who live there consider themselves one community not a border town with a wall dividing them. Drug suppliers sell better in Mexico. Mexican resellers sell to locals in the US who walk over and get more for their dollar. Plus there is a large casino buffet to rest your joints in. American drug suppliers sell poorly to drug resellers like Walgreen in the same locality for the same drug is sold twice the price where Mexicans and Americans live related though marriage, its only a short walk with your sweetheart to a lower price for a lot of things. The little guy has a chance in this region where there is foot traffic but no chance at all in regions where the locality is made of highways and byways, strip malls and gas stations. And no, I do not live in El Paso.
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  3925.  @kerwinbrown4180  Wow, when I studied economics price fixing was illegal. It meant monopolies control the price of the means of production blocking out any new competition from entering their market.
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  3926. A national steering committee for "organized" national actions and strikes coordinated at the same time is needed.
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  3927. Its astonishing that senators are either ignorant or timid of assuming their roles to use legislation to defend their own democracy from surveillance systems that lead the impressionable and sell personal information for profits is used to the detriment of the nation and its children in particular.
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  3928. ...she’s probably a Stacey Plaskett’s staff writer and knows her own complaint, a litigation specialist, she can mutter it by heart. It shows the representatives do not think on their feet or do their own assessing. Not thinkers in their own right they can cross examine the witness in the hearing; a stark difference in lawyering from the days of Adams, Jefferson, before capitalism and to the days of a two-bit second rate Hollywood actor and a game show host landing the presidency is nothing short of a poverty of Mind and a poison of Money in capitalism.
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  3929. I hope Dr. West does not have any skeletons in the closet. Even if he did at this point the difference between his skeletons and their’s would truly be the lesser evil. A man like him runs,-- he steals away the title of the lesser evil from the democrats and lumps them with the dynasties that dominate the political life of the country. It would be a great day if he wins. Imagine the kind of cabinet he would put together as a government...could be amazing...Mexico was victorious over their duopoly when they elected AMLO. The US and Canada are next. It would be a major victory for Americans of real historic significance over the owners of property and financial wealth (Wall Street Duopoly).
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  3930. Its not who you are, its how you say it. How you say things reveals who you are. Never be a bore with a woman.
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  3931. Ridiculous.
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  3932.  @lorrainewest7408  nice name. Has a smooth sounding ring to it.
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  3933. The wall he built is really nice.  Like the Trump empire of the 1990s all its beautiful opulance. The Trump border wall, a steel corrigated iron wall collapsed on the Mexican side of the border this week. When it is repaired years from now it will look like Chernobyl....absolutely gorgeous.
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  3934. The more you turn up the AC the more carbon you emit into the atmosphere the hotter the temperature gets is a message you will never hear from US News. Would you if you owned General Electric tell the public to turn off the power to cool down the temperature of the planet if you were a major seller of air conditioning units? Of course not. That would bankrupt your company and stocks would fall to the ground. TURN OFF THE POWER and save the planet or TURN ON THE POWER and enrich a corporation. So far Americans choose to save the corporation even if it means death.
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  3935. ​ @peterjol  I think you need to keep your reasoning straight along the lines of categories that can be used for all time and place and categories that are specific to the system of production you are cynical about. For example, when looking at sharing. You are talking about trade and exchange which involves the action in the meaning, you and I share a job, this country and that country share work, or jobs are shared between us. There are jobs that are historically general, all societies must perform, and jobs specific to capitalism. You want to make a better world you’ll have to deal with jobs that perpetuate the same capitalist relations over and over again. Cynicism does not break the cycle, its an effect of the cycle. It would help if workers demanded necessary jobs from their employers.
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  3936.  @chrisj984  Blah, blah, blah. Your policy is no policy at all. Your stand is no stand at all. You position is no position at all. Can’t you answer the question why in your society you end up with inequality from a starting point of equality of all the races? Why has it taken you 150 years to follow through on the precepts of the Emancipation Proclamation; do you spit on the historical sacrifices of lives who fought for that Proclamation to be written...it sure sounds to me like you dishonor your own history with the fallacies you are projecting and the no society has ever existence thing is stupid. Don’t bother; I don’t find any worth in carrying this on.
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  3937.  @chrisj984  Everything equal is not marxism sonny jim...people should work according to capacity. You won’t find in life equality in marxism,---make no hesitation about it. Marxism is like a giant mirror in your face and the reflection of yourself talks back to you. Life is unequal that is one reason for science is needed. If capacity is high then meeting human needs takes less time and people gain more free time to do as they please, conversely if capacity is low meeting needs takes more work time. You can’t play around if your hungry...you have to work the fields. In the fields marxism probes into how that field work is carried on through the mirror it uses to see relationships. Marxism does not care what you become culturally or socially. It is only concerned with production and it social forms. Not an uncommon way of looking at human beings...anthropology does this all the time, examines low stage, middle stage, high stages of production in human history. You never got this education so you don’t know what marxism is, worst thing is assuming you do unveils a blind ego. Better to be open minded and humble go straight to marx and read for yourself...when nothing is known about the subject, get your sea legs before boarding.
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  3938.  @chrisj984  nonsense..buying and selling for a gain came before capitalism and was never a problem with production. Banking came before capitalism and incentives are the Medici Family. If you want personal gain go do it in the market and be a private producer. Be a plumber, electrician, a blacksmith. You got more excuses than there are shadows on a sidewalk. And a bitter tone resenting others. Your toast.
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  3939.  @chrisj984  Manufacturing? Where? American companies do their production work outside of the US,--thus far, three presidents could not bring industry back to the US. That is not a problem for you that your industrial base in hollowed out? Companies have the same right as you to do with what they want with their property. In this case, the companies shipped production (their property) abroad, and they would be re-iterating what you are telling me. They have the right to do that? I repeat you have no clue what the marxist idea of property is?
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  3940.  @mrnameless7637  Explain why the US has a 2% GDP and cannot fully recover from the Great Recession, why recessions last longer than prosperity, why the housing market shuts out first time home buyers? Why is what you cannot answer is my guess.
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  3941. Cornell West running for president is going to propel the People’s Party into a major political party. Despite the virulent nature of America’s right wing and the corrupt nature of the democratic party, a People’s Party, can’t be anything else but an alternative to the overwhelming incompetence and mediocrity offered up as people worthy enough to represent American people who reject polarization, sabotage, and reckless opposition to human progress.
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  3942. Looks pretty normal to me the decay of a highway system. $40 billion sent to another country that lost a war could have fixed this problem.
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  3943.  @l3ad3d  $40 bn is the total package dedicated to Ukraine defense forces are the facts Sunny Jim.
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  3944. So, Sgt Fay Goldstein wants to flood the underground network the hostages are held. Sgt. must have graduated from an American school to come up with such a brilliant tactic to root out HAMAS. For every new person the IDF puts up in front of a camera the worse it gets for them. Really stupid people.
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  3945. “More war, more money for the military industrial complex...” she should have added more jobs. What happens when the wars come to an end and the corporation building bombs in Pennsylvania closes the factory or reduces its payroll is not well addressed in the Rescue of the Republic Plan. You don’t find that a problem?
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  3946. Who you calling' Surely?
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  3947. Oh, come on...this is pure garbage news.
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  3948. Crumbs.
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  3949. People are pollinators. They migrate from place to place and bring home seeds and plants with them. Birds still do a better job. Living in California or in New York, London or Paris, Frankfurt before such cities became a world market center people would eat a banana or a mango, pear, fruit from Asia, a tamale from Mexico only if they traveled to these places. Not like it is today where any food is attainable in every nation is an upside and every nation can be cut off from any food is the downside.
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  3950. This channel is suspect.
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  3951.  @benzemamumba  That is what I meant...it did not come out that way, I see. Thanks
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  3952. I hate the politician who uses the American people as a tool to instill fear and minimizes government while at the same time working for the government.
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  3953. Fool.
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  3954. 0:37 ...?
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  3955. The real point of this that often Dr. Wolff I find does not go into is the duality between work as a useful activity of various particular kinds are traceable in a historical sense in various social forms of production. The family evolved into tribes and tribes evolved into communities in keeping with the movement of society from the simplest to the most complex form that when we arrive at the capitalist form of labor (production) the modern family evolves out of production split up into detailed operations breaking up communities into separate family units, is the point. Shattered as it were. I reference to the dollar system the broken apart of society into two distinct kinds of production. One for use-values and the other for exchange-values make commodities themselves and the value contained in them the real backer of the dollar, contrary, to the expectation that the dollar is backed by gold is not the case when gold is a commodity and when it is money it measures less and less value in all other commodities that its price is so high in proportion to them also has a double direction, 1., how little value it takes to produce great material wealth and 2., the latitude between the cost of production price and the market price capitalists derive their surplus-value happens after the exchange of money for labor-power. The presence of capital and labor in production is built on an inherent contradiction all hinging on the productivity (GNP).
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  3956. 2:19 he put his finger on propaganda. Trade with China is tremendous for Singapore and more than enough for territorial disputes to not become an obstacle that it would cut off its population's income derived from sales to China. Not likely will Singapore diss a buying customer. More likely the regime in Singapore to become further and more corrupt than it is doing all kinds of deals with the State department with threats of American corporations going somewhere else to produce if they don't accept the terms and conditions. Who needs the headache? Trade with China is consistent and predictable and growing at a pace four times higher than American GDP.
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  3957. I do not believe you understand what his actions are saying and doing. 1. The losses of the very rich he is attempting to save and rescue through this reform which is a false word for what it is he does on the backs of the working classes by extending the retirement age. 2. That a police response to an economic problem of the rich not wanting to pay out pensions demonstrates the government is broken and it will collapse. What is the point of a parliament if you are going to rule by force? 3. The super rich and Macron will be guillotined or leave the country as society is on the brink of a revolution. 4. This is a highly organized national strike not at all a spontaneous rebellion or protest of a small section of workers the American News shoves down our throats as a false narrative. 5. This revolution spreads the world over speeding up the end of western capitalism which has already collapsed in Europe and is pending in the US.
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  3958. CNBC has to be getting a kick out these comments!
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  3959. Conscious and unconscious racism divides the Left in the US. I hope the next generation of activists journalists, organizers, can rise above the racism limiting the potential of their separates movements from becoming unified and truly revolutionary adopt, as principal, to never conduct interviews of political prisoners that are white without interviewing black and brown political prisoners in the US at the same time on this topic.
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  3960. Hey Jordan do you have the option to refuse who advertizes before your videos?
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  3961. Interesting, the democratic party consists of a unity between workers and billionaires, but in society billionaires and workers are hostile enemies. How is that so?
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  3962.  @BladesEDC  speak for yourself.
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  3963.  @patrickjenkins6383  Why? There are many examples of species in the non-human world of nature that fit humans perfectly. There are insects and animals that produce little and consume all. People are like this too. As in the non-human world of nature, humans are a product of nature, that cannot live on nature alone. To live people have to use other people and only through other people that you get people who consume everything and produce nothing with their lives.
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  3964. 1. Serbia takes real social action against the terror of an American international cartel weapons industry. An industry targeting America first and threatening societies and democracy everywhere else. 2. I would never do the submersible even if it were a free ride...I do not believe crossing over hallowed ground on land or at sea...that is where souls permanent rest...that place is where their tragedy ended not where the farce of the living begins. It is immoral to make it spectator sport for the rich. 3. America’s banking industry ( the Federal Reserve Board is not a government institution) it turns builders and realtors into a class of landowners and this marks the death of the Middle Class and the beginning of the end of American Prosperity. The Fed accomplishes this destruction of the Middle Class by increasing interest rates that force borrowers to lose a great part of their incomes to bill collectors. Not everyone can become a landowner without capital in your pocket to start with. Banks versus the Middle Class. 4. When you Americans do what the Serbians are doing to the weapons industry be sure you kick out the Right to Life Movement with them who are setting the stage for a DICTATORSHIP in America by encouraging the anti-abortion data harvesting of BIG TECH for their agenda at the expense of your FREEDOM.
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  3965. make a good comedy skit.
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  3966.  @reverendfatheruncleruckus  You don't get the death penalty for sedition and treason in the US, you get the death penalty for being black. But if you were black and committed treason and sedition you would get the death penalty is my guess, based on all the evidence thus far on the state of race relations in America.
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  3967. Wow...Michael Schaefer...you have a wild imagination when the answer is a lot more simple than you make it out to be. Think,--- who the victim was? Rich, white, female, an heir to a hardware store magnate, a prominent family. They lost one of their own to crime. Most victims are black and poor and nobody gives a damn about them. The rich want to know if they are safe and this is how the FBI is telling the rich the chances of this happening to them are slim,-- the attack was not planned and not targeting the rich in the way the FBI knows the rich are targeted in other countries. They would have to label this crime a terrorist attack if it was planned and premeditated and that would kick off a war on terror in America, which already has its own homegrown terrorist groups, they would be the first suspects of a crackdown...this would be the same as firing the first shot. That is how thin the line between two political opposing forces in the States is drawn. Incidentally, impulsive does not mean random, arbitrary is the meaning of random. I hope you learned something here for the next time you buy a lotto ticket that purchase is impulsive but the winning numbers are randomly picked.
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  3968. Its the end of parliament. End of dialogue and the beginning of the end of a two party system.
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  3969. Cover ups are not the only way crimes takes place. Crimes that take place in broad daylight do not suddenly lose their quality of being a crime because the evidence is not a secret, or covert. of a plot. At the same time the limits of Freedom of Speech were stretched by a man who ran for president as a stunt that society took seriously and made real not Trump.
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  3970. Burglary, theft, robberies, are part of the social alienation becoming more ‘intolerable’ by the day in America. The propertyless are becoming more numerous in society increases crime. Sources enlarging the number of homeless and propertyless are the jobless, mentally ill, inflow of migrants, gangs, former convicts, escapees, quite a large number of populations together make the social alienation I describe a power too great for me to personally withstand, I hate it. The more revolutions there are in the world the more the anti-social elements of their societies head for America as they are purged by revolutionary forces changing their own societies America is the last refuge for exiles wanted by the State. If they come from Venezuela and we do not have diplomatic relations with that country we are stuck with the inflow of criminals from Venezuela. When the cartels are thrown out of Panama, Columbia, Mexico, and more states desire better outcomes the cartels migrate to America to continue operations in pacifying their primary consumer with drugs and violence, the American people.
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  3971. Trump turned his back on his devout followers after fours years of building up a cult of personality around him and for them to grasp him as their savior. Sad. Then they stormed the US Capitol to steal the election results by cancelling the general vote completely and the sycophants in the Senate who support Trump will appoint him president in their own electorate. Sad. What a misguided plan. A plan loaded with deceit of the American people and their sovereignty. Q anon will go down as a quasi-religious conspiracy doctrine. The campaign rally chant "Four More Years" in a way, calls for Trump to establish the new millennium, when justice, law and order, universal inequality between the races, brings prosperity to the chosen, who, evidentally, are not working class Americans of color, will be triumphant. Rings a bell when the crisis in Germany led to the rise of the Nazis. Trump the nationalist.  Q anon followers spread these beliefs in a decaying US economy where desperate individuals seek to find answers to the mortal leap they take into the abyss of unemployment, bankruptcy, or property loss. Conspiracies that were timely and a good excuse for the middle classes to react in a hostile manner side by side with the nationalists and Trump. Its all sad this repitition of history.
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  3972. Schwiggity's comment; a worker working less than eight hours a day, no mention of frequency, should be fired, considering the fact that workers are productive beyond the point that it takes to reproduce themselves as workers, his message is antithetical to the worker's position in society.  I remember reading a Yahoo Business News article 2/25/15; entitled What Clever Robots Mean For The Job, robots create a system of 'continuous production' is an advantage to society, and it can be a step toward a healthy and balanced society as most of the social ills in America, crime, drugs, poverty, would be eradicated. But this would be true only if Congress passed laws to promote the productiveness of labor to eradicate material deprivation in society with new programs of decentralized material wealth. The specific economic barrier to bold new programs toward a healthy and balanced society is the ownership of machinery and technology as the private property of another constituting a separate class interest that undermines the social interest of humanity. A concrete example of a barrier to Universal Health Care is the class interest of the medical machine industries. What constitutes their investment as an economic interest and a right to withhold the right of the health of the Public, to accrue profits, happens through the ownership of the advanced capital composed of two elements, machinery and technology, and labor-power. Both are owned for the duration of the workday by capital in the form of Amazon. schwiggity is clueless of what defines 'productive consumption'. He cannot be reasoned with as the facts do not back up her/his assertion.  In the field of health care the enemies of Universal Health Care are the following and all of them apply the same labor conditions for the production of the medical devices as does Amazon or any other monopoly corporation, while the worker is owned or rented during the workday, time off the production line is a loss of profits, every second, workers use on the job not producing value, a capitalist loses profits. These are: The top 10 medical device companies of (2018) lobby against universal health care in Congress, the 7 innovative biotechnology companies in California are: Monique Ellis. Medtronic. $29.7 billion. ... DePuy Synthes (Johnson & Johnson) $26.6 billion. ... Fresenius. $20.7 billion (€17.784 billion) ... Philips Healthcare. $20.7 billion (€17.78 billion) ... GE Healthcare. $19.1 billion. ... Siemens Healthineers. ... Cardinal Health. ...investment capital unpublished? The worker is productive beyond the point that it takes to be a worker, and since production is continuous, a working class is a permanent social class individuals are born into, and this is the first historical fact we encounter...about the progress of civilizations, culminating after centuries of development and knowledge the industries take the 'cream of the crop', cry, that since a capitalist comes up with the the capital and inventions they should be paid profits. A worker is productive of profits beyond the point that it takes to reproduce wages should be fired is not the creed of the new capitalists operating in labor market that have no laws and the one with laws that do not enforce the protection of workers want a worker to become a permanent part of the entire complex, work 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, rest and relaxation on premises, enslaved to the means of production for life. Firing is not going to be their modus operandi, hiring the exact number of workers the technology and machinery require and need and keeping them for life is the current trend.
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  3973. Gun Manufacturers are criminal. 🙈🙉🙊Factory production of guns is not Gunsmithing. A gunsmith is a skilled mechanical artist and produces guns by forging them in manufacture (hand production) not machine produced guns which come out of the factory at a rate a mile a minute. The gun industry, Remington, Colt, are a heavy burden around the neck of society and the society should rise up to abolish the production of guns by means of machinery!
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  3974. Diversity and Inclusion is not the reason the sub capsule is a death trap. There were death traps produced before wokeness ever existed and those were caused by cuts in production.
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  3975. On the dark side of the picture is a sobering reality that cannot be ignored or dismissed any longer by all. What needs to be destroyed is the investment cycle of the IMF to developing countries in general and the business cycle of particular industries in Latin America owned by multi-national corporations. Both social institutions maintain controlling interest over the whole of Latin America's natural and mineral resources for the development of technical industries in the US, Germany, and other nations in Europe and Asia are now, even more vital to US interests in its industrial and trade war with China. Imperialism and the particular extraction of raw material from natural environments in Latin America by specific American corporations are simultaneous processes of a degeneration of nature and a social exploitation of war and genocide through a financial and legal process of enrichment and accumulation of capital the more world markets are divided by competition and competing nation-states.
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  3976. Dress your kid up as Jesus carrying the cross and you will see who are behind all cancel culture.
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  3977. They only mention the workforce fired during the pandemic briefly the people whose work is not delegating and attending meetings.
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  3978. No matter how many strikes you have if the capital is still in the custody of a capitalist class things will not change.
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  3979. Conflict between China and the US puts Europeans in a bad spot. Americans too. War is inflationary. The War with China is a crazy idea for poor nations. One of the two super powers will make your country a ‘sentry state’. Your country will never have the choice to decide neutrality as a ‘sentry state’. What resources a poor nation has will go to use as a sentry. The same resources that could electrify the rural country side or build better roads, etc. People want the value they make back.
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  3980. Capitalist societies cannot respond the way a socialist society like China can respond to quell a dangerous and fatal virus. Socialist societies have the ability to stop production (economy) and not have the effect of a crisis in the same way capitalist societies experience a crisis. If you stop production and circulation in China it is not going to disrupt the economy from functioning but it will affect the social order like it would in the US and the EU impact both spheres of economic activity, unless the Chinese communist party acts irrational and harms the social population. A fear that is probably on the forefront of that party's mind of losing power. But in the US and EU if production is stopped surplus value cannot be realized and the entire social order falls to pieces, which is the reason the west relies so heavily on prisons and mass incarcerations to keep the social population controlled and working the cycle of production where surplus value is produced.  It appears that a socialist society breaks the dependency the working class has with capitalists for their wages and capitalists have on a working class for their profits, a mutual dependency of the two classes in a capitalist society.  If this mutual dependent relationship between worker and capitalists were not true then the Congress of the US would not be advancing a bill to compensate the working class an income when being told to stay home if they are sick. The attention paid to the low wage and hourly workers in America proves how vitally essential the low wage and hourly workers are to the workings of the system as a whole.  How aware low income and hourly workers are or become of their essentiality is another matter?  I imagine it is the special job, duty or function, of politicians in the west to keep the working classes unaware of their essentiality to the system as a whole does explain why the US in particular is vehemently against unions and why unions in Europe are tolerated.  The bill proposed serves to keep consumption going and the workers playing their part as consumers even though their role as producers have stopped. My thinking also explains the class struggle between employers (capitalists) and employees (working class) that Lamarr Alexander takes the side of employers who, in that mutually dependent relation, a rise in wages entails a fall in profits. But this class struggle is only a general sketch of the relationship, the issue opens up a can of worms in that the social composition of the working class is the main subject, low paid hourly workers coming fromall walks of life, legal and illegal, workers, workers serving the rich and workers serving industry, housing, construction, all the different branches on industry is open up for sociological examination and the finding is absolute chaos of the condition of the working class in America and in Europe.
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  3981. Perfectly fine with me if the empire ends. End of Capitalism. Its not the end of the world if capitalism comes to an end. I’d be happy with socialism and fascism in the world without capitalism. That would be two less evils in the world invented by mankind. Capitalism, religion, fascism and socialism the four pillars of opposing forces. With capitalism in that mix annihilation is the logical conclusion for humanity. With religion in that mix humanity is crucified to eternal suffering. With fascism in the mix mass genocide and ecocide is inevitable. With socialism in the mix humanity is eternally struggling for a better world and gets nowhere. But without capitalism the world can march through these other evils in quicker time than it would if capitalism stays. Capitalism is like the guest who can’t leave the party when the party is over. It keeps breathing life support to these other evils that should have died long ago. The main worry in me is the leading capitalist empire decides to blow the world up because it drove other rivals to blow up the capitalist world.
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  3982.  @tmnt10000  The most unoriginal reaction comment....a Millennial could make is a comment that is as old as his parent’s. Change your name to J. Edgar Hoover, its more fitting to your personality. People like you answer this way because you have not a single stroke of free or critical thinking in your brain. Poor kid...you’ve been duped by your parents.
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  3983. Wow, if ever a tub of lard walked its in the shape of that guy walking in a blue shirt on the UNC-Chapel Hill Campus. I hope he realizes his condition is grave.
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  3984. Ever see the 1970s movie “Being There” when a monosyllabic and low functioning individual hired as the full time house Gardner to a billionaire becomes an advisor to the president. That is where this nation is at currently.
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  3985. The American position should be to re-industrialize America and stop the MIC from exporting weapons overseas. Why is the Libertarian Party not running a candidate with that exact program? Why do conservatives and liberals of the two ruling parties get to the be the ones who appropriate ( or conscript) American tax dollars for war and unemployment as their program?
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  3986. "The worst way to pay for it is to tax job creators," as per Senator from Mississippi the irony of his statement when the presumed job creators export production off American soil.
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  3987.  @samanthalyons5055  Yes,---the policies of the republicans and the democrats do target, damage and bring harm to women, children and the elderly in society. Its time for the most vulnerable in society to fight back or fight for their lives because Washington is relentlessly attacking the most weak at home and abroad.
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  3988. Unfortunately these democrats in particular and no class in America in general have the courage to carry civil society toward its own freedom from tyrant Congresses, presidents and billionaires. But if these evils are to be lifted off the back of humanity the suffering of a small part of the Public has to expand into a larger percentage of the population to redeem itself through a total redemption of humanity. Things have to get worse for more than 16 to 20 million people. Poverty and misery has to expand to around 60 to 80 million for a total overhaul of society to take place.
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  3989. The two most deadliest forces on earth are humans and nature. Humans kill each other and nature kills them. Nature gives life and takes it away. Humans are not by nature meant to kill their own kind as a species. If God intended us to kill each other for survival we would not have to make our food. We would not have hands and fingers our brains govern. Poor girl just happened to play on a porous part of the beach that caved in on her. My condolences to her family.
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  3990. Actually it would not have made a difference to me since the couple would be spending money in my restaurant whether they wore a tutu on their heads. I can understand they are concerned they would pick up the virus from people in the restaurant masked or not because it is an enclosed space and do not want to brig it home with them exposing their immunocompromised child but I do not understand the restaurant owner turning down business unless he does not need the business, is well off.
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  3991. The Left should not have split. They should understand the attacks on Israel occur in sporadic sequence and the suffering of the oppressed under relentless attacks make unity and resistance to the regime more important and a priority as the way to stop that suffering and the sporadic reactions of Palestinian organizations. The constant splits and divisions in the Left over minutia is a big enabler pivots the left on the wrong side as a default a far right wing only too clearly uses to its advantage.
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  3992. Unlike in Ecuador, the political power is still vested in the state machine; the parliamentary democratic state.  Moreno in Ecuador divested the power of the Judiciary; whereas, Pinera holds the apparatus and the organs of government in the same customary way; the standing military, the police, and the bureaucracy. In Ecuador as in Chile, their standing armies are rooted in dictatorship their political skin never stripped away. All this means that the something different the mass uprisings are calling for is a new type of state made up of elected councils of soldiers, peasants, indigenous leaders, workers, students, teachers, doctors, and community deputies with the task before them of deconstructing the old state.
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  3993. The Price You Pay is not the price paid by oil producers per barrel, they have long ago made up the initial capital, the starting price of decades ago that is preserved in the oil wells themselves in what it takes to pump out millions of barrels per day western economies consume. Its all gravy for the producers. We pay a retail price that have added prices of several middle men from refinery to delivery between an individual’s car and home and the Middle East Oil Producers. There isn’t a whole lot of living labor in oil production once the set up is complete not to any great advantage in lowering unemployment; its not a job creator, to concentrate all your money into one commodity and the amount of live workers are few in number demonstrates how heavily mechanized the system of production for oil is that it is all capital intensive. The largest customer of the oil producers is the American Military and second to them the British, French, Russian, anyone with a large army; NATO and some nations that have no oil in their soil like Japan are forever oil dependent. When they speak of the Free World this is the world they mean the world of oil. Too slow and stupid to move into mass transportation is not stupidity and slowness, its a business strategy to extend the time generating capital from the sale of oil. So the price we pay is a retail price, marked up several times, all are impacted, transportation, manufacturing, agriculture, education, hospital, entertainment, real estate, retail, prices go up by all parties involved but; wages remain stagnant and a middle class loses buying power, everyone slides into a sinkhole depression because the oil producers pay a very low price for oil and sell at a very high price to the largest consumers. We lose a huge chunk of world output to this. Instead of three corn stalks to feed a family we have 1.5 stalks to feed the world family of its grain needs because nobody is going to farm fields that are bombed by militaries and driving the price of oil up for the oil producers in Saudi Arabia. This is why Ukraine is not a genuine war against a genuine enemy but has become a lie told enough times to be believed a truth is revealed by the suffering imposed on the world family the loss of its food is the gain of its oil.
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  3994. One has to believe that humans will produce for use one day and not for exchange. Build cities and towns around use-values. This way what is produced can be produced to last and we end the polluting evils of mass production. The hard part seems workers in America do not understand exchange-values. In many places such as Gary, Indiana the working class that built steel also built Gary, a city like many others put roads down on land, houses and buildings, bridges and tunnels only to facilitate the exchange of these exchange values. Today they are ghost towns where it is cheaper to tear down vacant buildings than to maintain them. When capital leaves it leaves behind its shell the succeeding generation of working people in Gary have to cover in higher taxes, stressing this class out to the maximum, relying on credit for the necessaries of life, Big Steel got more wealth out of Gary than it ever invested into the city! A society that produces for use is hard to do as long as labor is an exchange-value itself. The whole society is built for the equivalences of exchange-values for things to become money and for money to become things. Producing for use is a whole other mindset than producing for exchange-values. The former we are in control the latter the exchange-values control us. The shortage of goods stuck in the supply chain bothers us are cargo ships that carry exchange-values making the president, the White Press Secretary describe in detail the round the clock activity of port workers is an action they would never have to do or think to do if America produced for use. So controlled by exchange-values are we that ordinary men and women, children, are on the path of self -annihilation as the only exit out of this myriad world of exchange-values that require labor to move them. Produce for use and things stay put until you use them again. Goodbye supply chain, good riddance.
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  3995. The hope of casting off feudalism in the Middle East the aristocracies, monarchies, kings and princes, peasant, serf and kinship tribal landowners was lost with the defeat of the Arab Spring. That was a genuine working class and people movement that could have turned the civil wars into revolutionary wars inspiring all the lower social classes in the region to overthrow their respective regimes and establish a civil society with a secular government the way Mosaddegh had done in Iran. If the Iranian government had not been a religious clerical revolution of the political sphere but a social revolution of the public sphere it would have promoted the Arab Spring as a way of ending feudalism.
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  3996. I can see the US government doing this to Americans. Especially if Americans become anti-war and the corporations and banks are pro-war.
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  3997.  @jessewood3196  The Democratic party covers for what is the control over a growth of a division of labor (jobs) on a world scale and the ownership of the expansion of all surplus production contracting to an ever-shrinking number of capitalists represented in the Republican party.
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  3998. I disagree the train derailment was an unplanned catastrophic event not when trains are 210 cars long and are crewed by two rail-workers. Not when the brake systems are antiquated. All that is deliberate choice by the management of the corporation on how they conduct their work. Norfolk Southern imposed a work plan that does not meet up to the safety standards and never notified EPA what they are carrying. This disaster is another example of workplace hazards in America.
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  3999.  @edifying  As you said the democratic party is an obstacle to any progressive reforms of the system. But in not saying the unchanging nature of the system makes a nation come short of its own ideals you are perpetuating the unchanging nature of the system, is sheer insanity.
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  4000.  @bruceb7464  I never agreed with that in all my 66 years. You can win right wing votes on issues of their concern if you frame them to get the result they want and simultaneously breaks down the oligopoly the result the left wants. Left has no f’n imagination and winning power is not their game, in fact, I am not even sure why they even into politics? Do you?
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  4001.  @proletariatprincess1  That’s right Joan...ONE BIG WORKERS PARTY so that people who are not rich, not CEOs, not a family of bankers, not Wall Street capitalists, not a family of landowners, ranchers, oil drillers, retailers, are excluded.
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  4002.  @nicholasrapose196  You already have two, Green and People’s Party, plus there is a mass movement reacting to the SC Ruling against Abortion that can become a third party, if the organizers did the work to register people from that movement to run for office. Go to it.
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  4003.  @IosuamacaMhadaidh  Will you vote blue if she tells you to vote blue?
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  4004.  @dmike3507  Green Party and DSA are what I call appeasement parties. Parties that present the illusion of something different but are really a part of the political superstructure or, to use a more common phrase, the constellation into which the American people are ruled. Sorry they are not real parties. Secondly, as part of the population you speak of, I am insulted that you are calling me uneducated to make good political decisions...this coming from someone who promotes democracy that has historically been elitist from the day it was conceived in ancient Athens. Aristotle, himself, in his Ethics, and Plato in Bk II of the Republic, identify the class that practices democracy are a slave owning class of patricians. I listen to all voices on the left in the US, I find them very disappointing and uneducated of the class nature of American society, they virtually ignore movements of people in many countries who are making attempts to meet their needs without American capitalism interfering; and it is working. You should really speak for yourself when you say the population is uneducated and ignorant. The comment you made is pretty stupid.
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  4005. Well, the only way you can be an individual in society is to be alone. You cannot shop in large social groups that would diminish the number of sales. People would question your choice of purchase or make fun of it. Dealers can’t have that. Free markets depend on individuals walking around, alone, with money in their pocket. If you start hanging out with a group your identity is submerged as a part of that group and you lose some of your individuality. Cops think they were born to be cops, it’s in their blood to be a Cop, when really the Cop organization strips away any individuality. No,--as individuals you begin to color it, shape it, make it your own, and and search out groups that promote individuality to belong. People must separate as representatives or as owners and relate to each other through objects to avoid subjective involvement or getting to know intimately or personally a person, place or community. Loneliness comes with the territory and individualism generates a type of personality that fits perfectly with capitalism. Down right miserable people is what a consumer society consists.
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  4006. Its pretty clear to me the US government perceives the American people a threat and contempt given all the police and military build-ups on American soil as first and foremost a priority over all the social problems in society. This is the reason why nothing is being done. If things are broke you throw it out but it is the employer class in the US who buy labor-power cheap that drives foreigners to the US and the US military engaged in wars in several countries is the force displacing humanity. The language used her is the American Dream only sugar coats the purposely designed instability the employer class, US multinational corporations, polices that are carried out by representatives in government and people like George Santos, Trump, only obfuscate the aims of the employer class and divert the everyday American from this design. This is why the Ukraine war has no justification and the wars in the Middle East. The employer class has captured the government and the American people are hostage to it.
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  4007. David "Brown" ---what's that a European surname in quotations or a native American surname?
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  4008.  @bravecaucasian  What an ass! You are too young to remember what the world was like when borders were open and free to come and go. You don't even know your own American history is how much of an ass you are. Good Neighbor Policy worked beautifully, but, of course youth is wasted on the young and man your brain is fried. You have not grown enough, more like arrested development. This coming from a 86 year old who remembers.
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  4009.  @davidbrown8303  Not you again.
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  4010.  @07Flash11MRC  Clever twist.
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  4011.  @davidbrown8303  Oh really, I did not know that! So back in England the relations had brown hair and brown eyes were named Brown, isn't that creative. You must come from a class of landless peasant stock to be named by an attribute and not by a trade like Goldsmith or Irons. Lets get real here Brown, you are an tranplanted peasant from Europe. GTFOOH.
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  4012. The dangerous information is less the problem than the ignorance. America has a huge peasant population.
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  4013. The cell phone is the only bond the common person today has to society. If a person wants something they get through their phone and it comes to them by shipment. It has replaced money as the connection to social labor. Money needed a store and person to act as seller for the product to get to a buyer. Today, a buyer and a seller a thousands of miles apart there is no society to connect with. But that is soon to come to a screeching halt the more the Houthis shut off the Suez Canal and the supply chain is wrecked. You will still connect with social labor with a higher price but there will be more events like this that use the cell phone as a tool for something other than buying and selling.
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  4014. Interesting...inhumanity creates its own ignorance in the form of government functionaries. It follows that humanity creates intelligence in human beings.
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  4015. The Catalans in Spain pay taxes in a unique way. Once a month everyone donates a full day on the community doing what ever needs to be done that a government would do if it collected taxes the way Spain collects taxes and the government is obligated to clean the streets or fix sidewalks, sewage etc. Taxes is paid in money here as it is in Spain. But in Catalan, taxes are paid by individuals as an obligation of work. The entire population is out in full force to do the job till the job is done. Their location is one the most beautiful in the world because they put their labor into it. As a comparison, Melie is working with ideas and interventions within the same framework of a system responsible for Argentina’s decline in the first place. Another comparison for perspective’s sake. The US prints dollars and never has to buy them is a position of power and privilege. Argentina would have to buy dollars. It would have to buy gold and its gold would be converted into dollars. At 200% its currency, the Peso, won’t buy much. Argentina could not afford enough gold to equal its needs. It would have to meet its other needs which is decided through a class struggle, by cutting down its needs and then finance the balance and that is where the austerity cuts become permanent. Melie introduces to the Public, specifically the working-class public, a new social average of exploitation by appealing to the prejudices of ordinary people. Melie is a prelude, a warm up, to that event when the conditions of the IMF are announced, the IMF wants deep cuts in social spending, pensions, social security and jobs.
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  4016.  @haleybrown2836  This is true, but sometimes and I do feel these are times when the educators have to be educated and the leaders have to be led and this is our present circumstance in the historical record of human kind.  The chilling side-effect of gutting societies is on us, and when China, Russia and the US are compelled to sell technology and science against each other as competitors, that too is on us. We are on the recieving end of that global competition. They decide our fate and we have no control over the uses technology offer and neither do they when it falls into the wrong hands. And, you know it will.
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  4017. A park is closed off because they know not the type of mercury or where the mercury emanates from or even if the mercury is harmful to humans? Some one will have to get a court injunction to re-open the park it sounds like a pretext to close off the park to their growing homeless problem.
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  4018. Its a poverty born disease. Don’t address the poverty address the disease.
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  4019. The Democrats out do the Republicans on Border Control and Immigration. They will not demonize them like the Republicans do but the Democrats will deport them. They will make deals with country where the migrant flow is thickest to make the deportation lighter and exaggerated for political purposes. The upshot is, Trump is not talking out of both sides of his mouth he is straight out demonizing and lying. The doublespeak emanates from centrists in the Democratic Party.
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  4020. John Lennon was Nixon's arch enemy and tried prosecuting Lennon several times. Lennon had to live in Canada and returned to NY only after the prosecution dropped the case against him in the famous picture of him in front of the Statue of Liberty. Subsequently the president through the Justice Department made Pot illegal to prosecute anti-War protesters. The arch enemy of Trump is not an anti-War counter culture working class hero. The enemy of Trump is a highly complex institution and a political party. The comment section reflects the reality. The American people are a third wheel by-stander in this conflict between the CIA and the President Trump.
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  4021.  @bruha321  chump.
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  4022. So when you become homeless in America you also lose your sovereignty as a citizen. Public land is open only to people who own property. There is a good chance the SCOTUS will decide people without property have no citizen’s rights to citizen property. No public rights to public property. Saying it another way, Public property is open to owners of property. Of course, there will be electronic checkpoints to gain access to beaches, parks, to keep people with no property from access. The Haves have rights versus the Have Nots having no rights. The social inequality in America is extreme. People with property are equal to each other as citizens and can vote, camp, consume. People without property are pushed out of the life-process of society. Criminalization and where would the homeless go ultimately? Prison performing prison labor. The Supreme Court will be deciding what essentially is a Loitering Law of the past devised to criminalize the poor as a way to induct them into southern slave chain gangs in the 30s, on Steriods!
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  4023. Small landlords with not a lot of money use one house to pay and make a little extra from another house they own bought into the propaganda promoted by all those people claiming how to buy a house for a dollar and get rich got suckered, instead, into a blind alley. They have to abandon one house or they could lose both houses.
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  4024. Realistically, the only role the US can offer Kim is infinite wealth and military support and he would have to decapitate the Workers Party of North Korea. Sever all ties to China as a dependent state and become 'Very happy' as an American dependent state. Putting it this way really makes Trump, Pence and Bolton sound like idiots appropriating our blood, sweat and tears (wealth) as if we are as stupid as they are. And, we are if Peace does not become our mantra against Trump. Peace Now!
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  4025.  @merbst  Excellent work. The kind of work that needs to be circulated to us all.
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  4026. Water deluge! The whole state’s geography is changing from the heavy action of water erosion. In these times, every human action is an action that abstains from doing the opposite action. If you are not eating you are fasting by choice. Not working you are idle by choice. You are not loving, living, and being, you are hating, killing, and dying by choice. If government is not caring for its people, callous insensitivity is its choice. The higher the material scarcity the more things and actions are either/or notifications. These are times where institutions and individuals actions are or they are not life-giving actions.
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  4027. He accomplished Eric.
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  4028.  @Lostsoilder  You'd like it if government completely shut down wouldn't you?
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  4029.  @Lostsoilder  There is not a group, class, person, or institution in America interested in freeing the population that does not have the free time to free themselves from the pervasive corruption in Washington.
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  4030. Why bother with spending tons of money on after the fact programs like first responders when you can have 132 million Americans on the road all the time be the first to respond to a crisis event and lower America’s fatality rate that way? Doesn’t that strike you as irrational?
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  4031. All the candidates can thank Trump for who they are. Trump is not presidential, some democrat will be presidential. Trump does not operate on a plan. A democrat will come out with the Big Picture and be a planner. Trump is a racist; a candidate will be anti-racist. Trump is a war monger; a democrat will be a peace candidate. Trump is an isolationist; a democrat will speak softly and carry a big stick. Trump is a protectionist; some democrat will promote free trade play by the rules and raise the specter of China. The one democrat who is not an opposition candidate to Trump's polarizing right wing personality is Bernie. And this is because he has built a movement of dedicated followers, whereas the others are class candidates, not willing to spill blood together if it comes down to that. Booker and DeBlasio to me, are examples of Left Opportunism in the Democratic Party. I cannot take them seriously except as an enemy along class lines and a friend along race lines. Bernie, because of his movement has a better chance of going further in reforming American capitalism toward a social democracy and defend his administration from the Coup makers in Washington working to undermine his program. The other candidates would fit into that whole constellation of Washington's elite social hierarchy do not have a movment that separates them from the establishment itself. One person alone is not going to change America, America has to change itself. Bernie people can be proud they created America's first viable political movement more people can be swept under if he won and started reversing Trump policies.
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  4032. This is not a generation ages 30 to 40 who see the condition of the social world and natural world as a political problem. They did not grow up with a social consciousness to that effect. And American legislators are a breed of lawyer who do not try to solve social problems in a political way. Lawyers/legislators/politicians are trained, instructed, paid to not social problems at all. Local legislators are worse that no matter how may times a building falls or a hurricane devastates a coastline do nothing to change zoning laws and local officials, i.e., county managers et., in most states are too religious to even sound the alarm of an impending disaster. What will happen is FEMA public funds will get cut in the name of servicing the government’s enormous debt before the government lets it go dry from all the claims and private insurers by high premiums will insure the rich. A debt made larger sending weapons overseas. Mar-A-Lago will be covered others not as rich will not. In the end the allocation of public funds for disasters is more than a case of politicians not coming together to legislate remedies to social problems, the allocation rests on a class differences, as to who will get the support. I know this is the scenario that will happen because the planet continues to heat up and ocean levels continue to rise that next season’s hurricanes will strike with greater ferocity and the government’s priority is not solving the social problems of the American people. The next flood even more powerful, the next drought more severe until the whole society is basically turned into a homeless refugee camp filled with Americans who are not rich and are not white.
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  4033. Food and disabilities become the new reasons to live.😀
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  4034. Washington is America’s worst enemy. The solution in theory is the design of a society that lives with the natural forces of Nature not try to shape Nature to specific type of lifestyle that really comes from an era that hastens cities to be abandoned ruins. This would entail the use of society’s resources for the demolition of places that consume more than they produce as well as the reconstruction of new communities that produce more of the natural elements in nature than they consume from nature. This entails a social psychological transformation of the Self resistant to corruption. A new human being. If a dam needs to be blown up, so be it, if it is a city the dam serves consuming all the water, as long as the aim is to enrich the natural element supporting a sustainable lifestyle makes destroying the old way of life a positive activity for a new way of life to come into being. This would take a national effort by all individuals or most and the theory would become a reality, for a new model of society promoting human adaptation, to climate change by all other societies.
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  4035. The three steps of accumulation, by the third step, people are fried, the question on everyone's minds is so what?...who cares?...and what difference does it make how long capital takes to accumulate more capital? I still have my job. The first two steps are a horrible process of uprooting self and family and becoming a corporate shill machine. But when accumulation stops or is interrupted it becomes obvious accumulation is the only reason for which the whole working class works and has a job...even if the individual worker thinks he is doing it for his family. And when the accumulation process stops or is interrupted, the augmented capital that is to be distributed to the other social classes in society is criticized as the bigger reason for which society works at all becomes the main preoccupation of all the politicians. Many people think capitalists do not deserve profits only because they own the factories, they say, the profits derived from labor should belong to labor. These are the classic positions of the right and left parties that ride on the distribution of the economic surplus (GNP) shared out to particular class interest in a class struggle. But the point of politics is not the distribution of the surplus, the point is to change the form or the manner of the production of the economic surplus from a chaotic and archaic form into a rational social system.
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  4036. The LA mayor cut the firefighter’s budget and this happens. Historical events is what happens to you when your busy making other plans. Plans that apparently are outside of your job description. She was in Granada when this fire broke out! The mayor, I think, annihilated her career...she will be red meat for the republicans and Elon Musk. But there is a comeback if this lead is true... There is a story floating around that the water pressure in LA for firefighters was too low to make a dent in the fires. If true the water rights of LA are owned by the Resnick Family who own the Wonderful Company, they would control the flow of water as the final authority. Shut off the water and blame it on Gavin could be proven as a republican coup of California.
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  4037. The Sandinista Revolution is, therefore, incomplete. Or a failed revolution. At best a partial revolution. A revolution betrayed economically but successful politically by Ortega's faction of the Sandinista Army. But betrayals of revolution fall under a flawed concept of class or their leaders have no class consciousness or definition of 'class' as founded in what happens to be the main form of real human activity in agriculture and industry; as activities hemorrhaging with class conflict and social contradictions. The economic overhaul of class society in production is the answer and the answer appears to be high on the agenda for all working people in Nicaragua after Ortega is deposed. Let's hope so, but fair warning the economic revolution that should have happened 30, 40 years ago, extricating private interests from agriculture and industry, that which the Sandinista Revolution did not advance presents to a genuine proletarian revolution new internal and external political cliques armed with reforms that leave intact the class formations in production. Larger and more powerful than before. The counter proletarian revolutionaries led by the US confronts the people or the proletarians directly with force if the signal for an economic overhaul this time around fails to spread across Latin America.
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  4038. Capitalism, when a building becomes a thing you buy and sell. The rich live off the sale and the poor are sent to hell, The building became a commodity, and destroyed a beautiful product of labor of centuries past. No longer there to admire its simplicity, no longer a place to eat and fast.
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  4039. Trump could not agglomerate under his command all the prime industries in the US economy. This is the same problem Biden has. Not easy transforming money into capital. The normal routine of the working day is constantly disrupted by natural, social and political events beyond anyone's control.
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  4040. If life imitates Art than Congress better start making some rules about what Art is? Too many people are performing the crimes seen in crime fictions that Congress ought to put a disclaimer and a warning header on every crime show. America not only absorbs crime as part of its intellectual diet every night but it also lives crime as a regular part of its social life.
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  4041. Its not unsustainable and it is a good thing if you are an employer in the meat packing industry, or a farmer, or construction firm, retail chain, gas stations and quick marts the incoming flow of immigrants supplies labor cheap to the industries in the US and if you look at the stock exchanges business is good. Investors are happy with this. It does not matter to these employers the ordeal these people endure. As illegals they have no rights and can be enslaved by American employers as young as 14 for those who made it through the Border. The Wall was Trumps chimera. A make believe closure. He used to fake out dumb Americans who find Trump appealing. Europe closes down and America opens the border. Allies are satisfying the demand and needs of American employers. Employers are not pleased wth RFK Jr., he would stop the supply line of cheap labor. RFK Jr., would never get elected for this reason. Corporations own Congress and the Senate. RFK Jr.’s policy is good for American workers but not a good policy for American corporations. If he got elected American workers would get the shaft. Corporations will move more of their work outside of the US where, once again, labor is cheap. Border Patrol cops are paid and their own hierarchy orders them to let them through. They can become naturalized once they get a job. They are contributing to society by providing labor only if legalizing them does not raise the wage they are paid. America gets her huddled masses and shoves them into every city and town in the country regardless of the toll of human suffering. Immigration in America will never be made comprehensive as Obama pursued unless corporate America is forced out of government and that is not going to happen as Americans are pro-corporate. Believers of God and the laws of Supply and Demand. Capital demands labor for the production of surplus-value and workers are the source of that surplus-value. This incoming flow of cheap labor forces wages in general downward. Now you may understand why your 30 year old still lives at home with their parents.
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  4042. Police protect the property of Oligarchs they do not protect the people from crime is profoundly true. If police do not attack the Truckers Convoy they are indirectly protecting the property of the Truckers and indirectly attacking the property of the Oligarchs who are largely represented by the Establishment liberal left. The police have positioned themselves relative to the property relations in the society are still protecting property just not that of the Oligarchs. Despite the support the Truckers receive from police, as members of society the truckers are still not protected from crime because police do not protect persons. Crime can victimize truckers’ family and property. Security of person, property and rights is a supreme concept for a society that in both cases, the police position themselves protecting the property of the Oligarchs or the Truckers, they still come up short as an institution what can render the security a civil society needs to function. The police can never evolve or rise above its reactionary relationship to property. As an institution, it can only devolve into a more reactionary form of violence as people become the subject and property loses its subjective prominence.
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  4043. Government repeatedly lying to the Public that the truth becomes a lie in the minds of people reared in superstition and conspiracies adds to the problem just stated. This social pathology deteriorates the legitimacy of government and corporations. Now you have three pathologies running through the population, conspiracies, superstition, and secrecy, on top of economic incompetence and reckless private companies, that complicate the question of who do you trust? Ultimately, this social condition will lead to a decline, collapse, ruination of society, because production in general in America had been split up into detailed operations that led to a break up of American communities into separate family units that can do their own thing.
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  4044. Wishful thinking... ...and the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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  4045.  @jmhorange  That leaders will take a hard look at their own actions and claim responsibility. They write laws that exempt them from prosecution! These are people not worthy of your support in any way , shape or form. They talk a lot of bull when they say no one is above the law and they cannot be charged from crimes they commit while in office. I did not elect them...did you elect these people? Wishful thinking to even give them a breath of a chance to repair their own damage. Waiting for them is like waiting for Godot, who never shows up when you need him,---totally reckless and unreliable...I am not sure if the public are gullible, or stupid, that they accept the low caliber of people in charge of the resources of society.
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  4046. No wonder all stocks are down four days in a row. Business cannot operate in the US with all of the natural disasters going on. Losing money hand over fist. Losing jobs. Real disaster natural and economic that products are not getting to market.
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  4047.  @monotech20.14  Yes, ---seems the call for term limits is only to shorten the term limits already in place. I do predict before there is another two term president the next two will be short one term presidents.
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  4048. You can see from his face the contest between Russia and the US is unnecessary for the masses on both sides but essential for the establishments on both sides to perpetuate their political game of CONFLICT. Putin is the Cheshire Cat and the US is Alice in this phase. I cannot wait for the day these establishments are gone.
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  4049.  @deejonhs5068  Yes...its time.
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  4050. Central American ‘friends and allies’ receive the weapons and they, in turn, terrorize the population into a forced expropriation to flood our job markets with cheap labor...and this is done because Washington cannot compete with China and chooses not to re-industrialize the US. Sheer stupidity.
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  4051. 400 cops with their cowboy hats are afraid of a lone gunman but will murder one unarmed man rolling a traffic stop sign. And stop means stop when a sign says stop. Violence begets violence.
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  4052.  @conealblack1164  I am sure the cops who shot him were not thinking that. Its even more sick that you would dismiss their actions with such a rationalization.
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  4053. Did you know that your water bill is a greater theft of your wealth?
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  4054. Whitewashing becomes historical revisionism and leads to brainwashing the youth when teachers use media reports that omit objectivity.
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  4055.  @PoliticalEconomy101  Uggh! Ugly. Broad stereotyping, I have encountered your form of logic and thinking among boomer Americans and Europeans. You have lost within yourself your spirit, and are only out here to preserve a social order that is being swept away by the tide of human history.
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  4056. The objects defying all modern laws of physics may not be an Alien Being at all. But the other side of the question has to do with what does the human race have it can offer an alien civilization?
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  4057. In Book II of of Plato's 'The Republic', he describes in great detail the jobs of average workers as a brutal system of exploiting labor. Rather than the workers exploiting the labor-process he remarks, the labor-process exploits them.  He noted that workers get a sense of social power in the service of their master(s) while sacrificing themselves from the development of their own skills. Nothing much has changed, 2000 years later instead of a Roman Senate its an American Senate that the American people sacrifice their own progress and growth for a small minority.
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  4058. Even within your own political ideology are stereotypes Jason Prevo, they were not 'Black Nationalists' as you called the four black men, they identify themselves as "Hebrew Israelites", confronting a larger group of white kids. Black rage in the form of some bizarre interpretation of the Bible confronting an institutional interpretation of the Bible as represented by white boys.  Hideous, both are the ugly face of religion and religious human beings. Phillips admits he believes if he stood in front of the extremes conflict is avoided. In reality he stood between them. His back to one side his front to the other side, this is the movement of police, their backside protecting and serving the State and their forward movement side exterminating protests whereas, I would have not intervened. I would have let the incident drag the society into a national debate on the whole question of religion, civil race war, the State? Instead, Phillips made a class-race conflict and religion personal. His actions agree with the function of the police in society, a personal commitment and loyalty in protecting the State from protestors with objectives ruling elites dissolve their control the State. If not take it over.  Would you have stood in front of them Jason Prevo? Or, is social justice to you a part time and piecemeal compromise for oppression to continue existing in society so progressive liberals can exist?
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  4059. Nothing to live for.
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  4060. Capitalism functions through crisis. Gluts, droughts, shortages, internal warfare, crisis in general keeps the price of commodities high. “ Are you better off with Biden or Trump?, This is the false thinking the American politicians use on the American working classes, a clever strategy that takes the attention away from the process of Accumulation of Capital going on in the back end of the governments. Elections are a distraction from the accumulation process. Elections distract from the crisis occurring in the background where corporations are getting filthy rich and the masses filthy destitute. I cannot emphasis this enough. Gaza, Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine, etc are where the money is being made, corporations are enriched where people are dying. The leaders in the governments know this better than the masses do that there are four ways to enrich the bourgeoisie they represent. Crisis is a part of their tool box, and they use it for restarting capital accumulation. Take for example Gregg Abbot the governor of Texas. Had he sent migrants to all of the very wealthy communities in the US instead of sending them to the opposition’s political run cities the Border Crisis would have been solved. America’s bourgeoisie would have leaned on the Fed to take the migrants out of their communities and Congress would have taken action and debate a rational reform bill on naturalization but this would point everyone to the wars as the cause of the displacement of people and the wars are the accumulation process of the super rich. Crisis occurs in the financial and housing sectors. Really people should be asking is capitalism the crisis? There is always a coordinated assault by the leaders in government on social spending that follows a crisis. In America it would be the Speaker of the House of Representatives who would initiate austerity packages that cut social spending. In this case that honor falls on an Evangelical-Christian to decide what cuts are to go through. I think we know who this evangelical would choose to bear the cuts the most in society. As irony would have it racism was alway a tool for the bourgeoisie to dominate the American working classes but today racism is its Achilles Heel, the one faction opposed to the accumulation process resulting from war are a right wing faction in the republican party who threaten to cease Aid to Ukraine and Israel in exchange for Border security is a form of racism America’s 5000 strong bourgeoisie, owners of the Fortune 500 corporations, would sooner crush this right wing than give up the accumulation process. Crushing opposition is what the democrats do best,--they set up an opposition for prosecution and jail. But it is always the motive of preserving the accumulation process that keeps prices high behind the crushing of an opposition candidate or group, such as the Jan 6th rioters of the Capitol. There were pro-Trump working class supporters and there were far right militias and there were CIA plants among both of them. The aim was to have one of the groups break the law and then find them for trial and prosecution. If you live long enough under capitalism the pattern is evidently clear. But to younger people with less life experience with capitalism they get caught up with the subjective side of capitalism. Who the person in power is not the system that person promotes is more important to the youth. When the leaders invoke a crisis for the sake of accumulation to make ordinary people pay a generation is subjected to austerity their whole lives. So why are Europeans and Americans ignorant of capitalism and is this ignorance the reason people are unable to pull the curtain down on the system? Capitalism is the threat to the planet and the human species.
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  4061. And to add to her analysis...the federal government's will to enforce the Act, stops where that of civil society begins. Congress makes laws against discrimination, it doesn't remove racist institutions or individuals living and working in society.
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  4062. Deputy Head of the Zalensky government does not want peace with Russia.
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  4063.  @thepandaahbear9025  Money talk and bullshit walks...start walking.
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  4064.  @reggieshark  Feeling guilty already, eh.
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  4065.  @harveycasey1900  Cut me a break.
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  4066.  Joke By-done  They have no choice but to spend it on the economy, Dude. Me, a democrat. We don’t have Democrats where I live. Sounds to me like you think the internet exist in the US and no other people’s from around the world can read your American Slang speak. Jokes on you, dude. Happy Christmas.
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  4067. Big Tech Monopolies paid a higher price for the labor-power they are laying off that most likely the workers laid off will find the demand for their skills in a secondary market where the price of labor-power is lower. A recession will have the greatest impact in markets the Big Tech Companies do not operate having little effect on them but a great effect where the new hires in the secondary markets end up and where the recession will impact hardest. Not a good situation for the workers in this field. Many will take a mortal leap into the abyss of unemployment. And with republicans and democrats the chances of a safety net getting passed through the House and Congress is nil.
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  4068. Yes,---it was a single racist act of terror that happened just 8 years before the Crash of the 1929. People should recognize this was the era of the Roaring 20s, a wild roller coaster ride of people becoming obscenely rich in trading stocks, swindles, gambling, black market distribution of alcohol, all around the country, a single currency was established just 8 years before the Tulsa Race Massacre, a glimpse between a black man and a white woman, could lead to lynchings of which there were so many in the South the home of the Klan dominating the political system. The era of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Great Gatsby, Hollywoods's Busby Berkley musicals. An assortment of mobsters, labor anarchists, two huge political parties that were socialist and communist. The country was in a mess except for Tulsa where Black Capitalism thrived, a burgeoning economic engine that was making the rest of the country envious of its successes in raising the standard of living of the first generation of former black slaves freed by the 1870s in most states at the time. By the time the Great Depression gripped the county and the Dust Bowl stunted Oklahoma rural agriculture, if the race massacre had not happened, Oklahoma would have been safe from the effects of the depression and less so from the dust bowl. Tulsa would have had jobs.
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  4069. I would not know why the Justice System would not have a two tier system of administering justice, everything else has. What would Blackburn do if it were one of her own niece(s) active in an organization identified as a domestic terrorist organization?
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  4070. Texans will be the first to appreciate universal health care as part of a political program for some bright young and eager-to-change-the-world aspiring politician. There is your base constituency and much of America is not that different. Health is something you buy in the US. The lady may want COVID to go away but what will not go away are more of her friends with not the wealth behind them to get the treatment. The rich live and the poor die. This is what private health care means for the majority of Americans.
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  4071. America will have to undergo a political revolution carried by a new economic model if it wants to get out of this crisis. The professionals are calling this a demographic collapse. Essentially, a combination of social transformations, an aging population, low birth rate, and the loss of a working class have changed society and the social institutions are disintegrating from their own incompetencies in dealing with the new realities. The right wing answers to this crisis have failed. Hitler had 13 years to resolve the crisis in Germany. Italy had Mussolini, Spain had Franco the least important dictators to promise to keep the trains running, all failed, Trump will fail too, and for European governments to swing to the right,---their young people learned nothing of the past! By this measure there is no future out of the crisis; there is barbarism before there will be socialism. At least back in the 30s there was a movement offering the working class a choice between socialism OR barbarism. Today there is no choice.
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  4072. The capitalist who invented Disney is dead but he left behind Disney Capitalism for new capitalists to seize and milk it for its high profitability. Disney capitalism would be the hiding behind a cast of characters a social process of the exploitation of labor. Cartoon characters who garner the adoration of children to pressure their parents for a trip to Disney where the exploitation is hidden and not seen. The only thing that stops the masses from overthrowing capitalism is their mental handicaps and wrongful indoctrinations about socialism.
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  4073.  @marilynmitchell6139  A healthy point you make,--- and further more I am provoked to think: work makes people miserable and misery makes escapism a reality, which are the origins of Disney in the context of the Great Depression. Demand more free time with your families.
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  4074. "Fraid Not! 2024 will be a period of scarcity, ---and Trump and his supporters will in periods of scarcity buy up the whole supply of the commodities society is short on.
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  4075. The basic flaw in your summaries is that product is a social product they steal. No product made in America today can be said to be the product of a single person that is a product sold by large retail merchants. Big merchants sell social products. Factory produced products made by many people in more than one factory and assembled in another place before it reaches the shelves of Bergdorff’s. And that means that everyone took part in making a product. Calling a product the property of a private person is a contradiction when that private person had nothing to do with making the product. Without understanding the nature of mass social products; you’ll never get why the stealing of social products is an absurd act of people stealing from themselves. Because common to all social products when you take away their differences they are nothing but value units in a disguise of a product. Stretch the absurdity further and these people are employing personal theft time in exchange for how much social time they can grab in products in seven minutes and run for it. Its a Game Show without Bob Barker the host. Later when they convert the products into cash the stealing pays off. Now if they get caught by the cops and jailed the money they converted is still free and hopefully waiting for the thief when he gets out. Just like the Big boys who get caught stealing the fine is just a cost of doing business. You do not know the demographic well enough to assume none are in a job that pays nothing and by night or on their down time hook up with their neighborhood people and start robbing stores,---hard to turn down when some homies are carrying items they turned into a big wad of cash and your still working making nothing. Turn around and see your two kids and you might start thinking it could be worth the risk. The risk is not that big considering the method. One haul sold from a trunk of a car can bring in some big money that would take a year to earn if wages were equal to prices. Its a fast buck for a young buck.
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  4076. We have a government that chooses to use the war to tell us less of the truth reveals we have a government with a lot to hide the war conceals.
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  4077. Conservatives use fashion and etiquette as shields against improper and vulgar behavior. Husband as fathers do all the protecting of the wives and daughters from any kind of harsh reality. Popular culture magnifies this relation in movies like 'Taken'. James Fenimore Cooper saw this too, he said 'retired in the secrets of her own abode', is American womanhood. The Americans take this from the British as the female sex relapsed in British culture into picturesque idealized womenhood. A woman is a man's idea of a woman and man is the idea of man as a projection of himself. Liberals are the vulgar and improper because the rules of that society lead to nothing else but vulgarity and impropriety. This effect creates the vicious cycle we are trapped by. Our values are manifested in other places as well. Zoning laws regulate what cannot be built and you end up with uniformity, everything is the same. Laws tell us what we cannot do and we end up acting and behaving the same. According to this stiff lipped Senator George H. William of Oregon, a conservative republican in 1866 the women of America in 2021in the military, workplaces, and in cut throat politics, in the fire, on the front lines of defense, are worthy of the vote. He said then it will be time to talk about making the women voters. Honest to God that was the mindset of a dead 19th century republican. Compare that to a live Senator today taking the vote away from women. You can understand more about capitalism by understanding sex in history.
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  4078. A Thumbs Up Lecture!
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  4079. All the capitalist nations from the US to those in western Europe exported their production to Asia and China. Conservatives and liberals led a struggle to hollow out the economy repealing laws that protected the working classes such as prohibiting the flight of Capital on grounds that it was more lucrative to open shop where labor is cheap. Every American, French, German, Italian, etc., corporation packed up every nail and bolt of their factories and opened shop in one of China’s Free Industrial Zones, or Asia where they are as I write. About the only part of the garment industry left in any of these nations is the production of their national flag. The huge inflow of migrants is a result of innovations in production that displace human labor and a huge inflow of profits is the result of innovation in the hands of corporations are the social consequences of Deindustrialization and the apparent malady ailing western capitalism. People in the less industrially developed and mostly agricultural part of the world economy don’t want to be cheap labor, they want equality and dignity is a development that is born from much of the world still monopolized by western nations from colonization of centuries past.
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  4080. There is a lot of water that can be siphoned and boiled in large quantity and enough bodies to make a large caldron and retain purified water.
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  4081. Not exactly surprising considering the fact that the average 30 year old in America cannot go on vacation or buy a house, buy a car or hold down one good job but have to work two or three jobs in a gig economy that favors the interests of the 1%, a revolution is pending.
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  4082. What she is not doing becomes more important than what she does do in the face of the economic attacks on the living standards of working people in this country. A lot of middle class companies are cutting jobs as goods they bought from China, are still offshore not sold, and will cost more to ship into the US, these goods are not completing their transformation into money. Money which then is used to continue employment of workers and operations in companies who stand to lose less capital and profit if they light a fire to all the surplus stock they bought still not entering the country. Millions of products Americans need to continue the lifestyle they enjoy gone destroyed to lessen the cost of the losses brings out all the merchants importing products a concerted action against the Tariffs, and unemployed workers can find more allies with merchants than they will in this Jewish representative occupying a political position workers and merchants need to overcome this crisis and recession.
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  4083. It is more revealing how private interests in media news obliterates the interest of the American people for truth and objectivity.
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  4084. The owners of money and property can still get more traction out of Trump and his idol worshipping working class minions but Trump will never replace the high elte social class of America's "Owners of Property". Its not to me a hypocrisy in McConnell everyone sees as much as it is surreptitious use and exploitation to extract more from Americans a certain kind of commodity lifestyle that makes it easier to take advantage of the desperate and myopic high stupidity of blue collar working class voters. Don't underestmate the power of these fools because that power is directly proportional to the powerlessness of the democratic party to stop them! Blue collar workng class voters in the democratc party are on the fringes and largely underrepresented by democrats like Cuomo and Gavin raise animosity among blue collar voters in cities and will not be a voting power Democrats can rely on against their lunatic brethren.
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  4085.  @TheKeksadler  I am saying the technological advancements never stayed in Cairo because they were never the property of Cairo. The history of cities from the city-states of the ancient world in Europe is not the same history of cities in the US, totally incomparable histories. No conspiracy here...just hard facts, the machines, tools, factories, that employed people in Cairo should have been converted into the property of the City.
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  4086.  @ExPwner  There is no James Adams.
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  4087.  @ExPwner  6.5 centimeters to be precise
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  4088. Censoring forces groups to get around the censor with street talk the groups develop to communicate to each other. Fascist elements driven underground does not solve the problem of fascism as a perennial feature of America, that keeps coming back in a new generation. Education is the key to this problem. Censoring silences legitimate scholarly criticism of the social order and this is a reflection of how insecure the ruling elites are feeling about their grip on reality. Interesting to note that in America of all the social classes that make up our society the most loyal to the social order is the working class despite the fact that the economy does not work for them, they are still loyal to the political elite who decide the fate of the economy and their success or failures in that economy. Ruling powers should try trusting the working class to do the right thing by giving them more power and voice in the political process...get the real crime stats....weed out the crime that happens off the streets and behind closed doors.
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  4089. They don’t have a history of fixing any schools why would you think its a good thing?
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  4090. 3:15,----“...whether the principals of distinction, proportionality, and precaution as set out under the laws of war were expected by the Israeli forces”. Right. Capitalism has no clue what proportionality is. No clue at all. Capitalism divides people as equal owners to complete a sale. A sale is more important than people because the sale is the quintessential social relationship in capitalism on which equality and political rights of the family, church, state, property are constructed. That people cannot live stable lives for the completion of a sale is a dichotomy the OHCHR will never understand. Proportionality under capitalism does not exist, period. Socialism works on a principle of proportionality. Humanity has yet to devise a social system where force is not an economic category for economic growth. Where a gun is not a thing you can buy and sell leading to an accumulation of money and capital at the end of the sale and if someone died because of the sale...oh, well, as long as I got rich from it I don’t care, is the prevailing attitude of the Right and the Left in all the capitalist nations. Hubris. Second point, when talking about war we are talking about force and force is in itself the economic force that makes Lloyd Austin praise the Israeli use of force in the raid in Rafah, such a use of force promotes business, the Sale of billions of arms and weapons, is a sub-category under the heading of capitalism in the 21st Century. Force is distinct from capitalism and the laws of motion of capitalism do not exercise precaution in the use of force. The aim of capitalism is expansion. More markets. WE ARE IN TROUBLE...there is a Left that has no insight into what capitalism is and takes all its false precepts as a given without questioning or doubting and we have a Right that distinguishes itself as a Force in Society.
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  4091. MothWiszzard, close but no cigar, the ploy conceals the mission to overthrow socialist states in Latin America through its partners and prosecute another war. A counter-revolution is in progress behind the scenes fronted by Trump that makes the wall, and the shut down, a facade.
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  4092. The suburban working classes need to form their own PARENT ASSOCIATION if they are ever going to have any power or a real voice deciding policies that School Boards monopolize and control the educational environment of their children.
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  4093. This video debut of Forbes entering the Audio-visual market. You get what you pay for is the first lesson.
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  4094. You can never expect people who live in a society that turns them into mindless consumers to distinguish, a slap in the face from a slug from a .45.
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  4095. Ukraine got installments totaling 125 billion would be the comparative difference in priorities.
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  4096. The US’s arms industry threatens humanity in the hands of the elites of the national security state. Every society that has collapsed or in the process of disintegration is traced to the US. America makes arms deals with poor countries. We’ll give you guns you give us your lithium, zinc, copper, boxite, diamonds, coal, oil. Enter the American executives to process and take the raw elements the society’s stupid leaders gave in exchange for army uniforms and guns. And America’s News corporations report world events to the American Public in a 30 minute story hour like children in a K school format.
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  4097. Jimmy has the best way of critiquing capitalism. We should commit his insightful criticisms of capitalism to memory.
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  4098.  @sandyoday9852  The policies impressing you and many others were a facade, a lure, the dupe to draw in his support. Let it be a learning lesson.
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  4099. According to Trump, nobody builds weaponry better and Boeing is a weapons manufacturer. Boeing must be included in that group of special industries the president has identified as the best in the world. These industries are the crown jewels of the American economy. I leave it to a scrutinizing Public to examine the situation a little closer as to why Boeing among others are the best in the world yet fail to make a safe passenger plane after we have ruled out the president's sanity or preference to weaponry over human lives as the case may be?
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  4100. Street thieves took the goods from the commercial thieves taking money out of the community is a story about how city government is not doing its job. As far as government corruption is concerned there is no part of government in all 50 states that is better at corruption than NYC. Bravo to the street thieves.
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  4101. This Summit appears to be an appeal to avoid disaster and more conflict within a region the US has not paid as much attention, preoccupied in the Middle East. 'A free and open international order based on the rule of law in the Pacific.', infrastructure, clean energy, science and technology exchange, and lifting trade restrictions on Japanese exports, essentially these are representatives from countries who have taken the cuts in trade for the US, their people lost jobs, suffered losses in property and business, for the US to get over the pandemic. It never did. The 'free and open' and 'rule of law', ideas are just that ideas, abstractions thrown out there while the vision remains liberalism in an age of rising socialism the vision for the Pacific diaspora. Are they creating in this summit a trade block China cannot penetrate in Asia as the vision of the Tripartite Alliance? To keep socialism out because it cannot be contained as the Silk Highway expands around the world.
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  4102. That’s such a great tune.
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  4103. Recession and inflation threatens survival; people turn to robbery because a job in America pays nothing relative to how much it costs to live in the US, is a real failure of the economic system this merchant is a part of.
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  4104.  @Quicks1lvr  The gunman in this video appears as white. Not the gold chain, escalade type of black person acting out a real life stereotype. But it could be a white guy wanna-be black person. Could be a gang initiation that he rob a store. In many cases as when the cops arrested a bunch of masked men armed and packed in a moving van was a staged event by the police to stir up support for the police and to intimidate people to stay indoors. Same thing happened when Branson (the billionaire) funded a live aid concert in Columbia, that was to provoke a war on Venezuela. It backfired when Venezuelans watched but did not engage. That was a staged by the CIA. We will never know. Authorities learn things fail they repress the news outlets working in tandem with authorities control what we hear and see.
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  4105. Corporate media is so intellectually bankrupt.
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  4106. The government is telling all the people in society who think, feel, and identify with Chauvin that what is happening to him will happen to you!  The FBI will never quit until every last one of the trained US military insurrectionists actively taking the Capitol by force are caught and brought up on federal charges and imprisoned.
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  4107. The warm and fuzzy financial relationship between this capitalist class of Russian and American oligarchs is a threat to people like John Bolton, and others in the State Department, a threat to US military might. This form of capital is international and once capitalism breaks down all national boundaries...well...US national superiority goes out the window, who would you go to war with, who’s government do you overthrow, when every urban center of capitalist growth around the world gets locked into this international system that sidelines taxes and exploits the masses. The US government no longer is the greater power exploiting the masses for the raw material its military requires. Its a little easier to understand the motives of the historical figures in this drama and clearly in shows the Ukrainian people are ruled by a real pig, is a real tragedy.
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  4108. How does a man like that get help when he has no health insurance? People without mental health issues are blind to this fact are probably more mentally ill than the ill.
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  4109. It looks like importing a lot of have nothings from Europe to the colonies was accomplished by keeping land prices artificially high in America so the have-nothings that came kept the wage-labor market full of their lot for the capitalists (buyers-merchants) in the colonies was the story of the 18th century. The merchant-capitalist of the 17th century became the best means as a hybrid form of employing labor in a time when labor just kept on coming to America ship after ship by the droves. Formerly, a store merchant only had to add a workshop of workers and that would make a corporation. The earliest system of producing goods is born with manufacturing by hand and producing what it sells not selling things already produced as formerly the merchant restricted himself. More workers that came on board for hire the bigger the merchant got to become a full blown capitalist seems to be what the 18th century was about, the origins of the capitalists in America. A story of creating capitalists for the employment of more workers coming into the country. The Tories seemed to have had a plan, keep the price of land high enough to keep immigrants from becoming landowners and low enough to have more land owned by fewer landowners who could afford it and these people became the the forerunners to the republican party in people like Buchanan, Jackson, Polk in the Pre-Civil War period. Around the time the Indian Wars were happening to free the land from Indian common ownership and control and open the way for a western expansion of basically, slavery for the landowners and wage labor for the capitalists, side by side on the shores of California and everyplace in between. I would not put it passed anyone that this Tory split had elements that created the Confederate Congress in Montgomery.  Then it looks like the 19th century had the stream of immigrants diverted by government pressure to go from the British Colonies to America. The west wasn't opening fast enough to absorb how many were thrown into the American labor-markets. It seems the plan was plagued by Indian resistance. Remember the merchant-capitalist that became a corporation? well he wasn't the only social class to get big at the time. A huge financial Aristocracy bought so much western public land sold by the government on speculation the railroad and mining industries would expand west...this was the end of the Promised Land of the great American republic the Founding Fathers made for the immigrant workers appearing as Europe's huddled masses. The end of the Age of the Enlightenment of 1776 and the beginning of a conflicted America leading into a Civil War.
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  4110. Yes but! 50 years ago labor was not largely all women and black and brown people. The labor-force changed dramatically in 50 years. There isn’t the Mob in labor as there was in the 70s. All the Archie Bunkers and Al Bundys have been phased out of the work force, replaced by fresh labor. This is no denying a de-industrialization of the American Economy started in the 80s, alongside that was a de-skilling process of the working class through cuts in funding in education which republicans demand on a constant basis, as part of their orthodoxy. So two things happened to the labor-force. The workforce became female and the workforce became unskilled, average labor, paid an average wage. There is not a true leftist among leftists who are not examining the politics from the standpoint of labor. At some point this heterogenous working class has to get over the democrats and build a working class movement of its own. Democrats shifted from domestic policy making and elections to foreign policy making and the Republicans shifted their past foreign policy objectives for domestic policies. Imperialism abroad from Biden and austerity at home from Trump are the policies workers in America can expect from each.
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  4111. Biden is a Reaganite democrat.
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  4112. The Fed will stop prices from rising by encouraging you to put your money in the bank and keeping it there until wages catch up.
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  4113. Porcelain Throne, I must answer this dilemma about what is the difference between ideology and science? In this day and age the science of society is a known fact. Accumulation is the operation of a natural law. The natural law is made up of natural elements, labor and capital, are variables of, 1., worker productivity, 2., capacity, and, 3., socially-necessary labor-time. Government of the people and for the people would be no more than an accounting office for the total economy. This would be socialism. A congress and a accounting agency to allocate the funds and resources where needed to society. When ideology dominates government it is because government, an otherwise, boring job not too demanding of intelligence, has attracted egos with ideas that are ego-centric and ideological. Public service and helping mankind is a vocation which is not the current attitude about government's role in society to ideologues, to them its a career.
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  4114. Putin or not, America is a despotic place to work; the mortal stakes are high. Are you a manager that supervises the workplace for gaps of activity that are not making value for the company? If this is what you do for a living, you are policing people to not act or be natural but are ordering them to do the social thing and hand over their mind and body to the company. No sitting, drinking, breaking for a tea, coffee, no stretching before working, no taking in some air, no recurring trips to the bathroom, no sips of water when working, actions such as these done too many times and you are shown the door. Natural behavior are not activities permitted under the all-seeing eye of corporate management where time is money.
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  4115. Working people in America can consider the passage of a Capital Gains Tax Bill a victory over the property owners in America, if Congress passes it. You can take it to the bank that the Chamber of Commerce in Washington will be spending a huge treasure chest of money to make sure it does not pass and the rich fear, will restore the level of taxation on Capital that was out of the Great Depression when Capital was punished for its excesses in the Great Gatsby Era preceding it. Despite the high level of taxation of the rich America became richer for it, high taxation on capital gains, showed positive results from 1955 to 1970, the richness Trump and his wishful thinkers call America was great. It was great because labor was great not because a virus robbed its greatness...fools. Republicans and then later Democrats squandered America's wealth and capacity to produce on all the wars it failed to ever win. It is curious to me that Americans never talk about taxing stocks and bond, annuities, profits on capital, and even luxury first as a way of ensuring markets are full of competitors and not pushed out of the market by a few big players, second, a way to finance big social projects. But if working people do not organize into a new labor movement any and every social and economic institution that makes life better for the class as whole, and the individual, will be dismantled under the republican agenda.
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  4116. Classic gaslighting, ---none of the agencies take responsibility. By doing nothing they cooperated with each other and refuse responsibility.
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  4117. Machine made guns need to be outlawed and the the entire gun industry needs to be restricted to limited gun manufacturing employing gunsmiths. Americans have allowed this industry to grow beyond control alongside money, credit, finance, trade, commerce, ruling over the lives of everyone on this planet! A rational Congress of a Sovereign People would terminate the production of machine made guns and weaponry, guns made by automation and technology, these should be pulled off the shelves and melted down for their metal the industry starting from scratch, training and employing skilled smiths and guns made to order, by means of tool and hand, how many guns per person regulated by a Congress freed of gun lobbies. A freed Congress would have no billionaires in it.
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  4118. The lesson for the Democrats who are doing what the Socialist Party of France had done in their 2019 elections and from which that party still cannot recover was to alienate their base, push for right wing policies, and they failed to challenge far right rhetoric, caused people to defect the socialist party. The French Republican party and the socialist party pulled about the same low average of seats in the National Assembly, its worse now, these are lessons for progressives and democrats losing seats to Republicans. Selling out and turning your back on the working person, give republicans full control over all three branches of government and state legislatures, is purposeful defeatism.
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  4119. It will be interesting to see the Taliban's first ruling party's act will be when it takes power?
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  4120. Unfortunately, society comes to a conclusion of a plot as the last to know about a plot.  It has to put all the pieces together post facto. But what we know the plotters do not know, or too obsessed to see, is that they are all doomed.
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  4121. Americans are the least educated on capitalism and what makes it tick! Whatever share of the economic surplus fell to the working class over the last 65 years barely varied above the value of labor-power. For a time it appeared there was an equal distribution of wealth but that was just the appearance. The 2007 Recession forced wages below the value of labor-power and increased work time per worker in society. American working people are continually being taken of the true worth under the guise of sharing the economic surplus to the other social classes and the state.
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  4122. @ Phil Beattie, ---The same operation performed by the meat wholesaler separating quality and pricing higher is carried on a world scale between nations. The beef produced in the third world are cut so that best cuts are sold to big box sellers who sell to the US consumer. Perhaps, without realizing it you explained how exchange works to move products from one place to another and how money changes hands along and when military force is applied in the interest of the product's owners to make those product go from producer to consumer and the money changing hands is called imperialism.
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  4123. Border Security is a good example of such a pathology, To think if American sanctions did not punish other countries from doing business with Venezuela the scum of the earth of that society would never have left it! These are people Venezuela does not care to have back or will incarcerate them. Venezuelans youth gangs will take their chances here. The migrant crime rings formed in NYC will spread and spread and stay in America. The social circumstances get bad enough and they will the Venezuelans will use them as bargaining chips to stop US sanctions. Other nations do not want to be punished by the US, their assets frozen and their transactions canceled, so they avoid doing business with Venezuela. There is a social consequence bullies are too stupid to understand, one of them is an obvious action people will take; a mass exodus the way the Jews could not go back to Europe, these migrants cannot go back to Venezuela, so they will try and try again to re-enter as recruits into gangs with resources. Effectively, Venezuela is strangled, it cannot develop its industries to absorb the unemployed, or take care of its population without the income from selling and buying on the world market the products of its domestic industries because it has been placed on a terror list and a Gang of Four as they have recently been christened leads the charge to crack down on migrants. Sanctions make a bully, a bully makes wars and wars make universal resistance, the end. The bully attitude above is identical to the bully attitude below making everyone absolutely miserable and psychotic in between unable to enjoy society and its offerings without fear of death. To this effect I say to America; Grow Up!
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  4124. If only. A mock election for whites only will settle the problem; see how much of the white popualtion truly supports Trump.
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  4125. Why are American students being met with military force by police on 30 campuses across the nation?
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  4126. You mean the series of rebellions and uprisings (Krondstat was one among three revolts) that took place after the people were called upon to not pay taxes to the Duma is a bone of contention against Marxists and Anarchists. How so?
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  4127. There is substantially hypocrisy in considering this news versus the advertising this news pretends not to be. Free air time for Trump.
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  4128. The OAS is a citadel for capitalism...its mission, to ensure there are no changes in property relations in Latin America. But underlying realities of neoliberalism are not taken into account by conservative forces of the outright rejection of neoliberalism. They are hopelessly, out of touch. The right wing elites are inherently democratic with the elites because they are inherently un-democratic with the masses!
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  4129. Horse manure. The jail house is the only house you’ll be going for combing the highways and the hedges.
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  4130. Time punch 17:00 Pence had to run it past Dan Quale first. Former VP to GHW Bush this was the CIA ticket to the presidency.
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  4131. No bother. Who are you asking? jasonwight25 
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  4132. No drop in the standard of living for the 1%. Tucker the Swanson TV Dinner Heir is one of the 1%. He's doing good plus whatever they pay him at Fox.
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  4133. I think the tragic thing is being part of a social culture that cannot decide one way or the other what it wants to be, a culture that makes makes risk and negligence more productive of profit than making upgrades to a brake system on all trains is an irrational society.
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  4134. If a boy who is black is that brilliant a person and individual than the teens who killed that child were once that way also...indicating that external forces...blew out the light in the eyes to go dark and see only that it is better to be dead than to endure race relations in America. Black Nihilism. We find this myopia in the opposite end of the spectrum in White America blind to the fact that Palestinians to Israel is a race relation between black Americans are to White America, and have constructed an Apartheid State separating and controlling this population. The same thing is seen or was seen when it was in the news in Peru. Native Peruvian race relations to descendant Spanish Europeans is also an apartheid social relation. Humanity as a whole is crippled from the ability to live as one humanity under national and race differences entering the political state as the only place where race relations are supposed to be human relations.
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  4135. The Financial System is always at risk of collapse and there is always a miasma of fear in the banking and credit community of increasing signs of weakness and big losses. The availability of liquidity from the central bank has become an essential ingredient in maintaining confidence in the commercial banking system. Faith is based on troubled banks turning to the tax payer as a government lender--the first resort not the last resort.
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  4136. Niger expelled US troops from Niger because the US troops were declared by the new Junta as “Illegal”. This committee senator should be asking the military what was illegal about the US occupation that the new Junta was able to make new arrangements with the Russians and expel US troops?
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  4137. Problem with his theory of having a gun is that the government justifies having larger guns because million of people like him have a gun and we live in a society of anonymous strangers who do not relate to each other directly but only indirectly through objects. We do not know each other’s customs, values, attitudes. For instance we never go to church just to be with others in a church. We go because a God brings us to a church and for that to happen millions of people have to see themselves as subjects in a relation to a higher authority. In a way owning a gun enables the dominant power to overwhelm and dominate the gun owner. Its like a cell phone. You can be tracked and your privacy gone with a cell phone but without one your movements are free and untraceable.
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  4138. The logical conclusion that is obvious is the US needs to nationalize health and property insurance and the social relation of private industry of health and property insurance be a thing of the past. Might be able to keep a few of the insurance companies alive but I would not advise it. You’ll only be dealing with them again as their only purpose is to make money and not spent it on recoveries they cannot afford given their frequency. But this would never happen in the US with a Congress that is headed by a person who believes it is all in God’s hands and does not push bills forward for a vote to outlaw privatization in this area of the economy to create a national health and property insurance plan. Americans will have to start by removing Johnson from his seat in Congress to effect a modification of health and property insurance. The little man with glasses and bible blocks the road of social progress for millions of people in a land that can easily afford the progress.
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  4139. An evacuation that is identical to the evacuation of the Fall of Saigon but on a larger scale. 'Collapse' is the poorest choice of words and this is coming from an agency that makes its living using words! You have Talban forces taking the country, city by city, province by province and none of the Commanding Generals of the US military did not respond or saw this coming is the first point for discussion? Then you have a president who leaves the country with who knows how much of the treasury he took with him and Taliban forces are at the gates of the capitol of the country saying this is the last stand quit or be taken down with force. Meanwhile, civil society is just that 'civil' to each other but at a standstill pending this change of power. Then Blinken of the State Department comes out with some stupid excuse about how this is not a defeat, not a revolution, not a loss and its not going to be another Saigon. Cut to this loop the media chooses to show us and not the footage of troops setting up the perimeter to keep people from the tarmac and the footage of planes taking off because that is the footage that was shown during the Fall of Saigon, hanging off of helicopters in the air the Generals do not want shown to the public to hide the fact that Vietnam was a defeat and Afghanistan is a defeat. This is a collapse of any brains and morals in the State department is what it is?
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  4140. How would you know if socialism makes people lazy or not if you never tried it! How lame. People see in Russia and China today another way toward industrialization and modernization and in a shorter time period than capitalism because there is no class system, everyone works, how much they work is question of available resources relative to the population. That's all they care about. Raising their standard of living is what socialism accomplishes. Here we are ten years in from the last crash pushing 2.2% GDP, American standard of living falling despite working more. Who's pocketing the wealth? A billion Chinese can out produce the GDP of Great Britain. Russia can produce the GDP of the US if it can devote what it devotes to an arms race to modernization instead.  If it comes down to a choice and it does...the younger countries will look at the eastern model of modernization, because news of how people live and work in America has traveled across the seas and only the poorest of the poor, the disposed can find a life better in America, the others more fortunate will likely take the socialist road to development. Now that this road is shut off thanks to the American president the work will have to be done by Americans. Americans clamored for more jobs and they got it. Married to the Job. Next time ask for a better and consistent standard of living and won't be given two jobs to work to equal the standard of living of your grandparents during the Great Depression. The one thing about capitalists is that they are very specific and tunnel visioned they will give you nothing and if you ask for something you will get no more than exactly what you asked for, a very linear and literally mentality. So you must ask 100 times more than you need to get it all or settle for 99% less and without and amor social backing you'll get more indignant work and misery thrown on your desk. Come Friday your gone, employers always choose Fridays to fire people at will legal in 22 states. To further your delight in social discriminatory behavior toward each other for perpetrating a discomfort and low standard of living and health options to people Ohio will turn you into a criminal if you do not become a parent, i.e., 1950's. When you do become the parent of an unwanted child the other side of the law permits employers to discriminate against you and family is not the highly esteemed social value alleged in the spirit of the law but a sham to corner you into poverty, need, isolation, dependency. Sudan is the youngest country in the world that just overthrew its autocracy. It comes into the world as a new born infant and it will be looking at the socialist model after watching for the last 20 years the way capitalism in the US has managed itself and the affairs that contributed to Sudan's decades long repression in that region under that despicable man. So self-interested, so short sighted, is capitalism that it cannot, even if it tried, to nurse young countries to take the capitalist road when they come to the fork in the road. There are still many young countries out there. North Korea is a tiny place and it has an economic power stymied is to all the other little ones out there a role model. Americans are the only people in the world sheltered from socialism as an alternative to capitalism. The elites think what you don't know won't hurt you. As for Paul Jay, that summary on socialist history he laid out was weak and is a product of the forever sequestering socialism from the American public as a censored subject in all Academia at every level of education. When there is a professor hired for the job of educating kids about socialism its usually some person who speaks way over their heads, confusing, rendering the subject like a butcher cuts meat, lifeless.
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  4141. The working class in the democratic party is not as powerful as the other social institutions the party represents is a problem for working people. Against the financial power of other social classes represented in that party, social power, is all it has to regain the party from the alliance between the state and big business.
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  4142. The mayor is coming around. Bravo!
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  4143. American hegemony is about the ownership of the kind of property of major significance to humanity. Things like water, soil, coal, gas, minerals, these elements would be the kind of property that can be used to bring about the domination of people or free humanity from domination. A productive force that becomes property does not remove or resolve the duality of uses of that property in relation to humanity. The conflict is between the private appropriation of world production versus world production itself that humanity before the capitalist age of hegemonic powers was a world where the expropriation of the mass of people was conducted by a few usurpers. This relationship of private appropriation by a few is in the process of disintegration is accelerated in our time period and changing into an expropriation of a few usurpers by the mass of humanity. Policies with an objective to separate property from humanity is a violent process, exhibited in the countless wars of the ages in human history but human history is not a part of violence. This is important as it means the path of growth is not inherently violent but can be socially determined and consciously applied to meet human needs and transform nature without harming it. *There is arrogance in JD Vance blaming German elites for de-industrializing Germany when the US did the exact same thing in NAFTA.
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  4144. You have to consider two events happening not just one. On the same day at the same time and both events were coordinated from the White House including the White House Council, are Trump’s efforts to not certify the election the beginnings of a coup d’état and the insurrection. How did the insurrection end?
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  4145. Just like a right wing faction has the Speaker positioned in the unfortunate position to choose between a shut down or his job in the GOP there is a faction in the democratic party that wants Bob’s seat but are not positioning Bob to quit on his own. Bob is an obstinate man and would never quit on his own, entrenched for so many decades Bob is one of the billionaires in the Senate...what bark is to a tree...material wealth is to the senior level Senate...no, they are railroading him out of town. He is not the only senator guilty of bribes and misdemeanors so it does appear hypocritical. High level conspicuous consumption C. Wright Mills called it in his book the Power Elite, 1955. Justice Thomas and the billionaire ride again. Some 24 military aircraft dedicated to the Senate...and people worry about the Navy rehabbing old ships are too wasteful of the tax payer’s money...there s a lot of hypocrisy you can shake a stick in Washington. Bob would no longer be Cuba’s problem. And Miami won’t have Bob. Hard to tell where the tide is going.
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  4146. Which means the price of stock are way above the values of the goods they represent and with inflation there is no chance of equalizing those values with prices. The value to price ratios are out of sync with the total amount of working time goods need to be made and can only be equalized by a crash. For working people they are looking at longer hours of work in their struggle against inflation. For bondholders higher interest rates cushions value depreciating in the bond relative to inflation and for people with savings the higher rates is a benefit. For investors and borrowers the rates set higher makes the cost of money more expensive and if it become cheaper to live off one's own assets than to borrow against them the demand for luxury goods will fall, where most of the social labor has been going in the last five decades, we can expect a massive layoff in these markets. For would be new home owners the real estate market has buyers with a lot of money pushing house prices higher limiting the number of buyers,--are pushed out of the market and end up in less expensive homes in more remote areas of the country encouraging car dependence and accelerating the rate of climate change. A pretty dismal picture.
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  4147. Well the Boards that are not diversified know how people of color can be co-opted to oppress their own kind; be used, problem is the poor women has no idea how she is being used.
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  4148. The main subject of the story is how the man got the gun with his firearms guilty charge is a big story. It represents a failed system. A failure or collapse of a system of security of the State is a big story and its more important to skim over what is news in segregated soundbites? Apparently, a disintegration of a social system is not a big story to NBC. The more the economic structure decays and the social system loses cohesion in communities in America from vehicle collisions, industrial explosions, mass murders, the news looks the other way.
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  4149. Generals today get their stars by being “Yes Men”. Smedley Butler’s generation still had brains. Saying “No” was a duty. The duty of a General today is to kneel to Capital.
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  4150. As a side note, I have not heard reported the positive effect on the environment a general strike of mass transportation has on reducing carbon emissions in France which because of the protests dropped to 0, a breath of fresh air, literally, for the French people. But as an observation of the French commercial media, it did not report the protests outside of Paris. Media kept their cameras on the violence in the city. Leads you to believe that revolutions are violent or they invoke the violence of the State, that revolutions can never happen peacefully.  Media also redacted the rural and suburban French people who shut down the tolls, roads, and major commercial arteries in support of the street actions in Paris. Of course, if you have a mind for history, the historical example of Apartheid in South Africa peacefully dissolved by its revolution, is sufficient evidence that peaceful revolutions are probable when the people are united. Macron is no DeClerk. But exactly on what should the people unite around that goes beyond a particular interest?
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  4151.  @HarpMuse  He is doing for God, Family and Country exactly what his supporters want to hear. His supporters want this brand of fascism not realizing it is fascism they want, vieled by this ideology, that he can ride the wave. Exactly as the German wanted fascism and voted Hitler into power. Recall that Hitler did not come to power by force, or by a coup, he came to power by a vote, a sigh and a wow! Within his supporter are rich and poor but they share the same interest, i.e., observe where he goes to campaign tells it all.
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  4152. Lt. Gen is suggesting the balloon ought to have been shot down before it entered US air space. Well that would have been a violation of international air space of which China has right to use. So, the Lt. Gen is advocating a violation of international law regarding air space to preserve national air space is an automatic defense posture and not sound diplomatic judgement amid tense Chinese and US relations.
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  4153. Popular opinion thinks the world is controlled by the NSA. In this case, for once, popular opinion is partially correct. But it is not a general Evil too many people believe that is leading the world through this organization. Its central leaders are possessed by an external force of a material nature not spiritual. The higher echelons of the NSA fear they are losing control and ownership of the Public Domain drive their decisions for greater control not evil. The Public Domain is the total capacity of a nation to produce that gives the power to the presidency as an institution not Satan. In this case, America will be remembered by its Naval Power like the British Empire is remembered for its Naval Power, its economic power and its surplus product, in other words, the Public Domain spent on defenses redirects the Public Fund into the military depriving the working class economy of capital. The workers do not mean much to them is the point. Time for the workers to re-think an economy that works for them is the lesson drawn from all empires in decay in history. So the higher echelons of this organization have commandeered the material basis for violence and have organized themselves as a distinct class, or a distinct order from the rest of us. Much like the monasteries in the Middle Ages had organized themselves as an elite intelligentsia they became a citadel of economic power, then lords over the land where countless peasant farmers gave up their product in return for the work of cultivation of the lord's land and for being a peasant. Nobody in the NSA is monk, but the tendency to form themselves as a distinct class is monkish. In the practice of running the nation, every move is a move toward consolidation of power over the Public domain, and this is sensitive information, particularly if the power you are swindling from is the economic power of the working class. You do not want the Public to know the private conversations by men and women at the higher levels of this organization on how the nation's total economic capacity is to be re-directed, making people in society do this or that in order to carry out their ambitions for unilateral control in a world that is multilateral in nature. This small group are self-conscious bunch tightening their grip makes them lose grip but hastens their readiness to resist becoming an active participant in the world economy. They would prefer the Dark Ages and the Great Wall of China surrounding the American people, deprived of material and social development, accusing others of the exact crimes they commit as a decoy or deflection playing the Public and cunningly turning the tables to gaslight the world community.
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  4154.  @rdpatterson2682  The term 'deep state' has been taken up by so many writers, in so many contexts, it no longer has a stable meaning. The heads of those agencies being purged are at the top of the hierarchy of which you named its parts are the organs of the State itself. How deep is it that we can see it, feel it, and hear it, you tell me? The state dominates our lives through all pores of society. Now within that structure are the Higher Circles of Social Class in positions of major consequences and these people are not solitary rulers, they are advisors and consultants, spokespeople and opinion-makers, generals, industrialists, financiers, celebrities, below them are the politicians in the middle level of power, the Congress and the PAC groups, formerly called pressure groups, as well as the new and old upper classes of towns, cities and regions. Gen Schmedley Butler provides, an institutional assessment of the organs of the state in connection to one economic sector, the political elite as a social class is an enigma to most people because of their low profile. See Michael Parenti, C. Wright Mills, Ralph Miliband, a few old and new writers on this subject.
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  4155. The right wing pressures Washington to abandon Afghans lowering the number of evacuees but go get the Americans. General Austin does not want troops to step foot in an urban environment ties his hands. The left wing pressures Washington to increase the number of Afghan evacuees who helped Americans and go get the Americans stuck in Afghanistan. The Afghans cannot understand why the US abandons them because they do not understand the racism of the right wing in America telling middle America we have no obligation to the Afghan people using the photo of the C-30 filled with Afghans to heighten the propaganda message. The former marine who can not stand by and watch Afghan allies fall into the fate of the Taliban are honorable actions the right wing in America despises. This unusual situation makes the American marine and the Afghan ally both more aligned with the democrats on the left and scorned and rejected by the party to the right of the moderate republicans.
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  4156.  @integritymatters5162  that is a relative comment, you could have earned $20K under Obama and now earn 21K under Trump and that would be a marked improvement in your economic status, not enough to qualify not paying taxes but still an improvement.
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  4157.  @tallen4520  By studying the Moon we learn more about the Sun, by listening to T Allen we learn more about racism.
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  4158. Status Coup is a product, a commodity, an object for sale. Whenever money is involved in an exchange and there is an exchange going on between 'us' watching as consumers of the news, he produces, as the commodity being sold though likes and donations, an open price. Status Coup is in its commodity production stage and advancing toward a capitalist non-profit stage. So no matter where you go for something you need and do not have somebody is selling it as a commodity.
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  4159. Property taxes is theft.
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  4160. Dead bodies should be shown in media. Showing the dead will sensitize us to the tragedy of wars.
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  4161. Interesting,---the Office of the Teuctli parallels with the Office of the President of the US as both are two roles in one office, i.e., Chief Administrator of the nation’s resources and a Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. If the armed forces are the resources of a tribe or nation then the two roles are really one, a dictatorship. But if the resources are more abundant of useful material than the military is useful then the roles are distinct from each other and it would be more democratically decided who takes the office. The steps the candidate(s) take also parallels the modern political process, could there have been more than one nominated for the office to undergo the grueling four step process, the one who finishes is the Teuctli. Could the modern pierced septum be the nomination process by an electorate, that each party, tribe or family would choose their candidates? The public humiliation be the campaign process where the Teuctli gets vetted by the public, must be judge and executioner, show compassion and be tested, solve daily problems. All but Temple Service is nearly the same political structure of the American form of government, the Teuctli is the Executive Office is not supposed to mix Synagogue and Church teachings into matters of state but they do informally. Nepotism is informally and formally a practice in our system that we have no way of telling was absent in Tlaxacalan. The Inauguration is the lavish fiest. Am I alone in seeing these parallels?
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  4162. ITS A SLAVE TRADE! Quit pretending there are no social problems in America. A slave trade related to the pot trade. Americans buy pot and that money enriches the system that furnishes the labor to the trade. Enforcement enables it by doing nothing about it.
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  4163.  @residentgrey  Constitutional and legal or not makes no difference, militias are needed for the state to justify itself, they enable the existence of the power of the state that is now punishing them for following an asshole thinking that asshole was their entry into history. They made history alright; as jackasses. Legal and constitutional to be abused again in the future. Without the existence of secret clandestine militias there is no need for a state is there? No criminal no need for cops. Get my point?
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  4164. Sherman's land redistirbution? I think a video that compliments this one specifically on General Sherman's plan for reconstruction would be a constructive.
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  4165. '...We are taking too many risks to try to save our elders.', said the young French woman. When this virus broke out in the US in 2020 there was an American politician who started a right wing critique; killing the economy to save our grandparents, against the democrats. The virus has not threatened society that a good portion of the populations in France, Greece, UK are against vaccinations, while it seems the elites sense they will be blamed no matter if the population dies off in rapid rate from COVID or survives it by taking the vaccines. But if you notice in the reporting the demonstrations covered are not against the private sector developing these vaccines for the treatment of a pulmonary infection. All the anger is at government specifically not the pharmaceutical industry that does most of the chance taking when it comes to health. These are protests of dissatisfaction with government policies and judging from the countries with the protests specifically Neoliberalism, cuts, unemployment, austerity, loss of pensions, low wages, de-regulated industries, economic debt, dangerous working conditions, is what they protest not the vaccines.
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  4166. Better way to phrase it is; America won't be rich unless the world becomes rich. If all the human labor-power in the world is sick and production stops three quarters of America's products will fall in short supply. In relation to America's 332 million people dependent on import products suddenly dwindle in supply will be the cause of a precipitous fall in the standard of wages, a consequence of a sharp spike in retail prices. In a capitalist framework this movement will translate into companies and corporations laying off workers at home and abroad to save capital. Pulling the economy out of the ditch of mass unemployment and poverty will be next to impossible. The US economy and the world economy the US is involved with cannot afford to be poor.
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  4167. @@Justanotherhumanonthenet Serial killers are also of white middle class origins? They are never black men of no means. They are never white women of means. They are never black women of no means. They are always middle class white males of means. How do you explain that social psychological pattern in white males of middle class origins? And, the pattern is the more important thing to eradicate than the individual perpetrator itself if your social culture were more serious about protecting little white middle class boys from becoming white middle class serial killers. Criminal charges are less important than the decline of the economic order the criminal emphasis eclipses and will ultimately catch you off guard when the social order falling short of the government’s own emancipation, collapses. What are you going to do?
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  4168.  @davidzwicker5662  Not too intelligent more shallow than deep.
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  4169. I wonder if the people on this show can talk about Trump as a leader of a right wing that he appeases for power?
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  4170. Totally the opposite of the musicians I’ve seen who really take themselves too seriously and the bands don’t last...as a result...no fun. Peter Jackson did a marvelous job doing this film.
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  4171. Its still imperialism using institutions as tools for its aims. People should be critical of Jews serving imperialism in the same way people should be critical of black people serving slave owners against slaves.
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  4172. When I freeze frame a shot to inspect the details of the images of the sink holes shown in this newscast what I see is the force of water revealing evidence of human industrial activity below the surface. A broken culvert pipe, conduit piping, stems of rebar, all jutting out from the sides of the sink hole. This is proof that the development stands on soil made too porous for this region is suitable development and natural erosion but not suitable for long term generational human habitation. Soil gets soupy with nowhere to drain. Extracted roots, boulders, crevasse, channeled rainwater and bored natural to itself passages and tunnels in the soil in the past. The place was eroding the minute man laid hands on it over decades by degrees. This erosion is not perceptible unless measured documenting soil’s gradually changes. The gradual changes add up to a number where the soil base can’t hold up against gravity and water. The bottom floor of the sink hole exposed where the water finally collects is the natural line of the contour of the surface before development some 20 feet deep as seen in the height of the coastline to the beach. Everything beneath the sink hole floor is natural and above it is society. In short, the more land is subject to buying and selling, considered the pinnacle of development, the faster we are driving ourselves into non-existence.
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  4173. Espionage is alive and well but the old days where a reporter wore a fedora and trench coat are gone. Never the less it should exciting and romantic. The spies in Russia have names like Olga, Lina, some could be Babooshkas. There is more censoring measures going on in Russia that the slightest dissent will lead to your arrest. The country is preparing for a state of war broadcasting events from their point of view. America can’t do this. Its always an open society and vulnerable to dissent of the government. This makes Washington actually jealous that they can’t do what Putin does. You know there are some people who want to throw out the US Constitution just for that very reason. Russian people are fine people. The people are not enemies of anyone; the governments are enemies of each other, and the people follow governments. Here Fido! Arf! Arf!
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  4174.  @OukiLips  So what.
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  4175. The working class needs more than a gun for protection against a virulent right wing authoritarian government, they need to be an organize army! Neoliberalism is out to pauperize the working class into economic servitude is the greater threat than migrating refugees.
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  4176. Very nice report...covering the problem of criminals climbing up the social structure of the police, law enforcement, and entering government cabinet positions determining our lives is telling us these people do have a place in government and, that is the problem with government.
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  4177.  @lindamullins1446  The rich in America believe taxes are for the little people. You'd have to get rid of the rich if you want to get rid of freeloaders like the rich.
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  4178. She is saying American leaders are shallow and stupid but are smart about exploiting people to make money.
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  4179. A vital news source.
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  4180. To save the republic they would detonate the planet @sher167 
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  4181. Actually, in addition to this brave action, it would be more effective to confront and shadow Brian Hook et al on the streets, where he lives, where he goes and make his life miserable that he leaves Washington and quits his job. Just make it utterly impossible for Trump to recruit or think tanks to function.
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  4182. A counter movement will emerge from this that if you do not have an urban address you cannot work in the city where all the jobs are located. Maybe they hate cities so much because when people find out they don't live in the city but they work in a city as a cop, lawyer, banker, landlord, dealer, they are taking out of the city more than they put in it. I think the rural faith and freedom nonsense is nonsense. All these people who run and own these big city businesses will lose a huge share of the big city market if they move out and still intend to sell in the city. Corporations will be asking their CEOs to move back into the cities just to make it look good they re not milking the city they are not living in.
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  4183. The US military is the last bastion of German Nazism as America is the last bastion of Anglo Saxon Capitalism in the world today. America has a number of industrialists you can count on your hand, not many. If you think of it there is no other society, I am aware of, not even Germany is a host to Nazism outside of the US, and no other social form of capitalism in a nation whose racism is rooted in a slave owning class who are part of the political social structure of governments today.
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  4184. By European political definitions Ro Khanna would be a rightist, part nationalist, and absolutely anti-socialist. Particularly in France, Ro would not be a popular guy. A definite left sided member of the ruling classes.
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  4185. All the News that It sees Fit to Print is the NYTimes.
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  4186. I wonder if this woman’s personal life has not been negatively impacted by the overwhelming emphasis of her constantly talking about Trump on air.
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  4187. Manufacturers in America are learning that even if they cheapen their product to maximize their profits they risk prosecution. But that is only if the prosecutor in charge has the motivation; its all dependent on the individual and the number of deaths related to the products. Of course, this makes the whole thing very subjective and easier to corrupt. If it isn’t sabotage that changed the ingredient of the sauce to include lead than it is the lack of conscience of the workers employed by the apple sauce producers for a willingness to perform work that harms others. If it isn’t ignorance of the workers and lack of conscience than the workers report to work for a paycheck and nothing more, they have no control over the work and the factory making the sauce. They learn about kids dying from lead poisoning they helped to spread like you and I do from the news. In the past the products were tested by the government to enter the market. In the present the product requires no approval from government to enter the market. There isn’t a third party verification system for anything in place in America. Not for agriculture, construction, education, health...literally, all products and services, if they bring harm to consumers the repercussions for profiting off the death of others has become as natural as fish are to the ocean in the US.
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  4188. Do not pay attention what they say Putin said it is more important that you keep your eye on all the staged events created to get defense money from lawmakers and also very important to pay attention to the timing of staged events. They are always when lawmakers are getting to the bottom of a sophisticated spy technologies and when a war is not going well. Remember and many of you might not remember or know at all the Gulf of Tonkin incident of the Vietnam war, staged by the US to expand the war. These are more important than anything being said by Putin.
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  4189. Scaffolds are never put up on Park Avenue, why is that?
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  4190. Protest the celebrities, denounce them, shame them, these are the only actions the Public has to break free of their exploitative nature making sons and daughters powerless victims under the sway of their modernism and charm. What happens in the porn world happens in the celebrity world behind private doors. Celebrities are the biggest funders to the politicians passing laws against you. There is a celebrity connected to every historic event. The fighting in Haiti for control over Haiti is traced back to two American celebrities, Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, pooled their money with Bill Clinton in 1993 they made an electric plant in Haiti. The project created 50,000 jobs but to fill those jobs the government of Haiti had to force (incentive) Haitian small property owners to sell or lose or rent, to make ends meet, small scale farming was not enough, so they quit farming and they filled the 50,000 jobs, the more they worked for the electric plant the poorer the 50,000 people got. People found themselves in worse shape leading to the present crisis that is Haiti now. Are Sean Penn and Ben Stiller responsible, they are responsible for their private interest in the project. They knew their money would get a return forever to boot. People call this residual income, really its residual profits. So there are always high profile people in company with politicians furthering the exploitation of the people as ongoing for that is how people become rich. Another example, Trump is a celebrity and a president, he wears so many hats we are not sure what he is as a man, but it is child labor that are making his golden sneakers and leather bonded bibles in other countries. If child labor returns to the US Jordan sneakers will be made here. Child labor does not cost them much and what it makes in volume of sneakers represents millions and billions in the market a part of which the children take no share at all. Unpaid labor makes the bibles and sneakers. What we are seeing here are not the individuals themselves as people but what they represent as the relations of Money, power, privilege, is in the DNA of celebrities.
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  4191. The chemical industry relies on the effective use of its product only insofar as it can be a means of making money. When they have a money-maker that product is used by the masses and resistance to it is developed among the insects it aims to repel. The question, therefore, are CEOs willing to take a big money-maker off the market given it has become inefficient? They will not by their own volition give up the money maker over the spread of malaria in the population using the argument the people employed by this industry have as much right to not lose their livelihood as the people have a right to not be infected by malaria. Two rights that do not make a wrong but make the contradiction between a use-value and value more pronounced leading to a social conflict. Troubling times for America leading to a fall of capitalism.
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  4192. That would mean cutting the defense budget, are you okay with that, I am?
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  4193.  @spankyspork5808  Some agreement that is they are concentrating forces in the South China Sea, does that look like a stop spending on defense to you?
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  4194.  @todd4335  crazy idea.
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  4195. Let them In.
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  4196. The whole social system in America should go under the microscope. Each aspect of society dipped into the acid bath of the class struggle. I agree with Shawn Fein, it is time to decide what kind of world we want to live in. Trump is an enemy of this movement he said the leadership Mr. Fein is selling the workers up the river. Biden is no friend to this labor movement. We have seen there are no friends of labor in the political system overdue for its own revolution.
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  4197. Modern puritans, who believe if they got the vote it was given to them, the struggle that it took to get the vote is a history completely erased in the racist mind, because winning the vote meant people died for it is a reality that does not fit into their neat and tight little conception.
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  4198. There is that word again ‘Empire”, used by most leftists I encounter...you make the association the empire are people. An empire is a thing, its your nations’ total economic surplus and how that works is really quite simple. You are taxed. When you permit the super rich to not pay taxes and the government collects from you and not them exclusively, soon to be made a permanent feature of your ill-fated democracy, the democracy that isn’t you are giving the super rich the power to appropriate your empire. The sum total of money and commodities and the productiveness of your nation’s working class is the empire. Neither of these three items are living beings. Money, goods and since workers sell their labor-power as a commodity the productivity in them is a thing outside of their person and belongs to whomever purchased that commodity. The American Left fails miserably understanding how capitalism works is more tragic than all the propaganda they throw at you.
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  4199. TYT - Money Laundering?  Explain how this affects the real life process of people in society TYT?
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  4200.  @Bbeater123  Weird question when a citizen is killed by a foreign country and the country to which the citizen belongs excuses the killing; Why declare allegiance to a flag when the flag pays no allegiance to you...was my point.
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  4201. You did your homework and produced a video manifesto for revolution for your generation...I tip my hat to you.🙂
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  4202.  @AV57  You are not wrong on that notion.
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  4203. The L.. Ron Hoover Cult in Hollywood.
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  4204. Part of the mass communication campaign of propaganda aimed at the America people is the omission by American media of Jewish opposition to the war inside Israel.
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  4205. The good thing about regulations lifted on private industry is we get to see private industry for its uncontrollable self-interest greed and totalitarianism. For the whole period of regulation of the private sector when government tells private business what it can or cannot do the whole society falls in love with the private sector and its abuses are easily hidden but in a de-regulated environment privatization becomes for the Public buyer’s remorse. But this genie is not going back into the bottle willingly and it will take a real all or nothing social effort to seal the lid on it.
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  4206. The BBC is wrong as to who started this war.
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  4207.  @Kr4v3rd  ...and so young to have such a nihilistic outlook...I agree with your assessment...people here who replied to my comment...are fundamentally deaf, dumb and blind to the underlying causes because they want to be. Apathy, nihilism, fatalism, defeatism, escapism, embodies Americans.
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  4208.  @louangehenry2992  Americans do not value human life; evidence to that effect is overwhelming. You have been duped.
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  4209. If Australia was smart they would go nuclear and drop oil completely.
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  4210. What makes everyone think the government shut down does not affect private industry workers from private industry exploitation when there is no government monitoring the practices of private employers? We want to be really focused on the issues and the issue goes back to Trump, he remains the center of the issue, not the real life conditions of workers in the private sector and all workers in society. Defending 'our ' nation, 'walls work...better than anything else, like it or not', who's nation does the wall protect? Who are protected and who wants a Wall? If they want a wall they should pay for it. Period. The democrat should move on to the real subject at hand, the overall condition of the American working class.
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  4211. The Why part is simple. He is the only thing between you and the virulent religious right wing emerging in Utah, Montana, Colorado, Oklahoma, who are anti-small business and pro-monopoly corporations.
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  4212.  @ManeVein703  If he needs a sales person he would hire a habitual liar. Trump is a sales person who would also rob his business through habitual lying.
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  4213.  @artimidz3451  Let me be clear. You are saying you would give your life for country in general but not for business in particular. Is that right?
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  4214.  @artimidz3451  Out of 24 hours in a day most Americans work 12-14 hours leaving not much time for anything else. You may as well make work a lot more fun and desirable if that much time is spent on it. Seems to me the employer is moving in. Misery index is pretty high from overwork. You have a huge rate of accumulated trauma and disability from overwork. Social life is shattered. Loneliness is high, suicide is high. What working class are you talking about again? The working class is beat up badly. Working class in the unionized industrial sectors do well are you talking about them? Little of that has to do with my narcissism.
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  4215.  @jaydinledford6990  sensible comment that points the finger at privatization and deregulation as the main source of America’s problems, the leading entrepreneur nation in the world treats government like it was the private property of a King. You have to believe you are a subject for another man to act as a king or a God. Once a another man sees you believe in yourself as a lesser being you enable the man to act as a greater being over you. Comments from your compatriots get reduced to insults and pompous projections are generally personal and subjective, not an atom of objectivity in them is your first obstacle to being a truly free citizen.
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  4216.  @paulnejtek6588  American Employers do not regard a worker’s commute to work as part of their wages, but European employers do, workers in America are just paid the value of what it takes to biologically reproduce themselves, i.e., food, housing, etc., the wear and tear of vehicles, expenditures associated with travel, clothing, tools, child care, health care, are excluded in American wages. Add the commute time to a person’s job and that person’s employer saves that expense. Multiply hours worked per worker in the US by the total number of people in the workforce and only 20% of the workforce (union workers) are paid wages greater than a value amount produced in an 8 hour day the rest average an additional 4 hours on top of 8 hours they lose in the value of a an 8 hour day. Multiply the average 4 hours by 100 million workers and the value they produce equals 40 million hours of extra unpaid work compounded daily. This is a gravy train for American employers. To make matters worse for American workers they are not paid until after two to four weeks of working on the job. How much value do they produce for employers during their probation period in a job before payment in wages is created or paid back to the employer and from that point forward the worker reproduces their own wage. The law favors American Employers getting away with bloody murder and all of your politicians are dead quiet about this exploitation, not to mention a huge pool of cheap illegal labor floating used as leverage to prevent the workforce from demanding more from employers.
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  4217. How rich are the administrators of the Post Office? Do they live in mansions and drive luxury cars? I want to see evidence of a class difference between the rank and file and the upper levels of management of the Post Office. If you cannot show me the contrast between rich and poor in the social organization of the US post office than your story is bankrupt! Show me how capitalism exploits society’s need for mass communication of which the post office is a part, ---is it leasing or letting its trucks to carriers the way Ubur exploits the needs of society for mass transportation, that a class division between a driver and a car, is established and accepted in America. Uber driver works free for the owner of the driver’s car because the driver, one and the same actual owner of the car, leases the car to Uber to pick up an Uber client, during that time, the car’s owner has changed, after the Uber client has left the car the car’s owner changes back to the driver another Uber client needs a ride and the driver is reassigned a new pick up. Believe me there are enough potential Uber clients in society that regular car owners would consider renting out their cars to a corporation building a market. Is this happening to postal workers? Privatizing the post office would entail the rank and file to become the owners of the postal delivery trucks and the administrators of the post office can hire out the trucks and drivers, only then can the revenue (tax dollars) be free of the cost of delivering mail and a profit (privatization) can be made from the work of the driver’s.
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  4218. This video would be the best video for an education on a coal economy and community Americans can get it. What choice did they have? The necessities were all in the hands of the company. Love and family worked against a miner. Mine work as the only way to feed their family. Now you know why a miner’s widow had to remarry in a week or her shit was thrown out on the curb. Company cannot exploit unmarried coal miners. The coal company town pushed marriage and family as a way to break any resistance to forced labor and captivity. Nobody without a family would make the sacrifices or tolerate the exploitation and for migrants it was better than being killed as a prisoner of war. Appalachia Coal Country was an escape of tearful regrets. Turn your attention to the Border States and immigration and very little has changed.
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  4219. More like the friend in the White House needs the white nationalists to stay in the Oval Office, I think, aptly describes the situation than the converse. Trump is using them politically. We can break that alliance very easily with mass demonstrations targeting white nationalist with the message they're pawns in his hands, or he would have broken the alliance with the Jewish state, home of the people they hate so much. You have to use their hate to destroy Trump and them as nationalist before it biomes a situation as occurred in Italy with Mussolini's rise to power, for he used the same tactics Trump. You have to build their alliance to defeat Trump. Problem here is that non-racist whites cannot stomach an alliance with poor and working class white racists. As people in their own right, their dignity is injured and the left or the liberal left, the middle class left, just doesn't to have any sensibility of their injuries. They are dismissed, looked down upon them as ignorant fools and this incenses white nationalists to react back with hatred for the left and revive anti-communism. By doing nothing by way of inaction more damage is done to non-white working class people leaving them to be demonized as people stealing their jobs and entering the country illegally. Poor Mayan men and women and children, oppressed for centuries at the hand of white colonists, is to me shameful of the American left, a disgrace, and to report it as though it were all Trump adds to their indignities. Whit working class people have to realize their are being used before they form opinions in their own mind that Israel is needed against the big, bad and nasty Muslims. This is the function of left pedagogy, you teach not one, two, or three converts, you teach the entire mass of white workers by means of mass demonstration. Demonstration and observation are the two scientific tools the American left fails at. An absence of revolutionary theory, a phony left. Left wanna-be's who have the class consciousness but not the courage to demonstrate their aims. They betray their own theoretical principals.  When Trump makes a move he needs a mass reply. Egypt's dictator visits Trump the left should be demonstrating against that visitation with a message to white nationalist; See, We Told You Trump is Using You, join US to defeat this man who give Aid to Israel. The left does not have to educate the 'deplorable', they just have to demonstrate against every action Trump takes and aim that demonstration at the white working class voter. You defeat an enemy with strategy. He uses the greater evil abroad to control the lesser evil at home. Why otherwise would Egypt's dictator be invited to the White House, if it is not to stereotype the Muslim Brotherhood, as another big, bad, nasty group of people worthy of being listed as a terrorist group could incite another attack. So soon as a ex-military soldier converts to Islam and gets busted by California police  with a case of weapons the work of labeling all muslims is complete. What you as an American can do is to get the forgotten Patriot Act repealed by Congress, this would bring about the resumption of the War Powers Act, curtailing any president to deploy American military might for whatever reason that president thinks fit. The protests thus far, of the American left has been on issues that express the subjective desires of the left not the objective conditions which generate this subjective reactions. The real reactionaries in the American scene are the progressive left and those who support the progressives. With this I should get a lot of feedback from people reading this, which I welcome, but, frankly, progressive will not even reply for the failures of capitalism and its social ills fall on their shoulders and they are too arrogant to be humble. If you notice the white nationalists target black churches and Jewish synagogues which concerns Israel and because he speaks abstractly about the big bad, nasty democrats who left white workers flat, they feel they have an ally in the White House, as finally someone who listens to them. He treats them kindly of their crimes to maintain that alliance as it is his guarantee for re-election. So either way, you and the white nationalist are facing off against each other by the ballot. Some of them want a race war; some want what you want, a secure economic life. Instead, the left wants reforms, i.e., higher wage, universal health care and be a social democracy in the Netherlands. Go there and see there are more white nationalists in Europe than in America. This speaks for itself the failure of social democrats and progressives despite having universal health care and other worker protections. The reason is simple, progressive like capitalism and capitalism cannot survive without the exploitation of labor and cheap wages drawn from another class of people. To keep the military on his side he allocates them a cool billion despite the fact the US military already spends more on defense than Russia and China combined, if not more than two countries combined. On this question the left is absent. The only country with a dictatorship that can defend itself from a social revolution of a coup is Israel. Israel's role as the avenging homogenous white army is important to white American Christian Evangelicals, as the guardians of the millennium, where, peace, justice and prosperity among these allies is assured. Recognizing Gaza with an embassy was that gesture. A government functionary investigating white hate groups would only cause Trump to lose that alliance. If I were Trump, I'd disband that agency or investigative unit and call it: "less government", a theme white working class people built their anger on would cheer.  I really do not believe it is anything more than what I just said, that requires reading into the racist social phenomenon beyond what it appears. This is simply a case of social control and manipulation through ideological means Americans are unaccustomed to in the political sphere. Neophytes and infantile leftists get no respect from the oppressed.
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  4220.  @5british5  I doubt any of the American Jews, rich or poor, black, white or brown Jews, except the Hasidic Jews as they do not believe in a State of Israel but even they would not condemn Trump as a WN, that would cause a backlash from Israel's right wing on the Hasidim in Israel . A backlash that has already been in process legislating their lifestyle as retrogressive in the role of their women resembling the role of women in Muslim societies. A repressed female population, hideous in all respects. Anyway, I really don't give a shit about this subject, I am not jewish and their repression is their problem: I see it plain. White American working people are being played, duped, bamboozled, fools that serves as the core of Trump's success. The real enemy in this playing field are the American politicians. The ones who visit the workers in their workplaces telling them their working conditions will improve as long as they DO NOT UNIONIZE are your enemy. They want to control the workforce, as they know, the wealth they derive comes from the workers. It is impossible for corporations to sell cars and other commodities without labor producing them. They impose their lifestyle standards on workers under the strictest terms in the factory. Even the Nazis knew the working class is the true power and whoever controls this class controls the entire economy. The WN's will never understand it is all about the economics of capitalism for they are congested by a mental petrification of racist ideology, some totally hopeless, some salvageable but all can be disempowered with mass education in the form of mass protests.
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  4221.  @lemanelemso4063  "...false flag terror designed to limit free speech...", the English language is a beautiful language when used correctly, try using the Who, the What and the Why, to describe the repression of free speech. Who censors, why censor, and what is censored, to convey better your ideas. The adage, the blind leading the blind, holds true for written speech, but in this comment thread, we have a case of the monosyllabic censoring themselves, that the government need not worry about censoring free speech when the written speech of the Public does so fine a job labelling themselves as functional illiterates.
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  4222.  @grapeshot  "The point is it is the truth and that's why you don't like it and you deny it." This sentence contains three prepositions in a row; "The point is it is the truth..." and a dangling pronoun 'the' to explain the truth, apparently, a truth that somebody denies. "BLOODY POND LIVES", never mentions in the comment what truth is being denied. Between this person and "5british5", we have living testimony of an educational system that taught them nothing about how to write and speak English to be worthy of censorship or denial. Piss poor written speech defending free speech?
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  4223.  @grapeshot  Man, your writing skills truly suck.
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  4224.  @5british5  Finally, here is a man or woman, i.e., Azrael, who can write a sentence. One that "5british5" cannot answer. Too incriminating to answer the question as it would be reported to authorities. Before you go out an shoot someone or a group as you threatened to do, think twice, more importantly, the life lesson to be learned from "5british5' is to think before you speak.
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  4225.  @Azrael_Garou  Wonderfully written, good grammar delivers a capital idea.
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  4226.  @grapeshot  previously you said to "5britsh5" does he not see the irony of calling someone stupid on line. That which you accuse of others, you commit onto them, is the real irony. Fool.
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  4227.  @henrygustav7948  Well Henry when one piece of your argument is wrong the whole argument is wrong. The federal government is not the source of US dollars. The dollar is printed by a Federal Reserve Bank and that institution my friend is not government property. That institution holds gold and gold is money. When gold is not money it is a commodity but when it is money it is not a commodity. You among a million others have the strangest theories about money for the simple reason that you confuse paper money with universal money in the form of gold.
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  4228.  @UFO_computers  Your grammar stinks! Makes it impossible to ascertain your meaning relative to the subject matter. Poor writing skills is poor communication, lazy, thoughtless, careless sentence structure. Your use of emojis in place of actual words is hieroglyphics. This is not ancient Egypt, Sanskrit or stone tablet writing. Fiduciary terminology is not English but are descriptive words that identify things not concepts. I suggest you think about how to think before you write. You will never be taken seriously with such abominable writing that cannot express the relationship between money and commodities.
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  4229. The political protests at Columbia and at other universities are aimed at elites and political establishments high up in government will spread.
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  4230. Drugs are money in America because there are millions and millions of users but drugs are not by nature money.
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  4231. Good video Jimmy, culture is what looks like a minor problem but is really the problem.
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  4232. I cannot support the firefighters and city cops and sanitation workers on this issue when the science has a vaccine that builds antibodies against a disease successfully. Plus, the US population have it and don’t want the vaccine is a dark contrast to the have-nots cannot produce it themselves makes their strike and angry opposition to the Mayor immoral and selfish. Be one thing if the vaccine was a bomb but its not. Daily testing is not enough to curb transmission. The effects of their strike hurts city residents the most while the mayor will have to create a new workforce to handle the basic services of the city.
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  4233. US navy warships are striking down the missiles aimed at Israel. Mainstream news does not mention what kind of support Israel is getting.
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  4234. Not corruption when blacks are deprived of clean water on purpose...that’s racism.
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  4235. The main objectives of the right wing in America is to reduce government controls interfering with the extension of markets (commodities and money). They view government encroaching on the freedom of capital through artificial price controls. Through workplace regulations, through taxation, government overreach of the private sector. The government is a liberal yoke around the neck of private industry and the recovery for all Americans is held back. They want a return of the gold standard, unaware the money-commodity (gold) is an independent expression of value in commodities the second it comes out of the ground. Without ground to mine there is no gold. Gold exists in a continual state of diminishing supply requiring more time to produce, a high concentration of capital equipment requires land acquisitions and extraction is long term. Till the mine itself is stripped of all gold deposits, this means mining must be internationalized and the American Academy of Sciences must find more localities for mining. It is as if the expansion of slavery never left but this time it is commodity markets not slaves doing the expanding. The more unashamedly naked expression of their virulence toward this goal is in making it the central idea of America's foreign policy and correspondingly, the state becomes more violent as an institution. The more markets extend the more gold is mined, the more interventionist becomes the State. Land is to Israel what gold is the right wing.
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  4236. If the Vote could abolish the primary citadels of political power, in the fields of education, health and national security, they would not have made the vote legal is the first premise of my comment.
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  4237. In reality, the Donald, was socialized by the Mob in the 1970's. Queens mob connections in the building trade. He operated within union syndicalists who had mob control of certain trades and ties to city government officials and lawyers, as corrupt the real estate and construction industry of Manhattan can be, it was under Mayor Abraham Beam that city land was open to commercial speculation, he sold cheap city owned property, and officials devised schemes to sell land to developers, Trump being one, to accommodate the gentrification process of NY which came in late 1980-1990's decade. Between Ivanka Trump and Marla Maples, it was the first time the public heard a gag order is a condition of divorce and settlement agreement. Trump was then the only casino owner next Bally's, Four Seasons, etc., that went under because of his excess and overproduction. The return on the sale of his properties came short of paying off the principal on the loans owed before interest is applied. Americans are weak spectators not engaged participants in the life of their society; because of this you get what you pay for in what they think are leaders because they look and act the part.
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  4238. Neither party are going to give it to you. It takes heavy social pressure to get them to do it. The longer that waiting for something to happen goes on in the people the less chance social pressure is enough. The parties entrench themselves deeper while the masses are waiting for something to happen. They never rest to shore up their lines of power from the potential of revolution as a logical outcome to a crisis.
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  4239. The life of a small peasant coffee farmer in Central America and the dissolution of an entire social class of peasant producers in a variety of other agricultural products does not mean anything to the north American consumer of coffee and vegetables. The north American consumer would sooner point the finger at Starbucks for demise of coffee farmers as the exploiter than assume responsiblilty for creating the demand for that exploitation to take place to begin with. For reasons of denial, the American consumer is an easy target for manipulation that will gaurantee the re-election of Trump.
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  4240. 'At this point it is unclear if anyone could face charges.', statements like this are commonly used in the press when the crime committed is done by a group. If you notice there was never a single KKK member charged with violence in all of the KK K acts of violence carried out in the 20th century because they always acted as a group. Group action is the best action and safest against cops and robbers. Cops and robbers in your community are two sides of the same rotten coin of corruption in society, they keep turning up! In Mexico the villagers acted on their own to root out corrupt cops and drug cartels. This is not a strange and unique thing. Very common for people to react this under the stresses of corruption in their community. Problem here is that these young adults are not demonstrating to their younger brothers and sisters a love and concern for them. So they can go to school happy and have a childhood. The younger ones copy the behavior the older's do not check their behavior. Cops can't charge anyone because more than one committed the act....how disappointing the Courts will have no work to do on this apparent murder by mass action in self-defense. This is why troops were invented. One mass with another mass and so, began America's journey into higher and more lethal masses of power to overcome the mass it fears the most, the Sunday Mass in the First Church of Revolution! Look how the Pentagon is being tested by some anonymous group who wants to challenge the Pentagon Establishment. I did not know Pentagon officials refer to themselves as a the 'Reservation' until I heard it from their PR man. Incidentally, if the Pentagon is reading this do something about the PR man not looking like a Private Equity Firm Capitalist dressed in $1000 suits!
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  4241. Poland is the gateway into Russia, and the US has a new military base there. The price and the ongoing costs of running 900 military bases on foreign soil leave the American people destitute and in debt in perpetuity. A military base at the entrance way to Russia. Poland is where Napoleon and the Nazis launched their invasions into Russia. If Gabard comes through it would be a relief of tantamount historical importance to the American people.
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  4242. You’ll never see Joy Reid of MSNBC out there on the street with her fake blonde hair covering this action.
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  4243. those were full EV not hybrids. @proviib 
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  4244. Good speech Rand...the America First Gang are giving the American people the middle finger because they want to see regime change in Russia and will use Ukraine to do it.
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  4245. Classic case of killing the messenger and the issuer of the sexism and racism is left intact. The good thing about Fox is that it they are a motivator for the left, since the left has no motivation of its own. Take Fox away and the left goes to sleep again. I think the goal is to get corporations to fall from power not help Fox's competition win Fox's advertisers. Stop taking your kids to Disney Movies. Box office sales slump they will advertise more heavily on Fox. Box office sales slump again. They will advertise more heavily again. Box office slumps. Disney goes bankrupt. Do you really care to save a fantasy or expose your kids to early racist and sexist socialization when the fantasy produced by Disney is imbued with subtle racist and propaganda? When they figure out what happened to Disney all the other companies and corporations will withdraw from Fox and Fox goes out of business. If you cannot see the racism and sexism in Disney then you are one of these two things yourself, or both and do not realize it.
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  4246. The strategy that has to happen is one that gets rid of the same type of business management that plagues our school system and work. Bell driven Pavlovian social conditioning. People lay in bed for weeks to months because hospitals don’t have to buy the equipment that makes no money for them. You think ventilators are a capital idea? No profit in it. But the bed is being paid for by an insurance carrier who will bill that patient when they get discharged and probably die of a stroke at the bill. The government is useless because it is has no sense of obligation to society as it once did, those values were cut down to a bone, that elected officials believe they are CEOs; are no going to spend tax dollars on helping patients get the equipment they need, cheapest way out of this was to develop a vaccine. Vaccines is working but it works to keep the systems going not to make us healthy and where the poor nurses are the most exploited on the front line the management dumps the work of three nurses on one nurse to save on labor expenses, including doctors, who in this country, are a materialistic lot, leave the nurses to deal with abandoned and isolated human beings bed bound. Private health care system s a death delivery system if you are a patient and if you are not a patient but need help well you should be aware that is the fault of delaying and dragging their feet on this pandemic early on because business is involved where it should not be involved, namely, health. Health is not end in itself because at the same time it is not health, its business that has nothing to do with health. Purposely killing human beings because it is not profitable is immoral and criminal and when health is profitable human beings get sick that 99% of all deaths in this country is due to the Health Establishment. Following them the next big killers are Big Oil, Big Government, Big Military, all destructive forces in their later stages of growth from their earlier days of being constructive. They now threaten the Planet! Don’t believe me? Look around.
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  4247. The disappearance of species and plant life is threatened by people who are in denial of their particular behavior of consuming objects for sale on an infinite basis. One car does not last a lifetime in societies of this kind, rather, because cars are made as objects for sale one lifetime consumes 10 cars.
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  4248. The only ones not in debt are the capitalists. When the economy crashes and politicians want to resuscitate capitalism the only class that has the capital are the capitalists. Do you think they will invest their capital to start up the economy when the politicians try to get it from them, and by what means will they tax the rich, when the rich refuse to pay and the president refuses to step down from power, which is highly likely to happen, there is no institution powerful enough to extract the wealth from the super rich to restart an economy shattered and loaded with debt. No buyers and stocks falling in price no more capital going back into the cities and infrastructure and the bonds come due, who pays? We saw this happen with Greece and the capital borrowed from the central bank of Europe was money the capitalists acquired from tax breaks re-lent to government with interest. Liberty bonds raised the capital for a war effort not for the investment and development of industry and jobs. This would have been a way out of the crisis without the banks in rebuilding an economy away from the situation of people and governments in deeper debt than in 1929. When it happens again, the next crash, will the working people of America resist paying the debt and how will they defend that position?
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  4249.  @joycekoch5746  It will have to be a life-changer and a lifestyle changer in the aftermath of a collapse. Roman Empire was a slave society, it could not survive. America is a capitalist society with a higher level of productive forces. It can survive. The productive forces in America are high enough to support a socialist society without a fall in the standard of living of the working class. May not be to the standard of the upper ruling social classes but they have nothing to do with the production of the economic surplus. They don't work. A person of this class will have to search deep for the soul of new society that requires a new attitude in them about humanity. Humanity is not their exclusive servant might be too hard an adjustment for the whole social class of ruling elites to take but that is just too bad. The US is fortunate that it can afford a true affluent society. Why it prefers to demean and undercut itself by not even trying for an affluent and egalitarian material society and show the world the way, is all low functioning and low self-esteem playing itself out in candidates, politics and institutions, in my opinion.
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  4250. Shame to the shameless is as impossible as seeing weight in a loaf of bread or gravity in a rock.
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  4251. Astonishing is that the Senators are ignorant or timid to assume their role as regulators of the production of systems that are used against the population.
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  4252. All we need is a president who understands that contained in Capital ($$$) is a wage-labor relationship with capital, and that this is the main form human work takes place in society and in the world today. So far not since FDR no such luck. The mega-corporations understand about themselves envision a world of standardization, preferably a world economy without nations, is a plan for the future of the world economy that suits their needs has us playing a role facilitating our own demise? How? By what means? How are we a part of our own standardization? What becomes of the wage-labor relationship in that standardization process as more of the human labor in the world takes the form of a wage-labor relation? In case you have not noticed there are not many societies left who are reproducing themselves by peasant labor. Hired labor has become the dominant form of how work takes place for 2 billion people on the planet. This is a God send for American Capital if not for the rising standard of living for working people in a few competing nations, reflecting how cheap they would pay for labor, to have the world only work when hired and the only job creators around are the mega-corporations. The president we need is one who treats the wage-labor relationship within that mega-corporate plan with respect and ensures its dignity as a social class made up of human beings. That corporate plan has set into motion certain tendencies compelling us in ways we do not even realize moving us into a system of standardization.
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  4253. Great and truthful, objective summation Jimmy.
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  4254. The difficulty is in the fact that all of us live in a world of objects trading places and changing hands between multiple subjects through a circulation process of money and commodities, that it is difficult to tell the real value of things, and in capitalism, all objects are produced for sale, making the sale to the average citizen of a capitalist state the main way to survive in society and purpose in life, which is the exact opposite of the real relationships between industries and private producers in society. If you look on youtube; even Jamarl is producing an object in the form of critical journalism just like the guy on youtube who teaches us how to recharge our batteries using salt and boiling water is producing something useful and adds to the total wealth of society, their relationship to each other is a use-value exchange in the form of information. Capitalism is based on one act, the sale, sell more and you enrich yourself is as deep as a capitalist is as a person. To buy and sell the language of money is the only language you need. People for sellers are all potential buyers and people who are buying see people only as sellers. People exist for each other for the sale. While the producers are there for each other for self-development and enrichment, are more interesting people, they develop powerful inventions, ideas, products, and grow through experience from the interchange with each other and those who watch, listen and learn. Capitalism cannot handle a person like this. The society that is based on exchange expels creativity from the market.
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  4255. I see.
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  4256. Isn’t it obvious that the War Crimes Commission unable to discern a war crime in the destruction of the necessities of life, a war crime itself? What is a war crime if the absolute decimation of the means of life is not a war crime, is stealing a pack a cigarettes to sell on the street the only crime, considered a war crime? All the social institutions and their leaders/representatives, talk like angels over pinheads, of the decimation of the lives of the working classes whether it is from the pandemic or from invasions and regime changes in societies.
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  4257. I've been watching Fox News getting all disturbed over Warren and Bernie's tax plan. The government is coming in asking for 2% from excess earnings of $50 million and if you earn more than a billion it is taxed at 3% per year. I did the numbers because Fox was screaming like banshees that this was a confiscation tax! It comes to 75,000 families will be affected by Bernie's and Warren's tax plan, only .0002% of the 332 million people. Over ten years $2.75 trillion in revenue is expected from this percentage of taxation on 75,000 families is not bad at all and they are still left with 98% of their $50 million annual income. So where is the beef Fox? It is true we are all taxed twice, once when we earn income, ie., payroll taxes and again when we buy certiain kinds of goods, houses and cars, we pay i.e., property taxes. To that complaint I'll hand it to Fox. But we have been taxed twice since before Warren and Bernie were born. Nothing new or exceptional about property taxes on homes and cars. Nothing to scream about Fox. Also, Fox gets no credit for not accounting the yearly growth rate of total GDP that makes 2% a relative minor tax. But there is a kind of property that does not pay a tax, i..e, Stocks and Bonds. Stocks and bonds are exempt of taxation and 10% of the population owns 80% of all stocks and bonds. In effect, these are the people really escaping taxation. Ironically, they pay more to hedge fund managers who charge the rich 2% a year of the value of assets and 20% of how much assets go up. The 2/20 rule hedgefund managers like Mitt Romney use. The government only wants 2% not 20% hedge fund managers charge the super rich. So its a joke, they just do not want to pay the tax is their reason and motive for screaming like cry babies about taxation on property with mouths wide open.
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  4258. It will only lead to a new form of crime. Stores will get stolen another way. The Bill only stops this way of stealing from stores. Thieves will figure out a new way. What the thieves want is the money the goods fetch in a black market. The goods themselves they can care less about. The theft is a purchase next comes the sale. Goods fall out of circulation but money stays in circulation and wherever people are without money they go where the money is. All this Bill will do is play the game of Whack-A-Mole! If kidnapping is a lesser offense and the profit is high enough they will kidnap. Now you have a kidnapping problem in society. The political leadership are incompetent and are a part of what makes the cycle of crime endless.
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  4259. If you can make it downtown where law enforcement is concentrated in the subway you’ll be safe the problem is getting there. Good report. What do I think? I think the future is not here yet for me to speculate, I’d rather be where the present and the past converge.
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  4260. What a measly share of the economic surplus children of the working class are allocated by America’s national bourgeoisie...deplorable...tax austerity measures and cuts, and puts the working class far behind where they should be!
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  4261. Coumo=Careerism. Voluntarism and careerism are the two social attributes of American institutions enabling corruption. Corruption is free to consume the economic surplus voluntarism creates in free labor and life becomes too sweet breeds greed and corruption and rewards careerism.
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  4262. Old news. Trump turning the table around, gaslighting the public and using the press.
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  4263.  @Rossie123able  Wrong thinking about our social problems is a problem that keeps our country sliding backwards, the rest of the world moves forward, and we lose out, though not by your own fault but there a point where one has to be responsible enough to not be a follower of false thinking and the best way to do that is to really study the situation.
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  4264.  @YT4Readers  Absolutely, fighting against the forms of terror associated with the west. Resistance is rooted specifically on the conversion and overthrow of older forms of existence for the sake of western expansion particularly finance and industrial capital, ---absolutely, the world is moving toward the direction of freedom from what the west propagates as democracy is in reality forms of terror and repression in countries you think are backward in their direction, is symbolic thinking of denial of the decline of the west. But from where you sit the terror is relative. Dresden Germany currently, a hostage situation unfolds after a massive police raid and arrest of far right extremists, the Jan 6th Oath keepers and extremist elements in the US military, police, mass shooting in schools, high infant mortality rate, infanticide, kidnappings, suicides, mass gun proliferation, anti-semitism, anti- immigrants, repression of women, Roe v Wade, 23 states with eh death penalty, are not obvious forms of terror the perpetrators are not ready or willingly ready to admit, is backwardness.
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  4265. Money is used to replenish the value of the buildings, machines, roads, bridges etc., for an expansion of production. This is the investment of additional capital the infrastructure bill represents, the fresh investment results in higher profits and this results in an increase in the personal consumption of those profits, the part of the investment capital that works the machines, buildings, and bridges, in the next turnaround when the first investment finishes its cycle to start a new one from the profits of the prior quarter the workers are laid off. Contraction of the labor-market is the unintended consequence that never gets resolved but rather intensifies a class struggle over the greater personal consumption of profits that gets in the way of the investment expanding value with an increase in output to lower costs and labor time, rather the workers are made to work longer as an imposition to support a wealthier few.
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  4266. Biden did what he can to save the Dollar but saw it would not be possible to stop the rise of developing economies who combined surpass the GDP of all G7 nations. India is expected to grow by 6%, Russia by 5%, China by 6%, other nations can participate in trade without buying dollars while the G7 nations average a 3% GDP are struck by inflation and high rates of unemployment and shrinking markets.
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  4267.  @ryanbailey8588  and...your point is?
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  4268.  @ryanbailey8588  ...only because it is the only area of the economy Americans still have influence but practical problems prevent that influence from going further, like it is cheaper to buy a Haweii phone than an Apple phone. The practical side of life is no longer reliable coming out of the US that so many countries join the belt and road initiative for that practicality, real solutions to real problems, and the mood in the world changed from okay we will do as you say to we don’t care what you say.
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  4269. Yes, against the common man but I feel Carlson has an interest other than the interest of the common man in exposing the Establishment, namely, the far right of the republican party the Freedom Caucus’s interest in taking down the Establishment.
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  4270. America’s secret police are the FBI.
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  4271. Vivek is wrong. He is right on his definition on democracy but wrong on his practice of democracy as shown in this room. There wasn’t an open debate. A back and forth but not a debate. He was challenged and should have debated with the protester. He should have put down the microphone or pass the mic over the protester. Following the exchange the audience would vote by a mere show of hands which debater made the strongest case. Why debates are not debates in America has to do with the fear of being wrong and a fear of a majority that debates are controlled one-sidedly.
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  4272. Shows how much of a puppet Boris and Zalenski are for NATO and by proxy the US State Department. More importantly, the actions prove expansion to the east is more important than the lives of everyday Ukrainians and Americans.
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  4273. The 19th century was torturous for women and apparel, OMG! Wonderful presentation and historical narration. Learned so much.
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  4274. Significant but it is missing an apology. How can you not apologize for a legacy as stained as slavery? Not only does the mind need reconciliation against slavery but the heart must cry for the dignity of the deceased slaves. It is a moment when the candle of wounds can be be blown out and the skin of the past can be shed, woven into a closed book. Shameless UK.🤔
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  4275.  Scott Wilson  am an expert on that subject. Slavery in Antiquity was not chattel slavery as it was in the southern states of the US Slave Confederacy. People could get out of slavery in Antiquity. You did not know this. Mohawk, Sioux, Aztec, Egyptians, Romans, Greece, slavery was a real stage of human development and appeared all over the world. How it appears in the modern age is not the same. I don’t think you know this, do you? India’s enslaves women and girls through marriage and there are 44.5 million slaves of which 15. 2 million are boys and girls. Most of them are in the US and Europe.
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  4276. I disagree wth Griswald. If I am not mistaken and I am not the amendment forbids an official hold public office when charged and found guilty. Trump was not charged and not convicted. It appears the people in government against Trump participating in elections read what they want to read from the amendment and end up on the wrong side violating his rights to be on the ballot as a citizen. If he engaged in insurrection it would be complete here say as no witnesses testified and Congress did not convict Trump of an insurrection. Griswald is really saying his supporters are a danger to this country because Trump has this enormous following.
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  4277. I am curious why the CIA would send a warning to Russia about this attack if Russia is such an adversary to the US? I am wondering if Putin dismissed the warning for the same reasons I am questioning it. Question a warning that comes from the most infamous organization in the world for espionage and sabotage is a perfectly logical thing to do but this may be the one and only time the CIA told the damn truth! How ironic is that? If the CIA is right and Russia’s forces are not inside Russia to defend itself I can imagine Putin being pretty disturbed and not knowing where the attacks come from makes the world less safe when a leader is surrounded by hostile forces. He did say he would use nuclear weapons to defend Russia.
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  4278. Excellent diagnosis GEP...and wages are the only commodity whose price will not go up! ...all other commodity prices will rise but not the price the employers pay to get people to work for them... Understanding why a ‘double standard” exists is to understand the double role workers are cast to play in the US class system. Workers do the work itself; but it is the surplus value they create through work, employers want to buy at a fixed price in exchange for higher productivity outputs. Bessent is telling the US labor force, the employers are not going to pay wages higher than they are now... ...consumption costs per individual in society will cost you and I more to live because industries returning to produce in the US will have a higher capital costs producing in the US...the result of leaving the US and coming back to an age old outdated system that cannot outdo China...the answer block China or defeat in a war and buy labor power cheap at home... two economic realities in a head on collision... for the employers...the only commodity part of that capital cost of the employers that can be lowered is labor-power...the economic reality for employees...millennial workers of ages 30 and 40 + years old...are being told they will never afford property for the creation of generational wealth in their lifetime, and the lifetime shortens, are radical ankle bracelets on the legs of millennials in society told they will not be a class member in this society, told they are a loss of humanity, nothing left but to redeem themselves through a total redemption of humanity. We must encourage this generation told they will become the desperate who have nothing left to lose,--- a world awaits them win they win. ...
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  4279. All American corporations are too big too fail and too big they over power society. America does not have the type of government to restrain capital. The promises of corporations to regulate themselves are hallow and the government has been made too weak to regulate corporations.
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  4280. Nice. Biden is the only president who has done something (he can do more) for the American people who are not the super rich and mighty in over 50 years. He restrains the banks from charging you higher late fees.
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  4281. Weird.
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  4282. It makes more sense to approach depression wherever it appears as a chronic disorder. Depression is always there its happiness and joy that are not always there that is the problem. The scheme of privatizing health perpetrates a scheme of normalizing the disease for the sake of business. Sick people is good for business, its healthy people who are no good for privatizing a disease for services unless they own it and likely they do
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  4283. When Mitch McConnell dies a whole new breed of republicans will take over the GOP. Right now they are a side show but never underestimate a rival in their infancy is my motto. Democracy remains unbowed and unbroken; outside of Washington democracy means a World Economy of Rules. Who’s rules is being worked out. 1. Restoring the middle class puts the small business owner on Biden’s economic radar for growth and expansion. 2. Semi-conductor development fell from 40% to 10% production legislation raises that capacity. 3. The Supply Chain begins in America is not so rosy a picture new workplaces come into being through dangerous hazards. Old workplaces remain old. But the landmark legislations do unleash the power of American capital. The problem is monitoring and regulating Capital. All construction material made in America, a re-industrialization of the US economy works for rural workers. Congress is unanimous about not cutting social security. TAXATION: There many ways to slice the pie. Taxing the corporations and the rich for their fair share would be less of an issue if there were no war spending resources that could be spent on the economy is the one important relationship Americans should think about. Every dollar spent on Defense slows down social progress in the domestic economy. There are holes in the new democratic line and there are places that will continue to suffer from policies, rational in their conception and irrational in their practicality, holding workers hostage to employers through non-compete contracts is one of them. The hazards in and outside of the workplace is another. Crucial offices whose jobs are to make society safe are compromised. Union development, paid family sick care, child tax credit, are rational policies. But when the fruits of labor deprive labor, rationality cannot work. Productivity has risen for the last 45 years per worker but what fell is the number of hours per worker worked as a consequence of automation. Automation is not recognized as the groundwork for material affluence. Automation should not be excluded as a Value Creating Force. It creates Free time when automation cannot be used to lengthen excess working time. The fruit of less time to make all the things people need to live a decent level of material comfort s denied to the worker who needs to earn a wage from two employers and not one.
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  4284. So,---they scan your face and identity and everything is automated replacing people of a job, and all the necessaries needed to watch a football game is charged to you like a EZ Pass bills you later for going through a toll. Do you know how many people have points on their license because the contracted toll collection service never sent you the bill? Millions.
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  4285. The rectangular yellow gridded object was funded by “existing maintenance resources”...bureaucrats are true killers of the English language. It take it that means they took money from Paul to pay Peter.
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  4286. Shut up! Ari, and get a job related to your education.
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  4287. Congress and this media does nothing to cover the illegal trafficking of guns in the US...there are a lot of bad actors out there...supplying guns to traffickers and the policing of this illegal trafficking is weak or turns a blind eye. Not that this is how this kid got his guns but this is how guns proliferate in society. There are more guns than there are people n America, right now.
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  4288. What are those cadets in West Point being taught?  America has never won war and yet they keep trying. America is an economically powerful failed state that should be working on making real leaders to get us out of this muck.
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  4289. Drought hardens the ground but I do understand NASA has a machine that cools down the jet engines of their space ships when blasting off. That machine looks like its 5 stories high and half a city block wide is capable of producing rain clouds, I saw the machine in a very excellent video collection called 'Your Daily Dose of Internet', on You tube and you can find it there too as proof of what I am saying. It is an incredible device built by the American people but apparently not for them! My question to the American people why do your governor(s) not call in NASA's machine to fight drought and fires? It isn't a national security concern if its on the Internet,---so what explains the machine sitting in a government warehouse when it was built to create water by mixing the same chemicals nature mixes to produce rain, why Damn it!
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  4290. Blinken should be FIRED! He is purposely triangulating a conflict with Iran and concretizing an alliance between the US, UK and Israel versus the World!
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  4291. I only have four points to make: 1. War and exploitation are hand in hand the exploiters get richer when people are unstable and/or at war,--- to survive people work double hard. When they work double hard they are producing double the amount of material wealth that comes out of a mine or an oil well. Exploitation has a double role in this way of working to meet human needs, it 1.,creates a permanent demand for products that even if there is a huge supply the price stays high for the sheer magnitude of the profit margin from what it cost to get oil or minerals out of the ground....and 2., it is a bastardization of Planned Obsolescence of products that the policy of destruction of products perpetuates the demand for products makes it inevitable societies lose their agricultural and industrial growth to become full blown consumer societies like America. 2.The French economist is right to expose exploitation as the foundation of western policies but wrong to not condemn the foundation as immoral,--- if the flow of profits from the periphery is to continue flowing to the center the nations on the periphery must not develop their productive forces or the richest class in the center accruing all the proceeds have labor to exploit and it dies. 3. The COVID period showed there was no profit being made because the relationships of exploitation between people and between nations was halted by a pandemic. As soon as people started working again, and nations began to restock the shelves from barges parked offshore and when Trump said we can’t let the economy become the disease, prices on the market restarted their climb accruing profits with the resumption of work and exploitation, price is therefore dependent on exploitation, and markets are not created if people can live off what they produce independently, they have no need for modern products and do not have to buy them spells disaster for nations who depend on labor to exploit for their wealth. 4. The history of the British colonizing India, forebodes the future of Africa, when drilling and mining came into the country India was forced to destroy most of its native handicraft industries for British capitalist demanding free labor to hire for the mines and operate the machines. This demand ripped out from under billions of Indians their own industries coupled by drought and mass starvation, social progress in that country was delayed far into the 21st century. The only country that resolved this conflict between city and country, industry and agriculture, blended the two economies to be compatible parts of a total economy is China.
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  4292. Embassies are places where devious plots are conceived and take place. Nasty business.
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  4293. @M Shaw...very nice play on words and good form for a message of dissent.
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  4294. On the wall behind Medea Benjamin is a Marc Chagall painting, whether it is original or not is questionable. But if original that is quite a fortune on the wall of Medea Benjamin.
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  4295. Religion is a serious problem for societies. If it were kept to its faith and not tax exempt religion could not grow to become a political force in society. We would not have the breed of people who’s condemn all religions for not being the one true religion. The world of humanity has been engulfed in the myst enveloped regions of the religious mind forever. “ Will the real God please stand up?” A True Wizard, Todd Rundgren 1973. Westerners have sought out religions not finding a truth in their own religions. Captain Ahab was a religious zealot aboard the Peaquad. John Brown the Abolitionist was a land Ahab zealot. The Koran, the Bible, most widely read books in the world. The Communist Manifesto enjoys the privilege of being the third most widely read book in the world. Because not all the world’s people find truth in thought, there are billions who find truth does not depend on thought.
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  4296. She admits she owns 100 private jets. All the high profile celebrities travel by private jet. Celebrities, politicians, military junkets, are high carbon emitters. Jet fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions is very high. Greta’s hypocrisy is the hypocrisy of the social class she belongs. Question I have in this age of Zoom why even travel? One Zoom seminar shot live can reach billions of people. Reach the masses through live feed about mass consumption emitting high carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through our daily work and industry, commerce, trade and transportation by no choice of our own, we are changed by the environment as the environment changes us, and as all these systems work in opposition to our needs and independently of our control in the present legal systems of representative governments, fail...this means the people have to take charge of general production.
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  4297. With fires in the northwest, drought in the southwest, flooding in the southeast of the US and Europe sweltering in heat the trip to an oil-producing nation proves just how more important an oil fix is over the health of the planet to the US economy.
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  4298. America may yet see the resurrection of a new Confederacy in Missouri Republicans who do nothing but criminalize the black community. Well,--- in order to get to the place Martin Luther King Jr., dreamed it will take a struggle. They are not going to give black and brown working class people the perfect world King dreamed about. They are doing the exact opposite of the Utopia in King’s Dream and making a dystopic Apartheid State to separate the races. All black and brown, yellow, white and red people have to acknowledge they are all part of the working class. If they own a small business or they work for hire they belong to this one large social group ruled by the State and a class of employers. All workers face wall to wall social carpeting of employers from which there is no escape. If you flip the set up around all employers can escape any worker. Workers are victims of being forced into a corner to accept terms and conditions they dislike but also recognize and acknowledge workers are the future masters of society and perhaps this is what King’s dream was about. The new ruling class will be the working class and the poor. Bible says: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth. It did not say the poor, the working class and the meek have to be black, or brown to be poor and meek. It did not have a blueprint either. It did not give any details. In a general way it alludes to the tools that make a civilization will be taken out of the hands of the State and commerce and State and commerce will be run by the meek who do all the work. This is a thought that drives the capitalists absolutely insane with reaction. They wonder how will this happen with unfit and inferior minded working class people? To know how is to change the way we look at society. Change the way we deal with injustice in society. Change or reject the way religion or socialists deal with the injustices in society.
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  4299. Something is more wrong with the institution that decorated the three star general. Flynn has been inside this social structure for decades and managed to rise to a high level general begs the question of the validity of the institution itself.
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  4300. Was he Ukrainian?
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  4301.  @kensmith5694  I am aware of his condition in particular. It is not he who I care to criticize but America in general. The art of speaking to a mass of people in general is a lost art. And masking the mouths of your children further impediments speech development. If you are concerned with Biden’s impediments wait till you hear this elementary school generation when they grow up.
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  4302.  @kensmith5694  Post facto peer review studies are emerging now. However, since speech development occurs in the future in human beings and the future is not here yet any peer review study is speculation as to the impact of muzzling one’s mouth in their formative years of development. As with any muscle when you don’t use it you lose it. That is one issue the other issues you present are sociological in nature. Art, civics, music, public speaking, hygiene, sex education, home economics are not taught because these skills promoted the development of a higher functioning individual during an age when economies were agrarian and industry produced for use, not exclusively for exchange, that a higher functioning individual has become antithetical to economies based on this one single act for survival.
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  4303. I will say this... Constitutional Republics are no longer appropriate for the world of technology we live. Technology and industrial capacity far surpasses anything our founding father’s ever conceived that it is really no longer necessary to have a representative body to do all the thinking for us when it comes to formulating national and international policy. You get a link on your phone and you are patched into Congress. Congress debates the bill. The Public votes Yea or Nay. If one segment of society wants a greater share of the budget they have to make their case to the Public. Time the people direct start making America a better society. Another style, method, model, call it what you like, the opposite of the elite style of existence. If constitutional republics were to be dissolved tomorrow I wouldn’t sweat it knowing that the productive forces of society are ready to handle any and every situation with real solutions to concrete problems. Be a different story if this were the 17th Century.
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  4304. It would not surprise me that the Chinese migrants are really supported by Chinese churches in the US in their trek here. A Chinese Underground Railroad. COVID crackdown had something to do with them leaving but it is not the primary cause for their flight to the US as narrated in this video.
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  4305.  @robertdickerson8195  But in leaving the teaching field the military becomes the alternative and wars are the future of the kids you left behind. You’d rather let fascism destroy your public schools than fight fascism in your town is what you are saying.
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  4306. Afghanistan is the footnote that became the subject for the last chapter of the American Empire. What is ridiculous is Biden's VP prancing all over Asia firing threats to China while it cannot conduct an evacuation. If you are thinking of joining the military and are sent to China you better think twice about enlisting. With an evacuation record the US has, you may never see home again!
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  4307. I tell you this...never receiving but always giving is to be a cursed person, place or thing. US Schools take in a population, trains and educates a whole new workforce and private business takes the final product paid for by society when they actively seek employment at 18. Common practice in religious institutions is to get them young. It is a sweet deal for the employers of America to get them so young, they can be shaped, impressionable, easy targets, and eager, they are inexperienced in the world of business, that to keep the influx of migrants as it is and make no changes to it would be the position employers in connection to America’s immigration. They would support the current state of affairs as is. The general social set up allows for a particular future acquisition of wealth. Products are de-regulated in how they are made and how they are sold it would not be any different in labor-markets where the product is a person and the commodity is their labor-power. Employers are tasked with the assignment to extract a given amount augmented value in a given period of time makes the whole educational process and training a conditioning process of becoming subservient to the clock that learning anything more is a distraction from this single aim. Employers get to hire future workers which translates into higher profits as jobs offer less in salary and wages. Who benefits is not this future workforce. This we know from past patterns of behavior the last batch of migrants to come have been value producers for 45 years and are still not citizens.
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  4308. Cases like this ruin a town and should be tried in a federal court.
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  4309.  @leannem4342  One week, unless you are rich...you have one week and all your patriotic fervor will go up in smoke clearing the view...once prices go up it goes down with a fight. It does not come down because employers have a heart.
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  4310. If the car was used as a weapon. Than the human body was used as a weapon. Not the victim's body; alive he was using the car as a means of escape which made the car not a weapon but a means, and when the cops using their bodies surrounded the car to apprehend him the car became a weapon not because of the driver but due to the police using their bodies and lethal accessories to apprehend the driver the closer to a car you get the more the car becomes a moving car becomes a weapon. The weapons are the human being behind the armor as well as the car alternately between the ends and means was used by the driver. The greater force was the constancy of force used by the police and the power behind that force the bodies and minds of human beings was done by choice, will, volition, not by Order were they to kill but an Order interpreted as a license to kill became the modus vivendi. Prosecutor chose to save these cops. The next case the cops will be sacrificed as the pendulum goes back and forth between a sentence and an acquittal. The emotions of the public are toyed with by this truly wretched legal system that upholds the victim and victimizer relationship as something personal.  If the legal system does not operate to punish the victim and victimizer in rotating terms it loses its position as a referee in the conflict between civil society and law enforcement. If the legal system of Family, Property, and State Law loses is credibility and authority what other agency becomes the arbiter of class and social conflicts in society? The dominant corporations, the military and the public are the only three agencies capable of taking society forward in some way. The problem in America with the three agencies is that none of them are in shape intellectually to take on the task and lead society if the legal system broke down. A social paradox of enormous consequences for the survival of this republic is this intellectual ineptness among the social classes and the only remedy is a mass democratic intervention. Wouldn't life be better if the social conflicts were addressed finally and put behind us. This would transform the legal system from punitive to positive.
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  4311. Suicide is a violation of the law but you cannot prosecute a corpse. Why would it be against the law to take your own life in America? This family or someone in it perpetrated a murder-suicide of the entire family. A self-extermination of the family; a massacre.
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  4312. Too many western and eastern nations are older, Japan, Italy, Poland, Germany, China, Philippines, that even if they had kids now despite late in their 60s’ these societies where the capitalist system of production rules cannot wait 30 years for that new workforce to come about. Low birth rate and a higher mortality rate is a deadly combination for business. Money must make more money now not tomorrow! These nations are losing their investment base, tax base, and their workforce to a shrinking working class. Many of these nations are led by pro-nationalist forces opposing immigration and that position accelerates a shrinking of the workforce, and the closest historical example we have when a society had to put in place a new economic model to overcome aging and death, in order to preserve civilization as we know it, was in Germany in the 1840s, a very nasty period. Bannon is a nationalist. Not the only nationalist on earth. Most governments are nationalists. Being first which is what each nation thinks, does and acts has inside them a social class that puts itself first, and together the decline is inexorable and rapid. America is no exclusion to the same process of aging, low birth rate, aging population, in need of a new economic model to avoid a total demographic collapse of society.
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  4313.  @neovxr  You people need to go after the commissions set up in your states who decide bogus supply charges you can find listed on the back of your electric bill. The level of cronyism of state bureaucracies is fleecing the homeowner, renter, producer and consumer, robbing you blind. These guys talking about Washington politics is not going to make your life any better. Frankly, your reply comment makes no sense to me anyway.
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  4314. Very important to be and talk to your children like they are people so they find who they are early in life and not have them rely on the imperfect society we live to find who they are.
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  4315. This video is propaganda. If 1. 6 million were on the brink of starvation before this crisis than why are the World Food program’s warehouses fully stocked with food, secondly, empty hospital wards with beds as the only medical piece equipment in the room does not give doctors much to work with does it?
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  4316. American working people need to take action as a class with a plan not as individuals. A full economic new plan is in order. A big investment like that going through Congress will increase productivity and add to the already existing over flow of goods bringing in stagnation and joblessness. Productivity is so high it has become the nation’s impediment. Legislating America’s economic inequities no longer work. Congress lost the chance when the timing was right to socialize critical parts of the economy. The high prices to come are a result of this productivity and reflect how little value America’s products contain than when they come to market the prices are a blow to all but especially the working poor, who’s not enough income buys even less goods. The value of food, homes, consumer and industrial products has fallen over the last 75 years owing to American productivity that in this financial system to exchange the same amount of things a family needs to survive more and more money is needed when all the market controls in place start to unravel and unleash the real price equivalents to goods will be shocking!
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  4317. Yes, at high elevations there is snow. But snow in the lowlands is due to global warming. The cycle of water, i.e, the Hydrological Cycle is changed and the Jet Stream with it, bringing water to low elevations. Flooding where it never flooded, drying where it never dries, warm where it should be cold and cold where it is warm is climate change changing us as we change the environment.
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  4318. Employers hate working Americans they keep cutting jobs, family leave and wages. This is war on the working person.
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  4319. Happy to hear the US Ambassador calling to re-open talks with China. This is a possible indication that the State Department is growing up. Better smell the coffee as China has become the dominant economic power in Asia and in the world.
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  4320. Very critical time that all people become anti-war. The choice is species-extinction by nature or by human annihilation. War continues to degrade our environment eliminating vital species of insect and plant life humans cannot live without that to be pro-war is to be self-annihilating.
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  4321. The masses love comedians who stick it to the Man. You understand. Comics should poke more fun at the logic of the rulers not the rulers themselves.
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  4322. I never liked didactic lectures.
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  4323. You got proof of un-vaccinated staff still working in hospitals? Where is your evidence for these claims or are you just making this up as you go along?
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  4324. Looks like migrant gangs are marking out their turf.
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  4325. Now that working people are beginning to wake up after decades of trying to alleviate their misery. Trying everything from the use of chemical shortcuts, and alternative living and lifestyles, drugs, alcohol, obsessive compulsive sexual deviance and other weird forms of consciousness, Yoga, escapism, cosplaying, --you name it America’s got it, the House Republicans complicit with the democrats want to change social security and prolong the working day with the aid of all employers; they fear they are losing their control over society as result of a venal and corrupt police system that cracks the glass onion of capitalism. Its over NBC and your role in playing the part of spreading propaganda is over too! Fear, fear and FEAR of losing the privileged status and all the wealth possess drives them to tighten the screws, which will only hasten their end. My advise, give it up peacefully.
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  4326. “Remarkable Journey”, something definitely wrong with this story and there is more to it not being revealed. There are a total of 336 Universities in Afghanistan as of June 15, 2024 serving a population of 42 million people. Why would this person or any other Afghan trek 8000 miles to the US to get an education?
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  4327.  @peacecandidate2565  Is that the secret of life, blood? If blood did not age we would not age...I wonder?
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  4328. The Disintegration of Education in America.
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  4329. UBI is useless if power is cut off and it cannot be accessed by the recipient after it is deposited in a bank. All the UBI money would fatten the books of the banks with more value they are truly worth. Think, man.
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  4330.  @bobbucks  I am saying without power you cannot access your money from the bank. But the bank can report all that uncollected UBI money in banks people cannot access reflected in their bank ratings as having more assets than liabilities on their books. UBI would be the way to go if you did not have banks, corporations and large landowners, super rich. The Rich who never use their own money because it is cheaper to borrow. Fatten not flattening is the word you misread. To make obese one's flubber money. You have huge parasites in your economy. The military, large commercial banks, large scale landowners, Wall Street, all of them usurping YOU the TAXPAYER! UBI would change that and that is why UBI won't work, they won't let you have it! Deal with your social class problem first then put in place universal income.
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  4331. Ocean temperatures rise and the heat of water is fuel. 155 miles per hour winds. This is not a freak hurricane. Future hurricanes can only vary from that magnitude and intensity. Recurrence is inevitable. Expect it and build accordingly. People will follow the developers wherever they rebuild. Developers do not build to withstand or shelter people from hurricanes of this magnitude and intensity because it costs too much. And they are not ordered by governments to do it or get out of the developer business. And there is no will of the general public to force government to get tough on developers. This apathy and passivity of the Public constantly calls up strong men, and dictators, who capitalize on sentiments to restrain the profit mongers for them. This will happen again and again until people learn the hard way. Under apathy and passivity we can only be lucky that people prove historical events that people never learn wrong. Our brains have to move from sleep mode and into an active orientation mode of our relationship to the natural world effective immediately! The developers do not live where they build they collect profits from what they build. So all the systems put in place on paper say the Public Interest is first in practice that interest is placed last. In the end, developers are safe and come out richer than they went into a place that has natural beauty of spectacular significance. We as a civilization can only reduce ocean temperature by not adding to it. Who is to decide the architectural needs of humanity the developer who builds tall standing rectangles or the Maya whose architecture was built to withstand and last thousands of years? Ocean temperature has risen and fallen many times during the span of 2000 years and hurricane winds of 155 miles per hour never tore down any of the ancient structures. They built from experience not for profit. Profit builds cheap. Experience builds to last. Nothing a modern builder -developer who builds in this century will stand 2000 years into the future. Their product will be found in fragments buried deep in the ground by future archeologists. Destroyed by great forces of Nature. I think this generation is at the crossroads between do you restrain or take private profit out of the business of building. Do you continue to appease profit makers or do you build for humanity against the great forces of Nature?
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  4332. America does not need United Health Care, it needs Universal Health Care.
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  4333. People should read: “The End of Prosperity: The America Economy in the 1970s”, Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy, Monthly Review Press. The choice is depression and continuous inflation and more instability or make a society that produces for use, and money and finance are reduced to a modest accessories to a rationally planned economy. Obviously, the latter is not a choice the citadels of political power will take America as seen by Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan and Biden’s bellicose threats to an economy that does produce for use in China. The decision was made to choose the former long before this generation was born. In reading the essays documenting the Senate Hearings on the subject in the book cited above; the financial sector capitalists testified there is no solution to restore American prosperity. It would appear the latter is not even a choice as both scenarios spell the end of accumulating into fewer hands of shrinking segments of society the social wealth of the country. The selection of Biden to administer the end of American prosperity in trickle down form was made when the Democrats hit a bump in the road by the name of Trump. Scapegoats of the depression and inflation; higher prices appears as less product for your money,-- is the working class, and on the right the generation inheriting wealth, who will never understand the real source of wealth comes from productive labor not markets, will speed up instability and potentially revolution. A moment that appeared as that revolutionary day scared the daylights of the Democrats when working class rioters stormed the Capitol as the day of the end of their reign over the US empire explains the serious emphasis to prosecute opponents ready to stage putsch rebellions. But further down the road as the misery of the populace increases the staging of putsch rebellions will take on a new form of mass rebellion and overthrow of the political parties in power. When fund drives and telethons to help Americans to deep in their material deprivation cannot supply and meet the needs of the working class the latter choice becomes the only rational and ethical choice in removing leaders with no vision of the future.
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  4334. BLM is no stranger to Left Wing Opportunism. Its what kills a genuine working class emancipation movement and is more often than not thoroughly corrupted by the right wing. Opportunism is fodder for the right wing on which to attack BLM and in doing so damage the working class movement for freedom. Think of the bureaucracy and the creation of a special class of political leaders living well the workers living barely in socialist countries. Its a huge problem for a true working class movement. The class relations in the black population mirror the class relations in the white population. This is why racism cannot be the first battle cry of a revolution because race in a racist society mirrors the class relation of white society. The battle cry must be a class emancipation of the working class, the women who are now the mothers of lost children to police violence must have their own movement that calls for no mother to lose their child to police violence and in that way speak universally against the class system perpetrating that violence.
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  4335. Not baffling when they come to your house with get the painting. Not a pretty situation when the court determines the painting is just another image of the painting citing the home it hung for so long is lost or stolen property the rightful owner can collect on! This is what happens in a society of ‘rights’, individuals turn against each other. Can you imagine how that would flip reality on its head and the social consequences of that upside down reality?
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  4336.  @elmabrooks7417  Two warring sides about how the whole thing began. This side is fiction based on fact and that side is fact based on fiction...news media is leaving out important details for people to ascertain the true history of this debacle.
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  4337.  @999is666upsidedown  ...is covert activity and diversion nothing... in the dead of night 50 billion in missile artillery delivered to Ukraine, ----a detachment of US advisors sent off with a Ukrainian infantry trained in Montana on Patriot Missiles...and the diversion part...is it nothing to not be told what is done in your name... as a national security document scandal diverts and molds your opinion is a two for nothing blow...is 50 k of detonation of a gas pipeline ...an act of nothing?
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  4338. Speculation is fun when it comes to the hand axe connection and sexual reproduction. But frankly, the shape of the tool is not related to sexual reproduction in my view. It is related to its fit in the hand that the shape is universal. The hand determined the shape among all homies across time and three continents. Handy Homies!
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  4339. Rubio 0:23 “...markets are crashing because...markets are based on the stock value of companies, who today are embedded in modes of production that are ‘bad’ for the US.” A lot of concepts in Rubio’s comment that the editing in this video cuts right out. Markets crash when sellers and buyers stop selling and buying...the commodity these people own are not exchanging and not realizing their values in money. Whatever it is people own the contained value of what they own is not converted into cash, circulation stops circulating money and goods that were previously changing hands are now interrupted and slowed down in a tariff war. Tariff war hits hard the nations in the business of selling their own national talent and labor-power. As factory producers and manufacturing centers the commodities that brought them in front of buyers Trump’s tariffs take the buyers away from them, no orders, the factories stand still. Some nations who absolutely cannot afford to pay the tariffs will have to lay off workers waiting for a resumption of trade.
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  4340. Pathologies run a course to their own ruin. Never fails an external agency will do in its creator. Institutionalized settings unveil a hideous monster of social relations based on alienation. Envy of the Creator. Seeing the limits of oneself in a non-worldly Being. God is all powerful because man is powerless. Inevitably, this breed of white males alienated from their own species in the Catholic Church will be devoured by its own institutional pathology. Truly, they swim in shark infested waters.
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  4341. Its the downfall of the monetary system that was imposed by the US on the world market. That monetary system was originally based on equivalents of gold and dollars (at $35 an ounce) as universal money held by member nations. The Dollar would be the monetary reserve currency used as a means of international payment is coming to an end. So let me move on to the “drone” story. What was done to the drone is not likely a lie told by US State Department and it was intentional on the part of the Russian pilot but consider these facts. What would you do if you lost 12 generals because of eavesdropping drones linking a network of NATO forces directing Ukrainian forces on the ground with intelligence...I think you’d take down the drone. War is war why sugarcoat it? If Assault Weapons are banned would the ban apply to the US Military too? And if we ban assault rifles in one country why not ban them from international sale for all countries? I do like Bowman on being loud and making noise, agitation, agitation, agitate! Agitation works.
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  4342. The private sector never bought the test kits as an item kept in stock on their shelves. That shows much consideration and care about their customers and all the consumers in society America’s retailers give a dam! They depend on you as a consumer but you cannot depend on them as a supplier. In a free market society there is no law that says they have to keep the shelves stocked with test kits. Walgreens, CVS, the large pharmacy chains, are free to buy or not buy. They do not have to spend their money if they choose not too. The federal government can’t force them without an act of Congress, but it can step in, and too late, I might add, and state governments are inadequate, they cannot hire or find the workers for clinics. The new variant will deepen and cause millions of defections from the private health care system. Quit and leave. Private sector hospitals don’t have to buy the essentials either. Bernie should run again for president...age is not a factor given all previous presidents are no younger. Bernie, at least, still has a brain and is not bought off.
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  4343. Poor black kids are living under tyranny and fascism in her school during the most important years of her life for development she is instead exposed to Neo-nazi like black cops and principal in what is most likely a black population in the school. Apparently, a teacher in a classroom could not teach the class unless this girl took off her sunglasses. An unnatural condition to impose on a 6 year old. Punish the rest and make her feel responsible the teacher chose to guilt trip the child. I would not want that teacher near my kid , ever! Incompetence of the instructor is why. This was reason enough to have referred to the principals’s office an unruly child,-- she was to be handcuffed, denigrated, treated like an animal. This school doubles as a part time Guantanamo Base. In another school the officer wasn’t even at the meeting that called the kid down to the principals office for threats and had afterwards was able to take the lives of other school kids because the administrators never checked the kid’s bag containing the murder weapon. Incompetence again. This poor child could not even conceive of such a heinous act yet she is treated like an animal as if she was plotting the annihilation of the entire school. There is no doubt I would have been killed or arrested if I were there to witness that abuse. You, ---parents need to stop sending your kids to these fascist little administrators who are running your schools and towns. You need to run them out of town and quick! This only happens where towns and cities are too busy caring about themselves struggling to survive. Little Nazis creep into public positions and use those offices to pick on the weak. Nazis select the frailest, weakest, and make rules for themselves.
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  4344. Don't be a cynic...nobody loves a cynic.
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  4345. The conditions of 2022 were worse than the conditions in 2021, we don’t feel the effect till a year later, food commodity prices will rise.
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  4346.  @shot2x  But what happens to the United Kingdom if Ireland sticks with Great Britain?
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  4347.  @shot2x  Physical location of North Ireland is the real reason it alone benefits no matter which direction the situation goes.
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  4348. If I were to animate the tires, wrenches, nails, and other gear typically used by men they would be clever and cunning, always plotting and planning on how and what to use, to get your attention, to pick them up, fell them, try them and think you need them, --all to get their hands into your pocket. They would study your drives, likes and dislikes, to put themselves in front of you performing the very things they learned about your wants, and needs, the stuff that makes you tick,-- your attention to what is otherwise, a ubiquitous and mundane object such as a light bulb. How do increase the sale of light bulbs in a world of objects more desirable than a bulb? Its through education that women qualify for jobs like this. Jobs that were traditionally male and it is through the job-market filled with new recruits that the beer producers end up hiring more women. There is not much either men or women can do about the changing social composition of the workforce. The workforce was changed by the changes in family life,--- a one family unit that everyone belonged became a multi-family unit that nobody belongs. Socially determined roles that no longer exist can no longer define masculine and feminine in society.
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  4349. People only want a violent overthrow of a government because a transition of power is made impossible by that government. Social force becomes necessary to overthrow a ruling party that refuses to relinquish power. People are not inherently violent, if they were there would not have been 11 years of peace following the overthrow of Samoza in Nicaragua. Democratic outcomes is what they are looking for but the eleven years of peace in which dialogue was feasible had, obviously, never taken place or were insincere attempts aimed at keeping the lid on a social eruption from taking place and continuing the same economic relations causing mass discontent.
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  4350. The McConnell Creed is say no more than you have to.
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  4351. The country was in a state of stupor about racism in the decade of the 1990s, that 20 years later it would surface in a pathological liar and be the natural leader of hardcore extremists instigating a race war.
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  4352. On the other side of the Rainforest destruction under Bolsonaro’s Brazil is the lack of private property under Bolsonaro, forcing workers to work for wages and end up working the property they lost to buyers. Properties they created and had sustained their own existence with their own labor for generations became too expensive to keep. Criminal neglect on both sides of the relation, destruction of Nature and the destruction of private property of the many.
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  4353. Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour no longer undoes increasing economic inequality. Rochester police are criminals and Cuomo is complicit shows the police state is reactive. Birds of a feather flock together. Only a broad unity movement can result in a true affluent and equal society and re-channel the material wealth supporting police politics and structure. Nothing else in America can cut it. Police need to be stripped of having any political power in society. You cannot have stupid people in positions of prime importance to society.
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  4354. These pundits can’t talk about Aid Workers killed by Israel today? Biden’s policy as a covert and primary arms supplier to Israel is an appeasement policy, same as Neville Chamberlain’s Munich Agreement, in particular, which emboldened Hitler and convinced him that he could continue his expansionist policies with impunity.
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  4355. We would have to have a agricultural revolution in America to abolish the practice of slaughtering animals for mass consumption. A major transformation of land ownership and a break up of monopoly farming by the Big Farming Industry in America. The government would have to confiscate land from the monopolies in order to break them up into small farms. Agricultural schools would have to be set up to educate kids farming is a revered occupation. Nutrition and animal husbandry. Society would have to support a new age farmer as a national treasure. Architects would have redesign the town life, buildings, for a diverse range of locally grown vegetables. Transitioning from a system that produces a social product would radically be the end of American monopoly capitalism, where nothing is big anymore. A new system, really a return to an old system but enhanced by science and technology, of individually produced products. Monsanto could be an answer to world hunger avoiding slash burn farming degrading the environment in the poor countries. This is the only way to change the American diet and the diet of the world. This kind of revolution would also end nationalism as foods from all over the world are incorporated into our DNA, we develop affinities with cultures through food, form relationships and marriages. Bodies get developed and we start to develop mind evenly. Less stupid people are born would constitute a real threat to monopoly capitalism. The meat industry as we know it is a profit producing system. It produces a mass product for sale, a piece of merchandise. To the industry it is a piece of merchandise before it is a living being. If society consumed fetuses the meat industry would defend the practice of mass abortions centers the argument that it does not matter what the article is? The article is a commodity first. Its product is tied to a value relation with the GNP. Value works differently today than it did a century ago. If it took longer to make it, the thing would be more expensive, it contains more labor time and value. Its actually the opposite direction that value travels. Each chicken or egg in the market weighs in with its unit price as a smaller digit and decimal amount of GNP costs. They end up selling at a higher price because mass production is not cheap. Its heavy on machinery to farm and produce more chickens and light on labor. America has one farmer per 100 million people that it can feed meat to. This practice consumes a lot of land, a lot of water, a lot of cattle to slaughter for a lot of mouths to feed. Unnecessary when one or two mid-sized farms can yield enough for a million people in a 40 square mile area.
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  4356. It did not happen but these people say it happened so they are compensated as victims that had nothing happen to them by a foreign enemy...in short, they are usurping (in your face) the total economic surplus you produce everyday in America. In the meantime employers and managers accelerate work-processes in their workplaces and KaBoom! Farming, mining, construction, meatpacking, transportation, sectors where people spend most of their lives working are accelerated work processes. The acceleration is to lower the unit price of the product by raising output from 8 hours work to 6 hours work make more product in less time undercutting the competition with a lower price setting a new average price in the market and finally taking the bigger share of the market by selling below the old average price and above the unit price. This is the business model of owners as competitors. Heavy equipment, buildings, bridges, tankers, in every workplace across the US made unsafe with incorporated hazardous raw material into the work processes is a battle field for workers performing the jobs. Machines, automation, technology and science incorporated into a work process work people beyond the point of human endurance. Workplace hazards are never made public for fear workers would resist working conditions and America will look like Europe in month long worker strikes across most industries. They provoke a class struggle and fear the temperature of that struggle from getting hotter. Classic line is “If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen”. Commercial media is controlled; so you are lucky to have this alternative. The public’s attention is to be kept away from the industrial war raging between the workers and the objective conditions of work in our society. Workplace catastrophes keep happening in other sectors of the economy the workers will start to focus their attention on employers. Employers have stacked themselves into a rear defensive guard, a giant wall of employers all doing the same thing, accelerating work processes. In that formation they can escape workers but workers cannot escape the whole group of employers offering one deal; take it and shut up! In the workplace work and relationships of work are not equal. Work and relationships are only equal outside of the workplace. But inside the workplace, workers mortality is the price they pay for the higher costs of health care and other compensation costs in government obligations against employers.
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  4357.  Janet Baker  Interesting that you brought that up. Of course, it is true to them that the soul cannot concieve itself in consciousness without religion, this is their handicap.
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  4358. The theory of imperialism as presented by the academic critics of US capitalism in people like Wolff, Sachs, Hedges, Horne, Hudson, Cornel West, is supported by actual events around the world when observers like ourselves view the role the US plays around the world confronting its chief antagonist in China for control of Asia and Europe. When that theory is applied to the domestic crisis unfolding in the US the break up society, homelessness and violence, the spread of man made bio-engineered viruses, repression of black people, failing educational institutions among the population specifically children in math and reading; what we find consistent in imperialism abroad and capitalism at home, is that there is always an “unfortunate victim” in the grand experimental designs being played out. At home it is the black children and families, abroad its the Ukrainian people, or in whatever nation the US oligarchs and their representatives in government can find a place where war can be generated. Domestically, Oligarchs rule the US, government of the people and by the people, for the people, is a government of oligarchs, for oligarchs and by oligarchs, that not one senator is not a billionaire in Congress and in England where all prime ministers are not elected but are selected individual oligarchs, and the decline and fall of American society occurs on one side of the tracks and not the other. There are no mass killings in Martha’s Vineyard, or in Malibu, or in the Washington Beltway, Bedminster NJ, Westchester NY, nobody has died of COVID from these places and the respiratory illnesses on the rise in newborns never happens in communities where oligarchs live; all of the destructive cadences of oligarchic rule happen where the grass is not greener. Subway violence happens never happens on Central Park West or Park Ave, or SOHO, and the grades of children never sink in Bedminster NJ as they do in Union NJ, and police never protect the working masses north 96th Street but they do protect lives from crime south of 96th street all the way to Wall Street. These inequities are explained to us as social inequality in the media but given the pattern and purposeful design of them social inequality is not inborn or innate to individuals or society. Social inequality is a tool of repression; a means to weaken the potential of the masses to revolt made to appear as social inequality the government of oligarchs are trying to overcome amounts to a direct campaign of mass indoctrination in coordination with a collapse of critical reasoning and thought in the young. Imperialism and capitalism is a threat to youth around the world and at home. On the west coast a real estate oligarchy usurps the wealth of society and in the east coast a financial oligarchy usurps the labor of society, in the mid-west a landowning oligarchy usurps the most fertile land of society, each oligarchy are united as a social class against the mass of people in mainstream America who are not of White Anglo Saxon descent, and the illusion used to dissuade the oppression of the masses in America from this racism is tokenism marketed as racial equality of an ethnic in power so long as the aims of this class oligarchy are carried out by that ethnic minority. Thus we get people like Kanye West, Justice Thomas, Barack Obama, AOC, Bernie Sanders, in the pantheon of social heroes who have entered the class of oligarchs.
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  4359. The case will drive racists back under the rock they crawled out from until they can come out again.
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  4360. I never met a teenage as snippy as this one they all sound the same to me and I would not put a muzzle on their mouth but I would put a muzzle on Trump's mouth.
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  4361. Afghanistan is completely by the Taliban but CNN is run by British reporters?
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  4362. Labor would have needed 103 votes from the conservative camp assuming the minor parties were aligned with the Labor Party. So there is no chance of labor ever winning if the conservatives stay solidly together. We could not imagine democracy without representative institutions so why can we not imagine democracy without parliamentarism? Labor should go further left and seek to place a referendum for the destruction of parliamentarism and neoliberalism and replace it with a labor democracy. Neoliberalism cannot be scrapped unless its parliamentary form is scrapped. Tories will do everything to keep parliament intact and, therefore, neoliberalism intact.
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  4363. US Corporations become too large because in America there are no laws regulating the number of workers corporations can hire. Corporations are not going to limit their ability to accumulate endless wealth and power because we don't allow them. That is not enough! Americans consistently elected people into office on the promise of destroying labor unions and labor laws until Obama. Then to reverse Obama's labor policies and to spite the establishment, workers elected Trump and went along with their own destruction. The dilemma of American workers inflicting more harm on themselves is a spectacle of ignorance.
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  4364. You cannot pour into any subject with any depth if it is told by commercial news and the greatest consumption of information to the American Public comes from commercial news, all of it aligned with private interests, and all of it myth and propaganda. The most powerful working class in the world are kept from knowing the real operations and real relationships of production and circulation in society, out of pure fear. But when I walk among the working class I find a people the ruling classes should fear the least and that what prevents them from overcoming this fear of the unknown is the irrational phobia of racism the ruling classes channel through from social policy to American foreign policy.
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  4365.  @mayakarki2450  you like that comment, eh. good...I am pleased, for it is the truth.
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  4366. How do you want to get money out of politics if you do not get the capitalists out of politics? This makes no sense. Yet this question is never answered when I listen to reporters and journalists from all the progressive channels on politics. You can’t just look at the period between two presidents figure out what kind of country you want, you have to look the long-term history of the US since the Civil War to see how things, your dreams got deferred and became a nightmare? Also, the particular way they swindle the people causes confusion in people, its purposely intricate and designed to make it harder for people to figure out. The patterns are clearer of the how capitalists defer people’s dreams, by looking at the pattern of repetition of prosperity, stagnation and depression, the normal progression of capitalism is how capitalists defer your dreams. It’s done over the long term. Americans are in worse shape today then a slave was in the pre-Civil War period. The children of this generation are already in even worse shape Americans are now due to this pattern. The problem is not capital. Capital is money the country needs to run its economy. The problem is capitalists! The difference is night and day, one is a thing that runs the economy the other is a person, man or woman, or an institution that acts and behaves like a miser and hoards all the money and then takes power to continue to hoard all the capital the country needs to run its economy and then turn their backs on society.  Nobody is going to prosecute them for evil and criminal deeds. This has been going since close of the Civil War, so what kind of country do people want, make up your minds?  All you have to do, as proof of my point, is see what has happened since the New Deal era. Reagan came into office in 1980 and undid all the programs FDR built leading up to now and Trump will finish the job Reagan started and take away social security. Social security is America’s sacred cow and the last of the New Deal cornerstones to be taken away from the people.    Very strange that a culture refuses to see this.
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  4367.  @Sharonformation  I appreciate your intelligent reply.  That makes sense as an initial antidote but afterwards what do you do with Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, GE, SAAB, and the rest of the corporations?
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  4368.  @Sharonformation  You lost me on this point: "We make sure they pay those taxes while also ensuring that they pay their workers a wage that keeps them off the government dole so us taxpayers don't have to subsidize their health care, food, housing, etc. " ???
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  4369.  @Sharonformation  Okay, I got you now...I did not want to jump all over you without clarification. Bernie could have won South Carolina if he had simply repeated over and over that he would make black lives safe and secure from a criminal injustice system and give families a single payer. I think he missed winning over black elites in that state but he won over black non-elites in that state. Black elites are sitting on the fence between he and Biden and Stoyer. Stoyer did more than Biden to include black businesses in making his millions. Biden they know will send the white nationalist back under the rock they came out from. But Bernie's plan was not hammered away enough to really win them over. He should also dismiss the anti socialist rhetoric of the white elites as irrelevant to the problems facing Americans, same goes for the Russians meddling. In fact he is a real good position to make light of those matters as having bno bearing on the concrete problems Americans are coping with. Social democrats tend to shoot themselves in the foot when they come up against elites, they are experts at triangulating their left wing. That was a moment when he could have separated himself from the party that every hates.
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  4370. Its the Ring of Fire of the Pacific Ocean. Fires occur in Australia and nations on the rim, below surface volcanic activity, in ours included, "...someone is starting these fires." Ridiculous.
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  4371.  @SUGAR_XYLER  Ring of Fire, look it up.
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  4372. The only interaction here between the suspect and the victim(s) is Property Law. Owner did a George Zimmerman number pushing the law in the State of New York to challenge his right to defend his property on the very thin basis of “trespass” are just as bad as the laws in Florida, Tennessee, Alabama where others approaching properties by mere accident are killed. Look forward to the day when a legislators kids gets killed in the same way, perhaps, legislators will re-think their laws.
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  4373. The world leaders today struggle with the timeline of the last 80 years. They see that history in fragments, selected moments, and try to sell us an idea that does not fit into the life of specific nations. Not all children develop at the same rate not all nations develop at the same pace. The powerful “nation-states” suffer a crisis of inability in constructing World Peace. They are INEPT. Peace has to be erected and the only way to do that is to know the real history of each nation to construct policies that work for them to remove their conflicts. This is what JFK meant in speech to Harvard’s graduating class about going beyond hate. For example, take Poland. Stoltenburg encourages Poland to join NATO and to criticize Russia on the Ukraine War. Russia liberating Poland from the Nazis means a lot to the Poles. A diplomat equates this “surprise invasion” to another surprise invasion because they both were surprises is pure propaganda to sell the idea that the enemy is a born enemy. Actually, the “surprise invasion’ from a military standpoint is a brilliant one. People who are born barbaric are also born with no imagination not enough to be brilliant strategists.
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  4374. If you really want to free America from Israel stop going to the movies produced by Hollywood USA.
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  4375. It doesn’t tell you something that corporations and the super rich are the only groups in society not suffering from climate change because they can move from house to house and nation to nation while labor, the working classes, cannot without separation from their families. Why do Americans pull the wool over their eyes about that topic?
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  4376. So if you are a first responder the worse the disaster the more money you make makes a great incentive to induce higher fatalities. If you are sent home from a disaster the disaster did not have much for you to do. The downside of this economic policy is how the Public are made into innocent victims of neglect by city management. But also the infrastructure undergoes no changes from the day it was built is a choice that is made by people who come from the ranks of city officials, council persons, county managers, controlling a First Responder Industry. If you invested in updating infrastructure to reduce disasters a first responder industry would not be necessary.
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  4377. Nature cannot fill up the lake faster than human beings take it out. They report the lake as though it itself has powers of ebbing and flowing on its own. Nothing can be further from the reality. A lake is a product of a hydrological cycle in the earth's atmosphere depositing water in a low lying inland landscape. Water evaporates and changing its own form into clouds and clouds bring the same water down in the form of rain the process repeats.  The lake dies without the action of the hydrological cycle and dies faster with a city siphoning its water.
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  4378.  @erinhilliard9347  I am wondering if SM RK means Entertainment industry needs to be held accountability for his own violence.
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  4379.  @smrk2452  Of course, they can. But not in a market economy and society can they ban the use of guns in movies. Movies are made in the first place for profit and why actors distinguish their careers between big box office blockbusters and roles that are about their craft. Guns sell in America, a movie about thought, reflection, intimacy, humanity, life, love, are never big box office sellers but a movie like Star Wars is profitable. We can live in society without guns too if we wanted to. But we will have to get rid of the purveyors of profit who capitalize on the demand for guns and violence to be a gun-free society.
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  4380. Many changes going on. Central Europe is not the focus of attention for regional powers. Russia is no longer the USSR poses no threat to the US. As the CCCP, the US is hostile to China. The Pacific region is the focus of a massive concentration of US forces. How will these smaller Asian nations turn out having to take a side? Australia, the late former prime minister warned it would be a mistake to side with the Americans and did Australia listen? She sided with the Americans and pissed off the French. The Middle east is a basket case. Africa is revolting. Latin America is under the rule of the Monroe Doctrine. Containment of the USSR was the policy in the first part of the 20th after 1947 Chinese Revolution US policymakers began to use China to contain the USSR. How will the CCP deal with this US containment policy,-- Trump resurrected it after it died with the USSR and Biden pushes containment further in this first part of the 21st century? At the time and in both cases before counter-revolutions became the policy of the US the USSR and China's CCP were revolutions of modes of production. Changing the status of people tied to the land as appendages into owners of the land and both nations had a small industrial base has since multiplied that under one sovereign central government its industrial power can grow and trade with the EU, Russia and Middle Asia can only piss the Americans off. Probably to the point the US can pull out its forces from Central Europe, taking a freebie for the EU away. From its revolutionary beginnings and in theory, hegemony is not what socialism is about. So the path set by Washington set for Asia is premised on its own bias that is likely to result in a catastrophe. Three focal points that geographically make it impossible to not start a hot cold war in Asia.
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  4381. Yes---I agree with the notion of no 'common memory' of our oppression. So the links must be drawn finding the intersecting points where oppressive forces operate to maintain division and fragmentation among the oppressed. The Sioux population are known to the government by census taking. They are a population without health care and medical services. We are continually informed the purpose of the census is to match services to needs but in Sioux City, Iowa, that match was never made. This would mean the census has a dual purpose for this government. First, to know exactly where and how a population can be deprived is discovered by its opposite, by knowing where services are adundant. We infer, services are matched according to preference not need is the main function of the US census.
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  4382. There is no word better to describe what the Trump people were trying to accomplish other than “coup d’état “, and the fact that Peter Navarro denies the plan as a coup is...incredible hubris content with dismissing the popular vote. This in the middle of a pandemic they could have gotten a jump on early in the spread. Truly self-absorbed callous people. In on it was the White House Council. Lawyers of the president not the personal lawyers of the man who is president were guiding the process through without a violation of the Constitution. WH Lawyers are experts in state affairs, in other words, they make coups all the time but not here in the US barring this attempt. By the end of the coup the Constitution would not have the backing of the State and be in force to violate. All quiet in the House not even a peep from the Supreme Court, not even us mice. The day after we would have seen the Senate take a vote to appoint Trump in a ceremonial like pageantry, then coronate Trump as President Indefinitely, all in one hour. While outside the Senate walls millions dying from COVID, shut downs, no schools, police lawlessness and gang violence, forced scarcity, a complete social breakdown. Senators on the right motion to repeal on every piece of legislation that safeguarded the public from the defects of capitalism for the last 92 years. The end.
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  4383. School buses are a part of the total infrastructure of America for 20 million kids and for society. Without school buses there is no school system. If they light up in flames that part of the infrastructure is under the same neglect the total infrastructure receives. The special part of this part of the infrastructure is that carries human lives. Congress does not do anything about the igniting school buses and neither does the president. Biden said we averted an economic collapse. The economy Biden says was saved from collapse is a different economy from the one the school bus belongs. Biden’s economy is the billionaire economy. He is telling billionaires their economy was saved but the people’s economy is collapsing as he pats himself on the shoulder for administering deeper cuts in the people’s economy.
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  4384. The Libyan Model is the reason a Climate Crisis exists. It has side-effects that should come wth a warning; a Surgeon General and the National Geologic Survey's public advisory on Permanent War, names and identifies all the social-psychological-physical effects of permanent war, as likely to create a social world of 99% of the human species in desperation and deprivation of all material resources and subsistence and only 1% of socially alienated human beings with a marked propensity toward nihilistic self-destruction in power. Is that the world you want for your money? You could be building homes that can withstand natural disasters and eradicating mass ignorance with mass education if your lacking in ideas on how to spend your money. US GDP is a mere 2%, very weak industrial power. Its only asset is its military, very strong. The strong depends on the weak for its funding. Industrial power is weak in America because China is stronger industrially and Capital goes where capital can make itself stronger, bigger, and can hire the most people for less the cost. Being militarily strong and left industrially weak is not cheap for labor and the cost of permanent war is paid by money that could make America industrially strong and raise the standard of living for labor from what thery are now. Trillions going into war is irrational spending and from a rational labor point of view the wars are a means only to preserve the rule of the rich who decide the wars but never fight them.  The Libyan model subjugates the American taxpayer to a theory, a capitalist theory of permanent war and permanent revolution, a never ending cycle of violence. Its an example of what a theory of permanent war would produce for those using it as the official policy of the US, to preserve their political and economic power.
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  4385. The way things are going isolation is "house arrest"...we are all on probation when we come out of this.
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  4386. Some people would say and I would tend to agree with them the conservative trend worldwide is a working class reaction of its own demise in the West. Dispossession is the real process the masses are coping with and the demand for jobs is their clarion call. They were willing to elect a far right candidate in France with which retaliate and clobber the heads of Neo-liberals and if jobs do not come France will elect LePenn in the next election. The billionaires were able to ride this wave of working class reaction straight into power in America by creating a false opposition to the Neo-Liberals. The Democrats partook in an expropriation of the masses by a few usurpers in the capitalist East and West were complicit in breaking down the working class was Trump's line. The working class in France challenge elites with a mandate to expel immigrants. The working class in America challenged Neo-Liberals with the Confederacy. The usurpers with the aid of their political functionaries continue in the background to implement a definite aim and objective which is to control the necessaries of life. This is a goal that goes beyond being richer, it goes into the realm of world domination of the material resources that creates military might neither the Confederacy or Fascism are sentiments of the working classes in America or France. The working classes vote by what they feel and by what politics the elites create to push their goal forward. They have yet to venture into the political realm themselves and form their own politics about their dispossession.
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  4387. Since this kind of activity is pervasive in society and in government, and in corporations, what women need to do is get the courage up and not settle these matters to be resolved monetarily on an individual basis in the courts but settle them in the streets with gloves off, a mass opposition outside of the homes of known and well-known and even suspected perps. Otherwise, nothing will change except a change from an old perp replaced by a new perp.
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  4388. Maybe humans are neanderthals that scientist are not sure of their extinction based on the recent DNA studies and findings. Neanderthals and modern humans should not be classified as a two distinct species if we cannot find the proof we are a distinct species. Marjorie Taylor Green and Beyoncé are modern neanderthals based on the latest finding. Since we can’t find the evidence of a Neanderthal extinction the proposition is they never left. We are neanderthals in modern form, really the same species more refined by the conditions of life we are a new variety of the same species. There are more than one kind of rose in the Rose garden. Perhaps, psychologically it would be best we admit our ancestral traces bring us back to the tribes we came from 400,000 years ago. Recent evidence is a 40,000 year old bone revealing the same bacteria, fungus, diseases that were eradicated in the 1940s, 50s, by us modern neanderthals were as old as 40,000 years old preserved in the bone of an ancient neanderthal.
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  4389. The real sad reality is that the working class in the US has no political training in running a society. The lack of training of the social and political elements in society that do run society through the institutions of political power are not taught to the working class in a way that prepares them to be the rulers of society. The working class today is largely composed of women who only know two presidents in their lifetime, Obama and Trump. And only know one war not a series of wars that began with the Vietnam War. If they see Jane Fonda getting arrested it is an old woman they see arrested not a continuation of the history of dissent by women. On economics the working class are taught absolutely nothing beyond finance or business management courses. International trade, world production, investment and business cycles, world systems are not taught to working class students. They are not given the opportunity to dedicate four years specializing in the study of the Great Depression in a Community College to be a good candidate to run the Federal Reserve. On the flip side, geniuses are born in the working class are unnurtured and never see daylight. In contrast, the children of the elites in power train their children to become the rulers and run a society.
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  4390. It sounds like the point Paul makes by using the CDC finings is that there are more people in society than in the military with the same ailments who are not given health care yet receive treatment for their ailment; let them go where everyone else goes.
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  4391. @iDrinkandDraw---interesting...care to elaborate?
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  4392. Sounds like this discussion leads to a discovery of a process of building up a pretext to continue an American occupation in Afghanistan.
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  4393. The problem comes when officials in government bureaucracies are people convinced their form of governing is the highest form of government humanity can achieve next to be God himself. Government needs people who are pragmatically down to earth not ideological with heads in the sky. The FDA is saying, misinformation is self-inflicted by the general user of social media. They are not thinking about their role in society which is to monitor, test and verify, what comes on the market that harm to the Public is minimal to none harm from all products Americans consume and American industries produce.
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  4394. The lives of this family have become a spectacle and a media orgy.
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  4395.  @cooperjames4736  It is believed the youngest is the smartest in the family, the tail end of the boomer generation would be that phenom. But another perspective on a generation not coming through with a full emancipation is its counter antagonist the development of a pro-slavery rebellion against everything intellectual and for everything ideological.
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  4396. What is the principal point here? Money funnels all over the world no matter who you are. Money does not care if you are Hunter Biden or Lady Gaga.
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  4397. People are happy to return to work after the shut down.  The stress, anxiety, pain, fear, anger, applying to jobs to get out, panting, scrambling, on how to pay the rent, debt, etc., the agreement is a god send to all these people. Public servants are a breed of people that get more altruistic in spite of the shut down.  Even private sector workers, contractors, hurt more then the public servants by the shut down would favor legislation to ever use a shut down as a political weapon again. Democrats will pursue that demographic and will pass legislation Getting these workers to go against multinational corporations and Trump would be like getting the Freedom Caucus of the GOP to emulate GWH Bush. More of the Freedom Caucus changing life in general has to become increasingly more unstable for the vast majority of people to start walking against this faction. Right now this caucus is unknown to the majority of Americans as the head of the right wing in the GOP, as industry and finance sector militants, they operate in the background. The public and private sector workers are not going to go against their own employer who are this unified right wing caucus except if they vote down a shut down prohibition law.
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  4398. An argument can be made that the post-Cold War world order was on its way out in 2002. In the larger scheme of things the people who occupied the world stage during this period made the dissolution of that era worse. It took a turn to the right enabling the fringes long working to get into power in at the right time for their ilk and belief system to be verified by historical events. Threats to the US in this post-Cold War era has many threats from many places. The Left gave up on class struggle and took the parliamentary road to change and never saw the close of the bi-polar world coming. Instead they saw capitalism was victorious and embarked on a quest to dominate the world, which, in historical reality, became the beginning of their end. A generation after them produced people who rose to power were long ago convinced capitalism was the only economic system for humanity and forgot the working class entirely. This class is forever fighting for its dignity as the class least protected in society like the others from the abuses of capitalism. Instead, its leaders joined the 1%...are the 1%.
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  4399. Big deal...factions are formed all the time in the history of socialists parties...Bolsheviks and Mensheviks in Russia i 1917, I remember Kruschev denouncing Stalin; Social Democrats and Sparticus League in Germany in WWi...Communist Party and Socialist party in America in the 30s...a new faction will inevitably emerge to replace the present faction holding that leadership as well...BBC makes this out as some kind of dark and sinister move for a consolidation of party versus the party accepting a program and it could be a consolidation of power if this were China in 1960-70s when the Gang of Four was ousted from the party.
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  4400. Americans flooded in Iowa probably think it’s only happening to them because American news does not broadcast floods occurring worldwide as part of a world wide transformation of climate and societies. Corporate Media uses its media power to fragment and block populations from using their social power to solve several crisis occurring at the same time. Crisis too large for governments to solve is a sign for a power greater than government to fix them.
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  4401. Assuming it was an eviction notice that was being served. It was never in the history of policing before this generation that serving eviction notices was a function of policing. Eviction notices were sent registered return receipt to be signed by the recipient at the post office or posted on the door.
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  4402. Malcolm Forbes’s favorite politician is Javier Milei.
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  4403. We have to understand how industries and which industries cause more damage to the environment and why and procede to change the methodology of machine based industries. For what purpose do they exist if they are a negative force on earth? Just because a machine provides regular employment does not mean that is what we should use to make clothes etc. The Garment industry depends on the change of seasons for plants and animals that produce the raw material for linen, cotton, satin. When the plant or animal species becomes extinct because over production made it extinct the whole industry goes with it. Our methodology in sustaining employment has to move from a perpetual production model into a model of even development the planet and species life can support without harm to either.
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  4404. A great discussion, indeed. The most substantive and objective I've heard in a long time. The split in both parties giving rise to a United Workers Party would definitely resolve the paradoxes of capitalism. Instead of, Workers of the World Unite the 21st century slogan is Workers Unite the World. We just do it and take the lead as one united force because the other social classes are atrophied. They can't set the country on the right track for its development failing as a guide.
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  4405.  @pebblepod30  Conservatives do like talking to Marxists because there is science in that view, whereas in socialism and popular socialism, libertarianism, federalism, democracy, the absence of science in these ideas make them ideas. Crazy ideas too!
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  4406. If you want to get back at the cops you don't do it by trying to make them accountable directly confronting them. You get them by going after the private businesses (includes media networks) and boycott. When they lose money they will end their cozy relationship with the cops. If you want to challenge cops arresting you for nothing, go limp, be dead weight, be taken to jail and then sue. Civil disobedience is not only a social act it can also be an individual act...
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  4407. They cannot go after all 132 million people if all 132 million working people took action as one unit. It was a disgusting and deplorable speech filled with cringing moments. Olberman is a deplorable human being seeding Russophobic propaganda. Boycott the INDY 5 movie, Harrison Ford, Spielberg, DiCaprio and the celebrities in general, and the sports athletes. All of them are hypocrites, all of them are polluters, do not walk the talk, but hit the skies and seas in their multi-million dollar jets and luxury cruise liners, and are tied to the Democratic party. Republicans are just another wing of this Oligarchy.
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  4408. This is excellent news. Trump, Pence and Biden, the three politicians represent three separate and dangerous social movements in this country. Trump and the Far Fascist Right, Pence and the Evangelical Fascist Christians, Biden and the corrupt fascist democrats.
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  4409.  @lesliescottw  I said that. You are arguing semantics. Democrats are racists, so are you, and me, social conditioning and society turns everyone into a racist whether you like it or not, want it or not. Turns us into fat consumers polluting our earth too. Do you have a choice? You do but you won’t survive. You don’t have to own a car but without one you cannot live. Same thing with racism, sexism, class(ism). Just because you say and I do say I am not a racist, the everyday social structure forces me to do racist things such as, calling a democrat a racist by mere association.
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  4410. The press makes a huge mistake focusing on the lie they believe and not covering how that belief galvanizes the organizing elements in the party toward a re-election of Trump. If the next election is a close lose it is easier for them to call that election fraudulent because they placed functionaries loyal to them in key election decision making jobs and offices. In so many ways the absence of coverage to this effect sets the American people up for a election robbed from them by a party that cancels their vote. Its the death knell of American democracy when that event happens.
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  4411. What's Trump's fee for a pardon and what is the commission to the lobbyist who gets the pardon?
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  4412. Money makes money...is a process outside of the control of human beings.
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  4413. I'd like to understand something that has puzzled me for years about mining. Why can't miners be the producer and the owner of the mine's product? A mine company strikes me as a middle man in a work process that belongs to miners.
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  4414. I got to hand to him,--- he still has the fitness to stand up to shoves and punches and secure his retirement in prison in exchange. The government is so punitive on Americans. They will lock him up and hs socal security taken away. As punishment, the product of his labor of 40 year's contribution, taken from him. He is not even given the decency of deciding the fate of his worldy possession in the form of his social security by the government. ANd the government does not set up a system for people who fall into a criminal offense to re-direct his privae property to his next of kin, as would, another part of the legal system would do to preserve private property. The legal system is two faced. One face of the legal system gives sanctity to private property to people and the other face ofthe legal system deprives people of their private property.
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  4415. How about merging industry and education universally free.
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  4416. Looking at the condition of humanity without the US sanitizing it to the US public through this medium is daunting. Plus, all the chickens are coming home to roost and out of the woodwork come all kinds of characters in these times that are highly polarized and volatile. The world could look like its flipped its lid to some people. The real character of our political system is revealed.  Two wings of one party dominating the will of the people using fraud and manipulation to stay in power. Power which is not yet in the hands of the people but as every city in the nation rises up to the thunder burst of "Impeach Trump", that sphinx starts to rattle the foundations of the establishment.
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  4417. Americans need a lesson in Political Science. Republics have many forms. They come as monarchies and as representative republics. A Republic is the Nation's Wallet. If the wallet is in a king's pocket we have a monarchy and if the wallet is in the pocket of elected trustees we are looking at representative republic. They re in charge of spending the nation's revenue. Expecting them to do something to fix things wrong in society is not their job. It would be their job to fix the things that are broken in society if those things were political. Potholes are not political, broken bridges and natural disasters are not political. At best, republics can throw money at neglect not get rid of neglect.  If the problem, that is, if neglect were made political than the representative or the king in their respective republics can punish neglect to oblivion. Making all things not political is how the American people get screwed. You have to politicize lead in water from neglect, politicize the violence in society, politicize a pandemic to get the republic to fix neglect, violence and an epidemic in society. Hard to do when you have a job.
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  4418. Kirk Cox is worse than Northam. Gaetz, a real scumbag.  Unity in mass opposition to the republicans is the answer.
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  4419. Time to create a new culture and new society and cease cooperating with the old form in every form and get armed.
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  4420. Reading the comments I am pleased that people are beginning to identify the mainstream media as morally and intellectually bankrupt. But this is only possible when a intellectual giant with ease ploughs through and navigates the tight and limited preconceived questions aimed at drawing out thin black and white answers, so typical of propaganda. The contrast between smart and stupid is glaring forces a viewer and listener to think. There is no question in my mind this woman does not even know who David Hume was. Chomsky wrote the book on the media's function in a command economy as fltering what information the American and British people are permitted to know. He breaks through the filtering process. Without a script this poor woman cannot think on her own cringe a viewer like me. Like watching Trump shut down verbally searching for words if the teleprompter is cut off. The tragedy is the under development of the female mind that is enforced by the corporation employing her that corporate feminism is all form and no substance. I watched a beautiful video of a beautiful town or city, I really don't know how big it is, but it appeared to be a town off the Atlantic coast called Cornwall. So I wrote a comment remarking on a well done video of a georgeous place and my immediate worry was how this town could be invaded by Trump International Resorts now that the UK will be standing on its own. Whereas the EU has something in the order of 27 nations, a Trump Resort or an American corporation would have to wait eons before it can sell its commodities in the UK. Easier to break down the standards and regulations for products when a country stands on its own than if it was part of a union. Divide and conquer.
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  4421. This man can be tiresome to listen too. Channel needs new people.
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  4422. Lebanon's problems would be gone if it could print money to pay its bills. Do what Austria did in 1913, the cost of borrowing caused a boom. How is the army not paid and still deployed in a city of mass working class deprivation?
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  4423. This will be the third time in America's history the American Oligarchs waged war to seize power and establish a One Party State . The first was the American Revolution and the second culminated wth the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this round they intend to finish the job and kill democracy.
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  4424.  End White Guilt  Is that a fact?
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  4425. Precisely right, plans made back in 1919 if you really want to ge technical @lubetime-autorepair7078 
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  4426. Your comment is the only uniquely objective comment on this board compared to all the others.
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  4427. Thanks but I think the point applies to a republican who wants out from under the rule of Trump a strategy to break that monopoly would be... @michelepayne3546 
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  4428. Where did you get your crystal ball? @sawyer7191 
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  4429. Amy Goodman's first question to Ms. Victorina Morales is racist! Everyone knows the work of making beds and housecleaning is a drag, that the questions alludes to making the bed of her employer, a sitting president, further engenders the humiliation and indignity this woman suffered by her allegations. Her questions on working conditions of Ms. Morales is race neutral but after the damage was done. Ms. Goodman, its time to move on.
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  4430. Speaking generally, under feudalism, you did not have to have a theory of value to know who was subjugated and who was not subjugated. Besides people back then witnessed the exploitation of man by man right in front of them on a routine basis and in every social setting through their own relatives, friends, bosses, churches, employers, social classes, states and nations. In a capitalist society, subjugation is not so clear and direct. Exploitation happens but its not out in the open or at least it hasn’t been until now in the latter stages of socio-historical development. This is because our society, a society that places a value on gold as the money-commodity, is a society of objects relating to each other as values, and money and commodities is the general social form of agriculture and industry, employment and communities, interact as values and circulate between people as buyers and sellers, that you need a theory of value to explain how someone ends up richer than yourself and acquires the powers to subjugate your person, mind and body. For this reason religion of any kind that places a God between humans and the material world is a subjugation of a non-human entity over a human entity, s projected over the real exploitation between humans, and substituting the real relationship of human and nature. Two things are happening. There is the general interaction of humans with nature and there is the specific social relation of objects concealing the exploitation between the subjects that makes the social origins of subjugation in a modern society invisible.
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  4431. The sociological ramification of capital flight are as Dr. Wolf says, capitalists thought that if not them it would be the Russians, Germans or the French or the British capitalists who would invest in Asia driven by competition that American capitalists took advantage of the phase of economic development the underdeveloped economies were becoming. What it meant for the American working class was the beginning of a deskilling process of workers, as production was moved, creating a redundant working population that would also serve as a competitive background for the reduction of wages of the working class began to take shape, and offsetting the displacement of workers by automation, the working day increased as did worker productivity. Capitalists are extracting more surplus-value from workers through a scheme of external worker competition for jobs that lowers wages, and by an internal process of extending the working day and labor output through automation. A double blow to the working class that position workers in a bad spot when the economic order undergoes other shocks and tools are applied to correct a crisis or prevent one from happening work to fix the financial side of the economy at the expense of the social side of the economy, endless policies that bail out capitalists at the expense of workers. This interplay between competition and automation defines the nature of the American class struggle, as a dramatic power play for ultimate owner and the distribution of the economic surplus. Two economic forces make necessary a working class opposition to the onslaughts of capitalist competition and the use of automation for private consumption can only be fought back by a massive strike waves and social boycotts of the specific monopoly corporations in charge of the political life of the country, to break the international competition among capitalist rival nations, and to break the monopoly formations domestically by finding work in alternative industries and spending your money on alternative products, this to weaken the international strangle hold corporations have on American workers, but the ultimate conquest is political power and workers need a political voice(s).
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  4432. So if you are homeless and are refused a bathroom by private establishments you can jump on the train to one of the bathrooms in a station several stops away. I can this working. Several homeless people riding on the trains everyday and night to a bathroom,---that is, if they can hold their bladder long enough? The decline and fall of American society between Oregon and New York is becoming farce and comedy material for comedians.
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  4433. Actually that was the British who went after the Barbary pirates, America did not have a Navy back then. But history rhymes because the conditions then and now are the same. But my point is the media twisting and manipulating the facts is the greater threat. A bigger threat because the media indoctrinates Americans. @evillink1 
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  4434. Everyone is guilty of failing to restrain themselves. The right does not have the intelligence to legitimize itself and the left is reactive to the ills of capitalism. We end up with a carnival of revolts.
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  4435. Socialism went out of fashion and came back it is time it takes a seat at the table out of the shadows of the reductionism of the right wing. Their defense of private property vainly, and arrogantly, minimize the legitimacy of a Marxist paradigm for working class movements. How long before the west becomes a "Denmark", or a "Venezuela" undermines the mission, as if capitalists are not sabotaging every effort in a vain attempt to de-legitimize working class emancipation. The capitalist class stages every attempt and breeds contempt for the idea of a working class emancipation as a mission in life. The idea of working class emancipation is a vocation in economics. If it were a vocation like the Rapture is a vocation for fundamentalists in religion it would be respected. But since the vocation of emancipation lies in the heart of economics it is a direct threat to all economic usurpers. Emancipation from the tyranny of the absence of money, food, home, shelter, necessities. Emancipation from the tyranny of the absence of free will, that the Big banks, industrial capitalists, large-scale landlords, industrial merchants, all have contempt for this focused historic vocation, and fear it, the more people are drawn to the vocation of working class emancipation the more intensified are the attacks on the working class, its that simple. They fear strength in numbers only when it comes to working class emancipation. Strength in numbers as a workforces, sports team or a congregation, religious order and denomination, or strength in numbers in institutions, organizations, that do not disturb the basic framework of the economic structure that keeps the working class in a state of continual need, is not negated. The rest is all politics.
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  4436. “We can’t have this lawlessness that goes on in other parts of the world in America!” Stated as if there isn’t lawlessness in America makes that statement a hollow claim. Lawlessness is an integral characteristic in America that it should exist elsewhere in the world is normal. Really than the question should prompt a debate on what is normality and why is it normal in a world that is abnormally lawless?
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  4437. Mainstream media never before used the word "climate change". Was it too little too late to be so conservative as to strike the word from being used by every meteorologist and thereby, fail to alert the rest of the country and deprive the masses from doing something about it? Who's political interest did it serve?
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  4438. Who might be that Deep State Pizza_Dog? Is it the MIC, CIA, FBI, HS, NSA? You and I are not a part of that state are you, I know I am not? Every moment and second of 143 million people's lives is life going to waste for a class structure drummed up as permanent! You really think the class system and its Deep State is permanent when its basis for existence is the creation of a compulsory working class? Forced labor holds the political structure together. Eventually, permanency becomes transitory itself. It simply has not become obvious to 143 million people that their existences is transitory in a permanent way as well. In that permanence work is compulsory they themselves must live with the awareness that as soon as they day or night work begins it has already ceased to belong to them. Once they sold their time they cannot sell it to someone else is a permanent condition for them in which all the trimmings of modern life, marriage, consumerism, bait individuals into a reality of non-independence. Mortgage, rent, wages, taxes, UI, Medicare, are the chains, all the various forms of programs that engulf 143 million people to compulsory labor in exchange for those programs makes life a permanent hell on earth for them. Under this administration, the immanent measure of value is compulsory labor. Once they have your ass, you are officially separated from yourself! A 143 million souls struggle for dignity have no value or worth of their own because their labor is acting as a measure of value for others! I do not think the Deep State has the mental capacity to be behind such a demonic plot because their lives is dependent of revenue not profits. In fact, I believe the Deep State would come to the aid of the 143 million if profits got so large that it threatened the Deep State of its revenues. There are three players in this fight the third outside player is asleep and unaware it has the power to cease profits and the power of profit to abdicate its rule of the state.
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  4439. So, it is through the conversion of the products into commodities that make tax breaks a payment to the rich and the property they put a price on the apartment or building can be given to each other within their social class as gifts. What happens is then the billions of dollars given as gifts to the rich are made up in the form of a longer working day for the extraction of government revenue. To make up the difference the tax breaks took from the total working time it takes society to fix a bridge, road, building, dam, etc., the tax break themselves actually subsidizes wealthy families and individuals. Technically they are welfare clients receiving big checks from the government. Socially, this means that there are roughly a few usurpers appropriating the wealth of the many. A completely new path of development is only possible after the few have been dispossessed by the many, I don’t see the few willingly giving this free ride up.
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  4440. There is a disconnect between the working people in America and a socialist. But sometimes the socialist has a chance of getting in tight with the working class when a big win is made on behalf of working people. If Sanders stands strong against the bill meant to end the rail strike to start Dec 3, before it begins, he will get in tight with a workforce of 100,000 workers. The contract four unions rejected because paid sick time is not in that contract is the same contract Congress will order the workers to accept this morning of Nov 30. If republicans come around to the same position as Sanders they will get in tight with the workers and win seats. Still means the Congress as a whole is on the side of the bosses generally and not the railroad workers in particular. But if more progressives took on battles relevant to working people and won them, small victories go a long way. The disconnect between socialism and the working class is in need of restoration and repair work in general. But it starts by standing solid on grounds long enough for the other side to lose the position of power on the matter.
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  4441. Kissinger's question of how can you have imperialism when America is losing its share of the world market? My view: You cannot. Hegemony must be exerted by force while world GDP is shrinking. The Trump section of the capitalist class cannot stand losing a fraction of the share of the global market makes clear what we are dealing with...a virulent nationalist right wing. America gets its share before anyone else policy,--- answers Kissinger's question.
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  4442. you are not flying to well with deregulation and you pay to be crammed in a seat a lot of money...free market forces are not working either. You got two problems, on top of deregulation and high prices, you have: public safety problems and a cartel of corporations acting as an industry whose main purpose is to increase its profits for the sake of accumulation. @kewlztertc5386 
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  4443. Your idea of deregulation is not the same idea of deregulation of republicans and democrats. To you and me, less government means less of a tax burden for us, less red tape but that is not what less government means to them. You vote because your interpretation of the words and terms mean something totally different than what those words entail as the aims of the political parties. @Davethreshold 
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  4444. And why are not the mighty and productive of machines of NASA that can create water and rain to end a drought not used in Utah? All over Youtube incredible machines is boasted for their power and size. Gigantic boring machines that can be used to redirect flood water are the machine I refer used to bore tunnels through mountains. Where are these machines that can come to the aid of the community suffering wash out? The machines though produced by tax payers are not the taxpayers to use would be my question. We are talking about the survival of society; doesn't the American government care? NASA uses a machine four stories tall to cool down jet lift off it is basically a storm cloud creating machine would ideally solve the drying up of Lakes Tahoe and Powell, the reservoirs and the Colorado River, and add water to the ground aquifers. do not understand the logic behind a government that abstains from deploying machinery of this type and scale in the service of society but is used only to send rockets into space? Taxpayers are given sand bags for making the giant cloud rainstorm machine a reality! Oh no, people think these machines do not exist. They'd rather believe that than the ulterior reality there are people in government who cannot stand people and would sooner raise a glass people become extinct. There are no evils, see nor hear of them. The large scale industrial farmers have an interesting take on how to solve the drought. Its a theory based on desperation that everyday their crops are destroyed on purpose because they cost too much to water than they would bring in profit. So by reducing the quantity of crops they raise the exchange-value of the crop because this is what the business of farming is all about, staying alive as a business. But in the meantime there is no water and well drillers are drilling 2500 feet finding nothing. The more they drill the faster thy run up a cost they cannot afford and go bust. Its a downhill spiral to doom. More dam building and more reservoirs to catch more rain water is their theory the aquifers will fill up because the more cavernous the ground becomes the more sink holes we get and the total infrastructure, oil and gas pipelines, shift and rupture and roads surfaces buckle or collapse the caverns the water had filled but are now dried up. We drive over these caverns drying up. The theory would work except for one, actually very big flaw, the promise of rains coming down in forms before is presumed regular. Rains are microbursts of storms and a changed Jet Stream is no guarantee the rains will come consistent or steady. The heat of the Sun is more consistent the rains of the clouds, and on dry days parching the ground happens. The Jet Stream has swung somewhere else. Water cannot get into the ground is the piece of the theory they refuse to accept because that part of it is linked to Climate Change. Admit climate change that postulates human activity is the cause of a hot planet and the Age of Big Oil comes to an end. Climate Change to the landowner-farmers in this country is a cock and bull story made up by some college geek is the pervasive fallacy that got Trump elected. In the hands of such people lay the responsibility for the survival of society?
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  4445. An unintended alliance gets formed between democrats and Trump against republicans on the cheapest bill ever to get passed in Congress for relief. For Trump its a l little too late to be the champion of the working class. The moron should have taken that position regardless of race from day one of his administration on the economy and the pandemic. But he is a stone-cold opportunist that he rides any wave that will keep him in power. His supporters are probably dumbstruck their president is allied with the nasty "socialist democrats' Trump criticized. Politics makes strange bedfellows. For progressives the pandemic is a crisis they will likely miss using as an opportunity to push M4All, I hope they don't but there is nothing I see in the progressives that says they will.
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  4446. Not a rosy picture on the economic front for people who are not investors in Wall Street, that would be at best around 132 million people who will not be in a position to buy a home, pay groceries, or pay rent. They are not owners of other forms of income. No dividends, stocks and bonds, and with government cuts they won’t have a safety net, when they are thrown out of work. Millions more wandering society jobless for as long as that recovery lasts will have deleterious effects on the side of America that is destitute. Recessions cycles in the US economy have tended to become longer and more frequent and recoveries shorter and less frequent. But this recovery promises to go longer than earlier recovery cycles, we shall see. Investors are not wrong about this recovery in every sector but the housing sector. But every recovery has a coinciding recession, and so what we have is a duality. Our economy moves forward through two dependent variables bound together as a guaranteed recovery for buyers and a guaranteed recession for a third of the population of the US as sellers who cannot find a buyer for their commodity, and are asked to bear the cost of recovery, government shut downs, bankruptcies, job losses, and all the rest of the nasty social realities thrown at them. Lower gas prices is a boost for wages but when profits begin to slide employers will cut payrolls for profits and introduce AI to the workplace. AI is sure to displace millions more from the workforce. Not a rosy picture at all. Ai makes free time more probable for all members of society but AI privatized it will be applied to secure higher profits. Ai has to be one or the other not both at the same time, an end in itself and not a means to an end.
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  4447. I agree with the first and second caller. Racists are slaves to racism is my opinion. The most mentally unfree people in the world are racists is my opinion. Indoctrination is a vile and pernicious component in American education is another of my opinions. Racism and bigotry is political in a society full of racism and bigotry...
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  4448. Good thing the KuKlux Klan Act was passed by people who are no longer in our history we cannot blame them for the bias history puts in us. The first chapter is the defeat of white supremacy the second is its eradication.
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  4449. These are not police and this is not policing. They are armed mercenary armies acting as police funded by an outside interest. A slaughterhouse is not a typical object for a gang heist. A bank would be. These are armed citizens not gangs and control of a slaughterhouse is control over their diet that in a poor country with a lot of hunger does not make them gangs.
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  4450. Medicare will pay for a nurse to give you a shingle shot and they will pay for a doctor visit, a well check, but medicare will not pay for the shot itself. The doctor visit will average around $225.00 per visit, the vaccine administered by a nurse will charge around $60.00, the vaccine administered by the nurse will average $220.00. The largest consumer of these types of medical services are the elderly. The vaccine makers are profiting off the elder population. Not much different than a Cartel profits from the sale of drugs to the young population. 83% of America, that is roughly 300 million people but all 83% of democrats in Congress are opposed to Medicare for All, Joe Biden chief among them. So, when Jimmy says we do not live in a democracy it is clear that we do not and the republic, the system of three branches of government, its checks and balances, were the creation of an earlier age of monarchies and dictatorships as an alternative is today a vestige and serves as a tool for a social class of owners as George Carlin rightly asserted.
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  4451. Its ironic and crazy, no logic to it that meets the naked eye; work is so bad people do not want to do it... and...production lags behind demand. Same old problems...nothing ever fixed...last crisis changed nothing that will lead to the next crisis, the economy, staggering along from crisis to crisis, the way an alcoholic staggers the night away. A few spurts of promises and energy sprinkle the long bouts with stagnation. Temporary winds blow into our sails when all the pent up demand starts spending... but when it runs low and the supply chain is still broken...it will look like the light at the end of the tunnel has turned off.
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  4452.  @gordonanderson3111  I cannot stand comments such as yours. I find your comment to be nothing more than a projection of a alien power independent of yourself for which you can excuse yourself from responsibility of its creation. Charles Koch is the Capital personified, that has the power to use the government forces to destroy your life but you are the Labor, Mr. Moneybags Charles Koch requires to develop the power of his capital. The working class of which I am assuming you are a member,--- if you made a living and earned an income that does not come from dividends, stocks, bonds and profits, enables capital and, therefore, the working class develops capitalism and its external forms as imperialism. The enabler has the power but does not exert it over its creation enables its own enemy. The American working class is responsble for the destruction of the planet as far as the use of its labor by capitalism is permitted by the workers and as the most powerful working class in the world it has the power to stop it but does not due to its mental inability to take a political stand and assume responsibility over capitalism's damages and responsibility in repairing the damage. This is what I find absolutely detestable about the American left, nothing but cowardly excuses.
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  4453.  @gordonanderson3111  I am not using the word "alien" in "alien power', as in space aliens. The term has a history of use in German philosophy, but it has been thrown around so many times it has lost its philosophical meaning. And, German philosophy is not a tradition in the US. So, by no fault of your own, an American would think it refers to other worldy beings. If humanity placed half the energy it does inventing sadistic devices it could re-industrialize America to make it great again.
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  4454.  @gordonanderson3111  You bore me.
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  4455. The whitest states in the Union would be appropriate if America were all white to kick of a presidential election.
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  4456. You know you are living in a surveillance society when campgrounds are surveilled.
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  4457. I think Hernandez is so in with the cartels he is their puppet and using his powers for protection is a savings to the cartel oligarchs. A cocaine oligarchy that has gotten out of the control of Washington as it unravels under Trump. The people of Honduras unjustly bear this abuse. If tomorrow the Hondurans overran the Gringos, Hernandez and the Cartels from their society history would honor them.
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  4458. When western owners of corporations move into the position as sellers in the world market with x tons of iron, wheat, metals, oil, etc., they are in the process of buying in order to sell higher. Underlying this movement are the actions of western states, treasuries, education and human services, labor management and budget, all hinging on the success of the sale of tons of commodities the corporations own. The political thinking is to cripple buyers with sanctions. But they annihilated their own markets. The buyers then move into a new position forming a new trading block, buy and sell, to each other and the west has lost a huge chunk of the world market are forced to fire their workers in large numbers as they are now because of their own policies. Workers in the west are the losers. One day workers in the west will get tired of being the loser all the time...when is the question?
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  4459. Exactly, it is a good idea. There are two aspects to labor in society. America's economy emphasizes a quantitative relation the side of labor that performs by the clock! Work is measured by time, duration, expenditure, etc. A specific style of management over labor is necessary to make a worker produce more in a given time. Methods are developed to exact the absolute last drop of a person before they quit to go home, i.e., Taylorism, and now email and cell phones exact more labor and rob a worker's free time turning it into working time. The end result when all this is generalized is the abolition of the 8 hour day if they have their way. Unpaid work increases. Minutes here and there, add up. Management attitude has gone from '..do me a favor...' to '...I need you to do this for me now.' Labor in this form, its participation in the workplace, decreases and the hours of work increases for what little live workers are still left in the shop floor. A never ending process of exploiting labor at some point comes to a head. Workers who work under a form of management that emphasizes ' value' the quantitative side of the relation create 'value relations', producing for a subsequent acquisition for anything quantitatively unlimited. The other side of labor is the work itself, a qualitative relation. The product, the labor, the labor-process. Society reproduces itself through cooperation, hence, the idea of Co-ownership or Co-ops seem logical and natural. This side of labor produces for final consumption and social production defines work if it were applied as Corbyn suggests. This side is also the more natural relation between human and nature as a general relation. Such as Climate is not the same as weather. Working is not the same as the work itself. Conservative right wingers are not able to comprehend the difference and consequently are unable to keep a tight leash on capitalism from its corrosive action on the planet and the species life. Labor in this mode owns the labor-process in the sense that the labor-process is a public place it belongs to everyone not exclusively to a few or one person. Society would move toward common form of property ownership which heightens the tension of its opposite relation, the owner non-workers. Hence the conservative Tories and the on the other side of the pond the conservative Republicans are on the defensive and heightened with alarm, private property is at a stake! So alarmed the Democrats are the owner non-workers of society like their counter-part party the Tory. Labor does not produce for exchange in this form of management, there is no overwork and there is no unemployment, and there is no distinction among people such as people who are non-workers involved in the workplace as owners and those who are workers but non-owners of the labor -process.
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  4460. Wake up Boyd Gilbreath! The government Trump dismantled was a war government and a do nothing about it Congress for the American people, so I see Trump as the last hope for a real departure from a power struggle model of government, America needs a deep revolutionary transformation of American society and government.  It needs a transformation of its class system and frankly, its government. The presidency is really not a necessity to run society. A Senate is not necessary. A supreme court is not necessary, but a Congress is necessary to run an economy. A Congress is all we need as a democratic association of individuals for the purpose of unanimous consent. Think past a republic and into a future government simplified and all inclusive. Right now if a state or several states decide to secede as many seperatists would like the nation is back in the Civil War era. Pretty backward country if that happens in this age. Society does not need the senate or the presidency, economics is independent of these institutions but these institution need the economy to survive as institutions dominating and controlling society. I am suggesting the power side of government, the side that uses force be eradicated and states be eradicate and Congress form a new national government. I hope you wake up before this rotten government decides to annihilate life on earth first because it refuses to transform itself from a republic and become a real democratic government consisting of regional constituents. One country one time zone one government principal. All in and nobody left out. Perhaps then the world will follow a better path of growth than its present crippling course of calamity.
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  4461. Pulling our economy out of the worst crisis in a 100 years? Really Mr. Biden. 100 years ago the year 1921 began the decade of gangsterism, labor syndicalism, the Red Scare 1921-23, concentration of capital on Wall Street that led to the stock market crash and the Great Depression in 1929. Hitler covertly annihilates 7 million Jews in Germany, fascist General Ito in Japan, Russia lose 29 million fighting the Nazis and winning the second world war, and America is a land of 'Oh, Brother Where Art Thou', with Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil in return for writing the blues into American history from that day at the crossroads in Mississippi. I do not want to be asking people 'Hey, Can you spare a dime?' in ten years. All the recoveries going back from 2007 which was a crisis greater than the Great Depression, are short recoveries. Recessions are longer and recoveries are shorter and shorter has been the pattern of behavior of neoliberalism since America declared war on Vietnam. The American economy has been on life support ever since heavily reliant on one industry,--- oil. America mistakes this mistake often. It makes itself dependent on one commodity and constructs an entire social order around that one commodity. Then America becomes envious of nations that get on the right track of human development,--senile old social class that is Washington. Cotton was king before the Civil War. The South constructed a social world around cotton and slavery. Though the North did not fire the first shot that did not stop manufacturers in Boston and NY from causing a cotton famine in the South at the same time as the war broke out. Producing cotton cheaper than the South was the first shot in the war. Fort Sumter was the second if the Civil War was a way to deplete the cotton made in the south and weaken its foundation. All wars prosecuted by the republicans and the democrats the war Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Africa wars started in those countries by America are wars that lower the standard of living of people in these countries for the extraction of natural resources. They are not to establish peace and harmony, democracy and free markets the greater danger are political parties that believe in their own propaganda. An immorality of seven days of week cannot be washed away with one day of Sunday worship a week. Meet the Press won't cut it either. Neither will a river baptism take away the immorality of using war to rescue an economy when all that means is more of the same ever closer to annihilation.
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  4462. These leaders are really poking in the dark. Putin is not going to use chemical weapons. People listening to this news need to learn how to read between the lines of what this president is saying and to the audience he speaks. They are meeting because they are losing this war. The inability to end wars is not atypical for the US. It start wars and then loses them. Wars are form of generating wealth but that can only go so far before the people into which the war is the theater of operations are at the brunt of the war. The suffering is too great. Zalenski repressed his opposition and that can last only so long sounds like his dictatorial rule over Ukraine is fading. He needs a win. He needs help. The war is profitable and there are economic interests that want the war to continue. The president wants to get re-elected needs a win. The allies are conflicted. Germany has been strong armed into the war. France tried to negotiate the war to end has its own opposition to NATO. Italy broke away from it all. Spain is not even involved. There are no allies but only a Tripartite Oligarchy that wants this war. The US is internally conflicted. The Democrats chose the wrong path to victory at home. A solid victory would have been as simple as cancelling student loans and solve the housing, health, education, crisis in the US. This is probably the weakest alliance in modern history. Nothing more than a collection of nations over reliant on the military prowess of the US. Its a vestige, its time has come to fade away. They even have Boris Johnson who is not even a PM right up there in that line up. This is really a pathetic show of impotence. The offensive they plan cannot happen in winter months they wait for warm weather relying mass opposition to this war and them in Europe would quell, become silent, passive. But they are wrong. Wrong because their own citizens are disgusted with their form of economics entailing cuts in pensions, extending the working day to cover the cost of this war and the absence of any taxation on those who want the war to continue. Neo-liberalism and the NEOCONS spearheading these goals have reached their end and the fear is how they will react to that end as they are absolutely drunk and obsessed with power. Its over. All that remains is which of the allies will get the spoils.
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  4463. Sick society.
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  4464. Gov Abbott of Texas (USA) makes an appearance flanked by an armed military makes it nearly impossible to distinguish him, if not for the color of their skins, of a two bit dictatorship in a war ravaged nation where poverty is rampant.
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  4465.  @nickiseb8910  Good question for Orban.
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  4466. Defeated. Exactly, what they want for a reason to extend a war that is tearing apart societies but enriching a few.
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  4467. Is there any evidence anywhere in the ancient world of a working day?
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  4468. The value equivalent of wages is the cost of survival in a given place or region in the country. Businesses are compelled to increase the workday when they cut down on staff because the wage has risen. They moan and groan the cost of labor is too high. In the old days to offset the loss of “hands” the workday was prolonged till you dropped on the job. But today the miracle of science and technology is applied on the work people are hired to perform to enhance their out put on the job. This often leads to a bigger problem. The business that cut its staff down by half operates the crew at double the rate with new and updated equipment is designed to make the job easier but often the outcomes are negative results. Currently, hospital management corporations applied a remote controlled system to monitor 60 heart monitor patients and a few of them died because one teleologist was responsible for 60 heart patients whereas before the change one teleologist monitored 2 patients. The result is critical units are shut down. Literally the living driven into the ground and a hefty profit to show for it. Technology applied to a given labor-process is only labor-saving from the standpoint of business not from the standpoint of the work itself. The work itself consumes more energy from less people working overtime. But to enlarge wealth, make a surplus, is the aim behind increasing the minimum wage for the effect it has on employers. A wage increase harms small business but for Big Business its sets the stage to innovate and shed more workers to lower the cost of operations and increase the rate of output with a higher surpluses and more profits.
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  4469. That is why he is perfect for the job. He’s a puppet with no brains of his own. @rodneyd1168 
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  4470. I like the way the commercial interrupts the interview right after the question.  Most people then forget what the question was and the last thing they remember is the commercial which cuts right back to the interview. The commercial interuption breaks the continuity of thought. Subtle mind playing by Utube and NBC or whoever decides where commercials occur in a program.
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  4471.  @heritagekarma888  If it is a personal responsibility to succeed than there should never have been any bail outs for any business large and small. They failed its their fault. No government help for them. Its personal for everyone else and social for banker that fails. Complete and utter foolishness like this will lead to a decline faster than you know.
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  4472.  @heritagekarma888  That is sound advise.
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  4473. Probably would have taken the presidential palace in the name of climate change on a day like today. The heat would have immobilized and incapacitated the police dressed in their battle regalia.
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  4474.  QTee  Read my comment again.
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  4475.  @richietattersall2122  Its human habitation, ecology, industry, as a totality not the individual parts that make that whole process at issue here.
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  4476. Iran is no Iraq. Iraq was easy prey for the US military. War with Iran will take down American society. America loses wars because it can never claim it won a war.  Iran will not be vanquished. It lost the Iraq War if your measure is the continued existence of the Taliban. Sanctions will react back on the continental US with high prices for commodities driving up the cost of living in America. Employers will have the upper hand as workers will be desperate to work for less than the legal minimum. Unemployment is under reported in the US -- so there will be at least double the actual number of people who will give up even looking for a job. Economic conditions are ripening for a revolution the perfect recipe is an unpopular war and president, mass casualties, unemployment and poverty outside your doorstep.
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  4477. “Suspect for killing three three year olds and father of four Jared Bradigan”. Did I hear this reporter right...Is this accurate? No doubt it was a set up. The cops investigating will keep the case open until a clue nails the real perpetrators.
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  4478. Why can't these people do the work themselves. What are they ...pussies? Cannot live without labor.  Listen to them whine, moan and groan, about 'patriotism'.
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  4479. They are spoiled, coddled and protected by the State @markhirstwood4190 
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  4480. America has too many people like George Santos. Highly detached from humanity...A type of personality cruel to animals. Vindictive and compulsive people who invade your space. Emotionally unstable and highly UNRELIABLE people are the George Santos types.
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  4481. Its time the “perfect family” as a model for families is really be taken for a model of disaster. Go into this type of living arrangement and be warned. Real families are usually mixed and struggling to learn about each through fights, betrayals, and treasonous activity. When they go too far we hear about them in the news but the “perfect family” is like trying to fit a round peg in a square hole. Anne Heche had a “perfect family and life”, look at how that ended. Is it perfect to live against the grain? News is filled with crisis but what the News is not doing is connecting crisis to the underlying causes America is unable to reach a stage of social civility in its public life. No attention given to the Whys? Suicide is illegal in all states. Abortion is illegal in some states. It is illegal to feed a homeless person in many states. It appears the States in general exercise an authoritarian rule over all individual members of society. Women’s own bodies are not their’s to decide. A man cannot eat, feed and cloth himself without it being a crime. A person cannot be kind, altruistic, without it being a crime. Why is all this true in America?
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  4482. McGrath must have had some real hard evidence that would take down some powerful people for him to have ran and for the FBI to hunt him down and kill him. There must be dozens in the same position as McGrath. Dozens with enough dirt to make them fear going Public, and since they go rid of Wikileaks publisher Julien Assange , or holding him in perpetude and in forced isolation in another country, these whistle blowers have nowhere to go. Media is controlled that the Public will ever get what he has.
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  4483.  @alvinparkinson9168  No doubt about their contribution, absolutely. Humanity would not have an alternative if not for their pioneering socialism. Because the history has been so disclosed that it was the fault of imperialist societies the socialist project was killed; the autopsy of the USSR is death by homicide, that when called and accused a socialist there should be no shame or fear to be a socialist or called one if your a democrat, the Red Scare is a dead scare.
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  4484.  @alvinparkinson9168  If you agree with the notion of "...too much focus on productive relation..." by the USSR CCCP then the USA, is guilty of the same at the expense of the social relations. Over emphaisizing quantity at the expense of quality. Building up defenses at the expense society.
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  4485. The two political parties that are stuck and cannot do anything about a deepening crisis make it ripe for a third party to take power?
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  4486. Charlatan gets to go to a country club because he and the government are the same and treat each other the same.
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  4487. The followers of Trump occupy the Republican Mount, and the conservatives are forced to settle on the Quirinal. With his minions he breaks the great traditions and bonds of incorporation of distinct settlements forming the original nation-state. No doubt we began at the start of the process completely whole and intact with him at the front we come out of the process following him shrunken and crushed the whole history of the US the history of its incorporation made into a glorified fantasy, and he the incarnation of that fantasy. The interval of independence the nation-state enjoyed for the four hundred years of its time crumbled on the first day of the 21st year of the 21th century.
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  4488.  @Unfamous_Buddha  That is a start, although Jill is still part of the Establishment you reject,.
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  4489.  @ivanfreely6366  Doesn't work that way in the US. Obviously you are not from the US or are too young to have lived through the Anti-Vietnam and Civil Rights movements to know that Nixon resigned before he was overthrown by both movements and that can happen again to any republican in power, because nobody knows what will spark a revolution in the US, but when a mass movement does start the history of movements in this country scares the shit out of them. A pretext is needed because the Americans only fight when they are attacked. The government has to trick the Public into supporting a war. Of course, nothing is written in stone, history plays out differently, in each epoch, but for the most part the American people are anti-war; they cannot do what they want. When you say they can if they want you are disempowering yourself and diminishing your own power, and that is when they can walk all over you!
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  4490.  @lunchwagondavis9983  I think the American people will give anyone a chance at the presidency, it doesn't mean we have to live with them forever.
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  4491.  @crand20033  That's proof the Isrealis never defeated Hezbollah if they survived and a part of a larger network. The activity you report reflects the formation of proxy social elements as the actors in a war between the US and Iran.
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  4492.  @ivanfreely6366  Not quite Sonny Jim, I am living in the future that is not yet the present and it is you who are living in the past that has not yet become the future. The past is Washington D.C. the 1% political elite, the GOP, the democrats, the constitution, the Congress, the White House, the US military, the Roman Catholic Church the Evangelicals, how you live and how you work and the process of working are you chains, i.e., a job. These are all social and institutional relationships that come from the past still dominate Americans in the present. Drumming up the same ludicrous arguments that never once view these institutions as products of the past. Nothing in America is the future except its technology which is controlled by all of the above named the forces of the past. A technology that will liberate your fellow citizens and yourself from contemporary indentured servitude that chains 300 million to work for the 1%. Google is a new name or face to an old economic form of monopoly capitalism. American working people are oppressed by forces of the past ideologiaclally and politically. Monopolies came into existence before you were born and here they are again. Tariffs and protectionsim is an old, old form of economic policy dates back to pre-20th century Washington's 1%, long since dead, but now inherited by their children, who infest your government. More accurate to call the US government as the government of the 1%. You eloquently describe the life condition of Americans as a condition common to the life of a Russian peasant in 1905, or a serf of the Middle Ages, unfree and oppressed. People have indeed changed, as you say, the people you know have changed from middle class status to working class status is how much they have changed. They have become a social class of the past, i.e., a working class, a special product of the 1%, who will insure they are comfortable enough to tolerate their opporession but never in the driver's seat. As soon as these people learn to drive the car the car will forever leave the old neighborhood of the 1%, on journey into their own future. The Game of Thrones is over.
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  4493. Supreme Court tells 63% of the people polled to Kiss its *ss, the Supreme Court does not care what the 63% think about its rulings on abortion. Generally speaking, if you are duped into believing an institution of Oligarchy is not the Supreme Court and not the main driver of social inequality in this country you are consequentially, duped to believe an entire range of fallacies.
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  4494. Your attention is poorly spent on this war! The more important catastrophe is the climate change effect on the economies in the west. The effect of this year’s climate change comes in 2023 with France, England, Germany, US in a general depression unable to produce the GDPs the rich nations had before the pandemic. Each of these nations have chosen a direct path of expansion of their own capital and national interests or go bust...they chose to not raise wages...they chose to not raise both profits and wages...they chose war and competition to make profits and none of their children will ever see a battlefield is the Achilles Heel of the whole edifice.
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  4495. Nothing is ever the private sector's fault in this channel.
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  4496. Well, there are two sides to the social structure. Competition and productivity are useful agencies to capitalists in cheapening the cost of production. It could be useful to the American people but they choose to not use their own productivity for themselves is itself a perplexing historical paradox. They have the power but not the intellect to end competition in the world. If there was any will involved in the decision to export production (CO2 omissions) it would have to be the will of the masses in America and the developed nations responsible for the loss of manufacturing and higher polluting factors on the planet. Productivity and competition belong to the American people but are what corporations use to make profits. It could have been any nation to become the place where productivity is highest and cost of production is cheapest and that is where the international corporations will take their competition. There can be nobody else to blame for decisions the American people make in expanding their market needs and the needs of the corporations in the market at the same time. Call it generosity or gullibility, stupidity, or ignorance, it all applies to the paradox. Instead of using the fall in their necessary working time to reproduce the whole society for the benefit of society it is given free, unpaid for, to the benefit of corporations. In the competition the whole international class of corporations for a piece of the action in China, they intensify that productivity with speed ups; work harder mandates, more labor time, tighter rules, higher output, in the workplace sets off a competition, to sell more, a result ending in a market expansion. You have to accept these terms including a vaccine if you want to work. The paradox is bound up in two distinct social realities, simple reproduction is made easer in less working time and 2., how simple reproduction appears as a false motive of the entire international class of corporations from the US, EU, UK, Japan, Australia, SA, Middle East to lower emissions when it really is raising productivity. Want proof: ask anyone who works if there work has become enjoyable, satisfying, an act of affirmation of skill, talent, rewarding, and if they answer no, they gave up their will and productivity to the capitalists. 🧐
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  4497. Was her mistake responsible for taking a life? Or was her life a mistake? Time will tell,---no pun intended.
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  4498. But neither of these people can say the word “Genocide” to describe their direct and subjective participation by their actions.
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  4499. The working day and the power in numbers is the only tool people have to fight Trump with and against the  'ism'  that follows Trump when he is gone.
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  4500. Nice job and interview, we each must take action to stop dead in its tracks the fossil fuel companies from hijacking government.
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  4501. Israel is a glaring example of a failed state. The country will have to be stripped of all its material powers and then supervised by an international commission. Free Trade Capitalism, unbridled capitalism, de-regulated capitalism, the free exploitation of humanity by the few is confronted every where by the multitude. Failed states fail in delivering the necessaries of life, clean water, good soil, etc., and McCarthyite senators like Tom Cotton always come out of the woodwork as an anti-communist. While free trade capitalism fails humanity as a social system world wide. Communism in China is doing better. So I guess Cotton has a valid point but I say capitalism is finished because even China’s communism is capitalism.
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  4502. Re: Sniper story: Sad to say but if a dog is tied up for its whole life and breaks its chain to go free. Freedom to the dog becomes an in-hospitable place the dog has no skills with which to adapt.
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  4503. The good news; we are not in a recession under Biden. The bad news is the hours worked per worker fell under Biden. The total numbers of hours worked per worker has been falling at an alarming rate. The question ought to be what happens when people are thrown out of work? A concurrent homeless rate is one social consequence of constantly increasing productivity from fewer and fewer workers. There is less of the real source of value in the commodities we make. On average they contain less hours and less workers to make. Price to value ratios are moving in opposite directions debases the value of the dollar.
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  4504.  @jackienasta1538  The "SOLUTION". You sound like a Nazi with your religion. IThe solution to what?
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  4505. Suicide is not a selfish act its a dam bold act. Who among you can take your life? I can’t. I doubt you can too. Its a act of bravery to step into the unknown and know before you go you are never coming back. Thee police will have to determine if this was a murder -suicide or did all members form suicide pact in a homicide-suicide. Whatever it will go down as the fact remains a social unit and cornerstone of society dissolves before our eyes. Families have become a basis for separation from each other in the suburbs that they crumble and die an isolated death.
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  4506. Disturbing trend...is this Hank Flynn guy nuts! He’s in the middle upper class and can afford inflation...what does he care? The higher the prices of goods go the more the flash robs get. Big fat retailers are re-thinking about raising prices.
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  4507. American workers will not stand a chance when economic reforms like Macron's are passed in the US. A labor movement will have to be reborn considering 70% of America's workforce are not union. I mean, consider the following general areas affecting working people Republicans turned into legislation in Congress: 1.Right to hire and fire at will 2. Free-market wages, 3. working conditions, 4. no right to sue for damages, 5. general strikes are illegal in the US (Taft-Hartley Bill) As Scott Pruit, in charge of the EPA, says the losers will not be big industry. Signs that afoot is are coming labor conflicts. .
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  4508. The lower level elected officials are more in touch with the reality on the ground but as they continue in their political career and rise up the political party hierarchy they lose contact with that reality and become...well...new and other versions of Joe Biden committed to preserving the Status Quo. At which point, the public not at all stupid end up sticking it to the Democrats.
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  4509. The world must decide. There cannot be a two state solution in the Middle East and there cannot be a one nation two systems in the East, and there cannot be a partition right down the middle between north and south in any nation because these are not solutions; they are suspensions of the movement of humanity socializing itself from all the forms of enslavement and exploitation of its barbaric past.
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  4510. An In-Person adult field day for hunting is a good idea. Old habits could be the wrong habits that may need some undoing. Should get a driver discount for encouragement to do it. When it comes to safety an old dog has to learn new tricks.
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  4511. She should council Joe Biden and extend her wisdom to him about Old Age.
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  4512. American workers never take a political stand on things as a class. Moreover, if an when they act as a class they do not have a political party that will have their backs when they do take a stand. The time for consciousness raising is through a working class movement alongside the picket line of the nurses out on strike demanding higher pay and better health care. You want to be a social archeologist of modern class struggles in America you have to get out of the library and go where the action is!
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  4513. This is a sad story, the individual is not a supreme being in America... reflects a social reality for all individuals in society. Harvard falls short of the Right that would make the individual the true sovereign being for society the same way Congress passes no legislation promoting a human emancipation from all the oppressive political forms hindering a true freedom of the individual in society.
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  4514.  @gammaraypotatoes3307  What world do you live in?
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  4515.  @SideHustleGo0k Is 'you can't buy alcohol without an ID...' is that all you have to hang your reason on?
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  4516.  @tikofann5884  Republicans are no different. Just as bad. You are ruled by a duopoly.
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  4517.  @SideHustleGo0k  What you really want is the United States of Pretoria. An Apartheid System so the highest office of the land remains white but you cannot admit it...so you speak in code following the Nazi ideological narrative.
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  4518. Women in the role as pastors and priests in churches is the beginning of the end of patriarchy of the clergy. The religious world is one the last bastions of patriarchy next to Wall Street Banking and Finance institutions in America. Every other sphere of social and political life in America has transitioned or is transitioning into a matriarchy. This is true of the military, industry, health and education right down to the last detailed assembly worker women outnumbering men in the workforce.
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  4519. Hey Cruz,--- you have a right to get drunk at home or in the bar but that is as far your right goes! An analogy I give is this... The keys to the car are taken away from you by the law you as a Senator never voted to repeal violates the rights of millions of Americans who like to drink and drive. When a person with a disease like alcoholism is considered a safety risk to society, then (government) suspends or revokes driving privileges. A person's right of freedom of movement is violated, where is the outcry to this loss of freedom? Lawyers are more prone to creating fascist governments than doctors are Nazis alleged in the spread of propaganda agains the vaccine that would have been laughed and ridiculed at in 1955 when the Polio Vaccine eradicated that virus.
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  4520. It appears Biden lost the black vote before Cornell West ran. Hillary lost the black male vote. Obama regained the male black vote but it was not all sweet. Cracks and fissures of a party split. If West needs money for back taxes his supporters can pay it or fight it. The only black vote the democrats have are black older women. Democrats have on their hands a bunch of pissed off Gen X, Gen Z, Millennials, largely middle class. By repetition they treat the black male voter segment of the working class as people they need to get in line. Degrading. The black male has historically been on the outside. Racial overtones of the old days of slavery persist. If anything its a good thing West is running. The democrats will have their hands full fighting back the republican far right wing who want to destroy the Democratic party. If that happens a working class opposition party can step in under West. Important to be ready and build organization. A Trump return would be give the advantage to the far right, a revenge administration and civil war between the two fought out in courts, streets, wherever, but the working class not a part of Washington’s preoccupation with themselves in that internal war, have only one social enemy in society. The police surveilling and monitoring working class communities and that is enough of an obstacle that organizers do not need any more enemies in the Public realm. All organizing is infiltrated and there are enough grounds to sue the police/FBI in many states for that infiltration and obstruction as a suppression of rights that should not be exclusively relied on as a fight back only but as a part of the larger movement that interjects what the working class as a whole wants from the billionaire class.
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  4521. Dems oppress the poor and the GOP usurps the people for the rich.
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  4522.  @Cujobob  The Dems you are referring to, help very little and can help way more. They are conservative liberals who only help members of society to get out of jam. Social safety net is what they use to get themselves out of trouble soliciting your help, using your sincere altruism against you, is their insincere politics, but they put themselves in trouble is a proclivity in the nature of their party. Your biggest three immediate threats to your social democracy are: imperialism abroad and at home, authoritarian fascism, and incompetent leadership of the Democratic party. The general threat to the survival of your democracy is the election system in the US that was never reformed by wither of the two parties that emerged in the 19th century. America should at least six parties to truly reflect the demographics of your society. This is why racism describes both political parties even f they clam they are not racists, likelihood they are not, but the institutional set up of a two party system was constructed on slavery, a racist social system, and that has not changed at all in America.
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  4523. State of California is a duality joining together a shrinking minority of rich and an expanding majority of poor in a degraded environment. New York follows the same class and segregationist practices as California. To overcome this class contradiction America will need a social revolution to change the whole way we live and work in society. It is a microcosm of the division existing between rich and poor nations in two world markets, joined together as one rich the other poor, one is a consumer market and the other is a producer market, one is where things are sold and profits are realized, the other where production is cheap and labor-power cheaper. One successful fashion designer against one million struggling fashion designers working in fields out of the desire. Some at the bottom fall into homelessness. No safety net to catch them their fall is a social odyssey into an abyss of an invisible life to its bitter end. I
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  4524. Time Stamp 30:49 'Social media makes it look like people are getting away with it, addiction is rampant in America'. Stop! The narrating journalist inserted a word that is irrelevant to the theft of goods in San Francisco, the word 'addiction'. Subliminal messaging to viewers whose ear selects certain words more than the story itself. This is proof of brainwashing white viewers when all the subjects in the image doing the stealing are poor people of color. They steal because they are 'junkies', not part of the legitimate grievances compared to workers earning $30K a year in retail but then comes the calm sentimentality of workers asked to more and placed in the untenable position by the State of California changing the threshold for what constitutes a misdemeanor and a felony ties the hands of the cops.
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  4525. Personally, I think you can do better by formulating a hypothesis and testing it against the facts of the property crisis in Germany and elsewhere. Thank you.
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  4526. America in particular is a society with social institutions built on the old economic conditions of the 1940s that are no longer in keeping with the new economic conditions in the 21st Century. Until people grasp this fact they will never gain the confidence to discard old institutions and replace them with ones that fit the current social conditions that have emerged over an 80 year long period. What will occur if people do not take action and make a world transformation the present mode of production will rise and fall, rise and fall, and with each rise and each fall, the trouble and social consequences amplify, worsen, until the social system itself dives into complete disorder. For example: Freedom. In America you are free and not free at the same time. Inside the workplace where the changes have been dramatic Americans are not free but outside of the workplace Americans are free. We are partially free not fully free. To be fully free the mode of production has to change. Work and employment that was organized in the era of the New Deal no longer fits with work and employment in this century. Work makes people miserable in the long run and the free market temporarily restores a sense of happiness in the short run and neither social sphere of human activity generates any real and meaningful freedom or contentment in individuals. When we look at the Rocky mountains we are not seeing them erode in real time (our time) and we do not see the Pacific plate pushing the continental plate building new mountains. The same action is true in economics and takes place in society are movements not detectable by the naked eye does not mean the action does not happen, it is the reason why institutions become incompatible with society’s social changes. They have become unreasonable and wrong the changes have silently taken place made what used to be reasonable unreasonable and what used to be right wrong. Rather than to jump ship and head for the hills, drop out of society, people need to take control over the productive resources, and build a new social order.
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  4527. Analyzing Trump might help to impeach him but you cannot lead a mule to drink if it does not want to. I see these efforts to appertain a better world through psychoanalysis as political exhibitionism. Washington is a place where capitalism and industry is super developed and highly concentrated, whereas in other parts of the country there is no industry at all is evidently a question not closely concerning the state - practical questions the majority of Americans think about are never answered. What is driving the state away from these practical questions is its orgy of capital accumulation and religion. Alabamans will go down in history as the state that gave the GOP the sufficient number of states needed to repeal the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments of the Constitution.
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  4528. Role gender reversals of masculine and feminine are still about power and domination. Control, manipulation, lying, deceit, the old habits of patriarchy continue to contaminate America’s young people but in reverse form.
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  4529. So who was in charge for the seven days that she went to Texas to get her work done to her mouth? How did she pay the entire expense for travel and mouth reconstruction? Are there no dentist in South Dakota? Is her mouth the only mouth in South Dakota that needs fixing? Why is her mouth more important than the problems in her state? Why are the dentists in South Dakota not enraged she undermines their profession as not good enough? I wonder what impact it will have on the incomes of professionals as dentists losing patients because they like this governor and will follow her off a cliff if that is what she did? The French have a term for people like this. “Bourgeois” is the term ad if you have more than one of this type of consumer you have a “bourgeoisie” a social class usurping the State for self-use.
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  4530. A simple and very stupid answer.
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  4531.  @RicardoLivinLargeTho  KMA.
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  4532. AI Story applied in the recycling business is also an application in the production side of plastic (chemical industries) and changes the consumption side of plastic (consumerism). This is the kind of human tool that controls human behavior. The kind of tool in demand by the richest of the rich and the evilest of the evil. Its also the kind of tool that is a new force of production in history, something of what the windmill was to the 14th century, or the steam engine in the 19th century, a tool that changes the social relations of how America and the world will live, eat, sleep. Whoever controls this means of production controls humanity is a storyline for Marvel comics of heroes and villains that is not for human history...its fantasy...and you can bet privatizing AI narrows down the direction humanity can go. Privatization Road comes to a fork in the road where human progress is a left and barbarism is right. The last time humanity came to a crossroads where it was a matter of life or death was when it discovered a bone can be a tool and its own hand and feet a tool for the bone. Nature made our common ancestors make the right choice back then...Nature will do the same for us in modern history but with more killing power...as the Knight told Indiana Jones he must choose wisely the cup of Christ from the many on the table, or eternal life will be forfeited, if you choose wrong. So don’t blow it people. You turn right its barbarism; turn left its eternal life without privatization controlling life.
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  4533.  @GhostOnTheHalfShell  That presupposes capital for the purchase of a company by the employees in order to be an enfranchisement. Plus, the factory or company that the workers want to buy is the commodity the owner(s) do not necessarily want or have to sell to the workers. I think the more effective route is one national union with its own political party engage the Dems and the GOP in a political struggle for the White House. In the down ballot elections the Dems and GOP will be facing a new wave of progressive labor contenders, and get more seats in the Senate.
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  4534. If Roger ever told me to my face I was complicit with humanity’s death sentence, a criminal, because I am not fighting for life, not actively engaged in civil resistance my ass and his face would look the same. Both these individuals are asking me to save western civilization and I ask them... for whom? 1., it was known 30 years ago...actually climate change was known by natural scientists in the 18th century. Besides that matter... 30 years ago these guys were idle...about climate change. Calling people out on this is arrogance... after 30 years of developing himself and Xtinction Rebellion organization,--- those 30 years he spent constitute 30 years of inaction relative to the civil resistance and disobedience happening in his day too...did anyone confront him with a didactic accusatory choice and the ask that he should save a society built on exploitation...of course not, this is rich hubris on par with the hubris of the neocons in the national security state. He should instead be humble and say I am one brick in the Wall of the social relations of capitalism that has loosened and threatens the wall to come down. We need more bricks to loosen up for that wall to come down. Its not about “survival” and not about the ‘ system’, its about capitalist relations. Civilization may be not worth saving if it is capitalism that is being saved. This is what FDR did and look where you are now. Going further human beings as a species may not be worth saving. The human species cannot as 2000 years of recorded history proves behave as a fraternal being with its own species. We are the only species who exploit our own species in the human world of nature and in the non-human world of nature exploitation of other species is a matter of subsistence not survival. Capitalism wrongly equates the production of subsistence to the non-human world of nature as a war of survival and that is a false concept of natural history. The actual jungle is kinder than capitalism. Jungles offer subsistence, capitalism is a deprivation of subsistence. And the response of the ruling classes to climate change is “tough shit, people die that’s nature and survival, deal with it”, versus the response of the Left its the “system itself” are didactic choices and as two opposing prevailing orthodoxies they are both wrong! Don’t get me wrong I love works of art, music and literature and civilization, but if it comes with capitalism why in the hell would I want to save a social system of lawyers, prosecutors, Generals. Presidents, Senators, Capitalists, merchants, landowners, and people condemned to be the exploited working classes ...as a human being? If an alternative did not exist in theory I would say burn it all down! Earth will survive even if we don’t.
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  4535. Time capsules are great. Think when one is found millions of years from now by future archeologists, or in ten years and it links you to a murder. From a family man to man on the run.
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  4536. “Super brazen”...what I see are people attacking people if I knew absolutely nothing about why? Rare that we see in nature a species killing its own species to be its subsistence. Ants form colonies and help each other. They don’t dominate or devour their own kind. Fish eat smaller fish. Small fish join together to make one big protector from bigger fish eating them. There are so may variations in the natural world of animals and plants whose interaction s for survival come from being eaten, or eating something nature given. Fish are species that are the subsistence of other fish including humans. Beavers produce the means of subsistence for other species when lakes are formed by their dam constructions, and... there are species who produce nothing and consume everything in the world of non-human nature and there. Humans are the exception, we have to work with our hands and bodies to make our subsistence. Our interaction for survival is between us and the environment. The soil, water, sun, air, we will come to this realization when all the things we make to control others with are gone. Earlier we did eat our species, earlier in our barbaric stages of development. Cannibals were humans. Germans, French, British, Spanish, Italian, American, Russian, Dutch, you name it, all committed atrocities as humans killing other humans. This is only true for about 10 countries out of 150. Not a bad record for a 12000 year old species. Even if God made the world he is not responsible for what we do in that world. And if he did not make the world and us we, in the end, are responsible for our own decline and disintegration. Not all humans but more than our share dominate, destroy, or devour, vanquish, conquer, and rob other humans... and it is all done through the use of things. The control over things. It is the house of another, the car of another, the money of another, the jewels of another, the drugs of another, the food of another, more things under the control of one person and few things under the control of many people is the shape of crime in America, that drives humans to kill other humans...that’s is all it is and how we fall into trouble as a species or lose our way as they say is our own fault. Super brazen is what super-deprivation looks like to the one who has control over things and super-deprivation is what brazenness looks like to the one with no control over things.
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  4537. Kirby controls the conversation. Shame on the Press for not pushing harder.
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  4538. Junk media News and Useless Cops.
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  4539. Why did you not go into the Helena character as a comparison to the other three women in Indy’s life?
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  4540. True, they do not have enough experience and knowledge to know all wars end with a diplomatic solution. Its inevitable anyway may as well keep the lines of communication between Russia and the US open. Nothing can be done if a ceasefire does not happen. You can’t get to the treaties, you cannot address the energy problems in Europe and in America. No diplomacy.
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  4541.  @katashley1031  They are apologists. Enablers is a better word for me. No doubt the centrist and right democrats are a Mafia, they are representing Oligarchs who put their money in both parties. Oligarchs secure their interest before anyone else,-- they win anyway. The bullies are the oligarchs and their imperialism is their crime. Capitalist expansion, more markets, (use our money and if we don’t like what your doing we can take your money, they want to privatize public works of other nations at the expense of native industries) is imperialism, this bullies countries and this trickles down into society as a habit forming culture. We have or should have a beef with this because taxes will never gown down as long as imperialism continues but will always rise. If you hate high taxes than you should hate imperialism. Direct connection between domestic taxation and foreign imperialism. Keep thinking sounds like you got a good head on your shoulders.
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  4542. The Senate is more militaristic than the military as irony would have it. Money to keep the top brass of the miltiary functioning and all the industries relying on that tax subsidy the military uses as development capital is an overblown and very fat crown jewel of the US. I can shave off three layers of military renewal and development and there would still be enough fire power to blow the planet up to smithereens. To be the defender for the dominant social classes in society is the wrong use for the military. No matter how much renewal this military undergoes, defending a privileged elite is an offensive move. Other militaries of the world do not have to advance much to protect themselves, a strong defensive guard and line from all angles, in fact, this situation increases the chances of a major defeat for the US despite the influx of capital to renovate the military. There is also an imbalance of armed forces that the US has two militaries and each are relegated to their respective obligations. It has an internal military of 1 million police officers that is relegated to rule over civil society and it has a 750,000 troop military relegated to rule other nations. I'd like to see a president come into office and propose a sensible military budget and divert a big chunk of that capital to me, you, the society.
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  4543. Capitalists have loyalty to profits not country. Americans should know this. I should say American workers giving loyalty to American capitalists are hoodwinked should know this. Chief economist Stephan Moore is a prize fighter for capitalism of another century. His economics is old, dusty, out of date. Americans are forbidden to learn anything about communism and are really ignorant about it. Baby boomers grew up indoctrinated to be against communism. Back then American capitalists hated Russia. Today they love China and still hate Russia. Americans are a very confused people. The party is the dictatorship not its chairman directing that dictatorship. It is supposed to be a dictatorship of workers. Whether it is or not is a subject for debate. Bottom line is... China offers a better deal to American capitalists than the republicans and democrats offer to American capitalists is what it amounts to. In order to beat what China offers, American workers would have lose more of their standard of living and the two parties are not likely to tell the American worker they cannot have their cake and eat it too. Because of this the parties do nothing until something breaks loose and they have no choice. As a consequence all of America are left standing in a decaying society.
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  4544. The nation-state of the US is home to some of the worse evils the US adopted from Europe in the 20th century. The emergence of a virulent right wing is a response to long standing failures of the American economy to employ its working population and raise their standard of living. The end of prosperity that began in the 1970's. The Trump administration has taken a protectionist stand to reduce its imports and foreign investments. The problem with limiting trade is the loss of income derived from foreign investments. Income that would otherwise contribute to a balance of payments favorable to the US economy and thus stimulate employment at home. This administration has also sharply cut our military assistance to Egypt. Sold a substantial military package to the Saudis and economic assistance to many countries cut, while at the same time as the planet is heating up, causing commodity shortages and inflation at home of commodities from the economies that are part of the Bric countries. The administration is attempting to reduce America's purchases abroad and increase foreign purchases at home with discriminatory policies against the dollar in most countries of the world does direct damage to our own economic prosperity and that of the world's. This administration compares US foreign investment income to investment income of foreign capital and sees the national defense budget as a means to resolve that imbalance. However, since monetary policy and trade policy are two-fold the cost of empire is sharply inflated, the national defense budget rose during the Vietnam War and the longest war in Afghanistan adds more to the cost of empire, has the direct negative effect of a general reduction of employment and wage earnings but a positive effect of increasing the share of the national budget going to the military generating a higher cost of empire. The 'lion's share' of the money in short-term liquid assets, cash on hand, was in 1973 (Wall Street Journal February 13, 1973 reported) $260 billion in 1971 held by '...private institutions on the international financial scene...,' the cash controlled by U.S. based multinational corporations and banks is today $3 trillion. It is clear from this figure the American working population are falling under the heels of a class formation of the institutions as opposed to a class formation of individual capitalist, bankers, and oil industrialists. It is clear from this the institutions have developed monopolistic tendencies hoarding the wealth which explains the flagrant consumption of luxury of so few super rich entities that exclude the majority of its citizens except to serve as the permanent economic source of income for the national defense of the super rich.
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  4545. No are the GOP and the Democratic Party, they are the party of No.  They are the people who give permission to JP Morgan to accumulate and tell the people they are in the way of that accumulation. They are the State and the state is a culture of No. Rules of No. Laws of No. Principals and ethics of No. No dominates the family, the person, the child, the State. No is setting limits. Limits that today are choking humanity to death. No is when there is a limit to how much of a walk into the woods, playing with a toy gun, or waiting in a car while black or brown, these states of being are limited as to how much you can consume without having another person calling the cops on you. People using what is supposed to be the guarantor of safety of person, property and society, have created a culture of using cops as tools to hurt, injured, killed, harass other people is a culture of accumulation for the sake of accumulation behind all this repression. Something else could be the party of Yes, but the culture here is one of uncertain self-doubt among the broad spectrum of the population. What is accumulation of capital but a double process. Jaime the capitalist knows his capital produces for itself the relationships desirable in society for that accumulation to happen, he can sit back watch money make money, people play the parts in the social drama Capital needs to make itself Capital, a self- construction of itself, is a process of money using people to make itself capital, in a transformation from money into capital. No means Yes to Capital and No to Labor the creator of Capital. But this is not how the American working class see capitalist relations as accumulation for the sake of accumulation.
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  4546. Oligarchs in the west have something to worry about.
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  4547.  @downtoearth303  "Luft macht eigen", you are enslaved on the very spot you live and breathe.
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  4548. Can somebody tell Amy Goodman her name is not Greta Thunberry. First time I heard the misreference I forgave it thnking she would be corrected by herself or staff.  But she has not been corrected.
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  4549. Pretty stupid how the comments below me cannot distinguish the difference between the private sector and the public sector in China, or they do not want to. Idiots. Americans got the same treatment and did nothing about it.
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  4550. It does not look any better for the American working class. Only the 1% buy goods and services not from China. And China's products are cheaper for US corporations to produce.  As they flood the US market with cheaper goods they lower the cost of living index and this lower wages as a consequence. When wages in America fall and profits rise, the conditions are set for mass protests and we can see in Sisi how Trump will respond to worker protests. Particularly the non-union workforce, whereas the unions strikes like GM workers the corporation(s) can defeat by holding out the strikes.
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  4551. The Senate and the Supreme Court are the main drivers of social and economic inequality in society. What the Vatican is to religion the Senate is to politics and the Supreme Court is to Law.
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  4552. Migrants are isolated workers. Isolated workers foster an ideology of individualism. They come to America or Europe for self-motivating reasons, i.e., a better life etc. This motive is itself a social force. In large numbers incoming migrants find themselves in jobs through various agents dealing with employers. The hiring of illegals by American employers (owners of capital) crushes working class consciousness for American workers striking for higher wages. The Far Right uses this to defeat their political opponents and lay down nationalist aims. The Far Left does not use the incoming flow of migrants as a means to educate Americans of the intent to crush their efforts to raise wages. Workers were striking left and right after the pandemic, they were unionizing themselves in Amazon and Starbucks, and nobody on the Left used those striking situations to talk to workers in person about what forces are working against them in their struggle. In effect, American workers do not even know who the Far Left are except through a Far Right critique of them the media happly advances against Far Left political people. The American Left by their inaction to agitate and encourage the strikes allowed the Far Right to define the narrative, and, as a consequence, lost credibility and respect. Revolutions and victories are not won from behind a camera exclusively, you need to get to those striking situations in person and get on the soap box, it is work that is part, campaigning for class consciousness and class struggle and part agitation and organization, rolled into one.
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  4553. Indeed, the presidency is a commodity. Its value is its power its form is money and its job is to make capital. The presidency starts with money and ends with more money. Once someone leaves the presidency they are no longer the equal of everyone else they are richer than everyone else. This is why the presidency leads so many into a search for the excess surplus-value and where it comes from?
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  4554. If not him another will come to distract from the real work of governing. All the world is a stage said Shakespeare and the theater of actors are in Congress.
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  4555.  @myaatheist2744  Good comment, refreshing to hear and reassuring. Religion is the opiate of the people.
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  4556. The 'Pandora Papers' are an eye-opening gift to the American people asleep for so many decades. Revealing the international nature of the 1%, organized and connected to the White House. It shows that the 1% have at their disposal free access to the value creators of the 99% of 195 nations.
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  4557. These appraisals in the graphics are not right. The apartment price in Trump Park Ave is $62,500 USD is cheap.
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  4558. Time flies doen't it...soon we'll see Garth Brooks playing Santa Clause.
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  4559. 11:25,---The irony of using sand to build up barriers along beach coastal areas. Whoever came up with that idea is truly a work of genius (sic). The incompetence and stupidity of the people in power of the authorities in that locality are contributing to the destruction. The ocean simply spat back the billions of dollars of sand authorities borrowed from the Fed in money and spent or used to create a barrier of sand to stop rising oceans. Tons and tons of sand ended up on the front lawns of inland houses is glaring proof of a moment of the absolute uselessness of American Bureaucracy. The barrier that was not a barrier. Just like the Food dock the Navy could not build in the Gaza Sea. In America, a rescue mission means the opposite, and the announcement of the governor to “shelter in place’, the State has all the resources sounds like you are covered but with the level on incompetence in bureaucracy thus far, that means the resources will never get to you.
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  4560. As long as the public is united taking a stand against war is a stand for peace. Stand up. Prosecutions of wrong doers is a stand for what is right. One an actual public admission of wrong doing from a politician gets a lot of traction. I want to know who tells them what to say?
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  4561. That is right and much of your own citizenry appear to not give a damn either that workers in the private sector are losing jobs to robotics and automation in the name of producing cheaper because they got suckered into the propaganda machine that government is your enemy. Distorting the real issue with government that is bureaucracy not government itself, if government itself is the poison of the people than why would a billionaire want to be president if not for the protection of billionaires the military ordered by government will provide them in the event things go so bad every factory in America will have their workers working under gunpoint. The democrats do not know how to confront an imperialist, you call them “bullies” I call them “imperialists”. Imperialist do not care about friends and allies, they care about national interests. Our individual interest are not national enough to have interests worth protecting...seriously, how far does your wealth extend that government would protect your property if a low intensity nuclear warhead were aimed at Lavergne Tenn? If billionaires lived in Lavergne, Lavernians would get the federal protection.
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  4562.  @GeneticAssassin When Trump saw Trudeau confront him in his address to us the American people, and Wall Street plummeted, sent Trump a message. They don’t like his tariff plan and will sink the economy into a depression under his watch if he does not back off and that is when Trump backed off. So where are all the migrants to be deported...where is the horde invading the US that Tom Homan promised to deport? You know how much actual fentanyl gets across the Canadian border illegally, exactly 75 pounds. FIGHT TRUMP NOW!
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  4563.  @rowemiller7590  Hoover told Americans that he wasn’t going to help them to get through the Great Depression, Hoover instead did what Trump is doing now, and the Communist Party of the US gained 60 million new members as a result. There is a communist party in America. If there is any truth to the idea that history repeats itself this party is going to become a national force!
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  4564. Security is a necessary component of, and too socially important for working class family enrichment, to not fight fascism in its various forms.
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  4565. Coup d’état, well, all I have to say is Trump is no Trotsky. But that is not to say his loyalists will not make a second attempt.
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  4566.  @jamesandrews1190  Problem is,--- men like think but not with the head on your shoulders.
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  4567.  @Ddub1083  Your point needs sharpening. It reads like a dull lead point pencil writes.
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  4568. The theory of what there is...Ontology = existence. A use-value can be anything says that it is not the thing itself that makes it useful; its the position of the thing in a labor-process that counts. The labor involved in setting up the killing of a young black man in his own neighborhood does not take away the value of the gun as a use-value to society; it only suggests the gun is used in an activity of a criminal nature. Be it a negative activity of a single perpetrator, actions taken are still a labor process in which the gun is a instrument in this activity. If the activity were of a positive nature such as arming a defenseless population from an army of invaders the value of the gun is the same and its reason for existence never leaves the realm of being a use-value as a realization of an idea, i.e., the concept of security. But we can not say the same thing for other things that exist, such as money, or rent, profit, interest, wages, prices, these are ideas, economic concepts, that are real and exist. The use-value of each of these economic categories can exists only within the framework of that system, is relative to a very specific social system. The economic categories disappear along with the social system indicating that coats and cloths will still be made but not in the economic forms mentioned. Coatmaking would be what it is, useful labor and not assume the role of one of the categories mentioned. Use-value is real for the present historical arrangement of these categories but they not transhistorical, therefore, losing their use-value and cease to exist to time. Time is non-existent in Space as is sound and motion but time does exist in two forms on Earth to capture motion and weight. Motion and weight are common elements on earth that cannot be seen but exists in degrees of visibility to invisibility and must take various forms to become a material reality. For time in the abstract to become time in the concrete, human consciousness has to concieve of a clock to measure motion and for weight to be a material reality a scale must be conceived and produced to capture an object's relationship to the earth. If we want to measure a more homely item, such as, the old car is not worth the four tires on the car, a concept of value is common to the car and the tires through the amount of money it would take to buy tires retail. If not for this comparative relationship the objects enter into, value would not exist. But value does exist only when it is a use-value for something or someone else and does not exists as a value for itself.
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  4569. You’ll start listening to other voices when the price of coffee and whatever else your day costs you rises beyond reach.
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  4570. NO COLLEGE DEGREE REQUIRED,--- This is good... I have a degree...in my life what I encountered in those with no college education is a lack of patience and method in their mental capacities. Some may have this power naturally. Others have to train for it. Education is the same thing. If a musician wants to be great its all about practice, practice, practice that makes perfect. Read more and you will write better. Learn the rules first than you can break the rules. But for corporations the labor-power they want is to do the work they give you and the work given to you has been so refined down to the last second that actual labor really does not need a sharp, educated mind, to perform the job, in fact, people with education are not suitable for the tasks corporations want from people. Tasks have been reduced of skill, automated, and therefore, employers are let off the hook paying off the tuitions of employees they agreed to pay in prior contracts with workers in the last round of hirings. Not a victory for employees and future employees but it is an avenue for future workers to get inside from the cold that the higher education system, deans and universities presidents, injected their hubris into the veins of the working class and corporations, for a hefty price, shunned and looked down their noses at a whole class of unskilled workers. Its a victory for employers. The high cost of wages just came down for employers while the price of meat for workers at the stores has gone up.
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  4571. Trump is the reincarnation of Lord Byron taken down by a prostitute.
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  4572.  @nogoodguitars5497  Because taxes are just a form the wealth gets from you to them is why.
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  4573.  @MistyinParis-  People do not realize that the colossal national debt puts pressure to tax the majority while a minority pay no taxes, is not going to fly well. A full disclosure would reveal the vilest financial aristocracy the world has ever known.
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  4574. TOO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE GETTING CANCER !!!!! Food, water, and work environments are the cause.
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  4575. You are never going to get harsher punishments for corruption under this system because the system itself is prone to abuse and corruption. The use of force cannot be justified unless the abuse of force is manufactured. The bottom line you find does not go far enough to solve the problem.
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  4576. Huckabee is well casted as the administration's leading sycophant.
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  4577. Americans living in a permanent state of necessity is the exact opposite of freedom is the first truth to be expose.
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  4578. To lose a job is a mortal leap into an abyss of unemployment. With a shrinking workforce and an aging population the society is headed in the opposite direction of internal stability. Trump came out in support of workers is an improvement from previous presidents. He may be the man who rescues capitalism from its demise. Only time will tell. Right now what capital in the person of High Tech CEOs want is foreign labor which opens borders. Two capitalists of South African and Indian descent with investments in China are being accused of hating Americans for it can be useful for the Left to advance it’s program. Crony capitalism in the White House has a loud sound. Trump’s supporters demand closed borders and jobs for Americans. Shut down the wars would shut down the massive flow of migrants, and Trump finds himself in the middle of a split between High Tech Big Capital and Blue Collar Conservative Workers losing jobs and no migrants to act as a secondary workforce! The depression sets in log and deep. Trump becomes another Hoover. He can’t do anything but play golf. Society descends into nihilism and barbarism a breeding ground for a new economic model.
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  4579. Just to give some historical perspective. This is the first time America will involve itself in a nation that is not about empire building but about overthrowing a mode of production. Capitalism versus Nationalism are both on trial as late 19th century ideas no longer viable in this century coming to blows in Venezuela. Using force as necessary to abolish nationalization. Nationalization counts as a way of life for Latin American states. It is a product of the Cold War and a device for neutrality between the US and the USSR by Non-Aligned Nations. Nationalization in Latin America begins in the 18th century Enlightenment. Ideas inspired by the French Revolution of 1789, that freed Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru from the Spanish Monarchy, the threats from a European Holy Alliance and an emerging United States power. Such was the world around Simon Bolivar who aimed for a strong United States of Spanish America. It had stopped dead in its tracks with the slave trade. But this idea of nationalization moved into the economic realm in the 20th century to because of hostilities between capitalism and communism that make these the ideas of what a revolution and a mode of production are obsolete.
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  4580. This country is being led by the wrong people; people with bias and no skill in diplomacy.
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  4581. Manchin fails to garner the love and adoration of the American work force.  Unfortunately, working together to him means average unskilled wage earners forego the $15 an hour. The majority is corrected by the minority thanks to Joe Manchin...he must secretly hate people, as irony would have it.
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  4582. Doing as much damage as possible before leaving office is vile and pernicious. Vindictive, obsessed and deranged and a callous disregard for human life as inconsequential in their internecine warfare.
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  4583. So, does that mean they were physically large, full grown, muscular, furred people with high sounding voices like our children sound in a playground?
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  4584. The Millennials are creating the demand that will decimate the economy not Joe Biden.
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  4585. What replaces “Business as Usual”, when it comes to an end?
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  4586. Robert Britt ---since you raised the question of growth...under capitalism...finite space is divided by uneven growth under capitalism.  We are past a world that had half of the world poor and the other half rich, the change is a world of increasing poor and decreasing rich. Mass deprivation surrounding concentrated pockets of growth and monopoly control.
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  4587.  @briankoontz1  I take it you are speaking for yourself? Not like a master plan was dug up and you have it, is it?
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  4588.  @briankoontz1  You need to be corrected on a couple of things that make your case strange. One is the world does not die, humans do. When it does die it would have to die when our Sun or galaxy is no longer a Universe around us. In astronomical time that is far in the distance. In 1968 who learned we were flawed? Being around in 1968 as a Columbia grduate physcisist, I would have heard something from my collegues or found in reading the literature on science such a discovery. When you make a case you need to back it up with hard facts not conjecture. RE: Master Plan, the GOP as the citadel of political power and reaction have a Master Plan and it does include world domination as a goal, it also calls for the goal of a constitutional convention, is something highly suspicious and should concern all citizens of what that convention intends to accomplish or entails for society. RE: Death and dying, humans are quite fascinated by death, they precariously place themselves at the edge of death, they invent methods for death, they try to conquer death. But they never succeed in dying or in living.
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  4589.  @AudioPervert1  We cannot have an intelligent conversation, you and I, because I am insisting you lay out a premise, such as a definition of 'infinite growth'... then stick to it, investigations into the collapse of civilization exist in two forms, a particular and a general form, of the causes of its collapse. What are they?
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  4590.  @briankoontz1  Everything has to change, revolutions in the mode of production are essential for the preservation and survival of the capitalist system.The capitalist system and class radically change the methods of work, sometimes smoothly, sometimes recklessly throwing people out of work or lowering the standards of work; speed ups and slow down, cutting health care and using temp workers, strikes and lock outs...we all know for reasons of maximizing profits...so the question is, how is it that in the absence of regulation can a revolution in the way we work and live be achieved? With that question, in the context of where humans are relative to capitalism and civilization, the change has to be in civilization and production. has to be carried without a capitalist(s). 20th century America manifested capitalism culturally and legally through slavery, so that you are witnessing a meltdown and dissipation of racist thought and ideology in the Democratic party in Joe Biden, an heir to southern racist segregationist beliefs that he authored the Crime Bill with but a nod to current African Americans. After emancipation former slaves acquired property then taken back with all the burnings and lynching in the Jim Crow era. The social manifestation of capitalism in America is extreme racial segregation. The struggle, for example , to transform America into a socialist society is really a war against white segregationists, get them out of the way and production will transform relatively quickly, altering for the better the horrendous environmental relation of industry. Unfortunately, the removal of white segregationists from all the branches of government they control, in key positions, of decision-making power; and in postions they hold in the private sector, CEO's, alternating between government and industry their whole lives, is impossible to defeat without a social revolution.  Since race is a fabrication of mind, there is no such thing as "race", it is a concept not a fact of nature, race is a social fact, the revolution has to be social as well. Changes in the way we work and the abolition of white segregationist policies even in their state as being non-policies does not change the racist socialization as occurring in schools, church, bars, media. In a sense we are not calling for the overthrow of capitalism, although the call for the abolition of white apartheid requires the overthrow of capitalism, thanks to white supremacists. Racists make non-racists accidental socialists!
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  4591.  @AudioPervert1  Agreed.
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  4592.  @briankoontz1  You are right about one thing socialism has no basis in religious faith, it is totally against people who deduce hsitorical succession of things into a development of ideas. From your logic we can never get to existence and from existence to logic. For you the object of thought is ultimately some aspect or dimension of existence. You can speak intelligibly of historical succession only as a logic of some existential subject matter. Reuniting man with God! A nefarious thought in itself. In a social community where culture and language form 'consciousness is conscious existence' not the 'life-process of the brain'. Thought is human not absolute; it transforms but it does not create. Absent in your thinking are 'relative distinctions' within a concrete whole, every situation are not metaphysical absolutes. You disassociate development from time and then reduce development to a purely formal attribute of the absolute. Denying any element of objective truth about 'social relations' is a radical failure to distinguish between the subject matter of development and the logical formula of that development. You have a problem going here reducing the life of societies to a 'logic', as a limit always involved in existence. A nominalist, it seems, can't avoid this kinship with crude materialistic metaphysics and subjective idealism in trying to resolve its problems with universals. So true, in and for itself, labor has no value is how labor should be in a socialist society, it is a producer of use-values for itself and not a value-producer for others, as in the case under capitalism, and as such its value is 'contained' to its function as use-value regulated by socially necessary labor-time. Technology and science is a function of investment capital under socialism. By accident you arrive at this conclusion through your logic is about the only thing I can agree with in you.
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  4593. The plea of not guilty sets into motion the trial which is how convictions are administered for people. Do away with a trial you do away with jurisprudence. The video surveillance cameras make a fight back on attackers on women a viable way to eradicate male chauvinism in society is an example of technology working for people.
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  4594. Well, a Walnut Tree has nuts called walnuts but the nut itself is not a tree. A human embryo is not a baby because babies are formed outside of the womb. Babies are tiny people. It has nothing to do with philosophy and everything to do with State Power and evangelical christianity, or Creationism. They are not stupid people. They were very planned and methodical in their capture of government. Americans are now a subjugated people in the states they dominate. Seven million people undergoing in-vitro reproduction are denied social reproduction. They performed a coup d état that was slow and gradual over the years. When enough of them made it into government they became what constitutes a social class of christian capitalists (Amway, etc.). Pyramid schemes as you might heard of before was their business plan in the early years and putting into the hands of unsuspecting Americans their source of funding, ---profits from the sale of Amway, Mary Kay, products. Convention meetings in Vegas and other venues is where they held annual profit rallies the corporation rewarding people moving up the pyramid. Raising the capital to get elected, changing election laws to stay elected, ruling society through material, spiritual, legal, political and social, force. That is not stupidity. it’s a very well thought out successful and calculated plan for conquering the world by using America’s military might. They targeted people whose incomes was never enough. The “never enough” crowd are now a powerful social force when glued together into a pyramid structure containing them. Fast forward 30 years and the government is 7/10th occupied by Israel loving evangelical christians. The first genocide under their watch is the genocide against the Palestinians is no coincidence. If Americans want their freedoms Americans have no other alternative but to be the winners of political power. Evangelism appears over the centuries in various forms. It dates back to the early Roman christians who suffered so much persecution the second coming of Christ became a religion for them. Christianity and later evangelism has a despicable history from the 15th century going forward, more criminal and genocidal than Hitler, Stalin, Mao put together, the most deadliest of all homosapiens on earth are christians, that in every likelihood the extinction of the human race would be their doing. Not knowing your enemy is stupid. Not trying to insult readers of this state of mind personally. It is vital to orient people on how to start thinking about these people and their methods of subjugation. Creationists are infamous for denial of empirical truth and objective realities. You need to know who they are? What jobs do they hold in government that control our lives? Questions to start thinking about NOW not tomorrow. Tomorrow is too late.
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  4595. I think the rock needs a reference to what that rock helped to produce. If there is no find of a use-value that culture left behind that still would not cancel out the rock was the earliest tool if the researchers can find a remnant of a product of that time period that was proven to have been made with that kind of tool.
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  4596.  @shadowsinmymind9  Yes, ---that would be a logical deduction but it is best to concretize the find into its context of the time period and speculate from that basis rather than from our own context.
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  4597. That is freaky...you never know when people will enter your house...you could come home from work one day to find a group of migrant families sleeping in your house...if they are desperate enough...and to have to live armed is a stress that will shorten your own longevity...nobody will buy your house under the current situation...in contact you may actually become empathetic helping a migrant family and you are now actually violating your own laws...there is no getting out of the situation. Your neighborhood town surrounded by troops. It gradually becomes a checkpoint in what was once a nice place to live, quiet, a free feeling atmosphere is now a northwest passage for the multitude. Small town makes history, crushed under the weight of the international crisis, your house is now enshrined in that history, made priceless as a pivot of that crisis. Just have to make all encounters good ones do the best to discourage the bad. Be human and make history is all we as individuals can be.
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  4598. Well Americans put your money where your mouth is. You support Ukraine to fight Russia you will pay for that support. Gas, rent, food, oil, clothes, taxes...you are the one paying for that support.
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  4599. Time will tell.
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  4600. Does the act of completing a use-value for the one you gave them count for you as an equal exchange?
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  4601. What is the difference between a Russian Oil Oligarch and an American one?
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  4602.  @Defialos  You fail to identify what regulates prices when you say; “Prices have always been regulated one way or another.”
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  4603. Good report on the water how about the people stuck there?
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  4604. Not a good company town to be a worker. Employees are hostages to employers and street thieves. After 5:00 o’clock the life that was supposed to begin for workers is a battle zone through which workers have to pass everyday amounts to no life at all. You’d think the CEOs would have a meeting with the mayor to play out a plan that allows workers some fresh air and sunshine but it seems everyone in Oakland would rather live in a open air prison.
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  4605. The Monarchy has problems...big problems...its must wipe clean its debts or perish. British law places the rights of bondholders a right higher than the rights of a sovereign nation. Foreign creditors have turned the British economy and the EU into a dead zone and the US is stupid enough to permit bondholders to do this. As a world power the US extracts wealth from other nations and gets a free ride. This comes to an end when other nations are saddled by debt; they have to pay debt by cutting jobs, infrastructure, leaving the super power high and dry of their resources rather than their own people suffering, they will choose to lose all their natural resources to US bondholders because the political parties are loyally corrupt on behalf of bondholders and oligarchs who stand to get paid first. Public infrastructure is a source of employment and production. Right now Britain does neither, it has no production and employment is very low that it will have cut living standards to pay its debt. The monarchy will be stripped down of its luxurious lavish consumption habits the British people pay for is the beginning of Britain realizing it must cut deeper to pay off bondholders. Odious foreign debt taken on by force and they refuse to wipe out the accrued wealth of their own Oligarchy. Monarchies in the ancient world held the loyalty of the people they ruled over by periodically annulling debt
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  4606. 3:15 a salient point...Americans by not of their own free will or choosing have to rely on a collection of private capitals for their healthcare because their politicians made health and hospitalization a thing you can buy, and from the standpoint of owners of money, a thing you can sell at a profit. As a consequence of this privatization, owners of money buy cheap and sell dear to the American public access to healthcare, and this forced reliance on privatization is why vaccine hesitancy is so high in the US and deaths to COVID highest in the world. The real issue of importance here is 1: Coercion of the private market destroying free will, and 2., the mass deprivation of the majority of healthcare by government actively separating individuals from this necessity.
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  4607. The republicans will be singing the same tune of propaganda... have been given the job by their donors to convince you... China is your enemy... as part of electing one of them over a democrat for the presidency.
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  4608. The less choice we have as individuals the more social our individuals have to become. Think about it. If humans are the only species who have to acquire health and immunities against the dangers nature poses by producing food, shelter, warmth, water, good soil, unlike all other non-human species who are either food for some other species or food for themselves foraging nature, then we are without natural immunities like other species, to develop fast enough could wipe us out faster than we can naturally heal and recover, which is the problem with our economy more than a problem in our bodies...but as we have to depend on manufacturing counter defenses it would have to be because health by our own biological needs starts with a healthy environment. Becoming more social tugs against being more individual because it is more natural for us as a species to care for our kind than watching all resources go to the care of one individual. But in a society where individualism is the dominant form of ideology vaccinating all which is how diseases is stamped out is problematic, thus all kinds of ways to get around the obstacle, is made. If production were fully socialized the effort to stamp out a disease would be easier today than ever it was in history, and our economy would not be teetering on the brink of catastrophe, a staggering alcoholic one day and a racing fire-engine without a driver the next day, searching for endless wars as the only economic stimulus that creates jobs for millions at home who work to the detriment of humanity, and work only to enrich individual corporations. Truly a deplorable state of affairs.
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  4609. Biden's cabinet are only slightly better than Trump's cabinet. A hairline difference between the national leadership of both political parties. The US sends its rare earth minerals to China for processing and manufacturing. The cell phone in your hand comes from China. You'd think the US would learn something from China's manufacturing and do our own processing at home but what do the Board of Directors of Defense Contractor Corporations know about rare earth mineral processing when arms is their stock and trade?
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  4610. KENTUCKY - Time to reconfigure the property allotments and zoning laws in the County struck by the tornado. The community of people would be wise to build new structures out of the path of destruction and the structures themselves have to serve a double use and purpose, 1., for living and 2., for emergency shelter. Climate catastrophes is the impetus for these changes .
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  4611. @e Well, that is all well put and said pretty...but...ah...I am still rooted on the idea that all the structures have to be double purposed, local zoning laws only allow for one type of living structure functionally useful for cars not people, has to change at the ground level,---that’s my point. I respect anyone who does research work, not easy doing that work.
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  4612. 1. A lot of $5000.000 dollar Brooks Brothers suits on Cohen and his entourage. 2. Re: Scott Lloyd Dept' of Health and Human Services contracts child welfare experts. They are not spending money on psych evals for detainees. 3. Senators need to get a handle on how these bureaucracies work before they start hearings.  They know shit about government. Most every department head in the federal government are either, functionaries, sycophants or opportunists. 4. Nobody on the left, not one activist, is socializing with the workers on the strike line, disseminating information about other worker's struggles or company related abuses.  Workers are out there on their own against a transnational corporation that just acquired a couple of billion more market share from a merger. The left are ashamed to be sharing that strike line with those workers. That strike line can be the beginning of a Yellow Vest movement here and the social push the Green New Deal everyone is wishing they think will be magically applied to society by a single stroke of Congress. No political movement; no clean water.
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  4613.  @SylvanApe  Yes...it does. My hope is the government give these doctors a break by adding more doctors. They are the soldiers in the battlefield and could get infected as well is crucial. I'd graduate doctors from medical schools early and put them where they are needed to care for the patience and give the more experience doctors to not only rest but to research what they have been dealing with. Hard to research and treat at the same time.
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  4614. We should be laser focused on eliminating the inequality, the ratio that divides the many from the few, i.e., the problem of the 99% suppressed by 99% of all objective reality. Where objective reality serves the few and objective reality represses the many the class character of the wealth of our society is the presenting problem in America.
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  4615. Perfect, and well said. Massive federal dollars and the bureaucracies of which Christie, Haley, DeSantis, Trump, Biden are a part, have to go!
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  4616.  @vallee7966  You cannot judge or gauge the level of conflict of societies on the basis of aphorisms, societies are gauged by the life of modern industry; the consequence is war, more ground for more of the raw material that powers the productiveness of labor. Got to feed it more to make it work more to keep up with the rate of consumption that more force requires. Western societies are moribund because of this.
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  4617. It probably did not help the company logo would subliminally draw the attention of thieves. If the anchor stores leave the landowners will reconvert the property into condos and apartment rentals and all shopping done on line ground shipped to a special clientele who can work from home, to replace the residents there now. Its happening in Brooklyn. The stores will leave and the new incoming residents push rents higher causing old time residents to move out the neighborhood is gentrified.
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  4618. The City Council sits on quite a large sum of capital that by announcing it will not appropriate money for migrants they cannot say in the future there isn’t the money to fix it when a crisis unfolds because they did not spend the capital on migrants. They have to spend it anyway. If it’s spent on more law enforcement that is still spending on migrants. There is an element of hypocrisy to their position. Another question about the funds in their possession, where it will it get spent if not on migrants? Public tax money by law must get spent on the public. If not on migrants than on what or who? Question is swept under the rug by a migrant crisis that has happened yet! Down the road as the crisis gets BIG it will stir up internal problems inside the Council and leaks, will expose one or more members of siphoning the taxpayers’ economic surplus for personal use and consumption, a new car, a house, trip to Wikiki, etc., time will tell, but we have seen it before.
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  4619. You want to rule out a denture problem in Pelosi and Trump and Biden that screws up their powers of speech before it is their minds that are blamed.
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  4620. Bolton himself was damaging to US integrity around the world the next guy will be worse!
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  4621. So these people are ripe for a movement that tackles small government, less spending, and lower taxes,. A left wing proposal to these folks would be: 1. Small government, military spending brought down to the current level of social spending then a lowering both social and military spending to a satisfactory level. 2. Less Spending, proportional spending and the allocation of resources based on need. 3.Lower taxes, necessarily entails higher taxes for the rich does not work. What would work is progressive taxation and full employment, with more people producing wealth less tax per person is deducted. Rich or poor you have to hold a job at full pay and pay the proportional amount of income tax on that pay. Elites are the Establishment and the establishment is really a Cartel. If you want that broken up you need a program like this or similar. I wonder if these Trump supporters would accept such program?
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  4622. Human life is not worth much to put citizens in many countries including our own in harm’s way of a major war between superpowers. Reckless if you ask me.
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  4623. But why the US is a terrorist organization is the question? The Why question has to do with many variables... the bigger question is what to do about it? When you have a paradox on your hands this is a perplexing problem. The paradox that there has never been in history a more developed working class that is so politically immature than the US working class.
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  4624. I wouldn't worry about it. When the water subsides things will return to normal but under new conditions. The old score board will be scrapped and the new one will consist of a table of judges keeping track of the game score using notepads gong into everyone's cell phone. No need for a big ole' electronic score board. Downed fencing...take all the fencing off. Are people going to destroy their own ball park, I doubt it. Plant flowers at the edges of the ball park. People respect flowers. No need for big budget. People can make whatever is needed. Bleachers okay, live without them. Park has storage, let all bring their own chair and leave it there.
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  4625. The police department, Sheriff, are going down in Kenosha. The civil suit lays out the case the security the police and sheriff were supposed to provide were not based on keeping separate the protesting groups that night.
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  4626. Humans and non-humans with earth in a labor-process is a beautiful thing.  Now all we need to do is get the biologist out of the classroom and into the fields. Eventually the farmer will become the biologist-farmer opening a new age of reverence.
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  4627. Here we go again...there are regions in the US that don't have connectivity to the internet...now it should be given to Cubans, no doubt for spying and indoctrination purposes. Nobody knows how long a protest will last Mr. Rubio. The violence of the regime of its own people is a wild high faluttin' allegation, bro. This guy is a loon with a list of punitive measures.
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  4628. I can imagine Jewish pro-Israel protesters would blare out footage of HAMAS atrocities. This reminds of when the Pro-Life Movement began in the 70s. Anti-abortionists handed out pictures of horrific abortions. They were in your face on your way to work. Crazy people 40 years ago are still crazy and fanatical. It’s all coming to a head. Conflict and crisis in every sector, five sectors, colliding.
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  4629. To outlive so many people you loved reminds me of the point the Portrait of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde 1898 makes as one of life’s lessons.
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  4630. I think the police should leave that school district and give Border Patrol the job. Police don’t even live in Uvalde or have kids in that school.
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  4631. Excellent to explore other forms of production. Generally, equality in production does not exist. Equality is a thing that exists outside the factory and office doors. Factories and office workers are divided by management and by a division of labor of the office or factory. We are not going to find an equality of individuals in production when people are subordinated by a division of labor that positions who does what and by individual managers who say who does what when and for how long. Equality inside factories and offices is a goal. Cooperation is a form of productive labor the management of a company uses for their value creating process but the division of labor workers put on each other over the centuries on how to build cathedrals, pyramids, and other wonders of the world did not just appear. Division of labor grew out of cooperation which we can trace to the ancient family the very start of human civilization. On this point, the employee/employer relation is only a new form of the historic relation of master and slave relations we find in serfs and lords, slaves and kings, going down through the ages in the early family between husband, wife, children. This master-slave relations has been with us for a long time adopted by the employee-employer relation as to which is master in the workplace it is traced to the very early beginnings of the tension between the rural economy becoming a slave to city economies. This is what is meant when it is said all history is a history of class struggles but the employee-employer relation is the only class struggle that hinges on the productive action of industry and commerce that becomes the actual engine of human history is what makes this class struggle unique from all others with the power to change history as we live it.
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  4632. America did not support Iran’s liberalization because the State Department at the time was more obsessed with the notion of containing Russia and Iran was geostrategic spot to that end. So the State Department and CIA Allen Dulles hatched a plan for a base aimed at the Russians by overthrowing Iran’s liberal president who was moving the country in a western direction and installed a King, a brutal king, the repressive king added steam to the resentment. Holding back Iran’s western liberalization and progress movements morphed into a full blown Islamic Iranian Revolution, the king was overthrown in 1979 American hostages taken. You will end up knowing nothing if you do not know your own history.
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  4633. Actual dollars reflect commodities not gold! This is the reason gold prices are so high. The amount of currency chasing less goods is not what is happening in the market. Individual commodities have less value in them and if these goods are pumped out of the factories at such high rates that each unit value falls, are compared to gold prices the amount of gold a nation could afford to buy falls. A relation between the number of buyers for gold has been changed by means of a high price per ounce of gold, fixed at $2,366.00 USD. Nations not holding the world reserve of gold would have to borrow dollars in sufficient quantity if they need oil, corn, wheat, by the tons etc.
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  4634. Cheney is a better democrat than the democrats and the democrats are better at exploiting the American people than the Republicans can hide it. Both are major let downs and if a third party emerged with a rational economic program both parties would lose my vote.
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  4635. This tragic case will bear many positive changes for society.
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  4636. A superb video. Great job. Shows how technology, automation, social media, has been organized through private institutions are working against the American people.
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  4637. In the US, the population will be stupidly fighting each other over who is the truly religious, and what is a man or a woman, and why am I not white, he/she has more than me, rather than developing their relationships emotionally, their bodies physically and improving themselves intellectually when automation, artificial intelligence, technology and science, creates nothing but “Free Time”. Americans will be using that free time to annihilate each other. It will be the first time in history humans will not have to work for their food... and this luxury falls into the hands of religious and racialized nitwits and halfwits. The free time will give the population the concrete basis to question the very need for politicians. A certain number of Americans will be annihilating each other especially those who have no idea how to develop their Minds or use this newly created free time for purposes of building a completely new and antagonistic-free society. They will either sink or swim with the birth of a new society or die with the old one because their religion tells them there is a better afterlife and their racism tells them they are God’s gift to the world.
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  4638. A republican president threw rolled paper towels at Puerto Ricans. Which is better lip service to your struggle and survival or paper towels? Death to Neoliberalism.
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  4639. Boring man.
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  4640. then what, the pharmacist dispenses to the public the script and sends the bill to insurance. Insurance turns it down the script is bogus and pharmacist loses payment! @catwoman2596 
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  4641. Well, the good news is that it does not matter on what side of the equation your life is based, its still a process of disintegration and reintergration, a rebirth.  Today its an idol tomorrow its melted down for its metal to make something new.
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  4642. Charlie Kirk on the right and Shane Harris on the left. They need to get down to the particular investigation on the attack, and GOP policies on de-regulation promoting monoploy formations with controlling powers in general.
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  4643.  @ba94845  👍🏽
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  4644. The council member should work a deal with city landlords. Use commercial space for housing would be the idea. But it never entered her mind. Its all about finding who is at fault? Its the city’s fault for never having a plan but its the council person fault for never presenting a plan. The City has the capital that it can rent empty commercial space. Commercial space is vacant all over the boroughs. The space in the city the landlords have is greater than the space the city has. While you are at it...that is, if you take my recommendation above, Ms. Council member... do a plan on how and where to house citizens too! They are living in 100 year old buildings falling apart.
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  4645. Michael Cargill’s logic for suing the government; “they cannot walk into my house....”, than confiscate a gun I purchased and own, because on one fine day they declared that gun illegal. America is not the kind of society where big government and the people are the same thing. If only the government confiscated all the contaminated baby formula and made it illegal the baby industry have less than 6, a handful of manufacturers, supply all the formula. All industries in America are dominated by less than seven big corporations. This is a general pattern to the way Americans organize their industries. They seem nonchalant about putting life-producing industries in the hands of a group of CEOs. Why does Cargill need a bumstocked assault weapon, where does he go that requires this weaponry? If I were a black man in the US I would change my legal name, drop the surname of the Master dating back to when Cargill Corporation was founded as a grain storage business in Iowa back in 1865, but many who lost their language and names to being a slave have kept the master’s surname, unaware they no longer have to bear the name tag so police can know what slave owner owned them, ---we no longer have slave owners, restoring language and identity are no longer possible, too many years and distance between natural origins and social alienation have become sublimated into the master’s culture and society. Five generations removed from you roots, language, culture, history, of native origins is a long time to be someone you are not. The billionaire who invented the bumstock obviously cares more about the billions derived from the bumstock than he cares about the effect the bumstock has as a tool that must be operated by a human being. If the bumstock invention works for guns it can work for a roofing nail gun but given the housing crisis offers no place to make money the inventor decided to place his talents to enhance and increase the intensity of violence in a more profitable industry of war and violence. There are 332 million human beings in the US alone. Chances this tool will be used a human being to kill is as certain as death itself.
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  4646. This is why law enforcement and the national guard become more and more pawns or used by a Power Elite who’s interest comes before those of the country.
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  4647.  @shirleyfoggepiazza6984  My dear friend...the money you speak of, is paper and it is printed, the material wealth we have, is another story separate from paper money, that material wealth is in your cell phone, house, car, tools, stomach (food products), all the elements that go into our products are made from the elements extracted by our corporations who give us their products which we enjoy, comes to us at the expense of others, our wealth comes from poor nations. In simple language we robbed them. This was known to my father’s generation of Americans who built the Canal and Hydro electric plants developing Panama’s infrastructure, who today have no need to leave Panama, but my generation decided not to be reciprocal in the exchange with the three countries I mentioned. They give us the raw material and we give them new roads, as an example. We were suckered to become cheap, self-absorbed, self-centered, mean and indifferent consumers, our inventiveness and kindness, our relationship to our world, robbed, fearful of others because deep down we know the lack of reciprocity scars, --- we, as a people, lost respect for humanity. We owe those countries and eventually they will want to paid back. Perhaps their arrival is their way of demanding repayment. Either way, it is not a position of my choice nor yours’. Our politicians put us in this position to service the corporations’ needs, who, in turn service our needs. The democrats and the republicans turned us into the usurpers! I shall never vote again. If the Vote means I consent this to be the only way to treat people then I reject the Vote and the Democracy that comes with. My vote will not be a message of endorsement that I agree with their policies toward Central America and if you had any sense you would take a political stand against being the suckers they want us to be.
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  4648.  @GlennHeston  The search teams in Indiana were ready to quit in a day the search teams in Columbia were never ready to quit is the comparison difference of attitudes being dawn here. The ability of the children to survive in a jungle is not my point.
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  4649.  @GlennHeston  Go tell it to the mountain.
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  4650. It has to do with the economy of the US. It has developed a primary group of industries that are completely dependent on war for economic growth that Biden is the first president to not know what to do with the effect a war economy creates at the Border. Wars displace people but at the same time wars enrich a weapon industry’s owners and investors. The government provides the customers who are cartels and other militaries around the world, its buyers. As soon as any president or Congress stops the crisis at the Border they will have stopped a sale the weapons industry and its employees depend on. No sale brings a collapse. The dependency of lives and employers on profits from weapons sales is a choice it is not by nature an arrangement ordained by God. It can, will and should be changed. Raytheon must employ at 5000 workers all high earning skilled labor force, multiplied by at least 20 other contracted by the military weapons and parts manufacturers that average 1000s of workers and families dependent on their profits. Rather than deal with a catastrophic collapse of the US and what that would bring as a consequence internally and externally to the nation the flow of migrants will continue as the lesser evil is Biden’s thinking. The US economy functions only through war, crisis and catastrophe as a law of motion. One can bet on death and destruction and clear a huge profit. It is entirely built on the sale. Selling weapons for a profit. Other high ticket commodities furnish the means for the cash to buy weapons and if the buyer is not a criminal narco gangster than the buyer borrows dollars from our bank to buy the weapons and puts up as collateral the total annual product of their nation is signed over to the holder of the bond. The US Senate is a aristocracy of landowners mostly...they have no in depth insight into the military industrial complex as a social phenomena. Eisenhower knew it would become a problem. The problem has arrived and the general economy is paying the cost.
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  4651. If you want a future you must overthrow the past in the present.
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  4652.  @sicnarf423  When you look at the history of work from what work has become; historically arrived at over the centuries; a quantitative relation is the dominant form of work whereas in prior ages, work was carried on as useful work. There was nothing hidden, secret or confusing about industry's relationship to nature until land and tools were separated from the worker. The wider the gap between worker and industry the less material wealth labor owns and the faster their labor is reduced to a number. Their labor-time reflected in gold that labor-power is a commodity.
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  4653.  @sicnarf423  Welcome; The Fetishism of Commodities, Capital Vol.I influenced.
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  4654. Government counter terrorism policies does not recognize home grown white middle class terror as terror. White violence does not rise to the level of Terror to kick start counter terror agencies and crush white violence.
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  4655. Big influx of migrants across the border. A few get detained but most cross on trucks. Most trucks make it all the way. Other trucks don’t. The ones that don’t we see in the news. The many trucks that make it through deliver a cheaper worker is never in the news but we see them in jobs everywhere. Big influx of migrants reduces wages with cheap labor.
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  4656. What is needed is not a progressive revolution. That would come after a political opposition to the government is created. First, a massive street movement intimidating enough that the donor class will retreat and then you'll hear Trump whistling another tune. Taking back his promises to the billionaire class. The rest of the world are way ahead of you. Burning Trump effigies mirrors a hostile American foreign policy and reflects a hostile domestic policy Americans are too slow to realize. Ministers in other governments are already reversing their stance on austerity. The virility of the right wing is waning. They are all resigning or killing themselves, thrown in jail for pedophilia. When you can you can shut down your industries and commerce then you can talk about a progressive revolution. Right now, however, you have no teeth to your bite.  David Cay Johnson is telling you the absolute truth. The question is when do you act on it?
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  4657.  @dudleydoright2706  Who cares just how much life is worth to me...hard to take that question seriously from a cartoon character you chose to represent yourself by.
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  4658. I’d have to take you back to the end of the American Civil war when the owners of money and the owners of labor-power were declared equal in law, politics, and in society since the decree of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865. Free markets conditions had been established for a period of 157 years by the State in which individuals, black, white, brown, red, were free to dispose their labor-power to any buyer, broke away the old bonds of slavery. The first condition that gave rise to capitalism is : Capitalism emerges by turning people into ‘free people’, particularly black people are no longer ‘commodity-slaves’ where the slave is the commodity. Like you and I, we have become possessors of a special commodity, i.e., labor-power. Here I might ask, would a new individual be needed for the emergence of a socialist society?Capitalism appealed to a subjective component and succeeded. The second condition is: The Owners of Money, people like Gates, Musk, etc., enjoy the Rights of Ownership, but they must find labor-power for sale. Sellers of commodities that are not labor-power must own the means of production, the raw material, implements, etc., creates a condition within a condition. The means of subsistence, health care, food, housing, medicine, clothes, have to be free of ownership of both commodity owners. Money cannot be converted into capital without such conditions in place. The abolition of the conditions are more critical than the money itself in the abolition of capitalism. The two conditions explains what the State is used for in a capitalist society. 1. Assisting or facilitating capital finding labor-power to buy and 2., breaking the bond between labor and the necessaries of life for capital to expand. I think the key to building a revolution is to reveal the conditions as having no natural basis in life but have a social basis that when people possess nothing but their own labor-power billionaires are made is reversible. The State sets the stage for the conditions the result of human history and development, the result of the extinction of an entire series of older forms of social production. The State can do the same with the capitalist class. The products produced in America are intended for the immediate consumption of the working class is the reason the products become commodities in the first place, a condition a new state would have to eradicate through education. The State can make capitalists produce cars, houses and goods that last forever, consume less fossil fuel by way of changing the miasma of consumerism. The rotten habits of the working class to over consume are conditions for the growth of capitalism are abolished without the state but with the development of a new individual, a social Being. Put the subject back into socialism and get away from the language of politics if you want the lay person to pay attention to your call.
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  4659. Jimmy, invite her to your show.
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  4660. Dorian is a humbling experience revealing how fragile human life is. If it turns out the Bahamas may never recover and be even habitable. Bahamians would be a people without a country, climate refugees, of a destroyed uninhabitable nation. It would be the first nation to go under, as it were. If Dorian picks up speed on its path to Novia Scotia that would mean it is skating on deeper waters where waters should be lower and more trouble is coming. This month September is the start of the hurricane season, there will be more hurricane deluge to come yet.
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  4661. Yes, without bodies no crime occurred. Everyone in the social system practices the same policy; if it is not written down it never happened is the practice from top to bottom of the social hierarchy. What is written down, and what is documented are 'cover ups' of real people gone missing. Behind our backs, incredible ideas of corruption schemes and repression orders are carried for a few to come away with some acquisition of a higher value. What other motive could there be?
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  4662. The goal of a generation is to bring society to the point where people cannot afford to die. A generation gains purpose in life by raising society out of the depths of barbarism.
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  4663. Montana legislature should then come with the proof the Chinese government is collecting data on Americans living in Montana...but since it cannot, all the people that are banned from its use will vote out the legislators. The ban has motivated millions of young non-voters to vote as retaliation of this measure from going further. Nice job Montana.
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  4664.  @Gylfi465  I find it tragic comedy that the same people united with the government are the people who bash the government and want government separated from the People. They can get away with it because billionaires are people too. There is no specific reference in the Constitution to class, just a generic term anyone can be. You know the part about declaring these truths to be self-evident, a government of and for the People, well, it appears, government has been hijacked by special interests to work for them and work against the people.
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  4665.  @Heavilymoderated  I think to the contrary, the disconnect that should not exist is between the environment and the people. The climate crisis stems from the connection between private industry and government exists because humanity is disconnected from the Earth. You need to outlaw private industry from government and eradicate mass social alienation and ignorance of the planet’s life processes to increase your chances of species survival.
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  4666. Cheating and exploiting people in Cuba was the reason the Menendez family exiled to the US. The US is where all exploiters go to retain and hide their stolen property a revolution demands back. Enabled by the US , old habits are hard to break. Once an exploiter always an exploiter is the case with Menendez. So many more like him that if a prosecution kept going after his ilk Americans could count the number of honest politicians on one hand.
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  4667. People who are treated badly by their neighbors, so called friends, bosses, co-workers and lovers have a way to get back at the crowd. The arrogance and hubris in this generation of American culture has pushed the abused to the limit, this is their way of revenge. You are a punishing and unforgiving society, you treat young and old like trash and each other as meaningless objects,---there are so many people out there feeling out of control that this is their way of taking control back. You can see the problem in society but cannot step outside of the society to see its its chief weaknesses and failings.
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  4668. One reason justifies a climate denier,-----they were not alive to remember a time when climate was seasonal and regular like me. A boy and girl growing up between 1955 to 1965 grew up in a world of four perfectly balanced seasons. From 1965 to 2021 seasonal changes get shorter in duration. Creepy crawlers were everywhere in abundance. ants, spiders, bees, hornets, wasps, butterflies, nightingales, crickets, bullfrogs (big frogs) night flies, knats, mosquitos, bats, fireflies, worms after it rained, were around when I was around as a kid. Tics did not exists in the wood. Nobody got tick bites and the wood was where this natural wonderment all happened. It was fun to be in with the other species under a night sky you could see. Seasons don't last long but are more frequent and appear suddenly. A snowy season in 1955 lasted four months average it was snow not filtered through a layer of carbon in the atmosphere. Snow sticky enough to build a structure of tunnels for kids or good fluffy snow to a skiers delight...big flakes made a moving sheet of slow falling snow compared to a snowy season today, comes in short storms, giving us humans very little time to recover from the storm before it as they are more intense and do significant damage to the way we live. Californians leaving are really climate refugees with resources. Yes,---for no other reason can a climate denier exist in today's society has to do with that denier's birthdate. If you are reading this and were born in 1980 you are among a generation who know absolutely nothing of what climate was like,---only 15 years before you were born. Imagine that. Everyone born in 1980 was born yesterday when it comes to climate change. The beauty of the changing state of nature is that it is constant and when it reaches a certain degree of change there is no turning back the clock of it transformation, reinventing or remaking, birth, of itself as a new earth. Earth was once millions or billions, I forget which, of years ago a ball of ice. We are slipping into a planet becoming something other than what it was. Slipping it on that other state of being is easy and fast but getting out of it could take another millions of years, maybe billions before another life with a brain can see for the first time its environment. I don't know what the earth was like when the French Impressionists painted it? Funny thing is, they had no idea they were capturing for future generations a pristine climate in their paintings. Climate change occurs over a long period of time but in short periods of time nature gives nothing a chance to live or make a living. This not on is not for the faint of heart...its a tough concept to chew for a lot of people...but as Frank Zappa our greatest American 20th century composer said; "..if it were left to you our national bird would be an ostrich", talking to a denier.
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  4669. Will this be the final confrontation between capitalism and socialism? The greater I fear have is mutual destruction and annihilation because this war combined with catastrophic climate action is more than enough to increase the heat of the planet it would need to slip into a new geologic age where we will not survive under. Since the USSR dissolved the all dominating power of capitalism as a mode of production inhabiting most but not all nations is most developed in the US. But not favoring the US is the anti-colonialism that is built into the doctrine of working class emancipation. American colonialism breeds the need for emancipation and broadly undermines the power Washington may think it has over its subject nations. I think the Pentagon are relying purely on force to subjugate China and North Korea and extinguish socialism in Asia, impose a capitalist colonialism. When 9/10 ths of the world is moving toward freedoms and liberties 1/10th of all nations is moving toward totalitarianism; extinction and annihilation as the alternative to historical development. The rise of the masses is the only choice.
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  4670. Decoy’s voice is the same voice of the GOP Freedom Caucus, they emphasize culture wars not class wars.
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  4671. When she is in Taiwan the interpreter might misinterpret Pelosi’s speech impediments and thought processes and incite a war.
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  4672. Bannon should name names.
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  4673. Justices buried their heads in the sand.
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  4674. His father used to tell his son telling the reporter, he survived bombings in France in England but will die from flooding in a house the GI Bill gave him in Paterson NJ. Ironic but true. There are few engineering projects that we can say are marvels of the US Army Corp of Engineers planning the future lives of all the losers in society; its the winners who get the cream of the crop of engineering. America is a society of winners and losers where the losers always lose.
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  4675. Are local people to this news station aware the flooding is widespread and worldwide or is this station blocking out the world to Utahns?
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  4676. ...and for the last 45 years... worker productivity increased but hours worked per worker fell. Workers receive a value in what the dollar buys in a specific amount of goods. This amount is exchange for the greater amount of goods labor produces for capital. Labor is exchanged for labor. Two representatives of given quantities of labor matter (material) in the form of goods have struck a deal. Dam hard to figure out what Capital is? Is Capital a higher form of social organization of labor in the social history of labor? Consider a working class that is not an equal to itself in production. The working class is totally divorced from the responsibility of all aspects of productive activity as the real life-process of human beings. Capital becomes the giver of life, the starting point of all the life-giving activities a society requires to live because the working class is not an equal in production not equal to itself in the form of Capital in the actual labor-process.
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  4677. Somebody needs to tell Christie to shut up.
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  4678. Russia is obliterating US weapons as they arrive in Ukraine. $60 Bn thrown away. This is going to re-elect Trump, easy. All he has to say is this debacle never would have happened under his watch. Corporate democrats are despicable liars, lie about everything.
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  4679. I think the only structures not built by slave labor in Washington D.C. are the Federal Reserve, FBI, Pentagon, and all the monuments and buildings dedicated to dead presidents. Pretty weird eh? Slave labor became dead labor embodied in all the edifices and white labor became wage-labor modifying the edifices. As long as the edifices remain they get renewed by undergoing changes made by the living but what they represent never goes away and that is their purpose.
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  4680. Water harvesting is common sense as long as harvesting is not classified as against code by the government. If the government is against water harvesting its zoned out. Basically, the mindset, rules and regs of government officials do not consider water as a universal tool. Water is property because the land underneath water is soil and land is property. There are different kinds of property. State, government, private, and public property, four forms in all with four sets of laws, language and customs and practices that regulate water into these restrictive four categories and nothing else. Water harvesting does no fit into any of them is, therefore, excluded and the universality of water as a tool for humanity, cancelled, put off for another day amidst conditions worsening. The sociological change has to occur with a universal movement for water to become a universal property belonging to everyone, and this begins at home and in society.
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  4681.  @rabbithare381  The generation that had no part in making this society, the ones born into it, no older than six years ago to the ones born right now are not vested in capitalism, i.e., pensions, mortgage obligations, jobs, etc.. They are the ones who will overthrow capitalism because they are the only ones who have absolutely no affinity with capitalism the way the Millennials and the Baby Boomers are entrapped by capitalism. Just look at this mellennial Beto O'Rourke, literally a white version of an Obama, privileged, constantly apologizing for his life and far from liberal. Compare him to Biden, a man who claims he is the most progressive of all candidates, never had to say that, but he felt compelled to anyway; a flat out liar, or senility, which is it? His tract record is the total opposite of progressive. Millennials with their heads in the sand saddled by debt were robbed of their childhood tune out and boomers are people who are so out of touch with the real world, spoiled rotten to the core, express despicable hubris and arrogance are a literal danger to society, the natural world, and humanity all at once. The way I see it is either Bernie and one of the younger female candidates as a running mate is our best option until the new generation comes of age and abolishes capitalism. Trump was always a right wing anti-socialist baby boomer from the day he bought his first piece of land cheap from Mayor Beame in 1974. I appreciate your reply. Be well and DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER TO VOTE!
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  4682.  @allenkracalik7662  Sure it is possible. Here is an analogy. A man is standing on a landscape. He is at zero level, or another anology is temperature 0 degrees, below 0 it the actual temperature above ground worsens to the degree that it is measured below 0. Back the man, he digs a hole. For every foot he digs ground zero above him gets higher and the deeper into the hole (debt to us because the depreciation allowances and write offs cost us) he is. We are paying for their write-offs. Last analogy, BC is before Christ, AD is after Christ. Christ is zero, the start of written history and the end of unwritten history. AD we have recorded history, before Christ we have unrecroded history, but it is still history. Find a fossil, date it, and learn it is 2 million years old BC proving history goes further back than Christ. The further back we go the less we know, knowledge is a deficit. Does that help? I wonder.
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  4683. Arise ye wretched of starvation...”. Jobs under capitalism take the form of contractual relationship with employers. As a social class employers have a management model that begins with; hire workers who use less use-values than they produce in use-values when working. Workers must produce more than their wages can buy and the productivity of one worker working as part of a big group of workers is essential if there is to more leftover creating an economic surplus. This is the upside of modern industry. Definite progress in producing greater material wealth with less labor required to feed and clothe the population. Production in America is continuous, a decentralized production system can eradicate crime, drugs, poverty, and move society toward a healthy and balanced society.
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  4684. Sri Lanka is the model of fear in elites. They are extremely worried the mass of the people regardless of their walk of life will entirely unseat elites from political power in many countries and end capitalism as we know it. Doesn’t mean capitalism is over. It means the capitalism of multinational corporations is over.
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  4685. Average Americans not American Oligarchs will be the ones who will have to go without to prop up these sanctions.
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  4686. Embridge pipeline is a hot spot.
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  4687. America buys a lot of Oil from Russia...Pelosi and the republicans are on the same page about inflicting more pain at the pump and a general rise in prices for most everything Pelosi and the republicans do not require to make their living, if you want to call it a living they do, that is. People who make a living using fuel in America and do not make a living legislating people’s lives have to pay for their BiPartisan decision.
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  4688. Co-determination is practiced in Germany, workers are in the board room with executives, planning and producing. Not much good because they are still subservient to a dominant capitalist power in the person of the US. Point being; co-determination is a halfway mark before getting to the other side the journey is met with capitalist encroachments, take backs, and resistance every step of the way. I think we need to get across the lake to the other side full throttle and stop dilly dallying with half baked ideas about democracy. The productivity of labor is what capitalists depend on for existence it would be the productivity of labor I would weaponize productivity to remove the capitalist from the workplace completely. Problem is; Americans have bad habits of acquiescing, give-back, can’t stand their ground, second guess and put themselves last, that talks about productivity used under capitalism is taboo. No work unless woman’s rights are restored. No work unless Congress raises the minimum wage to $25 an hour. No work until Universal Healthcare is established nationwide, a national energy policy, immigration, gun violence, national plan for infrastructure development and on and on. No concession granted to the working class than the productivity is not for sale,---revolution. It really is that simple. But Americans do not think in revolutionary terms; the world is a static place and a creation of an almighty God that religion, drugs, and debasing and excesses materialism crushes solidarity, and cultivates an individual with individualistic attitudes toward property, wealth, work and society.
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  4689. Because it is illegal to use the military on citizens in Ecuador the state of exception was made the amendment to the law for the reasons we see in the video. It looks like Moreno moved the government to prevent the capture of his government not be caught in a palace takeover and lose command over the military. As long as his government is intact and operates his policies are enforceable under repressive rule. This, I would say, is a pivotal moment if the country enters a revolutionary direction or it stays where it is austerity under repressive rule. If the people in revolt do not capture Moreno and his government they will have missed the chance to make history. Killing him would be a really stupid move, a transitional government would have to annull his presidency and abolish his judiciary to undo all the safeguards Moreno put in place to protect and secure the elites. His death would do nothing to change the direction of the country by deconstructing the bureacratic military machine. This was the mistake made by the Egyptian Arab Spring revolution.They left the military intact and it came back to rule in a more powerful dictatorship under el-Sisi.  Not dismantling a military apparatus is a mistake of many revolutions of the People. It is done by not making all officials elected and accountable, or revocable by the Public and not making all salaries of officials equal to the average worker's wages to dismantle the hierarchy.
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  4690. Yes, a citizens national government. @LittleRayOfSnshine69 
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  4691. Strange how every transaction has two sides: invest to sell is one side and commodities for money is the other side. This makes it impossible to tell if your being cheated or not because the price of each fluctuates. The system operates on not an objective standard but on credit and finance capital and the specific amount produced in a certain amount of time is anyone’s guess how many micro-chips we need to make. No way industries can even know if they are producing too much or too little the way the system operates. How do you even know the taxes drawn from production time accurately reflects real time at work when work is measured by a complete fiction? So we watch how money erodes the lives of people who handle it and those who don’t have it. Jump off bridges and high windows, commit murder, disappear, rob and steal from others because of the despotism of prices. Prices will become regulated despite the despotism of prices and because of the despotism; whether you like it or not, because market forces are not bigger than the real working time it takes for a society to exist and existence is reckoned against climate forces.
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  4692. lol.
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  4693. Americans really love waisting time and talk on less important issues. I can give a rat's ass about the status of an American white collar crime family from NY in the White House when life on the planet is on a direct path toward complete uninhabitability. What is more important is a total transformation of the way we live, now not tomorrow! Rivers and oceans inundating communities and contaminating land for future use is not waiting for Congress to resolve a Trump deflection campaign from his administration's activities in giving the oil industry all they want. Criminally they got nothing, but in the Civil Division there is a case against Trump assuming the judges are not loyal to Trump because the GOP controls the Judiciary. The Muller Report is America's Brexit, a sideshow to the real catastrophes of war, climate change, infinite economic growth in a finite planet, fossil fuel production.
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  4694.  @GladysAlicea  There so many great books on the origins of our modern world. See Barrington Moore, Jr., Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant In The Making Of The Modern World, 1966 Beacon Press, is a good one in particular. I do not believe Wilkerson sees the march of Capital(ism) toward its own development as a social relation that slows down or retards human development as a necessity for its own survival. In order for the military to develop society must digress, and it is never the side that digresses that forms the subject matter of discussion of the side that advances for people inside the social relations of capital.
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  4695. Its Mr. Nowhere Man. The Cops are all over this guy like fire ants devouring a complete carcass. Multi-millions of dollars acquired in a very short time by Mr. Nowhere Man is political genius in the sense that he can capitalize the Vote into a fictitious character and get elected has smeared the integrity of the Establishment. Liars get into the Club easy its the honest ones who get expelled.
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  4696. Interesting how there is never any reporting on mainstream news how people get their money when the ATMs’ were washed away with the rest of the buildings and there is no power. A lot sensationalism and hardly any real life reporting for people caught by the disaster.
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  4697.  @joseazpurua3884  Stock market not doing so good three days in a row and Trump has not touted the best economy ever with his monotonous verbiage. But a small 20% of the population who like seeing cash circulate through their businesses are perpetrators circulating an airborne virus to the other 80% of the population, and they are outnumbered but remain empowered as diseased people changing hands through the action of buying and selling. This small minority exercises a slow genocide of the majority. Its time to crush this minority.
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  4698.  @LOUDMOUTHFLAVORS  Karl Marx has nothing to do with the disagreement of ideas in the US. There are probably only two scholars in the US who are Marxist...so I don't buy this anti-Marxist rhetoric when it is not even a threat. The ideological war is between federalist free-market neoconservatives and neo-liberal democrats, white surpremacists and evangelical christians, far from a Marxist realm of thought, a calamity of ideological strains who have a certain theory of the state, afflicts the US consciousness, that it should be reduced on the one hand or it should be expanded on the other hand, or abolished or become a dictatorship for the salvation of mankind by annihilating the human race. So your perspective is junk! Opportunity...no computer ever grew corn...land ownership is a source for generational wealth...more people own land and homes in communist countries than in capitalists ones. People there save up and buy property. Once they buy it they own it. Private banks are non-existent. Federal Reserve is a private bank and there is soooo much antipathy in this nation for the Fed and its policies. Why would anyone not want to get rid of credit finance capitalism addicted to a printing press? That problem does not exist in c-nations. Concern there is the productive forces cannot be put to use on a private basis unless capitalists are willing to spend and buy labor-power. If they don't invest nothing happens. Much wider general ownership of property in c-nations than in non-c ones. Such facts are denied everyday coast to coast.
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  4699.  @JoaoSantos-lv4rc  Yes. Proletarians in denial is the message I took form the quote. What was yours?
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  4700.  @arglbargl  That is still the problem today. Steinbeck rings true in 2021.
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  4701.  @AbtinX  Yeah its a big crisis and a collapse...what can be done about it?
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  4702.  @bigfan1041  They would not be working longer hours if they were richer...something not working right in your thinking.
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  4703.  @bigfan1041  Its beyond poor its annihilation. Death by capitalism.
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  4704.  @AFKalabanga  One the biggest polluting man-made polypropylene micro fiber plastic to flood markets and people consume and disgard like they don't care are FACE MASKS polluting the oceans that by 2030 there will be more plastic in the oceans than there are fish from this one source alone.
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  4705.  @lastfreegeneration984  or when the rich get really rich and make everyone absolutely poor. Under those conditions even what you say can spark a revolution...be careful what you say...you walk on eggshells and talk like angels over pinheads.
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  4706.  @LOUDMOUTHFLAVORS  What kind of freedom? Personal and political freedom are two different things. You are vague and abstract. Capitalism is the way to freedom are two generalities, one generality chasing the other. I do not suppose you get my drift? For all I know you could be saying a prince is free to always be a prince and commoner free to always be a commoner. They cease to be personal friends and neighbors when their personalities are absorbed and consumed by the rent or the mortgage. Maybe you are saying people seem freer under the rule of law than without it, because under the rule of law they are less subjected to the violence of things. Communism does work, just look at China, and whereever it had developed it raised the stanarad of backward peasant societies to become world economic and political powers in one generation no less, so it does work. Works better than the west. A ridiculous Proud Boy chant is "the West is Best". Its second and third rate is what it is. If you are looking for reasons why more look toward socialism as an alternative just turn your head to the east, and compare that standard of living to the west. Problem solved and Mr. Trump is not making the case in favor of capitalism in the west. Apparantly, freedom is not enough to sway the masses away from socialism.
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  4707.  @LOUDMOUTHFLAVORS  Life in China? City building skills in China are amazing. Comparing Alibaba to Amazon, the worry Jack Ma has, ---Amazon his competition does not have a government that will limit its size, scope and power. I am not certain how much you are aware or have studied the effects of monopoly formations on society, deskilling of the workforce, automation, lowering the value of wages, chronic unemployment, cuts, and for the workforce longer working hours despite the labor-saving applications of the jobs. It is plain as day your mastery over communist history is totally one-sided. What is our argument anyway there are 217 replies here and we are talking days in between?
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  4708.  @bigfan1041  I think you may confusing class and poverty as it appears around the world. True, 90% of the world's population is proletarianized and that is a development that never existed before...imagine if the world proletariat put forward their own demands and agenda... and from what social class did they lose in becoming proletarians is what might be confused with poverty. Loss of land, small property, is impoverishment but to become hired workers and become incorporated into the capitalist realm, they do in absolute terms, do better. But this is because commodities are cheaper to produce that relative to thier destitution as peasants, low wages is higher than the earnings of a peasant small farmer.
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  4709.  @goranmilic442  Why is that...do you not believe the productiveness of labor the second most highest productive power next to China, cannot create a truly affluent society and still not put a dent in material output that the military has to be dismantled? If you believe that then you know nothing about the US economy.
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  4710.  @freyfaust6218  Glad to hear it. A red-diaper baby (boomer?). Yes, but how many new sales of Capital are sold and read is the question?
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  4711.  @freyfaust6218  I am doubting you completely. Both in regard to Capital in the US being popular reading, and your far out views. You sound disingenuous. I may be wrong but that is my sense about you.
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  4712.  @freyfaust6218  Stop right there! Land was given to the peasantry by the Bolsheviks because they were anti-CAPITALIST private property and anti-CAPITALIST inheritance, --extinguish the form and generalize the content,---and ALL of the homes in Cuba are average Cuban owned for life and their children's lives is a very pro-private property measure found in all societlist societies, incidentally. That world distorted to you by filters. You are not based in reality Sunny Jim.
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  4713.  @nic969  Know your history 405 AD to the 13th century.
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  4714.  @jarrodschuck3295  Socialism is not brought about by capitalism. Monopolies are strangling capitalism. I read what you said and it is false. Your problem is democrats not socialists. My problem is you, democrats and republicans. All of you suck!
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  4715. How about making education free like China and eradicate illiteracy like China and poverty?
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  4716. The world would change tomorrow with 60 million people who think like Jimmy. Imagine.
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  4717. This bald guy is a lunatic. Thumbs down.
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  4718. Trump has two constituencies both are white, one very rich and the other very poor.
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  4719. It means the excess of money is met with an increase in production. Problem is, production and circulation are oceans apart to the advantage of one entity and not for the benefit of all. The world is divided between rich and poor nations. This presents a social inequality that threatens the health of the planet and all species life. Where production is not; employment is low and where production is high employment is low in the system that uses innovation to lower the cost of production for money prime, it cannot employ people when innovation to the production process replaces people. Very little living labor making up the true value of things without the country buying back the difference in money prime to actual production costs is seen by how high the price of things rise to a great fall. No amount of infusion of capital will resuscitate capital. The solution is a mass dissemination of the tech hardware and a reorganization of production for the mobilization of a great many millions of people to stop living in idleness of work to the point that work is no longer a natural part of their being and disastrous to the health of the planet. Under the present order of the rich/poor nation dichotomy production and circulation are never in the same country and never proportional to real requirements of a certain standard. Not in the US, anyway. Everything is built cheap. But that still should not blind us from knowing where prime comes from. You know where it comes from when you see capital flow in and out of the process of circulation. The Fed conception of how exchange works is flawed. It sees money only going through one step. The purchasing phase and skips over to the last stage; assuming everyone will buy when they go to the stores after everyone who has money has little left of it after real expenses. For many decades many Americans did exactly that; they were buyers but the Fed forgets many Americans entered into a contract with employers for the necessaries of life; now it is clear from the creation of money prime in production that the system of market of buyers and sellers, equal in the eyes of the law, are unequal partners in production.
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  4720. Trump loyalists in the leading civil service institutions in America would be outright fascism. Working people must face the facts that the Republican Party is not a parliamentary party. It has move so far to the right a fascist tendency in the party can take power. Governing is not their aim. Holding power is their aim. Trump loyalists in those decision making positions of the civil bureaucracy tighten the range of freedom the working class would have on everything from permits, licenses, identifications, certifications, with pre-conditions, making life extremely restrictive for working people to elevate themselves through the market, basically, closed off from being a participant. There are dictatorship and free trade tendencies in the republican party that raise the specter of fascism.
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  4721. Our own deeds have become an alien power over us has us caught up in a paradox. It is a curse on humanity...the division of labor. Deeds that keep us in a particular type of work for 40 years become codified. Divided deeds, detailed activities, subject us to the curse that makes a person who carries out many activities in life without being labeled a particular type of worker the exception.
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  4722. The next presidential candidate in 2024 should be a leftist with a working class political program.
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  4723.  Patricia M  The other story is that the CIA funded Gloria Steinem to derail the women's movement from going forward as a working class movement. Technically, the CIA infiltrated the women's movement through Steinem and did the same with the black liberation movement of the 70's.
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  4724.  @bradleyp3655  No there is no such thing as race...there is only culture and environment is reality.
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  4725. What a Quack and the States that do not pull licenses from quacks is a slap in the face of the Public's interest!
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  4726. He thinks the 3rd charge is political. Its a slam dunk, he can no way to wiggle out of the charges. Or its a broad infringement of his freedom. This Forbes interviewer misses the big issue here. WSJ acknowledges its a dangerous precedent that weakens the presidency. Something only gets weak in relation to something else that is strong. The legislative branch of government gets strong at the expense of the executive branch. The Republicans have held control of the courts and law enforcement for decades. It would be they who have weakened the presidency by empowering the legislative branch. The twist in the story is that the democrats are occupying the prosecutorial positions of the legislative branch the republicans had built up are weakening the presidency they want filled by a democrat! This would make a democrat a self-destructive or a counter-productive to their own party and can be finished off when a republican takes the presidency in a torrent of revenge politics.
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  4727. All of us unwittingly consent to being placed across from this diamond to learn how much of the diamond we are worth. We all do it subconsciously and society does it for us. In the owner of this diamond we see the limitations of our own wealth. We compare what we own to that of what the other owns is done by society not by conscious choice but through social and peer pressure, but by a society that is built on all things quantitative does not work unless a lot of bread and . Every second of our working hours this diamond is measuring how much value in all the things it can buy, how much of our surplus working time is embodied in all the things we can make and what this diamond can fetch. Our consent to this relationship to use things to measure our labor-time only appears when we make a purchase or make a sale and dis-appears when we use a diamond or a chunk of gold to measure all things including the life of a human being. This was the basic attack on Money in the book of Revelations 17:13, that people would give their power and strength to the beast (money as the measure of all wealth), and know the number of their name.
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  4728. Brother. You are lost.
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  4729. An individual or individual family’s re-connection to the land would be through a community if the land and the community were united. This means freeing city-state property from doing nothing to becoming something, from unproductive land into productive land. She turned her political office into a social office of placement matching city-state properties with the homeless, the next step would be to make that unity legal and permanent. History is loaded with small common bodies existing alongside ‘higher unities’, as in a lord or a king. As propertyless people are separated from a job when they are separated from land the productive capacity of the community is weakened; this re-connection makes perfect sense because with the land in their possession they can be productive and create jobs. Also the measure converts unproductive city-state properties into a use for a new productive activity the whole community can be proud of.
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  4730. Except for the fact that the Pentagon lobbed a few unauthorized by the president bomb drones in the Middle East when he was in the hospital. Otherwise, you are right this is not issue for people who have health and hospitalization coverage which must be you.
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  4731. Many people in the same spot as you. Unfair bosses blame you for getting sick is sick! @blakehintz3207 
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  4732.  @rdblk9710  Then the terms must be practical and socialist solutions made concrete. Reducing salaries of officials to average working class salaries. Or, without exception all officials, elected and subject to recall at any time, these are simple democratic measures. Then wait for the reaction opposed to such democratic measures and then attack them all as anti-democratic and un-American. A mass audience of working people will happily agree with your position. Use the patriotism against the right to shift it to the left.
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  4733. The reason why Unions and Civil Liberties lawyers are silent about Trump’s violation of the law on a daily basis has to do with them not wanting internal conflicts from their own Trump supporters in their organizations.
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  4734. The rich want the wealth but they do not want to pay for the labor that produces the wealth in Florida. At count 25.24 Annie Lord of Miami Homes for All, says and she is typical of the problem of liberalism generally, "...Who lives here now...how can we improve the lives of people who live here now? We keep repeating the same mistake over and over again...", precisely Annie you do keep repeatng the problem. The problem repeated by liberals in Florida, Miami, is to wage a war against the effects of gentrification with affordable housing, keeping the poor poor. Freeing low wage earners from the effects of the wage system frees low wage earners from the effects of gentrification and this would stop the repitition of the same problem. What keeps them poor is the wage system. All other classes of people are richer from business, real estate, trades, only the wage system entraps people into poverty. The logical answer is to get rid of the wage system.
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  4735. So he proposes GDP increases (making people work harder) pressured to work harder due to cuts on the side of social spending. It won’t work because our economic system depends on the value of wages never falls below levels where people cannot survive and never high enough to cause profits to fall to a point where corporations say there is no money in this business, close it down. McCarthy is not aiming to balance wages and profits. He is pushing labor into a corner and straightjacket. He is proposing Austerity for the many but not for the military; not for the owners of property and financial wealth; not for a de-escalation of over-spending abroad (throwing money away on bombs and weapons) even worse news for 55 million poor people unable to afford food, rent, mortgages, pay off medical bills, no to student loan cancellation the young straddled with debt on top of other debt, car loans, house loans. These people will have to double their work efforts for employers who benefit from the productivity increase to make the debt to GDP ratio less than more than half of what all Americans who work produce; mind you there are Americans who never work because they are rich enough to avoid working for a living, but they do consume. And their consumption is paid for by the many. McCarthy proposes no cuts in their consumption habits; thus he adds more privilege to the privileged; people who do not have to double their work time such as himself a top earner who works 7 months out of the year and can still use the public funds for military junkets when not in Congress traveling and meeting foreign dignitaries making deals for his donor and, driving the price of things up. Good news for people like Trump, Gates, Soros, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Co. So here is why America is a poor country with very rich people in it. You get what you vote for.
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  4736. They are all capitalizing on crisis. None of them are talking about the crisis itself impacting American lives but are using the crisis against each other. An ad that interviewed a man who once had a home and a job in a town he enjoyed to live and showed him walking down a street lined by ghost factories would show the human side of the crisis the mainstream politicians ignore. They add insult to injury.
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  4737. You can point to white women who voted for Trump to keep the peace with their husbands and the Clinton Democratic party for getting Trump elected. Then you can point to a ratings addiction for profits of the media that gave Trump a national platform. Start with these facts and have a discussion about it.
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  4738. Conservatives don’t have to worry about these two guys in 2024.
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  4739. Living under this administration in society is like living with parents straight out the 1940's, boring conformity, taboos, anti-communism, and who can never say yes to any normal request a child asks of their parents. The baby boomers have become identical to their own parents.
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  4740. The land is not being used for any other productive purpose so why not camp there? Looks to me like the town and the residents created their own problem.
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  4741. Its a good answer to a good question on the difference between work making use-values that are meant for sale and use-values meant for direct use. Church people make things people can use and a corporation makes things to sell to people is a striking difference of labor organization. The social hierarchy in a church is between people making direct use of products to make products and God. It is easier through the creative process of an individual to connect spiritually with God in the product they made. But that sensibility or connection to natural elements does not come through in a hierarchy between people making direct use of products to make exchange-values out of products because there is not the respect and sanctity of nature as God’s creation in the process of the value creating work markets demand from a wide field of work.
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  4742. Manager and supervisors are treating the rank and file postal workers like they are trash as though they are people without dignity, workers snap! I have nothing to do with the PO but I do know that in general management in this country is out to nail the worker to the wall if they cannot squeeze every ounce of labor-power in you for as cheap as possible. Freedom in work is a myth.
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  4743. Capitalists like Lindell are nuts there are many people like him. America does not need a capitalist to make pillows? I don't even see the reason, purpose or need to have any capitalist involved in the making of cars, diamonds, or pillows! If you relate labor to value then the world makes sense but when you do what this lunatic does and relate labor to exchange-value the whole world is turned upside down. Its a shame those pillow factory workers are dependent on making pillows for this guy as a way of making a living! Although they may love working for him I should not assume they would have an awareness of themselves giving up a market share of their pillows for the $12 or $13 an hour he pays them for working 12 hours a day. A share evidently far greater than what they receive from Lindell. Who knows what is factory management and conditions is like if it is anything like his delusional brain its got to be pretty for the people who work there.
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  4744.  @richardolney1822  Doesn't mean I can say what I want and where and no jackass is going to tell me otherwise.
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  4745. There is your first sign of dictatorial decision Trump made for his entire movement of lemmings deciding for them who cannot be a part of his MAGA.
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  4746. The channel’s reporting is sensationalized and horrible. Second, the University should have encouraged the students to stay for the police to complete their interviews. I fault the University. Third, the community is an emotional wreck and cannot handle the anxiety is a real sign of social isolation and alienation.
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  4747. A proportional division of labor is not proportionally distributed in America. While people are trying to build a movement to help themselves the mega-corporations take steps to institute universal standardization. Mega-corporations would rather not have to deal with social inequality struggles if they can move production around the world and not have to re-outfit their factories to meet market standards. They move to where it is the cheapest to produce and the motive behind moving and seeking ever cheaper places to produce is competition. Be nice if the EU adopted America's concept of standards which is really no standard at all for products and production. Be nice if developing nations did not have a large population of descendants producing for themselves independently of the market. A one world standard for labor and for products is the real definition of Globalism. A movement has to keep this objective of the mega-corporations in mind and counter each step of the way when it sees the mischief derived from the steps taken to realize one universal standard for everything; One Size Fits All. All nations conform to one no standard at all policy which for the people involved in producing for the mega-corporations means they can never strike, never speak out, never have time to think, read, eat and sleep, but become completely de-humanized and worn out set to be expendable by the production process of these mega-corporations.
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  4748. If she exemplifies American Womanhood this country is doomed. Good for you Jimmy for ripping her interview to shreds and exposing the sycophant she really is.
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  4749. The problem for air travel is the speed of the transformation of the weather and our ability to know in advance of what is coming. Better communications and weather detection systems and more frequent and violent storm patterns forces a mobile society to become immobile and we are seeing the personal and subjective reaction to this transformation.
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  4750.  @rabbit251  Do you know for a fact other airlines in other countries are not grounded due to extreme weather events? Because I can tell Volcanic eruptions in LaPalma and Japan cancelled or re-routed flights in Europe. Italy’s flooding cancelled flights. American news is only about America.
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  4751. This ability to shame shoplifters with social media would be taking away if TikTok is banned or sold to Zuckerberg. Better think twice about who you vote for.
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  4752. Lol, fantastic Jimmy...the self-centeredness of billionaire boomers, a spoiled social class, Behar is a classic bourgeois princess...a re-incarnation in USA today of the Romanov Dynasty bubble of Russia.
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  4753. There are more billionaires in China than in the US. But China is quick to stop monopoly practices that America is not. One country cares for its people the other country does not. One country monitors abuses the other country does not. We learn more about what America is by what it is not. .
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  4754. What documents are missing? The documents have to justify the raid or the raid will become unjustified to the Public and to the republicans.
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  4755. 7:58 Male prison guards posing with machines guns...going to be a tough portrait to explain to the grand kids...if what you do as a cop in prison becomes an international scandal you have to live with for the rest of your life.
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  4756. Republicans and capitalists would love it if Biden does not run; they want the White House. They will undo everything that was done by Biden. Open the country up for drilling and more refineries. Cut taxes, get rid of the international agreement for a cap on the price of oil. Restore, Life, Liberty and free trade with no regulations and cuts in government spending but not military in social spending. Republicans believe the means of production are taken over by the regulatory state is the difference between past socialism and modern socialism the democrats represent is an image the left, or this audience, has to define for themselves or be defined for you by conservatives. Is that the difference between the old left and the new left? Are regulations the tool through which the means of production are taken away from control of capitalists and is that the intent of the democrats...if not it seems even if you speak up that it is not what the left is about, too bad, they gave the left that motive anyway. Damed if you are and damned if you are not. This should be a subject on one of Jimmy’s shows and bring in some people to talk about it.
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  4757. This is not anger its vitriol and that is when long and deep mangled emotions come to the surface that they are misguided and misdirected for a political aim. Vitriol. These are people who do not have the problem-solving skills get frustrated and kick and scream because a share of the pie goes to foreigners and not them. Hostility is aimed at the migrant when it should be aimed at the policy makers but to whoever is corralling this herd you can bet its for personal political gain.
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  4758.  @nihao1844  There is ample evidence indicating the sordid history of America is very much alive in the present to be considered as historical along with the dead.
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  4759. Evangelicals want to run America, have it become the ideal image they have in their heads about an America in the 21st Century but nowhere in that concept do working people have a voice or any power and if your read the book nobody else is even competent enough to over see how America is transformed and the allocation of resources taken to make the idea a reality. An idea that is really an ancient idea, Patriarchy.
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  4760. How did the Asian guy get the opioid?
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  4761.  @Anarchsis  well known to people like you, a tiny part of the population of 332 million people, that’s nothing to be boastful about.
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  4762. In a social system designed for people the lost luggage would be sent to a clearing house for distribution to places like Good Will store. People can buy what they need cheap and the material wealth gets used not thrown out or sent into indefinite exile. Lost luggage owners compensated for their loss. In a social system designed for money and goods and services meant to be exchanged planning at the national level is impermissible to a market system of exchange. Society as a whole is forbidden to take a role in solving huge problems in a market system. Society is punished when it tries. Taught and told never to use its mighty social power as a collective power. Society would get in the way of the market system. The market system deals with natural disasters, lost luggage, gun violence, crime, political corruption, pandemics, market crashes, recessions, inflations, stagnation and depressions, wars, all the ills in society at present, in an individual way between small property owners and individual companies. Companies who must balance the service against their profit at all times or die. Social problems and social conflicts are too big for the private market place to handle and the individual companies in society run away, close stores, hide, are scared, chicken, or swing the opposite way, give back, try heroics, even cause mischief. Populations bury their heads in the sand as individual entities cannot cope, deal or handle the conflicts, crisis and contradictions, run to the government for help on an never-ending basis usurping the total economic surplus that when we really need it the problems too big to be handled by a market system the economic surplus has dried out. This is ultimate stupidity of a market system that will destroy America if society does nothing about it the way the government does nothing about it. Society has a role to play and and a valid place from which to solve the general crisis government and private companies cannot fix, incapable of fixing, crisis too large reforms proposed over and over again cannot fix! Society can fix the general crisis in a month. If society can fix the crisis why do we need government or private industry is why society is constantly held in a state of need and desperation, hobbling on one leg, injured, to prevent its collective power from taking a role finally freeing humanity from the curse of the ages.
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  4763. A lot of thinking is done with the wrong head in men.
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  4764. Israel just wrote off their own captured citizens. First thing I would do is get my people and than retaliate. For this you have to give them what they want and bargain out the unreasonable of what they want. One step back, two steps forward is the idea Israel has not chosen to do. They chose to render their people worthless by taking the second step first and by-passing negotiations. Jewish residents and soldiers are expendable. Tools and means for ends that are not humane. The captors can now tell the hostages their loyalty to their own country meant nothing. This would thoroughly demean the hostages and they end up to be enemies of their own state. Not to mention the animus the relatives will feel toward the State. Any historian of battles will tell you this was a modern Trojan Horse, and a brilliant attack. You have to respect your adversary which the dumb state of Israel is too insecure to do. I fear this is what the US would do to its own citizens if ever Americans were taken. Too dumb to take the necessary steps toward constructing a peace and Americans would be left behind. Americans were released in 1979. Iranian students took hostages was the spark of the Iranian revolution that overthrew the Shah. This surprise attack is way different and the response is predictable. Being predictable loses to the side that is being enigmatic.
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  4765. @Curiouser and Curiouser I think the bigger picture questions the viability of the reason for government. Right now, the State protects the productive forces of the capitalist class from the working class. This is exact opposite way the State protected the working class from the restrictions and reactions of the capitalist class before the 1980 bourgeois revolution. In left theory the State would wither away once there is no threat coming from the capitalist class that it can let go of the productive forces of society, and anyone who wants can become a dentist. Aptitude, attitude and dexterity all that is required in a person to apply. But, as you know from experience first hand, the paradigm of a free association of labor is a remote idea and reality. A common goal not in the hearts and minds of working people and subsequently creates insecurity, ill-confidence, and holds them back from collectively reorganizing production, the State is wedded to the capitalist class against the working class in the US. Theoretically, if workers took the State over the productive forces would come with it. A social division of labor in society, divides skilled and unskilled labor into sub-species of work. This is social production made to suit capitalist society in general. Its factories and offices in particular a division of labor is imposed to extract from workers more labor time. Government today does not interfere in the production processes of private corporations to protect workers from the excesses of exploitation of capital in the labor process, its lack of protection is neglect. The total weakening of government is a victory of the bourgeois revolution that began in 1980. A historic defeat of the American Working Class now dissolved; grandparents and parents, no longer wth us. The new American working class is a social class of immigrants of many tongues.
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  4766.  @haydock18  I do not think you understand capitalism and how it works. Confusing the social effects of capitalism with capitalism itself is a sign that capitalism has been kept a secret from people, and taught instead, that capitalism is the sociologically the only social system in the world. Its the only one alright. Capitalism is in China and Russia, less so in parts of the world still working as if it was the 19th century. Capitalism develops but human development digresses. There are reasons for this digression happening that relate to competition. Society can work on the basis of cooperation, a skill used against workers without them realizing how it is used against them. I remember ration cards given out in the US and they worked really well, fair and equitable, if you had five mouths to feed you got five loaves of bread, milk, eggs, meat, etc. if you were one you got one. We were not buyers and sellers, we were people to people. I am 98. Why don’t you take a David Harvey course and get educated, here on Youtube; Anti-Capitalist Chronicle.
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  4767. I think CNN guest have this wrong....the violence for the cops should not be mistaken for not being the political discourse...I think that was the political discourse...that there is no talking to them and they are not going to sit and chat with you appears to be the nature of both rivals, three factions of Nazis and the Police. Looks to me like internecine warfare.
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  4768. The transition period is a good barometer of corruption in a given government. The longer a political party takes to transfer power to another party the more time the losers need to gather all the evidence of corruption the winning party would use against them. The shorter the transition of power indicates there was very little to no corruption requiring little time and little need to get rid of evidence.
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  4769. God is too far from Haiti and the US is too close.
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  4770. Take the keys not the gun. The keys do more damage.
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  4771. She does have herself to blame. Injecting a white women as an object of speculation does not help her case or integrity.
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  4772. What Jimmy Dore did not say about Amazon screwing America is all of the economic resources in the hands of one person in the form of private ownership. He talks about how much money Bazos owns but he does not question the basis of that accumulation. Society is deprived of land, labor, resources in the privatization of these resources and the best they can do is get the feeling the system is rigged!
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  4773. What a dirty cop covering for police inaction.
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  4774. At some point the police and military will suffer intense SOS psychiatric issues leading to suicide among the ranks with all of the international pressure against the coup and internally all sectors of this society in a movement against them. When they start to suffer a few defeats and society wants to get back on track with liberalization and democracy the military leadership would only order the police and military ranks to confront larger and larger protests, inevitably, making itself the object of this developing revolution. When the reality hits the rank and file that everywhere in the society they were born rejects would make civil life personally for these officers and soldiers very difficult to cope with.
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  4775. 1:00 a patent lie. America was never energy independent under the previous administration, or any administration. The military is the only institution in America that is energy independent using its own domestic oil reserves.
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  4776. The Big Lie proves the government cannot transcend the interest the Big Lie serves. A private interest is served by the Big Lie. The particular interests of individual corporations and individuals comprises this private interest that prevents the Government from acting on behalf of the Public, i.e., the interest of the whole society. The private interest groups render the government unable to effect change or intervene on external conditions harming society. One example is the price of beef dictated by four meat producers and the government’s inability to enforce Anti-Trust Laws because the four monopolies dominate government. The Big Lie is a device intended to prevent the Public from developing an awareness of the ‘double-dealings’ of monopoly control of the government.
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  4777. The film is "Anti-work". Its all focused on the class relations of society not "labor" or the "labor -process" as a two-fold process. Work in capitalism is two fold. Work under feudalism was not two-fold and work under slavery was definitely not two-fold. To get work to be two-fold in capitalism labor must be free. How it is unfree is when it goes to work in the labor-process itself. The labor-process becomes under capitalism a value creating process for the capitalist. Whereas, in the past the value creating process was in the labor of the slave and serf. So the history of work is nothing more than labor realizing itself as it passes through various stages of development, becoming itself as humanized. In our current stage we are partially humanized, in the part that make use-values and the other part we are brutalized and dehumanized in the part that makes values.  that
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  4778. Target is a retailer of products. As a merchant of goods it is supposed incorporate its brand in all social groups as a seller of useful products and at the same time, its job is to make money selling those products...that’s capitalism...is Kristi Noam the governor of Nebraska anti-capitalist or anti-Target? If she is anti-Target she is harming the consumer who depends on Target in order to punish the merchant-retailer makes her a sadistic governor with some screwed up policies.
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  4779. It appears the profits of this company are not wholly re-invested in a back up system for production (operations) to go manual in the event of a stoppage, but instead profits have been consumed go to support a particular luxurious lifestyle. The needs of a few owners are given priority over the needs of the nation in the system of privatization where everything is a piece of merchandize. The conclusion of Homeland Security's classified results of the investigation to the president: privatization is a weakness to the national security of the country. A back up manual system is substituted permanently for a automatic system. The remedy is to legislate a percentage of profits are re-invested and a live crew is never out of a job. The on line system was cheaper and considered fail proof by the corporation's managers. This serves as a rationalization for a lifestyle the country cannot afford to allow in my view. If and when the investigation does show privatization is an Achilles Heel. Especially when there is another investigation of UFO contact demonstrating evidence of powers beyond our own, and who is behind that power is unknown? This incident proves it is not fail proof.  As Americans we do not have the impartial representation in Congress needed to confront this Achilles Heel. All of them are billionaires in Congress are the Archilles Heel and are likely to have interests of their own in the biggest oil producer in the country. The best we can get from this crew in Congress is a short term fix and push it under the rug resume oil operations at a new higher average price at the pump.
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  4780. John Ellis, mankind is not ready to act as a species being.
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  4781. I believe Tom Cotton defended the right of non-disclosure of journalist sources by voting against Wyden’s bill ordering journalist to disclose sources was a victory for journalists and a protection for whistleblowers. Who could imagine that a republican would be an ally of anti-totalitarian forces and the Democrats be anti-Free Speech? Terrorism is a scourge on humanity. In Nigeria it is direct genocide. What is being made of Twitter is a social media platform into a market place where forces of exploitation and the extremists can generate capital and increase the political rhetoric against enemies of their objectives.
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  4782. It brings me to mind how any given citizenry in countries with authoritarian governments are conditioned or pacified to not be revolutionary as a mass, behave as a whole for their interest, fight for what is right to them, do not get in the way of this development toward fascism but remain passive as outside spectators and individuals with rights have yet to insert themselves into the fate of their lives decided by others outside of their lives. Right of Free Speech is granted but speech itself is not a natural right of the Mind. Right of movement is granted but movement itself is not a natural right of the human body’s legs. Individual rights are commodities and more of the natural aspects of society and humanity become dependent on the sale of Rights to Individuals, so that, eventually, you have to buy the right to swim, breath, eat, walk or talk, sexually reproduce, or die by any will of your own. The Public is in a process of social conditioning to believe and accept all things are made to sell and buy, for a world, where only the rich can live and the poor, die!
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  4783. DeepSeek produced AI for a fraction of the cost because they found a way to use open source to power it, this innovation makes the heavy processing equipment of Big Tech obsolete. The energy used to power big processing stations is unnecessary for AI...would it not make more sense to let the Big Tech companies go under and start anew with new companies into AI and open source and save the taxpayer billions in less energy costs per household and per person, Mr. President?
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  4784. Trade was interrupted not disrupted Al Jazeera.
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  4785. Products people produce in the US are so disposable and proliferous that they have no significance to the average person as embodiments of the connection to the total labor of society. The internal connection between what a person does at work to all the work of society is reduced to a fractional part is imperceptible to the naked eye but occurs in every transaction involving money, or where money is used to exchange equivalents. So if my A equals your B and your B equals his C, each of these items contain the same amount of average labor-time to make regardless if A was made by hand and took longer, or B was made by machine and took half the time as A, or his C was made in 1955, and is equal to E,F, G, and H of varying quantity. This law applied consciously accomplishes what a UBI would not accomplish, namely it would even out the problem of one group working too long and another too short, another not at all, yet another group waiting in the wings to work as immigrants and fodder for political gain, and masses of people working for themselves and barely surviving, the asymmetry of work in America operates like a blind working average, one day the economy is running like a fire engine without a driver, another day it chugs along like a staggering alcoholic, polluting and contaminating the planet and life in the process.
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  4786. Good. I am very happy the CIA violated the rights of professionals and middle classes at the same time they violated JA’s privacy. When it happens to them they can feel they are in the right to pressure their representatives not to renew the Bill on the floor that authorizes funding the CIA and repeal it. If were them I’d get behind Rand Paul’s call to repeal the Espionage Act of 1917, that is great move.
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  4787. Banks are destroying Canada, usurping the value of the housing market, that the only kind of profit accrued is bank profit. Profit on Interest. Profit derived from labor in construction, factory work, office work, distribution, fall below what it is worth to continue production. Production will cease and if it is not restarted Canada will perish. An economic war between bankers and landowners is playing out in Canada. What political party in Parliament represents the banks and who represents the landowners? Landowners, banks, and merchants are throwing the working classes into complete immiseration.
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  4788.  @Waterbaby4life1982  No comment on the number of hours Americans work that allows such a relation to exist?
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  4789. Looks like the “reservation’ has an internal opposition to Austin. Pentagon officials call the Pentagon the “reservation’ a reference to native American reservations. It is supposed to be funny but coming from them the use of the term is racist and demeaning.
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  4790.  @need-to-know-  As I watch I am finding myself categorizing events.  Was this event a moment of decline or a moment the system is at rest from its fall?
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  4791.  @VeganTrove  Thanks for that information. It will help on the consumption side to minimize impact but we'd still have the problem of ranchers finding markets to sell beef.
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  4792. Too bad Abbot’s Public Conference was not inundated by mass protesters booing him off the stage and throwing rotten tomatoes at him. Seems the people of Texas are not operating at that level of awareness.
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  4793. NTSB better start coming out with findings on all the crashes and deaths with recommendations what to do about it!
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  4794. Public education is Canada’s version of England’s Opium Wars on China but on the Canadian Public.
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  4795. What a stupid fellow? Bankruptcies lead to monopolies, the larger capitals take over the markets the smaller capitals lost to bankruptcy. He flunked in economics 101. When the dust settles and all the bankruptcies are foreclosed or liquidated it is the large capitals expanding into that market or in the same market as a former competitor who make the acquisition which would include, land and building factories, tools and raw material even a labor-force. Where was he during the 80s? That was a decade of bankruptcies and the 90s was a decade of consolidation of all the debris left over from the failure of smaller businesses. Whichever state this man represents I'd say they have elected a vegetable into office! I think by reading between the lines its a republican blueprint to sabotage and resist taxes intended to cover a portion of America's 2nd New Deal maker over.
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  4796. This has been going on for a long time that people feel less content and more miserable in society. When will it end? I see very different kinds of people standing on those lines. How many of them can work from home? How many have stock earnings? How many of them are landlords or own land in the country or more than one business? How many of them are self-employed contractors? Uber Drivers? What about the teachers, nurses, police officers and fire fighters, how will they vote? How will Trump help that person who gets from social security only what they paid into it or in many cases are not eligible for old age income as self-employed? In his last term did he reign in prescription pricing? Working class New Hampshire voters see Trump as standing for the little guy, I am not convinced that he does, and the New Hampshire Middle Class fear democracy will be torn down if Trump is elected, I am not convinced he will. I am not convinced that the social groups on either side want a war. Be good if they were asked. I wonder why not? War is prevalent. War keeps prices up high. The inflow of migrants is caused by wars of all types. Should be a big deal in deciding where you stand on the war in Gaza, Ukraine, Middle East and with Iran, war breaks out into WWIII. How much do you think people are going to tolerate higher prices from all the meddling and mischief causing these people to disrupt the normal flow of commercial navigation?
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  4797. The reporter should have gone to the hospital and reported on her condition from doctors. The number of deaths at that place should spark a criminal investigation that has not happened yet.
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  4798. ...private property is a condition of existence that makes labor a working class; a working class that can maintain the existence of wealth as private property...this is the reason why all of us work for wages and salaries; so that all goods and services we produce can be augmented in value with our labor-power and then accumulated by private property...in the form of a capitalist or a corporation, or a state. ...private property was a condition of existence that made labor a slave, or a serf, a peasant, or a working class alongside that labor making a pharaoh, king, prince, monarchy, or a class of capitalists. Private property is a product of labor itself. Existence is all labor and labor is relating to itself in a higher form when it relates to capital.
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  4799.  @jgalt308  Not a valid question; either you own your own labor or you don’t. Entitlement implies a higher authority has appropriated the labor for itself and then given it another.
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  4800. America insists on buying labor cheap internationally that employers pay out cheap wages domestically and this leaves the next generation of workers looking at America as having nothing to offer them. There is no direct path to employment from education. This is a generation that belongs to America but is not a part of it.
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  4801. Biden and the Neocons are Happy Together. Open up another tab with NBC on the same headline news story and read the comments between there and here. You’ll understand why the US plods through crisis after crisis like a staggering alcoholic yesterday and a runaway fire truck with no driver today. Because the people in this country are pacified and fast asleep let it happen.
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  4802. Problem here is that Americans are pushovers. The political world loves you for it. Docile, meek, easily intimidated, they can shove any piece of legislation down the throats of Americans and enjoy doing it. Absolutely no opposition from the American people exists in the pantheon of corrupt politicians. You are too nice and you will pay for that excess of niceness with your health because deep down inside you are in rage and angry and fail to express that anger as real anger which is good for the mind, body, and health, repressed rage and anger expressed as kindness shows up as a mental and physical disease.
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  4803.  @vallee7966  Comment does not deserve the dignity of a reply....in fact you poison the atmosphere with your violence...and not the way to win. Good Riddance.
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  4804. Grassroots republicans sense the elections have been corrupted because of decades of dubious manipulation by the republican leadership. Call it a sixth sense something is never right about elections whenever there is a republican party involved which is always.
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  4805. Manchin does not have the back bone to take a stand. He has to choose what he is?
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  4806. Excellent Critique. But identify as helpless children? More like a clear and obvious betrayal that cannot be kept a secret or get swept under the rug. The voice of Biden in 1982 under the Reagan presidency panders to the right in 1982. This is the point when democrats became a right wing party and were able to abandon the working class because this was the point the working class was co-opted into capitalist culture in the Reagan economy, i.e., Gentrification and the Perpetual Wars on Terror. Star Wars created by a democrat and the rise of born-again evangelical christians voting for republicans was the start of this cultural transformation to make a human beings innately hostile to social revolutions as a social process that today attacks the working class. A Great Social Experiment. If America were to have a revolution tomorrow the revolutionary party that leads its revolution will also do what China is doing to defend its revolution from social forces that threaten its social project to make a society of their liking. The American right wing is the greatest enemy of all social revolutions and in fighting them to prevent them from occurring America has made the planet and the species a threat to itself. When you don’t offer an alternative to the democrats and republicans you are part of the problem.
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  4807. So ridiculous people...get vaccinated so the vaccine left over can vaccinate the rest of the world and we can all get back to our lives without lock downs.
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  4808. Great...drone traffic over road traffic jams because everyone ordered.
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  4809. This is a job for the US military to go in with food and water. The number of dead found in the course of recovery will become a national political disaster for Washington.
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  4810. One million cops in the US, losing 500 is nothing.
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  4811. The Senate is the Elite leadership for the democratic and republican party. Passing this Bill the Senate raised its middle finger at the America. Hopefully the lower house will vote against the Bill. This is a disgrace! This Bill puts America Last. This country has roughly 234 million working people in this country living paycheck to paycheck, who need help!
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  4812. Kemp did not have to sign this law but he did. A law that presupposes the voter is a criminal. Hardworking Georgians are the criminals in the eyes of this law. The law presupposes the people who live in the counties with election issues have to be punished not corrected. Governor is one of those people who does not like to govern and correct problems. Ideologues do not govern they give out edicts and are dictatorial behind closed doors. Kemp lumps everyone against the law as a communist is what ideologues say. He wants to stoke the fears of an already needy hardworking Georgian population as away of getting their vote. The paycheck is more important to Kemp than the Vote. If he can deprive somehow the paychecks of hardworking Georgians and then blame that on someone else as a contestable reaction he can garner their vote as a champion of the hardworking Georgian. Create a conflict and take their side as a protagonist and the suckers among the rank of the hardworking Georgian population are so desperate facing hard conditions fall for this hook, line and sinker. The necessaries of life are always a means to an end and never are they an end in themselves is what it means to be a neoliberal in America.
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  4813. UPS workers are trained for the effect of hot weather. Was his collapse in hot weather part of that training?
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  4814. If that is true than the “third world country” is not third world but are ahead of the US falling back behind the world. @jerryf3307 
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  4815. Great reporting, indispensable in these times.
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  4816. JFK never wanted the French to have nuclear weapons. In Macron we now know why JFK felt that way and pushed a Ban Treaty between nuclear powers.
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  4817. More of this kind of Youtubing is what the needs.
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  4818. Bernie is shedding half truths...the GOP does want to cut social spending but they also want to cut the military budget in half, this according to their top republican Donald Trump. I would imagine Bernie would be on board with a peace dividend into which medicare can be expanded to cover everyone from this cut. Currently the military budget is largest expense American taxpayers bear. He places himself politically in a difficult position of having to reconcile irreconcilables to which end does he stand is not clear.
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  4819. DiSantis wants to be King Lear on steroids. People who can't recall their reading in high school lit a Shakespearian play than here is a refresher describing the Florida governor to a 'T'. 'Lear’s basic flaw at the beginning of the play is that he values appearances above reality. He wants to be treated as a king and to enjoy the title, but he doesn’t want to fulfill a king’s obligations of governing for the good of his subjects.' So what happens on the ground from DiSantis's government edict pits parent against job, and child against parent, parent against school, pandemic against communities, in addition to overwhelming hospitals with COVID patients forcing doctors to function in abstinence of treating other medical needs.
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  4820.  @helenaquin1797  Yes, and thanks for acknowledging my comment. Trump is presiding over the last phases of the capitalist system. All the particulars of this decline tangibly reflect this decline as desperation. Armed struggle is not a working class theory but a practice of the mass of working people who populate the entire planet are forced to accept as permanent by this social class. The frictions are too intense...time to retreat... capitalist expansion (new markets) is not working out for America and France. They are kicked out of Africa. Losing the BRIC nations as a markets is a serious blow. China out producing the US is a blow...in every aspect, and just releasing a free social media and AI app, strikes a blow at the knees of the Tech Industry who consume more than they produce, take more than they receive, from the earth and from human beings...and make a product not worth its own value, except in aerospace...that only rich people can afford to consume...is a blow. Blow for blow, capitalism is seeing its final days. The problems of millions and millions of people out of work at home and abroad makes human life impossible and environments uninhabitable. I consider it a cheap move of Trump to untaxed tips when nobody is buying... too little too late...but it is cunning thinking to speed up this decline rather than to save it the way FDR saved capitalism. It puts Trump and the evangelical Christian right wing in the leadership position, amending the laws to start from scratch the rebuilding of the state with christian laws. Patriarchy and take credit for a christian reformation of capitalism...but with what markets? Where will America sell its products when trade wars and sanctions repel more nations into the arms of China? Editorial: Marx would be impressed with China. A nation he studied when it was in its last feudal stages; Oriental Despotism, he thought China as backward as Russia was under the Tsar, could never skip over capitalism, yet both western colonies became capitalist nation-states, China coming out of colonial humiliation under Britain and America with her anti-communist allies in the Pacific did what Marx never expected backward nations to do. Use capitalism to advance socialism. In the future, China will be in the position the US is in now, floundering, after reaching its height and begins its own decline, but it will have a socialist foundation already in place for a peaceful transition.
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  4821. Norfolk Southern executives are CryBullies. They have contempt for people. Actions speak louder than words. Fear and safety is a pathetic excuse to not make an appearance.
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  4822. MTA is a Hopeless Failure. That yellow grated rectangular object the MTA installed reflects about as abstract a conception of art the MTA’s management brain can handle. Anymore detail or design and blood vessels begin to pop in management. It belongs in a gallery of abstract modern art not in a subway. The object is mysterious and could be deified, worshipped by American lunatics because outside of the space it comes from nobody can figure out its use. The best thing the MTA can do is what other nations have done. They send one of their own to learn how its done and do it better at home. Between all the columns on all the platforms in the entire subway system the space can be enclosed; they can build a wall between columns and the doors of the train open a section. Russia and Britain do this. The more you decorate an environment with real art and thoughtful design the less crime you will have. But America is a culturally deprived country because there are so many cultures in the city its mayor has to be a worldly person, an internationalist, a person of the world, to understand the power of art, sight, light, sound in making people human; settling on one culture is impossible in cities; the money culture becomes the universal American culture because all can never be satisfied the dollar helps to repress the diversity. Art does the opposite. Diversity is a mosaic, a big poem to a writer, a large ocean to a fish, a world of exploration for the mind, Art is the black hole that sucks you into reading this, wanting more.
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  4823. War in our time is 90% propaganda that all intelligence whether it comes from the US, Israel, Britain, are lies. The West has lost all credibility.
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  4824.  Tab Valentino  The adult 40 somethings are the children of the Reagan Revolution, barbaric creatures of fascist upbringing.
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  4825. What is the difference between a nuclear warhead and an assault rifle when both are weapons of mass destruction? Oh, and Mr. Blinkin should be advised that Johnson and Johnson announced a shortage of vaccines.
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  4826. The stupidity in people is why America will never be a democracy. Democracy depends on educated public which the majority of Americans are not. Being stupid requires a guardian or someone to supervise you, monitor your imbecility, from causing harm to others. America will die the way it was born as a 19th century Republic that holds every citizen with disdain and suspicion.
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  4827. The action people have to take to tackle climate change is to shut down the polluting industries. There is no other choice.
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  4828.  @jimmyboone363  What does natural climate change have to do with man-made polluting industries, the subject here is pollution? Its the social not the natural side we are concerned with here.
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  4829. All this bombing has increased the average 20% of total world oil output from Iraq to 35%. You'd think the oil pumps would have been decimated and the area scarce of people since the whole country was leveled but no to your surprise. Iraq supplies oil to Europe and Japan. This share of the market is in the hands of a numerically small class of nations. People say these wars are about oil. No they are about oil market shares and control over production. The Oil embargo of the 70s was a blow to Japan with no oil of her own. Kuwait was the first invasion to set off a chain of events to eradicate any form of opposition in the Middle East to the Western Alliance and the aims of this one particular industry. The only threat the oil rich nations pose to the west, is the west's own dependence on oil. George W said America is addicted to oil because he was addicted to cocaine. Addiction is his word for western dependence on oil. Western nations are consuming more oil and producing more pollution. The consumption of oil by all allied military hardware is a substantial chunk of the problem. If your going to spend more you are going to need more oil to consume and that is the general trajectory of western nations as they get hammered by climate catastrophes crippling their own societies. Societies whose life-blood is oil. Production of oil goes up, demand is high, profits are higher. Russia gave Greece to Britain in 1945 as a way to keep the British out of Hungry, Romania, and the Baltics. The Americans come in and clear off the social map any political opposition to the IMF and today Greece is decimated as a casualty of this grand social experiment. In one half of an average lifespan societies can go from decent to devastated in a state of eternal crisis is how fragile is their social and political development. Their economic surpluses plummeted. Nothing in the bank for recoveries. It will not be a shock to me when Hurricane Ida makes landfall the whole southern coastal population will become destitute and proletarianized overnight, a third of the total population never to recover the standard of living they will lose in the surging storm.
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  4830. Good report and I love the Beach Boy parody on the real and historical relations of the masses who get nothing and the hypocrisy of monarchies, elites, celebrities, politicians, who get everything on the backs of the masses.
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  4831. Not only is Biden, and this is by his own admission, a ‘capitalist’, but he is also a believer in less government. Society pays a big price to have a government; its tragic that one person can deny 332 million people a thing they pay for. My hunch for his receding the federal government from social responsibility thus, avoiding a national policy on COVID, he would have to socialize the private hospital care system first and the opposition to that has greater pull in government than the American people do.
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  4832. The Dore speaks Truth objectively.
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  4833. This is great news that right wing extremist groups have dominated the GOP. What it says is that one of the major political parties in the US has absolutely nothing constructive to offer not only to a republican but to the whole country. Great news folks. The end of a party that had represented the interest of only the super rich in government since Ronald Reagan was president. Thank you Mr. Reagan and to his dead mentor Milton Friedman for adopting the worst economic policies the Chicago School of Economics ever produced. But as a consequence the super rich have moved their allegiance to the other major political party in America to promote their vast wealth as oligarchs and this movement is reflected in the betrayal of the rail workers strike. That betrayal was the icing on the cake. Officially the working person in this country has no party to represent them in government. Farmers, workers, nurses, teachers, railroad workers, truckers, white collar ad blue collar workers, have been left hanging and stranded in the political process. No health care, closing pediatric wards in hospitals, stagnant wages, lack of job security, poverty as old age retirement, there is room for a working class party in America. If only working people get over their personal level of ignorance and substance abuse that pacifies them into submission. The disintegration of the Democratic party would happen faster if working people they no longer represent would admit their allegiance to a party of betrayal has been their downfall. But two down with one split between who to represent in society at the government level is a positive development.
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  4834. Have not seen a Asian mayor, alderman, freeholder, county executive, anywhere in the US. They are a discriminated group.
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  4835. Its the same every Christmas, Ground Hog Day... from the start of the Victorian Age, the homeless population is never a big question or a concern for the Established Powers that Be as it is around Christmas time because it is the only time of the year where a larger and larger percentage of people are unable to give are asked to give.
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  4836. Congress is the last institution to intervene on the president's over reaches if the American people are waiting. That was the point in Sam Beckett's play, 'Waiting for Godot,' --Godot was a no show Didi and Gogo had high hopes for. True of Trump and Congress, we have hopes they will never carry through on. An utter and complete let down the two insitutions will be on climate change, privatization and war genocide. Dissappointed as Gogo and Didi were and as we shall be when we are let down by Congress and Trump the last choice is left. Left of center even far left.
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  4837. Check your American history for the number of socialists was quite high from 1900 to 1945; never happened is an understatement. @nuqwestr 
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  4838. Little Tokyo gets a taste of a little capitalism. Pot the product-owners capitalizing on the commodification of marijuana, which, incidentally, hires migrant labor for planting and harvesting, are behind all the pressure at the Border, not hard for legal growers here to be in contact for cheap labor with illegal growers there and the SF Landlords have a little economic alliance going between them to force out Little Tokyo. Good plot for a movie. But this is reality the movies imitate.
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  4839. America is a land of dictators its not a government dictatorship that I refer. Employers are the dictators, America has a many dictators. Elon Musk, and anyone who employs labor is a dictator of that labor,--- and so for 8 hours a day, 365 days a year, 138 million Americans employed by employers, are subject slaves to their employers. This constitutes a formalized dictatorship. If you work for the state the state is your dictatorship. The state decides how your work is to be used. If your work is used for war or for peace...you have no choice, constitutes a dictatorship. If you work for a small landscaper the owner is your dictator and for the greater part of your time including your free time is appropriated by your personal dictator. You are not free to bring a gun to work, Not free to decide how much you get paid. Not free to decide how the work gets done. You cannot change the work if the work you do is apparently dangerous for you and others. Work you do is decided by others who do not do the work. You are not free to decide how work gets done with your other fellow workers. Not free to use the work time to your advantage, the copiers, fax machines, whatever you need to get your personal work done or go to the dentist without losing something or giving something to the boss, namely, overtime work. Where is your freedom if you are not free for three quarters of your life, free only when you sleep, and free only on the patch of land you rent or own? Getting mad at Americans is an easy thing to do. Very easy to lose patience with people who are delusional about their freedoms which for the most part is the entire population. But once the unthinking American realizes how not free they really are another view of freedom begins to grow and take shape. A freedom employers, CEO dictators, all combine to crush. The CEO is the new royalty, the new kings, the only people in society who enjoy true freedom. Americans should stop pretending the CEO and them are the same people when, in fact, they are polar opposites and you cannot have Kings without people who see themselves as subjects in relation to a king.
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  4840. ...it is not gun control that will end violence in society; its violence the State cannot live without that proliferates guns...and perpetuates violence in society.
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  4841. Bill Maher and his host do not drive the country, they never take county roads to see the depression rural America is in to know how badly the state of the economy is. They never been on the roads to cut through ghost towns and derilect buildings and boarded up and the absence of industry, farming, merchants. Rural America is devastated in worse shape than it was during the Great Depression. Completely gutted, like a vampire has sucked out the life-blood of the rural economy. Towns destroyed by Dollar Stores owned and operated by mostly foreign capital. What I am saying about Maher applies to the Democrats, they have no idea of the frequency rights of citizens are violated or the economc conditions facing rural America and the industrial base of the economy gutted, dry rotted for lack of investment. A socialist is not a democrat but is independent of democrats on the opposite side of republicans, and is the lesser of the two evils. This is why FDR ran on another party platform. A socialist is also not a tyrant like the police have become. The socialists had over 60 million members in 1930 of a population of 130 million. Debs would have won if not for FDR running. Bernie is an FDR socialist and not a Soviet style socialist Trump will try to tag on him. Those socialists are gone. I remember this distinctly when my parents and friends voted for FDR and why? I was old enough to understand what they were saying. The country did not get out of the depression until 8 years into FDR's administration is how long it took to re-establish the economy. This is why he was relected four terms. If it were not for the war as the economic stimulus the Great Depression would have lasted to the 1960s. That is why Kennedy's Man to Moon speech became a landmark speech because in 1955 the Russians launched Sputnik into space.  About the only thing at the time that raised Britian out of its depression would have been the Beatles if Hitler did not bomb London. And when did the Beatles come out 1960. If Bernie gets in he will have to have a VP like Wallace who was really behind FDR's reconstruction of the economy and who the democrats and republicans feared more than FDR. Democrats and repblicans ran gangs, mafia families and clansmens in the west all through the northeast. New Jersey, New York and Long Island were home to German Nazis Bund Camps. Democrats were too corrupt in the 30's and FDR had to distinguish himself from the corruption as the lesser of two evils, separate and apart from both parties. This is the time for an independent to be a president even if he calls him/herself a socialist or an evangelist it does not matter. Ideology is nothing to the American economy orits people. Americans care nothing about ideology.  The economy demands pragmatic leaders not ideologues like Trump or Obama or Biden. The stimulus for a re-construction of the rural economy in America is climate change. The economy forces an independent to respond to what the economy demands and at this time it demands a pragmatic and practical back to basics person. The alternative is the death of the economy. You might be rich and live but the economy will do nothing for you. All your wealth will have to go to an economy outside of the US, and all other economies are in stagnation. Even the rich are screwed and risk being rich when millions will are propertyless, this is moment in history on par to that of the period of the Great Depression.
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  4842. The problem with this is not in the present but in the future when draft dodging becomes a political weapon about who runs this country. I would say to these young Russian men to pay careful attention to what Putin’s opponents in the west are saying. The prize for Washington is Russia and if this Russian generation does not want to become a resource as a cheap labor-market for American global corporations, they better understand this Ukraine conflict as a first in a series of conflicts aiming to change Russia’s government.
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  4843. No denying the Americans could not arrange the affairs of the world into a peaceful harmony, the 'gentler and kinder' imperialism proved itself illusively more dangerous than an outright dictatorship,---you know where you stand when Khadafi and Sadaam Hussien were not hunted down and killed! These guys kept the lid tight over the neighboring unfriendly tribes and their land disputes. The lid covered the full breath of modern slavery in the Middle East the US so poorly, for all its wisdom and experience, made worse with its invasions and occupations forced the black markets to thrive underground selling weapons, drugs, women, children. Crazy the pattern is not visible to Americans paying for all this nonsense. A series of invasions that happen when America's economy expands and a series of retreats happen when the American economy contracts charging it all to the American taxpayer, who is so brainwashed believes everything by the skin of its teeth and squanders a lot of resources in the process is normal, and they are not wrong is the clincher! Crisis is normal for our economy. Through crisis the cycle gets restarted; that the question of the day becomes is this how life should be lived through crisis and episodic expansions and contractions? Isn't the pandemic and climate change more than enough than to add an avalanche of problems of social conflict as a way of life?
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  4844. Oceangate is symbolic of the times in the way Enron was symbolic for its time as one of the many new upstart firms to have come out of a de-regulated environment. Its the right thing to do to put in place safeties following tragedy; its wrong when safeties are removed because of a belief individuals have mastery over nature. Bandaid approaches and slaps on the wrist have consequences. The four nations involved in this mission will take decades to determine who pays and actually recover the bodies from this reckless adventure, until then the bodies remain where they are.
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  4845. Police and prosecutors are responding to the evasive nature of crime always one step ahead of the law but as they extinguish the difference between private, public and state property, all property falls under the dominion of the police and this constitutes a fascist state concentrating and controlling all forms of private property. These quantitative differences in the number of laws imposed on the citizenry add up to a qualitative change of the function, purpose and the nature of the state. Totalitarianism and rigid authoritative social structures get adopted and replicated until all society is choked, freedom has evaporated, even the freedom to buy and sell, disappears.
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  4846. In a snap of a finger the house gave $40 billion to Ukraine on May 22, 2022. The bill was rammed down the throats of working Americans who are taxed the most in society. Republicans moved to adjourn the vote. Democrats voted to not adjourn. Voting time are set at 3 in the afternoon to minimize the reading of the bills by senators is the job of the Parliamentarian. The bill got passed in a snap of a finger. When employers fire employees they do it on Fridays as a rule to discourage employee retaliation that terminations are habitually never on a Monday and the parliamentarian schedules votes at 3 pm weekdays. One hour left to the workday to vote and catch the train to the plane by 4 pm. Imagine if 40 cities got a billion ...what that could do to make city life civil again? Shocking as it was Marjorie Taylor Greene, the fiery white nationalists with strange theories managed in a sharp critique of the hypocrisy to vote for a bill giving $40 billion to Ukraine and did not force the vote for medicare for all. She said we can give 40 billion to Ukraine while mothers can’t find baby formula, when climate crisis devastates millions of Americans, student loan debt, medical bankruptcy and cannot afford medicine...joblessness and homelessness, afflict the American people and the democrats ridiculed her with taunts of when did she became green. The Bill was passed at 3:15 pm.
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  4847. I am not sure pigs can revert back to becoming wild boars from which they came after 6000 years of animal husbandry and that there is not enough nature around that is not populated by humans for them to be wild and roam, they are a different animal than boars now, it appears you have no choice but to enlarge their pens and separate sows during gestation to reduce their reproduction. They are bred for sale and that is where your problem starts. Grandfather in the 1800s did not produce pork for mass consumption. So we are in territory completely different from America as the agrarian society it was when the Wizard of Oz was produced, not long ago. From a marketing point of view the price of pork will rise as the rate of conception falls. When the price of pork rises the public will seek other foods to eat and this could bring about the demise of this form of farming. It is also pretty stupid the Congress never instituted a national land reform deal to minimize the growth of large scale industrial farms like yours from becoming too big that it need to be legislated out of existence. Perhaps, diversifying your farm will make up the difference to more than one single crop will help keep your farm in your family. What will happen to the pigs if your farm goes under is likely a worse fate than where they are now. This is a huge problem because the other obstacle is finding a buyer for the farm that only a billionaire can afford and billionaires are not going to farm pigs. They will clear the land of animals for real estate developers to build more single family homes.
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  4848.  @debbiecooper3661  Sheep are the property of the Shepherd. If women and children fought too the Shepherd would not be all male.
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  4849.  @outermarker5801  Your thinking of passion is still in the context of an opposition whereas the passion that comes from a vision of another path another nation another society is a fight against everything that stands in the way of that vision. The Vietcong had this passion of a vision of a society that was their's without interference of foreign powers, in short, a society different from that of the foreign power invading it that only the communist societies are proving to the nations struggling with the same foreign powers today the way out from under the heel of foreign powers is socialism. Problem for young nations like Afghanistan is reconciling religion with socialism before taking that leap. How passionate are they about their nation's wealth and resources to use for themselves or let be taken by foreign powers so that their religion is kept intact is a trade off for these people. Don't they teach you guys anything about societies, culture, historical development of nations, in the military?
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  4850. @Kiki Love Interesting. In my world when you have nothing to lose that usually means you have a world to gain.
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  4851. They know they failed. This is why everything they do is done for the sake of staying in power and not done for the sake of humanity, to the contrary humanity is their enemy.
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  4852. Your pride cannot be extended to your own people who also face threats to their lives and livelihoods and are not protesting to have the voice you are using heard regardless...no opposition in the US to war at all; outside of the US people cannot thank the good people of America who want nothing to do with war anywhere, because they are not seen, invisible. US government has 17 wars going on, simultaneously, and there is not one voice among your countrymen opposing war. This is a shameful betrayal of your own historical legacy in great people like MLK Jr. Where is the bravery?
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  4853. @Número uno Good for you for speaking up.
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  4854. Naturally after being cooped up for so long who wants to be pushed around by a suit to mix drinks, sell trinkets, and tend to tourists needs. Sounds a little trivial to be spending your days when the pandemic opened your eyes to a changing world around you, appearing there is little time left to live! America has more chiliasts calling this the New Millennium. But it also has more people wanting more from a job than a low sum of money. The Pandemic impressed on impressionable minds to see the jobs of the job creators not as a means but as dead ends. You understand what I am saying there?
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  4855. The use of the Supreme Court goes to the victor. It is the vanquished who become in what actuality was previously a fear has become real.
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  4856. Best way to end real world horror stories of workers losing jobs from happening over and over again is to end the practice of buying in order to sell and only sell to buy again.
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  4857. “Abandoned”, or is Haiti the first colonial possession of a western power to free itself from its political class. An emancipation is long overdue for that tiny country. In all events, the gangs are carrying out a self-emancipation by choice.
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  4858. It means new markets are needed for the realization of America’s increased production of surplus-value when the petro dollar falls. War is what it means. Peace would bring about a sharp fall in profits that the government will have to manufacture war and more military for new markets not realizing that the decline of the US economy is coming from internal causes. The internal causes are the American corporations themselves. They project the causes to be from an external competitor when, in fact, it is innovation that is reshaping work domestically resulting in a weak investment cycle, despite its recovery, high productivity has damaging effects for the economy but advantageous effects for capitalists. Machinery throws people out of work is a damaging effect on the working class but at the same time, innovation increases the profits of the corporations, is the cause of the decline not the Russians or the Chinese.
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  4859. I hope you folks realize that Trump is not the only thing happening in NYC. A detailed report of his itinerary and when he wipes his heinie at home till he gets processed is not the only thing going in Manhattan. Just want to be sure you people are not fools. Are you?
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  4860. Behind the antics, conservatives have a lot of property to conserve.😉
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  4861. The answer to this problem is to change the work day, free up the parents to bring their kids to school, something will get passed a parent a lot harder than it is for a kid to conceal a weapon on his person in a school bus full of kids. Law enforcement will never prevent school violence, wishful thinking,---foolish to believe so. Change the working day. This eliminates bussing transportation costs, frees up public capital to fill pensions, salaries, better education. The police become useful as screeners at the school doors. School day should not coincide with the workday as it is now. The workday has to change to be compatible with the school day to free up the parents. The current workday suitable for business prevents, impedes, obstructs, uses free time as work-time and robs parents from parenting. A legal workday that works exclusively for business is, RIDICULOUSLY STUPID! Using time to teach kids is a waste of time. Subjects taught in units of 45 minutes is actually 30 minutes of education and 15 minutes spent on something else. A school of 1000 kids are robbed of 15,000 hours of education time per day. Shortened or lengthened depends on the quality of the teacher’s class structuring abilities and an administrator’s abilities to use the policy and procedures whip creates an internal school conflict between teachers and administrators,---is a relation that should be outlawed by Congress not allowed. Speaking of which, where is and who is your secretary of education on all this?
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  4862. I call these local officials “Nada people”. Pray, pray, pray, well at least they are not as bad as some other religions crawling on their knees till blood is drawn or banging their heads against a wall....or purposely destroying themselves to be with God...and they give thanks to each other, pray for the slaughtered of the other. That’s decent of them. But this is all local officials say. They do not have the backbone to take a political stand. This bridge collapse is a golden opportunity for a local official. This mayor could have announced his candidacy of a FIX AMERICA Campaign calling out the Do-Nothing somebodies in Washington. He could if he had the talent and nerve kick the two political parties right in the Butt, with this bridge failure. He is not far down from the bridge that fell. “All” the money sent to Israel and Ukraine must go back to American infrastructure. The real public health threat to society is inaction and religion makes people DO NOTHING, NADA.
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  4863. Entire cities are financed by bonds under capitalism. New York Subway System is financed by bonds. Everywhere and everything is embalmed by someone else's capital. Nothing is spared, not apartments, buildings, offices, housing, factories, schools, hospitals, churches, homes, vehicles, stores, distributorships, roads, canals, bridges, tunnels, in short, the total super structure is financed by bonds. Money furnishes the material for a new product. The specific factors in the labor-process that is a city incorporates living and dead substances. Greater value is multiplied on top of past values of dead labor which is what a finished city is, a collection of past labor, is reconverted into capital is capitalism. All this happens because of one social relation of work, labor-power and its sale by its owners. At the same time as everything is a commodity and someone else's capital, everything is convertible into gold and gold is reconverted back into commodities. Gold is convertible back into renewed bonds, new finance agreements of terms and conditions of the subway system and the whole city, and the labor-power in all the cities is consumed again in a new process of expanding someone's else's capital. The system is absurd and creates absurd way of reproducing and surviving as human beings.
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  4864. Right and the number of shares of a corporation a given individual or other corporation can own is not limited. Unlimited ownership for one destroys any chance of the many owning the corporation.
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  4865. Flooding extends across several states. People are becoming climate refugees. Once having it all to having nothing. Gone in a matter of seconds. Atrophy describes state governments who cut social spending.
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  4866. Red ties and black suits are the uniform of America's fascists.
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  4867. Like the landlords who do not fix or install on high rise building window gates so children cannot fall to their deaths. Like the building in Florida collapses because inspections are stretched past the life of the building and kicked down the road. Like the builder of the development who does not fix a open gate of the Condo(s) sold as a 'gated community'. The state will charge the mother with neglect but not charge owners of properties that make conditions unsafe for children.
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  4868. How about we talk about the use-value of everything and just leave the value of everything aside for a moment. Too often the field of economics is bent on understanding value and entirely forget what happens to use-value. What happened that there are no tailors, blacksmiths, weavers, tanners, no more highly skilled workers who produced use-values before everything became a value? When these occupations became standardized and routined and began to disappear from society, the necessaries of life for the worker was substituted for the use-values of the capitalists. The use-values of these independent producers lost their value in society. Everything that is a use-value today is a social product of the capitalist, a unit of value. But everything that was a use-value in the past before the change over in production to machinery and automation was a value-in-use. Before mechanical industry took over the work and the worker, they were a total package, a value-in-use, and together, they worked directly in a material interaction with nature. After the change, the work and the worker shrunk into a value unit and the environmental relation of work, hidden and concealed separated from the worker. Products of all kinds became equally, value units, and this fact turned all the different skills of workers into a quantity of value of products. Within this social process the quality of work, the worker, and the subject of work, is in the form of labor as value. We end up with a social system of products relating to each other with a capitalist instead of workers relating to each other in a social system of production. Use-value disappeared because the labor in them became value. Value in everything versus a value-in-use for society.
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  4869.  @thosethatcan  coward.
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  4870. Factories and offices are part of the entire infrastructure that are made by the machine producers to never stop their use and consumption by 132 million workers in the US. Windows for fresh air are no longer a manual product. All the brain power of the country has gone into the formation of products that cannot be made without the labor-force activating the technology, science and machinery to make the products. If the perpetual production machine that uses up and requires less of a labor-force comes to a stop the entire social order dies in a week. A shut down would have the effect of a general strike and all exchanges in the market would begin to show a furious pace of rising prices as the remaining inventory dwindles because most of America's annual product would be parked in the Pacific unable to dock. Getting everyone vaccinated is a top priority preventing such a shut down from occurring, making vaccines themselves a means to ends other than the health of the working class.
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  4871. I think Marx makes his point very well in the Poverty of Philosopher, “The Upcoming Upheaval”, short and very clear, and as far as not giving a blue print of a socialist society, I would say re-read the first three chapters of Vol I of Capital and a blue print is in the form of ‘socially necessary labor-time’,
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  4872. Are the factory workers okay?
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  4873. Its a catastrophe when there is no payment! A catastrophe for the majority. The work of ministers is never recognized by the amount of labor they put into their jobs through markets. Everything is free for them isn’t it. Gifts. Like royalty does not belong to any industry it is not a producer in itself. A circus clown needs an entire circus to be a clown. A minister needs taxes to be a minister. Who adds more value to the economy the clown or the minister? The salaries of the ministers and kings are always way more than enough to survive. The best chefs feed them. The best of everything houses, clothes, transports, them on a forever basis. Literally, a utopia. A heaven on earth. Look at money. We dig into our pockets. Their suits are so new the pockets are still sealed. Money is not used in their world because their world falls outside of the world of markets. Its a utopia. Everything starts small and simple and grows to become large and complex. This is true of this utopia and alongside of it crisis. Crisis in 400 years of development becomes a catastrophe of world proportions.
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  4874. @ Pedro Gordinho: Because it is not about the Wall, its about less government through a shut down. The conservative agenda is to abolish parts of the government they like and preserve, strengthen parts of the government they do like. I'll leave it to you which parts they dislike about government. But do not be fooled, the Wall is a mere political device and distraction from carrying out an agenda they know has no, zilch, popularity and will never win an election. The American people are being gaslighted by the whole GOP.  Close the government long enough and federal workers in the departments they dislike will leave on their own, then Trump can say, we opened the government it was the workers who left. Subsequently., all parts of the government charged with keeping water, air, food, safe are gone. Parts of the government necessary for survival for the needy, gone. Get the picture?
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  4875. Expelling democrats is another way of robbing the people of a victory. A spontaneous protest against assault weapons immediately following the killing of children would have passed unanimously if not for few spoilers who have a lot to spoil and react as spoiled, control the legislature. as their own personal social control device of the Public. It was a victory that an AG would bring up on charges an oligarch for misappropriations and corporate crimes. The Trump indictment(s) sends chills down the spines of the owners of property and financial wealth and two clown republicans pulled a stunt to distract media attention to the masses. Time is now for the masses to expel the expellers!
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  4876.  @josefizquierdo6139  Are we owners in heaven as we are on earth?
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  4877.  @sunshine2476  Calling for revenge is not the answer.
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  4878. @Carlo Bell,----I wouldn't do that in Rochester NY!
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  4879. America law enforcement’s penal system is put together by many criminologists from prominent universities and think tanks shaping its policy. On the capture of economically powerful people, a suicide watch is one such policy. Suicide...most people will not find it hard to understand that it is easier for a poor man to endure prison life than a rich man...a small cultural fact that was proven when millionaires on the stock exchange threw themselves out of windows in the stock market crash of 1929. The rich are thinned skinned. Based on this small fact, Epstein should have been placed in a cell of four inmates if they really wanted him alive but it appear suicide by physical deprivation, slow suicide, the way Julien Assange is held in captivity, is the policy because these two men of opposite political and economic positions have the dirt on others still out there in very powerful positions, others running for president, others heading big corporations...enough proof of their corruption and evil...they would all end up in prison.
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  4880. Workplace violence; Rafael Molina gunned down his co-worker Warren Chambers killed him in point blank range. Outside of the workplace these two men are equals but inside the workplace they are equally dead.
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  4881. Missouri’s State law prohibiting the exonerated without DNA from compensation is a form of discrimination to the exonerated, a shameful law. The legislative body in that State has no shame on this matter. There must be thousands if not half a million wrongful convictions in need of being overturned proves the criminal justice system was used to perpetrate a mass repression of a race of people that a commission to exonerate the deceased and the living of the convicted is necessary for society to cleanse, purify, shed, exult, get rid of, the racist crap passed down from America’s racist beginnings.
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  4882.  @josephavila151  That bridge was built for humans. Just happens that bats like the bridge too. That’s it. Their little bodies froze. They were recovered and thawed, released. If your little body froze and were recovered, thawed, then released wouldn’t you appreciate the same treatment given to the bats?
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  4883. A factory machine based industry can be co-opt, each worker in the factory are paid from the market share of the product and each worker has share-ownership of the plant. But all machine based industry factories have to go in this direction and decide themselves how much to produce and with what and when.
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  4884.  @juniorgod321  Can you re-write that in English, poor sentence structure, sentence starts with a preposition and then makes no F'n SENSE? Read your writing and tell me if it makes sense. Google interferes with people's writing skills so you have to re-read before you post.
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  4885.  @juniorgod321  Are you a capitalist?
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  4886.  @jgalt308  What are you his lawyer?
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  4887.  @jgalt308  Go to the original comment for the point.
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  4888. Awesome Moh Moony, imagine if all can do that!  And we can, if 'higher efficiency' brought about by modern industry works for us!
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  4889. American government is not in the business of freeing us from all the inequities in society, it is in the business of freeing itself from all the inequities in society. It accomplishes its own freedom and leaves behind the social inequities established eons ago by giving recognition to no inequity and puts every culprit on the same footing with everyone else. This kind of statecraft is not enough. Insufficient. A state that behaves to remove the social inequities in society forever is a genuine state of the people and a state that serves its own interest falls short of being honest with what it is; a social institution.
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  4890. MAGA v. Capitalists. Non Tech Workers versus two specific capitalists, Vivek and Elon. The Pro-H1B visas give the high tech jobs to foreigners. Visas are under the jurisdiction of the State Department. MAGA has two enemies in this battle, a state department issuing visas to foreign workers is a policy of the administration it falls under and the capitalists dictating immigration policy. MAGA has to dismantle the Administrative State that favors the tech Capitalists to favor other capitalists is not the trajectory, all industries consolidated and controlled by MAGA instead of capitalists is a historic trajectory. Is MAGA smart enough to run the Administrative State? Vivek and Elon are two of more and many other capitalists in many branches of industry who employ degreed foreign workers. The two economies that is created by these actions results in a modern version of a Tale of Two Cities, the story is old, and MAGA experiences unemployment is a continuation of MAGA not in the driver’s seat. MAGA is a nationalist movement but to solve the immigration problem it has to become an international movement. Workers in the same position as MAGA in their own home country must be the international arm of the MAGA movement inside the US. The immigration of Elon and Vivek is forcing American wages downward it is the importation of immigration as a commodity, it is the fentanyl for the domestic job market. Job markets flooded by cheap labor. This is why expelling the commodity or, forced deportation, is not the answer. Immigration is stopped when the societies of origin reject the billionaire classes of their own national economies pushing for open borders.
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  4891. The “strange God” who perched himself side by side with the old divinities of Europe and America on the altar, and one fine day threw them all overboard with a shove and kick, to proclaim the making of profit as the ultimate and sole purpose of mankind is responsible for this fight. Profit gets all the respect and education gets none.
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  4892. The American government holds the American people with contempt and hostage to the US employer class (US multinational corporations) and the employer class through the instrumentality of the US military buys labor-power cheap through its war interventions generating instability and chaos in foreign countries. Jimmy is right. Hence, the immigration and border crisis in Texas and other border states is exactly what the US employer class want as it furnishes an increasing supply of cheap labor that displaces the American working class along with putting their technology into the hands of the US working class as a means of prolonging the working day and added into the workplace, intended to raise worker productivity out of fewer American workers. In effect the working day has been prolonged from 8 to 10 hours on average and the mortality rate rises through the efficacy of the manufactured viruses that can be spread through indoor ventilation systems once it enters an individual’s body. There is truth to the notion that the vaccines for COVID are an implantation of a virus and there is truth that COVID was an attack on the Boomer aging population. There is truth the Bat Lady in Wuhan developed the strain and truth that Fauci was the agent through the funding went to Wuhan. Might want to call that episode a US employer revenge on the Boomers who nearly overthrew the US employer class in the 70s. Why? The US employer class is engaged in a class struggle. Anything and anyone not of that social class is held in contempt and disdain. They hate you to be blunt! You should realize that and encourage your seniors to form a nation-wide Senior Action Committee (SAC) to take over all the towns in America throwing out the complicit and corrupt officials holding political office at the local and county level to cut the knees of the two reigning political parties acting in the interest of US employers as a whole. This will help the millennial working class in the doing the actual overthrowing in a real big way. Senior Americans have the time and time is critical in creating a revolutionary class, a revolutionary class is an educated class, high functioning people, smart, aware, cogent, tactical, truth tellers like me, are the US corporation’s worst nightmare who can snatch the government from the grip of US employers and free millennials from the rock and hard place they have been forced into through economic policies. The leisure time of a robust middle class is what enabled the Baby Boomer generation to end the Vietnam War and force a US president to resign are today the senior citizens and half the US population, roughly 215 million people out of 332 million people. Taking that leisure time away from the middle class and working classes was a specific aim of US multinational corporations could not be accomplished without capturing the government rendering it weak and dismantling the policies of the Great American Society that LBJ created through massive legislation the Boomers still enjoy today. With the rise of the gaming industry the military and law enforcement got its recruits. With increasing militarization of the police the US corporations got their domestic protection from internal revolution.
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  4893. There are more losers than winners! Losers of the World, Unite! American workers are working more for more money, they are also buying less goods. Optimal conditions for employment cannot be attained so workers try to save and go without. Look how much more dollars are needed to buy the same amount of gold from the days when it was $175. 00 dollars an ounce in 1975 to today, the same ounce costs $1, 135.00. The value creating substance, the labor time it takes to make all goods and services has been diminishing. This is a dividend for a new society of true affluence but under the present social structure its a detriment to workers, making them work longer, harder, overworked, stressed, unable to parent their children as the social side effects of a perpetual production system geared for buying and selling and goes into shock the moment something human happens. Why is production round the clock when needs are fully met with 6 hours under the amount of American output, and if work was performed by all members of society, no telling what can be done...imagination is the limit.
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  4894. This is the part about policing in society the police in America fail, the part that they are to guarantee the safety of person in society. That means you send out a patrol car to places where restraining orders are filed, patrol streets, never make it easy for a crime to happen. Walk a blind person, stop traffic, be out there is the point! The other two parts of policing they do well is split between doing well and failing miserably the protection of property they do well and protection of people’s rights they do badly. Two out of three parts about policing in society police fail is at base level not a police force at all; its a standing army. Standing armies go into action by command only...policing is more than that.
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  4895. US provocations...they want a war but they want other people to fight it for them is sheer cowardice and hypocrisy.
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  4896.  Kraig StClair  My point exactly, use the bodies of other people to do the fighting for you is cowardice.
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  4897.  @njosborne6152  Can you even say our government works at all?
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  4898. Riding on your plane and on your dime. The Karens get over on you. You still think that is funny?
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  4899. Well, everyone knows Russia is not going to attack anyone. This is a about a dying breed of western European elites. NATO is not what NATO was in WWII. But it fascinates me that the left has no understanding of taxation as a form of surplus value and that this is the reason Trump will get re-elected.  Yes, because the left does not understand surplus-value and where it comes from that people who do understand it, on either side of the spectrum, will get the vote of the common working person every time . Trump understands the surplus value taxed from the incomes of working people is shared out to support European elites. This is a significant burden the prior presidents ignored and working people would like to be relieved of this burden even if their reasons are not all accurate of the true source of that economic burden. It is not all due to NATO that the American taxpayer loses out on the wealth they create. Actions aimed at slowing down the economic growth of a true rival is too costly to bear. This comes at a time when Trump has made and is making the rich richer but in refusing to pay taxes the sacrifices the rival imposes is a burden on America's common working people. A burden when industries are not developed enough as the rival's industries and to make up for that inefficiency, work is intensified. What I find interesting is how Biden worries Trump instead of Bernie. Bernie would cut off NATO because it makes sense and use that money for a Green New Deal, and with the Chinese rival he'd have to develop diplomatic ties for an integrated world economy to cut the tax burden fighting them on America's working class. I guess it shows that understanding surplus-value and where it comes from is not enough even for people with working class or immigrant roots. You also have to be connected to the real economy of real people in a concrete way to run a world economy.
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  4900. What is medium range relative to the distance of the US to the source of propulsion of the missile is short range relative to the distance of Ukraine to the origin of propulsion. The logic on which the obligation to report a launch is bankrupt.
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  4901. ...the basic idea is still the extraction of value from the consumption of labor-power...we never get a definition of capitalism from capitalism...market analysis fills in the blanks and circulation is the source for money prime in Trump and FOX World and less conservative news agencies...the acquisition of money prime does not violate the logic of the process of circulation...this is why we can have people like Trump and news corporations who are nothing more than prize-fighters for capitalism. The wealth they take or appropriate as their own comes from productive capital, they believe the buyer/seller relation is where wealth is made because there is no exploitation going in that relation every thing is equal, money for work, a mutually beneficial price agreed upon by two individuals, reflecting a real value...that value involves live workers and the hardware to produce the valuable article. If it doesn’t get made it contains no value greater than when it started out as parts. Here is where the extra value is made where the exploitation of capital and labor takes place, where the prize fighters cannot handle how value is extracted in the consumption of labor-power ...the real relations of production where money prime originates, this activity is both a production process and a consumption process,----it never has to be exploitation-al...it is because will is not the reason people go to work in society and the greater part of that material wealth derived from that process develops a social class of unproductive workers in society, ---even the rich have jobs, being rich is a job. The work of extraction from the extracted is a tough job and usually given to other workers to boss workers around. A special class of millions of lone uncle Tom worker bosses form a political base for reactionary strange and bizarre candidates. The general crisis of capitalism that began with small episodes of crisis recoverable through longer periods of prosperity is over. The productive power of the capital and labor is held back from becoming more than what it is because of, not in spite of, the buyer and seller relation of productive capital...and the individual employer to employee method of work... holds back the creative power of productive capital.
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  4902. Medical Establishment is milking the profit system of health care before it phases out, along with the FDA controlling the cell stem discoveries from curing many more cell generated diseases over and above sickle cell in people. The new cell-stem technology would obliterate the health profession as we know it, a threat to medical professions specializing in cell degenerative diseases. The Medical Establishment of medical schools and health insurance companies, private hospital corporations and the whole class of doctors, nurse and employees unions and associations, as individual parts of the whole Establishment, are the reason socialized medicine is not only inevitable but necessary.
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  4903. Samir should get a yard dog that bites. Should be easy to find the perpetrator when he gets treated for the bite. But this Seattle and Seattle is a dead city.
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  4904. How embarrassing! When the Chief, of the the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is more progressive than a progressive is really indicative of how bad you have to be as a progressive when a member of the biggest military in the world, an aggressor, takes the position the progressive wing of the Democratic Party proposed in their letter to Biden, that the Ukraine negotiate a settlement with Russia, and then quickly retracted the letter as a letter the staff circulated. How embarrassing is that? The General knows what I know and the Progressives, well, ----Bernie scolded the progressives for issuing the communique, speaks volumes on how the left wing democrats are ‘rightists’ fall in line with Biden approving more weapons for Ukraine. With Trump coming back into the ring the left wing democrats can’t act suddenly as progressives and expect to be received as saviors by the public, specifically by the working class, their heads are going to roll as a message to their replacements the same will happen to you. The timing could not be better to be a progressive labor candidate as workers strikes escalate and there are no consequences to employers literally working workers to death in their factories. Conditions are ripening to the point where if you are not a progressive opponent of the abuses of capitalism, you may as well put a gun to your head!
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  4905. You have to be duped to believe that.
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  4906.  @mikotomisaka8714  Then believe he will use nuclear weapons before he self-sabotages Russia. Putin defends Russia’s honor in a history of western aggression and in the collapse of the USSR. Every action and inaction by the west is seen as an act of aggression for the containment of Russia, et al defeat and humiliate. This is because aggression was started by the west that his desperation is colored offensive by the west as part of the propaganda war that always accompanies an invasion. An act that would further humiliate him in history and Russia’s pride in general would be sabotage. Sabotage is not Putin’s style. Also, in 2014 everyone paying attention knew Russia would invade the Donbas...that was the Orange revolution and subsequent coup of the Russian government than...where were you?
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  4907. The method of survival for our species looks very different when one of us dies. Not a kind thing about it.
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  4908. Why does work get represented as a value in commodities and why is the working day measured as a magnitude of value? Unearthing the answer to these two questions gets you to the chief causes of many social relations of subjugation and exploitation in capitalism. It is not enough to be against capitalism you have to be anti-capitalist. Good video and discussion.
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  4909. Well, where Varshini Prakash, is wrong is in blaming the failure of capitalism to COVID 19, not capitalism.
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  4910. Kirby is a neocon, Blinken is a neocon and the Pentagon Joint Chiefs of Staff are using Ukrainians fascists to be armed and supplied by the US, and be used as fodder to wear out the Russian army, weaken it, before going to war with China and Russia and not have to use American troops. A sinister appropriation of a nation, Ukraine, literally is not even a sovereign nation.
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  4911. Civil Rights movement happened 150 years after Lincoln wrote and read the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. A failure to enforce a decree adopted by the federal government was a deliberate choice of the government of Johnson who succeeded Lincoln let the idealism of the Proclamation die. Hard to imagine its was a mistake surviving descendants in Tennessee of emancipated slaves of 1865 fell under the noose of white nationalist christians was never meant to happen!
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  4912.  @mikeywestside8509  We are not talking about law libraries which can be found in the NY Public Library or the law libraries in court houses; we are talking about libraries in small towns and mid-sized cities,---do you have a problem with that?
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  4913.  @mikeywestside8509  Mark Twain would have called you a straight up A’Hole. I am serious, the greatest writer of political polemics this country ever produced was Mark Twain. Oh, you know him though Hollywood but not through his biography or writings. As for the other man; if not for his coverage of the American Civil War the New York Tribune would have literally zero readership,-- if not for Karl Marx. If someone in drag read his articles on the American Civil War in America, your kids would know how their country was formed and where it is going. Another man you know nothing about is William Hickling Prescott, who wrote the seminal work of complete and uncanny accuracy later confirmed by archeology of the history of the Conquest of Mexico from a Boston Library. As a defender of jurisprudence I would say your opening argument is a flat dud. And why? Because you bring into it your contaminated and unoriginal views which lacks the luster of authenticity and the beauty of the English language. Lawyers pollute the English language said Shakespeare...you confirm it. I refuse to even acknowledge this conversation ever happen...now begone!
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  4914. The Drug War in Central America would come to an end if weed is legalized in the states!
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  4915. The only social power greater is our social power and we need to kick some ass back to Europe even if they are American. This is pure unadulterated ignorance in suits and ties.
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  4916. This was a ten day aftershock from the first earthquake. Somewhere in another part of the planet a volcano will erupt because of the earth's interior activity.
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  4917. Migration is desperation, children are coming because they cannot live in their own country.  Forty years of military, oligarchs and large landowners, multinational corporations, the peasant communities have lost their country to private interests.
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  4918. So that makes the working people in two boroughs under attack by two separate departments of the city; the department of transportation’s neglect to solve hit and run accidents in working class neighborhoods in Queens and the department of housing’s neglect of maintenance, repairs, and developments in public housing for Brooklyn’s working class poor. Two assaults that are deliberate. Inside these department the low level managers can do what they want and as people these managers come from a mindset that they are better than the working poor is a disdain for humanity that the mayor of New York enables. A third department of the city, Manhattan Transit Authority, did not fall under the sway of arrogant managers controlling the resources as in the other departments. MTA introduced changes to the subway system that improves its function which is to ensure the working poor in the boroughs can get into the city to do the jobs; but under the same management, the deliberate neglect in housing and transportation, including sanitation given the number of rats, roaches, in boroughs, are conscious attacks on whole working class communities. Social inequality in Manhattan is expressed by how obvious the burdens of life always falls on the working poor living off the main island and never on the rich elite on the island itself is deliberate.
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  4919. Factories in China are still commodities, the difference is that factories are not bought and sold based on their profitability, but they are ‘conditions of labor’, people cannot work without factories making the products that help to make other products ...and help to make services; still these industries are maintained in the form of private capital and state owned capital. What gets me is how the communist party coordinates the whole social reproduction process of China for 1.2 billion people is remarkable from a socialist perspective.
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  4920. Trumps' street minions are doing the job of creating chaos and violence in the streets in preparation for 2024 the arrival of their Law and Order dictator. More fear they inject in you the faster you'll vote for El Duce Trump.
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  4921. Growing up as a kid in America is extremely hard. For the ones who's families were torn apart of necessity for survival the causes resolve themselves into resentment of loss and never forgiven.  Kids have no rights in society! They are property not individuals, property of their parents is how the Senate and lawmakers view and regard society's children. Naturally you treat kids bad they are going to react badly. Mass shootings reflect the depth of the social disorder of neglect and abuse in American insitutiitions. The State has become their parental authority owing to the social transformation of the family. The family that went from Father Knows Best to Shameless in a span of 64 years, one generation of incarcerated former youths. The state, the laws and the houses are no longer compatible to the changes in the family. Youths should be constructing and rebuilding sustainable homes. Replacing the old infrastructure with self-producing structures. Homes that harvest water and contained sewage, thermal wear, cooking and heating, wind electricity and homes that produce food is what the family of 2019 need for survival. Kids are partial citizens, a natural born right does not give them all citzenship rights.  Kids learn from other places more information about the world and themselves than they do from their parents in this increasingly technological age. If something is not done about that the information coming from darker sources on this planet can infiltrate their undeveloped minds and contaminate their being. In typical fashions, lawmakers will propose censoring laws and other lawmakers will propose sanctioning companies and businesses when in reality it is the neglect of youths causing the problem of mass shootings.
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  4922. Market economies cannot adapt to climate change. Habitats are built for sale not for the eventuality that the climate will change from hot to cold. Builders build buildings for sale will have to change to build for use. Small town rules and regulations that decide the kind of habitat allowed to be built will have to change. Climate Change makes cost cutting the new Cardinal Sin, a crime to build habitats weaker. If Congress thought like this the change would be painless compared to not making the change from a market to a planned economy. The old habitat structures we use to house all our activities have to be modified or rebuilt. Society has to rethink how it gets its water. How to make land productive. Earthquakes, floods, heavy snow storms, ice storms, coastal and mountain erosion, sleet, tornados, heavy forces none of our present-day habitats and culture of work can endure. New York City will be the only habitable city standing built on bedrock and even that is on a fault line. Everything will have to change in a once in a lifetime transformation.
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  4923. Bingo!. A real person with real class consciousness. Bravo! Now to get everyone of our kind to be laser focused like you the rich can be defeated in their war against the working class. The nail was struck on the head with your comment,  @DAVIDMAINORD 
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  4924. Inflation, a big word, makes you sound objective and heavy and blown up! Talk about inflation as it compares to wages which rose 4.1% the source is: BLS October to October 2021 and you’ll sound more human. More down to earth. Video touches on the subjective side of inflation, how people are denied the means of life, through the market. Salaries are never enough to survive without insufficiency in America for 135 million people. 40 million of them go hungry. When you translate these price market fluctuations in social terms it means the number of buyers and the number of sellers are not equal (equilibrium). In our case, we have too many sellers in the market selling goods at high prices and not enough buyers with sufficient money to pay. Fact is, this is no way to wait for jobs to open. Work is too significant an activity to fall to be decided or at the mercy of, the fluctuations between buyers and sellers. America will have to re-think how work is allocated in society. Because this one is going to be a Big Crisis.
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  4925. @Zee K On the one hand they have to beef up employment and production and on the other hand induce a depression,--- makes no sense?
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  4926. The problem with the tactics of change used by the pirates, however is that in capitalism when there is a shortage of a commodity the price of that commodity rises in the market and the work of the pirates is successful in getting a ransom but the ransom is only a fraction of what the oil rich corporation will fetch from the shortage of oil it unloads on the open world market. The actions of the pirates abet the accumulation of capital and so far the US Marines have not been asked by Exxon-Mobil to come in and restore order. Indicating Exxon-Mobil is making money and more of it with the crisis of piracy! Capitalism in the 21st Century poses this dilemma it profits through crisis, disaster and class struggle.
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  4927. Biden and the Neocons are Happy Together. Open up another tab with CBS on the same headline news story and read the comments between there and here. You’ll understand why the US plods through crisis after crisis like a staggering alcoholic yesterday and a runaway fire truck with no driver today. Because the people in this country are pacified and fast asleep let it happen.
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  4928. I would take Leonardo Padura’s thesis as step further: There is not an organized opposition to any of the governments still standing in the world. The age in which we live does not have a Left to oppose the opposition of the Right. Without opposition movement on both sides real human progress or development becomes one sided and neither side can change its position in connection to the productive forces. One side develops from use of the productive agencies of society is enabled by the side that has no connection to the productive forces of society and at their own expense the weaker side develop none of its own subjective human capacities, rather, begins a abrupt and gradual social disintegration on this side of the opposition disconnected from the necessities of life. Wherever the grass is lush green on one side of the fence and barren on the other side the whole society begins to decay, fracture, and tears away at the customs that built it up in the first place. Religion, science, education become suspects in the decline, culprits, conspiracies to blame to direct the rage, anger and powerlessness in people. People lose faith and belief in the traditions and values usually passed down through the family which is the first social institution to go. Disintegrated through violence, divorce, robbery, rape, kidnapping, a cruel and venal society is the face of a historic collapse. This is what happened in Rome, all the splendor of that city, decayed, all its people fell to diseases of impoverishment, all wealth was concentrated into smaller number of people; crazy ideas of salvation and doom because an opposition to the powerful Roman Senate was over time annihilated. The disintegration of the USSR was that moment for our world history. That was the day any opposition to the US disintegrated.
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  4929. Go figure...a black man from a tiny republic who would be the longest living president in the world...this would qualify him as the longest lasting dictator of the world...all with the full support of the US. I would say to the leadership of the American Federation of Teachers rank and file and leadership, better start connecting the dots and base your strike on teacher related services ,wages and salaries depend on to the proposals the republicans intend to make in cuts to social security, medicaid and medicare which pay the special services teachers provide to millions of kids on disability. A teacher is supposed to be a smart individual. I hope they force their leadership to be as smart as they and not limit their strike to economic demands but throw a wider net out as those cuts will impact the lives of 35 to 40 million people for the worse in addition to their own retirement and health care at older age.
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  4930. The blockade is a suppression of the liberty of the American people and its freedom of press, knowledge, understanding, intellectual development of the real conditions in the world and on any subject much less socialism is breeched by the State Department, and the whole Washington Establishment. Shows the freedom in America is cosmetic.
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  4931.  @jolyonwelsh9834  You got it backwards. Insurance companies are an institution money has evolved into. Banks, merchant retailers, consumers, jobs, government, political parties, lawyers, etc., all exist for money. You do not exist for yourself i America; everything exist for money.
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  4932. I think the bigger headline story should have been "Prison serves organic food to Qanon Shaman".
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  4933. You cannot honor a government that is the force of evil in the world. A movement should spread to cease the Pledge of Allegiance in any American function for as long as the US government providing the means of destruction to dictatorial regimes carrying out genocide.
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  4934. Israel’s Achilles Heel is the Far Right. The Far Right Zionist want Israel to be independent of influence and power from any other religion and nation. This is inherently an expansionist doctrine; all nations are relating, reacting and acting to a World Market . What Israel is not producing impacts all markets, and nations are intricately connected to each other in a World Market through production, they do not relate only to themselves through commerce alone which the Far Right of Israel seems to be doing, withdrawing from the world violently, in a sort of proud ignorance in common with the Americans at the level of the State Department, pull away from Ukraine and pour billions into Israel is folly and history will prove it tragic farce... when the dust settles a new war opens up the struggle takes a new direction and Israel is caught never rescuing their hostages and more Israeli citizens killed, very reminiscent of French Colonialism in Algiers; crimes against humanity in the 21st Century, the targets of bombings that are specifically life-bearing institutions and the destruction of vital elements, will be tried. Forced deprivation and starvation and strangulation of a population who also produce for the world market as retaliation of Hamas, is a policy against you and I, energy, land, capital and food prices sore, and on the front end a ground assault directly targeting Hamas, most likely where the Far Right and Netanyahu get thrown in jail for life! @vadymrud4462 
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  4935. The whole conflicted social enchilada hinges on American worker productivity, worker owned economic muscle, without it capitalism is nothing. If you want to give Don Jr., a black eye then flex your worker productivity muscle at him and see how quick he gets in touch. You need this kind of redemption anyway.
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  4936. Technology used to monitor the heart rates of 60 patients belies a management relationship to technology that is out of harmony with where the technology fits in the work of the telemetry users in the medical field in the 21st century. Hospital managers are approaching telemetry technology in the same way textile mill owners of the 19th century applied the sewing machine in their factories to save labor costs by pushing workers from their right to make a living at the mill factory they built is an attack, though it looks accidental. Workers of the past threw thew the sewing machines out the window for this reason. I’d say Management is weaponizing telemetry/technology against hospital workers are grounds for a strike for this is not only happening in one field of medicine but in all of them.
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  4937. Interesting campaign slogan “truth” obviously the politics on the Right are all lies for a guy to select that word as his main message. He hasn’t a chance at all. Vivek and Cornell West are on opposites of the entrance of the main tent at the circus, two side shows ushering the Public with their speeches. They have no real desire of winning. If anything he takes away votes from the real contenders who win against each other by a hairline of votes as a consequence. No real intention to be a real challenger to the republicans deciding how power is to handed out or taking power from under Trump. He should be targeting his age group in the republican party but they have nothing to offer. The sideshow Left and the Right who are not the main candidates are going nowhere fast.
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  4938. Federal Workers have a Court Order they must be rehired and with that their Union could launch a strike taking advantage of their status in limbo as not employed and partially employed exempting them from federal laws that prohibit strikes by federal workers, can be argued for years in court because both are right. They can shutdown the government themselves, inserting their power to force the parties to agree to Union terms for a CR or keep the government shut till it can be resurrected again by them without the two parties. The government shutdowns played by these two parties as weapons against each other causing damage to the real economy can be crushed forever. The Unions must have real shitty lawyers on their side to not council them into this kind of action, and the Union leadership must have no tactical vision in winning a fight when they are being provoked into one. The blind lead the blind among the ranks of federal workers. Here a California federal judge hands the federal workers, a Trojan Horse, a gift, and they are letting it slip away....for reasons that reflect on them as people who have no higher goal in life but to be controlled by others.
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  4939. The American people want off shore oil drilling off the Atlantic coast?  Can't wait to see the Chesapeake fill up with oil sludge from spills and the Jet Stream carry it up to New England. This according to Asst secretary of Land and Minerals Management, Joe Balash, the "American People" want this! There is very little in American society that indicates the contrary. Where is the mass opposition to this? Joe Balash must be right the American people he knows do want off shore oil drilling on the Atlantic!  The American people he doesn't not know say nothing about what they really want. Joe has been given a reason to assume they also want this. Sad, indeed.
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  4940. Who’s watching behind all those camera poles?
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  4941. I think those who have an alternative vision for a society should begin forming social relationships that promote a new society. I would abandon the idea of reforming capitalism completely. Either get rid of it or die from it is a rotten choice to have, the alternative is a mass withdrawal from participating in anything and everything commercial. Begin using the other industries to clobber the industries operating as the financial backbone of all government transgressions, by doing damage to the others they are forced to pressure the government to get rid of Big Oil, nobody is coming into the stores! Everyone is trading or giving cars to each other and not taking out loans for new cars. Nobody is buying a house, not even the condos are selling. They are demanding a change of policy from this government, a silent motive and until they get want they want, for the lack of business all the malls will be closed down will kill capitalism. Forcing landowners to take certain actions against the government because of all the money they are losing in rent. Small farmers are getting in on the act, people are going to them to buy food, and the big chains are losing out. Even local governments are losing their tax base due to a slump in sales, the overthrows and the immoral bankruptcy of US foreign policy in relation to Israel, must come to an end if circulation of money and capital is to be saved. Wouldn't this be nice. It is not wishful thinking to form communities of communal ownership and take a huge chunk of capital away from the big chains but it is wishful thinking civil society is not rife with the nasty business of class conflict and class struggle.
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  4942. Good News at the Pump, Bad News for the Environment. We pay less for gas now and pay more for what nature can no longer produce due to environmental decay. We see that “ energy independence’, never meant switching off fossil fuel, it meant more fossil fuel of our own. The play on words that lawyer-politicians do allowed for another catastrophe to creep in.
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  4943. I think his case illustrates how employers get around the legal limit of the working day and pay wages below the real market basket of goods to employees. Think about it. If you are, for good reason, a recipient of any government assistance program,--- you cannot accept a job that pays more than what the program says you can earn. Working full-time in a job you can perform with your disability and be a productive person to society is discouraged, denied, and defended by the government, --they take away your disability check on the presumption you can buy your own coverage,- and nobody is holding you back you can buy your own but when you do, the market for private insurance, fells you into bankruptcy and homelessness. When health becomes a thing you can sell and buy it is only the rich who live...and the poor die!
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  4944. He admits his party is a destructive force in the life process of the US.
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  4945. When are Americans going to overthrow their government by using their mass social power?
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  4946. All US Wars benefitted the military not the American people. Wealth during the era of the 20th century was in every sense used as a domination over humanity through the agency of a domination over things. This is the historical fact. 1619 Project is a history commencing from slavery the origins of Afro-Americans in Colonial America if i am not mistaken. The game changer isn’t 1619 Project. What we now have is the ability to date, name, and plot what tribes traveled, settled, formed in the Americas to write the actual history of pre-columbian people in north America, connecting the oral history past down by ancestors to present day generations, is the real game changer. Plotting a pattern of chromosomes from the archeological record with the oral history fills in the blank. It will not be long before an actual History Text book on the prehistory of America before the arrival of western European elites will educate future children. We can now learn Pre-Columbian American history the way we learn European history and this is revolutionary.
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  4947. Inside the ring of politics a working class does not win many rounds against capital since the fight is rigged...its outside of the ring that capital cannot rig the fight...this is where the working class becomes a champion for humanity. You can quote me on this.
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  4948. America's social conflicts are not a matter of legislation and regulations that will straighten out (fix) the imbalances found in their society. America's social system through the action of ruling powers is evolving into a rigid class structure and public education offers no historical axis to anchor these social conflicts in America's history will only comeback to haunt society!
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  4949. Interesting,--- China does not give the virus a chance to mutate and become OMICRON. Eradicating COVID eradicates the pandemic in China, then it is a matter of preventing the virus from coming back into the country. Time will tell if it works.
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  4950.  @jaefrmbk2k  ⚙↑
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  4951. It is true, a coup dé état can hit the rank and file democratic voter on the head and they still won’t know a coup installed Harris to be president. You will be voting in November for a person you never chose by any democratic means for reasons the person is not a white male. Democracy in the America is Dead.
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  4952. Corporations are like vampires sucking the life and beauty of a given state and leaving a dried carcass behind then moving on the suck the life and beauty of another state till finally all the best states have become economic dead zones the little states, rural and poor, are next on its list of victims and in the path of the juggernaut of corporate capitalism. The republicans in the rural states are like little bird hatchlings in a nest awaiting the worm and screeching with their mouths open to be fed by the Corporate parent. No place is safe in the world of monopoly corporations...you are no longer in a position to sell and cash out...be the little Jewish Princess in a small house in rural West Virginia...its over!
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  4953. This news anchor is the worst person to interview Bill Clinton...absolutely weak on the critical historical points where Clinton turned the country to the right.
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  4954. It’s the beginning of a new world and the death of an old one. Trump is the final gasp of a 649 year old protracted struggle for existence of an ancient European regime. The Age of the Common Person has arrived out of the rot of the old society unable to hold back the new powerful social and technical forces that can get into anyone’s hands cheaply.
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  4955.  @jgalt308  I have no idea to who this person replies?
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  4956. 132 million will not be voting for Trump in 2024 and likely not vote for a democrat either. The 132 million are disgusted with the post facto and pathetic responses of the political parties of elites, to the pandemic and the economic crisis.
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  4957. The very questions you pose to Russia apply to the US. Will the US accept? Will NATO give up its expansion? America is not an innocent and passive party in the world; it has a criminal record.
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  4958. There doesn't have to be a 'What Next for North Korea', question. Imperialism is the hard line position of the US. Behind the racist attitude of the hardliners is an anti-socialist alliance. This alliance has always been its core position in relation to all the nations in the world. The hardline position allocates the revenues it draws from all its taxpayers to position the US as the most powerful citadel of reaction as a matter of patriotism and policy. I believe this defines the hardline position in the White House. The race element is based on eugenics. Pompeo is a eugenicist and even refers to the UN as the League of Nations founded by a eugenicists, President Woodrow Wilson. In the ordinary world of you and I, Pompeo would psychiatrically evaluated for believing the League of Nations is alive and well in the UN. The hard liners never seemed to have had such difficulties until now citing NK and Iran as "Too Close For Comfort.", threatens US dominance more than the other socialist societies. Nations that go along with the US position as part of the anti-socialist alliance, can play with nukes up to a point! The anti-socialist alliance has gone through some changes. Thrown into the mix are some nations other nations are not comfortable with forcing unwanted compromises to their space and time to accommodate Washington's dominance. The Press should frame the problem more concretely for people to understand what is at stake at that level of economic interrelations! The socialist economies have made remarkable strides for the last 70 years that the world economy integrates all nations that broke out of the realm of US control are heavily vested in trade, commerce, banking, with each other isolates the US, as the last man in. In a moment during which trade is being re-shaped by socialist economies and the US is unable to cope with the rise of the Yen. The US and every administration since 1955 has spent its revenue not in the development of its working class and industrial economy but into defense to slow down the rates of economic growth of the socialist economies. When world conditions did not serve the purpose of halting progress in the socialist camp the hard line policy was no policy at all with the members of the alliance. A tension is ever present in the alliance. The person who is hurt the most by all this is the American tax payer.
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  4959. Bernie should not run if Warren runs. I would not split the vote among progressives. The point is to take Congress back. As Bernie, I could do more to build a movement a progressive candidate will need to beat the GOP and right wing. In the Congress, the far left progressives can get more seats push moderate progressive to do more to neutralize the Democrats and Republicans on critical legislation and reforms.
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  4960. Yeah, well, that does appear to be the situation Justin. America presents herself to the world as one side of a disconnected whole. You never know how much can be accomplished under different people, e.,g., Bernie or Warren. Warren may not be the incremental reform type of democrat as thought once in office. She embodies two of three oppressed groups, women and native Americans. By no means does she claim or meets the acknowledged requirement as a tribal member - she makes no pretense of any of this. But two out of three subtle representations of oppressed minorities on the empathy scale she would have over Trump is a plus over an election between two old male baby boomers. Her temperament is ideal for president, she's a bitch and white old males are bowled over by her. She hates bankers, finds them evil and they are. It just occurred to me the problem with Bernie is that with a Bernie you have to have a Trump. The Trump character manufactures the Bernie character as a necessity. Thing to do is to get rid of the necessity. Bernie is not his own person as the opposite of Trump and neither is Trump his own person to begin with. In both individuals we are not getting genuine authenticity of character. They are two parts of a whole both dependent on an idea or philosophy. Dangerous because philosophy has an element to it that is unstable. Ideology is the unstable element already used as a weapon against Bernie and progressives.
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  4961. ADVISORY: All material spoken and contained therein are half truths.
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  4962. 4:51,---Police follow the gunman into the school. They are met with gunfire in the hallway. The shooter ducks into a class room fires upon all students and teachers, they are dead and the officers shot have no idea how long the shooter was in the classroom is a statement that is hard to believe and defuncts whether the police were shooting at him from inside the school. No comment on whether the officers even heard the rounds fired at the students and teachers. This should make you question the authorities.
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  4963. What people have to get straight in their minds and act on it politically is that vaccines are vaccines only insofar as vaccines are commodities for sale and this is marketing the vaccine to children.
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  4964. If students in general do not have a revolutionary party of their own in particular, than what will happen is that all the members of Parliaments of rich nations, the politicians from the US and all of Europe, those criminalizing students, will retain a majority in their congresses and change will never rise to the level of absolute freedom, neither for the students nor for the Palestinians. Their struggle must have a goal the whole world can get behind, a goal of absolute and universal freedom, end to wars, bread, land and peace, and defeat forever, parliamentary democracies, that are nothing more than representatives and the voices of the perpetrators of imperial expansionism.
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  4965.  @MrBudha888  Nice read, I will come back to your comment. I spend the day at graduations ceremonies and am beat. I like our discussion. Much to say about it. Be back soon.
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  4966.  @opheliabawles9646  Deflate that puppy before it comes to a head, is an effective political strategy and also a social taboo depending on what head needs to be nailed. :)
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  4967. Eunuchs run the Pentagon.
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  4968. Now you need one between Jackson and Ben Norton.
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  4969. I give Trump credit and the Congress that does nothing, credit for this re-unification. Nothing is the abstinence of something. Eating is the abstinence of fasting. "Determinatio est Negatio', said the 18th century Dutch philosopher, Baruch de Spinoza. "Fear cannot be without hope and hope without fear". The erratic and chaotic American administration fulfills the role of a catalyst striking fear in all humanity compels humanity toward the creation of a world without war. Trump and the right wing Congress as the world watches its barbaric missions in Iraq and Afghanistan under the pretext of a war on terror, really a reign of terror, for the suppression of radicalism threatening the monarchies of the region pushes a slow to move mass of people into making accomplishments. What it should tell the American people that US foreign policy of 'regime change', brings about the exact opposite of what it intends to suppress. But since the American people do not know how to change this by their intervention electing a smiling and rationally minded fascist into office is suicidal. All of the groups on the left are fascists, and are not left at all. Only the Marxists are genuine and have been consistently. If I had voted for Hillary that would have been like voting for McGovern against Nixon. I do not believe McGovern would have ended the war as the New Left scholars believed. He would have been co-opted by the right wing and covertly more anti-communist. Seeing is believing, watching a detestable animal in office represent you worldwide is far better of a lever for social change. This is why I voted for Trump. Trump, Bannon, Miller, make you want to punch them in the face and knock their lights out. McGovern, JFK, Obama , FDR, make you want more of them while 'behind your back' commit to policies of conquest causing the world to suffer miserably. These people are the worst of humanity. People don't respond to intellectuals. They respond to character. Usually in America the rational, beautiful, pretty or intelligent perpetuate the relations of exploitation of the system. Thus, the fascist are not Trump and the right wing, the fascists are the intelligentsia, the Obama's, Clinton's, Cuomo's, the Brown's, these are the popes who play and manipulate both sides for themselves. For instance, Steven Miller is not a fascist. He is a Jew and happens to be a very stupid Jew of poor character. Steve Bannon, a man so ugly he'd be assassinated. Scot Pruit, a sycophant, will end up in jail. Poor Cosby, a victim of lesbian fascism, they did to him the same thing done to Fatty Arbuckle. Fatty was lucky the lesbians railing against him for the death of a studio whore, were not a strong enough of a movement to persuade the jury. Cosby was not so fortunate. Not that Cosby is clean because he is not. Black capitalism in America is thoroughly corrupt and anti-communist ideologically. But if you keep putting an Obama, or an Oprah, in office, US foreign policy will always remain a policy of war and conquest. So -- Trump deserves credit for not trying to reconcile the contradictions of capitalism the way liberals and conservative do. Capitalism left to its own devices is its own enemy, barrier and gravedigger. Humanity through the ages unites through a common enemy. They fear for their skins and clamor to come up with a defense. When conditions get bad enough the Americans respond, they never install a red light where it should go based on science, only when someone is run over and killed does the light get installed. The movie: Independence Day illustrates Spinoza's philosophy perfectly. The aliens being America's right wing and the drunken pilot episodically drives the knife right into the heart of the mother ship. IF what I say were not grounded in historical reality, the enormous success of a 'B' movie would never have taken the critics and producers by surprise and Korea would still be divided. Now - Trump has to bomb not 24 million people but 75 million people. Bravo Kim and Moon, they earned a place in history in, finally, doing what would have been done by JFK had he not been assassinated by a demented left-right wing Oswald.
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  4970. (my facetious comment is)...Yeah but they still had more square foot space per family than do modern day New Yorkers who’s living space is a bedroom in an apartment these days for a $1600 a month, a bedroom! Retrospectively, the tenements were dirtier and unsanitary back then but the space was their’s to make more of it if they wanted, more for their money; whereas, today a person lives in New York City by the skin of the teeth, forever skating on thin ice between jaunts of joblessness, evading collections and jail time. A roof over the heads is either a jail cell’s, the open sky or a bedroom and they all live out of a back pack with a cell phone up their ass. So who’s better off in the 21st century, them or us?
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  4971. Too bad all that engineering that goes into military products, i.e., planes, helicopters, drones, jets, carriers, destroyers, submarines, missles and nuclear energy. So little of that science and technology goes into society in practical ways. The internet was generalized and made its way into society but not half the creations the US military produces in its scientific labs finds practical application because we still have a social class that relies on under development to be in its prime. The accumulation of capital does not work in affluent societies where the members are not relentlessly in dire straights. From outside America, a stark contrast between government and civil society and a stark contrast in class inequality. The US military and the government on one side stand together as one developed productive power right next to a weak and undeveloped civil society and consequently, materally deprived.
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  4972. Warren's realization of socialist programs is to her the task of enlightened people, she has no provision for lining up socialist teachings with the everyday lives and struggles of the working classes. How do you get people who have little time left over for themselves to think socialism?  Her criticisms of the 1%, unlike Bernie's, are detached from class inequality as an expression of the class struggle underlying the surface of society. Bernie discusses an economy that works for working people not the top 1%, he brings context into the daily particular struggles people face everyday, a rigged one-sided economy. As workers begin to strike and more plant closings take place, Bernie will get worker attention for recognizing the class struggle. Warren will get the public immediate attention criticizing the caprice of the 1%. She will not critcize the social foundation or the social antagonism upon which the 1% rests; she merely wants that power structure to be applied in a human way. She may sing the songs of the poor person and their inconsequentiality in all this misery but her understanding of the connection between this power of the 1% and the existing situation is a complete misconception of the means Oligarchs must use to become the power and remain in power. Class struggle is not a doctrine, its the school where doctrines arise and are tested, used and discarded. Working people who have been straddled by 'well-wishing' education and representatives of other social classes into overwork as the American way to success.
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  4973. Walmart is the largest employer of wage workers in America. It would be against Walmart policy to let their workers vote on a week day and Walmart is not the only employer actively depriving their workers their right to vote. Also, with respect to the Supreme Court, Jurists are not stupid about the workday. They know hours of work is a tool and have weaponized it against this demographic in their ruling overturned by lower court jurists is a win. Elections Campaigns in this midterm election reached a cost of $31 billion. You make good money as an election worker and this expense drives up the cost of elections. You need an army of election workers paid close to $300 per day adds up to a huge sum of capital. But that sum does not appear to concern upper jurists that elections are becoming too expensive and work has become weaponized because they ruled against early voting. Early Voting would not shift the burden on employers a loss of a couple of hours of work from millions of workers and it still promotes, at the cost of worker’s free time, One Person One Vote. I would still consider this a victory for the workers over Walmart the largest of property owners who employs most of the working class. If America wants to be a true democracy and reduce the burden of the cost for democracy it would need more jurors in the Supreme Court to offset the bias of the court against working people.
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  4974. Rand Paul could not be more right. Failure of Elites. 61% of 332 million of the total population is 202.52 million working people. Why is it a Ukraine Bill? War profits! Profit Mania. Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, GE, Tesla, Google living off the tit of the American Taxpayer. The reprehensible Elites are elated, lauding the war for its profits! Profits that get banked into their accounts and becomes a part of the riches passed down their blood lines. America Firsters are arguing an America Last policy. Truly disgusting, they are okay with war. Progressive Left are disgusting Right Wingers! Money printed up or borrowed from China. America’s last economic surplus that did not have a balance of payments greater than its surplus was in 1965. Nothing for America. Rand Paul is the only working class voice in Congress on this issue. Rand Paul alone is not going to change this for the American Working Class. Nobody is going to resolve the poverty the working class is experiencing. Working class will have to raise their own voice if they can get over being pacified.
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  4975. Brazilian fascism is Nazism...gestapo gangsterism. Why do Americans collaborate through their inaction with Nazis and fascists if it is not fascist itself supporting other fascists? The US has chosen a fascist path despite committing Americans to fight fascism in its history, every fascist arsenal is American made.
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  4976. Interesting comment of the senator of Minnesota about hunger. He is convinced something does not exist if it does not exist for him. “I Think Therefore, I Am”, is pure hubris or ego in the senator as it is in the philosophy of David Spinoza. Truth to the senator depends on thought is what Spinoza means. In that, truth does not depend on material reality. Does not say much for the senator’s constituency who re-elect him time and again. Truth depends on thought for them also.
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  4977.  @sherrillwhately7586  Imagination is powerful tool...imagine if that money were spent on us.
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  4978. Most people who want to lower their cost do it by hiring less people. After all..once you spent the money on a tractor you can't return it. Nobody wants to deprive life. Abortion as a choice can only be done away with by a higher wage.   If this man can't see that he is blind as a bat flies sonar.  Imagine the positive effects if the family in society were not a thing you can buy  where only the rich have thrived and the poor deprived. If we got to solving this dilemma, a Roe V Wade would not even be a necessary law. In fact, the resolution of this reluctance to increase wages is Roe v. Wade.
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  4979. There is a world of people who are not vaccinated and have little to no means of producing a vaccine that in the greater scheme of things, to be resistant seems absurdly selfish. Polio was received with as much skepticism until kids were seen wearing braces on their legs. This generation never saw a child but in Forest Gump a polio victim that miraculously broke off his braces was pure fiction. In reality it was Jonas Salk's vaccine that cured society from polio. What a breakthrough that was! The anti-science people are against all vaccines claiming immunities are compromised by the vaccine and limit the body's own natural defenses from infection. If that were true the length of time people spent living on the northern continent of the Americas would have made them so immune to infection that small pox would have had no effect on them whatever when the Spanish arrived. So, this anti-science movement amounts to an American version of the Spanish Inquisition in the making. Except it is science that is the object of attack not religion.  Jews would especially remember that awful history that a confession was torture and if the confession were not sincere from the torture you were tortured into a confession of the insincerity was all made legal as part of the rule of the Spanish Monarchy.
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  4980. ...economic interest is all that matters...every walk of life in the former federal government Trump is dissolving were considered non-political. Neutrality is how the state kept its impartiality and gave no particular class or group special attention*. That changed. Trump has filled his cabinet with 13 billionaires, most likely, having learned from his first term the revolving door between private and public of civil servants held his ideas back, this time around cutting the bureaucracy is the first task with an alliance between Oil, Gas, and Big Tech billionaires. Drill Baby Drill, government will not interfere with the executives in charge of government giving billionaires the whole Pińata that is social security, dangled by a rope in the hand of Musk, each take a swing to break the bounty of wealth stored in the fund in the name of fraud and abuse...to pay for a tax break, this is why he cannot claim to stand for the common interest of citizens...basically, 0.0001% of the population will see mass wildcat strikes shutting down industries and services before they can starve them into longer working hours. 165 million working people will come together because Trump is ripping off grandma...hard to imagine Trump will have the ranks of the military on his side many of them are family people, treat the mothers and fathers bad and the new recruits will bury you...the only people in society not connected to society are the 0.0001%. Oligarchy will not be defeated by democrats inside the beltway, oligarchy will be defeated in all 50 states. Trump brings his own opposition with him. * In practice, the US government was never impartial is a raging debate.
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  4981. East and West coast elites and Washington elites are dismal failures and cannot lead; maybe its the turn for a mid-West elite's turn to run this country or no elite at all.
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  4982. I don't know about you but I want the democratic party under new leadership. Frankly, four more years of this BS is a losing proposition. Some of the billionaires might have their hearts and minds in the right place but they are billionaires! And a few of the others are opportunists leaving Sanders as the only genuine article the middle class and working class would best be represented. So that's it, 2020 is going to be Trump and the Billionaires versus Bernie and the People.
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  4983. A chaotic social system for the vast majority of Americans who cannot attend the Oscars.
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  4984. Private profit is the only reason towns die and jobs disappear. Aliquippa would still be manufacturing textiles if the Mills became the property of the town. Earlier generations of townspeople in Aliquippa did not put in place a condition with the earlier generation of owner(s) of the Mill, the Mill becomes town property when its owners decide to close shop. This generation of townspeople are repeating the same mistake with Amazon and Walmart. People like to work harder not smarter is a serous social deficit in America.
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  4985. The timing is right because the millenials outside of the US are ahead of the learning curve formulating their position to the general debt crisis and capitalism. Millenials inside the US are still mired in a consumer orientation slowly evaporating into emptiness and anger potentially they will burn all barns down let alone your own before they ride the tide of social rebellion.
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  4986. The irony of the latest scare about putting a nuclear weapon in outer space being a threat is that here on earth we have been unsuccessfully, I might add, dealing with the problem of where and how to get rid of nuclear waste from power plants that are now over 70 years old in desperate need of restoration. Nuclear is nuclear regardless of what form it comes, so this to me is not a threat if outer space, and I cannot think of anywhere else more appropriate where nuclear power belongs than in Outer Space, is an answer. Ironic that this potential answer to the problem of nuclear contamination on Earth is a threat to the US. Turner should be exploring this not using it to start a new Russia scare. What an irrational society. SpaceX if it had any earthly common sense could be used to litter Outer Space with nuclear matter and let the universe do with it what it will.
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  4987.  @bodhisattva71  We will Work For a Share of the Market Value of the Product We Produce is not hatred toward the system. Why don't you think before you speak?
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  4988.  @bodhisattva71  We Work for A Share of Market Value of the Product We Make!
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  4989. Jesus, isn’t there some religion out there willing to add this gentle man to their ministry in return for a kidney transplant operation?
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  4990. @WeAreLegion,----OK what is your point?
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  4991.  @CxJJxD  What is your point?
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  4992. This is a process of transformation of nature and consequently, more of the peninsula will be permanently submerged. Smaller islands will become underwater reefs and the larger islands will lose more coastline bearing more erosion. It’s all land erosion by means of water ceaselessly changing the physical composition of land masses.
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  4993. Seller and buyer are anonymous???? They really cannot find out who the buyer is...perhaps they should identify the seller (an American) to learn who the buyer is (presumably a foreigner). This report is intended to whip up anti-Chinese sentiment.
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  4994. This will be the protest igniting the world revolution. Patriarchy, older than capitalism, comes in two forms in 2021. White Christian Fathers no different than the White Muslim Fathers. Patriarchy attacks 132 million American women and girls in the US through abortion laws.
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  4995. A radical judiciary in America do not want women to have a choice.
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  4996.  @resvero8342  All religions are institutions of Evil
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  4997. Every industry having to do with movement, moving people and things, whether it be, trains, planes, automobiles, in America is a failure. The reason is easy but it is toooooo hard for Americans to admit because of all the faith they put into a system they do not want to believe that system is failing them. American manufacturing produces objects that are defective because those objects are not meant to be used by millions of people they are meant to be sold to millions of people.
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  4998. I wouldn’t be to sure about that. Only 43%of 444 million of 24 to 30 year olds graduated college in the EU is a small 190 million out of 27 member states who are not or never went to graduate school.  @AZ-vu3wu 
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  4999. Maybe you feel that way but there is a social class in power in America who do not care the way you do, in fact, they hate people that are not like them do everything in their power to eliminate the chronically unemployed.  @lizbethartemis4886 
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  5000. Well...I hope you were not among the ones rejected for SSI if you truly need it...Politics...is a subjective thing. A great book really nails it called “Rape of the American Taxpayer, came out in 1973, Philip Stern takes a critical look at the US Tax Code as a ‘tax welfare system” of the rich. That system is failing. There are many reasons for the betrayal of US citizens. Between the average individual in the workforce and the government, a majority are unequal partners. Be different if we controlled the purse and the printing press but we don’t. The government allocating money to non-citizens at the expense of citizens is political. A political act, that has no merit as being a necessity. US born Americans are putting off raising a family. Americans in the working class are not reproducing their own workforce. Birth rate is down. Birth rate gets higher the higher up the economic ladder you climb. The rich are having babies galore. They are reproducing themselves as a social class. But declining home sales is a good indication the Fed and real estate tycoons are making it really hard for the working class to get romantically involved. Labor has to come from somewhere or the economy will tank, a depression. Migrant labor is preventing that, and they work harder producing more wealth. They have not yet met each other to start families, they are busy saving every red cent, sending home money for relatives to come to the US, but when they settle the first born generation of Americans from migrant parents will be a👶👶👶 boom...👶  @lizbethartemis4886  👶
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  5001. The world has slipped into a new epoch of  "universal competition" where each nation has a direct interest in disabling the other nation.
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  5002.  @margaretlee8200  How so?
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  5003. I remember I said the day Reagan got elected that a whole generation will grow up deprived. I was born at the tail end of the baby boomers and I disagree with the comment they grew up with a strong work ethic. To the contrary, I saw them as totally spoiled and insecure, they had conflicts with their parents, and were stupid. Not all. But most and when Jerry Garcia and Jerry Rubin bought into capitalism. I closed the book on boomers betraying the hope of a rational and humane society. Now a baby boomer runs the White House and he typifies the boomers I am referring to, very typical, they acquired the financial help of their parents. True my parents taught me to never borrow money. But that was because the banks robbed depositors of their money in the depression. Technology became a weapon to pacify the millennials along with commercial pop culture. The hope of a rational and humane society now rests on this generation. Will they carry that hope?
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  5004. Honestly, this Congressman from Maine is a nut who believes Russian meddling in the election has not been disproven. He makes Ukraine too dependent if he got his way. Giving a largely agrarian society that has holes punched into it aircraft from an industrial society means moving industry to Ukraine to support that product. There isn’t a working class in Ukraine to support that kind of industry and long distance support can easily be knocked out by an enemy or natural event. Another pandemic can knock out whatever is placed in Ukraine.
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  5005. You change their hearts and minds by appealing to their children for a better life and world. A positive message that cuts to the chase as to why people do what they do and you give that action focus, purpose through the eyes of young boys and girls of the world they will inherit and the walls will begin to fall down.
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  5006. Americans are economically ignorant is a general statement. So I will narrow it down to the idiot renting the place. The renter has no clue he occupies a stolen home and pays rent to the thief who stole the land on which the new home is built, is property theft meets blind complicity.
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  5007. DHS has no leader! ...a body will not do anything without its head.
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  5008.  @humility-righteous-giving  that would be fine if you thought more about the nature of the laws that make it illegal to kill yourself. Whether by suicide or by refusal to get vaccine and die from a virus the decision to choose is illegal according to law. Public safety means the State acts in the interest of the Right of State Property. A bridge is not your’s to jump off. The vaccine is not your’s to decide to take it or not. The Ventilators are not your’s to turn off. The gun is not your’s to kill yourself with until you buy the Right to own the Gun as a piece of Property. Its illegal to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge or take a gun to your head. Don’t you remember Dr. Kavorkian? Jurisprudence, a court of law, would hold a sentencing of a corpse if it weren’t socially morose and inappropriate but in the final record of that person’s history the State names him/her a criminal. Robin Williams is a criminal to the State for committing suicide but is rich enough to not have to enter into litigation for his freedom post mortem to kill himself. Absurd isn’t it? But that is what lawmakers create. Allegory and Absurdities. The choice to live or die is forbidden. I don’t get where the freedom in the laws are because the only thing free to act in the law is the act of buying and selling. Restrict buying and selling and you will get a vehement and hostile reaction from the State. See how quick the Ambassador Bridge opened. Freedom is pretty narrowed down to buying and selling and work. Trade and Employment. Other activities and interests of a personal and social nature are pre-decided for us in laws that script out our actions and behaviors. You need to externalize a person’s will into making A Last Will and Testament, or the property falls into State Property. When you are a vegetable the State and nobody else in your family can decide for you the choice to live or die. Immediate family need a Do Not Resuscitate Court Order to override the act of violating the law, the illegality of turning off the artificial lung, the horror of keeping a man or woman’s corpse alive is preferred over a humane end to interminable suffering. Where is this freedom?
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  5009.  @mohmoony3918  You guys confuse me. Which is it... fascist Nazi or Communist Tyranny...that the Trudeau Establishment are supposed to be?
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  5010. Right on Jimmy, right on.
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  5011. Trump won because the working class in the US reacts to authoritarian social forms in a negative way, this is healthy and positive. People seem to believe this is a decline. They should rethink that assessment. The election of Trump is a victory for one sector over another sector, with the help of the working class in my view. Furthermore, in short, ---all social relations are turned upside should not be mistaken as a decline, to the contrary, a technological revolution reveals the inadequacies of institutions of the social order constructed in the post WWII period stirs the pot. Trump won because he exuded the values of the working class, that are, God, Country and Economy, values that reflect father, family and nation first, were under assault by a Woke Left.
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  5012. I like it.
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  5013.  @Austin8thGenTexan  That is why we have to get passed the names of these parties. Nothing democratic about democrats and nothing conservative about republicans. They have become extremists. In a time when making sure the trains run and lights come on and the water is pure and the drains are cleaned and the garbage is collected, is crucial, extremists have the government hostage to their extremism.
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  5014. True, the progressive rank and file of the democratic party are inept in overthrowing their own respective elite. The republicans are consistent in demonizing social, political and international life to preserve their political power and control over the Senate, Congress and the House.
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  5015. One underlying cause of attacks is the attitude of terrorists and the attitude of US officials. Both attitudes justify the worst behaviors on both sides, whereas, objectively, it is straight forward rotten behavior they each exhibit. If America is in every country than every country can be in America. This attitude justifies terrorism on American soil. American immigration a la deportation has already made a few future terrorists out of American born people who will turn up when thy become of age and travel back to the US in the future to exact a revenge. Should America immediately withdraw its forces in other countries, Afghanistan, Iraq, Africa, the Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East, Easter Europe, the attitude that justifies terrorism on American soil will disappear in a short time. The underlying cause is then the foreign policy of might makes right versus a foreign policy of development and defense. The other underlying cause is in the economic realm on which the politics above spin. Here the US taxpayer and consumer perpetuate the relations that bring on terrorism in our roles as taxpayer and consumer. Terrorism will not permit us to continue to be tax payers and consumers with unexpected attacks that emerge from within the society. The chief strategy to get us to stop being consumers that make the corporations rich by cashing in on raw materials ripped off somewhere else. If we go to malls then malls are targeted. If we go to supermarkets more than malls than supermarkets are targeted. As individuals we become immobilized and lose our freedoms and civil rights to buy and sell freely under the heel of an overbearing State. Because we protest nothing about the use of taxpayer dollars to finance war and aggression in any form the impression we give out is apathy--- I don't care if your family was blown up by a US war head made in Massachusetts. We, our children, our elderly, schools, and more things we use daily are targeted for revenge while the decision makers so out of reach are highly insulated from attacks. As people we have exposed ourselves to risks but we have ourselves to blame for the repetition of policies that bring those risks on.
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  5016. The reporter got it right, the US sanctions are designed to create protests by debasing the Cuban peso, making it impossible for the government to buy on the world market for lack of enough dollars. But before a country can be crippled or strangulated its rural and agriculture economy must be destroyed. The people have to become dependent on importing food not growing their own. Land and the peasants on the land have to be freed for sale. Those who work the land as small farmers are forced to find work in projects foreign investment groups bring to the country. Case in point, Bill Clinton, Ben Stiller, Sean Penn, along with then president of Haiti and other intermediaries built a power plant in Haiti that brought 68,000 jobs attracted the Haitian provincial farmers and peasants, they got jobs, but at the cost of losing domestic industry and millions of rural small farm agricultural workers, Haiti become totally dependent for its food. Jared Kushner is doing this right now in Albania. In a consortium of capital investment with the PM of Albania, a realtor, and billionaire with political connections make land deals for development. Modern development would be great if it did not destroy the natural economy of a nation to modernize it. Modern development must have free workers not workers with small plots of land as homesteaders and food vendors never have to modernize, all needs are met. Each country is different but that is why the State Department works with academics who study nations give that information over to a private sector who invest strategically to make nations fall into chaos, wars, famine, anarchy, for modern development to take over the whole country and make a unique culture and language into a generic commercial replica of downtown Vegas.
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  5017. If you had a government that was truly acting in the interest of society the private owner can put in his own safety control system over the tracks and make an application to the state for compensation and this family would have lived. The state can offset its award to the good citizen from the railroad. That people cannot think of other and better ways to cope with problems is the problem. No problem-solving skills.
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  5018. The irony is that Mr. DeJoy and Cruella DeVille mirror each other but in male form.
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  5019. Imagination is needed more than anything.
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  5020. Cruel to put a women of color who has no experience with American imperialism except as a first generation descendant of immigrants in alignment with the idea of what American meant to them into a divisive situation of what America means to the victims of American imperialism. On the other hand, a person well-informed in “World Systems”, would have resigned from the Biden Administration.
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  5021. There should be a law that incrementally deducts the income of the entire criminal division and its cohort departments from top to bottom for every escapee and day it takes to apprehend an escapee. American tax payer will have to rethink the whole meaning of security in society after they get the bill to pay for this entire fiasco, a major reform of policing in society is a necessity. Any more of this and the national debt, the only part of this nation’s wealth American tax payers own and have to pay for with their lives, will force retirement for all these tax payers into their late years in life or eliminate retirement completely and work a job, get taxed on retirement benefits plus your job’s income. These institutional failures seem to me purposefully damaging to the whole of America’s workforce, its suspicious the level of incompetency.
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  5022. It appears Corporal Agarn of F Troop lost his man.
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  5023. There was no draft in this war. If there was I would feel more empathy. The soldier who signed up did it voluntarily, no draft. They are paid a wage . Employers pay workers to do a job. You don't see workers enraged at their bosses because the boss mismanaged the job.
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  5024. According to the Chief: At 7: 20 PM Cops get to the place. They find a naked and erratic woman burning stuff in the kitchen. There is no mention of a finding of kids in the home at this time. Cops hold the mother in custody at the apartment presumably waiting for the ambulance. Ambulance takes the mother to St. Barnabas arriving at 7:50 PM. Still no mention of the status of the children in the apartment during this time. Mother is discharged from the hospital and the cops are informed the father has the kids. At 7:55 PM a second 911 call comes in reporting the kids are not breathing and unresponsive. No mention of stab wounds to the kids or blood or trauma mentioned by the 911 caller. Cops return to the shelter and find two kids with multiple stab wounds. The kids are dead. Mother is in custody but not arrested and the father is not in custody but was the last person with the kids? None of the reporters question this timeline or why the father is not in custody as the last person with the kids. The very experienced police officers seem to have let slip from their involvement the kids. Somewhere between the mother’s release from the hospital to the cops arriving the second time to the shelter apartment the kids were killed. Nice job NYPD I hope you guys are sued for this and the experienced cops fired for negligence and dereliction of duty.
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  5025. Send it back to the states where the people decide obscures who the ‘people’ are? I think states will find their budgets will break appeasing the Christian right who are not industrially big enough to employ the greater part of the population, a force large enough to cause real grief in an idle state, that even property owners will pay the price for an ideological right that does not exist. The tide will change dramatically.
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  5026. @Just Be Your co-horts can’t keep it to themselves is a problem. They really do not believe what you believe, they are a class a part from you.
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  5027. Crazy...the Trump defense build up took place when the big four enemies of the US, China, NK, Russia and Iran, have been totally non-threatening to the US and the rest of the world of nations ravaged and damaged by a pandemic and climate change catastrophe. There is not even a threat out there to justify this build up.
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  5028. Great event! I was hoping the little girl would conduct and the orchestra assimilate with the crowd at the end.
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  5029.  @janicewilson9813  Well, I missed that. Communism is not caused by poverty. I agree Germany's revolutions was crushed, the social one was crushed and the industrial one was not crushed as it became the tool of the Nazi regime, financed by financial oligarchs.
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  5030.  @bleuwater9629  socialists have to re-learn the principal of socially necessary labor time to overcome their political failures.
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  5031.  @kurtisisagaylord2  There is no blue print for socialism but there is the principal of necesary labor-time.
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  5032. This report is not clear. Which of the women are Patty Cornwall, the women entering the shot with white hair or the women in the shot with the brown vest? This is not established by the reporter narrator for the viewer/listener to determine who is asking who if they are Rosa Parks. The next shot is the man telling us the analogy to Rosa Parks was terrible is where the confusion comes in and where voice and picture do not match. Who made the racist remark? The guy in white hair or the girl in the brown vest who scratched his face. Its only by seeing the actions of people in the cabin that a viewer can answer this question. Okay so what? Its not journalism being administered here is so what.
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  5033. That was weird. No reaction from the guy sitting there in the same room with a masked white man robbing the preacher?
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  5034. Class struggle...the Democrats are the enemy of the working class. Republicans are the enemy of the working class. Corporations, Trump's government, Congress are the enemy of the working class. About the only institution that is not anti-working class is in Rome!
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  5035. There are anti-trust laws that Congress can use to break up one airline monopoly. Been done before, i.e., MaBell was broken up so was Con Ed. It’ll be done again when you push the politicians into it.
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  5036. Precious lumber floor joists in that building. They look like they are 4 by 12s. Real sized 2x4 wall construction. Building was built well, I can tell. It last 100 years is a testament to construction work of past labor. Way better than the sticks sold at Home Depot. Past labor is free work still working for the living landlords. From the date they bought the property to the time it collapse a savings of years of repair work and expenses got pocketed wth the rents by some individual. What the City missed in their inspections is water damage and wood rot and warping. When wood warps it separates and weakens the whole structure. They never check how water flows from top down to bottom but instead the inspectors collected a government check to make it look like all is fine. This means that all the building of the same type are 100 years old suffered water damage and rot in the interior in that neighborhood. Nothing is forever. Its time they all come down and a new neighborhood be built. But not in this New York dominated by greedy landowners and bankers. The rich will take it over and the poor will move out to Orange County where officials there will do nothing to absorb an incoming labor force. The air in the city is foul but the air in the country breathes stupidity.
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  5037. The power out for millions of people in a climate change situation proves one thing... ...that money is not the prime mover of progress. The failure proves that tools, infrastructure, development are the real prime movers of society. ..the failed system proves the private company utility had nobody watching over it for decades...and had no guidance to develop other energies in the event of a climate change disaster...the failure then has to be in all of the climate science deniers in the community who agreed with this stupid idea and enabled the government to take away the tools and separated the communities from its own infrastructure.
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  5038. Now that the field commanders are thoroughly armed by the US taxpayer to conduct the war Zalenski was only needed to initiate the war. All western powers are going after resources in war like fashion to take over natural gas and oil resources to avoid Russian gas and oil.
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  5039. These talking heads are ridiculous. Congress is a place to make money not to solve social problems is the reality these talking heads never talk about.
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  5040. 7:14 Government borrows money from the rich the money it could have acquired had the government taxed the rich, does not go the way the professor says. It is done this way because the private sector industry, commercial, and industrial workers, are the only social class in America’s economic system who produce value so that the government can tax to repay the loans and support other government business. We are the ones who the government does not approach to borrow is a fact, because we do not have money, is the fact but what we do have the corporations and the rich do not have is the productive labor government and the corporations, including the super rich depend on for the repayment of the loans borrowed. This is why the dollar is backed by GDP (commodities) not backed at all by gold or any other universal equivalent and it is why the working day extends or is prolonged and workers are working longer, harder, and receiving in exchange for their longer hours currency that buys less and why the commodity labor-power is paid the same rate as it was paid 40 years ago. This is because after the sale of labor-power at its fixed price is complete, labor become in the workshop, factory or office productive labor. Productive power goes up and value goes down. Money losing its value, looks like prices inching upwards, prices going up reflects values going down, the more productive people are at work. The productivity is prompted by competition, competition also drives the need to open new markets for the conversion of commodities back into money, hence, profits. Not a good scenario for workers and one that will ultimately lead to a catastrophic collapse for the working class.
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  5041. That water is a commodity is the first problem. We have to move away from the notion that products of human labor must take the form of a commodity. Water and soil are universal tools for human life. Water and soil can be allocated equitably if they do not bear a value and a price. But if water is produced and soil is used to make commodities then the world of value and price becomes the political priority and not the intrinsic value of water and soil itself. Intel is under the conception that water can be distributed, reused, and returned back into the ground water. But that s not how the hydrological cycle works! Water evaporates and returns back into the ground in the form of rain which then fills the ground water. Intel’s intervention into the natural cycle of water is to capture reused water, purify it and return it to ground where water is used again does not evaporate to form rain creating a consequence of drought, no rain, and higher temperatures from the emissions of the intervention. Evaporation is a key and central player in the hydrological cycle through the formation of water bearing clouds that Intel’s intervention removes from the natural cycle. This intervention the combined work of Intel and the City, is likely the source of microbial infection, running through our food chain.
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  5042. The slow death of the US as a society is agonizing and wearing on my nerves. The collapse of the US economy cannot come fast enough for me. Its like watching a suffering horse that cannot be put out of its misery. This is a country that can match China’s successes. America produced only four millionaires in ten years. China produced a new middle class of 700 million in 5 years. US offers noting to the world outside of war and weapons. China develops other economies to enhance its own position.
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  5043. To belittle a left viewpoint in any way, to flex against it means to strengthen right wing ideology. At a time when the bourgeois right and political left combined are the corporate order the insight of Malcolm X is gospel. The ideological enslavement of the working class by a democratic machine should be smashed profusely by activists on the left of the progressives through every medium to bend public opinion to its favor. Diverting a working-class movement from the bourgeois order and its ideological attacks is an authentic approach that commands respect and trust from the working masses, that activists are real, concrete and sincere, and authenticity is what distinguishes the activists from the professionals. What concerns me is a dichotomy of social forms: Is Trade Unionism also a capitalist social form that brings workers under the regime of the corporate democratic machine is a question that activists to the left of the progressives have to debate and come to a resolution for action. If the general consensus is that it is a form of oppression then the work of activists would have to be come up with an approach to break that form of worker organization the bourgeois order is comfortable with:
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  5044. Housing is a commodity in America, it is not a Right. But in many countries more than a third of all nations housing is a Right. Hard to imagine for Americans but where there are no large banks there are no mortgages. This is why the standard of living and longevity is higher in other countries than in the US. The stress of being thrown into the streets on your own is not a killer in other nations. The point is not to move to other nations if you don't like it here. The point is other nations changed what is unnatural and made it natural to be healthy and have a place to live, so work is made possible and probable. Americans are last on the list to change social policy and keep up with the advancements in social policies the rest of our species has accomplished. The march of progress of nations is never shown or told to the American people. A roof over your head is a thing you buy. In a land where the rich live and poor die If you can buy it you got it. Health has been separated from the individual. People are made through the contamination of the material world around them sick. This is the way health becomes an object that can be bought and sold between doctors, hospitals, medical industry and the individual Health, home and happiness is not within but comes without an individual and then the right to good health is sold to you. What is wrong here is dividing people into landlords and tenants. What this creates is a class system between large and small landowners and a class system between small and large tenants. Big landowners have enough to never lose their homes or properties and the small landowners do not but depend on other for their income. This is wrong. A system has turned this poor woman into an economic parasite and the other woman with the family into a debtor.
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  5045. A sell off that is connected to inflation hits the middle class. The elites did not have to set off a chain reaction of stock prices falling. A maneuver that induces more people to sell. It was a decision they made collectively using the inflation as a pretext for the sell off. Election are tied to the sellers and they can control who gets elected. So much for democracy. It is sadly true the Biden administration has tools that no longer work to restrain sellers who want to build a political alliance, that we see retail prices going up and stock prices going down, to get more of the middle class blaming democrats for the fall in the value of their private pensions. Political alliances were built through economic means on many occasions for example, an alliance was built on low prices and high wages led to the French Revolution and the overthrow of the French Monarchy and Nobility. with the help of the French working class and peasantry. On the one hand, America can claim they operate a free market system but for all intents and purpose the market is not free for buyers who alternate selling their commodity and buying commodities compared to the person who buys to sell the market is their social system of survival and if more of the middle class get into the market they too are dependent on it for survival makes political alliances very easy to shape when people are dependent.
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  5046. Argentina has another neoliberal who comes off as different than the establishment and grabs votes but is more aligned to the Establishment than his predecessor. He hasn’t gone after the private sector for money has he? There you have it.
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  5047. Can I play?😋
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  5048. Leaders in America play you for a fool...you are the longer you give consent to their excuses. American population is on the decline. This problem needs outside of the box thinking for a concrete solution. Get to the root of the problem is the only way. Having kids on the farm is an asset for their labor. But farms don’t need labor in America they are mechanized; they need migrants. Leaders are resistant to give migrants citizenship incorporate them as a tax revenue source. Why? Because leaders are hanging on to the past. They look backward and resurrect the politics of blame with no shame of the past. Population decline: Kids in the city are expensive pets. Many have chosen to not have kids. City work forces shrink and lose skilled and unskilled labor to fill its ranks. And Boomers are aging out. Bob Dylan is not doing much spending, investing, performing, hiring, selling, these days. They are no longer consumers, investors, workers, all rolled into one. They pull their money out of markets for the cash and scale down their consumption habits per doctor’s orders. On the other side of the people situation on the planet is...food. Grain and fertilizer used for food production to feed the west comes in shorter supply and at a higher price the longer the war in Ukraine continues. Leaders are not interested in settlement agreements between Russia and Ukraine. The latest offensive is to recover territory Russia holds so food prices will rise for all of the rest in the world. Oil for fuel is more expensive. Safeguarding the trade routes for the Free World is not cheap... is it worth it all will begin to wonder? We are without mature sober intellectual leadership in the US to help us answer that question and takes us through the next age we enter. Japan had been dealing with population decline for decades. Japan came up with De-Sourcing. If their products are sold in America it will be made in America etc. Problem is population decline in America makes labor in short supply. Uh, oh, now what for Japan...a crisis. When one country slips into crisis they all go down in crisis. This is it, as far as, the standard of living in the west can be reached...it ain’t going to get better... we face long periods of recession and stagnation, inflation, higher taxes, longer work hours and in return for that the workers doing it all have no retirement and disposable income. Its over folks and the leaders who have no answers pretend they don’t see it coming. Holding on to power is their sole mission from here on out.
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  5049. In the US and in west Europe vast quantities of material wealth can be produced in so short a period of working time that there should be an abundance of free time left over for workers in most industries and nations to enjoy life. So, why is that not happening? Its an economic fact, that less labor to feed and clothe a population is a gift that frees up more people with more time away from work doing other activities because production has become a “continuous process”, is an advantage to society. It has the potential to end material deprivation of populations in societies in Africa and anywhere else in the world and be the economic foundation for a healthy and balanced society.
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  5050. when I see this I see less hours worked per worker and fewer workers doing the work of ten workers over terrorized and traumatized by those out of work workers losing all control over their lives ad lashing out...ticking time bombs...that is what I see happening.
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  5051. There’s an idea. Get all the manufacturers to give you money to lobby politicians for lawn darts, badminton, and other playful non-violent producing industries and fight the merchants of violence with products that make people happy.
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  5052.  @hughjassle5876  A gun is not a tool because death of any life by a gun or by any other means cannot be regarded as a product. Death is not a product like hand soap or a car is a product and a tool. A gun is only a product. Its use-value is very limited, narrow, specific. Can’t use a gun to build a house or fix a car. As a product its a commodity and will never be anything more than a commodity exchangeable for money. If it is tool its a tool for the creation of wealth for the maker of the gun who makes it only to sell it. Products are made with tools and tools are used by labor. Pulling a trigger is not laborious and a trigger that comes into contact with the human hand does not require a body to rest, eat and sleep, after 8 hours work. Your argument is not only ridiculous but imbecilic. Further more Hugh Jassle, a tool is either product or a means of production only when it is used in some labor-process, depending if it is an aid, assists labor, or is a product itself of some labor-process. You don’t learn this stuff in America do you? Educational system stinks and that explains why your country is the only country on this entire earth that has a gun problem. Believe me there are bad people everywhere even before you were born there were bad people. The real issue here is masculinity and ego in society, that a gun becomes the material shortcut to confidence and masculinity buy this and you will become a man again the way America sold cars in the 60s,--- buy this and you’ll get the girl. Brainwashed by marketing. So, an AR15 is designed to kill people...yeah what is so controversial about that statement that you have exert the point as if no one can?
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  5053. Obama -Biden administration was complicit with republican administrations is more accurate and disappointing.
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  5054. The central issue here is life.  Life is more than everyone being counted as an expenditure of average simple labor offered by the far right. They take value to the extreme. Value is purely social with them and as an immaterial thing they turn value into into an objective fact! An object is not a host to value, an object is either something useful or not and the work that went into that object is useful work or not. Once you make all this real and concrete work, activity, industry into a value, or an exchange -value to be bought and sold, then another creature comes out of the woodwork. The far right start to making uniforms to emulate this value-relation an immaterial thing till finally it rules their minds...and value is never expressed in any other way but in an abstract way if you notive in the workds of the right wing of the GOP. Trump's GOP especially, which will not go away unless politically smashed to pieces. Charlie Chaplin showed it best what value became to the dictator. The value relation was kicked to bouncin g the glob and the dictator up and down in the room of his office in the Great Dictator. Earth cannot be earth with these people. Geology is not a science to these fundamentalist mental midgets. Everything is a generality chasing after another generality. Their slogans typifies this; " The West is Best", Which country in the west and what defines best...always left open ended. Patriotism and freedom, exactly what type of freedom and patriotism is never expressed in any other way except as one abstraction chasing another. The far right are always running from and never heading towards objective reality; all theories and conspiracies made to separate reality from the subject as something strange, bizarre, designed, planned and organized behind the backs of the real producers and the producers incapable of heading the charge, taking the lead, and running society by their own natural economic laws hey view with deep disdain. F-them. They worship the value-relation like a god, they are the modern versions of the Aztec priest worshipping the Sun God and Rain God with human sacrifice just because value puts clothes on their back a producer must be sacrificed to the value relation, a thing that has no material existence in the object we call life. Can you find gravity in a stone?
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  5055. The State once it has collected all stolen items should have them sent to the manufacturer(s). The manufacturer can credit the retail stores for the losses (UPC) and the retail stores cut a check to the consumer with lower prices. The recovered stolen items can be resold from the factory. A simple plan America can ever do. Its social system of class does not permit people to move out not up the class system, America keeps people living as a member of a class and class is held back from becoming a thing of the past.
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  5056. Texas is a private oil interest bearing state. What is considered a 'general interest' in the Texas legislature has been an extension of the 'private interests' of a particular men of an industry. The opposition between the two forms of interests is so apparent in Texas. This opposition is continually being produced and destroyed by liberals and conservatives that people cannot see what is coming at them. Everybody becomes armed, easier to carry a gun makes a war zone out of communities but it also makes private interests synonymous to the Public decieves the public.
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  5057. 16:45,---The State Department created a solution to the problem of Biden’s Aid Pier and believes the solution to shut it down was a success. The Gaza Aid Pier was a solution that needed a solution is also a failure on top of a failure. First failure by the president and the second failure by the State Department spun as a success. The Pier was a way to pretend human rights were not violated while violating human rights. A ceasefire is the real solution to feed the starving. What the Aid Pier did accomplish was to make every American soldier involved in it doing a job that further harms others a job they have to lie about for life. Not a thing you want to write home about when family, friends, sons and daughters ask what did you do over there when they read about the genocide bigger than the Holocaust and say their father or mother or both was there? The shamefulness of it is overwhelming to great to be proud of.
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  5058. @S L,---To you its not your fault but to the State it is a fault you will pay for.
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  5059. good line @BlunderCity 
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  5060. Meanwhile, as more buildings and bridges, highways and towns are demolished, senate hearings are aimed at attacking government bureaucrats the republicans want to smear in the military, Pentagon and the state department for their own personal gain. The senate behaves like they never watch the news.
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  5061. When you cannot find anything on your body or in your home that is made in the US that tells you the division of labor has grown a world scale. More people are involved working for American corporations are not Americans. This means the corporations have widened their accumulation of capital on a world scale and there is no turning back on this. The fruit of this labor is too sweet. This also means that an ever-shrinking number of capitalists of a particular class, i.e., energy sector in the case of the US share in the wealth generated by this world wide division of labor. More and more people see less wealth relative to fewer owning it. This also means that labor in the US is employed not in manufacturing but in other sectors where there no wealth is generated from their activity. Acitivty that does not lead to another job, zero growth that would directly raise the standard of living of the working class. I think this is the tragic part of the decline of the American working class a done deal through debt from middle class status to material deprivation. Everyone from Bernie to Trump will try to restore the industrial base of America but it will have to be done without the corporations. Getting them to re-invest/repatriate the capital and re-industrialize America with it, is going to take a social struggle conducted on a world scale. I do not see any prospects from left or the right moving Public Opinion in this election cycle forthcoming in the direction of fighting the corporations to re-industrialize the economy.
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  5062. The US Senate, The Catholic Archdiocese of NY, NYU, Columbia U, Railroad corporations, owns land in and through the entire continent of the North America, not to mention their material wealth in gold..but you think John Hopkins is the largest landowner, this tells me that the Left needs to do its research and publish a thorough analysis of the class nature of American society. The last study of this kind was written by Paul Sweezey in the 50s. This is how far behind the Left in the US is. Thus, we are all doing our own thing and have our own analysis or awareness, interpretations, and a whole lot of bullshit that make the Left a collection of weak oppositions totally useless in the struggle, plus the Left, like yourself, ( I am assuming because you are here) have no awareness of a class struggle in society that the average Trump supporter is more class conscious than the left. Who are the Land Aristocracy of the US needs a study? This rapidly changes as land purchased by billionaires and monopoly corporations on a large scale may supersede the old aristocracy of landowners, lands purchased as a result of dispossession such as Lahiana, Hawaii. In fact, there is not a piece of land in the US that is not the property of another. The only true public land Americans as a society own are the lands on the highways, such as rest stops, and meridians (the strip of land dividing the highway). The national highway system is a system mixes public and state ownership. By law if all cars parked and occupied the meridians of highways, they would not be in the wrong in that occupation. The State would take action against such an occupation only in the name of safety not for reasons that the land occupied is state property.
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  5063. America in Florida, specifically in Osceola, is telling its youth to go f@#k off! If you are 18 and older there is nothing for you here. Osceola regressed back in time to the 1950s when teenagers were rebels for being teenagers adults did not like.
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  5064. Disappointing Decoy.... I am going to shape your voice and give you a thumbs down until you get the right social analysis of the situation. Your potential is great but your analysis of this class conflict in America is weak. This level of looting by the working class and poor youths of LA in America proves there is no economic recovery and the failure of the police to control this putsch in your corner of society proves mass social power is a greater power than police repression. Other segments of the working class have not figured out a way to organize themselves against police repression. Bearing down on children in middle schools of the suburbs by Nazis pretending to be police and School Board officials is pure intimidation and repression. A broken down justice system, a military preoccupied with global domination sanctioning the threats to American imperialism aimed at Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, Russia and prepping for war with China. Add to this international repression a domestic repression; a broken down health system weaponizing the CDC to inject fear of each other with therapeutic vaccinations that really do nothing to prevent Omicron, Covid, and you have a grand social experiment by democrats and republicans in league with corporations that are not ever going to give the working class jobs higher than working for a retail food chain corporations, are tactics of state repression. These political parties HAVE NO SOLUTIONS should be your message. But you were not born in a time when America had a political state that did do something and so you cannot compare but for me...it is crystal clear what is going on. In your corner of society the corporations actively working in tandem with the State are the Real Estate Billionaires pouring money in campaigns to eliminate any opposition to the democrats and republicans o the ballot and the progressives wing of the democratic party are “FAKE” leftists, all show and no substance. The Young Turks, AOC, Omar, do the work of imperialism in the countries of their origins. In the background a climate crisis weaponized through inaction by the State is used to threaten your existence. Marshall Law is not an option because the US military is positioned around the world for one reason only: to slow down the rise of China. America loses to China if troops are brought home. Suburban parents are squeezed by taxation to maintain the cost of that global misuse of the Military. The national Guard is not called out as the putsches have not risen to the level of using the National Guard. he faces of the State are people of color. A black General Austin, a gay lesbian black woman as a White Press Secretary ( I hope you realize the job of a press secretary is to lie to the public), a faggot in the department of commerce...a latino in the department of health...faces reflecting the social composition of the working class...deflects and diffuses social and political opposition from that working class. If they were all white we’d have a race war in America. Think tanks writing the laws for Congress people who are all billionaires...did you know that all railroad workers have been on strike for seven months? You could report on that strike and how that relates to shortages. Its time you step out and use your platform for more than clicks and do some real reporting for the sake of your community, live up to that obligation to them as a son of your community. I will continue to support your work is vital but you must go beyond clarification of facts and piece these elements together to a working class truly in pain and needs to find a way to overcome the forms of repression used against them.
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  5065.  @carbonara2144  Yeah but what does that have to do with the working class building their own labor movement...nothing. They are waging a war against labor. You don't talk about it. You FIGHT the obstacles they put in front of you with raw social power.
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  5066. Great job Doc! If we as a people adhere to this sort of logic Dr. Wolf uses to interpret events, it would be so much easier to know how the social classes position themselves to the productive forces in society and easier to see the roles president are playing, which nations position themselves in opposition to the world trade, or the development of societies. We can easily ascertain what tools a president uses, i.e., FBI, CIA, NSA, Military or private citizen militias, to get its way over the progress of people everywhere.  The case of congestion pricing is a perfect example of classes in society working in connection to the city which is a productive force in itself, i.e., a city is a means of production or a tool for social reproduction. Land is a means of production depending on how it is used and positioned in the labor-process. A city is a product of labor itself and doubles as a labor-process and a value creating process. If it takes four hours commuting time then the boss demands from you four hours worth of work on the job. Got to make up for it. So we get up earlier and start our commute, turning free time into a boss's work time, we do this to offset stress and work at an even pace at work on the job. The cost of the toll of wear and tear on our mind and bodies for lack of good sleep affects us in old age. Less time in life collecting the social security funds we added to the system. The average worker times it just right, up at 3:30 am, shit, shower and shave, dress, caffeine and sugar, weed and drive, get the 5:45 am to get to sleep again. We are still super efficient in work despite the barriers to a more rational start of the workday. A dilapidating neglected mass transit system cutting into the natural rhythm of our bodies and mind. Morticians and psychiatrists could easily say their most favored advertisement for mental treatment and funerary services is the MTA.  Below 60 street Uber commutes the rich. The super rich take helicopters to work the sub divisions of the rich take Uber to work. The workers in the city take a broken down train system. Subdivision of the workers take a car and a train or bus. Super efficient commuting time for the rich is in contrast to the long commute of the working class, and their actual work time overseeing the work of the workers at all levels is super efficient extracting work from the workers. Computerized efficiency, not like the old days of docking pay and demotions and earlier on in history the whip and overseer lashing workers to work faster. You do or be gone is the demand on workers. This is a good area for the religious to express their faith in a better way than through an immoral zionism. Strike automation as a vampiric overseer sucking out the lifeblood of a worker. So many go into the process bright eyed and alive come out at the end of the work process shrunken human beings. It would be so much easier to rally workers against an obvious foe. But! The foe is not that obvious, a veil is draped over the foe most of the time until moments like this come up and they reveal their true colors, their stand on commuter pricing. Dr. Wolf's kind of thinking or consciousness lifts that veil, through learning, training your eye on the subject, becoming conscious that a single worker and the whole lot of workers in society are lumped together as one giant punching bag for abuse and re-abuse in all so many despicable forms. Wonderfully illuminated by the Doctor's guest Dr. Fraad.
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  5067. Who wears a daisy flower collar in the 21st Century as an accessory garment? UK growth is projected at 2%, US 2.5%, India is expected to grow to 6% and China at 5%...there you have it. New kids on the block are outdoing the traditional elites in the west. They cannot decouple themselves from China or India without making it worse for workers in the west. The inflation that did Germany in after the WWI and the Great Depression that finished Germany off totally is being repeated.
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  5068. Be a great day to expose Hannity’s income sources.
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  5069. Nothing will ever happen because the American people are spectators of what is happening. They have no effect on the participants except when they applause.
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  5070. An oligarchy not the candidate is the problem.
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  5071.  @alexanderclaylavin  oligarchy and candidates appear inseparable forged into one class extending a power over the economy and the political life of society, so, this makes reform rather one-sided, do you not agree? Anyway, this is all theoretical...happy to chat theory anytime.
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  5072. If any bomb can be dirty than so can a nuclear bomb; you are not saying much are you.
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  5073. Every resident in the State of NY is charged an average of $16 dollars added to the electric bill in the form of “Supply Charges” determined by the NY State Public Commission located in Albany NY. This commission according to their own website announces a yearly budget of $117 million in federal funding. I calculated this institution derives an income from three sources, 1., Us, 2., Federal funding Us again, 3., the electric companies in licensing and fees, renewals, etc., If you do the math as I did you might find, as I did , the addition totals calculated by the commission are wrong and your bill by your calculation should be less than charged. The electric company, so they say, and I did ask, has nothing to do with setting the prices just to get the electricity to you (us) the NY State Public Commission does. So I suggest you examine page 2 of your bill, you must examine last month and the present month bill, or compare more months in billing to determine how much money you lost, or to say the same thing, the commission robbed, for this test to work, do the math. If it all adds up, fine, if not than all electricity consumers have legal, political and social grounds for the abolition of this commission as a Usurper!
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  5074. If I have not been shown the evidence through mass media then Macron has no evidence. Why hide it if the evidence exists? Why can't the masses know as much as Macron knows? So what if he is a president! The title does not give him a monopoly on facts, knowledge, all things relevant to humanity?
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  5075. This generation of American workers have been thrown back into the 1930s striking for higher wages and better working conditions but this time there will be no FDR to restore capitalism. Maybe a third party will emerge and replace the Democratic party only time will tell.
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  5076. Cenk confuses racism with nationalism. Racism makes no claim to a national identification of the nature DeSouza makes. Racism makes a biological claim of inferiority against others. Nationalism and racism are compatible but not identical. Second, this is only the beginning of a wave of dodging prosecution by a world court in the event the US ruling classes are found criminally negligent.
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  5077. (Canada Broadcasting System) has reported a tension between community and authorities over people in dire need of relief. Authorities prohibiting people from helping others. In Florida, if I recall, it is illegal to feed the homeless. Bureaucracies that have the means and the necessities withhold the means and necessities is a disappointing reality considering you are the producers of the material wealth and we are not a receiver of any share of that wealth. The sober reality is in the lyrics of Gil Scott Heron. Cruel bureaucracy, indifferent. Communities get kneecapped as soon as they begin finding solace in each other, families and extended relatives, solidarity in their tradition to come together,--- natural, helping each other, helping themselves, helping others, forming distribution centers, bringing in supplies in small craft, is low. But here is the reason to continue the effort. The Pope is not doing it. Government isn’t doing it. Private Business isn’t doing it. The common people have nobody but themselves is the stark naked reality and this is when an alternative approach to survival changes the game.
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  5078.  @silverforest4682  What you describe is an expropriation of property from one set of many individual owners on the one hand, and numerous properties moving into possession to a small set of owners. Banks are against the millions of individual /families owning property in that action. They are Anti-private property for the many. Banks are only in favor of private property as long as they are the owners. Banks violate the pursuits written in the US Constitution. The oldest trick in the book is to con the many into thinking freedom of ownership is an exclusive right of the few and behind the backs of the many rob their land, homes, and means of subsistence and then say: “Its your fault”.
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  5079.  @jamesross1431  242 to be exact.
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  5080.  @mackone8035  When only a 3rd of the total US population votes; you can’t expect to get men or women of outstanding historical character to lead a country. The politicians you get represent a small minority unrepresentative of the majority to whom DeSantis or Harris pale in comparison.
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  5081.  @beatmoz6818  Secrets of the State; could be damning to the State about what the State does with your money and in your name around the world.
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  5082.  @rolandthethompsongunner64  I would not get rid of the police: I would abolish the ISA not the rank and file.
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  5083.  @ScottAJacob  Well, if you feel that way about the sooner you get your kids to become conscious of a class war that engulfs them and their future into ruin the sooner we can make our way out of this and rapidly apply the new form of energy. i.e, laser light fusion. Progress is held back by America’s Energy Corporate Sector and its allies on Wall Street.
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  5084.  @awokeorasleepgodsaves.  Jeezus Christ, were did you learn to write...I get better replies from MSNBC audience than I do from Democracy Now audience. That reflects the left in the USA are dead.
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  5085. The technology that makes a “mountain” fit for human habitation and completely sustainability supplying water, food, heat, is not a technology applied to society because this kind of technology is what empowers one country to have the power over other countries makes it immoral when the technology is used as a means of deprivation.
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  5086.  @fede-HaitiaNAmericAnrimeircs91  A person who asks about sources is a person who comes new into the situation and had not followed the political crisis in Haiti consistently enough to know the Syrian-Lebanese oligarch connection to Haiti's bourgeoisie. The purpose of a coup is not to create instability. And I am not saying this was a coup that brought Claude Josef into power. A coup's purpose is never exclusively this or that but is a response to a social condition. In Haiti the flow of capital out of Haiti and into the hands of oligarchs drives the coup. The promises Moise made to clean up corruption could not be sustained. The hand the US plays in this is Haiti's strategic position of Haiti to Cuba and Venezuela and also has covert relations with oligarchs in the Middle East exploiting Haiti. The US deals with anyone who is anti-communist no matter how debasing and evil they may be, as long as they are anti-communists Haiti, S.D., P.R., will never be free.
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  5087. He is wrong about no other country in the world allows people to come in illegally.  Americans go to Mexico and stay for years on a work visa are technically violating immigration laws of Mexico. How many Californian scuba trainers are in Mexico working in the tourist industry on a visa?  Enough to take those jobs away from Mexicans.
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  5088. Pfizer, Merk, Moderna, and all the rest of the Pharmaceutical are going to face major class action lawsuits that will throw them out of business for inoculating people before the poor nations are inoculated. The movements of the poor from war ravaged with governments that are not distributing vaccines and the people who cannot stay in destitute countries spreads and mutates new strains of the virus that, eventually makes its way into the US and other rich nations. The profit motive is driving the pharmaceuticals to over vaccinate Americans and Western Europeans and the lack of profit to be made in poor countries from the sale of vaccines under vaccinates the poor populations, who move, and transmit the virus. Pharmaceuticals are setting the stage where every American will need a shot every year, despite the rise in cases, its effect on the health care system, and the continuing flow of migrants through out the world. As lives die from this and other untreatable afflictions the pharmaceutical companies enrich themselves.
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  5089. Nearly half the American workforce consists of foreign workers, i.e., immigrants. The balance of the working classes in American society are divided by standard of living , race and gender, location. The working class inside the workplace is divided by labor itself, a hierarchy of wages and income divide the working classes is the ubiquitous "chain of command". A social structure dictating orders the working class. There is never a moment's pause from need that the population separates into two groups of buyers and sellers. The State emerges from this social separation and perfects itself in defining individuals not as sovereign beings; it specifies individuals into sellers and buyers as equal in the eyes of the law. Social differences of individuals in society and the political State is based on the division between the natural human world of work and society obscured by social categories in the law that give precedence to objects being equal to each other in exchange. The objective reality of exchange obscures the values and attributes of the subject's reality. You can begin to imagine the State cannot interfere with issues of culture, language, education, housing, industry, environment, law and safety, in society except as a seller itself. It must become a private seller and transform more spheres of social life into commodities for sale. To become a privatized State, its ministerial positions have to be occupied by people who can open more social spheres of life to commercial speculation and profit. This is the present day condition of the American working class. How this differs with the British working class is probably not too far off.
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  5090. Must be a warning to stay off the drink or else.
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  5091. The logic of capital is more, higher profits and more profits. They are not talking to limit the capitalization of fossil fuel. They are not talking about a competition of oil companies and a competition of nations driving high levels of consumption of fossil fuel. Nothing about heavy industrialization for the sake of pumping out more plastic oil based products in mass quantities. Nothing about drilling and mining. All the talks are on the market side of fossil fuel. Relations between buyers and sellers. Bring down consumption by lowering how much is sold. As opposed to hitting climate change by lowering how much is produced would shorten the work day of billions of people on earth.
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  5092. Relate to today, last UN World Report on this subject was 2017 Findings are... 40.3 million people live in modern slavery. 24 million in forced labor. 15.4 million forced marriages. ...and 1 and 4 children are victims.
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  5093.  @LuisAldamiz  Don’t confuse the magnitude of the history with the similarity. Blowing up the Nordstream pipeline is different from the sinking of the Lusitania in magnitude only.
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  5094.  @averageamerican6727 ...a cycle has to be broken before we can move forward...or does moving forward mean breaking the social relations and institutions that generate the cycles of repetition and habits...and block our way from becoming a-habitual human beings?
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  5095. Chuck Todd? Ronna McDaniel? Jheezus this is a TV show not a new bureau.
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  5096. NBC News offers no analysis of the speech. The bare minimum of intelligence is what the social media public get. Nothing.
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  5097. Deportation is not going to be that easy. You cannot get a US immigration judge to consent to deportation if the US does not a treaty with country they should be deported. No diplomatic relations; no embassy to take charge of the deportation. International law is international law. America can’t simply airdrop them home. What will happen is that the migrants will become bargaining chips. Hostages. The country will accept them on a quid pro quo basis. Since they come from all parts of the world the scope of the quid pro quo is going to be extremely costly to America, it could cost America becoming a dead empire. In the meantime, the US is holding the bag of migrants getting heavier and heavier everyday with more coming in has no choice but to relieve the situation by striking a deal to get them accepted and placed back to their home country where they will likely go to jail. Losing grip of an empire for small war ravaged nations to plunder the American tax payer’s wealth would be a fitting but nightmarish end to an empire that plundered its wealth from smaller thieves. The world will do to America what England and France did to Germany using migrants as bargaining chips. Naturally all the little chips develop big chips on their shoulders costing the tax payer greater sums of the economic pie maintaining them. I see two choices; first and the least preferred is to turn them all into conscripts, the other solution... is a national immigration policy backed up by a national civil education plan for the integration of migrants into society as a new working class. Bear in mind, if you do not have a working class, I am not sure what you have as a society, but I know for sure you do not have a capitalist society.
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  5098. I am not sure Americans deserve a president who is not corrupt, half the county is corrupt. An honest president would likely be assassinated by some element in that half of the country and I would not wish that upon any honest president. Be a different story if the other half of America made the elimination of an honest president impossible. But as to where this country is at right now. No, I think the contrary, America deserves the most corrupt president. A Big thief to keep all the little thieves in check is what America deserves. Vote Biden America, he’s more corrupt than Trump is not a racist.
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  5099. This is the first step in the nation that a government acted in the interest of the public. Nowhere else in all 50 states does government tell Big Business what to do and what they cannot do. Non-interference in the affairs of private business is the glue that binds the two parties. Small and big government in accordance with the ideologies of both political parties, liberals and conservative, have been weakening government (less government) to stay out of the private sector. Don’t think there is something wrong with the vaccinations. As heard they are the best in the world. Big business employers will agitate their employees through media channels like this, a spin, to knock down the beginnings of a swing to the left,---detecting government regulations of their business if vaccine mandates are complied. Give them an inch and they will take an arm. But Americans should know that London Bridge came down because the King’s bridge was a threat to the industry of ferries crossing people over the Themes when the King pushed to build it. American big business thinks the same of vaccines; a prelude to another 75 years of government regulation and taxation if they give an inch.
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  5100. ​ @davewade30  If you are not self-employed in America than you are forced. If you cannot make your own subsistence but must get it through a public or private employer, you are forced. See how far you go without a job and any assistance. This condition of being forced to work holds starvation as a consequence hangs over your head. Acting in the interest in society is not force; its acting on behalf of a particular interest, is force. If you believe in your body and your choice than you should be outside the Supreme Court repealing abortion along with all the women who agree with choice. Be consistent or go away and say nothing.
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  5101. The clip of the president reveals a man selling an idealistic goal. A man not selling an idea would say ‘who knows’ to the question of the economy returning to normal.
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  5102. The Pentagon propaganda is the opposite of what is alleged in the title of this report. Americans are given the line; not stopping Russia will embolden China to take Taiwan and all of Asia will be ruled by China.
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  5103. Its time the American government get out of the business of motion pictures, quit juxtaposing fiction and non-fiction to psyche the minds of people and get back to its roots as a central organizing body for the society to function for its people. Its also time to start firing the cast and crew. Been nothing but "B" actors and bad scripts, monotoned and nasalized voices, and generally all in one costume, a suit and tie with drab faces. Really boring people. I get the sense that the White House Cabinet and staff are stuck in the 1950's and Glen Ford is no longer the face of America is too difficult an adjustment to make.
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  5104. Look at a high school or any place of learning as a workplace where labor in the form of teaching and administration is expended to produce a product in the form of a student. Now, we may have a discussion about what is going on in the workplace as it becomes a more despotic place to work; a virtual battleground where the stakes are mortal. With this in mind, violence is not limited to schools but appears in all workplaces. A public space is a workplace for some while it is a public place for others. The opposite is true, a private space is a workplace for someone employed in it while it is a private place for others living in it. In reality, everyplace, private and public, is a workplace and violence is an outcome in both spheres of social life. Based on this line of reasoning the debate should be squarely centered on workplaces in general as the responsible discourse to be made.  With this in mind, Michael Moore recently came out and accused the NRA a 'terrorist organization', and that the media should treat it like it treats ISIS. The point is to change the world not interpret it or make aspersions Mr. Moore. The NRA is a workplace as I defined it but there are no workplace fatalities associated with the NRA, compared to the fatalities in most all American industries both public and private workplaces. And so, if he were truly interested in the lives of children functioning in a workplace of adult employees he would be focusing on the despotic nature of America's workplaces and working conditions, duration of working time, compensation, that pressures this specific place of employment into a battleground and not a place where individuals can realize their latent potentials.
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  5105. Ok, ---is there a blueprint in Marxist theory for a socialist society? A hint even...anything that would guide the transition to socialism.
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  5106. Because the world’s population have been thoroughly proletarianized in the sense that people and property are not the same thing anymore they share the world stage as a new historic social class the world has never seen before in all human history. In 2023 there are no properties on the planet that come with human beings. Even in the most remote under developed parts of the world there are no peasant, serf or slave, lords or vassal, social classes in existence, all have dissolved into this one universal social group of modern individualized workers free in every sense of the word. When a seller meets a buyer and buys a given property it is exclusively the property that is transacted with money. The transaction for the property does not include the workers of the property. The vast majority of humanity which is a big number have been made fully propertyless can use a press conference medium and the world will pay attention. This is significant. Historians must be elated at this historic development. It is a moment in history where this social class make its appearance as a representative of the common person because it is the common person. A majority on the world stage that with press conferences of their own, independent of the mainstream, expressing their plans for an economic and political solutions to the national crisis that prevails in their own countries, a new world epoch is born. A new age and a new way of life. The Age of the Proletariat!
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  5107. Australia is ahead of the United States in terms of civl rights for gay and lesbian men and women. Passing legislation for marriage equality is a major breakthrough in eradicating gender inequality in the workplaces all over the world, especially if war breaks out the next secretary of state of the staunchest most macho-heterosexual and patriarchic homogenous nationalism that is coming out of the White House has to cope with the Aussies on North Korea. The religious evangelical Vice-President building treaties and forging alliances for control over the Pacific by Washington. This will prove to be a very interesting chapter in Australian history dealing with the Americans who banned transgender recruits an executive act deeply contested by the US Judiciary. Not exactly sure the new Aussies are going to enjoy helping a government whose main ally in the region is a bald faced violent dictator in Duterte. The judiciary in the United States still has complete autonomy from the executive office. Unlike the Judiciary and Supreme Court in Honduras they are completely controlled by the executive office presents a more difficult challenge for democracy to take hold. But remarkably the police mutinied and acted honorably toward the movement of the indigenous people---ending their reign of terror a mission the police in the US should consider when the they file in 2019 for income under the Tax Bill passed in 2018. There are tremendous advancements being and made at the same time as the threats to the species and the planet, squeezing more out of the working class, and escalating the war machine closes the year out. A lot of groundwork for social movements to come together in a quick pace, probably the fastest pace of revolutionary activity we will see will come from the average US citizen whose economic status has been reduced below the level of Roman plebeian under the magnificence of Donald J. Trump. At least I hope to see some revolutionary activity they have nothing to lose at this point but their chains as the wise man once said.
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  5108. The true source of power of the US is its navy. Without a navy the weapons of mass destruction, and the armed forces would have to be delivered by other means to the center of conflict. The Navy polices, monitors and interdicts, commercial traffic on the oceans trade ways, observing all military vessels on all the sea routes under and over water and from outer space the planet is under total surveillance. The oceans are the key to global presence and dominance the space satellite network is its Achilles Heel to losing power and dominance. Defending it is tantamount to military supremacy. The navy and all the other branches of the military costs more than half of the total federal budget to run, operate, maintain and reproduce. Its a real big deal to republicans and democrats budget appropriations sustain the military. The Navy without its defenses against incoming nuclear warhead missiles shot by other nations, rogue or friendly, can be defeated raises among neocons the question of national survival. Military installations are airports on land and ship aircraft carriers are airports in the oceans combined these form a supply chain for energy and power. The oceans are insufficient a safeguard from invasion with the development of modern technology. The neocon philosophy of nuclear confrontation if it comes to a first strike scenario is better there than here is not as removed from reality as people think! Bolton's first strike and invasion methods would have to be challenged along other lines if the Left is going to persuade Americans the angry world will not come after them the way Bolton thinks!
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  5109. Ron Paul never got the urban vote to win the presidency.
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  5110. She’d be a great therapist for other angry white women.
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  5111. I have question for you Americans given your hospital woes and poor health outcomes...why are you are against Medicare for All? I see you vote for people who promise it to you but then take that promise back. Do you not feel like they pull your chain and jerk you around as a way to avoid Medicare for ALL? Hospital beds are commodities to be bought and sold this make a hospital no different than airline industry selling seats to the public or cruise ship selling travel deals...do you not understand what commodities are?
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  5112. Border Patrol Agent just made his secondary occupation as horseman his first occupation. Now he can be a fake cowboy in a Rodeo full time.
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  5113. This is such hypocrisy. The inner workings of corporations are not open to Chinese competitors and American corporations can keep their production secret by not producing in China, all I see is made in China. US production went to China is not Chia's fault. What is their fault is debt. Debt is also the fault of the American economy, public and corporate debt.
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  5114. “Something I cannot state publicly”, the man is sworn to secrecy. What can a Senate hearing accomplish when government is sworn to secrecy? Nothing. There is a power that enforces secrecy and this undermines function of an open society. Why the US is the only nation on earth that has this issue?
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  5115. I would describe the jury members are subjected to a cruel form of torture having to sit long hours listening to boring testimony.
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  5116. Military spending accelerates inflation and will entail spending cuts for the working class because the rich do not pay taxes. Proof the rich do not pay taxes was evidenced when they made public Trump’s tax returns. The cost of war, bombs, the material and the resources that could have gone into the economy for Americans are spent on war in Ukraine. There is no return on capital to society. When the war ends the industries that produced for the war end too. There is no long-term benefit A world war involves many nations this war qualifies as a world war that puts Europe in a very bad spot having to choose between super powers (the US versus China) and playing the superpowers off each other is never a good idea for Europe. Europeans are more acclimated by socialism. Retirement without poverty versus Poverty at old age in the US which is high is the difference in quality of life between Americans and European working classes. The war in Ukraine itself is absurd from the standpoint of gross domestic product per nation in Europe, Italians would be more dangerous than Russians if you push to the extreme the logic of the State Department. Europe is likely to go east with the BRIC nations going east. Do American workers know they are exploited at a higher rate by capitalism and capitalists than European workers are? American workers are spontaneous responding to the crisis thrown at them with grace until they reach a point and implode from the stress. COVID, mass firings, inflation, cuts while war spending continues drives domestic prices up. Fed uses rates to push prices down forces wages lower. In other words, workers are getting paid money that has less value and can’t by much and would buy even below survival. The Fed is causing this to happen with higher interest rates. Matters are made no better with spending cuts to social security, hence, poverty at old age. A fight back is needed; take a stand in this struggle and draw a red line against the encroaching juggernaut of the whole system.
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  5117. @DCW Production,----Bad and stupid advise. Your identity will be discovered, you will be charged, held and tried then found guilty, paying for the rest of your life.
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  5118. Capitalist do not thwart a revolution or a workers state, they bombed the shit out of it with heavy massive arsenal of weapons until it is destroyed. Thwart is nieveté.
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  5119. Interview a railroad worker Jimmy.
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  5120. Ritter: “Pool the wool over you collective Italian eyes”....you reveal yourself when you are not careful with your words. I do trust the temperament of the current head of the IAEA on his investigations, he seems genuine and trustworthy...we can only hope the wool is not pulled over his eyes because there are only wolves in the playing field. In this field, we the people are the sheep, clueless about the war games played for territorial gains between higher unities in societies. Our awareness and our apathy, is a weakness for us and a power for them, we give them permission...and unabashedly...they tell you right up front; “.. we will spare no effort to boost Ukraine’s air defense”...and there goes $14 billion dollars never to be seen again. Pentagon gets a blank check and freely, without consequences acts as sole owner and appropriator of that money. Hubris...we are taken as idiots! More importantly, we are taken. They know the American people are apathetic. We send the signals of approval through our inaction and they interpret this inaction to mean ‘we don’t care’, an apathy telling civil servants in the Pentagon, they do not have to hide and be deeply buried in the layers of government secrecy to rob us.
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  5121. Come up with a solution that everyone with children can do not just a handful.
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  5122. @J Rod,----Its corrupt in your eyes but it is not corrupt. Its simple supply exceeding demand. Cops produce more arrests than the prison system can hold. Corruption is outside of the prison system; politicians who cannot get elected if they run on building more prisons. The FBI agent was not wrong. Cops are part of civil society not a part of the prison system and this is because the prison system is a privatized system run for profit, cops are a part of a state system. Bottom line there is no money to be made in keeping the incarcerated incarcerated as it requires the private system hire more guards, buy more food, etc., and this cuts into the profits. Its a failed system that cannot keep up with the rate of incarceration performed by police. Its gets worse because the corruption outside of the prison system does nothing to make the lives of Americans better and you have a failed society as a result.
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  5123. The only part of the government that is strong enough to intervene on threats to the social order is the military. The other parts that would keep people's heads above water in a crisis where social spending supports society through its difficulties are either self-running like social security or do not exist; a result of decades of cuts and austerity in social spending and increased spending for the military has superimposed on the US a racist Apartheid System at home and a declining empire abroad.
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  5124. Only people well informed of the Bill and the conflict between mayor and Council can tell this news cast is completely biased.
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  5125. No mention of the bill itself is how so. What the Bill obtains is left out. And no citation where the bill says cops will be burdened. No proof of their claim. @M167A1 
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  5126. Freedom Caucus in Congress are behind this general assault on working class communities that the governors committed to this right wing caucus administer austerity. Their assault and strategy is to lead a crisis on many fronts, housing, financial, health and education through the pandemic as a means by which the value of wages falls and working hours rise.
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  5127. Americans eat out of hunger not for nutrition.
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  5128. The corporations offering reimbursement to working class families and individuals who are forced to drive out of state for abortion care because the Oklahoma legislature has chosen to criminalize this form of health care are to be commended. They took a stand against the Pro-Lifers. They plant a seed the new society can begin to germinate.
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  5129. It isn’t Rice the man who the legal system treats with kid gloves its Rice the valuable commodity the NFL owns that is treated with kid gloves by the Judges. Take away Rice’s contract with the NFL, Rice is just another black man, and would be jailed for leaving the scene of a collision. His case would not crowd the docket with a defense team trialing his defense for months, he would be an ordinary individual, assigned to an attorney and in two hearings he is locked up. Because Rice does make the owners of the contract he signed rich as a player for the NFL. The NFL or the owner of the team would do what Hollywood has done for their valuable celebrities who got into trouble, assign a team of lawyers to Rice, to protect their investment. So really black people in entertainment and white people in entertainment before them are treated with kid gloves because the Justice System would have to spend millions fighting an institution the public likes to no constructive end that the system leaves a trail of victims behind it.
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  5130. If the republicans take power and the debt ceiling is not raised when in power they would impose extreme austerity because the crash would be worse than the people paying the debt.
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  5131.  @JJ-fq4nl  Tell me more. I want to hear your theory.
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  5132. Emancipation from the Abusers. Who are? The US, UK, and whoever else is in that coalition, oh yes France. The rich nations abuse the poor ones. Evidence of this is all over the place.
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  5133.  @BarbarianWerwolf  Grand Social Experiments will always end this way. Okay bud, what's your definition of a war?
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  5134. If there was ever a working class ready to take the helm and drive the ship it would be, the 8 million who live in it, and the other 7 million who work in New York City. Right now they are on the receiving end of a process outside of their control. Still dazed and confused about how to focus their energy at whom and for what. But once they get to a point of focus and position with the power to rectify all the contradictions of and in the city, the nation, the world, what everyone wants, they can become the ones where our political hopes and voting power should land, a new trust, and be taken away the selfish power the landlords and capitalists that run and own the city now are creating. Islands of glory surrounded by desolation. The working class of New York City literally run the world economy. The idle rich depend on the world economy so they can live in abstinence of work and the workers can live to work in abstinence of a good life. Because the working class built the city they are the reason the State of New York as big as it is never got any major immigrants north of Manhattan and its burroughs. Upstate is desolate. Dead zones. All the action in down state and downtown below 14th Street. Its coastal positioning is like no other in the world. And, unlike other cities the city’s working class are a world mix of cultures and languages. You learn more about the world in a day than you can in four years in college. There is not a more intelligent workforce in the nation. Intelligence about the world economy and the politics acting out in the world I mean, all the deals are done in NYC, life gets dimmer the more north and west you go. The 14 million people who work that city could straighten this whole mess out because the mess we are in needs their work and insight, the others, prove time and again, do nothing. They are idle social classes, and if you are idle you are not working, and when not working you are not promoting the marvels of what makes a civilization, insead what they do is bill the working classes for less hours worked per person to cheapen their labor.
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  5135. I like Tulsi, hopefully her anti-war message will garner the vote of all Veterans and the vote of young people and make war and armament escalation a threat to humanity.
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  5136. In all history the decline of the American empire will be the first to have videoed and live streamed its own decline. It will have also have recorded its own material and physical transformation out of the ashes of a fallen empire.
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  5137. It could be an opening for companies competing, if they are positioned well, with the products stuck on that ship.
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  5138.  @silvao6589  More trouble everyday. Adam Smith treated commerce and trade as something eternally fixed by nature for every state of society,--- if you believe that, you belong in the 17th century. Commerce and trade should be mindful and conscious of changing conditions of nature herself.
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  5139.  @silvao6589  Interesting.
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  5140. Criminal elements and cartel gangs make out better than the average Joe playing by the rules in American society. Joe belongs to a social class whose function is to be exploited. Betrayed time after time. Used and abused. Not like perfect crimes do not ever happen. The crime against Joe happens undetected. It even goes on with Joe’s permission in cases. But where there is no accountability and consequences Joe is complicit.
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  5141. I could do away with large scale bank credit card monopolies strangling all businesses and property owners with one National Economic Reconstruction Act.
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  5142. A veterinary product sold as a consumer product is why this company cannot sell its product in Europe.
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  5143. Let’s face it. The US government is no longer while in the hands of evangelical christian billionaires, a state that gives recognition to no religion. Trump is not the head of a ‘secular state’ , based on a separation of church and state, what we have is a state that gives special recognition to one religion in particular, that, subsequently, places all religious institutions and interests second to it on lower footing with that particular religion and the economics of that religion. Its army will reflect that.
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  5144. When Capital is frozen it is withdrawn from circulation. Capital is parked in interest bearing accounts. Money becomes capital through circulation and as capital it is merged with employment (labor) in production that it becomes not money but Capital. None of this is happening in the EU or in the US and Switzerland. Hence the employment figures are terrible in the west the longer this capital remains Bank Capital. Switzerland hoards $7.5 billion and the US hoards $9bn, the EU hoards 24 bn.,is made to sound like these three nations are punishing Russian capital when, in fact, they are profiting on Russian capital held in their accounts, subtract this from foreign liabilities owed and the balance of payments is adjusted to favor the Swiss, the US and the EU. Losers are the working classes drained of talent in search for jobs from all the small nations dependent on western investment. This makes the war a profitable enterprise for the western banks and the war in Ukraine, sustaining the Russian economy would explain Russian capital aided by Chinese capital.
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  5145. He is the worst of the democrats.
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  5146. “Why do people not do anything about climate change?” Apathy and ignorance.
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  5147. Not hypocritical are the Ivy League Universities that their Administrations would take the side of their donors to crush protest and opposition on campus. Graduates from these universities occupy the citadels of American Political Power. The Ivy League Universities provide the advantages to the privileged social classes as a one way ticket into Congress, even the Presidency, an international corporation, etc.. These are the future rulers. Wars and conquest is what they do, plotted and promoted by these individuals everywhere in the world but in their own nation. This is only hypocritical if you accept the image they project about democracy and free speech in America that was suddenly interrupted by a true dissent on campus.
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  5148. Sorry...I had to laugh. She woke up when he entered her bed where she lay and chased him off... is a line that trivialized the experience. How about, lock your doors and windows: women nearly raped by intruder last night in NYC. People are so lonely and alone, mentally impoverished, and isolated from each other, these days that this could be how future parents meet each other. Abortion made illegal the woman would have to bear the child or get permission from a court for an abortion. This is so humiliating to the woman the law (state) keeps the dirtbag around for her life because of a child connection. Pro-Lifers are truly demented people thinking abortion a crime is correct and moral. If that woman in Texas dies from her dead fetus in her womb the State of Texas will be the first with the crime of where there is no motive or weapon with murder on its hands. Officially, a forced homicide by the State. Fascism.
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  5149. He is telling us that a cadre of Trump loyalist at the county level will disqualify a victory of Biden.
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  5150. The mass influx of migrants into the US is a sign that the old bonds and exclusive limits are broken down and migrants are turned into independent, isolated, workers ready for hire is all that is needed to finish the old, peaceful, stable conditions of times past.
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  5151. America’s Health Industry operates in microcosm like a former slave quasi-feudal society within a society in America. A white male patriarchy at the head and grounded on landed property as lord over an employed army of dispossessed peasants who must pay in labor for the right to live, eat, sleep and work on the plantation.
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  5152. Obama knew the next administration would rescind DACA and despite no support from Congress went ahead and issued an executive order. All presidents in the four decades prior knew who will succeed them. If the Congress had the mind to pass legislation an immigration policy would have been in place. Dulce was four years old at the time when Congress sat on its laurels. The Congress that did nothing and should have passed a comprehensive immigration plan was Tom Foley's Congress. The president then was George Bush, the old republican guard still had Washington under their control. The religious right and Tea party started by insider republicans from the same college and were junior senators in Congress enacted a mock protest, a gamble that caught on. Workers were pro-Bush and supported the Gulf War. Schwarznegger was the commanding general to launch a bloodletting on Kuwait. But at the same time workers were losing jobs and wages were static. The Fed enacted a modus vivendi and played with equity markets and rates extending credit for the housing boom and Wall Street investments that came down in 2007. The threat to America was OPEC nations. Controlling Middle East oil was foreign policy. Gas shortages and gas prices rose to $1.95 -$2.50, prices are slightly higher now $2.75 - $3.75. Certain parts of the working class react to prices negatively, the same ones who voted for Trump. Rural pick ups, trucks, boats, fuel for home heating. Rents went up with gentrification and jobs were going, going and gone out of the ball park economy with the signing of NAFTA by Clinton. Jobs left immigrants came. Jobs plummeted and illegals substituted for the loss of hands. Things took a real bad turn with a virulent right wing that forced Democrats to pass a crime bill, welfare reform, a bank de-regulation bill on top of NAFTA. This built up a militarized law enforcement and mass incarceration that we have now.
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  5153. You can’t lose an argument with people like Scarborough, he measures society by its wealth not by its treatment of its citizens, he is all about quantity not quality, --Atlanta, Georgia’s infrastructure has collapsed and took the economy with it, is a case in point, as is East Palestine, fires and floods, communities suffering crisis and disasters, displacement and destruction--- Scarborough understands the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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  5154. He is a mole.
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  5155. Me too, you guys have the potential to set the world straight on socialism.
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  5156. This is how two particular nations are interacting in the world today. Not a very nice way to behave. When in the moment the participants can’t see themselves as engaged in a process because they are fighting, but they are: The US and Venezuela are in a process of turning migrants into pawns because for decades relations have been antagonistic. Venezuela will use migrants as bargaining chips to lift sanctions and this frees up capital resources for Venezuela. The US will lift sanction with conditions and a new relationship starts, hopefully, a more amicable one to keep people from leaving their homes. Nobody talks to build a bridge they talk only when a crisis needs a bridge. They are just going to do it. No warning, no haggling and Blinken will be flying to Venezuela to hash out an agreement. Really this catastrophe and all the people involved would make a great TV series.
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  5157. you can bury your head in the sand too...and become the adult you promised yourself as a child you would never be...a coward @louisetaylor6952 
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  5158.  @leovolin7525  No...if you take away the monopolies and Wall Street, a class dictatorship is our relationship to our own government.
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  5159. If the Victors own and control the data base of social media evidence they can change the data or use it as they see fit. The Victors write data history to support its position as a Victor.
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  5160.  @ArleeStarr  All true...your conclusions is what makes a revolution in the US necessary. The elites cannot be overthrown in any other way but through a social revolution. Mass discontent and social demonstrations from every corner of society is the only way Americans can rid themselves of all the crap and baggage of an Elitist Model of Life and Living, and throw out the antiquated economics and politics that they lay on society. Seriously, America crumbles under their regime.
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  5161. Another fine collection of videos from the man with a keen eye for observation.
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  5162. It would help protests in Europe if we protested and boycotted European companies here and it would help protests here if European workers protested and boycotted American corporations there.
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  5163. Would somebody clarify what the Trudeau Establishment are in Canada... Are they communists or Nazi fascists? ‘Cause I’ll tell you people are really confused.
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  5164. It could be that Hunter thought he could be looking at less hostile faces elsewhere and left. An old adage is never stay in and place where they don’t care about you.
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  5165. The commodities in America that get special treatment, a full time staff person(s), a manager, even a delivery person, at their beck and call to take care of them, and a 24/7 surveillance camera police can surveil remotely are the goods in the gas stations and stores. Its the goods that have been bought now owned by individuals, that get no special treatment at all. In fact, before they are bought wars are started in their name in order that they safely arrive at the stores ready for sale. It is when they are purchased that they lose their special treatment and become 2nd class citizens the responsibility of the sole owner who has to take care of them, treat them as one of the family, dress them up, make them shiny and clean so they can get their owners to and from their jobs and family. America cares about the sale of goods not the use of goods. This is why America will perish from itself.
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  5166. The biggest lie she stated was when she breathed “We would not be okay with this happening in a Third World country.” Thousands of women are raped across Latin and Central America and American women are raped by American men. Camp Lejeune is a case in point. Harvard. Secret Service hiring prostitutes in Columbia. So far none of these rapes have resulted in any prosecutions and jail time for the offenders.
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  5167. A hostage release is not historic. It’s an event in history and that is about it. History is nothing but the actions of people. What people do is what we read about in history books. The mass protests happening around the world is historic the freed hostages a mere moment in history. What is historic about the hostage event is the context. The context is the background of the event, the Whys and How people are used as pawns for superpowers to get their way.
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  5168. I did not know that...do you know what they are looking for and why to justify the raid?
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  5169. ​@Estrogen Fury To prove the raid was not a totalitarian move by the state the documents would have to be de-classified and made public. If it is not made public through a certification of a commission or tribunal of democrats and republicans then the assumption is the government is totalitarian and the national security state is a dictatorship. America is not what Americans think it is. The FBI and AG, the whole national security apparatus are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Either way the behavior of the government increases our disillusionment with the government. Am I wrong following this line of reasoning?
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  5170. @Estrogen Fury Wow...I thought I was talking to an intelligent person...sure fooled me. When a 16 yr old asks a question regarding his thinking and has no experience in politics this is the best you can do is a true disappointment. F off!
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  5171. Trump and Biden are intellectually bankrupt people. Neither have the capacity for real public speaking and neither are leaders like King or JFK. All the great minds in America have been snuffed out. Trump and Biden are what you deserve for following these people.
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  5172.  @freedomishavingachoice3020  Are you sure that is the way it works?
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  5173. Disputes always arise from the changing definition of what is productive and this is always in contrast to old standards.
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  5174. At the same time, the amazing power of labor productivity of the US causes value to spread across a great amount of goods. Capitalism expresses this attribute of labor in gluts in the face of disparity but if workers exploited this attribute of their labor it would be a springboard into a completely changed society because workers have only one aim and that is to promote their productivity of labor. There is a real difference and what I see is the root of all the social inequities in capitalism's labor relations. The difference is surplus-value between the labor productivity workers give employers and the shrinking average labor time employers pay workers for longer hours of work! Therein is the battle.
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  5175. You have no idea who your enemy is. Shut down is imminent, inevitable. People will be working for a long time without pay. @LittleRayOfSnshine69 
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  5176. So getting out of Afghanistan has become escaping Afghanistan! The most powerful nation in the world is powerless to carry out the simplest of tasks,---a circus of dysfunction.
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  5177. Woman were not equal in this society where men dominated and men were not equal where women dominated is what I think.
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  5178. Shows how little you understand and observe of the activities of terrorists. Why would Boko-Haram abduct school kids? Why would white nationalists abduct children? Why would the Catholic Church teach religion at elementary school level kids...to turn them into terrorists, or racists, or catholics, as the case may be. Indoctrination is why. This should be a rude awakening to us all that this is terrorism and until guns are abolished terror violence on both sides will be the norm.
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  5179. A black man spends one half a century behind bars is an America that spits in the face of its own emancipator(s).
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  5180. VENEZUELA ---The lack of unity in Venezuela’s Opposition Party is the lack of unity among Venezuela’s rich elite and foreign interests. Call it the world economy for whatever reasons, or call it Washington sanctions that stifles the growth of capital in Venezuela, and whatever the elites invested in Venezuela oil or other mineral resources foreign extraction and mining companies have been essentially, kicked out of the country! The Opposition Party to whom the Venezuela’s business community belongs has become the sole opposition member to the Maduro regime. This business community cannot win the support of the people. It has to steal it. The greater majority of support of the people in Venezuela back the Maduro regime who takes the country along a different path away from the US and toward China, call this the result of sanctions which stifles development and forces into the arms of another country a neighbor. America’s Good Neighbor Policy was the first policy Neoliberals repealed. The pattern is set for other countries to do the same. Punishing countries ends up damaging the punisher with isolation, scared and alone facing hostile enemies in everyone in the world and projects what it does to people, people are doing to it. Its end makes all its projections against others become real self-inflicted prophecies. The We is what concerns me as this empire comes to an end. We are punished when the punisher is punished. We get caught up in the crossfire. We pay the price the rulers do not. The unfair burden of costs of empire and the price of its collapse is not a cost the government seeks from the super rich in whatever economic sector their wealth is anchored and are responsible for this collapse, is why the business community’s elected representatives can never win a majority and can only win by theft.
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  5181. The mortality rate in California and Texas is high. Life expectancy averages 70. People live longer and happier in Singapore. NY and Chicago and neither are the southern states any better for longevity. This video commentator calls America a first rate nation. By health standards the US and New Guinea Paupau are the only two nations on the planet who do not pay maternity leave and the first five years of a child’s health are the critical years determining the health of that child for its whole life. Yes, life is short in Texas for the main reason I mentioned and for other reasons.
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  5182. I do blame Blinken et al. They choose the side of the .001%; it has happened in the past that capitalism was restrained by government. In my philosophy if something happened before it is possible it can be done again! It takes an absolute moron to not realize that Russia, a land mass three times the size of the US, a population size of 143 million people has no reason to expand into Ukraine. The State Department and Pentagon are ideologues and sycophants who know Russia is not an aggressive expansionist the way Israel is. Employers are organized using their collective power against the workers. Only the unionized workers are only recently organizing their collective power against employers is the reason Capitalism can be unrestrained and have full sway over the market and production where workers make their living..
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  5183. The credit system offers a capitalist, or a person who poses as a capitalist which is all Trump did, millions of people do this, pretend to be what they are not. People who do to have a regular paycheck job, they have to pretend they have assets or property that makes money or the land and building,  diamonds, bonds, stocks, etc., pre-qualify the loan as capital advanced. This is one point why posing is not fraud.  The other point is that the law within limits gives a person total control and command over capital and the property of other's but not the control over the labor of others. Trump is a merchant capitalist as opposed to a industrial capitalist who controls capital and property not social labor.
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  5184. Deploying US troops in Ukraine would resurrect an anti-war movement in the US and a Draft not because American men and women are suddenly anti-war. Vietnam is the only war US troops were used for the duration of that war. Bring our boys home now could be seen on every mother’s face in America in the 1960-70s. When the boys did come back they became anti-war themselves, radicalized, and saw right through the policies of a straight and conservative society, they were completely broken as human beings by the war and psychologically altered. LSD, Agent Orange, Hamburger Hill, Massacre in MiLai. Tet Offensive and Gulf of Tonkin. Since that war the Military Establishment’s primary aim is never to use American boots on foreign ground. American wars since Vietnam became automated wars deploying technology, air and sea support, remote wars of special forces, voluntary and for profit mercenary wars, are not the same as a general draft.
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  5185. Teslas fail because of Tesla not because of frigid temps. They are so into space travel that they forgot chargers and battery cells have to be warmed to prevent freezing on earth. The Russians know this very well. Their cars are plugged in overnight. Something so simple a fix America cannot do. All the fools who bought Teslas only made a weirdo richer.
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  5186. Congress has lost grip on the totality of American society. Activities which are supposed bear life by diligent government controls bring death. All the simple things in life that promoted life have emerged into complex things controlling society and destroying life and Congress is wasting time on hearings that have no bearing whatsoever on the survival of the society.
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  5187. I think it proves a large segment of the American public are reacting to a condition created not of their doing are asked to bear the burden for it, is unreasonable, that they are ready to turn their backs on the democrats.
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  5188. 3rd Party Union, the 3PU for short. It would be an upset and a launching pad for a new generation.
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  5189. @@simonjohn6156 ...billions sounds like an exaggeration.
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  5190. Do people not search all the Youtube videos on how to make your own self-powered air conditioner that works as good?
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  5191. You’d be a fool to believe AI would not be used in the same way and for the same goals as all innovations are used in the capitalist epoch. Workers might be confusing the heavy lifting AI machinery can do with making work lighter and less boring and monotonous but I would tend to doubt the lightness of work AI will bring to millions of jobs will be any less gratifying for the worker, if anything work will be more intensified, pushing work way into a worker’s free time, and/or compounded by the technology. Right when you making out with a new girlfriend your A I boss sends a message to you at 1 AM. You’ll have a government that will regulate your personal time to not interfere with AI functions because as it is, Britain or the US do not have governments that will regulate AI to stay within the legal working day. People in the workforce will still be working beyond what on average is necessary for their reproduction.
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  5192. Too bad the students and faculty haven’t the collective consciousness to unite in an indefinite strike until Ackman takes his money and goes home with his acolytes in Harvard. The place has survived 400 years without him. Kick him out! He is disruptive, uses his money to bait you and then sabotages your practices. Steachers need to stick together.
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  5193. D.A. Pennebaker and Willard Van Dyke were great filmmakers, I was surprised to have stumbled on this video. Man, I admire those workers. I could never tolerate those heights. Pennebaker taught film at the CCNY Picker Film Institute started by Willard Van Dyke, it was a great school of around 30 students of which I was one and made two shorts to my credit. Some may know that Pennebaker made the documentary called Primary, following Hubert Humphrey’s bid for the presidency, an excellent example of the style of documentary film that kept the camera rolling till the subjects being filmed completely forgot the camera was in their presence...and what you got was authenticity. If you have not seen Primary you should, its worth watching.
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  5194. Not true when every department head and individual deny responsibility for their part or lack of part of a prison break to avoid punishment.
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  5195.  @MortVaanderwaal  ...never happen without the military on your side...
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  5196. A bunch of private airline corporations competing to undermine each other for a larger share of a shrinking number of customers...sounds to me like a recipe for disaster for the customer and for the employees of all those private airlines.
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  5197. You really mean politicians undermining the needs of the American people, again. You need a labor movement.
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  5198. This is a very weird channel. Strange and unnatural. They think the flooding is a once in a thousands year freak storm. A flooding that is happening across Europe, the Middle East, and the US almost everyday. Weird people at CBS.
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  5199. They threw out all four of the pillars that hold up western democracies. Dissolved! The Judiciary, Senate, National Assembly, and the Government all dissolved. What is there left to be president over if the pillars of democracy are gone? Nothing. It makes sense that the newly elected president be put on house arrest potentially for his own protection considering that in the streets the military coup has support there may be people out there who would hang the newly elected president as complicit with the old order of foreign colonial rule. This is more than a military coup dé état. It was the final death blow of the monarchy and with it its carbon copy of French colonial democracy, it was a coup de grâce.
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  5200. The middle class, the smaller sections of the middle class are pro-Tump and this means the upper strata of the working class are pro-Trump.  These are people who have property to be conservative about, in an extreme form, at this juncture of the game. "He comes up from down", was the main point of the second Trump supporter, a man who resists the financial manipulations of monopoly corporations.  He's a winner. The Rocky Balboa of the World of Small to Mid-Sized Business.  Big banks are eroding capitalism and politicians are moving toward socialism which implies to this social strata 'Big Government' in the form of Totalitarianism. "He says what he says and he gets things done", he removes the legal and economic barriers for more to become winners in society.  Dissing the commenter for mispronouncing Nobel that if a teacher had done that to you in your past you are paying that forward to someone else in the future is a breech of credibility of the teacher in the past. Reason being is that this social strata has a need for Tax Reform and for the repeal of the Estate Tax, a need for a man who will get things done, fights back against the financial weapons of big banks and against the demands of maintaining the poor social strata of society, is undermined by this ridiculous rant of Cenk and Ana's. Who are these two to ignore the complaints of this highly volatile section of society that in history has played the role of supporting Nazism in Germany? Trump is their man, insult him and you insult them by denying their class struggles with big industry and they will forever be anti-socialist, because the definition of socialism comes to them from a ruling class point of view. Its up to you Cenk and Ana to poke holes in those ruling class ideas and straighten people out! The stereotypes they have engrained into their being come from the ideas and attitudes of the ruling classes about socialism and every other oppressed section of society. These are people who deny native Americans still exist in the US. Raised on history that literally says the end of a race happened on a given date. The world is flat to many of them. The holocaust never took place. They are a new generation who fell into this class of petty bourgeoisie. Next generation raised on ruling class ideas and concepts only.  They are now the new small manufactures, business owners, small landlords, and merchants, independent producers and franchise owners, realtors and retail businesses. Your job is to win hearts and minds to chip away at these delusions with real social science. I hope you stop the ranting and take a political opposition in embryo form, seriously.
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  5201. The question is not what is good for the planet that we should make adjustments to our patterns of production and consumption. It is a question of limits and to what degree of carbon, dioxin and oxygen we produce from our production and consumption kills human life. We and the mammals of the sea and land are susceptible as we share the same anatomy but only we as a species can make the adjustments. Our other distant mammal relatives cannot.
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  5202. A title fit for a child the title caption CNN chose to discuss the systems of the Chinese espionage, a former general “...breaks down the latest on Chinese balloons”.
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  5203.  @motufunguabungsowi8349  LIGHTEN UP!
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  5204. America should be one nation with one national government for the sake of consistency for all 332 million people not a collection of states that can do their own thing...and tiny towns that can do their own thing...there isn’t the space that can absorb an impact of an action that is not felt by another town, city, state or country in this world of 2.2 billion people.
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  5205. You can’t trust the socialists either. Buttigieg in charge of the labor department has father who is a long time socialist. Socialism did not fall far from the tree in the Buttigieg household. But there is another aspect to the lengthening of the working day that Mr. Wolff could have mentioned and added a few more minutes to his video. That is, what happens when the working day is fixed and the capitalist want to increase profits using innovation? How does innovation fit into the scheme of competition that makes each capitalist destroy each other, and doubles the work time while not violating the law?
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  5206. Brazil's president is completely ignoring it. Instead the military has been asked to celebrate the dictatorship of 1964.
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  5207. America’s political class can produced bombs and weapons for war and expansionist imperialism but it cannot educate its children. These kids are headed straight for the military as cannon fodder.
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  5208. Very good video. Oligarchy is not a natural way of production. If we consider Oligarchy a natural mode of production than people will mistakenly believe Oligarchy is a permanent way a society should work its the land and water. Capital is not only a financial entity. Capital are the material elements a labor-process uses, they are the physiological elements of the labor-process working in conjunction with live workers. The tools and raw material, soil, water, seed, machinery come from the need to change nature into a form useful to mankind. The labor-process embodies two relationships; the Oligarchs totally ignore, it embodies the relation between humans and nature...and under the Oligarch form of production the exchange between people and commodities.
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  5209. Pathetic...ABC anchor and street reporter continue to use the term "hazing" after the victim interviewed strips down the word to its real meaning "abuse". No respect.
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  5210. Trump pardoning the rioters would damage Trump after publicly denouncing violence. However, he is smart enough to damage himself, so anything can happen.
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  5211. No enforcement of the laws on the books. Congress gives lip service to Americans and does nothing behind their backs.
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  5212.  @YourMom-cu8yt  ...true but it is not my thinking as much as I was commenting on the original comment of this thread @Satyasya Satyasya.
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  5213.  @satyasyasatyasya5746  I am not so sure revenge is punishment. Revenge has an intention, a motive, to correct a problem is true. But an act of revenge does not succeed to correct a behavior on a social scale. European dynasties were spiteful, revengeful, etc. It got them the guillotine. Punishment is never not a cruel and immoral act, it is always in the mode of being something it is not, deceptive and enigmatic yet a concrete force that forms the basis of social obedience to the Democrats or the republicans for that matter. Call it for lack of something better.
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  5214. I could not agree with you more. Plus the internal wars we are involved as agents and provocateurs breaking down how people work in other societies. Destroying trades, skill practices with alloys, metals, stone work, all the highly skilled handicraft industries that long belonged in the roots of other people we are there to destroy through crisis. America functions through crisis would be wrong. Capitalism functions through crisis would be right and capitalism is most developed in America barring China. China is a huge conflation of crisis for te US. We have this compunction to force other societies into buying the dollar from us as we simply print it and sell it at a premium. It cost money to enforce this. Massive cuts in social spending at home is how they intend to finance the cost. Austerity, crisis and long term recession. Trump is the first one to forecast a recession as a challenge to Biden’s positive outlook on the economy. The economists every where disagree with Trump except where there is no growth in industry, in the US economy. He is directly making this segment of the working class aware there is a veil of illusory numbers in the Biden recovery plan that industrial sector workers in that plan have a bleak outlook. Doubt about the democrats in a time when government statistics are not reflective of reality, Trump is not wrong.
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  5215. This won’t go anywhere. The owners of the properties are the sellers and Congress is responsible for the sale of America as a whole to foreign investors. This governor should crack down on the sellers who are Americans. Instead the governor throws verbal rhetoric that sounds tough at the buyers of properties. If the governor wanted to throw punches at the foreign investment than impose a sales tax high enough to discourage the sale. If some dumb millennial decides to burn the properties that are foreign owned the payout from American insurance companies will cover the losses of the foreign investor. Frankly, this is pure theatrics. Fake anger. Lies.
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  5216. inflation is when the competition is strongest among sellers chasing after fewer dollars they drive the price of goods up.
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  5217.  @SkullyTheHypnoSkull  thx
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  5218. The democratic party is not the party for black people, neither is the republican party but there in the GOP there isn’t a central committee like there is a DNC; at least black leaders are not set up to fail, reaching prominence and success only to fall rapidly. From the beginning, the democratic party had set black people up to fail and they fell into slavery in the 19th century, see the Missouri Compromise, that was a set up, a hundred years later when MLKing was alive the DNC found another way to set black folks up for failure, infiltrating black movements and mass incarceration. From 400 years of slavery to imprisonment. If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em was the wrong position the black community takes ow and in the past. Both parties should be abolished, they come out an age that always had black people fighting each other over crumbs. Mexico abolished the two parties ruling Mexico for over a century...when will America do the same?  @Nirobiscloset10 
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  5219. A race to the bottom...what broke in the business community that made the labor movement come back to life was the business community's decision to export their product and production to China over the last 30 years, beginning in the 1990's under the Clinton administration. Thirteen years before hand, downsizing, bankruptcies, is how the export of production took place side by side with a concentration of capital in the business community. We can trace every social problem the US has to the 1990's the start of the Neo liberal era when Democrats traded domestic issues to capitalize on the diminishing role of the government as a political program to sell to Big Industry in certain sectors of the economy, -- led to a new labor movement.
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  5220. I wonder how much land this particular diocese of Wisconsin owns? Catholic Church is a big landowner. The big land controversy is growing ever since it became public that Bill Gates owns land as big as the State of NY spread over 20 states. The concern is a new landowner on the block the other big landowners will have to take less of the share of the rents accrued from leased land to farmers, educational institutions, medical establishments, universities, youth residential programs, camps.  All this land owned by private people or institutions means less public land. Public land is important; for the Romans it meant the State and Rome as a country. Only citizens of Rome can use the Public Lands of Rome. For Americans it means a strip of land on the highways; its significance reduced to rest depots for trucks, cars and state police. The only real public land left in America are not the national parks. National parks are state property or federal property not public property...the only public land left are the meridian strips of land you see between highways, that's it! Or the shoulder off the country road. If a person got the crazy idea of barbecuing in a meridian actual public land that person would have an easy time not finding a judge t So institution wants no attention drawn to itself and the wayward pastor is sent on sabbatical to reflect.
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  5221. There at the funeral of the Queen is the coming together of western ruling classes of the past and present and there the ruled pay homage to a highly decorated individual. Charles III is only King because British subjects stand in the relation of subjects to him. The masses identify themselves as subjects because Charles III is King. If there were no king the masses would be ...just ordinary people of different shapes, sizes, talents...a real indication a long road lies ahead of humanity before humans learn to live by self-rule as ordinary people and not by class rule as subjects. Its rare the ruled get to see the rulers. But what the masses do not know is the relation of subjects forces rulers into a role that can never allow them to interact as individuals with the world, as a persons of a certain size, shape and talent. Many bodyguards around them interfere with their human interactions and relationships with the people they rule. They can only appear, inter-relate as rulers and subjects in the relation. In a way the relation of subjects is an imprisonment for the people assuming those roles. A determining condition that an existence outside of those roles can only be understood as something foreign, alien or savagely uncivilized from the own point of view rulers and to the contrary, from the point of view of the ruled, the rulers are understood as something heavenly, divine, ethereal, and out of this world as close as one can be to God. Think about it.
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  5222. The weight loss story has a context. Millions of people trying to gain weight in the absence of food across the world as Americans are trying to lose weight in the presence of food corresponds to the uneven proportions and relations between the production, distribution, exchange and consumption of food, and the real needs of people. Gluttony and starvation occurring in the world at the same time among the same species is a real low stage of development for the 21st Century. In the past the way to control people was by taking away their ability to feed, cloth and house themselves. If kept starving they have no time for politics and the rulers can do as they please with no accountability to the masses that put them into power. In the present it is the obsession and preoccupation with food among various individuals that keeps the rulers in power. The social order gets to your mind through your stomach.
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  5223. We cannot expect a better and more peaceful world by a ban on one part of the whole range weapons. War is a ban on Peace.
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  5224. Video editing is a powerful tool for propaganda. CGI, etc. A person can edit video and make any action, subject, or thing not what it is. Both sides do it. Problem comes when people believe in their own propaganda like Tucker here.
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  5225. Exactly Karl Haynes, the 'someone' are the arms manufacturers, oil and mining corporations who want him in office. The Saudis are armed and do the dirty work, the arms manufacturers make huge profits, tax free, the oil and mining corporations get the land, get the geological resources of Syria, the US military gets strategic positioning closer to Iran the crown Jewel of the Middle East. The American public, in whose name, the US conducts its affairs, trashed to no end but given a partial tax benefit at the expense of their children's future become the most hated people in the world for doing nothing in this ferocious and barbaric bloodletting largest the world has ever seen.
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  5226. Talban might be doing the Americans a favor by steering people away from the airport!
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  5227. Barbaric and dumb, pure arrogance.
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  5228. Yes. The mass of people scraping by on part time jobs will negotiate using the cost of living index to find the current level of wages and the part timers will be compelled to bargain on a fetishistic basis of the social character of college administrators. Contract Bargaining prefaces a class struggle between part timers and administration. I would reject doing business through collective bargaining as a union leader. Timing is ripe for a Fight Back! It is not by accident that health and mortality rates of workers are lethal. It is harm caused by the job these rates are the hard facts of a ferocious class battle against the working class. To find out what is the best deal for part timers I think fighting for a greater share of the market basket is best strategy for this period we are experiencing. A general fight back.
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  5229. The first sign Putin meant business was when all Russians were evacuated to Russia from Ukraine earlier on. When it happened I thought would JFK evacuate NYC and Washington D.C., the way Putin evacuated Russians from Ukraine? I know Biden wouldn’t. First of all evacuation from America’s big cities is impossible, the evacuation routes are county roads of the last century. Missiles from Cuba meant inevitable death for the eastern seaboard in 1960. It was swift, orderly, planned and provided food and shelter in Russia, he really took care of his own was clever and it meant Russians in Ukraine were out of the way for a major assault, if the security needs of Russia continued to be ignored by Stoltenberger of NATO on Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Ukraine. Russia totally surrounded her, leaving the Ukrainian government and its armed population to fight if necessary for its autonomy without NATO or back under the rule of Russia. JFK came a hairline away from launching nuclear war with the Russians, he did not have much choice in the matter if the Soviets do not remove the missiles from Cuba. But Russia does have choices which raises my suspicions. An anti-war movement has sprung up in Russia which may have to go underground from the looks of the ferocity of the state to suppress this movement has still awakened a movement for a wave of strikes and protests, largely, aimed at Putin’s social circles of Russian Oligarchy at whom US sanctions are aimed, that this competition leading to war is a war of empires. A higher escalation but a continuity of the last century’s historical pattern of empire and revolution; an avenue for the expropriated to overthrow the expropriators on both sides of the Atlantic.
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  5230. Right wing violent anarchism is on the side of the right wing of neoliberalism, serving as a left wing tool in the total choas stirred up by conspiracists and provocateurs, while GM is one of 500 transnationals accumulating wealth extracted from their workers world wide and you are advocating what again?
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  5231. You can see the smirk at his opening introduction that he knows this is bullshit and is only capitalizing on the event. Poor guy...my heart bleeds for him, getting sprayed with silly string by a bunch of boys wearing shorts and sneakers. Sky New Australia...keeps trying though.
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  5232. Poor mother who’s living situation is a “social condition” not a retirement. Nobody talks about their kids better off than they were when they were 40 years old. Its just an accepted plain fact that prosperity is dead in America. At age 40 if this were the year 1965, Junior would have had the life of the Brady Bunch and Partridge Family even if they were alcoholics. But its 2023, and junior lives at the end of the cycle economic prosperity turning the back yards of America into Hoovervilles.
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  5233. Landlords control the government in the city. Rents are so high the streets are empty of people. Businesses do not move in...people stay away. One store stands out the product they sell is a high and... Landlords have control of the city. City government has been hijacked from its residents. Manhattan is an Opiate City dominated by a class of landowners.
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  5234.  @ladyfame1430  ...capitalism is the crisis? A world wide exchange process comes out of the antithesis between use-value and value and this develops the money form. Gluts, drought, shortages, internal warfare, keep the price of commodities high and sustains, maintains the money-form. Capitalism and the money form are synonymous, if that helps. Housing prices high and the financial sector's crisis, sovereign debt crisis, bring about a coordinated assault on social spending. The crisis disguises the assault on ordinary people is to make ordinary people pay up through the above mentioned actions... ...republicans are pursuing fascism and big tech is helping them. Ordinary people must take a political stand against the assaults perpetrated out of the antithesis i mentioned, together. Come Together. There is no socialism in America, it was all crushed before you were born odds are. The assaults are not opposed by a political opposition in Washington, the republicans in the pursuit of fascism, have no opposition and this makes ordinary people exposed to the victimization I mentioned above. The broken ordinary individual working families who are excluded from the Washington clique with all their baggage, hang-ups, frailties and fears, have to come together, organized, and make their presence felt in a big way against the forces culling a dictatorship or live as victims for life!
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  5235.  @ladyfame1430  You will. Great handle BTW.
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  5236. I take it the historic conflict for this generation is the conflict between empire or revolution. If the Human Race is to survive self-annihilation and all societies are interested in their survival will it survive by empire or by revolution?
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  5237. To understand what capital is, and what landed property is, and what wage-labor is, and what the State really is, and what foreign trade is, and what the world market is, you have to understand what a commodity is, and what money is, and what simple circulation is, and what capital in general is, before you can make some assessment of the real world. If you don't have these basic tools in your head the world of capital will appear to you as accidental and predestined that these social classes have emerged not from the exploitation of humanity but from the hand of God such as how Mike Pence understands the world of capitalism. Not as a system that is subject to history but through the use of force abolishes history in a totalitarian form.
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  5238. Cheney may have laid the ground rules for the expansion of US hegemony but Trump is carrying them out. Cheney is out of power, although a criminal by many standards, he is not in power at the moment.
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  5239. How long before death occurred? What was the temperature during the time the dog was contained in the car? The social scale of the horrible and reckless neglect by people who never should have animals to begin with is too severe on the animal population and the same dam thing is true of the scale of neglect of each other is too severe on a human population who take it out on an animal population. We are all too easily conditioned by this culture of reckless neglect and false thinking around the issue brings it all closer to ruin. Delivering knowledge and enlightenment in a mass way is the only way eradicate this ignorance.
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  5240. “Why would you want people get back in their cars in the middle of an oil embargo?” A valid question with an answer that many Americans cannot accept...coming from America’s politicians...this comes from the fact that the Establishment kicked and jailed all the immigrants and created a labor shortage; the average working class will have to take the jobs the immigrant filled. Another reason is economic, money does not grow on trees, labor is only useful to employers when it is producing value.
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  5241. If it were not for the fact that human beings have a limit of human endurance capital would push day into night. False, it pushes day into night and big pharma numbs the mind and body from its effects in the process. If upgrades in the office or factory happen and the old machines are replaced with new ones the life expectancy of the new technology is reduced to half when they are worked on a 24 hour basis versus being worked under daytime hours. Companies are free to double the rate of exploitation and the rate of consumption in two ways. By doubling working hours they reduce the life-expectancy the technology on the books. This results in a higher savings a company realizes when it deducts the investment capital in the new technology as per the US tax code. Main beneficiaries are the machine making industries. Big Pharma purchases of pill producing technology are capital depreciation allowances. The tax code enables them to retain and recover their investment and most of the surplus value. It has the same effect as reducing their capital costs. The added bonus is the workday doubled the eight hour day in a 24 hour relay system. The workers are subject to abuses indirectly. People do not see it or feel it. Sense it perhaps but not enough to cause a work stoppage. Shift work does not violate the work day. The gig economy where people carry more than one part time job does not violate the workday. Yet, in both cases the work day of two shifts in one day and the gig economy doubles the workday doubles the workday for the company while it remains unchanged for the individual worker. Mortality rates bear the consequences as working for a capitalist enterprise wears down the health of the public to severe levels raises the wealth these corporate entities accumulate for themselves as a consequence. The workers with the least protection number 70% of America's workforce. Because they are the largest cohort without protections they are the first to become pacified with an opiate pandemic in order to sustain the abuses and the economic injustices the accumulation of capital entails. As an outsider looking in the failure of workers to take a political stand on the length of their workday and the right of access to the necessaries of life describes the American situation as a historic tragedy.
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  5242.  @Monsposse  What are you worth?
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  5243. If you were alive in the 1850s you did not have to worry about machinery and modern industry suffocating life on the planet.  Only Londoners in Great Britain at the time as the only industrialized nation on earth had to worry about the effects on the environment by the rise of the modern factory. The factories, blast furnaces, steam engines, coal furnaces, being used by 27 million Londoners created the filthiest city in the world with the worst air quality. Victorian England was a dangerous place to live in more ways than one. By the 1950s productivity in industry and general employment of the population was made more regular. The combustion engine emitting diesal carbon fuel particles was still not enough where the environment would rapidly change from machinery and industry powered by coal and oil by 50 million people in Great Britain alone. However that number of people is multiplied by the number of industrialized cities in the world to get a sense of the real environmental impact of human industry. By the 1950s the science collected from around the world would have sufficient data to directly link human changes to environmental changes made by modern industry were undermined by industry executives serving in governments. This is the situation we find ourselves fighting American energy executives obstructing any human progress that might be made on industry, in particular the fossil fuel industry. The four seasons are two seasons with short intervals of fall and spring that employment and the different cotton and wool manufacturing industries on the planet would effect the quality and quantity of products derived from agriculture.
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  5244. Fox is talking to the people who were not part of the attempted insurrection not calling it an insurrection so they do not lose the people were there to express their contempt for democrats as evil, demonic, and surreptitious communists. The insurrectionists are a small part of that social group not affiliated with the military.
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  5245. War is not the only thing the US military does...it also delivers milk!
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  5246. With a law in force granting immunity to executives and they still want to suppress the data of casualties in nursing homes presupposes the law is not written in stone. Sometime in the future they could be tried for 15,000 deaths when the winds of politics change. Vanishing the lives of 15,000 people is a crime to the living who belong to those fatalities. Erase the dead and you erase the living in the personal genealogy of those families, there will be a blank about what happened to that man or woman as a relation. This is an abomination of an act to bestow upon a public by a public official. Not one person in the future will answer the question a child will ask when they want to learn where and who their grandparent was except their parents but as far as society is concerned that grandparent is that child's figment of their imagination. Sorry, there is no record of this person. What happens if the deceased left a fortune and heirs are to be determined? What happens when the personal data of the deceased are stolen and sold s new identities for other living people? What happens to the person trying to prove they are not a relation? Cuomo is man of low integrity, a shameless creature to have done this...were the social security funds of the deceased 15,000 souls absconded by Cuomo and the executives before those too expired via 15,000 forged death certificates?
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  5247. COP Capitalism is where profits can be made without polluting the earth.
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  5248. There are Russian troops in southern Ukraine moving northward, why is that not discussed in this analysis?
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  5249. The Pentagon is not there for you America. As the reporter said 'they are playing it down'. Refusal to acknowledge they provide the means to would-be terrorists, fascists, dictators and assassins.
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  5250. Financial circles doubt Venezuela will come up with the money. I take it the 'financial circles' are on Wall Street. Friends of Hillary.
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  5251. Amazing how biological evolution is so poorly understood in America.
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  5252. The standard of living of this social class of billionaires draws a larger income from the total economic surplus, that is the problem. The lifestyle is luxury consumption. Billionaire consumption is a social paradox but it means there is an overflowing of an economic surplus that the concentration of profits of one billionaire is larger than another billionaire's concentration of profits and dividends reflects. But when you add them together they draw most of what society produces. This tells us this is a monopoly of the economic surplus in the form of a concentration of profits and dividends that one billionaire in relation (Trump) to all the rest (Bezos, Buffet, Gates, Soros) has interests that no longer correspond and the economic surplus is spent at the expense of the crumbling surroundings of society where a larger and larger social class work for crumbs have no access to the economic surplus but have to produce it, is the problem!
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  5253. Touchy subject, a soreness on the psyche of America.
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  5254. Truth is, Olberman and Moore are the right and left versions of appropriation of a product that is not their's.
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  5255. Anyone who believes America is not a racist country is a person who has never experienced racism has never been outside of the country and a person who has never been to enough countries to know that all nations that are heterogenous by population are racist and would be presenting to the you a false image of the United States as free of racism. Racism has many forms...indeed it does. This comment I write is only for the wise. The wise can see the right and the left are not honest with the people.
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  5256. I wouldn’t rest my laurels on how good unions are. A working class made up of two classifications and treated accordingly as not the same is an inequality in society. The greater evil to avoid and prevent from ever taking a grip on society is the social inequality, and unions are a good way to make people unequal. Practically speaking, a non-union worker and a union worker do not share the same economic interest defines how they are kept separated works out as a rivalry, envy, jealousy, a social competition between them. If a president slaps a tariff on a Chinese imports the price of American EV car shoots through the roof, is good for the union worker at Ford Motor Company but at the expense of the non-union worker outside of the plant who has to pay the higher price for a EV car not as good as the Chinese EV car. The outcomes of this action and dynamic lowers wages for the non-union workers. Its either one big union or no union at all that ensures there is no inequality staged for the working class. In this sense, a very real sense, unionization, treating one small group special in order to exploit the larger group presupposes a long term, generational, in fact, presence or intent for the on-going exploitation of the whole working class .
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  5257. The right wing is F’Nuts!. They would file right in line with an Inquisition. God versus the Godless. What poison of the Mind. Jesus Freaks!
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  5258. It is a good show...but if I were a Marxist I'd form a political party or an international association of labor where the principals are not compromised by the bourgeois order. Makes no sense to surround yourself in that order because it will force you to become the order in some way or another. Assuming one is true to revolutionary principals the social order drowns it out. The university system and the lower educational system is the ruling intellectual force of society. This is how individuals are inducted to accept the political, class and social structure. People are pigeon holed as an embodiment of the prevailing ideas of their time period. Considering the dismal failure of the Democratic party to fight for this mass of individuals in society the professors of this persuasion should charter an outside and independent organization and let the masses directly scrutinize an association or party as consistent with the ideas and needs of the working class to whom they wish to speak.
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  5259. A “MUST” read for anyone interested in visiting Mexico’s fabulous ruins is the novel “AZTEC” by Gary Jennings. As a historical novel the archeological evidence of the buildings is explained in vivid scenes evoking your imagination...you’ll book a ticket, after the read. Better than Foerster’s nonsense as an introduction to Mayan history by way of Aztec histories. Aztec is a masterpiece of a page turner, you will not believe what you are reading the story line and main character’s life and travels is so amazing, ‘nuff said.
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  5260.  @podnolej7784  I am aware of that, thx.
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  5261. So, ---indirectly Ukraine wins the war but at a much higher cost than Russia. Cost in the sense that the average Ukrainian will have to work more and be taxed higher as their country opens up to big money foreign investment. They lose their farms, and farmers, they lose their way of life and all the domestic industries farming generated. Ukraine increases its territory but has no capital to develop production in the territories it gained. The price of government services goes up in Ukraine but for Russia who loses the war social spending is cut back in order to re-constitute itself. Taxes will be paid as they always have but they will cease to be capital investment in Russia. They will, instead, become a disbursement of revenue. While the winner must sell its land to raise revenue for capital investment, repair the damage the war inflicted. Ukraine will have more land to sell at low prices to foreign investment to buy and move their production on the newly acquired land. Ukrainians become a workforce for Amazon and Walmart. While mining and drilling import their workers from the US and Europe. The largest foreign investor in Ukraine is most likely to be the US corporations, partly the European foreign powers will want a pice of that action, but for Ukraine’s tax structure will be of no consequence to foreign investment. All this accomplished one thing, the oil and gas market, is now redivided among oil and gas producers at the expense of Russia and strategically China is buffered as a new Cold War emerges.
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  5262. We have to be mindful that the super rich elite are more than one and international constitutes a social class. But I believe Anand G, has the tax relationship the other way around. We do pay for the tax cuts in a societal way. Assume the total wealth of society to be 100 trillion. If I cut taxes on the rich by 40%, 40 trillion is deducted from the $100T and 60 trillion is left to fund all social programs. The logical republican position is to eliminate the social programs so that society can function without dying on 60 trillion. The democratic position is to save the social programs from elimination and appropriate more money, borrow the money from the super rich, or China, if need be, to fund the social programs and subsidies including those the corporations and wealthy receive and keep the military top brass happy living in military luxury.  The president's position in relation to the $40 trillion gained is to appropriate it to the military, build a wall, enhance law enforcement. This way 330 million American license plates reveals to law enforcement where to arrest a person and continue enlarging the prison system by throwing them into jail. The next president that comes into power will have ultimate authority in spending the $40 trillion that every year is accumulated in the treasury for the president to use, i.e., 40, 80, 160 trillion $ surplus etc. Of course, this is a budget that has no balance of payments or defects, subtract those numbers from the total and you arrive at the actual wealth of the nation that social programs will compete for survival from a smaller pool of capital and it would be up to the military to insure the next president gives them more in the next budget because the accumulated capital has compounded. Thus the cycle of appropriation and accumulation of the nation's wealth becomes the property of the government not that of society, it never ends but gets larger till something causes it to fail. The question I have of you is what candidate on the left has even discussed how they will befriend the military and the public at the same time? Once in office it is either one side or the other that a new president must make the choice. Increasing taxes on social security is a form of transferring the fund from the public to the private sector. In my view, American working people have a fight on their hands, anyone who has an employer will be subordinated to the job at the employer's absolute discretion (power) because the president and the Congress have removed government from the workplace.
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  5263. To measure a real need from a fake one; compare the reactions to winning a fake lottery ticket on a billionaire to that of a working man.
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  5264. Americans live in a failed state.
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  5265. Astonishing the British people interviewed are that shallow and selfish about this conflict. They bury their heads in the sand.
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  5266.  @denuncimesmo2568  You fail to understand, the planet is a living planet.  Its the totality of human activity in relation to a living planet is the issue not the degree of polluting capacity of each nation that is of concern here.
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  5267.  @denuncimesmo2568  Then the argument is settled, to summarize, science documents the effects of actions of mankind in production and consumption, to be two moments of a totality, into which, we change the environment with more carbon than oxygen and hydrogen or some other combination thereof, and this environment changes mankind. The theory of natural selection functions to combine genetics and environmental action as forged into a species by a variety of elements. In the same way, the function of work in the world of human beings combines science and industry, in a variety of species and sub-species of work, are legislated and ordained to not be broken. Giving rise to a perpetual process, ceaseless, the more people work for it, regulated by it, conform to its premises, the worse it gets.
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  5268.  @denuncimesmo2568  in the case of genetic 'designer' embryo research science goes forward at the behest of private interests despite the social implications. Society in the form of the State is MIA, because this administration does not want to be bound by any treaty or obligation whatsoever. Not in the world of capital, each capitalist society is a representative of, and owner of commodities, they relate to each other as owners through a sale, and everything that went into that sale is traceable to its raw material elements, combinations of science, labor and matter, when set into motion to produce a form, no less, something useful. Science, is in the back ground never up front in direct relationship between labor and matter except in the service of capital. Beyond that the split between science and society is the Great Divide between citizens and industry as all its capabilities are concentrated in the Public Domain heisted by pirates. Science is partial to capitalist development but can exist without it, a duality of existence, in conflict with itself about its non-applicability in everyday life versus all its mental talent congealed in toothpaste as a commodity. Question arises for scientists on the nature of scientific work, about how partial is science under capitalism?  P.S. I respect your opinions so far.
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  5269.  @denuncimesmo2568  Bolsonaro is a dangerous man! The way you will know the whole society has been converted over to capitalism is when everyone heads to a Walmart and not the local marketplaces for their food and other necessities. That is a sign that manufacturing has turned what was a collective community of private producers into 'free individuals', free from the land and free from the means in the rainforest that maintains a hydrological cycle and their lives. Property laws change into a force of another, science becomes a force of another, and a long journey begins once a working class is born toward becoming a united social class...as it learns of its identity as a social class and begins to make its own history, instead of, living a passive life.
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  5270. Taking a break..
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  5271. Yet the businesses were not reciprocal with the artist. He gives them a piece of art for free which enhances their business. (I would have given him from my store what I would consider an equal value for his labor.) This is called reciprocity. Gratitude and he helped me I help him is cooperation. Americans have these traits built into their society. Reciprocity, Gratitude and Cooperation. Three value traits Americans give to employers willingly but repress for reasons unknown..when it comes to being that way among themselves? True, we are not sure the businesses declined these kind actions to the artist. Why that would not be a part of the story in my opinion makes the story weak. The story was about people relating to people on a given need. Its about a barter relationship in a community that can spread. One use-value ( the art) in exchange for another use-value (food, moving help, mechanical repairs) circulates among many businesses and individuals. Its really a story about an entirely new form of economy in budding shape without money or credit financing being involved created in front of your eyes and the reporter missed this entirely. Maybe the reporter did cover this as a potential solution to inflation and recession killing small business in the original story and it got edited out...we cannot tell for sure but it is certain that an answer to economic dilemmas was not told in the story. Its not a story of a man donating his labor for nothing to help bleeding businesses. That would be a story about how that artist can survive doing good work on the side.
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  5272. Why not just, "Now!" So you walk in blind and come out reborn.
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  5273. Well, if the Chinese attack and the US declares war don’t expect any support from here.
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  5274. These skills of confrontation is what the American working class need as a whole, dealing with its political and economic enemies, of which there are many, specifically among others the Oil Companies. Most important because our home is threatened by the extraction corporations all over the world supplying 2.2 billion vehicles and 2.2 billion people day in and day out, repeating the same action endlessly, generation after generation, burning fuel never giving a single thought of the compounding effect of all individual actions added together. There are betters ways to put food on the table and pay the bills than cutting your life short from over work, over-production and over-consumption. Raping the Earth to supply oil for you the consumer is resented by the producer who punishes the consumer with higher gas prices for becoming the corrupting source of society's decline. Together with the GOP and the democrats are not innocent of this abusive relationship they have toward seniors, children, widows, is about taking away their rightful amount of social security income and education for the kiddies, and benefits the widow of a worker receives is forever finagled by government functionaries, basically bullying working people and the poor around the world. No vaccines for you these are my property I am going home say the American pharmaceutical corporations to the sick and COVID-DELTA infected. I wonder how many Christians work for Pfizer and Moderna working for a company that denies an antidote to the sick? Allowing opportunists like FOX News using images to twist reality. The one to one relationships class relationships in society where one party is unequal to the other party, whatever that inequality may rest on, are the same dynamics of the strong bullying the strong together but keeping them weak apart, isolated and feeling powerless.
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  5275. Finally a piece of honesty that American working class are the most "kept" people on earth. If both political parties were honest I could deal with it but they lie about their oppressive actions.
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  5276. Who is this Porter woman another progressive social democrat? The best analogy I can give that nails a social democrat as actually more anti-working class than the conservative right wing are the labor unions. Trades Unions work well as centers of resistance against the encroachments of Big Business. Progressives work well as a pocket of resistance against political republican encroachments. But both of them, unions and social democrats, fail in the injudicious use of their power, they limit themselves to the effects of the existing corruption on he working population, instead of using their forces as levers to free working people from the corruption, that is to say the ultimate aboliton of corruption.
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  5277. At 10:40 “...The Chancellor alongside the car magates”, in other words, western capitalists operating in the same industry and the government from Germany are reacting to losing the world market to China like a baby cries in soiled diapers. Too late to sabotage China’s progress with electric cars. What are they going to do about that... and they have problems at home with their own labor-force, a problem China does not have?
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  5278. Farmers would have to renounce their association and affiliation, political support to corporations if they want my support. I have been through Asia and there is no food shortage in Asia, South and Central America. In the global south the large farmers produce for the American market. China feeds 2.2 billion people....food is not a commodity and, therefore, not a problem. This crisis is unique to the west because food in the west is a commodity and where commodities are sold the highest is where the food goes. The crap food goes to markets where food prices are cheap. An apparent unequal distribution of food as food is not produced for need in the west. Fertilizer is not the problem when it used to produce food not products for sale in vast quantities generating obesity and disease and increases the use of fertilizer with consequences to the environment; food as a commodity is your problem.
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  5279. You don’t think the motive to save humanity from an asteroid is sincere? You are crazy if you do. This is coming from NASA founded by a former Nazi in 1949. NASA is run and operated by the only and the first government that used nuclear weapons in 1945. Don’t you think what they are calling a planetary defense really means testing military weapons in Space? I do. Everything in America is a double. This has nothing to do with saving humanity. If it were they would not be involved in killing humanity on Earth.
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  5280. This is why the Wall is nothing more than chimera used as a hot button political issue between conservatives and liberals because Americans are easily scared they vote out of fear. The average American farmer hires migrants at less the cost they would hire an American worker to pluck the food that ends up in our supermarkets. What say you about the demand that is created for this labor-power? To satisfy this demand for cheap labor the border is made to look closed when it is actually open and, consequently, the door is wide open for gangs in Central America, El Salvador, and Ecuador, in South America, to enter the US or face a crackdown locked up in prison the gang members are running from. Conservatives like Bukele, a darling for American conservatives, is actually supplanting El Salvadorans furnishing the labor American farmers and employers buy cheap. This is a catastrophe made by liberals and perpetuated by conservative who make up Washington foreign policy Establishment. M sense is that the Establishment did not think the flow of migrants would be this bad as populations from small nations are expunged from their war ravaged societies.
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  5281. @501 amiga --- Where in Das Kapital can I find that quote?
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  5282. The rate at which disaster are hitting American communities is far more damaging than the American Rescue Package can restore, protect and preserve of what is destroyed by the high frequency of floods, blizzards, hurricanes, tornados and fires. The help does not come fast enough and America has a Congress the does not do anything. The republic in Washington gives a dam about the rest of the country only if it benefits the republic and not the country.
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  5283. As long as NOAH's agency managers are going to cave to Trump's ridiculous Dorian prediction and psuedo-science, NOAH cannot be trusted with the science and technology in their hands. The Public cannot have confidence in any science not in the interest of the society as long as it is partial to any political entity.
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  5284. You cannot trust the generation in America born in the 1980s, they are a generation raised by violence.
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  5285. Great critique from a republican of the far racist right wing Trump is.
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  5286. Its not a minority who are critical of having a monarchy, its a growing majority, the reporter minimizes the issue. And, what is more, the cost of postage stamp multiplied by 365 days a year adds up that a Monarchy absorbs from the average British citizen. Monarchies are not a one day party, its a lifestyle, that consumes a lot of the society’s resources the society is deprived of exploiting for itself.
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  5287. The State of New York has One Million Cops, Ukraine is about the same size as Texas. Texas is about 6 times larger than New York, you would need 6 million cops to control 29 million Texans to 8.419 million New Yorkers. Ukraine has 41 million people in it, you would need a force of 8 million to control/hold Ukraine. Putin has 150,000 troops moving in and out of Ukraine. Obviously, the Pentagon analysts and the president are lying to you. You can’t do anything on the order Biden is suggesting with 150, 000 troops except conquer Rhode Island and its one million residents. Biden and the Pentagon must think you are really stupid to fall for this. Its all theatrics, there is no invasion and never will be as for Ukraine’s president, his dream of Ukraine becoming a part of the west he emulates will never happen. Oh, and the other thing the Pentagon and Biden are banking on is that you have no memory of the losses in World War II that makes war in Europe a thing of the past. To insure that you are indoctrinated enough to fall for their lies and propaganda it is insured you will never have access to the history books; school is canceled due to Coronavirus.
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  5288. Let me guess; your grandparents were born here right?
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  5289. You are a native American then? As a native American you are the only one with the right to pass judgement on new immigrants. Everyone else have no right. @db3467 
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  5290. Two years of lock down in the pandemic, naturally, Americans want to get out....during the lock downs Americans refused to go in, so you can imagine the urge of the less rambunctious social groups were happy to be at a parade never expected they would be fired upon by a young acolyte Neo-Nazi sniper with AK-47 no less. Americans have to ask themselves what makes a Nazi, if indeed this kid is a Nazi? I suspect he is. Probably bullied and then parents lost control over his education and parenting; most likely the kid was raised by the internet. Seeking answers to the world’s problems he could not figure out on his own from bizarre conspiracy theorists in nearly every subject in America is enabled by the free market of social media giants profiting from social crisis to crisis.
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  5291. During the Great Depression the Dust Bowl engulfed the Southwest and the government came up with a solution borrowed from ancient agricultural methods the Inca used. The government under the New Deal made steps of different grade heights of huge tracks of land that would contain water longer, slow down the evaporation rate, than if the land were flat and the soil were baking under the sun. It worked, obviously, this generation would have starved if it did not work. But this government is not a New Deal Government, its a Free Market Government, a government whose mission is not to intervene in the interest of humanity. A government that intervenes when its defenses are threatened not a government that intervenes when its people are threatened. So there is a difference between what national interest means to you and what it means to Washington that most on average think nothing about and is key to how events are more planned than you think they are causal. This government will do nothing about a drought or a dust bowl is the difference between my generation and the ones living this nightmare experience today. You either have the money and assets to rebuild or you don't and the market eroding the value of your assets the race for survival intensifies a conflict between capital and labor in states hat run dry of their resources. Capital can leave the state, labor cannot, bear that in mind every state can see their future in the state capital left behind, so if you think California sucks and all the corporations move to Texas. In another 30 years, less than one lifetime Texas will look like California socially does today, a 'cesspool of hedonistic desires'.
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  5292. Law Enforcement must be DE-POLITICIZED. Stripped of all political influence and have no political power at all in any state house in this country.
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  5293.  @fzakrzewski  a death squad.
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  5294. Build up more freight and consume more coal.
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  5295. Interim governments perpetuate civil society the point of a revolt is to change civil society not keep it intact. In civil society only the powerful have a voice. Haitian people are powerless in Haitian civil society. It is the Haitian people who must change from powerless in their current situation to having power over their own lives and well being.
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  5296. You mean the notion of transporting equipment and material by the river itself has not crossed their minds.  Am I missing something here?
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  5297. Awesome and funny...wonderful world.
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  5298. The mission ought to be a multi-pronged mission, part rescue, part retrieval, part distribution of products, part installation of heat and hot water, and part evacuation where necessary, a full intervention, eventually the army corp replaced by civilians to run the system.
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  5299. I suppose now all that is needed to sustain the under-development of the middle and working classes is having to borrow money at high rates. At that point you may officially refer to the US population as living under the same conditions of a Third World country.  Forever stuck with a loan repayment passed down to you kids when you die! Washington, Wall Street and the Corporations have prescribed a perfect cocktail of low wages and high prices for this racist scapegoating to work. An old trick developed by the Nazis, the Big Lie. It appears, hook, line and sinker the US population fell for it, and as heading down the path of economic stagnation and fascism, working in America just went from bad to worse! Of course, so far the Neo-Nazis that have come to light are either kids themselves or boys in men's bodies.  Not individuals of working class families but are isolated workers, detailed workers, unskilled workers and alienated individuals who do not support another mouth to feed but are supported by some other social arrangement.
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  5300. Awesome. As I hoped...the right course of action at hand.
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  5301.  @kimcheezy3433  ...and the US legal and modern framework was developed by the British and the British the Romans, etc. One exception the US framers wrote a Constitution into which the few are always the winners and the many the losers is the distinguishing feature from the European experience in the Age of Enlightenment. Technically, all the immigrants from the 1800s, dumb and illiterate, had no clue they would become a great mass of losers. 13 amendments in over 200 years establishes a check and balance with a Veto override in case an amendment is passed that harms the very rich in power proves that point. So, in effect there is nothing unique or original about the US, except that it is the first time the very rich robbed America to make it a Shangri-la (a Utopia or before you were born was called a “capitalist communism”) for the whole capitalist class. Maybe your world will make more sense from that perspective.
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  5302. Does it cost more in lives if you do not close down all transportation?
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  5303. US Government can't pass any legislation to transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy because an Oil Oligarchy dominates the US government, but the mass of people who pay the war in lives and money continue to permit the spending $300 million per day on the military to fight a war because an Oil Oligarchy dominates the US government. In effect the $300 million dollars per day spent on war and not spent on the people whose money it belongs is a joint decision made by Congress a decision made on behalf and by the Oil Oligarchy. What is even more absurd; the mass of people who pay in money and lives for war are the producers of oil who can just as easily take over the refineries and produce oil for use ending the reign of a tiny oil oligarchy who produce oil for exchange and thus proceed to make the transition to renewable energies and force a mandatory national renewable energy policy through Congress in a controlled and organized way for this transition to take place.
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  5304. Employees Unite!
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  5305. Its no secret China is surrounded by the US.
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  5306. To achieve a true classless society and one where everyone has enough and owns property you need a worker’s political party. This is to gather all the working class social groups under one party headline, full inclusion of productive forces of society to all members, and take the White House. The delegates of this worker’s party stand ready to act as a government in all cabinet positions and also to serve in Congress and begin the process of dismantling the ‘bourgeois state’.
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  5307. I am not aware of moms and dads who pay their taxes and are not aware. I think they are hyper aware the world’s rapid social transformation and shield themselves from that change with their money, power, and resources going to the most vocal defender of their way of life. I think the US government is collecting taxes to pay off its debt to China from households regardless of the social composition of the family and this is why the society cannot function. America is all form and no function. The social structure of the US is built on a nucelar family of the 1950s when families were the same. For that family America today works and functions but that is a minority and this small section of society as a social unit is a source for the environmental imperialism the anchor talks about. In my neighborhood there are only two intact families with two parents and kids and I am not even sure the kids are the offspring of both parents, doubtful, they are. My neighborhood has a total of 14 homes taken as a sample of the larger society I suspect the ratio would be around 1 and four families are a nuclear family. Beyond that tiny minority are homes containing single women or paired gay men, or single men, or paired gay women, and largely of mixed race. Thus, if I were to point the finger at a population regardless of social background and social class I would have to call out the Baby Boomers and the Millennials driving the social inequality in society, the former in charge of the corporations and the latter work for the corporations, constitute a part of the elite. Of course, the Greening of the world by elites is purely all form and no content, all cosmetic, all fake environmentalism in order to extract the necessary resources the land provides regardless of national boundaries and against the national sovereignty of people in other nations including the sovereignty of its population.
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  5308. Well I would agree but the collection of democratic individuals caring for one another in their jobs has to be based on a collective ownership of the capital that employs them so that the more the workers produce less of the economic surplus-value end up enriching a capitalist class and more of it enlarges the working class to the point that class distinctions disappear because everyone is of one class. At which time the vanguard leading this social transformation can dissolve itself as a state. People who live like Donald Trump that have more than one mansion would have to content themselves with taking part in production and lose the mansions and people who never worked would have to learn to work not steal, rob, and con for a living but be given healthcare, a job, an apartment and expect to be part of a larger project for change, and people in the middle could remain as they are while the two upper part of the society comes down from a high level of personal consumption of a material level of life and the ones at the bottom rise up to a middle level of material life, and hopefully all can partake in the dissolution of the state. A massive re-education project that teaches a new generation why the bourgeois state must go and why the socialist state is no longer necessary. The problem is; who starts and takes the lead in the beginning of this revolution that is more realistic in a country where the power of labor is high enough to support wide affluence but in history has happened only in countries where affluence was missing?
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  5309. Learning what capitalism is will come the hard way for Americans. Crisis is what keeps the prices of goods high, this makes gluts, droughts, internal warfare, shortages, illness and disease, all very favorable conditions for corporations to make money. People trying to buy a home for the first time are exceedingly pushed out of the market due to high home prices, food and durable goods. Prices rise only when there is a demand and to create a new demand planned obsolescence was enough. Still in practice it is not enough. The rich were not as rich as today that the cost to keep them rich is too high for society to bear is what makes it not enough. Must squeeze out the maximum people can offer of their lives and time to the bottom line. Creating demand out of a population that has everything already, too much, more than one family needs. Destruction of products, land, a crisis does the job. Prices stay high while products are made cheap would allow but does not for a better life. All the corporations and politicians are dead silent about the drought and fires, floods, and civil and social unrest, riots, arsons, and plant explosions, you name it...its all good for business but none of it is kind to humanity, all of it lethal! Europeans did not have to experience capitalism unbridled in real time the way Americans will. The sovereign debt crisis fomenting in American capitalism, austerity and natural disasters and no recovery except by one's own boot straps is a theory not working for the elder gentlemen who lost him trailer home in the California wildfire. This would never happen in western Europe, there are never stories of people stranded coming out of Italy, France, Spain or Germany. A natural disaster fund does not exist in America.
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  5310. Considering most immigrants come into the US by plane a wall makes no sense?
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  5311. Americans are pro free market capitalism, they vote people in government who believe government should not interfere with the production of necessities, until they realize what is meant by the laissez faire politicians they elect into offices meant to protect the interest of the Public, a free market means millions of people must depend on a producer who can do whatever the hell they want to remain profitable and in existence even if it means what they produce is a killer. The nieve assumption is the assumption that holds people, industries and producers in American society are honest individuals, families and corporations have values would voluntarily take off the market and not sell contaminated products is really a tragic joke. If this is the way you want to organize your society than why even bother having a constitutional republic?
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  5312. Funny how authorities all line up at a podium to meet the press praising the work of first responders and partners. Now it seems authorities line up at the podium to announce investigations on their own partners!
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  5313. Fiction can be more truthful than non-fiction.
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  5314.  @iamstartower  One Size Fits All is not socialism.
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  5315.  @Hodenkat  thanks...eyeopening video.
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  5316. If Americans knew what was really going on the infiltration of gangs would stop as well as migrants seeking a better life in the US. By placing restrictions on other nations from doing business with Venezuela the country is weakened and cannot even sell its products on the world marker nor can Venezuela buy off the world market. What happens when you don’t have an income? People leave. Other nations would be punished if they did business with Venezuela. Of course the young leave and the more rejection they get from America the more they will try to re-enter but with the help of cartels the next time. The other consequence is that the gangs that do get caught enter your prison system in enough numbers your country will have an explosion of prison riots and rebellions, putting more strain on social and material defenses.
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  5317. No doubt this is a location and part of the US where cultures clash and teenagers act it out. Since guns are easy to get in the US the kids are armed and have formed small gangs or cliques. Tiny undirected militias in the making. A few years new ones will be less reckless and start to use tactics if guns are not taken off the streets and the illegal gun trade is left intact. There are five religions the three main are Catholics, Episcopalian, Protestant of the old Philadelphia changing over to Muslim and Middle Easter, Asian, and Latin American diasporas. Cops reflect the old culture. Tension is about how and where these groups acclimate when the underlying economy of the City of Philadelphia stacked against them is Old World. Pretty obvious this is what this establishment wants in that city.
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  5318. You have to hand it to the Russians who come through in every historical epoch on the right side of history. Not without major sacrifices, more sacrifices than any other country. When Russia lost a war in history she came out of a war better off than going in; it seems she is the Mother Country of the World as mothers make all the sacrifices and in the end they are the last people standing. Its a marvelous country that puts most countries with a handful of ethnicities and languages to shame with over 100 ethnic groups and languages and not one problem with racism or not getting along. We ignore the fact that love does not care about borders. Blood is thicker than water in Russia.
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  5319. Looks like migrants are suffering from the fatigue of being pushed around their dignity is attacked and become super defensive. Sent against your will from Texas to NY takes a toll, they seem sick of being told to move on.
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  5320. I hear Jake Sullivan omit a first strike as the position of the US and take a second strike position as imminent if Vlad goes off the rails! Did anyone else hear that? If only people did not exist for one another as the same. Accepted the idea of equality as owners and not as people. As equals because of what they own and those who don’t own are not equal to the owners. To be seen by them as another form of appearance of a value a person may possess in mind and body is really a human tragedy in the making. A person becomes a migrant becomes nothing more than a means of exchange for another that no other commonality exists for these people, outside of one a slave the other a master, makes a first strike, seem desirable to end the oppression.
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  5321. “Hurricane Beryl slams Mexico, Takes aim at the US”, this subline suggests the hurricane is a notorious sniper or assassin reflects a mental sickness in the editing room. Leave it to American media to explain the natural history of the earth as some kind of battlefield.
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  5322. A critical case that exposes a lot more about the inadequacies of the police department than it does the migrant worker from Guatemala who puts food on the tables of the police for their families to eat. In fact because this person works in the fields that fill my refrigerator with food the damage done to his labor is damage done to my personal consumption. If he and his brethren of thousands are persecuted the way the cops acted on one of their own and word spreads; farmers will raise prices for food that goes unpicked that never got to the market. This is piece about police that makes that organization a scourge on humanity when they are totally ignorant of their own role and place in society and are just plain stupid about how economies work these days.
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  5323.  @ericc.sabadin4513  Are you not worthy the way republicans and democrats deem you as unworthy of such a program of a national recovery act, merely because two political parties oppose it as socialist...the Tennessee Valley Authority, a government corporation provides power to six portions of six states that the private sector cannot provide ,even if they tried, because there is no profit in it for them... is socialist?
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  5324. The smartest thing average Americans can do for themselves is boycott Christmas. The spirit of Christmas is $$$$.
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  5325. If they wanted to keep the State out of a custody battle, kidnapping and murder is not the best way to do it,---idiots.
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  5326. Bread is the product of the farmer, miller and the baker. These are the labor-processes wheat has to undergo before you can have a sandwich. In the same way before a real repression of a people can take place a product must be made to serve as a tool for that process of repression to become routine, standard, and regular, cops are that product, created by the state, a certain kind of legal system, and a political body. Compensated well, which is why lawsuits should be paid out of police pensions and not by the city taxpayers. This is why these lawsuits do not even put a dent into the behemoth.
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  5327. Its a brilliant attack. Diversion by bombardment covering a surprise invasion, heavy bombardment proved the shield is not infallible. A Trojan Horse. Negotiate a real peace deal or their captured citizens die is check mate for Netanyahu. Sends a strong message to the State Department in Washington to prepare to appropriate more dollars to defend Israel from a long and protracted war if the check mate is dishonored. I wonder how US republicans are going to fit this one into their nonsense; no war funding to Ukraine but more funding to Israel? Democrats are going to want to pour more money out; higher war spending. Its not a war as it is a hostage taking but it does seriously make more humble the over inflated ego driving Israel presuming your enemy is weaker and dumber than you. The fallibility of hubris; NEVER UNDERESTIMATE YOUR ENEMY. Especially when the motive comes from the heart not from a paycheck!
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  5328. Get active in the local government committees and influence the choices they make as to who should occupy important decision-making offices. Currently the committees are filled with people who choose people from their party to manage a lower level bureaucracies that you end up with stagnation.
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  5329. In America, every product of labor or idea, has a double existence. Thee existences are incompatible dualities. It stands to reason that who writes history or presents it as its producer also has a double existence. It exists first as a product of some kind from which we can deduce how it was made and with what and its second existence as a commodity form two existences simultaneously. History as a commodity and history as a record of human actions enter into a conflict because the former relies on its existence through money and commodities while the other relies on the facts, integrity, objectivity, of its product the written work itself for its existence.
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  5330. It would have been the first time an army actually took Moscow. Rumor has it that convicts make up the Prigozhin mercenary army and you are shot to death if you retreat from a battle. Trotsky was the first to have used these methods in the Red Army. Prigozhin the former chef to Putin is a Russian capitalist. If governments were ruled by the people and not capitalists there would be no Wagner Groups to potentially recruit younger generations into a life of high risk and high profit in crime, corruption and terror. The people do not have a private interest to protect or defend, they have a general interest to defend in making the next generation a better kind of person and human being. What about the convict mercenaries of Prigozhin? He will go into exile or retirement, sell his weapons inventory, to one of his rank and file and they will go into business for themselves having known the inside operations of the government they have been paid to defend and protect. There is no re-entry into normal society and a normal job in society for mercenaries in the prime of their lives so when they get old there is no pension or social security for them. Like the early Madams of the Victorian Era they have to make a lot of money in a short period of time which can only mean mischief. Its a labor that produces no value to society and society can never restore the illicit wealth they extract in the name of force.
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  5331. I suspect the shootings are a terror campaign of unleashed around the country because the police or the media are complicit in keeping the identities of mass shooters secret.
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  5332. Conservatives in California are all property owners. The Housing Problem among the property owners has to be solved and the governor expects the property owners will delay by another ten years. then
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  5333. I cannot tell if Bernie's run for the presidency is the last of the counter-culture that Trump was not when they were young. Or, if he is gaining traction? Trump grew up listening to the Beach Boys and Elvis, while Bernie grew up listening to Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan. It looks more to me like Bernie's campaign reflects the success of the right wing. There is no question that Bernie would be great for the country but there is also no question that the counter-culture in America is dead. There is also no question that the candidates to Bernie's right are just more of the same routine choices handed to the American people by their political elites. Ironically, the counter-culture is dead in a time when there are more wars in longer duration than the Vietnam war, if anything, the counter-culture should be thriving and it is not.
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  5334. Calling it “greed’, destroying our planet I guess is another more softer way of not using the term ‘capitalism’ is destroying our planet. Capitalism implies a class of capitalists who are destroying the planet. Americans identify themselves too deep with capitalism to blame that class for the end of life on Earth. One consolation to this moral crisis is that the capitalists identify themselves as nation-less, above statehood, above laws of a given society. Capitalists are revered and emulated as the ‘creme de la creme’ of society is a fallacy when the world of capitalists the highest achievers of mankind are the biggest offenders of humanity. A higher stage of development capitalism brings into existence as its own negation is socialism. Socialism would approach climate change at an even higher stage of achievement than capitalism. In terms of stages, capitalism is a higher stage than barbarism as an enhancer of barbarism, a steroid of barbarism in connection to the environment; a bull in a China Closet. Fragile conditions demands human civilizations tread Earth with insightful planning, charting a new course of development for the human species.
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  5335. They can try but they will not succeed. Governments are not compatible with the Internet. The internet is a government's worst enemy because governments are built on exclusion and separation. The internet is based on relations between people which make it inherently social and democratic.  A constitution not required to be part of the human race on the internet. Anyone can join and nobody is excluded. The end of governments partially democratic and partially socialized. The end of control and power of governments as a contradiction to the internet. A more socialized world by the internet as a new beginning.
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  5336. People should heed the cycle of victimization which holds for individuals as it does for institutions. Victims become victimizers. Someone who was raped usually becomes a perpetrator. Someone who was unloved and rejected by their parents at an early age usually becomes cold, callous and to the extreme a killer. Bullies create more bullies. Nations are no exception in living out the cycle of abuse and victimization. But its too late. Apathy of the masses complacency, individualism and vulgar materialistic living, gave the authoritarians time to dig themselves in too deep to prevent dictatorship from rising that the whole government has to be overthrown.
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  5337. Middle class in America are flakes, Karens, and selfish idiots.
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  5338. Killing black women is committing a genocide on an ethnic minority. Why are females so big a threat? If men can give birth the threat would be men. DeSantis’s ‘pro-slavery curriculum’ is a pro-slavery rebellion that will come to your school and town if not check mated before it gets there. The curriculum erases the intellectual, artistic, social and cultural history as created by slaves and wage earners of the working classes and replaces it with the ideas of the non-working classes of society. The State must rule the head before it can rule the body. As hideous as this agenda is...actually subjugating a given ethnic group...is not cheap for society. It requires that the minority the State wants to subjugate be dispossessed, become owners of nothing but themselves, all necessaries of life the ethnic group uses for their own social reproduction taken away. Land, food, clothes all have to be concentrated into the hands of the party intending to subjugate in order to socially control the group in question including their sexual reproductive capacity.
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  5339. The real question is not Neanderthal intelligence, but rather, the question is us, the homo sapien species, and are we a hybrid species or has the species reached its highest development in us? Are we intelligent or is our intelligence really ignorance? The quantity of brain matter only proves the skull is larger or smaller that encases the organ. Quantity does not account for intelligence the othordox view presented in this video, intelligence being the quality that is distinctively human. Neanderthal was a mammal species in social development and entering its human phase as a community, as we are more human than animal is not proven by that evidence. The evidence proves both species existed at the same time. Oldest human artifact is 3.3 million, oldest Neanderthal fossil is dated 40,000 years ago only records an assumption not a fact they were wiped out at that time. As an incomplete species we are not yet fully human is the better hypothesis to go on, looking at us, I would think Neanderthal and homo sapeins have merged, personality psychology and brain development provided evolution is not interrupted by human induced destruction, i.e., capitalism and barbarism, synthesized two species in us. So, --for instance, at 8:58 and freeze the frame is a lovely picture of a Neanderthal Human.
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  5340. Well, ---it would not be the first time cities had been demolished in American history. Destruction of cities is pretty common in fact. More in the later period of history but in the early period Atlanta was burnt down to the ground. Nice writing but much of it is not relevant to the new methods of extraction of the wealth.
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  5341. Health under capitalism is a commodity A thing that satisfies a human want, A need in every country and city If the thing we need are vaccines and health is something you buy Than society is a place where only the rich live ...and the poor, die!
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  5342.  @Wolfsins  I know...I am a baby boomer, tail end of it. I always saw their short comings. When I was 20 I said to my older brother his generation were assholes for not finishing the job when Nixon resigned, that was when they should have overthrown capitalism. But I also see Melinneals as assholes also, when I was 20 I began reading Capital, Vol I, by Marx. When they were 20 they began playing Playstation and Nintendo. If only one Millennial designed a video game of Capital that would have gone far to educate the mass of gamers to the left, still not too late, the next generation will need Marx more than your own. The Cold War led me to Marx, I sought verification of what I was being told about communism. There were no Marxist scholars or teachers at the time, you had to buy the book and start reading it yourself, until you understood it. I carried that book around in absolute concealment owing to the red scare hysteria in America. Then I moved to NYC and in the Village I found real Marxists thinkers there, they were not academics. They were a working class intelligentsia, best times of my life.
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  5343.  @Wolfsins  Bernie's big mistake was to not criticize, shame and then absorb the baby boomers, especially the black boomers for selling out! Lesson for you young radicals is the lesson of coailition building in a racist society.
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  5344.  @Wolfsins  You attitude is classic defeatism.
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  5345.  @Wolfsins  What you do is march against the media, a movement that confronts the insitutions the Power Elite have their hands into. Force the media to report on themselves and turn the weapon of mass media against them. Attack the media. Make it intolerable for an NBC journalist to leave and arrive at work. Anything that makes a news headline, enough times that they start talking about it on Morning Joe, etc.,
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  5346.  @n.r.2258  Jheezus...this is one cynical voice if I ever heard one.
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  5347. American lawmakers are a breed of lawyer who do not write laws to solve a social problem. For example: When making a law about wood, timber, guns, food, homes, machines, technology, material, chemicals, they are not to try to solve the social problem caused or precipitated by these items, they are to write laws about the items themselves and they believe, these things are to be the private property of individuals despite the injustices the items bring as private property. In a word, a shallow and one sided mindset that is misguided when earth is burning and its scientific community is blowing up asteroids in space...Nero plays his violin as Rome burns. This is why Dickens could not stand America. Not that I regret Dickens’ stance. Little Big Man has more value to me than Dickens. Give the Tories a chance and they will try to burn the White House again. But the flaw in the American legislator is all punitive: When its freezing outside and people cannot afford heat citizens would be charged and prosecuted for taking wood and timber from state parks and this is how American politicians legislate. There is no originality in the legal system or free will promoted in American law. Its all technical and technicalities on a myopic level promoting social control. Amending the laws is not even a thought in the American political mindset, legislators cannot conceive to amend the law to read...when times are tough and people cannot afford heat the State shall make available all broken and felled timber for public use...and killing two birds with one stone the forests are less combustible and the population can heat themselves free of charge as it is already paid through taxes is a subversive idea in that mindset. Then there is the absolute stupidity of the Public duped to believe democracy is when a minority selects the same breed of politicians for the majority to choose as their leader. It would be a joke if not for how much artillery Americans pack as a substitute for the absence of brains. If a plane crashed on a house in Minnesota killing its passengers and residents the Minnesota legislature is not to amend its air traffic safety laws to solve this social problem over its state, instead, the laws perpetuate the social problem. It was a social problem in the days of Kitty Hawk and a bigger problem in the age of jet propulsion.
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  5348. Societies that have disappeared are those that widened the gap of social inequality. The extreme social forms of that gap as chosen by their political leadership all perished leaving behind a wreck for society to pick up the pieces and start anew. If all humans were identical it would be easier to reach a unanimous consensus on how much dictatorship and democracy are a fruitless waste of time, money and energy. Apartheid in South Africa lasted one lifetime, that’s it. Israel has a one life longevity rate. The State of Mississippi has a political apartheid system that won’t last a lifetime. Mexico and Canada. At best 60 years left. The level of social inequality in Mississippi is extreme. The burden of pollutants is put on a black working class population while a white minority of middle and elite social classes breathe pure air. Water, air, soil, electricity, are the first elements of nature a white minority alienates from the masses. In fact, this arrangement is extreme and ideal for the opposite arrangement to flourish. A democratic distribution of the pain, anguish, suffering, burden and a healing. Dictatorships are good in the sense that their extremities in social inequality delivers socialism faster than democracies. Democratic republics have one foot in and the other foot out of the waters of socialism and fascism. Not a long shelf life to nations who choose the path of repression and oppression is the main point and for those on the fence their life system shortened by half. Obviously as all doctors would prescribe the society that reduces stress, tension, conflict, and exercising mind and body, uniting town and country, so that people are not isolated in the woods can murder their whole family but can actually access a library, college or culture ant access the resources of society; so that not all resources are concentrated in one place and traveling there is a job in itself, when people in a city are all brain ad people in the country are all body, the society removing these separations has the best chance at living longer than a generation. This is what you want; no grandparent wants to die knowing their grand children have it harder .
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  5349. Will America ever perform higher than 2% GDP? Such a low GDP the nation cannot pay its debt and with such a wide gap in income, workers will never earn more than the current price of labor, and all of or most of the 2% GDP is consumed by rich people. A nation of 332 million, a workforce capacity of 133 million, and only 614 billionaires have at their leisure the consumption of the GDP of that labor force is extreme. This is a wake up call for American labor of a class struggle. In this episode of history, my hunch is that workers unionizing will only bring about more Capital Flight or outright Fascism. Capitalism is international and labor forces are national: You cannot take the workforce out of society but you can take all the tools out of the country. Leave the social problems to the State to deal with. If France can have such a law why can’t the US? French corporations cannot leave France without real reasons approved by the government. Netherlands, similar. Germany the workers are part owners of production. In America the workers are totally unattached to production embellished by a social presumption of ’freedom’. A costly price for freedom when you look at the condition of the working class in the US. Fully loaded in debt, homeless and cashless, beaten down, mentally and physically exhausted, low mortality rate. Worse is the inflation that Biden does nothing about. Nixon at least froze prices and wages to curb inflation. This time around the politicians do not even bat an eye at the eroding effects of inflation on worker’s earnings. The most modest and mild of remedies against inflation is used, they raised interests rates, thinking this will discourage employers from raising prices... and it will, slow and long over a period of time, not before a lot of people are damaged from inflation’s effects as most of the 133 million in the workforce are near under water. Will Korea face the same decline of industrialization seen in America and England? Asian nations have higher GDPs. West capitalist nations low GDP rate (2%) but when wages rise high enough and cuts into profits in Asia the companies will move production to, for example, Africa? Capitalism will develop there too. Before long capitalism has covered the globe; where to expand next is the inevitable question that is answered by war, destruction, regime change, to start the cycle of accumulation from the ground up with scorched earth policies. The inevitable economic decline all nations experience, at one time or another, is what happens when production is divided because labor is divided. Labor is a use-value and labor-power is the commodity. Workers have to decide which of their divided self they want to be?
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  5350.  @jeremyadams599  You are not wrong. And not right either. Weird place to be. Clarity is the importance of social analysis. The CIA is a a power at a higher level than the power that is confronting people in the streets. The power in the streets consisting of dark forces does not have to physically confronted. Local county and state power would go to progressives and leftists if progressives and leftists moved to occupy the county committees. These county committees is how the far right were able to infiltrate all the major important decision-making offices in the county and the state. Its how they took over the GOP. If progressives do the same thing and take over the Democratic party than it would make sense to confront the other power, the military industrial complex and it ancillary sister agencies like the CIA and Homeland Security.
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  5351. Victims of racism become racists.  Victims of abuse become abusers.  Victims of sexual assault become predators and child molestors.  Victims become victimizers constitutes the victimiztion cycle. Victims require an external authority of some kind to keep the irrepressible urge to vicitimize in check. Drugs, alcoholism, God, the State, serve the purpose of insulating the pain of victimization. Victims turn to desensitize themselves to avoid the pain, grief, sorrow, of being a victim through drugs, weapons, God and the State. The motivation to victimize is not for its own sake but for the sake of land, wealth and property. The victimizers today previously victimized in the past, create tommorrow's victimizers in the Palestinians.
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  5352. Both parties own this war is why the progressive option is the best option. Average Americans lost control over the conditions of their lives. Communities of individual families lack control in their lives and the workplace and their environment decays into ruin. The resources are squandered in wars between elites who come out of the wars they started richer than when they got in it. The socialist or the social democratic choice is the only way to cancel the allegiances average working people have to the republicans and the democrats.
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  5353. Every dollar spent on defense used to slow down China from its own economic growth can only lead to a world war and the starting point of that world war is in Ukraine. Read D.F. Fleming, The Cold War and Its Origins, 2 vol. 1961.
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  5354. The region has been bullied for 20 years. What part of that do you not understand?
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  5355. America tells you to be your own lifeguard. It sounds like they can’t find people to be lifeguards but if you listen carefully the funding streams for that activity are cut from budgets.
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  5356. “Ingo’...mmm...anyone know how he got his name? Any special meaning to it...sincerely? Narcissism, privilege and individualism comes in many forms, he and Jussie Smollet and the whole social world the working masses uphold and support in so many false and misguided ways have that in common.🧐
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  5357. Rare doctor and a woman, a black woman, not a man or a white woman but a woman of retirement not a young woman is noteworthy. Why live in Alabama as a doctor serving a poor state’s community when you can live in Malibu or Manhattan and serve a wealthy state’s communities in a lifestyle that is as good as Bob Menendez of the Congress? Medicare for All is the only way to eradicate the unequal distribution of medical talent around the country and de-emphasize the rampant vulgar materialism, privilege, and power, the Medical Establishment produces in society.
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  5358. Great work. A man with a camera can change the world.
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  5359. Making China great again does not carry the same meaning the Trump adminsitration thinks, when Trump says make America again. Everyone is doing things they do not want to do because the US has no clear objective, its all opportunistic and an open-ended, waiting for an advantage.
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  5360. America's decline is an obsession with media but at the same time it is a serious subject about how it falls and so far, the bottom is timorously close to barbarism. There is no evidence America's largest corporations will invest in American infrastructure. The fall will be hard. The anxiety about not being number one has corrupted American public culture that it cannot discuss not being number one. The fall will cause trauma. The average American is the last person to find out what the top powerful industrial corporations have known for decades-- decline of American empire is inevitable. No turning it back will be hard for people to accept. For American culture there can be no worse news. Not being number one is a notion other nations have successfully accepted into their society. These suffered far less trauma and survived. Others fall back on outmoded practices are decimated by human history.
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  5361.  @Daniel-jz5yp  The billionaires and Mexico’s government are not even smart. A smart Mexican billionaire investing in Mexico to build microchips would become bigger than Jeff Bezos and more powerful.
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  5362. The people in the US are caught up in an endless cycle of conflicts with two factions of an oligarchy. Well organized factions with a mission to preserve and make more precise the power of an oligarchy exploiting the people. There is nothing to be said about what this is...and totally fruitless to emphasize one scandal today another scandal tomorrow and not add up all the scandals to see a pattern emerge as a planned strategy of an American Oligarchy, no doubt connected to other oligarchies in other countries, and vice versa, acting against the interest of the American People. We may attribute to this strategy an incompetence of politicians or a failed state, or a decline of empire, but those attributions are not accurate of the overall game plan of a social class of Oligarchs operating through the instrumentality of States, to dispossess the people of property, long term wealth, education, health, peace.
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  5363. The federal government is the Pińata held up by Musk and each section of elites are taking turns swinging at it!
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  5364. Jimmy Dore is about the only Free Press that is not partial to the State and Big Capital in the US.
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  5365. He gets no cigar for being Biden. Usually the train wreck that becomes the economy occurs under a democratic regime. Comes in handy when the republicans blame the democrats for the miserable condition of the working class. Then when they get into power the purse strings loosen up and they start spending like its no tomorrow money that is not their own. Comes in handy when the democrats blame the republicans for corruption, graft, all this worsening the condition of the working class. Then when they get into power conditions are so bad the republicans hightail it out of town and the democrats are left holding the bag calling out the national guard, imposing curfews, seems there is nothing they can do that is wrong according to them that does not end up worsening the condition of the working class.
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  5366. NATO is officially annexed to the US Military. Re-instate the Draft. That is the least you can demand if you are going to fight. This way it will be the kids of the rich and the kids of the poor who will be in the platoons in drills in combat deployment against the Russians. A war with Russia is not a just war its an invitation to a nuclear winter. Climate change from that effect will do us all in.
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  5367. SNL will never satirize this PSA announcement although that is exactly what they should do.
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  5368. I think Moreno was a CIA mole from the start.
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  5369. Four more years of Trump and America would have looked like what India is now. India will have socialized medicine before the US because of its collapse. When the hospital system dies socialized medicine is born.
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  5370. Senators are talking at Ukraine not to them, and the same for the Russians. You get no sense that Ukraine even has a voice or a choice from the discussion. I feel like I am a fly on the wall hearing conspirators lay out their options in the fate of Ukraine in this interview. So one-sided.
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  5371. Well, actually, in most western countries in the East, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa, are run by families in power. Why should a family in Nicaragua bother people so much when only three are run by sectarian political leaders and not run by a single powerful family?
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  5372. replies are hidden on this site...like not even there when it says there are two replies...you might not see my reply...but they are not organized to become a union yet is the first thing they need to overcome.
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  5373.  @MacNCheezeWhiz  You said a lot. Yes, I agree wage-labor and capital are the two most productive classes in society. They both use each other to produce an economy we can all be a part of, the engine for the growth of industries. But, the social relations based on work in America no longer work but work against a population not focused on the work itself in creating a business but more focused on laws abusive to people who could become capitalists and people who could become great engineers and skilled workers, is our problem.
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  5374.  @MacNCheezeWhiz  Give me the duration of the working time of your businesses on average for the workers you employed, please? Unionism is not compatible with socializing the profits or Co-Ops. To the contrary, unionism presupposes profits be privatized and not shared to anyone outside of its owners. It perpetuates wages as a form of income and the only form of income for too many. No choices, no resources in life is bad news. A business arrangement can be based on a share of the sale money of the product or service you provide and/or both, along with a share in the profits between employer and employee....AND...there would be no need for wages at all in that arrangement. Wage labor is gone, finito, wipe-out. This works better.
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  5375.  @MacNCheezeWhiz  By duration I meant an average working day, 8 hrs, 10 hrs. 5 days per week, etc. Should have been more concise on the question. There it is.
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  5376.  @msm5426  This is beyond what unions can do for workers...this is about divisions that are legislated and ordained permanent never to be broken, that the ‘intensity’ of the working day in return for what you get in payment exacts more work from an individual in less time. No gaps in the working day. They do not want you to even socialize with each other in person and they want you isolated inside and outside of your jobs, controlled.
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  5377.  @MacNCheezeWhiz  You don’t get what I mean.
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  5378. The heat Sliwa brought to the mayor’s street took place on a street of no importance to the problem. Sliwa was never good at directed anger in a positive way and at the right place.
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  5379. Where's the best place to buy rear calipers for this car, 9-3 2002, Saab...I have been struggling to find them?
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  5380. Unfortunately, the American middle class are myopic and does not understand the gravity of the war on Gaza and their continued support for Israel as the Achilles Heel of the party. They are going to lose the election to Trump not, in spite of, but because of that support to Israel/Ukraine. Too many blatant contradictions and hypocrisies with the Democrats. Helping Auto Workers and harming Railroad Workers, erodes Public confidence, and trust in the party.
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  5381. Well that slow and long term way of accumulating wealth in homeownership will cost Biden the election.
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  5382. The West is headed toward a collapse of the four rudimentary actions the make up the totality for economic survival. What this means is a shorter life for people! If the people do not abandon their own economic fallacies they will never develop into higher form of human economic and social organization to adapt to changing external conditions. A glaring example of a social collapse of the four members group actions, i.e., production-consumption-exchange-distribution, is the United States. In this country, the owners of money control the economic totality and capital operates and survives through exchange and distribution by destroying other capitals. Exchange and distribution are highly developed in the US while production and consumption are starved of capital and degenerate for lack of development. When the economic order stops functioning the owners of money, will leave the country left behind in state of chaos. Production does not determine consumption in the American system, rather, its the opposite, the other departments of the totality of the economy after the superrich abandon investment in the US, the two departments remain in the form of private property that in order to get the two parts working again, i.e., production and consumption, the people will have to assume full power of the State to access the factories and offices, mines, tunnels, bridges, land, rivers, lakes and canals, drilling and excavation facilities, in short, occupy the total infrastructure to get them working again. As more an more of production and consumption stop functioning or staggers like an alcoholic at hight toxic levels, chipping away at the infrastructure and driving up costs, because consumption determines production, nothing short of a complete revolution is necessary. A moral and economic revolution brought about by the corrupt egos of the owners of money, affirming capitalism is its own destroyer. Survival of the society is barely achieved by the mindset of the owners of money that, a definite amount of production determines a definite amount of exchange in the US conditions society's members to be and serve the exclusive consumption of the individual super rich families. Every economic system starts out with production and ends up with production - production in and for itself can only get them running again, is the new principal for this revolution. The question should capital be the starting point of production and exchange and the result of production or should the primary participants who comprise the totality, be the starting point themselves? People in charge of humanity's main activity, the activity that bears life to the human species and the social order as a whole, in charge of production and exchange.
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  5383. @Damage Report-- I think you are wrong when you said the cops should not be fired. To the contrary, this behavior indicates the lack of discipline and structure to not get political and make statements that are political by the police, their job is security not politics, and this pivots the entire police force against the community.
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  5384. I can see how high fuel prices would in itself fuel protests and I can understand how protesting is the one way people depended on fuel can exert pressure against the world market price for fuel. The countries with the greatest need for fuel enable the sellers of fuel to price by what the market will bear and for the country with the least buying power the world market price is out of reach, raising alarm, concern and insecurity leading to protests in Kazakhstan and other places who cannot pay the price the world market price establishes for all countries.
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  5385. Excellent point about the class character of education and health in the US. @jtatsiue 
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  5386. That is very well noticed; good observation @draneym2003 
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  5387. 'Ordinary people have chosen to steal', of necessity they have no choice but to steal. Stealing only because the products are legally private property. But there is no state and the country is stateless, no judges or law enforcement to enforce the laws of private property. Products in the store are now just products and their social character as private property has dissolved with the dissolution of the state. It s not stealing exactly its people making a decision to meet their needs in the surrounding chaos and breakdown of civil society. The financial sectors are moribund as there are no interests rates form its central bank and capitalists stopped business. Most likely factories and mining will be shut down but if so the workers have every right to take over the factories because it was not them who broke the deal for work in his/her facility, it was the owner who is depriving the workers of their livelihood by closing it down, is a whole other legal precedent that can stand and the other part of the financial sector the shareholders and bondholders, do they buy or sell and to whom? They pressure to get paid first on the loans the government borrowed. If the state broke down the economic structure on which it rests broke down as well. No exchange between products and money shuts down circulation and distribution.  Markets and job creation, or exchange and distribution, make two parts of the whole society broken down. No work, no production, no jobs, no new hires; the other two parts of the whole society, production and consumption, are broken down, and there is no chance the same civil order that just fell can stand on its feet again. Its a social revolution by way of a breakdown of the old social order. I would imagine in the short period of days to come in order to re-start production the working classes who are the ones who know how things work and can run things will come forward in some way to rescue this wreck called South Africa. If they don't nobody else will and the country sinks into a chronic state of barbarism with a bunch of landowners, bankers, merchants, and industrialists running around defending their turf, also looting, these social classes loot too, all with their own private gangs and mercenaries.
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  5388. Other medical services are not making money and doing business if hospitals are packed to the gills with COVID patients. The only professions this benefits are the Pulmonologists and Nurses willing to work in high risk COVID zones for $9K a week, imagine that. But for the other medical and emergency specialties of which there are many and cover a huge cross section of the population who are sick wth diabetes, cancer, leukemia, mental health disorders, have no consumers to treat. COVID patients in the Psych Ward. Whaaaah!, Chief Medical Officers of Hospitals have substantial lobbying power. Look how well the CDC and the Big 3 Pharma companies came up with a vaccine to clear out the hospitals, dead or alive, of COVID patients when the threat of bankruptcy and collapse of the private health care system is at stake.
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  5389. Do you have the room to accommodate the incarcerated if the DAs did their jobs?
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  5390. I beg to differ with Ms. Stein about the shamelessness of Congress in doing nothing for the country. Though it is shameful the reasons are not without sincere earnestness and diligence that Congress passed a tax overhaul. It rather expresses a deep loyalty and commitment to the owners of great wealth that this Congress sees capital as the starting point for a recovery and more desperately, a restoration of might makes right in the face of increasing rivals in Russia and China. A worker may be the creator and builder of the world the rich want and the engine of all wealth. Wealth be derived from labor and all that jazz but without capital the worker(s) cannot restore the lost industrial economic might to a dying economy. If Americans want to re-industrialize America they cannot do it without capital. On the other hand, it is not true that capital can do it without labor. Realizing this dilemma the corporations will push to cheapen American labor costs. The true remediation to the problem of chronic class inequities which is my main point is class abolition is too radical a solution for the American psyche. For rational reasons... Assume you abolish NAFTA, and nothing is there to restore the income and lifestyle of a 40 year old worker other than 'go back to school and get trained into something else', you will get a person like Donald Trump to sly his way in and preach the simplest inflammatory bullshit a dejected worker loves to hear. As far as they are concerned Trump can sink the boat and all of us in it because Democrats hand delivered nothing but bullshit to the American worker.  Remember the American worker acting this out was born into the corrupt system and never experienced America as an industrialized powerhouse the way China is today, prior to Reagan. Americans are not about to separate banks from its capital and corporations from its profits. Or spend more on domestic programs with money they don't have. They do not want to pay taxes period. If they do they want control of the taxes they have to spend. If anything Americans will hand over the farm and store, free of charge and free of resistance and hope the corporations do invest their capital into Americans. How is beyond me? There is no new frontier into which a man and his family can live off the land. Labor abroad is too attractively cheap for Andre Bretton to move its factory from Singapore. Same goes for Apple et al. The Congress will not walk away from NAFTA. If anything given their complicity and acquiescent nature of Congress to capital, NAFTA will go away as an issue quietly. Americans, zombified workers will bend toward more cooperation with capital accepting employment in the service industry. Basically more of the same and more fearing the unknown.   Think realistically for a moment, would you not do everything imaginable to derail anything that could place the 20 odd members of your clan multiplied by 500 or so clans who possess among them a capital of a trillion from losing it? Washington needs capital and will protect the golden egg that gets America back working again. This is why sanctions are regularly used or re-imposed and why diplomatic embassies are closed. Adding more rivals on the world stage ready to attract this capital is a headache Washington can do without. Corporations can invest their money in Russia as they do in China. The only selling point Trump has is the American worker willing to produce more for less and jointly Washington operates best when the whole word is completely made economically comatose with parasitical regimes doing its dirty work and where a few loyal and submissive states are allowed to exist for they dare not challenge the status quo. A world where there are no matching competitors, a view the different working class social groupings in America across race and gender lines wholeheartedly agree. If the events and actions of this president or Congress appear illogical to you it would be because the the social classes are breaking up into smaller fragments of middle class workers and a new hierarchy of workers that new lines have to be drawn between who does the work and who does not for how long and for how much.
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  5391. Republicans are clever concealing their whole hearted support for the CIA who do exactly what they are accusing the FBI of doing while dismantling the FBI. The FBI not the CIA will get in their way of taking over the US government. The CIA sits in offices and plots who to kill next anywhere in the world not caring how enemies that threaten the US become a threat. They do not know where the arms we are sending the Ukraine end up. Republicans never speak one word about the failings since 1947 of the CIA and has gotten every threat to the US wrong, the USS Cole bombing, the attacks on Army installations overseas, 9/11. But as soon as the FBI does something sincerely duty bound to the interest of the US they want to destroy as a resurgent agent of totalitarianism. If that is not projection than the whole industry of psychiatry is a fraud. Democrats are no better but in another way. The FBI is a violent institution made legitimate in the name of the ‘rule of law’ but as soon as people protest the first thing out of their mouths is we need to be civil, file your grievances with the ballot box, and with constant calls to being civil to mass protests by mainstream Americans, they hide the violent nature of the FBI too. “Grow Up”, I do believe the FBI can grow up too.
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  5392. Schools teach nothing about our world.
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  5393. No, what we have here is a car part becoming money but got interrupted and remains a car part. No sale.
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  5394. Banning together as consumers will force prices to come down. Consumers can also ban together to increase their wages. There is strength in numbers. The CEOs as the presidential campaigns reflect, are learning the working class is bigger than they thought and more powerful. And you are. Technically, the future of your humanity is about you not them! The CEOs are in trouble in another way you need to consider seriously, that is, they are not what they used to be...they are no longer a reliable source for a better life. Someone else has to run industry if the CEOs can’t. After you banned together and cause them to lower prices they will go out of business and quit! They will close the stores, the factories, the places you work, and you’ve gone from wages you are not happy with to no wages at all. The CEO social class have run their last run; move over rover, let Jimmy take over.
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  5395. The objective of a politician is to close the gap between the State and civil society. Owing to this separation the call for overcoming the gap between them is the guiding principal and reason for the vocation.
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  5396. Re: Dr. Peter Hotez, a real scientist would never have given a political charged answer to the question of an investigation in the origins of the virus as you had given when ask if it can be done without China, to which you replied pressure must be applied through sanctions to the Chinese government to comply for open and unfettered access to the lab in Wuhan. That is not how a scientist conducts him or herself as a person of science even if you are personally partial to the position of the military toward China.
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  5397. Good report...the only station covering the action of the people...in the streets protesting companies, government, and world leaders who write history but do not make it. A world wide social revolution culminates from the action of millions of small mass protests.
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  5398. An American parasite preys on the lonely...nice.
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  5399. You can say that again...corporations embrace millennial woke-ism...we are living a hell on earth because of their good intentions...and corporate media paves the way...that generation sold their souls to capitalism.
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  5400.  @seankingwell3692  In the midst of degradation is the revolt against degradation.
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  5401.  @mizrelmizrel  Will that power smash the social relations of value in all industries...no, of course not. There are programs that can get bi-partisan support and will but there must be a national push for greater output of pure water, air, health, education, home, as a natural right. Biden must go really big, i mean super big, or the Trump far right will win power in four years. People power lost to white nationalists, supremacists, separatists, seditionists, all under the new Trump GOP.
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  5402. When the hit men fail the jackals go in to do the job and if the overthrow has not happened the military is a last resort. US AID would consist of lot of soft influencing to avert social revolutions. Signing over the natural assets of a poor nation to American oil corporations, Exxon and BP, Conoco Phillips, is not hard to do if you need medicine, food, grain, and no money to buy these commodities. US AID helps the hungry masses with just enough material substance to move off the farms and sell small land holdings in the countryside. They go into the cities with no money in the bank, looking for work and encounter an increased demand for workers by the oil companies to process the oil the government of these people have signed over to the International Monetary Fund as collateral for a loan. To pay back the loan the poor country must cut back on its socal spending and from this poverty new conditions arise for a higher dependency on US AID. The poor nation considered an ally is really a hostage. The hitmen, jackals and the military, are not for much else productive workers adding to a nation’s wealth, their labor as players in the destruction of one mode of production for another mode or production is totally unproductive labor.
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  5403. The lower classes in all societies are the fashion creators because clothing when worn out have to be re-worked and mended and people are a creative species. The only real tangible and movable property they own that a Constable, Lord, Prince, or King cannot take from them unless by consent or force is their clothes.
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  5404. Exchange...the US has what the Saudis need, for whatever reason not important at the moment, and the Saudis have what the US needs, money capital. What is being exchanged is important and what is not being exchanged is crucially important to the US economy. Not being exchanged is wheat, soy, corn, steel, food, lumber, and a range of products from other industries for this exchange to have any impact on the general economy. The capital wealth generated from this sale is a boost to a few industries tied to the military. What is being exchanged will have an enormous impact on a particular industry and make all other industries dependent on that industry. What results is a war economy. So, if I should say this exchange will do nothing to stimulate employment in the general economy, I am saying it will generate more work in a particular industry to which the general economy gets no piece of this action as this exchange repeats itself and enriches a few industries over others. Before long, the war economy generates more inequality between industries and people, more conflict, ultimately, more arms exchanged and more weapons flooding societies, more profits extracted from these exchanges.
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  5405. this is the guy who announces himself as the person who is supposed to think about what we say and when something to think about is said his job owners make him move on to another subject,----what a total sell out.
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  5406. The right wing pressures Washington to abandon Afghans lowering the number of evacuees but go get the Americans. General Austin does not want troops to step foot in an urban environment ties his hands. The left wing pressures Washington to increase the number of Afghan evacuees who helped Americans and go get the Americans stuck in Afghanistan. The Afghans cannot understand why the US abandons them because they do not understand the racism of the right wing in America telling middle America we have no obligation to the Afghan people using the photo of the C-30 filled with Afghans to heighten the propaganda message. The former marine who can not stand by and watch Afghan allies fall into the fate of the Taliban are honorable actions the right wing in America despises. This unusual situation makes the American marine and the Afghan ally both more aligned with the democrats on the left and scorned and rejected by the party to the right of the moderate republicans.
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  5407. Notwithstanding the facts, ideology continues to permeate a widespread and wrongly-held belief that governments of capitalist societies have the knowledge and ability to eliminate economic fluctuations and achieve permanent full employment. Recent course of events related to COVID and Climate Change has introduced tremors of doubt but the skepticism has not rattled the economists, government officials, businesspeople, trade union leaders, and the public at large, out of their ultimate trust in the magical powers of government economic intervention. The US economy achieves full employment only under pressure of a war demand; recoveries abort before full employment can be achieved when a war demand is absent such as the close of the Afghanistan war; continuous growth is impossible without a war demand. Its not like Congress has never been so advised. To the contrary, this comment comes from a Yale Joint Congressional Economic Committee tasked to summarize the performance of the US economy to Congress back in 1977 that I extrapolated. (Richard Ruggles, Prospect, Problems and Pattern of US Eco Growth Washington D.C. US gov printing office 11/10/1976.) Time is cutting short for illusions and delusions to not be swept aside.
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  5408. So, this is a problem of factory production overseas endlessly pumping out commodities more than plenty to satisfy the American population, more than what the average American needs. Factories in Asia, China, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, contracted by US corporations to do their work are more efficient than we think to churn out so much in so little time. The products going back to their point of origin essentially changes the entire relationship corporations have to the US. They get sold to the worker who produced them in Asia and likely for less because rising wages will buy more. This is an incredible development mirrored wages going up in Asia and wages sinking in America. A growing middle class of Asians and China and shrinking middle class in America falling into peril. Calling for relief and help, distressed and they find a response that is on their side in a right wing. For sure the Democrats will get the blame for this and the right wing will direct that blame to democrats for political gain. But it won't solve the problem. World production is the problem. World production under the free market system is chaotic and disorganized, resulting in anarchy. All societies have no control over what comes in and what goes out. Except for those societies that can produce for use can control the productive power of their factories. But for societies dependent on the exchange of goods,--- before space can be cleared for new products, they have to be sold. The manufacturers raise prices of goods on the market now in order to recover the investment made into last year's output still on barges,---- the Pacific Coast will look like this for a very long time. Moreover, the manufacturers actions will leads us straight into a deep economic stagnation that the economists and government officials seem incapable of placing a freeze on the rise of manufacturers prices to allow wages to catch up and close the demise of the middle class. The demand is the pressure to sell the merchandize. But employers are not hiring or raising wages and the products can't get off the boats fast enough to keep pace with demand. A reflection not on the American consumer's habits but a reflection of a production process Americans have absolutely no control over. In fact, as it appears before our very eyes the supply chain is controlling the destiny of our lives is just one aspect of the problem.
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  5409. Factory farming produces for profit,--- the more eggs you can produce the higher the profit the more chickens are raised for slaughter on a mass scale is the cause of food contamination. It is fantastically stupid to expect a vaccine will curb the negative effects of factory farming as a system of production for dairy. We are the losers in this game of winners and losers. In the first stage, we become consumer-buyers for the system of factory farming. In the 2nd stage the factory owners of money become the consumers of hired workers the land and the farms.
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  5410. Truly a psychological paradox and complex that white male patriarchy manufacturers in victims homosexuality through sexual abuse.
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  5411. A four decade long of weakening government so that it hobbles on one leg is what the Squawk Box stands for when their talking head says "declining government". The four decades long of weak government has brought us to this point of a failed economy. The big corporations have extracted every tooth from Uncle's Sam's mouth and left him with no dentures with which to bite polluters, con artists, extremists, from the embalmment of government.
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  5412. In China if the communist party with its thousand delegates agree on a political and economic reform that addresses China's particular issues the idea of term limits could impede the fruition of that reform. Term limits are gone but that does not mean Xi is chairman for life. It means he is chairman for life as long as he retains the majority of support of the communist party and its thousand delegates representing the different parts of the country. It removes the process of elections which for China would be out of form when there are 1.2 billion people to manage. Its parliamentary assembly can house a commercial airfield is how large it has to be to fit the number of delegates. Its progress can move very slowly with that many delegates and the economic engine has slowed down against conditions that are changing pretty quickly in China the more the US tries to do damage to its industries.
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  5413. Too funny...Dutch accent is perfect... the climate change matter has validity as an argument against large scale industrial cultivation of soil that consumes a high quantity of water and has its own workforce. The action promotes mining and drilling, two industries with high returns on investment. Don’t forget all industries, drilling and mining work on a perpetual basis around the clock, planting and harvesting is seasonal and as constant use water as a tool in their production processes. As far as I know water has a use-value of universal quality for all humanity that who has the right to consume more of it puts communities and nations in a very tight spot.
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  5414.  @TheB1nary  Yes it is.
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  5415. @confused algorithm nailed it.
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  5416. Trump wasn’t the worst president. All the other presidents before him were also unable to fix the problems. In fact, problems magnified progressively with each president. Trump was the worst in doing nothing to solve those problems in society as a president is more accurate and to the point. But he did do things to weaken the political process that was normally closed off to other elements in society. CNN has it all wrong.
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  5417. If you discontinue the production of the Osprey some 5000 workers are out of a job. A plane or a car, bus, train, the OSPREY, are made from partially completed products put together where workers are refined into a detailed function. So many functions put together form an entire mechanism and this mechanism suppresses and preserves each activity workers perform that is not detailed than if it were detailed. This is a huge internal problem for America, it is its downfall. To have so much riding on one single act of exchange is the next downfall. A deal, a contract, in this case with the military, for the production of the Osprey is pathologically insane because if the exchange fails thousands are impacted, thrown out of work. The military’s thinking is always in terms of attrition goes ahead with the Osprey maker, the lesser evil is renewing the contract even if the product isn’t a safe or a useful product to the military the Generals are aware entire American towns and cities rely on the Osprey.
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  5418. I fear the crazies will shoot doctors and nurses as this situation worsens.
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  5419. Not unusual that Russia would cast an invasion with the image of itself as a savior. Russia said it wanted to De-Nazify Ukraine in the tall shadow of Russia’s defeat of WWII Nazis. All empires do this. Weapons of mass destruction casted the image of the US as a savior. Ukraine was the place to go if you wanted battle training. Anarchists, adventurists, Nazis, nihilists, militants, from all parts of the world went to Ukraine and Russia fought them back with its own Nazis in the Wagner Group. That’s irony for you. Al Qaeda had the same attraction worldwide of its own brand of extremism and terrorism. Really they all have the same ideology but it varies if you are Russian or Ukrainian. Russians see themselves as the last bastion of a caucasian race of people. The Ukrainians, Poles, Hungarians see the Russians as barbarian invaders. They have to fight it out to determine whose better more righteous, holier than thou. To be Russian or Ukrainian from an American perspective if you are pragmatist is to see them as all nuts! At bottom of their lunacy, conflicts and struggles in Europe, east Europe, Russia, is a power of elites cashing in on national debts and taking possession of economies that are still mostly agricultural.
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  5420. Americans who are not Voters have no clue how stupid Biden and Trump make them look in the eyes of the world community. This is why it is either all or nothing. Everyone votes or nobody votes. But we know that kind of voter awareness is impossible to attain. Close to 340 million people and a third are voters the rest drink and go home. A factory worker in England thinks an American factory worker lives a tragic life without a national health system. A French worker is constitutionally protected from mass unemployment while an American worker is subject to unemployment as a way of life. An Italian worker visits family in America are happy to return home to a better quality of life. The actions of a small minority that do participate in American elections choose people they know will favor them is a humiliating insult to the rest of America living homeless and jobless.
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  5421. A cruel and callous disregard for human life. The city has ample suitable space empty. Callous silence by the archdiocese of the NY. Callous silence by Salvation Army. Shamefully despicable of the Mayor of NY. Callous of all the landowners in NY.
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  5422. Usually people who say that live on handouts... are you living on handouts? @MayaLuv-xp7ux 
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  5423. So, Jordan is telling me I should vote Blue because a fascist movement is present in society...did I get that right?
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  5424. The only real interest served by the US and UK policing the Suez Canal is Israel’s interest. Americans have no interest in products from the Middle East, mining companies have an interest in the Middle East. There isn’t anything in Walmart that is made in Egypt. Shirts and linen were made of Egyptian cotton at one time but all that comes from China now. Blocking the shipping lanes is intended to hurt Israel in the pocket with general commodities shipped the long way into Israel’s markets people have to pay more. Policing the sea lanes is at this point not even necessary considering how economies are inextricably bound by one world market the goods have to leave and and enter nations on a regular basis, like clockwork. The sea lanes are an Achilles Heel because they are automatic from factory to boat to land around the clock. Cut the artery and the body suffers a heart attack. Americans have no interest in that part of the world other than oil, gas and minerals to run American trains, planes and automobiles, and anything mechanical made in American industries. The Suez Canal might carry one barge per month of ore, mineral, for processing in the US, a fraction of the general traffic of goods the Suez brings to Israel. If there is war in the Suez with US troops let it be known the reason they fight is to keep the price of goods low for Israel.
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  5425. Profits sabotaged the airline’s functioning. Profits, profits, profits, and the airline forgot they have an airline to run!
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  5426. The Colonel could not get his point across to well given the time frame of his interview, he got cut short. Pentagon and the CIA officials use murder, arson, bombings, assassinations, set-ups, coup d'etats, money, industry, drugs, anything that is legal and illegal, to pave the way for private industry to set up a new economy while they demolish the old economy with these sordid techniques. This is what it means to be in a relationship with the world to the CIA and the Pentagon. In the real world Bond is not running from bad guys, Bond is the bad guy. War is conquest as a power over others and ultimately an alienated power of itself who uses it. This revelation should come as a surprise to people who never read or seen more than one Shakespearean drama. Nothing new about this in the annals of human history. People are just stupid and easily taken advantage by those who are smart and do study the past to carry on the same forms of exploitation the past teaches them to stay as rulers and for the ruled to stay as the opressed. The opressed think oppressively, oppress each other, and so they self-oppress themselves while the new economic structure set up by the kings, princes, presidents and prime ministers, have everyone not in their circle stand in a relation to them as the oppressed. Nothing the oppressed can do is genuine or honest, they are percieved as lesser beings in that relation and can never stand in any other relation to a king but as a lesser being.   Every truce is a prelude to another outrageous and ferocious struggle for existence...in the last century it was the Soviet Union and communism...now its Iran and its patriarchal tyrannical religion, out to kill the power structure in Washington DC! Is the world more safe? Of course it isn't. Making the world safe is when a leader meets with another and starts engaging in a dialogue to de-escalate tensions and they come out with a treaty. A promise is not an agreement and an agreement is not a treaty. Never agree to anything; or no policy at all is a matter of foriegn policy. Who is Pompeo, a CIA man, who uses terror and violence to make Americans safe not now in the present but in the future and the oppressed think being unsafe now will bring us more safety in the future? You got to be real stupid to buy that one.
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  5427. The separation of people from the land is the foundation on which capitalism develops. A trend that is common among Americans is treasure hunting and gold prospecting using the latest technology that young people are going into all kinds of environments in the hopes they find gold. We can see these people producing videos of their hunts on youtube. With full scuba gear they dive into the deepest part of a waterfall and find gold. Who's gold is it if the waterfall and river where the gold is found in some waterfall deep in the woods belongs to somebody in New York or in Germany? The waterfall is private property and the owner of that property has a right to the gold the prospector found. In effect, the land, waterfall, river, are legally separated from the prospector. The state does not recognize the prospector as the owner of the gold although the scuba diver appropriated the gold from the rocks beneath the waters, did all the work. The law recognizes the owner of the land as the rightful owner of the value of the gold found. If the owner(s) sell the land to a drilling company it is their right. The right of the owner of the land is enforced by the laws that establish private property.  Capitalism is still intact even as the economy collapses. There are 3.7 million square miles of land that makes up the US and 640 million acres of that land is public land and 2.4 billion acres of that land is divided up into private land. But this does not tell you much unless you do the actual work of distinguishing who or what entities own private land and how much of it do they own. One giant sized agricultural company might own 10 million acres or most of the land and the rest is divided up into millions of small lots for the rest of the population to buy or sell. One senator in Congress could own a thousand acres of land, 400 senators could own up one million acres among them, and the rest divided up among millions of small private land owners, leaving the majority of the population landless. The state enforces the rights of each of these types of landowners. The Catholic Church, the Ivy league institutions, are landowners as well. All 2.4 billion acres of land in the US in some form or another is private property making capitalism still intact even as the economy crumbles to a standstill. Without land there is no production and without production there in no life is a serious problem this country will face should how we get our food breaks down because incomes have dropped and the price of foods have risen. A man sells apples on the street, the rich man buys them all up, the poor man cannot afford to buy one apple. Land set aside as public land is government land, these lands are all the federal and state buildings, parks, and sidewalks, roads, are not sold but leased to private corporations. For example in Texas, one highway lane is rented out to a private corporartion, they hope this lease arrangement will reduce traffic. Or a municipal airport rents out a building on the airport to a foreign corporation...who's land is it? Is it public land or is it private land during the life of the lease? See Elrod v Burns 427 US 327 for the answer. Either way, the mass of people cannot use that land for anything that will produce food for them, it forbids the use of land for subsistence raise chickens, prospect for gold. The land is no longer arable, useful in feeding the population if it is, on the one hand, private and, on the other hand, developed public land. What good can land do if it is a parking lot? To prevent mass starvation during a deep stagnation of the economy a government's response would have to be some kind of re-organization of the land. A return to small farming on a mass scale, something other than the way land is used now in all of society. When people are re-united with the land capitalism will be officially over and done with. Until the foundation of capitalism is changed such as increasing landownership to all the people and not divided up among a few owners, capitalism is here to stay even if it does not work for the majority.
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  5428. I suppose what Amazon proves is the effectiveness with which its method of shipping extracts so much work from its workers that a study is worth doing on the ratio of workers to machines that make work at Amazon so high in output. Why workers have no part of that productivity is the heart of the issue here. If they have no part of the invention of the technology that makes them productive then the central issue for Amazon is its technological development. But the central issue for workers is the greater sum of money being the main purpose of Amazon the corporation that the money used to buy labor and tools, are brought together to complete a conversion process as a step in becoming greater sum of money. Subsequently, people as worker hired at Amazon come into the job fresh invigorated and alive and by the end of their time working there leave the process shrunken, demoralized and broken down as human beings Amazon the corporation is enriched by increased magnitudes of human labor successfully extracted by use of its technology and tools given to the worker to use.
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  5429. An immoral indignation that reflects on the American public to permit the use a national natural resource, i.e, electricity as a means of refrigertating people as a means of crowd control. If utlity companies were nationalized this would never happen behind the backs of the Public.
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  5430. We change the environment and the environment changes us. This is the reality. The News Media does not look at weather events in this way as a reality of Earth in the process of transformation . Consequently, people educated by the Media break down this process of transformation in their heads, into isolated incidences unrelated to each other. They can not make the connection between the particular event is a concrete expression of the general movement of Earth. Media never draws the connection between a blizzard in California and a flood happening in Spain to the Planet as a whole as events of the planet changing the planet in the present. Subsequently, everything living in this planet changes and we find ourselves in a material world that no longer satisfies our wants because we cannot shape it anymore. We are behind science and nature is science forging new life forms and possibilities as part of an evolutionary process that is not a cycle of renewal but is a process of transformation. Than there is the more damaging and self-deprecating view that is built on the denial of Earth processes that natural and social events are acts of God. That view is antithetical to the view of the material world as a product of labor, instruments, raw material, industry use of soil and water, nature is adapted to a change of form for human wants, but in the process of particular needs and wants, being met, nature is transformed in general.
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  5431. Middle of the country is inhabited mainly by the US Military silos, bases and stations, and Native Americans, take up most of the space, is why so little people move there.
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  5432.  @ModdedLu  The reason Trump has moved to the left has nothing to do with the democrats moving to the right or not at all in their position relative to the working class. This guy Jordan is a loon. The reason has to do with the lack of control over the coronavirus that is going to kill millions of Americans. To admit he has failed spells the end of his re-election, but he is a failure when history writes about him. Once the consumer economy is crushed by the death of millions from the virus and people become too sick the for "profit vultures" are doomed. They know this and are warning him. It takes a while to sink in. Without buyers the sellers have nobody to sell products is basic captialism 101. Right now a huge market in Italy is lost to American corporations. If Europe goes into shock like Italy that market is lost to US corporations. If the US market goes into the shock, the largest economy is lost to US corporations. So everything he is doing is only to slow down the economy from collapsing not the virus from spreading. Trump has a double crisis on his hands the end of the US economy and the pandemic. e will ultimately infuse the economy from the bottom trillions and he will call the military to use to deal with the pandemic. Once he realizes that all other tools fave failed thhose are his last resort. The problem is; the longer he delays the more time the virus enters into its airborn phase the harder it will be to stop transmission or contagion. You should be learning everything you can about this virus. You should be asking why and how did this happen? The answer is really simple, why? So simple a 16 year old girl knows the answer. A girl nobody takes seriously the message she delivers. Bernie never invited her to the podium and so he too is guilty of this neglect. The US is like Italy so ill prepared and behind the curve in treating and effectively coping with this virus that when it evolves from its transmission phase through droplets and moves into its airborn transmission phase then no place is safe. Humans have transformed the environement in such a way that it has changed our relationship to animals. With 1300 species of bats and 6 to 5 caronaviruses in all bats severe acute respiratory disease spreads through a sick planet where humans have changed the ecology in how we live with animals. We are exposed to the spill over from animals and our intimate living with animals of all varieties in cultures that either revere them religiously or adopt them as part of the society we live. The Nippa virus epidemic was caused by deforestation and the movement of bats closer to other animals. Changing ecology is crucial to how animal and human are related. Higher temperatures, human and planetary health is at the basis of this crisis and pandemic. Africa, Latin America and Asia are ticking time bombs. None of your candidates spoke to the issue of the ecology and planetary health as it realtes to diseases should tell you that all of them politicized this crisis and ignored the medical-ecological question of human habitation and health. The public is completely ignorant on the question. No question Bernie would be better than Trump because Bernie is not anti-science but that is the only reason he would be better than Trump. Trump would be better than Bernie because Trump is not anti-capitalist and will pull out all the resources to save capitalism which of necessity will call out the military who will call out the scientists.
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  5433. So, ---a military take over is the only way they can remain in power is what the former-president is telling them...we'll see about that!
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  5434. Daszak organizes a consortium of big names with access to money from the Pentagon. He has a program the Pentagon likes. That money funds the research of virologists in Wuhan China. I think the Pentagon is more responsible for the outbreak and Daszak is a virologist of no ethics was in it for the money.
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  5435. COVID is eradicated not by a vaccine but by cuts in wages and humiliating working conditions. If unions are part of this oppression it would make sense to me that a working class movement not aim for unionization ever, to the contrary, workers should abolish the unions that do exist or root out their corrupt leadership, and form for themselves one national union with a rotating chairperson to insulate their movement from corrupt infiltration and influences and become a third political party,--- fight back in the political arena where all the action takes place anyway. It is self-defeating to unionize and as a concept a union allows en employer to negotiate wth one or two or five in the leadership the contracts, terms and conditions of employment, they totally avoid having to negotiate with the rank and file, even if the union leadership returns to the table with a rank and file vote.
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  5436. Its not Majorie Taylor Green its the deviation of the norm she represents on her side of the class struggle that is intriguing about her...bold...decisive. She is not for the prosecution of oligarchs when an oligarch on her side of the struggle is charged is the ultimate position she has take...I admire that...a democrat would conceal that ambition to rob a victory from the people in prosecuting white collar crimes and offenses of the higher unities in society.
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  5437. The charge against socialism in America will be that the workers are not free and they are not making money. I hope progressives and leftist are thinking of a good defense against that charge as the right wing proliferates that message to the rest of America for the next presidential election.
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  5438. Revolutionary Greetings Metal Coasters, a good read.
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  5439. I would suggest reading Marx and Engels, The German Ideology, written in 1846 Edited by C.J. Arthur. Your questions are close to the questions this book addresses as part of the development of the criticism of capitalism. Dissolving the class nature of production abolishes both capital and wage-labor in production. Production is no longer divided along class distinctions with workers on the one side as hired and managers on the other side as capital. If wages as the main form of income for workers is abolished their independence as a 'free worker' is also abolished, along with its opposite, capital is abolished. What is left? Production and 330 million people, they all work for themselves and families and for society as a whole? How much time does an individual work? This answer varies with the state of science and technology. Some societies could have a 40 hour work week for individuals because productivity is low. Some per capita a 20 hour work week because productivity is high. Labor is no longer the measure of value, people are not used as the specific means by which one can become super rich. Labor is labor, useful labor, and anyone who can perform it is regarded indispensable. Industries do not produce according to demand they produce according to need. A doctor's compensation for his/her labor is the health of their patient not the social status of their income. Many, many doctors would leave the US as individuals unable to adjust to a loss of a life luxury consumption. Worse yet, the super rich individuals who have no useful skills of their own, as people who do not work, that is, would launch with their capital a counter-revolt to defeat a socialist society unable and unwilling to adjust to a life of luxury abstinence. But go read the GI, its a great read for more of its implications. Be well.
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  5440. By a 'free worker' I mean a population who serve to ensure the rise of general market conditions for the exchange of equivalents, a certain quantity of labor-power for an equivalent quantity of the necessaries of life, are people who sell their labor-power and receive money in exchange for their capacity to work, these people enter into a labor-process of another, a working day of another, the entire calendar year constitutes a yearly quantity of surplus-value produced through the consumption of the use-value of the commodity -labor-power, these are the social relations that comes with the intervention of a capitalist into the labor-process. The change from a social structure based on owner-workers to a system of non-worker owners was to be the new social form of modern industry and this constitutes a qualitative social change as the true essence of the Industrial Revolution, not the History Channel's depiction of the Age of Capital as changes in the forces of production, inventions and what not. All that comes with the ideas that differ and contrast from the reality of the self in society. A 'free worker' came into being on the American scene by the Emancipation Proclamation of 1865. 153 years of established 'free market conditions', in which you and I, regardless or sex and race, were freed to dispose our labor-power to any buyer, have been declared equal in the eyes of the Law, politics and in society, free and broken away from the bonds of slavery is our modern social reality. The southern black portion of the American working class understands very well what I mean what a 'free worker' is despite the Emancipation Proclamation. A black man in America no longer sells himself once and for all, as a 'commodity-slave' where the slave is the commodity! But now as a 'free citizen' possessor of a special commodity, along with whites included, and all men and (women), are free to sell to whom they please, is the content of the American decree in 1865; so how is it that a government cannot honor and enforce if for 153 years?
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  5441. Clearly, the main interest of Boeing isn’t their quality of jet planes. If it isn’t quality than it must be the quantity that is of interest to management. How many planes can the workers get out the door is the main concern. If only the quantity of passenger planes is Boeing’s main interest than Boeing workers are nothing more than a tool to that end. You can forget about sharpening your engineering skills to improve plane and production quality in this corporation. All that has been thrown out the window! There is probably no contact between workers and management in that company. Two separate worlds. Managers probably never go to the factory floor to observe and find problems in production and workers never see or know their managers. The whole dam organization of production in Boeing is split right down the middle with interest of Boeing workers and management interests completely incompatible. If I were Buttigeig, I would order the company’s production be re-organized. Maybe the workers should walk off the job and stop production to get that ball rolling. On the basis that they are endangering the Public under Boeing management they would be acting not out of self-interest but in the interest of public air safety exactly the same interest Buttigieg should have and position the government on the side of Boeing workers.
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  5442. Barbarism.
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  5443.  @ihswap  Now because people write English well they are billionaires. You've become a regular proletarian Trumpet.
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  5444.  @ihswap  Little Man on the Cake.
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  5445.  @CrowandRaven  US enjoys a 35% under production capacity. It also enjoys a high illiteracy rate and low math scores. Out of 100 factories that were build in the last 50 years 30 of them are rotting away is what the under capacity rate measures. Big loss for the American people who are getting less of the share of the total output of the nation when they buy stuff. Your money don’t buy much. The other 20 working factories are relegated to producing a part of a product to be installed in Mexico while the rest of the product is made Malaysia than imported back to the US for assembly by the mentally disabled in social programs scattered around the country the tax payer funds, than it goes to Home Depot or Lowes for sale. You (taxpayer) are paying for the labor that finishes the product made ready for market. The owner of the product gets the product and the sale money from the product Dow Jones Industrial averages records the price of the stock sold. Break down further the origin of the product and the workforce that makes it is smaller in size and working longer hours. The factories that rot are a tax depreciation allowance for their owners making it more profitable to let them rot than to start them up. And, America has tremendous social consequences the Public and the Media, the Government, “ignore” to making people work for so long as a way of offsetting the loss of workers to the new innovations employers add to their businesses. The effects of prolonging the working day on a smaller working cohort population are severe. These effects are reflected in the low standard for military recruits. A substantial size of the US population is over weight with diabetes, ADHD, and other maladies. The WP does not live in this world to know the actual conditions and the Public does not have the attention span to break down what is happening to them. To explain would take volumes. People will just have to feel and experience the exploitation and tragedies that spring from this condition brought on by a group of dynastic families ruling the country.
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  5446. I am hope workers in Europe will overthrow their governments in Germany, England and France and sweep across the world an new era for humanity. Its time.
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  5447. Here is the the thing, the transaction between wage-labor and capital is veiled by the commodity form of its product. GDP is expressed in the money-form of the commodity. The working class receives its share of its own product through the commodity form of the product. The bourgeoisie appropriates GDP in the money-form of the commodity. From a pure labor standpoint, GDP is the product of labor non-workers use in the form of money to buy labor-power and the perpetuation of the working class is the 'sine qua non' of capitalist production. The working class when they are at work are consuming the means of production, they are the ones converting the investment in machinery/technology into products of higher value than the capital advanced. This is what economists call; 'productive consumption', the consumption of labor-power by capital turns money paid into the means of production into more money for investors. When the working class consumes the share of its own product it is productive consumption in maintaining the class of workers for itself as a class, and as a source of value for the State and the Capitalist Class. If this relation is not addressed I do not think society will have moved one inch away from capitalism.
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  5448. Looks like Russians are in the same mindset Americans were opposing the Vietnam War 55 years ago. The Pentagon Officials learned quick the draft was their worst nightmare. Now the young are kept poor to boost enlistment. Hopefully this will develop into a worldwide opposition to war in general and free humanity of the scourge of war.
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  5449. Restoring the trust the sacred bond between America and its citizens is more than a merit based immigration policy. The wording of that speech plays on what is meant by America and citizens that one precludes the other, they are not synonymous. The government or the administration is synonymous with America not the citizen. Might turn upon minutia to you not paying attention to the subtle use of phrases and words to manipulate public opinion does not mean the manipulation is absent.
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  5450. Status Coup does a good job giving you perspecitve and analysis on the political process. But it is nieve to believe insiders are really outsiders, even Bernie.  Bernie is closer to the outside of the democratic party establishment while everyone to the right of Warren are all insiders. But what is their social class is more important, I think, than what they say they will do? Pelosi is a landowner, she belongs to a more liberal side of America's landowning class. Owning a commodity such as the Napa Valley Vineyard is world famous for its general wealth that the Pelosi family will forever be rich. The same is true for the Clintons and all the other billionaires in the democtatic party. The Catholic Church, Columbia University, Donald Trump, all landowners. Communications and technical industries are not part of the establishment landowning class but become the establishment as the years roll by and the old establishment pass on their wealth to the next generation of inheriting landowners to young to carry the mission of the party. Mission being that America, under the present social form of class and poltiical power is never threatened or changed by any outside social class, namely, the working class. America is a developed society with complex social classes but it is still a plantation based economy. The slaves have been made into wage earners divided by land, i.e., urban and rural private property, as the last remaining thread of ownership and independence that keeps the working classes from overthrowing the landed aristocracy of capitalism from power. Republicans are a war party of individual landowners not institutional landowners like the democratic party. Individual capitalists such as Koch Industries, mining companies, large scale capitalist producers are also landowners put up a titanic struggle to get their way in government to monopolize land ownership and keep the workplace under their personal ownership and control. Anyone not a part of the landowning social class dominating the two party system but are a part of the political structure like the man from Brooklyn and the woman from the mid-west, are proletarianized small or petty-landowners. Easy to see the parties are divided according the size of the landowner, the bigger the more institutionalized, the smaller the more personalized individual family or person who are dependent on the labor-porcess for a living are engaged in this class struggle without realizing it or having any control over the capital the large landowners use to maintain the social arrangement small landowners live. And who are Sanders and Warren? Why are they appealing to this multitude of petty landowners/working class; what is their social and class background that makes them outsiders inside a party structure in the same way the two working classes in society, are divided by rural and urban land ownership, are outsiders inside the poltiical structure? The common substance between them is their social class as a wage earners, not what they own, but what they produce as wage earners for the dominant social classes.
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  5451. Preventing an outbreak of war by curtailing competition. We have to question how our cooperation is used in that world of competition. ..and question the perception of cooperation as a form of competition... we need to be active historical agents. No longer on the sidelines. Change and question perceptions and definitions. A mass reallocation of all the world’s resources. Break it all down to build social relationships more genuine, honest, materially gratifying and capable. Build to last. Build evenly and cross sect the US with high speed rail. Make proportion the new rule. We need a new art form and art movement, one that can imagine, move us to confront our fears.
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  5452.  @mikester314  I know...I saw that too...the future is not here yet...is why speculation leads to inaction.
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  5453.  @mikester314  You are a democrat...he’s a democrat ...that’s a handicap right there...the rest of the world are not democrats... you believe in equality as long as it is not in the workplace which means you believe in inequality in the workplace. There is more equality in the workplaces in the free economic zones in China than there is in Texas. The world sees the two-faced nature of equality in the US and rejects it. Democrats and the republicans have weaponized the workplace when they should have been equalizing the workplace the way a lot of the world is going. Being a democrat is a choice to go in the opposite direction the world is moving.
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  5454. Well,----you’ll have to switch to a dumb phone and literally destroy your iPhone if you want your privacy rights preserved and left intact. Smart phones track and collect who and where you are. Technology in society runs independently from its users the smart phone no exception as a piece of technology with control over the people using them. It tells you what to do how to get there, forces you stay on line in touch with the latest and craziest things 3 billion people are doing on the planet. Technology has only made the working day longer. Intended to make work lighter and easier, lessen the intensity of work, a worker can work longer hours is more profitable for the company. So why are wages flat? Without a smart phone people would re-acquire their lost social skills and become more relaxed, calmed in control over their thoughts no longer racing around in heads zombifying people; sending notifications with a bombardment of Ads, its a violation of the senses that capitalism hits the mute button in the brain creating people who have no social skills and problem resolving skills. Millions are lemmings and follow the rules. People stay inside isolate themselves. They shut down or snap!
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  5455. Its great reporters are covering the stories that affect most the working class, i.e., Flint lead in water, Standing rock, and other assaults not very well covered are still leading toward a realization that attacks affect the entire social class of working people is an indication the working class can see through the hypocrisies and lies. But not enough reporters cover the life of workers, the struggle for dignity of ordinary life, since the financial crisis of 2007 which was nothing but a swindle for the banks. At the same time, resuscitate the economic system of exploitation. More importantly, to explain how the social classes are aligned on the basis of sustaining low wages and high prices. How all the institutions have undulated on the working class at this juncture a wage depression in the area of work and undulated an assault through the market with high prices, is critical subject matter for Journalism.
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  5456. “In fact, it challenges the notion that meaningful projects must involve expensive materials or advanced technology.”, 19:58. This is true only if land, tools and material belong to the house’s producer. Owner and producer would have to be one and the same person to be self-sustaining. In our present day world, owner and producer are not one and the same people, so our products become sustaining for people who have nothing to do with the building of the product, The only relationship they have to the finished product is its use as an object for sale; outside of its sale if the act of building does not support the activity of selling than building does not happen at all, depriving humanity of hearth and home.
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  5457.  @fl00fydragon  You are preaching to the choir - tell it to the Millennials.
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  5458.  @Vmvmvmvmvn  The world will continue, people like you and me will live on!
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  5459. Biden and the democrats are pushing for a restoration of the normal work day nation wide. This is so vital to the corporations that the vaccines are pushed to do exactly that, re-open the economy. Seen in this context the unvaccinated whether they realize it or not in defying the science and authority are blocking the resumption of the normal work day from continuing with the regularity the corporations expect and the US economy had been averaging a weak 3% GNP. COVID changed all that and made the working day erratic and sporadic, not enough workers here and too many workers there, disrupting the flow of business and the supply chain its arteries clogged, came a wave of strikes and demands for higher wages given the lack of safety in the workplace, finally, when people just said there has to be a better way the lock downs allowed people to think about their lives. Its not about cause and effect. Its about the incompatibility of needs, with people getting pushed and pulled, meeting the needs of corporations and becoming desensitized, angry, hostile, in the process of becoming uprooted, displaced, relocated, sent off somewhere to do a job that turns out to be work dangerous to the person doing it and others, angry at the treatment and abuse as having no power; nobody listens but pays more attention to people who have nothing to do with GNP!
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  5460. Cops don’t have to plant a gun to justify a more severe charge from battery to attempted murder the concealed carry people make it easy and plant the gun on themselves.
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  5461. What a crisis of character this country is going through and at the head of it a rotten twaddle of a man leading everyone by the nose.
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  5462.  @theciakilledjfk5973  Well, the work cut out for you is to convert the believers into non-believers of democracy.
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  5463. ​ @Gregorypeckory  strange to the individual living in it, not strange to those outside of America. It is difficult for the individual to see from the inside what America is not is the point being made. The State is the Capitalist Class. You seem to think the State is separate from that class and from the outside that is plainly not true but from the inside they appear to be two distinct entities bouncing blame off each other.
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  5464. The private health system is in crisis and cannot treat other diseases, ailments, or surgeries with COVID patients overwhelming individual hospitals and the staff are burnt out. Government relies on the private health care system for its civil servants just like employers and employees, you and I, we don’t get to use Bathesda Maryland for treatment. Without a national health system in place society is vulnerable to collapse, its would be as if London had no bomb shelter during the Blitz. The real crisis here is the absence of a national health system.
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  5465. Insightful and plausible @darlingdear2687 , I like your point. The man responding to you, 'steven tea', dismisses your point with arrogance.
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  5466. Good video commentary.
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  5467. Infamous is the wrong word to use to describe Michael Moore, Mr. Status Coup.  Poor choice of words. Moore is controversial but not infamous, he has done no crime with his documentaries to be described as "infamous". The only black person in America that would be against a living wage is Barack Obama is a line I'd love to hear Bernie say when Trump starts to red bate him. I don't even like Moore but he is right...this is the last round of the fight and progressives have to come out fighting to kill. The next line I'd love to hear is that Buttigieg is a DNC-Trump mole and ignore him. Completely ignore him as though he does not even exist. Acknowledge nothing of his presence, he insists call him the Juan Giaudo of the DNC.
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  5468. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are responsible for the execution of that procedure not Joe Biden. A general's job is the prosecute a war if that be to evacuate it so be it! Pentagon and the Joint Chiefs, including the generals on the ground commanding troops in Afghanistan did not apply your method of how you are supposed to evacuate a war zone and they apparently failed to heed reports of Taliban advances. Or, they preferred it would happen given the Afghan army was not up to fighting on its own was not a mystery to anyone in the field. The modern American military is built on a command economy of its own with its own private sector industries. Raytheon, Grumman, GE, LockHeed, the Media and Wall Street are all wrapped up in the military. Society exists outside of that complex. It is this complex that gets paid first and the citizen-soldier paid last is how this debacle looks. For the simple reason the British were able to pull their British citizens, not all but are working toward a complete evacuation facing the same circumstances as the Americans, what gives?
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  5469. “ Stressing and straining the hospital system”, said Dr. Fauci and economists warn the lack of social supports and higher infection rates will decimate the working class. A message falling on deaf ears in Washington. Consumers in capitalist society are placing further stress on this segment of the working class and industry by raising the demand for travel to meet their need to get out. The well-oiled machinery of the airline crews are stressed and stretched to the max to keep the planes making money for the airlines, rotating passengers, is a broken down system. The hospital system is one step away from the same breakdown. America’s hospital and airline industry is disintegrating as the private system overlaid on both industries leave town with the consent of Congress’s inaction to not seize the industries before they completely shut down and the general population is locked out from travel and medical care. People think empires take a long time to become a part of history forever and they are dead wrong.
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  5470. To the Question Will the Left Stand Up to the Deep State? I’d rather see the working class stand up to the Deep State not the Left. Big difference is the Left has no universality but the working class does. Associated with social security is the working day to which employer and employees combined contribute to social security. At a personal level in relation to the working day two additional hours of labor from all workers would be given for nothing to all employers and with automation the work is doubled or trebled for higher output by the automation in the labor-process of the working day is what will be on the minds of all workers when the retirement age is raised. This matter has more universality and potential to fight back at Big Business than do the crimes of the Deep State. Keeping the retirement age where it is will mean workers will have to strike on a national basis with or without the leadership of unions.
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  5471. We can stop second guessing ourselves on Trump. Looks like a duck, talk and walks like one, its a duck. Demagogues love each other, Boris and Donald, and they recognize themselves in each other. It is apparent they see the duality of world systems fading away not because of human progress nor in spite of it but through blame. The whining child blimp sums up Trump perfectly. If the masses produce a blimp that best characterizes their leader the whole world will get a better understanding which among them are demagogues and which are sincere.
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  5472.  @13muller9  2014 was a western coup followed by a Russian invasion, 2., BRICs do no more than what the US did to the UK, it stole its industrial methods. Sound like a sore loser to me.
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  5473.  kylekyle9618  western leadership is moribund.
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  5474.  @SuperTonyony  You should learn how not to talk in abstract and general terms by really doing your homework. People who cannot be specific, clear and concrete are usually talking out their ass. You might be one of them.
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  5475. Zakariye batalaale ---the people who control the dollar are the federal reserve board. You really believe Mnuchin and his committee are the "Deep State"? You really don't know do you?
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  5476.  @donaldduck4403  sorry don't mean to be crass, I appreciate your reply. Nothing personal.
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  5477. American business was against Covid policies. They want the workers in the office and in the factory and not working from home. Too bad if they got Covid they still have to work or be replaced was and still is the position of American business. The CDC came up with the idea of ‘shelter in place’, and those workers who could did and have not changed their way is now a battle line for the bosses. Shelter in place here was mild compared to China which was forced sheltering in place that many Americans felt the Americans should do and Fauci came close to doing it to the consternation of America’s big bosses. Trump came out with we don’t want the problem to become the problem was a win for the bosses and a loss for the workers. All governments are fearful of different groups linking up in different places, different workers linking up with other workers and shutting down the economic system, this would be a serious loss in profits to the bosses, if commerce can to standstill. They reacted by firing people and closing stores in neighborhoods where robberies and break-ins happened. That and Covid restrictions tanked profits which were compensated for by government. thanks to the government the bosses did not lose but gained more profits while the workers were home sheltering from Covid and getting vaccinated. The bosses moderated their positions and ordered their workers be vaccinated and get back to work or be fired the CDC gave a near 100% effectiveness in the vaccinations as did Big Pharma. Now the test trials of Covid vaccine data is a subject of an investigation if they are so sure its safe why hide the data from the public? The battle between bosses and workers show no signs of slowing down, to the contrary, it was on Covid restriction two years ago but now the battleground is on inflation and shrinking airplane seats with bad service, low wage incomes and high energy costs, work/life issues, and general food and necessities. Bosses barraging workers on all grounds the battle got wider and is spread over a range of issues proving to be an acid test for the next president.
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  5478. The media inside Israel must be so filtered the general public is duped to believe the war is not the series of atrocities the world sees Israel committing. I cannot believe there is n’t the resistance to the draft and resistance to the atrocities, that Jews are desensitized, apathetic, if they saw as we see the war crimes, seems freeing the hostages is the sole concern. Incredible. What is the opium that prevents a revolutionary movement in Israel?
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  5479. Explain. People like what?
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  5480. Julia Rock nailed it at the end. Is it job cuts that is the cause or is the effect of increasing productivity of railroad workers the actual collision that damages society and environment?
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  5481. . Everybody but the American taxpayer and America's working population wins in this world of capital.
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  5482. Part of this is a cult of personality that grows up around the idea of what Warren's movement is, not the movement itself.  I think there is a piece of this in all developing movements, they acquire their heros and villians and die out in a relatively short time but some ideas stick. People see in Warren a humanism the social world lacks and share a realism to restore order and harmony in the social relations of society. "Be critical of all things but do nothing," I call it 'realistic humanism', that Warren uses, consciously or not, to criticize the billionaires and the state as the main obstacle to the social good. Warren expresses a realistic humanism, Bernie expresses a social pragmatism on the economy and the social inequality in the economy. As far as which is the better to get bigger half of the economy out from the lurch, by far, Bernie for his pragmatism is the kind of skill needed to re-arrange the economy in order to make it work for Main Street. We cannot whip the billionaire class into submission with aspirations, they have to be nailed down to the floor with taxes of the income they acquire without taxation and then make the structural changes to the economy.
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  5483. I don't think the petty interest of hedge fund managers is even capable of becoming the common national interest of a class, these days, and the way things are going. Now after the first bailouts working Americans expect to go first in line. Wall Street gets from the Senate whatever it wants. But their petty rural narrowmindedness and city-like swolenheadedness has born an arrogant and odios privileged character to Wall Street. An aura that if they were not bailed out the entire capitalist world would collapse overnight.
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  5484. Sanctions give Big Oil a greater share of the share of the European oil and gas market Russia supplied and Big Oil takes the booty turns around to sell it at a higher price to the American Public, where consumption is highest, says two things: The sanctions are an albatross around the necks of the American Working Class but a Cash Cow for Big Oil depriving the American Public of more of its wages and income and standard of living, and it says the democrats and republicans oppress the American Public in Congress. Before activists can establish a democratic dictatorship of workers in America the Americans must learn the ABCs of Marxism, the science that gave the world a study of relations of people hidden behind the science that studies exclusively the relation of things in all mainstream bourgeois economics.
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  5485. Trains, Planes and Automobiles are all crashing in America, this happens because workers are overworked. Why are they overworked? Why does a modern society force their workers to work beyond the point of human endurance? While America’s commitment to Israel is hospitalized in the ICU for three days in secret, the NTSB, is busy investigating every crash in transportation and giving the okay for the system to continue working. The NTSB has no authority over how long workers should be working and overwork is not a case for the Supreme Court to decide if a workforce of 132 million people are working longer than humanly possible, so the mistakes, errors, production quality, gets worse! The workplace is a virtual battle zone rife with chemical agents poisoning workers and the environment with chills, spills, flames, and explosions, while Congress sits on its duff crying tears over the Border and war expenditures. NOTICE: Not even Trump uses the catastrophes as a way to clobber is opponents...none of them have any comment about workers overworked threatening Public Safety. Biden, DeSantis, Harris, Haley, Trump, ALL OF THEM, are all focused on everything but what is of major concern to every working person, a life of dignity and respect.
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  5486.  @spectre5560  A certain amount of money equals a certain amount of house or car or weed has no consciousness of how stupid you are and common sense is not recognized under the rules of capitalism as a use-value that can be exchanged for money.
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  5487. The UN council should expel the US from the UN and than it can bring the US to trial.
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  5488. You do not know which is more the immoral thing to do? Pretend you are a mayor of a town and its committee of decision-makers and you have the decision to make to shut off the water because it is so low. All of you are in session and on record discussing the water shortage in your town. A debate ensues among you. On the question: Do you order ACME Plastic Inc, and Co., to shut down and they fight you in court, or do let the community as a whole perish for lack of water. These are your choices.  Cut off the water for a few large users and you potentially cut off your food supply. True, we do, but food can grown locally, parks can become gardens, and yards can become gardens. Town garages and warehouse building can be storage of harvest for winter. It means a radical change of life that is better than putrefaction. Locally, we can become independent and only hope other communities do the same. Re-connect themselves with home grown food and be freed from the need created from without food. Acme Plastics, Inc and Co., would have to close its door and we will lose jobs, make less money...some will have to sell their homes...the impact of Acme Plastics going under will crush the economy a ghost town is what we'll have. True, but who is going to buy a home where water is unavailable? The market economy as it was is no longer what it was before the drought. Some how the banks would have to be paid off, they will foreclose regardless. One of the alderman said...'well, Acme Plastics might not cooperate...they can become desperate too! What do you do then? They have money, power over the courts, lawyers, we have Jack...nodding off...in the meeting, they can hire mercenaries and run them all out of town'. Another stated, 'we are not yet at a stage where there is no federal authority...don't panic...we can take preventative measures in the event of, an Acme Plastic invasion on Any town USA.'  What good is a factory to Acme Plastic and Co., when water is a necessary raw material that makes their product? A General Assembly was posted for the town on all to attend on Main Street. com Knowing the water and the town budget will dry up the committee members and the mayor took action a rare unanimous decision, and ordered the villagers to gear up for a major social transformation, releasing the town equipment to start tilling parks and developing a water harvesting system some brilliant child came up with in his class, and the townspeople go down in history as the little town that took a stand on the moral decision to save the future, as the little town that began the founding of a new America, it faced its hardships and losses but allowed a generation to continue doing everything themselves, teaching and making the needs they need, for the little town that survived a drought, earthquake, political and economic catastrophe and COVID.
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  5489. Its good that more of these war hawk voices come out of the closet. The greater number of American people can judge for themselves the imperialists that are elected to become America’s political elite. Before they permanently install themselves into decision making positions of the government for life, if it is not too late, the Public can elect them out of office. If it is too late the Public will have two choices, live with them or overthrow them.
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  5490. “Kokua”:goodvibes:
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  5491. The right wing pressures Washington to abandon Afghans lowering the number of evacuees but go get the Americans. General Austin does not want troops to step foot in an urban environment ties his hands. The left wing pressures Washington to increase the number of Afghan evacuees who helped Americans and go get the Americans stuck in Afghanistan. The Afghans cannot understand why the US abandons them because they do not understand the racism of the right wing in America telling middle America we have no obligation to the Afghan people using the photo of the C-30 filled with Afghans to heighten the propaganda message. The former marine who can not stand by and watch Afghan allies fall into the fate of the Taliban are honorable actions the right wing in America despises. This unusual situation makes the American marine and the Afghan ally both more aligned with the democrats on the left and scorned and rejected by the party to the right of the moderate republicans.
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  5492. The exploitive form of humanity’s creations in this stage of imperialism is exactly the reason the masses need a political philosophy grounded in the concrete and the particulars of the real world.
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  5493. Oh please this is old. Democrats are so bad is the reason you have an ass like Trump. These guys can’t be honest about themselves.
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  5494. Good way to naturalize illegals which are many and not all are Latin Americans from South and Central America that are illegal but countless numbers of Europeans, are illegally working in the US. Low fertility rates show the next 20 years there will be less American workers in the labor market and more elderly. Third, the SENATE in Washington D.C. hold laws that work for corporations not the country. There are a bunch of societal reasons that makes this measure a reality. The real story here is not changing the existing institutions to fit the times.
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  5495. The Me First Syndrome
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  5496. It is very difficult to work any enthusiasm for a people which on such a collosal issue allows itself to be continually beaten by a fourth of its own population, and which after 18 years of war has achieved nothing more than the discovery that all its senators are asses and all its officials are rascals and traitors.
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  5497. Speaking classically, capital ensures for itself the rise of conditions for the exchange of equivalents because then it can set up the conditions for the production of surplus-value by consuming the value of the commodity, labor-power.  With the government out of the way, and money-markets established, it can then make workers work beyond the point workers actually create the value of their own reproduction. It can then focus on automating and capitalizing on making new combinations of 'productive' workers with the technology at hand for itself.   Phase I: Free production from government control, abolish parts of the government in the way of the free exploitation of the labor-process and labor, Phase II; extend hours of labor.  In one fell swoop, air, water, soil, food, wages and the working day, are freed from federal legislation. Millions of Americans cut off from the necessaries of life. The shut down is the first attack on the working class then followed by reduced gas prices for the free mobility of labor and reduced wages is the second attack.  Is it a set up? Indeed, it is if preserving parts of the government republicans do want to keep conforms to their idea of 'Less government' and holding the shut down long enough that federal workers leave justifies the closure of that department. Fox news will blame workplace related catastrophes on the federal worker for leaving their post. The usual chorus of cries from the republican government is there is no money to rehire the departments. Republicans, Trump specifically, are using a typical strategy of the capitalists in the 1920's and 1930's, a government shut down is the updated version of a factory lock-out of the workers. Workers submitted to lower wages because a capitalist can hold out longer than the workers combined. Federal workers will leave their field because of an erosion of income and purchasing power, the department monitoring critical information about society, the main goal of the shut down, is gone. A victory for the republicans and a defeat for society. What is despicable about the republicans is that they are telling workers at the federal level that 'their lives do not matter,' a disdain, and callous disregard for the federal working classes's lives, caught up in this shut down. Phase III, attack, is overturning Roe v. Wade, which ever comes first, is irrelevant, the attacks are multi-pronged that the working class is being attacked simultaneously from all sides. Women who want to free themselves from the rule of the 'patria protestas' is immediately an attack on the patriarchy - i.e., parental authority.
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  5498. What a bunch of screw ups in the military and Pentagon. They blew up the first object and lost the chance to do forensics on it and then blew up the second object that had nothing on it worth doing forensics. Pretty stupid if you ask me.
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  5499.  @richardellis2955  If your country and its pro-military politicians (black and white) you elect had not destroyed public education and your government using student debt to starve kids to choose the military as a way out debt; you would not be repeating the same history I went through. Now you have to repeat it all over again, fascism, and Trump Nazis, waisting more of your social capital and falling behind all the rest of the world. Stupidity in the US is beyond words can describe.
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  5500. The fact that the number of government inspectors were cut back tells you where the government’s priorities are; and the lack of enforcement unleashed the worst possible conditions for workers contributes to the cause of dangerous workplaces, train crashes and tanker explosions. There are too many industries out there that never get inspected year after year. This has the effect of an accumulated trauma for workers exposed year after year to chemical solvents, carbons, plastics, in closed environments and a health care system that makes the problem worse. Plus there are too many companies out there who falsify injury records. The system encourages bad actors all around. And once a worker files a Workmen’s comp claim the employer is off the hook from further law suits. The whole system is stacked against the worker. The government cares so little about workers in American society they don’t bother to hide their poor record of collecting the fines they do dispense.
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  5501. I hate these petty bourgeois media pundits who ask questions that are so obvious as though they were revelations they alone are capable of discovering. This is why the phrase:" Its the economy stupid", was invented for people who never step out of their "comfort zone".
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  5502. I think America has to answer the question; who is the ultimate owner of its wealth? Because if you can reproduce yourself in 4 hours, if you make enough value in 4 hours of your workday to cover your life expenses, and you are not paid back its equivalent value in less working time than this excess value produced in 4 hours, is stolen---and your true battle is with the presumed owners of capital and not with anyone else, for the reduction of the workday and a mass hiring of the unemployed, a new social economy, when the proverbial shit hits the fan and you are out on the street,---the way to get out from under the crisis is to expand the workforce to 250 million people working 4 hour days from 132 million working 8 hour days? Doing this would make more sense than trying to remedy a crisis through a ratcheting up of interest rates to kill inflation,---high rates make credit card bills more expensive is not a help but hindrance so,---who wants to carry a mortgage with high rates, all it does is encourage older people to keep their money in the bank so,---why is the wealth of society in the hands of people who take no part in its production? Reduce the workday and learn how to read, be with your kids, fish, whatever turns you on, live, would be a more sensible and practical application of technology and AI.
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  5503. Deplorable conditions for American labor.
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  5504. This movement of protesters have a unique crisis unlike the others. The crisis is the growth of nationalist forces in the world that all get their support and start from the US. This nails the republicans and democrats to the wall... and the crisis in Palestine has a universal dimension to it dividing the world into two camps.
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  5505. Imperialism distorts politics. It also makes the American workforce itself an obstacle for the expansion of American industry. She is looking to make available to American business the Korean workforce’s semi-conductor and technology expertise the American workforce does not have. This is the point Trump does not get. Trump does not promote the development of the American workforce. He uses the lack of development of a skilled workforce in the US as political fodder with which to clobber opponents is clever but still comes at the expense of the American workforce. The Korean workforce was not hatched over night. Taiwan’s workforce arrived a concrete state of science and technology through its education and social development owing to China took several decades. First to abolish illiteracy and second to acquire the technology for development and structure of a nationwide university system to cultivate the talent. Pelosi is encouraging the opposite of developing a new American workforce. She pushes to make this social class available to American corporations by means of force. Only fools really believe this trip is about democracy and freedom, mere words used to rationalize invasions and aggressions, is a motive over emphasized to the American Tax Payer for votes. In reality, the American workforce falls way behind that of other workforce’s of less advanced nations suffering from high mortality rates and scientific and technological illiteracy.
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  5506. The State Department and the Southern Command of the Military don’t even hide their coups attempts from the American public. The time period between elections is when we are powerless to do anything about the plots to overthrow the winner of a popular vote and rob the election and dismiss the voice of the people. This is plotted out in the offices of Washington and uncritical of these plots the Media acquiesces as a part of the plot. It is the same with Ukraine. They cheer the Ukrainians on through their march of doom fighting the Russians. They know Ukrainians have no chance but used them anyway in a war of attrition. Their aim is only to defeat Russia so be it if Ukraine glows from war radiation and disease. This is imperialism at its height of animus.
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  5507. DeVory, make the connection between the raw materials a Tesla requires and a Trump Administration’s policy toward Latin America where that raw material is produced. Bolivians in Bolivia produce lithium, a necessary raw material for a Tesla Car battery. A Trump/Musk alliance means the successive government(s) in Bolivia are subject to American interference, military provocations and economic sanctions, austerity, keeping the people in that nation in poverty, and dependent for an income by finding work mining lithium. On Voting: People. The identity of people is irrelevant in a real democracy. The US Constitution does not say what people vote, or who can vote, all qualifications of voting in America were abolished in 1789, and the designation “the People” is purposely general and not specific of any group separated by means of identity, class, race or gender. The MAGA Trump movement has a nationalistic aura, patriotism and nationalism, pro-family, God, Country, these are ideas that are consistent with European fascism seen in Italy, Spain, Germany, in one form or another in the 1930s. This is not the same sort of nationalism experienced by Africans in relation to Europe such as France’s relationship to the Congolese. Or the form of nationalism in Latin America such as Spain’s relationship to Mexico, Guatemala etc. The Magna Carta divides Spanish and Portuguese colonies down into South America. God, Country, Family is the nationalism that springs from England’s relationship to the US, as a colonial power imposing a western idea of nation and society on a developing nation. This is why the American Revolution was necessary. The country had to break away from the Crown to develop itself. MAGA’s nationalism is premised on Apartheid, a segregation of the races but willing to accomodate a policy of separate but equal as long as the colonial patriarchy is white. Evidence for Elon Musk’s personal immigrant history begins with his great granddad, a pro-Apartheid South Afrikaner citizen of South Africa immigrates to Canada than to the US. Malcolm X came to the conclusion the races can co-exist ‘separate but equal’ but rejected the idea of a colonial white patriarchy heading the democracy of the races. So he was shot, done away with in a plot, a conspiracy, that remains shrouded in mystery. Without the connection between particular nations and persons with the general economic relationship of nations the MAGA movement comes off as a movement about a relation between people and things, when it is not as simple as it comes off.
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  5508. Americans spend way too much time working that their children are illiterate is a direct consequence of their chronic absence in the home to be a child’s first teacher.
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  5509. You cannot expose one family without exposing all the families selling our national security interests to foreign buyers.
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  5510. Now its Putin’s war?
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  5511. America has never won a war...only a nation under psychosis thinks it can win a war when it never has. Iran has always been used as a buffer zone against the Russians, competing in an arms race wth the Americans, as a means of containing communism, ever since the installation of the Shah overthrown in 1978 by the students of that country. Iran would have been a fully secular and westernized society following the look, the fashion, the customs, the pop scene of America in the 1950s had the CIA Dulles brothers not plotted the overthrow of their popular elected president for nationalizing the oil industry. Mossedegh and Oil meant power and autonomy from US power and that meant no more buffer to the Russians. Traces of the era still haunt the politics between Iran and the US. History is calling for a president who can close the chapter of the century. A bone of contention in Trump with Venezuela where the same thing happened the oil industry was nationalized is one of the traced elements of the Cold War. The state department has been acting to recover or roll back these losses for Big Oil ever since. Way too late, Iran is more a religious state than a secular democratic republic the US would like it to be and this can only be blamed on the anti-communists in government. By now you would think a sitting president and a state department would use the wise age-old strategy of making your enemy your friend and this will keep them from going over to the other side, but that isn't the case, this time the Americans went over to the other side and struck a deal with the Russians. Most likely will meet with Xi as the US to figure out what relationship in the 21st century will work to avoid utter and total catastrophe..
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  5512. The Therapist tries but does not succeed in looking at the Family as the cornerstone of any society and the social condition of families on average to explain the decay of the community and ultimately the whole society falling into a state of barbarism. The government does not support the family in society. I’ll say the same thing again but in a different way. Society does not support the family as the basic social unit of society. Society is government, the instrument and will of the people. Whatever that family looks like is not important, whether it is extended, a tribe or clan or just mom and pop 2.5 kids or the single parent is irrelevant to the how much of the share of social product the government allocates to support the family as a social unit that stays together, alive and well, is zero in America, the family receives no share of the social product. The social product is given to the rich in the form of tax cuts that would be made permanent by republicans once in office and the total budget for the family reduced further as well as cuts in social spending, while democrats sit back and let it happen. All families are individual families expected to support themselves in all aspects of their social reproduction through a market system and when people interact in a market system they are not interacting as people who care for each other but as buyers and sellers who care for each other, and each have one aim in mind the development of the family is not one of them. Making money through buying and selling is a form of their care for each other using money prime as a Godly endowment. The demands made on individual families expected to make it on their own entail a sacrifice too big for the individual family to handle and cope. Murder-suicide is away out from what appears to be permanent poverty against big social forces; inflation, pandemics, mass firings, climate change, police brutality, failed juridical system, family separation, divorce and crisis, forces way to big that only society can fix with its collective action. Government punishes society when it tries and government is society is the irony; like punishing yourself from fixing the social problems because a market system cannot fix it at all amounts to a poor mental health capacity of leadership to transform society. People are primed for false theories of the impending disaster.
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  5513.  @alirezatajbakhsh7591  You've been duped.
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  5514. If ever there was an example of how objects, the catalytic converter and money, have an independent relationship external to people, it is when one man finds himself as thief under a car in the dark and in the cold and another man ends up in a fight, in the object’s journey in becoming money.
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  5515.  @cwn89015  Too general, abstract, vague...your answer lacks form. Ethereal, weird, enigmatic. Put your finger on the concrete and explain what it is in you that makes you dislike them?
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  5516. The disaster starts. Consumers are broke and jobless. Farmers in a drought. Semi-conductor industry lags behind China. The border crisis. COVID killed the supply chain The Republicans blame Progressives. Oligarchs pay no taxes. No water, no society. Congress dives into anti-China hysteria.
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  5517. Well, if you are going to build a six story building you better make sure the placement of weight bearing columns on each floor are exact to the original construction plans. I am sick and tired of officials talking about the first responders on the scene and never going into detail; they are scared to talk with the public...all mayors say the same thing, all governors placate the public and all come out with praise for the first responders and how many divisions, units, squadrons, partners at all levels of government are working to get to the bottom of this and none of them will say what they truly think and know from the worst building collapses the world knows about that a criminal investigation is pending as in the case with all the other building collapses. But we come to learn that there have been collapses but none prosecuted. Not the case in South Korea for example. Department store collapse in 1995. They do not want to indict the construction CEOs that it may be a powerful member of their upper classes and the republican party when the reporter goes into the structure of the building the mayor has nothing to say. Towing the party line. 'Its a total surprise to everyone...and we will get to the bottom of it.', cut me a break Mayor. They can cover this up by altering the original to match the actual misplacement of weight bearing columns and that in 1995 the statute of limitations disqualify it as a case.
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  5518. The Neocons may be nice Americans but their idea of America’s role in the world has to be confronted by Americans as completely wrong, they have taken the US down the road to its isolation from the world as a defunct empire. The Neocon plan was to play Ukrainians to bog Russia down in a war for the US to go after China, is a plan that has failed.
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  5519. The Ranger hates tourists. Don't blame him. Bison don't like 'em either. Really makes no sense to have an industrial road in conservation lands. Defeats the whole purpose of land protected from industrial production. To the ancient Romans our conservation lands would be Public Lands; i.e., Ager Publicus. A road makes it a zoo park. There are no roads in African preservation lands. I'd rather have my tax dollars support the preservation of lands as wild for wild life than to have the government turn a national park into a zoo and charge people for its upkeep and supervision. If tourists want to go into these wild preserves they should do so on foot or horseback, Congress should pass a law you are personally responsible in the event of your own demise by a wild animal in restricted public lands. You cannot sue or collect damages from the public for your own stupidity. But there is a road there. The next step will be condos.
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  5520.  @comingsn2519  I don't know...you could be right.
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  5521. The century old ages of Manhattan’s buildings put them all at risk of collapse and the resulting lawsuits would bankrupt the city. Ukraine got $70 billion and Americans got the finger.
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  5522. Vivek will never put off the economic crisis. I do not believe anyone can put it off. Crisis and collapse of the American economy is inevitable. Like it or not, the economic crisis comes out of a pattern of consumption and production of the society as a whole. Nobody on the Right and on the Left are talking about changing society’s habits. Take that back there s more talk of this on the Left than on the Right. The Left in the Public are way more intelligent about the economic crisis than the Public on the Right who read it as not historical. The right and the left in the political world are nothing more than characters, a fake left and right. The paradigm that explains the pros and cons of both consumption habits and production failures has not emerged in a person from the political sphere of American society. We are given solutions that are cosmetic from the political world. Surface solutions that are generalizations blown out of proportion but enable the exploitation of man by man, woman by woman, woman by man and man by woman, to run free unrestrained, brutish cruel, insipid, exploitation as the main form of conduct toward our own species and the planet’s environments. Fixing consumption is cosmetic, shallow. A fix to impending economic disaster has to occur in production and in consumption. BIG. The political Right and Left fear reality at this level because at this level a general fix terminates the particular class relation of production.
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  5523. Ever price a gun storage unit? Not cheap. Guns are cheaper to buy than a gun storage unit and gun storage units that are homemade don’t fly in your favor as a safety to law enforcement or the courts that only recognizes commercially made storage unit standards of safety. So many things in America are wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
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  5524. The China I grew up with in the 70s the China visited by Richard Nixon was than a country of millions of small peasant produces in farming and a developing industrial sector. Many of these people are now old. Taiwan was under British rule and had a corrupt reputation. The US was more interested on splitting China from Russia and there were differences between China and Russia that could be troublesome. One was whether capitalism was essential a stage to go through to modernize. Russia skipped over capitalism but Russia did not have a billion people in a small land mass. At this point, I think the Chinese CP and the Russian CP, were divided on Collectivization. Not the way for China to increase output. China had a billion people to feed. Modernization would not feed the population unless agriculture was as developed as US agriculture. Entire villages in China were large extended families that cultivated China’s soil. Now that these folks are older China built large apartment buildings. Old villages becoming urbanized employment industries. Some places have six stories apartment buildings that are occupied by relatives of one large family in all apartments in today’s China. Younger generation of workers come from all parts of the country to work in factory cities are away from their families for several months before they see them again. A father leaves to work in a city-factory when his child is in diapers and returns when his child can walk is how afar apart industrialized cities are.
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  5525. A Girl Scout organization of America has a bureaucracy that suppresses a girl scout bracelet sales drive in support of a fundraiser for Gazan girls,-- can be legally challenged.
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  5526. Europe is still in the wake of the end of socialism in the USSR. In fact the restoration of capitalism in Russia heightens the possibility of Russian expansionism more than socialism in one country ever had as Stalin decreed in the 1940's. For most or all of the other European states fascism and capitalism have emerged victorious because socialism in poor states was incongruous. Socialism in poor states diverted all their productive power to defenses at the expense of the standard of living of the working class in response to western aggression. For the West and the US in particular, the rise of official state militarism expressed that aggression. Without a clear enemy to cement these alliances that in the past was found in socialism in Russia the old treaties and alliances withered away and new national interests take precedence. The vacuum left by the collapse of the USSR is filled by neo-fascist separatists movements and rival capitalist states in competition for mineral resources and limited space. But there is another factor tearing away at the foundations of this Cold War vestige goes totally unreported in western media. Wage reductions and the rise of social classes that occur in markets. Inequality is a vague and useless term to understand the concept of social class. As they emerge from market expansion the condition of the working class worsens resurrecting in the working masses what the Cold War repressed, namely, new class struggles.
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  5527. Racial tensions have been stewing beneath the surface of society for a very long time that a curriculum on race, evolution, gender, are merely catalysts for people who feel they have no control over their lives and society has become non-white and in other cases, School Boards are Nazi-like even if they call themselves democrats. Quite a confluence of different strains.
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  5528. Fires rage in 15 States not just California. Media is covering the fire story in a cheap and paltry way.
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  5529. @Counterpart 2 You Where do you find America's fascists and who are they? Nascar and Monster Trucks are the two sports of the Fossil Fuel Industry, and Country Music is its ideology. I appreciate you agreement.
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  5530. Hey Democrats! Learn how to examine the politics of dictatorship in Trump from the point of view of the working class. Use history to do it. The other choice is Lose.
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  5531.  @pedronunez3456  you have that right...clearly people here do not want history to go forward...they believe American capitalism is the end of history...there is no alternative to them...a society with a strong enough government to finance its own growth and not create an oligarchy is out of their realm of thought. One way to end history is to blow up the whole world is their extent of the quality of the leadership they blindly follow they accept...desensitized people who do not even realize how impoverished the US with its 3000 miles of rusted out factories is...that other nations see as the way not to be, are going it alone and don’t want the US’s neoliberal financialization plan.
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  5532. Millions of fathers are paying attention to Hunter Biden’s case as it brings into question how family courts base their child supports payments against someone who basically lives off the dole or is paid for and by whom... if it is found out (discovery) his secret service protection is given to him as a gift or paid for by Uncle Sam because he is a president’s son (in other words, You the Tax payer covering his bills including his support to his children)...is privilege. Royalty behavior of an elitist. Hunter did a NoNo by not being honest in his Case Information Statement to the Court...privilege in his case is a shameless face of hypocrisy...that mocks the present order...no consequences for usurping the wealth and power of an establishment...his case reflects another family that lives off the dole 3000 miles across the Atlantic where Hunter’s mother is in attendance as I write. Privilege crosses all national boundaries but fathers without privilege are nationally bound until support balances owed is paid in full. It is standard procedure to file modifications and show true income but that standard does not apply to Hunter with resources to lawyers to file motions for him is strange. Its political suicide if not destruction and self- ruin he seems unable to grasp...an act of nihilism and stupidity. Support is not based on household income to reflect household changes is the real problem here not Hunter. He’s his own problem. Hunter’s case provides the ground work to throw out the old system and the old method of determining child support based on the private income of two parents.
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  5533. Well, Chris admits Obama's seat was a commodity, a thing that by its properties satisfies a human want, exchangeable for money, is an admission more revealing than he or we think. There must be big storms coming on the horizon of the national economy for a pundit to start passing blame on the GOP for the coming of this storm. Democrats liberal neocons don't want to be blamed for this crisis. There is no question the GOP are the most dangerous organziation in the world but so are the democrats. Bernie is the exception.
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  5534.  @prometheusadept  and the world is flat.
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  5535.  @prometheusadept  If you are not a capitalist you are a worker is the same dichotomy. If you are not a man your a woman. If your not black you are white. Bipolar morons sound like this, brainwashed fools who cannot see the grey.
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  5536. The work of Americans has one universal form in the US system of exchange and production. The commodity form. This trait gives the US system its unique character but also its identifyng mark in the world of economic systems. There is no variation to this system like there in socialism. Products are commodities or they just do not get made, period. When the work of us all takes the form of things meant to be bought and sold we encourage captalists and (ism) to use their money to buy things for the purpose of becoming a greater amounts of money. In effect, if this is the sole purpose of life then better expect our primary social reproductive activties will cease to work at all. Complete and total break down. Because nothing will get made and if there isn't a bigger amount of money at the end of it and the majority do not hold the money to do it nothing will get done. Work will not happen and you will get loaded down with the responsibility of continuing to pay off borrowed money. But since money leaves the hands of the majority, it flies fast out of their pockets, and what grease is the bicycle chain, money is what makes products move and fall out of circulation, it takes their place, in the forever mundane and reduntant activity of buying and selling...there will never be enough money to pay off all debts. We should all know how this movie ends. One size fits all, is the value-form of the work of society is not how the work of society gets done in any socialist society we know of. Culture shapes the way a given socialism would look like. But all of them are concerned with one principal that work is done by a real plan for all to participate with the purpose of reproducing society and improving it. Work does not get done so that someone can be enriched by the work everyone performs...this distorts our wealth and makes it appear it is so enlarged next to one person owns it as its scale but next to 332 million people then you can see the real wealth of the nation.
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  5537. Prosecutor and judges using the State to charge parents for crimes another committed is fascism. Unless a case has proof a parent knew their son or daughter was going to blow up the Washington face on Mt. Rushmore, if they bought him or her a bazooka for Christmas, the parents would have done things differently. Parents in this case are not mind readers. Therefore, prosecuting parents for a crime they did not commit or had no apparent connection with is cut and dry, “FASCISM”. There are millions of families living in isolation, alone in an apartment in a city, alone in rural areas, alone in the suburbs, are all are vulnerable to fascist elements as a collection of isolated people. This side of America suffers from a lack of development, growth, and prosperity and each of them reach stresses that become barbaric crimes of self -annihilation, sign they hate the life they have and there is no other way out in America.
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  5538.  @JustMe-gs9xi  uh, huh...that’s right.
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  5539. If we look the upper management on line you will find they are all late stage baby boomers, for example: at 19:33 Sylvia Acevedo is an American engineer and businesswoman. She was the chief executive officer of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 2016 to 2020. A systems engineer by education, she began her career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she was on the Voyager 2 team. She was a girl scout in her youth. Sylvia Acevedo was born near Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota where her father was serving as an officer in the military. Her family moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico. She joined the Girl Scouts at age 7. She was active in the local Brownie troop, where she was encouraged to pursue her scientific interests in school. Acevedo collected newspaper articles about the space program and built Estes model rockets from a paper-and-plastic kits.
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  5540. For all those millions of kids not going to school that action instantly reduces the work force by one half from going to work.  In a society that makes no provisions for families with children is an atrocity that speaks volumes of the condition of the working class in the USA. The first volume would be about the utter failure of working people to realize their esentiality to the workings of the capitalist order, without them functioning as producers and as consumers, employers large and small are a thing of the past. To know this entails intelligence and solidarity that low wage hourly workers are a separate essential social class a capitalist society cannot do without. Second volume would speak to the issue of the utter failure of the democratic party for never putting up a fight against republicans and putting forward a senile inept individual to lead a nation out of a crisis of this magnitude. Third volume, how the republicans party run against the "Arc of History" are the most criminal organization known to human kind did everything to curtail the rise of socialism in general and in particular a national health system.
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  5541. They better do better than the Queens Tenant Association and make sure one of their own is not a violent offender themselves. These programs always start out good with the right intentions but always end up making things worse is a paradox. I think the root of the problem is how the City creates a redundant population of unemployed in every generation from the same zip code, so that one borough from which these people come, bear the greater share of chronic unemployment over and over that all hope is lost and each generation sees their future in older ones destroys their humanity, they become desensitized brutes sooner.
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  5542. Israel citizens and Palestinians who are in power and are fighting are most likely the lowest functioning and immature individuals on earth. Like children who have to have the last word all the years of fighting they are too low a functioning people for either nation to be democratic. The people in these two countries are occupied by morons who get every chance to surround themselves with ignorance and undeserving of leading their nations.
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  5543. This was the man in the car in Kabul who was carrying water jugs from his car to his family the US military thought was a terrorist? Asses.
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  5544. Let’s not bury our heads in the sand of the elephant in the room, employers do not have to buy a commodity, in the same way you don’t have to buy anything in a store, the money can stay in your pocket! These staffing shortages can be seen as a shortage of spending capital, i.e., Greed. COVID is facilitating a savings for employers at the moment is the hypothesis. The proof is provided in deeds and in the absence of words of a panic among employers. Hospital managers are quiet on this issue of staff shortages. If one came out and blamed COVID or if the executives met with the president then, I would say, the executives of the industries shutting down need your business and the government must do something about COVID. They are losing money by the day, hour, minute over this dreadful disease that has taken nearly a million lives by the ‘official ‘ count. That in itself is reason for a nationalized health system like Britain or Norway, Canada. But we are not seeing the executives freaking out, are we? They were scolded by Congress when they testified but Congress did nothing. That was Kebuki Theater. I am not advocating COVID and OMICRON is not real. I am saying the preponderance of the evidence substantiates a concerted action by employers, some more militant than others, causing people to leave the grueling work as more people are shut out of their jobs and livelihood, the more quiet they are, the more it appears as a deliberate choice not to hire, cut the Public off of the means of life, because they can, they can afford to decide the commodity they do not want to buy is your own... money stays in their pocket while many dive into a mortal leap of joblessness. Merry Christmas all and stay safe.
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  5545.  @Myndir  No its true examine the shots yourself. Nothing in the shots authenticates the video backs up the narrative.
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  5546.  @JimP-tc7gg  What the hell does your comment have to do with CBS use of fake footage and reporting it as if it were real, nothing! You’ve become a lemming.
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  5547. In the same way that the capitalist class draws a larger income from the total economic surplus so does every dollar spent on defense. This observation was made by Paul Baran in his book the Political Economy of Growth in 1965. He further stated the forebearers of the capitalist class, Rockefellers, Duponts, etc., were less richer than Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg, etc., and the wars prior to Vietnam, ushered in mass consumption and capitalist consumption, damaging the climate ecosystem weakening Public Health, and that 90% of the world's working population now takes the dominant form of a wage-labor relation. A world human population of 2.2 billion. Modern slavery, forced labor, forced marriages, child vicitms of forced labor, are very real social forms of labor appearing on the earth's surface but not the dominant form which is the wage-labor relation. More and more the world is divided by capital and labor in nearly all nations. Every person is proletarianized as soon as they reach age 18 is the world standard for adulthood barring the 80 million according to the last report on the subject made by the UN in 2011, that they know about, are working in forced labor conditions with their lives still ahead of them, will never work a day in their lives as a wage earner. The big topics for the revolution that formalizes this proletarianization of the planet is the standardization of the planet; correcting the wrongs of the last 50 years in Ecology and Public Health, Social Inequality, and rectifying Capitalist Consumption, Biden may not be successul in doing.
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  5548. Assuming the internet was designed by the military to be a surveillance mechanism controlling thought and opinion then the accessory to this method of social control would be controlling life itself by an autonomous entity through medical devices planted in the body.
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  5549. Ukraine is a homogenous society consisting mainly of white people. The image of the west in their minds is a white man’s image and the stories and impressions they receive of the west are white stories and impressions. They are what they consume. It would be a land of curiosity for a black traveler in Ukraine, a black man would become very popular, as never before have they ever seen a black person in reality. Will they act as racists if a single black person went through the cities and rural communities of Ukraine? People on the ground are never what people in government say they are. Government says this country is dangerous do not go there but when you do go there the dangerous place is a myth. If anything it would be a positive experience for both and a way to dampen the racist beliefs broadcasted to the world of people who live in heterogenous societies. I see it as a positive thing. A black man can go to Pakistan and that would be a land of curiosity for they never saw a black man in their whole lives either. It might even be a way to eradicate religion.
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  5550. Horrid, awful man is the governor...a political animal. Say nothing of the significance of leaving the remains of a 110 deceased under the debris is callous. He could not say the building has to come down the rescue effort ends. Would you like your mother and grandmother left in the ground that could loosen with water saturation and debris moved by natural forces could, likely will, bring skeletal remains to the surface or be found even if there is a memorial park over the spot the building fell? This job could take years to recover all the deceased and if the recovery stops,---residents are okay with that? What a colossal failure.
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  5551. It also should not be a given or assumed that someone like Trump or Netanyahu will face prosecution. As private citizens they are super rich billionaires with a residual war chest of infinite capital that could outlast a prosecution.  @tamaragerkin 
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  5552. You cannot live in places where storms of this kind occur more frequently. The disruption is too significant and the recoveries are too long. The risks are too high and the storms decimate commerce and industry. For 1.1 million people life in this region of the US will no longer be habitable.
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  5553. I think what we are witnessing in India is the creation of agricultural working class after all the reforms being pushed through open up the land for commercial speculation and the small plot holdings of millions of independent farmers are privatized. Forced to sell because nobody is buying their commodity anymore they seek a job to suppliment the losses, and their families being torn apart, as the ground underneath is privatized when the offers to buy come in,---- historically speaking a capitalist revolution in agriculture in India. Political alliances seem to be drawn along lines that bring about the dissolution of India's ancient system of agriculture and clearing the way for the creation of a rural proletariat in the agricultural sector. I would not say this if Modi was not dismantling the long established rule of the "Minimum Support Price". That agency ensured farmers would not get cheated by merchants, (foreign) corporations and distributors in the sale of their produce.
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  5554. @Di42 Thanks, I will.
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  5555. So, the mayor captured the Artful Dodger and other orphan migrant thieves of Fagan’s gang, eh. Good work.
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  5556.  @zeidae  WE R NOT ALONE?????
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  5557. To Nathaniel Philbrick regarding his viewpoint that humans are humans I will say capitalism is not human nature and is not by nature human.
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  5558. Wonderful Update Prof. Wolff; Here is a short summary of my view. People should recognize that constitutional governments such as that of the EU and the US are legal institutions not social ones. The changes being made in society are coming from the changes in the way work is carried out in society.  People will be working from home and those industries where jobs cannot be performed at home will go out of business.  History suppresses certain branches of industry as it also promotes the development of new ones.  China builds hospitals in less than two weeks is an example of a government that is not a constitutional republic but one that is a social institution responding to social needs in a proactive manner. Even if this move by that government was to ensure their position of power an accidental finding results from that action. Instead of spending resources on defense because of national conflicts, government can spend resources on meeting human needs. When work and society are transformed, the family is transformed, requiring a transformation of government to become a central organizer and planner to have all the needs in society met. Humanity arrives at the 21st century and 2020 is that transitional moment that breaks away all the things of the 19th century we still use today. This new way of work will call into question the need for the old economy. Why do you need a stock market or a central bank, or a boss? Why will we need school boards determining school taxes when school buildings are unnecessary when all one needs WiFi and a lap top to educate children all over the world? Why do we even need money to represent working time when work is no longer used to make goods for exchange? Why the need to retain all the things the old economy needed before the virus when the virus has changed the way we work and live giving birth to a new economy? From the changes in work and family our needs will change and in turn, the needs change our products as we become more accustomed to finding meaning in our new family arrangements, less divorce, less juvenile delinquency, less suicide, less depression, less loneliness. With less of the present-day maladies in society there is less of a need for massive military and police institutions expenditures. The major focus will be agriculture, the area of human activity vital to human survival. Search for a better life comes to an end. No more mass migration for societies ravaged by war the need to get them re-oriented to the new way of life the new international mission. Why will we need nuclear weapons if societies are finding more contentment at home? I see many benefits to this crisis. Our fears are really about losing the old way of life we have become accustomed to living. The second benefit to this virus is the environmental change, improving nature as it gets a chance to recover from human damage. Less to no fossil fuel emissions, less chances of infestation, disease and a strengthening of the human body's immune system through the increase of oxygen in our atmosphere and as we know from the paleontological record a greater diversity of life, and a general slowing down of climate change and oceans rising.
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  5559. Internal programs the police implement to train cops to intervene when a cop goes off are not enough. Programs end with the next incoming administration and then get re-started in an administration that follows the one that closed it down and nothing is effected in the real world.  The programs are never given the chance to work. This is true with industry's environmental relationship to nature is never giving nature a chance to recover from its constant over use and exploitation fed on by social behavior never pausing from its constant work of exploiting individuals in physical and psychological form. Never -ending and constant cycle of abuse and exploitation is direct in one sphere of life and indirect in another sphere of life but all spheres of social life enveloped by a operate world of commodities and money. Peer pressure and peer review within the police social structure has to be made a law: Wrongful death compensations come out of police pensions. Two reasons: Victim's compensations return to bite the public as an increase to the people who committed no crime the taxpayer. The same is true with children as wards of the state from where the children come is the municipality that pays for the state's care of the child; community and parent pay more than if the child stayed home. Second reason is to make police organizations and unions non-political; no lobbying power in Washington not a place for the military and political intrigue. When the rank and file officer realizes that one of their own has caused a drop in the value of the pension saved for police retirement they will take the training programs more seriously and those who just cannot adapt to policing are terminated. Police unions would fight tooth and nail lobbying to repeal such a law but to no avail because the effect of the law is a positive one that professionalizes policing and de-militarizes it. When this happens we can stop blaming the objective condition the police present as a threat to the community and get to the mental effects of decades of subjugation has on a population forever on the run from the days the southern plantation owners learned from Boris Gudonov in the treatment of his serfs in Russia the law that said any serf caught beyond a certain point of their master's property would be hung, a bounty on their heads. Repealing a law that restores policing is hard to do. The pressure to keep internal training programs keep the police clean cannot be done on their own. The police cannot police themselves without external pressure.
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  5560. The generation the Grand Social Experiment of Austerity of the Capitalist Order targets is youth. It is by increments of generations that Austerity is successful and wide spread. For two reasons: first austerity defines society as a society of individuals to deflect awareness in youth and replaces the theory that holds society develops within and through a class struggle, the two primary protagonists labor and capital, and in the process of using economic downturns shifts the source of wealth from a majority to a minority. The economic paradigm that finds labor is the creator of wealth is effectively destroyed. Austerity uses a trifecta of monetary, fiscal and industrial polices to crush each generation of workers for the preservation of the capitalist order is amply supported by the evidence. Austerity is not merely CUTS IN THE BUDGET, it is constantly moving as a political program carried on by each new elected politician ascribing to these aims, no matter how popular they are and always in the direction I cited. Austerity is permanent war on labor. Further, austerity was never about curtailing inflation and balancing budgets as Americans falsely believe and are falsely told. Austerity is ‘the’ method and means to the greater end of preserving the capitalist order which police, unions, schools, religions, popular culture, scholars and scientists, fit into so well to preserve the specific class relation that cannot function without force to sustain it. Permanent states of war to crush any form of opposition to this aim, ---a rigid and punishing form of totalitarianism. After 1918 and WWI, the crisis of capitalism caused a reaction of historic significance among States in Europe. Acutely aware and highly sensitized were the concerned about the survival of the capitalist system and its corresponding class of capitalists to crush socialism, a new powerful economic force in history, The system was shaken at its very core in 1918. You don’t know this, you are most likely not an economist nor old enough to have lived with the oral histories of a generation of that era. America exemplifies this social experiment; the State’s political objectives, to crush the alternative and make itself the main producer and regulator of the workforce. In short, fascism,--- the merger of state and private Capital through technocrats and economic advisors. Workers and the majority of citizens realized at that time up to the 1980s, they could be living in a different social order, and the State, city governments began to crush the alternative social order with policies in the three areas of economic life coercing workers into greater exploitation. Chickens Come Home To Roost: The high level of crime, proliferation of drugs and guns, war, criminalization and material deprivation of working people, is at the same time the social process of preserving capitalism, and the entrepreneur class at center stage of the State, for whom the police serve and protect, become the drivers of economic growth. Austerity shifts economic resources from a majority to a minority, the fall of wages and unemployment kills the worker’s voice is the lesser share of the wealth in wages your parents enjoyed when wages were high and their grandchildren will not enjoy as wages fall ( assuming you are born two decades before 1980). Labor or the working class’s incomes deflates into a material deprivation through economic downturns (inflation, unemployment); these are the tools for the preservation of the Capitalist order and for the subordination of the working class into permanent poverty.
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  5561.  @aracnadei13  When did you grow up?
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  5562. That traffic shot from above is a trance to watch.
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  5563. If the Press Core can get him to expound on the two concepts Miller uses in connection to immigration, his true colors would be exposed. The concept of 'cosmopolitan' and 'liberty as the light of the world'.
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  5564. I am pretty sure we can refer to the class of a private railroad company as belonging to America’s large landowner class such as the Catholic Church and Ivy League Institutions, Princeton, Harvard University etc. The railroad itself is its specific right of membership as large -scale landownership that crosses all 50 states. The problem comes in if Congress members have personal incomes derived from railroad stocks that the American people are confronted by a historic paradox of a Congress betraying itself as the institution of the people, will never bite the hand that feeds Congress as more of these train explosions occur.
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  5565. The same is happening in Columbia, Myanmar, Palestine, Brazil and who knows how many other places.  It is getting easier to say where police regimes are not beating people up because there so few we are told but my hunch is we are told wrongly.
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  5566. If ever there was a perfect time to eliminate the stranglehold Jewish lobby groups have over Washington it would be now! Three factors support this action, one, all of Israel want Netanyahu deposed and 2, America’s youth are opposed to gun-slinging genocide Joe and 3., the American Public is sick of sending their tax dollars to fascists abroad when everything at home falls apart. This is the time to ACT for a new set of social relations and social system. By the way, where is General Austin and who is running the Military these days?
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  5567. Elon Musk at Tesla will reduce the unit price of his car from 16 hrs to 12 hrs and the difference of 4 hours will equal his new surplus-value. A Tesla car will be more common in BRICS nations than in America. Other corporations in the car industry will do the same. Sell more abroad and cut their product production at home for higher amounts of surplus-value. All leading to an increase of people without a job but also a higher intensity of competition between corporations extending out to other industries outside the car industry, causing more layoffs, a scenario of a general reduction of wages. That the multinational corporations can cut jobs and still produce the same quantity or better the rate of goods per hour, reduce output from 16 to 12 hours, to make a Tesla with a lower sticker price, or a toaster cheaper at home and abroad enriches the corporations at the expense of working people at home. What can be an economic law beneficial to society reveals a connection between productivity increases and the reduction the labor-time to make an object by a reduced workforce, robs society of the chance to be truly affluent. Capitalism uses this economic law to enrich itself and fewer hands owning the surpluses. And this sets the stage for a new social average of exploitation. A vicious competition to gain more surplus-value through the use of the military abroad, for a larger share of the market, pushes the material standard of life of the American workforce downward into increasing misery and desperation at home.
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  5568. Well I have a Saab 9-3 02 now....an electric car would sway me to selling it to a Saab lover than to let it go to the junk yard.
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  5569. Beautiful montage of life...you have a good eye for the humanity of things.
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  5570. “...not a shred of it is not true...”, is a slip that makes the article true. I would expect US media in the nation doing the expropriation to be complicit with the act of war. After all the commodity US media sells to us is a tool of the government. The question is how does Germany’s media respond to US aggression the article reveals? And on the receiving end of the aggression how do the users of gas and oil cope with high priced US imported liquid gas?
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  5571.  @xSirDudex  Average Americans are highly fearful of what they do not understand. The only ones who get a real education are elites. Conspiracists do not help the situation either as they push their view of history on to people who don't have the facts and have either an axe to grind or an agenda of their own. Elites at the very top either know how to use to their advantage this general ignorance or misuse it for whatever gain their particular social class requires to stay on top. Obama knew how to use it and Trump knows how to use it, their styles and empathies fall in different places but their class orientation to the rest of the world is to stay on top. Thre is another factor the world outside of the US are overlooking, and that is the kindness that prevails in average Americans. They don't ask for much...just a good life and something better for their kids and value honesty. A forgiving people. I admire this in them.  I will say they utterly fail in understanding the machinery in place that they call government but that comes with the failure of American public education. Given the right tools they are a remarkable people. Inventive and insightful but are never given the chance to reallyy show their stuff. The rest of the world has a lot going against itself in common with the American people. Cliques of corporate executives are more important as informal opinion leaders in the top echelons of corporate, military, and political power than the actual participants in military and political organizations.
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  5572.  @brucecampbell6578  None of this helps for what to do here and now. But I will say you are distracted enough to not have your eye on an economy that is not working out for millions of people. Frankly, such a distraction helps to confuse further a public already confused. How can you simplify all this theory and history into real concrete action?
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  5573. The men who call themselves law enforcement are cowards. Responsible are the people who hired and selected cowards to act as cops in the name of Public Safety.
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  5574. A lake community that has more than one town around the lake is a dream for a boat dealer. If one town rejects the dealership planned for an open spot to build on its lake shores the boat dealer just goes to the next town that will accept a shore built lake side dealership. Still the lake itself will contain more boats and probably boats too big for the lake and the whole lake suffers along with the all the towns around the lake a deterioration in the quality of life. This is how America runs itself. If you cannot do it here you can do it there but we are all still in the same country and will suffer the deterioration in the quality of life. And the media sees its role in this whole process as promoting the boat dealer until the damage is done to the lake and communities is when the reporting points the finger at the boat dealer pleasing a lynch party summoning up a prosecutor. A sick and demented social system that any reasonable businessperson with long term goals cannot afford to embark.
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  5575. Meanwhile in my Alma Mater, fellow students who failed consistently were bailed out by rich parents got their degrees
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  5576. If Trump's hubris is to be put in check. It will have be through mass action.
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  5577.  @erinmac4750  way earlier, 1993 to be precise.
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  5578. Black Rock, Inc.
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  5579. ???? @je-freenorman7787 
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  5580. @ Gary Honey,----Grow up! Looks like DN got fooled or were complicit with the game of mass media psyops and diversion on its audiences. Amy Goodman plays you like a fool, (sucker). The CIA puts out a document scandal and the Media reports it long enough to take your attention away from Patriot Missiles sent to Ukraine. This action constitutes an escalation of the war by means of a Covert diversion of the public and likely Congress too, although my faith in Senate Committees on National Security are also pure theatrics, is low to none. My sense is that the national security state and the Media truly regard you (the Public) as stupid. Whatever they think of you...their strategy works to divert the public from the retirement age increased to 67. The escalation of the war. The Abortion Bans passed in Southern states. Inflation and unemployment. De-regulation of industry, etc., Hitting the Public left and right with a battery of assaults constitutes a class war. Was it not covert what DeSantis did signing an abortion law into law before midnight and announcing it as law on Twitter. All done from the privacy of a private house? He took his lessons from the pysops diversion programs. What is not reported is the massive quantities of Patriot Missiles sent to Ukraine while this document scandal unfolds. Escalating the conflict and causing a reaction from Russia to counter the new battery of weapons with harder ones. Ukrainian soldiers trained in a military base in Utah are back in Ukraine and their presence here was never reported, i.e, another covert operation. Bamford must be in on it too since he never mentions the breech of constitutionality of a government agency eavesdropping a private chat platform company without probable cause and the theft of the documents gives the national security elite probable cause to surveil or shut down a private company as a threat to national security. One hell of an evil national security state really plays tricks on the heads of the American Public paying for all this.
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  5581. The entire world does not know this. By the way, this women is brilliant and what the world needs at this moment. Half the world knows this the other half are living out the experience of the end of western civilization, are too flummoxed by that decline and fall of western civilization, to know what is happening to them. America is on its way to becoming a feudal society with a dominant landed aristocracy in the exact same way ancient Rome led Europe into feudalism and a nobility. Governments in the west are too weak to stop the rise of financially powerful oligarchies shifting the wealth of the majority into the hands of a minority, and oligarchies are responsible for disintegrating societies into their descent and decline. Only China has decided to take the path of higher development, above and beyond capitalism, toward a modern socialism and this the world has much to be thankful, learn from and pursue, so that history does not stop where oligarchies begin. I will not like the channel. I like the subject presented in the channel. The channel is immaterial to me but the material in the channel does not have a like button signifying to this great woman presented in the channel my support.
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  5582. Racist and nationalistic, this equals fascism.
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  5583.  @susanteeter5618  Unfortunately, historical practice by the State Department involving themselves in the rules of world trade and world production amounts to nothing more than ensuring the world's wealth follows a straight line path to the US, does not match your comment about inclusion. History shows the rules are rudimentary exercises in exclusion of the world's humanity from its wealth and exclusivity without reciprocity to that humanity since 1980.
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  5584. No---I disagree with some of the comments especially the ones that praise John for his Oratory skills---they should qualify him to run for Congress. Skilled verbiage does not make the man. Obama had great oratory skills and was not a man of substance. Trump has no oratory skills and is hardly a man of substance. In the presidential lineage substance disappears within the form of the person. Form is more important than content in the capitalist world order. John is actually better than Congress. Congress would hold his development back, he would not never rise above the social creature he is in Congress. The only thing that would transform John is to spend 2 years living in poverty or in prison. Or in total isolation in the wilderness with little means for survival but for his own body and what he can fashion from nature the tools to assist him in his survival. There he can witness first hand environmental degradation by industry. The reason I say this has to do with perspective. What is missing in John's critique of capitalism is the point of view the oppressed subject. Earth is an oppressed subject under capitalist industry as is humanity. This lack of perspective would make him a very poor legislator in Congress, frustrated, potentially we could lose John to a conversion from legislator into a radicalized religious freak reacting to the contradictions of capitalism and not understanding the inner logic of those contradictions. I suspect he would have few allies in Congress and be railroaded by Congress itself. The foregoing institution has no will or insight into itself as an agency for transformation.
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  5585. The selling of labor-power by its owners is the problem, capitalism is only symptom not the cause of human exploitation.
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  5586. Their services would be more helpful in storm ravaged communities in the US. Positioning troops in foreign outposts exposes them to higher and higher risks. Totally senseless policy and indefensible.
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  5587. The host should now move to the East Side and ask kids in a well-to-do other part of town the same questions as a contrast so we can see the real social inequality the kids in Times Square are dealing with. Keeping the rich separated from the poor is a cause to this educational inequality.
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  5588. What will bring down American capitalism? It won't be the working class Harley rider, they ride foreign made bikes and burn Chinese fireworks on Independence Day. Their behavior is the equivalent of burning the flag on Veteran's Day from a nationalistic standpoint. Tariffs, higher prices on all import goods except fireworks, and lower sales of American export goods will hurt them. While they think riding a Chinese bike and bicycles expresses their affinity with the Harley corporation as a consumer army exclusive to Harley-Davidson, loyal customers, that are loyal to someone's else's economic survival. Trump is as stupid as the Harley rider with his Chinese bike. Corporations would prefer doing their work in China than in America. They know what to expect in China. The US Chamber of Commerce, the organization to watch for in times of a serious revolution will take steps to destabilize Trump if he continues to disrupt their accumulation. In America the anarchy in politics and civil life disrupts the normal flow of capital accumulation corporations have set up with China. They would rather survive in business with less incoming profits than none at all. Adjustments to their bottom line can be made up with more firings. The effects of Tariffs is on both sides of the equation. The working class produces (works) in order to consume (buy). They have to work (sell) a commodity (labor-power) before they can buy another commodity to avoid material deprivation. To bad the Harley riders did not buy a Jap bike made in America to make his/her patriotism real and sincere the monosyllabic morons. But then again any motorcycle is not an essential necessity for life and living, gas, food, shelter, education are necessities. Foreign made fireworks and bikes, well, not at all a necessity except to nourish failing minds. On the other side of the equation, where Donald Trump and his cronies sit, the process of buying in order to sell, falls apart. Wholesale prices rise and consumer goods rot on shelves, profits sink, workers are laid off, not temporarily but permanently thrown into the anarchy of civil society without a pot to piss in. The one thing Trump is accomplishing with his policies is a separation of individuals in society; he objectifies the subject (people) and the subjectifies the object (money). The inverted reality he creates with his cronies who incidentally, should be accosted by the Public, going further, they should be restrained as a flight risk when their policies completely break down the social order and they attempt to flee the country with their billions. Social reality in America is now a class reality, thanks to the legal profession (ALEC), the objects essential for social survival and reproduction for members of society, walk, talk, relate, and have their own laws, rights and customs for their sellers/owners while the individuals in society are objectified as their buyers without employment and job security and are paid with money that buys less and less of the necessities of life.
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  5589. Konst only shows an opposition movement to the government would have allies in the government. But without an opposition movement the right will find a way to isolate her and remove her as they always do with people who challenge their authority and irrationality. Americans are still turning their back from a confrontation with the government. Fearful, timid, bordering on cowardice, expecting elected officials to bring their day of freedom closer to them without doing the necessary work of fighting for it. Without an opposition movement to this government you may as well say goodbye to her and others like her right now.
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  5590.  Beast Mode  Well the whole idea behind the coup in Ukraine was to bog Russia down in a war, deplete resources, and then a war with China will have one less able ally in Russia to fight also. We’ll see how this pans out.
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  5591.  @mgulled7974  BW was nothing, really?
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  5592.  @robertmarley8852  Correction,--- hard to be happy is a US that lies. This is a distinctly American problem not a world problem.
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  5593. Ring of Fire and the Jet Stream. Read up on it.
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  5594. Capitalism in the 21st Century is not benign, it aims to produce use-values but with the aim of competition with other capitalist nations. The result of monopolization within capitalist nations that set and dictate price are part of the titanic struggles between Amercan corporations against each other, AT&T v IBM, Amazon v. Walmart, Google v. Microsoft, v Twitter, is part of the struggle of the intrarivalry among capitalist corporations of seperate nations, i.e, Huawei v. US., is part of the external competition of capitalist corporations. The silence for industry executives of the capitalist corporations does not help to answer if it is competition or hegemony they seek and why? People are going to ask, so what? Why all the fuss about China's growth or the growth of the US? The two systems of government cannot share the world market, one has to grow the other depends on world domination, is a new contradiction for the working class in China follows on the heels of the American working class. A tendency in the corporations to employ the largest number of workers in order to extract the largest amount of surplus-value for the lowest amount in payment in wages is in a state of disequilibrium and workers react with protests, strikes, at the social elements causing wages to fall, i.e., migrants, racism, climate displacement. The individual capitalist corporation and individual(s) and the entire class of capitalists can not exist without competition.  China enters into the world of competition of other capitalist and opens her up to competition. As a new competitor it preserves the system of a capitalist network that is essential for the individual to become a capitalist within that social class. Competition among separate capitalists drives each capitalist to innovate and raise the productivity of labor. How do we account for the productivity of labor under the socialist system of China the same question we had for the Soviet Union? We can account for the productivity of labor in capitalist societies but not in socialist systems. In the capitalist world and in the mind of the individual capitalist there are several aims for production that lead to inevitable results. 1., Producing use-values, 2., excess value as the aim for production, 3., monopolization to set and dictate price on a world scale. Is productivity in China used for these reasons?
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  5595. Good report and analysis. If we had a political party that adopted this kind of analysis and was strong on principals and commitment to a program dealing with these negative defects in society we'd be in good shape.
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  5596. He should not be investigated for an exchange he makes with a foreign government to buy government land by any legal authority. If any investigation should take place it should be to examine how deals were made between buyer and seller and what the intermediary steps were required for the transaction. Land in Albania, Belgrade and Serbia, a private coastal resort area in Albania...Rick Grennel advisor to Trump for the Balkans, real estate partner from California, a billionaire from Albania connected to prime minister of Albania, Edi Rama all bring capitalism to the former socialist republic under Enver Hojka.
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  5597. Cornel West was fired (lost tenure) by Harvard for his views makes this a double standard, because West is black. Essentially, not removing Wax is racist because West was removed for being black and controversial.
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  5598.  @lookup7055  Where did you hear that?
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  5599.  @Kodiak1234  American media never reported this. Americans are deprived of the news outside of the US.
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  5600. Safer to be locked up than to be freed into civil society illegally is not an achievement democrats can take pride in; its in the interest of those to whom republicans represent to criminalize migrants is how the price of their labor-power is kept low, below survival.
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  5601. The voices this channel uses in reading the news is lunacy over dramatic.
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  5602. The fight has to be on two fronts if the juggernaut of capitalism is to be defeated. There and here.
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  5603. Your generation more than any other generation before your’s places a tremendous demand on Nature to supply markets with goods for sale that nature has no chance of reproducing and replacing what humans consume from it whether it is mineral elements, sea life, and plant life. The filmmaker in the video has a better and more accurate understanding than you do about the subject and the filmmaker is a poor person. None of the profits will roll back into the CR’s economy because the profits belong to largest foreign investor developers. The best your country can get from the developers is a tax income if your are lucky.  @grape.juices 
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  5604. What is a work/life balance to you?
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  5605. Well, ---if we got at the root of all the rage and fixed that life would get better.
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  5606. “IT NEEDS TO STOP”. That will be the day the Brits tell American corporations they cannot have their cake and eat it too. Since industry in the American economy has been gutted America and England both do most of their production in China. If we took China out of the equation the GDP of the US is close to zero and Britain below that. Living on borrowed time and money. Both nations have abandoned their working classes from an industrial point of view they are both largely service economies where the price of labor is cheaper than the labor needed for manufacturing. Migrant labor is cheap labor at the ready, held in reserve for when the time comes in the States the monopolies purchase all the land and will need that labor for manicuring, harvesting, sowing, processing, cutting, and chopping it up made ready for sale in packaging industries who mostly employ the handicapped in America to box little Johnny’s toy for under the Christmas tree. Biden can’t shut down the border. Border states do not need the flow of migrants but the cities do. They are sent to NY and Chicago, etc. But the mass migration is really how multinationals can re-arrange the economic relations in the world and the US government to rearrange the affairs of the world that Britain is no more than a utility to that effect. Right now migrants are not integrated into the economy but as high rates circulate through those economies the cost of production will rise that it won’t be worth investing capital into new housing construction or manufacturing. The Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Board have sucked the life out of British and American industry is what needs to stop.
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  5607. Clear contrast between the rich and poor of America. Rich is when you become so specialized that coming home in a casket is a matter of one more putt on the green. Poor is when you arrive and your name is not even mentioned in your eulogy. Be that as it may, a whole generation is so desensitized that a man can get away with disrespecting the deceased in broad daylight and in full public view is where the heads of Americans are at these days. Americans are learning a new skill. The skill of flinching when punched at. Everyone but the specialized are inconsequential, seen by their rulers to be just a normal everyday inorganic object of what it takes to reproduce the rich and being rich. This is the inner thread of what strikes at the core of Being. America talks about the rich and poor but never talks about the Being of richness and poorness. The taboo subject never finds a voice it lies dormant till the next social eruption occurs. The rich have learned to handle social eruptions to their advantage. They are used to distract attention to a certain aim desired. So, it is incumbent upon all Americans to confront the rich as one large group. Or, be a permanent object for the rich from cradle to grave.
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  5608.  @peterstafford4426  I would not call that cynicism when people come up with proposals that would never happen. Defeatism is more like, the belief that you cannot win so why bother. The comments of Bernie Marcus is cynicism. The comment of The American American is just that a legitimate comment. One that was in effect in the 1940s using taxation at 90% on the rich to fund the New Deal. Workers are fat, lazy and stupid! The Dr., is correct about the comment reflecting an awareness that capitalism is losing its position as a viable social system from the mouth of a 93 year old capitalist nearing his own death bed debases the idea of property and wealth as a poison on the mind and body.
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  5609. I don't know why they call this a debacle or a failure or major historic blunder. All the retired Generals that got on the Boards of Defense Contractor Corporations got super rich from this war. Taliban got rich. Warlords got rich. Afghan people got paid by the US taxpayer to become soldiers that did not fight...not a bad deal...all on my dime. Hey Joe get this wrapped up before the first of the month, social security recipients are depending on their checks. Yep from the pint of view of the military industrial complex, the war was fabulously successful. US really make the G7 countries look like dirtbags in the process.
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  5610. No need to be insulting and mean spirited.  @PaulaMion 
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  5611.  @HTSGOSU  Not only that but the US government who fought Nazism in Europe in WWII are now fascists and call themselves democrats and republicans in 2023 support apartheid regimes in the Middle East and send arms and money to pro-fascist armed battalions in Eastern Europe. Biggest terror organizations in the world are the US and the EU.
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  5612.  @CrazyManwich  fascism is never one specific form and neither is socialism but capitalism on the other hand is a specific form that the unique character of a given society in which capitalism develops is the same as any other.
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  5613.  @CrazyManwich  Stultus. Non loqui fatuis
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  5614.  @markmower1746  Non audes eos in persona interrogare.
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  5615.  @catshepherd3102  I can tell you have no concrete life experience with fascism. Mussolini confiscated the canning factory of my parents and turned into a munitions plant because industrialization in Italy was not as high as it is in the US Military Industrial Complex, along with the Merrilli Tire Factory, further all the wives in Italy had their gold wedding rings taken from them to fund the war. Toward the end of the war he was about to flee to Switzerland with the treasures he looted. This is how the merger of fascism and state took place in Italy. In your country the MIC commands 10 percent of all industry output of Ford Motor Company, US Steele, Agribusiness, merged with the State since 1945 under the Defense Production Act paid by US taxpayers, meaning you have been funding fascism and it has been done behind the backs of three generations of Americans for the last 70 years. If you knew this you would not be using abstract terms to presume you understand fascism. Boston Laboratories and Bell Labs in NJ produces bio-genetics part of which are directly for use in biowarfare engineering deadly viruses. Have you not ever wondered why Malibu, Westchester, Martha’s Vineyard, the Belt Way in Washing ton DC had no fatalities to COVID and why there is a sudden rise in RSV respiratory illness in new borns in American but not anywhere else in the world? Gli americani sono i nuovi fascisti.
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  5616.  @markmower1746  1,5550 more than Jay Leno has antique cars. Why?
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  5617.  @markmower1746  Governments are falling real short of their pledges to reduce green house gases we are teetering toward doom...do you have any ideas why they fail?
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  5618.  @matthewkopp2391  Is it some sort of expectation in America that only students protest, are creating a stereotype? You are primed to walk straight into the ovens yourself for not resisting the Nazis among your own generation in Congress.
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  5619.  Nicholas Time  From the Confederate South Slave Owners, am I right?
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  5620. @Mel ???? Conspiracy theories is the opiate of the masses created by the masses.
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  5621.  @hellbythedashboardlight1730  By the fault of America they lost Americans...you should read your history on the Vietnam, Gulf of Tonkin, and the history of the war in Korea, before you speak.
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  5622.  @josephjones4331  You are asking me to name a government that does not involve itself in industry? The government of democrats or republicans, no matter what the order in which they rule the political process, do not interfere with the work of US corporations et al, Industry. Your own government is the answer. That is why Kansas just enjoyed a Keystone Pipeline Oil spill last week. Government does not involve itself in production it just involves itself in circulation, i.e., Taxes. Idiot.
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  5623.  @josephjones4331  There is no incentive to leave the private sector and become a civil servant in a government regulatory agency if you are a CEO; its cheaper to use your (taxpayer) money for research and development; and more profitable to control the product of that research in the market from the standpoint of the private sector. Besides all sectors of your economy are completely dominated by the private sector. Agriculture dominated by Agribusiness, Energy dominated by Big Oil, Foreign Policy dominated by the US Military, Construction dominated by Developers, Finance dominated by Wall Street, that comes to five dominant entities who control and own the means with which your life depends. Idiot.
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  5624. Denise George fired for investigating and connecting the dots between Epstein and the money of JP Morgan Chase financing the human trafficking empire Epstein created is eye-opening. It should be to the everyday American watching this news. I hope all those Chase bank account holders are pleased with the notion that Chase uses your money to finance SLAVERY and Pedophilia. This story is about as negative and ugly as Dannon Yogurt polluting the planet with their plastic. It appears every American corporate institution is un worthy of your money or hard work, much less, the leaders of those institutions are worthy of your vote. But your vote tells them that you consent to their corruption. A dilemma that only you can change by getting out there, in direct action, and telling them you do no consent to their policies.
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  5625. Had to imagine but this presidential visit could have been Trump in one of his states with his governor and it could have turned Trump into a human being or made him more of a monster,--- because of the fickleness of his dense character assuming a historical role as president we will never know. So long trump, many raise a glass it is not Trump visiting the flattened building and this experience might sway Biden to become an FDR. Return to Washington with a slew of executive orders for Congress. How could he not resurrect the New Deal? This is an empire he presides over and the New Deal created it. The building entombing the souls beneath it is the New Deal is distress.
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  5626. Her religion is Hindu, at least here first name is Hindu in origin and her parents (Americans) were or still are Hindus. She is a classic example of a career hypocrite who tells you what you want to hear for YOUR VOTE. She won’t get along with the people in a government of evangelical christians, it can be seen in her face in her testimony, that she is silenced by isolation within that CABAL.
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  5627. I scratch my head and wonder why there isn’t a revolution in the US?
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  5628. True, I believe that Trump was made probable because of the export of capital. I think a lot of people get that. What they don't get is that the export of capital does not stop with manufacturing as the first and only sector to go. Yang is saying the tech sector is the next industry to go. That the export of jobs happened in swing states needed to win and the blue collar rural working population where in the midst of a life changing transition from the loss of manufacturing jobs could have been avoided. The textile industry was the first in manufacturing to be dispersed overseas by 1980. The democrats did not want to pick up the pieces of the lives of people broken by the export of manufacturing, Trump did. Now they are Trump loyalists, once former GOP blue collar conservatives, have gone rogue pro-nationalists. When something is broken apart the broken pieces form into something worse than what they were as unhappy participants of a working situation. They have a lot of sore wounds Trump keeps opening up.
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  5629. America’s arms industry has two problems; both of which are not the fault of China. Replicating what its rival competitor did in the past with Great Britain, China produces cheaper and sells dearer yet below the competition to get a larger share of the arms market. China’s aims might not be hegemonic as the US perceives but it might be the way to defend its own socialist development from aggression is more likely the case. The greed for profit and the rivalry engendered by competition means it could be any country that reaches this level of productivity is a threat to US hegemony. Hubris is America’s third problem. The arms industry moved production to China and elsewhere by order of Bill Clinton and the democrats. NAFTA is the whole reason the US economy is in a continuous state of recession. American corporations never returned production back to the US despite the promises of the past two presidents and Congresses since the effect of NAFTA is damaging to American workers and profitable to American corporations. As stooges of a dominant private sector the democrats and republicans do nothing to mandate the private sector invest in America. Really this conflict that has the world hostage to threat of annihilation by nuclear war, is entirely the doing of US corporations. This is why neither republican or democrat will get my vote, they are not worthy of it. And I will vote just not for them.
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  5630. The reason people comply with doing overtime and over work for the boss is because the rich know they cannot become richer if society is full of individual commodity producers. Trump has to glorify the idea of being free, freedom and equality, which really means living in a constant state of dependency and need made common to all nations and then by punishing nations to accept American products exchangeable only with American dollars. There would be no way to make greater profits if everyone had the capacity to produce for themselves as in the old days. Everything has to be a market and they have to expand that market and this butts up against a rival like China who is the maker for American sellers of goods is a dilemma for the Trump administration. Oh, What to do about China? China is becoming a new seller on the block expanding its own market. Not with its products but with its capital it lends and partners with developing nations so they can stand on their feet and become buyers. China is nurturing its young upstart buyers in its nursery. Trump should be asking: What to do about America with its poor parenting skills that it cannot nurture young republics no matter how hard it tries for lack of its own parenting skills for economic development. China gives the young its capital in long term lending and Trump gives them the belt. Then he has surrounded himself with fringe lunatic people in decision making positions few Democrats cannot figure out and fewer still in his cabinet know what they are doing. The most recent abberation of an anomaly is the AG Barr. The world is only so big and it is too small for the US to share with a rival plus, the US overproduces through China and is struggling to find new markets fast falling apart due to currencies deviations, migration, war devastation, causing nations to save spending for rebuilding or coping with natural and social disasters, that buying Nike sneakers or Gucci handbags is not a priority against crisis and devastation in their own backyard.
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  5631. Curry, curry, curry....we do to need to focus on policy...read my comment below, we need a class conscious and organized working class to make political their class interest.  The Left abandoned revolutionary activity.  As a result of this the Left will die. But you are right about one thing, Trump is a putsch. Many more Trump administrations to come. Bernie will lose. Why? Because there is no working class surfboard Bernie can ride the wave with.
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  5632. To the question he makes: What makes them the ones truly being ignored and not the native American and the Afro-American/ Latino populations the answer is this. This is their way of appealing to the powers that be they will obey and they are first in line to receive the crumbs off the table. They relate to power submissively and fall in line real fast as having no individuality at all. Goons.
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  5633. The only thing this national government can do is throw the homeless into prisons and then the republicans will get blamed. So much for the economy being great, Trump must be referring to another economy inside the US.
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  5634. There is nobody minding the store! Nobody cares that the store is wide open for thieves. Big thieves robbing from smaller ones for more capital. Imagine being Hunter Biden. His name all over the place and never a public appearance of Hunter Biden. Is he even in the country?
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  5635. The war between North and South - so runs the first excuse - was merely a tariff war, a war between a protectionist system and a free-trade system: and Britain, of course, was on the side of free trade. The second excuse for the war was the Morrill Tariff caused secession. If you were British in 1862 the war between North and South to you was merely a war aimed at preserving the Union by force. The yanks cannot make up their minds to strike off fifteen stars from their banner. The Yanks want to cut a colossal figure on the world stage. But if you were a confederate soldier in 1861 you had the North on the defensive and stole Union property. You would have been part of provoking the North into war with a blatant act of war, for no other reason than that, you bombarded Fort Sumter under the command of General Beauregard ( relative to Jeff Sessions?). The question as to the principal underlying the American Civil War is answered by the battle slogan with which the South broke the peace and declared in its Secessionist Congress that what distinguished the constitution hatched in Montgomery from the constitution of Washington and Jefferson was that slavery was now recognized for the first time as an institution good in itself as the foundation of a slave republic. Whereas the revolutionary fathers, men encumbered by the prejudices of the 18th century, had treated slavery as an evil imported from England and to be eradicated in the course of time. You can't call something that never came about a restoration of a slave republic in the US. But you can call a pro-slavery rebellion an attempt to establish a slave republic which is inherently anti-free trade and anti-capitalism.
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  5636. The apple does not fall far from the tree @MrDj232 
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  5637. Thank goodness we have artifacts of writing on stone that date back to a time when humanity did not make all its forms of work quantitative. We have a clear description of that work and when that work became extinct can be foretold. The past is all past work, past labor that is left in the artifact and embodying the constructions themselves. A present day sociologist is an archeologist examining the form of work of the past. The history of labor. We cannot deduce a civilization from anything not a product of labor like you said a lot of writing was written on paper is lost that could have told us the kind of society they were. The Spanish burned so many of the Aztec Books was the lowest blow to humanity ever struck. But we have to get the social history of work from the object(s) found. When the objects of modern civilization are found thousands of years into the future as fragments or as parts of a greater whole they will be looking for what kind of work made the artifacts of our age and they will find a generic form of labor made everything,. There wasn’t a this or that kind of work but just one kind of work was the dominant form of work, a kind of work that has no distinguishing features telling them that there were specific types of labor involved in the construction but one specific type of labor, i.e., generic labor time that was deduced from the monolithic discovery of unearthing Big Ben. From that clock fragment to the generic type of labor people performed they will have to connect the fragmented coins found and their symbolism inscribed to our ideas and what we believed. Our superstitions and religions which are still buried deep below the newly formed crust of the planet have not been dug up yet. What did the generic work of this society have to with the one eyed god on the back of a coin and from all the fragmented parts of our civilization what caused our disappearance, could it have been a major slave revolt, a disease, self-annihilation? What happened to the Olmecs is a mystery to us as we will be to them?
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  5638. One million cops in the US...I’d say Vitellaro is representative of more than half.
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  5639. You make a good point.
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  5640.  @richardgrayson3241  If you eat soylent green then go after the farmer and food processor who uses soylent green in their products. This is agricultural problem not a political one.
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  5641. Even if something Constitutional the courts can find it unconstitutional is not a democracy!
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  5642. Bequilin could have opened up a path for others to follow. Time will tell.
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  5643. You’d think CNN would pay a psychiatrist, etc., etc., to address the horrible parent aspect of both these ‘dirtbags’, than pay a former prosecutor who has no expertise beyond a moral judgement...pathetic news organization...I hope CNN reads my comment.😛
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  5644. Ukraine has limited number of young men to replace casualties. Russia does not. Simply from a population standpoint Ukraine can not win a war with Russia. A practical General would know this. The issue I see is how this war plays into the aims of re-arranging economic relations other nations to remain under the rule of the dollar by financial forces.
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  5645. This is good, at least its a beginning of debate.
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  5646.  @jgalt308  Sure is. Starts at the 17th century runs all the way up to now the chronicled history of capitalism. Google search “capitalism”. Like you really don’t know.
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  5647. Middle class white militia men are mentally sick. Show me your friends and I will tell what you are? Manipulated into making the wrong choice is not the mark of a person as his own man but the mark of a lemming. Disgusting to see someone with money and power can get away with such crimes is really the point here.
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  5648. Before you read the memo you must know the law. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 ("FISA" Pub.L. 95–511, 92 Stat. 1783, 50 U.S.C. ...the president at the time was Jimmy Carter, a democrat. The republicans on the Senate Foreign Investigations Committee reauthorized the statute without changes made to it. Now read the memo.
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  5649. Poor Junior....Junior? We cannot choose what family we are born into...if we could we’d choose to not be born. His mother needs medical treatment she is not getting. But there are couple of things in this story that show a use of technology that can eliminate the need for a federal system of independent states.
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  5650. What is amazing is that the reporters just accept what the experts say and never question them nor do they bring up the articles to have the experts address the articles as misinformation or fact. They are truly criminal dividing the population by age between two of three pharmaceuticals to share that market is pure capitalism.
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  5651. Fran Solomon must be frenetic and playing the classic snoop she could get roped into the party scene could end up changing her life. But the house and its ownership being complicated suggests there are likely to be millions of properties in the country that have may owners and even some owned that lead to a mailbox. In a society where nothing can get done but through an owner(s) the number of owners who want to be kept secret when their property becomes the site of a social scene, offer the police no comment and no action as a remedy to Fran’s obsessing problem of rank neighbors. Fran is in the middle of a social transformation, she has yet to grasp, learning that property ownership in America has become common property of investors who live outside of her community and the Free Society that she lives makes it no crime to socialize. A classic case of one bourgeois to another bourgeois, both Hollywood home renters, usurping society.
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  5652. You are the only one who has not read my comment so seriously that they could not get a laugh out of Fran Solomon’ actions.
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  5653. I recommend that grocers relabel eggs on the market be changed to a dozen chickens for sale.
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  5654. Well if crypto collapses the entire federal government does not go down with it. Crypto is not backed by the State the dollar is. It means people will have to work harder for the same amount of dollars in payment for their labor of 8 hours plus some. Just to invest, crypto investor prices rise in that commodity along with other inflated prices. After all it is a private currency in a de-regulated market economy they still have to survive by making a profit. Problem here: Dollar appears strong because all other economies are that weak. Its headed into a general crisis when it started as a local one and nothing was done about, too late to save a drowning witch.
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  5655. Should be plain to see that capitalism is not compatible with the conditions that can make a new society. It is only in the Age of American Capitalism that history repeats itself and this pattern repeats because the American working class has no relationship to the forces of technology and production that it can use them to make a new society. Until this changes everyone is stuck in the same old pattern of uneven progress and development.
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  5656. Bill Gates does what a monopolist does, stifles progress. The under capacity of machine products made by the machine industries cuts their production down. Employment and income levels fall in several industries. An example people can understand what Bill Gates does in the field of public health and the vaccine world is what McDonalds does to every franchise owner in the burger world with their Ice Cream Machine that are forever broken. It is written into the contract that the machines are to be repaired only by the maker of the machine or else! Taylor the Ice Cream Machine manufacturer can then corner the market and keep employed the small machine Taylor authorized machine repair men as independent business owners. Stifling new machine makers from entering the market and then Taylor goes on to own the other machine makers in the event you do go to another maker its still Taylor your doing business with. How these monopolists move to get larger shares of the market is by making more industries dependent on them for the instruction manual, the How To's Fix a Problem is kept secret. Of course the other side of the problem of the constant broken ice cream machines is a work crew poorly paid and not well secure do not care about a machine that does not belong to them or the manager is unorganized to time the cleaning of the machine just right so that it can be used by lunch. The work crew hired by Bill Gates are not as indifferent to the machines they work on for Bill Gates, his machines, they are better paid, secure, more respected by their peers and society. But when it comes down to it,--- both work crews in McDonalds and in the Gates Empire have renounced their right or claim to the product they make and to its use value derived from that product the second they signed on to work for McDonald's or the Bill Gates Foundation.
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  5657. Swift would not be as big as she is if there were more offered in society. If it were a choice between going to Paris on the same cost of a ticket to see Swift which activity would you choose? That society is depressed makes Swift larger that she would be if the economy were rich and robust. She could have an impact on inflation if inflation were not used to prolong the working day.
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  5658. US actions are a blatant FU to the concept of the national sovereignty of a people and in particular to Australia.
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  5659.  @peetsnort  I think you need to re-edit your comment...its still not making sense.
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  5660. ​ @peetsnort  How will you handle it if she disagrees with you on all your views?
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  5661.  @peetsnort  are you a pacifist?
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  5662.  @peetsnort  No I am not...an inquisitor...then by your own admission; the natural law that states qualitative differences beyond a certain point brings about a qualitative change works within you, if pushed too far...so then who is the new tenant or more aptly but, what is that qualitative change of being that pacifism is no longer a resident in your Being? What do you become?
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  5663. I keep telling people there is a difference between defunding the police and de-politicizing the police. The former takes away their toys the latter takes away their mouth. Law Enforcement can’t walk and chew gum at the same time. Bureaucracies of any kind are not capable of doing more than one thing simultaneously. This is why government has so many departments and offices and gets bigger and bigger. A complex society needs a simpler system of government not one that gets higher the density of bureaucracy. Police never could multi-task. If this were not true there never would have been a silent comedy era big hit of the Keystone Cops. Police should never be unionized...a big mistake to teach them how to be politically organized...you are basically giving them the ammunition to take over government. Coups have nothing to do with the main function and purpose of police in society which is the ensure your person, property and mobility in society is safe...once they get into politics like the Generals, its over. Military Generals are another crew that should never be in the White House. They get their stars by being yes men. A “Yes Man” or “woman is the last kind of person you want in the Oval Office. Last is... if they do not have any political power their rank and file cannot become captains and chiefs or commanders without an education higher than a HS Equivalency. This weeds out the stupid people from becoming cops and there are many. All of the cops on trial for murder are the stupid cops.
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  5664. America cannot shut down! Shut downs will bring this country to its knees. Our lives depend on the market. If people do not do the work they do to keep the market open and the factories and offices working the society will die in a week. Kids have to go to school. Not for the eduction. Schools are designed to babysit 20 million kids for 132 million to get to work. America ranks about 20th on list of best school systems in the world. Kids are not going to school to get smart. I don't know what they are going to school for but its not to read a book from cover to cover and re-invent technology. Seems like a fallacy to me the real deal is making sure parents get to their jobs and are not stuck home babysitting all day. Cheap country. The easy thing is to provide solid childcare to everyone who needs it and wants it; problem solved. People get to work and the kids don't have to be socially exposed to a virus. So its not about the kids is it. Its to make life convenient for employers that every parent has to bend over backwards to solve what is a problem that is not even their's to begin with.
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  5665. Ok...you heard the Millennia left view of Biden’s voting record....now here my view of a person who was there. Anyone who is 40 years and younger on the left are clueless of the historical reasons the democrats fell back on their defense of R v W...are also clueless about who and what their enemy is...it was Thunder on the Right, the rise of Christian evangelism using abortion as their entry into the political system, of course, democrats had to compete for votes and if that meant acquiescing to the right, that’s what they did, and all the boomers who fucked up their lives during the 70s coked themselves to heights of idiocy, alcoholism, turned to religion for sobriety had kids as ‘born again’, and through prayer and kidnapped faith unwittingly became the base from which the right wing leadership became politicians. At this time TV evangelical mega-churches starting with Jim Baker and Tammy Fae Baker, then came Olsten, Church of Scientology, Church of Latter-Day Saints joined in the movement of the right. Jerry Farwell was the first evangelical to be political outside of politics as a christian agitator and started the first christian universities for evangelical religious acolytes to go into politics. 40 years later this Millennial left faces off with a counterpart right wing millennials, both are really stupid, never read Marx and cannot interpret movements in society as a development, a process of growth and strength, with its beginnings looking like a political capitulation of democrats as a party of the working class was really a sharp swing to the right following the Reagan-Thatcher anti labor paradigm felt today as a failure and abandonment, effective then to make democrats weak and make government look incompetent. Hollywood jumped in with ET, Star Wars, all the movies that depicted government as evil conspiratorial, incompetent jackasses, as shown by Spielberg in Raiders of the Lost Ark, “Top men” working on it, officials who don’t know what they have...fools’. Reagan was elected. Star Wars came into being. Video culture and the internet funneled the ideological shit down your throats like you were starving chicks in the nest. 40 years ago while you were still in the womb of your mother but the pro-imperialist/ military society you came into as a Millennial generation began the moment the doctor slapped your ass in the delivery room and mommy gave you your first Barney doll. They succeeded in overturning R v W because “You” the age 40 year old and younger let them and drank the cool-aid to use a phrase of the right. You never pushed politicians like Biden toward the left and Bernie helped to co-opt your desire for something better and he never gave you an alternative vision from the vision of the right. Bernie is no socialist. The absence of historical analysis is pitiful in the Millennial Left. You will never know how to separate historical fact from ideological bullshit. You can be bamboozled by the very clever CIA, dividing you by race and gender, and class. The ‘Great Reset’ is their next game of distraction most of you will swallow as fact. So, Jimmy, you do a good job criticizing but what good is it when you do not offer the alternative view and historical analysis of the enemy that democrats have been reacting toward since Reagan.
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  5666. Finally, a breakthrough for others to follow, perfect for all you First Amendment auditors in the US and Canada, put your money where your mouth is about the State respecting your right to photograph public property.  A man who has brains, Max Blumenthal, using property that is not the property of the US to confront leased property of Honduras to the US.  Americans, Canadians and the native Americans watching this should do the same as a cadre--- protest Washington not in Washington DC which amounts to fruitless endeavors, always falling on deaf ears, but in the world Washington occupies.   There is no country in the world that will not welcome you. In fact, notice how desolate streets are, people curious are watching from the windows and afar what this red-haired American is doing. He is left alone to report a piece on US occupation.   Occupy and pitch tents at the front entrances of US military bases with your bodies and watch how fast Trump will cave into demands to leave now. The hosts nations will never harm you unless some deranged leader goes off the wall which is always a possibility but not a probability. In fact, the people of those nations will join you.   Mass occupation on camera for all the world to see will transform the paradigm of all governments from playing ball with the US to quit playing ball with the US.   Nothing the US can do about it. The US has no jurisdiction over the property Max is walking on with his camera, it is the public property of Honduras. Only if he steps into the base does the US have jurisdiction and can arrest him. But outside Mike Pompeo can pressure the Honduran president all he wants and Hernandez will not stick his neck out, his people will overthrow him knowing the forces cannot be ordered to attack Honduran protesters, no nation that small will risk going to war with the US.    Valid passport is all you need, the occupation kept on rotation bases new Canadian American cadres replace the old ones when their visa expires until imperialism ends.   Internally the US cannot make passports harder to acquire without infringing the right of free movement as writ in the Constitution. Trump will have to broaden his travel ban only by executive order and that will not fly if Bill Gates and other wealthy Americans cannot travel the world to conduct business. Brilliant Max.   You’ve found the Achilles Heel of Capitalism.
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  5667.  @cherylscott8576  They have drifted far away from the salt of the earth. But do not let it get you down. Life always finds a way.
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  5668. Working class can be really dense people sometimes especially when it comes to the notion of a “Fair Wage”. There is NO SUCH THING as a fair wage in capitalism...the notion is an invention by intellectuals in the academic social sciences and this concoction will always warrant a strike against intellectuals in a revolution as a potential enemy of the working poor,--is my word of caution to the intellectuals. Better stop calling wages fair when the outcome of what wages produce are unfair for workers of any kind and in any industry. There are three economic laws; a law in economics is when a species must do the same for its survival; such as the Working Day, Intensity (how hard people are working on the jobs, the level of exhaustion that takes a toll on people mortality,) and productivity. Academics avoid this matter like the plague knowing a revolution would erupt if people were educated. The more educated a people are the harder it is to rule them said wisely by Confucius. A fair day’s wage does not eliminate or change the three economic activities that apply for all societies in all history...economic laws are sentient laws not laws we must live by for peace and civility...economic laws tells the story of the life of human beings. It explains a condition that we must produce our subsistence or die and when the production of life as you know it wherever you are is interrupted societies can die in a month if not weeks depending on how healthy they are. By healthy I mean a high material level of necessities and means available to meet needs. Workers are a means to this effect. Workers were essential during the lock downs but when everything is opened up again they fall into the background as inessential and are shat on by the rest of us. Sudan is not one of these countries that has a high level of capabilities to make the point. You can see from Sudan it is a case of warring militias interrupting the life-process of Sudan. Humans interrupting other humans from making a living, is the example that Sudan has become in what never should happen to a society,----a militarism that breeds utter contempt for humanity. A fair day’s wage is a myth. The little nasty Nome that hexed Goldilocks to spin yarns of gold from her hair pays her $7.50 an hour to spin for 8 hours is not fair when the yarn she spun is worth $.7.2 cents per foot and she spins 1000 feet of yarn a day to the selling price the market bears for yarn at $1.00 per foot, should illustrate why there is no such thing as a fair day’s wage. Goldilocks and the Nome may have agreed to work for each and with each other as equals n the weaving room but when the Nome gives her the spinning machine to work with she and the Nome are unequal partners in the product. So when you strike, strike for reasons that are realistic like being sick of being a tool for corporate America (the living you want to make is one that permits a happy life for you, your future and your family) and when you find that the system cannot give you that stability and assurance then you come to a crossroads about the system itself especially when the system can afford it!
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  5669. LaPalma is covered in lava and when it cools the island will be larger and there will be nothing manmade on it and everything that was there incinerated.
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  5670. American society in the present moment is in catastrophic ruin in a blinding chaos of a frigid snowstorm in three states! The economic activity in those states are totally shut down without power and as power is restored damage repair to the causes of outages is necessary before economic activity can start up again. A significant chunk of the working population in the south are stuck home and the idle factory capacity is higher than 70% for that region.  If this happened to all fifty states America woud die in a week. This is serious business not given the time and day of hard investigative reporting by the mainstream.  Millions of Americans are thrown back into the 19th century and when they come out of it conditions for employment make finding a job dismal next to impossible.
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  5671. Yes thank you... @johnburns8660 
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  5672. Lo ve, ademas todos deber a ver los peliculas. @pamelaquezada7659 
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  5673. Don’t buy this bias, the two parties have been doing this for decades, it’s a negative they each make political capital out of to get votes.
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  5674. Trump supporters number 75 million, a third of the total population. 132 million make up the US workforce. A revival of the labor movement would defeat these people at the poles every time. Half these halfwits would join a labor movement that answers to the reasons why they gravitate to Trump in the first place. The Archie Bunkers and the Ed Bundys acting out of rage and anger. I do believe the US election is stolen in the sense that it is not rendered simple and riddled with difficulties to suppress voters but I do not believe the election was stolen from Trump. He is playng the angry guy to harness that blue collar voter's anger. Anger a progressive labor movement can also take advantage of. It would be much harder for the far right to win over a third of the population with a revived labor movement.
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  5675. Seven foot deep snow is the new average crippling the economy...is what. @grondhero 
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  5676.  @abby-usivemonopoly5529  Investigations is used by the system of political elites the way make -up is used to cover acne on a face.
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  5677. And it never had to be the tragedy that it is. Are you kidding me... the election has been falsified already...even if he loses...his exit will get dirty. corruption never ran so deep. Mindboggling corruption... killing the soul of a human being. How does a person get freed from a corrupt society and freed from a corrupt state?
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  5678. The reality is that all societies have a military and police. But not all socieites have police and armies racially segregated, and sociociologically composed of two distinct social classes. They are two distinct standing armies and counting them as a whole the two are one large force over society. The working class constitutes the social composition of the miltiary and the middle class consitutes the social composition of the police is the sociological lay of the land in America. How both these social classes are playing out against each other is demonstrated in their hatred for each other in a racial opposition in society. Ferguson, the Tarsands Pipeline, was an example of this racial opposition manifesting in the police standing in opposition to the black, Latino and Native American communities in society and the D.C. riot at the Capitol was an example of the same racial opposition in society manifesting in a form of racial privilege and power of a planned insurrection.
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  5679. Innovation is a doubled edged sword. It pushes people out of production as it increases production. In the type of work people like Buffet and Gates do production is a means to an end that is not production for itself. They produce for exchange. Production and innovation is a means not an end in itself takes us all into a higher level of chance and causality, doubles the risks, as opposed to a higher level of planning and positive outcomes.
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  5680. Now that is what I call an adventure one can learn from. The fear of living descendants of the Inca while stomping across their ancestral grounds are two insults foreign tourists are completely clueless about is a mindset that is partially the fault of foreign tourists who buy into the grift of tourism.
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  5681.  @larryross1819  Its still violence a hero and a criminal are creating.
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  5682.  @montecito12  good question
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  5683. This is a society that is not a society but a collection of barbaric institutions. We can arm Ukrainians to fight a proxy war against Russia but we can’t spend money to give employees child care or a wage high enough for a child not to be left in a car to roast under the Sun. And everybody in Texas blames the individual. Texas is a fascist state with fascist people. Texans would probably blame the baby for dying too.
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  5684. Talk radio dogma.
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  5685. Sue the school.
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  5686. Pathetic that this was the man selected to lead the nation. I believe its now 65% polled don’t want him to run again. But what that 65% want the DNC ignores. Not a real democracy when a minority decides for the majority.
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  5687.  @mikearchibald744  The baby boomers can give youngsters the real power needed to defeat the violent repressive police state to straighten society out but the young must call for their assistance. Boomers owe it to the Youth. A little guilt goes a long way. Boomers have the time and the life experience the State cannot get over on. Besides the Boomers made this State and they need to tear it down. Youth is needed to wear out and exhaust the police to get them to quit and rebuild society, therefore, youth need strategies that make cops work for their money making it not worth the exhaustion to be a rotten cop(s). This is what gives me and you the chance to be a part of Americas’ Second Revolution.
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  5688.  @mikearchibald744  The word has a bad rap. The classical definition of the word meant when one mode of economic life changes into a new form of economic life. The Stone Age and the Iron Age, feudalism became capitalism and slavery became capitalism, etc. This got downgraded into a negative connotation associated with violence by the victims of revolutions. France was the bloodiest 1789. I am at the tail end of the Baby Boomer generation. Boomers owe it to Millennials their time and dedication to unite as a social force for change. I always felt the boomers did not bring to completion what they started and they should do that now. Be an aid to the millennials who are the work force in the main. Politically aware Retired people have the time and the life experience. Millennials need the hindsight of age behind their actions. Boycotts and strikes combined is how solidarity can play out. Boomers do not know what products to what industries millennials fight against. Combining the two generations is significant social power for planned and spontaneous pressure. I never liked protest placards. I like one large banner and if placards are a must they should read the same thing stating the section of the population carrying them by occupation. One universal message and one united group is the function of a banner. “End Violence Now” covers all violence in every form. Universal messages get lost when placards read a bunch of single issues. Authorities are then able to twist words against a movement and the messaging makes them think protesters are dumb. Their attitude then lowers the quality of the opponent. The new politician runs against an incumbent is worse than the incumbent even when you think they were better than the last one, is true at the national level. Locally things are different. It would be a revolution without violence if people planned boycotts, strikes and hold events of solidarity.
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  5689.  @Amadeus8484  Japan will no longer be a country without a military is the historic side of the question.
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  5690.  @Amadeus8484  You can say that again.
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  5691. “...treated like livestock...”, “remain in Mexico policy”, treated asylum seekers like they were cattle...even worse livestock are given rest and water, migrants, on the other hand, were left to die in the desert and given no water. As far as I am concerned the republicans and democrats are equally at fault and to blame for this slow moving concentration camp that wreaks of colonialism, specifically British Colonialism in the 20th century not the 19th., but the 20th!
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  5692. Demoralizing the entire Summit event is aimed to go on polluting and is a marketing campaign on climate change. It really should have been an Earth wide action in all cities in the world condemning and naming the polluters, but it, appears, the event was a show without substance. This inability to get off oil for richest nations is a changeover to renewable energies some industries are refusing to do to their last dying day,. They are subordinate to oil and the richest workers of the richest nations are subordinated to the branches of industry producing the by-products of oil would also be dead against renewables; unless they can transition into jobs in the new industry to emerge. A new industry of manufacturing the new harnessing tools for clean emissions fuel and energy will heavily depend on more of the culprits who pollute, the mining and drilling corporations, on the prowl to buy land, acquire it by any means necessary, where the geology tells them the raw material and natural resources for renewables are to be mined. We are back with the same problem worsening the health of the planet and social life. A bold historic step to restore the health of the planet would be to make mining and drilling subject to every individual, and property to all. Controlled by all. Place the extraction industries to produce under direct legislation and for use only. This action is one of respect for nature and our relationship as a species to nature, that all people across the world can easily be a part.
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  5693. Great Video: I think the MAGA architects of this Grand Social Experiment, leads inevitably to the creation of an apartheid state, or a partitioning of the nation on grounds of race, the rest of the world will reject, and go with China. In their MAGA hands they have the powerful productive forces of the US made to perfection by expert criminals. This is about the only change I see, they are not the original criminal designers of the powerful productive forces, they are the capitalist class in charge of these forces at play. They have yet to remove each fiefdom these forces continue to belong not entirely convinced of the Grand Social Experiment. Fact is, everyone produces something. A musician produces music, a thinker produces thoughts, a poet poems, etc. A criminal produces crimes. If we look exclusively at crime in America, criminals produce criminal law, and the criminal provides society with criminologists lecturing on criminal law,. The criminal produces a whole lot of police and sheriffs, special divisions, judges, hangmen, juries, and a whole industry of different capacities to create new ways of satisfying these professions,--- thanks to the criminal. The idea is that if there aren’t any criminals in socialist societies there isn’t a criminal state running them. Not to say there isn’t corruption. It is to say that attacks on property don’t happen in socialist societies worth discussing as a real attack on property. More than the total population of the US own property in China. The “peasants”* in China have enough respect for private property to not defile it with crime reflects a shift in thinking about property in general, too hard for western minds to grasp stuck in the framework of property as a limitation, as he/she has more than me. Can’t hide the fact, America in its present state is anti-private property, ownership is unequally distributed across society that a Trade War will further deteriorate the material well being of the working classes. Criminals have given much to advancing technologies and progress. Under capitalist life, erecting statues in homage to criminals would make sense for all the social institutions of deterrence they brought into this world and the miracles of science to cure disease. When someone says America is a sick society they are not wrong. Torture employs many a creative and highly skilled craft people to come up with the ingenious ways on how to punish people. Yet the criminal produces an impression, partly moral partly tragic, and in this way renders a “service” by arousing the feelings of the public. Criminals gave us highly rated crime drama series, writers, and movie directors, the criminal breaks the monotony and everyday security of capitalist life. They keep capitalism from stagnating and gives rise to an uneasy tension and agility without which even the spur of competition would get blunted. The criminal lives among the superfluous working classes and rises to the surface gives the gift of lessening competition searching out a finite number of jobs against an infinite number of unemployed job searchers, up to a certain point the struggle against crime absorbs another part of the working class does bring about a correct balance of “useful” occupations. Would locks have reached its present state of perfection if not for criminals? Infinitesimal cameras in every crevice of a Tesla is a tribute to the criminal. The Mona Lisa could not be more protected as property. The microscope would never had made into a lab as a tool to study cell biology if not for the forgers. Crimes are constant attacks on property, constantly calls into being new methods of defense and when we take leave of the world of crime inside America and look at the world of crime outside of America into the sphere of private crime the world market would not have even been created! The Tree of Sin is at the same time the Tree of Knowledge ever since Adam. Every possible occupation is a productive endeavor supports life, trade, enjoyments. Trump is the worst type of philistine and apologist for capitalist life to not be praising the criminal he is and the criminals for their contribution to the state of criminal science; he owes his existence to criminals and should show gratitude for it. * JD Vance (Juvenile Delinquent Vance).
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  5694. Simply amazing how detainment, interdiction, prosecution, and imprisonment takes place at the cost of the American taxpayer and tax payers are silent.
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  5695. Militarism is a bottomless pit of consumption for coal, gas and oil industry. A wet dream. Oil, gas and coal are commodities bought and sold by the tons and all militaries and societies that need these commodities are buyers and consumers of it for the rest of their lives. Drill, baby, drill, is music to executives in the oil, gas and coal industry.
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  5696. That Jan 6 was a coup that did not succeed is the real issue the rationalization for the coup is not important here. Neither press in this case, nor politician seem to want to realize that,--- explains why CNN loses credibility and ratings.
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  5697. Products in general,---- if they were not made to be bought and sold as commodities would be managed and regulated for what they are and their use for society and individuals. A drug for cancer would be just a drug for cancer. The scientific work involved in making the drug would be complete once the disease is eradicated. The drug is no longer in use and developers move on to other diseases to eradicate. As commodities the drugs act to maintain the cancer from taking your life and are in use forever because the root causes of cancer are never addressed with any integrity or sincerity. This implication indicts the entire Health Establishment composed of doctors and hospital, pharmaceutical and medical technology manufacturers as partaking in the slow death of individuals in society. It is actually the use of money in society that is governing human will and freedom. Money is in control of people not the other way around. Money expresses its value through all useful things made by human labor that our world is nothing more than a collection of commodities becoming and not becoming money. Far from the reality we think exists; we do not as a species come before money in a world of commodities.
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  5698. Assuming we know every detail of what happened...in the grand scheme of things...this is one more episode of rejection people deal with all the time. The ticket is her right to the plane. Give her the money back then the ticket holds no legal ownership of her chair in the plane or find her another plane in the same airline if you do not want her.
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  5699. If a black woman in North Carolina votes for Mark Robinson the black woman is a fool and has rocks in her head. If it is true about him, Mark Robinson takes himself seriously, we are in trouble with buffoons running the State. But when he says some people need to be slaves it would have been more acceptable if he said it in a song like Annie Lennox sang “...some people want to be abused.” Slavery and abuse are spoken by saying, seeing and singing, in all societies because the main type of relationship all societies have with their leaders is slave like and abusive. The master-slave relationship is the only relationship compatible to rulers is why abuse persists. The masses are kept and controlled in the position as a creator of wealth and value until the masses controlled and kept get tired of having no value or wealth of their own is derived from that position, that they break the relationship up into shattered pieces on the floor. They will continue to be the creators of wealth and value and only change their position in the creation of value and wealth as on their their terms not on the terms of stranger-owners. If Mark Robinson said this he would not have to sing, he would be at a higher level carrying Dr. King’s vision of a Human Emancipation into the present. But that is not thus far, what black men are in white America, a man at the level of Dr. King isn’t there.
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  5700. Venezuela is putting its own interest ahead of the US. The only counter influence against US meddling there is 63% of the population supports the Maduro government and its agenda, despite your personal opinion of that. Can' t argue facts. US troops would have to America fight more than half the population and all of the campesinos y los pueblos anticipating an invasion. Overthrowing Maduro would be a piece of cake; as easy as, Chile's popular Marxist president Salvador Allende was simply bombed. Being annihilated, removed permanently is not as easy now as it was then. Venezuela is not the only country moving in a direction of sea-sufficiency without being forced to take loans from US banks. Sterling Hayden playing the General in Kubrick's 'How I learned to Love the Bomb', he executed in his character the Deep State phobia of losing power to the people.
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  5701. The transforming of nature into a commodity occurs on a yearly basis. The Accumulation of Capital, M-M^, between the Ms are three steps or stages in the cycle of accumulation of capitals where money moves from one sphere of business activity to another from circulation to production and back again to circulation, completes one circuit in the movement of capital toward the creation of M^, or surplus value. Stage 1 is a purchase (investment) of labor-power and means of production, stage 2 is production, stage three the finished product re-enters the market or circulation. So what who cares? People may say...what’s the big deal they still have their jobs. No matter to me or them how long capital takes to turnover a profit. The problem with this thinking, it minimizes and denies the work people are doing for capital is detrimental to themselves and others; people are made to carry on the work under capital which now teeters on destructive employment; plus in spite of the nature of the job, the job depends on making the company richer. Workers should see themselves as the historical force behind the socializing aspects of the division of labor. As a social class that extends world wide can benefit humanity under another social paradigm one based on use, but the process of accumulation of capital contracts to a particular, ever-shrinking, number of corporations, the scope of all productive powers of production is narrowed to this one use, in one unformed resistance to undermine the socializing aspects of the labor-process form the general battle lines between labor and capital in the US. Last reason why this thinking is false and dangerously perilous for workers to think it. Production or the labor-process, becomes a mere phase of a colossal marketing campaign of the yearly product before reconverting the sale-money back into capital again. From climate change we know production, human activity, the labor-process extended as a world wide division of labor has more importance as a consequence to human life and the health of the planet than it has importance to being a mere tool for the making and selling of the yearly social product as commodities.
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  5702. Black privilege is as bad as white privilege, they mirror each other, see in the other the limits of their own privilege, as a measure of their character.
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  5703.  @angh18  Well, you have to understand the point of the Right Wing Agenda is to degrade the functioning of the institutions of government built to work for people and society. Remember; Dismantle the Administrative State, in the beginning of this charade with Bannon et al. The political parties are in lock step with this strategy as an attack on the working classes, the degradation of government is done on purpose and then they pretend to the Public, by means of prosecuting bad actors, they are not behind the degradation of the social conditions of the working classes which enhances the exploitation of people by people in society. Pensions do not disappear if I am to take you literally. Pension holders are, simply unpaid the accrued amount of capital the fund earns by the administrators of these financial investments. Pension funds are stolen or raided. What people tend to not include in the formation of wealth is themselves as the source of value and a value producer greater than what they are paid in return for their labor-power. Pensions like social security can never run dry because human labor does not run dry. These funds are not financed they are receivers of value and cannot be dragged into the argument as factors driving up the national debt. At present,---Its only when a tornado wipes the town out completely that Americans are committed to rebuilding society but when Wall Street crashes society, rebuilding society, is the last thing on their minds.
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  5704.  @TM-sm5qy  This is the process of privatizing social security done on purpose not by any mystical and economic laws of motion, magic wand, or invisible market forces, but done by two political parties to convert Public Funds into Private Equity. Delay, gridlock, political extremists is all part of the theatrics to stump you into believing the politics, i.e., the War, Jan 6th, COVID, you name it, Debt Ceiling, cripples Congress, so. Talking about it does nothing to prevent the conversion but rather, enables the end of your children’s security in old age. Do Nothing and its on YOU, make no noice, opposition, and your kids can ask you why didn’t you do something about it.
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  5705.  @a.d8357  If the Defense Production Act had been expanded and placed all general production under the government America would have brought the productive forces, the state of society and public awareness into unity with one another, and done away with their present contradictory and conflictual nature Americans consider ‘normal’.
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  5706.  @kathleenmann7311  The wealthy Aristocracy never want to pay taxes is the reason the British invented a consumer sales tax and the French invented property taxes. Later the Americans added an income tax to the scheme. The point of a tax is to get a share of the profit surpluses derived from industry. A capital gains tax. Even a profit windfall tax. Various types of taxation derived from general production. Taxing securities, treasuries and stocks exchanges derived from general circulation. If the working population and the middle classes are the only social classes in society paying taxes than the total volume of funds diminishes and will force government to cut its size and services.
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  5707.  @imperialmotoring3789  Your number is exaggerated but a third of total illegals, Africans, Irish, British, Scots, Chinese, Ukrainian, etc...I know because I employ many under the table. Deport only Latin American illegals and you have a racist deportation program.
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  5708.  @Schlabbeflicker  Nah, your analysis is wrong. Raising the retirement age has nothing to do with pensions. It has to do with extracting more labor from your person because labor enriches corporations and the state. When you work one hour you produce way more value for the company or corporation than the corporation or company pays you in wages or salary. The size of the workforce is 5555561 of a population of ten million in Sweden, multiplied by an average of 8 hours times 365 days per year and subtract the annual average salary the excess value produced by all those workers is significant but apparently greed wants more. One half of the Sweden’s population lives off the labor of its other half. Add 2 more years to the working day and wahlah! More value. In a word, they have your butt from A to Z. No freedom or democracy in the workplace. Outside of the workplace there is freedom. One can say half the population of Sweden are partially enslaved or you can say are partially free. But you cannot say Sweden is a true democracy.
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  5709.  @lesliefreeman5792  When your generation or future generation strips the political power the police have in society you will see that it is the criminologist in academia who the police unions and the international Sheriffs Association of which all sheriffs belong get all their ideas from! Criminologist are complicit with their theories that are rooted way back to Woodrow Wilson’s time that people are born criminals deny social conditions have anything to do with why a person would want to rob, loot, or kill. Bratton the former police chief of NYC goes all over the world to advise police of these strategies and tactics. He would be one such criminologist. If you remember during the George Floyd protests how protesters were pick up on the streets by swooping unmarked vans and police in Oregon. That is a a special federal unit Trump deployed to attack those protesters. In Central America the same tactics were used to kill poor Hondurans and El Salvadorans for over 20 years. Death Squads the US helped to create for their repressive governments. Thank goodness Latin America threw out the police. You re smart lady, you write well, and I can tell apart from most people who watch and comment on this channel are less informed and basically ignorant of many things the wool is pulled over their eyes. Don’t be one of them. Be suspicious of criminologists, academia, news media, and see them as separate part of one large systemic process of repressing American people. There is an element of institutional racism of the five going to prison stops public scrutiny of the Law Enforcement Establishment and the effects of that racism on the psyche of black men that breeds individual self-hatred for being black in America. James Baldwin and Malcolm X wrote and spoke about this. Both men were right. This subject is not discussed because it threatens that whole structure.
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  5710. It was probably the same technology archeologists use to detect ancient ruins buried in the ground can also detect underground silos and other military batteries and the data was likely transmitted simultaneously to its home station but if America wants a more responsive president they should stop electing men too old for the job. Booker has a subtle racist world view of Asia and China in particular that is the stereotype of Japanese aggression in the WWII that I never would expect coming from him...disappointing.
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  5711. Add that to this and you get a perfect storm for a collapse or a social revolution: Speaker McCarthy proposes GDP increases (making people work harder) pressured to work harder due to cuts on the side of social spending. It won’t work because our economic system depends on the value of wages never falling below levels where people cannot survive and never high enough to cause profits to fall and corporations say there is no money in this business, close it down. McCarthy is not aiming to balance wages and profits. He is pushing or annihilating a skilled labor-force into a corner and in a straightjacket. He is proposing Austerity and the FED proposes more unemployment to fight inflation. But on the side of social spending the military’s budget increases; and the owners of property and financial wealth pay no taxes; last, he proposes no de-escalation of over-spending abroad (throwing money away on bombs and weapons) is even worse news for 55 million poor people unable to afford food, rent, mortgages, pay off medical bills. Austerity includes no to student loan cancellation; the young straddled with debt on top of other debt, car loans, house loans must double their work efforts to catch up but it all goes to employers who benefit from the productivity increase. This is how McCarthy wants to make the debt to GDP ratio less than more than half of what all Americans who work produce; mind you there are Americans who never work because they are rich enough to avoid working for a living, but they do consume. And their consumption is paid for by the many remains at high levels of spending other people’s money. McCarthy proposes no cuts in their consumption habits; he adds more privilege to the privileged; people who do not have to double their work time such as himself a top earner who works 7 months out of the year can still use the public funds for military junkets when not in Congress traveling and meeting foreign dignitaries making deals for his donor and, driving the price of things up polluting the world with high levels of CO2 emissions furthering endangering species life warming up the oceans and rivers. Good news for people like Trump, Gates, Soros, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Co. So here is why America is a poor country with very rich people in it. You get what you vote for.
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  5712. Exciting.
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  5713. That means the embarrassment is you. The government is fully aware of what they can get away with on the American people. Clear case in point, Meta is so scared of regulations they are poised right at the seat of government to block any regulations of AI. What does Congress do, nothing because the American people do nothing to push them. Yet the American people believe regulations are an intrusion in their lives. What is embarrassing about this is American ignorance. You do nothing to control your own lives but let political elites run it for you. You end up getting the middle finger all the time. That’s pretty embarrassing.
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  5714.  @imshaunnurse  The Atlantic Richfield Corporation AKA (ARCO) rob from the citizenry. The citizenry rob from the citizenry. This is a social system of continual separation and loss, everyone is a loser but one, ARCO. 99% lose and only 1% wins. You are insane to tolerate even live under such conditions. ARCO is not separated from the fields that are rich with oil and enrich ARCO. ARCO is permanently united with the fields and makes no bones about it in their public name, Richfield, separated from the citizenry and separated from each other and the oil fields, the 99% occupy the poor fields, and are perplexed in a state of permanent loss of long term natural, personal, and social, political wealth. This is a social system that is using technology to establish feudalistic relationships; direct an overt human exploitation. This country is ARCO’s country.
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  5715. The US Congress has become a commodity. AIPAC has the Capital to buy it. Political freedoms are not human ones. A human freedom is when a person is free to live in peace and security simply because they are human. A Bill of Human Rights would change the direction of our legal system into a legal system for the people. AIPAC would be sued the lobbyists essentially kicked out of Congress. But all the Rights in our Republic are political rights based on a separation of man from man straight out of the 18th century. Within that framework Money dominates Congress.
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  5716. Would they fight for Donald Trump? That is the question. Are they at Trump rallies taking directions from Trump’s speeches? Nazi fascism in Germany crept into power starting with hate speeches. Seizing power is Trump’s primary aim that white supremacists can be his foot soldiers, they look today, bald and tattooed, dressed tomorrow in state issued military uniforms under the command of a fascist.
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  5717. Stein voters will get blamed for Harris losing against Trump is what will happen inside the democratic party, and so the infighting between factions continues... This would mean that Michigan voters were significant enough to weaken the centrists in the democratic party from winning the White House. That amount of a dissenting constituency might account for Harris being appointed the nominee for president and not elected through a convention. Losing the White House begs the question if Trump’s re-election win is a new form of fascism that promises to eliminate any opposition to itself.
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  5718. The Democratic Establishment was rocked enough to want to eliminate any future coup attempts from any source. Eliminate the opposition at home and help friends and allies eliminate their opposition abroad. Next person who attempts a coup better have the whole Joint Chief of Staff on their side. That is if the coup is an internal one. But if the coup is not an internal faction seeking power but the ones in power are rocked by outside pressure a coup can develop as history shows. Power from them to some element they do not know can unseat their political perch. This is where intelligence comes in. Law enforcement is beefed up, stacked with cutting edge technology, to locate sources of potential groups who could in the event social pressure is so great can take power from the Establishment. Supreme Court did not help to ease this worry for the Washington Establishment, the court went rogue on abortion and created a potential source of social pressure that will punish the democrats for lack of action. Desperate democrats will seize to take advantage of this social crisis emerging. Their campaigns will look fake as it is fake authenticity to have to turn into a political campaign what people remember they had a long time to codify this right and had not is an Achilles Heel to their aims. But what if social pressure gave a particular group power which in the mind of Americans unfamiliar with the history of coup d état happened in Russia, an event that gave birth to the Washington Establishment in trouble in the US as I write? The social power that giveth the coup taketh away the coup...after all, the Washington Establishment, republican and democrat combined, is a coup. Americans call it a ‘Duopoly’, meaning they are the same party complicit with great wealth. A coup of dollars, Americans say, ‘take the money out of government’. Every 80 years a cataclysmic social event has rocked the political world to the ground at the same time every 80 years great personal wealth has eroded the rights of individuals and democracies. Social cataclysms ordering the government to do something about controlling great and powerful economic wealth. The curse of historical events is the end of the 80 year cycle...this is the time when social movements have gotten so large they bring in a new age.
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  5719. What the BRIC nations will experience is the same dilemma the rich capitalist countries cannot escape from. Patrick Bond's analysis is in my view accurate. Joining the capitalist system is not the way to go. However, capitalism will be easier to overthrow when it does dominate the world and when none of the productive forces of society can function under the capitalist system. The relative shrinking intervals of prosperity make recessions right around the corner for the rich nations become recessions that erode any wealth created in a period of prosperity. Recessions last longer the rich countries can barely tolerate will be a pattern amplified in the less advance capitalist countries as unable to withstand.
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  5720. Americans can have more socialism if they want. When Trump said “… we will never be a socialist country…”, he was talking to his generation in power sitting in the House of Representatives.  The next generation has a different view and will take over the House. The details of a comprehensive Green New Deal will eventually take shape in a socialist form.  Votes are not there now but it won’t be long all Americans will get on the same page with a Green industrial and agricultural revolution.  I’d caution people that if the Green Revolution does not unite everyone to the necessaries of life, socialized work as the ultimate owner of the necessaries of life, then you need to modify the Green New Deal till you get it right.
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  5721. White middle aged men and black middle aged men do not produce anything in America, they are all civil servant police officers. Cons, or junkies, or in management or in civil service and none of these lines of occupations are revered. Dentists and doctors are regarded as Nazis and not revered, journalists are propagandists, perhaps the occupation most loved by Americans is a veterinarian because Americans love pets. Evidence is clear that you are better off an animal than a human in America if you need love and affection. Civil servants do not produce anything for society, they do not make actual mechanical parts or an actual use-value(s), they render a service, but as far as the material infrastructure is concerned America does not have a skilled workforce to match its social needs, all of that is supplied by China which makes the middle aged me and women in China skilled, and capable of building, and rebuilding, from tool, machine to infrastructure. And makes the American population dependent on industries not on its soil. This demographic has been de-skilled and then recruited into a bloated police hierarchy with many divisions that entirely deprives what society needs to thrive. In effect, this monolithic standing army consumes the greater part of national income forcing government to borrow and fall in debt to private financiers and other nations who lend it money so that a small elite can say they control one half of the world.
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  5722. Just think the reputation of Gary as a murder capitol led to some interesting people as products of bad parenting. Beat the crap out of your kids to stay off the streets and play music instead was the parenting method of the Jackson family. Michael's future prospects would be foster care or Hollywood as a child with a physically abusive father who saw how to get out of Gary.
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  5723. There is a metaphor in this tragedy that is the basis for many stories. Frankenstein and the creation of man that kills the man. Simple everyday ordinary objects brought to life to swindle buyers in another market.
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  5724. Polish workers understand the connection between value producing labor and the value of labor that American workers have yet to understand. American workers may not ever understand and act on that difference because of intensive post trauma the working class is afflicted with since 1996 to the present. Most likely because of chronic fatigue syndrome and related immunity problems with antibiotics and anti-depressants are typical prescriptions was given to 43,000 Gulf War Veterans who were partially disabled in 1996. The army predicted 50,000 casualties in that war. The US army gave large doses of an antidote used to paralyze key neuromuscular transmitters as a means of prevention against pesticides, uranium and oil. The chemical (s) released from the oil fires in Iraq hot by day rise and cold by night fall on the desert, a chemical recombination occurs would kill troops without a shot fired. The name of the disease times two the name of the drug (N2D2) is the method of modern medicine in American society comes straight out the military medical procedure of 1991. This was the beginning of the growth of children of 43, 000 Gulf War veterans who came back sick, suffering loss of energy, nervous twitching, coagulated blood plasma and metabolic brain activity symptoms of those veterans later to surface in their children. Given the cumulative effects of trauma the working class experiences in the community and in the family, the difference between value-producing labor that gives them the right to a share of its product because it made the product while paid a wage for that activity or service deprives them of their share of the product, is not yet an issue for them like it is for 15,000 Polish workers. Why this is relevant is because while the American worker is traumatized and handicapped his/her labor productivity is not handicapped. In the Polish working class they realize this productivity is their's, whereas the American workers thinks it is not their's for reasons largely, ideological.
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  5725. A 20 year old got the better of the Secret Service and came close to killing Donald Trump. Incompetence in the police, law enforcement, secret service, is rampant and pervasive and an Ohio Senator agitates for armed insurrection and civil war as the last hope to save America if Trump loses the election. America is a sick society.
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  5726. this is one for the examiners reconstructing models to show how this happened and what made this fire accelerate and take a whole building...something deadly human is in this....
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  5727. A lot can happen between now and November. Maybe white voters with four year degrees will defect and vote a minor party candidate where there is a better choice. White voters with a GED or HS diploma that live in the suburbs are not voting with their heads but are voting out of resentment and dissatisfaction. Black voters with a four year degree will vote for an alternative having gotten burned by Biden and ridiculed with disrespect by Trump. But black voters with not even a GED and incarcerated in prison lost their right to vote but know neither Trump or Biden are good for the country when the country can do better is a deeper insight than their black peers with a GED and HS Diploma would be allies with republicans for the money.
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  5728.  @johnwattdotca  How old are you? 14
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  5729.  @sjbock  lol
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  5730. If the coup took place and the new cabinet installed the armed forces of Germany would not be disbanded but its high command would lose the power of commanding the army and thus, unable to defend Germany from the coup if ordered by a new high command. Democracy is a weak system in the end. Once you cut off the head the body no longer operates or functions. Unfortunately, citizens are the least empowered social group in society would have no choice but to either rebel or submit since democracies are not direct democracies but are representative democracies operating on a constitution which would have been annulled by the new head of state. Our friend Heinrich the whatever it is to his title, would be Germany’s new dictator. I would consider this a serious problem for the German people. This could happen in the US as well. Assuming Trump had succeeded and he later announced the nullification of the US Constitution, and if the insurrectionist were armed, they would have immediately decapitated the US military with the nullification of the Constitution and established Trump as America’s first dictator. America’s constitutional republic is also a representative democracy, all the people we know and have come love or hate in Congress, would have been either arrested on trumped up charges for their removal or forced to resign. We are living in times where coups are standard operating procedure used by the Right more than the Left. Its time people defend their society from these forces and the best way is to take the military away from a high command and create a war department that is not under the command of a prime minister or a president. The power of the military must rest with the majority which was the original point behind the US Constitutions 2nd amendment, that the militia of 1779 later evolving into a modern industrialized military be autonomous from the government of elected officials.
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  5731. Limits on the probe compromises the integrity of the probe.
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  5732. If I asked this news anchor what does he mean by “Woke”, he’d have no answer. I don’t know what woke politics is...do you? I’d really like to know.
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  5733. The law is punitive and after the fact. What a business owner needs is not a law that slaps stiffer penalties for theft of products. A merchant needs customers to buy the products. More money in people’s hands protects the economy. More jobs, higher incomes, less poverty equals less retail crime.
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  5734. The so called "experts" are not emphasizing a nuclear arms treaty is in the national interests of all nations concerned. Each nation is doing their own thing is real bad news! Every other nation is marching toward developing technology that is not in the interest of humanity at a rapid pace as an effort to catch to other militarized states. They see how the US respects force and only force in states like North Korea, they don't see how a state without a military, Costa Rica, can excell in economic progress faster than if they had a military, and as they desire to be free of their centuries old repressions building defenses is not going to get rid of those centuries-old oppressive relationships in their societies. Washington would dare not invade a tiny republic with no army in Central America for it will enhance the truth of the character of the American administration as imperialist simply out for conquest. Not that Washington would feel shame, they would not, conquest is 90% of post WWII American history. A tiny minority of technocrats in these otherwise socially and economcally backward countries become the decision-makers of this technology while every component that goes into these weapons are devices they must buy from the US, the exclusive seller of all that you need to build a nuclear bomb. To do this the governments aiming to nuclearize themselves must extract the savings of the population to pay for it. A new oppressive relation on top of the centuries-older ones are ignored. Two years following an agreement there is no treaty between the US, Russia, China, North Korea on ICBM development is the fault of the American administration unable to break the ice and begin a dialogue, is the fault of a protectionist president.
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  5735. Police are their own worst nightmare and their union leaders are a pack of morons leading their rank and file into a war on the streets that is totally unnecessary. Between the cops, politicians and the gun manufacturers in the US; they created their own nightmare and a monstrous social problem by allowing guns to be commodities, i.e., guns over the counter, through big box retail stores, retailers don’t care what happens to the gun after it is sold. They only care that it gets sold. For that they used every Congress person they can buy to vote yes on higher weapons appropriations to increase sales and profits. A gun gets into one persons hands through a sale and ends up in another person’s hands through theft. All this so that manufacturers can make a profit and cops can maintain special social status and income. Their lives are in danger and demand more protection, more funding, more weapons, and are outcasts in themselves never trusting another human being that is not of their own social rank and familial flock. 30 to 40 year olds up against kids, and not the type of kids easily handled, hardened, kids far more skilled then the cops in the streets. I blame their union leadership for not opposing legislation that poisoned the police profession.
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  5736. To understand there is no deep state is to understand how the system works. An empire such as the US rests upon the American people. Administering the wealth of the American people takes a bureacratic form and the form of bureacracy replicates itself in other areas of the government, is cast in mysteriousness. The American people are large mass of producers not directly involved in the struggles of corporations and governments. Trump professes that he will break down parliamentarism for the American people and the undisguised subservience to government of the propertied classes are first in line to be freed from government. If the government were not occupied by a provincial minority a man like Trump would not be possible as president is still the heart of the problem. He professes to save the propertied classes by upholding their economic supremacy over the working class. And, he revived in the blue collar conservative working classes the old national glories of restoring American productivity and economic supremacy at a time when that economic supremacy is met with foreign competition. To understand Trump is to understand the loss of American productivity and industrialization that came with a sociological backlash when it was stripped away from the blue collar working class by the Financial sector of the empire. And the stark reality that the age of American prosperity is over is too bitter a pill to swallow for people who come escaping poverty and land into poverty and for the American people barely making it themselves.
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  5737. These wars are not innocent of being the cause of a crisis of humanity.
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  5738. The workpeople in ancient Rome lived at the expense of society, modern societies like America live at the expense of the work people.
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  5739. As soon as the trigger is pulled the shop owner is an objectified the store is the subject. The person who is armed is protecting the right of property to exist not the right of the person as a subject to exist. Property is the subject and the person(s) are the object(s). The two people, defender and perpetrator, are both subordinate objects to the rule of property. The rule of law is the right of property to exist. Violent defense is how these Americans are preserving the right to be an owner of property. The legal system expressing the right of private property to exist rips society apart. Large scale private owners are not killing each other for their property. Small scale property owners are killing each other for their property. The owner of 170,000 acres of land with a mansion of 34 rooms never has to worry about packing a gun to protect their property But millions of tiny property owners desperate to hang on to a piece of real estate as their claim are fully armed and willing to objectify themselves as a victim to a bullet pack guns to protect their small fraction of material wealth they call a store.
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  5740. Protected tariffs on Chinese imports helps Union Workers. It will not help non-union workers to ban cheaper and better Chinese products of which there are more non-union people than unionized. But as far as who to endorse, unions can endorse Trump or Biden when both are protectionist is a non-issue. You’d have to judge unions endorsement on the basis of where the candidate they choose stands on abortion, immigration and climate change.
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  5741.  @jgalt308  I am not arguing anything...I am telling you. You do not know what capitalism by your own definition in Paragraph 1, is. That's it. There is no further benefit to this conversation.
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  5742.  @jgalt308  Problem with the stupid is that Trump has an answer for them and the Left does not! Those who have been shat on by the two political parties and by society and its institutions and a dickhead like Trump points the finger at the democrats to take over the GOP...then the White House,---the Left should consistently point the finger at Wall Street.
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  5743. A significant component of white nationalist ideology is to never admit your failed or did wrong. On the hard end of the ideology, when defeat is imminent suicide is the way out. On the soft end, in the realm of social propaganda, corrections chip away at the foundation of lies, raise doubt, impede the swift indoctrination process on which a news organization becomes the voice of nationalism spreading its deceptions.
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  5744. Nothing wrong with changing the structure of society. Every society needs a change over.
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  5745. Putin will be around for as long as NATO stays around. ‘The need for security for all; while one side carries out its own plan’, sums up the hostility and should you be surprised? In Russia, wall to wall Putin only happens once a year as a summation of the year. Putin is not seen on television for the rest of the 8,756 hours of the year. So this is no big deal when seen in proportion. In fact, it is troubling in my view that he is not seen more. Everybody still parties and the rest of the time Russian television is full of dramas and talent shows, state news, scandals etc. NATO and Putin are essential as long as tensions as existed between the US and the USSR persist and at a higher level than before.
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  5746. Capitalist societies cannot respond the way a socialist society like China can respond to quell a dangerous and fatal virus. Socialist societies have the ability to stop production (economy) and not have the effect of a crisis in the same way capitalist societies experience a crisis. If you stop production and circulation in China it is not going to disrupt the economy from functioning but it will affect the social order like it would in the US and the EU impact both spheres of economic activity, unless the Chinese communist party acts irrational and harms the social population. A fear that is probably on the forefront of that party's mind of losing power. But in the US and EU if production is stopped surplus value cannot be realized and the entire social order falls to pieces, which is the reason the west relies so heavily on prisons and mass incarcerations to keep the social population controlled and working the cycle of production where surplus value is produced.  It appears that a socialist society breaks the dependency the working class has with capitalists for their wages and capitalists have on a working class for their profits, a mutual dependency of the two classes in a capitalist society.  If this mutual dependent relationship between worker and capitalists were not true then the Congress of the US would not be advancing a bill to compensate the working class an income when being told to stay home if they are sick. The attention paid to the low wage and hourly workers in America proves how vitally essential the low wage and hourly workers are to the workings of the system as a whole.  How aware low income and hourly workers are or become of their essentiality is another matter?  I imagine it is the special job, duty or function, of politicians in the west to keep the working classes unaware of their essentiality to the system as a whole does explain why the US in particular is vehemently against unions and why unions in Europe are tolerated.  The bill proposed serves to keep consumption going and the workers playing their part as consumers even though their role as producers have stopped. If China were to stop producing for American and European corporations they would be forcing the capitalists to spend a great deal of their profits to move production back to their home nation or die! The communist party of China could do this once they have an established large middle class to take the place of foreign capital being used to simulate production.  My thinking does explain how a socialist society has more flexibility to quell and mobilize a working population toward cooperation when the communist party decided to intervene with the construction of hospitals, even as some fell apart, and washing down the entire country with disinfectant. A capitalist system has to incentivize and appease a working population or force it to cooperate to quell a virus, causing it to teeter on the brink of total economic collapse if not done skillfully, and I imagine the capitalists are extremely worried that Trump is not the man with the skill to manage such a task. But other problems loom, such as the inability of individual states to print their own money they eventually will run out of money and all efforts to quell the virus will evaporate into thin air. Politicians at the state level will fail and for one reason alone, they never taxed the rich enough to cover such an eventuality of their budgets drying up.
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  5747.  @leechua1720  I do not think social security is a top-down program, to the contrary, FDR's New Deal was a bottom-up massive infusion of capital created during the New Deal. Neither was the Conservation Civilian Corp that built the dams, roads and bridges and airports and trains. I really wish people would know their history before inventing these lunatic ideas, don't you?
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  5748.  @leechua1720  I apologize to you. In one sense you are correct. In the sense that FDR was a born member of the ruling class that his New Deal was a top-down people oriented program. In this sense the New Deal was not a revolution in the mode of production as made by the working class themselves, a self-emancipation. We can only illustrate the difference between the ruling class of yesterday to that of today as people who hate the working class but cannot live without them while yesterday's ruling classes were more empathetic to the working class and shared a belief they became rich because of the working class and owed a debt to humanity for their class status and privilege. That sentiment has vanished.
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  5749. 'Produce for Use', is the answer people.
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  5750. @Decord Successful,---you preach obedient pacifism.
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  5751. Cops used to be trained to talk down and de-escalate a situation. Now they are detailed oriented, one purpose in mind, waiting for one false move, to disarm a person with force.
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  5752. Airline industry workers have the chance to explain their case to Americans willing to pay any price for memories with their loved ones why they must strike and ruin those memories. Its happening across all industry in the US that workers are getting the shaft. About the only people who will not understand the workers’s position as exploited are the exploiters and the selfish the exploiter temps with buy now deals or else pay more later, are non-workers. I say to them, sorry but we and our families are just as important as their’s. Of course, there are others ways to make memories. A must float down river is a “whatever you want to do this summer kids we’ll do” is a wish of the privileged and it does not qualify as a lost memory if the privileged don’t go tubing down the Esopus River. The actions of the CEO is indicative of an airline industry that enriches itself by packing people like sardines reels a hefty profit enough for the CEO to take off on his own dime stranding his own industry workers and customers in the ditch. Great leadership choice in people elected by the Board of Directors of the airline...he reflects who they are, and you would be a fool if you accept such an apology and the CEO remains a CEO of an industry he has demonstrated he cares little about except as a means to give him luxuries he can consume for himself.
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  5753. Republicans are going to pay real big for this blunder, they censured the biggest pro-choice member of the Senate and if you paid any attention Ohio women kicked many of you out office and voted down the last abortion bill. Don’t think democrats who also make cultural issues a political weapon to divide people and take away freedoms are not going to get away with their nonsense...either.
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  5754.  @retroactivehistory  Why inverted, why not an overt act of totalitarianism?
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  5755.  @dereksbooks  Catholic Church is authoritarian. Pope is textbook authoritarian religion just like Google, but now with a mostly open and friendly Pope.
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  5756. Care to prove your comment Brian Linderman?
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  5757. I did see them from the links you provided. But here is the question. The value of coal is expressed in gold. A certain quantity of coal equals a certain quantity of gold. They are replaceable and exchangeable with each other. A =B. How does value get expressed in gold when there is no value in sun and wind? By value I mean it takes no labor at all to produce wind and sun as it does take labor time to produce coal and gold. Quantity of human labor is value. This is the question the extraction industries are looking at. Renewable energy can not be converted into gold via money, of course, thus profits. Renewables will never see the light of day because they have no way of being converted into hard cash. For them to see the light of day gold as money must no longer be the universal equivalent all extraction industries immediately convert into profits when they weigh their product straight out of the mine. This applies to coal, iron ore, gold itself, rare metals, and so on. As far as your excellent science is concerned these have a chance of development when the above relationship I described between commodities no longer exists.
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  5758. Beneath the City of New York deep in the bedrock from its most southern tip of all boroughs to the Catskill Mountains is a distribution water system via three tunnels. Water is gravity impelled from a 90 miles distance feeds 14 million daily users. This to me is an example of 'man appropriating nature's productions in the form of man's wants', nature is adapted to change as it is conformed to human wants. But in the land of urban sprawl, suburbia and rural country, nature is an accessory to man's wants. Pruit promotes industry's use of nature for making its products. He approves Nature be an accessory in the processes these companies employ. What application do you have that would entirely transform that relationship the way a city has transformed its relationship to water? Rural America is the one slow to change and transform. The cities are far more advanced in this area. Going back to your original post about the improbability of sustainable energy by 2050 comment---this would rest entirely on how serious you believe in Scott Pruit and his war on coal is over. Pruit's opposition are not that great either on this issue. They fail to understand the distinction between use and value. Rural America's relationship to land (nature) is to shape it to fit the needs of the car, truck, tractor, dwelling, strip mall and commuter train. These commodities are quantifiably determined by the need for mass quantities of coal, oil, gas. As long as land remains an accessory to the process of industry people living in rural America do not have a relationship to nature.
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  5759. Trivializing slavery, the civil war was about the freedom to not sell your life as a commodity to another but to sell your working time as a commodity to another. This meant that employers had to pay for labor-power and an average working time measured how long a person can be worked. Before the civil war the clock had no importance other than telling the time. After the civil war the clock measures a working day and it measures the value of that work. Time became money after the civil war. Before that time was just day and night over an over again. So we got rid of slavery and but we introduced a class of slaves to the clock. Time has become so integrated into our consciousness as working time we can sell it as a commodity possessing its own value as an object. We have agencies that sell working time in every industry and trade. People sell the working time of others and governments sell the total working time of a nation for gold. Time has an appearance with us in the shape of Fort Knox. Before the civil war time had no appearance at all. It was invisible except when your stomach said hunger. Haley should not trivialize slavery. Much of the world still lives in slavery in one form or another. Not a subject to be trivializing when there is a human condition in need of emancipation from slavery.
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  5760. I am convinced the stage the existing social relations reached in America only cause grief, and are not productive but destructive forces (racism and science deniers, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys); and connected to this right wing is the US taxpayer by white supremacist sympathizers in Congress.
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  5761. The same reasons the high cost of living, is what makes it hard for a Bronx resident to leave the Bronx. A working poor family in the Bronx has to work. They earn enough to live in the city and carry on, there is never an extra amount to use for a deposit on a place out of the city and move there for Bronx working poor families. It is not cheap to move out of the city. Working poor Venezuelans can’t leave Venezuela for the same reasons, they earn just enough to carry on living as working poor in Venezuela. So this rules out the Venezuelans gangs formed in Manhattan schools have their origins in the working classes of Venezuela. In fact, the middle class Venezuelan occupies the same position as the working class in America when you compare their relative economic position in society, values, norms, customs, attitude. There is more evidence the gangs formed here had the resources to get to America there and were not the migrants cutting through Darien Gap with their families, the real refugees and seekers of a better life from war ravaged societies.
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  5762. Frankly, the anti-semite is Israel. Everyone born in the Middle East has a common ancestor who was a semite. That they split off into Jews and Muslims makes them both anti-semites.
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  5763.  @icutoo2699  You are correct and everyone else around you who deny that fact are wrong. Living a lie.
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  5764. These isolated events keep adding up; they will lead to mass unrest and social discontent.
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  5765. America has no choice but to go through a stage of barbarism before it can arrive at a stage where it can use its affluence for stability and equality. If it chooses barbarism it will disintegrate as a society incapable of involving itself with the rest of world, retreating into its Apartheid self, never realizing its potential.
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  5766. America has an ignorant electorate.
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  5767.  @CyberAnvil  No point its a statement open for challenge.
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  5768. I have no issue (listen to me...as if I am a big shot, lol) with what you said on the matter of productive and productive labor but I do have a matter with the missing effect of not applying the theory to reality, so often the criticism of academics, of the two forms of surplus value, i.e., relative and absolute s/v. The relation between the general and the particular is expressed in the relationship between individual corporations (capital) and the entire capitalist class. See chapter on the Concept of RSV Vol I Kerr Edition, pg. 289. Capital has a tendency to employ the largest number of workers to extract the largest amount of s/v, for the least amount of payment in wages. Once the working day is fixed, productivity and innovation that provides the extra s/v in production and gives the employer a temporary advantage to produce cheaper, but when all corporations are induced to raise profits through innovation, labor power and labor time generally among all the corporations is cut, and the increase in productivity generates monopoly formations. The Effect: A truly affluent society in potential American capitalists extract RSV using productivity of the US labor force to lower the value of labor-power of that labor-force, while extracting ASV from under developing nations, using force, legal compulsion, to prolong and lengthen the working day from peasantries of these nations. Control and ownership of land as the means by which autocracies and militaries prosecute exploitation. Autocracies and militaries are an indispensable means to American capital in which to carry out the extraction of ASV, force and internal rivalry, to force labor to work long days, weeks, months, years.
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  5769.  @claytons7319  Too late for you; Mind is Wide Shut
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  5770. You might as well call the inauguration of Trump the Coronation of Trump. The average working class wage earner making $50 grand a year and below is the demographic thrown under the bus, ditched by the Liberal Establishment. Trump voiced their complaints with populist phrases, ‘fake media’, ‘crony capitalism’, ’low functioning’, in the end the tech billionaires attend his coronation have capitulated with a modern nationalist. One party, no constitution, dictatorship, a slippery slope down the stairs for an aging empire that is losing its working class to low birth rates and high mortality rates. The millennial billionaires paid to play in Trump’s court. We shall see if the blue collar working class voter return to the democrats. If they do it won’t be because the democrats have become converted revolutionaries overnight. Democrats don’t stand to win an election for the next three cycles is a grim forecast for the liberal establishment.
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  5771. Republicans don't care of the suppression of the white working class vote along with voters of all colors in the working class. They have no interest in appealing to a majority of voters; they intend to stay in power by theft and then by force. Who they represent are the "owners of money and property", the small minority who control the productive forces of society. What is revealed in the actions of the republican party is a way of being, a mode of activity, perfectly consistent with the destructive misuse and abuse of America's economic productive forces under their control. By alienating every other social class in society they lumped us all into a class that no longer counts as a class, not recognized as a legitimate social class in society, republicans have created the expression of all nationalities within the present society the dissolution of all social classes.
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  5772. These are not cops but swat teams, an invasive lethal force, they are not trained to deal with violent situations the public may face; they are trained to react to violet episodes in a defensive mode protecting themselves as in the case of an offensive assault which might be how they each perceived the actions of the killer. This is a case where a military response is the wrong response. A police officer is trained to protect the preservation of persons, rights, and property, a concept of tantamount importance...on which the whole society exists. It had been going on since the Bush Administration that a military solution has been used for every circumstance and problematic situation for the greater part of this century and the last century as a solution to the risks of security is a military one. On that observation, It is not fair to call militarized police cowards when their training is administered to them by higher authorities; they are not police. If they were police and hesitated to act then cowardice is a rightful charge. But as a paramilitary force their object is too annihilate and quite possibly in their minds the hesitation was to resist annihilating the whole classroom of innocent children. Teams like this have single minded missions, highly focused, detailed that it became diffused by the situation. Insubordination of duty or mutiny of command to strike waiting might have crossed their minds. In other places where militarized police are used for crowd control the effect is the opposite. Paramilitary police have a pretense of public safety, which is to annihilate, use of excessive force, to remove the public from premises or property is not policing which protects civil society and permits protests to occur without violence endangering it. The higher authorities are responsible for this tragedy the ones in charge of training recruits.
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  5773. Now we have a real leader. Her honesty is plain and clear. The message is appropriate to our conditions at home and abroad. That democrats do not take her seriously is a strategy to not draw attention to their own weaknesses as dishonest.
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  5774. As long as the Right to Vote is abolished republicans are fine legalizing pot. When you cannot vote them out of office ever again they can amend pot and make it illegal again.
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  5775. Gender anthropocentrics and all mammalian protruberances therefrom, does present a problem for the descendants of anthropolithecus. They are attending the first church of penis envy in mass media!
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  5776. This is exactly why Vietnam War veterans were called ‘Baby Killers” when they came back home from Vietnam. These veterans are going to end up like Korean war veterans completely forgotten when they come home if this keeps up. Get out of Syria!
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  5777. Women can be dictators too. The AG is one, Poras (spelling?) using her office to prevent a popular elected president, she blocks the transfer of power is a dictatorial move. If anything is learned from Jan 6th it would be you have to put your money where your mouth is. The Washington establishment on both sides united against Trump and the AG Garland, appointed a Special Prosecutor to try Trump, consequently remove him from the ballot. This action constitutes a coup dé état by democrats. A coup is anything that blocks the transfer of power from proceeding...what is gained...Poras gains the use of her office to crush the opposition of the indigenous people of Guatemala, the Maya. Lula DeSilva was jailed in Brazil and popular presidents elected in Peru, Ecuador removed. It is an international conspiracy but that would mean they meet up in secret and strategize among republican ruling elites, some do but most are caught up in their own societies, in struggles like this one, fight like their existence is at stake too busy to be part of a conspiracy, crush any opposition. Who do meet once a year are the international billionaire class at DAVOS and they conspire all day and night. But give dictators an inch they take an arm. Question remains why even bother with institutions that are inherent contradictions the people of Mexico, Canada, and the US are living under regimes who stay in power by means of a coup. If we scan across to Europe the people there are living under monarchies, some quietly rule, others rule overtly in the open with Public acceptance. Monarchies rule the Middle East as well that this century is more like a restoration of the politics of the 18th century.
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  5778. Unusual, funny, and not believed if not for the camera. Rampaging racoons and repeat finger landings by a dragonfly and more.
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  5779. structure not discipline
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  5780. A man has a convenience gas store for 20 years in a community and this is what he does to show his appreciation. No improvements, upgrades, nothing to change the conditions of poverty in his immediate surrounding, does not organize other merchants in the neighborhood to do the same so that people begin to see their surroundings improving, has not sponsored anything the community can benefit from, but is tired of all the robberies, vandalism, and hostility. Then puts up armed black men to sit in front of the store ready to kill any suspect or thief. Why do we never see this happening in Martha’s Vineyard, because there the merchants together bend over backwards to please the rich and make their surroundings a dreamland shopping experience. We should question why this only happens where the poor live?
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  5781.  @SuperThumpasaurus  To the contrary, a workforce of 811million working 8 hour days of which only 4.0 hours is necessary and 4 hours per person is excess output I think is a fantastic ratio for sustainability.
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  5782. Organizing the unemployed should be a lot easier than organizing workers in Walmart. Employed workers have a harder struggle but not impossible, especially under conditions where the unempoyed have already formed mass protests and demonstrations, gives employed workers the extra power they need to shut down the employer they fight. Employers have made union organizing in the workplace a crime and the organizer hauled off to jail. One conscientious worker made the difference in Amazon and he was fired. Not sure how his rights were restored but his impact was enough to look at the problem of unsafe working conditions in Amazon as a direct blow to all workers. If one employer does it they all are doing it. Intimidating workers by firing those who attempt to organize is not a crime in States with Right to Work Laws. With that piece of awareness, think of this, there is one power employers take from workers that should not given as a free source to Amazon, Walmart or any other multinational corporation. The power of cooperation. Capital takes advantage of the culture of cooperation workers develop and they use it to the extent that they can buy it. This power remains as a potential determined by the scale of cooperation a single capitalist can afford to buy. If there are no buyers to hire workers and buy the equipment, technology, raw material, there is no economy. all that productive labor is idle and leaves the collective strength of the nation free to engage in politics, pick up the torch for a siezure of political power, wrestle it away from the GOP and democrats in a conquest of power before starving to death at the hands of Capital.
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  5783. The I.W.W. are still around and they help you build One Big Union to step in and take over the economy from Wall Street Neoliberals.
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  5784. REPUBLICANS VOTE TO EXPEL DEMOCRATS FOR JOINING STUDENT PROTESTS ON GUN VIOLENCE IN TENNESSEE, USA.
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  5785. They are a privileged social class when you add up all the embassy foreign workers and their families stationed in the US. A good way to fix this is through the UN have all nations become a signatory to a treaty that diplomats and their families have immunity in the host nation but when aggravated by a crime the nation from which they come shall prosecute the crime against the diplomat et al, the defense should be from the same country as the victim of the crime. Of course, the US, Israel and the UK will never sign off on this because their embassy workers and their families are involved in high level crimes in the host nation they work and are stationed.
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  5786. What is to stop the employees from taking merchandize? Nothing objective. The only thing stopping employees from lifting the products are the employees.
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  5787. A 17 year old suspect fires a gun shot into the chest of a millennial athlete and another millennial interviewed on the street expresses a law and order failure; he cannot wear his watch walking around in the street. If you are a Cop according to the millennial interviewed on the street, at 13:00, your job in society is to ensure he can walk freely with his Rolex watch. That is one brainwashed millennial, the State’s job is to close the income gap, ensure youths have a future and not have to resort to robbery as a means of accessing the necessities of life.
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  5788. I feel sorry and angry at the youth who underwent a stomach sleeve gastrectomy, literally the outer shell lining of his stomach was extracted. He will be looking at the blandest diet for the rest of his life. No more pasta and sauce, a bread and water diet, and in later years a liquid diet as stomach tissue ages and becomes more frail. What a pathetic country especially when there is a diet pill alternative the government hesitates to approve.
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  5789. Biden can't win and can only lose is the wrong prognosis. Biden can condemn Israel and restore US's declining empire status around the world. He can do this with a reconciliation of past transgressions that stain America's past removing people from lands long their own. Israeli poses the problem of other states assuming the US lost its moral authority. Biden can go in the opposite direction and not be silent but be strongly vocal against it is the part of the prognosis left out. This is a real choice with real benefits he can take.
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  5790.  @catherineroberts4877  Nonsense. Condemning the behavior is not condemning Israel. Anyone can be a bully we don't condemn their race or gender for the bullying we condemn the bullying and we reconcile past behaviors with the present as objectively wrong.
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  5791. “ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT” and the first story is in New Jersey. That’s what I call real journalism.
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  5792. The 99% need to put forward its own economic and political demands.
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  5793. The hatred for Trump on the democratic side has become their liability. The hatred is so great that whatever subject Trump handles they want the opposite no matter if the opposite is more harmful to the working class. If Trump wants peace they want war. Democrats are easily bullied, acquiescent, and lost nerve to stand up to a bully. Trudeau stood up, his approval ratings turned around. Wall Street stood up and Trump took back the tariffs. When are working people going to stand up? Trump can be bullied into universal health care in a week if everyone stood up to him at once.
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  5794. The majority want a national healthcare system, fine, but the question is not only about how to pay for it.  Deep debt is carried by the Public and deep tax cuts to the Rich, limit the income of the government. Socializing health care asks other social classes to cover the cost of another health is not the way to do it.  The military has its own health care system, why not open it up to citizens? Social security card is all you need to get your teeth fixed, or lung patch up! The military health care system is fully nationalized, meaning medical technology is not private property by law. The whole military falls under the Public Domain, all it needs, is to become socialized by allowing citizens access to its services even if they are not veterans. Makes no sense to get health care from employers, let the worker get that money instead, stimulate the economy with it, the military can charge a nominal co-pay per 330 million people for services is already a source of income for improving the system the government is less obligated to cover through revenue. Employers make enough money to pay their own lifetime healthcare costs because the presence of a fully socialized military health care system brings down the cost of health care generally, that employers in private care and services are given to them at home. What billionaire dies in a hospital bed? The objective is to die with dignity if you have to die in a hospital. At home is the ideal but the majority have to make a second home out of the military for a dignified system of service. The various entry points of privatization into a partially socialized health care system is not a permanent condition in my view.  Capitalizing on medical technology leads to privatization, if medical technology is made illegal to buy as a commodity, this would make it a fully nationalized health care system. America already has a nationalized system, its just being used as part a basket of goodies, selfishly for more recruits for private aims, if opened to civil society its control would fall under the Public Domain and not in the hands of the private domain. That leaves Bernie with what to do about the national debt and the tax cuts to the rich, two problems not three.
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  5795.  @ትኒጧትንኝ  I should be the one thanking you for your enlightenment.
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  5796. American Baby boomers are truly a pathetic group, proud of their ignorance...quoting from The Who’s Next Album. Really? I think your generation only opposed the Vietnam War draft because your are spoiled generation, self-absorbed @garylester8621 
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  5797. Lindell's social class are a dangerous social class, violent and crazy.
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  5798. The big national vulnerabilities of US infrastructure has nothing to do with improvement. Its to double up on defense and deterrence after blowing up critical infrastructure of another country. Other actors have a reason to retaliate.
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  5799.  @jeffjr84  How would CD volunteers have made a difference in the safety of the train regarding its length and in the shortness of crew, working long hours under condition of chemical exposure, are possible, in addition to carrying, de-regulated chemicals?
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  5800.  @jeffjr84  the community can do more. They would do better if the community had full control over what they do during the best part of the natural day. Working in a workplace. Whatever that workplace may be they spend more time in it than out of it. Its what is not happening inside the workplace that counts more than what is not happening outside of the workplace is what I am saying. 90% of the hazards suffered by society can be remediated forever by removing the private interest that controls the workplace. That’s the point!
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  5801. The thing about the Trump supporter that bothers me is the phony threat of migrants, safety for the Trump supporter will not come from closing the border. If they want to feel safe they need to look at incidents at Uvalde and robberies, kidnappings, serial killers from Long Island, train derailments, fires and house explosions, stranded in floods, every perpetrator of a violent and non-violent crime in America is committed by an American and every reason to feel unsafe comes from an American corporation producing unsafe products.
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  5802. In a socialist society a car’s automatic breaking system would be a no brainer, installed without question or contention but in a capitalist society, such progress comes as a result of a class struggle and never before an untold number of deaths happens. Progress never happens willingly, freely, with prevention in mind. Progress comes only through a struggle with the owners of car making capabilities.
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  5803. No pictures?😂
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  5804. This war needs to end. American government props up a zombie government in Ukraine with a demoralized army. Zalensky should surrender if he has any concern for his people. So committed he will fight with shovels against the Russians he should stop asking for weapons for that matter. Russia is not going to stop bombings and when it stops the oil I cannot wait what BS Blinken tells the American people. There is no other place to get oil. Where are the Americans going to get the oil for the American people? From Iran, Venezuela, OPEC, all three turned Biden down. Can’t drill anywhere but in America’s own back yard. American oil companies do such a fine job spilling and blowing up refineries. Will Russia accept an offer of lifting sanctions for its oil? Huh. All the leaders know Ukraine is losing on the ground and worse more Ukrainian troops surrendering. The morale is decimated in the Ukrainian military. As you can see people are pulling themselves out of the rubble. Not a rich country with the hardware it needs to rebuild. They (democrats and republicans) put so much political capital into this war they can’t end it because if they do that statement given at the G7 willing to go as far as necessary...no matter what it take is a statement specifically crafted because it is not true. This war must end now.
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  5805. @Asherah 1147 Works on you...government doesn't allow you to make your own decisions on anything is a psychology of government that treats you like a child...and you live up to the stereotype, fool..
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  5806. Everyone lay on the floor in passive disobedience to the cop. The situation calls for a non-violent mass action.
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  5807. You started the conflict with your tax dollars from the date you started your working age, Israel is your dependent child. @MelodyMeanFace 
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  5808. Your legislature is your problem Wyoming. Republicans and democrats who think like republicans don’t spend your money where you need it but do spend it where business needs it.
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  5809. If the government gets it way and bans Tik Toc this story will be the last of its kind. Think about that.
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  5810. These companies are what I would consider not as big as the corporations not mentioned in this video that really have the American people hostage to a profit based system. These are: Evergreen, Cargill, Maersk, and other shipping corporations make more profits than Exxon, waaaaaaaaayyyyy bigger than Amazon and Walmart....so big we do not even see them, infinitely higher amounts of profit. This is capitalism but since capitalism is not a subject taught to American people except superficially as a patriotic system to be emulated and admired are duped into believing Capitalism is a thing....boy are they wrong...capitalism is specific social relationship of work and production, and the preconditions for its survival is a middle class worker. Capitalism is made to look like it is a relation between things to people and propagandized to appear as this relation of things to people is a natural property of things in society, but, in reality the middle class worker has been made a dependent on wages. The solution, a total revolution, is not what this working class wants to hear. The remaining choice for those in denial about capitalism is barbarism.
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  5811. People should take a more critical attitude toward the rich, more critical than what is written here.
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  5812.  @ecuasteelo  Before all this debt madness...its not as if this madness happened overnight...this is a result of Neoliberal reforms of the last 30 years since 1990, reforms passed under Clinton, extended by Obama. Glass Siegal Act was repealed giving the banks free sway to do as they please and eight years later the banks caused the world economy to collapse, people lost jobs and homes, the most vulnerable societies experienced stagnant wages in perpetuity on top of social and political abuses. They deserve more than the Neoliberal policies Moreno is putting forward.
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  5813. America’s right wing are the far right of Republican and Democratic parties who support the right wing of Zalensky’s army who are “Nazis” in Ukraine.
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  5814. I truly respect discussing these domestic issues, I really do, and they are valid but without connecting the domestic exploitation of Americans, black or white, to the international exploitation of less powerful nations called a threat to the more powerful nation that is the US, will bring on a major defeat to the Left. Russia’s recent warning to the US is a nuclear warning about sending Tanks and Jets to Ukraine. When you compare the GDP of Russia the the US, Italy is more of a threat to the US than Russia. China is more of a threat to the US than Russia. Russia’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is nearly 9 times less than US GDP that Russia felt pushed against the wall by the US pushing allies in the West will use nuclear weapons, is identical to the State’s brutality of black or brown individuals pushed to the wall, at some point will fight back in retaliation.
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  5815. Funny how the option of getting rid of the filibuster and McConnell never enters people's minds in these comments?
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  5816. Looks like they bought the cheapest freezer with no inside door handle. Congress should go after the maker of the freezer for producing a machine that kills human beings.
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  5817. The super rich get richer wth every social crisis.  The social crisis is extended beyond town limits and naional borders and magnified because social crisis is how the rich get richer and richer.  They made a commodity out of health so the rich can live and the poor DIE! When things become commodities is how human wants and needs are deprived. This is the only conspiracy that is not fake.
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  5818. The National Security State is a citadel of power undermining the sovereignty of the American people. The institutional anatomy of that State includes departments of Treasury and the State, CIA, FBI, NSA, Joint Chiefs of Staff...six institutions that control and own the means and with those means are the coup makers in the world and determine the lives of all people and the life-process of societies. This is why any discussion of democracy in America is pure fantasy. The discussion ought to be what can be done about this citadel of political power that holds humanity hostage to perpetuate its own power.
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  5819. Pity all of America did not grow up below 14th Manhattan or they would have learned how to kick some ass instead of taking it in the ass!
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  5820. No,---Jimmy, and Co., wages go up and profits go down is the movement of the two economic categories. Higher wages creates a middle class which is not what the class of larger employers want to see happen in society and it creates competition which is another thing monopolies do not want to see happen in society. Monopolies were created as facilitated through bankruptcy and acquisitions throughout the last 45 years is a result of wages held constant from not rising.
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  5821. Good interview. Informative. Gave me a new found respect for Mr. Zalaya.
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  5822. Should not be a problem for the greatest power on earth to evacuate all friends, allies and Americans from Afghanistan in eight days. Assuming the evacuation of Americans and Afghan employees is the real aim and objective of the the parties involved?
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  5823. Seniors and future seniors beware, if the SS trust fund did not lose a dime they will break up the trustees, by hook or crook, to pay themselves from the trust fund the money they lost in Bitcoin.
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  5824. The 20 something year old, I admire his anti-Deep State spirit. Things have to be really bad in America for somebody to support a lowlife like Trump which says more about the Washington political establishment and the Deep State that nobody higher than the bottom of the moral and ethical pecking order can emerge to become president. It does prove that the republicans have not rigged the election system and will be working on the problem of a one person one vote system in the next four year cycle; because they are so bad,---- they cannot get elected on their own merits. But on the war, the 20 something year old (time stamp: 2.50), “...In our history...it has proven...that we (USA) have been the winners of those wars...” Indeed, the US retains control over the natural resources of Iraq and other nations in the world today. US imperialism is the winner. All of the US wars whether low or high intensity are for natural resources is a direct legacy of the Cold War. Who wins are the imperialists and the American people get a piece of that success in the form of a lifestyle that corrupts them into accepting the terms and conditions of life under an empire. The losers are not formidable enemies of a super power. Iraq is not China or Russia. Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan are nations of tribes with a low level industrial capacity operating at an early 20th century level when nuclear weapons were in their conceptional stage still in the mind of Albert Einstein. When natural resources are no longer under the control of US the US would no longer be an empire. But from the point of view of just and unjust wars, very few wars involving the US ended with a victory and only one war among them all was a just war. This 20 something year does not know the real movement of historical events and has a false concept about how his share of social labor has become low enough for him to feel his fall into the world average of poverty. This is when a real grip on historical facts are needed the most that he does not have, is a historical paradox in itself. Because if anyone can change the world and level the playing field between rich and poor, it would be his social class in conjunction with the poor of the world not Donald Trump!
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  5825.  @bingo7799  That's 22 hours of wrongs every day!
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  5826. Boards are not the only way to organize an educational system. Its a bureaucratic way, if I am not wrong, originating in the Byzantine Empire. We borrowed this format from the Europeans. Councils of parents and teachers are a way of organizing education. National entrance exams for very specific subject areas is a really good way to excel education. I always thought the college format should be the high school format and the high school format the elementary school format from 5 to 8th grade and from K to 5th nothing but the three r's and a language of international significance and world history. Graduate in a category all on its own. Apprenticing is another way, where students teach and are mentored into education. Symposiums are good, the way doctors learn medicine we've seen it enacted in movies. Boards are only one way of several ways named. US ranks 17th for education compared to other nations. Abysmal for a rich nation. When it comes to mass education the Chinese are excellent, they are at full literacy excluding none. Scandinavians have a good method. Bureaucracies are slow and do not change and work more as an enforcer rather than an innovator of education. Reorganize the system of education so that it does work.
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  5827. Criminologist believe in deterrence first as a warning to individuals not to commit new crimes or punishments will be harsher and they believe in a general deterrence to send a message to others not to think twice about committing a crime. Deterrence is a practice as old as prostitution. Any infraction and violation of laws on the books this method of deterrence and punishment is applied practice in Law Enforcement generally. But notice the theory of deterrence and where it begins. Its premise and starting point is the internal organization of the State, set up to be punitive, with hierarchies established and a rank system of command, the social structure starts with a social arrangement of subordination of the individual(s) crushing free and independent will. The only way free and independent will can be expressed in society is though a new social arrangement that promotes unanimous consent. The criminal justice system does not function without deterrence...the opposite of deterrence is to help. Criminologists and justices, public defenders and prosecutors, sheriffs, rank and file cops, do not help nor solve the problem of corruption but are the corruption in many rank and form. Houses are units of commodities and engender money and profits. If they were homes, built to eradicate homeless, the real estate market and banking would collapse. This would signal a state intervention to rescue banking and the housing market as a national security matter. Every rescue package of American business that buys from China pays its bills to China for the construction materials to resume the industry and for the sale of properties to foreign investors.
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  5828. If 123 million American are not given more than one day of the year to visit with the families than you can expect more of this type of transportation fiasco to happen. There will be dire consequences in recurring storms. The real solution is not to stay home. The real solution is paid leave from work. If its impossible to travel for Christmas they can apply their time to Easter. Paid leave from work is the answer. Not flex time. Paid family leave codified into law.
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  5829. This is a remarkable development exactly what needs to be done in the west, dissolve all the institution of western American and European republics, and start from scratch. Gabon’s revolution is not a coup. A coup is when the institutions of the old society are left intact and taken over by a new elite. This is a revolution and a revolution is a change in a way of life, the way people work and why is a change in the mode of production, throughout the whole society. Historical development traces how changes emerges from its simplest form of a political opposition to coups to revolutions is a progression that develops over time and how revolutions are being made in our century.
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  5830. the bigger problem seems to be; science and technology in general are independent processes outside of the labor-process in our society...the efforts of workers are excluded from technological progress and why...because technology is the property of investors; so many investors constitutes a social class...until science are technology are no longer in the relation with capital as commodities is changed other forms of ownership are possible but not without defects.
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  5831. Why do even need a CEO? Seriously. Workers would never make planes that fail or cars that have to be recalled. They would never let products leave their plants and factories if they are hazardous for human consumption. Their own grandchildren can die from the baby formula workers manufacture. It just would never happen that if workers had full control over all production would there be the sort of crisis and disasters the capitalist class create s repeatedly because given the aims that social class has. A workforce of 132 million do not exploit for themselves what the CEOs buy from them that is the productive individual power workers own. Individualism is America’s Dilemma. When people worked in isolation of each other, individualism, was appropriate but not today when the work societies need done is work spread over the whole world! This economic power is exploited for the development of a Self, an individual capitalist. This is a contradiction when not an atom of surplus-value is produced by a CEO. The job of a CEO is to expand corporate market share,---but making sales is not where surplus-value is made. Surplus-value is realized in the Sale, the sale is not the origin of surplus-value. Workers make the surplus-value through the sale of their labor-power. They agree to hand over to the buyer their cooperation with the buyer’s production process, indeed, a deadly process for workers. It floored me when I learned that in the Concentration Camps of Germany in WWII people voluntarily submitted to their deaths with little resistance was accomplished by isolation, separation, solitary confinement, were weapons carried over into Civil Society to condition a working class.
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  5832.  @bluewater454  Well that tells me the workers in America are not ready, able, fit, or mature enough to run an empire. They lack the confidence, self-determination and organization, and the economic intelligence, to run the factories and produce without a CEO. China has worker teams to which management uses to improve the factory work and the quality of the work. They also sell direct from factory to consumer thus lowering the cost of the product. America has middle men, retailers, they add to the cost of the product. The CEO method of work is the opposite and the workplace is a killer and the products are constantly recalled. No wonder the Republicans and Democrats have no respect for workers. The CEOs are greedy asholes and the workers the politicians fear the most let them pass laws that work against workers. Workers take it and do not even say No to them. P.S. FYI, Your answer is not the reason you have CEOs.
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  5833. Excellent video and interview...eye-opening analysis.
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  5834. The supply chain is built for 'efficiency' not 'resiliency'? The solution he proposes is not practical. When the problem is framed inaccurately the answer can be no more accurate. The car we drive is put together from factories all over the world tells us a world wide division of labor was created for the finished product and that individual finished products Americans consume are not without a connection to labor that our friend interviewed in the video excludes in his paradigm. But there are many industries that produce a finished product right on the spot like nails, shingles, staples, needles, pins, gears, shafts, bolts, etc., that depends on the industries who produce partial products to finish them. These industries collapse waiting and this crisis has ripples with soaring prices and mass unemployment. Under the present economic system there will be no end to the rise of prices for the simple reason that the capital investments made in those finished products stuck on Cargo Ships are still active and remains intact as last year's capital is still unconsumed, this year's capital invested on top of that, compounding the rate of profit, a side effect being a suppression of wages, that if you subtract cost from prices, real values become pure fiction, which the law sees as the legal right of ownership of the profit.
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  5835. The California government follows the lead of the Federal government in refusing to enforce worker safety and remedy workplace violence and workplace hazards. America would rather prosecute violence out of the workplace than enforce employers to make the workplace safe from violence. Its a stupid approach that accomplishes nothing.
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  5836.  @fuvjvjchxhc7063  its not might be a plan but it is a plan and its time people challenge that plan. What I do not like about Americans is what I do like about Germans. Americans are never decisive. Besides the numbers speak for themselves there is ample police to cover all stations with back up as needed. Its purely political and its time to act politically to get rid of them for they are parasites and functionaries.
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  5837.  @T.S.000  There are enough police.
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  5838.  @Allaiya.  Keep those numbers I crunched in mind. The ratio between the number of stations and the number of cops and listen to how the “officials” obscure those numbers and resources with their theatrics and deceptions. As far as people doing better and becoming better people that begins in the early stages of childhood development. Its too late for the people not doing better and not better people. Their capacity to love life, humanity, and their powers of cooperation are crushed. They do not know how.
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  5839.  @namaste5523  Who is he to which you refer?
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  5840. The entire premise of this is a fallacy and a ruse. Since there are no markings recovered from the craft it cannot be traced to its creator. Likely nobody in their right mind will come forward to claim the object.
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  5841. No Option For Recall in NY. Unlike CA where there are recalls. NY is a backward state in many ways. Politically it is a state of right wing democrats. Its also socially backward and its political organization in rural NY is almost Byzantine bureaucratic. Recall Elections should become an Initiative Ballot and NY-ers can catch up to speed with Californians. Vote another Santos in,---a recall election gives you the chance to vote him right back out!
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  5842. Why would grave robbers select her grave to rob? Any clues?
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  5843. Because of the world market we are living in a world of dependent nations. Contrary to popular opinion, the world is not a collection of independent nations as the world was before 1980. The sale of the products of one nation decides the fate of all nations is how nations operate in the post -1980s world. There are 700 US military bases around the world because American business owns property in 700 nations. The kind of property American business owns in 700 nations is the kind of property that can control people’s lives or people cannot live without.
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  5844. It just means your mother and father won't get their social security checks but you are okay with that aren't you?
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  5845. Co-Workers, Matthew Branning and Michael Stark, and Branning’s corpse is missing. I’ll get to that. But, first. That’s what I got. No explanation if the two men were partners. Was Stark related to Branning as a hired worker or half owner? Its important to rule out an economic motive when you do not have a corpse. In this case you are ruling out what it could be not what it is not for that shadow of doubt when a weapon and a body are not found in a case. Compare Stark’s murder to Alex Murdaugh’s murder. A corpse not found in Starks’ and no murder weapon in Murdaugh’s case. Science will always get you in the end is the word of warning to would-be murderers. This case is important. Sociologically it speaks to the condition of America’s working class as horrendous. The history of exploitation of man by man comes out in this one social relationship that went wrong, real wrong. Branning was an owner of a small manufacture shop, he made his living by his own means. Stark was a man without means and depended on the sale of his labor-power for a living. Did they exist for one another only as buyer or seller or was they band mates gigging nights and worked together. No doubt they partied. Branning would be less representative of the whole working class because the division of labor in the US is tiered with fewer Brannings and more Starks who depend on sale for their livelihood. Fewer owner-operators and more operators, likely, we’ll find that a third tier of labor exists. There is a whole retail industry consisting of the most shameless exploitation of young and cheap labor power, you find child labor in manufacturing too, and working conditions that are slave -like. So it is a three tiered workforce. Can add a 4th tier at the top consisting of skilled workers and there are not many owner-operators in this division unless they go into their own consulting firms. The condition of America’s working class and the condition of America’s ruling class hangs on a preponderance of the evidence...as both social groups are trapped in a false idea that in this world there are people meant to be exploited by other people; a lot of clues that these two guys did it and a jury of their peers are biased against workplace violence and have no tolerance for the excesses of the rich that lead to murder. Branning is without a family of his own. We have no idea if Stark has a family or owes a family. Family is pressure, they have to live and a living is what Stark needs. They have an implicit handicap. A learning deficit born from adherence to the market as guiding principals of life and living. Workers are myopic. Elites are arrogant. Use each other and use another to kill a third. Stupidity never ends. Myopia in workers and worker-owners and hubris in the rich. Blinded and unable to function as ruler and as a working class is not what society needs to operate. Society must depend on a new arrangement for procuring its necessities.
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  5846.  @joebaumgart1146  In that comment I forgot a lot of things. It is a comment space. I do appreciate you pointing that out and respect your opinion. But I would disagree with you about pride and satisfaction is found in a job. Retirement in America is down right awful for an elder. Unless you are rich you have more access to choices. If not rich then its pure isolation. You re better off retiring outside of the US where people know how to live. They are poor but they live and create things, do things, make life worth while, they fall in love, they fight, they laugh they cry. You get none of that in retirement. Retirement is like Tinnitus a continuous droning sound that comes and goes only when you are distracted but it is always present. There is no space to walk in America. In fact, people think you are destitute if seen walking because everything is designed around a car. There are no outdoor cafés if you live outside of a city. Living in a city is better for an elder but cities have been gentrified by the rich and drive up the cost of living in a city that a fixed income cannot afford it. There are more baseball diamonds and dog parks in small towns and rural communities than there are walking parks for people and politically small towns and communities are dominated by a small clique in the community isolate retirees by offering nothing or taking it away once they give it. America is not a good place to get old in and it is not a good place to be young. Its only good for middle aged people the prime years of work is all they do. Work, work, work, work and more work, work here, work there, work at home, work at the job, work to get there, work to get back, work to eat, work to sleep. Rest comes when you are dead. Headstones read RIP, because to live is to be at war in America.
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  5847. Second understand this, the FED is not going to change the rate because Kamala did not get elected and Trump did elected. Trump makes reforms it will have to happen inside the context of the FED made economy. The US economy is not controlled by the White House. The White House only controls the State and that has slipped away from the White House with more idiots occupying it every 8 years. The State has elements in it more powerful than the White House. Homeland Security, the Pentagon, the State Department, Department of Justice are the institutions of power that are controlled by a cartel of two political parties. The parties are a cartel because controlling the political parties are the 1%, a social class of private entities.
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  5848. Items they steal would be worthless if it was not for the envy of the consumers who desire high end fashion as a mark of social status if they use the items. If they use the stolen items for their sale potential, how and where the luxury items are made is overshadowed by how much the original luxury items can bring in a secondary market off in some flea market. When there is no cash there are commodities exchangeable for cash and the police are guarding the commodities of the rich is a misuse of the police. Last I looked commodities have no feelings and do not bleed blood, they are dead objects that stand still unless money shows up. The rich are not paying taxes to be using a tax supported system so it was good to see their private mercenary cops hired for the task, I give them credit for creating employment. But from a political standpoint the protection given to the rich by the city’s police force is a gift of a public resource. Who allocates these resources are public officials, who are politicians, and the politicians in this State do not act as public officials, but identify themselves as an extension of a private social class?🧐
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  5849. The GOP social doctrine is genocide. The laws force women into full term pregnancy. For women at an early age mortality rates from pregnancies are high. Highest mortality rate for women is Texas the most dangerous place to be pregnant. The annihilation of black women is the social effect as more die from pregnancy at an early age. This leads to a shrinking of the male black population to whatever the GOP determines is tolerable. Policies of this doctrine do not exempt white women from early death. The effect is a reduction of a population on purpose, i.e., genocidal laws.
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  5850. Looks like a big social experiment to me that a State’s responses to stress and frustration in young middle grade student(s) is met with the presence of force. Lawmakers have the power and what is impressive about their power they relish and enjoy with arrogance is the level of organization they have the people in America do not have. Its never been the case that a fractured, isolated, scared, public was able to win social security when I was young. I think the Americans will prevail against a highly sensitive and insecure State machine. What is hopeful is that the people are not paid to be loyal but are loyal because of family bonds and relations spread all over the world the means of communication at their disposal to confront this monster can come from all side at the same time.
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  5851. Michelle needs to live in a home for adult supervision and the young couple need to stay where they are and continue with their lives. But Michele has nowhere to go but to get hospitalized and then released. Everyone talks about the recidivism rate for criminals in the Justice System but NOBODY TALKS ABOUT the recidivism rate for mental health or addicted populations from hospitals that abstain treating these populations, denied by insurance companies, that they have to be let out into civil society where this young couple are trying to make ends meet on their own. I empathize with the young couple and denounce the US citizenry for their ignorance and apathy not making it right for young couples like this one in America.
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  5852. You do realize that by the title: ”Leader”, the party he heads is a hierarchy that has trouble dealing with the weaponization of the deplorable social conditions of ‘everyday Americans’, by an opposition minority from the other side, both have the American people in hostage, i.e., lack of health care, homelessness, food insecurity, flow of migrant labor, climate disasters, pandemics, lock downs, inflation, unemployment and layoffs. The politics of both sides is about full possession of the State while social conditions deteriorate for ’everyday Americans’.
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  5853. The extra income won’t discouraged working, to the contrary, save what they earn and use the extra income for the necessities improves their lives.
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  5854. The US government can pass all the laws it wants but it won’t mean anything because the individuals in the US government are the owned by Employers and employers are not going to enforce laws against themselves. America’s Employees need to take their government back and wrestle with Employers to get it back.
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  5855.  @TheDeeeeench  It is about class and because it is about class, class conflict, workers need an International Workers Council, to protect themselves from the international predatory nature of capitalism.
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  5856. Granted what they say can set off a panic so they are careful in what they say. All I can say is that Money Talks and Bullshit Walks! Its really a strange thing when the only way people can be equal is through exchange. Buying and selling, is in reality, people relating to the subject of survival on their own terms. A hustle.
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  5857. Probably for its UPC Code that somehow they can reuse for other products already stolen for sale on the web. The brand is most familiar as a foreign import making it fall under the radar of authorities scrutinizing American products and theft.
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  5858. Plato disagrees with Hernando. Plato sees the division of labor in his day as oppressive. Though Plato’s day saw a local division of labor of city-states. World trade had not encompass the globe. Instead of individuals subjugated to a division of labor we live in a world of individual nations subjugated to a division of labor. A division that divides consumption and production unevenly in the modern world. Socialists did not have a theory of capitalism they can use as a guide post for their political thinking. They still rely on legislation to cover over a given inequality in society. They help legally and politically the winner stay winners and help the losers stay losers. Year after year a winner wins more because more people are involved in world production. The working classes and unemployed at the start of the decades of Capital Flight were led down a road of desperation and mass material deprivation. A real nose dive for the American working class considering that in one lifetime they were a huge middle class to becoming debt ridden working three jobs to survive. Socialists were forever trying to reform what cannot be reformed and use the State to level out the inequities that cannot be levelled out. They think they can be good surgeons without a deep understanding of the body’s anatomy was the socialists way of doctoring capitalism. Globalization of capital led us to a concentration of profits. Profits does not reach more than 30% of world population however, production exceeds 30% of world population and through production fall into the abyss of poverty. The potential for a real conscientious political program is so ripe the working class in these late stages of capitalism have nothing to lose promoting a plan for even production and distribution. Corporations packed up their factories and moved every nail to property, formerly, peasant owned, in lands outside of the country the corporations resides. This poses a unique question of allegiance a corporation would have if their investments and where they reside are not the same country. Driving down the cost of labor-power in rich nations is their solution to that dichotomy. The special commodity cost less than it does in rich nations. It seems Italy was left behind with respect to globalization which explains why politically the fascists are popular in Europe. Income inequality, aging population, brain drain, the growth of black markets, are all features common in societies resulting from “Capital Flight”. Capital flight is when western corporations move one sector of the economy out of the country that the other sector is left to absorb the mass of unemployed. The service sector are lower paying jobs than the industrial jobs no longer in the home economy. Production is sent outbound to the periphery as a way to further expand globally and profits are inbound toward the center. Societies emerging from older forms of production converting into market economies offer a vast quantity of desperately cheap labor. A man or woman formerly a peasant tied to the land and producing for themselves are now participating as sellers of their labor-power in a labor market. This transition is not pretty. Wherever the match can be found is where they will go no matter the life consequences. They find employment working in factories and industries equipped to make a product to be sold in the US market for a higher price are contracted by leading American corporations. Western capitalism is constantly in demand for labor-power. China and Russia resist this western expansion and those nations that had been expropriated by rich nations are moving in their own direction. Once the US Congress repealed the Wars Declaration Act, the final authority to spend the nation’s wealth on wars or on anything else transferred authorization from Congress to the Executive. American people wanted the defunding of the police but what they got is a defunding of government through subsidies.
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  5859. I can see why economic needs a method to its investigation and, even more so, it needs a theory of presentation of what it investigated. There are so many economic categories that without some kind of method all kinds of theories emerge. Where do you begin to investigate a system of economics so that the interaction between human beings and things in the world of nature make sense flowing from their simpler forms? Do all the varieties of economic categories have a common ancestor in some earlier social formation, for example, where does money in its simplest form come from and what activity serves as the origins and the start of a complex international banking system?
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  5860.  @loganlowe3731  There are several publication editions of that book. The original Meisner publication (worth a lot of money), Kerr Edition, International Publishers, Moscow, Penguin,---making it impossible to direct readers to the subject matter without a specific reference to the publication, page and volume.
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  5861. Idiot, slavery does not exist in China. Studying slavery for the last 45 years most of it is in the west, to be exact and to date 40.3 million westerners, work as slaves. They tell you what to say and you say it.
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  5862. If a society cannot work it dies.
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  5863. What a Deja Vu for me. The Iraq invasion all over again. Last week Austin warned everyone not to widen this war. This week Austin widened the war in Gaza into a war with Iran. He was asked by a reporter if Lebanon was attacked will he use force ad muttered some odd nonsense in response. None of the coalition forces are willing to strike at the Houthis or the rebels hitting US bases in Iraq and Syria which leaves us with Austin.
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  5864. That reporter could carve out for himself a real career keeping other missing people's crimes in the public's eye. Gabby is just one of thousands.
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  5865.  @Castro727  too vague an answer.
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  5866. The one good thing about Trump gone is the fall of ratings for the media corporations. Viewers get sucked into the character and the content of his character is accepted even if it is putrid in essence Trump gave media corporations a golden free ride, never had to work for their money. When he said he made a lot of people rich, he did they were just limited to about 500 of them who got rich out of 332 million who got poorer. Big media corporations do not have Trump to sell airtime at a premium any longer. And as they struggle for ratings we get news barely ever broadcasted nationally. The American people are under a news blackout by the big media corporations tells you in a serious situation they are last to inform the public. Neglect and reckless irresponsibility are reasons control and and private ownership of the means of communication should be outlawed.  Searching for stories the Public will tune into journalism is synonymous with brainwashing hapless Americans. This is such a problem that we get popup commentaries like this one to get our news. We are getting better news from comedians is how rotten to the core mass commercial media has become in America. Slime oozing out from the mouths of talking heads. With Trump gone from media we get to see media as a tool of the government and government as a tool for Big Industry. We get to see how alone the American people have become, distant and estranged from each other and their own labor by commercial media and industry wedge driven between them and the necessaries of life.
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  5867. You must apply maximum pressure on politicians who fear acting in your best interest.
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  5868.  @Diana1000Smiles  Your vote put them in power. The CEOs give them money and riches to vote their way while in power when you have no voice and where money talks and bullshit walks. Election time is the only time to express your discontent with them be electing another: throw them out, if they want your vote they must bend government in your direction.
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  5869. Wait a minute! There is a hidden value-relation in commodities. We don ’t see the relation because money is in the way expressing the particular value of a commodity. If commodity and commodity were being exchanged the value-relation would be present and used as a general rule for trade. Money violates that rule of equivalents and money is supposed to be an abstract representation of the general time it takes to make an article. Instead, money invented a sale or a purchase and price. Price fluctuating up or down are violations of the rule that things of equal value are exchangeable. When commodities have checked out the value-relation is gone. That is how fast and enigmatic money obliterates value, destroys it to pieces. One minute it is actively showing you this board game is equal to those scarves because they both took the same amount of time to make but when money enters into the relation the time factor is obliterated, we have no clue where that article came form, how it was made, how long, who made it. Production in general becomes a total mystery. You cannot put your finger on it you have to freeze the transaction to explain the value-relation of commodities. But it affects us in a real big way because when the commodity in the transaction is labor-power the money paid to that worker contains less and less value. And when that money is backed by cheap products that worker is giving an employer very real hard work, effort, putting their minds and bodies into the work. In return the employer are paying workers currency for that work that is not worth much, and this is not even inflation we are talking about here.
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  5870. Once again it’s the “Data Brokers” who sell to the highest bidder. It seems in capitalism everything that is produced has a pimp it makes money for.
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  5871. He truly did use his supporters who were not part of the OathKeepers and Proud Boys, I wonder if they feel any remorse or shame, being used for personal power in attempted coup d état. They were used as we are used by the democrats who want their way and manipulate public opinion to swing the pendulum in the opposite direction to their favor,--- so is there really a difference when both sides refuse to admit their policies do not work and frankly are anti-social.
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  5872. The American people were set up as terrorists on that day.
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  5873. Biden’s economy is fantastic. So good that capitalism cannot function without a crisis.
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  5874. Real nasty old fart at the fast food joint.
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  5875. Climate change caused by human consumption, how much more evidence do you need to change your pattern of consumption? It is not the oil that is doing the damage, we can control oil consumption if it were not a commodity, but as a commodity oil controls us.
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  5876. All of this footage has o be verified, they can be of anything unrelated to the attack itself. The damage they are showing could be the work of others though the report is about Russia. Doubt everything is my message to you!
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  5877. Depp is the personification of patriarchy’s gasp for its last dying breath.
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  5878. Its modeled after the British Constitutional Monarchy and King having ultimate powers of pardon came to real use in their war against the Scottish rebellions who wanted a Catholic king on the throne as opposed to the British who wanted a Protestant king on the throne. A war that ended the Scottish nobiltity and the highlander way of life of clan lords and serfs during the mid 1700s. The series Outlander portrays this history is worth watching the educate yourself,. This guest delivers a thin answer to the question of why have it? If an academic does not have it I am imagining the ordinary citizen does not get it either. But it should, as thin as his answer was, give you an idea that a constitutional convention to modify the constitution of its criminal code should have happened sometime after the Civil War so we would not be living under an antiquated system that easily re-instates absolutism of a by-gone era. His main answer is correct, it was a tool to release friends and allies loyal to the cause, from prison.  Clemency powers also works in the reverse, should a revolution against the Trump happen those leading the fight if captured could have their commuted sentences or parole rescinded protects the status quo. This is why a political revolution cannot be half-assed in the US, the population has to be in the majority, to amend the criminal code, just like the tax code, and any other code written up such as the Sedition Act, can be repealed when the population has complete control of both houses and congress overriding the president and when 24 states are dominated by the people can the constitution be amended. Its not that it cannot happen it means the people have to be united, of one mind, no splits, divisions, and competing rivalries, to the contrary, have to be a movement. A far cry from where the American people sit now, are the least revolutionary people on the planet, until that movement pinches their arses, and inflames the feel and desire for real change into a full blown revolutionary movement, and so voted for Obama and the Trump, but got two people who delivered little to no change, are now seeking for that change in Bernie.
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  5879. With that many people in support of a revolution in the mode of production you would think it would be a cinch to form a separate political party as a challenger to one or both of the political parties holding power.
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  5880. Problem here is that the G7 countries have a lower GDP than Africa or China. Africa, Brazil, Russia, India, China have reshaped the world economy while the US shapes to its own needs as it was before the collapse of the USSR. The former republics of the USSR are better off restoring relations with Russia and seceding from the EU and the West. Capitalism in the west is on a decline and the governments in the west are on their own. They have become more myopic and cannot agree what the problem is within their economies for the simple reason that all of them are run like small Mafias, cliques of oligarchs, with competing interests drowns out the interest of the Public in these small republics. People on the right and people on the left really have one common enemy in capitalism. They just haven’t figured that out yet. But they will and down will come the whole capitalist edifice. All of the relations of exploitation that were hidden before are out in the open as real class conflicts that can find a resolution in the formation of entirely new organization of their societies.
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  5881. Interesting perspective...machinery and technology are the bearers of value in the workplace, these tools make money out of time. The machines have a social arrangement with live workers but the workers have no value arrangements with the owners of the machines.
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  5882. american news is psychotic. there can be a segment alerting a catastrophe and the anchor will completely change the subject with another segment... no pause or acknowledgment of the catastrophe...they are just paid to read sound bites.
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  5883. Bernie Sanders running for president is the only candidate with a program of accountability and consequences for police violence. Unless Americans want to live under a fascist police state with indiscriminate violations of civil liberties they better cut off the head of the snake and vote Trump out of office.
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  5884. The reckless and criminal negligence of government on powerful market forces act on private companies to do real bad things.
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  5885. Restaurant jobs are blue collar jobs. Blue collar does not refer to industrial jobs only. It include wage earning jobs. The iron worker and the protesters are both blue collar people. The difference is one is on the job and the others are not for whatever reason. People who make their money from the services they perform are not blue collar workers but are still workers because they work for a living. People who do not make their living from work at all are not even in the same category or league as blue collar workers. Trump has a white collar job as a boss but he does not work to earn income. His income increases his income as a proprietor. The buffet workers and restaurant cooks, chefs, cleaners, servers, managers and supervisors in Trump Casino are blue collar workers but get no share of the income the casino generates in profits that go to Trump because he is owner. The wages they earn as income are self-reproducing because the payment for their work is a value equal to what it takes to live as a cook, chef, etc., a blue collar worker.
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  5886. If people had the power...if power went to the people....coup dé état would be a thing of the past. I agree with the gentlemen that the promises to restore democratic civil society following all coups were lies for a power grab. Militaries want possession of the power the state represents not the state itself. The State itself and why it embodies power is the real question? This power that the State holds has implications... For one thing its power comes off as permanent. There will always be a state, therefore, always a matter of what kind of state? Second thing, the State is powerless in changing or elevating society from its corruptions due to its own corrupt influences. If in society there is slavery the State leaves slavery intact because slavery is not a political interest of the State. The political interest of the State is the political individual not the real people in society who the political individual represents in writing. The State only comes out taking an interest in society only during times when society is interrupted by major disasters of some kind. This is the only time a president visits a state unless they have to campaign for a re-election in a state.
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  5887. The country is plagued by social problems and economic shortcomings, the working class is stressed to the max, and scumbags are running the country. Wake up people! In Washington running the country are people no even worthy of your respect. You have rocks in your head if you think these people care about you.
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  5888. The far right will be the GOP. What is really an internal struggle for dominance of the party by a given far right faction unfolds to get placed into key positions of government.
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  5889. Canada’s Trudeau and his policies are no friend to the American worker when the many who get through take jobs for survival and shack up in large numbers in houses rented out by greedy landlords. Greed of landlords is boundless that a Bronx NY furniture store doubled as a migrant shelter before it got discovered in a fire. A source of cheap labor from 66 countries who make it through the Border can appeal only to one social group in society as an official social policy. They form a cheap labor pool for employers. Organized labor has to be concerned about this...truckers too...all duly natural working class people in the area of transportation need to wake up to this assault...as employers find ways to scale down the hired help they rehire the help at a cheaper price. Next time they need an American worker the pay is lower. The economics is rigged against the natural working class in society. Employers have the ability to be a buyer more times than an employee has the ability to re-sell their labor-power to another employer is one of the riggings stacked against the working class. The cost of living paid to employees keeps them as employees unable to exercise a level of free will exercised by employers in firing to buy again is a second economic rigging. These are policies aimed at damaging the social condition of American workers.
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  5890. His painting were used to keep illiterate peasants in line. They couldn’t read so the images told the story of consequences for licentious behavior the church could not control in those days.
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  5891. International terror and criminal organizations! The Chinese entering in droves are funded by those who have already arrived and formed churches to help them regroup with family already here. They are not criminal or terrorists but are Christians, even this is not to say bad actors are not among them and it doesn’t mean narcotics gangs operating in the area are not inducting them into the ranks. But this is not a trifecta convergence of all the worst possible institutions the imagination can conjure up! You are just scaring people to vote for you.
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  5892. 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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  5893. Total hypocrisy of legislators is beyond the pale banning diversity programs for using taxpayer funds to advance a political agenda when those who cut the program are paid by taxpayer funds not to mention targeting programs that help advance working people in society is a political agenda. Republicans are the party of rejection and isolation. They will destroy the US.
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  5894. Americans bow down to capitalists. Envy of power and fear of the power of money imbues most Americans
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  5895. The people on this panel must have a vested interest in one or more of the industries in cahoots in keeping health care costs jacked up for profits.
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  5896. Sucker punching a kid at a basketball event and another incident of violence in a professional soccer game, add this to Rittenhouse and all the other Rittenhouses in America and you have a serious youth problem with girls turning violent and aggressive and boys becoming vigilante murderers, bully behavior. Your children are primed for war, raised to be grabbed up by a military, preparing for war with the Chinese, American youth are just privileged cannon fodder.
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  5897. State becomes a secular state when it recognizes no religion and no race and therefore places all religions and all races in the same category as non-political interest. Politics is specifically the business of a secular state. In Greek: Polis for people, politics, the management of people. A secular state is founded on treating particular differences of all members of society as falling into one category; everyone is an owner and the state intervenes on the politics of ownership when the whole social order is endangered by a particular form or type of ownership. All faiths, religions and their churches would fall into the category of a tax payer, contributing to the same economic surplus the military takes from and uses to develop powers that can bomb other countries to the heavens. Religion is taxed but the military is not when there is more private industry in the military than in religions would make a strange case of political inconsistencies to serve as a conscientious program the American people can support. We should be considering where the surplus goes when it is used to stimulate a given number of private industries who are not taxed to be legislated as a permanent feature of the US Tax Code that the private sector on which the military depends are never taxed yet earn their income from the same economic surplus generated by other tax payers!
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  5898. I know there are federal workers watching Jimmy, this comment is for you. Federal workers have a political opportunity in the two judges rulings ordering the Trump Administration to rehire them. Their status is limbo and while in that status federal workers are not prohibited to strike ( Taft-Hartley applies to employed federal workers not terminated federal employees) their strike is a citizens strike and demand full pay during the strike since they were terminated unjustly with a chainsaw for no reason of their own. Federal judges could rightly rule in favor of the federal workers when Trump tries to knock ‘em down in court. Federal workers can file a civil suit against Musk as a private citizen ( I think he’s a citizen not sure, if not he is then on a work visa immigrant and can be sued in International Court as a foreign usurper in a foreign land not his own). Federal workers can use their return to work as leverage against both political parties to scratch the current CR in favor of one in the interest of the federal workers. The two judges gave the federal workers a “Trojan Horse” , containing 4 legal victories, a wonderful opportunity to strike a blow that will change the whole direction of this cockeyed administration maybe even lead to his impeachment in which case pardoned like Nixon by Vance assuming the presidency. Not to worry Trump will get his library. I hope the federal workers, their leadership and lawyers for their union seize this historic chance. Federal workers would get public support if their lives are improved by the CR federal workers propose to replace the horrible republican-democrat CR.
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  5899. In a word, if the majority of American workers want paid sick and family leave they will have to fight for it! Its really about the employers losing profits to paid sick leave. In other words, being sick does not enrich the company. The excess of product workers make after their own take in a working day comes out short of the projections. Machines don’t get sick so they are constantly enriching the company but without a person operating the machine(s) the enriching process does not happen. Slow down the rate of profit causes panic attacks in employers. Workers are paid while not on the job is an attack on the whole class of employers when you look at it from their point of view. Employers, corporations and companies are essentially paying out the same amount of capital in wages and salaries for less of the value producing work they can exploit within a fixed time frame of 8 hours. So they accelerate production to maximize the gains, machinery, equipment, gear, run overtime and never stop etc.. If the working day is 8 hours and 400 workers are employed and 20 of them are sick under pay the capitalist suffers a 20% drop on the company’s profit rate already falling from a shrinking market, owing to more competition, or a crisis of some kind. Dive in deeper and there are nothing but anomalies beneath the surface which is why the best way out of this crisis and the logical solution is a national health care system and a reduction of the working day from 8 to 6, strive for 100% employment of 332 million not just 132 million people doing all the work and the rest producing nothing of value that helps to regenerate the whole society but function to generate an enrichment process for themselves at the expense of the 123 million doing all the work.
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  5900. What a pair of bourgeois American flakes shedding crocodile tears. They can dish it out but they can’t take it. These are the type of people who do worse than Trump and blame Trump for what they do. Their attorney is eating his words with the admission of an anonymous racist twitter account is his client as he smacks his lips spreading water droplets from his mouth; what a dirtbag. Where’s his mask, he needs one more than the little children in schools muzzled by people who do not understand the science and acting as educators in the interest of the children. Twitter is no angel in this; they allow the racism of these people to get posted and censor anti-racism when that gets posted.
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  5901. A never ending "quid -pro-quo", if you want 2K we want employer immunity. Republicans are experts at exchange-politics,--- when people get caught up in exchanging with them, everything concrete, corporeal and material, flies out the window. Republicans in a tough spot is a good sign there is still a larger majority of people who have not in the past but will in the future vote them out. Republicans would have to resort to stealing the election, which they are, because they are a minority, they must steal elections and this always leads to revolutions because coup dé tats are always about stealing elections and remaining in power. Taking power is easy but holding on to it is way harder. Pardon or no pardon prison awaits them.
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  5902. Re: Brennan: Why do they constantly focus on the individual head of state and not the state itself in their prognostications of rival states?
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  5903.  @digitalbookworm5678  I thought I heard the police officer who died was a Trump supporter...did I hear wrong?
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  5904. Everyday is an exciting day as far as living in empires that have lost their power and glory go. Nothing is normal and all government systems are broken. Housing, Employment, Health Care, Immigration, Military, Congress, Senate, Workplace, Highways, Skyways, America is in a state of general chaos with a particular social class siphoning its material and financial wealth through its tortuous slow decline. The humane thing to do is to put it out of its misery. People are getting richer through this collapse prolongs the misery for the many. A psychological dynamic plays into the heads of the ruling elites about things slipping away, losing it, as it were. Shock. Disbelief. Meanwhile, life goes on. gotta eat, sleep, feed the kiddies and get them to school, go to work and do it all over again. Maybe the working class should call themselves Parent’s for a New Society, the PNS, become a national organization and take over the falling empire from the elites too self-serving and dazed and confused. There is still a lot of meat left to the empire to carve out a huge chunk to make a better society for the kiddies. But it has to be won not protested for more crumbs.
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  5905. If I can speak of man at a highly abstract level, then I can say history is made by particular kinds of people, with particular needs and problems and specific conditions of life frustrating the individual, because they lack the possibility of a solution to those problems. It would be sheer comedy if it were not so tragic that Trump is one of those men making history and not coping with the conditions very well, or at all.
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  5906. No mention of the general rule I see. The rule being that workers are not paid the money form of the commodity. This rule comes from a proof that a wage, living or not, is the name for the commodity form of work. Working is the commodity and the work itself is someone else's money or property. So the person doing the work is controlled through the work. People who earn their living and incomes from the money form are very different kinds of people than the ones living on the commodity form of the product. A product is two things, its money when it is not a commodity and a commodity when it is not money. Its never both at the same time is the general rule. The above amounts to a social conditioning process of human beings, that in the heyday of America was better accomplished by Charlie Chaplin to win over hearts and minds than forcing capitalism down the throats of nations. People divide themselves into what amount to a major class difference among them assuming the needs of the products and money before their own needs as people. On one side the people are all sellers before they re buyers and on the other side they are all buyers before they are sellers, learning the rules of exchange, changing positions from seller to buyer, and conversely, doing this in nations that still have Kings, Monarchies, peasantries, tribes, under foreign intervention, are coping with an industrial revolution of new oligarchs of capital in quasi-feudal social structures also heavily invested in the USA, all fighting to control the working population. The military does not know where to fit into all this social chaos generated under capitalism?
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  5907. Keep kicking it down the road until it is intolerable! The torture never stops! This WH announcement is the sanitized version of a ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch.
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  5908. Government is letting that happen but it is not government buying up properties on a large scale with the intention to rent them all out. You need to point your finger at the activity of a real estate industry in your state. Government is not going into the business of becoming a landowner that rents homes and buys homes built for rent. Government is facilitating but it is not going to be ACME Land Management Corporation to whom a half of the population will be forever be renters. You are on your way to becoming a feudal society with so many dispossessed people as rentiers.
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  5909. A hostage taking could never happen in outdoor open markets where a perpetrator has the mass of people to deal with. Just from the standpoint of the distribution of products, open outdoor and street stores rule out this kind of terror tactic and make society a little more safer. A perpetrator would have to resort to other methods but at least people can go about their business not becoming a hostage on the chance day of going to the Mall. Malls are not a safe method for people to access the products they in some way helped to produce. A new design is needed. On the other hand, a perpetrators finds other methods and these too can be minimized or made more difficult, by sanctioning the producers of the objects used in the terror episode and by applying technology to the list of objects that form elements into making an object of destruction possible. This means people will have to be willing to give up the immediacy of convenience a market system offers to get what they want but life is worth more than a market system, isn’t it?
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  5910. It appears another precautionary measure of safety is demanded of airline industries in all countries to include earthquake activity that may put international travel at higher risk. It will be necessary to advise all international commercial flights a given airport is closed for ground emergency crews as another layer of air safety.
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  5911. The American working class is a versatile group, this means they go where capital needs them, if capital needs labor in Wisconsin or in Asia,---corporations have their own army of workers go where the next job that promises more value than what they are given in wages takes them, house, car, moving, the entire town or city is consumed in the process,---town and city governments enable the process never charge a nickel for the use of their city or town, the town or city residents pay the bills and the corporations, take out more than they put back into communities, right down to the food and tools, person(s) everything in the production process are elements of value the action of workers turn into surplus-value. The process leaves people feeling alienated from each other and from the world of work, workers are indifferent. Capitalism has desensitized people,---they do not really care about the specific work they are doing,---a malady that stems from knowing the work you do in society is a value creating process that belongs to another and all the necessaries of life you need some faceless stranger holds in their hands in the form of paycheck. The material elements used in the production process, raw materials, equipment, workplace, water, soil, air, are to you just that, a means when these elements should be an end in themselves. Capital is indifferent to the industries, traversing the different spheres of production in the entire economy. Bosch makes better washing machines than tools. Boeing makes better weapons than they make jet airliners. The migration of capital is the economic basis of the social indifference found in the American working class.
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  5912. A transition from fossil to green will have to make provisions to secure the fossil fuel industry workers into new jobs and careers. Expecting the higher paid working class to take a job at minimum wage will create true resentment and sense of betrayal in them. A green deal will have to be a new deal for them. Problem I see is how to neutralize and remove the power of the fossil fuel industry in Washington? More important than making these bastards pay is extracting the root of their power.  The social context of their power is vast, worldwide, that its antithesis must be international in scope to match the power of the fossil fuel industry. In this sense I would think the Extinction Rebellion movement has an international readiness to be that neutralizing power. We, at home, have to combine two powers, we have to withdraw our cooperation with industries connected to the fossil fuel industry, be educated on who's products should not be sold and encourage their workers to walk off the job for a higher wage and better working conditions, all this the minute Bernie takes office. Just because he is elected the push forward does not stop and end with a Bernie presidency. Workers everywhere demanding a higher wage and conditions more humane than they work under today are key players in making this social transformation work. The Green Deal promises to put them in control of their productivity to lower emissions standards, do what they can to produce not pollute. The answer here is a two-pronged approach in diminishing the power of the network of the fossil fuel industry internally and externally to avoid a fierce and hostile reaction from this sector against the Green New Deal. They will fight it tooth and nail and never relinquish power. There are days I can swear even Trump will refuse to step down from power.
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  5913. Fascinating. I hate to think that in light of all the new discoveries the modern world had been establishing its understanding of humanity on a history it never really knew. Shocking to think that everything learned was incomplete, partial, limited, and in certain cases down right wrong about ancient societies.
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  5914. Or people give the benefit of their doubt to their own detriment. The State Department has egg on its face for defending an unpopular genocide is a position to their own detriment. They do it, citizens do it. Everyone cuts themselves short. People want to believe other people are reformed. This guy admitted his motive and rational: He said, he has been doing bad for so long that if good doesn’t work out he’ll go back to bad.
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  5915.  @brian-beeler  The internal combustion engine has been superseded by the electrical engine by several decades.  The engine itself provides a social scientist a handy tool from which to analyze how the social relations of capitalism interact with the technical and scientific achievements of mankind. Why the electric engine did not become the primary tool for transportation over the fossil fuel engine has to to do with the social relations of industry at the time. As a Marxist, you of all people would concur, American labor in particular gave the world the mass produced gas engine, but it was the British and French who gave us capitalism and it was European labor in general that produced a capitalist class in its early stages of industry. It was the French who gave us the world of liberalism, parliaments, national assemblies, specifically, lawyers, philosophers, economists of the 1700s who formulated the capitalists desires of a free market when the French Revolution was in progress and driven by no particular agency or social programme underfoot. The capitalist intelligentsia is a wider group by today's standards that whole institutions promote liberalism.  It is only neo- because of its late age and high power to suppress every interests that is not a fossil fuel interest, and maintain the social relations people abide accommodates the fossil fuel executives incessant thirst for oil profits.
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  5916.  @brian-beeler  I would agree a flash is all it takes to spark a revolution but I would not say they are not very often protracted struggles that end up fighting certain social classes and insitutions who position themselves to restore the government, and repress the overthrow, happens in a flash. Although that can happen given US fire power and its deadly combination with leaders of low self-esteem. Besides, an overthrow of a regime is not the revolution. I have to take a stand on that with you. An overthrow is the moment of dissolution of the state followed by a revolution in the life of society. Communist parties would have a winning ticket if their politicians were political educators. Americans leave that role to professors in academia and even there the quality is piss poor.
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  5917.  Lynette Agueda  You can say that again. Are you near the fires or in danger of approaching fires?
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  5918.  @georgelet4132  You'd have to back up your assertions with hard facts about our environmental relationship of industry and technology before anyone will take your argument seriously.
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  5919.  @yosefmacgruber1920  The Tesla Electric Company in April 1887, the agreement that profits from generated patents would go 1/3 to Tesla, 1/3 to Peck and Brown, and 1/3 to fund development appears as theft because the 3rd fund ultimately went into the hands of his two partners doubling their share. Tesla was not the genius in economics. They set up a laboratory for Tesla at 89 Liberty Street in Manhattan, where he worked on improving and developing new types of electric motors, generators, and other devices. Westinghouse corporation did not rip him off either. Who is NWO?
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  5920.  @yosefmacgruber1920  Leftist are not throwing the word "climate change" around. The term is a rightist invention. Saying 'climate change' is like all other rightist phrases and terms, a reductionist term meant to diminish. It signifies to people that people who use the term are narrowly aware of reality. "Climate Crisis", is the actual term and that term only signifies the natural world is active and humans are subject to its perils. More fires than usual, more intense, more lethal. Active interior volcanic activity, tectonic movements to slow for the unenlightened rightist to see and human activity to fast for the same person to comprehend. Its only goose stomping morons like yourself who use a bogus term and make yourself sound authentic by calling the term "bogus".
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  5921.  @yosefmacgruber1920  With so much said I will choose what I think is mystically unscientific put in your own words; "...Only the evil devil would think that humans should have to pay for everything, even the air that we breathe." So, what would god think humans should do if the devil thinks humans should pay for everything? Is your god a positive one since the devil is a negative one? Are you a creationist?
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  5922.  @yosefmacgruber1920  Here is why you should not be a creationist, since you asked, I will tell. People of varying and different cultures have created gods, a panoply of gods and single gods, the evidences of their beliefs are proven by found archeological remains how they spent their labor and time producing material reflecting dieties. They have treated themselves as subjects to these gods and have used their talents to create rituals and customs, edifices, institutions, and laws, to get as close to god as possible, and made themselves dependent on the god(s) humans created. In summary I personally enjoy my free will and ability to not be dependent on something created by my own species. You, on the other hand, the creation in the form of a god depends on your subordination to the creation. You cannot go anywhere or be anything without it constitues a dependency. One cannot boast of their independence over others if they are dependent on a concept in the first place and be regarded by their fellow humanity as authentic are reasons why not be a creationist.
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  5923. The Russian investigation is a distraction for those who are aware the NSA, formerly the Military Industrial Complex of the 1950's, is still carrying on the old techniques of counter-revolution developed over the last 73 years et al assassinations, invasions, economic strangulations, espionage, tools of the trade acting in full force. It now focuses on Maduro in Venezuela, having just bought off Ecuadorian president for Assange, allies with Columbian right wing president, the southern command region is now confident in overthrowing Maduro from all sides, an invasion into that country. The NSA's confidence is backed up by a $100,1000th billionth dollar budget, so large that every state is dependent on its budget, so large it incorporates private and public economic sectors that no single politician, nobody from the right and the left, dare challenge the economic authority the NSA has over the general economy of the US and its share of the global market. Ever man, woman, and child in America gets its daily bread from the NSA. All they can do is make a plea on behalf of the American people that they're not fleeced. The Congress of 1978 was more aggressive and put the NSA in its place investigating its tools of the trade in full force. The Congress of 2018 are its complicit-ors. The Democratic party its political prosecutor. The American people, a mesmerized public, are given something to moan and groan about, let it be the Russians. For 75 years not one single president met with a Russian leader, the only time an American president met with a Russian leader, Yalta, Crimea 1945. Yeltsin invited to the White House does not constitute a resolution meeting of the Cold War but the Yalta, Crimea Conference does constitute the birth of the NSA 1945. From that date going forward the world has changed, social systems evolved, the American people less powerful, no longer a productive class, controlled in every aspect of their lives by an institution that answers to nobody, rather, the institution exists for itself.
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  5924. Democrats demonstrate to corporate elite social classes they are better at exploiting the American working class without making it ugly and obvious like the republicans. To complicate things further, the problem with if you don’t stop voting for democrats you deserve what you get is that the ones who do not deserve what they get must suffer the burden along with their stupid brethren who do deserve it.
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  5925. Americans are crazy! And so far the voices I heard in this program barring the author of the book on Lincoln are nuts! We really have no sense of our national lunacy living inside the asylum.
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  5926. The same mesmerizing effect is the lure into the world of the rich in young girls of the working class as it is for poor men to hit the lottery and become millionaires overnight. All their worries are gone and new worries of greater magnitude and intensity take their place.
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  5927.  @rumbledumpthumpershaker6735  The time has come to dismantle the the two parties not loyal to the American People.
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  5928.  @deborahhanna9126  You describe Washington as if it were some benign player in the world. The world is a hostage to US military might and becoming evident the American people are hostage to it as well.
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  5929. If all the services and industries the government has were privatized the economy would never shut down and the government would have no reason to stay open except to pass legislation. This would be a convenience Americans would like. You would see your government once a year passing sweeping legislation and go back to their districts to conference and do paperwork. Privatization will get you a passport on line at 3 am and have it per Amazon delivery by 6 am. A passport that meets the requirements to enter other countries but not one that has a valid embassy behind it. You would be on your own if you get stuck somewhere. Being on your own is what privatization means. But government services are not privatized and a shut down damages communities and individuals in society.
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  5930. I call that a real broken and worthless health system in the country of origin of all persons kidnapped that you have to smuggle yourself into another country to get the medication you need and risk your life through Cartel territory. Death is synonymous to health care of the US.
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  5931. The vile corporatist military force that we have now is defeated when individuals in society come together and act as a one power. People power.
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  5932. What is a long term relationship between attorneys in Washington DC is a short term relationship between working people in society. Long time relationships and friends is enjoyed by the rich, short term and enemy relationships is enjoyed by the poor.
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  5933. Who would have guessed that seaweed not people would be the mortal enemy and gravediggers of capitalism in the hospitality and tourism industry. A massive stock sell off because of a blob of seaweed.
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  5934. What do you mean...”perhaps’’, is that written to sound like low functioning monotone Donald Trump talking...how about demanding “Proportionality in Everything”. How about proportion in quality and proportion in quantity, on both sides of the equation...or is capitalism incapable of proportionality and not a great system as it is cranked out to be? To hell with the shock absorbers. Does A = B or not?
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  5935. 3:52,---This woman has no clue she is capitulating to another social class handing over state power by certifying her own defeat,---Democrats to GOP. 5:36,---the courtroom artist sketches of Guillianni really capture the wretchedness of that man.
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  5936.  @devilzadvocate7735  Time only exists on earth. There is no such thing as time in the Universe or sound. These are two earthly dimensions that owe their existence to gravity. Mankind uses Time is used to measure labor, i.e., duration of labor time. There is nothing natural about time, it is purely a social concept. Therefore the beginning of time is the beginning of mankind’s transition from a consumer of nature to a producer of nature making nature a product of mankind, hence, climate change.
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  5937. “Stagflation”, a nasty word. I remember when it was first coined by the profession in the 70s. Paul Volker was Fed Chairman, and Samuelson was textbook economics. Their policies created double digit inflation and mass unemployment. At the minimum the Establishment froze prices and wages. Trump does nothing. Trump is Hoover. Hoover reincarnated. Trump must have a death wish for the way McKinley died. The US economy under Mckinley was quantitative easing and tariffs to protect American industries but ended up enriching rich buyers of luxury goods and businesses to raise prices. The word combines economic stagnation and inflation were the double whammy in the 70s for low wages and reduced living standards for 130 million Americans at the time. If Republicans hate woke culture they should not repeat the economy of the 70s which gave rise to everything culturally the republicans hate in 2024. The best way to make a clean, wholesome, America is make everyone rich! When a woman can afford to have a child they won’t abort parenthood is common sense. But we should not waste time trying to prove the right from the wrongs, the sensical from the nonsensical, we should simply write Trump off.
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  5938. You have not seen anything yet!
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  5939. China is not innocent of repressing ethnic groups in its country but it also has made real efforts correcting its discriminations. Remember lifting 700 million people out of poverty did much to raise the boat all the ethnic groups float on whereas, the US has not done a single thing to correct its discrimination under its racist system. To the contrary, all its racist forces are rearing their ugly heads. The US record of human rights of its non-white populations is abysmal and permanently damaged the US position. The high fallutin' rhetoric relative to China is hot air. As China does no more than what the US once did in the FDR administration the current State department and the Biden administration are stuck with a racist system at home that cannot be perfected into a "more perfect union', by increments but, rather, real efforts to correct its discriminations is the only way forward to a more perfect union.
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  5940.  @tmnt10000  I doubt evangelist conservatives can be trusted. Can’t trust republicans and right wingers. What a condition for a society where there is no trust between its members. Sounds like an internal destruction to me. It goes both ways, Sonny Jim.
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  5941. Crimes like this do not occur in Europe...go check if you don’t believe me..and the reason is paid parent and family leave. Mothers are not alone doing the job that men do not do raising children. A job tougher than building a bridge or tunnels. Society does not support families in America. Families are on their own disconnected from society. The detective said this is a senseless crime. What is senseless is the absence of family leave in the US. Families cannot help each other in America. Too far apart families are spread out across 3000 miles. Spread apart to be nearer to where the companies they work for move or offer a job. You do not have a society if you do not have families. If you choose to live in America than do not have children unless you can afford supports.
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  5942. Moon lower Tarot, lovely screen name incidentally. ,
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  5943. Hey You Americans...I’m talking to you....here’s is what I am asking you...do you like your lifestyle in America? Republicans want you on board to declare China as your biggest enemy and are preparing for war... when you do swallow that line...think about this... be ready to lose 80% of the standard of living in your lifestyle when China stops producing for you... republicans have no plans to offset the loss of the lifestyle you love so much...they attack you on multiple levels right now chipping away at your freedom and rights. O h yes, democrats do this too but right now I am aiming my voice at you and what the republicans want from you!
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  5944. This movie details what happens when a vaccine or medicine in general are commodities intended for sale. The marketplace is filled with the demand by people who are made sick through their daily activity at work ensures that there are no healthy people in society. It is a perfect illustration of a Grand Social Project to break down and resist any program of social control over the Public Health and Well-Being of Humanity. Did I get that message right?
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  5945. Hearings themselves are political theater, and the millions of people who unnecessarily died during COVID, are not given justice. No comfort there for the future elderly in the next round of contagious diseases. Mortality in America is shorter than the average Chinese person. Their government takes care of them. America’s prosecutors must bear a pledge or a pact, a laissez faire ideology of their own, because none of them prosecute violators. A practical holocaust has been committed and the perpetrator(s) walk free. This generation of prosecutors believe; government should not interfere in the economic life of the country or of a business, as the only reason they do not prosecute crimes against humanity. With the legal arm of the government bound at the knees by ideological rope the best the senate can do is to pretend they are doing something about an atrocity they themselves are profiting from, and have a hearing. The two party system throws more punches at average working class Americans at the same time as it deprives working class Americans of a decent life, blow after blow, relentless anti-working class assaults coming from all directions.
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  5946. Time to Act is Now.
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  5947.  @joebama4222  Mexico is not the dominant power in the western hemisphere.
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  5948.  @avenue8822  Naturalization is a political.
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  5949. @Tha One Words are free in the US; everything else has a price tag.
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  5950. You know what's going to happen? The progressive left in the political world will not know how to appeal or what to do with the massive strike wave developing to use to defeat Trump, Biden and whoever else siding with the American Oligarchs. Workers may as well build their own political party in the course of the strike and run their own candidate is the only way to get passed the venal political system that shuts them out at every turn.
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  5951. Democrats do not have a conscientious program and it is not the country that is going in the wrong direction its the democrats moving in the opposite direction of what the country needs that has this party entrenched in failure and deception.
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  5952. Avenues to do anything about it is limited. Texas leaders are irrational people when it comes to the 'general interest of the public', but perfectly rational when it comes to private interests of a particular industry funding their campaigns. Americans do not have many rational leaders at all. This can only mean that all of Texas is built to suit 'private interests'.  They are political technocrats skilled in continually creating the same opposition between private and public interests producing and destroying the difference between personal safety and the safeness of society.
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  5953.  @jamesgraham4242  Democracy existed alright.. what has not existed is a Working Class Democracy, what existed before a worker's democracy comes into being some time in the future, is a bourgeois democracy, and before bourgeois democracies, we have to cross the Atlantic Ocean to get to Fuedal Autocracies and Landed Aristocracies, Nobility, Church, King, princes, monarchs all descendants of these ruling classes coming to America as an extention of their motherland. When all of that migrates to North America, none of them are able to conquer America, the country has too many Indians, its left up to a third immigrant with no motherland to return who must settle. The British and Dutch descendant Americans and the Afrikaners, the direct enemy of the native populations in Africa and in the USA, the British criminals let loose in Australia bring the aborigine into the fold of native people's subjugation to Colonial White Minority Rule, and to transplant Aparthied from South Africa to the United States, merge with America's own home grown Apartists was the next logical terrain to restore Apartheid. Establish a one party state all over again as they did in South Africa following its loss in 1992. This conjecture won't gain any traction if Trump's new National Security Advisor, an Afrikaner Robert C. O'Brien, resigns or is fired in a year or less. But history gives this conjecture precedence in the many Napoleonic soldiers (big and rich ones) who emmigrated to the US after Napoleon's abdication and petitioned Congress to give French exiles land in Alabama. White South Africans are still trying to settle, white European descendants in North America are the most compatible to that settlement.
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  5954.  @jamesgraham4242  So in the 3rd paragraph , you are saying the political sphere where law resides determines the economic sphere defining the present form of capitalism. That although, land, labor and capital are still the foundation they are secondary to a complex political and social superstructure evolved over them? And this superstructure is run by a gang, i.e., Murder, Inc., no less moral than the druglords and cartels, they would viciously cut you down for speaking out against the State or the current state of affairs. Got it, now what?
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  5955. 250 hours to make by hand. It is a lovely piece of garment, stunning. An equal value would be three brand new Mac computers or 2 ounces of gold on the commodity index or a night at the Opera.
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  5956. With Kissinger gone nobody is left to serve as a mentor to new presidents and elites. The old elites are dead and along with them the old ideas of diplomacy.
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  5957.  @ajohn502  It is when you rent it...that’s the law.
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  5958.  @strnglhld  I really despise morality games. Name a case where a parent regained custody...you can’t or else you would have to support your opinion.
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  5959.  @strnglhld  The case was a horse race regarding which parent gets to the finish line first gets custody. As a footnote: Assuming she becomes pregnant multiple time, the child at birth will be taken from her again and again and again given she would be tried and prosecuted as criminal should she try to abort a pregnancy. Lets go into the future for a moment: Imagine finding out decades later that you have half siblings in jail or in foster care, adopted, through back ground checks of the FBI how your political opponents will use that against you and how that information will affect you subjectively. Who is my real mother/father is a question that can never be suppressed. Further, a child is placed in Buffalo and finds permanency through adoption but came from NYC. Who gets to pay the $60K yearly cost of caring for that child to the age of majority or permanency? All NYC residents get charged the foster cares system drives city taxes, property taxes, that sum for Buffalo raising the child? Have you ever heard any mayor announce what portion of city taxes does the state charge the county for the care of a child in placement? When the child is no longer a child the tax rate is still the tax rate it was when the man or woman was the child. People pay for other people children as mediated by the state. The child study team here pays for the child study team there leaves one child study with little resources and when the child comes from a poor or working class school district that district has to close shop and deprive the services to the kids not in care but in need. No speech treatment for Jamarl. Social inequality is the by-product of this arrangement. Want more; here’s more: People who have nothing to do with the child care system are punished indefinitely by that system. Not one senator talks about this. It is permitted to fester to generate division, disunity, anger, at which the same old party candidates can position one group against another and be voted into a career of lucrative politics on the promise they will cut taxes. Sounds good but leaves 9 or so million kids destitute languishing in poverty.
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  5960.  @markm3869  Thanks. I used to judge libraries by going to the Economics section of that library. If you find only mainstream economics the director of that library censored the body of literature of the field down to a select choice leaving borrowers with no other schools of thought in economics. Try it.
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  5961.  @markm3869  The way to tell is to whom the ‘acknowledgments’ of a book lists, whether the book is written for a specific audience or not.
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  5962. 2021 is the year of Gravity.
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  5963. Ehh! Stop RIGHT THERE AL JAZEERA, the Taliban was never in power before two days ago in Afghanistan. Jheezus, not 7 seconds into this broadcast and already a lie is perpetrated on the public. "After 20 years the Taliban is back in power in Afghanistan." This is a sensationalized lie. Before the Karzai government Afghanistan had a socialist government that was committed to education for all and women's rights. The US built the Taliban to be a force to overthrow that socialist government is the real story. The US did this in Greece and countless other places where the aim is eliminate a socialist opposition. I am not a socialist but I am also not a liar, I believe history should be told they way it went down. Impossible to trust any news outlet today that is produced in a rich nation.
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  5964. The whole reason Julianne Assange is being held is a warning to (journalists) people like you Tucker. Are you that stupid not to get that?
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  5965. So,---according to Amazon an 'entrepreneur' is a person who comes up with his own van, uniform, and route to deliver products ordered in that route through Amazon. For this to happen government has to be lenient and make it easy for someone to register a business and the merchants who sell vans and uniforms, insurance etc. These are the conditions that best work for Amazon, if you change those conditions, Amazon will have to hire deliverers with all costs connected to delivery this changes the 'cost structure' and people cannot become 'entrepreneurs'. They, instead, become wage-workers for whom salaries would include pension, health benefits, and workplace controls. People become empowered wage earners full-time and disempowered as entrepreneurs in the society advocated by the government and the rich as the only society people can excel under amounts to a bunch of horsehair and dung!
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  5966. If batteries can get through bans so can guns and drugs. Evidently the bans do not work in a de-regulated market place. Guns, drugs, batteries are like anything else, commodities. They have to become money and so they make their way through any ban. De regulating commodities is a conservative idea as we are learning a pretty bad one. People are coming to the realization through senseless and avoidable tragedy that government’s role in society is to protect the consumer and do something nationwide about lethal products but soon you will also come to the realization that Congress does not share your opinion. Exploring this matter more deeply you will find there is a logical reason why Congress does not want government interfering with the making or selling of products, Senators are heavily invested in those companies and make a lot of money from their production and sale. When you connect the dots between incidences and Congressional inaction each dot will consist of a private interest. When put together they form a long chain of private interests. Over the years conservative values broke government. The department of consumer protection has no teeth and its legs are chopped off. Everything gets settled only through lawsuits in a post facto way that all have to live at risk while nothing changes the whole relation but enriches others through settlements paid out by the manufacturer.
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  5967. There is truth in the professor’s words. America has never had its long overdue working class revolution. A war of independence was not a proletarian revolution and the industrial revolution that began in England, France, Germany and the US were not proletarian revolutions. A revolution directed against a king or monarch is not a revolution that changes the form of production of that king or monarch, government. Coup dé tats are easier to do than to create a revolution. What stops a proletarian revolution from occurring in the US is that men and women of working age become a part of the work force upon graduating high school and college are actually walking into capitalist relations without realizing they are becoming proletarianized the second they sign an employment agreement with an employer. Typically, a young person is enthusiastic and the family proud that their son or daughter got a “job”. In actuality, the parents have released their child to the wolves. Everyone is temporarily satisfied and nothing of what I said above become fact or reality observable to the naked eye until the shit hits the fan. Workers accept an organized form of production because they have no organization of their own. The social relationships they form before entering the workforce as, friends, lovers, etc., evaporate as experiences hard to come by the older you get. The second the deal is signed with an employer all the qualities just named go to the employer and the worker walks on a trail of life of a series of losses, one after another. Marriage and monogamy promote the creation of a labor-force at the same time as it destroys social solidarity outside of the institution into which two individuals become progenitors for the next generation of workers.
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  5968. People here should see the movie on the IWW (the Wobblies) released this May Day in the National Archives of the US. Absolutely Free and the subject matter is in line with what is happening now in America.
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  5969. The GOP is a political cartel, a gang, a class.
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  5970. Time Stamp 31:00 the big question people have of this unordinary crime wave for the necessities of life is not why! People are so liberated they are bare of the necessities of life is the system's way of getting people to accept miserable work and do that work for a flat minimum wage. This method of deprivation worked with an earlier generation but not with this one. Civility and respect has been replaced by organization and daring which will spread to other poor and working class communities, so far an wide that the Lt. Marine Officer court-martialed for revolutionary speak, will be a dud against the mass wave of strikes, revolts, and protests to come in America.
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  5971. You can eliminate historical analogy and comparison when one or more of the actors in the history being made is not active in the present. Until then the past is dragged into the present and useful to defeat an enemy. The Neocons in Washington personify this past. The international arena of 1955 was premised on the Cold War, a history when every social revolution was with the hostility of US ruling classes. The ruling elites positioned themselves as a powerful citadel of reaction as a matter of policy, or no policy at all to maintain that posture in that history has not changed that position in Ukraine. For US ruling elites there was no region too corrupt, too criminally negligent to the interest of the people, no dictatorship too retrogressive and cruel to be denied economic, military and moral support of the leading power of the ‘free world’,---as long as it proves its allegiance to the ‘anti-socialist alliance’. With every dollar the US elites spend on defense reflected a slow down in the rates of economic growth of the socialist economies blocking a rapid increase in the living standards of its people. This is the threat of imperialism imposed on socialist economies that has weakened imperialism to become more defensive and more hostile with the growth of socialist economies and specifically the development of China. A burden on the American taxpayer’s gets heavier as imperialism becomes more hostile. Socialist economies have surpassed the capitalist nations of the west, owing to the events leading up to the end of the Cold War, the ideological and political contest against socialism has failed. See D.F. Fleming, the Origins of the Cold War, 2 volumes, 1961.
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  5972. When the corrupt leaders are brought up on charges the rank and file lose their union, technically this is union busting. In connection to the GOP Plan for America in the 21st Century, they want a union-free labor force and the elimination of any real opposition party, using the law to go after corruption and anything can be corruption these days, even manufactured on the spot if necessary to begin weakening the body of the union's membership by decapitation of its leadership, this is one model of a society the republicans want to create. A society of obedient and submissive workers, ignorant and out of touch with reality, as a means of pacification for the 21st Century.
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  5973. UBI, would be a value the worker receives, a worker is still a worker. I thought the point is to be a classless society. I can't really object to it, as an add on, to wages already paid to workers but not as a substitute to a wage. Problem is capitalism produces a value in commodities in which a day's work is objectified and this can vary. This value is way over the amount of value received in the form of a wage to a worker.  Its also a value that plays a double role in a society, as a necessary step for products on their way of becoming commodities, the difference in them is a surplus-value at their sale. If value plays a double role so do wages. Wages as a value a worker receives is not the same value a worker produces in a factory or office. UBI does not settle the problem of a working class being a necessity for what humans can do without becoming an economic and social classification.
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  5974. Another perspective is to find concrete examples of what can be achieved in societies that use their surplus wealth and productivity to certain goals, such as Costa Rica, becoming entirely carbon-free. Poverty, disease, food insecurity, family development, education, health are problematic under Laissé Faire societies but are positive and constructive goals for the power of productivity to solve. These are social problems evidentally governments and militaries cannot fix despite the surplus wealth and productivity at their disposal. This is a definite sign of a poverty of mind and policy.
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  5975. CUT THE MILITARY BUDGET!
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  5976. EPA science is not the same science as Michael Mann’s science. As long as the Fossil Fuel Industry corrupts the EPA the integrity of the EPA as an objective, impartial public institution evaporates. EPA science does not make the connection between human action and climate change and the infrastructure bill renews the transportation system built for cars. Here is a case where inexact science translates into more of the same false thinking into social policy. An infrastructure bill that designs new cities and towns built for walking or takes existing older cities and converts them from their car oriented road system to reduce the use of the car and the emissions from cars I would imagine is what the world needs. But this is not where we are going, are we. A vision of a social organization built for people is missing in all this.
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  5977. Bureaucracy is not the same thing as government. Cities should have local autonomy to make rulings without the approval of county and state legal bodies where possible and where it enhances life. Counties should have autonomy to make rulings that work for the county. States Rights assigns autonomy to states from the federal government but everyone else has no decision power must follow whatever course the state takes. What’s good about this arrangement?
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  5978. ...the problem is the workplace...the workplace is an undemocratic place where the majority of people spend the greatest amount of their time...people are equal as consumers outside of the workplace but inside the workplace the participants are unequal partners on the job,--this colors the politics with an element of hypocrisy to the idea of what a democracy actually means...that a workplace should be the private domain of a single owner(s) and what people like Elon Musk see as the only way out of the stagnation of not producing more than what it takes to reproduce the enterprise, is to shed its labor-force or hire the same number at less the cost, and increase output, this, for the sake of gaining a ‘competitive edge’. But we should look at the same problem from another angle. From the angle of the workday itself, the problem of working time being not enough to keep workers alive and well,- is a problem of less and less of the final product’s value returns to the worker---this presents a unique problem of incompetence of the system itself, and within the problem the key for a new economic model. Competition in the workplace occurs when the people you are working with negotiated alone with the employer and not through a union that each worker is employed for a different price and that the employer can pay for the same talent for less.
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  5979. Signs of things to come for humans the Dr., should have said. Extinction begins at the cellular biological level in the non-human world of nature and advances to higher forms of life to the human world of nature. First cells, plants and algae die off than fish, crustaceans than small aquatic mammals...than land mammals, birds, and finally humans as part of the larger mammal species who are the perpetrators of this extinction. The Japanese just dump Tritium polluted water from Fukoshima into the Pacific ocean! Personally I am so offended by this action that I will not buy a single Japanese product for the rest of my life. Even if its a pillow made in Japan. The prevailing attitude of media toward this mass extinction is absolutely deplorable and the attitude of the public is so indifferent there are no words to describe the apathy.
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  5980. Trump is a capitalist landowner anti-communist. What a inhuman thing to be!
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  5981. Everytime a crisis erupts out of Washington, and there are many, the American people are made to bear the cost as a way out of that crisis is a form of sanctions.
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  5982. Lake Meade is Public Land, a result of the Hoover Dam. Water constitutes soil making all bodies of water,--- land. But that's another point. Enough water to last 8 years...at the current level...I doubt it. The cities depending on this water will become abandoned in a shorter time under the current levels of water consumption and demand.
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  5983. ‘American bourgeois feminism’ is a Karen deviation of what happened to the emancipation of women in work, employment, but not freed from social class. We know social class makes a Karen. There are no indignant people in the Ghetto we can call a Karen as a prototype of a woman. Bourgeois women are suburban spousal creations socialized by small business owners for husbands. Moving on... Qin Gang is a great name...say it and you will appreciate the sound of the name. It really is a cool name. I know surnames have meanings but I like how this name rolls of your tongue. You understand what I am sayin’?
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  5984. I am 100% behind the young and old, short and fat, grayed and bald workers in France. You should be too if you know what is good for you.
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  5985. What good is a food program when cooking it is the problem? The World Food Program should be providing the means to cook food with the food and the seeds to grow food and spearhead a total agrarian revolution where needed.
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  5986. The Catastrophists in the field of Geology must be clinking the champaign glasses on their theory coming to light in California. A test case for the rest of the continent. Snows and floods, Nature is changing the entire geography of California right before our eyes. Atmospheric Rivers are not going to be a one time phenomena. Meteorologists like to say ‘a once in a lifetime storm’. Environment is not static...industry is changed by environment because industry changed environment. Without industrial intervention into the environment; environment would change in it own due course, gradually. Their recurrence will make the places hit by powerful snows and floods, inhabitable. Sleepy brooks and rivers are now wider and deeper opening up for more water to carve into the landscape. What was a river front property is a ruin. Business will go on as usual until business cannot go on. Nothing stops business except business itself. Products can’t get into towns and towns people can’t get out of towns. Places are thrown back into the 17th century mode of product circulation from car to being without a pack horse to hit the trail for supplies. New mode of life and a new way of working and a new approach to Nature happens upon us by abrupt and catastrophic change.
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  5987. Worse than being incarcerated is being homeless.
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  5988. The problem are not the vaccines produced by Big Pharma, the problem is commodities that are vaccines, that trust cannot be granted by the Public to Big Pharma or to governors siding with Big Pharma. The deduction is simple: if vaccines have a double existence its producer has a double existence and there will always be two sides that are not compatible and cannot be reconciled by law. As commodities the vaccines are a means for exchange and money, but as vaccines it is their use to society that counts. You cannot reconcile the relationships that are generated by the sides the vaccines have in our society is why we get a clash between the science and the business of vaccines. Jimmy pointed out the character of the politicians as deplorable could not be more accurate; they are not worthy of Public support as individuals because they are ignorant of the conflict of interest I explained above.
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  5989. Didn’t Kate Middleton, the princes get an abdominal surgery? I do not believe sueing legislators will change this barbaric medical practice because legislators do not sue themselves. Legislators have to be removed from positions of political power and control by all members of society if this barbarism is to end.
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  5990. Americans living in a permanent state of necessity, the exact opposite of freedom, is the only way 600 military bases all over the world and another 600 in your own country can stay open to police the world.
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  5991.  @dvdgalutube  Correction: Vaccines are not free. Vaccines, regardless of who takes them or not, were/are bought from pharmaceutical corporations with US tax dollars. Government then distributed the vaccines to you as a public health interest, free of charge. Not understanding this difference might be the reason you are not getting the point.
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  5992.  @fanvsenjoyerenjoyer5766  Why do you insult NK with epithets...did the NK do something to you personally?
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  5993. Time Stamp 2:12 ----118, 000 plus child COVID infections in the US.
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  5994. The New Housing Crisis is really the process of creating a permanent social class of renter-workers who will have to live in the periphery of the properties bought by the super rich. What will follow is what is a 'clearing' of the old buildings of the adjoining properties purchased as one large tract of land. A young couple will never afford a home as long as monopoly price leveraging is de-regulated.
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  5995. I am not going to blame the 21 year old for looking at a jar that could be in his eyes just a clay pot with drawing on it and not a priceless ancient relic. Texas did not cultivate an appreciation for the arts in this young man. He is not or ever be a part of that industry and culture denied access as public schools have been degraded by Texas political structure into producing little factory workers. I will blame Texas’s educational system that does not teach kids ancient history or the history of archeology. Kids have absolutely no introduction to a museum, curating, forensics, except as a field trip or through an Ivy League Institution.
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  5996. If Taft-Hartley Act is invoked by Congress to crush the railroad worker’s resistance to the contract they voted down other unpaid sick time workers should protest the government’s intervention and demand Medicare 4 All.
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  5997. All obstacles to prolonging the working day in America have been removed that now the prolonging of the working day itself is left, a second job and chronic unemployment, would be the final blow to the American working class. This is the reason wages are held constant for 45 years and the reason production was moved overseas for the production of cheaper goods. One person with two jobs would be for that person a working day of 14 hours. The legal limit is surpassed and breaking the law is evaded by employers of the lower strata of the working classes. The practice extends to employers of workers in the upper strata. Eventually the workers earning $70k annually will experience a decline in their material standard of living, longer hours of work, and conditions of work damaging to their well-being. On the job the work of workers intensifies with the use of technology into the labor-process to make work lighter gradually changes into a new system of detailed operations to make jobs even more simple. The more this happens the duration of work is prolonged indefinitely and the repeal of the working day limit of 8 hours is enacted when all opposition to a repeal is crushed.
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  5998. Same thing happened the night after the French Revolution of 1789, that was the incident of a lord kicked out of the first restaurant ever invented by the chef terminated by that lord seeking to make a new life, is a movie called: Delicious.
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  5999. In my book this is a crime and I would prosecute the bullies for murder.
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  6000. Aaron makes a great point. Go ask the progressives to comment on this development; a top General is now calling for negotiations with Russia the progressives had to retract.
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  6001. If my kind of pragmatism were found in a senator that person would start calling pharmaceutical industry executives to the stand to investigate why there are critical shortages of critical medication for people with mental illness or other handicap. Then use the findings to force out the geriatric in every key government position taken by a 80 year old and older that has become the danger to society. A modest reform such as term-limits is impossible wth them in the way. You have senators in government who are not acting in a senatorial capacity and not carrying out a fundamental function of the State, namely, the well-being of the country and in their assisted senility think they are preventing abuse and neglect when, in fact, they have no clue of the advances in medicine and are holding back real social progress.
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  6002. a spit in the bucket to how much you pay for the military @dycars8443 
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  6003. Shame on you Thom, seven wounds with one bullit on two men is not the right hypothesis. You must subtract the exit wounds and count only the entry wounds. If three entry wounds are established that adds up to six making the seventh wound comparable to the velocity of the former established three wounds and if the seventh wound finally stopped the single bullit. Then would it have a smaller circumference than the other three wounds? JFK -- I believe the only way to put all these consipiracy theories to rest and finally come to the truth is to compare the written histories of both the Americans and Cubans of the same period. A joint investigation into the facts. Beyond that nothing has changed; the failed coup d'etat against Venezuela's Maduro is a continuation of business as usual. Its getting harder for the right wing to overthrow governments because the people are seeing their motives so much clearer than the people in 1953 saw the roles of the CIA, FBI, the Mob, and the Justice Department in the overthrow of Arbenz, and the failed attempt to overthrow Castro and the installment of Pinochet and Samoza in Chile and Nicaragua and finally, Mossodegh in Iran. Funny to hear two men who were watching Leave it to Beaver and Father Knows Best, Disney, and Hillary Clinton older than these two men was a tween watching My Little Margie and Ozzie and Harriet and Ronald Reagan the host of the General Electric Show when the elites in Washington were plotting overthrows in other countries from 1950 to 1963?
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  6004.  @MooseKnuckleMike  It is a decline because you are asleep.
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  6005. I have two neighbors I live between. One as bad as the cholera and the other is the plague, why should political leaders be any different? Mélenchon and his party better get their shit together.
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  6006. But that is not what is being proposed or advanced. Victimhood is irrelevant as such so are you in this matter. Its about nailing the police to the wall for their brutal and disproportional use of force, a burden and scourge that falls on the part of humanity that is not WHITE or they fall in line and behave, is what its about. You see its a very particular thing not a general and vague matter about victimhood or socio-economic status, Sonny Jim. @tomjacobson7623 
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  6007. Looks like you got nothing to say tommy boy. You got shut down. But you know what, according to my calculations, you are not alone in your thinking. Your in company with a million Cops who read what they want to read and see what they want to see and say what they want to say but in all truth and objectivity all of you see, and say, hear nothing. A pack of monkeys. How Many Stops legislation passed in a landslide. @tomjacobson7623 
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  6008. There is no turning back now once the mass movement reaches American shores and has been set into motion.
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  6009. Abolish the Sheriffs Association (ISA)...its just another form of the Klan.
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  6010. Excellent vid.
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  6011. pretext, PReText...PRETEXT. This would have been a pretext in the normal behavior of Washington, like previous pretexts to invasions, which, by the way, always occur when America has an economic surplus and when America is in a recession like it is now because it cannot resolve the COVID crisis, Washington retreats from an invasion it started, calling a truce, or evacuating an area only to later violate the truce unleashing another bloodletting event in the future, is the pattern of Washington's interaction with the world. This is why Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush all lie to the American people. Washington's foreign policy and national policy is to have neither as a policy. Never commit to anything so that the course of action of dominance, power and control is maintained. To this end Washington will befriend the most retrogressive society on earth as long as US power is upheld by that regressive power. In the meantime, the American people suffer alongside the people of the world as expendable and replaceable bear the cost of this non-policy policy of a Washington elite indifferent to humanity. Investing in the MIC, Americans are paying for their own demise. This is not a pretext to another assault its a debacle of historic proportions!
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  6012. There are many good books on the subject: Fascism A Reader’s Guide, Analysis, Interpretations, Bibliography, Edited by Walter Laqueur, University of California Press, 1976. 14 different studies in this book.
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  6013. I can feel the end of capitalism coming very soon. But the end of capitalism is not going to bring about the social revolution America needs. A social revolution is necessary and the only way to shed the ignorance, superstition, false thinking, sexism and racism, that was not dealt with in all previous efforts to use the government as a vehicle for social changes despite their successes and failures.
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  6014. Anger is good, get mad, get pissed, get angry at Them, Trump and Co., running the country. Individual anger is stupid, gets nowhere and does nothing. Mass organized anger is best. Mass anger is individual anger channeled. Organize and fight back...they are cowards hiding behind the power of the state filled with loyalists and lackeys. Their economic plan is to accumulate capital from workers and concentrate labor and capital into their hands.  It will take one measure that finishes the job of stripping away the worker's wealth for the worker to organize a fight back.
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  6015. Grow Up! Crump is right. I recall in 1955 a white woman alleged a black boy whistled at her and the boy was hung for it.
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  6016. Abortion would be unnecessary for women who do no want to bring a child into poverty were not poor.
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  6017. None of this (meaning the exploitation of nature and of people by people) would exist, that native indigenous populations would be an obstacle to the success and vitality of a nation if the stability, success and vitality of a nation did not depend on its share of the world market for the products it can extract from its own natural resources or from any rainforest in the world. Nations have to ask themselves what is the purpose of a nation if what counts more is its productive capacity and how much of the world market each nation is in competition for defines a nation? What is a nation if it works for an object and and dismisses its needs in all its subjects?
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  6018.  @MogtheMad0422  I love the Beatles. Those are the lyrics to the song The End, side 2 of Abbey Road. You and Rhiannon Bittle are arguing over a projection f what you thought the lyric meant which proves context is everything and without context you have nothing.
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  6019. The GOP is the Mob and the Democratic Party are the Gatekeepers of the Mob's Turf.
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  6020. @Janie K Carney,----Farmers have to buy water to misuse it or decide not to use it on a crop. Sowing the crop will depend on the price of the crop. Everyone skips over the first step. Exchange, or the real estate market. The market is how one gains access to water and soil and as exchange-values there is no difference between soil and water, they are exchangeable for money or each other. The quality of soil and water only enters into it if it lowers the quantity of soil and water can be sold. If insurance companies cover flood zones it is because they can make money on higher premiums in flood zones. All builders, buyers and banks build, buy and borrow for exchange. We do not produce or improve on the use-value of land and water and its consumption unless it is to raise its exchange-value and that is our disconnection to nature’s productions.
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  6021. An American town was invaded by the Texas National Guard is the crisis. Right now that town lost all sovereignty the second troops were sent in. Mayor, council and residents have no say in the matter. Their rights have been violated by the governor. The governor pivoted the national guard against the Feds, and now the town is powerless and triangulated between Fed and State. If every governor did this the sovereignty of the American people to determine their own fate is g
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  6022. The End of Prosperity: The American Economy in the 1970s, by Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy, 1979. A must read for everyone.
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  6023. The Board of Directors of the Corporation, Marine World, and all who are invested in that corporation directed the death of the Orca. I will have no empathy for humans killed by Orcas at sea.
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  6024. Freeing the Orcas in captivity can only happen in the movies and usually a little girl or boy is its savior is a whole lot of “escapism” writers, producers, directors, actors in Hollywood shove down the throats of Americans and they come to see an enslaved Orca a corporation sought to capitalize upon teaches children to be immoral toward nature and the hon-human world of nature, a people made ignorant to benefit a minority. @sharonl3722 
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  6025. They gain traction with the Public when half the stuff said is true. If all their stuff was not true they would not even exist. It opens the door for our own faces to be put where our face has never been and that is a concern.
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  6026.  @Unfamous_Buddha  No I was talking about you. You are the true white proletarian.
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  6027.  @RocketmanRockyMatrix  What constitutes relevancy to you?
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  6028. It is obvious to me the Republicans have the national Democrats on a leash. The pit bull of politics are the Democrats and they bite!
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  6029. That's because you see a distinction, whereas I don't. Pro-business Democrats and pro-business Republicans is the difference between a specific industry interest, as in, oil and gas, as against another pro-business interests, as in, Silicon Valley, which is not, objectively speaking, a general interests of society. But to you there may be no distinction between the objective interests of society versus the subjective interests of private industry, they are fused, one and the same. Society and its members are categorized as identical to money-interests and, therefore, the real industrial relations of the members of society, questions of how and what, do we live, work and reproduce as a society are cancelled out due to the actions of both parties, occasionally, changing the driver not the car itself. It does not matter to me where the evidence lies or the degree of evidence against them respectively. The state as a whole functions to insure the right of individual private interests, whereas, it could be used to lead beyond private interests and toward social interests, namely, lifting the condition of its members in society, or changing the quality of life in society, or eradicating racism, sexism, inequality, crime, and other social conflicts in society that democrats and republicans leave intact on a forever basis. I used to think the same as you but I think time has changed that view, especially when you live long enough to see the repetition of the same social relations.
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  6030. No doubt about it the expiration of unemployment benefits for 9.3 million recipients and not enough jobs plus the Delta Variant making the workplace unsafe is happening because there is not an equal proportion between the allocation of workers and the needs of capitalist society in America. In the end the pension funds fed from the springs of value creating employment will go unpaid and the distance between what we as a society need and what we can produce is so wide that longer periods of growth are needed. Moreover, the elites will simply fold their arms and say they don't know what to do! Stunted development, America is a society that is stuck! Capitalism can't allocate work, it has to force equality between two things that are not equal. Credit money becomes fictitious of the fact that you can buy ten houses for the same amount of money the bank does not care how you do it but that is ten people who can't live in a house because to a bank a house is money not a life for ten families. People in times of disasters and crisis cannot live and exist for each other as particular equivalents, not everyone is equal. Everyone's is uniquely different and so are the social needs. A disaster was made of Afghanistan because Generals and the last six presidents have a sociological deficit in understanding that country's history, culture, language, traditions and values cannot be made equal when they are unequal to start out with is how we end up inequality. The facades have broken down revealing human exploitation at its source, nothing is equal and the compulsive practice of buying and selling excluded the real differences for a long time till now when buying and selling slows down to a crawl and then to a dead stop.
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  6031. Trump was never anti-war candidate in his whole life. If he was it was exclusively to capitalize on the sentiment for self-gain. Americans really don’t know what an opportunist is when they see one do they.
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  6032. Tells how psychotic the Right Wing in America are passing laws against water breaks for non union workers is more important than passing laws to reduce carbon emissions in their state and Americans keep repeating the same activities over and over again like mindless drones.
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  6033. Senator is a billionaire and Fauci earns 500K a year. Fauci’s salary puts him in the upper middle class paying the greater tax rate than billionaires. Paul’s income puts him in the higher percentile paying the least in taxes, not to mention whatever other investments he has in his portfolio that is sheltered from taxation. There is also the matter of untraceable donor money a government employee like Fauci is forbidden to accept but an elected official can and do accept, due to being elected not hired. Case in point other than Paul is Senator Manchin, these men are two of 90 billionaires in Congress, and this billionaire in particular trying to cut the legs off government at every turn, would make the Senators literally, traitors to those who elected them, in a time before the GOP introduced redistricting allowing them a home base from which they can cut government to its knees with impunity, hiding behind the constituents who for them are the billionaires in society, a mere 1/30th of the total population.
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  6034. Parked on a bad spot is more like a coordinated bombardment. Unbelievable!
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  6035. Civil society uses all the productive forces a society can make to the extent these forces have grown. Slaves did make all of America’s productive forces of which their share remains shortchanged. America was a slave society and in the post slave period former slaves and descendants built the Ford Motor Company and Detroit as a automobile capital of the nation. Black labor is the creator of all material wealth and its productive forces in America, the fruit of its labor covers a span of 5 centuries. Slave labor built Harvard University, descendants of slaves built Chicago University. The very room that council takes place is a product of black labor and the clothes they wear are products of cotton produced by black labor. It wasn’t called the world slave trade for nothing. Virtually everything was a product of slave labor. The list is endless to the amount black people have contributed to the total GDP of the US, and in many cases were better at capitalism than European settlers who came ashore as owners of money. They were so good at capitalism that ESSO (Standard Oil) Corporation was the first to hire them for marketing and development into the black market. First in Blues, Soul, Jazz, an unbelievable amount of creativity the remotest parts of the world were touched in the head by black art. Russians in Siberia, so far away, Indians and India, know how to Rap. So what do we do? A re-alignment of the wealth of society is what we do. This is a case for the International Court of Justice and South Africa is in the best position to file the motion and litigate reparations. Instead of wealth going to the descendants of settlers they go to the descendents of slaves to correct the situation and everyone not a descendant of a slave or a white slave owning settler, has equal access to America’s productive forces of society.
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  6036. Was Zalenski’s choice of wardrobe out of touch with the conservatism that is Washington? I think so. And why was the Mrs., Olena Zalenski not in Washington with him? Where are the women behind these men? Women in these prominent roles should make socially responsible use of the roles they own and be role models. Like it or not the position comes with power of influence, her personality can inspire an industry to flourish, get people out of the dumps...beside which there is balance and representation that the political world is not made up of men alone where women are voiceless living as second class citizens, the cultural life of a society would die, attitudes and ideas that are rotten from stagnation and go nowhere fester.
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  6037. That isn’t British Tea they dumped. Americans are fine with revolution as long as it is play acting revolution. The event would have more relevance as revolutionary if it were gunpowder they dumped.
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  6038. Pipelines are used to get oil to a population. Oil for their cars not water for their bodies.
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  6039. Well it happened in 1640 and 1688 in England, 1789 in France, why not 2017 in America! America is no exception to history. Competition is compelling every nation to protect their own historical role and protect their manufacturers by renewed tariffs and customs regulations on imports. Free competition inside each nation has to break down to the last detail the competition in the other nation, so that each nation sees in another what it does not have in itself, and is a competitor of and to another, a surround sound of competing global corporation-states, out to lower their cost of production, cut labor and using government to subjugate the masses. And in some circles this is called 'freedom'? The other thing that happened from 1640 to 2017 are several dual-revolutions, corresponding to the wars and interventions came the revolutions in Russia and China the most significant ones. No doubt corresponding to the war on labor dully noted the "mother of all battles," as David Koch calls it, will sweep in the mother of all revolutions, a revolution of the human being as a species and the start of a new human journey into a world of economic cooperation. You can only hope history will compel the American working class to act in this universal manner and sweep all other classes and nations aside .
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  6040. West capitalist nations are not doing to well. Workers clamoring for higher wages in a business environment enjoying high rates of productivity is a contradiction. What explains this movement in the opposite directions between wages and profits? It can't be pride, ego, disgrace, corruption, fixing, lack of intelligence ( well, maybe)...what is the inner connection between wages and profits that make them so interlocked, inseparable and always oscillating, and never on the same side of each other, and what makes one go down because the other went up and vice versa, as the rule would have it. It takes long periods of oscillations for them, literally decades, to reverse their position over each other in their competitive battle to stay on top.
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  6041. To Susan Mercurio,--- Indeed, the small minority of owners of all the capitals commands the US economy. But you miss the point. Apply supply and demand to the commodity labor-power and the free market regulates its purchase and sale, I think Adam Smith's dream becomes a living nightmare for the working class. Capitalism needs free labor and free labor is sold by its owners as a commodity. Its value is determined like any commodity's value. Buyers (owners of capital) cannot force an individual seller looking for a job into a job, the seller has to be willing, not compelled, to let it go to the buyers. This throws fresh light on the subject of cutting off federal benefits to unemployed workers. People are compelled into becoming sellers in order to compel them to dispose of their labor-power voluntarily? The government intervenes on the 'free market' where buyer and seller constitutes a private exchange between two people and a voluntary act but in general all the sellers are forced into an exchange is an involuntary act. Contradictions are inherent in capitalism. Anyway, capitalism is not delivering the goods... If the working class were the owners of all the capitals, they would be owners of their own objectified labor, because for Marxists labor is everything and everything is labor, and the (transnational corporations is referred here as 'capitals"), is the particular form of human labor at this time. The world is nothing more than matter and labor and all commodities are at bottom nothing more than matter and labor shaped into a human want...f a revolutionary proletariat in the US existed it would rule over the US economy and work it for its benefit.
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  6042. I hope he dissolves the National Assembly.
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  6043. This is when you want a real jury of a cross section of peers not a jury of civilian billionaires.
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  6044. This report has CIA written all over it.
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  6045. This is a " Lord of the Flies" William Golding moment capturing the self degradation of humanity and how debasing Americans of this social category can be. Children without adult supervision will devolved into gang lords and thugs, women too.
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  6046. What will a collapse look like in the US? Much like Argentina looks now. New societies emerge only when old ones die away is the life-process of human history. So it is not the end of the world...its the end of capitalism. World never ends. Socialism emerges from capitalism or Barbarism emerges depends on the class forces at work. This would be a historic opportunity for America. Form has everything to do with the manner of work society must do to live is too important for society base itself on form and no content. The US military cannot invade all nations that stop trading with the Dollar. US military cannot obliterate humanity or it would have no Dollar System at all. And workers are not going to work for nothing when the boss says sorry the checks are no good. Use, equality, and quality is the only direction people and industry can go after quantity and inequality is gone.
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  6047. Biden's constituency is one of the all the other constituencies, but this consituency is a class of people who have privilege and influence in society now and at that time.  Its about the social group of people behind Biden and their position in the number of seats they have in Congress. Too many and they have a majority and too few they lose to Trump. Right now they are the last hold outs of the Clinton democrats standing in the way of the progressive democrats. They would rather lose to Trump than have a progressive win the presidency. They will undermine Bernie at every turn, the only democrat who can beat Trump, the Biden democrats will leave it up to the states to decide if they want democratic socialism or not, they become overnight architects of state rights the republicans used to shun Obama, against Bernie offering a tangible program to the Public.
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  6048. The FEMA director Peter Gaynor commands 14,000 employees, several huge federal warehouses that can fill three aircraft carriers stocked with material of all types from A to Z, and 13 government agencies. In short FEMA is a standing army and compared to the US military it is small. The military is a force of 475,000 soldiers and dwarfing the size of personnel of the military is a 1 million man police force in law enforcement all equipped as we have seen on occasion when called out to quell riots full battle regalia. The federal government, therefore, has three huge standing armies. The military has at least the same material but four times the amount of all nations combined, that is 127 nations! This is what makes the US an empire. FEMA alone could outfit the entire US with a hospital system in every state making our ordinary hospital system with all its combined resources the size of the state of New Jersey and with that shrinking, overwhelmed, reduced to the size of Rhode Island. The 14,000 employees include experts of all types, engineers, doctors, medical emergency and police, workers and the army Corp of engineers. FEMA could produce material and distribute material. The production of ventilators is a piece of cake if they do not already have them stocked which they do. The society I envision is one where the needs of all citizens can be met for three generations spanning 100 years going forward and a reduced work week from 40 hours per work of a workforce of 133 million people to 20 hours per week for all 334 million and not put a dent in the quantity of material and resources the federal government commands. To give you some proof of one small fraction of this productive power see Big Bertha boring the tunnel under Seattle Washington. One machine, a giant drill is run by four operators at the helm the whole tunnel project 2 miles long employs a workforce of 800 workers. In fact, of all the parts of the society as a whole the Public has the least down to a bare minimum hand to mouth existence from lack of its rightful share of the material wealth and resources its high level of productivity creates. In my view, the priority that makes the federal government insist the Public rely on the private sector for all its needs is its persistence to be a world empire which in this day and age is doing more harm to the planet and the species as a whole. This epidemic makes me question three things about America in order that trust be restored (1) capitalism or the government's reliance on the private sector, (2) ecology and economic inequality in society, (3) public health.
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  6049. There should be an international body (the UN) charged with placing an objective observers in all terror attack investigations the world over, this is standard practice for airline crashes, why not for terrorism, so that there can be no alteration of reality would be the aim. The crisis is to grave to not have an independent observer as part of the forensic team to corroborate the conclusions and findings of police investigations. The Public cannot just hand over its trust, confidence and approval without objective and irrefutable facts. If this does not become standard practice than tyranny falls into a grey area and investigations do nothing to eradicate terrorism.
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  6050.  @bbrigman9382  Exactly, the more he distracts the more fearful the people become and stay home.
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  6051.  @zedwolf1589  They are not going to mail you the forms you need to vote in primaries. Do you know what open and closed primaries mean? If you did you'd never make a suggestion like that.
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  6052.  @zedwolf1589  Is your state a close election state, in other words you have to be registered a democrat to vote in the primary or a republican to vote in a primary?
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  6053.  @Picklemedia  lol. Nice left humor, it would make a great political cartoon.
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  6054.  @zedwolf1589  What is your opinion on closed primaries? Or, any opinion at all?
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  6055.  @zedwolf1589  Of course. Not only that but markets are undemocratic and a free market society is not a democratic society. So the electoral college will stay in place because the free market stays in place and vice versa. Electoral college keeps the free market intact.   Why is a market undemocratic? Take for example the biohazard masks allegedly a safeguard from the caronavirus. Produce too much of them and there is no profit, the virus might be stopped, a cure found. Produce too little and the price of the mask flies through the roof. Only the rich can afford the masks, the poor cannot. Masks are not produced according to need. This is an undemocratic system. Nobody talks about the system they talk about a free market that people become insane enought to believe that a government controlled system is a completely different kind of system. America is a nation of idiots!
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  6056.  @Picklemedia  He's done so little that is good. Even what good he has done has been done with borrowed money. Technically, if I do good with your money am I really doing any good at all ?
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  6057. To think we have the technology to do away with all this nonsense.
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  6058. Israel is living proof of what sociologists call a “cycle of victimization”, victims of a holocaust become the perpetrators of a holocaust. Victims of domestic violence become the perpetrators of domestic violence. Anyone who was a victim becomes a victimizer. The institutions designed to protect victims as in child welfare agencies become the perpetrators of violence on the victims they intend to protect. The cycle breaks and comes to an end when violence in societies, the means of violence, and the institutions of violence are abolished.
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  6059. The good news is that the ruling elites are infected as well and the International Organization of Police Chiefs (IOPC) will not sit in a room with their boss, AG W. Barr, giving a speech. It might be the case that ruling elites have an antidote.
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  6060. Human needs have been politicized because of the exploitation of resources by capitalism. The vital spheres of life have taken the form of a commodity that the definition of a revolution is a change in the mode of production. As nature is politicized by the fossil fuel industry's mining and drilling exploitation of soil and water the revolution in water and soil production will have a political dimension to it. As the health of the environment decays from this exploitation environmental health and public health are not divorced and along with social inequality become the main subjects of a change in the mode of production.
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  6061. The Congo was colonized for its rubber by the Belgians. When they Belgians left the Congo they left behind technology and machinery the Congolese were never taught to use had consequently, set the country back from a source of income from world trade. This was a big set back that contributed to the failures of the DRC.
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  6062. @jimwillride,---you make a real valid point.
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  6063. Time to burn the suit, white shirt and tie look.
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  6064. Willing to take the retaliations is a sign of how desperate the Biden government wants to slow down the rise of China already outstripping the US in key industries. Trump is not willing to take retaliations and wants to slow down China’s economic growth for a larger share of the world market is the difference between democrats and republicans at this juncture. Its a minor difference with social ramifications not good for the US because the world market is reshaping into separate blocks, large chunks have fallen away making the total size of the world market smaller, no room for two giants, only room for one, hence, nuclear war. Cooperation is not in the DNA of the US, cooperation is in the DNA of China and Asia and this makes any deal with any corrupt nation a good deal if it means that world market stays within the orbit of the US.
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  6065. Electric bikes thrown away in rivers and waterways of urban cities is a curious phenomenon in the west?
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  6066.  KELLI2L2  The average worker is insane to want a president to bring jobs home when the condition to return jobs by the greedy corporations is, fine, we'll bring the jobs back if your bring wages down, i.e., match the price of cheap labor abroad and we'll come back. Corporations will not lose profits over sentiment. Careful what you wish for workers the president's cabinet is filled with billionaire after billionaire very, very partial to the corporations. In fact, is the corporation in political dressing.
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  6067. These are thieves who get caught the thieves who do not get caught are in private industry and are well protected from prosecution.
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  6068.  @dejayrezme8617  Indeed, it can be classified as a socialist economy and is. "Free Market" is confused by westerners to not be an ideology but passes itself off as a theory synonymous with the exchange of products for money and the exchange of money for products (buying and selling), hence the population is divided as buyers and sellers. The 1.2 billion people in China are not divided into categories as buyers and sellers for one thing, whereas, in the US and the EU, one can be a buyer today and a seller tomorrow, i.e., Ebay. People change position but are always one category or the other category at all times. However, this is not say that buying and selling does not exist in China, it does. I have you what you need and you have what I need is trade using money. Prior to the introduction of paper-money the entire world bartered one use-value for another use-value to move products from one hand to another and were never "buyers and sellers" is as old as the invention of farming, i.e., 12000 years old. That is the short version of the historical evidence.   Capital is entirely something else. Where it comes from is another question is the study of political economics.    In free markets, democracy does not exist, the proof is the hoarding of toilet paper during this crisis, or the price gauging of medical supplies in a shortage, or when there is an over production of a stock a liquidation of cars, auctions, buy by the pallet, or to raise the price of milk the slaughter of cows. Free markets cause people to go without while others have their needs met, is not democratic.    People with more money rule over people with less money is authoritarianism. This does not exist in China, but it does in the west.    Horrifying abuses? We do not see genocide in China if that is what you mean by your hyperbole 'horrifying" but yes, there is a suppression of religious institutions and movements in China. Falun Gong, Muslims, Buddhists, evangelicals, Christians, creationists, chiliasts, are suppressed and these suppressions exist because the evidence is abundantly clear from history and in the present in places like Africa and the Middle East, Europe the US, where locusts and floods devastate the population do little or in many cases facilitate the spread of a deadly virus through religious inaction or not enough action, that religious practices do not serve the needs of the population when these influences enter into government. Israel and the oppression of Palestinians, Iran is a perfect case in point the epicenter of the coronavirus is not its priority but the proxy wars between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, Modi and the suppression of the Hindu of India  Columbia and Ecuador good examples of Christian and evangelical fundamentalist religions suppressing the native populations. The large-scale landowner- Creationists in Brazil and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest for more land, timber and cattle grazing. Historically, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the colonization of America by puritans and the entire history of European wars over Protestantism and Catholicism, the Roman Empire and slavery.    China has good reason to keep religion out of politics, it is a small county packed with people that it cannot afford to return to its past as a feudal religious society makes socialism ideal for its needs. Can it be perfected, of course, and it is doing all the right things that socialism in Russia did not do to avoid its collapse; China learns from other nations and incorporates what works and discards what does not work.
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  6069. @josephwilson3077...sure in theory a level field is great but in practice the field is not level.
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  6070. One of the last Cold War vestiges to go is the One Nation Two Systems policy after the reunification of Germany in 1989. Vestiges take a long time to disappear into history depends on how entrenched the vestige is with society, shallow roots make it easy to yank the plant out from the ground.
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  6071. Social labor is the common substance of the value of the Dollar. If the cost of all wars is one trillion per month of $500 billion in two installments, as values are always expressed relatively, that amount of cash would pay off the total student debt of the US is one example of a value equivalent because being measured is social labor in these equivalents versus the amount of labor time it takes to poduce an ounce of gold being the universal measure of value. SInce actual gold was replaced by the value of some other commodity in 1973, to back the dollar, indeed, the oil market as a whole is that commodity backing the dollar right now.  It is safe and real to say the dollar is propped up on the necessity of the exploitation of the land where oil is found and where people happen to dwell on such land. Exploitation of the commodity oil cannot take place before the people are taken off the land so the US fills the role of yanking peasants, farmers, workers, entire communities off the land, to make commercial for its exploitation of the oil laying beneath it. All of America's social labor is spent on a process of expropriation in foreign lands for foreign oil market investors is the current paradox for American working people. Tommorrow it can be another commodity market, the point being, the product of labor these commodities consist of, cannot be a commodity in the first place if our working relationships are going to be based on a conscious interaction with the material world. We have to begin producing as we are in relationship to the planet not in relationship to how much money is in the bank from the oil commodity itself. How products of labor become commodities is one problem a revolution would have to solve could be solved by changing our need for oil. We as individuals would have to go down the list of our needs that depend on oil in all its forms to ultimately change our being and way of life to help the communal lands become a thing for sale with a profit motive to outsiders and who contracts with mercenary armies to do the killing of communities, to open the land up for commerical drilling. This is one way we can help these vicitimized communities and stop blaming the victim is the other. Begin with a complete re-orientation of thinking about the world and the human species. Basically, a person can not be a non-person at the same time without the political structure of that contradiction shored up by two sets of rules is the life communities, at home and abroad, experience under siege of capitalism. Two kinds of rules two kinds of labor. Work and working are two different kinds of labor. We have to understand the dollar expresses individual work time as one kind of concrete labor and acting as social labor in the form of paper as abstract kind of labor. Every dollar spent is equal to every second worked on the factory and office floor producing these needs, the more we work for the monster the more powerful the monster becomes is the paradox of our national situation. We are accomplices in the exploitation of land abroad and complicit in the exploitation of our own labor at home.
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  6072. The heavy drum music over recurring images and texts is classic video propaganda these days.
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  6073. Well,---police are a part of the social class dominating the world presently, the .001%. The .001% came to America in the 1600s. The main opposition they encountered in colonizing the country were the native Americans living here. This dominant class is composed of other member institutions brought from the Old World the institutions that are the church, lawyers, merchants, landowners, the police.  Today these institutions have become large and complex from its earlier simple stages. But the job of subjugation of the labor of others has not changed, ---the past rules the present.
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  6074. Happy for the societal shift Gaza provokes in the US but what is played out between the US and Israel right now is a historic relation of exploitation, between and of, two nations,---a fact that one nation’s workforce over the past 234 year history since 1789, and all its present day work and productivity built over the work of generations past, remains a nation without universal health care and education for its own citizens, and or because, over the past 77 year history since 1947, another nation is deemed more worthy or dignified enough to have its own universal healthcare and education for its citizens paid by another nation’s workforce. This is treasonous! High treason by those who appropriate the material wealth of a 132 million Americans. The giving of its wealth to a foreign nation is a relation of exploitation of historic significance of betrayal and disdain. And this disdain does not spring from envy or a miraculous power of a nation no bigger than the State of New Jersey, that it can become rich enough to put food, good health, and intelligence on the table as “absolutely free” for all its 9.5 million people. This comes from those placed in positions of power in the US Senate who take the milk and honey from the bee and the cow at no cost to them and give it to someone else. Treason.
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  6075. 1:06 that fire official did not say putting out the fires before it expands is their first priority...that is concerning... the official is leading us into a disaster. NY is not prepared and officials are incompetent when the message is take some personal responsibility. They are not equipped nor prepared because the State never made fire safety equipment and aircraft proportional to what would be needed to put out a fire of this size. Total incompetence.
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  6076. The Left needs to get its story straight.
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  6077. He's has higher ratings than Trump did. I am not a Biden supporter and I am not a Trump supporter. Trump called nations' Shitholes" was he talking about your own nation?
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  6078. How would you get a social culture that is so conditioned on dependency to work? Both the poor and the rich would pack their bags and leave the country because neither of these social classes regard work as obligatory for the society to function.
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  6079. The news looks at the video of the off-duty officer and the citizen fighting and sees the citizen did not back off when the officer fired shots. I see the video of the same altercation and see a citizen fighting more intensely to save his save his life from shots fired by the officer.
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  6080. “A business will not run if they don’t get the target profit they need”...you cannot determine that if you cannot determine what skills turn a profit more than others. “...I will move out and find new work”, and you’ll find the same problem there to. @tinsbali3250 
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  6081. Russian aggression in the war and US and NATO aggression that led up to the war is the historical piece missing in this letter. If there is no admission of US and NATO aggression by the US and NATO preceding the war Russia will never cease its aggression in the war. Diplomacy is the way to deal with the Russians on a score of matters that have nothing to do with Ukraine Obama, Trump and Biden have neglected, and a ceasefire is how that process begins settle those matters. Without a ceasefire in Ukraine you cannot get to those matters.
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  6082. If you knew the personal history of both families you would know they are privileged rivals. Someone cannot be a rival unless others are rivals. One and the same kind of people but on opposite sides of each other does not make a new world order.
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  6083. This is fantastic news but it comes from the fact that the war to be won is not a military war with China but an economic one. The military budget absorbs most of the national capital needed to invest in the necessary economic infrastructure in the country needs to compete.
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  6084. I think we will be seeing more armies and police in many societies go off the defensive deep end. We can do something here to help stop that by applying pressure on all weapons makers.
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  6085.  @wyomii  Those items must cease to be produced. Expecting people ignorant of the concern to change their consumption habits is like Waiting for Godot, he never shows up! In the 70s radical environmentalists had a tactic the left in the gave up for a lifestyle of riches in the 90s. They poured red paint on people wearing furs, distorted billboards to read the message, threw blood on meat cases in stores, bombed dams. In retrospect , those tactics are justified. They went to jail many of them but history exonerates them.
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  6086.  @nickh2458  I seriously doubt the people you're talking to give a dam about those left behind.
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  6087. What is great is that the bounds of the human body are being tested and people are not just thinking about the limitations but they are getting rid of them. Those who don’t have to worry about survival, can focus energy into this.
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  6088. ...intelligence is not the acrobatics of a born-leveler. He’s street smart.
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  6089. Nobody came to this country as citizens. Not even George Washington came as a citizen. There wasn’t a citizen in this country until the Declaration of Independence was written. Every one here in America before the Declaration was written was a slave, a foreign settler immigrant, a colonist, a trapper, a soldier from another country, two countries in fact, or a native American Indian, none were citizens including the authors of the Declaration. The comment is a lame one coming from the State Assembly person....this country is trouble with the likes of him. Against work permits migrants? The State Assembly person wants to deprive another human being the right to feed and house themselves. If we take him as a sample of his constituency this country is in trouble.
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  6090. Boring! The spying is boring. All the establishments are boring. Jheezus! The Soul of a Human Being is lobotomized by Civil Service. Nothing is sacred to these people. Macron is boring, Putin, Trump (interesting for his anarchic proclivities), Biden, Johnson's social dysfunction is about the only interesting character in this play. Bolsonaro is more than boring. A putrid public figure. Netanyahu would be better as stand up comedian, a Rodney Dangerfield, but as a serious person he's flat out despicable. Barr's bulldog sagging face is a parody of boredom. None of the BIG western powers have produced a leader of any profound abilities and insights. If they are there the media obliterates they exists. All these political career politicians come off with the same bland cast...down right boring people. Catty, gossipists, lacking imagination concealing deals they make to proliferate the means for conflicts. I can't put a date on the end of the epoch but the start date is 1980. But from that year forward, the leaders we never, EVER, see covered by moronic media are interesting people and the leaders we ALWAYS see are people who offer absolutely nothing by way of character to the world. Putrid rot.
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  6091. Religion is the opiate of the people said Karl Marx, he was right.
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  6092. There is a slave trade in the US that migrants crossing the border fall into and nobody is the wiser. Plus, if they got naturalized that would give them rights. Caucasians of European descent would be in the minority if migrants were naturalized are the reason they remain illegal. Plus, employers working them as slaves don’t want to get sued or charged with labor violations by a career prosecutor. The borders remain open because all our money is spent on Ukraine and Israel’s war on Gaza that less of it is spent here. We got big expenditures: infrastructure, two wars, all the social spending, military, the rest of us are fighting each other over crumbs.
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  6093. The US war with China is the main reason the US wants to bog Russia down. I just think Ukraine does not see the US motives of a war with China.
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  6094. 0:15 Presidential motorcade looks like a Funeral Procession. 1:20 The attack on a Korean hair salon in Dallas conceals the identity of the perpetrator because of his age. 7:44 Kirby’s admission that CIA operations ended up in the killing of 70 lives in Syria paves the way for accountability when the admission leads to no consequences for the Pentagon in the Senate.
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  6095. Its time the mass of the American people descend on Washington in a real big way.
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  6096. Our situation is deeper than the over simplification the republicans care to admit and some democrats too. How much capital is still producing overseas? All the companies that are producing at home are stocking the shelves of the largest market in the world with less labor and more automation. There is also a question if they really do know how much to produce? There is over production and under capacity, a static wage. A lack of incentive to employ labor and make money the old fashioned way. Corporations are also banks and make money investing in owning stocks, bonds, liquid assets and hard assets in markets all over the world, lending money offering credit financing..where is the reason to hire workers when money makes money!
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  6097. I am not going to find a theory of history here...
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  6098. Biden represents the end of Neoliberalism because Afghanistan and Iraq are a microcosm of neoliberal policies. He could never win the election after this military defeat. What will come after neoliberalism is bound to be a lot worse. Bound to be fascist.
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  6099. We can see he is freer to speak as himself now that Trump has left office.
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  6100. Elon Musk most likely has a obsessive compulsive disorder for cutting costs while his political detractors have a compulsive disorder for chewing the fat. Is it the man or the capitalist Musk is, that trips this group into a frenzy?
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  6101. Taxing the corporations produced a huge American middle class and an economic surplus from a destitute working class coming out of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl proves the idea of taxing the corporations in a recession a fallacy. History does not lie but young pundits do lie. The period leading up to the Great Depression was a period that did not tax the corporations. This is a history that also proves the notion wrong that not taxing the corporations would not lead to a crash but to greater investment...and wealth. This part was true for Wall Street and dead wrong for society. Corporations would take more than they give is the lesson of the Great Depression.
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  6102. Chinese teach the world how to unite against banks.
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  6103. The weather man is the spitting image of my eighth grade lay teacher of 1969. They say everyone has a twin. But they don’t say your twin is never in the present but in the past.
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  6104. One state still living the 18th century barbarism of the past is Missouri.
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  6105. The repair of one bridge in one state is what your money buys in the Biden infrastructure bill. This must be the “Too Little Too Late” Gang.
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  6106. Americans would rather see their troops come home and Americans would rather not have oil drilled in America. How can you take the word of a man who thinks a monarchy is a dictatorship? A think tank in the area of the political affairs of society equates a family monarchy to a dictatorship is questionable and dubious.
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  6107. Lets see what the Special Counsel Jack Smith decides. It might lead to something historic.
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  6108.  LUIS VAL  Classic contradiction isn't it? If you lived long enough you've lived through one complete business cycle you'd know. Business cycles are a necessary evil of capitalist life. The last business cycle ended with the Fall of Saigon 1975. It began with WWII. The newer cycle began anew in 1980 and ends with the Fall of Kabul 2021. The latest cycle is what we are in now that the variables are beginning to take shape as dismal. After Saigon fell the US economy faced double digit inflation and coined a new term 'stagflation'. Unemployment and inflation crippled the working people. At the end of this cycle crippling the standard of living of working people are four disasters. Destruction, climate change, unemployment, pandemic, proving capitalism is incompatible to human life. Business cycles are more than an 'explanatory hypothesis', of statistical analysis presented to us in the media. They mean and measure something real when statistics and theory fit into an institutional study. As long as you understand that unemployment, crisis, depressions, are necessary evils that cannot be separated from the economic system than you can understand the work of the political world is all damage control. There is always enough money, they sit on a surplus that reaches the stratosphere, its purely political that people are not helped in their domestic life.
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  6109.  @rivvy2138  Of course it is. You have a western myopic definition of what civilization is. Maybe you should define what civilization means to you for us to understand the limitations of that understanding.
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  6110. It will come to that...
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  6111. Excellent. I have a suggestion to Grayzone, do an organizational chart of news outlets and their relationship to organizations and persons, when reporting. Anything would do. A graphic, a white board, would do to help the audience see the relationships of the entities manufacturing consent charted out as a visual aid. Thanks for your excellent work.
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  6112. Thus any new form of socialism to emerge successfully must be another form of socialism that first sets free its industries on oil dependence to avoid the fate of nationalization.
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  6113. What they are upholding is the idea of the America at its height of economic power. Looking Backward to a time that will never return. The changing demographics in the US to a non-white majority is targeted to reflect this decline. With dictatorship comes revolution is the historical pattern of western democracies.
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  6114. Liticia James inflates value to borrow and deflates her taxes with deductions and she’s a civil servant making $100K annually plus her husband’s non-civil service income income puts her in the upper middle class percentile to take many deductions. Its all pure hypocrisy. Trump does no more what others in his social class do. In fact, so does Congress. Bernie Sanders, Hawley, all of them do this, they wrote the tax code. The only people who do not are people who make a living through hard work and even they have groups among them like truck drivers take depreciation allowances just not as high. You do it and I do it. We are all liars when it comes to this. Amy Goodman does it. That its never mentioned proves the news, yes even DN, perpetuates the dishonesty and hypocrisy of a nation that cannot handle the truth because it lives a lie.
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  6115.  @petermartell568  It authorizes depreciation allowances not fraud. Do you own a factory, workshop, expensive tools, commercial trucks, containers, railroad tracks, oil rigs, and so on? If you do own these items and you are not taking a tax depreciation allowance on them then your tax attorney is working against your interest and if you do deduct the depreciation from what you owe Uncle Sam than you are dodging taxes. That’s not fraud that’s the rigged tax structure your congressperson wrote in a Tax Code. I am telling you he does no more than what others in his class do are not words of an apologist, dimwit.
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  6116.  @hizzlemobizzle  a home owner can deduct a part of their home used for business, but this rule i the Tax Code does not apply to the millions of small property owners you call homeowners, they apply to large property owners all the small property owners work for. The rules for you and the rules for them are unequal.
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  6117. A safety system is not only limited to systems made of machines. A human safety system is two or more workers on a train. The president of the US cannot detonate a hydrogen bomb without three Generals turning the key is a safety check. You forgot the human element just as the MTA forgot the human element. This is why there is no humanity for Americans in their workplace. The human factor is excluded in all its planning is a generational crisis. My comment stands as is. @zycklacon9588 
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  6118. Why not open the discussion with the question on everyone’s mind: Is Civil DIsobedience the only strategy to effect change? This panel should be talking about methods for change. The Hows not the Whys. Instead, I am hearing a description of the behavior of a repressive State.
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  6119. Poor kids cheated of their learning and development time. America just walks on by. What a disgrace of a people!
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  6120. Oh, I see, this action was a way for these guys to get into prison and help their gang brothers. There had been uprising in prisons around the country ever since a powerful gang leader went missing. Kidnapping guards and threatened by inmates all this has escalated prison unrest and this action at the TV station is a serious enough charge to get into prison over all the other petty crimes the police are probably letting go because they have more important matters like a full blown war on their hands and most likely lead to a lack of confidence and defeat in the next election for this president (if it isn’t rigged). Now it all makes sense. Poor job in journalism here DW.
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  6121. I would not trust the UK, its intelligence or it analysis. It is the lack of impartiality and the credibility of the British government that cause its integrity to dissipate into thin air. All former colonial powers have this weakness.
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  6122. The opposition is not in sync with the majority in Russia and this support makes a CIA backed overthrow of the Putin regime more challenging is how the State department would take interest in this event. There is nothing here to capitalize on would say a state department official. Everyone foaming at the mouth for the overthrow of Putin will have to wait and see meanwhile NATO will not intervene with the Ukrainian offensive to take Russian controlled territory much less expect to hold it. You can have the arms but without the manpower a war will be lost. The crackdown on Novalny supporters is tolerated by a majority of the Russian public, they see his actions as the right thing to do...the concern being the penetration of western oligarchs and political forces to disable a Russia so that China has one less ally in the march to capture the Asia-Indo markets and under circumstances of an opposition as a militant arm of a particular oligarchy in the west... any internal Russian homegrown opposition alignment to that foreign intervention has no chance, a change depends on how Putin treats the majority. So far he’s solid with them. The bigger change in process are old conflicts settled in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, past colonized nations are coming into their own, is the bigger change is a new path for Russia.
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  6123. Orban will make Hungary a sentinel state for the US. A strategy to make sentinel states as buffers to China’s growth. Zalensky is in the process of turning Ukraine into a sentinel state of the US. A strategy to weaken US expansion into Eurasia.
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  6124. Can't forget the Iraq War Veterans, so angry at the liberal establishment who at the time was Joe Biden put them in harm’s way using 9/11 for a call for freedom and liberty against Sadaam Hussien and liberate Iraq. Congress went along with it hook, line and sinker. They gave Al Queda a place to fight Americans. The Vets came back destroyed, and used the only power they have to elect Trump, a spite vote against the liberal establishment. What did the left do? Nothing. What did the left do when these same vets showed up in Virginia armed to protest Northam's gun laws on MLK day 2020? Nothing. The left should have been there arm and arm with the Iraq vets. Biden was then and is now in the pocket of Raytheon Lockheed Martin. Grumman, GE, Exxon Mobil, the largest oil dealer to the Pentagon.  Biden formerly head of the arms services committee then became VP to Obama, hand-picked by Obama to initiate another war, the war we are in today, the war with the Russians to build up Ukraine. The next group of Veterans sent to war are not going to come back as close as it came with the assassination of Solemeini of Iran, because now they will be fighting entire nations in the Middle East. His America First policy puts all of Europe in the untenable position to choose between the US or Russia and China. With half of the British parliament invested in Hawei, England, France and Germany slides into a deep stagnation with Trump’s trade war on China.  As for Trump, he is the wrong man for the job. Wrong, because his path is not to deconstruct the arms industry and wrench the grip the arms industry has of our government, his path is to become an autocrat. Undo all the wrong wrong-doers prosecuted by the liberal establishment and create a fealty of the justice department. The people supporting him never went to war. An autocrat is natural to them, they are chiliasts, believers in the second coming of Christ, God, Family and Country. They are the NASCAR enthusiasts, rich, spoiled Americans, country music stars, with pro-fascist leanings.  Only Bernie opposed the Iraq War. Only Bernie opposes the misuse of the military, opposes invasions, opposes the arms industry, opposes industries with the highest carbon footprint. Vote Bernie if you are going to vote, it’s the last chance to restore America back to its original roots of American progressivism.
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  6125. California throws a bone to the black and Latino communities to shut them up!
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  6126. Obviously, if the NATO allies really wanted this war to end they would sit down with Putin in Russia and negotiate an end but ending the war is not what they really want. At this point, Zalenski has cornered himself into failure. This war is too profitable to end it and the poor unfortunate victims of this profitability are Ukrainians. The Ukrainian parliamentarian shows her frustration with the allies who are profiting but do not want WWIII. Its also rather insulting to the parliamentarian for the reporter to state he understands the parliamentarian’s frustration when clearly the reporter is twisting the real issue the parliamentarian alludes, which, is how this war has been a vehicle for a small minority who want to expand their business does not end the war and does not escalate the war. It is clearly a strategy that works for Russia to abduct Americans and realistically, why not, this is war making an American currency for an exchange.
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  6127. Why would it be a mystery. Its pretty obvious to me Lake Meade was a dumping ground for the mob. Something mentally wrong with police that its still a mystery to them when mob killings have been emulated by Hollywood and US history of the Mob dates back to the early 1900s.
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  6128. Spent $8trillion on Afghanistan and got nothing for it. China spent nothing and waited for Afghanistan to fall in its lap. Manchin voted for the war and holds hostage the needs of the American people as too much.
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  6129. Americans are coming around but much too slowly as far as the rest of the world is concerned. Trudeau, Macron, Trump, Netanyahu, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, May, Abe, a few others in Latin America, Asia and eastern Europe are all concerned over their national security interests which happens to be identical with the interests of Big Industry and multi-national corporations respectively of those nations. Together they put up a wall of defense against perceived enemies and between them try not to step on each others toes on economic development fearing internal dissent, and external threats to national security, and to the accumulation of profits each nation feels they have a natural right to possess and spend.
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  6130. While Trump states himself, the greater enemy is the enemy within, he refers to using the power of the presidency for purposes of the eliminating any opposition within society, Harris is about uplifting humanity from the human condition. Trump calls a social and political opposition ‘Scum” and he will use the Justice department and the White House to eliminate the ‘scum’. The scum would be anyone not in his social class and those not in his social class not in his party.
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  6131. Marvelous feat of engineering to build on land below sea level and to sell it to people who trust the professionals did their job the place would be relatively safe from flooding and suitable for family and social development, right? Wrong. The result of a free market system where people can only say, “So Sorry” to the victims of flooding when that market system excludes the Poor and builds for the rich.
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  6132. I'd like to hear current events be explained in more economic theory. Examples of real life that validates the theory.
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  6133. A mendacious propaganda war on the America people to condition us for a nuclear war is a heavy charge and one that leaves the American people perplexed to do something against that mendacity or bear the consequences of that mendacity.
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  6134.  @frankesposito2182  Where is the US State Department in all this?
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  6135. “Saint Musk”...is an appropriate term to which he can be canonized for saving humanity from its chief failings in the bourgeois order itself. The Left should know that in revolutionary activity the changing of oneself coincides with the changing of circumstances.
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  6136. As an illustration of how upside down the political world is I submit this comment. Trump wants to stop government spending to Ukraine and he faces impeachment for that! What would they do if it were Bernie Sanders who halted military spending in support to Ukraine? If we stopped government spending abroad for such purposes as arming nations and putting war torn ones back on their feet again, military bases, limited wars, and military and economic subsidies to client states would be a positive thing toward lowering the cost of empire.  Why should Trump be impeached for that? Even if his intention was not to lower the cost of empire the effect is the same is it not? Every dime not going abroad is a dime that can be spent domestically. The democrats not at all a left oriented party approved more government spending, and then decided to punish Trump for using a political office for personal gain. This against a back drop of a thousand personal gains the primary motive of most if not all politicians.
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  6137. 8:00 Extremely well said Jimmy on the split between labor and capital, i.e, the decoupling of workers incomes from corporate profits. The Brain Police are here.
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  6138. Obviously, the State in the UK DOES NOT WANT or it cannot emancipate people from the horrors of the workplace and privatization. This is why every emancipation is a self-emancipation. The workers afflicted by the conditions are the only ones who can change their conditions. The State is not going to change them for you. The Church wont change them for you. Nobody but you as a working class individual can change circumstances that benefit other social institutions. State, Church, Capital, have no interest changing conditions suitable for them for their to be a unanimous Will among them to make changes through government; its really war without a verbal declaration of war the Left better take seriously.
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  6139. What is true for class is also true for political administrations in that, each new class which puts itself forward in place of the one ruling before it, is compelled, in order to carry through its aim, to represent its interests as the common interest of all members of society. A particular class interest expressed in an idealized form. Hence, "Make America Great Again", whether it is all industry executives acting as a class or if it is Trump and Macron as individuals, their ideas have to take on a form of universality, in language sanitized that as a political program of austerity comes off as the only rational and universally valid program. The final act of the working class is its own emancipation through its own abolition as a working class. True emancipation is not about the destruction of capitalism or the capitalist class. And, religious emancipation is not a universal emancipation. The working class throws in the towel to jump in the ring and takes control over the situation as a final act, when capitalism has reached a certain point of intolerance of its exploitation of labor, that the working class can go no longer functioning to live as a class in itself, and it chooses to cease being the working class a capitalist society requires. The final act is a revolutionary act of the workers putting them in the drivers seat on a road to deconstructing the entire wage system on which capitalism rests. The final act is not a violent act, nor is it a reactionary act. Not a destructive act. Its an act of sacrifice when the proletariat is small and weak but not when it is as strong and big as in France, Britain, Germany or the US. The point is to capitalize on capital bringing workers together in combinations of industries and with this new power in greater numbers the element that exploits labor for profit has no control over the general interest of society.
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  6140. Demoralizing to note that the entire western European modern world is based on a metric measurement that is based on an inaccurate measurement of the size of the earth.
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  6141. De-Occupy Palestine. Everyone is occupying something that belongs to someone else in this world. Taking it and claiming it to be theirs by whatever means that allows them to get away with the act of colonizing someone’s house, land, or nation is routine human behavior. Real freedom can never be a known common fact of life as long as the living occupy the living and make occupations the religion of a bigger unknown. Freed Ocuppiers is a partial freedom not at all a universal freedom. As a partial freedom is not even a natural freedom. It’s a political freedom that depends on the occupied can do nothing about their condition. A king is only a king when people see themselves as subjects. So, the nation’s capacity to make a healthy society is squandered. Investments sink into the ocean or get blow up In the end America got nothing from Vietnam. Poured billions and got nothing. We are still paying for that war. The occupied have fallen under the spell of plastic excess and materialism. They see themselves as consumers and the secret of their real role as producers is kept from them at all cost. We are occupied by false thinking, religion is a pre-occupation(al) hazard at this point, politics are didactic extremes, and the economics of our society are founded on an inequality of social classes.
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  6142.  @shasha14779  Free to me is a problematic word in western capitalism. Freedom in the present economic sense of the word is a person is born into a society with no access and use to the soil and no access and use of products made by society. Freedom under those conditions makes all people the same. The particulars of who we are does not matter; that we are all equally free creates the above stated economic condition.
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  6143. Losing 15% of world trade will harm other countries that are not as rich as the US but the for the US its a spit in the bucket. Conversely if we did nothing to protect the Suez Canal the burden of less goods and high prices would be more fairly distributed between Israel and the rest of the world. Pentagon’s analysis is purely political. Fact is Iran is the prize for the Pentagon. Its the greater strategy against Russia and China that makes war with Iran an America prize.
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  6144. Gas and homes are the two commodities vital to the social reproduction of the working class. For working people they are use-values getting them to and from home and work. They are not vital use-values to the survival of Jamie Dimon downtown in Manhattan in Wall Street. He can work from anywhere. He is not wrong about the US economy is not in a recession; he is just not right that the prosperity is reaching everyone. He does not have to overcome space and time like ordinary working people do. Working people dream all the time about owning a power that can make them appear anywhere anytime. Freedom and mobility for Jamie is an endowment of luxury given as a gift that we in the other world cannot imagine. Gas and houses are only useful to him and those of his class as commodities. Commodities and money are the objects vital to his survival. He wants commodities to do what they do best and the laws affirm commodities have this freedom to change themselves into money. Commodities must trade places with people from maker to user automatically, a no brainer, and where money is involved in that exchange he’s involved...its like you can’t get rid of him, ever so omnipresent, he and his investors are in every pore of society capitalizing on the trillions of exchanges a day and nobody is the wiser. If the commodities were NOT trading no matter their price Jamie Dimon would be singing another tune. They change places with money supplied by the Fed because of the many wars and natural disasters happening at the same time. Consumption is high during war,--- for necessities like gas and housing. Consumption is high during and after natural disaster, floods and storms, you need more gas and more housing. Capital does very poorly when people do not have to struggle for these necessities as they are not consuming a whole lot of what capital has to sell. Conditions best for Jamie Dimon are those where consumption is high. A population in need living hand to mouth are ideal conditions for Wall Street and sometimes you have to make people needier, more materially deprived, become have-nothings, not even a home, on the street, chucked out on the curb, by causing or manufacturing some kind of crisis to get them at the point where the bear necessities is all they are making for themselves and can be kept at that material level for a long time to come is the duty of the Big Guy in charge of how much money there is in circulation tinkering with price fluctuations in the market, adjusting interests rates, prices, wages, rent, pensions, everything but stocks, bonds, annuities, are tinkered with to moderate production and circulation, Powell himself. As long as Fed chair Powell can maintain these conditions money will make more money. China steps in and makes everything that needs immediate replacement because America uses her free economic zones who are total experts in producing high quality product for a low price. You would not believe the excellence in manufacturing and supply systems in China but it is used against the American people by purposely depriving them of this economic miracle solely to enrich one segment of society downtown in Manhattan is the cause of America’s downfall.
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  6145. American legislators are a breed of lawyer who do not try to solve social problems in a political way. They are trained, instructed, paid to not social problems at all. Local legislators are worse that no matter how may times a building falls or a hurricane devastates a coastline do nothing to change zoning laws and local officials, i.e., county managers et., in most states are too religious to even sound the alarm of an impending disaster. What will happen is FEMA public funds will get cut in the name of servicing the government’s enormous debt and private insurers by high premiums will insure the rich. A debt made larger sending weapons overseas. Mar-A-Lago will be covered others not as rich will not. In the end the allocation of public funds for disasters is more than a case of politicians not coming together to legislate remedies to social problems, the allocation rests on a class differences, as to who will get the support. I know this is the scenario that will happen because the planet continues to heat up and ocean levels continue to rise that next seasons hurricanes will strike with greater ferocity and the government’s priority is not solving the social problems of the American people. The next flood even more powerful, the next drought more severe until the whole society is basically turned into a refugee camp filled with Americans who are not rich and are not white.
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  6146. Let Waukesha, be the place where the liberals must replace the broken criminal justice system with something conservatives cannot use as a political weapon. It was a conservative who used the criminal justice system as a political weapon to win the White House, GWH Bush and the Willy Horton Ad blamed the revolving door of the criminal justice system on the democrats. The liberals backing a weak and mid western democrat Walter Mondale had no response. Democrats from that day on owned the beast created in the criminal justice system, a copy of the revolving door between the defense industry and the military republicans enjoy as a lifestyle, was projected to crime and society.
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  6147.  Ben  I don’t know but in English a question needs a question mark.
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  6148. Its inevitable. Expropriate the expropriators through its own negation. Capital is a force of property that causes the domination of people. A system like this is bound to come to an end. In fact the only kind of property capital takes over and controls are the life-giving forms of property. Takes away the necessaries of life in a violent way. Expropriation is a violent part of human history but human history is not a part of violence. Human history does not have to be capitalist; it can develop in another pathway for growth. And it is inevitable that it will.
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  6149. This is moralism. When politics is morality based...good versus bad...are its polarities. If you are not for us you are against us were the words of George Bush to the UN after 9/11. Bush’s comment is an example that the ideas of the ruling class are the ruling ideas of society. The ruling class is founded on wealth and property transferred from producers to capitalists. The producers then become a working class. This social transformation was the main agenda behind the science.
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  6150. A lot of talent is waisted in this country because both political parties serve the American people only in so far as they are useful to their single minded aims. We end up in a society of individuals who have a lust for death not life.
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  6151. Evidently, the justice system does not hold the apprehended accountable...he said the courts are always closed. A defect in the justice system that someone arrested prior could be on the streets is not a problem originating in the community. The question is that acceptable? It's take an act of Congress to reform a justice system,--- the community is victimized by a shitty justice system and by individual gangs and criminals.
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  6152. None of this would be happening, i.e., Trump defrauding the election, a pandemic attack on non-white nationalities, institutional failure to meet human needs, social and economic collapse, declining standard of living and material deprivation, if the working class were still white and middle class. Clean cut the way Hollywood so perfectly depicts America at the peak of its economic ascendency 1950-60s. In a short time it all began to disappear. The day Big Industry, given all the freedom to do what it wants with its microchip, decided to de-skill and go fully automated all its subsidiary industries that could be adapted by the microchip introduced in 1978; and none of the shallow and insipid social relations in America personified by Trump today would be happening if the microchip and communism in China were not so successful over capitalism in the west. This economic history is lost as common knowledge for anyone born after 1978 and this ignorance increases their downfall.
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  6153. The US is not going to take home Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. In fact, to really understand US foreign policy in Latin America all you have to know is whatever makes use-values go up and value per unit goes down.  This economic tendency is desirable to Washington because the effect is a rise in profits for US corporations. However, here lies the problem, Washington's understanding of this economic law is very different from what historical materialism makes of this same process. The tendency to sell cheaper is driven by the tendency to produce cheaper that in a free market leads to monopoly formations and the number of buyers who want or need the product must be in place already present for Washington to begin breaking down in Latin America native industries into powerful automated factories. Corporations and the workers they employ in Latin America are both aware of the long term effects of opening up the environment for commercial exploitation. They both know time is running out before natural resources are depleted so the stance is anti-American from the ground up and their struggle has a hue of something sacrosanct that commercialization breeds contempt for native customs and industry, which, indeed, it does. Washington cannot untangle itself from the difference of the concept of labor it has about Latin America and the actual commodity labor -power as it is in Latin America. America leads the world for the strangest case of myopia inside its Washington elites.
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  6154.  @5353Jumper  20 years ago the same thing was said about tech companies that are today monopolies and 20 years from today the new companies that get the investment capital will pass through a stage of competition then bankruptcies and finally into the new monopolies of green power. The same stages of development Amazon and Microsoft or Exxon Mobil went through are repeated in the new economy. It is not a question of the degree of exploitation or who exploits what because markets are where social classes emerge. The old money you talk about are examples of societies that died and the social classes lived. The Catholic Church is one, 200 years old. The Port Authority of New York is another as well as the Tennessee Valley Authority are examples of the New Deal era still with us today have become not what they were intended because they were allowed to remain and stay intact they leverage their economic and political power and we are back to oil. The mistake a generation made is to rely on laws and the State to resolve capitalism's contradiction when they can only be resolved by new economic relations and a new mode of production.
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  6155.  @paulwheeler6609  Extinction.
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  6156. Taking your eye off of what you should be protesting about they use the media as a means for a mass propaganda campaign.
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  6157. What happens when you do not pay your taxes? The IRS freezes your income and goes straight into your account to take what your did not pay plus penalties and/or go to jail. This is what happens to nations when one currency is the dominant currency. If you do not let American corporations privatize a nation’s public resources the financial assets of that country are taken and/or invaded by US forces. Sad to think that people enlist in the military out of patriotism but are are used in this way which has nothing to do with patriotism.
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  6158. 6:10,--- I am a man. This guy blames women for his black community in chaos...is a ridiculous comment and is sexist. Why is he on a microphone as Youtuber and not in front of a rally himself as a black man?
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  6159. The rich, well connected and wealthy of Lima Peru have a deep seated racism and hatred for indigenous people in the southern part of the country that when one of their own not from Lima’s Elite Oligarchy gets elected they are quick to launch a pro-slavery rebellion. They would rather destroy the entire society than give the people the chance to govern themselves.
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  6160.  @billiamc1969  ...really... I did not know that.
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  6161.  @bjornbaron5940  True statement.
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  6162. It is the same pattern we see everywhere since the Financial Crash of 2007. Every industry in America has a powerful lobby in Washington. The American people have no lobby or voice in that government.
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  6163. The agencies that comprise this power structure, i.e., CIA, NSA, State Department, Treasury Department, Joint Chiefs of Staff, five agencies each coming up with scenarios on how to blow up Putin’s Pipeline come together to plot ways not to establish relations wth a nation but on how to rob its income. And the ones responsible for the growth of this thug like political elite are the American Oil companies who block the way for society to transition away from oil, who cannot give up oil and gas, too profitable to move the country to mass transit and electric and be independent of Russia’s vast and endless gas supply to be considered even a threat...BIG OIL, would rather live with an evil political elite bleed the public dry of its resources, attempt to overthrow Russia and steal her oil and gas resources. Literally, nothing is sacred to these people. They’d rather deprive the American people a limited gas and oil free society and infrastructure by going forward with this plan to conquer Russia for US BIG OIL.
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  6164.  @thenaughtyamericanexpat  You don't like Cuba I see. Well, fine. But if he cannot play the role than he is not cast. I can direct a film, and a lot of stories, I studied film in college. Can you screenwrite for film?
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  6165. Why would you want to reform the Espionage Act when it serves to protect an Establishment not the country?
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  6166. The Carter Administration imposed a Windfall Profit Tax the republicans eventually rescinded, and the GMCT is not a tax on top of the Biden tax increases on the rich but an external tax nations agree to charge US corporations to keep jobs home. So they cannot run basically. You never get the full picture from any of the national news outlets on important issues you get a portal picture in the US, a black out.
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  6167. ---the US world order died on October 7th. Well put. Long overdue the US stop meddling in the Middle East.
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  6168. Industry, jobs, prosperity is not coming back to rural America, all of these gun altercations between police and individuals, is rural working class frustration, anger and rage at elite leadership for abandonment, turning their backs on working class interest. Political leaders have made themselves inaccessible out of cowardice. Trump gives the economically injured a voice to vent their anger. Far more angrier people take drastic extreme measures to control their lives from what is effectively a person totally out of control. It’s not only here it’s everywhere the homelessness and poverty. Buildings sit empty and decaying in London, NY, Paris, Athens, Mexico City, Ontario, Quebec. California and Texas, Boston, no exception. High concentrations of wealth surrounded by poverty. Really stupid to make guns easily accessible with all this economic tension going on. Ever since industry left for China and Asia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, the relics of past American industry rot away. Reminders for more rage the anger gains momentum. American corporations are in China to stay. We can’t blame China for this. Can’t blame a people who study and work hard to become more efficient as a workforce. We have to blame the Washington Establishment for the absence of investment into the American workforce, they run the country and they decide.
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  6169. The US Navy can do it. The gas pipeline was a godsend to US competitors in Europe. Gas was so cheap they could sell it at a profit with Russia’s blessing. These are strong economic motives the pipeline was blown up by the US,---US gas corporations would lose the competition for that European gas market.
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  6170.  @gcmotorman6379  not only a new rightist party but there will be a new left party, maybe several parties. Problems with labels is it pidgeon holes the person into what they are not; if they are a patriot they are not people and if they are people they cannot be patriots, in the contesting politics of a Partiot v. People's party. Its not going to be that way because diversity in America has many shades between black or white.
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  6171.  @intelex691  The rude awakening of two parties becoming minor parties depends on the hard facts of being cheated of a second term which, thus far, has not been corroborated. To your other point. A new people or progressive party would be the response of a populist nationalist party...the greater majority of Americans are familiar the Trump brand as a dangerous brand, antithetical brand to their needs or desires, and those who become that brand climb a hard road against a majority.
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  6172.  @BTBFBG  GOP Gomert is a genius compared to you.
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  6173.  @BTBFBG  but they have a recall capacity of 3 seconds.
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  6174. @Skylarkist Expert crumbs are better than no crumbs at all.
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  6175.  @sirtrucksalot  I wonder how you define a moron?
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  6176.  @BTBFBG  not the sharpest tool in the shed are you son...well, keep trying maybe one day you'll get there.
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  6177. Resist fascism locally and you will change the failure of nations.
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  6178. But it is the same with US agencies acting against the interest of the people. Yes, a different form but the content of betrayal of the American people happens at a more sophisticated level.
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  6179. You are not wrong and not right Jimmy. If you consider the State investigating private capital authoritarian you are then protecting the full sway of capital into more industries as a right of private property. The point of a revolution is to de-privatize private property, socialize it to its logical end. Keep land out of the hands of private capitalists. Make industries less dependent on sale for survival. Individual right to home ownership; socialist ownership of land. I would encourage senate hearings because it would reveal to the Public the complicity between the State and Capital. Anything that educates people about the nature of their sufferings emanating from the intervention of the capitalist into their working lives, the exploitation of the labor in the factories owned by Elon Musk and others of his social class would help point the finger at the State’s own venality. Move people into a movement. I do not agree it is only about censorship or strictly about a merger between private industry and the State defining fascism, not when that censoring is a way to deflect from a particular interest which violates our humanity through the exploitation of our work, commerce before industry, profits before people, values before use-values, quantity before quality, a stand must be taken against; our production for use for industry is completely dominated by commerce (commercialism), a price tag on everything subordinates our working lives to the needs of private Capital, and in the interest of humanity, the State is the society, when society fails its obligation to be a state it has failed to eradicate that exploitation, and the clash that follows, is between a failed state dominated by oligarchs implies an emergent social class must take over the state to right its wrongs.
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  6180. Excellent...thank you.
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  6181. New York has a child homeless problem and California has a major homeless population. The middle part of the country has dispersed homeless. People living in situations that are not their home. Both states blame the federal government for not stepping up cutting funding for social programs and neither state can do anything about their problems. States do not have the privilege of printing dollars. In the meantime the homesless crisis swells. Whole families and family-less children fall into a poverty. A white minority of republican old men in Congress cling to life, they denigrate the homeless and let all fall into the abyss of poverty to save their skins from the America that is no longer their's.
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  6182. The only motive democrats and republicans have that might be empathetic to the needs of the people in their districts is the limited budgets of their respective states.
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  6183. It appears the soldier who “willfully” crossed into North Korea may have done the two Koreas and the world a favor by drawing attention to the way Congress left the Korean conflict open with no resolution since the US divided the country, literally, mimicking what the British had done in the Middle East the US left a divided people to languish for 68 years. If its one thing the British and the American ruling classes are famous for, its dividing cultures into small individual states and creating national names for people who are naturally related and politically divided to meet a political end. I suspect the State Department will do nothing because doing something would actually mean ending the Korean War that still continues.
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  6184. "Cockroaches, criminals, MS13, drug dealers, invaders," is loaded racist stereotyping commentary against non-white people everywhere. The polarization in society among the races creates an environment that if you are white and do not take a political stand against a racist regime makes you a racist by your own inaction. Been through this before with the polarization in society the Vietnam War created, either, you were for or against it, it was impossible to be neutral. It will be impossible again to be neutral of the question of race.
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  6185. One of the founders of Home Depot billionaire, Bernie Marcus age 93, said yesterday that American workers are fat, lazy and stupid and that is a quote. Jon Stewart would rather talk about Jan 6th than the comment the billionaire made about American workers. Yet it would be the workers on Jon Stewarts show that made Jon Stewart and the workers at Home depot who made Bernie Marcus a billionaire.
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  6186. Essentially Trump in his post period presidency will support young republican racists in primary elections against old republicans like Mitch McConnell. You can expect the GOP becoming a neo-Nazis party in the next four years, meanwhile the Democratic party ossifies into a relic of the past and abandons labor.
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  6187. For Trump to reference Obama in much of his spontaneous responses to the Press and the Pubic, is an indication of how long, 2009 to 2025, now 15 + years that Ukraine had been the object of the Pentagon to fight a proxy war with Russia. In that period the banks kept interest rates low and borrowing capital was cheap and none of that borrowing added to the existing wealth of the nation or paid down the debt. Work hard enough and you will become a millionaire was shown a myth for Americans the day Ukraine became an object of war against the Russians.
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  6188. Well, people should understand her role in the Freedom Caucus is to agitate for their agenda, a cartoon, if there were no gullible Americans who fall for the propaganda.
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  6189. 'It does not matter if it takes 6 hours, 6 weeks or 6 years...we are going to get it done', Biden said. Easy to say than do. Biden and other members of the government are already connected to the power that is the whole society. They do not have to depend on a job to get access to that power and wealth like millions of other people.
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  6190. Good point: The man who can afford to break into the Capitol was duped by their president. The Trump supporter is charged with sedition, locked up, stripped of civil rights.  Their president and leader who lies to them leaves them flat at the scene. You could not get any dumber than this. The State's evidence for sedition is found for all to see on seflie videos. Attempt to overthrow a governing body that if they are acquitted of sedition it is because they are too stupid. Doubtful. Mindlessness is a weapon in these people.
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  6191. Eventually dams can’t hold back the weight and break. Natural forces jeopardizes every dam. No early warning systems in this age rises to a level of a humanitarian crime.
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  6192. In the old days people like her would get her ass kicked! I miss those days.
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  6193. Of course, how silly of the government that it thought the total would be less if the tax is cut from it...that only gives more to the fuel producer...a message that its okay to inflate the price of fuel more. That’s dirty calculus. They play with a deck stacked against you. The people you have in government are on the the side of the fuel producers (the sellers) have abducted the state, a social institution meant to use its own surplus reserves not exclusively for the police to fill their tanks up but for the population to insulate themselves from price fixing. Who rules Australia these days that the representatives in Parliament re-enact the Pharaohs who withheld the grain supplies when the Nile went dry? Dirty scum is who!
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  6194.  JR  I dub thee the King of Abstraction.
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  6195. Flakes!
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  6196. The tax break for the rich! This means Obama and Hillary, rich as they are, benefit from tax cuts. That these Democrats are silent about Trump's aggressive tax cut plan in a backdrop of Hurricane devastations reveals the true character of the conservative right and the liberal left. They are not only indistinguishable but, are, unanimous for their contempt of humanity.
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  6197. The Eggman 11:32 is a capitalist. In reality, Silicon Valley have become a Nobility of landowners through becoming monopoly corporations.
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  6198. Everybody in front of a lens here are paid to be on camera to never say the obvious. Your tax dollars at work are detailed in those documents. This proves the Russia invasion into Ukraine were the result of provoked causes. Seriously, do these documents tell you anything you did not already know about from the day the Senate appropriated $70 bn to Ukraine and this war?
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  6199. Wally Gator: I am going to summarize your comment like Barr summarized Mueller's summary.  A summary of a summary and charge you 1/3 of $30 million for my summary of your summary. Then you can go to somebody else to get another summary of my summary of your summary. When you are finally satisfied with a third summary, you can take your chances offsetting mine and the other two summary charges, by continuing to play scratch off lottery tickets. Fool.
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  6200. You got it backwards, its because you have allowed Republicans the party of Law and Order and the Rich to govern the US that they do not recognixe the law.
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  6201. What is your opinion about that? Do you have one?  @jimmyrustled2493 
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  6202. Party is not rotten to the core but those democrats are. The party has no principal and the working class is not organized strong enough to put principals ahead of egoism and personal gain.
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  6203. What if your not sitting in your mother's house...how much of that "anyone' are not in houses at all? The only spouting they can do is against the real cold winds and rains under a bridge and there nobody cares. I think the number of people who are sitting at home as mother fades away upstairs is far less than the number of homeless people with parents faded into history. In fact if they are home they are the lucky 1% by inheritance of property and privilege relative to the rate of homelessness happening here and around the world.
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  6204.  @Species-yy5ng  No worries. I was just breaking out of a writer's block with that comment..sorry I used it without an advisory. But I dig where you came from.
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  6205.  @Species-yy5ng  😄
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  6206.  @bengrabenstein2929  Do you mean...White on white crime is under reported on purpose, kept hidden from the public in order to emphasize and over report black on black crime?
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  6207. I think the Poultry Producer in California should get the death penalty.
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  6208. I still say the enemy are not the Russians or Chinese. Raytheon, Grumman, McDonnell-Douglas, and the competition in the Defense Industry are the enemy. They are the ones who need battle tested bombs, rockets, tanks, and planes for the government contract orders from each branch of the US military. The actual field of war is the competition between them as rivals for the sale and a place of undeclared war is better than a demonstration of the product. Millions of people working in the Defense Industry would have no jobs if peace were the way of the world is not true because Raytheon and other defense producers would produce what the world consumes and shift their production into other spheres of activity.
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  6209. Voting is not compatible with fascism, why would a state become a dominant fascist state if it can be voted out of power, that would defeat the whole purpose of total control? They have to be feeling very confident that they can hold power now on a permanent basis or be delusional. They are very close to a Constitutional Amendment that would abolish Universal Suffrage and amend the 14th and 13th amendment that defines a citizen on whatever they see fit a citizen should be defined is my hunch. Replace birthright with property qualifications as it was before the American Civil War. While the vote is still in force, you better vote like your life depends on it! It's all you got in a Representative Republic. The other way to get rid of a fascist state is by a social revolution which in America, I am certain, will entail a civil war, needless to say, 9 out of 10 people would rather have a peaceful revolution than a bloody civil war. Violence as you can see escalates. The only way to prevent fascism from reappearing in the future is to abolish the combustible engine. The basis of fascist power is force in general, but in the US, the instrument of social control and force are movable objects, e.g., your car, truck, bus, food and housing, security, these needs are met by engines producing force, great force, whether it is construction, farming or industrial activity, it is not enough to be content with taking home money, the attitude of a worker has to change about the elements, gas and oil, is their product (GNP) they let become a transportable power when it is money concentrated into the hands of a few. Its just too bad the Democrats are the only game in town -- you have to watch and stay on guard with them, considering the fascist state happened under their watch and complicity. But as Nairn said they give you democracy to stay in power themselves is better than no democracy at all.
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  6210. What is fjb? Newsjunkie999 
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  6211. This is why I am against gentrification and gated far away secluded communities the people who cannot gentrify and gate themselves out of society are accessible to petty crimes that turn violent by desperate people.
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  6212.  @bbrahbboul2748  That won’t work because the like minded people will create other like minded people among the owners and the whole coop falls apart from a split and everyone gets snared into a coop liquidation. Basically it mirrors what is happening now but on a smaller scale. You’d have to change the fundamental property relationship for a true coop to work. For instance, 200 people bought 2000 acres and then dissolved individual ownership into social ownership unanimously so that the land now becomes owned by none and belongs to all and the same thing would apply to all its tools, machines, equipment, etc., and to prevent further social break ups you’d then have to change the family from individual family units to social families, where residences are designed the way ancient homes of Pompeii were designed. They accommodated two, three families and had common areas for work, consumption and gatherings. This way all the residences have a relation or more living in home not their own. We do have vestiges of communities like this in America. One that comes to mind that faded out were the Shakers, Fabianites. See the history.
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  6213. If mainstream media is free and you get what you pay for, then freedom has become a commodity with a price. Freedom is something the person starts out as not having and must attain in American life. That is not being free. That is a deprivation of freedom. Water is a commodity, air is a commodity; yet nobody cares to inquire what a commodity is? People are desperate, the Trump sanctions force any company doing business with Venezuela will do no business in the US. A private entity like Youtube is not going to lose the American market for Abby Martin et al. This is a case of naked self-interest unable to defy Trump. Youtube empowers bullying, not just YT, but all groups, corporations, and institutions enable a big bad mob boss attitude that typifies the 1970's. Abby Martin produces for the American market. If You tube were not a private entity, an owner of a commodity called media, the government could not censor Abby Martin through Youtube and others like her. Government is punitive to private interests to attack the general interest. Government has private capital hostage, the public might want to build an alliance with private capital to get rid of the Mob tactics of the government. Youtube would rather know what the business climate will be in the future. Under Mob rule the present and the future is a perpetual unknown variable. This is what makes mob ruling possible. If air, water, soil, food, are commodities, thought can become a commodity which is really the content of media. Commodities are man-made things, air, water, soil, does not make itself a commodity. Thought is directly a man-made thing, everything we make in reality are concept constructions of the Mind. Thought may come from nature, be in nature and develop through nature but so far no natural or animal being has evolved to be independent of the natural world and must or die make their own food, water, and air to live as the main impetus for survival. The mob mentality is so far below this level of thought, its self-centeredness holds the whole society hostage to itself.
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  6214. Sorry to see such a wide sociological impact happen to these South Dakatoans from the cancellation of a pipeline. The source of the problem isn't the executive order; its the town's own governing body that did not negotiate with the pipeline corporation a share of the proceeds of the oil in the form of monthly royalties for the use of their town and the land on which the town rests, set up a permanent tax income for the town. But they accepted material bribes like a new fire truck, or a brand new park for the kiddies. In effect, they did not negotiate a lend-lease plan between town and company, renewable every 20 years. The other thing the town's council of wise leadership did not do is not sell the store and the farm all at once to the company, this makes the whole community dependent on one industry or, in other words, people cannot make money unless the community becomes a one crop economy. When that one crop fails the place is a ghost town. These are the lessons learned from the Great Depression South Dakotoans missed.
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  6215.  @bluewater454  Oh...you poor thing...by '...labor for their living...', I take it you are referring to the procurement of the necessaries of life like food, water, housing, that all creatures must work to produce, I just want to be clear we are on the same page? Very important there be clarity.
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  6216.  @bluewater454  Do you have a point to make? Mankind is the only species that can use its body as a tool to produce its subsistence. The non-human world of nature exhibits examples of species who produce little and consume all. One species may produce the means of subsistence of another, or nature can provide an abundant source of subsistence for some other creature. But man is the only one that has none of these aspects found in the non-human world of nature going for itself. It does not appear you view mankind in this light but in some other way not made clear by your argument?
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  6217.  @bluewater454  Hunger is as natural as appetite is to the stomach so why are there so many hungry, survival so low for so many, if we are naturally inclined to trade with each other one form of labor for another? Where is the substantiation of your claims in reality?
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  6218.  @bluewater454  So why is hunger pervasive is the question...do you have an answer or not?
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  6219.  @bluewater454  Incidentally I am not a socialist.
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  6220.  @bluewater454  Not all true. Very little evidence of hunger and poverty in Antiquity. Poverty is not less pervasive in capitalist societies than it ever was in pre-capitalist societies,--- when you add up the different types of poverty under capitalism,--- there are 40 million people live in modern slavery. Slavery, sex trafficking, pornography, prostitution, juveniles incarcerated, foster care and wards of the court are all forms of poverty. Single parent poverty, elder poverty...yadah yadah yadah. Materially deprived of any form of cash, assets, options, stocks, bonds and real estate. The number of people without means is way higher than the number of people with means is a form of poverty of a nation itself. A sign the nation cannot raise people out of poverty. A sign that its enemy is any nation that can and is an self-imposed enemy to a person who says that it cannot.
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  6221. Katie Hobbs is more a danger to society because of her ‘bourgeois’ nature. She’ll let people eat cake!
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  6222. Pity, the Amazon Flex program could be a good way to pick up extra cash if the risks were not locate in society with individuals alienated from society. Bad timing. It would have worked great in the 60s. Still the fact that a working class family has not enough the wages to raise a family in a house of their own shows the steady decline of the American middle class working family.
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  6223. Garland is the tortoise moving slow on prosecuting a republican rabbit.
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  6224. Real disconnect between politician and citizen in America. Politician sees the citizen as stupid. The citizen see the politicians as evil. The former has a concept based on a false reality and the latter has a reality based on a false concept. Two remarks, ironic remark and trivial remark. Everybody is fucking stupid! Jerry Brown is here to say. Talk, talk. He's talking reality man. Get rid of cars there'll be shooting in the streets. Have those suckers drive electric cars. Come on we gotta go! No time to connect the voter to the issues or the issue to the voter.
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  6225.  @ThedL-h3m  That’s like saying there a lot of the color green in the forest...you got proof show it, otherwise, your words are not worth much.
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  6226.  @ThedL-h3m  What are you trying to accomplish with your comment?
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  6227. Crime is not the reason commercial retailers and industries are closing their doors. Look at the Big Picture and this closure is part of a nationwide trend. Crime is a pretext but to make crime happen you have to make people poor and miserable ready to commit crime for survival and then firing workers from their jobs can be blamed on crime. Plan works. Soft on crime is what they want you think not that there is no crime, there is, but not at the level where people cannot shop or businesses cannot operate. Businesses are closing because nationwide the concentration of big monopoly businesses have dominated the general economy leaving smaller businesses and retailers struggling to make ends meet with consumers that do not have a lot of money to spend. In the news the the economy is doing well but that is not the general economy where millions of people work to live. They are reporting on the financial economy of stocks, bonds, profits, inflation, money markets, but even there the monopolies have dominated the market and crushing small investors.
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  6228. Chad --That is like saying the heart of the human body will continue beating without blood flowing through its arteries. The Koch Brother and other corporations who are allies with Koch are not going to leave Washington willingly and withdraw their capital that buys senate votes and writes laws through its think tanks for senators to pass. This government is owned, once you buy a commodity it is yours to do what you want with it and the commodity purchased by private industry is no longer a public institution when all its representatives are dedicated to the private interest of the energy, mining, drilling industries. The American people do not have a majority of representatives in Congress on their side, neither in the Senate. They have to win over votes and that is not likely given how far to the right all the politicians are positioned in connection to private interests..
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  6229. Only the person who's brain belongs to them should censor or not censor their own voice. Any agency outside of the human body acting to police thought is a threat to freedom.
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  6230. State department officials have their heads up their asses. They have no clue their policies are the cause of so much agony and grief, struggle and war.
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  6231. • The government preoccupies itself with expropriating the poorest in society as it steals not only the ideals of government from civil society but also land and wealth communities produce in their contribution of labor to the society, whether it is in the form of service to the government, or in the form of labor by some product resulting from such activity. Land Made Uninhabitable Leads to the Creation of a Sub-Class of Homeless Millions - American Refugees. • Port Arthur, Texas – 2017, Sep 27. The aftermath of Hurricane Harvey is beginning to reveal the government’s attitude to a community, a public, a citizenry, turning its back on the flood victims. FEMA is not paying out funds to flood victims, the ideology of ‘personal responsibility’ is revealing its inhumanity in the form of a Dr. Ben Carson. The land beneath may be contaminated but that does not matter for oil. No one drinks it, Mankind uses it as fuel. Nature has done the job of removing humanity off the land. Uninhabitable land that will immediately be opened up for oil extraction in the aftermath. Dr. Carson, the former republican candidate for president heads Public Housing, he facilitates the process of expropriation of a community by refusing the community to return to their domiciles in public housing, easily a land deal with the government to sell the land to big oil, is clearly in the works. People should understand the devastation of Houston is really a process of expropriation of a community. Federal evictions and the sale of land, ownership by Exxon, the expropriation is complete. • Puerto Rico, Sept 27. What is the government attitude to this community? The same attitude it demonstrates to Houston’s community facing eviction, expropriation, in the wake of a Hurricane devastation. Where is the help for these people stranded on an island who face isolation and starvation? There is none. No one comes to help. Scant news that the military, FEMA, is coming or already there cannot be proven there is a total media black out. A dire humanitarian emergency exists and the government’s attitude is more about this community’s debt to bondholders in Wall Street. Is not this land now contaminated as Houston’s land is contaminated, a hurricane rendering Puerto Rico uninhabitable? Not quite, overtime the land here is expected to recover in which case Puerto Rico will become fully gentrified and the Puerto Ricans on the island expropriated as well.
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  6232. The media did not want to protect democracy in the beginning when Trump started to run for president. The media used him for their ratings and never questioned him while using him.
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  6233. You don’t think this COP20 show deterred China from attending for the sham that it is?
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  6234. The solution for the working class was never in class actions suits. The systemic problems is not limited to a specific company either. Workers coming together into a social power united as a class power is the answer-- not coming together into a bunch of unions corresponding to individuals corporations, trades and industries. The solution comes when each working individual is organized as a social power so that their individual power becomes a political power to challenge the political power of employers. I agree with the commenter that the workplace is a totalitarian environment and the Supreme Court reminds us that the employer has our asses from A to Z in the workplace. For this reason, and because the workplace is already a social process that it needs to be emancipated from private ownership. I would insist the strategy for labor in this century is not the formation of trade unions or a reconstitution of collective bargaining, the answer is in a united social power to de-privatize the workplace not limited to one country.
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  6235. 2:58 the anonymous 'Dissent Cable" open to diplomats is an internal memo to the Secretary of State dated July 13th 2021 is a significant story NBC simply glances over to talk about the Taliban going door to door and what's going wth that?
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  6236. Happy for the societal shift Gaza provokes in the US but what is played out between the US and Israel right now is a historic relation of exploitation, between and of two nations,---a fact that one nation’s workforce over the past 234 year history since 1789, all its past labor that present day labor has built over, remains a nation without universal health care and education for its own citizens, and or because, over the past 77 year history since 1947, another nation is deemed more worthy or dignified enough to have its own universal healthcare and education for its citizens paid by another nation’s workforce. This is treasonous! High treason by those who appropriate the labor of a 132 million Americans. The giving of its wealth to a foreign nation is a relation of exploitation of historic significance of betrayal and disdain. And this cannot be owing to a miraculous power of a nation no bigger than the State of New Jersey, that it can become rich enough to put food, good health, and intelligence on the table as “absolutely free”. This comes from those placed in positions of power who take the milk and honey from the bee and the cow at no cost to them.
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  6237. The Warrant Squad. A warrant can be issued on anyone for any reason at any time. There isn’t a third party verification system to what is warranted. So they can do what they want and face no punishment. Instead of moving society to a higher place a modern form of bounty hunting is its answer to the problem of social repression. Slaves were hunted this way as were serfs who ran away from repressive masters. This is a sign that the State has made an environment of Terror and a war zone of the poorest neighborhoods in civil society. Hunting AWOL captives. People made into prisoners. It happens in Avenue A not in Park Avenue. America is a society where non-whites only come into contact with whites on TV, movies, theater and workplaces the last vestige of civil society. They share the same roads and sidewalks, trains and buses, planes and buildings, parks, beaches, but never do they directly socialize with each other in places that are not used for work like, bars, clubs, dances, entertainment, residences, these places are all private domains where correction is needed and where there is no interference by the State. In the days of Apartheid in South Africa the races came into contact in domestic life but never shared public spaces. In the Middle East a total wall of separation divides the races and contact with a white man comes only in the form of a police man. Apartheid social systems come in many colors and languages in all countries the world over; the problem of race separation starts from the ground up, as a defect learned in civil society, not an inherent defect of the State If there are shared spaces the separated races carry on separate functions at separate times. A warfare ready warrant squad chasing a man who chose death than be taken back into custody. I automatically want to know what the man did. He wrote his own death. Not many of us can do that. Most are too scared to write their own demise. His bravery makes him legendary. Custody must be absolutely awful, repressive, and hostile to this criminal. The Department’s Forced Investigation Unit will handle the investigation of the tryst between the deceased and the two women has a dubious tone to it. To me the deceased closed the case and the two women committed no crime; therefore, no investigation required.
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  6238. It is not normal that a health system inside the US cannot supply the needs of its own citizens. Question why should you go to another country for health care. It is also not normal that civil society has become a underground tunnel for migrant slavery that detention is the only thing the government can offer and a better choice. And it is not normal that airline system cannot run below or at normal capacity no matter how many fines and orders you give it. Question why trains and planes crash?
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  6239. 4:23 check out the writing in this report about Ukrainian troops. In reality the Ukrainian troops quit! No back up support are the reasons. In this report borrowing from the Wall Street journal (of all places) the forces who refuse to take part in the early stages of the war are Russian. Clearly the WSJ is propaganda when 100 Ukrainian soldiers are dead and 50 a day are wounded as announced by Zalenski.
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  6240. 26:12,----WAKE UP CALL for the American middle class. Gun Violence and the war on the streets have spilled out into the suburbs that you have no choice but to apply pressure on your representatives to end their support of the arms industry. If the Russians can get along in space they can get along on earth and you can step outside of your bubbled lives without living in fear of guns and the street war on poverty making a war zone of your neighborhoods.
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  6241.  @rootbeer33  Neighbor? What neighbors....houses are empty of people and when they are home to sleep they leave as fast as they came. You mean the people in your neighborhood are transients perpetually working, that is not a neighbor.
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  6242. It takes a liar to know a liar. I would not underestimate a liar when the the truth is told by a liar. I would use the liar as a, bird of same feather flock together, in my prosecution of a liar to convince a jury of guilt. The Prostitute in the case told the whole truth. The crisis here is a crisis of Patriarchy, men in powerful positions are liars because the end of the reign as patriarchs is coming to an end.
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  6243. The truth came when Gen Austin made a gaffe. That gaffe revealed the true motives of the US and NATO. Since then Austin has been choice careful of what he says. He is not the first official to make a gaffe that revealed the truth. A former CIA official was asked by personality celebrity Laura Ingraham if the US ever meddled in other country’s elections? Both the former CIA official and Laura Ingraham bragged the truth after she realized she asked the wrong question, his answer was “Oh, probably...but ahh...” from that point on the interview revealed the lies told by media and the CIA through the media. CNN did the same thing and asked the wrong question to two guests who answered honestly revealed the whole truth. Consequently that British CNN anchor was muzzled. The stories they use to move the American audience to support this war is another form of war on Americans not on the Russians. NBC highlights in its July 25 Nightly News, the feel good story of one of two Americans killed in Ukraine. Both went to help Ukrainian fighters had left his family behind to go there and died in Ukraine. Personally any father who leaves their family allegedly to help other people at the expense of his people is not a hero but an ass. Point is these are all stories that reveal the truth of the war and the truth of the media manipulation of public opinion.
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  6244. When an ant-war movement emerges be sure you support it.
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  6245. Biden and Harris appear as symbolic of the Colonial American values is the optics I see. Oppressive Caribbean relations with Washington imbue this ticket. I mean this well in the sense that real relations of past relations in the present are better handled when they are not hidden and disguised. Dan Quayle has risen to become one of the behind the scenes republican strategists, and is by no means a character who faded out.
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  6246. Hate to break the news to you but I would not be afraid to label a suburban parent a domestic terrorist. The narrative stems from a fear perpetrated by the right wing that white America is losing America to an immigrant black and brown America. The suburban parent is an armed parent. Texas is 40% Latino and 40% white, 20% black, show how a changing demographic is fueling this white fear and Texas has a white right wing in power. The narrative positions the democrats as the means by which this changing demography will rule Washington and let loose a reign of terror; revenge on white America, conscious of historic evils this right wing will by this time next year erase January 6 ever took place. Its already widely believed Trump is president and Biden a proxy installed president the tip of this sinking iceberg the government has become. The politics of the right wing are taken straight from the scenes of the movie by D. W. Griffith 'Birth of a Nation', depicting freed slaves in government unable to govern owing to general incompetency once emancipation would come the disintegration of America of 1860 begins, fits the Freedom Caucus Ideology. Manchin and Sinema on the democratic side are what Mussolini called his brand of fascism, 'corporatism'.
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  6247. I remember that footage in the 80s. Reagan’s definition of waste was an autonomous group of inspectors monitoring manufacturing in the US. These guys make sure employers are not putting workers at risk of their lives handling lethal materials on the production line, is to Reagan a “waste”. Reagan was always a second rate B grade actor. For neocons he was their man. Trump who can give a rat’ ass about the lives of working people and pays lip service to them is hopefully, the last strain of Reagan neoliberalism if the American people are smart.
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  6248.  @johnwattdotca  You have me sized up all wrong.
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  6249.  @haveskiswilltravel2164  How about annihilation of everything before they are jailed. Never surrender when you cannot win means destroy everything.
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  6250.  @whygohome172  Yes, it appears the business sector is more open to a planned economy than I thought.
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  6251. The problem with digging for coal is the depletion rate of coal. The underlying geological process of the earth below the earth's crust takes place over the eons, we can wait that long for earth to replenish coal. Dead plants that fell to the ground took 3 millions years to become hardened and compressed by geologic forces to form coal. The earth will continue to produce coal but not at the rate the species consumes coal. Extinction is inevitable when the coal runs out!
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  6252. If these people are a bad seed the police chief in Kansas raiding a hometown newspaper is a bad seed too. Bad seeds in the world of whites and in the world of blacks. Two wrongs never make a right. These are little thieves robbing from the big ones.
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  6253. It might be that Lenin’s analysis of imperialism is enough theory to put into action.
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  6254.  @gerrybailey447  ...the American people are still not unanimous about what that ‘menace’ to democracy is...a lack of clarification...maybe? Still a very long way away from becoming a democracy. European states have more democracy in work than America does. All the individual US corporations employ thousands of people, say 5k each average, the more people they put to work the bigger they become, and each workforce is an individual army of 5000 plus people working 8 or more hours per day. One hour’s work today produces thirty flutes from what technology was 40 years ago producing ten flutes per hour...if you get my point. Mind you this is only one private sector group of employees. America has 132 million people in its workforce involved in value generating work. That is a lot of people and a lot of work hours, days, weeks, months and years of value generating work the corporations consume and the employees do not that decides how democratic a society is. I am talking about how the wealth is divided up between the producers not who appropriates it. A long way to go...to be a real democracy.
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  6255. Its called “Prolicide” people, look it up.
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  6256. I don't have much empathy for you Michael, there was ample time for you to investigate who Trump was before voting for him. More importantly, it does not matter who takes that office, the problem is the office itself that once entering into that office the individual is subsumed by the military institution that now takes more than half of your tax dollars.
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  6257. The two movements that will cost Biden the election are the Students Against the Israeli War in Gaza and the MAGA people who support Trump. Biden’s polls are going to plummet...and he will lose the election in November...mark my words.
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  6258. Good example of ignorance and ill-confidence not taking a chance...its about trust. Imagine people are dropping like flies from COVID and the women had an antidote stolen from a medical lab hat could save the life of your child but was a regular person...what would you do? Take the shot or call her in? Right,-- we are not at the point where the disease is threatening the extinction of the human species. Kick that can down the road and cross that bridge when you get to it; so the trust factor is still very much high with the authorities for lack of knowing more about the authorities and their reaction to real world conditions worsening the Public. Worsening conditions forces the authorities to take a side to save private interest(s) or public interests? But for us, we should not have to be at a point of total destruction to begin trusting another.
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  6259. An interesting footnote to this series of stories that reflect the crisis of capitalism we are experiencing.  People are beginning to feel and realize myths and other kinds of thinking society offers, will teach you how to live a decent life, but capitalism will assure the individual a given reality of poverty and discontent.
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  6260. The cuts in the name of fraud and abuse is a ruse covering the real motives behind the cuts. When the fund is taken by the government it will be used to pay for billionaire tax cuts. Trump is robbing social security and other programs to pay for a war on the working class. But more importantly, this war is launched by the White House because there is so much private and public debt the government can’t borrow anymore that it has to take the money from the working class, who then will have to work longer hours for employers with more power over them to make up the difference. A bitter pill to swallow for the American people goes down easier when it is propagandized as fraud and abuse and something good is being done that makes worthy the sacrifices social security recipients and others must bear.
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  6261. Gfreezone --If jobs is all want out of this life than a free society is not what you need. A permanent job with a line of security is not the type of job you'll get but it will be a job. For that all you need is an employer and an employee, and a market where they can exchange work for money and more money for less work. There will always be a second job to make up the difference of the pay of the first job, and a third job...and a...fourth...till you drop. Doing an infrastructure upgrade, if you had not noticed, is more than just a job. Its a job that combines two tasks; (1), living in Nature as nature changes, and (2), fueling society with non-fossil fuel energy. The job must force a change in the person doing the job and suppress people from doing a job because it enriches the person who gave you the job.
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  6262. The market as de-regulated by Congress at the urgency of Ronald Reagan, now dead, and his republicans at the time, permits producers to sell commodities regardless of their content or effects on human beings, a job that used to be the responsibility and mission of the FDA, before Reagan was president, to test and decide if the product should sell. Retailers of the drug sell the drug with the purpose of staying in business, to anyone with money (credit) in their pocket willing to buy the drug, even if that individuals is a minor regardless of their skin color. Reagan was president 42 years ago, the children born in that time are middle aged and many of them had kids in their 20s that the sociological impact of the drug has its effect on users for two generations already. America has roughly 160 million 40 year olds of 332 million people, of that roughly 80 million in the 20s. Its safe to say around 50 million are brain damaged products of the Republican Revolution led by Reagan, correlate this with the latest report card on education and the rise of crime in the US the legacy of the Reagan era is grim but since he is dead there is no one else to blame or pay the consequences except the Congress of today for not re-regulating the market and forcing producers out of business for producing a brain damaging product.
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  6263. They invent threats in the world by isolating themselves from it and then know nothing about the world to start wars. They are always inventing a demon to sell us the idea that our existence will be incinerated from an outside threat we know nothing about because we don’t care to know about the world and choose to be a proudly ignorant people. They have the asses of the American Public over a barrel. If you have no self respect for yourself they are certainly not going to give you any respect whatsoever! If we do not borrow the money to escalate wars they don’t make any profits from the war(s). This is because they are all invested in arms and weapons manufacturing from which arms dividends form a hefty residual part of their income on top of the public salaries they accrue. The proudly ignorant borrowers with their asses strapped over a barrel are forever servicing lenders. They cut services from the mouths of infants and mothers as punishment for having sex out of wedlock but do nothing about a thriving sex trafficking slave system and organ selling that lures young proudly ignorant women with money. They have to keep women poor and working people dumb working hours for stagnant pay or the economic model will not work for them.
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  6264. So,---the scourge of humanity are two war machines, NATO and the US Military, dominating the 21st century. They constitute this Age of Militarism that has spread to Asia and the East and has not come to an end as of now. But the billions of working people caught in the crossfire of oligarchs east and west are learning the important lesson of how to rule from the failures of the rulers. There is progress that through this titanic struggle and competition of oligarchs the war machines with lose their purpose when State Power swings from right to left.
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  6265. Farming, mining, construction, meatpacking, transportation, sectors where people spend most of their lives working are accelerated work processes. The acceleration of work in work places is to lower the unit price of the product by raising worker output from 8 hours work to 6 hours work makes more product in less time. Works in theory but not in practice. There are less workers working longer durations of work and are doing more intensified work to reach higher output objectives. The undercutting of other businesses with a lower price is a business strategy that harms workers. It only sets a new average price in the market. The actual process of work kills workers: the bigger share of the market by selling below the old average price and above the unit price turns the workplace into a battle zone. Heavy equipment, buildings, bridges, tankers, in every workplace across the US made unsafe with incorporated hazardous raw material into the work processes is a battle field for workers performing the jobs. Machines, automation, technology and science incorporated into a work process work people beyond the point of human endurance. Workplace hazards are never made public for fear workers would resist working conditions and put up a fight. Europe in months long worker strikes across most industries are reactions to the same business model applied by employers in the US. Workers don’t like it there why should they like it here? The public’s attention is to be kept away from the industrial war raging between the workers and the objective conditions of work in our society.
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  6266. Blackwater is not a huge story because it goes to the heart of the internal operations of the command economy. This is how the higher eschelons of the Power Elite get their way! A news mainstream media corporation would only report this if its parent company were directly threatened by the rise of a new Power Elite. In the scheme of the command economy under construction the corporations are at the very top of the whole superstructure can only come down when the bottom falls away.
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  6267. The financial sector is in disarray,---the rescue packages and stimulus bills, are one two punches in the gut for working people. Budget gaps and layoffs caused by the bond market hit companies invested in the bond market and bond sellers finance city-state projects. The bondholders get paid their interest-profit after the debt is or not paid is the theory. In practice, the theory puts the working middle classes on the hook to cover the losses. Cuts in pay, loss of pensions, for remaining employees after 400 to 600 workers are laid off happen in one fell swoop across many industries by employers acting as one organized battalion. Conditions are made desirable for employers to make longer working hours with new innovations. Rescue packages are not aimed at restructuring debt or mortgages. This would be one difference a Labor Party would make against how Republicans and Democrats use ‘rescue packages’ as a fund to withdraw money by the recipient of the package. The productive use of rescue packages depends on whose interest it is used for. Get people to understand these dynamics and complacency will start to become a social movement of non-conformity with the existing state of things...and rightfully so.
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  6268. A resistance needs an alternate plan to the Trump Plan. We can’t just fight for the sake of fighting. Fight to win a program supportive of a majority set into motion by as many people as possible is what a resistance must achieve. The Trump Plan is real and its architects are in process of building a plan of their own which entails a restructuring of the US workforce and the world economy. An alternate plan must reconfigure the Trump plan. A resistance must answer the question: Why We Disrupt?
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  6269. How do you know which skill is more productive than another when all skills are reduced to average work time in their compensation? All skills are used in one step of a three step process that the corporation is able to capitalize on production and then accrue $20 bn in profits from sales. Auto workers are obviously not an equal partner with the corporation in the production phase as they were before in the negotiating stage with the corporation. They were equal as seller and buyer and they exchanged agreements but they come out as unequal partners in the production phase where skills are used to create $20 bn in product in anticipation of its sale. Value is added to the investment. The corporation wins the value the workers lose in the value they made in the finished product. Seems to me the right way to resolve this inequality is for all skills own a share of the finished product and 51% ownership of the factories to prevent plants from ever leaving the country. The wrong thing for labor to do is what the Biden administration wants them to do, a contract settlement in the old fashioned way it is just a job not a career and no change in Labor as the unequal partner to the corporation in production
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  6270. The president through their own party legislated huge changes to social security and the criminal justice system back in the 80s to 90s, that today, we will regret those changes as unleashing a state apparatus beyond our control. All those changes fortified institutions with public resources that are not elected. What they do cannot be retracted, bureaucracies that would grow in size, scale and power to impose rules over the society and recede from any responsibility to society as their original aim or mission intended.
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  6271. If businesses will not employ America and the government is prevented from employing the great mass of people out of work by some political stalemate then employment in general should be under the direct control of all 124 million workers in the US. Before some far out Nazi group comes up the middle and does a Hitler number by taking power from the two parties who cannot get it together and restart employment the industries that are still active in the US cannot fall into their hands. America is primed for a rerun of the 1930s Germany, what fascists do to get people to work is done under force, tyranny, curfew, and incarceration.
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  6272. I am pretty certain the rate of idiocy in societies where religions is a dominant form of awareness is just as a high as the idiocy in the US. Religion is the opiate of the masses in America and the cry of the suffering outside of America.
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  6273. If China is the producer of the world then the US is the consumer of the world and everyone else is just making a living on these two giants.
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  6274. Cry bullies...perfect description. Gay corporate millennials are a dangerous and a socially reactionary social class. The revolution if it happens in the US will have some hysterical episodes of violence. A revolution is a therapeutic event for the people who carry out the revolution in becoming fit to rebuild society and for the individuals the revolution is against by way of releasing the repressed rage the male dominated society had oppressed for so long. A rage similar to black rage and self-hatred as witnessed in the behavior of the black cops in the Tyree assassination.
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  6275. Wage reductions, unemployment, will be the effect of a wider Middle Eastern war on all societies. People forget that productivity and innovation provide extra profits to individual corporations. War stimulates investment gives off some great numbers in the beginning until... the real social mechanism that empowers the whole class of corporations vying for control over the entire market cannot be avoided, these are wage reductions. The war stimulates many individual corporations to produce cheaper. This competitive edge leads to the formation of monopolies and when a company reaches the ability it can dictate price that is when wage reductions take place on a grand social scale. Nothing left to cut from production but the workers themselves. This process is seen by a right wing as a selling out of the sovereignty of a people. That is what it looks like but perception is deception. In reality, the titanic war between capitals is the end of the tendency to employ the largest number of workers in order to extract the largest amount of market value. We are confusing the beginning of an attrition of workers expelled from jobs, production and industry in order to extract the largest share of the world market with the illusion that our governments have sold out our nation. Nothing can be more childish than this right wing dogma, particularly virulent in the US.
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  6276. It appears the youth of America have been completely pushed out of the productive aspects of the US economy that what is left in them is anger and rage at those who have not been pushed out of the productive aspects of the US economy. Futureless and nihilistic children with access to high powered weaponry. This incident shooting is an example of gun rights in progress. With the right of owning guns comes the right to use it in whatever way the rage uses the weapon. Is the right to bear arms worth the price of life? Ironically, owning a gun brings imminent death with it. Be easier to get these kids into programs where they can develop themselves into happier human beings.
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  6277. Democrats in office come off as fake, insincere, a lifeless people, boring and uninspiring, a plasticity that is devoid of emotion, that it is no wonder the pulse of society slips right past them. A new breed is desperately needed.
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  6278. US track record on truces are not without imperfection that a man like Putin could not detect. Fools.
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  6279. that’s what I think. @JohnBrown-vn2qw 
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  6280. What will bring down the republic is the crisis in the family as a social unit in complete ruin. The cornerstone of the whole edifice is decimated and chunks of the social structure are breaking off.  @modtwentyeight 
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  6281. CDC with their screw ups on lock downs and mask requirements, got everything wrong, gave employers an excuse to fire workers and the ones who complied are today screwed twice. First time they got a vaccine that amounts to a therapy not a real vaccine did not resist and second time are screwed out the compensation in the lawsuit for the religious exemption denied got paid each $45,000 while the vaccinated got $5000.00 and the taxpayer shells out the damage claims; that the CDC retracted these recommendations now Bolsonaro would use to defy the science. All this because people were scared to question the science of the CDC...what a lesson to learn the hard way. Bolsonaro turned out to be right about the vaccines and in that way the failure of the CDC as a world leader other nations tend to follow gave Lula’s rival the political ammunition to oust Lula. Nice going America.
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  6282. You make strong points.  But you have big trouble ahead. 1. Automation and technology is a weapon. 2. An Oligarchy. 3. A materially deprived labor-force. 4. A public health crisis 5. A failing state. 6. An economic class divide. 7. A very weak government. Seven major negative forces that can bring an empire down.
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  6283.  @Vanderearden  With all that said, a general incompetence is manifested in the two party oligarchy containing the ruling elites in the US.
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  6284.  @Vanderearden  Yes, two party system is misleading when I am really saying there are two factions within this class of ruling elites fighting each other.
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  6285. A military and an Open Society are not compatible institutions, the former is authoritarian and the latter is democratic. The tension between the two is expressed in people serving in both institutions are acclimated to rigid structure and unstructured freedom in their lives. in a Constitutional Republic, the elected executive is checked by a House of Representatives and a Congress, by making the executive the Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces, keeps the lid on a military dictatorship from happening, not that it was not tried, not that it could not succeed; its a thin layer of protection from a total disintegration of a Free and Open Society.
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  6286.  @5353Jumper  The economic system that would end forever the CEOs robbing the wealth of societies is if the worker(s) attack the wage system. The wage and salary system in the US has become a slave system. Americans are a free people in the double sense of the word, only the kind of freedom Americans enjoy is an artificial freedom. I remember a product called Lestoil cleaner...Less Toil....a psychological indoctrination of the mass of Americans when the mind is shaped with the ideas of capitalism embedded in products. If I came to your house and robbed your tools you'd be very upset with me but when a corporation robs your tools, its okay because free means freed from any obligation to work. Sorry to hear of your experiences perhaps it will be remembered when your government begins aiming its rifles at China for being a socialist country, Socialism never did damage to the working class they way Americans are damaged by capitalism.
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  6287.  @jgalt308  Bourgeois governments is a product of capitalism and came second not first, as the child of capitalism.
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  6288.  @jgalt308  Nonsense...man...there is no 'Since...', nothing in nature that proves capitalism is natural. I'll stop you right there because everything else you said is premised on a fallacy is bound to be false thinking and wrong.
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  6289. Protest footage cannot be authenticated as related to the subject. There has to be something in the shot that verifies the event is authentic and specifically relates to the crisis. How do you know the footage shown to you is not a protest of another time, place, and country?
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  6290. I would imagine ocean liners and shipping barges are suitable industries for sterling engines?
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  6291. There is natural bond and a social bond. Which bond are you taking about? The social bond between you and me and the rest of us in society is money. What should children learn about America’s social bond which breaks down America’s natural bonds? What does Will Keller say about the opposition between the two kinds of bonds in society?
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  6292. Time will tell.
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  6293.  @sampaunovici614  What language do you speak?
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  6294. No wife or children with him when he fled Texas? Callous bastard.
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  6295. Its good that it got some attention from Rachel Maddow because it shows organizers that they need to develop new strategies to build a movement first to get to the size where the media cannot distort your message to a national audience in a demonstration. When you have a million commitments that would be big enough for a rally that cannot be turned into a freak show by national media. Live and learn.
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  6296.  @susanmercurio1060  Ridiculous. Grow up.
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  6297. What a surrealistic image of Venetians wading the flooded waters, the city is destroyed. Waters will not recede. How fitting the birthplace of modern mercantile capitalism should be the first city to sink. Elephants, the largest land mammal left on earth on their way toward extinction. The passivity of the public to climate change is beyond remarkable, doing nothing, is an accessory to extinction.
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  6298. Looks like New York will use handling people as specimens on a petrie dish method to quarantine a virus. The sterile mechanical approach. Italy's method of tackling the virus is probably the most practical approach for the US. Better than losing consitutional rights and a reduced workforce due to absence, where there is a will there is a way, to compensate for time off the job. But in a time when protests is the only way for the least advantaged to get their voice heard it is a cut back on a civil right. Unless the right drops its resistance to follow the line of development of society. I doubt they even have the ability to do that? The approach of injecting antibodies developed in mice to humans is weird because we do not know what other effects it would have on humans but there is proof that mice and their mammal cousins survived the Permian Mass Extinction of 2.5 millions of year ago, they were around at the time when all life died out, but that was largely because they went underground. Evolution could have given them the DNA structure of antibodies humans do not have.
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  6299. Pathetic.
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  6300. A state of mixed messages from its leadership to people who live in Florida. The chaos in the street reflects the chaos in Florida's economy.
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  6301. A coronation of a king is what working hard your whole life gets you in England! What is worse... this is why there are high numbers of impoverished people in Britain...no share of what the average British subject produces and the quantity of wealth the Monarchy consumes goes to the average British subject watching the coronation as a spectator...the people are walled off, separated from a material extravaganza of their own creation that stares back at them through a fence. Subjects are only subjects because one man stands in a relation of kinghood to them. They imagine they are subjects because he is king. What if... some crisis shuts down the government would feudalism be restored and the monarchy second in power become the State over England in 21st Century? Preserving aristocratic lineages take the resources away from its producers.
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  6302. 11:00 Wrong! Afghans suffered through murder not war and violence. It might seem like I am picking on detail. The fight against the US as the occupying force was not a causal incident generic to Afghan society. The American occupation consisted of 'torture', 'murder', 'bombings'.  This is murder with a weapon that often the left mimic the right obliterating the subject with the object.  If the Justice Department is worth any integrity and morality, beyond the recital hymn of the hypocrites 'nobody is above the law', then the Generals working for Raytheon, Grumman, Lockheed, General Electric, and at the same time prosecuting this murder through the government should be laid criminal charges and tried for mass homicide (genocide).
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  6303. Trump is no good for the country and neither are the Hollywood Elite and California’s Political Elite. There is no choice here.
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  6304.  @sitcomcommando9798  2020 divided by 4030 = .50% multiplied by 2.7 million people = 1 of 7 people are the odds on a given day of 365 days you could be shot in Chicago every year. More people die from workplaces related diseases and fatalities in Chicago.
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  6305.  @intuitionz1198  Well I disagree. Cops are employed wage earners too, even though they make a lot of money for what they do they still do not own the means of production the State provides them in order to murder little boys and girls. I would direct all lawsuits to be paid from all police unions and police pensions as a mechanism to get to the Sheriffs and top command to pressure and purge the racists embedded in their organization or go broke. I would strip them of any political power as well, especially the Sheriff Organization (its international and it is how white nationalists/seperatists make they way in from other countries). When they realize their future pensions and retirement is dwindling from lawsuits of police brutality, trust me, they will get themselves in order.
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  6306. Americans won't believe me when I say the 1918 Flu had nothing Spanish about it but at the time the Spanish-American war closed a couple of years before, and since Americans in the 20th century, 19th, 18th and 17th were a racist people the flu that began in Texas was used politically to denigrate a given culture. I would not assume so much if the News did not use ratings to sell TV space to guide them on what headline stories to tell the Public.
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  6307.  @I_Evo  Thank you for the correction.
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  6308. With more people going into social media for their news Jeffrey Sachs and many like him can get the attention of the masses without appearances on mainstream media.
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  6309. Scott Brent is saying that if the Trump Tax Cuts do not become permanent than the owners of capital will not invest their capital in the country “...this is the single most important economic issue of the day...”, important to capital equity firms, important to the workforce bearing the burden of the crisis if the equity firms decide not to buy American, when he says; “...if we do not renew and extend these tax cuts than we ( US labor force, he means) will be facing an economic calamity.” American capitalists never use the word class in their lingo, important to pretend social class is the same thing as harmless income variations, that vary by will of the individual, while social class takes position for an assault behind the veil of income variations, well, they always refer to a particular social class (whether their own or not) with a ‘we’ or an ‘us’, ‘nation’. Terms that can be taken either way. What can be worse than a calamity, Scott? A third of the total population out of work because the owners of industry will not return to the US pending Congress and the president make tax cuts the law of the land. If this is the case than the lesson here for any party of the people is to make permanent the production facilities of the investors wherever they invest inside the US economy, so when they leave they leave without the factories. They can have the capital and tax freed profits but they can’t have the production facilities the law of the land. It would be this or a Capital Gains Tax at 90%. In the current relationship the people have with corporations certain industrial and chemical companies take more out of the communities than they put back into it, some leave communities uninhabitable. Add up the value of total losses and it exceeds the value gained in profits while profits are magnificent. Officials offer long term cuts in taxes to attract corporations but never stipulate a permanency of employment clause for the communities in those deals. The atrocities are horrible, some corporations leave communities desperate for water the greater demand for water used to make their product is the community’s demise in the form of a lesser share of clean, potable groundwater. Property values sink and communities are the losers is what is wrong with the current relationship the people have with investors and employers as a social class. Scott Brent is telling the senators in their face; his class of people will buy the commodity workers in America sell in some other nation and than point the finger at the government official to blame. Most Americans revere capitalists, emulate them, and put them on a pedestal...elect them as president. Scott has on his side the blue collar working man, woman and child for now and can sick the dog on the politician on command, for the moment...but nothing is ever permanent the chains around the neck of this dog will break loose the more agitated the dog gets.
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  6310. If I were Pelosi I’d censure as many as possible. I’d set up traps to catch them then expel as many as possible. Jennifer Gosar is right about the necessity to squash fascism as soon as it appears.
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  6311. The "expert" is also saying that they make money the easy way investing in global markets the hard way investing capital into labor, machinery, raw material, in domestic production is beyond the mental capabilities of the billionaire class.
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  6312. Leona Helmsely, the matriarch Helmsley landowner of Manhattan's real estate said in a 60 minutes interview, 'Taxes are for the little people', she could have added and the little people never get to see there money. Senators see the engineer's report cards. Some read it some throw it out but all are unanimous infrastructure is not their priority. Military jets senators use to fly around the nation is on the tax payer's dime. They don't drive and probably the oldest senator(s) are the Patriarch Chiefs who do not have a driver's license. They are the rule makers. Life is Candyland for the Senate. Tax dollars do not go to infrastructure because tax dollars go to the military. You want to live off the people's dime defending that lifestyle becomes your main priority. Maintaining world power is the main goal of the federal government and you can't do that if tax funds are apportioned evenly across the board to society. The little people never see their money because usurpers have gotten away with usurping their money for the usurper's own defense. This is the cost of an addictive forming activity in the form of usurping, you cannot stop it! The addiction trickles down from the top and then to all act as a greased wheel of mass addiction that cannot be stopped. Now with Biden announcing the threat to democracies are autocrats less money will be seen in a fast declining condition of material deprivation for the little people who pay for a big gun.
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  6313. You would have to be completely insane to follow the president's recommendation to return to work or on a suicide mission. Everyone, even his own medical team are saying "social distancing" as a warning the public.
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  6314. The American people have been so deceived by the government that we will go down in history as a people who voluntarily signed away under the guise of safety and protection our sovereignty in exchange for a body guard of a government to protect us from an evil that has yet to appear in non-fantastic and enigmatic form. An evil gone out of control of the hands of its maker and can appear here, there, anywhere, at any time, undetected till it does damage to the innocent and unsuspecting public. The coup planners and the war makers are living out the scenario of an old 1950s horror film: Forbidden Planet, the evil America is deemed to protect us from cannot be seen, heard or felt, but is an ever present invisible threat to our existence. The entire human race is suspect, America’s government rules over the world and its own people completely out of fear and of late total incompetence. Fear came first and incompetence came second as traits of the last two presidents. There are no leaders in America, it has devolved into a second rate nation. Do you agree or disagree?
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  6315. Secretary of State ought to have a meeting with Wyoming’s governor for minerals in Wyoming. The mineral wealth the US acquires for its military is never in its own back yard.
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  6316. That is the exact thing to do. The Senate must go. The Senate and the Supreme Court are the two institutional levers in society oppressing all of us. The leading drivers of inequality in America are the two institutions named. The so many representatives is a political structure that mirrors/ corresponds the social divisions in society robbing us of developing an American culture of our own. There is no historical need in society for either of these social institutions to exist given the creative disposition of the majority of the American people. We can do way better than a Senate and Supreme Court determining our lives. Way better.
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  6317. This has Koch Industries written all over it.
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  6318.  @bobby7844  I would not expect anything less from a spoiled generation of people who rob the future of their own children, and I would not expect anything less than the expectation that if you do not succeed its your own dam fault from a generation of Millennials indoctrinated by Baby Boomers, like the Americans. Good luck to you Bobby with your ruler/leader's war with China, maybe this war will finally be a war your nation has won. I really doubt the pattern of war behavior will change.
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  6319. Pretty obvious the authorities enable the production of fentynil by not shutting down the production side of all drugs. Just prosecute the distributors but leave the producers alone is the current unspoken policy of authorities.
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  6320. Overwork, is a Management creed, a race against the clock breaking down resistance and human endurance, patience and respect among workers to get more produced within a specific time frame from workers. Workers don’t like it but are trapped about doing anything about it so its taken out on the product or customer. This is why trains, planes and automobiles, factories and workplaces have become lethal. Sabotage, product recalls and tampering, are the small crimes with big impact to do harm to a public happens because workers take out their frustrations and anger on people they see which is why management is never around to hear your grievance. Workers have to learn to keep the bosses out of the workplace. But that cannot be done if you are fighting each other. Workers mimic between them the in-fighting that happens between those who get paid the big bucks to fight and the political parties who fight for power. The guy who threw back the package at the delivery driver overworks himself in his own job is short on patience. He should have approached the worker overworking with an olive branch try to overcome the friction and turn it into solidarity.
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  6321. Pretty stupid for a journalist to talk over a speaker and mix the sound of his voice and the voice coming from the stage and expect an audience to understand him. Trump unfortunately is the only one who can turn the country around,---I wish there was someone better. Maybe there will be. Democrats are a War Party first and foremost.
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  6322. Anything is likely that the disappearances of mayors in Ukraine is part of the ploy to plant the deceased from morgues and hospitals as victims of Russian bombings when in fact the horrors are the work of Ukrainian Nazis.
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  6323. Domestic violence spills out into the public streets. America's cities, towns and villages as workplaces for all strata of its working populations are a war zone of sporadic violence. The country has an anarchistic and chaotic social organization corrupted by violence makes cooperation, work and employment, impossible.  Who wants to take a job at such high risk of violent attacks in the workplace? The fed response to this is to force people into a job and employers have the attitude that working people are not worth $15 an hour. Life is cheap in America, worthless for the majority in Florida. Florida was a former slave and master state and it still behaves like one in modern clothing.
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  6324. Markets (buyers and sellers) cannot bear the uncertainty in Trump’s economy. Too many variables, will bills get passed through Congress; will the judiciary comply with Trump, too many things can be pulled right out from under the feet of investors, workers, states, nations...markets without government interference is adventitious; what are the rules of the game? Sellers and buyers on both sides of the economy don’t know,---willing to make adjustments is what they say on condition they knew tomorrow will fetch a higher price for their commodity is what they feel and do not say. The quiet part everyone is concerned about is the Me.
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  6325. The migration of displaced people from the Middle East by land and water and jungle from Africa, the Caribbean, South and Central America has had 50 years to get well marked with a trade of its own supplying direction, guidance, food, water, sleep, all for a price.
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  6326. When a currency is a commodity it has labor in common with all other commodities. The second function of labor in society is to be the common substance of things including a currency.  When currencies are compared to each other in their various price ratios we have to use average labor-time of each country to see the real differences in value of their currencies. We have to see their purchasing power in terms of how much GDP will it take to buy another country's product. This is the only way to tell what is going on with currencies. When this method is applied to China's currency, we can see its productivity has fallen causing their goods to contain more value fetching a higher price and this appears to the Trump administration as artificially raising the price, accusing China of what Trump does with tariffs.
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  6327. Worst thing you can do is run outside in an earthquake. You are actually running into building facades that break off first and fall to the ground. It’s safer to get under a table and deal with the fan on the ceiling falling down or the drop ceiling than having building facades fall on you. The majority of Americans are not taught in schools what to do in a quake situation. American society is a sick society. Its a nation too cheap to invest Capital into the development of its people. The use of robots for mental health care demonstrates this generation’s inability to act or imagine a government that makes health care universal is a sickness in itself.
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  6328. Wow! The world is not in a good place. All the western powers are in a state of atrophy and decay and their working classes are not content with policies ending up in cuts and unemployment. So discontent are the working people in the US, they voted a demogogue who squandered precious resources for four years and delivered a failed insurrection. He left behind a disabled economy made a few rich and did not even enrich himself, or couldn't because he was president. Presidents cannot liquidate their assets and dump it into the stock market without it becoming a emolument prosecution.  If one sector goes unsupported and business activity ceases the virus won't be the only thing spreading across other sectors causing them to cease as well. This poses a very grave and serious problem for Americans. The rubber meets the road for neoliberalism. Does this new president have the tools for a sustained recovery? Other nations are in a rut. But more importantly new industry is held and old industries are promoted further by governments end up as uneven economic development in society. You would think the American people would use their right and freedom to live in a completely different country and share the same desire as that Russian gentlemen saying its time people speak up. A completley different country...what would that look like in the US, a country that has the productive capacity to support a country where there is no poverty, material deprivation or health care and educational dificits that prohibit the development of the mind and body of people in general and not just a few oligarchs and their train of retainers. The cardinal sin America commits is de-educationalizing its population with propaganda. A completely different country...Russia has the productive capacity to support a completely different country. People are calling for their share of the economic surplus. An end to the unequal ownership of the wealth of their societies as facilitated through corrupt individuals and institutions and the relentless undemocratic control over taxes and wages by the power of accumulated money of the elites, oligarchs, monarchs, kings, princes, dictators. The beginning of a new age of the common person.
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  6329. Looks like a dress rehearsal for a coup. Sabotage. Taking over government buildings to prevent the government from functioning, blocking roads to disrupt distribution, setting vehicles on fire. This harms the general population.
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  6330. This never would have happened if Iran had not been made a proxy dictatorship for the US to contain Russia during the Cold War. Before this countries like Iran were on the path toward democracy and modernization. If you do not believe me see pictures of Iran before the Shah was installed by the CIA, women dressed like Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy and were infatuated by western culture. The CIA threw that country off course. Backing an iron fisted King made that country fertile ground for fundamentalists to rule Iran and too many countries enabled it through their cooperation with the CIA at the time.
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  6331. Might have something to do with what the US owes China that tax dollars are used to pay its creditor with?
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  6332. One could say we are so afraid of using nukes that we will end up using them because we don’t want them used on us first. Penn has large ears.
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  6333. What a beautiful wall, rivals the Great Wall of China!
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  6334. Obama emphasizes gender to be the reason not the fact that Harris is a Cop. Her gender is irrelevant. Black men are likely not going to vote for Harris because of her career as a prosecutor incarcerating black men. If she were a Public Defender that would help her. When there is no unity among the sexes of the same race the opponent always wins.
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  6335. we have to get to the bottom of the motivations to understand who these people are that they can present themselves as uninhibited purveyors of violence in the world they live...land would be that motivation, for the sake of expansion and settlement, the cheapest possible way of acquiring land without using money is through force...but there are forces who have it built into their constitutions the destruction of Israel...and these forces are independent of Iran. The State Department and the Biden Administration did not have to intervene between Israel and these other forces unrelated to Iran who made their attacks on Israel very clear in the beginning....all ships going to, or supporting Israel, will be attacked in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. Israel has a capable army could have defended its own shipping and commerce, there was no need for the US to step in, consequently, widening the war...when people are so cheap in their nature to use force and avoid legitimately buying land for settlement and expansion, you can be sure they will also maximize exploiting American resources to do the fighting for them. Acquiring land and using a foreign powers military might to stop a trade war. Biden made Americans directly complicit with a Gaza that was acquired through genocide.
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  6336. Biden will lose, Trump will win and a revolutionary war to overthrow Trump the Terrible will internally erupt giving opportunity to a world wide working class to make its political demands in a social explosion making it impossible for the ruling elites to rule and the entire edifice will collapse from its own internal lies, contradictions and hypocrisies. American Elites are liars and the fools that believe in it will burn it down.
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  6337. Youtube hucksters taking advantage of the stupidity of Americans and trying to make a career for themselves. Talking like angels over pinheads.
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  6338. OPEN THE BOOKS!
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  6339. She has a consumption fetish not unlike millions of Americans. She needs help! As do millions of Americans suffering from a commodity fetish addiction they are all in denial. It does not help that she surrounds herself in a material culture that swallowed her up.
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  6340. I can't fault Iran. Its obvious to people on the street know Iran is not at fault. Trump purposely killed the Iranian General to sabotage the Biden administration. The US has a pattern of treaties, truces, and then betrayal and oppression for its own interests.
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  6341.  Fook Yuu  Speaking of poverty and education...black people are not educated in socialism and communism in America. Critical Race Theory does not cover the history of socialism in black history and neither does a-critical white history in the lay out of American history, is a giant defect in the theory. Literally, 100 years of communism in most countries in the world and the American public, black and white, are not competent in socialism. They are interested in it. Heard about it. But cannot explain or understand it. Americans do not know anything about all the changes that have happened in the socialist world since the Russian Revolution! I find this shocking. The American system of education has blocked out the American people from participating in this historic subject! The subject teaches people how to act for themselves as a social class and without it, the exploitation people will experience by capitalism is an eternal suffering and yearning against the subjective and personal exploitation of giving and never receiving. One person alone cannot bring justice into the world. Therefore, theory is of the utmost pre-eminent importance. The paradox the American people present as the first nation in all history that can create a true worker's democracy but cannot because it is educationally incompetent about socialism. Poverty in education is to me the teaching of subjects as compartmentalized and bell driven, a form of mental exploitation the Department of Education in the US, together wth the monopolistic publishers, and the higher education academics, impose on young minds a form of indoctrination disguised as education in the subject area of social sciences. As if the Department of Education is the arm of the State department reinforcing anti-communism for the last 75 years. The poverty is in the Mind. Compartmentalized education inculcates the mind with static, non-integrated, thinking, and conforms to capitalist manufacture and factory production in its routinization and standardization. Thus creating a proletariat subservient to capital and a class inequality I claim is the real issue but the root of that issue is poverty and education,---you are correct. This will be a great historical tragedy to go down as the first and only nation that does not know what a worker's democracy and socialism are?
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  6342.  @AJ-lm5dl  What do you men by 'value'? What is a value versus what is an exchange-value?
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  6343.  Fook Yuu  Falun Gung is trash!
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  6344.  Tito Joseph Israel  Okay so what are you going to do about that oppression just talk about it?
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  6345.  @crescentprincekronos2518  Nothing natural about America's social order, look at it...pure chaos...you must be nuts!
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  6346. @Paul Kryder Let me understand your point. You are saying social classes are equal, therefore, inequality is moot? Do I have that right?
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  6347.  @crescentprincekronos2518  What do you mean by destruction? The world, the society, destruction leading to extinction...what? Are Americans always this vague? Equality of outcome...what outcome...WTF?
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  6348.  @johnlast8578  lol
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  6349.  @lucindajohnstone2625  I am not going to answer you with an absurd proposition. Racism is everywhere, and class inequality is everywhere. Race is the visible dividing of class Lucinda, you should know this,--- a bright lady like yourself. Only individual power can rise above the social dividing lines but you have take the exit from your position in society where it is not safe to make that rise. Out of ten only one can do this the rest are hopeless trapped by their social class and race.
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  6350.  @patriarch3056  Nah...you just do not understand what NEOLIBERALISM is; everyone in a capitalist society wants to be a capitalist not a worker. Maybe you don’t but others know...a worker is nothing in America and a CEO is a God on Earth. Workers, ( women, men, whites, blacks, etc.,) compete against each to become a CEO. Most capitalists in the US are women. Women are fueling the exploitation of workers (mostly immigrants without rights) and other nations when they are Generals in the Military in this decade. Female capitalists call this equality...if you can be one they say to a man why can’t I, is their creed. A reactionary and dangerous, childish and immature feminism, women accept because admitting you do not belong to the ruling class is a painful reality they prefer to deny. They do not even believe, despite all the evidence, that class distinctions even exists in America. Now you may understand why liberals and the republicans are in conflict.
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  6351. Missouri does not have any gun laws. It’s a free market state,---Missouri gets whatever the free market sells. Everyone has to be disarmed. People do not have criminal written on their foreheads.
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  6352. In 1975 Dean was probably in a PA all girls elite finishing school and could not have understood the Fall of Saigon or she would have said the parallel was too much, sad that it was repeated. Take her argument seriously and you are one of her.
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  6353. I’d be paying attention to this drone episode as a high official in the Kremlin. Depending on how the State Department answers the Public’s demand for knowledge and how the military conducts itself can reveal to enemies of the US capabilities intended to be kept secret.
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  6354. Why should the burden of defending another’s right to free speech be placed on the person not exercising that free speech? This leads to the creation of institutions that have nothing to do with the actual reproduction of the society but actually cost society and subtracts resources that can go into more productive activities. How does the hateful rhetoric of NBA basketball player put food on the table for the broken and worn out homeless families in East LA? There is no relationship at all to the real and material improvement of human lives effected by the Free Speech is the part the Constitution leaves a blank and needs a Congressional amendment to bring it up to the the age we live not the age of the forefathers. An 18th Century American would laugh at Kenye West’s comments that have no social context with the 18 th Century. By the same token. If I make a hateful comment about clowns it should be me not you who should defend it. Not your job to tolerate it. But my job to prove it. If I am shut down before I can prove my comments and I am censored, barred, exiled, de-platformed that is tyranny under the real rule of a tyrannical state or social movement. Free Speech is nullified with force. In our case the force is social, a power outside of myself, big social institutions over which I have no control silencing my voice occur after the social force brought pressure to bear on me to silence myself is a form of psychological, social, emotional reign of tyranny.
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  6355. I would only live there if my job took me there and that is the problem for millions of people. They have no choice or free will without losing their livelihoods.
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  6356. Its funny...but I cannot help but think your road map to the bureaucracies and Treason against Trump is moot in comparison to the failing infrastructure system of millions of Americans the two political parties criminally with intent ignored.
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  6357. I take it America has a whole social class of people who are like the ones harassing wildlife in this video. Its a self-created problem when a nation has bred idiots posing as citizens of an enlightened sort. But as a consequence nations will have to ban Americans from touring wildlife conservation places in other countries.
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  6358. Politics at the expense of the health of the public,---shameless politicians, callous and selfish.
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  6359. Kevin Hart the actor got out? Authorities can’t use bulldozers to plow the mud off the road?
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  6360. I think he is directing his energy at the wrong place if he intends to de-weaponize the FBI. It would be more effective to order all universities, academies, and training centers teaching criminal justice and law to breed a better crop of Cops and Lawyers. Who are recruited into the FBI is an unknown variable to the American Public. How many come from what backgrounds that their backgrounds become an impediment in making society civil and safe. Don’t punish the individual, let a jury do that, but punish the educators if more of their alum get busted for crimes and misdemeanors in government.
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  6361. Imagine what the money of the US troop/arms escalation could do to relieve the stresses of the US economy staggering between crisis and the suffering of the American people.
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  6362.  @animeboy1088  Looks like Christian Winter is another Ghilaine Maxwell, cruel, rude, selfish ad spoiled. He fits right in there with the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Super Rich Elite or in British Oxford ruling class families that have been around since feudalism in England. However, judging from the low responses (thumbs up) on the nature of my comment this channel, less yourself, is a host to people who do not know suffering or empathize with it.
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  6363. Why do Americans vote at all when one evil as bad as the other? Elections are meaningless when all you are given are powerful old men.
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  6364. So why did the Justice department not prosecute the author of that warrant if that warrant was the starting point of this hunt? Come on, man. The only good to come from arresting rank and file cops and not members of the hierarchy is a defection of loyalty to a corrupted hierarchy.
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  6365. How about that a Freedom Caucus Right Wing Gay Crossdresser enters Congress through the Democratic party.
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  6366. A Dallas Police Chief from Dallas Texas is part of the preparation for potential protests that may erupt over Tyre’s murder? If I were a black cop I would quit.
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  6367. Right at the introduction given by this person walking the streets of Venezuela, tells you there is more democracy there than in his home country. He says the vote was divided 51% USP, 44% Opposition candidate, the balance of 5% of the Vote picked up by a “bevy of candidates”. There isn’t a bevy of candidates on the ballot for candidates running for president in the US although there are four I can think of that are running do not appear on ballots in battleground states, this tells us, the Republic for which many stand represses others from even running. This is a form of totalitarianism, not quite the democracy America thinks of itself, is it? Venezuela is a step ahead of the US in terms of democracy. But of course, admitting it takes the ability of a person to rise above their social class to see things objectively. Basically, these sore losers have an agenda much bigger than the president is why they scream, kick and rant. Rich christians have a sociological agenda for society that cannot come into being until democracy is dead. We got a window to that mission from the lips of Trump to rich christians the promise of no more elections as a fix to the problem of the poor and working classes raising their voices. Democracy opens the door to the poor and working classes once every four years. Except the Greeter at the democratic doors of democracy isn’t Miss Liberty, lighting the way, it’s a nasty, flea bitten junkyard dog, there all the time, in fact, centuries, that barks as you get closer to the gate. Like JD Vance, in trouble for his own brand of down home racist bias believes childless people are subhuman is a dog barking at people of a different persuasion.
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  6368. When it comes to emergency responses the owner’s authority over the workplace should end right there. If there is ever a case for unionization it would be the Kentucky Candle Factory and the Amazon warehouse. Clarion calls for a new labor movement they are. These were not the only two negligent responses to the advance warnings given out nationally two days before the tornados hit ground. These are the more significant tragedies the news shows the smaller ones are where people work generally who got caught up in work because their bosses dd not call off work the day the tornados came to their region.
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  6369. Right, his development is the same as millions who went right to the source as a way of making sense of the Cold War. Too much propaganda was going around then as now on all sides and making up your own mind was critical. So, why doesn't a capitalist simply end world hunger and still have billions left over? No skin off his nose considering accumulation would replace such an expense. What makes a man upon acquiring private property decide to be inhumane and can the will of a person be more powerful against the force that makes one not abolish world hunger is answered? There are many answers to this question from the right and one from the left, Marx's answer? As private property controls the individuals, as wealth, private property is forced to maintain its own existence and the existence of its opposite, the working class. Private property is the positive side of the opposition. Once you understand this dialectic and apply it to history, the Cold War, police and state repression, all the US wars are actions defending the existence of private property as wealth, in effect Americans never had a government (State) for, by and of the people, is a incredible revelation to behold. Understand the other dialectic from the position of the working class it's self-destructiveness is its maintenance as a class constantly in the midst of degradation as a revolt against that degradation', a field day for the courts, police and psychologists, both legal and illegal drugs is a revolt to which it is forced by the contradiction between its humanity and its real situation. Then the oppressed working class, the refugees, the victims of natural disasters still not recovered, the incarcerated black men in America, the subjugation of women and children to sexual violence, the deluded, the spoiled to the hilt people, the masochists, racists, bigots, pundits, priests, politicians, exists to maintain the class system and the cries of the oppressed wretched of the earth move along life as destructive social elements and private property the conservative element of the whole dialectic becomes super developed. The propertied class and the working class express the same human alienation, this is the 'something is wrong' feeling people get with capitalism.
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  6370. Working people are really shat on in America. Disgraceful.
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  6371. This city is a war-zone. The Beirut of Pennsylvania. White cops on one side and the black community with poor whites on the other side.
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  6372. Vlad needs more ammo from Kim. You do realize that all that can change. The world can be a place were there are governments that are not armed. Guns and ammo and the right of guns and ammo. An international weapons bans treaty would have a positive effect on the state of the world. I agree with the governor of New Mexico. Gun ban is the right direction to go for all states. She is right the Sheriff is wrong. Here’s why: The Right of Property is a right of self-interest. As property guns have more rights than people but since guns do not have a brain and a voice of their own they need an owner to do all the talking for them. Once a person becomes the voice of a piece of property, it automatically divides people into owners and non-owners of that property and government must set limits on the freedom to be an owner or a non-owner of that property. When that property are guns and the freedom of others to live is cut short by the gun’s ability the owner/representative of the gun is held liable. The bigger question about the 2nd amendment is the question of Freedom itself as a natural right versus a political right. Owning guns is a political right, and a partial freedom not a natural right and not a total freedom and this dichotomy is what makes government a necessary evil. Government must enforce the right of each owner and non-owner to enjoy a weapon thus making a violent society and the other to enjoy a non-violent society thus making a stronger enforcer of natural rights out of the government. A ban puts all of the above out of its misery. It ends that you have to choose between two evils. A bigger government enforcer or a life cut short by a violent society. The ban offers the society and government to become not larger as an “enforcer” of laws for the objects to change hands but smaller, more sensible, leaves it to people to use reason and live with principals without feeling or being unfree is encouraged in a ban. A ban is the right direction to go for all states.
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  6373. My initial impression of him was that he would humor the BS in Trump. I was wrong.
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  6374. That cannot be done. Its an impossible demand on capitalism to make a "prosperity wage". Wages should be at $30 an hour if a 'prosperity wage' became real. Because a rise in wages is a consequent fall in profits is a general law. The two variables are interlocked where one falls the other rises and conversely is a general law because other variables determine the fluctuations of the two variables. The other reason a 'prosperity wage' is actually not a good move for working people to demand is because a wage is nothing more than a certain quantity of goods and services given to the workers in the form of a wage in exchange for the use of their labor-power for 12 hours a day. The longer the workers are trapped by this deal the worse it gets for them. They lose all claims to the product and all claim to the share of wealth the product accrues. This drives the employer to raise productivity and this lengthens the hours of work and wages fall corresponding to it. So my suggestion is forget the wage system completely.
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  6375.  @tonywilson4713  The argument I raise is not dismissing the money is not there. No parrot points here. Economics is not business management. The money is there alright at least seven fold the average if you can take it from its owners. Cost of living is much higher in Germany than in the US when comparing national wages of both countries this will at the same time have to compare the standard of living of Germany's capitalist class to that of the US capitalist class, to get a better handle of what you claim. You got a lot of work ahead of you.   Still, the economic surplus is much higher than in the US that the effect of profits falling as wages rise is true in companies that employ less than 1000 workers and not true for companies employing over 1000 employees because the larger capitals often destroying smaller capitals for the greater share of the market. This competition obscures the inner relation that sheds workers from their jobs as innovation congeals less labor time in a product and reduces jobs in industries that are machine based. Profits do not fall if wages rise here. Workers on a oil rig are paid a $1000 per week there is no effect whatever on the profits accrued from oil reserves, but profits do fall if wages rise in the industries that are labor intensive.
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  6376.  @wayne00k  My error. What I mean is better said this way: wages no matter how high are still a deal relating one amount of social labor for another amount of social labor with capital, an exchange where the seller of the labor-power renounces any claim to the product of labor and to the proceeds derived from the sale money of that product.  As a result of this exchange relation with capital, the workers are set up for the property of the capitalist to be set at a pace to extract excess amount of work in shorter intervals of time, and organized labor leaders will always be the ones to administer the cuts to the rank and file, and this relation generates reformism in the political sphere and we end up there with career politicians....its gets worse as a way of attempting to equalize two things that are never equal to begin with, that in my opinion the best answer is to abolish the relationship entirely.
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  6377.  @tonywilson4713  I think you have to narrow down your criticism of economists to American economists not western economists. Then further narrow the economists down to right or left. I also think the materials required for the production of your hardware devices that has determined your lifestyle by not of your choosing, matters to Silicon Valley where, how, and for what price can the raw materials be extracted from the Congo, Ecuador or Venezuela for tin, gold, aluminum, etc., using the government on both sides to gain access to these raw elements. Each new device made for consumption in America takes one American deeper into the hole of complicity with that imperial aim as public money and private sale money from sold devices are partners in ripping the world of its raw material. I also think the cheaper trained labor-power elsewhere and capital flight apart from its negative sociological impact, is weapon for the cheapening of labor-power in the US.
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  6378.  @tonywilson4713  I am talking to you from New York and you to me from down under. I am always amazed at the technology it makes easier to organize workers in every country but for two reasons workers in every country do not organize in their own defense as a revolutionary class in opposition to the Harvard trained neoliberal political elites. I wrote to the Queensland Province representative, forgot his name, cowboy hat, right winger, about his province inundated by bats a month before the quarantine restrictions in 2020. He is pushing to roll back the endangered species act, consequently protecting bats dumping shit in his province. I sent him the article on the origins of the Coronavirus in a study in Scientific American. He never replied. The next day I went to re-read the article in Scientific American it was pulled down. He did reply but not to me. He informed who he works for the proof the virus did not come from a lab leak as it traces the exact steps taken by the researcher, known as the "Bat Lady". Australia is in the CIAs pocket.
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  6379. This is another unnecessary war Americans would be wise to simply not be concerned about except for the fact that the price of this war registers at the gas pump at $5 bucks a gallon and empowers other oil producers to control and regulate your ability to get around through the market. You vote republican Oil bearing nations won’t regulate the price higher if they want, lower if they want, but your country will become one giant gas station as alleged against Russia, and the domestic free market will regulate your wallet with low prices selling more volume wrecking the planet. Vote democrat and you will get no relief at the pump, and an unsubstantial crumb here and there. You are stuck with two parties that don’t care about you except as consumers of oil and next genetically engineered mass produced food with which to control your diet and overall well-being and health.
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  6380. The loss of life in Syria are half a million people in a ten year war to date. This is a big number when the total population is 17 million people. A country this size and with a mortality rate that high as 8.5% can fast approach a point where longevity is shorter than births and children are parentless for the whole of their adolescent lives or births fall and a people die out. COVID deaths are half a million in the US. COVID might even be prompted by wars. Destruction being a means virus strains move from people to people ultimately reaching you and I. Disease and devastation go hand and hand. That is our direct interest in ending that war and all wars.
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  6381. The lesson BLACK MEN need to draw from Haiti and from Virginia is never do the bidding of the WHITE ESTABLISHMENT for you will be betrayed by the WHITE ESTABLISHMENT. Your best bet is to join your own kind, do not kill people of your own race, kind and culture, end the oppression once and for all. The whole reason Law Enforcement was invented in the US dating back to the CIVIL WAR was to keep black former slaves from rising up with arms. This is the legacy of the Haitian Revolution.
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  6382. This is a fact. From Nixon and all American presidents who committed war crimes have immunity from prosecution in the world court in the same way the police assassinating black people in America’s communities have immunity from prosecution. . The 1% want to make every person a pre-determined Being of their liking, shaped, artificially molded, making nothing natural in you yours to be natural with, owning your mind and body, is at the heart of this generation of fascists.
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  6383. It is a fantastic book, a page turner that makes you realize how little you were taught on American history...a great reference book...especially if you were mentally shaped by a parochial and establishment reading of American history, its a book that runs history as seen from the point of view of the experiences of the American people in their broad diverse range of segments of the majority of working people in the United States.
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  6384. 11:00,--- Clearly the field in world affairs is dominated by capitalists from Putin, Prigozhin, Zalenski, and other outside capitalists as the interviewer states: They all have become wealthy...”, in 1989 Prigozhin became wealthy when Putin awarded him government contracts for food and restaurant services. We all know how government contracts are rigged in the sense that small contractors lose out to big ones who manage to get the contracts over and over again. In Russia it was the beginning of capitalism or the end of communism that Prigozhin and Putin in charge of administering these contracts got rich over time that they are now one large Elite, rivals for power. The interviewer literally states the growing power of this class of Elites, the richer they become, the more powerful, is what Putin fight against. The interviewer states further on the effect of the sanctions in the general economy is a black market which thrives in Russia and cripples the targeted individuals in the government. The whole mass of the Russian people are meeting their needs through other trade venues for goods and services while Elites fight a political battle for central control of the government. The Elite Political Rich and the Capitalists dominating trade and commerce throw the world economy into chaos as this method of relating to nations is only about changing regimes.
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  6385. DeSantis is the king of culture wars and unfortunately, an east or west coast Congressperson cannot legislate culture wars away if you do not like them is the legal aspect that DeSantis exploits for political gain and opportunity. He rides on the coattails of Trump in the sense that he now has the reigns of the anti-coastal elite sentiments of working class communities of Florida’s rural south, people who feel their culture is robbed by the popular cultural output of both Coasts. They hate Hollywood and the NY media. Not realizing that world culture is the market of Hollywood and NY media is selling their product is a thing that cannot be stopped without re-writing the laws of the state. The rural south and mid-west react with men like DeSantis, an updated version of George Wallace. Prentice-Hall is an East Coast Established Monopoly Corporation in the printing trade. It is associated with East Coast Academia. The Ivy Leagues and Ivy Leagues is how you enter this social class, good grades, and doors open in the Pentagon-Military-Congress. It only takes one recommendation letter from a dean of an Ivy League to enter the world of Washington East and West Coast Elites to give an idea of the comparison the average person has to go through to get a Class A job. The Elites of each industry write the history and what is taught to the children of the America’s rural and mid-western communities and families of various sectors from farming to commerce to industrial to the Children who are still property of parents as were slaves in America’s past. They are little people with no rights can be taken advantage of scrupulous politicians on the right by citing the cultural imposition they never asked for or wanted. They are not wrong and the Coastal Elites are not right is the present line-up of clashing forces. Through the exploitation of the education of children a right wing gains traction, since it is true that Academia, print-media, create stereotypes of people in rural America, and it is true rural Americans live out that stereotype i real life, is fertile ground for opportunists. It does not take much to push buttons on the shirts of Americans. Long Island republicans go duped by Santos. Funny the surnames mean the same thing, i.e, Saint. Santos is priestly looking with sweater beneath suit jacket lives out stereotype as well. Its not like this in Europe. Small rural towns in France are inventive and robust. Rural America does not have to be exclusively all pick-up truck and large scale corporations. They choose to live out a stereotype manufactured by large scale agriculture and large scale monopoly retailers that everything is one uniform culture no matter where in the country you may be and small towns do not have be made for the car. The mentality of small town politicians is not on the local cultural life of their towns and villages but on how to get ahead in the world of politics, i.e., opportunism.
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  6386. No regulatory oversight on the use of combustible elements in the workplace is how this happened but the investigation will never produce such a finding because the finding of no regulation points the finger at Congress.
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  6387. Can we make the summation that militaries in nation-states where present, are all concerned of the growing popularism against elites, they worry popularism could lead to an expropriation of the few by the many. In short a revolution! As far as I am aware revolution does not have a specific appearance for immediate recognition and how a revolution starts is never the same as how it ends ends up but on the move are masses of people coming from varying social classes growing more uneasy of their circumstances in all of the more advanced nations and at how much corruption there is in the the different echelons of bureacracy and the police existing beneath the very rich and powerful; a tendency could be dressed in right wing form but threaten the position of the elites that other militaries fear being cut off as a client state, and prefer to be safe than sorry! What a strange world we live on the threshold of something emerging as everything teeters on shaky ground.
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  6388. I am not optimistic. Here you have a real hindrance to social development in the person of lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry and Americans still drive to no end.
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  6389. Julien Assange and Leonard Peltier are in the same category of government treatment.
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  6390. Mmmm...212 must mean something...
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  6391. White phosphorus is harmful to humans by all routes of exposure. The smoke from burning phosphorus is also harmful to the eyes and respiratory tract due to the presence of phosphoric acids and phosphine. White phosphorus can cause deep and severe burns, penetrating even through bone. Evil, pure evil.
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  6392. This should be interesting...we have a bunch of white old men in the Senate and Congress callling themselves republicans who refer to Trump as their "Commander", are blind to the fact that their commander is an asshole and not at all as religious as they, but since he is the president they have nobody else to follow or can lead them to a dignified resignation of political power for America to begin re-inventing itself and the world can be freed of their tyranny.
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  6393. Is it a sink hole or part of a fissure long and deep in the crust of the earth that all those people are living on?
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  6394. People action on the planet leaves a big mark. One ant does nothing but a colony of ants will excavate the earth. People need to re-think or learn to think, or need to seek guidance on how to think about seriously changing their lives and lifestyle polluting this planet. Dying in the filth you leave behind is not a choice as a lifestyle. Not even an option at this point.
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  6395. Awesome, his executive orders if congress goes with them will change the country and give it a chance to re-invent itself as a new country. Exciting. Just the right man for the job!
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  6396. You too, eh! Jheezus...your ilk are a dime a dozen.
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  6397. When Russell and Satré created the Tribunals the teeth behind the proceedings were massive demonstrations the Ruling Elites could see and feared. Assange would have been freed yesterday in 1968, today the American State does not see a molar outside of the Belmarsh Tribunal. People have to stop watching history and start making it, get out there!
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  6398. When health is made into something you can buy... ...only the rich live and the poor die. ...don't forgot that Sunny Jim. Covid is a thing that makes you sick and die while medicine to treat it is turned into a thing you buy... Price of a Covid shot will rise in June, so you better get your's soon. Your's is strange and bizarre society of price, money and grim... It values life less than it values gold, silver and tin.
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  6399. Really you are blaming capitalism. Central banks belong to a money economy and a money economy belong to a capitalist economy. Economies of competition where there is not a single object not made for sale, and if it is made for use it does not count as a value, therefore, neither does the labor expended on the darn thing count as value, the system of the more sold the bigger the capitalist is breaking down, showing signs it is not compatible developing the family as a social unit, such a society cannot operate without having a monetary system that compliments the exploitation of nature and humanity,i.e., the resources of a nation and of the people of a nation. You are really saying we have become reliant on markets for our necessaries and handed over, surrendered, ownership of the means, split off as it were from the land, tools, machinery, etc., that we cannot rely on each since the means are not in our hands. You are really saying wealth comes from labor in the case of your family alive during a pre-capitalist era, the source of wealth was the labor of all cooperating in the family. This was true for the majority of families in America before America became a capitalist society, taken over by the super rich, mostly from Europe, specifically England. Surely, such a society that buys and sells must break the family up, destroy it, in order that people can be divided into buyers and sellers. Countless stories have been written about this great social split, i.e., Old Man and the son in conflict because the son does not want the farm would rather move to the city and get a job. The Cobbler’s kids sell the store. The baker’s children gave up the baking business. Countless stories of this social hemorrhage of the family social unit. Who moves into the neighborhood of families that made something like bread, butter, clothes, lose all their businesses, a giant mega corporation to finish off the death of small business. It’s a very sneaky and subtle invasion of the family commonly using popular culture to lure the young away from the rural countryside and work in the factories of New York or London, Paris, Milan, when this all started and it happened wherever the capitalist set up their industries. You are really talking about relative value relationships of commodities when in 1945 an ounce of gold was $75.00 dollars and today the same ounce is priced at $1,110.00 dollars. What has changed is the value in commodities, less and less actual human labor, goes into the making of our products is reflected in more dollars given for the same weight of metal. This means we can build a house in 10 days but it still takes a year to extract an ounce of gold from the earth. How many houses do we have give to equal the price of gold? This is not inflation this is labor productivity going through the roof since 1945.
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  6400.  @STSWB5SG1FAN  Except what comes down on Trump is more bark than bite that he would entertain the ultimatum to drop out of the race.
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  6401. The interest of public health is in sharp conflict with the economy on which large-scale industrial and retail corporations depend. If the economy closes down they die. If the economy remains open the Public dies from a varying disease. This is quite the dilemma for all capitalist economies, thus the large scale multinational and retail corporations, are shedding the only expense they can cut, i.e., workers, in order to rescue their bottom line and the standard of living that goes with it. Who will the government end up saving You or the Multinational corporations? Look to the east for a social system that can save Public Health and the economy.
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  6402. Kids learned more on that walk to school than they ever will about mental illness in any classroom.
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  6403. People need to start to doubting and questioning the legal and social conditions that give the power to their employers over them.
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  6404. Would you expect any different from Berkshire Hathaway?
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  6405. Pity this letter in the Irish times makes no mention of animals equally being hosts for the virus. Not only domestic animals but also animal products.
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  6406. The US secretary of state, in so many words, quietly announces (6:34) war is imminent in the Middle East. War is imminent because revolution is imminent.
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  6407. Free market system in Columbia knows no limits or boundaries when a restaurant can double in commercial aviation even if it did get a license what meaning is it when this happens? Do heart surgeons double as butchers too?
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  6408. On what alphabet would those languages be based on?
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  6409. Sudan is living proof of Militarism in society as a scourge on humanity.
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  6410. A cork would work in the meantime.
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  6411.  @Rhythmicons  I am happy to hear that, Bernie is my choice, but we are dealing with the most criminal organization in the world with a 900,000 standing army and I do not mean the US military, they number only 450,000 and are mostly outside of the US fighting forever wars. I mean the police and law enforcement funded through Congress and by fossil fuel and we are already hearing from corporate democrats they would destroy the democratic party before giving the election to Bernie. Putting this into perspective, Trump's GOP and the police are fascists and will fight tooth and nail even kill the American people before giving up power.
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  6412.  @thetimeliver6788  Lol, I've met idiots before and you are on the top of the list.
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  6413.  @Rhythmicons  Tell me something I don't know, incidentally, I am curious, since you mentioned it when did the GOP become fascist...do you know?
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  6414.  @Rhythmicons  Well that is debatable we can trace teh origins of the eugenics of Nazism to Woodrow Wilson. Bear in mind fascism and Nazism differ, one is not an ideology whereas Nazism was a distinct ideology supported by eugenics. The Japanese were fascist as were the Italians but they were not Nazis. Trump is likely a fascist but not a Nazi though he may use white supremacists to create a fascist society.
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  6415. Because all working Americans bear direct effect of capitalist exploitation are workers in a position to address the concerns of all humanity? Something better be done because internally the GOP has never been at its weakest point of becoming a minor party which would leave no opposition to the democrats as more of the middle of the road American defect from the GOP moving the democrats to the right and this crushing the electoral left. Some ideas of the far right are practical for workers experiencing the exploits of capital in work. Reducing government over-reach and a practical tax plan appeals to the right would appeal to workers. The GOP because of their lunacy and far right extremism are losing this middle ground, but for workers less money taken out of their paycheck is a relief for the moment. An opposition will carry this further than the democrats with a plan to empower people of their personal data, a plan to get the kids back to school, a wage-price freeze to end the pandemic and an order to make the workplace safe before moving to the larger issues, could put a working class candidate in the White House and make more progress in the second term leading to a re-election to finish the total renovation of the economy and a break away from capitalist relations of work. Progressive people have to get into those county committees and start blocking the favoritism the democrats show putting the wrong people in all the key decision making offices to run for those offices. Democratizing power and party growth starts there.
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  6416. I am going to give Americans the benefit of the doubt that it is indoctrination that makes Americans docile and not an innate character trait; I really think Americans are not aware that there is a world out there that watches the same news Americans watch and in most cases way better than the news Americans watch that this particular incident along with the repeal of Roe v Wade, has made the US a pariah nation to use Biden’s words. The ‘they’ you are alluding to will not lose their jobs. They have to be forced out of their jobs!
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  6417. I would agree. Also we never hear voices from the left talk about direct changes they would make to agriculture, taxes, defense, labor, health, education. How these items have been working on abstractions controlling people's lives in a negative way can be made to work for people generally in a positive way.
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  6418. A pragmatic discussion...who was it that said history repeats itself; the first time as comedy the second time as tragedy? The war policies of the Obama administration return as tragedy in the Biden administration.
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  6419. If you know something concrete why don't you simply share that information and speak normally?
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  6420. Rochester NY is probably the most racist place in the country puts the South to shame. This mayor is black and the cops arresting her husband are not.  That said, this does not mean the arrested are innocent or the arresting agencies are free of racism. I don't know if they are or not and neither do you? I do know that the sociological composition and antagonism existing between white and black cultures in this part of the US makes life feel segregated, a step back into the past.
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  6421. This was a good quick lesson on how beaches are formed. And a lesson on how water utilities charge for water. The less water there is the higher the price. At the reservoirs lowest point residents will get a water bill taller than the reservoir's highest point when full. How about that. Utahns are in for a big shock if the reservoirs dry up. Water utilities stand to gain from water levels falling is built right into the rate structure of water use. The water management utility uses water only for its monetary rate value. That the reservoirs ebb and flow concerns them because the utility rate ebbs and flows and they can get away with not sounding the alarm to conserve water because the apathy in the public is at its highest point in Utah.
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  6422. Not in custody not arrested. He could have left the station...so why didn’t he?
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  6423. Black women face a higher percentage of mortality due to breast cancer than white women. But health insurance for Americans is administered through a BOSS! You get coverage when you are a couple of months on the job but if there are no jobs there is no point of preventing more deaths by lowering the age women are screened for breast cancer. The logic of this arrangement is to render harm and deny people their health. Having workers receive health care through employers is illogical from the standpoint of medical science but the Medical Establishment in five states, one liberal democratic and four conservative republican states, control that science and practice in the nursing field what Congress made illegal in the Ballroom Dance industry in the 1930s, i.e., Lifelong Contracts. Lifelong contracts denied the right to quit a job or get out of a deal for buyer and seller. Indentured servitude accomplishes the same thing by advancing a commodity (wages) to the buyer. You quit you owe. So they don’t quit but work forced by debt. You can see that both political parties are identical in these four states on health insurance coverage and market relations between buyer and seller, extremely anti-health, pro-free market, regardless of a reappearance of slavery in America. Newsome, Lombardo, Abbott, DeSantis, Cooper...two democrats and three republicans...are owed the honor of slavery’s return to workplaces in their states.
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  6424. Pigs! Are how the men on this show hoard the content of the critical thinking of the women commenting on the war. Especially when the women are on the right track looking at both sides of the conflict in connection to facts and contradictions! They should have their own program exclusive of women.
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  6425. America, Canada, Mexico, do not have an industrial supply chain, where a rich diversity of industry allows a person to put together a product without going to China to build it. A banker-president is not going to advance industry unless there is money in it for the banker. A societal approach is the only thing that beats a particular interest. US, Canada and Mexico would do well to develop, 1., market socialism and 2, land reform that prohibits leasing land. Obviously one for food sustenance for the population reduce high mortality rates and low births through better nutrition and 2., to solve the scourge of addictions in the homeless epidemic, get the Trumps and fifty dozen other land barons out of the soil, if people are to be healthy again mentally to become a trained labor force they have to have food and home, this also to free up more soil for home based agriculture. Allow community market associations set prices and distribute products, simple bookkeeping would do, use averages and begin using money as intended for the purpose of moving products from hand to hand...local lending capital to develop industry. These three nations will have to do something to move toward more socialist endeavors because the employer-employee relationship is unequal and never balanced in laissez faire market capitalism, or they can forever hold their peace, China is not waiting for them to catch up.
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  6426. Of course, the best way to push aside the people who refuse to admit they are wrong after proven wrong by history in the present when it repeats a piece of history of the past are the same people who steer you wrong are swept aside from the path of revolution is a working class movement. The working class has to go over the heads of the progressive wing of the democratic party and confront directly the party bosses with strong and organized marches and demonstrations in Washington D.C..
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  6427. This is a good step in the right direction. America has her own corruption and mediocrity to wash away. For example in the US Senator James E. Clyburn of South Carolina secures $28 million dollars for South Carolina but that does not address the main problem with descendants of former slaves in South Carolina who cannot sell or buy and have full title to the land given to their ancestors wrangled in legal maneuvering. This was called 40 acres and mule at the time, land was given to them as compensation in becoming emancipated slaves back in 1865. Clyburn had 29 years to do something about Heirs Property and never has. He is still a senator. When a lot of people are dependent on you to correct a situation and that situation is ignored the politician should return the salary paid to them by the tax payer and be extricated from that office, deemed as corrupt and mediocre. The people depending on you deserve better. The State’s business is to make society better. Its not a place for personal gain or satisfaction. If people want to become rich, state service is not the place to do it.
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  6428. Your government helps the exploitation American workers by subsidizing the exploitation. In itself that is grounds for a revolution. The exploitation the American working class experiences is not by the force of gun or lash, its the force of the absence of material wealth and over work. Workers give employers more value and in return workers are paid a quantity that is constant and unchanging, i.e., wages. @franwebb7756 
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  6429. A coup d état that could not be made.
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  6430. The power to bring Postal theft to an end is in the hands of all mailbox owners who together can refuse to pay their bills as a moratorium, due to the consequence of mail interrupted,---bills not getting to them for payment and this will bear down on Congress the full political weight of major corporations to correct the problem. A “ Don’t Pay Your Bills Campaign”, is a small sample of the kind of power people have when they take action to protect their own interest.
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  6431. @aliolci,----precisely, but the stupidity of the question is chosen by design. Stupidity can almost be forgiven. Purposeful stupidity cannot.
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  6432. Ridiculous and an absolutely shameful story of a nation driven by a media Red Scare bandwagon internal forces are seizing as opportunity to ramp up more military spending over a dam weather balloon that drifted off course. Shame on You America if you believe this crap.
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  6433. There is no question Trump will hang for violating Georgia’s election laws.
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  6434. This would be a dream job for many. But the work is the same as a museum curator's work. So why isn't a museum curator's job a dream job for many?
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  6435. The left seems to lack insight into the limits within which Kahn could not disentangle himself. The political and social structure of Pakistan’s military itself had him trapped,-- the only way out was to be ousted. His other way out would have been a coup taking all power, but that would have not have been a social revolution. Reforms are possible within the framework of the system and impossible for transformations of that system. The whole situation does show despite the level of protest, political power consolidated in the military and the Assembly (Parliament) is for now greater than the protests.
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  6436. @WTFViewer Its funny. You know...people think capitalism is about making commodities and money...and not saying that it is not about that, because it is,---but it is more about turning the means of production into a means of extorting unpaid labor that the Biden government can act like a Mafia. What makes capitalism is the use of a working class to generate a huge surplus of unpaid labor, by first offering up labor-power as a commodity.
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  6437. He has no finesse and is obnoxious to me, has a face I'd love to punch, but you know what. Without mandates we can gauge the true fear in the public as the mask represents protection from the unmasked. At least here we can see how Floridians deal with the unmasked or the opposite, how the unmasked deal with the masked in a court drama and not in the political world would have been a whole lot easier then the politicians determining what is right for the community. Ordering people around is not an honest measure of what people would do on their own. I'd rather see community and peer pressure deal with the matter and go no further than a lower court. Communities and the people are treated like children by political mules and jackasses; in reality Americans do better without the republicans or the democrats ordering them around. The ideal political party would be one that just gives the means and the facts for the community to protect themselves and with assistance keeps the criminal element in check! Americans are never given a chance to act for themselves in a political structure designed to treat them like wild and crazy, ignorant, selfish and spoiled, brats which for the most part relative to the rest of the world; We Are!
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  6438. . Government is not weak if it were they would not want the White House so bad. But every four years they pour tons of money to capture that power or they would pack up and leave town if it were true your government is fleeting and weak. There is a lot of power in the government, more than any other in the world. Government’s power no longer serves society or people, it serves class interests not the public’s interest, is the reality behind the illusion of weakness. The appearance, a show, hides the power behind it. Americans have a name for this power, the Deep State. President and the Military Industrial Complex is the Deep State. You were warned of this Deep State in 1959. It is the central location for absolute power today when the warning came it was not the central scrutinizing force in society; it is a temporary power for the individual that is seated in the presidency but in four months this power used wrongly; the last seven presidents put everything in place for this power to rise one president can do more harm than all seven presidents. Behind the backs of the American people and politically inexperienced in fact, the takeover was enabled. Its as if the Public have been slow motioned suckered punched and knocked out with a concussion by the super rich so they can marry themselves to the State ( government, deep state), which ever term you prefer to use, before government returns in service of the Public.
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  6439.  @brandonellis8111  That makes no sense the school is racist. The school is the institution and the institution itself is a racist institution, it exists in a racist society. Unless you think America is not a racist society then your nuts! The girl is a victim, white or black, but there are likely to be out of ten students in that school one or two black kids who's parents can afford its tuition. The black to white student social and ethnic composition of the school is racist. Socially unequally and economically unequal, thus, politically racist. It is through the high price of tuition that the racism is manifested. It is through its ideology that the school is sexist. Its religion is ideologically racist. Through the neighborhood the school serves is a racist community. All America is a segregated racist society. Look around you. Any schools like this in black neighborhoods? The girl is a victim, the discussion should be about how children become racists through victimization. People who abuse become abusers is the fate of this girl when she becomes a woman. She is being socialized by sexists and racists, teaching her through punishment, that to be a sexist and racist is acceptable; being a non-racist and non-sexist is unacceptable. I don't see your joke. In fact, the point of a school such as this is to set up a separatist society, where blacks are poor and destitute and whites are rich and privileged, the seeds of an Aparthied System planted in the mind of this girl.   Our schools in Russia do not do this to black people, in fact, not even our stores segregate. Granted our society does not have a large black population but we honor their contributions with statues of Alexander Pushkin ( a black author, poet) and they attend any state university we have, and our towns have one school for all children in that town. If a kid is black, so what, he goes to school, period. We even have black maniquins in our stores, do you? I have no idea who Kulinski is, but I'd be wary of his motives if the social relations of sexism and racism in general is not emphasized in his POV. See my point, this matter is not about the girl in particular, its about your racist and sexist society!!!!! This poor creature is growing up under an Apartheid educational regime in the name of a private school. Its a breeding ground for hatred disguised as a school. Sorry for the lengthy argument but I think the subject deserves a lengthy argument. Your friends commenting on your comment are not your friends. They also breed hatred through their language and thoughts directed toward you. The level of disrespect is astounding and embarrassing are shameless, unconsciable and illiterate people.
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  6440. Bottom line is...equality is not universal in the workplace...what are we going to do about that? Less and less is the workplace not a hostile outside element where working people can realize their dreams.
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  6441. You get caught when the property you have stolen has a price that few can afford to buy. Stealing a Van Gogh would be more of a problem than it is worth but stealing a government contract for resale to a foreign company or government lures a buyer fast and it happens frequently in American politics. Senator Menendez of New Jersey got busted aiding the Saudi government. Was paid in gifts, gold bullion, luxury cars, mansion, private security, a Utopian life where nothing exchanged is paid with money, a Yacht for life and luxury vacations in return for a Judge’s favorable ruling in a US Supreme Court case. It’s not capitalism these people practice in life. It’s a kind of socialism that is limited to super rich people, government functionaries and high level civil servants. Good chance that if one member of America’s political class sells access to America’s productive power and might, they all do and the FBI, investigates government as an institution of access to all the means turned into a commodity for sale. Everyone with the money and can afford the admission price wants to buy a piece of America’s productive output and its military might for their personal use and enjoyment get it in return for gifts.
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  6442.  @GSHAPIROY  Government contracts cover one transaction of billions of doses. When those expire or used government re-purchases more doses. Its a long string of transactions occurring through this controversy.
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  6443. I presume you made a budget analysis to be able to say that or are you just saying that to project on me what you do do not know as if I made your mistake? Besides if they really want to detect guns and knives, bombs and prevent their entering the subway system than the cost is irrelevant; unless you put a price on life to cheap and not worth spending. @robertw.previdi5450 
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  6444. This is a country that employs so little of its own labor force that if it does not recruit from this excess supply of labor a revolution becomes inevitable.
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  6445. This was a riot!
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  6446.  @deejaye2647  ???? That is not a coherent sentence. What are you saying?
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  6447. Serious problem that will hit the US working class with higher store prices. This can only result in people working longer hours, adding a third job, to make up the difference. From a working class point of view a rise in prices is a fall in wages. Trains stopped the flow of goods bring more layoffs. It will be the people who attend and watch the Super Bowl from the bleachers and bars impacted; a rude awakening the next day when their job is gone because there are shortages the help is not needed. The worst thing about this situation is that American worker who just lost his/her job because of trade and commerce disruptions has to vote or not vote at all between two parties that are indifferent to his/her bills they have to pay, or else they are shown the door, and the US workforce does not have its own political party. A political party of their own that they can use to protect themselves from the other parties throwing none of the burden of the collapse of the economy on the 1%.
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  6448. Horrible that a lot of resources went into this production to please a tiny segment of the population that is into Hedonism.
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  6449.  @FatLava  gunfire you mean.
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  6450.  @patwilliams6579  By cracky...”you got rice pudding between the ears, shortchanged by the Lord and as dumb as a jackass”, Being There 1979. The actor was talking about you. Go see the movie and watch yourself. Bill Gates bought 20,000 acres of farmland in four states, he ain’t Chinese, my little nim witte.
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  6451.  @KD-rv5uo  That ignorance is your own fault. Farmers never once stepped forward to educate people of that process but kept to themselves making a product to sell to large corporate distributors; meanwhile the farm associations, did NOTHING, to raise awareness. NADA. The same large international corporations had done the same thing to small farmers not mechanized in the global south are now displacing western farmers who are mechanized in the global north. How many farmers played ball with the corporations? Many. Farmers in the rich nations are an extension of those corporations consuming the most water and denuding the landscape. I wonder how many farmers vote for the same political parties that are corporate controlled and are now expropriating farmers from the private lands they own? Assuming you are a farmer, the spoiled outlook of how food gets to grocery stores is one helluva comment coming from a Monsanto products user. Do you and your farmer lobby in Washington support the Ukraine NATO invasion of Ukraine encroaching on Russia and the $60 billion allocated to Ukrainian Nazis? I am pretty sure you did and now the result of that is a shortage of fertilizer adding to your economic burden. I think the spoiled outlook is really the selfish greed and narrow mindedness of the farmers crying foul. You had 50 years to open your mouth and now you are thrown into the same boat with all the non-farmers in society.
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  6452.  @KD-rv5uo  Americans are duped. US corporations were kicked out of Europe for its GMOs before you were born and you never heard about it. News blackout, they censor and cut you off from the world. Breakfast cereal, tortilla chips, grits, canned beer, soda, cooking oil, and packing materials....mmm. that would be Kelloggs corp., El Mirasol, Quaker Co., Beer Brewers Mfgs.,Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Mazola, just to name a few corporations...and corn goes into packing material, allegedly biodegradable but if you fish the oceans the material degrades into particles entering the ocean’s sea life that you eat. Oh and Tyson Foods who during the lockdowns behaved so decently to its managers and workers. I detect a strong odor of verbal horse manure emanating from your mouth and your ultimatum is didactic and nieve. You’d make a good Trump speech writer...just clean up the grammar. Did you ever see a 5 year old obese child weighing around 120 pounds at 3 foot 8 inches tall...its pretty daunting to glimpse at the health of that child if she make it past age 40. 1 and 3 kids ages 6 out of 43 million kids consume GMO allegedly ‘organic’ products. The short mortality of the youngsters is on your hands. The products they consumed are yours because the raw material for them is yours incorporated into your farming activity the GMOs the corporations strong armed landowning farmers to use or go bankrupt. There is your ultimatum. Assuming you are a farmer: You should have gone aggressively more public in fact, against your leaders green lighting GMO production but I guess your leaders were never around when I was young or they would have had you march down Pennsylvania Ave and side with the Europeans to adopt the same standard and practice of no-GMO farming to vanquish the American GMO Cartel. Ship is arriving too late to save a drowning witch. Good bye.
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  6453. Pence's placid personality is confirmed when he decided to shit on the first historic reunification in the Olympic ceremony of NK and SK since the Korean War. A pending historic unification occurs on an incredible footing and Pence representing Americans shat on it. The old players of that war that began in June 1950 are still around. NK, China, Russia, Japan and the US supporting SK. America surrounded by the ideological forces of fascism and communism in that part of the world tells you how little progress all these countries have made in reunifying Korea because older elites of that era are still around pushing for the divisions to last longer-- holding back the generation that wants to break them down. Koreans are coming together in a big way. Of no choice of their own the world market is pushing away the old divisions of that war to the extent that no country can function without the others involved. In 1950 Thailand did not have one machine run factory and NK did not even have a house standing in the whole country. What these countries have become far supersedes NAFTA as a concept. Trade and commerce is exponentially growing and encompasses all the nations situated on the Pacific Ring of Fire. Not a single country is self-sufficient. Palm Oil production and export alone from the plantations in Burma get processed in factories in Thailand accounts for 70% of all US consumer products. America buys more than it sells in Asia. Its trade balance is horrendous and added to it a deficit used not for renewed American industrialization but for a Washington militarization of the region. Pence spoke to the young American veteran recruits stationed in Japan not as a 'promoter of American business development', trade, commerce, without an industrial base America has no future in trade. It is a country that will rely on securing by force the needs of its country and those vets will become as forgotten as the Korean vets in their retirement.
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  6454. Hey Claire,---Trump was able to stall Democrats with a bluff for 9 years tells me democrats are easy to get over on, too easy.
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  6455. What is happening here is similar to that happening in South Africa, Haiti, Brazil, but on a smaller scale. The rich in San Francisco are not hiring, no jobs no income.  The community is rich enough to lose the inventory out its retail chains. When the stores are emptied the thieves will leave. That is the goal to push people out without breaching civil rules that would ruin the effort to free up real estate. The contraband organization moves and so do the thieves taking them wherever the money is. The properties the thieves came from in SF long in their families since before gentrification are now free to be bought up for a song to developers. In South Africa this expropriation is taking place in a complete breakdown of the state and civil society but there the thieves are ordinary working people forced to lift items up from stores because there is no work in society, a complete economic breakdown. This appears to be one of the trends in this grand social experiment of the many losing their bonds to property, land and community in some places by force in other places by economic pressure. The environment created by all the looting sets the stage for political struggles, general anarchy ideal for stealing political power.
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  6456. US Economy is still short of jobs and the Fed will raise rates. That has to be the dumbest move ever. Nixon kept prices and wage stable, neither could go up, employers could not raise prices and workers could not demand higher wages, while the economy was in a recession. Why couldn’t Powell recommend Biden do a wage-price freeze to Congress? Powell’s decision at the Board brings harm to workers, his policy will impel workers to demand higher wages, he pours oil on the fire, there will be wild cat strikes and more disruptions to the supply chain and as a cruel reaction to these worker demands the employers will raise prices and keep their capital in the bank earning high interest. Powell makes it easier for them, he fortifies the decision to not invest their capital in the US, but to keep it outside of the US...and with at least 12 billion in foreign holdings those higher rates will enrich foreign claims on our economy will have to pay before Americans are paid, this to me is a signal of impending social catastrophe. This is because Powell is a technocrat not an economist with a sense of politics and society, a tunnel vision moron, who benefits people with money and not people without money. Got a billion dollars? Powell’s rate hike just made you richer and it made the jobless poorer.
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  6457. he doesn’t understand that the privileges given are backed by indirect force. You cannot have overt corruption without brute force backing it up or that corruption would be eradicated @carlettesouthern-robert2992 
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  6458. Until we make the connection that under the current state of affairs raw material such as coal, gas, oil, soil, water are tools associated with the power of US productivity, we are lost! There are two aspects to these use-values make them historically unique in the way they are used and consumed and they are the elements of all material life, and death when they no longer benefit society but, in fact, are destructive forces. It is our productivity of labor that is the destructive power we are witnessing in the effect on environment and it is we who should respond to the climate crisis. Asking or demanding the governments do something makes no sense at all because they are not the direct participants of a labor-process that consumes the raw material by the tons on a daily basis causing the climate crisis with its emmissions. The factories, office buildings, the cars, trains and planes, are the tools we use are powwred by those use-values and gives us the economic power currently destroying the environment can also be the power to repair the environment.
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  6459. You could say the same thing about Israel destroying Palestine.
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  6460. I am sure if you pull up a record of all my comments on line you will find a prediction I made a year or to ago as I recall it. Trump will win the election and Biden will lose it because of his support to Israel. The democrats have to raise money to hire campaign staffers in three states full time is a sign of weakness. The democratic dilemma ,----you cannot protect the working class from the very people you are taking money from,---Obama, Clinton, Biden raised more money than Trump moves that party closer to being owned by billionaires. With respect to Israel, it is not that Israel has become a filthy colonist that drives Independent voters away from the democrats. It’s the fact that democrats have a open-ended blank check for Israel and democrats are moronically convinced Israel’s way is the only way, they can’t stand up to Jewish Hubris, cannot say No to Genocide is what drives voters away from Biden, and this latest round of arms support to Israel from an earlier promise to Israel, is a roundabout continuation of the same proclivity to cave into Israel’s pressures. The middle class is sick of this and it will be the middle class who will vote Trump back into office. RFK has no chance at all. On the ballot on two states is enough to put the squeeze on democrats because as they become a minority party of billionaires the middle class is a larger social class organized by Trump than are the billionaire class organized by the democrats and the working poor and middle working class are for Trump despite what their union leadership endorses.
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  6461. "Lay bare..." synonymous to 'expose', 'reveal'. Implies economic laws are implicit or hidden. Motion as in development =, movement =, process=, in formation =, never idle, not static, not a thing in isolation. Laws that are in process and are not disclosed by its outer presentational form.  Finding such laws and where they are located in the form is the quest. Then to show how these laws develop through through its main form into other forms is science. Laws are constant...the forms are variable. Form changes =, morphology. The basis of laws of motion is matter. Matter moves. Thought is matter in movement or development. Thinking is not what we see but what we are.\We are composed of matter. Matter that is biological and chemical would make thinking a material process of the brain. No brain no consciousness! Motion =, of matter implies a substratum of life that is composed of natural elements in a variable state of existence. Such as labor is part of the element that makes itself as labor and matter into other forms of matter as another element labor consumes to produce. Matter and labor are never static elements but change Nature and nature changes the elements of production. Work to consume and consume to work. Labor makes its own work. Been doing so since the origins of humanity. This makes production not what it appears in its form and that within its present day form is contained a production of two elements operating under definite economic laws was always the case just appearing in different forms considered as stages of development. A time dimension activates the laws into making progress. Two types of time, absolute time and relative time. In every thing is a labor-time relationship. Measured by duration by length or by less length of time needed. Labor is measured not by what it is or what it makes but by duration of labor-time. Labor-time is the form of labor. labor is ruled by duration of labor-time. Labor-time is a thing not of itself but is itself=, contradiction.
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  6462.  @jeremyrangel8138  How do you know people you are addressing do not have a business? People who assume have limited powers of insight...would that be you?
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  6463.  @jgalt308  What part of what I said are you referring to?
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  6464. The progressives (the Squad) would be the family band of the 60s marketing the commercial version of the counter culture with flower power and Mod. They are the Cowsills and the Partridge Family of the democratic party.
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  6465. There is so much more integrity and dignity to being a police officer in a society that has no arms at all than being a Cop in the US where everyone is armed. You go home get awarded the best prize a man can have in the adoration of their children who are told by their father police officer he just talked down a loose and unhinged mental case about to derail a train loaded with passengers and earned the badge of a broken arm doing it, rescuing hundreds of people. What would impress a child more than that? No Guns: No Murders is so much better than having Donald Trump come to your wake.
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  6466. America is addicted to 'Boards"...and bureaucracies.
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  6467.  @captaintitusz4761  Your parents were traumatized by 1950s McCarthyism and your grandparents by the Red Scare of 1922-24. You should be empathetic. They were the victims of America’s Reign of Tyranny of 20th century anti-communism. One could say the anti-communism accomplished behind the objective of manufacturing of consent in capitalism is to be cynical about your reality.
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  6468. Further evidence the political world is indifferent to the survival and reproduction of society as factory input and needs are split apart.
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  6469. Beautiful. Simple and fantastic. Placed on roofs of buildings solves a huge problem. Water for the production of a product and water for life.
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  6470. Who are the people excluded from a direct stimulus check from the American Rescue Package just passed?
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  6471. Students today can learn a lot about the protest strategies of the students in 1968. The Port Huron Statement and SDS, and May 1968 protests in Paris.
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  6472. An absolute withdrawal...not after invading and causing so much damage to these societies! The right thing was to never invade Iraq in the first place but use other options to get rid of the Taliban like supporting Taliban resisters. But the US wanted to show its muscle and now 20 years later a total mess is made of the country is thrown on the laps of rival factions in Iraq to fight it out.  This should give you a sense of the apparent spiteful character of Trump not giving a dam that these countries are owed some form of restoration of normalcy before leaving. This is exactly why the US will fall, a political dictatorship of an elite presiding over a command economy uses it as a plaything of no consequence to the survival of the country. Political power is all the elite want to protect and that means using cultural issues to get your riled up and support them. They hit every topic touching the pathologies of Americans and when one hit stokes a nerve in the Public they win the White House. This is the game since 1968.  Top party leaders on the democratic side are no different in lock step with the top party officials on the right side now being led by the nose by far right nationalists. Many politicians know all of this is wrong and would vote against invasions if their political life was not held against them by top party leaders if they don't vote the party line. This resembles Soviet style communism not a democracy. Forget about you and me as far as participating in big social decisions is concerned we don't even exist for this elite but in the faceless and anonymous comment section.
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  6473. It was interesting to me to learn that there are about 97 million truckers in Canada and if you compare the number of American truckers its only a third the size. Canada’s truckers invoked a federal response when they seized the Ambassador Bridge,. If America truckers shut down Route 80, that would invoke a federal response too. Route 80 produces and trucks a 100 times more money in goods than the Ambassador Bridge transports. Loss in American wages from Rt. 80 occupied by trucks...way higher than $42 million per day in wages alone as reported from the seizure of the bridge. Wage earners on the Canadian side that lost that money still supported the truckers. I somehow doubt wage earners in America would support American truckers shutting down their main way to get to work. What got Trudeau by surprise is the State cannot move a wall of machines. The truckers had the power from day one and with a little help from friends Trudeau had mutinies in his ranks. Obviously, a parliamentary revolt against Trudeau. Biden would have invoked Marshall law, and the expanse of that Martial Law would have destroyed the lives of the truckers by rescinding their license, insurance, registration, frozen their banks accounts, levied liens or taxes against pending loans, forfeited their trucks and property, while using the military to re-open Route 80. At the moment the ranks under Biden are not about to side with truckers, at least not the military ranks on a federal highway system. But it is only a federal highway system because the federal government manages that system, technically it is a national highway system and not federal property. The truckers (are legal members of the society that owns the national highway system); legally have every right to shut it down and turn it into a 3000 mile long block chain party where all can partake and then the wages lost by not getting to work would have mattered less to people. Biden only manages that highway system; he does not own it. A court would have to exert the right of property, in particular the private property of the public, the public right to the use of property as they see fit within limits. This would bring into question the use of the military on behalf of private interests losing money to the Route 80 seizure, and further bring in to question why those money earners are receiving a value and giving nothing in return for the use the Public’s property? Could a scenario like this happen in the US?
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  6474.  @SimonAshworthWood  You are talking about another subject than the one I raised in my comment. I am talking about the political economy of a Rt 80 shut down and the reaction from the State to that shut down and you are talking about the action itself.
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  6475.  @KatieAubrie  Pennies on the dollar for a nation 336 million people.
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  6476. You know what I would tell the private hospital system in Michigan if I were president; hire more help yourself!🤧
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  6477. What does Multipolarism means for Trump that forces him to isolate the US and leave a leadership role for China to take over? From a standpoint of natural history, the world of work is still undeveloped with many nations not having enough schools and hospitals, roads, energy plants, factories ets., to absorb the world’s population that are 99% proletarianized with earnings below the cost of survival,---western policies and closed border policies, while still producing in China, decimates Europe and America’s working classes. The Communist Party of China having something to do with this disintegration of the working classes in Europe, and America face a crisis of theory and practice, as a moral dilemma, in the party, that could lead to an expulsion from China of American corporations as a way of rectifying principals and the party.
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  6478. The democratic primaries coming up is Friday the 13th if the Iran Nuclear Deal was a 'horror show'.
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  6479. Money needs to be restored to its normal functions is all that is needed not more or heavy regulations which would add another layer to an already large bureaucracy.
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  6480. I love their cars and red flags.
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  6481. I think the Germans told the Americans they are not dropping the gas deal with Russia and Menendez is talking about destabilizing Nordstream? He's got to be stoned or something....
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  6482. This senator is spot on.
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  6483. Who would be her running mate in your opinion if she ran?
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  6484. Bernie has a real powerful program and his positioning of the economic pie as not exclusively the property of the super rich is a powerful message.
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  6485. It shows that the financial crash of 2007 had a double purpose. A pivotal point when the productiveness of labor moved offshore and it is no longer a part of the American working class. And it shows the horrendous mistake of bailing out the banks in 2002 and 2008, a blow to the American people, the crash, bankruptcies, foreclosures, loss of jobs and industry, and two bail outs and two Tax Breaks, and to add salt to the wounds a deadbeat Congress avoiding legislation to keep that productivity home. The Financial Crash of 2007 was the turning point of the end of American prosperity.  The most outright serious case of abandonment by a political elite to ever be recorded in human history.
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  6486. Too bad Julian cannot see the idea behind shooting people is chimera, the Wall is chimera, and Trump is speaking to his base who are delusioned by fear of migrants.
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  6487. Life Alert as a service is a really a death sentence for the user of Life Alert. Expensive service for the city of White Plains. The city should kick Life Alert out and be sued for being used as a instrument for police violence and brutality.
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  6488. Sad part of this video is that it is a sound bite. 7 minutes long to discuss the historical relations of war. Nice that there are people who are higher functioning enough to analyze the social relations and social conditions of societies, but! Seven minutes of a diatribe the powers that be find absolutely not threatening to their position. I can tell you there is a hostile disdain in the ruling powers that to them the masses are nothing more than “FODDER”, tools, a means to ends that give them the advantage in maintaining their hegemony over you, your friends, your neighborhood and your job and your life, your destiny and your society. In their belief system the masses are too stupid, and too uncritical, poorly educated, of the machinations of governing a society and will never jump on the stage to make history. The tragic side of this is that they are right! This intellectual community is so tiny compared to the rest of the body that a decent mind and thinker is reduced to take a seat in a seven minute sound bite to air his views.
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  6489. There must be around 12 million kids same age, race, gender who think like this in America. Not a good sign when they walk through life wearng blinders. Middle Class working families in America, 130 million in the US workforce, of whom the majority are not middle class are still the One Percent in relation to the condition of the world's population earning less than a dollar a day. This youthful idiot seems to think that life in Africa prior to colonialism for black African tribes was awful. Somebody should send him a tape of 'The Gods Must Be Crazy", he can get a modern but truthful funny glimpse that Aricans before slavery and colonialism was pastorally beautiful and prestine. This kid is so specialized in his thinking that he cannot think on his own. By specialization I mean he is a Cog in a Wheel. Without the ideological wheel the cog is so precise in its function it cannot perform on its own. It can aid no other kind of human task, totally useless and will not survive. America has a serious problem.
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  6490. 'Tis not privileges they need to relinquish. 'Tis the 'tools of the trade' that cannot be used for greed that is to be relinquished. They may continue their privileges if they want to pay for them. Not for free that they should be served ever again. It is not with the State's Treasury that lives of hollow meaning should honored or be propped.
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  6491. Ahhh...let me guess...this is a secret militia manufacturing house of weapons in the lower working class suburbs of Michigan that nobody in the neighborhood knew about.
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  6492. Stormy 2024.
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  6493. The use of land for a vineyard or for flowers is okay with trepidation but the use of land for the sale of wine or flowers worldwide is strictly a social relation we really do not need in a drought period. The governor of California plays a role of the prince of thieves, stealing water for his vineyard from household use in the surrounding township; no profitability if money cannot be made from sale of his property if not well watered. As a government official his private interest clashes with the public’s interest in cases where the lines get blurred. Water is where his private interest ends with his consuming the most and where the public’s interest begins consuming the least of the water under conditions of a state of emergency from fires and drought. It gets worse as this torture continues...time will tell...how fast workers in California realize water is the governor’s Achilles Heel and also for all industries consuming water in massive quantities simultaneously for their product has no justification in a slow drinking plant produced in massive quantity. It is the effect of millions of industries consuming water daily that nature’s productions are outpaced by human productions.
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  6494. If this was normal there would be reports of similar events dug up by ABC news in the annals of stories written about a murder of birds. So until this research is done this is all attributable to human activity transforming the environment that this kind of bird activity is normal. Birds belong in the forests and skies and these birds seem to be experiencing some kind of stress that they are not in their normal habitat but in a habitat designed for people and cars.
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  6495. I see them as a reactionary segment of the middle class. The juvenile delinquent section of an American high school population grown up 40 somethings. Nothing to offer society but reactionary violence.
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  6496. Louis Napoleon, Simon Bolivar, Hugo Chavez, were all military and political leaders who played a leading role in establishing a sovereign state. They were all inspired by the French Revolution of 1789, the birth of the nation-state and the rank and file of the military over which they commanded were the working classes and peasantry. ICE recruits compared to US military recruits come from different class backgrounds, while all the branches of the US military is homogenous, ICE and local enforcement are heterogenous from the same or similar class and social backgrounds. A dictatorship of the military could nearly be synonymous to a dictatorship of the proletariat because the military rank and file is all proletariat and peasant origin in Venezuela. Interestingly, the US military is all proletariat through internal divisions. There is bound to rise from history an American version of an enlightenment military leader. The three historic figures had the peasantry and the working classes on their side and staged coup de'tats instead of social revolutions. Napoleon made allies out of the working classes and peasantry to overthrow the nobility and monarchy, Bolivar used French enlightenment ideas of independence for Venezuela from Spanish rule the same way the American revolution fought independence from British rule. But their countries and culture were dynamically different and so their top down revolutions were also very different in effect. Chavez led a revolution of national sovereignty of the peasants and working classes under conditions that made it ripe for a social revolution, it was their day to establish a state that was rooted in the working classes, peasantry and poor, effectively, uniting the military with the lower social classes of society. It was time to shed colonialism in its modern form. Chavez brought enlightenment ideas to the working classes and transferred oil wealth to lift the social strata from poverty. Why this late into the 21 century, it could have happened sooner in the same sense the landed aristocracy across Latin America would have been overthrown long ago if not for American interests in cheap labor-markets and money markets in Latin America. The same reasons the Emancipation Proclamation of Lincoln is yet to be fully enforced by the central government in America to improve race relations. Apartheid was abolished in the 1990's peacefully. Power relinquished without violence. American descendants of slaves and the Venezuelans workers and peasants share a history of denial of freedom from their oppressors. 200 years has passed and to this day been colonialism in its modern forms is not formerly abolished in the US. Venezuela is beginning to erase the class differences, which might be why the middle classes become more reactionary fearing survival as a middle class, and in a process of decay.
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  6497. Biden could have used Cuomo's sexual misconduct to get him to support the $15 dollar wage hike in the COVID Relief Bill leading to a landslide piece of legislation but instead, the republicans seized on Cuomo's personal weakness to get rid of him. Silly Biden, slow or indifferent to react, missed his chance to do a LBJ number on the New York governor. I am sure Mrs. Cuomo would have preferred a democrat reveal her husband's indiscretions rather than learn about it from FOX News, eh! I don't know... when it rains in Washington the sidewalks are covered with worms that come up from the wet ground. But the good news is that society is a step ahead of the political world in terms of sexism and racism in society that no matter who brings up the charges the public will seize the next chance to rid the officials who let the little head do their thinking. Shamelessness is over.
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  6498. The chickens come home to roost. But for too many, foreign meddling in Central America had nothing to do with this exodus. Even with the evidence strong as ever the stronger the evidence the greater the denial of the meddling. Only the Russians meddle and wreak havoc. The American public and the Biden administration are not ready to handle any of the big problems facing the country.
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  6499. The workers can now determine the price of their company’s product instead of one capitalist deciding the market price we pay. Imagine is 60% of corporations became worker owned and how much more stable life would be and strong our economy would be. Ownership of the means of production by those who use the means of production is why I like the Trumpers, ---they are against private property of the means of production.
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  6500. World trade and the global economy won’t collapse from the increase of prices the Red Sea attacks will effect but its effect will anger more of the working class in Britain and the US to take a step further and crush the war culture within all the higher unities in western government(s). An aura of doubt about the legitimacy of republican powers in the western alliance grows and grows.
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  6501. The working day relationship to working people in the US is presented to them as a relation between products produced. For example, GDP, growth, etc. Their total working time on the job increases beyond the limits of their physical endurance working 14 hour days and with every passing day they are further damaged mentally, spiritually, physically, is a hidden injury not reflected in the economic categories reported to them about the effects on their well-being of their working time in general. Working people forget the legal working day is 8 hours long 365 days per year. But when one worker working two jobs to make ends meet that worker’s working day has gone from 6 hour days to 12 hours days, or 8 hours to 14 hours depending on the industry they are a part of. Working time surpasses the legal limit established by law and one that working classes in the past struggled to reduce to a normal workday for working people then and now for the same reasons working people are damaged by their working time today. GDP, growth, price-wage fluctuations, are categories that ignore the labor-process that produces use-values, hence product recalls are a common occurrence, prone to internal sabotage by workers themselves, a result of the over work and general dissatisfaction in workers, and officials in government emphasize the side of the working day that produces commodities with their statistics, because commodities contain more value than it originally started with. Gives hope to people to believe there is more growth my wages should increase but that is never the case. The more they work the richer their employers become is the case and the more destitute becomes the working individual. This value side of the working day and the individual worker’s potential to produce more value for their employers is the side that rules production. The working day is controlled by the employers and the employees are no longer producing for their own well-being but are producing for the well being of those who employ them. On the other side of the working day is the class that employs them also forgot this form of exploitation breeds revolution. Your day has arrived to remind them of that revolution.
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  6502. Why not send notices to actors who appear on Fox, even the ones who are in commercials. Appear on Fox and your career is ruined. But the same goes for the other networks, are they not also party of the fake propaganda machine? Without all the play acting done by actors in network productions the news organization is defunct. I do believe that celebrities play a role in this and should also be held accountable for their role choices. I also think screenwriters and news writers should be held accountable for they write what is acceptable to network. But going after these people will ruin their lives? True, it might and some will be ruined. But it is necessary that a few corporations and individuals working for them go down to demonstrate the public is to be respected and honored not abused and treated like pure SHIT with insults and hubris. What about all the chemists employed by Novartis, or the dietitians that produce Nutrisystem, or the authors of publisher's clearinghouse? These are the people who produce for corporations, who extract the earth and from animals the raw material for their products, which in making their transportable food programs promote agribusiness, who live on tax payer subsidies through a Farm Bill that is 70 years old. Nothing is innocent, all are guilty in some way or perpetuating inequality, violence, high mortality and the low birth rate of Americans. This action is highly commendable and praiseworthy but it is wooooeeffullly not enough for the monumental task of toppling the entire social structure that is virtually a weapon against the majority of people.
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  6503. Its a crude form of evolution that certain biological technologies are regarded as a development of their own as not made by the struggles, political conflicts and ideological arguments of the times.
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  6504. It is not China’s fault that TicTok in the US is not educational. It’s not their fault because Facebook is largely not educational and that company is American. So there is no, none, nada, legitimacy to the claim that the American version of TicTok would improve if it is sold to an American. Social media for the Chinese is a medium of mass education for the Americans it’s marketplace where products are sold. It would be improvement if the Chinese did make the US version a medium for mass education. 147 million Americans would learn something other than the price for a set of used clothing their leaders want them to learn to become a better nation.
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  6505. What makes western civilizations at risk of internal collapse is treating all industries the same, equal treatment under the law, treating everything we make and do as things we can measure. If it is all about measuring the wealth of our industries it cannot be about the actual work expended in these industries at the same time. We do this as a society we end up with bridge collapses or data breaches, factory explosions, train derailments and cargo vessel catastrophes on a regular basis when industries are developed not for their own sake and the work that goes on in them but are developed for their quantity will kill capitalism and democracy. The heavy emphasis on Quantity hides the mutual relations of all the industries from each other, they are unattached as it were, and they are not related to the overall performance of the society. There isn’t the planned economy in society the way that there is in the military. All industries in society are free to do their own thing, the government follows behind each industries with a broom to sweep under the rug a crisis the industry made by its own failings. America does not have a SOCIAL PLAN. Nobody knows why they are working? Better put they work but it feels like forced labor since there isn’t a connection to a social goal for the whole society. Because everything has to be treated as equal Individuals are cut off from industry and left to work out survival using their own devices is barbaric when too many are device-less. The last reason western empires will collapse will come from the psychological dilemma that everything is a commodity creates, is pure sadness. This stands in direct opposition to industries that can make long life products to reduce consumption versus making durable things with a short life span that increases consumption, again the emphasis is on quantity that never, ever produced a happy people.
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  6506. Billions of dollars the country cannot afford is sent overseas at the expense of babies depriving them of nutrition is criminal! This is down right immoral and criminal that the the US is poor when it comes to its own social needs and rich when it comes to GUNS, BULLETS, BOMBS.
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  6507. Shooting people in the back is a regular occurrence for Americans. Extreme measures for attention.  Anonymous Terrorism and Violence for the sake of attention. I have been dealt an injustice.  I am 80 years old and not rich and still have not received a stimulus check. I consider this an injustice.  Should I detonate the Statue of Liberty because of this. Of course not. Youth is waisted on the young. No patience, no wisdom, when the body is young and no strength and ability when the mind is old. Write about it, maybe one person becomes aware there are thousands of 80 somethings waiting for Biden to come through. Attention getting violence only rationalizes a dictatorship. See me run, see me get angry at you for no reason at all.  Irrational violence from society's standpoint and a new police force emerges to deal with it. That is not the answer. desperateoverwhelming The Public is made unsafe or government and industry finds the chaos and anarchy favorable to their bottom line and political aims that they do nothing to bring an element of humanity to the society...I don't know which is going on here? But all this violence does set up the country for a dictatorship to restore order. Keep hurting each other like this and you will be living under curfew, restrictions, unfree mobility, a cell phone app monitoring your actions, and be in worse shape you think you are in now.
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  6508.  @SkyRiver1  The quote from Gurdjieff does nothing for me ...there is no God....God is a concept humans use to measure their pain and suffering... 2000 years pass us by and because there is no evidence of a resurrection to date, the day of salvation is pushed forward into the future breathes more life into the theology rather than, dropping the idea because material evidence is not found. Theology should have been a dead philosophy with the birth of Sir Isaac Newton. But 40 million claiming the election is inauthentic is telling you that when they get into power slavery will be restored and all amendments added to the Constitution from 1876 forward will be rescinded back to make America the Rhodesia of North America, is lower than a billion people believing in some form of concept of a god while in their midst another 40 million are living in modern slavery and 24. 5 million are forced labor are mostly located in the Northern Hemisphere of the Earth the domain of the US. There is no intention to abolish the share of modern slavery in the US but every intention to allow the believers of slavery in the world to enter the US.   There is a huge difference between left and right in the US. The left believe that can fix and make equal a social system inherently unequal despite the illusion of the Age of Capitalism that all people start out as equal for all. Republicans have no such belief outside of ensuring a minority remains in control of the resources and in political power. Since both are wrong social creatures of a system that produces such mental prognostications we tend to want to believe the left is different than the right and tend to go straight into denial about how different they are to sooth, disappointments, and the suffering born from the constant inability to make tangible and concrete the true potential of each human being in society.
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  6509. This process of desertification is happening to Lake Tahoe and Lake Powell under the heat bowl covering the US.
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  6510. Human societies are never a static thing. Even when change appears to be idle it is still ever occurring. Sometimes the movement of change is abrupt and results in a social explosion really taking the world by surprise. Mynamar combines such a social explosion as it wants to become a liberal democratic society. All parts of its socety agree it wants a complete break with its military past. That would be like Americans are unanimous a denunciation of US history is the only way forward to becoming a democratic society. I can imagine a chain reaction of nations suddenly taking a sharp left turn toward a new definition of life and a complete renewal process.  Leaving its dark age behind as the only way to start again, a renaissance.
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  6511. Not all scientists are against humanity but a specific class of scientists in the American biochemical industry.
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  6512. Wow. A Yale graduate and ex-Marine. Let it be known the salt of the earth is not in this man.
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  6513. In the same way a 24 hour day is the limit to how far you can make someone work before they drop dead the organs of a human body is the limit to how far they can be used before they begin to fail. Medical innovations help to extend the youth of a person that is dying the same way innovation works to extract more value from less workers in less the time. Thank the limits of the natural day and the human body for all our social and economic innovations. It’s not a good place to be socially tough! Not good for the self-esteem of the nation to have two aging presidents in an aging society. The biggest thing on the minds of ageing people very naturally is death. Letting go is very hard to do but do they must is a real worry for the aged. Age is not a reason to exempt a handicapped individual from a high office but the degree of the handicap is a reason. But for practical purpose it really is a non-issue the age factor because consultants do all the politicking and government work for a president, deciding what ought to be done, the policies, the targets of their choosing as needed, power related matters, are easier the more feeble the commander in chief is persuaded to do things their way and the way of the country they think it wants is best which never turns out good. We will know when this part of the government has aged beyond the point of rationality when everything it pursues leads to its own demise.
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  6514. No doubt the most destructive to society of all political parties had been the democratic party for not standing up to the most corrupt and conservative party the GOP is an understatement compared to what is about to be an unraveling of the social order built over the last half of the 20th century. What is worse the capitalist class are richer today than they were in the 20th and 19th century and it is their consumption, their use of higher amounts of the economic surplus, that the environment and community life is left desperate, this rich social class is to blame, ----if less of the total budget went to their welfare and benefit a budget surplus would be applied for capitalization and the production of new value added production to pay off debts and get in the black. The Federal Board is no innocent bystander to this unraveling of the old economic system when the money supply in their control is used to debase others or even its own currency to keep pace with the amount of products CEOs were pumping out entering US ports from China. Credit money and fictitious capital hits the fan. At the same time as this class of CEOs acquire higher rates of income the demand for labor-power increases but their numbers are never fully employed due to a continuous process of innovating the workplace and their work leaving a reserve army of labor on the fringes of society to a pauper’s existence as the “Homeless”. A recurring question year after year; what do we do with the homeless?”. Trump might get lucky if he taps into the right formulas and combinations to restart accumulation the way Americans had it in the 50s and 60s but it will have to be an economy that does not depend on war expenditures as a stimulus for capital investment, if he were a real dictator he could use the power of the state to force the capitalist class to invest in the US or face deportation to their nation of origin and banned from re-entering the US. This would be bring far quicker results to lower the rising tide of mass unemployment and restart accumulation but that is not how accumulation operates in a capitalist society. Unemployment is a necessity for capitalism. War is a necessity for capitalism. It operates through war if not abroad than at home, if not through politics than through economics, with iron necessity leading to inevitable results, for its own expansion.
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  6515. Board members of this corporation are beneficiaries of all the Tax Cuts given to them starting with Bush and ending in Trump! Biden is a top earner. So are the Board Members. According to the rules he and Hunter qualify for the Tax Cuts. Obama, Hillary, Governo Abbot, Governor Cuomo, Governor Newsom...all the stars of the two parties are top earners qualfying for tax cuts. No capital gains tax. They can recover, they can fly away and return when all is settled, everyone except you and I. No capital gains tax on incomes increasing by 400% higher than the average working person's wage. Pretty incredible they can get away with that.   But now in a catastrophe and there is still no check in the mail from Congress,--wll they get away with that too? Quit while your ahead and take the money and run, resign, before you have to stand trial and testify in more Washington kangaroo courts.
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  6516. From the point of view of large-scale industry free to operate globally; Why hire an American grad student when the transnational corporations who own the jobs are filling them with foreign grad students at a cheaper price.
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  6517. Go Coop. Thumbs up.
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  6518. The Russians were always ahead of the US in Space. Sputnik in 1955 was the world’s first satellite and the first man in space, Yuri Gugaran in 1968, was 56 years ago. With a history of success and 56 years of consistent space development the Americans are naturally nervous all of us on earth, our satellites and internet permanently shut down would also disable the Citadels of American Power, i.e., National Security Agency, Pentagon, White House, the Federal Reserve. One can imagine the implications.
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  6519. Exploitation of child labor and slave labor in America going on since 2016 at this corporation and Congress permits Capitalism in America to run amok.
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  6520. The oligarch’s opinion is dubious.
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  6521. People who care about dignity and respect, should organize a movement for dignity ad respect; attend the court hearing of that driver’s arraignment, its public and the driver is an adult, with signs held in court “Human Callousness on Trial’. The case is symbolic of the disdain people have for themselves, the low self-esteem, abused by people in their lives they become abusers, victims, they become victims victimizing everyone.
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  6522. Wow, this is a news channel of talking heads and an audience that will get their asses bit off again. Nothing is more stupid than underestimating an adversary and that is what CNN does with Trump. The more you make fun and poke at him the more his voice resonates with the masses. The democrats did Trump a huge favor by eliminating the far right through the Jan 6th hearings and arresting several Oath Keeper and Proud Boy rioters. Now he can talk to those who are legitimate working class white people looking for answers and results without interference from the Far Right undermining this segment of the working class. And, Biden’s War in Ukraine will galvanize this social group against the democrats despite the job market and curbing inflation because these commodities are less important than paying trough the nose gas and fuel prices driven up by Biden’s war. The democrats have turned their backs on the working class and have not done an about face which would re-elect them over and over again if they did. The refuse to help the American working class and they will pay for that giving Trump this vote on a platter. The Far Right are a tiny, tiny social segment. There are 133 million working people in America who are getting real pissed off with the democrats.
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  6523. Pretty serious event. Putin isn’t happy. Ever since the restoration of capitalism in Russia following the collapse of the USSR in 1989, Putin had been in charge of that restoration project. It’s been going good for him so far. But the floor has cracks. Capitalism did make a come back in Russia but so did an internal opposition and as history would have it all his forces are in Ukraine. This would be the second time this country has had its armed forces fighting somewhere else while fomenting in its society was mass discontent. Must be something in the Russian psyche of the oligarchy to spread itself out thin at the worst time. Out of touch with Russia outside of Moscow. But this time it isn’t the communists after them its ISIS. I almost forgotten about ISIS to hear they claimed the attack was a bit of a surprise. Out of the news since Afghanistan. Now this! Wild. The venue owner is a Putin ally, the venue a symbol of a successful restoration of capitalism in Russia, well, at least, in Moscow. Russia is three times bigger than the US. It has a lot places very much undeveloped looking like the Dust Bowl of the Midwest in the 30s between cities of mid size with a lot of relics of the USSR. If people stop going to malls, shops and venues, they stop being the consumers the New World Order of Capitalism dies. If you cannot be a consumer and you are not working as a producer than what can you be? I
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  6524. The flip side of the argument that sanctions do not work is that...they do work...to what end is the question and how...for instance, if I can persuade public opinion that the rulers the people end up supporting despite the sanctions hardening their lives are evil and anti-democratic a military solution becomes the only way to get rid of them... as a threat to our system...and if I can create an illusion of this evil...all the better...to use to persuade a public for war as long as the public is kept cut off from knowing about the real events and actions being done in their name is defended as a national security secret. Sanction are now positioned in the broader picture as a substitute for diplomacy and a tool for war making...to become a market place for arms.
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  6525. Lora Roark -- Were you homeschooled?
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  6526. There is no Trump obstruction of justice and collusion of the 2016 election founded by the Mueller investigation to have been compromised by the Russians. Whether Trump has a right to claim he was absolved of all connection to the Russians he will claim it anyway as political capital, encouraging his supporters. Already the legal opposition reply to him as neither guilty or exonerated. What other way can the democrats find a smoking gun but through an investigation on Trump? Now the big thing is the state prosecution of everything Trump. Trump will come back triumphant when a republican state governor in NY pardons Trump posthumously is what I call real forward thinking when NY Subways are on the brink of dysfunction and break down for some 14 million people and it cost more to make people homeless than it does to keep them in a home. NYC and NY is a land of two separate realities where what is up is down and what is down is up, left is right and right is left, a living contradiction in terms. The lesson the Russians taught us is that we are not invulnerable to outside interference. The Russians and the Chinese have the same technology as the US, they also know how to manufacture crisis and interfere with elections if they wanted. Doing so is not consistent with other objectives the Russians and Chinese have. It is the US that was put in its place, like a child it was shown the sand box belongs to other children too, the lives of other societies, are not toys to be played with. Deliberate destabilization, controlled chaos, disaster capitalism behind the facades of many distraction campaigns that took the public's eye from the real work of libertarianizing government by abolishing the rules restraining private property, is deceit. There was another time when the Russians told the US to behave when it took sides in Syria, that it could penetrate its airspace and flew aircraft along the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico.  This is another way the elites dance with each other on the world stage.
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  6527. Elites are not safe is the lesson here. Can’t walk around pretending the world is yours and expect the world in their suffering will not react to you with violence especially when their suffering falls on deaf ears.
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  6528. How easy it would be to verify and root out hucksters in charge of some aspect of your political life if all the documentation of the services that person consumed were a matter of public record.
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  6529. The government is the mob.
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  6530. Here is another example, the US is not part of the international treaty for the protection of waters. In the north Pacific Ocean the discovery of cobalt on the seabed floor in this region can provide sufficient storing capacity of energy for electric machinery in several industrial sectors. The ratification of this treaty delays private sector corporations poised to exploit the ocean floor with a giant vacuums, so they will get the license to proceed from Trump undermining the treaty, the treaty is sabotaged, and start mining the cobalt. The option to opt out of treaties is a pattern. A pattern found at the local and international level. A school district can opt out of a library tax and a nation can opt out of international treaty. The exemption clause is a conservative mainstay...it is the Opt Out approach to all American policy making, that if we are not party to the treaty we do not have an obligation to keep safe the ocean floor for sea life thrive, if we choose not to pay a library tax, we do not have an obligation to promote a community of library card holders and general literacy. This is how a conservative campaigns to get elected at the local level and this is how the US conducts its foreign policy; a policy that is no policy at all. Never a commitment, never taking a stand except for its own defense. Like living with a wife that is not your wife, or a husband that is not your husband, a child of yours that is not your child; always independent like an entity outside of the family makes the family live on timorous terms the bottom of its life can be pulled out from under its feet by the actions of one person or nation. The Ruling Elites of Canada are taking the same Opt Out approach of the American conservatives in power, speeding up approval processes, etc.,the International effort to keep marine life safe is sabotaged and to quarry raw material for themselves gives what the voters want which is to keep America out. What a remarkable achievement on the part of the Canadian Ruling Elites (sarcasm) I charge them with compartmentalizing to form nationatistic treaties...they are stuck in a 1918 mentality. Rich nations are consuming the natural wealth of poor nations in the same measure as they are becoming richer from its exploitation and the social structures of mankind establish a dependency to Nature, no matter how far apart rich elites see themselves from the natural world. The human world is part of the natural world like it or not, and in the non-human natural world all species are dependent on the inherent resources of the land, whether in the form of soil, oceans, rivers, lakes. The treaties we need are the ones that lead the world to work with the natural world as two elements of one system. Treaties that mimic the natural world itself. Work in defence of species and work in offence for species life.
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  6531. In his Letter from Burmingham Jail MLK Jr., identified moderate liberals as a real enemy of the working poor, the people who say “Not Now”, “Of all times to protest now is not the time”, as if, your freedom from oppressive social forces should come when they think fit, which never is fit by them...Waiting for Godot is funny because the moderate liberals wing of the democratic party are never there and never show up when you need them...but it speaks to the lesson in King and to the millions of straddled with debt working poor young millennials who were let down by corporate moderate liberals when their hopes for Medicare For All was crushed, become demoralized, and settle. Standing behind a third party candidate is a positive thing for the working poor. Imagine if it were MLK Jr., the quality of the person running is the difference...it means to me that my vote is not up for sale. I am telling them; if you want my vote work hard for it! It means I do not give my consent to the policies of the moderate liberal wing of the democratic party when I vote for West or RFK Jr..
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  6532. Schools and hospitals serve a working class population, shootings happen in public workplaces is the common thing about these attacks. People committing these attacks have an axe to grind with the system and society but they attack a civilian unarmed working class population defines the purposelessness of their attacks except to force an awakening of the working classes themselves of the very situation that leaves them stranded with no protection at all. If all are armed as individuals there is no way to differentiate which person has the intention to commit a mass attack. Constitutionally, armed individuals is not what the 2nd Amendment says; it is armed and well organized militia that the 2nd Amendment covers which if working class militias with clear markings of an organized militia were formed and did the work of protecting schools, communities, churches, hospitals, because the Supreme Court said Cops don’t have to protect or help to defend, a mass shooter would have a real hard time getting through an armed militia, a defensive well organized militia is lawful conduct. What would the Supreme Court say to this?
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  6533. Totally right my Internet friend.
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  6534. Manchin does not realize that the rich and all the articles of luxury, his yacht included, would tell future archeologists nothing about the way we lived, laws, customs, political process...nothing, because these things are not tools. You cannot make anything with a yacht and you could not deduce from it how we are set apart from other civilizations and society...what in fact, distinguishes our epoch from others. Investments into the development of labor is what stone tools found in caves represent to scientists in the field, this means that the community made provision for this advancement to happen, to not make a yacht but to make better tools for a higher level of productivity is what a Manchin should realize.
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  6535. The shame of it all is... If America's social crisis causes consumption to lag behind production. We'll begin to have a real problem as workers are laid off and profits sink. Factories and stores close down, etc., when industrial processes change for the worse then a social crisis is given attention. But as long as workers are still churning out ammo, cars, coal, corn, iron, steel, oil etc., as if there is no tomorrow. (For Houston, Miami and Puerto Rico there is no tomorrow.), the economic structure of society goes unchanged. The two risk factors are; wage reductions and consumers are down to the nitty gritty and need everything new. If they can bring these two factors closer together, instead of wide-apart the way they are now---the factories will be producing the necessities of life on autopilot round the clock! Either a big boom or a Big Bust for capitalist enterprise.
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  6536. Uh, I do not think that by adding more fresh water into a pool that has sea water leaking into is going to make the water less fatal to human and animal life, and plant life for that matter...what about the crops? A low dosage of sea water is still a chemical compound that is not a pure water compound. And the other thing I find truly immoral about the condition of water in a country like the US is the damage that happens in non-rich communities. Purposeful and institutional choices to update infrastructure here and not there is neglect. Martha’s Vineyard or in Malibu are never affected?
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  6537. Not much. Privately owned capital forcibly taken by the State would be okay with me if it were a part of doing business in the US. You can only operate in the US by putting into the kitty a disaster relief fund to cover damages to the communities is a dam good idea. This would cover your people on top of private insurance and state relief. If you can’t eat, sleep, and drink you can’t work or think. I would say out every dime half a cent will go to East Palestine people which why the system is no good for your people. Much of that money will go into government reserves and form a part of the federal budget. From there it ends up spent in the worst way. A lot waste, games, used for junkets, or in the hands of a military across the oceans.
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  6538. @Loathar,----Your government is not weak if it were they would not want the White House so bad. But every four years they pour tons of money to capture that power or they would pack up and leave town if it were true your government is fleeting and weak. There is a lot of power in the government, more than any other in the world. Government’s power no longer serves your people, it serves the rich and powerful, is the reality behind the illusion of weakness. The appearance, a show, hides the power behind it. Americans have a name for this power, the Deep State. President and the Military Industrial Complex is the Deep State. You were warned of this Deep State in 1959. It is the central location for absolute power; temporary for the individual that is seated in the presidency but in four months this power used wrongly; the last seven presidents put everything in place for this power to rise. Behind the backs of the American people and politically inexperienced in fact, the takeover was enabled. Its as if you have been slow motioned suckered punched and knocked out with a concussion by the super rich so they can marry themselves to the State ( government, deep state), which ever term you prefer to use, over a 50 year period.
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  6539. You're done...a pupil is only as bright as their teacher is smart! Working people work. Employers extend the working day. This ties the workers to the job longer than necessary and for that they are called anti-vaxxers? Government ineptly tries to outdo the grip employers have on workers to free them up to get a shot! If I were the government I would have hired teams of nurses to go to every workplace in America and vaccinate the workers. i would have made a great propaganda episode of it to crush the real anti-vaxxers who are pro-employer in Congress pushing workers work longer hours.
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  6540. People in America are dealing with capitalism and capitalist relations, which are, abnormal relations made normal that run against humanity. A race between capitalist nations for the processing of raw material with less living labor for the effect is less value in the product.
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  6541.  @beastmode8203  Its a tough read but keep trying.
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  6542. Raising the speed limit is like raising the retirement age...cars consume more gas when they go faster making it very profitable for oil corporations to sell more gas, are desperately greedy corporations.
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  6543. Texas is the conduit for the arming of white nationalists across the country. Go to Texas buy what you need drive back home to the state you came from. The market or the manufacturer are the only two sources for weaponry of all kinds. Texas's politicians ensure the market is de-regulated for the circulation of guns as the primary source.
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  6544. The residents can use this moment to get the city to really clean up their neighborhoods with improves sanitation services. Bushwick has rats. Staten Island has one inch sized roaches. Queens has wild dog packs. Manhattan, Bronx, rats, rats RATS! I would go to the city and strike a deal. City is desperate to place migrants. if I were a council leader representing a district I’d convince the residents to integrate 30 families into vacant in need of rehab buildings/apartments in my district; the city collects garbage and sanitizes my district of infestation! When this works the other district leaders will follow suit. Residents are reacting to a fear and fear itself is their handicap, they have to be led...until the day comes when people are more aware of what really matters in life...they will never do what’s right for themselves!
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  6545. With all the killings going on around the country the crimes against persons it is evident and living proof that cops do not stop crime. But when property is threatened cops arrest anyone near the property. If someone robs a bank and they don’t catch the thief despite having all the clues to find the robber that is a sign that the cops see their role as defending property only where the threat is visible. This is why they have detectives to come in on crimes against property after the fact and this is why thieves can break into a jewelry store because cops are never around waiting for a crime to happen at that store. This is why there are private security, to stand around waiting for a crime against property. Cops are paid to protect property and serve the owners of property. If supermarket employees or nurses go on strike or office workers that is when cops take action because workers on strike is a threat to the property and its owners that employs them is a crime against property they can see and hear right in front of them. This is why they are paid well and compensated highly for injury sustained on the job. So the whole concept of policing in America is at present is to use cops as tools and it is one profession that should never have a union.
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  6546. There is only one reason people of poverty come the US and leave their own country. To escape the low standard of living their own country compares to the US is that sole reason. Any talk about NOT evening out the standard of living among nations is hollow and void of any serious and meaningful form of immigration, stability, and population control. A true immigration policy reform is not a mish mash of individual nations with their own separate national reforms. To the contrary, a national reform policy for each nation is a sign the nations are more unequal in material wealth in comparison to each other. Nothing will stop the flow of migrants as long as this inequality exists.
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  6547. the proliferation of guns throughout society is a form of attrition to reduce the size of population as people are living longer and young people are deferring family... there are fewer workers from which the employers can exploit for profits and for whom the elderly are supported. Employers do not want to share this shrinking working class expected to double their intensity of work and duration of hours to make a downturn in their profits change direction and stay high if not higher. The military needs a robust working class. They can be broke which is a match for employers, banks, landlords, merchants to keep a population unable to meet these needs without them is only for “you can’t live without us is how essential they are to the economy” a justification for existence. But you can’t train people who are not physically or mentally fit for the military. Recruits have to train commandos from other countries on how to overthrow governments that won office by popular vote. Employers would agree with the military if their manufacturing were not overseas. But since they rely on cheap labor abroad I don’t think it matters if a working class at home becomes thoroughly used up and worn down to the ground. The interests of the various institutions conflict. That black kids die more from guns than white kids happens more to blacks because gun violence happens more frequently in cities where populations are mixed and happen less frequently but with higher casualties and deaths in the suburbs. There are shrinking workforces in nearly all rich nations and more old people governments have to pay out in pensions in retirement. All nations appear to be on the descent making wars more pronounced and giving impetus to militarism.
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  6548. Considering this is Hollywood experts in the Set Up and a conservative bastion itself, Baldwin may have been set up as a way to remove any opposition in any form to Trump when Trump runs.
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  6549. The cars dumped there in the 50s was not dumped to help strengthen the reservoir's shoreline. They were dumped there because they could be dumped there in the 50s. A time of prosperity in America but also a time when Utah was so rural and agricultural and government was still yet small that places could be trashed with debris produced by that generation with no consequences to what the future would hold. They were absolutely unconscious and oblivious of climate change the way we understand climate change today and fragility of the planet. New home construction and the removal of the reservoir's are both heading toward a collision course when the new homes are finished and the importance of moving the graveyard takes a back seat to more pressing problems in Utah.
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  6550. Russiagate is the gift that keeps on giving.
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  6551. America is becoming what Algiers was during French colonization. An abnormal and dysfunctional colony.  Americans won't have any idea what I am talking about.
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  6552. A negative can only become a positive through its own negation. The mass of the people must expropriate the expropriators.
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  6553. It appears to me that socialism will become a reality in the US through the very exploitative nature of American capitalism.  Its recklessness and absolute neglect and the Federal failing to intervene on society's behalf will inevitable spring forward a mass working class movement for a new society. It'll happen because if it doesn't America will no longer be a nation able to reproduce itself. Social reproduction to the working class comes natural as fish are to the ocean. This need will trigger a new kind of revolutionary response and really, I think, will have many neoliberal failures to know what not to do in constructing a more advanced way of living and working.
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  6554. Fortunately, there has not been evidence the US would normally use against socialism as propaganda to show the American working class how poor the people in China are. Blaming the Victim. Nearly, 800 million in that country were lifted out of poverty...neutralized any propaganda in the style against Cuba...any attention to China’ successes has the reverse effect, endangering the national security of the US...the US stands guilty for the abysmal condition of its own working class. Rich outside, Poor inside is the lopsided life-process and pattern of growth in the US.
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  6555. If the lifespan of Americans were 40 years and no more we’d be living in a socialist utopia without wars, Hillary would have only 20 years not 65 years in government; because its always the old people who use the young people who know nothing of the past they get to fight the proxy wars that are longer than the lifespan of the average American, this is why there is a sucker born every minute in the US.
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  6556. Very few people know the Civil War of 1861 started in the same year of the Cotton Famine. Right through the Great Depression the price of cotton fell destroying the old plantation owners. Prices did not pick up until the second world war. By then the steam ginny and cotton spinning machines had industrialized the cotton field replacing all manual labor but the driver of the machine. New force of production took over the old method of production of the south. The rural landscape in the South off the highways across America, cotton field relics turned into pasture and grazing land. The plantation owners died off their heirs moving on some restoring the old plantations as museums and most of them renouncing the 'Lost Cause', but new ones entering politics and waging social wars because the economic war against the North was defeated.
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  6557. In many respects we can thank the conquest of China by capitalism as the impetus for the overthrow of capitalism in Europe and America.
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  6558. Feakin' Nutz.
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  6559. Farmland has become a commodity in Utah and a commodity is a thing that you can buy and sell as a value generating a greater value for each transaction that commodity undergoes changing hands and this process of exchange leads to a degradation of the land shrinking in plot sizes will be vain attempts to extract a greater value from the land. This is a case of overdevelopment of cities and urban areas diminishing the size of rural and conservation lands.
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  6560. Nice idea about converting office space into apartments but what is the business/economic relationship between the owner of the space and the person(s) living in that space?
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  6561. I remember when DN interviewed a Mexican scholar whose wife is in the Obrador government, I wish I can remember his name. It was an interview that took place shortly after Obrador got elected in which the scholar, a leftist, who analyzed Obrador's election as overturning nearly a hundred years of rule of a two party system, the PRI and the PAN, dominating the political life of Mexico. He should be re-interviewed because he was right but not right about the politics of Obrador which is diametrically opposed to the politics of the people of Mexico. Be great to hear his views now since one evil has been replaced with a greater evil is an insight most on the left have no comprehension. How a repressive chauvinism of the state is formed against a people during the first empire and prosecuted as a class war against the people during a second empire. Much the same way one presidential administration paves the way for the next adminstration and becomes a 'national war regime'.
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  6562. They in the National Security are lying directly to the American Public’s face. Everyone watching this must be cringing at the lack of truthfulness that by not answering the question the come off as plain liars. Note that there were no democrats asking the questions the republicans asked of them to answer. Utter functionaries of the National Security Agency not even are they the real decision makers within that organization testifying. The oath of secrecy in that organization bears contempt for any dissent or re-dress of government in the American people and revealing a political state within the government. Great reporting.
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  6563. American Feminism which is nowhere in America have good examples of feminism in Russian women dissenters.
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  6564. In other words, if you get busted doing business with sanctioned Chinese individuals or firms imposed by us, we won't help you.
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  6565. Harris is impressive. Women are not willing to give up the freedom of an abortion. Absolute control is the present nature of the dictatorship of the Republican Party!
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  6566.  @mrandersson2009  I caught it off a channel RDWolff Economic Update on internet radio while driving and was paying more attention to the story than the details of the story, so the bank name escapes me, I can't recall it, a day or two from now it'll come back to me, I was concentrating on my driving. still, it is good enough of a lead for you, narrowed down to one source for you to follow it up.
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  6567. Trump's crimes are embedded in things he does not do not in what he does.
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  6568. The money spent into the military the republicans do not want to cut for a DEBT DEAL never ends up serving the rank and file military recruit but goes to others not in our military. This is never questioned until someone dies and even then, the matter gets pushed under the rug. The most exploited people on earth are not in the poorest country in the world they are right here in the richest.
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  6569. Biden's current problem related to the economy is still too many people out of a job but relative to the American rescue package the estimates seem to point to a 6% economic growth. US Employers are not hiring, they seem to be so diversified high yields come from other sources. How do you get them to invest capital in America? Trump tried and failed.
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  6570. First of all, they entered a store, that is not trespassing. If the store were closed and it was 3 am, and they broke in, that is trespassing. Know the difference. You called them trespassers in your reply to me, that is an assumption you made out of ignorance of what trespassing is. You just did the same thing the store manager did, which is to take at face value a person in a store waiting or browsing, to be a person encroaching on private property of another. You assume too much and are not critical of your choice of words for lack of knowledge. This makes you highly susceptible to fall under the influence of negative and hostile forces in this society. Nobody notices the feathers of a chicken are being plucked if plucked little by little is how fascism happens in America.
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  6571. The assumption was made and you are in denial of it. There were asked to leave because they had not made a purchase in the store is a different scenario than they were asked to leave and did not. You imply a confrontation, a tension, a resistance where no tension exist but in your own head. Store manager had a dick up his ass about it. His patriarchal suburban middle class attitude on race the sole motive. They broke no laws and then detained for 9 hours is a direct disregard of someone's dignity in jurisprudence. There is no trespassing on their part and that's final.
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  6572. My goodness, the American people who are struggling day to day, will never see the the light of a better day with political characters dominating the political field. Really Mr. Trump, your organization has been hacked can’t be more important than the people you wish to lead. If your political enemies is the biggest issue with you than where will you take the country, off a cliff? The nation state and the market economy are becoming barriers to a greater wealth for us all. As a man who is running for president you are sure making a national platform about yourself. Several big southern coastal towns have been completely submerged by Hurricane Debbie. Sunk! This means people cannot live in them anymore. Have you nothing to say about that? What a pitiful state of affairs, a national personality that has nothing to say about the nation. I think the reason one runs for president is to put their own private interests aside and deal with interests the public is dealing with on a day to day basis, they look to a president to help solve. And that is not all, there is a myriad of social problems you could be putting ahead of your organization while you are on the lectern. Your voice is your only power and it is waning. You deviate too much. You will never change the course of history Mr. Trump. Damage is done, too little too late. Turning to credit to save our lives is a bankers alternative that is not going to cut it. You add to the days of struggle we no longer want by whining. With no solutions to the real plight of Americans you are in the way! The world plunges deeper into a crisis, inflation, a more dire jobs report, homelessness, genocide, nuclear war,---you have nothing to say about these things. We cannot look to you for answers.
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  6573. If a society does not work it dies.
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  6574. Nobody wants a war. The historic downfall of the Tsar of Russia was his insistence in continuing the war with Japan. The Russian people were in worse shape than the condition of present day Lebanese were people who wanted an end to the war with Japan. The Tsar ignored the pleas and open fired on a peaceful march of demonstrators demanded Bread that came to be known as Bloody Sunday. After much pressure the Tsar acquiesced to share power wth a government but the war and weariness of the masses wanted Peace. They wanted Land. They wanted Food. Netanyahu is about the repeat the same mistake.The Tsar and family ended up dead from his mistakes. The war that takes peace, land and bread, from the mouths of surrounding Arab nations is easily a catalyst for a chain of events leading to the overthrow of Monarchs in the Middle East, including himself. Historically, this is what the region needs for peace to finally endure. End the generations long conflict that repeats the patterns of revolutions and wars that opened the 20th century.
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  6575. All forms of social discrimination end when the mass of black and white working class Americans are not only united in their analysis of America but are mobilized.  Obama's election signaled the start of this race war and this action by the governor of Georgia is the first shot fired in that war that moves toward an apartheid Georgia.
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  6576. I expect the republicans and democrats and their close ties to a billionaire class will be the recipients of a major upset in the general election as a growing majority see them too corrupt to be worthy of the vote.
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  6577.  @tylermerlin8320  In this era of failed leadership it is up to you to lead to take action!
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  6578. A coward...shoots a man in the back and the idiot interviewed does not use the camera to call the perp a pig!
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  6579. What plan might that be, matey?
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  6580. Truth be said NATO is not NATO if Russia is no longer the USSR. NATO should go before it becomes another threat to humanity. Regardless of how much you think this side or that side is right.
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  6581.  @urkiddingme6254  Truth based on a idea you have ain’t going to fly.
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  6582. Racists cannot rise above their racism when confronting racism.
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  6583. First of all, Hillary has no knowledge of the history of technological warfare to know that the only reason nuclear weapons are brought on to the battlefield is to hit a target that cannot be struck with pinpoint accurate missiles, a 50 kiloton nuke would do the job even it missed the target by 100 miles. The other thing Hillary does not seem to have a handle on or is concealing; replenishing forces are not there in Ukraine. The casualties cannot be replaced by Ukrainians as the population is only about 63 million people. That is not the case with Russia who already replaced their casualties and have many ethnic populations in Russia that have always formed a part of the Russian military. Then Hillary cannot seem to talk about the fact that western forces cannot be snuck into Ukraine without detection by the Russian. The Russians have the same satellite surveillance systems we have. If an advance battalion of western forces goes in Ukraine that constitutes a war with Russia, indicating to me that Hillary as an insider in Washington, should be telling us as a private citizen that there are people in the White House who want a war with Russia and their reasons are not for a struggle between democracy and autocracy. As a private citizens she has an obligation to reveal what and who in our government wants a final confrontation with Russia and to what end. Then the matter of low intensity nuclear warfare of which Russia has a sufficient amount places the American people in the center of nucelar fallout and nucelar winter should be concerning enough of a motive for the truth. She could have been telling us that Ukraine is right now a country operating in the dark. Russians took out a main power grid. Showed us some empathy for those people but I did not get sense she even cares. Should could have been telling us how this war can end but I get the sense that war to her is essential for not going in that direction she was after all, Secretary of State, and that is the office of the experts in diplomacy? Yet she never mentions the word diplomacy.
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  6584. If this is Hochul’s idea of rising above a particular interest toward a universal one where all agree to be check pointed and surveilled, she is wrong. This would be more consistent with Treblinka all New York City surrounded is a outdoor work camp. Social activity is shut down. Parks and streets get closed off. Cafe’ slow downs. Nightlife curtailed, life is reduced to shopping, work and apartment living until the Cops leave and they will leave. That’s when the lunatics come back. We should not believe lunatics are stupid and do not react to the light thrown on them like roaches. The question to Hochul is how can she use the State to make New York City violent free or near to it as it can be without using force? Other countries have their own unique way of reduced violent crime in their cities we should come up with a unique to New York solution to violent crime as an enhancer to city life.
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  6585. Capitalism is not famed in the world for creating rational people. If Trump or Biden are nuts so is the citizenry.
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  6586. This catastrophe is emblematic of a decline of American capitalism. The end of American capitalism is not going to be nice and easy affair. Americans will have to fight back against what I see as a coordinated assault on social spending by both democrats and republicans. The war in Ukraine and Gaza enrich corporations abroad but at home these wars keep prices high and dump the impoverished and destitute masses of the world on America’s working people. Americans need higher social spending not less of it! The reckless neglect of corporate private property, neglect of infrastructure, poor production, civil disintegration and excess overwork, will make this decline a hard fall for 132 million people.
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  6587. Since there are many black people in higher unities of political power equally corrupt as their white counterparts in government it is not possible nor ethical that I should deposit my individual preference in a person because they are black and a woman to be president. Adams, Austin, Thomas, all corrupted black men in positions of power. They are reasons form is not as important as content in politics. The choice is not between evil and the lesser evil, the choice is between Trump and Israel or MASS RESISTANCE!
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  6588. Eh...I am not getting the sense from these gentlemen they are ready to exert their influence as youtubers about how the people they talk about are only a passing historical phase,---that we may be necessary to them but they are not necessary to us, when it comes to a thing called; ‘socal production’. Eventually they will disappear but social production is life and that must go on. At the outset the obsession often times that surrounds the youtubers in politics about the political elites might be critical of them but not critical of them outside of the horizon containing them. The bubble ain’t going break with these two for the moment.
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  6589. True, what Harvey says about inflation in the 60s, I remember. How are real wages being managed when managed with inflation? And are recessions generated from a lack of opportunity? Perhaps in poor agrarian countries, they are, but in advanced industrialized nations , recessions are used to discipline labor and social movements to capital in my view.
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  6590.  @hughjassle5876  Direct correlation to your taxes and war spending, where do you think the money comes a Cracker Jack Box? They it spend you pay it and never get a chance to play. Makes sense that half of your income should go to you and all the other contributors...they got you so stupefied you even cover the taxes of billionaires who live tax free! Do you know what we call that in Europe, a dictatorship.
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  6591.  @hughjassle5876  You pay for NATO forces with your taxes. Your taxes do not pay for social benefits working people in Europe get. There is no courtesy extended from the American people that is direct to any population in Europe. To the contrary, the European continent extends the courtesy to Americans for American bases and troops in Europe. High taxes in the US is not a cause; its a direct effect of the militarism in Washington circles recklessly spending your money overseas.
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  6592.  @hughjassle5876  I definitely do not make that connection because the connection is not founded on historical fact as to how the European working classes have it better than the American working classes, nor does it rest on the proposition that Europe’s expansive social safety net is the effect of American military might offering protection to European security. From whom I would ask of you?
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  6593.  @hughjassle5876  Word salad Karen.
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  6594.  @hughjassle5876  you mean a man cannot be a Karen?
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  6595. The camera is choosing what we see which is not how our brain processes reality. The colorization and what not is beautiful as far as capturing their reality and putting their world into our present. 'The Conference of the Three Allied Power July 13, 1945, papers for travel within certain limits in the Special District', belonging to George Stevens is a clue that the US patrols in Berlin was to prevent looting of documents bombed in the blitz. The only thing missing here is what everyone is doing there and why?
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  6596. This would be a good point for the left to start an education campaign aimed at this class of worker who would be employed in the Arctic for gas, mining, and drilling companies, on worker safety and the consequences of high methane exposure. Come in hard with the science with a real scientist on a website aimed at this class of worker. The accumulated truama workers will experience may not be worth the Top Dollar they will pay.  Build the science around the biology of radiation poisoning on the body all living organisms cannot withstand is backed up medically, enough to get intouch with their mortality. Working Under the Aurora Borialis and what that means to You!  A medical pathology of mining and drilling in the Arctic. If they make the choice to do it at least you weeded out the sane from the insane, made it harder to get a crew.   Fatalities from natural and toxic chemicals released in varying hot cold temperature affects them in their barracks when they sleep in such an enviroment; where the Sun is hot by day and the night is frost, what rises as gas by day falls on a crew in the air they breathe by night. Life threatening work not in the moment but in the future it shows up on your body and mind as accumulated trauma.
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  6597. The problem with American society and the working class is right inside that very image we are watching of these two men in that lofty space discussing what the problem with capitalism is. Ironic but it stares us in the face and viewers would never find the monster of a social relation permeates our existence as a capital relation invisible to the naked eye. Even non-material thing like the internet is turned into a capital relation. We see father and son, two men discussing politics in a giant room, presumably a space in a building, and yet the space in the building and the building itself is a social relation so hidden that we take it for granted the property relation as a general realtionships between individuals that whole cities, towns and rural can be finance by debt bonds we pay to bondholders. The property of other's invades every aspect of our lives. The two men are working, expending intellectual labor-power, in someone else' capital. We are unconscious of how the transaction between labor and capital is veiled by the commodity form of the product and by the money-form of the commodity. This is the why labor recives no share of its own product in the US. A wage is the commodity-form of the product and profits are the income of the money-form of the commodity bought and sold.
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  6598. At some point it will be a catastrophe and a failure of government to ensure the safety of Americans if the findings are a result of the company cutting corners in production.
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  6599.  @DonaBlancas  All the news corporations are owned by military industrial complex contract manufacturers like General Electric,(only five of them own America's news organizations) hire a certain type of personality. White, Ivy League upper class, totally disconnected from the rest of America, that we are total idiots for not shattering their bubble decades ago.
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  6600. How I interpret Trump’s deal with Ukraine, I don’t ? Nothing to interpret...it is an exchange. The president used past Biden money allocated in materiale support to Ukraine and demanded the equivalent in return in the form of coal gas, uranium, lithium, titanium, and oil. Ukraine has what the president needs and Ukraine has no choice in the matter. What is there to interpret...this is simply bullying a nation of 37 million people as ‘expendables’, unfortunate victims of a war by using their youth and country to wear out Russia. In the end, Ukraine are the losers and the US wins in perpetuity the spoils of war in the form of Ukrainian land... pregnant with essential raw material. About the only thing you can say is that the foreign policy of the US is a policy of acquiring the kind of property that can suppress life or promote it through force.
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  6601. Two choices given to the British Public is more of the same at a higher cost: borrow more money at higher rates to run a government as, we already know what to expect from the political parties, they would push cuts in social spending and austerity. The whole economic order offers no other alternatives for a decent life is an economy that I would consider useless and ought to be replaced with an economy that stabilizes for the many not grows for a specific class in society.
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  6602. Incredible!. The actual users of the tools of the refineries, the doers have nothing whatsoever to do with the equipment. Its not their's! Its private property and as the property of the corporation the tools take on an entity to themselves to which workers say; "i don't know...you'd have to ask the company that question, I just work here".  Workers are still indifferent to their relationship with the means of production but the means of production are not indifferent to the labor-process. Every second it gets the MPs is sucking up the energy of some millions of poor slobs in the factory floor. Chopping off arms, cutting fingers, posioning lungs, causing hearing loss, blindness, loss of physical, emotional, social well being, and worse of all breeding a place so indifferent of any sociality that can drive a person to kill their fellow employees and blow up the boss in the workplace. This is how production takes place in America. Machinery, technology, running constantly, workers using the machinery and technology of non-workers, and the science behind it has it running indefintely violates the physical limits of human endurance to overwork. We are controlled by the labor-process and the process is an independent entity shaping our material world and social life. Working takes on an automatic reality outside of the workers as duration. The clock is used to measure working duration to sustain the livlihoods of non-workers. It is impossible to cultivate conscientiousness and solidarity in a workplace that uses working time to crush any form of working class consciousness. When workers are working with scientific technology the best interest of society is not in there hands, to assume responsibility for, legally workers will tell you; the CEO gets paid the big bucks to assume responsibility to not harm society. This is just another affirmation the workers are not yet ready to assume responsibility much less begin to act for their own share of the economic surplus.
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  6603. All of this is a culmination of what began in the US economy in the 90s, the tendency to centralize capitals through competition and credit. Bankruptcies facilitated this concentration of capitals is how larger individual capitals took over businesses ...still occurs, but now, the competition between the US and China amplifies this contradiction. Only recently has labor showed signs of agitation, strikes. coming back from a long period of economic blows. People experienced 45 years of indignities in the workplace. Right to Work legislation threw the labor movement back a half century. A raid in the name of something else on social security would be the final death blow to the American working class. This would mean defeat no retirement at all. At that point the conditions of the American working class would appear as destitute as the British working class was at the run of the 20th century, they would become more destitute. Weak GDP no revenues, a debt leaving too little for social spending. A nation were there is no prosperity for more than the ones who already are its usurpers. Inflation, mortgage, rates, insurance, prices, rents, taxes, all going up in cost is not enriching the person doing the work! These incomes are enriching landlords, banks, merchants and state officials, they are the ones who gain from everyone else’s loss. These general commodities, which happen to be life-giving commodities, are higher in cost and inaccessible to working people does more damage than a side effect of different income levels across the population; the above named social groups would be losers of the wealth created if political pressure to get people to work longer fails, they would resort to force, condone, turn a blind eye to it, before losing any share of the gravy train they ride to the people who proven over and over again are the real producers of wealth..
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  6604. I truth, Americans do not have any skin the game? Inflation will skin everyone alive. Inflation is extremely dangerous. Its what led up to WWII in Germany. Any politician that does not consider inflation dangerous is an idiot.
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  6605. That is a nieve comment SmokeStack. You don’t play ball in the belly of the beast you are f*cked, literally your life ruined.
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  6606. The barbarity of that soldier will come back to haunt him for life, forcing a man to crawl on his needs.  Cop or soldier is young and stupid now but when age takes him he will rot as a decrepid human being with this memory etched into his nimble brain.
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  6607. Censure Tlaib and you censor the community she represents. There are 22 democrats who voted yes on censorship along with 212 republicans who voted to censor Tlaib and, consequently, the community she represents is neutralized, rendered mute...the press will never identify the 22 democrats and will never question why they voted in favor of censorship. They won’t even question the 4 republicans who voted against censorship. Congress is losing more and more legitimacy as the days go by. Everyday the hole this Congress digs gets deeper and deeper.
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  6608. Good.
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  6609. New York Post is a RELIABLE old rag.
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  6610. Was it a weakening of unions, outsourcing, or is it competition that is driving corporations to export their production? Competition coerces corporations to gain a larger share of the world market and it forms a new social average. Outsourcing and union busting are the weapons all the corporations have been using against the working classes. If government made outsourcing illegal would that eliminate competition?  If we did this the means is restricted but the end, aim of competition in markets, is left intact to resurface again in the future. Workers can't be shortsighted about this tendency. It is not how but why the cost of labor-power is continually reduced. The aim of the corporations is to increase wealth and it does so by reducing the cost of production.  GM has presented a substantial reduction in production costs by firing its work force!  This is a serious blow to Ohio working class communities and elsewhere depending on GM, Harley, etc..  Workers will have to figure out for themselves the decision to cut labor by corporation is perfectly a rational one within the framework of competition.
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  6611.  @jcsrst  I hope I am wrong too, but hope is not going to stop them, action will.
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  6612. “ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT”, the first story is about Donald Trump and the only international story is about Russia this out of 195 nations? Trump is using violent rhetoric because violence is how he would rule. The bloodbath Trump calls for would happen even if he lost to a third party candidate. If a third party candidate can raise the capital to buy their place on the ballot winning by surprise, both Trump and Biden lose would come as a shock to them and put a dent in the MAGA movement that focuses on the Establishment as its enemy ever expected the majority of Americans to vote for a unity ticket. How much of a sore loser would Trump and Biden be? Would Trump still talk violence and use the goons in his violent wing of the MAGA movement for a civil war if this happened?
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  6613. It is true take charge of your fate. The form of property Americans only know for the whole of their lives, rich or poor, middle or outcast, from cradle to grave, is the individual form of private property. The individual form of private property promotes an ideology of individualism. Individualism for the many or what is the same thing the condition of millions of individual private property owners promotes a class consciousness of the rich. The rich are united and the working classes are disunited because individualism works to destroy or crush the development of working class consciousness and class struggle giving room and latitude for the rich to act in their interest as a social class in that class struggle. The less critical thinkers get taken in by the glorified illusions. The role of ideology is the conceal the motives to exploit all the workers at the same time. This is the only way to get rich. Exploiting a crew or one worker at a time does not make you rich. Riches are created when the entire class of workers are exploited simultaneously. These are the motives of the supervisory functions of capitalism to assert its control over any resistance from workers and to bring forward in them the cooperation and power of labor-power,---this is how a man like Bill Gates dominates the labor-process. Workers are given more responsibility in “bossing” other workers and bosses effectively create a new division in the working class but it is through the common engagement among workers that workers end up doing the detail work in the overall process. It is here where workers need to be conscious workers toward each other...as people who know how to encourage and make connections to change conditions without ridicule and insult. This is how people in the working class take charge of their fate.
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  6614. The system is not an object or a thing, that breaks or is breakable, nor broken, its a two-sided system so that it is never ever fixed and never ever broken, its a social relation of classes separating themselves from each other while in a constant state of tension. It's Mind Games, played through the instrumentality of the State to subordinate the People. Mass migration is necessary for the system's survival. Asylum seekers enter and do not leave. They will become a workforce under arms and guard. Its a system that doubles as a value creating system. Here is your cheap labor source the executives clamor for. If the system is broken for you it is fixed for someone else so that the person it is broken for ends up producing for life value for the person it is fixed for and, conversely, if the system works for you, it does not change the fact that the whole system is split into two sides, one side economic the other side social, the economic side with a new composition of a forced labor force on the inside and a civil working class on the outside, up against the class character of the State. The point here is this; intervals where the tension among social classes are more pronounced than in other intervals, is illusive. Its not about the degrees. Its about each new crisis becomes more universal...finally causing a social revolution as never dreamt of by any school of wisdom. Unfolding before your eyes is a class struggle of titanic global proportions. Class interests are becoming more blatant and apparent based on the motives and actions of the State. One class is aiming for absolute dominance which entails the subordination of all working people into a state of permanent need. Labor should be labor in a sane society not a yardstick for how much wealth can be extracted from a human being. But also a reformation of the total labor force in America is in process, there are two labor-forces now, thanks to both the mainstream political parties; one incarcerated and the other free in civil society. In effect, we have unfree labor and free labor on top of 'unpaid labor' the economists proved is the bottom of existence of the entire social structure founded long ago in the beginning of capitalism. It all appears as swindle, crime, corruption, killings, tyranny, deportation, incarceration, separation, on the negative side of the dialectic, and this working class seems directed by a principal of solidarity to fight against it, is spot on. Bravismo il proletari! Moy bien. It will be necessary that a working class, 143 million total, stand united on the principal of solidarity and lay down the LAW, its first big law of the land, to overcome the ambition from any source or place in society, the aim to control humanity=society=people through the necessaries of life and the total economic surplus. That is the only it needs for a true affluent society given the present level of material wealth in America. Whatever new social organizations are born and emerge from this titanic world conflict between capitalist rivals, who rules the world's working class, the first rule will be the prevention of the necessaries of life from becoming private property. This would only be logical since the necessaries of life are by empirical fact, social products, made by many, not one, the power of social labor, and economic planning not chance or causality has to allocate resources in accordance to what Planet Earth needs to recover, replenish, and for the species to survive within the natural world.
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  6615. I wish but, unfortunately, human history is not analogues to the human body. Family, private property and the State are social forms of the surplus labor starting out in the evolutionary timeline as a simple accumulation between families and tribes to more complex social institutions that involve the interaction and mediation of higher levels of productive forces in our lives. This entails more is at stake. Successive crisis in the timeline of American capitalism since 2007 are universal crisis. We come to an understanding that societies move forward through class struggle and social antagonism, the degree of which moves it quicker to a new form of class struggles and social antagonism. Is a class struggle permanent to human history or can human history take on a classless character and history becomes a chronicle of human affairs of a particular species family, a particular kind of property relationship, and a particular form of social governance, that writing history ceases to be a history of class struggles?
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  6616. I think the British lost the very thing they strived their whole lives to be. You know “the stiff upper lip” and all that, turns out they are wusses, and can’t handle the slightest dissent. All 60 million people must mourn or be jailed is a dictatorial move. The movie “Missing” Costa-Gavras's compelling, controversial dramatization of Ed Horman’s search for his son, Charles Horman, who mysteriously disappeared during the 1973 coup in Chile is a movie this audience should see. The political leaders of the City of New York and the State of the New York are criminally negligent of the public’s interest for the resurgence of Polio a formerly eradicated disease are no better than the Sackler Family.
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  6617. All I can say is locking people up is an intervention that happens way too late in a persons life. Early intervention is the answer, early socialization, the better the chances of eliminating uncivil and asocial people in society. It took one generation to get this way and it can take one generation to get out of the mold that creates uncivilized and barbaric people.
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  6618. The guy who comes to repair the machine should not let his labor be used by a company to overcharge a franchise owner and the franchise owner should sue McDonalds for loss of income from a machine that has been unproductive taking up space but bound to remain on the property as a fixture. Two wrongs here. I can't laugh at the deep frustration people let out at fast food workers that is a wrong also.
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  6619. Historically, immigration is how America created its middle class and apparently, based on the current set of political thinking, the white nationalist agenda is to close down the avenues where an immigrant could potentially become a middle class entrepreneur in ten years. Millions of immigrants then saturate the minimum wage labor market driving the price for that labor down effects the national economy. A spill over effect in the higher wage earning labor markets are pulled downward. Employers are willing to cut corners and combine skilled and unskilled crews because tons of immigrant work is available on a cash daly basis. Government is not watching what happens on the job or how the job is run by the bosses is consistent with the goal of this white nationalist agenda. to weaken government and have it hobble on one leg so that it cannot do anything to stop exploitation. I see a similar thing happening in society on the recurring gun violent attacks on the public in public places. Making it so dangerous the public becomes willing to give up freedoms if it means a strong man is needed to restore order seems to fit nicely into that agenda.
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  6620. Why would I want to see this CNN? For what purpose and to what end.
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  6621. Mmmm...I seem to recall the number of civilian deaths due to American involvement in Iraq to be higher...Nah, we never meddle into the affairs of other nations...supporting separatist militias to overthrow governments...said Hillary. She’ll be back.
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  6622. Headline should read: Thousands of Cubans Protests, Why? NBC sends a team to interview the protesters to find out why. NBC is as bad as Fox News. The term Human Rights in America is a political signal to invade a nation. Be careful. US has a track record of starting wars with poor and less developed countries. Bullies poor countries for the resources of that country. So whatever is said about any country by this news organization and the others in American media is propaganda not news.
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  6623. Policing is the problem not the Cops. You can have a slew of radical judges that send any repeat offender to Devil’s island for life and that still will NOT fix the problem. Recidivism is a weapon to use for elections is the problem. On an off election season heinous criminals are let go and politicians use their rap sheet to scare voters to vote for them blaming the opposition. This was invented by a CIA man George Bush Sr., if anyone remembers the Willy Horton Ad he used to get elected. The fundamental problem is that neither the latte City Council crowd or the Cops, and this is true in places like Charlottesville Virginia, all City Councils deviate from the supreme concept of a civil society; that the whole society exists only to guarantee each individual the preservation of their person, rights and property. All of them get elected on some variation of the George Bush Sr., propaganda theme and violate this concept in practice. Rank and file Cops and the Citizenry are also a citizenry, thus ”recidivism” is a threat to them both. A Cop or a Citizen would never buy a house in the Bronx knowing their property can become a hospice site for migrants or some crook can transfer a title of ownership of my property to them and later sell it from under me and I would not a buy a house knowing my property can be lit on fire by some white nationalists in Virginia but I would buy property in both places if I knew the whole society was safe and free of threats. The Bush Family ruined your country.
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  6624.  @joeherrera8826  The Legislatures in the States are not interested in preserving your person, rights or property, they are interested in preserving their’s. The more chaos and anarchy they can generate in society the easier they can rule by force as opposed to votes. All power concentrated at the top disempowerment concentrated at the bottom.
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  6625. This "Left" are a faux left, not a real left. Clinton, Obama, Sanders, etc., are reformists not leftists. Middle and rural America are conditioned by media to believe reformists working within the framework of a constitutional republic are leftists. Sorry folks that is not left at all. Former president of France, Hollande, a leader of the socialist party is not left. Hollande is a reformist, particularly one who hates the working classes, he is more old bourgeois in attitude than the person who beat him. Macron is far right and anti-working class compared to the American version of left and right France elected a Trump. From a French working class view point having shut down the economy in a struggle over pensions, and working conditions, and health and education cuts, a struggle that has lasted now two months, two general strikes, total railway shut down and a real possible overthrow of his government by a new challenger, Macron is a libertarian free trade advocate whom big industry supports. The real left would never abandon the working class or betray it like the reformists who pose as, and are labeled falsely as left, by corporate media, particularly around election cycles, when the opportunism glares at you telling the working class a bald face lie for election purposes only is seen by those whose eyes are wide open. But to the blind, they appear as salt of the earth people. Sanders considered to be on the left and is an independent within the party and as attached to the party of reformists, he comes no where near Brazil's Lulu as a leftist and the workers party he formed. These fallacies cloud the minds of the American working class and, certainly help to divided this social class with effectiveness by corporate media, leaving them with no reference point of what a leftists is? For example, if alive today JFK by today's standards of what left and right is, would stand far left as a Marxist in the political spectrum. This is how far right the country has moved and far the pendulum has swung right. Another fallacy generated by the American working class themselves is the misunderstanding of what the accumulation of capital is, its economic function, and how it appears in society. That it is capital that requires a social organization to realize itself as more capital. Corruption and chaos appears to most Americans as defects of the personality, a person subject to influence of money, and not as the true nature of the business of accumulating capital. Accumulation of wealth appears as separate process from the social corruption and chaos which are the tools of the trade. To accumulate capital through oil, minerals, and gas is to dispossess people through war or free property and persons up for commercial exploitation through reform. Oil, minerals, coal, gas are not the only industries capable of accumulating capital, any commodity manufactured or grown on the soil and one that sells accumulates capital for its owner, i.e., guns, food, diamonds, sugar, coffee, soy, and so on. Lastly, labor is the source of capital and its accumulation, without it, there is no wealth. Currently, jobs added a 1.1% increase this month April 2018. GDP at 2%. Compared to the damage done by the 2008 crash, these figures are an atrocity, the capital accumulated in this cycle went straight into the hands of big industry and not the general economy, reflecting the fact that capital is employing labor not inside the US but still commodities are labeled where labor is cheap and in big supply, namely, China and parts of Latin America, Asia. If big industry loses this source, kills NAFTA, or TTP, America is as good as dead.
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  6626. If FOX ratings go up because you were on the show might pull the democrats to correct themselves and reveal they have no solutions; lose the confidence of the Public entirely.
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  6627. We live in a society where people who have a home have no job and people who have a job have no home. Imprisoned in empty space. This makes a job not a job but something else that doubles as a job and home not a home but something else that doubles as a home. That something else that the job doubles as and that home that is not a home cuts right to the reasons why the mass of individuals hate society or this form of society that separates the use of an object from the object and the use of a subject from the subject. People hate it and are ready to move to unite all subjects with their objects...if a movement that will unite people with homes and jobs with people develops.
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  6628. Some segments of white culture in society are didactic and demagogic thinkers? Its "Us Against Them" in Wyoming.
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  6629. March 13, 2023, the collapse of Central Valley Bank, the financial system and the US Dollar follows right behind it. This might be the Big one. The crash from which the US Dollar never recovers as a world currency. America’s Balance of Payments Deficit is Too Big To Buy that only China can buy it. Short term liabilities are in the billions. Trillions of eurodollars in Europe, these are all claims on the US economy; Central Valley Bank owes bank B, and bank b owes c, c owes d, d owes, e, etc, ...down the line a series of falling bank profits and failure to pay creditors.
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  6630. American construction industries are restrained by the market to not create structures designed for this habitat. The market limits the living population and the construction industry to one method of building and design.
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  6631. IMPEACH Now!
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  6632. Socialize technology.
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  6633. The migrant and homeless crisis at home is a direct consequence of American military involvement abroad. To solve growing poverty in the US the democrats would have to cut military spending conceding to republicans. Close bases and withdrawing from many conflicts leaving the whole field open to rival nations. Israel’s actions makes this withdrawal harder to accomplish. The US is forced to stay hitched to Israel. The solution the elites see that would alleviate mass poverty in America from getting worse, and it will, is a solution they cannot afford to let happen. The consequence are dire for them as more of the world falls into poverty and more masses of people take flight to the US.
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  6634. War would be choice too, as would unemployment, along with homelessness, since the US economy has no history of growth and stability without war and unemployment. US business cycle demonstrates this fact and debunks Reagan for attacking people with “its your fault” blame politics, you have identified with. @darlene2709 
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  6635. Too late for America to be a homogenous nation. You’d have to give it back to the Native Americans and let them run everyone else out of the country. Japan is a homogenous culture and its immigration is tight. Russia has 120 different cultures and its immigration is tight. Most nations have national policies on immigration the US does not. America is a labor market is the reason for no policy at all. People come here to get a job. Employer demand for migrant labor is high. An economy as ours needs a steady stream of fresh labor on-call around the clock.
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  6636. Capitalism did us a favor eliminating the jobs of VICE journalists is an irony.
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  6637. Well, ---considering the fact that it is the national car chains, Mieneke, Midas, Jiffy Lube, etc., pay zero tax in this country they can afford to fix a car a month for nothing as a way of giving back to the community,---corporations have more cushion than a small business owner,---shameful how corporations have no heart. Only American corporations who do their business in the domestic economy are this way,--- if they don't give back in some form to the society that gives them a lot of hard earned money,---then it would not be radical at all as republicans cry out it would be to tax them, rather, it is the only way to deal with domestic corporations not socialized with reciprocity between themselves and society.
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  6638. Bowman gave a good assessment of Washington and the policies that are a blow by blow description of intentional assaults on the American working class. If ever there was doubt about the existence of a class struggle in the minds of Americans look no further than Wall Street and Washington, there it is, Washington wages war on a class already injured from all the previous law and social policies enacted through Congress since Reagan. Have to assume that it was the Master Plan from the beginning to make a union-free America and the way to do it is to sanction the American People for being a sovereign people. Over the decades class war and class divide was subtle as it got wider, sometimes mass protests verbalized the division(s) decimating the lower middle classes. Neoliberalism through and through, took a fall in Chile yesterday. But now Neoliberalism has come to a head. Its Us or Them.
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  6639. The old GOP is dissolved. America has a reactionary middle class in battle against multiculturalism in society.  Is this a cancer in society? Can be. Middle Class reactionary politics are pro-totalitarian What is not reactionary about her statement when she calls republicans too weak to fight for their country. Does she mean a country lost to the "hoarde"? "Our country", never was "our country" but to her America was the country her ancestry is part of. Her ancestry was part of the conquering of America did America become hers in the possessive sense.
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  6640. Patrick Leahy is not wrong when he says the image of the US is no longer the image of the US in the eyes of the world of his generation. Most of his generation pretended America was no longer a racist and divided by race society and Hollywood projected that image to its greatest advantage, as the medium most people in the world see about the US. So that the Court reflects American society, it would have to be composed of more women of color and fewer men regardless of their race. More women in the workplace than there are men. The appointment is the best qualified for the standards of the Establishment Social Order of Race; a cosmetic alignment reflecting how America looks, appears, but not how it really is.
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  6641. Americans are never specific, "republicans", that is like saying "Hey, I live on Broadway." Broadway my friend is 25 miles long. Did it bother you that I made a sweeping generalization about Americans in my first sentence? That was designed to have you feel debased for not distinguishing the republicans in the same way.
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  6642.  @kamalalama-lama-ding-dong4452  hesitation his death knell...he acted too late, too little and went off the rails.
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  6643. Fair analysis by Jeet. Republicans are complicit and Democrats are feckless, they have distorted the roles of the State and civil society. They realize they are unable to close the gap of inequality that separates working America from Washington D.C.., instead, focus their energy on creating enemies where there are none.
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  6644. The "expert" is saying the number of factors under consideration evades the main concern that the government may not be able to give trillions to the billionaire class leading to a crash.
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  6645. Excellent video, good work.
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  6646. The first consequence you will have voting for a drill baby drill candidate is the destruction of the Fish Industry on the Gulf of Mexico for all Gulf Coast Fish and Shrimp Farmers. More drilling erodes sea life habitat, kills the health of sea life, and destroys the livelihoods of fish farmers. The sale of a poor crop translates into a high price and will enter the diets of millions of Americans already stroked heart disease and malnutrition. Drill Baby Drill translates into a Higher Mortality Rate for Society.
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  6647. The shipping companies and insurance companies that were excluded from that market, trying to get a piece of the action dominated by the Big Boys, before the sanctions were imposed now have a business with the Russians. America has to purge from decision making positions the idiots occupying them.
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  6648. When Trump calls the government political elite "Scumbags" he is not all wrong. The US government is dominated by a provincial minority. Easy targets for street smart people like Trump. Plus, their policies are failures to everyone else because they only work for that provincial minority. He gets that. The rank and file of his support are angry people, resentful for the economic losses endured, were thrown into the dirty world of poverty in some cases. This makes the established ruling minority easy targets for political rage.  Compared to losing jobs and industry being called a scumbag is mild for the people who got stripped of their productivity and prosperity when corporations were allowed to get too big to fail. This meant the democrats dared not take away any defense industry funding because industry and jobs are political in America that they became big centers for incomes and jobs. When they were free to export production and US job overseas annihilated the industrial working class. The day industry and jobs are just industry and jobs, not political capital, will be the day this social rage and vitriol will disappear, when capital and labor rejoin again. I can't blame it all on the privincial minority that governs America as its ruling class. A provincial minority are a product of history too, of American prosperity. They made their money and wealth in the same economy most people lost their money and wealth. It wasn't smarts, that made them rich, it was inheritance.
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  6649. The judgement of this police officer is seriously handicapped, practically demented. This is disgusting!
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  6650. There are 45 million mainland Americans who can barely afford the necessities of life, calling for them to ditch their sellout politicians and fight for independence from the American Empire would be a useless piece of advise. A sound person would encourage statehood for the island to ensure material needs are never deprived by the actions of the State and worry about revolution later. No food, medicine, home, raw materials in place to support life the population will not, because they cannot, ponder revolution or independence. It would be more constructive for Puerto Ricans and the 45 million poor to become a social power in King's Poor People's Campaign. Once a social power than theory is acquired. People on the Left come out supporting revolution as long as it is not their own are not authentic revolutionaries. A genuine Left uses revolutionary theory to intersect with a material force, practical applications, for a total transformation. King's Poor People Campaign is one such example more revolutionary than anything said or done by the Left. The campaign highlights poverty, a universal call for the poor to be freed like the other social classes have been freed from the over reach of the the State. It is the last social class in society still forced by the State to pay taxes on their labor. The campaign commands dignity and respect to the poor and working poor while they take on this monumental task of revolutionizing themselves, using their social power to free themselves from the State, to transform what the state cannot transform, society itself. King's Poor Peoples' Campaign is genuine to the American question as a struggle tool. It addresses the conditions that exclude a racial majority, and built into it is a non-violent and legitimate, perfectly legal, avenue for revolutionary theory organized into a struggle for dignity as away to abolish the poverty in general in society. Being poor is the fashion today, a universal quality of capitalist social life, and the class struggle is the classroom, where poverty is connected by race to the class structure. Naomi Klien said: "Saying No is Not Enough!", it is not enough that thought, consciousness, theory, should seek to realize itself; reality must strive toward thought to reach its highest form of expression in revolution itself. If not than 45 million poor souls swell to 50, 60, 70, and so on millions more in a war of economic attrition.
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  6651.  @guymajor7432  Most wealthy are not soldiers.
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  6652. So,---how much will this flight to Asia cost the American Tax Payer? She can afford her own plane and make a statement she is not going be like the other Senators who have 45 military planes dedicated to them.
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  6653. Demeaning little pricks are Trump and Vance. Cornering a foreign dignitary to shove a bitter pill down his throat is a scene straight out of the Sopranos. There should have been a interpreter present in the room for Zalenski. The lesson here is never talk to the Trump Administration in English unless you have a real strong command of street language. No, seriously, with an interpreter the two men would have had to keep their mouths shut. Instead, he had to endure the indignities and hubris of two thugs. But I thank Trump for letting the cameras roll during this meeting.
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  6654. It is best to understand Public-Private partnerships more closely. It is a good example of how capitalism reduces the functions of "state" administration; to a matter of worker organization hiring "workers and managers" in the name of the whole society. Instead of the ideal, the notion of the "withering away of the state", by large scale projects and productivity gains, the corporations have become dependent on the state and perpetuate its existence for the accumulation of capital associated with large -scale projects, along very simple lines. Control and accounting becomes the special function of a special stratum of the population when a system like that should have died out with the practice of every citizen controlling and accounting the large-scale projects, hire their own technicians, managers, bookkeepers, and pay them all, with a better than average wage. If working people stuck the idea of a society without a state they would have to come up with something similar to the US postal service but without a connection to the government and the public-private partnerships would not have come into being.
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  6655. Other species clean each other of parasites why not humans?
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  6656. Chaplin was a musician like me. “Smile”, was his big hit wonder. Song is associated more with Jerry Lewis than with Chaplin. I would have scored my own films if I were in his shoes in the silent era.
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  6657. A very rich person or corporation could move huge amounts of capital into buying crypto currency and evade taxation is the problem with crypto currencies. Corporations and rich private people invest in currencies in the world to evade US taxation, to get at the money in crypto-currency and reconvert it into dollars the creator, i.e., Facebook would have to be destroyed.
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  6658. The difference between the commentators on the left which I like and the commentators on the right which I do not like is the ability to comment on an event or person not read from a script or a prompt. When one reads the viewer cannot see their thoughts being formed in their heads from the expressions they make and they appear staged. Anything that comes off that way in these times, when up is down and down is up, is propaganda. Talk to the viewer not at them! Maybe then a movement can become real.
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  6659. The phenomenon is a power of consciousness that grows when 75 million people are thinking the same way what they believe or think, truth depends on thought, becomes a reality, a social force. In the 60s the counter culture movement of the hippies was a kind of consciousness that grew out of millions of youth feeling and believing in ideas they created and made real. America is prone and home to many types of consciousnesses and false thinking about events that do happen.
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  6660. The Supreme Leader of Iran is a king, while, the president representing a political establishment has died. Who will rule society, will it be the king or will it be the political establishment or will it be the oppressed masses of society? The poor judgement of the establishment in Iran is based on their lack of foresight,---a crash that nearly wiped out its entire government...not a good move. Following this debacle... If the Supreme Leader starts acting like a ruler out of touch with the hardships of the people of Iran the situation can easily push Iran’s masses to take the power left in a vacuum by the death of the leader(s) of the government and in a struggle with a king who thinks he is God or a god. Iran is back where they were when Iran had a Shah in power who thought he was a god.
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  6661. The DA is somebody’s mother...how humiliating for that child.
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  6662. American politicians never present themselves publicly with their immediate families on the campaign trail they are almost always seen as individuals. Even when they do in campaign ads the image of them as a family person is used to manipulate the feelings of the viewers.
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  6663. Gang leaders will have to take a position on the side of the people in the transitional government because in the transitional government they cannot be acting as representatives of the business class they were fighting after they got big enough to stop acting as hired guns and private armies for elites. Where did these guns come from? Port-Au-Prince let them through or does Remington have an assault weapons factory in Haiti? Gangs will have to shed they old skin or else the whole transitional government will eradicate the them one by one in a joint effort of collaboration in order to resume what Haiti was for them at the start of this social explosion. Really the battle has been taken off the streets and put into a ring called the transitional government which can mean anything. “Transitional”?
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  6664.  @sunglassesgirl  If legal concealed is not in your current state residence and you feel safer now... is what I think I am hearing... then what in your social surroundings makes you feel more safe than if you lived in a place where everyone carried a weapon?
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  6665. Give the people what they want and you will win. Not rocket science. But Steve Greenhouse is the type of economist who really apologizes for the democrats, he will tell you to vote for them. One apology is blaming inflation on Putin when inflation is home made and decided by top corporations not Putin the democrats aided all the way the decisions of American CEOs. They also signed off on NAFTA that lost American industry, and Biden is the author of the Crime Bill. Why did people go to the convention when there are union elements not invited is the question? Exclusion is a dynamic that divides workers is also a long time democratic strategy. Some people say and it appears Steve Greenhouse is not aware that out of respect for Obama did Biden get elected and the fact that Trump was so bad did Biden look good. Democrats do not see this aspect about themselves as worse than the Republicans for the years long betrayals, class collaboration, and trails of broken promises on the way to the White House. If they do see their betrayals and broken promises than the people have a sworn enemy in the democrats and the fight is against two parties.
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  6666. The right is having a fight of their own right now.  Take advantage of their own internal chaos. The GOP will definitely split into two parties, possibly three but not likely. Progressive should not hold back from splitting with the Democrats. Either the progressive split or women form their own Me Too party and split from the Democrats. Run their own female candidate for president against Trump in 2020. Make the fight of the century, and do it! Big Business Democrats and Big Business GOPers will dwindle to insignificant political status.
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  6667. The Chinese Balloon proves the US is a lapdog of capitalist competition. US fears competition from Europe and China. Europe gets cheap gas from Russia gives European states and corporations the edge over the US. American corporations are cut out of that market. China expands into the world economy and American corporations lose out on the world market. The business environment is not particularly favorable for the US.
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  6668. A Different Vision of What Our Lives Should Be? I’d like to hear about that vision.
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  6669.  @rb032682  you mean ratified.
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  6670. The relationship that began with urgency Pelosi talks about began supporting Chiang Kai Shek in the 50s and 60s and Vietnam became the focus of anti-communism in Asia. That panned out nicely for Vietnam Veterans. Pelosi is America’s Pig Pen, wherever she goes she leaves a cloud of dust behind her from country to country. This is disastrous. This means we won’t know when war with China begins. We’ll never have a voice deciding if millions of youths go to die.
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  6671.  @porscheoscar  Same thing with their politics. No amount of fact about how pro-capitalist the government is,---will convince anti-vaxxers and pro-Trumpers, the democrats are not socialists and communists. But I can assure you that the day this right wing gets power the anti-vaxxers will become the equivalent of Hitler’s Brown Shirt Nazs but more violent and racist.
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  6672. Happy for the societal shift Gaza provokes in the US but what is played out between the US and Israel right now is a historic relation of exploitation, between and of two nations,---a fact that one nation’s workforce over the past 234 year history since 1789, all its past labor that present day labor has built over, remains a nation without universal health care and education for its own citizens, and or because, over the past 77 year history since 1947, another nation is deemed more worthy or dignified enough to have its own universal healthcare and education for its citizens paid by another nation’s workforce. This is treasonous! High treason by those who appropriate the labor of a 132 million Americans. The giving of its wealth to a foreign nation is a relation of exploitation of historic significance of betrayal and disdain. And this cannot be owing to a miraculous power of a nation no bigger than the State of New Jersey, that it can become rich enough to put food, good health, and intelligence on the table as “absolutely free”. This comes from those placed in positions of power who take the milk and honey from the bee and the cow at no cost to them.
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  6673. People should throw out the ideas and symbols to their religions and beliefs. They only serve as objects to be used as provocations against them. Modernization must break down the old divisions of work and culture before any capitalist development can take place. When you open the lid a few flies get in the Jar.
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  6674. This matter is not about visas. It’s really about social control. Social media companies, Google, Facebook, are subject to ‘regulators’ more so than Exxon or Cargill are threatened by big government regulators with antitrust laws. TicTok falls outside of US ‘regulators’ to control. The company is Chinese owned. Once an American company buys TicTok the social media company can be ‘regulated’ and all personal accounts the government deem as hostile to its grip of political power can be shut down at will.
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  6675.  @hdesquare  He does not have to be a tool although he is a tool but a willing tool is what is he is. Proves the oppressed dish out oppression when given a little power because oppression is all they know their whole lives.
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  6676.  @DeWellstein  Ok that term bothers you...we shall then say the US cannot fight the wars it starts but uses other bodies to do its fighting...is that better than calling it a Proxy War?
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  6677. No winners so far when bombings as late as yesterday still takes place. What's to celebrate Fox?
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  6678.  @acesmak  Aye, are you really that ignorant of World History, they are replicas of Nazis and the GOP are the Reichstag who went along with the Nazis. You must not have been born before 1980. Five million youth under the Nazis regime are like the 15 million American youth born after 1980, grew up under Neoliberalist regime. Taught nothing about real history in school. Given a false history so they can manipulate the youth to support an ideology. Your teachers passed it on to you, in that sense, the school boards did what Stalin did, revised history.
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  6679. Stewart should have change allegiance of party. He would have been freer to be himself on the republican side.
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  6680. The thieves are working class black kids. The shop owner is a white middle class small business owner...and the shop reopens in a day, high profit margin selling pot benefits the white guy and on the other side...his products pacify communities from political action, unity and solidarity, products introduce a criminal activity in the community. Money and Pot bring in a certain kind of buyer to the community, a class of people with money an invasion pushing working class black communities out. Robberies are to be expected. Rents are pushed up because of an outside social element. Working from home this outside social element do not add to the community new jobs. This product and merchant actually takes out more wealth from the community than what he puts in.
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  6681. Truth matters but it does not depends on thought. Truth depends on Existence.
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  6682. Steve Allen nails it.
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  6683. THE BIG THUD.
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  6684. @Stephen Mosca, ----It is tragic that the only society in world history capable of making a real wonderful life for all is usurped by a few.
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  6685.  @justrosy5  Its not about the money. Its about making sure the Golden Goose keeps laying golden eggs by giving the goose what it likes and needs that will make it produce more eggs. We are the Golden Geese.
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  6686. @Adam productivity of labor and surplus value is the golden egg.
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  6687.  @GUIDESPERSPECTIVE  If religion in the world did not exist there would be less capitalism more socialism. Less violence, less oppression and more independent Free Will. But! Religion and capitalism work very well together. What they rob from people is Cooperation for themselves rather than socialism which puts cooperation as a people power. The religious become consumers of capitalist materialism and capitalists become religious freaks whether it is Allah, Buddha or God, makes no difference.
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  6688.  @justrosy5  Productivity of labor used against you answers your question.
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  6689. I do not think the right wing cares about educating the working class on their condition in capitalism. I think what they do is use that condition to their advantage. If I were the left running for president I would not bother with educating the masses either, I would do the same thing as the right and speak to this class about their condition and emphasize it has not changed but got worse! The left should get more pragmatic and all they have to do is speak to the audience in the same way Mr. Wolf is speaking to the public.
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  6690. No wonder Americans do not know how to talk about what the working class is.  This video came and went by the time I got up to get a glass of water! If media pays no attention to that class of Americans in more than a mere sound bite they will be treated as nothing more than cannon fodder for the rich, used to fight the wars of the elites and billionaires and come back home angry. Then they will lash out and vote some maniac into office to spite the elites and just bring down the whole society into barbarism. Elites like Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Mike Bloomberg, Amy Klobachar, and nimwits like Pete Buttigieg, and nothing will ever change to restore American prosperity. The banks are more in touch with the working class than Jeff Bazos and Mark Zuckerberg elites are!  Banksknow they cannot make money on negative interest rates are a gateway to another depression. If I do vote, it won't be for Trump, he isn't working class. He may have been born into an immigrant working class family but his life was never working class in America.
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  6691. This is a fight among whites more than it is a fight for people of color against racists. What people of color outside the US will do is make sure they are respected and kill any white person who is in particular American but of European white descent typical of most Latin American countries where whites are the least oppressed and the most privileged. Assume all people of color did not exist in the US the remaining non-racist whites must submit to the conditions of a racist society under a Trump fascist state. The rest of the world is color but the US would be homogeneously white. Its an absurd thought but just play with the idea for a minute and bring it to its logical conclusion. Take away the color divisions the philosophical differences between fascism and non-fascist whites is the next phase toward the acquisition of total power. If Trump were able to homogenize America like milk his next problem comes from his own kind who do not think at all like him. Just flat out disagree, too independent to be submissive. A fascist state cannot exist with an internal opposition. It must annihilate it. Trump will have to transform the Judiciary into Trump lackeys and use the power of the State, i.e, the military to round up white people and rehash the quarantines and concentration camps of the Nazis without the holocaust but, instead, be condemned to a caste system. As "Untouchables" a political opposition is stamped out. Whites who cannot find it in their hearts to hate people of color on the basis of a false ideology are going to have to finish the job of eradicating fascism. Oligarchy leads to revolution. Revolutions always find the answer in the problem and Capitalism and fascism historically and continue obviously, to exists side by side each other, makes capitalism the problem. The only choice left for non-fascist whites is socialism or anarchism in opposing fascism. In other words, Donald Trump is provoking his own revolution by becoming his own oligarchy and in the process creating a caste system for a segment of society that cannot conform to fascist ideology. This is why the quality of life in America is utterly a mundane existence for its population to get people to resist less and adjust without a fight to a life of a second class citizen. A segment of society without political and economic rights is newly formed and gradually more people fall into its abyss. In a real sense for white people, the rise of Trump's racism and fascism is a return to the unfinished business of Europe's class struggles between socialism and capitalism. I see fascism as an evil imported from Europe just as the founding fathers saw slavery as an evil import from Europe. They thought wrong when they thought slavery would die out eventually in the Americas without banishing or outlawing the slave-holders. Crushing the economic order slavery stood. America would never have been a host to slave holders had the first Continental Congress recognized slaves as freemen. Fascism is a European phenomenon and never had roots in the Americas until the Americas were colonized. A Trumpian society can only lead to a process of elimination of non-racist whites as the only way to annihilate opposition. Poor whites and rich whites, white liberals, socialists, non-christians, atheists, agnostics, buddhists, hinduists, white muslims, face indefinite persecution. What would his administration do with native Americans? In effect, the only power that can overcome this nightmare is a mass revolution or a long and protracted struggle among white people. America's new class battles would like like the struggles Ireland fought with Britain, that spent three generations that only now has come to some peaceful resolution. For a European to come to America today would be like stepping back into a time their own country was in the throes of feudalism and monarchy.
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  6692. Good start for a video on a dense subject but it fell really short to cover the issue of race relations in the US. White Americans have been psychologically tested upon guinea pigs as consumers for the media industry who's profits come from selling airtime to every corporation that emerged out of the second world war.
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  6693. I cannot believe how dumb and out of touch the governor of Nevada is. He issued a state of emergency prematurely. He manipulated the masses to buy fuel when fuel was not in short supply. The governor precipitated a panic. A gas company investigates a leak that shuts down gas lines to Nevada was a wise move by the company. Multiple state gas facilities are at his disposal to open to the public and can be refilled and charged back to the gas company. The governor has the means in his hands. But he lost his chance to go down in history as a new kind of politician, commend the gas company and explain to the public what is going on, buy state gas until the leak is fixed. However not the man of action of historical significance he is the pen he thinks is mightier than the sword and he writes an Order. He says “Don’t Panic Buy”, in so many words. What do people do? They buy in a panic. Governor is unable to read the ripples and currents in the vast ocean of the society he rules over and how to connect with his subjects to follow a plan. Exactly what America needs a Plan, it needs a planned national life, everyone who says to another with disgust “Get a Life” live life in a society that has no life without a planned economy. No national or state direction, no goals, no objectives. Just sit there and be a tool in a chair in an office describes the full range of politicians in America. Its okay to be unplanned yourself but an economy needs a plan. The Public, so jittery, nervous, fearful, feeling insecure, is ready for a Plan,-- see how they fly given how quickly they jumped to buy fuel. The governor likely had good intentions. He likely meant safety is best but an insecure population reads emergency orders as a crisis. Governor is not in touch with the world around him. Actual conditions say another thing. Fuel is not the problem the leak in the pipeline is the problem. The public assumes the leak will explode and the whole dam system will collapse stranding millions with out transportation because the governor could not explain the leak in the same way the Pentagon cannot explain a balloon from all the scraps they created when they blew it up. Dumb.
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  6694.  @Johnny-ql2vd  Glad to hear someone is paying attention.
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  6695. Cheaper to provide housing and counseling to end homelessness than not doing it is true from a societal point of view but this comes with a market reality of lower prices for the commodity labor-power under capitalism. When workers resist lower wages they are enabling homelessness indirectly because the pressure of capital to break that resistance is to takes more land and dispossess people from the land. In this way wages fall and workers accept low paying secondary jobs to make ends meet or the take it or leave it wage proposal of their same employer. Capital has created a surplus population out of homelessness to use as a weapon. In states where homelessness is high mirrors the power of Capital, are places where capital has total domination of the political structure.
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  6696. Economies are integrated with China’s economy that European and NATO allies would lose political power if they went along with an American plan to punish China. They have more to lose from a slow down of the Chinese economy. That would entail the end of the Euro and the Dollar subjugating all the western European allies as the only way to offset the loss. In other words the American tax payer will fund what it costs Europe to live and Brussels won’t be calling the shots anymore it would be the US World Bank. But what Europe wants appears to be a matter of indifference to the US State Department, since our allies are also competitors for a share of the world market. The US position in so many deeds is; the world economy is not big enough for two super powers. Europe will have to deal with a slow down in the Chinese economy by tightening the belt and cut social spending, privatize more to generate what a recession and inflation is eroding in real wages for its working classes. European working masses are not going to take this pill lying down. Not from a nation they see is a competitor to them in the world market. The tendencies on the ground are nationalistic as a way of defending themselves from economic blows if they stay in the EU. From Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece, Africa, go another direction, rapid shifts, in world production. New states want to come into the EU as way entering the west, changing who produces what, when and where. Asia and the great mass of billions of people between India and China total human production will deplete natural resources faster than Mother Nature can replace them.
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  6697. The US does not have a draft...the military is a paid army. Problem here is that reliability of facts. When trust in government evidence and statistics, facts, are found inaccurate, and there is no will for a third party independent review of war crimes.
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  6698. Banks have been skating on thin ice since the 70s. “prosperity” is just a technical term for the business cycle. in the long period of the 40s and 70s corporations made their money on a global scale with vigor. ...the historic turning point was 1973-77, the change from prosperity to long term stagnation in the domestic economy.
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  6699. A national health program in the US would be entirely self-sustaining. In fact the resources opened up to the Public on a permanent basis would take care of all the health care needs the nation has.
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  6700. Separate judicial systems is important and necessary while the Federal Government exists but after the government is no longer federalized; has been demilitarized and socialized the oppressive side of government is gone, eradicated, or abolished, whatever, the separate judicial system should go away too. In other words, societies need to think of themselves as not permanent and plan accordingly to reach the goal and status of pure social development and social equality, period.
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  6701. How do we change it?
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  6702. I would coin it the Corbynization of the American Left, used to attack the left in Britain against Jeremy Corbyn and win over the working class vote by some measure. A successful misinformation tool in the hands of large scale media moguls in which to proliferate right wing stereotypes and allegations of race, gin up the fears of the left within the Jewish population, Black, Native or Latino population as the case may be. The question is, do the democrats side against Ilhan because they are in denial about AIPAC? Nieve?  Or, because they want her out, therefore, complicit with AIPAC in securing that 'special status' with the US ?
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  6703. Since when does a state supreme court race get the national attention it is getting...since it became important to keep republicans off your personal body...the money poured into this campaign is a measure of the importance of the matter of abortion...and other legislation that empowers the State to rule over a person’s mind and body... what I found interesting is the defeated’s confusion and disdain for losing...it was an election that was not supposed to end with his defeat. The formula did not work and he was not pleased with the outcome. This appears to be happening across America in many places that the formula for winning elections in the old standard way has faced a new challenging element in the form of mass collective power in local elections, more people voting, more sense the threats to silence their voice...and control their bodies... during the last 50 years of economic insecurity...living under two sets of laws operating for two sets of people...led to a new battle cry...if there are people above the law than the law is corrupt...people are ready to be people...even if it means the system is to change.
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  6704. Excellent summary of events that form the history of elites...empirical journalism.
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  6705. The American people numbering 332 million and only 60 million vote is a pretty good record for the kind of Republic, republicans want to construct in a society...essentially, less people voting makes it easier to get over on the masses. Aristotle was brilliant man, he described three kinds of friendships. Friendship of companionship, friendship of utility, friendship of deceit, the latter, of deceit, describes the relationship average Americans have with their government, we are friends but not honest friends. Unequal advantages make dishonest people of everyone. If Michael Cohen is a great liar he had to have learned to lie from his parents before he became an honest liar in the world of adult liars. I estimate there are 132 million Michael Cohen type of people out there who are as frustrated but do not use their vote for that frustration.
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  6706. If the logic of capitalism is to produce a profit than incompetence ain’t going to help. If the purpose of labor is to make a network work than a nationwide outage is a failure, a dud of a commodity. You can’t sell a thing that is useless just because it looks useful. The parties involved in the making of a network for a nation are dysfunctional. A national network should not be the responsibility of a collection of private carriers who are not upgrading the system but are using the system to make a profit and expect the system to be functional for mass use, completely nieve. Workers and the owners are at fault, they both depend on building a network for mass use and they failed the masses. Incompetency between labor and management, because they are not focused on product they are, instead, at war with each other and the Public pays the price. This condition is all over the place, at Boeing, the carmakers, food producers, practically every industry in America and every American corporations is rife with internal conflict. We must put an end to social antagonisms in areas of work most vital to our national security.
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  6707. He’s not a happy camper. Allies are dragging their feet as young Ukrainian boys are killed. It used to be the allies were ready to take him into NATO in a heartbeat. The war is not going well for the US to send cluster bombs. But things got complicated wth that. A move into NATO is a NATO move into Ukraine ad that would be a declaration of war on Russia according to a UN Treaty. The allies had been misreading that treaty as a NATO Treaty and what NATO does it can undo. American Republicans are wrong. What the UN does the UN cannot undo without all nations agreeing. Russia is stronger today and Ukraine is left hanging. What a bummer...it appears the old men have a marked propensity toward procrastination and sloth...as diabolical democrats vie with qui vive for a Russian take down republicans over who can better exploit Ukraine. The poor actor got himself stuck between a rock and hard place. And the new recruits are not looking any better, overweight, heart issues, lowering recruitment standards is a sign the population are under heavy neglect and abuse. Too much caffeine in the bloodstream and fast food makes Johnny a sickly boy is a worry for the the US military and a war with Russia or China is a losing prospect up against healthier men and women. Plus, Russia has air superiority Ukraine does not. In short, its a stupid war to the detriment of Ukrainians that should end immediately.
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  6708.  @jamesantares8772  WTF...say what?
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  6709. They are going to blame the Air Traffic Controllers for this. The fact that Washington DC politicians have 99 military planes parked and ready for use for their junkets is a non-issue at an airport that is too small for the quantity of machines using it. Plus the overcrowding contributed by military exercises to defend the air space of the president, plus the regular commercial ground and air traffic; it is obvious the agenda here is to dismantle a social program and as far as the overcrowded Washington DC area presenting a life-threatening problem for public air travel, they can care less about.
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  6710. Senate gives $40 billion to a Ukrainian army and nothing to American citizens...no conditions attached for repayment of that $40 billion is a blow to the tax payer that should not be forgotten. Not even a stipulation such as, Ukraine should return $40 billion worth of free grain and fertilizer to the US when its industries and agriculture is restored after the war. Nada para t
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  6711. Capitalists are emulated by the working class and held in high esteem by society because the real economic surplus is obscured by the existence of buyers and sellers. Before the Cold War the market demonstrated to people how hard it is to sell billions of goods to make billions more in dollars by positioning buyers and sellers. But after the Cold war, the market has many cartel monopolies and these drive the economy into a ditch. Fewer companies own money the majority use credit capital and cash advances, they were buyers forced to become sellers of their businesses repetitively, and larger capitals buy smaller capitals. This is the end stages of monopoly capitalists; a society of fewer banks in the business of banking, a society with fewer industries in the business of industry, a society with less buyers in the business of buying, and so on, and the reserve capital of banks mandated to have on hand in the event of a crash are actions of withholding money from getting into the hands of other companies for expansion, this is Hoarding. Monopoly capitalism becomes too costly for the planet’s material resources and too high a cost for the working class in a deeper level of material and social deprivation. It’s basically a Decline of Monopoly Capitalism the rationalists are denying to themselves. These are tendencies really inclusive of the last stages of monopoly capitalism, but not of, capitalism itself, for that would entail the working class take on a self-emancipation project not for the dissolution of government but for the dissolution of itself as a working class. Only than will capitalism as a mode of production would cease to exist. People have to cease selling their labor-power to capitalists which is not the same thing as desiring to work, Work but not for Sale, ----for capitalism to disappear from the face of the earth.
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  6712. Key statement of hegemonic admission “...the far more aggressive power that seeks to replace us”.
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  6713. The time it takes to get those factories changed over to produce semi-conductors is a structural problem for the US economy not a supply chain problem.
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  6714. There are 120 million families of all shapes and sizes in America that make up 336 million people who should have a turn at preparing themselves governing the country in a real democracy. Completely bizarre that a tiny number of regular families should be the governing body of a country for decades on end.
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  6715. I guess you never traveled across the US off the major highways to see how dead towns and vacant acres of fields with abandoned farm equipment that if controlled by private equity let them try to get it through a court action and I will expose the write offs. Big Industry was not a term to be taken literally or I would have said “Industrial Production”.@@Zombai-wi4ce
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  6716. This is a crisis that is not a crisis. Inside Ukraine is where the real crisis is. Defending a region that is your backyard is not an invasion. Since there is no intent to invade but every intent to defend a direct threat of severe consequences for invasion is not even a warning. I have to laugh at this because the strong response has already been issued by Putin. This is where NATO stops.
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  6717. WEF does not need to be prosecuted for that will leave the set up of the WEF to be re-occupied with new functionaries and the set up, the structure of the WEF, which is the real problem remains un-changed to a new set up that cannot be corrupted by a given private industry. While changing the structure of the relations of the present form of organization the same set-up replicated in all industries have to be changed as well. People have to get out of the mindset that prosecuting wrong-doers is going to change things for them. They are very wrong. It only replaces one rotten egg for another.
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  6718. Kurt hit the nail on the head about a class of media public opinion manipulators when he said: “That is why they are called the Intercept...”. They are what Noam Chomsky calls the manufacturers of consent, a term that mystifies what they really are as a propaganda arm for a dominant political class. The American people should debate the democratic reaction to the measure of the Freedom Caucus; why they agreed to force the vote on Medicare 4 All and didn’t? It would be a discussion about the working class are left with no property at all except for that which the workers bear in their own personal individuality. It would be about how all the work done by work people were once connected and guided by trade and commerce. When it was clear where tanning leather, saddle making, carriage making, shoe making, whips, bags, gloves, where one industry ended another started all connected to land, ranching and animal farming. All this was lost when industries were taken over for the production of commodities by corporations and now every trade and industry, work and employment, lost quality in favor of quantity, in the amount they produce, and each corporation knows how much to produce through price fluctuations on the world market. Market is down less work for you today; market is high you are overworked. The work never striking a balance between intensity and duration in the workplace. Sheer tyranny of the market and no democracy at work. It would be a discussion about work people losing control of productive industries through democratic policies favoring corporations and disfavoring America’s working class.
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  6719. Americans do not trust their institutions, not the media, the police, the Pope, the Far Right, a parent, teacher, doctor, not even Fauci is trusted, Biden, Obama, Clinton, not the oligarchs are trusted, not Winfrey, Gates, Zuckerberg, Bezos, not even the nice old man Warren Buffet, or anything else that is institutionalized, constitutes a real and general crisis of a society that is completely nihilistic. A trust that has fallen flat on the floor ever since Eisenhower left the presidency and JKFK was shot.
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  6720. As soon a trigger is pulled a shop owner is an object of the store and the store becomes the subject. The person who is armed is protecting the right of property to exist not the right of the person as a subject to exist. Property is the subject and the person(s) are the object(s). The two people, defender and perpetrator, are both subordinate objects to the rule of property. The rule of law is the right of property to exist. Violent defense is how these Americans are preserving the right to be an owner of property. The legal system expressing the right of private property to exist rips society apart. Large scale private owners are not killing each other for their property. Small scale property owners are killing each other for their property. The owner of 170,000 acres of land with a mansion of 34 rooms never has to worry about packing a gun to protect their property But millions of tiny property owners desperate to hang on to a piece of real estate as their claim are fully armed and willing to objectify themselves as a victim to a bullet pack guns to protect their small fraction of material wealth they call a store.
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  6721. I’m convince Capitalism in the 21st Century is possible only in the form of slavery for all humanity. That if you want the good life you must be a partner as exploiter of other people’s labor. Close to a third of the world’s population lives in some form of slavery. A real indication that too many are obsessed with becoming rich that these crimes against humanity are so high in black market economies unsanctioned by the State. People as prisoners of war, as convicts, refugees, migrants, kidnapped, abducted, orphaned children and women in slave relations, trafficking of minors and adults to work in factories and fields in North America...assess it better than being what they were...they choose slavery...over deportation... just incredible how entrenched slavery is to the capitalist system of production. Slavery in private mercenary armies. Slavery in terror organizations. Work performed against the will of an individual is a form of slavery millions of people experience on a daily basis. Slavery creeped in...as the real working people were made by their employers to be so occupied with their necessary work there was no time left for the working person tog get involved and follow politics or the common affairs of society and the slave owning class never sat on their laurels to take advantage of the masses not looking. They invaded the working class with religion and family values, got into the affairs of state, and the legal system, the arts, and sciences, flipped everything on its head, polarize any opposition as an enemy...all to impose a greater burden of work on the working masses.
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  6722. I can’t wait for Audit Hearings on the Pentagon budget. It is going to be a hair raising reveal of the level and depth of the covert rape of the US taxpayer by senators for personal gain and consumption, are unable to account for billions in appropriations to the Pentagon.
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  6723. America needs a national land reform program.
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  6724. Pundits sound off like angels talking over pinheads.
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  6725. I don’t see how the US can fix this problem without adding another hour to everyone’s working day. If you work ten hours now add another hour to your workday. The cost of repairing the transportation infrastructure of America will send the deficit into default. America could have used the money it spent on Israel and Ukraine but that money has gone to what constructive end nobody knows. All that has produced is a genocide in the Middle East and a more powerful Russia. You can finance giving money away to other nations for their defense and at the same time fix your, roads, tracks, bridges, tunnels, but you are going to pay for it in longer working hours and less time with your family, and with a Congress that does not enforce the legal limit of the working day, employers are going to demand migrant labor the very thing you do not want because you are paid more than a migrant. Congress will have to print money and printing more dollars debases the currency even more. It will feel like inflation but really the value of the dollar buys less. So if you are budgeting now prepare to budget for less. I am betting this bridge will be removed to let in the carriers waiting to port but that’s it. Claims against insurance companies will not be enough to cover this particular disaster.
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  6726. She has her body in front of industry; your body is in some studio talking about it. She is not plugging a product; you are.
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  6727. Great report and social analysis. The reporting is strong. Question is. Can the State be reformed? Or should it be scrapped because the “idea” of a State and the state itself are totally incompatible at this time. Whether that state is despotic, constitutional or republican, they are all marked by chronic violence. It appears the only way to free the state of its violence and self-destructiveness would be to put it out of its misery and abolish it! This would be the humane thing to do to a suffering animal or non-animal...why endure terminal suffering? You and I and all members of society only care about the civil and economic aspects of society. We don’t preoccupy ourselves with the political aspects of society. It might be time we do feel ourselves as a participant in our own public affairs and we stop seeing the State as an ‘external necessity’, maybe the State’s general interest in society is against our interest as particular individuals? One such interest common to us all is the right to walk freely without fear of being killed by a cop, or our car broken into, a bike stolen. Why is it always safe in Martha’s Vineyard? Isn’t the safety of a 6 year old not ending up killed by a cop for chasing a toy gun in a park the same as the safety of the society as a whole?
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  6728.  @jamescarrington9320  Of course Bernie unites. If not for Bernie this country is f@*ked, gone to the political elite and the multinational corporate monopolies and finance capitalism, a class apart from American working people, for lack of a rational politician unencumbered by private investments and interests. But that does not address the problem of white youths and neo-nazism does it? A revolution is needed in mass education to eradicate hatred and racism, supersitition and sexism, racism. The next generation of kids have to be taught the natural sciences early in education and the society has to incorporate them as full citizens with rights. Bernie will have turn America into its opposite...and that means you too!
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  6729. Horse manure!
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  6730. I can see how this can be an obsession for people.
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  6731. 4 parties likely to vote No Confidence. Will the government fall? Even ranks within the Republican party will vote against the bill. Unions urge the working classes to be calm. Heavy street action and confrontations is making a real mess. Do the protests pose a threat to the government? Yes, or No. The government is under pressure...but will it fall is not answered? Who can predict. Why is Macron bent on attacking the retirement system? Good question. Associated with the retirement system is the working day to which employer and employees are brought together contribute a value to society as productive only when together and not apart. One side no longer wants to be partnered with labor in production the sentiment they no longer want to make this contribution and by extending the retirement age they extend the working day. A worker does not retire at 6 pm they now retire at 8 pm closer to the hour of the end of the natural lives while the two additional hours are given for nothing, mind you, to the the whole class of employers. The retirement battle is a matter of a fight between one class against another class dragging society down with it. Will the government of Macron fall, it could and will if this keeps up. A cabal of capitalists Macron is representing as its leader have a profit interest in extending the retirement age as a motive. The legislation on the floors of many European Parliaments and in Congress serve the same cabal. A vote of no confidence is the surest way the government of Macron will not fall. But he isn’t worth saving is the problem. France is the weakest link in the whole capitalist chain thanks to him is directly concerning to the rest of the nations stuck together through NATO and the EU involved in a war against Russia. Macron is making it more real that France will leave NATO; the anger of the masses is not only about the retirement age. The spread of mass revolt is under reported in the US for this reason. Germany the strongest link in the chain but no matter to the International cabal of capitalists all working in lock step that after all anti-working class laws are in place this cabal will crush government ending the Age of Constitutional Republics. In effect a pro-slavery rebellion of a Capitalist Class. Unions have a little more of a cushion and protection than do the rest of the working classes they have more to be conservative about compared to non-union workers who have nothing to lose and more of them are willing to cut the chain, and strike and take down government(s) for what they have become in the name of humanity.
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  6732.  @jjlol262  You only feel that way if the citizens in your neighborhood are felled by falling debris.
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  6733.  @emilie6466  no way superior to who?
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  6734. US is so much a supplier of Israel that Israel consumes the greater share of US GDP.
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  6735. Same old social conflicts only more intense and universal (affecting everyone) 50 years later. As long as the real labor-force of 132 million people are kept busy working for their own necessities what they do not know about what is done in their name won’t hurt them but in real term outcomes the secrets do hurt them. Secrets worked in the past but this is a new age calling for honesty that we are living through. The rational answer to this dilemma is to apply productive forces to work for the 132 million people so that they spend less time working for the necessities and more time overlooking the affairs of their own lives and community. This way other nations learn and follow the leader. Standing right in the way of this from happening is fear, and 2., not understanding how everyone can get a better and larger piece of the pie, 3., not having the training to remove all the institutions that have become superfluous to social development. Last two are fear motivated, fear itself, inhibits the rise of imagination and real knowledge of existence...the feet on who the actors are to be held to the fire are the pro-neoliberal economists and politicians who bear a shameless disdain for the 132 million people doing all the work in this society need to be fired from their jobs!
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  6736. I could never vote for Bloomberg bad enough i have to listen to Trump's monotone.  Eight years of Bloomberg's voice would drive me crazy. Never mind his policies. Republicans are the preservationists of the power elite and the democratic party are the conspirators of the power elite. The republican party are owned by two super billionaires (now one deceased) through which the agenda of one corporation and industry gets its way and the democrats are purchase-able or auction-able by different elites bidding the most money.
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  6737. The southern twang in oration holds the audience but the message of a hurt middle class can be turned around to a cost of a grand a month in bank loans alone with high interest rates. Prices are not made out of thin air or by demand. There is a market price for goods (wholesale prices) and a market price of goods (retail) that by the time goods walk out the door your going back to the store because the goods are at a less count. A wage can rise and its value of what it buys can rise too. It can fall and its value can rise. Wages can rise and its value buying power can shrink. None of this changes the amount of money you need to move a total number of goods for a yield higher than inflation.
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  6738. Anti-fa are in a position to loosen the lid on a new cultural revolution in America. People, artists, musicians, writers are ready to tackle the false history America perpetrates with a people's history in all spheres of America's cultural life.
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  6739. What then becomes of the people who had no flood insurance? Coal Creek's overflow outlets were blocked and clogged with debris and they were ..never kept clear and cleaned...this is a problem with local government authorities everywhere...who for some reason that ought to be investigated...neglected. Why? Is Utah a social experiment in that local governments cannot turn the water on or keep the drains cleaned, collect the garbage and run a city or town's vital services. Or is it a problem of cuts in social spending by Utah's legislature? Weather is weather, engineers are drawing a salary on your tax dollars but are not putting into effect what they write on paper because of blockages in funding and mass bureaucracies leading to this, a catastrophe that never needed to happen. Really, it is time to change the lunacy in government.
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  6740.  @tedhernandez2394  Way better.
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  6741. Since they used blue and red podiums to symbolize the party they belong are polarized, they should have had an empty white podium in the middle of them, for an absent third candidate that is nether a candidate or a party in America. This is because the color white in the American Flag represents purity and innocence the political parties and the News Media, presenting the world to viewers as diametrically opposed, are not innocent and pure, that there is no third podium painted white the nation is robbed of its Right to be pure, free of corruption, free of bias, free of special interests.
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  6742. They should only be so diligent with the chain of custody of children in America as they are with secrets this country would be in better shape.
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  6743. Watching this video,--- the contrast between Europe and America's road system is stark. The former, organized and aesthetically pleasing to the eye and the latter, disorganization and a violation of the senses. If we allocate a fraction of the resources we allocate to the military a re-conversion of America's road system would not affect our relationship to Europe as a military power. In fact the more we do allocate resources to the military the greater will be the deterioration of our domestic road system. The military next to social spending are the two categories which constitute the two major expenses of the national budget. The collapse of the road system, in effect, will stop the working day from proceeding and society would die in a week for lack of a failed distribution and circulation system. At which point, America will not be a place where you can work hard and get rich but a place where one goes nowhere fast into uncertainty then absolute poverty in a large social scale.
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  6744. France is now nothing more than a place where buying and selling is the main way the work of the nation gets done. Its products are bought and sold as commodities, its capacity to work as a nation is also bought and sold as commodities. What more can you expect from a society whose chief aim of making more money stamps that society as particularly bourgeois. The tools of the corporations and companies the working classes are hired to use on a daily basis and the money to keep that help on the job on a recurring basis, are bought for the sole purpose of becoming a greater sum of money. Its pretty easy to see the true nature of France when you understand the first division of the population the French invented in its bloody bourgeois revolution of 1789 was to divide the population into buyers and sellers, opening the way for French mercantilism and colonization. France's troubles are self-inflicted wounds, all wrapped in three tidy words, Liberty, Fraternity and Equality.
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  6745. Most certainly is a manufactured collapse, a corporate consortium of capital is waiting for the conditions to be created in Holland to open operations; the creation of a labor market among communities of private producers. Farmers can become jobless wage earners overnight, the change-over puts every private producer in a very tough spot. Exactly what capital awaits. British capitalists invested their capital in mining and drilling to destroy India’s native manufacturing and handicraft industries in the 20s and 40s. American corporations invested in mining and drilling in Latin America and parts of Africa.
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  6746. On Covid, if you are not sick or have developed natural immunity to Covid because you caught the virus and lived through it and you are not compromised by lung medical issues, you are not over 65 and frail, you are not medically fragile then they are going to tell you to get the shot and boosters because vaccines are not only vaccines but are also commodities and critical to the existence of commodities is their conversion into money and profits. Simple deduction than will help you: If vaccines have a double existence than the producer of the vaccines has a double existence. Anything Big Pharma does and says will be to promote the vaccines as commodities and the actual vaccine themselves if questioned and studied as to their real effectiveness will cut into Big Pharma’s profits. When politicians side with Big Pharma using the law to promote the profits of Big Pharma, --what the politicians are doing is ensuring the population gets worse health care and their health declines creating a market for the sale of other medicines. A law that would control what doctors tell their patients about the drugs recommended and their health becomes a law that empowers politicians to dictate the health of the community and society. A merger between State and Private Interests constitutes fascism in the form of laws is opposite to the direction society wants to be; society wants officials, legislators and law makers to solve social problems in a political way.
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  6747. The higher ground ends with a harder fall.
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  6748. Imperialism. The US does not need Middle East oil so if not oil that keeps the US in the Middle East than what does? It's oil-bearing nations and their political soveriegnty of the soil from which their oil is pumped, that which continues their existence as a competitor, keeps the US in the Middle East. And, as long as the world runs on petroleum nothing will change. One cannot set the price for oil at will as long as there are competitors operating in the same market is why the US is in the Middle East. If we simply undermine the legitimacy of the political soveriegnty of nations in the Middle East starting with Iran and take their land, we hold the oil and become a stronger competitor in the world market. Imperialism is what keeps the US in the Middle East. And, as long as the American economy runs on oil, imperialism is here to stay, only to be defeated by external war or by internal economic transformation.
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  6749. Socialized profits and privatized losses for corporations is the movement of human history, days are numbered for them.
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  6750. American people are so deprived and abused by their own elite its ridiculous how much they recieve no share of their own wealth, allocated by the elite, for the elite and to the elite.
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  6751. I like him, Fresh blood, he’ll win. Clyburn is the Old Society, time to bring in the new.
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  6752. BIG DROP IN STUDENT SCORES translates into a society that can only function under a dictatorship. Goodbye democracy in America. A nation of morons can never exercise democracy.
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  6753. The general is nuts!
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  6754. I would not take my cues from Nader, in reality the world of the financial elites of America are coming to an end but the Elites think it is the World that is coming an end. Finance Capital is its own enemy. America’s Balance and Payments and De-dollarization. Basically, the only reason another country would trade with the Dollar is because it is backed by the Atomic Bomb. This has the world hostage from which nations struggle to break free. And break free they will. BRIC nations are doing what England and France had done in the 17th century that is, they wanted to create new forms of income that were not inherently exploitative and break free from the bonds of feudalism. Read the history of Classical Economy. BRIC nations do not have the benefit of this history of classical economy to develop new forms of income as a guide to a new economic order, they are inventing as they go along with one guide line. The error of the ways of Stalinism are the guard rails. America has this history and discards it as trash. Shamelessly. And instead, creates an economy that is only good for the financial empire that speeds up a De-Industrialization. The rich do not make their money by investing in factories in Wisconsin or in New York. All this is gone. It is the reason America is behind in its chip industry and the investment is not GE’s capital or Microsoft, etc., the investment is borrowed money by the government. Put this next to all the military basis America has and the country will never pay off what it borrowed, the chip factories in Texas will be starved for new infusions of capital in the future. Yet there is more...
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  6755. One comes closer to understanding the world through Bald. Probably the best man with a camera to see the world with is Bald.
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  6756. Biden and Harris were appointed by party bosses. They did not become a ticket through a majority of convention of delegates. Democrats are democratic in name only. Plus, Biden’s generation of senators have long ago left the Senate, he is the last one left. He would not even know who the new generation in the Senate and Congress are and where they stand politically. Not even the Joint Chiefs are of his generation. Supreme Court Judges are younger than Biden with a brand of politics Biden is not cued into. Harris seems nieve the right wing movement in the US is more than a bunch of crazies. Not taking seriously the presence of an organized class acting in lock step to seize and permanently hold political power.
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  6757. American workers need to strike for the same reasons the French workers are striking, a handful of multi-national corporations, are asked by the government to pay no taxes but every worker is asked to bear the burden of taxation and the crisis the multi-national corporations created.
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  6758. Anti -Asian racism in the West is what killed this woman. The correlation of remains found and Ms. Cho a missing person is too strong to be coincidental.
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  6759. Neom is a prize-fighter for middle class capitalism, keeping the middle class alive in her state. Doubtless to me the commentary by Cohen understands that aspect of the rebellious nature of the middle class. The ones who stormed the US Capitol. In a study of the participants arrested for the insurrection numbering around 700 thus far showed the were more middle class and mid aged professionals, ex-marines, than they were young Proud Boys willing to decapitate Pence's head.  Shut the state down and all the small business owners go out of business, a governor following the science would be the death knell of the middle class. You cannot fight off a pandemic and run a business at the same time. If in America the business is the subject than that makes the human being the object of he subject. Eveything you do must be done for the continuation of the business. The choice is death by a virus or by economic strangulation. Noem would rather see people die than businesses die. Nobody is open and honest that this is the reality. Neom found science denial to use as a cop out. But this choice is shown through in the willingness of a social class to overthrow the government, desperation, and that nobody appears wlling to talk about this desperation in middle class America, leading straight to a decline. What would be the decline for them. Decline will look like what it looks for the working class, $7.50 an hour. NY and California governors are governors with very large industries and corporations in them crushing small business decimated by order of their governors in followng the science. Is it any wonder that the career of Cuomo would be under attack? How many middle class businesses across the state were decimated for following his order of the science. I bet he did not expect Trump to not come through with PPEs and vents when he decided to follow the science. Warning signs were there and Cuomo did not pay attention to the details. Capt. Crozier of the USS Theodore Roosevelt blew the whistle the virus was real and got fired. In retrospect, capitalism in the liberal states weaponizes science against the economic livlihood of rural and republican states. Farmers out there supported Trump's tax war wth China suffered and made sacrifices to Trump where he did not deliver. That'a fault of their own. But the regular standard issue of the democratic party has not done anythng for them in decades, so why not support Trump? I think with Biden we are back to square one and so it appears to farmers liberals ignore this sacrifice imposing a shut down that you are supposed to survive through on your own. Nobody can get their hair and nails done and the only ones who can work are people who whose subect of work is an object like a plumber, carpenter, or a hamburger is not found to spread a deadly virus, these people can work. But they cannot work from home when they earn a living from a brick and morter retail business. If there isn't a vaccine in development soon the depression already ravaging lives will completely sink the middle class.
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  6760. Gangster president.
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  6761. Its a mass manufactured boot, a commodity. Commodities are produced cheap, the cheaper the better, cheap on material and cheap on the quality of labor. If western consumers don't like it then they should produce their own boot and employ your own labor and make a boot not a commodity. T
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  6762. The commercial and plastic world of commodities and money got the best of Ms. Navarro, she got bit by the bug... of what life as a wealthy person is like and could not stop. Her addiction dominated her as it does others beneath the tip of the iceberg who steal from children.
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  6763. A labor struggle over the vaccine mandate intensifies around the country. Some states side with workers and other states side with employers. Some employers side with mandates and others do not. The Supreme Court did not side wth the workers but delivered a punch to the chin for workers and victory round for employers in Maine. The human body and their minds (free will) still belongs to the worker before and after work not during 9 to 5 is the opinion of the court. Depends on which body, male or female? Not all laws treat the body and mind as organically one human organism in the American legal system. But sociologically speaking... Worker resistance to the vaccine is coming from the same place workers in the garment district destroyed the sewing machine when that was invented. The innovation replaced workers! The workers threw the sewing machine out of the factory windows and factions of municipal workers are throwing out the vaccine. This year’s workers resistance is coming from a biological innovation intended to make work safer is shoved down their throats! The indignity that its not your mind ordering your body to take the vaccine its some one else’s mind ordering your body around agitates worker resistance among municipal cops, fireman, teachers, transit and sanitation workers. The vaccine mandate opens a deep wound of the larger problem of powerlessness in workers of their own working conditions of employment and the workplace itself that resistance is developing and frustrations with the lack of control lead individuals to killing of co-workers and managers. This struggle intensifies and develops into a worker’s struggle for control and dignity over their lives and objective conditions.
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  6764. This is the 9/10s bad news and 1/10th good news channel.
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  6765. Sooo,--- by the explanation given by this NBC reporter on the scene, an inference is made that the French people are angry unjustifiably because people are living longer and there will be less worker contributors, and I suppose employers as well, to the system. Macron would have avoided jeopardizing his political career had he come out publicly to tell the French people to start making more babies to save the pension system but the City of Lights is no longer the City of Love with Macron bullying legislation down the throats of the French people. Why bother having a National Assembly if that is how its going to be? The protests from other news outlets are reporting that strikes are nationwide and are against French involvement with NATO. So there is more to the story. Electric workers have shut the electricity off to Macro’s residence and heir union formed a big protest outside his house in big numbers. The big story here is how the baby boomer generation did not do a good job in changing the system for the next generation at all. Macron would have been a totally different human being had the French boomers finished capitalism in France. Now their sons and daughters are put in the position of having to finish the job.
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  6766. Should do an edition on labor in crisis, unemployment and stagnation.
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  6767. The 'creationists' and the 'secular state' are united as one entity. Evangelical christians in government exempt other religions institutions from mandates in addition to their own.
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  6768.  @themarbleking  No,---the value that people create in American society is only useful as a value for people who deal (buy and sell) in clothes, homes, cars, etc. Once the energy that forms the basis of flipping necessaries is gone everything man made is useless. The better way is exchange the perfect finished object with another activity in the present. This way relations are mutual and lead to development.
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  6769.  @wiolettapagowski5590  Ridiculous theory if I ever heard one. You need to be straightened out and quit making it a personal issue, a remorse mentality as if a vaccine is a car purchase. Totally ridiculous. If 132 million working people get sick this country, Wall Street, banks, landowners, ranchers, merchants, the government, would collapse, hence the vaccine. You the unvaccinated are loved by the employers (multinational corporations) because they will replace you with a vaccinated worker and lower their cost for labor. When you quit your job the next person gets no pension, less money in wages. You make this a rights issue and they have your ass over a barrel because your eye is off the ball,---you think are being infringed when your income is being decimated by inflation and an ultimatum.
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  6770.  @wiolettapagowski5590  I wish...sorry to push that on you.
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  6771. If it is all that she in the middle of the two men says it is the Christmas Tree should be our national flag.
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  6772. Peter Navarro a White House Trade Advisor to the President is one of these people who sees the main benefit to workers that will come from the wealth American steel and aluminum producers will generate from a tariff war is Jobs! This is what the American needs and wants! When they get the jobs they will produce and employers will increase the duration of work to produce even more of a surplus from their individual associates of the firm. Employers are promised non-government interference in their production. Capital will reconstitute its position in the world market and prosperity resumes. Problem with this is that it will be a long way to go for prosperity to arrive as recessions have lengthen in time not shortened. Periods of prosperity come less frequently because the actual economy is typically worse than reported to the government because of flawed data and statistics from its own government bureaus. The total economy eventually falls into chaos from government ineptness and inability to manage the accumulation of capital and its effect of the widening of poverty in society. Opening up a chasm between labor and capital, workers are working too long for too little pay and the conditions of work worsen, the individual has no choice nor can exercise any freedom to decline in the workplace any activity that poses a risk to their being as a social class saddled with debt. Simply, working in America sucks! People hate it. This tension will always be there and intensifies to a point where the whole world of autocratic rule of work and time at work comes into doubt. Tariffs cannot be sustained for too long or else all countries cease trading and the entire social order of the G-8 countries must eliminate the offender. The choices working people have is to act as a social power to tackle the problem of poor wage growth with their employers.
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  6773. It was.
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  6774. This was a good report. More thorough than I’ve seen so far. TikTok users would get screwed. Should leave as it is or it should go fully public. Selling it or banning it is the wrong thing to do. You solve the problem by eliminating the data brokers. Selling data should be made illegal. Data should be given by consent of the individual. It would appear to me the data brokers are the intermediaries in the espionage war between the China and the US.
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  6775. I like the idea behind the Liberty War Bonds as a vehicle for the average person to get a dividend each month from this capital. Capital raised for investment direct into the American economy, into factory cities, job study programs, as production centers. Liberty Bonds was a way to build a Navy the idea can still work to re-build a society. As production takes off so does the economic surplus and everyone owning an Industrial Bond is getting a share of the value of the stock surplus which they can exchange for money, sell or transfer, or collect as dividend. This would certainly curtail the banker's habit of cheating the Public and debasing the currency, the general misuse of money can't happen if most of it is in Public hands.
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  6776. Winston Smith in Oceania: $35 million dollars to write a report is obscene. $35 million! Your tax portion on that expense comes to 1/3 of every dollar in your possession. And all you have to say is two words which are not words but are nouns, Aaron Mate? Something's definitely wrong with your brain? I'll tell you what since you care so little about your tax dollars, why don't you give me your money!
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  6777. Excellent observation Joe the Stack...
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  6778. You do not buy politicians you buy their vote than the think tanks supply the politicians with the legislation to vote on and the biggest donor gets the prize. You buy their vote because elections are a commodity, the higher the price the politicians must please the needs of the highest donor to get re-elected. Democracy has been sold off long ago. Donors own the election process; the election process is not owned by the regular voter. It has not been a democracy for at least 45 years; we may just be waking up to that fact.
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  6779. Richard Hoss makes a stupid assessment of Russia, she can do some serious damage and make things really miserable, with the resources she has. The weaponry can keep coming and coming and coming and babies are born everyday in Russia. Triplets, quadruplets, quintuplets. War with Russia has been tried and failed before.
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  6780. The full weight of the adjustment that the business private sector he said he will protect means everyone else, the middle class and working class, rural and urban are going to be are bear the burden of the cost of the adjustment. He also said “There is no money”...if Argentina has gold in the Federal Reserve there is money.
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  6781. Behind all the theatrics, most states fail to do their job to protect the Public Interest.
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  6782. Because eating is a universal necessity, and eating mammals is what mammals do for energy not health.
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  6783. The American people should pay attention to Congress appropriating money for war. The weapons manufacturers bill the US tax payer as ‘payment of services’ and claim ownership of the economy’s surplus. The commitment to sell the economic surplus is always one step ahead of production. They realize the surplus must return to circulation after more value goes into the weaponry in production. The talk about town is jobs, jobs, jobs, all about production. The general movement of the flow of the surplus away from the US taxpayer through Congress to the war manufacturers is circular. It repeats, because it must or money cannot become money prime without going through production. When it reaches M prime, the talk about town is more war. A fresh investment of M prime and how this surplus is shared out is never covered fully in the press but this is where the US taxpayer gets ditched and shoved out of the car in the road by every politician having a hand in the process.
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  6784. Herman you fool...you better not have been found drinking martinis when the fire tore up the island...governor is just as guilty. The incompetence is under his administration.
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  6785. China was the most drug addicted country in the world. And its drug addiction was a plague on Chinese people. The Opium Wars. A century of humiliation under British rule and more than half a billion people damaged, brokened. The answer was a societal answer that turned that country around to become America’s primary competitor on the world market.
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  6786. Is Biden being misled by his top advisors?
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  6787. What the Ukraine and Gaza War means for Democracy in America is the end of democratic principles. It’s a trespass violation the moment someone steps foot on grounds that is not their property. The owner has a right to defend their property and their person with force. But when a nation-state trespasses on territory of another nation-state all the innumerable small property home and farm owners that make up that territory the nation-state has trespassed blatantly and brutally disrespects suspends, dismisses, voids, the Right of Private Property Owners. The question than becomes for the many whose properties were violated, why invest hard earned capital in land and homeownership when the nation-state can take it away in one fell swoop, ahhh, the meaningless of the word ‘democracy’.
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  6788. the issue I have with that technology software that is spied on by the creators of the software on those who use that software is that anything can be considered a threat to national security because the word of the software makers and the authorities are stacked up against your’s, even if you were keeping your grandmother’s recipes in safe data. These people explain what is wrong with America’s educational system and its law enforcement system. Just look who these systems hire.
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  6789. This is what happens when you gentrify land. You end up with moronic politicians. Plus the rich buy up all the land and mass evictions off the land takes place creating dumps like this one. Governor calls for Washington’s help to deal with the homeless problem is nothing more than a call to throw good money after bad...typical centrist Democrat. If Seattle had put restrictions on what can be built they would have planned to avoid an eviction crisis. Seattle has a nasty landowning class bent on making money on real estate, this real estate money wants to be like NYC the most corrupt city in the country where corruption was born.
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  6790. Humanity is supposed to abolish the wage system not preserve it. Talking about what the ruling powers are doing moves us no closer to a self-abolition of the working class. The objective for all wage-earners is supposed to be, to dissolve the wage system. This is how the inequities and injustices get resolved into equities and social justice. Wage-earners need to get with the program. There is nothing worthwhile about wage-labor when it is valuable to someone else and not yourself. Once the abolition of wages occurs people are free to associate as a new social power forming a new economic system. Clamoring for higher wages only leaves that system and the political order that emerges from it intact. The point is to change it.
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  6791. The time is now for Myanmarians to define what it is they are fighting against? To keep all the moving social sectors of society clear on why they protest, defy authority in the form of their army, and what is the aim of this truly heroic and remarkable movement? Is it a fight against militarism as represented in so many opinions against dictatorship of the last 50 years in Myanmar the reason the social explosion persists, or is Myanmar going through a normal growth process, just trying to make a leap into an industrialized economy with the birth of a democratic republic?  We watch these events and at times they can throw out a cloud of smoke that hides the main reason the movement exist. Are all members of society viewing the actions of the army in Mynamar as a particular example of a general problem concerning all humanity?
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  6792. @Seymour Butts Not about catering its about the standards of journalism.
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  6793. They want you to work beyond the point necessary in the normal working day and longer than necessary at old age. They would welcome you to sleep in the factory or office as every ounce of your work generates triple the wealth they give you in return for your time. Employers would prolong work beyond the length of the life of a worker as the life of that worker, which can be anyone, is shortened by the exploitation, negligence, hazardous use of toxic chemicals on and during the job. They make human life immaterial to the interests of big business and the organization of work is a living hell in which to eek out a living. Left to the Republicans they would lift the legal limits of exploitation of labor. De-regulation would mean the absolute free reign of corporations over labor and the workplace. The hazardous use and consumption of lethal agents that bring on the accumulated effects on the lives of working families and communities and the legal environment conservatives want only damages employers are fined for but are never sued for the cost in human suffering. This is what they can achieve with Social Security abolished. The myth permeated around social security is that it will be depleted is a myth. Employers and employees pay into the fund. The day corporations cease to exist and employees cease to exist and the fund receives no contribution from each social class social security will cease to exist. Corporations are not about to disappear but the verge of the disappearance of social security is around the corner with this set of conservatives and liberals.
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  6794.  @TheBandit7613  Nevada can charge the Fed for hiring lifeguards. All states charge the Fed for their federal prison inmates in their states. What’s the difference? All states charge the Fed for kids in foster care placed out of state. The rate and who pays the cost is not negotiated but that’s a story for another video. All states charge the Fed for all special child and educational services without having a say in what goes on with that special education federal program administered to these populations, happens everyday and you pay for it. Maybe that was the thinking of the people who dumped the bodies there. Nevada should care, its in their backyard.
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  6795. ​ @Snipeuout69  $40 billion spent at the time those bodies were snuffed or drowned was spent bombing Vietnam. Priorities, priorities, priorities, do you put your money where you can see it or do you waste it away on death and destruction is the question.
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  6796.  @wingmanjim6  Yes realism. I think a couple of patrol boats and cars full time would be sufficient enough to make it less hard to dump or drown a person in Lake Meade. You spend more on other BS what’s the big deal?
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  6797.  @Snipeuout69  I don’t make it easier for thieves to get into my house by leaving the door open.
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  6798. Its a coalition of neo-liberals and conservatives and their game is to dominate society by weakening government.
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  6799. The entire thing happened because the police are not a police force... they are trained in combat tactics not policing. In addition to which they lead double lives. They need an order from a higher command to act and when their unit commanders are absent the separate units are stumped. Big difference between a soldier and a police officer. They may go under the name of police but security of person, place or thing, which is the supreme concept of policing for any society is not their mission. If Americans want a real police force they need to get off the couch and demand one from their elected officials to de-militarize the police and recreate a new definition for policing including a new form of organization of police. The one million police in America work as functionaries in a massive bureaucracy under the International Order of Sheriffs.
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  6800. When climate change was repressed as a fact caused by people, specifically heavy extraction industries ABC's meteorologist were forbidden to use the term "climate change", now they are forbidden to use the term "black Americans" when reporting on gun violence as a people annihilating themselves for their white masters.
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  6801. Well, since the capitalism of today is a ceaseless production there is a constant combination and recombination of the elements of production. Neither element of production are still or separate and they are not in harmony; they are constantly united in the sphere of production and constantly separated in the sphere of circulation. For this to be a way of life the human being needed to form the working class has to submit to work with technology in constant motion; people adaptable to never being still. Humans are kept moving and producing while technology penetrates production to make work lighter but also, to overcome worker resistance. Break down the morale and spirit of the human being by turning an already detailed operation for the worker(s) into its simplest and refined state to effect a lower cost per individual capitalist for production of their particular commodities.
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  6802.  @bobbafett1849  You have not a single clue do you?
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  6803.  @richardraymond9108  The masses need to topple their governments to de-weaponize the planet and it begins in the US the largest nuclear weapons maker in history much less the world and the only nation to have used them. Governments will never do it on their own. It will have to be sheer and raw social power to take out the war makers in government. They are not elected and they are a permanent fixture in government is why they have to be toppled.
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  6804. Not true, I was around back then. Americans were not as de-sensitized to violence as they are now. Nightly news broadcasted every night the bodies bags of soldiers coming home from Vietnam fueled an opposition to the war, they learned to desensitize you to war to break your resistance against war. @freespeech.7254 
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  6805. Good advise, I hope it is heeded. If so, it can start a chain reaction. I am optimistic.
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  6806. Climate crisis is going to require our subsistence be produced by means other than using the earth as a means for subsistence.  The Earth will have to be left alone to recover and mankind will have to nurse it along with science and conscious planning. And, by subsistence, I mean, everything from A to Z, hard products be made of recycled waste material and soft products be made individually. This would entail a massive lifestyle change whose time is long overdue since it could have been avoided if not for mass apathy.
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  6807. @My PHD- My Prison History Diploma,----when the tyranny is physical than yes the right to keep and bear arms is important but when the tyranny is psychological and biological, social, economic and emotional; guns are useless in defeating tyranny...and protecting yourself from tyranny is problematic in itself. Tyranny is a condition or a circumstance and protecting oneself from it perpetuates the condition.
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  6808.  @garyevans3051  The Germans were first to censor speech in the 18th century and first to exile critics of the government, plus they shut down newspapers that criticized the German State, right around the Napoleonic era. There was less censoring under the Tsar than there was under Bizmark.
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  6809. ​ @clarestucki5151  Capitalists are emulated by the working class and held in high esteem by society because the real economic surplus is obscured by the existence of buyers and sellers. Before the Cold War the market demonstrated to people how hard it is to sell billions of goods to make billions more in dollars by positioning buyers and sellers. But after the Cold war, the market has many cartel monopolies and these drive the economy into a ditch. Fewer compaies own money the majority use credit capital and cash advances, they were buyers forced to become sellers of their businesses repetitively, and larger capitals buy smaller capitals. This is the end stages of monopoly capitalists; a society of fewer banks in the business of banking, a society with fewer industries in the business of industry, a society with less buyers in the business of buying, and so on, and the reserve capital of banks mandated to have on hand in the event of a crash are actions of withholding money from getting into the hands of other companies for expansion, this becomes too costly for the planet’s material resources and as a cost to the working class, a greater level of material and social deprivation. It’s basically a Decline of Monopoly Capitalism the rationalists are denying to themselves it is really the last stage of capitalism.
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  6810. The unvaccinated are flakes!
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  6811. How many at this very moment receive the bare minimum of heat, hot water and food?
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  6812. Democrats will not raise wages and give you health care. They condone censorship of any criticism about why they vote down med4 all, they rely on a quasi-police and surveillance state, they tinker in fascism, they allow employers to exploit workers, they accelerate an economic decline, these are the reasons they are a disappointment, and their counterparts are worse. Both parties don’t work for you. They work for employers.
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  6813.  NEAR TERM EXTINCTION - HUMAN  This will be the third time in America's history the American Oligarchs waged war to seize power and establish a One Party State . The first was the American Revolution and the second culminated wth the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this round they intend to finish the job and kill democracy.
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  6814.  NEAR TERM EXTINCTION - HUMAN You think everybody understands your acronyms and lingo as if we've been in the same course of life as you have been is rather ridiculously pompous. Speak English and be plain.
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  6815.  NEAR TERM EXTINCTION - HUMAN  Information travels to fast for retention among the general population. People cannot sift out what is important from the rest of the junk weakening mental faculties. Also the anonymity makes people hostile to each other.
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  6816. Embarrassing the White fugitives were no more than across the boulevard the Sheriff in charge works! I would hope tax payers would be more critical about who is in charge of spending their money.
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  6817. If Americans want to weaken the oligarchs controlling interest in the riches of the world they will have to stop their own productive power from being used to back the dollar against their own economic output. For this changes the relation of buyers and sellers to gold in the world market.
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  6818. Capitalism is a social thing that satisfies human wants. It does not matter to capitalism if those wants are natural or unnatural. And no mystery is attached to wants. Wants come from the stomach or from the brain. How capitalism satisfies these wants is not the real point. Who cares about the degree of failure or successes of capitalism the real point is what makes capitalism tick? Capitalism makes no sense to us when there are people who have a job but do not have a home and there are people without a job and live in a home. To make sense of this apparent irrationality we have dive beneath the surface of things to find its inner logic. If capitalism displays no inner logic and its outer shield of lunacy is what it is, and we cannot find a why to what makes it look like a sick society then people will endlessly fall into more rabbit holes searching for that inner logic in all the wrong places.
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  6819. The Taliban and feudal Warlords are part of the same accumulation of capital the 20 year long war is for American Defense Contractors through the State Department and the Pentagon should rattle the American public's nerves, but doesn't, the abuse of national security resources to overthrow Afghanistan's rural and feudal relations the Taliban draws most of its support. Average Americans should be informed that it was the Americans in the State Department and the Pentagon who made an alliance with the Taliban to overthrow Afghanistan's socialist government committed to women's rights and self-determination that the Taliban became a militant force today. In the course of the greatest swindle in operation the exchange of opiates, minerals, rare earth metals in the 20 years the country of 39 million were reduced to refugee status by the war not 1/3rd of those material riches went to the Afghan people. This is chapter in history describing the rape of a poor nation by a rich one.
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  6820. Not even Donald Trump does Donald Trump better than Ryan, ----------Bravo!
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  6821. Secret Service have taken the oath of secrecy to be its preamble as an institution too seriously as every action they took during this attempted assassination plot were seclusive and covert actions. FYI,---- the secret service does not pay for itself to exist it is paid to be a presidential guard by Congress using money the Trump rally goers pay into in the form of taxes! As a secret service to the president the assassin was enabled.
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  6822. A real chasm of secrecy exists between parents and their kids. None of them who knew this was coming could confide with their parents to report it. Kids cannot tell school officials without being held as possibly complicit talking to a vice-principal who has to dig for information, learn more of who, what, when and where. But even if the kids did report it to the police there is nothing in our laws that says the police have to respond or even send a cop to the school. Its only after the crime is committed that police must respond; no crime is committed in an alert. Kids in schools go through the same experiences victims of domestic abuse go through: So I ask you what is the point? Nothing is functional. This incident is another sign of a dying social system. Quicker people own up to this fact the better off we will all be.
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  6823. Expropriation of the mass of people is done by a few usurpers regardless if the government of your country is despotic, democratic or republican.
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  6824. The part about gunpoint voting sounds like overkill hype to me.
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  6825. Be more useful than the NBC executives know to put an epilogue at the end of these short stories recapping the event in full summary.  But they must to cheap to give this job to a reporter.
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  6826. Its the LAW OF The LAND PEOPLE, that Cops are not required to answer emergencies according to the Supreme Court Ruling of the week of June 1, 2021....you are now starting to see that in this episode of the woman who was held back from helping a drowning person and from the death of elementary school kids with an active shooter in the school and cops held parent back. It is against the law to feed a homeless person. Against the law to assist anyone in distress. This is your Supreme Court handing down these edicts of barbarism.
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  6827. To me it is pretty clear cut why the political establishment and political power never separate permanently ---the American people give no reason for a separation.
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  6828. A piece of the story I missed was the extremely measly diet of the workers consumed during this ordeal of finding where to dig for oil. Digging sand holes all day in the heat of the desert to place dynamite and then freeze at night...and for how long? Must have been a horrendous experience for them in the 1950s.
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  6829. Russia has no history of invasions in its past and present. To the contrary, Russia had been invaded by the Japanese, the Americans, French, and surrounded by hostility from western nations for the whole of the 20th century. It’s time the NATO go the way of the Dodo.
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  6830. ¡Estas personas nos están tomando por tontos! Votar por ellos (Trump o Biden, no hace ninguna diferencia), es darles permiso y consentimiento para jugar a la gente como idiotas y tontos. El duopolio que son no otorga dignidad al pueblo. Realmente no son dignos de mi voto o del tuyo.
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  6831. The share of the surplus value going to labor will be less, yet value producing labor is a gift to society. Labor is the creator of everything and its productivity is in the hands of people who use this gift of surplus value as their personal income in perpetuity. JJ Proudhon said, "Property is Theft", he should have added; it is theft without being overtly mugged, robbed, and beaten.
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  6832. Auto Workers Strike,---- the value that the labor-power of workers at GM and other car makers produce is not the same as the value of labor. The difference is labor-power is producing value while the value of labor are goods that add up to a market-basket value of an 8 hour day buys. In short, how big of a slice of the pie can the value stored in one average American working day is always a constant amount because the working day is a constant amount. So what is given to the workers in exchange for the value producing ability the worker performs with the car maker’s technology must all take place within a time limit of an 8 hour day. To be competitive the car manufacturers must extract this value from labor-power by shortening the time it takes to make a single car than the car will contain a greater value that it cost to make and when it is sold for money the excess value can flow back to the car maker. innovation displaces workers and electric cars have a completely different mechanical anatomy that will change the whole division of labor in the factories. Electric cars generate power from battery to transmission and everything in between that make up the internal combustion engine, its parts and labor phased out of of production or become jobs of high automation using less labor or far less jobs at less time to produce is far less the cost thereby increasing the excess value contained in the electric cars resulting in higher profits.
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  6833. I agree.
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  6834. Buying and selling labor-power is the main activity that drives immigration in America. Employers want to lower their cost of production and the only way to do that after they invested capital into the hardware is to buy labor power cheaper. Pretty straightforward assumption that employers are the reason America’s borders are opened and bad guys slip in is a concern for the State but not the employers. If American labor-power was not a commodity employers had to treat with fairness in wage, employment, etc., the borders would be closed like they were in the 40s and 50s under a Good Neighbor Policy. American working people went south and a tourist industry in the era of Elvis.
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  6835. P.S. The last species to become extinct is the human species.
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  6836. The driving force behind American Capitalism is World Trade. I think the key is Water. Capitalism pollutes water and water is life. As a tool for farming water is universal the world over. So if we build a movement along the lines of the Water Protectors and deprive capitalism of the use of water the Left would get more traction. For instance, Coca-Cola consumes vast quantities of water and leaves a town desperate for water in Mexico and elsewhere. We get nowhere yelling at Coca-Cola on 5th Avenue in Manhattan about that. We have to broadcast the message that we demand clean water. The demo is for keeping the water clean but send that message overseas. The poor and working class can understand this more than theory. They will take action out of necessity. We should use that necessity and turn it against Coca-Cola, target one corporation till it falls, then move to the next universal tool for life, the Soil. Soil is life. Who works with soil that is a capitalist corporation? All the farm equipment and machine corporations and seed corporations. The next universal tool for life we need to protect is Air and who works with air that pollutes air, Aviation, the US military, Oil corporations...how perfect can this strategy be? Following Water, Soil, Air, comes Food. The Left does not go Vegan, it goes wild, protect all animal life. Animals are life. Who slaughters animals...you got it, the meat industry and down goes Mickey D’s. The King of Burger has fallen. Wendy’s left town. So what if you can’t get your fast food. Too bad. Eat something else. And so a movement is born that is revolutionary and neutralizes the reaction of the bourgeois order to a standstill because they produce outside of the US where they have no jurisdiction and must exert diplomacy to get Coca-Cola to stay. Government are not going to call the military out on workers throwing a foreign corporation out of their country and the US is not going to send in troops without it causing a major political scandal for the president of the US; and where they produce are typically in countries with low wages. In effect we are forcing their governments to reconstruct their economies as the monopolists have left or have fallen leaving an opening for them to build up their own industries, an Opportunity that is a god send to them. Workers outside of the US need to hear an American movement that signals to them it is okay to get rid of them. Expanding the Water Protectors movement as a movement that moves from one natural element of the earth to another to protect it from the excess consumption of capitalist corporations. I think this neutralizes any capitalist retaliation from occurring. We are peaceable operating within the framework of Free Speech. We cannot be blamed for the corporations shutting operations down overseas because we did not do the shutting and the American government has no jurisdiction over what other countries do. A movement that denounces water use by the corporations and this news spreads to where water is extracted we would be encouraging foreign workers to kick Coca-Cola out of Mexico. But if we do not answer to the needs of people desperate for water they will simply move for lack of water and Capital wins. In a sense we have to tell workers outside of our country to extricate US corporations using water in their country from their country; a message. Now don’t ask me to go out there and start it, I am 80 years old and can hardly finish this comment but I still have a sharp mind with tons of experience. I have insights that will help but I will march with you as long as I can. Imperialism, the job of a president, is to use other people to do their fighting, we should do the same. Imperialist give them guns we give them brains. When the empire is so weak the final coup dé grace can be yours. Then you can start reconstructing a new society and world.
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  6837. There is an underpinning matter about trust that America’s social institutions are not used against the interest of the Public, are not thoroughly corrupted by a cabal of oligarchs and lost all integrity, relative to the Constitution.
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  6838. Now we know what the metaphor, Babylon, stands for. Conquer and divide through language.
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  6839. 5:48 Israel celebrates America’s Fourth of July? The only part of the US that will stand firmly by Israel’s side is the US Military and the American weapons industry and this is only because Israel is their biggest customer. Their allegiance to one another is a match made in Dollars. 6:35 Mass Shooting in Baltimore,---finding the one responsible and locking them up does nothing to stop a generalized Reign of Terror sweeping the black community in America. The ratio between persons and guns in America is 1:1, roughly the same number of people, 332 million people and 332 million weapons. America is an imperialist society, it sweats bullets and bombs from every pore of its body. American people have to face this reality or die from it. 8:08 Roller Coasters,---are inspected probably once every 10 years a low priority in the Department of Health and Safety. Production in general in the US is not inspected with the intensity the American people want to believe. Fatality and the morality rate is high in all jobs and workplaces. 12:30 War with China?,---stakes are too high for war with China. America and Europe are dependent on China for everything. American and European businesses strive to move their production out of cities and into rural regions of the world where labor is found cheaper than if they kept production in big cities where the price of labor is higher. Maybe if Americans make technology a function of investment their government would not be on the hunt to destroy these types of industries in another nation but would have its own capacity. Basically, China is now the global producer for the world. This not the same thing as an imperialist of the world. Get over it and make peace. 16:00 all cell phones should have this capacity is a no brainer. 16:53 Student Loans,---Biden and the Democratic National Committee of the Democratic Party (DNCDP), knew this before going into office that Loan forgiveness would be struck down by the four radical conservative pro-Trump Republican judges Trump appointed to the Supreme Court. Best way to deal with this lie is a student loan strike but my guess is that students are not educated enough on how to conduct a general repayment strike; so sadly, they will live in forever debt. If they can get over their “Me” selfish phase of their lives and reduce the size of their gluttony for material wealth they could see a better future. The whole scheme was conceived as a way to separate the privileged in society from the masses and using higher education was the way to do it. The creation of segregated grooming schools for the rich from elementary to higher education primes them to inherit political power while the poor go to the schools in their own city, town or state to acquire the skills of a workforce the Elites require in a workforce.
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  6840. Climate change caused the fire! What in climate change caused the fire? A hurricane caused the fire. Okay but what caused the Hurricane? You are getting warmer the closer to the Sun you get. The Earth is moving closer to the Sun. But that’s not it. Solar flares are storms in the Sun hit Earth’s magnetic field. Earth’s shield is weakened by a powerful sun flare of fire. Earth’s atmosphere is immediately changed by powerful astronomical events. Add this to what is being done on Earth and our planet is modified by natural and social forces. But I think there is a solution staring you in the face from this tragedy. Stop building single-family housing units.
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  6841. Americans are just gradually realizing they have a Congress that belongs to a gun lobby that blocks any national reform on gun violence and since Americans do not go out in large numbers to demand parliamentarians take action or be overthrown to make changes effective immediately, as they do in Europe, the violence creeps through town after town, city after city, state after state. Oh well, better to be active than passive.
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  6842. The idea behind free markets is to buy cheap and sell dear. That’s the logic of capitalism. Markets are only one part of a capitalist economy. The other part is production. Nobody talks about production in capitalism. They just relegate their comments and thoughts about markets. Nothing can be deciphered accurately from markets.
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  6843. They were all young to middle aged. Where are the bones of the elderly in their tribes?
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  6844. Trump emerged through the Tea Party and made a coalition with evangelicals and expanded that partnership to conservative catholics in his fight against the inevitable diversity of America's population. An uphill battle for Trump and the GOP. This coalition has driven away independents and moderate women from the GOP. The secular conservatives in the GOP hate the Tea party dominance in the party. 70% of the GOP consists of Tea Party, the other two groups make up 30%. The GOP is a more religious party than it ever was in its history. Obviously, labor is not a constituent of the GOP. On labor the secular conservatives, Big Corporate Money in politics, fight worker unionization and depressing wages, evangelicals wage a war against women's reproductive rights and the Tea party lead the ideological war to keep pure the old non-diverse America of the Post WWII Era. All these problems the GOP are resisting are rallying the democrats together. Its a losing battle, the GOP is going to die and become a minor fringe party becasue the growth of percentage of foriegn born Americans has never been higher and every trend is accelerating causing a reaction in the republicans has also grown stronger in their suppression of government to solve any problem, a huge growth in support of more government for public purposes, a growth in support for multiculturalism and on immigration, he can only win as a racist. The immigration issue is taking Trump down 65% of Americans are in favor of immigration. My guess is the national GOP will be like the California republican party, a desperate more extreme right minor party.
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  6845. Tucker Carlson is an heir of the Swanson TV Dinner empire, he never did anything to be an American outside of being born into a billionaire family and his parents were immigrants.
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  6846. I would not be surprised if the academic killed was a racist. Kids in America are bullies is a given by all of the same peer group school shootings that occurred where the perpetrators were bullied. Bullying is what America does around the world. Bullying trickles down from above. The behavior is mimicked, replicated, is normal social relation for Americans. Bullying in the Family. Bullies in the State and Society.
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  6847. The Feds only go after people in government and virtually never charge CEOs which number far higher than city mayors of important cities for crimes more severe and detrimental to citizens.
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  6848. Three government administrations in 22 years since the first school shooting and nothing has been done about changing the nature and structure of education. In none of that time has an administration proposed education reform to raise its current ranking of 27th to first. An abysmal failure relative to what it can be. The first high school students of the first shooting are now in the late 20s. ABC should interview them.
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  6849. Musk is a capitalist. Capitalism and the capitalist is an occupation revered in America or it would not be so devoted to it. Last place you’d expect an anti-capitalist revolution is in the US. Home of capitalism where all things are bought and sold. Where speech, ideas, and social products like social media shaping all life, work and consumption, to a capitalist way of life.
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  6850. An American brand of socialism would make America great again.
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  6851. One moderate against a background of polarized factions....okay...that will surely bring down the House.
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  6852. Pastor in Haiti is a real lunatic for believing those who are wounded are not true believers. Talk about “Religion is the Opiate of the Masses”. This guy makes opium a laxative compared to his religion. Humanity does not need people like this is an observation humanity struggles to understand why they exist. 20 years in prison for the crime a maniacal Colonel did in Guatemala? A crime equal to that of a holocaust has an equivalent of 20 years of your life? Judge and prosecutor treating war criminals with gloves on bears an 80% bias of racism toward Mayans. Trans Rights. There are two Rights. Trans Rights which are rolled back by Straight Rights. The Straights are attacking the Trans curtailing their right to be human. Take away the labels and they are both males. Beyond their gender in common the Right of Matriarchy is left a blank in this opposition movement that gives to the Right of Patriarchy, Property, Family and God the upper hand. Europe got smart and will be suing the large tech companies for what they are worth beating the US Congress who could have legislated the tech giants in the same way but did not and will lose out on the BILLIONS ad BILLIONS that will go to Europeans. A powerful leverage against competition from the US. Republicans and Democrats in Congress are slow and retarded lawyers on this one.
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  6853. Admittedly, ignorance is hard to understand. But the bigger questions are why the public was never taught how civilizations built structures in deserts had conditioned the temperature in buildings without electricity, coal, and mechanical air conditioning. Civilizations that lasted thousands of years did fine building the right kind of living structures. Ever wonder why you are never told to turn off the power to cool down the planet? Ever wonder why US News never educates the public on how to stay cool without the power on?
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  6854. In GITMO they can get more information out of him by means of the torture they cannot do under federal jurisdiction. Its one thing to lay down more punitive measures its another to administer them evenly regardless of class, race, religion, gender. Trump wants to eliminate the civil part; it's a joke and laughing stock. His comment reflects a mindset, an emphasis of the military part over and the civil part, whereby, any American citizen can be held as an enemy combatant. Eight days ago a Ukrainian heiress ploughed into pedestrians with her car in Kharkiv. The driver of the Lexus, glamorous oligarch's daughter Alyona Zaitseva, 20, jumped a red light before smashing into a VW Touareg then careening onto the pavement, killing six and injuring five. If this happened under Trump's America what would get this young lady off besides 1.1 million EU from a step-father and Sayfullo Saipov with no rich uncle sent to GITMO? The use of the car (means), or the daughter of an oligarch (status), or no connection to a wider terror ring but a lone operative like the others preceding Sayfullo Saipov (facts). Looking at life as it really is the poor and working class produce one in a million of deranged individuals, typically, serial killer nut jobs like Bundy, Son of Sam or lone operators like Oswald and Paddock. The rich produce terrorists like Bin Laden, financially connected as it cost money to run a terror operation. Or they produce spoiled children raised under affluence and have wealth to corrupt the system of justice when one sour apple hits the ground. Life is a hell of a lot more varied than Trump sees it.
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  6855. A gun doubles as a commodity in society, if it were strictly a gun its usefulness would not be doubted.  But as a commodity a gun becomes an object for sale that to buyers and sellers its usefulness is exchange not sport. As exchange for guns become money expands to include more people with access to guns and fewer gun makers and dealers share a billion dollar market. The production of guns doubles as an acumulation process making manufacturers and dealerships the conduits of this accumulation of capital. It goes beyond Trump as president that the gun market place has expanded from a million to 20 to 30 million gun owners.  The market gave rise to a monopoly in manufacturing and a large market of dealers buying and selling guns.  As a means of exchange, guns yields high profits.
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  6856. Bernie is a fixture of the establishment’s idea of what a progressive is, a job description not a vocation whose object is to make a social revolution. Another waits to take his place when he goes.
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  6857. Must be a small percentage of the people who actually participated in voting. The smaller the electorate the easier idiots like Santos can get into office. You need to register to vote as soon you hit 18 years old. The district is so small, 140,000 people, are unrepresentative of a majority. People who do not vote prove democracy does not work and runs against human nature.
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  6858. China retaliated very quickly acted in response to Trump protectionist policies around the corner, the outgoing president is so identified with Trump policies, little difference between them, China applied a bit of protectionism of its own, a ban on the sale of rare earth metals to the US Chip industry. Ores and metals will have to come from Africa where China has established firm relations, in order to process for the production of cell, satellite, defense systems of the US. Without the essential raw material the whole industry goes in the tank. Massive layoffs. No reason to produce the required systems if there is no money in producing them is the American way. Naturally, the imperialist president got on the plane to Angola to secure such raw materials and metals with a wallet full of tax payer minted money. Another area to watch and learn how empires disintegrate is reflected by the hasty actions of smaller nations dependent on larger ones for their security such as South Korea. A sudden fit of paranoia impels the president to declare Marshall Law, suspend all political activity, specifically pro-communist groups in society. Small nations would not behave this way if larger ones were not themselves teetering on the brink of extinction. I give it 50 years, by then the US that began with a lie will die in a lie.
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  6859. This person Matt Stoller is a nutcase. He does not know how to articulate this but he feels progressives need to start with realism. What is realism in a republican majority Senate while Jimmy Dore eats food? Briahna Gray is coming from a real place...but nobody here is engaged in the class struggle. Look at what the republicans are doing; M4All, Green New Deal and Defunding the Police, targets Bernie people, Social Democratic Party and Black Lives Matter people; are demonized into a pending witch- hunt. Republicans are digging deep into donor pockets as they fight to protect their endangered Senate majority, with the price tag for two Georgia runoffs already eclipsing $300 million, putting them among the most expensive elections ever. Once everyone agrees the right wing and the center left democrats are the enemy of the people, what then? Sit back and let things happen is what happens if the left cannot organize strikes and boycotts they should then infiltrate and disrupt.
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  6860. The current world situation can only lead to wars between nation-states and internal social conflict, civil war and revolution. A culmination of all the crap of ages coming down at once...in looking back at history the ‘mode of activity’ got away unscathed. Revolutions, wars, internal civil war, were all about a distribution of power, a new distribution of labor to other persons, but never about the power itself. A voice 2000 years old Plato said of the division of labor, it is the ‘curse of mankind,’ not one revolution or war, has abolished the social hierarchy of labor since! The workers themselves are the last social class to not have a chance at this power; a chance not be given peaceably by the ruling classes. There is no other way or therapy to get fit, ready, for this power, there are no classrooms on how to control and run a Nation-State, its mission would have to be on the construction of a new society to discard the nation-state, make the nation-state superfluous and unnecessary for survival in the new society and for all societies.
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  6861.  @diffened  A cartel is a gang. Gang members are people too...would you change the people and leave the gang intact...I hope not because then the new people in the gang are worse than the older ones. The gang, (Party or Social Elite) hardly any difference is the form of organization that causes people to adapt to thinking and being a gang.
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  6862. Agreed, the family is the historical origins of the State before tribes and communities and these social formations have their origins with the family. As a social institution the State changes or should change or be made to change to be compatible wth the changes of the family in society.
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  6863. Viewers should realize that fences provide ways of making chases more difficult for the police and easier for the pursued to get away. Adding fencing around your home is an invitation to the crime you are trying to prevent with the fencing is irrational.
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  6864. The corporations cannot take the factories with them when they leave for cheaper places to open shop.
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  6865.  @youtubesucks1499  Mobilize!!! Agitate, agitate, agitate, and mobilize.
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  6866. No stimmy here either. The number of people the stimulus checks never reached must be high because they never report on it.
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  6867. When the sole purpose of an object is to enrich its owner and the owner sells for personal enrichment undercutting safety, it is impossible to restrain that owner from spending that profit to ensure the use of the object is not a danger to human life. The object has made the company big enough to say to the government, “Make Me.” Other companies will follow. The object of use has made the company too big too control and for the safety of human beings the object is intended to be becomes secondary to the profits the objects brings for its owner. This is capitalism. This is not democracy. Democracy is only a word used to cover for the exploitation of human beings by other human beings.
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  6868. There are two aspects to the way we work that are mutually exclusive. Work in the concrete sense of the term could be viewed in a general way as the material exchanges between man and nature. It is the one area of human activity that directly brings us into contact with the material elements of the earth in more than one of millions of profound ways. What our work in industry combines are the material elements from and of nature shaped to meet human needs. This is an ongoing process of interaction,-- changing human societies as societies change nature. Work in the abstract sense of the term is expressed in the significance of the clock that measures in hours, days, weeks and years, the value nature of work as a part of the total working time of society. More of that total working time is stored up in work averages in non-factory based industries and less of that total working time is stored up in work averages in non-handicraft based industries. Abstract value inputs come from varying levels of values per unit is how work is measured in the value relation products of labor have as things of use for sale. There are the double aspects of work that currently splits our country into two mutually exclusive sides. One side is expressed in a history of social classes in work conflicts and the other side lets loose a ferocious struggle for its existence. There is not one society on earth since 1980 that has taken on itself the mission of eradicating their internal histories of class struggle so that they can freely enter a stage where everything they produce for their existence is done without the curse of the sin befalling the human race the day Eve tempted Adam to bite the Apple, the scourge of the relation of man exploiting man and blaming women and children for that scourge from time immemorial.
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  6869. If Americans do not respond to this in an anti-war fashion not a single humanity is left in them but are a people completely indoctrinated.
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  6870.  @brengganmanurung3568  It does not mean that...it means the "crazies" are in power in Russia and in the US.
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  6871. Well, its pretty clear to me terrorists in the US and Canada intimidate the population for their political aims.
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  6872. LE telling us what he did tells us nothing about why he did it.
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  6873.  @Galaxie08  Of all the investigations of all the shootings and shooters the investigations never reveal any of the motives...LE does not tell the public...the follow up the findings, the motives, nothing, we are not psychic also.
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  6874. 52 million senior citizens some of whom are on medication won't get their ss checks or prescription in the mail in a government shut down. Thousands of federal cases pending in courts will jam the system delaying longer all kinds of litigants waiting for resolutions to their cases if the government shuts down.
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  6875. What a contrast. The images the media shows are of devastated black folks and white authorities. I was under the impression this was a place where the population struck was not all black. Is the media doing this on purpose?
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  6876. hopefully the protests will call for the “demilitarization’ along with a total overhaul of the police not the defunding the police... that will come when police are trained to police society to guarantee safety and security to every person, place and thing and not trained to be a invading force of varying units, squads, and troops, if they are not that then trained to react after the fact on all events for the sake of prosecution. Police are misused for prosecutorial purposes of a given population by a ‘legal system’ that incarcerates more people than all nations in the world...what begins to take shape as an Apartheid System in a multicultural society.
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  6877. Both borders are open. No talk about the northern border just the southern border...why is that? @silentmajority8365 
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  6878. This slate is 2016, 2012, 2008, reruns. No fundamental change just more incrementalism.
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  6879. commodity news...its news that sells...get rid of the relationship we have as buyers of the news and the news will return to its original purpose and function in society.
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  6880. What is interesting is that whether our time was modern, feudal, or ancient times, it is the tax tributing state, capitalist or lord who are the sellers and the owners of the products. The workers, whether these workers were slaves, peasants or vassals, and the product and property of their own has withered down to no product or property at all in modern times, turning the great majority of Americans into owners of nothing they can call their own except for the children they can bear naturally and the ability to work long hours for a wage. Working class are worse off today in the US than if they were alive in a pre-capitalist era. At least a slave was attached to the land, property, house, could never be homeless when the property changed hands, and at least the peasant was given a plot of land for cultivating the land of the lord they could rent out to serfs, and at least the Roman or Egyptian slaves who built the pyramids worked with skilled artisans and could return home to a farm and family of their own at the end of the 20 years it took to build a pyramid for a Pharaoh; but the American worker, modern industry is a weapon to life and limb, a de-skilling process, and a job that depends on sale with only a hard surface to end their fall. A mortal leap into the abyss of mass unemployment; Uno Salto Mortale.
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  6881. Nobody will be exempt from the escalations of war in Ukraine is a topic entirely ignored by the mainstream. Every dollar spent on defense for Ukraine reflects a slow down in the rate of economic growth of the Russian economy. The American Taxpayer bears the burden. Russia made a point to liberate territories in Ukraine with a Russian majority living in them. A thing that has no concern for Americans has become the worst confrontation between the US and Russia since the last 50 years. This conflict comes up against WWIII triggers rivals with the greatest stock of low and high intensity nuclear weapons should be the number one headline in the world, the Russians will suffer but nobody is exempt from the effects of nuclear war.
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  6882. The government is broke but not the military who takes the lion share of the federal budget. You think Americans would oppose military expansion but with no voice they can’t! So much for democracy.
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  6883. I would say work on making your channel a real news source. If there is not a contrast between media channels for news audiences will never see a difference.
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  6884. It does suck but not for the reasons you feel it sucks. Others are nicer for sure but other cities are not the heart of the world economy. They are monotonous cities that shut down after 5 and few cities are open 24/7. I learned four languages living in NYC free of charge in other cities the best I would learn is an accent of the same language. NYC sucks for the same reasons Washington DC sucks, it’s a corrupt place and its corruption is contagious infecting all city governments even the pretty cities have blood money written all over them. @berrospibenaventenellosalv5192 
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  6885. A Historian Perspective: Bannon is wrong about the whole of American history not having a leader as significant as Trump. This piece of what he says is hyperbole and right wing propaganda in not saying other oppositions emerged in this country and were cut down. Sitting Bull was bigger opposition than Trump. Jefferson Davis was a bigger threat. John Brown. King, Malcolm X. Julien Assange has a worldwide support backing him against the Justice department. The Branch Davidians were a mormon sect and a bigger threat. Bannon’s cause is a cause of self-interest but it does have around 60% of the country’s support. Debs had half the country behind him and lost the election because constitutionally you cannot be a president if your been imprisoned in jail. But he still ran and got half the vote against FDR. The FBI had nothing on Debs, instead the nailed the Rosenbergs to damage Debs’s huge support as a homegrown American as apple pie opposition to the State. But it is all about preventing Trump from running is the piece that is accurate in Bannon. Democrats hand this justification on a platter when they turn their backs on what this country needs to favor private interests. They leave a deep wound and will pay when people in this country vote Trump because he is an opposition to the democratic mob. Medicare for All would have guaranteed a democratic victory and ended Bannon’s cause right on the spot, Trump would lose and be gone like Liz Cheney is gone. Whoever strategizes for the democrats today are stupid and self destructive. Give people what they want and need and they will carry you over the hill is so simple a concept to grasp that private interests spends every waking hour deflecting that message in favor of the concept of profits. If he is assassinated these talking heads are going to eat their words for putting faith in an institution that has assassinated people. I will say that the FBI is not the organization it was when people in the 70s were assassinated when people were spied on and smeared by the FBI. Not the organization that blacklisted Hollywood writers. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ford testified did not rat out their screen writers. Hoover is dead and the FBI is something different. The plots to kill, the license to kill, is today the main function of the CIA under its millennial tech dependent director. The FBI has more constructive use to society however as a forensic crime agency than the CIA has for being the personal army of a president conducting drone killings and who’s next on the list in foreign countries to get rid. The president is an institutional problem for this country as above the law. Obama is free after killing more people than Trump. Biden is free. Above the law is the office of the president despite what all Americans are told, think and say “Nobody is above the law”, is historically proven wrong and , therefore, a lie.
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  6886. The realities are not peaceful and harmonious. Diplomacy is peaceful and harmonious but not reality. Far from it, right? Imperialism is elusive and very dangerous for that reason. Historical experience reveals that every truce Washington makes is a prelude to another ferocious struggle for existence for the American working class. American workers are positioned precariously but move in the opposite direction of the nations moving to free themselves from US constraints. This is a historic paradox. America has been preparing its military defenses since 1973 to rectify its position in the world backing its world credit system with force is weakening but in this movement US constraints tighten around the American working class.
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  6887. Its a culture of power that can revoke you but you cannot revoke that power is a reign of police terror and dictatorship.
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  6888. Anything is a security threat to the US, that its MO.
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  6889. Sheriff is wrong. They held him without bail. No bail you walk. Post bail and the prisoner stays.
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  6890. This coming from an advanced nation...the population of New Orleans struggle to live without the basic necessities but the value relation of capitalism will take a block of ice and make a 30 minute wait and $5.00 out of the pockets of each person in that population its equivalent. Ice = $5.00 + 30 minutes x 2 (round trip walk) with a 62 pound block of ice is water torture.
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  6891.  @wayneanderson8034  How about making it safe...and slow down the pace...
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  6892.  @joefish6091  Right...Find and Fix...Tracks beds...spikes...rail damage...that all takes on eyes on the ground.
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  6893. First its a 911 call then the cops come to a scene then firefighters show up then come the first responders seems to be the pattern for most of these police killings. That could be protocol and we would never know because surveillance is so widespread around schools police could watching and initiating a 911 call themselves. Was he seen leaving his car and entering another car in person by witnesses or by surveillance?
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  6894. You can see three of the men are not black the last fourth man to enter is possibly not black. This appears to be staged event.
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  6895. The working classes are in a position in production as a producer of their own subsistence and creator of surplus value. The particular arrangement of social production is as good as the material powers of human beings behind it. If we have uneven development between the combinations of these two elements in production then there is a social scenario that corresponds to how these elements are used in social production; too few people with access to the productive forces of society leads to increased competition between workers; in turn leads to less value of wages and less growth; too many workers involved in production leads to higher growth and higher wages and less competition among workers. Presently, there are 148 million workers employed in production and the balance of the 330 million employed outside of production, too few workers in production and society is split down the middle between the 01% and the 99%. The concentration of the means of production under the ownership of a single firm forms the basis of a new form of property ownership with exclusive rights to every advance connected to them. There is no connection of the detailed workers to the firm or its ownership of the means of production. The economic bond to the means of production for the working population that had existed in the past is entirely cut off. This transformation emerges from a situation where the means of production was once privately owned by independent producers of communities in a pre-capitalist era to a situation where the means of production are independent of the worker(s). A truer relationship of private property, work and the worker has vanished making the firm or corporation, i.e., capital the negation of private property when one understands the relationship between work and worker as defined in terms of the means of production that a class analysis of society of any integrity is based on this procedure. Under circumstances of uneven development there is a long arc of protracted progress that moves production from the original domestic economy is depleted of capital investment to bring into its primary social organization of production, i.e., the corporations, the world economy hinging on one nation’s capacity to produce.
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  6896. Well, for one thing, wage reductions and job cuts are an indicator of a new logic of capitalism. Cheaper goods means larger market shares and larger market shares means lower wages for higher profits. Competition has brought about these conditions. Competition among all capitalists, or employers, one and the same thing, they cheapened wages through the creation of cheaper commodities. If it is not the weather stopping production, strikes and labor actions, or the Pandemic its the market saturation of cheap goods and lower wages as the combination crippling “ceaseless production”. Capitalists corporations are to blame since they control the quantity of goods produced and for not paying their workers enough of the value than they already produce just to get by. In this case and circumstance, Capital is its own fault and failure.
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  6897. You cannot sue a social movement. Shows you how cunning right wing attitudes are in this country. Social movements are not 'commodities' with owners. Commercial law applies to the rights of people as 'owners' not the right of people to assemble. But the legal action is being tried everywhere, in some courts with right wing judges it could succeed to keep a movement tied in court battles depleting time and resources of the movement. BLM is not the only one, Standing Rock and next target to be attacked is Labor with Gorsuch. The right wing action to sue movements does prove you are better off in a movement and as a movement. Within the legal parameters of the Constitution a stronger, even bigger movement can overturn anti-working class legislation and must.
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  6898. The democratic establishment had to beat Bernie Sanders and Ukraine made them look as corrupt as Trump. What we have now is the democratic establishment focused on re-opening the economy which is a position consistent with Trump. As the economy improves this lower middle class are content with the normal life they knew and cherished. Shut downs brought out a violent opposition to the governor of Wisconsin but as people get back into the swing of things the violent opposition dissolves and so does Trump's support. What develops from this scenario is a far right wing reaction to a whole new range of taxes on the rich. From here out the republican chorus on progressive taxation are cries against 'socialism', a sign that they have no specific program to restart the economy under the real conditions we find ourselves in today.
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  6899. They don't lift a finger to investigate the plane and why it ended up there do they? Pure crap journalism.
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  6900. America has never won a war...only a nation under psychosis thinks it can win a war when it never has. against the Russians, competing in an arms race wth the Americans, as a means of containing communisminstallation of the Shah who was overthrown in 1978 by the students of that country. Iran would have been a fully secular and westernized society following the look, the fashion, the customs, the pop scene of America in the 1950s had the CIA Dulles brothers not plotted the overthrow of their popular elected president for nationalizing the oil industry. Mossedegh and Oil meant power and autonomy from US power and no more buffer to the Russians. Traces of the era still haunt the politics between Iran and the US. History is calling for a president who can close the chapter of the century. A bone of contention in Trump with Venezuela where the same thing happened the oil industry was nationalized is one of the traced elements of the Cold War. The state department has been acting to recover or roll back these losses for Big Oil ever since. Way too late, Iran is more a religious state than a secular democratic republic the US would like it to be and this can only be blamed on the anti-communists in government. By now you would think a sitting president and a state department would use the wise age-old strategy of making your enemy your friend and this will keep them from going over to the other side, but that isn't the case
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  6901. This show can be so much more than just mimicking the same run of the mill, corporate media news program, treating all working class movements in separate and in an isolated way. It reminds me of Golding's novel, The Lord of the Flies, when all the kids split off into separate gangs and fight each other. Or how the North turned the emancipated slaves into army against the South instead of the emancipated slaves fighting the the rising capitalist North. Its really time to break these engrained habits that perpetuate non-solidarity. We are all working class and we are going to lose if this continues. This is the meaning of Bernie's question: Are you ready to fight for my family, your family, the other family as one family? What the world needs now is solidarity and this show does nothing to promote solidarity. At the same time as this news item is happening there are protesters in Canada trying to block the installation of an oil pipeline and with the planet in its overheated phase leading to environmental catastrophe, people will get sick driving from the effects of a climate crisis, increases the need for medicare for all is what connects that movement in Canada to this movement in Nevada, even as they are different subjects. LBGJT could raise money for Cola miners when they strike. This would build trust and break down the culture of capitalism that promotes machismo LGBT people are dealing with fighting the same enemy. You can have a Extinction Rebellion demonstraton happening on one side of town and anti-racism demonstration on the other side of town and the report is about one not both, when they are fighting the same enemy. More people attend the anti-racism rally than the Exteinction rebellion rally and they are fighting the same enemy. This is NUTS! Yellow Vest and Extinction Rebellion and Black Lives Matter, Puerto Rico's movement against its Junta Control Board, the Virginia gun rights demonstrations, are all working class and are all fighting the same enemy.  The left in this country has one important mission building solidarity among all the separate groups fighting the same enemy and a news program that is left needs to get on track with news and commentary instead of being a placid sounding board for individual groups to broadcast their struggles. Its one battle we fight and one enemy. Very disppointing Democracy Now, especially when the rich are SOLIDIFIED as one CLASS, they practice solidarity everyday, they know each other, sleep with each other, share financial wealth secrets with each other, use the same tools and institutions for themselves and with that solidarity, they have a gang mentality and acts as one gang, they beat the crap out of the working class leaving us to ruin becasue the working class does not develop or cultivate solidarity. Solidarity is everything more important now than every before!
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  6902. The format of the View would be ideal for a rotating set of hosts, so that , we can see women from all parts of America hosting the show talking on the issues they talk about on the View. Never the same women hosting the show; every month there is a change of hosts.
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  6903. We have inflation and taxation that is already barbaric. It can only be made worse by devaluing the dollar further. I do not like it when Marxists give advise to capitalists is my one dissent to this otherwise good video and lecture. Productivity in the 70s and rationing in the 40s had a less powerful productivity behind these remedies that we have today. The single car and the single family home are both polluters consuming more than need be if mass transit and mass housing were built. For Americans, versus Europeans, who have a half socialized economy versus the fully privatized economy of the US, entails the entire economic system has to come down and reconstructed from scratch. A revolution in America is a matter of reusing the power of labor to make the quality of general production versus its quantity the aim and purpose of government. Planned obsolescence for quality not quantity.
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  6904. We are a long way off but we are also never so close to by-passing the old way of doing things and really getting somewhere.
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  6905.  @guyarrol582  Follow the examples in history; form committees to run the city and elect a central body for the committees.
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  6906. Isn’t it the truth in the animal world as in the human world life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans.
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  6907. Great, thanks to Reagan and Clinton the country is F'cked Up! Look at the age ranges of the highest risk population they are the 24 to 44 age range. The Barney generation, it figures it would be the children born in 1980 and 1993, the Reagan-Clinton era. The height of American anti-labor and pro-neoliberal period that shafted the working class with Welfare Reform, A Crime Bill, NAFTA and the WTO...this generation grew up in LaLa Land, at the least the whit part of this generation, the black part was into rap and the white part wanted to be black....All Screwed Up...no wonder there is so much anti-government sentiment. This generation were indoctrinated to be anti-government and not trust anything official particularly, related to immunizations and home schooling by their born-again parents.
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  6908. He can still start a political party and surrogates will carry his voice.
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  6909.  @Toneloke-3000  What's accountability? You think the Congress has the conviction to convict him no pun intended?
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  6910.  @Toneloke-3000  Actually, religion and state are unified in the Senate...all of them pray...are of protestant, anglican, catholic, christian evangelical backgrounds. Biden makes the second catholic president next to kennedy; after the Inauguration he and his wife attended a small Catholic mass. How can religion not be integrated with the state when America is home to every religious order under the sun?
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  6911.  @Toneloke-3000  Don't be arrogant and presumptious that everyone you come into contact with is not literate in Constitutional Law. Fool. Yes, yes, yes I am fully aware of what the Constitution says, on the separation of Church and State; are you aware that the Constitution does not recognize any religion is how it can establish itself as a republic and a State by ackowledging the seperate religions of the separate members of society are all equally "citizens" ? Its not the religious person who is the supreme sovereign individual but all individuals are soveriegn in the form of a "citizen". Oh yet there is so much more in political science revealing of how unseparated church and state really are.
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  6912. BOYCOTT INDIAN RESTAURANTS. You can have an impact on fascism by keeping your money in your pocket. Be aware of who the owner of the product or service is before you purchase. There is always an alternative. The Indian business community in America have relations back home. Some may even be the fascists. Some may be as enlightened as you. But, if you do not want to support a fascist regime than don't spend your money where it could end up in fascist hands.
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  6913. One of the best things Americans can do for themselves is to learn what Capitalism is? Once they have acquired that awareness the next best thing is to quit using terms that generalize and confuse capitalism with a people, nation, or culture. What is missing in the analysis of events unfolding in Central America is the interaction of the social classes, who does what to preserve their power? Trump does certain things because the power rests on the existence of a class system in Central America as it does in the US itself. If that class structure is broken down American economic hegemony is weakened. Migrants have done just that, they ceased being labor exploited either as employed or not employed. Migrants do what they are doing not to preserve hegemony or invade, conquer, like Trump. Peasant have no power is why they act. A universal interest for their survival as a community, seeking employment, income, social and political parity, agricultural development is their motivation. Feeding a nation of 30 million is a universal interest. These universal aims, if migrant workers had government control and power the way Trump fears, is what they would implement. Knowledge of the sophisticated and complex social institutions that extract wealth form societies is not in their vocabulary but is in Trump's vocabulary. If I wanted to have my people fed I would not give the job to Trump. With 90% of land owned by a few usurpers the investment capital from Wall Street or the IMF for money loans to subsidize wheat, soy, barley, be grown by one or two mechanized industrialized farmer/landowners is highly profitable to Wall Street and the IMF. Industrial farmers/land owners pride themselves on feeding the world. In reality, feeding the world is analogous of the vast quantity of food grown for a world market of which the people are expropriated from the land. Two things are produced by industrial agriculture, one is mass quantities of commodities, the other is mass displacement of small landowning farmers. Its negative effect is depletion of natural resources.
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  6914. Terminology is everything, if I say Chinese aggression I imply an enemy if I say Chinese expansion I imply competition and the meeting between Japan's PM and the US president is less of an appearance of how to gang up on China. If I use the terms that imply an enemy I am positioning myself in opposition to friendship to that which I see as an enemy and the meeting between the PM and the president appears like a failure in making a negative a positive for the entire region. Dumping Fukishima Waste Water into the Pacific Ocean by Japan as a decision is more of an emergency than China is at the moment.
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  6915. Trump fired his pollsters because the truth hurts. He is less popular than Sanders in key battleground states on many domestic and foreign issues. The general election will reflect that by a landslide and Trump will deny the landslide.
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  6916. I’ve met people like Manchin who string people along and back off last minute. Totally unreliable people.
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  6917. If toxicology does not reveal answers that will bring into question the reliability of toxicology reports in general.
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  6918. Puppy love is so important. Good for the brain that the heart is active. The brain at rest grows because the heart beats. Women are finding it tougher to settle because settling means settling for not the best. They find guys who are not the best of both in their world. Settling also means giving up more independence on both sides. It happens in the animal kingdom in so many species that females decide the mating process, I would imagine humans would not be much different. As the biological clock ticks sexual urges overcome social preferences and this culminates in a baby boom. A late blossoming of babies. All the adult male virgins losing their prime sexual peak finally get sprung by real horny women reaching their prime sexual peak. Poor slobs are never going to know what hit them.
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  6919. Right, slavery first appears in all societies when they have reached a stage of having more than they need to live. Before that humans were consuming what they produced slavery appeared in the family between man and woman before it appeared in the tribe. When the tribes got larger they became communities. Slavery today appears out of scarcity of land and that is the fault of commercial projects that use land as a commodity leaves less land for people.  @elishareilly7980 
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  6920. I like when people plagiarize my writing. For one thing I am protected and can sue, second your brain takes in what I say when you copy. @SigFigNewton 
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  6921. Opportunists, --- bring us all further from empowerment and closer to oppression.
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  6922. Never heard of it...what is it?
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  6923. I'll look it up---thx.
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  6924. Why stop with the FBI to abolish; why not both FBI and CIA?
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  6925. You can’t make a horse drink water if it does not want water is your first dilemma Tiffany Fischtenbaum. Parents decline therapy because of the presuppositions of abuse and neglect, domestic violence episodes, therapists are required by law to report, i.e, Mandatory Reporting, when suspected. Whether those suspicions are unclear to the therapist(s), sets off an investigation for child welfare checks and assessment, or abuse and neglect found through the treatment process. Anonymous reporting sets the stage of greater suspicion in parents when they deduce the only person they told about their relations in the family was the therapist and now must go back to that therapist for treatment, sorry does not fly. The State legislatures turned therapists into a cadre of double agents are in opposition to the family in society despite the well meaning intentions for stabilizing the family. Next the politics of this country have divided educated and non-educated people as two antagonistic forces that when united under one roof a war would break out. This is the fault of the superintendent of Oxford HS who did not immediately refer this kid to the police to handle based on the facts they had. Cops could have gotten a search order on the home and confiscated the weapons that day from a judge. Bureaucracies are after the fact institutions, they respond only when there is a crisis that rises to a level they define as a cause to respond. When they do respond the response is punitive. Best thing to do here is admit the educational system in the US is a two tiered educational system divided on a class basis where the rich get educated and doors open, the middle class, poor and working classes get a uniform minimum general standard education and doors stay closed.🧐 This kid hated his life and found nothing in life worth living or meaningful, believed in nothing and nothing is everything, e.g., Nihilism. This is not to say his parents are not the living and real versions of the media archetype of the Bunkers and the Bundys in media, they are derelict people who should never be parents.
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  6926.  @direktive4  That’s one of my points...read it again.
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  6927. Its not a full-fledged civil war or an armed revolution against the military or the State because it has not spread to include an urban working class seeking to root out government corruption. It is interesting to compare these social movements in different countries. Gives one a sense of where people's heads are at and what prompts a revolution. The desire to be free from corruption or to be free of state tyranny. In Venezuela there is a lawless quasi-armed movement threatening the State that comes from the opposite direction of the working class under the direction of outside influences, this counter-revolution prompts the working classes to arm themselves. In this scenario what prompts armed revolution is a counter-revolution to re-take the State. So we have a society in the throws of a dual-social revolution in Venezuela. Split down the middle society must choose a path. This could develop into a second revolutionary war of independence due to inside catalyst and outside interference for V. In Mexico the State is the instrument of the cartels at the expense of its own competency. In America the State is an instrument of the multi-national corporations and segments of the working class are more repressed than others but all are repressed by means of the economy and education not force. Checks and balances were put in place by founding fathers to prevent a saturation of class interests in the State. Now a real tendency to remove those checks and balances is set into motion promises to extend corruption beyond the limits of endurance for the sake of extending markets and breaking down all barriers and forms of corruption in the name of legitimate business interests. In this scenario the working class has no defenses at all.
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  6928. The Catastrophists in the field of Geology must be clinking the champaign glasses on their theory coming to light in California. A test case for the rest of the continent. Snows and floods, Nature is changing the entire geography of California right before our eyes. Atmospheric Rivers are not going to be a one time phenomena. Meteorologists like to say ‘a once in a lifetime storm’. Environment is not static...industry is changed by environment because industry changed environment. Without industrial intervention into the environment; environment would change in it own due course, gradually. Their recurrence will make the places hit by powerful snows and floods, inhabitable. Sleepy brooks and rivers are now wider and deeper opening up for more water to carve into the landscape. What was a river front property is a ruin. Business will go on as usual until business cannot go on. Nothing stops business except business itself. Products can’t get into towns and towns people can’t get out of towns. Places are thrown back into the 17th century mode of product circulation from car to being without a pack horse to hit the trail for supplies. New mode of life and a new way of working and a new approach to Nature happens is made essential if society is to live by abrupt and catastrophic change.
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  6929. Its not migrant crisis its a city crisis and that crisis falls on city residents in the form of lack of city services and austerity measures but also from the inability to restrain large real estate interests from converting city living space into rental commodities that only the affluent can afford and a failure to restrain the effect employers have shrinking available space of the city’s boroughs by letting their workers work from home that rents are pushed up and space for migrants is cut back and more streets are filled with homeless encampments. People who blame migrants and the homeless for their condition are plain stupid people. Proudly ignorant people. This is a decline of civil society, a complete dissolution, the effect of powerful economic forces in control of the government’s resources. Its an erosion of city life by government and private business pushing the working classes further away from the city and the city becoming a playground for the super rich calls into question the very legitimacy of the kind of society being formed through the stormy accusations and vitriol against the new arriving immigrants and their families. It is through a facade of unanimity that a particular class interest is detected. Its a national crisis that befalls all American citizens in the form of greater social inequality that a homeless and migrant population swell the ranks of the US population. This comes from the lack of strong national government to carry through national land reforms for the protection of wildlife, water, soil, space, cultivation, irrigation, water use, land use, extraction, zoning, and more that the most powerful economic interests concerned only with the sale of resources found in nature are given special treatment by a weak and fractious coalition of democrats and republicans in government incapable of restraining multinational corporations.
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  6930. I’d file a lawsuit for millions against the State for human deprivation of sunlight. We have laws that regulate the amount of natural light, space, and air, living beings and creatures can tolerate without suffering serious medical problems, how much can be polluted by man-made artifices of their living spaces. This is why we have animal preserves and estuaries that cannot be touched by industry. This pollution interferes with natural light by means of towering buildings is a virtual suffocation of human and plant life. His Mango tree is evidence of a dying plant and if he is vitamin D poor from lack of sunlight a medical would be evidence. Put a leading biologist on the stand to testify and convince the jury the little guy has a case the big guy can’t disprove. I think a jury would favor his case and worth a try but the problem is getting a lawyer who can build a case on this angle.
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  6931. The General, by indirect admission, verifies all the US campaigns were shock and awe, Iraq to Afghanistan, when he says Putin’s invasion is not shock and awe. Keeping NATO out of Poland the gateway to Russia, and Ukraine is the goal the reporter would and should know. NATO nuclear forces position inside the former USSR republics is way too close for Russia, her cities can be hit in a matter of minutes with no room to respond. Form this angle, Putin is playing hard, NATO will never sep foot into these regions, the security concerns of Russia are to be respected...this is Putin’s JFK’s moment when a sovereign nation consents a dominant foreign power install their nukes in the Caribbean aimed at Washington D.C and NYC, is the history observers play like they are deaf but at least this General does not. When you are no longer inside the military you are free to speak. The Oligarchs in Russia close to Putin are so rich that if they lose a mansion here they have other mansions everywhere else, same with accounts and money, sanction will be annoying but it won’t cripple the Russian investment schemes that seem to be centered on real estate and less on industry, is pretty much the same as it here in the US economy. Low level of investment into industry and employment for America; a high level of investment into property for Oligarchs. Worse is the Emergency Powers Act of Justin Trudeau which blackballs a person from the whole financial system and if you as so much as be an organizer, your going to jail, the Emergency Act holds you an enemy of the state. Seriously, look it up. Sanctions here are against Canadian citizens is a remarkable development. Of course this means the American public is next as as Public Enemy for speaking up against a war. Sanctions will hit average people hard, there will be many street protests, and Oligarchs won’t be effected that the schemes would come to an end. As this is not the only aspect to the case.
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  6932. Reality are external conditions. We, in these times, are witness to a historic dissolution of social classes, as a work of history in progress, in many societies. Human history at its present stage of development is being moved by a titanic struggle on the competitive world stage among capitalist rivals losing markets. At home, the effect of this decline, is expressed in various labor struggles, a public school teacher's strike in Los Angeles, is the final act before the school system becomes extinct. Government shut down as political weapons used by one faction of a political elite to gain dominance over other factions within that elite. Elites and their own internal rivals and oppositions are usurping the necessaries of life for humanity, the soil and the working classes. Each society has their own respective elites in panic mode, consolidating power where possible, fortifying their economic position, some getting ready to crash the world economy.  The external reality of counter-working class policies are revealing their true colors through crisis engendered to divert the working masses from carrying out an overthrow of the Elite(s).
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  6933. Bravo Rachel, a World Beyond Wars, could not be better put and your action is the best way to stop western barbarism overseas as it presents itself in the form of sanctions, weapons sales, adventurism, imperialism. The worst humanitarian disaster the world has ever seen comes in the form of Saudi Arabian oil in exchange for American guns facilitated by all western powers and poor Yemen is the victim of this particular brand of western barbarism.
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  6934. This will be the third time the Republican Oligarchs have made a revolutionary attempt to overthrow, dominate and control, the US. The American revolution was the first, the Civil war was the second and now this time the third. This next time they will finish the job. Our guest is not a historian. As a journalist he looks for parallels in the present not the past.
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  6935. Light always follows darkness, it could be worse the 'council' could have turned a blind eye to the war crimes of Israel and the struggle of Palestinians extended another generation. But, it appears, this is the difference between a council and a commission which we know from experience are usually investigative or in conference format that commissions serve a political interest prone to bias. Councils are harder to corrupt, composed on many nations, the repugnant flagrant subjugation of a given nation over others falls out of favor. The world has changed and only needs to come up with a name or a slogan that will define its new epoch of proportionality and compatibility.
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  6936. South Africa's Apartheid System found a host in America
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  6937. Pleasant beings.
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  6938. Not hard to establish who from the white community that attacked the black community in Tulsa Oklahoma in 1920 are living descendants of the perpetrators to atone for the tragedy. A genocide was perpetrated. For those who want justice,---know that the state is not a vehicle for freedom, and know, civil society from which the attack on the black community originates is also not a vehicle for emancipation and social justice. Such a prospect leaves one social category that could be a vehicle for emancipation and social justice that the State nor Civil Society can ever be. It can only come from the working classes to prove to humanity it can free humanity from the object(s),i.e., state and civil society which oppresses humanity.
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  6939. Why hasn’t the City of New York ever repainted over the standard military army green WWII surplus paint on its gridiron subway system? What is mentally wrong with a city that has done nothing to change the appearance of the subway system that is its main industrial prize? What the F is wrong with the minds of the city government and council officials that by painting can in itself deter crime is not even a thought in officials living in a world capital of the Arts. They learned F’n nothing from its great cultural and artistic institutions on how to make a place look and feel decent that all would respect. Why are Malls over decorated with plants and murals, places to sit, vendors, and the subways are aesthetically more morose looking than the Tombs and catacombs of the Vatican? The soul of the city government is so under nourished with ideas its brain is dead.
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  6940. Hard lesson to learn about the significance of government and the blunder in electing the wrong people into office. Officials who take no stand as their official stand are the wrong people for the job of enforcing the public's interest. Slick way to dodge social responsibility by saying government is not going to make private companies winterize their energy systems. Winterization is voluntary, naturally the wrong kind of people in power know the patchwork of private companies are not going to winterize and had not winterized. They insult after injuring a population.
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  6941. The adult children are working in the same capacity as their forebearers in the agency who had a hand in the assassination is my guess.
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  6942. 4:14 Extinction is not all that dramatic with a John William’s Score over images of dying species. Mass extinction is a quiet experience for non-humans but a loud, vulgar, violent mass extinction for humans. We are distracted from the decay and disintegration of nature and society going on in the background by aggressive individual and social egos living within the narrow boundaries of their mind. Will Smith, Putin, Biden, El Salvador’s president dictator, Orban, Bolsonaro, even on the left 4:08, it is right we must move away from the use of fossil fuel but not as a condition to divorce all association with fossil fuel and its oligarchs. We do not want a divorce from oligarchy and buying and selling remains intact. The circumstances demand the extinction of the practice of exchange in those two commodities. It is far more sensible to make gas and oil a public utility, illegal to trade, buy and sell, as a stock and render oligarchy a crime, prosecute it, jail it, and end the practice of buying and selling gas and oil, than it is to cut yourself off the grid and when societies collapse from the excessive sale and over consumption of oil and gas, you can’t be blamed. It does not work that way because, exchange is the killer of the planet and buying and selling generates social inequality. Oil and gas do not create exchange and social inequality by themselves. Dropping out of the fight against exchange, buying and selling, in gas and oil helps diminish the market by mass numbers but it does not free you, in fact, its a detraction, lessens the strength in numbers people need to force governments to make oil and gas illegal to buy and sell for a profit.
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  6943. The problem with the Rhine River is not the Rhine but Germany’s use of the Rhine to measure total GNP. Its going to be harder, more costly, with more cuts in social spending, for German GNP not to fall. Same thing in the US, using the high earnings in real estate investments to measure total GNP and not production. Come to find that real GNP took a nose dive into a deep abyss of economic stagnation and by then its too late to yank the economy out of a crisis.
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  6944. Many migrants come from war ravaged societies but these migrants are from a society that has taken another path for its own development ever since Hugo Chavez was alive and ever since the defeated, chased away Juan Guido (pronounced: Y-Doe) went to the US and the Congress declared him the president of Venezuela. Meaning if Maduro is ever overthrown Guido would be installed president. A lot has happened since in Venezuela, several failed attempts on the life of Maduro, the dissolution of the National Assembly, the slow but steady improving situation of urban and rural workers politically forming their own civic services at the community level and new avenues for development through BRICS nations; these are subjects the US media will never address. I suspect these Venezuelans mark the start of a new phase that society is going through.
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  6945. @JimmyJam Humans are the only species that MUST produce its own subsistence to live. Animals consume to reproduce - humans consume to produce and produce to consume to reproduce. We are a species unequipped bodily and mentally to survive in the wild or in society on individual terms. Well, - the first fundamental condition of life is that humans must be in a position to live in order to 'make history'. Right? Before everything else life involves eating and drinking, a habitation, clothing and many other things. The second condition is the action of satisfying these needs. This action leads to new needs, and the production of this new need is the first historical act for mankind. The third condition enters into historical development, people begin to make other people. They propagate their own kind in a relation, the relation between man, woman, parents and children, the family. So far, we and the animal kingdom have these three conditions in common as mammals. Where do we as a species differ from non-human species? I guess you can say the human species is a social being or a social animal that has not yet identified itself as a species being as do animals and plants consume and produce as a species being. We never see one elephant or one buffalo, or one wolf, we see a herd and on the other side, we see individuals such as reptiles, amphibious animals. Insects have more in common with humans than humans have with themselves. For instance, Ants. There they have a social division of labor between workers and helper managers, and scouts who ensure the workers ants take the right path in finding the food, they leave traced steps on the ground scented by the workers that the direction to go is this way or that way toward the sustenance they seek for their Queen. Humans perform this action, all members of society work for the government, through domination and rules not through social communication in finding the best, easiest, most productive path toward survival and reproduction. There you have it. Ants are far more superior than humans with language and simplicity, a spider more graceful and solid a web construction than an architect can conceive a building. A web is its tool, a building to man is its domicile for social control. Now we have four aspects of primary historical relationships animals and mankind share in common. But here is where we absolutely, 100% become totally distinct. Then comes consciousness, not pure consciousness because a thought like 'spirit' is afflicted with the curse of being, 'burdened' with matter which takes the form of language, practical consciousness that exists for all people. Language arises from need, it exists for you personally and for me personally from necessity, from our sociality of being social.  A division of labor among insects is not a hierarchy but is no more and no less a division of work. Some do this; others do that. Language is used to direct the production for the new need. Humans do not produce objects for direct need, they produce objects for the direct control over their own species, which no other species does. For animals the relation to others of the same species is not a relation its a bond, they see in others themselves. A hierarchy as a human 'relation' differs from 'animal-consciousness', humans construct laws and rules that detail to all people in society the limitations of themselves found in others, I am not rich enough, or good looking enough, or not strong enough, I am not as powerful as he or she,. Only humans do this and write a constitution based of separation. The case of the discovery of language among ants dispels your notion; '...if they were aware of hierarchies, we could very well see exploitation in their species...' we know now that language in species is a tool of communication for a direct action. Language for humans is tool for direct control once we get passed the third condition of life of producing the family and new more complex needs. At this point humans are no longer a species being restricted to nature where the only difference between humans and sheep is humans do not use instinct to make decisions, or that instinct is a conscious choice. The need for a hierarchy comes into effect through extending the production of new needs and increased productivity, through the need for increased exploitation of labor for the increase of needs and the increase of population is itself a new need. This explains why the Trump administration is such a human tragedy. Some individuals have not risen beyond the stage of life of the herd mentality in the context of increased needs and population, they shut out the world. But at the same time as modern individual the needs of Donald Trump and his mode of living is highly complicated that the self is more important than life itself. Close borders, think in herd ways as a race of people or as a certain kind of Order, or social class. Israel is the epitome of this animalistic mentality. Well, that its, like or not, the science is clear and to explain it requires a long response.
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  6946. America is a land of contrast. All the big corporations make millions in profits despite and in some case, not in spite of, all the uncivil things going on in society. Americans may not get along with each other when they are working and when they are spending time with the family but they sure do get along in the market. No problems there except an occasional bump in the road but in the family and at work the road is riddled with pot holes.
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  6947. You are really saying you want abortion made illegal at home and that would stop the violence of wars between nations in the world. Is that what you mean?
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  6948.  @emanouilblias6219  Davis was never part of the CP. You reveal your age by that comment. If your first point is junk the points you make afterwards are junk too. And your figures are wrong too.
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  6949. You would have to believe that when producers destroy millions of domestically produced chickens and pigs they are reducing the quantity of the product that in the market raises the price of the commodity and increases their profit. The economic motive is always behind the policies because the motive itself cannot be justified that profit is what they seek. How to get it becomes the arena the professionals fit into. Institutions and politicians generate a false reason for the reduction in the quantity of goods and the reduction of the cost of labor the producers require if pigs and chickens are to be made.
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  6950. Biggest three threats to American society is imperialism at home and abroad, fascist totalitarianism, and political leaders in the Democratic party who are incompetent and unable to talk about what actions are necessary for this country to survive.
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  6951. Blinken is a moron. Never mentions production in Sudan coming to standstill, factories, bakeries, dairies, stores, because two military factions have destroyed the economy for millions of Sudanese people.
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  6952. There is no essential moral, ethical, social or political difference in the treatment of migrants by the US at the border to those actions of Israel denying the Palestinians the necessaries of life in Gaza. Both actions are genocidal actions.
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  6953. Proud Boys, Patriot Front, Oath Keepers, these groups have organized themselves into a standing army and when they are large enough, they form separate battalions, can carry on certain missions relative to their plan or battle. Pretty serious if you ask me.
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  6954. Losing ground water takes centuries to refill the rivers and lakes are sinking into the ground water system because ground water is depleting!
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  6955. Imagine that. The FBI was the agency that went after the likes of John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, real criminals and real threats to the Establishment, are now the agency tracking suburban middle class 14 year olds, too young to understand the world and desperate for attention, as their prime suspects for mass killings.
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  6956. America domesticates its animals wrong, they are sick.
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  6957. Based on what I saw in the state of the nation speech. The democrats are doomed, they will not get elected for another 30 years, a repeat of what happened to the Republicans after FDR. After Hoover who told the people in the Depression, they would have to solve your own problems and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, the republicans did not have a president until Eisenhower. The pendulum swung from the left to the right with Trump’s election. I also think it is unconstructive to use European examples of social programs to illustrate how the working class are treated less kindly by US capitalists and government than their European counterparts because this argument, strengthens the imperialist argument that Europe does not pay enough for their own protection. It rearms Europe. A left should get back on track with the work of disarmament as the only remedy for the hysteria inside the national insecurity of nations and the work of making a revolution is never achieved by legislation. JFK pushed a Test Ban Treaty leading to a total disarmament provides an answer to the problem of insecurity nations feel in the face of 20 or 30 years of constant imperialist wars, since the death of that treaty, several more nations developed low intensity nuclear war weapons making the world more dangerous. The educated need to be educated. Democrats cannot figure out how to confront an imperialist in the White House. Currently the White House is the primary citadel of reaction in the world today. Democrats are politically ignorant, complicit, stupid, or a combination of the three, lost all objectivity subsumed by their hatred for Trump are divorced from the reality that they are a part ad belong to that citadel of reaction. The lesson Fred Hampton at one end of the pole teaches us is that real leaders of the people come from movements of the working class and nowhere else in society except in cases of people at the other end of the pole, people so rich the establishment powers that be must assassinate* them. We have two examples of how and who can make a revolution. Fred Hampton and JFK. The Trump presidency is nothing short of a “bourgeois revolution”, a total success story for capitalism and a defeat of the US labor force which had been whittled down to a mere 7% organized leaving a balance of 158 million from a total of 168 million workers unprotected and vulnerable as individuals selling their labor-power to an organized class of capitalists. *Under these constraints the forces of reaction who protect the imperialist empire covered up the assassination of a president with assassinations in general of leaders of the working class as the peace movement became more anti war and anti capitalist. The Kennedy children know from the coroner’s report the shot that killed RFK was very close range to the neck and head, Sirhan was tackled by Rosie Greer at least 20 feet away from RFK when the shot was heard fired that this Pakistani patsy was seen with a gun in his hand. Why was the patsy a Pakistani, could it be the Kennedys did not want the Zionists in Israel or the French to have nuclear weapons?
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  6958. There are 143 million working people in this country who have absolutely no single interest in common with this president's plan or intention to incarcerate migrants crossing the border. Law and order is creating a captured labor force divided on the basis of gender, separated to work in prison manufacturing which directly competes with the free labor in society of the 143 million people now working in industry. There is no other more perfect pretext than an open ended non-policy on immigration to double as a process of creating a labor force for key industries deemed national security interests. There is no labor cheaper than forced labor working by the point of the gun. The president admits publicly a naturalization program does not exists Congress has left naturalization open to commercialization and private investment. Entire consortiums of Capital go where the profit is highest and as long as the free workforce in society is paid higher than foreign and prison labor, employment and wages will drag outside prison walls while production thrives inside prison walls. Privatization will allow US corporations to contract with the central government for the production of their commodity, and the US economy will become largely composed of forced labor. What is American made is not made in America is the continuing trend. The Senate has not and will not pass legislation that curtails private capital from exploiting incarcerated labor to be the creator of its wealth when representatives in Congress stand on the side of law and order and partake in the profits of that incarceration through the channeling of money to Congress.
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  6959. Make a draft mandatory for all citizens and people like Bolton will think twice about war no matter how skilled a bureaucratic player they are. As long as poor and rich kids are inducted in a wartime draft, no exceptions like Trump or Bolton in their era of Vietnam, using privilege to circumvent the law, the brinksmen in Washington would be less willing to pull the trigger.
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  6960. Aging.
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  6961. Washington Post is a private corporation contracting its services to the FBI. This would mean the economic relationship exposes the leakers as leaking to the FBI. There can be,--forget that,---you can bet leakers have been hunted down are the ones we are not told about, i.e., vanished! The Post as a private corporation operating as an extension of the CIA, is actually selling its services at a profit paid for out of the budgets of the FBI, a part of the Political Elite, who are... National Security, FBI, State and Treasury Departments combined are the Elite...and the House Investigation Committee on National Security as headed by Senators are really covering it all up from the American People.
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  6962. Katheryn Beecher,---the landlord/tenant model as a way of attaining an income for one person and a home for another is an antiquated way of meeting two human needs and ought to be abolished, replaced with a form of income a person can live on without feeling the need to get a second income whether from a thing called a 'tenant' or a thing called a 'job'. Homes in America are things that look like homes for their sale but are the most inefficient living structures when lived in by human beings in more ways than one. This generation has had it with things ruling their lives...and I do not blame them in the least. The landlords like yourself got screwed in that relationship because there are bigger landlords waiting to acquire the smaller landlord's real estate and the government has to make people go to work or the things they produce are permanently warehoused until they perish got screwed in that relationship.
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  6963.  @kathrynbeecher2963  ...working and homeless...like it or not you are fully proletarianized. Landless and food-less. My thoughts will not be here tomorrow for you to hate but the precariousness of your social position will.
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  6964.  @kathrynbeecher2963  Brainwashed!
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  6965.  @kathrynbeecher2963  lol
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  6966.  @kathrynbeecher2963  China 700 million out of poverty - FACT.
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  6967.  @kathrynbeecher2963  I don't know about the Teinenmen proletariat or the Hong Kong and Taiwan, evidence shows that was all the CIA...do share your facts. I lived in China for 14 years and it is a fact 700 million were raised out of poverty and there is absolutely NO illiteracy in the country but there is a high incidence of illiteracy and mortality in the US.
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  6968.  @kathrynbeecher2963  Private property dominates rural China, State and city property are enlarged versions of your own Tennessee Valley Authority or the Port Authority of New York. Cities are not the property of individuals. No landlords or landowners, there are the market features of price, money, banking, all regulated by the State, synonymous with the party, are normal uses of money for the purposes of commodities changing hands. Gold is not a universal measure of value like it is in the west. The main focus is not on the materialism of western culture but on the development of mind and body that includes all and none are left out. Universal education, China is 100 % literate, combines trade learning and academics, similar to your Special Education Vocational Schools except your vocational schools are not connected to Ford, GM, etc., as to what kind of workers they need. Education is tied to what the society as a whole needs that anyone who enters a school is selected through national testing process. If you want to be an engineer take the national test,-- score high and you will become an engineer. Home, life and family are covered. Its like going away to specialized colleges which is why most all Anthropologists, archeologists, mathematicians, love the educational system as it gives them complete freedom as opposed to the west. Anyway I can write a book, but I am not suffice it to say there is more human progress than what your eyes see in bourgeois oppositions parties and movements in the west.
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  6969.  @kathrynbeecher2963  There is a difference. Americans by the actions of your own government have deprived the American people of the progress socialism has made since the American Red Scare of 1920-23 ( you should read about it). In 2021 Americans still think socialism is the old Soviet socialism of the Bolsheviks. don't get me wrong I love the Bolsheviks for their commitment, principals, analysis, had the backs of the peasantry and proletariat, their slogan, Land, Peace, Bread. I am aware that Bill Gates spread is now an big influencer across 23 states purchased land and/or with or without buildings, the size of NJ, which would equal to the size of Israel, and other extremely wealthy real estate corporations and individuals are doing the same that it appears this accounts for the shortage homes relative to the homeless population. It is expected this class will become the new landed aristocracy and consequently, the labor required to maintain property of this scale, a class of renters. Home ownership in China is a right not a privilege. Coincidentally, did you know it takes exactly 23 states for a Congress to convene and re-write the Constitution. I find it suspicious republicans are moving in this direction at the same time as most of the available land for housing is bought up by monopoly corporations. American leadership is developing serious problems and internally grave consequences for not using its GNP to transition into socialism when the GNP was at it high point. Sovereign national debt by my calculations, is greater than US productivity can pay,---there should have been a national land reform bill in 1980 but the political bourgeois parties got away with not doing their job as political reformers and not reforming capitalism to avoid a housing crisis, and monopolies to emerge from the market. In the end, it will not be socialism that replaces capitalism. In the American experience it will be capitalism replacing itself with socialism by necessity. Each question or problem you posed to me cannot be answered here in this narrow format. The paradox is that US labor force is the mightiest in the world and the least educationally competent working class in the world.
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  6970. Excellent.
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  6971. Ok, the dad should be sued and bankrupted but what about the system that created this father, son and mother, isn’t the community that made this family privileged and the social structure in charge of security in society the real failure here?
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  6972. Best thing we can do is get rid of economic inequality.
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  6973. Corresponding to the school day of 8 hours is a working day of 8hrs. If you want to see changes in school down to 2 days than the workday corresponding to the school day must change. A workday of eight hours was not born yesterday, you know. It took the struggles of several generations to arrive at the point of eight hour days and it can easily be increased to 14 or more. That is six hours away from becoming a "slave". The maximum length of time is the natural day of 24 hours and we do have people on the job on a 24 hour basis. They are not working that long in overtime out of the kindness of their hearts but what they produce in value during that time far exceeds how much they are paid in return for the work the employer hires them to do and who only has one interest in making a product they make for the employer even when the pay is high. You give the impression that a day reduced to 2 hours in school that would conflict with parents working in 8 hour days can be resolved the way a Hollywood sitcom resolves conflicts in 20 minutes, in a dream fantasy detached from the real world.
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  6974. Anything to draw attention to themselves, selfish egoism.
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  6975. Democracy Now missed a slang in Kavanaugh's language in his letter, '...prolific pokers...' not pukers. Big difference.
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  6976. That is not how it works! Free your mind.
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  6977. With all the new migrants coming the supply of labor is endless.  Some smart rancher with thousands of acres could have a thriving self-sufficient community and be the first in its history to settle a new homestead.
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  6978.  @susanabrown6372  Do you have British origins? Brown. Or was it Brunowski changed to Brown? Sounds like the lazy one is you. You couldn't do the trek of a thousand miles on foot if you were paid your weight in gold. Your body is not conditioned and would not have the strength to survive. Who's lazy?
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  6979.  @suezbell1  Gangster capitalism is what it is and the biggest Mafia are the two political parties, mules and jackasses! The phrase has always been a myth; there is no such thing as a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work. There is no such thing as “Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps’...all myths...what Americans first need to do is extricate the myths and illusions, denials, surrounding them in their everyday lives.
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  6980. I have about a thousands slides shot all through the 60s-70s by my parents.
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  6981. If I were a man from the past, a time traveler as in HG Wells' Time Machine and I fixed my future date to 2018 America -- having just left a perilous moment of the Russian Revolution, I 'd swear I was listening to the Bolsheviks when the State Department and Vice president speak about Iran. The argument runs: one of the social classes in society will have to free the rest of society; since none are capable of this project, one of them will be forced into an overthrow of a regime and this would be the audience Pence is speaking to, they all applaud. This politic became the new problem to solve for observers. How rulers fool the ruled into ruling on their behalf. But not before figuring out which class had the moral right to free everyone else from oppression had been thrown out the window in the second part of the 20th century by all leaders and politicians in the world. Had this philosophy not been thrown out the world's most criminal organization on the planet would not have become a scourge of inhumanity.  This class that was supposed to lead everyone to freedom had to meet two criteria: be a class in civil society and not be a part of civil society, also, it can only have one interest and that interest a universal one. The problem was to hard to solve, such a class motivated by material necessity to overthrow a regime happened once and never will it happen again. Haiti overthrow France and Britain proved white supremacy a mockery, they revolt as we speak as a suffering people who ought to be at the forefront of being the universal class of freedom from suffering for the rest of suffering humanity.
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  6982. POINT OF CLARIFICATION: The Military Industrial Complex was Eisenhower’s term for an arms industry in general that arose out of the WWII period...is not to be confused, but too often it is, with the National Security Elite in particular at the head of that arms industry. It is that elite that must be gotten rid of,--- not the arms industry.
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  6983. What he says is the Establishment to which he belongs and the country’s economic crisis is a problem of, for and by the American people who think the country is going in the wrong direction. The Establishment believes you get yourself out of the hole and, in that sense, the country is going in the right direction and if there is a crisis its not a crisis for them.
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  6984. US Military needs to be re-budgeted down to a practical defensive military not a global power. President Eisenhower warned Americans of the growing autonomy and unaccountability of the Military Industrial Complex. Since coming into being in the 1950s it has stopped at nothing into becoming the model for all other nations to copy, a network of surveillance and terror tactical units under the umbrella of Homeland Security. This military has created a world of chaotic structure of other nations mimicking the enterprise and begin testing their capablities on the civilian public, forcing austerity down the nation's throat to bear the burdens of the cost of the enterprise. The back of the US economy will break in half if this institution is not peared down and purged of its corrupt elements. It is a drag on the US economy, an unfair burden on the backs of 132 million people of which 17% of them are jobless.
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  6985. The committee hearing is nothing more than a kangaroo court! A witch hunt. This is what Steve Scalesce would tell you and has. Will it prevent Trump from running again? I guess that is the main objective of the committee. Its also a real court and can jail you. If Trump is jailed than the other presidents have to be jailed too because they also claimed their elections were rigged and fraudulent. DNC rigged it for Bernie. Al Gore and Bush, Clinton versus Trump. Play back the tape of Hillary charging Trump as a traitor to his country,. She said far worse than Trump ever said about her and the democratic establishment. When you think it gets better it gets worse. Any criminal contempt charge can serve for the removal of any opposition endangering democracy. In that establishment the non-owners are not legislating for the owners of property...its the other way around. Hamilton would have called the Democratic establishment a victory for the property owners. They plod toward making Universal Suffrage, Voting the last political form in which the property qualification to vote is no longer suppressed, in fact, no property qualification to vote presupposes, private property alongside all social ills in society exist. The establishment does not remedy the ills, the establishment is there only because the ills are there.
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  6986. People here think the far right is Trump. Man are they in for a rude awakening.
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  6987.  Atheos B. Sapien  that is really funny, lol. How about we say capitalism is both, part social and part products exchanging for each other. Between you and me, I won't tell anyone that as soon as people get together in any way, shape or form, to make products with which to exchange for money, their work is social.
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  6988. Hard to call America a democracy when America is half democratic. When you become a full democracy you can make that claim with pride but until then America is still a republic and a half dictatorship. Why do I say this? There are two parts to every society; a part that puts wealth into people’s hands and a part that makes wealth. In the second part where wealth is produced democracy does not exist. Work is dictated by an authority. If you don’t like the job there’s the door the Constitution of the Republic has no authority in the workplace that gives you the right to make the job according to what you think is right is what a boss will tell you. Outside of the area where people create wealth is democratic; you are free to tell all bosses in general to kiss your ass outside of the workplace, but you cannot say that to a particular boss inside the workplace where the criticism counts, so in the sense that everyone is equal; that just is not true once you enter the world of work as a partner involved in a job that you did not create. Constitutional Republics chronically entrenched by dictatorship are hybrid democracies. Democracies in waiting because the workplace is still a place where the relation of master-slave appearing in different social forms down through the ages takes the social form of a employer-employee relation in America and in west Europe.
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  6989. If you are voting for Kamala because you do not want Trump than you are personally minimizing the genocide as not serious enough to not vote for Kamala. In effect you are creating the conditions for what you do not want to happen to happen. Kamala knows this about you. Stay home, vote third party or vote for her are your remaining choices. You are going to give her your consent to continue supporting a genocide even if it is against your principles. If you vote for Trump, you would have to fight for your principles in the streets against Cops who will beat the pulp out of you, and you will lose many battles and there will be many sacrificed lives to finally be triumphant over the Oppressor. If this is what you fear than you cannot consider yourself as a maker of history, shaping with your lives, the course of American history, you would remain content to be bitter and a spectator for life.
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  6990. ...tragic. It could be a party of genuine scientific research and sound social policy. ...instead, --the democrats are a party of bad conscience and evil intents of apologetics. In these times it is impossible harmonize capitalism with the claims, no longer to be ignored, of the working class. We are bearing witness from these vain attempts to reconcile what is irreconcilable of the early stages of the decay and bankruptcy of the democratic party and the birth of a new social power in the working class.
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  6991. Drug dealers get into everyone's cell phone with apps the same way the other legitimate dealers are in your phone and the Drug Enforcement Agency cracks down on the drug dealer? Products and services of legitimate dealers lead to high mortality rates and the government does not crack down on them. America does not have a government when it acts like a Cartel.
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  6992.  @gregpeterman1102  I can tell the history before not 1980 is not threaded to your understanding of the Border Crisis. Jack Nicholson (actor) did a film called the Border, watch it. Note the date of the film. What has changed is the magnitude, scope, and scale, of the problem. What you see as nothing done about the problem, no action, is really a success story of republicans who began tearing down every positive thing about the New Deal. One of them was the Good Neighbor Policy, this is a result of that dismantling. Your generation call it the destruction of the 'administrative state, (re: Steve Bannon, Miller and Trump) a euphemism for the destruction of the New Deal government that built itself on national policies. Republicans hate policies! National policies which is what M4All would be is a national health service they will at all costs never submit, fight tooth and nail, to keep things as they are. What they scream about is play acting. This crisis s favorable to them to pivot political power away from Democrats who sold their soul the day the turned their backs on the New Deal.
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  6993. They are already combatants. Why would Russia enter into an exchange that involves money when the weapons can be taken from the black market Ukrainians? More plausible is a Ukrainian black market funneling those weapons to other bad actors and groups. Michael Tracy is not wrong but also not right. It is true the Espionage Act of 1917 which, WWI began in 1914, Espionage Act was in response to the Russian Revolution of 1917, while primarily directed at treason, was so constructed and interpreted that it covered lesser disloyal activities. A fine and jail time to “ ...convey false reports or false statements with intent to interfere wth the operation of success of the military or naval forces of the US or to promote the success of its enemies ...or attempt to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny or refusal of duty, in the military or naval forces of the US...willfully recruiting or enlistment service... (see the Congressional Record, 66, 2 sess, 1655, 8113.) Republicans are clever in concealing their support for the CIA by attacking the FBI when the CIA has become the personal army of the president. CIA does the work of imperialism, the FBI does the work of combatting internal sedition which historically was against the left. Anti-communism is the reason why these institutional forms of reaction and violence are an inherent part of American imperialism.
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  6994. Culture wars are what Americans like Cruz like. Culture subjects are easy to grasp for the individual who can't think beyond their sensations. They hide the real processes going on behind the curtain. Media takes part in emphasizing the absurdity of the culture issue but not why they are used. The only reason people listen to Cruz comes not from his personal intellectual abilities but from the position he occupies is a service to them. Duckworth is concerned about a real deficiency in technology to millions of people in rural America in the bill but lets get the bill out the door anyway. Not my idea of a fighter.
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  6995. Finally a partially realistic viewpoint. No doubt the men who killed Tyree were living examples of self-hatred. They are victims of racism turned into victimizers. But he misses a point that the dirty work of repression of the State is never done by the state directly but done indirectly through proxies or other actors as a means of maintaining hegemony. When it is direct it is covert. This is case with Ukraine versus Russia and the case with Death Squads in Central America, murdering activists and indigenous people, and in the case of this unit. One oppressor replaces another oppressor is the history of the State in the epoch of modern capitalism.
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  6996. If the city owns the former catholic school the residents don’t have much to say about it. But it sure is evident the political elite in Staten Island do not want their constituency to be out voted if migrants become naturalized.
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  6997. But it is illegal in the State of Florida to help people in need. This law contradicts the natural tendency to help others. It criminalizes people who help voluntarily. The State legislature does not recognize this crash as political in order to assist the victims and the law it passed is a law that criminalizes people in need and those who provide the need to individuals who need help.
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  6998. Santos could be anyone in society and Congress just told anybody in society they do not belong in that institution. Congress is too sacred a place for people with problems like Santos to be a member. Members of the Country Club don’t want him. Congress is an institution where men of integrity, honesty, truth run affairs of the State. Congress telling Santos to get the F’ out of here is an exercise of Congress paying lips service to the elected citizen in Santos and punishes the actual Santos for his negligence in handling what lying and cheating is all about.
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  6999. Too much work to let her go and pick her up the next day, huh. Ge outa here! Petty crime treated with the priority of a national offense. She was pregnant where is she going to go, Europe?
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  7000. The only power that can fix the number of millions who believe in the elections hitherto are rigged into believing they are wrong is a real opposition party. By fix I mean the Trump GOP is what we are seeing right now are not going away, in fact, will succeed in four years, have to be smashed politically. In other words, a real opposition party to the republicans and democrats is needed.
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  7001.  @waypay1  Mushroom farms and pot farms in CA employ illegals, literally, enslaved workers who cannot just pick up and go. You obviously have no awareness that the food on your table is produced by trafficked slaves.
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  7002.  @ludaw2975  Complicit thinking makes you equally guilty runs deep in your comment. The recent just 4 hours ago Moon Bay Farms is under investigation for conditions unfit for human habitation. I am hoping this investigation will expose the slavery that has become common practice in farms in California, the farm workers who bring food to your table, cannot just get up and go.
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  7003. The country is getting smaller in terms of space because everyone is driving something bigger and more of these larger objects take up the space that by not using small cars with very high gas mileage is what I call a blind working average for driver, car and road, that it will all crash.
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  7004. Two sham impeachment trials is a record for getting over on the ignorance of the American public.
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  7005. Unless the KKK is in the Jury we should be getting a guilty verdict. What has been going on for decades within all police departments the graft-money made from the asset seizures of drugs, and money in exchange for prostitutes, deals made with criminals circulates to the rank and file police officer as extra cash income and this is to stay in line, play ball, or you'll end up like Frank Serpico, is finally impossible to keep this secret society hidden.
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  7006. Blinken should never have caved to the republicans on canceling his meeting with Xi.
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  7007. Each industry is simple to understand, but when they are combined the work of each industry performs a double function. Production develops into a dual-process. This happens after the exchange of equivalents between labor and capital take place, then everything labor produces is equated to a third value element. In most cases gold playing the universal measure of value in all commodities as exchange-values. The difficulty in clarity comes from capitalist relationships and ideologies distorting the relation between production, consumption, exchange and distribution. Not understanding these elements are moments of a totality. Capital in this century does not hide the fact that the excess value it creates in production is realized in the market. Its main objective is to realize the excess surplus-value it produced from the labor employed in production. We come to a fork in the road. The labor producing such goods may be useful labor but dubious in nature of its real use- value to the planet and the species is where we stand or the other road takes us down where labor produces value and more value for the sake of value is the only true productive type of work people ought to be doing. In which case humans serve as use-values for the consumption of the capitalists and the means of production serve as values for the consumption of labor-power of the working class. Or can we reverse the relation where humans are a value for the consumption of other humans and the means of production are use-values for the production of a useful nature that ensures the survival of all species?
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  7008. Good to see the working class rising up. I see it happening in the US as communities are supplying their children with school supplies through community organization. People take school supplies for granted but the industries involved in producing pencils and notebooks are significant parts of the total world economy. And if the economy does not have a lumber industry, or does not have manufacturing of lead for pencils, it has to buy paper and pencils for its society. School supplies as small as it may appear is a catalyst for working class mobilization and organization and this empowers the working classes to push off the burden for the mistakes made by the government and the rich back on to them, let them bite the bullet, and take responsibility for their own actions. Working classes must take real action to fight off extremist groups infiltrating their neighborhoods and poisoning the minds of their children.
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  7009. And what happens when the Creator does not come? @sandradixon6205 
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  7010. To the extent the Democrats are more criminal than the GOP, it is and it is not, to the extent that they are not the political party of the political elite, it is the general party for the people. You and I know the people will have to go through the experience of privatization before they get to the point of de-privatization. De-privatization might resolve the split between science in society, bring the working class and the forces of production together, at which point such a revolution will anticipate the overthrow of both parties.
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  7011. America has the shittiest president in Biden and its about to get worse with Trump again.
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  7012. City Councils are filled with A’Holes, they should plan Halloween Parades and discourage club and private parties. But the people elected into offices are really there to collect a paycheck for doing as little work as possible, i.e., morons. LA Council is filled with three racists, two who refuse to quit. I can imagine other city councils are no better.
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  7013. If Trump people believe America belongs to them to begin with then all bets are off, anyone can claim America. America was never their's, this crowd is not blood type O, ----they react to world events through their own propaganda.
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  7014. The reason Trump wants to drill, drill, and drill is pretty simple. Energy independence to the oil companies means something different than what it means for you and I. We may think of it as an “Oil Free Society” but to the Oil Corporations it means leaving the Middle East for oil. It means retreating from the world stage and not strangle our transportation and domestic needs in the process. America has lost influence in the world and for the first time nations and resistance movements can potentially defeat it, so its time to run.
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  7015. There is an unjust war going on causing people to go into survival mode. Stop the wars and you’ll stop inflation, unemployment, etc.
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  7016.  Patricia M  Then we want the same thing as the rich, communism for the common person. If its good enough for the rich then it is good enough for me! How's that for a pro-communist argument? Make everyone rich!
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  7017. Nature’s changes is imperceptible to the human eye, as a process of degrees and not immediate as man changing nature to suit man’s needs, and shape nature is immediate and perceptible to the human eye. But nature on its own goes without saying does change is not the point. Climatologist blame high temperatures but the reporter does not say the high temperatures are caused by industrial production and consumption, a process of interaction between man and nature. You can put solar panels and change zoning laws, ease the demand on water for electricity, but that is not where the problem begins. The point of consumption is not the starting point of the human activity causing climate change because both are simultaneously two separate processes in one, consumption is production, its by-product are CO2s and production is consumption, this activity uses natural resources such as water as an accessory in the process of extraction, same with large scale industrial farming, and drilling. The environmentalists do everything to avoid the elephant in the room the need for a national policies on the use of water, land and soil, they would rather dive into their technical brains than to deal with the politics of climate change and make drones to pollinate fields rather than the government invest in the cultivate bees to be released in the wild and stop the cause of their disappearance which lies in the production end of human activity. The production of drones requires material elements obtained through mining, an extraction process, causing climate change never enters the heads of environmentalists who are not real environmentalists. This is how illogical America’s environmentalism is? On the other extreme are the legislatures filled with religious people who pray rather than legislate; bury their heads in the sand from the problem to avoid using their legislative power to tell the industrial producers of food, oil and gas what they cannot do in their processes.
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  7018. Mass media is government controlled through private industry that this really good impersonator as a talent would never get national attention if not for the internet.
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  7019. The media reports only on the progress of the right never do they report on the effects of the policies of the right on the Public. Biased journalism.
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  7020.  @GregoryWonderwheel  right, Curry has no class consciousness and neither does the American working class. Now that the Mueller investigation finds nothing on Trump the democrats are moribund not a leg to stand on, they acquiesce to him. Once again the American worker find themselves alone, left hanging, with nobody, disintegrating along with the democrats.
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  7021.  @markfisher6404  I can’t blame the working class for the commodity their national product has become. Marketing becomes the immediate object of production in the US. Workers have nothing to do with that and that may be the problem as a point of fact.
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  7022.  @MundaSquire  Enigmatic democracy, here today gone tomorrow.
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  7023.  @MundaSquire  Enigmatic democracy, here today gone tomorrow.
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  7024.  @benyahudadavidl  Average American has no time to process what is important and not important in the world of racist politics. Give them something they can masticate on their way home on the subway.
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  7025.  @markfisher6404  Who manufactures consent, or what, as the case may be? Value can mean many things that workers understand and do not understand...what’s it mean t you? Workers and marketing?
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  7026. Well put Boyd Gilbreath. The problem left unanswered is our stupid cellphones which will come in handy when the laboring population fights Trump and the Neocons back!
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  7027. Fine end capitalism rbu83145: It won't happen without abolishing the STATE part of capitalism. At 4:52 Stacy is discussing with Amy making sure the state works for everyone makes her the current face of the classic neoliberal philosophy of the Democratic party. The major point I am making is the rule of the state is the rule of monopoly capitalism. Stacy's point is to perpetuate the State along with its economic power. The peculiar way the modern state distances itself from social reality, is by declaring real class differences in society shall not affect our standing as citizens. Exactly what Stacy argues at 4:52. If the state works for everyone it leaves intact all the social conflicts in society. There is no separation as there once was between private capital and the state. Leveling economic differences among people that lead to extreme poverty and extreme wealth opposing each other in society is impossible because of the way the state is set up. The only power that can change economic inequality is social power, people power, the Will and desire to be truly free from poverty and economic insecurity. This requires that the Stacy's and the Obama's in America stop trying to convince people these inequalities can be made equal by imposing laws when the economic structure is built on class differences.
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  7028. rbu83145. First lets establish are we talking in particular of the State in the US or the origins of the State in general? We can point to the Roman State and Medieval State as states into which religion is the State. The Pope was the State, the patrician social class its Senate and slaves its foundation. Kings, Queens, Princes were States through out Europe's progress of cities, the State and Religion were fused all the way up to Stalin's reign. Himself tutored for the priesthood. Though I appreciate your critique of US capitalism. The corporation was invented by burghers in the Middle Ages. Once a small merchant class the State was a religious state when corporations were in the infant stages of becoming a merchant-capitalist class and this was before they became a capitalist. When the high seas was mastered by merchant commerce, the age of Adam Smith and Locke. The modern state is what you and I seem to addressing is a secular state. The American state evolved from a secular state had its foundations in slavery, its government which sought its inspiration from the revolutionaries of the 1789 in France for its constitution as a republic. The landed aristocracy of slave holders and merchant classes its Congress, slaves and settlers its foundation. Britain's model of the state does not come into being until the Civil War ends and the secular republican state becomes a central government. Corporations were a Dutch import in the 1700's mainly in the east coast. German merchant class moves into America early mid 1800's. France in the 1700's. The war for Independence creates constitutional republic. Corporations begin to penetrate the state after the Crash of 1929, as a restoration of capitalism from its world collapse. Its fusion into the State happens, the day America dropped the atomic and hydrogen bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Corporations become a handmaiden to the State under Woodrow Wilson's formation of an anti-socialist alliance as a direct response to the RR. With Trump. Pence, Pompeo (pay attention to the speeches of our new secretary of state and his references to the League of Nation is very telling). We are getting a glimpse of the State, pay attention to former CIA director Brennan blames Trump damaging the status, standing and reputation of American democracy as a full democracy in reality is only a partial democracy. My thesis of the state is the other way around from yours'; the handmaiden of the American state was the corporation(s) giving rise to the present day Military Industrial Complex (MIC). This fusion of state and corporations is complete in the 21st century (Now! Not then, but here and now!) is too recent to make the claim they were never separated in the past. We do part company, the solution for America's economic paradox is not the Russian road to the state or to a socialist society. The solution is exactly how Marx said it. We do not want to end big business we want to decentralize private ownership from the few to the many. Anybody and everyone should have a corporation fit to scale big enough to feed their own and sell products for profit, all the while, produced by an association of workers. We do not want disassociate the corporations from nationalism; we want social dividends and social profit, to denationalize government for an international government; we do not want to get rid of financial markets, we want to control money, currency, and relegate it to a normal function as a measure of value, a means of exchange and as a currency backed not by the force of the state but by the productive power of labor. We do want to democratize the workplace. I agree with you on this point. To enforce a democratic workplace and society we need a proletarian state. No other social class is capable of delivering freedom and independence but the working class. The solution comes when each person has recognized and organized their own powers as a social power so that each person no longer has to separate their own powers, talents, skill, etc., from themselves as a political power. So much so the Harvey Weinstein's of the world do work on the production line because he is selfless, egoless, conscientious, decent and dignified the society he lives considers his talent a necessity and indispensable. Stacy will never accomplish a higher community such as this in the present context of the State. Three hundred million with the same gumption as Stacy's can but not just one. Stacy to me is dead end, apart from her gumption, she is totally for the bourgeois state which we know is capable of dismissing the validity of claims against the State and its hands off policy on getting rid of all the social defects in society.
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  7029. American interaction with the material world that its ideas reflect is a threat to the planet! American corporate media is full of angels talking over pinheads.
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  7030. I want a president who does not need a teleprompter or script to speak.
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  7031. Interesting that Texas is not the only border state with Mexico yet it is the only state claiming to be under siege by Central Americans.
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  7032. Isn’t it time the protests worldwide take one uniform action and claim world production...as their own, after all, individual production no longer exists...today a car is made by many nations...why should the social organization of work remain the shape of a vertical pyramid when in the real world, production depends on a horizontal pentagon shaped delivery of individual parts and pieces coming from different nations in the world, that is, trade and commerce, is a multilateral system? Its time humanity act and behave as a species of intelligence with nothing different about them except in the work they do. To be a king today is like wearing diapers all over again at age 80.
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  7033. As long as people understand the difference between commodity production and capitalist production then worker co-ops is a great idea.  But even a co-op can be subverted by a class of monopoly and imperialistic corporations who control the world price of any commodity. A co-op controls production not price. On second thought, price manipulation would be the weapon the class of corporations would use to destroy co-ops, I doubt it makes sense to even form co-ops within the framework of monopoly capitalism. A vision of a post-capitalist society is needed. A vision based on the available state of technology and science. Americans lack the general and the long term power of imagination to create the world envisioned in the present moment but are a people with great power on the immediate moment, to a fault. This must be changed in the heads of all Americans, they exclude the general and emphaisze the particular, ignore the universal concrete for the abstract concrete. I also think workers' councils under whom a given sector under their control is a more practical approach to de-privatizing the means of production and keep the government out of the production process is a more truer social way of organizing production. Versus 'nationalization of the means of production'. Make illegal to buying and selling and the transfer of private ownership of the machine, technology and scientific making industries. Distribution is a moment of the total production process of any society and it is a place government can function for planning and disaster recovery and evacuation. Every person born is automatically a soveriegn member of the society. Nobody is left out and everyone is in the general atitude of individuals promotes imagination. Imagination is to the human brain what hunger is to the stomach. For instance, the whole of agriculture falls under one worker's council, energy another, services another, health, housing, education and construction, security another. Eight workers councils run the whole field of social production and one national Congress under whom the military is controlled. This would truly close the chapter of the Age of Capital.  But it would not close the chapter on Class in Society, social classes are harder to dissolve for they require the rich and powerful be no different than anyone else and do a job for the society they are a part. Control freaks and institutions of social control are not compatible to a cooperative society. The business of security is to make people feel safe, accepted and a part, belonging to a higher community, not to strike fear and trauma into their central nervous system, stunt brain development and incarcerates the body. Religion is not compatible to a cooperative society. But I do not see a reason why it cannot die out on its own through mass education and the remaining faithful free to live without special exemption status by the society, they are not anymore different than anyone else benefitting from the producitvity of labor. Crime and criminals, addicts, abusers, pedofiles, racists, sexists, will die out in the context of a total cooperative society in a short time but need to monitored professionally according to how mushc of a risk they are to the society of new individuals.
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  7034. North Korea has the US in checkmate, there is no military solution unless you consider Seoul's souls are not worth living. Bannon is right and I don't even like him. The devastation would be enormous. The US cannot instantaneously take out launches as they are launched giving enough time to bomb Guam and South Korea. Trump's fire and brimstone language is hot air. Even if he were stupid enough to strike the Pentagon would find a way to stop the order of a pre-emptive strike. For you people making comments about US-North Korean relations, all international relations hinge on nuclear weapons. The choices are to live with this cold war, or give peace a chance.
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  7035. It all points to a homicide-suicide.
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  7036. A fortified Green Zone...held by Iraqi Security Police Forces was fired upon by militants. This keeps going on outside the US expect to see things disintegrate inside the US. The security state here is used as a political weapon by democrats when it is supposed to be neutral. The security state of Iraq only copies the same relationship the American national security state has with Americans. Surveillance, eavesdrop, identification permits, suspect, arrest, prosecute, rescind privileges, freeze assets and accounts, harsh judicial system and corrupt police; except our’s is far more sophisticated and advanced that the Iraqis would have to spend two generations to reach the level of the US security state. China managed this in one lifetime. A community never becomes militant on its own. Trump said “We’re in their for their oil...control the oil...”, and we are in Iraq for the oil. The officials in government did nothing to reform the system they cannot reform because the security system is a transplant, not their own, and police did not back down makes Iraq another rogue security state that cannot stand. It shows that from day one of Biden’s presidency the US, he said the US is back in the game. US troops went back into Iraq and for the same reasons the democrats dislike in Trump. “We want their oil...we’re in their for the oil...control the oil...”, admitting the truth is a risk to the security state admits the security state is built on all lies and deceit. A politician is never to admit the real reasons for US interventions. The national security state is scared Trump has memos and communications showing Russia-gate was a complete fabrication more than they fear he has blueprints to nuclear weaponry is my hunch. Revealing the deceit translates into the American people voting out democrats in mass numbers and the Senate going back to Republicans at war with Democrats the security state used against them...and we are back where we were. A recurring pattern of oppressive forces ignoring the ravages of climate change this year causing more damage to society next year.
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  7037. The International Criminal Court is so corrupt Israel knows there will be no consequences for its crime in GAZA, so it proceeds unimpeded.
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  7038. To keep Trump out of office the country will have to keep Biden in office is a conundrum.
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  7039. You can’t build a house, bake bread, make clothes, with a gun. How is it a tool? Its a weapon and weapons are not tools. The usefulness of a weapon is to kill and when killing is done not for survival but for sport or deterrence with guns than the usefulness of the weapon is force.
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  7040.  @shawnchurch316  They got you on the rounds. Rounds are controlled by the manufacturer whether to continue or discontinue their production. But! Another matter is at hand my good friend, that it will take more dollars to buy that gun in the future means there will be fewer people with the cash to buy it and, it means the dollar is losing its value in connection to other currencies more paper is printed the Dollar is debased. Cheated are we the People.
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  7041.  @themarbleking  Should administer a four hour test divided into Essay writing and Math to any gun applicant in America, if they score high, they get a gun. If they score low they do not get a gun, they get a mandatory school assignment teaching math and English to hardened felons. Then upon completion they can retake the test. Such a national law on gun use and safety discriminates against nobody and treats everyone the same could not be struck down by any court.
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  7042. It is an obvious attack on journalism because Assange did not do anything worthy of becoming Public Enemy No. 1. He should be let go, be done with it. We need to watch the movement of the GOP toward a constitutional convention where they can make the publishing of government information a crime and control the press en toto.
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  7043. America will end up with a high productivity of labor consumed by the rich and its Military. A two tiered society will emerge. Used cars and consumer goods for the majority turned into renters by corporate landowners and luxury advanced products and homes for the super rich. All that productivity, engineering and technology will go into the production of luxury goods and weapons; none of it will go into the consumer products or in to society except when some natural or social catastrophe forces capital investment. This professor looks at the continuation of industrialization of nations in the west from the period of the Industrial Revolution that began in France and then to England and to Germany, as a rise and fall of empires. Empires express the development of productivity but empires are not the final form of productivity. Small scale production was an essential phase for the development of social production. Wherever the peasant owns the land and the artisan owns the tools, wherever small scale production existed, it was essential production based on private property had to be broken apart and crushed. France accomplished this transition in a bloody revolution. Britain accomplished the transition in a civil war, Germany made the transition through a war it did not start. The US made a transition from agrarian to industrialization by means of the WWII, but nowhere except in the era of the Soviet Union was the division of labor and its productivity placed under social control and regulation of the forces of nature, but had not placed the free development of the productive forces of society for reasons that are debatable, led to its collapse.
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  7044. The State of New York is BORING without Manhattan. They have a beautiful river that is woefully underutilized. Dead Zones all over New York, former industrial cities are dead cities. A rail system that serves commerce not people. Rents are high. Taxes are high. Prices are high. Like everywhere else the people are nice and their legislators are cruel people. Pennsylvania outlawed slavery in 1780 and New York in 1817 to give you the degree of progressive thought not in NY. Legislature in Albany is a retarded (slow) institution where things get done only by death or money influence. Mississippi is the worst state in the nation. Life mortality there is low; people die young and it’s legislature was the last state to ratify the 13th and still to this day has not submitted the documentation to ratify the 13th amendment, 159 years later. Amazing, huh. So technically, slavery still exists on paper in Mississippi.
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  7045. Brother.... Capitalism hits home when capitalism is unbridled. Exploiters posing as providers of addiction treatment to intercept medicaid payments. They got rid of the Third Party Review system that double checks billing and this is what you get. Exploiters move in. I hold the believers of a free market system in government responsible. They are the ones who decided to abolish reviews. Nobody was watching where the money went. The easiest prey are those in need. Deprive them of their need and take the money and run. Sheer theft. Total exploitation of an indigenous people. And a problem that comes from this problem is where that stolen money goes to remain hidden. Wounded Knee was not the final chapter of the Indian Wars when this happens in 2023.
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  7046. Would it not make more sense to not have a corporation involved in the production of cars and trucks since they have a proclivity to survive on my dime? I think it does.
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  7047. Looking back, Racism, Social Class Inequality, and the Coronavirus are the real killers of American democracy.
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  7048. Women in American society have it much harder than men in American society regardless of color. They are more numerous than men in the workforce paid lower and do all the work in the home without any support from the State. They have become the direct producers of surplus value and the most exploited part of the working classes. The neoliberal concessions that were wrung from the state by centuries of women's struggles have returned to their debasing form in Trump, to the shamelessly fuck you attitude toward women.
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  7049. All religious institutions in Canada and the US hide their discriminatory practices behind the cloth. The Jews are more open about it than the others.
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  7050. Good analysis. But the Republicans and Democrats date back to the Civil War, 1865... and if we go to the historical record there were only two 20 year long periods of prosperity under their rule. ...1890 that ends in a Great Depression but started out as an American Industrial Revolution... and later in 1945 a 20 year long period of expansion and vast economic growth...was made possible through war time expenditures. By 1991 the two parties encouraged speculation in the Housing Market culminating with the Mortgage Subprime Crisis. Americans need a third party choice, specifically a Labor Party to draw all the working class elements from both traditional mainstream parties. A couple good strong labor candidates with a separate economic program distinct from the democrats and the republicans.
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  7051. As a 70 year old I knew this film was being made a year and half ago thanks to people like you (Mike Zeroh) ...normally I never pay attention to Disney or Hollywood. If a corporation can grab my attention the marketing has to be good. On the other hand, the fans are so obsessed with Indy they are themselves a marketing for the movie. Indy fans populate my home screen with their videos on whips, jackets, boots, cosplay events, critiques, etc., like there is no tomorrow its difficult to not see this activity. I am led to say; let me go see what the fuss is all about with this movie. Another aspect for the low projections might be due to a high debt/income ratio that plagues this country and an Indy film is not a necessity. Don’t forget... there is a big chance aging boomers like me will be its biggest customer for the simple reason Harrison is a boomer. I’ll take a gamble the movie will be a success. More so overseas than in America. From the trailer it does like like a movie a boomer would like. I saw Raiders on the big screen in Manhattan when it came out...that movie is a piece of film mastery. If you watch that film without sound and in black and white it is even better...Spielberg is a master at moving actors and camera...blocking film space that nearly every shot in that film is piece of artistry, so I hope, this one will be a match to Raiders. The other thing about a film is that makes it hard to judge a film is that it could end up a failure at the box office and a classic in film history like Casablanca.
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  7052. This lawlessness in Middle School Aged kids, a cruel age to be for many, when structure is needed the most, is a real life American version of Lord of the Flies.
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  7053.  @highlycreativepseudo  Not true because you belong to a social class his policies enrich. For the social classes his policies do not enrich Biden will lose votes. Two separate social realities disable your objectivity.
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  7054.  @griseldabigbrella  “we”, who is “we” who get it? You and who else do you speak for?
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  7055. Close shave for the rich...her attack was not premeditated as the very rich wonder if they need leave America because the streets of the Haves are now open to the violence of the Have Nots. I find it interesting how authorities use the media to communicate to other authorities and to the rich. Its like code reading that you get better at it the more between the lines you read and hear.
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  7056. Considering the last 2000 years of European social history or at least since the fall of ancient Rome are conflicts between church and state and religion against other religions, protestant and catholic, jew and gentile, the Crusades, the Inquisition, I can draw a reasonable hunch the media and police do not want me to draw that the perp was not an atheist!
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  7057. I know what it is. Its deep earthquakes at various points of the plate boundaries from the Pacific to the West Coast of the US and Mexico, there is movement and since gravity is our planet the ground below our feet falls or fills a cavity in the deep interior where the movement occurs. A small drop is felt on the surface is all chance that if the movement were closer to the surface would be a literal earthquake. The interior molten magma chambers are seeping through and into other magma chambers finding their way through volcanos is energy traveling through matter. Don't Americans study Geology?
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  7058.  @picklep9812  dutchsinse has a live program on all platforms. Youtube, Twitch, etc. He is good monitor of earth activity. Geology is a science, Earth Science. Follow earth sciences and you will understand better the signs and activities of this living planet in motion.
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  7059. American progressives not siding with Russia on the troop escalation in Ukraine by NATO is proof there is no desire to end war and imperialism in the progressive left. More progressive than the left is the right wing pressuring democrats to drop Ukraine-US involvement, shows how the movement of opposition in America, stands on its head.
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  7060. If there is any humanity left in humans they would overthrow capitalism.
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  7061. I don’t feel that way...I lived when the USSR existed and my life in America became so good they called it the Wonder Years. The Rifleman was invited to Russia, we had a fantastic space race, Kruschev drove a Chevy down a highway, everyday was a day of life, music, adventure, comedy, all out fun. THings were made well in America. My parents had the same car for 20 years before they bought something new. It was affordable to buy a house and one income worked to raise a family of four all because of the USSR. The USSR kept America on its toes and in check. If Americans saw the standard of living rise for Russians which for my generation it did, the standard of living of Americans would rise to and everybody emulated America, even Iran looked like a scene from Madison Ave. Putin is not Kruschev, he was a KGB man and unraveled the CP of Russia, and all the old guard were dropping off one by one from old age. One premier of the USSR bore the name Andropov. The Russian made a great car, the Laga, small, trusty, reliable, rust free and huge mileage, still on the road and worth a lot of money today.
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  7062. Interesting, Phyllis Bennis thinks the democrats are nieve of what AIPAC represents. Perhaps they are, in which case, the question is, are they educable of the AIPAC-US arrangement as an accumulation process for the arms industry? White supremacy generates more than anti-semitism, it generates a multi-cultural exclusion of which anti-semitism is a part.  Its about the accumulation of capital and Kevin McCarthy's world of private property assuming life is money. I do agree with Phyllis, Congress, as a citadel of power and reaction of the ruling class is starting to crack!  The people who elected these ladies into Congress are the new labor-force, 6 out 10 work and this 60% see a white patriarchy as outmoded. These are the ladies who will change the Congress from being an Apartheid State into a social democracy, and Israel, along with many other client states that were made under the same apartheid arrangements will be on their own. A huge tax dividend for the American taxpayer will come from the end of an apartheid regime, but the problem of the arms industry a function or a means for the accumulation of capital the white supremacists control at the present time persists makes universal healthcare and paid family leave, the real needs of this new labor-force almost impossible as the military and their class consume the greater part of national income. After paying off debts the workforce is strong enough to sustain the lifestyle white supremacy imposes on labor but not enough beyond that for old age and retirement of the workforce. This is a problem, the ladies in Congress will have to change entirely, the cost to society of lavish lifestyles (private consumption) against the economic pie. Credits against the fruit that keeps on giving, female labor, a female working class, the 60% majority of workers, some 78 million women on the job 40 to 60 hours per week, the white supremacists regard as the true essence of western civilization, not for who they are individually, but for sustaining private consumption levels white patriarchies enjoy, the mass of value their produce and the gift of giving without fail or interruption accumulation for the sake of accumulation.
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  7063. real time implies a fake time exists...so what is fake time if real time to you is the present moment? Fake means means something is not genuine, authentic. Does real time mean in the moment or does it mean it is a more accurate measure? Meanings and definitions of words appear to be all jumbled up that nothing makes sense.
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  7064. The basis of the American Revolution started as a tax revolt.
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  7065.  @d.d.7797  I disagree. Fed receive revenues from employees and self-employed from all states; real differences between states on abortion does not affect their standing as citizens, and hence a national government leaves these differences intact, leaves relations of domination and conflict in society untouched, in contrast to a monarchy, religious or feudal states that do regard distinctions as political whereas, the modern state, declares wealth, education, health, occupation, religion, race, in short all distinctions, as non-political distinctions and puts all states on the same footing with each other. Had the democrats not hesitated to codify it a long time ago when they could have and should have abortion would not have been politicized as a weapon with which to defy your national government and the democratic establishment.
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  7066. Clinton, to her dying day will carry America’s obsession with the Russians that all started with the Bolshevik Revolution, to her grave. Her marker should have in parenthesis (Never Surrender). The first world war period was an imperial consolidation of all the holdings of Germany and Turkey following their defeat into a ‘trusteeship’ for economic development is today the origins of Europe’s current crisis while; the origins of America’s cold war with the Chinese and North Koreans today is rooted in 1917 to 1922, the Red Scare.
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  7067. Government offered land to settle the west after they forcibly removed my people from the land and European Jews fled Europe because of anti-semitism. Irish immigrants fled Ireland because of poverty and famine. Germans because of a revolution. You don’t know history @antoniocarlosoliviera9146.
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  7068. St. Augustine Florida, 1675, five generations deep. Do you have a problem with that? I am part American Native and part Spanish. All your friends here with their comments are full of it. @ldahl04 
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  7069. A plan to reduce migrants at the US border is a plan that keeps immigrants safely and securely in their own home country is a rational plan. This administration is no friend right now to the cartels and authoritarian evangelical conservatives running the governments in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Keep your people safe at home,---stop the violence and exodus, its been quiet in Central America so far, and here is some help said the Biden administration to Central America. Not what this audience wants to hear. The trafficking was good for the US drug market but the legalization of pot in more states is fast getting rid of the illegal drug trade that covered and is part of a worldwide slave trafficking network.
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  7070. the weather activity over the Atlantic Ocean will reconfigure the north eastern sea board of its coastlines and submerge Florida...geology looks at the accumulated end result of everyday effects, in combination with a really active planet...Water is a significant Power; all continents are shifting; deep earthquakes in the Asian Pacific and Eastern Europe, earth activity in the Pacific northwest. Outer crust temperature is higher, less water forming clouds and then rain. Aquatic life cannot reproduce in higher temperatures in less water. Drying rivers, drought, in the southwest and heavy Pacific storms flooding the northwest; hurricanes in the mid west...the standard methods we use to live, learn and raise families are useless to us now. Environment changes us as we are changing it. We need a new distribution system, a single mass transit system that takes people and products off the roads, our old highways converted into natural walkways and parks, a new life for the ones nature have claimed, but a continental mass transit system with a centralized hub for product distribution is essential; food growing atriums, works best for the shape of the US and communal multifamily dwellings to reduce the gap between town and country to end social isolation; easer to have on premises the necessities. Restoring the health of the planet involves building an even system of work and lifestyle a big challenge.
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  7071. Do networks read these comments?
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  7072. What it is, is poison that the American people ought apply pressure to abolish, eradicate by prohibiting the merger between Wall Street and Congress. Billions of dollars are going to small fragment of the population have a purchasing power greater than a 20 million Americans put together.
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  7073. What is really amazing about Russia is its size that Russians do not have to leave the country to vacation in tropical or in wintery places and everything in between like the rest of us do. There is no need to go to the French Riviera in Russia they have their own riviera. Putin is safe from a warrant but the Hague is unsafe from Russia. War is not going to come it is already here, war has been creeping all along, and is escalating to a crescendo. The job of a president is imperialism, this is what it means to be the Top Cop in the World, to be an imperialist is to open new markets for American Capitalism (business). When you are not a good imperialist the rest of the imperialists in American government hate you which was the fate of Donald Trump, he was not a good imperialist to the imperialists. He did not open new markets for American Business, rather, he caused them trouble internationally deviating from the imperialist formula of repression and his deviation gives Trump the mystique of being a victim of the Establishment; but he paid them enough that the business wing of the party could tolerate Trump. He was good capitalist. For the American people all you have are capitalists as presidents and if ever a non-capitalist becomes president, a peace maker, the imperialists in government rally to remove by any means necessary. Bernie is likely right now saying to himself when watching Trump legal battles unfold that it could have been him had he won the presidency. Bernie is not a good imperialist. All he can play in the stereotypical world of the democratic party is the guilty conscience of that party. Which leaves us with You and the question of your own liberation from the yoke of capitalists/imperialist tyranny? Imperialism is not a democracy for it exploits labor and in the workplace where labor is exploited by capitalists there is no democracy in America. So favoring imperialism the way American military recruits, officers, security, police and legal field do identifies a person as a person who resists, consensus, collaboration and cooperation is an anti-democratic person. If there are dictators in the world they are concentrated right here in the US. Re-subscribe to this show as I had to do because the show loses subscribers on purpose which is consistent behavior with the general suppression of independent news by America’s Imperialists.
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  7074. This is a story of mass discontent. When family life, individuals and society do not harmonize and compliment each other individuals break down into anomy and barbarism. Individuals are snapped to the limit. The ones that go off the handle are the ones with the heaviest burdens expected to solve by themselves while stacked up against anti-social institutions. They are expected to solve their problems by themselves and can’t. They react feeling stuck. Unable to handle serious survival issues on their own the violent behavior is their way of controlling the external social order knocking them around. And why? If it were in the DNA of human beings to be isolated and unsocial the way American society is unsocial there would be no need for community, family or society. The human species would not have survived over the last 12,000 years. Growing food changed humans from being nomads and isolated hunters to social beings working together the fields and harvest has engrained into our DNA cooperation and sociality. We would have been killed by animals far stronger and more numerous as hunters and nomads without agriculture. Wiped out! Population in America was only 150 million people one life time ago, imagine how small it was 12,000 years ago and beyond. Capitalism is the first society that contradicts this natural history of cooperation and sociality in mankind. Money is your connection to nature and to other people. Without money your disconnected from humanity and the Natural World. This breeds Mass Discontent. The police in their position of non-interference with criminal and out of control behavior express the unsocial nature of American social institutions. Not exposing the faces of people who attack others encourages the lawlessness but it shows they can know the face but we cannot gives them a step up for their own protection on the streets. In effect, take into account the unsocial character of social institution putting people in a very tight spot the cops attack or arrest an institutional victim. Should they now treat desensitized people harshly or with kid gloves is not my point.
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  7075. Abysmal. But for a capitalist society with people who are advanced in military might and backward in society learning comes the hard way.
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  7076. Very nice.
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  7077. Sorry Ellison, you got the sparse shelves of medical supplies in the Birthing Place 50 miles from Port-Au-Prince for many decades before this crisis, wrong. Flip your story around and it will be more accurate.
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  7078. War and internal warfare outside of America is what keep the prices of commodities high inside America is one problem. On top of that problem the same warfare spending destabilizes societies causing people to leave and head for the US the most stable country in the west. Third problem on top of the second problem that is on top of the first problem is that wars need cash to put weapons into the hands of people doing the fighting. The people to do the fighting get cash by making drugs and cash is got through the sale of drugs to buy the weapons. It doesn’t take long for police departments in poor nations where drugs are made than sold to Americans, turns two-bit corrupt cops into military grade assault battalions with all the cash from drug sales. Drug sales made to American petty middle men dealers supplying millions street operations that afflict harm on their own citizens. Guns, drugs and money are the trade. People still have to eat and the fields need the migrant labor for plowing, tilling, picking, boxing and made ready to feed the addicted lives of Americans. Not only is America guilty of military assaults largely done behind the scenes or through others but it is also guilty of an all out economic assault on social spending to make ordinary working Americans pay through austerity for all the damage the four big problems above are doing to society.
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  7079. A great voice of realism in Jimmy. Making the wrong right and the right wrong for being right. The democrats dd not heed the republican from Texas, they voted to not adjourn to pass the $40 billion through. The democrats have committed me to a war in Ukraine and I was never asked. Democrats fear any momentum of an opposition from developing. The bill is rammed down the throats of the American people. Hey Jimmy, you can’t talk about Ukraine without talking about US crime rates. They are both criminal and barbaric acts against humanity, i hope you know that right, that violence has two sides to it. Two-sides to everything. The proxy war in Ukraine reflects the other as a more generalized form of a particular criminal justice system. This broken system pre-occupies society. How about the supply chain back ups, inflation, housing crisis, particular forms of climate change devastating agriculture and governments promoting mega-agribusiness making deals for a larger acquisition of land in the future against the world of small farmers.
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  7080. You can’t close the border...you have to stop the inflow of migrants not close the border.
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  7081. Companies want to make a profit and the government does not want to pay more for services. Any company government contracts with is going to cut their own operation down to make it profitable and you end up with companies cutting corners and not plowing profits back into the business. Not until a breech happens or a crisis do we learn that companies the government use to perform government work have been reducing the quality of their services and the quality of government goes straight down the toilet.
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  7082. Whenever societies are on the decline people go off the deep end. People are becoming a social power on their own without leadership to channel that social power constructively. They are relying on their own intellectual power to figure out what side is the right side to be on as the sides split apart. Plus the modern state has made laws to rectify contradictions in society that only punish the actors and does not get to the root of the problem. This causes mass frustration and distrust of institutions in people feeling powerless and angry. Each individual is hyper-insecure that the necessaries of life are becoming more and more inaccessible blaming the individual for not securing their own well-being. People have become de-sensitized and de-skilled and, therefore, lost the values of community, solidarity, but are atomized individuals in competition with each other.
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  7083. All this reaction from Trump down to the GOP to suppress the Black Vote in the US is a direct continuation of the reaction the Plantation Owners of the South in the period of Slavery to the Haitian Revolution of 1791 nobody questioned the policy of repression and suppression of slaves after the slaves were emancipated. America had let slip by for 230 years that suppression is the way to never have a another revolution like that one again. A revolution that happened 76 years before American slaves became free labor links the South with the whole of Latin America through America's colonial slave trade the starting point of discontent. The unfinished revolution persists and refuses to die. Suppression at all costs and suppression became formalized into social policy and how the law should react to oppressed people whether it is to help them or repress them further. In the context of suppression even help turns out negative results for the person being helped. Repression as the basis of social policy robs children of all colors the chance of becoming not what their ancestors were but what they want to be without living under the shadow of ghosts of ancient plantation owners.
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  7084. Good idea. Spend less time working for employers. US productivity is highest in the world and can support a transformation of work in America. Like the Host I got to go...good to see you! So much for meaningful conversations on such an important topic. This is the cheapest news outlet in the world.
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  7085. Two faces has he.
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  7086. Most of that money supporting freedoms fighters is spent here in the US said Oliver North. Two points about that comment. The total value of all bullets spent in Ukraine through the barrel of a gun in a Ukrainian soldier’s arms is a value greater than the money the government uses to support freedom fighters is the first point, who then buy American rounds of ammunition is the second point. Over a ten year period or for the duration of the war the arms industry has accumulated in bullets alone a profit high enough to use as weapon to control and fight off any opposition to the war. And by turning freedom fighters into consumers (buyers) the arms industry deprives the social, political and economic life of everyday Americans of that original capital the political parties consenting to give to Ukrainian freedom fighters.
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  7087. One thing we know for sure the assassins were not acting to liberate Haiti from its debt to the IMF or save it from its own ruin.
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  7088. How do the rich vote, the people on Park Avenue and in all the luxury areas of NYC? Board of Elections of NYC is a bureaucracy within a bureaucracy. I do not believe there is a more bureaucratic government in the union than New York and its style is Old World bureaucratic. If the state wants a certain person out and another in what makes the electorate think that their vote will be the sovereign decision when the bureaucracy that handles the voting is the state? If the vast diversity of voters were sovereign you would have an app to download that opens up your virtual voting booth, and be tabulated instantly right on your cell phone. One authority announces the results, done.
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  7089. E Walker - Medical science in the US makes people sick and mentally ill, that is the actual level of healthcare, and that is good business for insurance companies. Your comment is assbackwards.
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  7090. He was sincere because he was straight forward, curt, and peered right into the lens when he said it.
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  7091. Workers including yourself and your workplace (assuming you are not a employer) do not control that workplace or the conditions of employment but are commanded by their bosses or investors who do own the workplace and the conditions of your employment and only hired you for the brain, muscle, and tissue your body can afford to spend for that employer, to do as told. Employers can hire inexperienced people and save on the expense of hiring experienced and skilled workers and in his industry the nepotism is shameful. The family is a source of cheap labor. The bigger social issue about this tragedy is the struggle between labor and capital fighting over the conditions of work and the workplace relations that produces tragedy while making a product.
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  7092. Jewish Nazis.
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  7093. ho guan ---Very insightful, you are right.
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  7094. Hey people...remember to hold your cell phone sideways for a full picture of the scene you are capturing...this reveals more information in the shot to the viewer. You understnd what I am saying?
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  7095. The way I see it, Americans believe fascism cannot happen to them. The prevailing attitude--Americans are above history and everything that happened in history cannot happen to them. Unfortunately, history does not agree with them. World history resembles present-day American history because the past is filled with examples of accommodation to new rule changes previous generations had done. They rationalized it might not be all that bad under a dictatorship. Founding Fathers knew the lack of education in people always acquiesces to authority. Every functionary from the DMV to Probation become automatons and hatchet doctors as a norm. Psychologists call this a malignant normalcy that becomes a social culture in bureaucracies. The activist side of Marxism calls malignant normalcy the political apathy of the working classes. Founding Father's shored up the institutions of democracy with checks and balances. A mechanism to rescue institutions from the tendency of creeping fascism and creeping totalitarianism from individuals and the corrosive influences of money. Combine every rule change together and they construct a modern police state. The fragile democratic republic that was the US is no longer.
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  7096. likely story
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  7097. The graft and arrogance inside of this administration is criminal. DOGE cut the bureaucracy and the money it saved by cutting the jobs of federal employees, Homeland Security spent on rounding up immigrants for deportation. All the surgical and diligent cutting Elon Musk carried out was appropriated by ICE under the command of the right wing born again zealot, Kristi Noam. She should be tried for the illegal usurpation of Congressional funding she was never authorized to appropriate.
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  7098. Schools have to babysit kids because in America kids have no rights. In turn the schools become centers for black market trading of cash, drugs and weapons. They do exactly what the Pentagon does in countries like Afghanistan. America(ns) are in complete denial of this fact. Pretty lame, huh.
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  7099. A small minority of extreme lunatics are on both sides of the political right and left. The mass in the middle are the ones who make a minority a majority and drive the two extremes in a vicious struggle for power.
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  7100. The owners of money, who enjoys the rights of ownership, must find labor-power for sale or you don’t have capitalism. Countries that do not have a robust job market do not attract capital investment are the least developed countries in the world. These rare typically countries where labor appears as a peasantry, small and rich peasant land owning and self-sufficient farming families. They do not produce enough for a nation of 100 above million people but enough for 60 million and under. The world is split between two modes of production. One half is industrial and the other half is agricultural. The same split appears between cities, towns and countryside, one part industrial the other part farm, and even at a higher level of abstract inspection a split at the factory level between working and the work itself, one part human the other part machine. How many jobs are more machine than human and how many jobs are more human than machine? Then at an even higher level of thought and contemplation a splitting apart of the individual self into two parts. One part connected to the means and the other part disconnected from the means. Classes of people and families emerge who are connected to the land and classes of people and families having no land at all, homelessness, vagabonds, cartels, cons and criminal elements, addicts and prostitution. Countries with 60 million people or better do not have enough colleges to train students into a job market or not enough hospitals to educate a percentage of the population into medicine because there is no capital investment in that locality or nation. The function of the World Bank can be summed up in one task, that is to create the conditions required before money can be converted into capital. If it does not like Pakistan the World Bank will lend out money under terms that oppress Pakistan. A capitalist society is a society with a job market and a money market. Its a society where companies are divided by two classes of people; the owners of money are the employers and the employees are the owners of labor-power. This pretty much covers a classical definition of class than there is struggle to that class concept because classes are never static but are in motion, after all, they are human beings. And people are never idle. Either way the condition described above is totally unnatural to the human being from a standpoint of health and what’s worse, the conditions described above have no social basis justifying they should even exist. They came about through historical development, the product of many economic revolutions, of the extinction of a series of older forms of work and employment in different cultures and societies. What makes us different from the past is the observation that all our products are intended for sale as commodities. All forms of work in society is dominated by commodity production because the greater part of our products are not yet intended for immediate consumption by the working classes. This would prevent them from becoming commodities in the first place. Historical development will bring these economic, social and political splits about for you if people do not intervene on historical development. Grab the bull by the rains so to speak. China and Russia before her found a way to deal with this problem, America will have to find its own way, overcoming the splits to move toward a unification of object with its subject.
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  7101. Good piece...relevant and real news...Cruz is a lawyer but using his lawyering for the public to not get snarled into traffic from the police blockade seemed to go right over his head.
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  7102. The legal walls close in around citizen Trump after his acquittal in the Senate, but a lot of good that will do him in civil society, where waiting he unload his properties cheap to cover legal battles, already Trump's competitors in civil society foam at the mouth before the trial has concluded. They have encircled Trump like hyenas and sharks close in on their prey. The rule of the jungle is the only rule of law the coercive laws of competition of capitalism understand. A tragic ending to his life will devour Trump in the end.
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  7103. Somewhere in that formula is the general will of human kind to be self-determined is missing in this person.
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  7104. Bummer...impeached again...1 and 3 believe the election was illegitimate. 1 and 3 GOPers are shocked the urban working class would get out the vote in record numbers. How stupid...we've been watching long voting lines in every state for the last two election cycles, duh! Its not about shock its about they can never win a popular election. Winning a popular election means giving something to non-whites. Trump is a guy who waned to sell PR and buy Greenland. 1 and 3 republicans are okay 3 million people on the island be sold off, left to their own devices...paper towels rolls. Follw Chuck Todd and your statistics are all wrong.
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  7105. Look at the fire she spotted in the yard how it behaves like a a tiny tornado being fueled by high winds. It incinerates the burning bush in seconds. The fire attached itself to the poor souls who lost breath and slept too close to the fire. This is an extreme form of incinerating high temperature. So fast so sudden so intense the fire the heat cremates in seconds. Everything has turned to black sooted carbon and ash in the aftermath that any biological traces left behind has been carbonized. All that burnt ground cannot be repopulated with people. It has become sacred ground, hallowed be the Souls entombed forever in that ground they have become the Earth and shall be part of the new life-process in that piece of the earth.
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  7106. Who he is not is more important than who he is.
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  7107. Hopeless....its not a climate crisis...its human activity....there is no crisis in Nature, Amy....Nature is not in a crisis...nature is in transformation and always will be transforming herself. Between you and the religious I do not know which is worse. Nature transforms we have to transform with it or we die, its a pretty simple equation. Deserts were once a rain forest. Humanity is in Crisis...humanity is the crisis...and in peril is the message of your guest but you as an anchor are part of the problem coveting the perpetrators of the “Climate Crisis”...our goal is to remove the corporate oil and gas lobby from government. Why cover for them...do you have stock ownership in Exxon and in all the car battery manufacturers?
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  7108.  Robert Giggles  I am relieved you are aware of that.
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  7109. America was far more a trustworthy nation when Russia was the USSR.   In order to defeat socialism our government made sure our population was given what it needed to thrive not just survive and this included everything from free education to good medicine and medical practice and good wages, and lifestyle, industry and excellent sanitation, everyone was inoculated free of charge and the medical profession went to you not you going to them for a price. In the post USSR America, capitalism began to reveal what it truly is a system of production for profit, and everyone born from that day forward has made America the least trustworthy nation in the world. In fact, there is no question in my mind that even a bastard like LBJ or Nixon would have come out publicly to institute some form of medical national Marshall Plan to quell a virus such as this from emerging. America opened the door for capitalists to take over the government, an institution designed to keep capitalists out of government.   From 1980 the post USSR America as more of America's billionaires and its far-right wing made it possible through a repeal of all the safeguards America had in place to move production off shore in order to produce cheaper to accrue higher profits in America's consumer market; you could not trust government statistics on most everything got progressively worse to the point of absolute mistrust. They thought they won the Cold War but America did not and every war previous to the Vietnam and after the Vietnam war were losses for Americans but not for the dominant oil and gas industry. Now that Russia and China have gotten into the game of making profits the oil industry of all three nations intend to share the oil reserves, gas and rare earth minerals lain under the Ice of the Arctic to the detriment of the planet, in a potential nuclear war. America taking the approach of might makes right while ocean levels rise and the composition of the atmosphere of oxygen, carbon and hydrogen are changed heating the planet and giving rise to massive flooding, new biological organisms for the spread of disease, locust infestation, drought and social upheaval.
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  7110. TAX ALL RELIGIONS!
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  7111. This history would have been lost if not for the Works Progress Administration of the New Deal. The WPA hired artists, photographers, musicians and they left an incredible mark on our contemporary life, we can appreciate long after they have gone.
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  7112. Bernie is the only one who can redeem the baby boomer generation from going down in history as the most spoiled and selfish. He'd have to redeem everyone if he is going to redeem his own by a total paradigm change.  If he does not American society slides into barbarism.
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  7113. Great social science. Part two will probably knock us off our feet.
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  7114. Is the Biden Administration saying the cannabis oil found in Brittany’s luggage was planted by the Russians when the state department spokesperson says she was ‘wrongfully’ detained?
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  7115. What makes this happen are chosen policies (government decrees) that give free interaction to producers to act as free buyers and sellers without any interference by the government. Ordinary people are not clued into this brand of politicians as a generation elected into office since 1980, are the same types of people who come up through the ranks of the political parties, and in practice as government officials their job is to hinder their office, political sabotage, weaken government’s impact, effect, to ensure the Public in society is not at risk of material and economic exploitation by exercising its main functions. A personal allegiance to that anti-government theory as infallibly correct (arrogance) makes this generation of politicians an enemy of ordinary people. Ordinary people are shut out of government by an army of technocrats, who weaken or cut down government services to society in two of its primary functions: inspections in all industry and, 2., product safety and financial exploitation by private interests. In short, the two main spheres of social economic activity take an antithetical form of itself as two private spheres. The private sector establishes a class dictatorship through the final abolition of government. This would be the end of a Democratic Republic. History would position ordinary people into a society where government does not exist replacing it with private security forces paid to enforce the needs of the private sector in the spheres of production and circulation. This does not have to look or act like 1930s totalitarianism but it is a totalitarianism never the less.
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  7116. “Talk about...” can be said in other ways, such as “Tell us...” or “Why should we know or care...” Variation is the art of life. When people do not vary their speech, their actions, their lives, they are boring. Mediocrity breeds ignorance in all places in society. The people who rule encourage mediocrity as a means to further their rule.
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  7117. I fault the railroad companies for holding the supply chain hostage. But workers protests in China had more affect on Wall Street, let’s see what affect a US railroad strike has on Wall Street.
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  7118. An evacuation that is identical to the evacuation of the Fall of Saigon but on a larger scale. 'Collapse' is the poorest choice of words and this is coming from an agency that makes its living using words! You have Talban forces taking the country, city by city, province by province and none of the Commanding Generals of the US military did not respond or saw this coming is the first point for discussion? Then you have a president who leaves the country with who knows how much of the treasury he took with him and Taliban forces are at the gates of the capitol of the country saying this is the last stand quit or be taken down with force. Meanwhile, civil society is just that 'civil' to each other but at a standstill pending this change of power. Then Blinken of the State Department comes out with some stupid excuse about how this is not a defeat, not a revolution, not a loss and its not going to be another Saigon. Cut to this loop the media chooses to show us and not the footage of troops setting up the perimeter to keep people from the tarmac and the footage of planes taking off because that is the footage that was shown during the Fall of Saigon, hanging off of helicopters in the air the Generals do not want shown to the public to hide the fact that Vietnam was a defeat and Afghanistan is a defeat. This is a collapse of any brains and morals in the State department is what it is?
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  7119. Of course, whenever the object of society is the accumulation of capital, the Mind is the last thing to get developed. Mind becomes the main focus and object of American society when its productive forces are applied to that end, rather, than applied for the separation of mind from the body and maintaining a level of ignorance in the population. The question then is more about why a certain number of people in society remain ignorant in the current form of society. For example, vocational schools as cheap as they are as far as programs are concerned in the US, were, at least, a way to unite industry and education, body and mind united.  This made a well rounded and skilled person, got math and physics training from actual work. Education in America is so remotely connected to industry that is has become a secular institution like the church, existing in society but not a part of its reproductive process. Owing to this separation individuals have become split, brain development is extreme and body development extremely poor, furnishing a health industry whose object is the accumulation of capital with fresh clients, and, in other parts of the world and in society, people are all body but of extremely low intelligence for critical thinking. One can survive in America without education or literacy but that person will be completely shut out from industry that has become highly technological and always changing the technology. The requirements for the accumulation of capital, however, depends on unskilled labor being present at the drop of a dime whenever the accumulator needs the work to accumulate to be done, such as when Michael Cohen officiated an exchange between Trump and Russians for the sale of Trump Tower in Moscow, or when an illiterate worker is asked to go to the other warehouse and bring 50 more cases of toasters. In China, right now, an illiterate peasant from remote village province can rise to become a department manager of a production facility and fully literate, specialized in a skilled trade in any number of China's factory cities. They apply, no criminal background they get accepted. Factory cities unite education with production in China, this is why they will surpass even the most privileged adolescent student of an Ivy League institution, because it is mass production united with mass education, a power exceeding a handful of monopolies.
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  7120. Governor Murphy and Murphy’s Law, NJ is the collision capital of the country. Jammed pack to the gills with vehicles. The DMV in his state under his watch is a menace to the highway system. He is also a Pilgrim of a man, he lets NJ Transit raise prices starting in July 1., against Manhattan charging congestion pricing.
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  7121.  @thomasburkett6417  KMA,---never assume...A’Holes assumes...are you an A’Hole? You are so uptight you missed the punchline in the comment.
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  7122. The stat should be done for NYC. I would, if I were president, call Jimmy to head my cabinet for a project on eradicating homelessness in America, he interprets the stats really well so all understand and formulate solid social policy, for a new affluence in America.
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  7123. F This...Taiwan would be turned into an Iraq and Afghanistan by the US if not for China. However....and... Assuming both the CCP and the Pentagon are locked into a Cold War mentality it would be through the instrumentality of respective working classes in both societies that this cold war can be sustained. Without the cooperation of labor in both continents the Cold War and Capitalism would be brought to a final end opening up a new epoch of progress promoting international cooperation versus competition and nationalism.
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  7124. If you more intrusive and controlling, yes. The mass of people kicked out of the political process is problematic. @Tdorf53185 
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  7125. Deep commitment to be a scholar. Be so much easer with an endless stream of capital.
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  7126. The fight against nationalism and fascism is a fight to save Earth and all life on it. Unite!
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  7127. All the beds are filled up with COVID patients. You won't survive! You could get helicoptered two states away from the crash scene you got into. While EMTs try to keep you alive. They are trying to figure out where and who can treat you?
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  7128. It has nothing to do with stupidity and everything to do with evangelical christianity, or Creationism. They are not stupid people. They were very planned and methodical in their capture of government. Americans are now a subjugated people in the states they dominate. They performed a coup dé état that was slow and gradual over the years. When enough of them made it into government they became what constitutes a social class of christian capitalists (Amway, etc.). Pyramid schemes as you might heard of before was their business plan in the early years and putting into the hands of unsuspecting Americans their source of funding, ---profits from the sale of Amway, Mary Kay, products. Convention meetings in Vegas and other venues is where they held annual profit rallies for the corporation rewarding people moving up te pyramid. That is not stupidity it’s a very well thought out successful and calculated plan for conquering the world. They targeted people whose incomes was never enough. The never enough crowd can be a powerful social force whether are glued together into a pyramid structure containing them. They are brainwashed people. Fast forward 30 years and the government is 7/10th occupied by Israel loving evangelical christians. The first genocide under their watch is the genocide against the Palestinians. The reason these people are the material force on earth not a peace loving people at all, because of the afterlife and getting there before Nothing short of a revolution can unseat the christians in power. If Americans want their freedoms Americans have no other alternative but to win power. Evangelism appears over the centuries in various forms dates back to the early Roman christians who suffered so much the second coming of Christ became a religion. Evangelism has a despicable history from the 15th century going forward, more criminal and genocidal than Hitler, Stalin, Mao put together, the most deadliest of all homosapiens on earth are christians, that in every likelihood the extinction of the human race would be their doing. Not knowing your enemy is stupid. Not trying to insult you personally. It is vital to orient people on how to start thinking about these people and their methods of subjugation because I care enough to not want to be subjugated. Who are they? What jobs do they hold in government that control our lives? Questions to start thinking about NOW not tomorrow. Tomorrow is too late.
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  7129. Conditions are coming together under Trump for new and bigger alliances on the Left.
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  7130. Wow, there is very little that is exceptional about American government. It is occupied by functionaries like all the western governments. This guy can sound like he is working for, well take your pick, any of the western European governments. Ministers promise and take back the promise and lie about it. Polish government is practically on its knees for mimicking the same functionary practices of western governments and it all emanates from the American government. The Poles have something to teach the people in the west on how not take this BS. The point to opposing functionaries in government is to take back the economic surplus the people create from people who wrongfully, but purposely believe, people are not the produces of wealth but the financial departments of their economies are the creators. Nothing can be more foolish that because nothing gets started without money the financial system is the original fountain spring of wealth. That is only how it looks not how it actually is.
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  7131.  @MissTXTee  If that is worry then stop making guns accessible to anyone in your society and then the landlords won’t fear for their lives when they leave a notice on the door. Its not the job of police to deliver eviction notices. if anyone should deliver notice let it be the landlord or the landlords lawyer. Cops do not carry the notices of foreclosures of banks to homeowners. A person does not pay their rent because your country prefers they not pay their rent. They want homelessness and crime because builders and zoning boards build single family homes. Hey guess what, your home is probably the source of illness given the building material in it was never inspected by the Consumer Protection Agency de-regulated by your two political parties, so you have an interest in ending this cabal.
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  7132.  @vango7499  Wrong.
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  7133.  @honcore1443  My heart bleeds for you.
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  7134.  @tinacurlyq  There is no law that requires police to serve eviction notices. In fact, per the Supreme Court decision of June 3, 2022 police do not even have to respond to emergency calls much less eviction notices is the only law that is national, all other laws are discretionary and left to the states. There is collusion in that department with landlords or that landlord that is not being investigated. Americans would be wise to not act as lawyers for institutions for when it happens to you or someone you know you are going to wish the public was on your side.
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  7135. On the Political Media,----What a cesspool of political internecine commercial and political warfare between allegiances of corporate management against their employees. As a general statement: There is no dignity in work and working in America completely SUCKS! In particular to journalists: Not worth regurgitating the party line when the party is a political lynch mob out to get you too. See what happens when cross over to the side that is regarded an enemy of management. Elimination.
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  7136. Going to be a lot of fun watching republicans test their theory of less government the states struck by tornadoes and storms are leveled flat to the ground and they need government help! How much of a privilege is it really, to serve in an institution dominated by oligarchs/donors as (America) likes to call them. Donors are oligarchs, more than one oligarch is a billionaire class, to you they are individual donors...who do not plot schemes together but plot schemes alone. Oligarchs are people wth special needs shapes education the way they see fit for them. McGill fell for the NY senator’s trick question and realized it too late her answer should have been speech alone is not punishable. Just because you have letters after your name does not mean you have guts to lay your case on the Constitution against the Senator. The 100 billion dollar industry is a huge import of coffee beans. Coffee plantations are not in the US. Americans have no idea how coffee is produced or where and by whom. A mass inflow of migrants jamming the borders are not looking for work and a better life on the coffee plantation fields. They are going where the money is.
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  7137. The west can’t taunt eastern and Russian people with a life of middle class affluence it did on East German workers that caused the Berlin Wall to fall. Workers in the west are worse off than workers in Russia, they are making more advances with China. If anything the reputation of Marx is enhanced as he predicted the west would not sustain a wide middle class and crisis inevitable...well, here we are, in the inevitable, in a state of crisis, war and vast social inequality.
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  7138. In the general history and theory of capitalism, its one thing a revolution is directed toward a social class like in Myanmar, a revolution against the military develops in that country. Or a movement pops up against the Wall Street billionaires. Its totally another thing to direct a revolution toward a way of life. Yet that is the task at hand in the late stages of capitalist development. The need to transform the way we live, work, and socially reproduce is the kind of social revolution conditions of life calls this generation to task. Literally the weight of the dead are on the shoulders of this generation.
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  7139. Miller is the Russian equivalent of Cuba's exiles in Miami, ant-communists and pro-fascists extremists whose families fled revolutions. The fact that Biden and his ilk are shocked extremism in general and fascism in particular could happen in America are foolish. Fascism can develop anywhere where there are democratic regimes including the US and where the public is repressed or suffering from unemployment, depression, inflation. Fascism cannot happen in nations that fought fascism is a mythology. Americans fought fascism but they do not understand it the way Europeans and Latin Americans experienced fascist dictatorships, all of whom, incidentally were supported by the US and trained secret police and other fascists, violent groups, as long as they were anti-communists the US supported these horrible regimes.
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  7140. If an interim president, cabinet and government is formed the movement will need its own party to keep the oligarchy from regaining power.
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  7141. Who says 95% of the homeless would trust you?
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  7142. I would say Steve Kornacki’s break down of the Democratic Mid -Term Success shows the Independent voter would have voted republican had it not been for the blue collar revolt in the republican party and had not the Democrats abandoned their own promises to the working class. Many people felt the betrayals were reason enough to follow the working class appeal Trump had and voted to spite the Democrats. I think it reflects an anti-blue collar attitude whether republican or democrat. This is not a class seen in a favorable light in our society. They are regarded essential as they keep everything in society working during the pandemic but are not essential enough to have a voice or leverage in the private political democracy of elites...and who are the Independents, are they from backgrounds more privileged than working class who are polled?
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  7143. This is BS. Propaganda
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  7144. Trump’s campaigns always look like AMWAY Conventions. Behind the patriotic theater and the pyramid game is another reality, its not until you get through the Door....that time becomes an element working against you from becoming a human being...Dante’s seven gates of hell...doorways that compartmentalize everyone into a detailed operation inside isolated rooms and smaller still are cubicles of people doing intensified detailed work, on a rote basis, sucks the life out of them! Work exacts ever more energy from an individual in less time. The cellphone and the work app use time to eliminate the gaps in the working day to get the proper result out of the functions of the workers. Work has become so refined and detailed that it has given rise to serfdom. It did not start out that People would become mere organs of their own function. You are an organ of your own detailed operation in life when thinking outside of it feels like a new beginning. Becoming human. Thinking, feeling, living, human being is forbidden in America. It takes time to develop who you are. Time in America is Money is what you will be told if you use time for yourself. The corporations went ahead with social plans to get people to work in a fixed period of time and in very specific, narrow, activities. ...not a single gap of free time is left in the working day. Every action is monitored to the second and caught on camera. The possibilities of being a human being is obstructed by work and surveillance as it interferes with the interaction of individuals as human beings.
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  7145. Since America does not have any lawmakers in their government that believe employers should be told what to do and what not to do with their company, product and/or materials, tragedy is what you get. A misguided Public. Americans are true believers in the Free Enterprise System (laisse-faire capitalism, translated means “leave me alone” capitalist), and left alone is exactly the way manufacturers and corporations like to be left, alone. If people only thought the way people thought back in the 16 th century when manufacturers were celebrities like Elvis for coming up with a new way to rock and deviated from the norm. That was revolutionary. Any deviation from the norm is revolutionary its just a mater to what degree is it revolutionary. In the case of “leave me alone capitalism” a capitalist like Sam Bankman-Fried is not a manufacturer. The fires he creates are all paper fires in the realm of circulation and burning other people’s pockets of their money. In the case of a “leave me alone capitalist” like Bill Gates the fires he creates are land fires, displacing small farmers and buying up huge tracts of land he becomes a feudal modern land owner and the real cause of homelessness and migrant labor. Put everyone under one roof and have them rock as a team in cooperation not for themselves but for the boss who gets more enriched from the labor he /she employs and manages like a fine tuned engine the way a coach manages a football team. They are one big family of unequal partners in work as employer and employees. The one thing Americans are taught is cooperation and this is through spectator sports they can gamble on encouraging the disease of winners and losers. Compensation for being a loser is a six pack of beer. Great education. Employer/manufacturers/capitalists, call them what you will, they alone make the profits and share the bounty of those profits among themselves and they alone have no clue the profits are made by labor, that is, not until labor slams the breaks on production...than they realize how much labor keeps the whole economy running. Holy shit...my stocks lost value...I have to sell quick! Any which way to get back on track making profits is what they will do. If it means that people are sexless because to have a sex is hated, so be it, as long as they buy, buy BuY! Go shopping , dam it...its the only aspect of American social life that soothes your corrupt soul. No government interference is the creed of the Neo-Liberals political parties and the American worker is blamed and held responsible for the destruction of their own communities and society. In Chicago the City Council and the people (the workers) are a stupid people blaming migrants and not the real cause of the migrant and homeless problem. The real estate industry into which Bill Gates is a new member, he buys to own land for homes not for sale but for rent. A direct consequence of Fed policies, raising interest rates in the name of bringing inflation down the Fed policy forces wages down and pushing people to rent because to buy is too costly positions Bill, BlackRock and others, to be a new class of renters. In other words, feudalism in America. Nice step backwards. Imagine having a feudalistic ACME Anonymous Corporation on which the Pleasantville residents are directly employed by ACME land, farm, gravel and pit work. The Fed helps the multi-national corporations and super billionaires like it was their lame brother to buy to rent huge development projects as happening where Gregg Abbot plots his latest anti-migrant assault. America is a country of the humiliated, a crisis country of humanity. In NYC the workers who can work from home are moving into the neighborhoods of workers in Brooklyn. Forcing rents to go up the workers who cannot work from home are pushed out. There one class of workers harms another class of workers. NYC City Council and mayor do absolutely nothing to protect workers from the pernicious greed of landlords. In short, Americans have become the most stupid people on earth, indoctrinated by an education system, and a news media that tells the Public lie after lie, they have no clue what to do but will come to understanding of what to do after they have lost everything and have become materially destitute in mass poverty.
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  7146. Ridiculous! CNN digs up the craziest people to explain current international relations. ‘Coming Collapse of China’, I doubt it.
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  7147. When health is a thing that can be bought and sold, the poor die young and the rich grow old... And no difference is the thing when health... is a thing you can sell and buy, for than the rich live and the poor die, ...and so the cries of anger go ignored... life-long injury is the cruelest fate... the riotous rage at the health system is deplored.. no wonder there is so much hate.
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  7148. Here is an example of how political the media is weaponized. Santo Domingo and Haiti share the same island struck by an earthquake yet all the reporting is on Haiti? If Haitians are treated like garbage at least that garbage exists; but Santo Domingans are virtually an invisible people, is media genocide.
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  7149. If we understand the laws of motion of capitalism right then all nations go through a capitalist stage and capitalism in each nation inevitably rises and falls. I can accept this but I think by not skipping a stage of capitalism we do not avoid the formation of dominant social classes from developing larger than they already are! Making our work in building a socialist society harder. In dialectic thinking there are no causes and effects, there are only the fluid movements of opposites interacting with each other. A mutation of social classes is a process and a source of pressure to act that occurs within the lifespan of capitalist development.
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  7150. What are the unvaccinated going to do next when their employers say there's the door if you refuse?
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  7151.  @rhyantrick8178  In whatever state the employees will have to give employers more freebies to keep employers from leaving the state to other states that could offer more to employers. This stability between states that are rural and agricultural and states that are industrial is still a long way off from fusing together the rural and the urban. Big divisions. States like Utah a red state have planned a new urban city that won't be done until 2035. Manhattan is already built, unless power is killed the city could come down in its price to employers when it gets some sense into its head and offer corporations a bigger freebie now than Utah could ever give, plus there is a heat dome out west---corporations are mobil, they can even leave the US if they want, they have no allegiance to the US other than the freebies we give them, technically nothing holds them from moving capital/production to Thailand for example,----to leave the unvaccinated and hire the vaccinated or vice versa. Why? The vaccinated and unvaccinated is not an issue for the corporations. So what then? More freebies to corporations.
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  7152. This is chimera.
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  7153. This is the second time I heard Goodman ask a question potentially embarrassing to a person being interviewed by her 22:00. When Goodman interviewed Trump's Guatemalan maid was the first incident of the subject over exposed of her personal life on air. I do not need to know this about this doctor or whether the Guatemalan maid was somehow starstruck making Trump's beds given the gravity of these people's lives and concerns. Seems like less and less of the personal is sacred.
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  7154. Blood Chocolate. Sometimes I feel we stand at the beginning of a new age that won’t come to fruition without the overthrow of a few usurpers by the many. A real fervent of revolution runs through the masses but there isn’t the focus on the realization there is no other way out as long as a few usurpers control the forces humanity requires to get out of the crisis that has become humanity itself!
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  7155. NBC has in the recent past re-published false information as sourced from the Washington Post, so this new report I would take prejudicially. However, bats have been studied by renowned expert virologists around the world for a long time if this is a surprise to you then you probably can't count the number of times you read a scientific article on the subject.
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  7156. Can’t sell them is the real reason. Over production. A capitalist is the last person who should have control over a high productivity of workers. This is the equivalent of the absurdity of a 16 year old owner of a high capacity rifle. All countries are in crisis in the west. Sanctions have lowered the value of currencies below the value of the dollar that you need more dollars to buy less of the quantity of goods and vaccines the CEO extracted from the high productivity of his entire pharmaceutical workforce. All goods are products of labor. In capitalism they are exchange values. In socialism they are values. Big difference between the two societies. When goods have two sides one side suffers and the other side does not. When goods have one side to them the productivity of goods is manageable versus unmanageable. This contradiction is amplified in new social conditions with every new crisis and are always interpreted as a “...nobody wants them’. People want them they just can’t buy them with the sanctions in place and they do want the social conditions that come with them. F U America they all say! They are not buying. The effect of not buying harms the American workforce because there is no back up for American workers when there are no buyers in the world market for American goods, instead, nations create for themselves new trading partners and build a multipolar network for attaining goods. They cooperate with each other. Internal contradictions of capitalism have gone global...exceeded all national frontiers and boundaries...they make the world a state of capitalist chaos instead of a world of stability. America does not make a car or vaccine to last a lifetime, a car to run on a 100 miles to a gallon. This is an easy thing for a society to do without Capitalist enterprise using the productivity of labor to build an exchange value. So an electric car without an electric grid to support an electric car has a high price makes sense to make the car but no sense to solve the climate crisis it pretends to solve. The CEO loses profits and tomorrow he will announce the cuts to his personal army of pharmaceutical workers. Tomorrow talking heads in the media and the press secretary of the white house will blame deep cuts on staff shortages across several industries, as a side effect of people working from home, and supply chain problems and snafus. he network of railroad workers have been on strike since June of 2021 even longer the start of goods backing up in ports and stacked with no place to get re-stacked and emptied containers sent back to manufacturers overseas faster than the productivity American corporation use of the overseas manufacturers can pump out more goods. Employers never brought manufacturing back to the US and neither have any of the last four presidents and Congresses any intention of re-manufacturing the US that is not tied to competing with China, the sacrifices of the American labor force are to serve the sanctions that do nothing but strengthen China working in the multipolar network that all but few nations are participating. I think once the veil of lies is ripped off the faces of the political parties Americans will get over their fear of their political parties and be embarrassed they did not stand up to this usurper and oppressor sooner sparing themselves decades of agony and suffering. The usurper are republicans and the oppressor are the democrats. Two tiny imps of men and women behind a massive artificial wall of secrecy. One slap in the face of the political parties will bring down the entire edifice the imps have constructed to make the political parties larger than life, well organized and as large as the political parties are internally small. They have organization on their side and organization beats disorganization. Disorganization is the present condition of the American people they will get over after several defeats and body blows have been delivered
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  7157. If you attend community board meetings you will find that the Americans testifying at the city council are down right either stupid or selfish. Many of them are small landlords, others members of motorcycle “gangs”, are plain residents, or small business people, they state testimonies about migrants not deserving to live in America, or there is an immigration process they should get at the end of line, or there are people waiting decades to become American citizens, really dumb, ignorant comments, that beg more questions about their own mental awareness of their own social processes in society. They speak toa Board that has no answers to their problem. The inflow of cheap labor yanked from countries that are poor and kept poor by the US encourages the inflow of migrants. Just dumb, the American middle class are an embarrassment. Americans are poorer and homeless not because of migrants but because Big Capital (corporations cannot survive without cheap labor), and now that the world economy slows down American employers will hire more from this pool of workers to stay afloat, or accumulate higher quantities of capital.
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  7158. The exclusion rate in American society is extremely high. America’s social institutions are big on punishment and exclusion for the sake of punishment.
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  7159. To fill in a vacuum on the American Question and its domestic scene in the US it would be useful to have a Scott Ritter type of social analysis of Trump’s GOP right wing.
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  7160. Clever, cunning...and callous, ---distract the attention of the public by cutting out the poor and elderly in the name of fraud and abuse than taking the money meant for the poor and elderly to give to the rich...in the form of tax cuts and also to raise money to fight a war in the Pacific against China seems to be the real reason for the sudden foreign policy shift away from a war with Russia through Ukraine and the government’s impatience with Netanyahu and the remaining hostages, a Robin Hood theft in reverse...takes place behind the curtain. Even clearer that before this plan could be launched the public had to be greased with anti-immigrant ointment in the form of propaganda against migrants testing the distraction plan, a psychological operation on a mass scale, before cutting into the elderly and the poor of their benefits from social security, and social security disability, survivors benefits the whole gamut robbed that this bitter pill is swallowed easier...all for what, to get people to make up the difference in longer working hours. I think this is the Trump Plan in a nutshell.
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  7161. America is irrelevant on the world stage. Macron goes to China not the America to address the Ukraine relationship France has with NATO and Russia is a historic sign that American prominence in the world is now nothing! Last resort is force to solve every problem America finds itself in and search out other markets for its own survival, therefore, the US Senate looks to Africa for American capital and perpetuates a Ukrainian proxy war with Russia for its own enrichment. World Historic Moment.
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  7162. Disgusting! This officially means the American working class gets nothing. The US labor force works for the material well being of Israel a direct consumer of American dollars. The elite leaders of the democratic and republican party raise a middle finger to the American working person and they are in your face about it, shamelessly lauding the profits the military industrial complex is yielding from continued war and intervention on the planet! The longer these wars remain the more lives are killed the higher the profits and there is not one progressive democrat in the democratic party that stands up against this! The immorality of this political leadership, the Citadel of Power are the Speaker, the President and the Pentagon, could not be lower and more barbarous. The American First crowd are really arguing for an America Last Policy. 61% of the US population of 332 million people live paycheck to paycheck, roughly 221 million people that if they lost their jobs would be homeless and destitute in a month,---this mass of people need to get off their feet and get political quick!
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  7163. Theoretically, the cost of production is reduced by the cost of war. War cheapens production. Reducing the cost of production and raising the absolute level of surplus-value is the sole motive of American corporate capitalism. War accomplishes this aim by throwing a nation into oblivion. Lowering the cost of production is the reason to be in Afghanistan. Capital exports production all around the world where it is cheapest to produce, cheap cost of labor-power and cheap or free land acquisition by means of financial swindle. Territorial acquisition on which to build a city in its own image just upgraded. The American people realize they have to pay in longer hours of work under less humane conditions than they would like for these wars only after they have been seduced by the false pretenses of the elites to get into them. Blame falls of the American public for not using its social power to stop giving the privilege to ruling elites the ability to print money forever. Unlike all other countries the deficit can reach infinity in the United States. All other nations operate the same way our states operate they must pay off their debts with the budget they have and still pay for all the services the state provides to all municipalities. The Federal government is exempt from this imperative. Generations from now people like Jordan will act aghast at not a 20 year long war but an infinite state of war. War reduces cost and competition drives elites to sell more, in turn, intensifying labor of the worker at home. Getting more work in the same time from all workers. Speed ups; work harder. Workers here will resist as they always do but in the case of the American worker they might be more nihilistic and self-destructive than pro-active and revolutionary owing to an extreme deprivation of education. The American public pays no attention of how or what ideological tool is used to con them to agreeing to war but this is not unique in history. Ever since the English Victorians introduced the capitalist mode of production made able by a period of non-War for that country, a passive public was also one of their creations. Non-war because the Napoleonic Wars kept England free from France's aggressive colonialism and imperialism. The making of the British Working Class was unique in that the working person could escape by rail the factory and its urban environment. The American public comes around later to the conclusion that they have been had, after the elites get what they want. But each time the elites are proactive and revolutionary in getting what they want the American workers sink deeper into the ground and sooner. Winning back lost gains, the Vote, Minimum Wage, legal limits of the workday, debt relief, medical care, education, and social development whatever happens to be going on is harder made more impossible in the workplace in particular for the American working class to restore on an individual basis. Its social power is the only answer and given the track record of the elites restoring what was lost entails all working class individuals to form a union as the only power strong enough to match the infinite power of money in the hands of the elites. The power of love, solidarity, understanding, empathy and class consciousness. The same values the elites use to advance their aims and interest are the values the working class must learn to advance their class interest.
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  7164. Charlotte NC., the communities of this state live in tyranny. In seconds, your community can become a war zone and run by fascist police squads chasing after warrants...sounds just like 1940 Morocco. And your mayors will welcome them.
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  7165. War and independence had synonymous meanings in 1776. I am not far from where one of General Washington’s personal military guard, Cuddebeck is buried in a quaint unassuming cemetery in NY. The grave marker adds reality to the words on pages we read or say aloud. The French provided the arms the declaration provided the guarantee to defeating the British. Could Cuddebeck have been a spy for the French king in his role as guard to Washington sending assurances the king’s support is well spent. Cuddebeck is the American version of Cuddebéc. Battles like Washington’s were the way city-states become major cities and capitols to nations that the history and tactics of generals of the wars of Antiquity first began with the capturing of city-states...followed by the growth of that city-state ultimately becoming major cities like Boston or NY and Philadelphia...opening a new frontier. Looking at Washington’s war strategy... the Delaware River is a British supply line from the Cheasepeake to Trenton. Washington’s first takes Trenton by surprise attack than with fortification takes Princeton and Morristown, small cities dependent on local farming and slavery. One rural county seat after another. NYC the prize.
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  7166. Poor Americans are always at the mercy of living in a sea of goods and no money that ponds of parasites form to prey among them.
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  7167. NY-ers love pets...lets see how much they love pets. This electrocution should bring out half the NY population in mass protest on government officials to get the money from Wall Street and back into the communities from which that wealth came and fix the entire infrastructure or get sent home out of a job.
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  7168. Sorry, ----I am not won over to this side. Her issues are not my issues.
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  7169. The Democratic party had twice betrayed the working class. The first time was with the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and the second time with the New Deal. In the former, slavery was restored in the form of Jim Crow and in the second case capitalism was restored in the form of a patriarchal Welfare State.
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  7170. It demonstrates the parliamentary system and the concept of State’s Rights as a way to meet the needs of society is absolutely worthless, venal and chauvinistic, and ought to be abolished for a more direct democratic process where one individual or group would have to go up against the Will of all 332 million people to stop what society needs to keep going on a civil bases.
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  7171. "Stuff cost more in rich countries than in poorer ones".  "Moscow subways were not built at huge public expense to showcase the strength of Soviet communism".  I grew up in the City and the rampant crime Fareed talks about in the 70s was not rampant. Way more crime now in cities than when I grew up. America today looks like NYC in the 70s with its crime a million times more magnified. The scariest crimes in NYC were serial killers like the Son of Sam, the disappearance of Eaton Patz and the face slasher who slashed a model's face. Rarely was somebody pushed on the train tracks, very rare, I would remember it if it happened. Street vendors were never accosted because of their race and robberies happened to small mom and pop shops did not end up in cold blooded murder with a weapon of mass destruction at hand. There were no mass shootings. Trump publicly accused three black men for rape in the 70s in Central Park because he bought the Plaza Hotel right on Central Park, these men were exonerated in 2022. Fareed is handing out lies. The pyramids were built by artisans and millions of slaves. Taj Mahal was built by forced labor by a dynasty. You cannot compare societies based on slavery with a modern society based on market capitalism.
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  7172. The origins of the Mafia is interesting, a gang of peasants who sold protection to feudal lords in 16th century Sicily.
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  7173. This man, Sam Seder, is minimizing the class system over which oppressed minorities and indigenous people are ruled in America. He is going on and on about race and slavery while, all the while, a class system dominates the American landscape as he speaks and intensifying as he speaks. Trump is a capitalist and a landowner. Pelosi is a capitalist and a landowner, she profits from wine and owns land producing wine. America is ruled by a landowning class. Race and gender politics in America is used to cover the class question in America and people like this guy has nothing to say about class in America and in the world. This is the worst show I have seen so far on American Youtube. Are Americans racist? Wow, really blind to the social reality. All Americans are racists even the ones who say they are not are racists. I'm a racist because the society I live in places people into separate social classes based on race. I'd be honest if I said I hate the class system creating this condition of race segregation but these guys just bury their guilt with empathy.
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  7174. totally agreed, employee ownership re-unites labor and the means of production. Question becomes when the means of production are the land, warehouses, factories, office and tools, that are privately owned by employees of companies in these fields of activity they are still limited to producing value as employees now turned into employers of themselves and this does not change the social character of production. No?
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  7175. The point is freedom and democracy is being taken away in multiple nations simultaneously. In Georgia, USA a Black female elected representative was arrested by state capitol police officers. The governor was signing into legislation changes to election rules behind closed door. Evidently, this signing did not include all the representatives of the legislature and when one of them went to find out what was gong on, she was detained by police. Taken into an elevator to a location I could not say at this point...because I don't know...but this is chauvinistic behavior exercising power, anytime they want, the lack of accountability is true in the US as it is in Myanmar.
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  7176. The entire direction of news must change from negative to positive stories.
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  7177.  @Other3.5  Stop calling it names, 'anti-capitalist monopoly'....this is capitalism. Your summation was perfect until you sad 'what we have now...' a monopoly system other than capitalism. Competition breeds monopolies and monopolies get broken up by anti-trust laws to re-establish competition. Common mistake and dead give away for the age of commenters who have no recollection of the growth of Bell Telephone that became ATT&T and is now just another company.
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  7178. Colin Kahl, Ph.D., Under Secretary of Defense, once in a while key civil servants in their career jobs are in front view of the Public, like billionaires, they stay out of the limelight. A vulgar Right Wing, assails them as the “Deep State”, a feature of American government that presidents are temporary the institutions are permanent. Why are the real shapers of social policy not overtly public? Why do we not see more of them? But we will see more of them as the War with Russia progresses and descends into nuclear confrontation in its unpopularity and the survival of an Oligarchy hangs more and more on the policies these men and women write, they will have to defend it publicly, because nobody else will! We never saw the Secretary of the Treasury on foreign junkets. A Fed chairperson is not even a government official, Janet Yellen, is a private individual with a job that is outside of the government. The Fed is a private bank, Yellen is a private banker. Who does the globetrotting is not the president and who is determining policy is not the sovereignty of the American people, it is treasonous this news channel thinks nothing of that!
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  7179. This is unfinished business in America.
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  7180. This is why people will never be free in America and believing the cops can free you from particular actions that cut your general freedom back is a pipe dream. Freedom won’t come from civil society or from the State; new laws or harder sentencing won’t fix this kind of problem. Reform is redundant. Its either you are free or not and if there is to be a disappearance of all actions that limit the freedoms of others in society it will have to come from a universal social class. My guess is that the people who lost substantially in the 2007 recession and have not made any recovery since but have fallen into deeper decline in material wealth have less to lose will free humanity from the object that oppresses humanity.
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  7181. This president is not leaving the White House, he will suspend the election, and if the election goes though and he loses his secret army will occupy and defend the WH with him in it. In two weeks with all the social contact happening among protesters if the coronavirus mortality and infection rate does not rise that too will be regarded as a tool for social dominance and control.  Time will tell.
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  7182. Putin is then fighting the just fight defending Russians in Ukraine from a second wave of Nazism. As in the past Russia fought Nazis and defeated them in WWII ending the war. With the Nazis resurgence in American government in particular and left-liberal establishment fascism in general, revenge and retaliation for the defeat of Russia and China is the foreign policy of the US.
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  7183. Ridiculous proposition because everyone who enters government green are honest, except George Santos. One out of million proves my point. They become corrupt. The institution itself is two things at the same time, a failed institution for society and a successful institution for a Power Elite. And as for your last point I agree, none of them, are worthy of public trust. The more that illegitimacy spreads the better our chances they can be pushed aside and our economy saved from ruin.
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  7184. Judge must have been binging on Pirates of the Caribbean.
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  7185. Just as an observation...amazing how the labor of four crew members is all that is needed to move tons of oil and tons of iron in the shape of an oil tanker. Defies the imagination of a 18th century peasant that iron can float. Yet 21 st century man thinks nothing of it. A tanker the size of a football field with an engine a quarter of the size of a football field. The propeller alone must stand two stories high. And four human beings alone at sea.  Four crew members do a shift of 6 hours each so the boat is never left unmanned at the helm. How do you get people to do this work...the oil industry pays high? For example, do the math say, four men at $150 a day, for a two week period, each man earns $2100, total in wages laid out by the company, $8,400. Scary job. Anything can happen in international waters. And the closer you get to the Middle East a tanker can be a sitting duck and a pretext for war.
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  7186. What is tyrannical, immoral and a violation of everything natural about raising the exchange-value of cattle meat and other products is using the science that if cows were not commodities their owners would not put a gun to their heads for the reduction of cattle as a humane way to improve the health of the environment and the people consuming that environment through which their domestic animals are cultivated. In the case of Irish farmers 12:19 raising the price by destroying 200,000 head of cattle in the name of the science is a way to remove government controls over the price of commodities...this enriches the farmers as long as the remaining cattle are sold and become chopped meat in the stores but it is more how capitalism breaks down all barriers in its way from having free sway over production and exchange. Government controls the price of milk relative to wages for a population, capitalism destroys that rule, violates every rule, for its own development and enrichment.
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  7187. The Pentagon is occupied by idiots and have made a stupid and untrustworthy institution out of it. Total hypocrites who don’t give a dam about human life. In one breath, they call it strategic deterrence when it uses the same actions on other nations and in the next breath call those actions barbaric and criminal when other nations reply in the same manner. A really immature government that dishes it out but can’t take it that government is no smarter than 2 year old in a tantrum.
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  7188. This news format is weird. It makes the people in it look weird and unnatural. Close shot of the faces presents it as a package.
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  7189. Disney owns ABC.
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  7190. This is the only show on the Internet that does not take for granted the economics of capitalism. Surplus value is the difference between the selling price and the assessed value of the property, the profit of $847,174 million is synonymous with the surplus-value derived from the exchange. Anyone who rationalizes this relation is either apologizing for it or concealing it the best way they can. Jimmy is right that Stewart has become the meme of the capitalist. A person pretending to criticize it approves it in word and deed. The selling price is synonymous with the exchange-value of the property, the assessed value is synonymous with the value of the property. An assessment assesses the value of its constituent parts, the current price of land and the cost of a building on that land is added together forms the total of the value of the unit property of 6,000 square feet space. The cost of living space is the commodity reflects the real estate market average for housing for that area is an inherent aspect of any unit property. The sale money from the sale of the property is the profit not on capital but on living land space as surplus-value. Question becomes who the actual owner of this surplus-value is when there are others who take a share of it, is the owner of the SV the same person who distributes the sale money to the banks, contractors, realtors, utility providers, etc. as deductions from the surplus-value and the other question where does this difference of SV come from when the rule for exchange is to exchange between sellers and buyers an equal amount of money for an equal amount of value in the product is in no way violated.
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  7191. America is a land of dictators its not a government dictatorship that I refer. Employers are the dictators, America has a many dictators. Elon Musk, and anyone who employs labor is a dictator of that labor,--- and so for 8 hours a day, 365 days a year, 138 million Americans employed by employers, are subject slaves to their employers. This constitutes a formalized dictatorship. If you work for the state the state is your dictatorship. If you work for a small landscaper the owner is your dictator and for the greater part of your time including your free time is appropriated by your personal dictator. You are not free to bring a gun to work, Not free to decide how much you get paid. Not free to decide how the work gets done. You cannot change the work if the work you do is apparently dangerous for you and others. Work you do is decided by others who do not do the work. You are not free to decide how work gets done with your other fellow workers. Not free to use the work time to your advantage, the copiers, fax machines, whatever you need to get your personal work done or go to the dentist without losing something or giving something to the boss, namely, overtime work. Where is your freedom if you are not free for three quarters of your life, free only when you sleep, and free only on the patch of land you rent or own? Getting mad at Americans is an easy thing to do. Very easy to lose patience with people who are delusional about their freedoms which for the most part is the entire population. But once the unthinking American realizes how not free they really are another view of freedom begins to grow and take shape. A freedom employers, CEO dictators, all combine to crush. The CEO is the new royalty, the new kings, the only people in society who enjoy true freedom. Americans should stop pretending the CEO and them are the same people when, in fact, they are polar opposites and you cannot have Kings without people who see themselves as subjects in relation to a king.
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  7192. They cannot pay their bills and the excitement about not paying their bills is their way of coping with the harsh reality of death by starvation or by freezing in winter. A rally we all get slaughtered together. Western news won’t censor this event. The event plays into the defeat of workers and the success of capitalism. The protest is a spontaneous one that if they are going down may as well go down with a fight. This is admirable but not revolutionary. Don’t think it was the work of the political and class conscious mindedness of people finally putting theory into practice to the level intellectuals desire, that they burn the bills. When they do have the money to live capitalism is a non-issue for the masses despite the warnings from intellectuals. A distance between intellectuals and the working class is itself a crisis in the states as it is in Europe. Intellectuals in the states are ironically poorly educated about revolutions. They couldn’t see it if it hit them on the head. The masses who are politically and class conscious protesting western capitalism and austerity are the Poles right now. There and among Polish right and left movements in unison crush personal and individual needs for food, heat and housing from holding the masses hostage to cuts. There a revolution is real and the indicator of a successful overthrow of a Polish austerity government is when Poland drops out of western news.
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  7193. Kyle, thanks for your summary of Chomsky's analysis, it is necessary to understand the establishment and the political system, and the working class as a class on its own, abandoned. This brings me to my point. If we trust the analysis Chomsky provides then we have take action on several levels, 1., attack religion to break down the evangelical and catholic vote, there is much fodder for this. Catholics are pedofiles and evangelicals on television are opulent rich to a point of excess. 2., the 1% served by the Senate and House, 3., the democrats and their delusions, attack what they do and politicize their ideology and actions in front of the American public, as a counter operation to the popularizing of what the working class likes, or hates, i.e., guns and abortion, the social issues the right wing politicizes and the progressive left has not learned to politicize the existence of the working class, i.e., you're alone, pushed out, neglected by the all of the above.
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  7194. Industries that once supported people have become industries that produce for other industries. Problems come with this arrangement when the product or commodity all these industries working for each other help to produce is no longer useful effectively killing the demand for that commodity and a whole lot of people thrown out of work. A crisis. A double crisis of uemployment and a public health crisis. We know products are tested for their utility but it is not the aim of business that a useful thing is made. Boeing embodied a huge number of working hours for a total renovation of its planes but it was Boeing business practices and management that their planes were made to extract a profit from them that rules production and this practice led to the crash of its planes.  The normal course of business led to a disaster. The process of creating a working plane as a use-value to society that we see the particular level of skill, knowledge and creativity of all the particular kinds of people doing a great job renovating the 747 model is not made the rule in our society. Although it should be, the society we live in does not permit it. Normal is a return to the same business practice that led to the disaster gaurantees the disaster will happen again and more intensified.
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  7195. baby boomers are the most spoiled generation in history the rockers are ten times as spoiled...what are we to expect from them, selflessness. Doubt it.
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  7196. The conditions which exist make it impossible to 1: organize workers on the job, and 2., expect victories from strikes by one sector of workers. Workers have to appeal to other sector workers in the same classification publicly to take the same action...all in nobody out...and this action must also appeal to the public to boycott the following companies exploiting workers and provoking strikes. Intentional Property Destruction assumes the workers own the trucks because they work on the trucks, confusing a property relation with a disruption of a labor process.
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  7197. There is still in the Universe that we do not know is what he is saying and that is perfectly fine.  We know less the more we learn about the Universe and this does not mean there are alien Beings behind the objects seen in the skies.
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  7198. Spit in the bucket compared to how much is in the kitty they control. Students should unanimously go on strike for a debt moratorium until bailed out and education made free. Its not impossible as longs as dividends, bonds and stocks are not taxable income for people like DeVoss, student debts can be cancelled.
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  7199. A port could not strand you at sea if all on board are clean and free of COVID can they? Ships during the 2020 quarantine were stranded at sea in their own homeland after being away at sea for months...imagine how that felt? Parked in the Pacific Ocean completely jammed up the flow of products back home in many countries. All the ships and containers were still at sea. The empty containers could not go back and all the products ready to go to market went nowhere and were stuck! All this reeked havoc on national economies and the normal ebb and flow of world trade. Tourist trade hit bad. Cruise ships taking extra steps in a disorganized world.
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  7200. The non-human world of nature are victims of the human world of nature in the on-going and never ending process of exploitation of its own species under capitalism.
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  7201. If humanity is one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation this trip of Pelosi’s is that miscalculation. US Navy Warships are all over the South China Sea. When she lands in Tapei about 6 AM EST Wed 8/3/22 low intensity nuclear warfare will have begun.
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  7202. What the Police department for that neighborhood can’t put up a camera,---morons.
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  7203. nonsense @ashton1952 
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  7204. If the woman was your wife and she was dying from an embryo defect which life would you choose to live? If the embryo your wife carries has a birth defect from a contaminated source who in your union would decide the life of the embryo after birth? Two questions that pose a moral dilemma for you to think about @aaronj2296 
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  7205. Harlem is not the black working class community it was before Manhattan got gentrified in the 80s, it is now largely a middle class black community. Even Malcolm X’s apartment is a condo today. Condo owners worth a cool million or more. The place is totally unrecognizable next to a photograph of the Old Adam Clayton Blvd in Harlem at the far west end of Central Park. Does West appeal to the black middle class section of the working class? Apparently not. He would have to go further uptown into the Jackson Heights and the Bronx to reach out to a native afro-American, Caribbean, Gulf Coast Central American working class, that as a professor neither he or Jill Stein can even speak the same languages of the working classes uptown. West is running a campaign that strictly appeals and aims to tame a white middle class section of the working class, people like Jimmy. A true revolutionary campaign garners its strength from any section of the working class and you do not need a majority to start a revolution, takes a clever minority to plan out a revolution, and the source of money to make a revolution requires empathizers with money, to agitate the masses into a movement, one that begins as an opposition to Biden and ends as an opposition to Trump using educative propaganda to critique every part about the government working people find wrong, unfair or cannot tolerate. Bernie’s campaign started in a revolutionary way but ended in a demoralizing defeat. This is a valuable lesson for a revolutionary movement.
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  7206. A different set of rules justifies opposition to the rules; there should be remorse but not guilt about not trusting corporations and corrupt government agencies; there should be reason not pure nostalgia about corporations and government today are the same as before; there should be common sense not confusion that government and corporate actions make an enemy of people by their set of rules that promotes corporate immunity and another set of rules that criminalizes a community for being a community.
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  7207. They all snub the working class candidate in favor of a woman and a gay man. Obama was elected because he was the first black man and his policies paved the way for Donald Trump. Elect a woman and the president to follow will be a man (gay or straight) or another billionaire. But never will they allow the working class put its agenda forward.
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  7208. you assumed right @pallidavisholubar7273 
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  7209. I would consider Eric Brandt, to be America's first dissenter, a selfless and intrepid defender of the Public from the tyranny of law, and a movement to free Eric Brandt from his sentencing to prison should take organizational form. The side of him that appears to us as harming himself is the side of the repressive force going after him that he alone he cannot defeat which is why he needs public back up, to keep that repressive force off him. If they know the Public at large supports Eric by means of Public pressure of the police apparatus, he will be left unharassed and so will we all. But without that support they will want him gone and will do it over time making his life excruciatingly impossible and ours less free. If we are not hypocrites ourselves it will be unanimous among us that Eric's civic activity is meaning of true patriotism in this time period.
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  7210.  @newday8545  Its the same. Nothing new. It just was not reported as much. I grew up in the City and there were shootings and stabbings in 60s and 70s. The problem that it is unchanged is the problem. Bernie Getz killings in the subway. Postal workers were dangerous people. Son of Sam. Missing children. John Lennon of Beatles fame was shot dead outside of his residence in the Dakota where I used to hang out. The answer to this problem is to decentralize industry so that there is no place in America where the population is densely packed like sardines and places are deserted of industry in the country. Uneven development is the problem and to solve it you will have to overthrow capitalism. The concentration of people is an unmanageable assault on the senses that numbs people and they become indifferent to people.
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  7211. It is racist to use racism as a political weapon? This is what top officials of the DNC decided to do when they shoved Biden out of the way and got behind Kamala Harris. The best candidate to replace Biden did not come from a convention. She was installed, Trump would have to attack a black women married to a Jew is using Kamala’s personal life as political defense. Later they realized that Kamala is an oratory failure and lacks substance. They have been riding on the desires of the American people to avoid her giving necessary speeches that would give Trump all the evidence he needs about her to win the election.
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  7212. This channel is the official defense industry channel. Not going to find news about the world here.
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  7213.  Dominatus Hydra  I was looking for news and then found no news.
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  7214. I do believe the American form of business organization is the reason for the sluggish fall of the American empire. The few at the top who control all the means and the many without any control of the means is a form of organization of industry and employment that has seen its better days. Science and technology is currently a force compelling people to work harder not easier or less and this force has been in the hands of the corporations for the last 75 years, to me that is enough time to realize, this form of organization of work in society is a dead end for the many and a gift to the few. People are much smarter today and can organize industry in much more people friendly and profitable ways for many communities to stand on their feet.
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  7215. Prison means the inmates are not allowed to do anything for themselves. Anything they would need is locked up the sick staff and the administration have the keys. There is no excuse for only 40% of the prison population vaccinated. The administration is the controller of this population commits an atrocity the State of NY turns a blind eye. Prison population is a controlled population with no rights that immunizations should have reached a 100% in 10 days. Is it malice or incompetence for the low rate of vaccination on a controlled population?🤔
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  7216. Markets would be created in North Korea if there were reunification with the South. Job markets and money markets, tourism, and corporate investment would spread like an infection break down resistance to a united and capitalist Korea from which it can encroach easier into China and finally take all of Asia and the East as its dominion with Latin America all run from Washington D.C. Can you imagine the clowns in DC deciding the fate of a people across the world how that would go over with the people across the world?
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  7217.  @LazyIRanch  They win the cultural war and lose the economic war.
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  7218.  @danialhillmann5374  I should remind you before you proceed that you are not the only one who knows that.
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  7219. Why would there be ambulances, there is no movement or object moving that would harm anyone. What I see is disruption to draw attention to a point...its not like they can take out a national ad.  @zev3143 
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  7220. The mayor is full of it. Full of what? hYperBole. Its not as if the cops have to pull out a pencil and start filling in a report on the scene when trying to apprehend a perpetrator during a robbery, a chase, intercepting a violet offender, that would be pure Hollywood satire like a scene out of Police Academy I.II.and III. I am not keen on the details but I can bet its low level crimes that cops since they are the front line, given four or five key questions to ask when they are interacting with the public. A street survey, routine sociology. Cops are not in the habit of interacting with the public outside of responding to violent episodes in public. Could be challenging to ask the first question, build a rapport, talking to people, not comfortable being a survey taker. Tough! They are civil servants. Council will probably override the mayor’s veto and it will get done. The mayor’s hyperbole is right up there with Donald Trump’s use of hyperbole. The worst types of people to be leading a city into a period of stagnation and austerity cuts, people are losing their jobs. Lay offs are large numbers of workers. More serious leaders are needed. Stagnation in the city is horrible and its worse outside of the city.
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  7221. I can tell by your writing you are military. You refer to citizens as "civilian" which is a give away. The comportment of the officer was not an issue for you, i.e., screaming and guns drawn, that is a give away of military training. Then you used the term "power trip" a spin off from the term "head trip" of the 60s which gives away your age and profile. From high school you went into the military and served in Afghanistan, now working in law enforcement or security and you voted for Trump. If I am wrong don't answer.
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  7222.  @GNOBNX  I wonder if you realize in effect, you are saying the institution founded on racism is not racist. How do you reconcile that contradiction?
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  7223.  @PCgamer923  Paid Per Punch Program (PPPP).
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  7224. According to Zalenski, Russia blew up its own pipeline, bridge and dam but on the other hand a former president of the US calls the whole US political elite Zalenski now belongs or is owned by, liars and cheaters! Who are you to believe when cops ignore the calls of a man in need of help and the man dies, or when minimum pay is considered a wage of emancipation, or when houses collapse and trees get uprooted and human neglect is to blame and where children get killed by mortar fire near to where their play is normal. Who are you to believe, trust, and put your faith into outside of yourselves?
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  7225. Funny, the state department spokes man says they are doing every thing possible to ensure Ghafoor is treated humanely carries the implication that without state department pressure Ghafoor would be chopped up into pieces. I hope people realize that in Washington people never get into trouble for telling a lie.
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  7226. Emergency Action for the Canadians is what an act of Marshall Law is to us. But when all the provinces evoke an Emergency Action that is at the level of declaring Marshall Law for us nationally in the US. There are reports of cash offered for tow trucks the army will use to tow the Convoy. The entire Convoy is surrounded and in Ottowa the city’s perimeter is sealed off to keep residents out of the protest area; pretty serious interventions by the State of Canada. This all comes before the investigations start and prosecutions that another Convoy is not organized. It looks to me like Canada has fallen into a state of organized chaos.
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  7227. Classic contradiction isn't it? If you lived long enough you've lived through one complete business cycle you'd know. Business cycles are a necessary evil of capitalist life. The last business cycle ended with the Fall of Saigon 1975. It began with WWII. The newer cycle began anew in 1980 and ends with the Fall of Kabul 2021. The latest cycle is what we are in now that the variables are beginning to take shape as dismal. After Saigon fell the US economy faced double digit inflation and coined a new term 'stagflation'. Unemployment and inflation crippled working people in the 70s. At the beginning of this cycle crippling the standard of living of working people are four disasters. Destruction, climate change, unemployment, pandemic, proving capitalism is incompatible to human life. Business cycles are more than an 'explanatory hypothesis', of statistical analysis presented to us in the media. They mean and measure something real when statistics and theory fit into an institutional study. Understand that unemployment, crisis, depressions, are necessary evils that cannot be separated from the economic system than you can understand the work of the political world is all damage control and self-preservation. There is always enough money, they sit on a surplus that reaches the stratosphere, its purely political that people are not helped in their domestic life or the State is hijacked by a national business class of monopoly corporations.
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  7228. Corporations want to silence any dissent in society, kill Free Speech, and impoverish society and these kids used to that effect are voluntary and ignorant corporate minions.
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  7229. As long as people buy single family homes banks and insurance companies will always find a way to make the home market profitable for themselves despite climate change. Dispersed single family habitation and highly compartmentalized habitation create a society where there is all land and no people and all people and no land, as a pattern of lifestyle and living across the continent, with centralized market centers. Two extreme forms of living that are mutually dependent yet separate and apart, i.e., you cannot have a rural countryside unless you have a city and without a city there is no industry and without a rural countryside there is no food. A lifestyle that places the population in long term risk, a life of jeopardy, where the necessaries of life, shelter and subsistence, are separated from the population, and the mode of living is one choice, one style, one uniform construction, one type of layout for a community. In the end when the community is destroyed a bland cultural wasteland is left behind, where points and locations are only accessible by car.
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  7230. @conradaster3764 Thumbs up!
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  7231. Who is polled is the question? Were you reading this sent an email to answer question on a poll sample, no, you were never polled...so who do they poll if it is not you reading this? Jimmy wasn’t polled. He should say that. Kurt was never polled. The general public is ignored and denied. Our opinions are irrelevant to them. When a specific class of people come after you there is bound to be stress and they know the stress they apply is meant to break you, collapse, suffer a heart attack, quit is Biden’s dilemma. But despite all this Biden is the closest thing you have to an average person who was not born with a silver spoon in their mouths from birth the way Trump and George Clooney, born into privilege and the other born into celebrity royalty, i.e, Mary Clooney, (singer in the 60s). They are not average dickwads like us. If you vote for Trump, he admits, he is Big Oil’s man, Drill Baby Drill. Vote for Biden there is a better chance at getting rid of corporate democrats who deny the Public all the time. So who gets polled? You or Them?
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  7232. The theory of archeological investigation and method of presentation is eloquently explained by the professor.
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  7233. Haiti has not been in the news which should tell you that it is still embroiled in conflict the general US media ignores and the American public does not see why in just a few short years a town in the US can get swamped with Haitian immigrants.
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  7234. America’s Right Wing are going straight for the guzzler. In a wave of hostile reactions to what the American people in Wisconsin voted for and won republicans want to take away. Tennessee republicans, Idaho, Kansas, republicans are in lock step, blow after blow, a hit mob targeting the American people with a series of restrictive legislations.
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  7235. The war the US and its coalition forces led for 20 years in Afghanistan hinged on an accumulation of capital that took the form of Warlords and the Taliban on one side and Defense Contractors and Afghans on the other side. These were the parties to come out of this war richer than they went into it and these were the parties that engaged in artificial war on each other at the expense of the people of Afghanistan and the US taxpayer. Coalition forces and the US should invade Los Angeles and let the homeless get a piece of that wealth presents the rationale and reasons the US explains away this debacle is sheer shameless hypocrisy.
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  7236. You are legally a wage earner (employee) if a bar tab and space is provided by the bar owner. Whatever the drinks add up to is the wage you received. This itself is dehumanizing to all parties.
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  7237. Until it is your son or daughter the popular one takes from you then the popularity turns into revolution. But I don’t believe you are capable of understanding that. It was said in the video. Either you are in denial or the BIG LIE has snatched your soul. @raymondsalman2096 
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  7238. I think the American Left is already divided on this war. Splits have happened between those who side with Russia and those who side with Ukraine, and those who side on a perception that imperialism is capitalism, that there isn’t a separation between the two. You cannot be pro- capitalism in Ukraine and against imperialism in policy at home and you cannot be against capitalism at home and for imperialism abroad. This seems to be the trouble with democrats appeasing the two sides for and against the war and sanctions. Capitalism is a straightjacket around the patient.
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  7239. The end of the world in some Christian’s eyes is the fall of capitalism in the eyes of pragmatists, let there be no confusion about that.
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  7240. Fletcher is wrong. What will defeat the rise of authoritarianism internationally in Brazil, Hungary, Phillipines, India, Israel, Japan, led by the ganster in the White House is a progressive internationalism. When movements that want to change the world take action all over the world at the same time will defeat authoritarianism.
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  7241. Incredible state of affairs...rapid and turgid...social fluctuations.
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  7242.  @africandefender5174  The flood of humanity from the British colonies to American shores was a diversion carried on by a law of supply and demand as applied to labor. The West could not absorb this wave of humanity faster than the British threw immigrants on the labor-market,--- Indians held the land in the Plains and that explains the reasons behind America's Indian Wars of the 18th century. This law is applied to labor today is meant to make this humanity dependent on private business; a flow kept controlled, and wages confined to limits satisfactory to exploitation so that in a generation or so, a new social class emerges, perhaps one even richer than today repeating the same process that happened in the 17th century. This ends when humanity no longer wears on its forehead "For Hire".
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  7243. Big banks are still facilitating the hiding of assets of kings, queens, monarchs and dictators, while mothers are shot by police in front of their children in America and innocent families are bombed in Gaza, Palestine. Politicians hide their assets in all but one state, Florida, where by law a politician must disclose assets to run or hold an office. This goes into effect in exactly 24 hrs midnight tonight. Happy New Year to the comment section! You won a tiny victory and did not even hear about it till I mentioned it. A tiny victory for the American mass of poor working people of Florida who cannot hide their assets through Big Banks. Certain states provide sanctuary for assets. Stocks, bonds, cannot be traced. The key effort it appears what government means to them among all the richest elites is to make wealth and hide it. Well, the masses can make wealth but they can’t hide it. Their wealth is exposed and vulnerable to theft. Big theft steal from little ones. The minimum wage goes up this New Year but it goes down as fast as it went up because supply and demand, has changed to add a higher price on things. Oh, one more thing, Netanyahu is prosecuting a war on Palestine only to stay out of jail. Tomorrow he and his ilk will accuse Palestinians for the Spanish Inquisition so they can avoid jail time, any accusation will do, as long as they can prolong a war and avoid jail. He does not want to end up like the Malaysian president who got caught red handed depositing $750 billion dollars of treasury money into his Chase Bank account.
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  7244. It is interesting to note the market form of distribution of the vaccine falls flat short of actual needs in society nevermind government goals. One of the most vital aspects of a community is a health office in every town was destroyed by the new Millennium generation. Killed any chance of the vaccine finding its way across the nation. Pfizer, Maderna, Johnson and Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, all boosting up their vaccine development but where is it going if it is not getting into the arms of the Public? A doctor should have a medical office in every high school, be on call three days per week, full time nurse, the rest of the time open practice locally or in hospital is up to him. America needs to move away from car dependency as the earliest opportunity and redevelop local independence with its needs met locally. A doctor should not be a paid employee of a hospital corporation, paid as a Schedule C 1099, a payformat that accelerates less independence of the doctor from the corporation. Society treats medicine like Uber treats its own drivers. Decentralizing medicine makes sense if sense is what one makes of a society that is concerned about its Public Health which directly ties into the general well-being of the economy. Doctors ought to be compensated with a lifetime ownership of their residency property and practice and what medicine they develop on their own patented and marketed as they see fit as long as it passes the test of a true high standard FDA. They should go back to doing home visits. Proportional distribution is the next phase of human development follows naturally out of the chaos and ambiguity of the accidental, random and improportional disastrous market form of the product of biopharmeceutical scientists and biologists joined together in a corporation far away from a doctor or anyone's arm to administer a dose.
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  7245. See: D. F. Fleming, The Cold War and Its Origins, 2 Vol., 1961 and J.P Murray: From Yalta to Disarmament, Cold War Debate, 1961. The ideological and political framework of American foreign policy and the political process is thoroughly invested against socialism from persisting anywhere in the world. Every dollar spent on defense to this end reflects a slow down in the social progress and development of the American working class in addition to socialism anywhere in the world.
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  7246. The GOP is not an organization society cannot live without. T To the contrary, the GOP needs society, society does not need the GOP to run itself, at least, I do not need the GOP to run my life, do you? Of course not, therefore, get rid of them.
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  7247. But the Council as a body is also utterly disgraceful or the people, of color no less, would not be so pissed off at the Council’s composition, leadership, direction and politics. If you are going to mitigate against racism than abolish the institution that perpetuates racism. That’s like arguing a modern slave get paid more when slavery itself is what must go! LA people have their heads screwed on wrong.
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  7248. Actually the video was made when all or most Americans spoke truth to power. Today most Americans cow down to power and abandon truth. For this reason there are no more George Carlins in comedy.
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  7249. Who can make all these American companies look better, Boeing, Lockheed, Purdue Pharma, Monsanto, Bayer, and the smaller manufacturers recalling parts that go into finished products, nobody can? Their contracts with the federal government are guaranteed profits why invest all of their capital when half is met by the government. This is the deal Guillianni and his lawyers saved on behalf of these corporations, he outmaneuvered the government as the government in restoring white collar crime in civil life and gave government contracts to the corporations. Instead the corporations pay a fine.  As an ally of Trump, Guilliani kept intact the arrangement between government and corporation, he restored the nanny state relation and redistributed the tax fund from the corporations back to the government. We have reached a point where the government leads a parasitic existence off the tax payer and the corporations lead a parasitic existence off the government.
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  7250. One thing that is very clear with respect to the US, a revolution is a precondition of a subsequent flowering of new transport technologies.
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  7251. Thousands of toxic chemicals had been in use in workplaces since 1945 and de-classified for use since 1980. Meaning the EPA cut its staff. Too many industries too little inspectors was the direct consequence of de-classification Factories had been exposing workers to toxic elements for a century or longer. Politicians are pulling your chain talking about this as having not history.
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  7252. The man is a conceptual architectural genius. Most people stand in front of the side of a mountain rock side and are struck dumb, this guy visualizes a habitat. Now we know how the Pueblo Indians did by hand tools what machines tools do here worked with stone to shape and carve dwellings. I also learned to today that the name of the White House in Washington was taken from the Pueblo Indians, their lodgings were called the White House, see T.H.O'Sullivans, 1873 photographs.
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  7253. 6:35 it is not true that illegal borders crossings were low before Trump took office. Than spiked when he took office is what Joe said. What is true is that during his office border crossings were lower proving he was better than Biden on illegal border crossings. The manner of treatment of illegal border crossings is where both Trump and Biden fail.
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  7254. The men (actors) reflecting the demographic of the time in this short 16mm film, if still alive, would be roughly in their 80s today. This demographic are the wealthiest of all other demographic groups in American society in 2024. The middle group that stops at Gen Z, people born after 1960 up to people born after 1995, are the least content with American society, straddled by personal debt and loss of generational wealth such as, surrendered or confiscated property, property and assets lost to divorce and settlements, job losses lost to free trade commerce between nations, also incarcerations instituted by Obama and Biden and wealth concentration by monopoly formations through bankruptcies under Bush Jr. The most unhappiest social group of America rank educationally very low in math, reading, science, chemistry, they will definitely become the poorest segment in society of natural born Americans. The group born after Gen Z, potentially a revolutionary group, so dissatisfied and victimized by violence they can bring down the whole society in total rage; they are a group that belongs to society but do not identify with that society. The traumatized children in the present end American Capitalism, I give it till 2035.
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  7255. Parents could police the streets themselves and also meet with the parents of the kids presenting the biggest problem in the community and make them part of the policing. Nothing would set the limits greater for kids of that age if they saw 20 or 30 of their parents walking up and down the community. Parents can have their own house arrest for the kids in the home of another parent or do clean up but if they do that be sure to sue the town for an equal value deduction on home and building taxes for the clean up work in the community of debris and caca the punished kid do and the town has not done. Financial incentives make people want to join an organization.
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  7256. Tariffs are a form of raising the price of commodities, therefore, its impact on wages is to lower the purchasing power of the dollar for working people. Trump imposes protectionism against free trade, he assumes and presupposes working people in America are to make the sacrifices and bear the burden of increased taxation down the road for the cost of isolation. The rich can afford the isolation that comes from protectionism, however long it takes to win over markets by artificially raising the price of foreign imports in a trade war, but the working classes cannot. The union steel and aluminum workers can hold out as long as their employers do. But not the majority of Americans already carrying the burden of tax breaks and a ballooning deficit due to war spending. The amount is probably negligible in this round only according to analysts who focus not on the totality of American goods that do not sell or sell high in foreign markets but on how much prices rise in the home market is spread over all commodities that it is not immediately felt by American consumers. The effect is not as severe in domestic circulation the effect is quite severe on domestic production when employers compensate for the loss with more working time from their employees. The price wars will effect the lives of the majority of working people in ways that cuts short what they can buy, how much of it, and their ability to maintain their present living situation. It will also encourage employers to double the length of the working day for employees who do not have unions to protect their interests. These are the social side effects of what a trade war and tariffs means for working people. The general news discusses the effect it will have on rival countries and corporations. Little is said about the effects on working people is too sadly bares no shame on how dispensable working people have become in this system of debt and credit. As it escalates in the next round, all these workers will be considering an alternative economic system protesting against higher taxation and lowered wages along side women who are striking for equal pay.
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  7257. Thank god Zappa recorded everything he did.
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  7258.  @madisonpage6036  You might try the theory that explains why prostitutes are the subject and men are not in the historical method. In a time when societies were not overflowing with property and wealth a home and marriage was the domain of women. Inheritance followed her blood line. There was no need to prostitute herself. All she needed to do was marry and a dowry would set her up with her husband. A piece of land to enlarge a crop could have been a dowry. It was not until men produced new forms of wealth and property as merchants and small producers with slaves or serfs, employing wage day workers, that they created a new problem. Who gets it all when they die? Knowing who your child was for inheritance purposes became real important. A new legal system made. Property and wealth was inherited through the male blood line. The need for prostitution was set. Women were pushed out of property and ownership of wealth had to acquire it by other means; the laws change the way property was inherited. Media could explain the prostitution problem this way but Media as Property cannot explain it without criticizing itself as part of that whole Property and Wealth system that separates wealth and property from the hands of women.
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  7259. I would think this man is a great American, he embodies the ideal of American values. There is not a fiber of greed very much an anti-American value in him.
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  7260.  @marybusch6182  I see. Well without going into detail the riddle is made more difficult to solve because of the difference between use-value and value in capitalism. For example, artisans of the past produced a commodity for sale but they did not sell their labor-power to access production. Today we can access production only if we sell our labor-power. The division of labor in society dictates the difference between labor of a particular kind, or useful labor and labor of a general kind, or value producing labor. Productivity and innovation (are use-values) these elements enable labor to provide an extra surplus value and an advantage to individual capitalists while relative surplus value (value creation ) currently as organized by Wall Street is advantageous to the capitalist class as a whole; imagine RSV the groundwork for a truly affluent society if American workers had power over RSV? The advantage individual capitalists become indoctrinated by; is to produce cheaper; innovations are provided for the purpose of providing the ‘competitive edge’. The Net Effect of all individual capitalists innovating the workplace for more S/V means an increase in free time, the decreases in necessary labor time (wage reductions) lead to a collapse or a new society. Wage reductions seen in the 1st stages of decline with The Great Resignation. The Fed reacting in this stage using inflation to reduce wages...to subjugate labor, and devalue the debt, but in its last stages, production has laws of its own incompatible to market laws, acts of desperation in order to increase S/Value and motivate monopoly formations. A boundless thirst for S/V is the motive of all the capitalists to innovate. Anyway, hope that helps...:)
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  7261.  @susanpetty4115  That’s right...when you say “normalizing purchasing political influence is our real problem’, politicians sell themselves to capital. The progressives (the Squad) are sell outs too.
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  7262. It is virtually impossible to tell from the videos ABC showed the who, what, when and where?
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  7263. The far right wing of the Republican party want the democratic party destroyed, interpreting that party as a communist party to rally more of the working class against them and they will succeed the more the democrats turn their backs on the working class. Its that simple.
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  7264. So, Denmark is not a social democracy as alleged all through the Cold War period to now. Denmark falls in league with Saudi Arabia as another monarchy. A monarchy was always present in their society for that whole duration just not overtly ruling society, I had been taught a false history and all that I knew was wrong. It appears a monarchy has come forward and out of the wood work on the blessings of the Public of Denmark. This part of Europe returns to the days of kings, queens and monarchies which if we detail the course of European history did not turn out so good for Europe but really good for the US. We wonder why history repeats itself; this is why.
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  7265. “NO SAY IN POLITICS AT ALL”, I’d say it is highly political. Inheritance of a throne and whatever treasures, land, labor, that go with it consumed by one family is very political.  @k7u5r8t4 
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  7266. Employers and managers accelerate the labor-process and KaBoom! Farming, mining, construction, meatpacking, transportation, sectors where people spend most of their lives working are accelerated work processes for more profits. Heavy equipment, buildings, bridges, tankers, in every workplace across the US is made unsafe with incorporated hazardous raw material into the work process and expose workers to the dangers. It is not workplace violence when employers want to make up for higher costs and make worker work harder. Employers accelerate the work-process. Making machines work people beyond the point of human endurance. Crashes, cuts, explosions happen. Notice how the causes to these workplace hazards are never made public and are always under investigation is the routine answer. Commercial media is controlled that the public’s attention on the industrial war raging between the workers and the objective conditions of work in our society is non-existent. When all workers connect the dots about the work taking place in America today in her factories, farms, construction, packing industries, mines, are life-threatening for the workers performing the jobs a labor movement will be born. Right now the focus is on the contamination, a hazard effect of workplaces accelerated for higher profits, but when the catastrophes keep happening in other sectors of the economy the workers will start to make the causes the focus. Workers are confronted by a giant wall of employers all doing the same thing providing no escape for workers while, employers face an isolated worker and can get rid of that person if they do not want them on their premises. In the workplace things are not equal. Things are equal outside of the workplace but not in it where the rubber meets the road. Where the best part of our day is spent and robbing the life-giving work that working can be from the workers giving all praise to the employer for work employers never do.
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  7267. Smith also does not know when to shut up. Black privilege in black males is only another form of white male privilege in the social circle of Will Smith’s life. He’s not a vessel of love when a replica of white privilege is what you’ve become. This hubris has become a pathology in American society among elites, celebrities, the super rich, and it has a lot of disdain for ordinary working Americans whose lives are outside of that so called ‘civil society’.
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  7268. The faith that people placed in Trump has become a political movement of its own is greater than Trump himself.
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  7269. American citizens are played by a bunch of opportunists in the white house. Cabinet officials use each other to advance their own particular interests and American social institutions turn their back on the citizenry.  In the background is a developing confrontation of all the social policies enacted over the last 45 years leading up to this point when enforced will turn society into a caste system and enforce subservience to big business of the working class.
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  7270. People missed the Afghanistan connection in this story to this heroine addict, i.e., Poppy. The news will never tell you as it is not their job to educate and inform the public but to describe an action of the Public. Wherever this guy was getting his cash to buy heroine from eventually ended up into the hands of warlords and terrorists in Afghanistan fighting the Karzai army we built to watch go down in defeat to the tune of 1 trillion. John Q. Public in the case of Joseph Manhard, a heroine addict, the fatal bullet(s) he received turned off the heroine pipeline to him, no more broken promises and relapses, the heroine that made its way into his hands all the way from across the world pacified and disabled the side of Manhard that makes him a citizen and a member of the public. From him, permanently silenced, there can be no public opposition to war anywhere as a pacified heroine addict.
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  7271. Tip of the Iceberg of Racist Evil.
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  7272. The GOP's destruction of the administrative state will bring into light the chaos in the military state?
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  7273.  @MCJSA  A point well made and taken.
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  7274. Ridiculous.
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  7275. The human species must eradicate TERRORISM in whatever form it appears.
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  7276. This is because all western journalists avoid Gaza and rely on Palestinian journalists for news inside Gaza. Shame on you western journalists!
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  7277. Accused of falsifying records in order to kill a transaction from ever going public,---guilty. He is about as honest as Sam Bankman-Fried.
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  7278. The cultural prototype Walmart and Costco American consumer are duped to a fault that climate change can be left to causality and chance with market based systems is a recurring message to this demographic. Market based systems, fancy term for buying and selling commodities. In the hands of skilled American academicians and government functionaries, language is redesigned to make something shallow seemingly more technically profound than it is, and this fib flies over everyone's heads. It works like a charm the masses are continually duped and never get the connection that industries produce for quantity. Quality is the side that impacts our natural existence and it is the side that is repressed by industry and government. This American generation has no awareness that industry is where the action is between matter (Nature) and labor (Humanity), it is the real material relationship that is forceful enough to effect climate change. This subject is censored in America so that the next generation is more market based system and private property oriented. Yet through the destruction, perhaps too late, industries emit less carbon and are modified as Durwood Zaeke is suggesting be done. But what remains the same is the culture of mass consumption industries rely on for market based systems to exist. Duped to a fault - believing that market based systems is the mechanism to correct the emissions problem is like giving the criminals the power to make laws.
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  7279. 5:32: “ We have been complacent...and...not involved in politics...we need a great awakening...to return back to yesteryear when we were involved...in gass roots and we keep the corruption out...that’s it...he is setting a standard and he wants us all to be running the show.” She could be labor leader in the 30s organizing for the merger of the AFL with CIO listening to her. All running the show implies a democracy of the people...where does Trump stand on democracy? Look at the political world from top down and they are duped by autocrats. Look at the political world from their point of view and it is quite revolutionary to want to remove a given social evil. You just have to question what they understand as evil.
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  7280. The American Dream went from a home to a tent.
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  7281. The Ruling Classes in the US spit right in the eye of the producers of the gilded mansions and bulletproof limousines they use for personal use. You would think the UAW would take a stand that their product is being used by a person for personal consumption and protection and is not even a government official. The leaders of the American car industry workers only care about the product of other people. The actual product itself and how it gets used, is the last thing on their minds, give the Ruling Classes a sense of privilege that this social product is mine not yours.
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  7282. French bourgeoisie are not budging.
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  7283. I like her. People like to own their own stuff that allows them to generate business. Latin America is primed for anarchism...no government at all. Trade and ownership versus privileged commerce and capitalism; two very different things. There is freedom of Will in trade and ownership but there is no freedom of Will in capitalism and commerce except as a consumer. Plus, everyone else, the landlord, the bank, the merchant, the capitalist, but the actual producers of wealth appropriate the product of labor of the working classes is the current state of the world that has increased the sufferings of humanity and the planet through excess exploitation and inequality. When Marx said workers of the world unite he did not mean Revolutionaries of the world unite. Bourgeois or middle class socialism was never about working class freedom going back to its origins in England with Robert Owen. Each middle class revolutionary was worse than the previous one. Only two in history were of peasant origins of middle class status, Lenin and Mao. Lenin built up organization as key and Mao built up a peasant army of youths. It helps to motivate a population when the threats are right in your face. Secret wars make it difficult to spot out the enemy. The Nazis (Himmler) in Poland was not in the faces of Christian working classes enough not like the Nazis treated the working class Jews enough for them to join in the Jewish Ghetto Uprising. Religion crushed working class solidarity from taking action, the whole working class would have expelled the Nazis from Poland. 21st century socialists have turned their backs on the project of socialism and the contrast between their abandonment and betrayal they emit gives this young lady a more revolutionary vision than the revolutionaries. I would call this the dialectics of history, or said better, human social relations are full of contradiction and hypocrisy. Comes a time when the teachers have to be taught. All the educators recruiting to fill the ranks of corrupt party officials must be expelled has not happened in Latin America because the majority rural working classes that outnumber the city proletariat are not led by one of their own. When one of their own does emerge an immediate arrest and removal is the reaction from ruling elites, hence, Uruguay. China got past these stages of great social transformation broke through the barrier to use capitalism as a means to develop further but the Latin American republics have been held back by internal and external forces never got past the stage of dissolving the social classes in order for the equal obligation of all to work is not tampered to give some freedom from work and others imprisoned by work. Humans are a rotten species when they are uneducated and they worse when they pretend to be educated.
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  7284. Wow....The ISIS LONE WOLF THEORY, reveals what higher education is really about in America. Keeping the high schoolers from being radicalized through social media which took place rapidly during the school lock downs and pandemic, keep them busy and over work the teachers in the process brought a split in the partnership relation communities have with school administrations and rank and file teachers. Next time America, the best way to prevent radicalization of youth that is now threatening to become a coordinated terrorist movement inside America, try making education free so kids have the option to not be radicalized. ISIS education is free. American education is debt crippling. Christian conservatives and liberals dominate all the political offices and the school administrations, including local government, and in states banning abortion, are too biased. They can’t advance school curriculums beyond the bible principals they hold close to their chest to compete with an ISIS education on militant terrorism. Crime and terrorism are inextricably linked in the framework of liberals and conservatives as forever elements in society does not make 332 million people safe. Not my words, Chief FBI Officer words. Take it from him. ...” I DID NOT THINK THEY WOULD DO IT”, with tears flowing down her cheek an 1861 law is adopted by the Christian conservative dominated Arizona legislature comes as a rude awakening to America women, largely middle class white women, black and brown working class women are more street saavy can smell a rat easier but their problem is their disunity lack of knowing what fascism is. White middle class women grew up thinking their whole lives that fascism only happens in Europe. Many of their own blood died fighting fascism in Europe and the two oceans gave its middle class a false sense of security that today is a powerful handicap for them. Same goes for the men. There are more fascists in the blue states if you count the apathetic than in the overtly fascist red states. This happened right under our noses. Liberals and conservative policies of privatization allowed the growth of a virulent new form of fascism to enter state government through think tanks and mega-churches. They penetrated government locally and became the bureaucracy and moved up the hierarchy of the State. APATHY aids and abets fascism. This is a collaboration, it takes two to Tango, the apathetic are passive fascists through inaction. Inadvertently collaborating with fascism by doing nothing, engulfed by Christian Evangelism with Trump at its head.
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  7285. A single OLIGARCHY dominates the political system. What is a problem to Americans is a solution to the Oligarchy. Gridlock is solution to the Oligarchy. War is a solution to the Oligarchy. Making the country poor is a solution to the Oligarchy. Shifting wealth from the majority to a minority is a solution to the Oligarchy. These solutions of the oligarchy are a definite problem for the American people. So why are the American people not solving the problem of Oligarchy?
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  7286. @ 4411825 --- Sure, a liberation army is always welcomed. Welcomed because freedom is a universal unfulfilled promise.  But after everyone is emancipated what do you do with the army that liberated you?  In 1945 the US military were liberators in Europe and now look at it, its a pillory locking the head and arms of freedom.  If you were to dissolve the army and prevent it from growing into a beast another military is needed. And you get endless wars. Seems to me we need to be looking at the underlying causes that give rise to the need for a military of any kind to truly be liberated from war.
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  7287. Time is never on the side of people in an economic system that introduces time to measure human activity. Working time is the only time that has a value in your society. People are valued only in the time they spend working. This is because work is not work. Value production is work. People go to work to produce value. They do not go to work to produce what society needs before society even needs it. When not working people are meaningless beings using time that produces no money. I would say Americans have a very narrow and limited view and definition of time that has no quality of time. Time for any other purpose other of making money, or value, for someone else, is the enslavement of free will, it is your own time the society considers that time spent on an activity that produces no value as worthless time spent.  @RaymondHng 
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  7288. That CDC women is the wicked witch of the west.
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  7289. I think the answer lies right in the problem why there is not a Public Health Care System in the US. The political name of America implies America is only midway from becoming a nation out of the collection of states dependent on a federal government it was founded on in the 18th century. A state is a political administrative institution; a step higher than a territory administered by a fortress settlement, i.e., the United Territories of America, or the United Colonies of America, the United States of America, is a history of a settlement society enlarging and replicating itself, is not yet a nation with the potential of a national health care system. Until America becomes fully a nation with nationalized education, health, housing, nutrition, it will never rise above the settlement mentality the notion of State’s Rights are founded. It will remain and die as a Republic of Oligarchs.
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  7290. His admission is not strong enough. Renounce his followers and InforWars: and get three shrinks and declare him mentally insane. Psychiatrists clinically evaluating a man who defies a real tragedy like Sandy Hook should be an easy case to certify as a lunatic and when he goes on air again the social media giants will have to answer lawsuits to why they censor a sane podcaster and not censor a certifiable sociopath from podcasting on Youtube, Facebook. You may get rid of Jones but this is not going to get rid of the real problem in society in his followers until that whole movement is crushed. Otherwise, there will be more of his ilk born everyday. Jones is a societal problem the way Jim Jones was a societal problem back in the 70s.
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  7291. A volcano will erupt following this earthquake, where and which one, is anyone’s guess.
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  7292. The Talaban is a scourge on humanity, a modern slave trade of women.
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  7293. Factory work destroyed the division of labor of commodity producers and transformed that labor into wage-labor. Back in the 60's the labor-market for this industry emerged and had revolutionaized social life; every producer had to sell their labor-power! While this was going on....the factory system of work was receiving al lot of praise and glory. Praise and glory for a system that was breaking down workers further separating them from their product is the insanity of American life. The history of work in this industry shows it was the corporation fleecing of the working people who worked this industry into the ground, a dead industry. The communities that built their lives around it dropped; left to survive on their own. The generations before had no way of knowing how it will end, they acted in the moment and gave up their lives as independent producers in return for a wage and welcomed with open arms the monster that would devour them.
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  7294. From what I gather thirteen fatalities in a horrific fire of a public housing complex despite twice installing and twice inspecting smoke detectors by the PHA had failed, and living under overcrowded conditions raised no concerns within agencies. This has brought in three agencies to investigate why the fire happened is to me suspicious the cause of the fire is known and evidence of some high level graft.
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  7295. Can't forget the Iraq War Veterans, so angry at the liberal establishment who at the time was Joe Biden put them in harm’s way using 9/11 for a call for freedom and liberty against Sadaam Hussien and liberate Iraq. Congress went along with it hook, line and sinker. They gave Al Queda a place to fight Americans. The Vets came back destroyed, and used the only power they have to elect Trump, a spite vote against the liberal establishment. What did the left do? Nothing. What did the left do when these same vets showed up in Virginia armed to protest Northam's gun laws on MLK day 2020? Nothing. The left should have been there arm and arm with the Iraq vets. Biden was then and is now in the pocket of Raytheon Lockheed Martin. Grumman, GE, Exxon Mobil, the largest oil dealer to the Pentagon.    Biden formerly head of the arms services committee then became VP to Obama, hand-picked by Obama to initiate another war, the war we are in today, the war with the Russians to build up Ukraine. The next group of Veterans sent to war are not going to come back as close as it came with the assassination of Solemeini of Iran, because now they will be fighting entire nations in the Middle East. His America First policy puts all of Europe in the untenable position to choose between the US or Russia and China. With half of the British parliament invested in Hawei, England, France and Germany slides into a deep stagnation with Trump’s trade war on China.    As for Trump, he is the wrong man for the job. Wrong, because his path is not to deconstruct the arms industry and wrench the grip the arms industry has of our government, his path is to become an autocrat. Undo all the wrong wrong-doers prosecuted by the liberal establishment and create a fealty of the justice department. The people supporting him never went to war. An autocrat is natural to them, they are chiliasts, believers in the second coming of Christ, God, Family and Country. They are the NASCAR enthusiasts, rich, spoiled Americans, country music stars, with pro-fascist leanings.    Only Bernie opposed the Iraq War. Only Bernie opposes the misuse of the military, opposes invasions, opposes the arms industry, opposes industries with the highest carbon footprint. Vote Bernie if you are going to vote, it’s the last chance to restore America back to its original roots of American progressivism.
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  7296. Yesterday was the national memorial day for Pearl Harbor and not one media outlet mentioned it, not even the president of the US mentioned it, nobody. Second point, one of the richest utility companies on earth is to cheap to install surveillance cameras in their substations. Third point, government has relied on private industry to provide vital power to societies because private business is the model of choice. Why bother having a government if it only prints money for private industry and does nothing to assure the vital needs of a society are met?
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  7297.  @floridagunrat1625  Competition where? Amazon, Walmart. Home Depot, Lowes, Farm and Tractor, all of these monopolies have cornered the market that there is no competition. You could not start a hardware store and compete with Tru-Value and a bank would never lend you the start up capital even if you have the collateral and credit worthiness they expect. Its all done on purpose that your government is made incompetent to give the privately owned family monopolies the power. You, on your own, at best, can become a retailer of small business, a gun retailer and then you are at the mercy of Remington, on what you can buy and charge. Competition...wake up buddy. They control the market by controlling the price.
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  7298. The issue of key government decision-making jobs are taken up or filled, appointed in many cases by who is president, are occupied by neo-liberals who have an aim to crush labor, prevent it from ever organizing and facilitating the creation of a union-free labor-market, is the first problem I see in this struggle to keep this pharmaceutical company. Workers are facing a situation where the fate of their jobs and future is in the hands of appointees partial to corporations in Washington.
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  7299. Haley ‘s campaign political Ad has the same look and effect as George Herbert Walker Bush’s ad using the revolving door of Justice and the criminal Willie Horton leaving the building through it. Same old tactic. Migrants are used to scare you to vote for her. The Ads never address the problem(s) honestly.
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  7300. Making it easier to produce energy in America sounds better than opening up US soil (land and sea) for drilling made easier by Congress. The carbon reduction benefit in the measure is zero. Billions of people know this fact and are increasingly less patient with the denials. The move to open up US drilling was a strategic move to capture the European gas market and have cut off the cheap energy Germany was buying from Russia. In just two short years Germany went from the biggest European economy to shambles as a result of sabotage. To be the exporter-seller of gas and oil to Europe and not a importer-buyer of oil from OPEC is really the idea behind “energy independence”. Domestic US drilling shelters the US economy from political shock waves in the Middle East and Japan is sheltered from OPEC price fluctuations.
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  7301. Kind of funny how the conditions in the world rapidly have changed so much that the old policies don't work anymore.  Russia, Russia, Russia, China, China, China and to add to the list a new enemy in super rich European Oligarchs. American business is heavily invested in China it would be a bad idea to start making China an enemy. Even the white nationalists are stumped by this historic change; they have more enemies in the US than they think!  Mother Nature threw the Decision-Makers off kilter with the coronavirus, fires, tornadoes, floods,----wake up calls on climate change. Three economic crashes in 30 years, a Big business bloom and Main Street doom and gloom.
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  7302. The coming of age of West Africa reflects the decline of empire in Europe and the US. The “gravy train” has stopped. I think it is going to be a while, maybe never, for mainstream media to wrap their heads around on what just happened.
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  7303. Google search finds Dow Jones and Co., owning the WSJ was bought by Rupert Murdoch and he owns FOX News. I noticed the media never names perpetrators and never names owners...its always the ‘homeowner” or “ the company”. The media uses its freedom of speech as a mote around castles of perps and monopolists.
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  7304. These talk shows need to get real.
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  7305. Apart from the highway system in need of repairs. Leave it to the Republicans and Democrats the auto makers would stop producing shatter proof windshields! So happy to not have the government raise safety standards for vehicles the bottom line of automakers are more important to them than the expense of a few dollars to surround the car with shatter proof glass. Cheap politicians and a dumb public who think government and doctors are evil! Seeing that the other windows on a car are not shatter proof the automakers save money on the rear and sides of vehicle and that piece of road debris would have decapitated the driver.
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  7306.  @jim2498  So you are one of those republicans who think your shit don't stink! Grow up, the two parties have your economic balls in a vice grip!
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  7307. As a ground breaking comic and critic the Trump faction of the GOP the Party of Law and Order, their section in New Mexico would be doing Trump a favor by removing his critics from the public’s eye that could change public opinion and the election in 2024. I would imagine they’d want Baldwin out of the way to serve a sentence to conclude after that election. Would it surprise you if even the entire set was a set-up?
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  7308. If I were a billionaire and had the ear and sway of the president of the US my corporation would have all the advantages it needs to compete with other corporations. The interest of the corporation, that is, profits, reducing the cost price of production, for a larger share of the world market, all line up with the Trump administration. We know this by knowing who are the competitors to the US in particular industries. Chinese corporations make a better electric car and Vietnam is major factory for the US. This is quite a dramatic problem. Tesla operates in China, and in Jet Propulsion industries, it outperformed NASA, can they outperform the Chinese in this field? Tariffs on Chinese and all other products coming into the US is an advantage to the whole group of US corporate capitalists. We have a government that assists a particular capitalist and the whole capitalist class in most departments of the economy. The Trump tariffs close the US market off to the Chinese, Canada, Mexico, et al, so that American Capital regains that share of the market. My sense is we are as people drawn in a conflict between one or more sections of the ruling classes in a war of competition...and this in the past, has led to two world wars.
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  7309. Amazing that the only aspect of American society that is scientific and intellectual is its military and the state. The rest of society lives under a cast of superstition and barbarism akin to the beliefs of 16th century European feudalism, colonialism and religion.
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  7310.  @jackwakely7157  Appreciate the correction the point still holds.
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  7311.  @tianyicai6482  As I see it your time on earth is wasted on yourself.
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  7312. Democracy depends on people who are educated NOT STUPID AMERICA!
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  7313. I would not interrupt the process of exclusion of people from social media. Its censorship. The more they censor the more they exclude the less users of their search engine they have the faster they go out of business. People are ingenious and will find a way to communicate with each other in other ways, inventing new search engines. Government or the private sector did not invent Bitcoin?
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  7314. We’ll see what the balance sheet shows when the totals for the raids and exportations are calculated if it was worth the national emergency or not.
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  7315. The relation between Trump and Bannon is everything but sincere.
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  7316. Also, US media will never tell the American Public that Cuban doctors found a cure for diabetes. At the expense of your health this medical progress would cause you to question the American medical establishment's legitimacy. Once you question the legitimacy of a given institution the whole structure comes tumbling down.  Right now, legitimacy in all of America's social institutions are questioned by the Public. A cure for diabetes is significantly in the Public's interests. That human progress is mired in politics, most likely referred to the CIA, not for the destruction of Cuba as a socialist society, but to steal the cure, copy it and have Big Pharma sell it to the Public, reaks of profits. But first they have to get their hands on it, determined if it can be renderd in pill form or a medical proecedure is the nature of the cure. I cannot imgine how a medical procedure cures diabetes. But I am not a doctor. Think about that. My point: the disinformation campaign of the American media is not restricted to politics but is all inclusive of any progress in all fields in the interest of the Public. You folks know government statistics are biased.  Reports on unemployment, Uniform Crime Reports, EPA reports, Warren Commission on the JFK assassination, 9/11 Commission Report, the Muller Report, the list is endless of the the lies and misinformation spread across this land. Another example of disinformation is the denial of information, the notorious news black out, say nothing about the mass opposition inside America's primary allies to the American Public. What you do not know defends the status quo and becomes a weapon used against the Public's interests. Can't wait to see how Congress defends its own legitimacy as check and balance against dictatorship when its Justice Department and the Oval Office refuse to testify. Personally, on this subject, should Trump go down like Nixon, Pence was selected to pardon Trump. My last observation is of the democrats. The old style republicans like Mueller in his report avoided Trump's money laundering relationship with the Russian oligarchs.  Signs of collusion was the report's emphasis and conclusions and the last round of questioning by the democrats revealed to me how nieve they truly are. They really think they are dealing with sincere republicans following rules and procedure was a revelation you saw fall flat on the face of Conneticut's senatr Blumenthal when asked for notations from Barr and Barr said "No'.  Kamala Harris nailed Barr, Booker too sitting next to her smirks at Barr's answers, she knows the game the republicans of this generation play is a reason why not to vote for her.  She's an insider acting as typical of all America's politicians, an opportunist. Let's hope the southern and eastern district of New York attorny general investigates the money laundering. If not Trump walks.  Who in their right mind buys any property of Trump commerical properties if not to launder their capital through some instrument in the US? They are not sincere and are not the old style republicans like Mueller. Republicans are thugs and democrats like Biden are old school. The Trump administration are white collar criminals using lawyers who say: "I have no recollection...", is a lawyer's way of lying.  The American Public shares in that nievete with the democrats and repblicans and it is time the Public realize this. This is a different country from its past.
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  7317. No mention of the free reign banks have over the consumer market charging heavy interest rates ravaging the pockets of millions of US citizens.
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  7318. Such as actions are meant to awaken the conscience of the nation. But the nation’s conscience is deaf is the real unhealthy part. On Earth Day 2022, Colorado climate activist Wynn Alan Bruce died after self-immolating in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. People take pictures of a portrait of Thich Quang Duc, the monk who set himself on fire on a busy Saigon street corner in 1963, at the Vietnam Quoc Tu pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City on June 3, 2018 @BaconWrappedFriedPickles 
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  7319.  @FourtyParsecs  Your opening statement is fantastic! Step outside of the context into which people are trapped, then you can critique society. SD's do give more free time to workers but the workers do not take it further for fear of what would come after a dissolution of social classes.
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  7320.  @FourtyParsecs  Best way to connect with what little organized labor there is, is by setting up a table where private sectors are striking and begin mingling with the workers, no signs, just a table and a chair, a lap top, and begin talking in person to them about the movement and the current actions of other workers with actual video proof; not just a verbal report. Then get them to meet outside of work and begin organizing a movement. If I were not 80 years old I would do it. All you need is three solid thinking Marxists and a revolution can be made.
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  7321. Man has a finger. People living under capitalism live as objects of capitalism. Capitalism endows objects with life and subjects the living to death. It is perfectly natural that people under capitalism treat each other as objects and treat their objects as subjects. What is needed is an international and independent body to be present and witness to all terror investigations.
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  7322. It is to protect rich elites abroad who exploit their people that Americans are deprived of electing real, genuine, and authentic people to be their president. Usurpers depend on US military might to protect them in perpetuating poverty among their own people. This is why the democrats and republicans are the same.
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  7323. @MSNBC,---There is a large social class of people who will vote for Trump and the fact that Biden is dragging us into war in the Middle East will help Trump get back into office. Nobody wants a war. Perhaps if you spoke out about how the war in Gaza is a liability for Joe’s re-election you would look and sound less superficial at the expense of your own legitimacy as news.
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  7324. That's nothing new, LBJ did the same thing to his rivals. Tell me something I don't know.
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  7325.  @Descalabro  Capitalism of the 19th century conducted itself aimlessly, not the capitalism of the GOP in the 21st century. This capitalism is a command structured capitalism, strategically using the democratic forms to its ends and attacking the working masses through those democratic forms, as a very conscious and deliberate perpetuation of a class conflict. The GOP of the 20th century were about the preservation of their power, this GOP and empire is a very conscious of itself, type of capitalism with the aim and end of subjugating all labor in the world. I would differ with you based on your comment.
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  7326.  @Descalabro  Trump is capitalism when you talk about Trump you are talking about capitalism, the two are inseparable.
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  7327.  @Descalabro  Bloomberg has no strategy and he is a capitalist, this is because Capital expands itself, an idiot can be a capitalist, it does not take a genius to be a capitalist. The GOP is the business organization of capital, there too it takes no special talent or genius for an organization which is more than one capitalists to pass laws for what capital needs to expand, and they are not the planners. The planners are the transnational corporations the GOP represent.
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  7328. The real Left have been trying to tell people like yourself for decades that what is said to you by rulers is never what they mean...the term ‘civilian’ to them means a retired or former military person. ‘Civilian’ to you means someone educated in a field from a university...maybe a lawyer...doctor, teacher hence, a civilian government. Sudan is now a test case on militarism and how “militarism” re-start in Sudan what is now completely shut down all the factories, workshops? Where will the bakers get their doe, and how will the eggs get to the market...and gas get to stations...and dentist get their supplies...kids get their notebooks and pencils...toothbrush and past...and doctors get their medicine? I cannot wait to see how one of the winners of this battle form their military government and how they intend to resume production in Sudan? Because the two fighting factions are burning up precious capital the Sudanese people created. With what Capital will they start production as poor as production was in Sudan? Where will the Capital will come from and the deals they make to get it? China could help fix the dire situation of the Sudanese people but the Chinese Communist Party is not going to make deals with Military Juntas, so the American World Bank is their next choice to get the money. Africa could be a stand alone country like Russia, a country that has it all, if it were one continent of one nation but it was carved up into pieces by the British to be made weak and as a collection of small republics Africa is vulnerable to this sort of Militarism. The Pan-Africanists had been telling you ever since your were a child this would come and they were right but are gone now. There are no adults in Sudan just bully boys with toys and they have egos worthless to everyone.
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  7329.  @peaceprosperity3951  This is because Africans developed from tribes in a similar way as the American Native Americans developed intertribal relations through common hunting grounds accessible to tribes through marriage and common property passed down through the female side of that marriage was completely destroyed in the days of European Colonialism, a thousand year old practice wiped out by RACIST PATRIARCHY. The patriarchs carved Africa up into separate territories the same way the American military carved out the American South West in the infamous Indian Wars preceding the American Revolution. War and enslavement. Africans have been taught and trained, brainwashed, and socialized, to deny their common ancestry by Colonialists is still engrained in their DNA can be the only reason modern Africans deny their pre- Colonial history and function at such a low level of self-esteem in regard to each other. Its only because people see themselves as servants and slaves or subjects to a king that another person can see themselves as king or master. The same is true for the American working class and the European working classes, engrained in their DNA to be submissive to patriarchy.
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  7330. ...shortage of housing and stressed public services, meaning less money to go around, but the roads are getting rebuilt, repaired and re-paved...it’s not a question of a lack of capital. Housing loans are issued...the capital is prejudicially lent out to luxury and high end construction companies... companies not in the business of making affordable homes for the working classes. Many towns are dead zones and the people living in the dead zones work across the highway that divides the rich from the poor, building mansions like it was going out of style. One city, one reality, is not talked about in the news, never crosses the highway to report on life, the other reality is talked about all the time. Vance has an unethical position not citing how people are getting rich off of declining public safety and diseases...imagine there are no bounds of ethics, nothing is sacred, where the Almighty Dollar is concerned in people getting rich off the suffering of others at the present level of American being.
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  7331. Parliaments are a venal institution. While lawmakers are suing each other in court what is happening in their districts is in the news for shootings, air and land near misses and crashes, fires, factory explosions, train derailments, liquid and solid contamination, toxic water, aging infrastructure, home shortages and mass land acquisition by foreign investors. Ideas is more important than reality. Legal language pollutes the English language. This is why people like Feinstein and Biden can remain in office till they die. They cannot give up the tax dole that has become a “gravy train” to live on. Full medical coverage. No bills and free gifts, plus travel junkets. Easy money for easy work.
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  7332.  @theshepherdsinn  So then...what do want from me? Kissinger and Nixon would not have sold off trade secrets. Not my fault your generation of politicians are stupid. Its your fault for putting stupid people in positions that make those decisions, ----you vote right?
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  7333.  @mfgreviews5028  What do you think the world economy is chess board, such a mechanical view of the world was debunked long ago. Petro Dollar will not last because the crucial element you exclude in your analysis is the flexibility of power of the productivity of labor, and 1.2 million people employed with an industrial base in China is flexible. US has to rely on individual capitalists, callous Millennials like, Elon Musk, to re-industrialize. He could have invested his capital in industry but chose to invest in a product that produces no real value back into the economy. He’s not making shoes, or employing a cattle rancher, tanner, leather makers, shoe makers, and factories. He’s providing Starlink internet service for a third of the population in Ukraine on behalf of the military. How do you know what China knows...you have a direct link to the Communist Party in China that we don’t...you are funny. Oil bearing states and India are closer to Russia and China physically that the US would have to occupy the Middle East to strike a deal with India. All America has holding up the dollar is sheer brute force, military might, it has no productive industry beyond what is produced by and for the military. When was the last time you drove across America off the highways. Nothing but ghost towns and dead zones? America’s capacity to produce is limited, its military expense is 32% of GDP normal when industries were in the US. Today the workforce is substandard and flunks in reading, math, science. GDP is counted by how much profit is made not by how much actual production takes place...its fictitious! You are in dreamland kiddo. Snap out of it!
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  7334. As long as Western powers consume the mineral wealth of the Congo. No matter how criminal the leadership in power is the US will back them up. The role played by Belgium i Congo history deserves no praise. But the crisis of poor nations is not a crisis whose starting point lies with one nation or the other but is a crisis of failed economic polices inside each nation. Policies that serve a particular interest lead to the high export of material wealth are detriments for the general interest of the population, and Congo remains in a state of perpetual crisis financially, a social freak show of internecine wars and low intensity warfare, unable to import the products from the west that would develop the Congo and its citizens. A general crisis of over exporting and under importing that all countries develop one side of the equation, never striking a balance, or equilibrium, so that the Congo is in crisis from over exporting and the US or western nations are in crisis from over importing.
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  7335. An American Bourgeoisie. The contrast between rich and poor is sharp in America. Unfortunately, a bourgeois social class can be seen more clearly as a class acting for itself (greed) to people only when the people have been made destitute and expropriated by that greed. War is an appropriation process in the system defined as capitalism. If downtrodden peasants can overthrow a bourgeoisie so can Americans. Its only a question of will and tactic. A mass expropriation by means of a natural disaster is being used for a process of appropriation. They gradually claiming the land. Government takes the land because the property is undeclared and sells it cheap to a class of investors or landowners for luxury clients. Everyone in between Biden and Bernie are culprits and in their way facilitate, indirectly or indirectly, with this process of appropriation of property. A repeat of the expropriation (relocation) of Native Americans is reflected in Mauii’s tragic circumstances for the appropriation of American Indian lands in the 19th century.
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  7336. As much as I hate what is going on...I see it as a brilliant strategy by the far right to destroy the permanent part of government that all presidents are governed by. Funding the permanent parts of the executive branch cannot be refunded without the House approving appropriations because there is no Speaker to bring the measures to the floor for a vote. Everyone and every social institution dependent on appropriations are starved. FDA, CDC, EPA, NSA, CIA, FBI will be fighting for survival and are weakened making society more vulnerable to corruption and abuses by the more powerful. Looks to me the start of a major deterioration of American government.
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  7337. Was it worth dying for? Not in my book. This war was an unjust war. It did not bring to justice the source funding 9/11. It brought the justice to the actors of 9/11. There are victim of 9/11 demanding the release of documents the Pentagon and all presidents refuse to release past and present. Then this intervention became a christian conversion of a country that is Muslim. To die for an ideology is not worth a life in my book. Afghanistan is not in shambles and the world can manage just fine without the US policing it.
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  7338. Trump can defeated only by a defeat of all regimes aligned with Trump. Israel, Brazil, etc. Its going to be a while when that happens and when it does the domino effect will not apply. Otherwise I don't see him going.
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  7339. According to the reporting of the Deputy Chief: At 7: 20 PM Cops get to the shelter. They find a naked and erratic woman burning stuff in the kitchen. There is no mention of a finding of kids in the shelter residence at this time. Cops hold the mother in custody at the shelter presumably waiting for the ambulance. Ambulance takes the mother to St. Barnabas arriving at 7:50 PM. Still no mention of the status of the children in the shelter during this time. Mother is discharged from the hospital and the cops are informed the father has the kids. At 7:55 PM a second 911 call comes in reporting the kids are not breathing and unresponsive. No mention of stab wounds to the kids or blood or trauma mentioned by the 911 caller. Cops return to the shelter and find two kids with multiple stab wounds. The kids, ages 3 and 11 are dead. Mother is in custody but not arrested and the father is not in custody but was the last person with the kids? None of the reporters question this timeline or why the father is not in custody as the last person with the kids. The very experienced police officers seem to have let slip from their view the kids during the first response to the shelter. Sometime between the mother’s release from the hospital to the cops arriving the second time to the shelter apartment the kids were killed. Nice job NYPD I hope you guys are sued for this and the experienced cops fired for negligence and dereliction of duty.
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  7340.  @toccaraharris2  The highly trained and venerated police officers the Deputy Chief exalts is nothing more than a cover up of their actual incompetence; the Cops never asked to see the kids. The Press makes no question of that forgetfulness. These are signs that kids, regardless of backgrounds, don’t matter in NYC, a callous bureaucracy.
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  7341. You know back in 1860 people thought slavery was a long term thing. The ancient Romans thought Rome would never die. Ancient Egyptians thought Egyptian society was permanent while the spirit world was a part of that permanency. So I don’t buy the idea that anything is a long term feature of anything. In 1860 what cost a $1.00 was something someone could not make themselves, they were self-sufficient in every other way, meeting their needs, but say they needed nails from the town hardware store because nails were not made on the farm. Agriculture was still directly a means of subsistence. In 2022 the entire population needs everything and are a mass of people completely Not self-sufficient, not even efficient, were made dependent on sale and a supply chain that is the economy. Prices can rise with the demand as all agriculture was taken over by a small number of corporations. They have excluded nature as a means of survival; people can only get to nature by market relations mediating between them and nature. Buying and selling became the way to fix the problem of landless people and this made money a necessity. But something happened that Americans give up too easily if you ask me. Over the period of 160 years a nail that was forged by a blacksmith at a rate one nail per minute is now a million nails per minute produced by machine. Very little labor involved except the button to the machines in the factory were pressed by one engineer specialist who grew to become a person that could do nothing else was soon de-skilled and made dumb compared to their distant relatives. Another fact, none of this was chance that agriculture (land) formerly a tool for individual survival became a tool for mass production. All of this was so planned out to be so efficient that the slightest interruption in the supply chain would threaten the whole society is how fragile the US economy has become.
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  7342. I am not surprised. Her constituency are the women of the middle classes of America who relate to her as own of their own. She captures the imagination of the young very little, especially compared to Bernie. The young are concerned they will inherit a fucked up world they will have to pay for is not appealing to them. I cannot even see a Bernie Warren ticket, I think, that would cost him the election. Bernie would have to go as a independent with a co-candidate of his own ilk. Its been the history that Americans expect politicians to resolve the problems and have voted for the new guy when the old guys suck. So, keep it pure Bernie, you understand?
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  7343. Where did it land?
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  7344. It is true Netanyahu plays the role of the repugnant denial of the Jewish people for their actions on their Arab counterparts.
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  7345. BLACK FRIDAY,----The images of people in stores surrounded by products, walking through aisles, malls, stores, moving in no particular direction, just browsing the objects hanging on the shelves. I thought are people active or passive in this scene? The products sitting still look passive and the people moving their bodies through the stores appear active. But what I see is not what is going on. I see a silent auction happening. The auctioneer are the products talking to you silently in your head as you pass them by and check their ticket price. They have your attention the ticket price you read is their voice taking over your inner voice. Our minds’s inner voice do not recite prices on its own. That voice saying its name has entered into your head. Subtle but very effective the products have invaded your mind. They sit harmlessly for someone to pick them up and buy them looks passive enough. Their job is to get through the check out counter and transform. Products want to change form like a caterpillar becomes a butterfly the goods change form into money. Whatever can be done to get into your cart for check is fair game. If they had legs they walk to the check out themselves to complete their transformation. They have to use your legs, your mind, your hands, your body, to accomplish that feat. After check out their mission is complete and they no longer have to actively sit on the shelf calling your attention to buy them. You can use them for a purpose that is not intended for them for all they care. The toilet paper does not care if you use it as wall paper or for its intended purpose the price inhabited its body before check out was left behind and the ew body it has is still in the store but in the form of money. The product left the store as something useful and its other self as a value stayed in the store as money. A very weird society, indeed. This transformation is so important that they are held under lock and key. So important that people assist in the transformation of products into money to ensure that transformation happens wth no disturbance or interference whatsoever. So important that people wander to look and get hooked. Its a very strange society where its products are the active player and the people the passive players told silently through words and images what to do and when to do it, even how to do it and how to feel about things. Very strange, indeed.
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  7346. ​ @deloresmonteiro2342  A patchwork of laws to get around the rules of an emergency fund is a system prone to abuses.
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  7347. It won’t be good for the LBGT community if this shooter former Boy Scout turns out to be a transvestite and a Nazi.
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  7348.  @dougbritton3239  Short and sweet to the point.
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  7349. The democrats would cut medicaid if they had no obstacles, they are no angels either!
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  7350. Hypocritical grand standing about human rights in China when the American courts hold migrants in Mexico a policy imposed on Mexico implemented by the Trump Administration. Which is the greater violation of a sovereignty of a people; a whole nation subjugated by a foreign policy, or a small ethnic group in China? Judicial branch is in opposition to the administrative branch of government. This is the branch the insurrectionists of Jan 6 want to tear down and the branch of government weakened by the private sector that when the administrative state does act in the interest of society as in the case of the pandemic and vaccinations, the state courts oppose it. Then the supreme court opposes the work and social reproductive rights and the state courts oppose human rights. The Senate is in opposition to state craft and administration and employers are firing workers while the Senate honors one of their own in state.
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  7351. I think the hanger collapse in Boise Idaho, a republican state, is symbolic of the failure of American capitalism. Production in America is privately owned, and generally speaking, production is unsafe and insecure. Government is forbidden by republicans to interfere in the private production processes of corporations. We, the Public, when we are not workers, we are consumers, when we are not consumers we are producers (working) and we are not allowed to know if what we consume and with what materials we use to produce are what they say they are. Democrats are responsible for inverting reality. Republicans are responsible for pulling the teeth out of government and democrats a responsible for making that reality an inverted one to psych out the main group in society, and pretend there are no real monsters in society who deserves to be shot can access the means of production and poison individuals for the addiction of their product tainted with heroine. The area where people spend most of their lives and cannot live without they have no control over. This is why American capitalism is dying. Its happening across all industries, Boeing the most infamous failure of capitalist production. All the layoffs and job cuts, the push to advance AI in production. No inspections to ensure things are put together correctly. Factory explosions, derailments, failed bridges, infrastructure, roads. The threat to society is the private use and appropriation of resources for sale and marketing as its principal over works people to death for the production of profits.
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  7352. There is a natural reason and a political one the pipelines are open. First, its cold outside in Europe. Second, NATO’s mission since 1991 and Clinton expanded NATO, to defend pipelines of gas and oil, and mining as a strategic defense per the US is the political reason they remain open, and this is because US Big Oil can invest cheap and steal that market from the Russians through regime change in Moscow. So NATO’s original mission to contain communism after Gorbachev gave a huge concession to the west by releasing Ukraine on condition NATO not expand one inch was broken by Slick Willy. This audience and the show itself has no history to their claims and conjectures.
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  7353. Hats off to the protesters at the Kavanaugh hearings, more of this is needed.
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  7354. Because a car, 1 billion of them, uses oil and gas and this enriches the corporations on a compounding daily basis to an infinite degree of wealth you or I cannot imagine is why? The subsidies to the energy sector reflect the real attitude the two parties have toward the American people is callous...subsidies are in place to weaken government directly and indirectly weakening the public, the user of these products, its money not strengthening our government against these privateers of oil and gas but weakening government that it cannot protect us from having those products shoved down or throats with no alternative. They suppress so many alternative forms of energy that could be of use to many industries in society. Can you see the energy sector are an anti-democratic lobby. Shameless politicians unworthy of your or my vote are giving this sector unnecessarily subsidies and then hide behind anonymity. That answer your question.  @nsbd90now 
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  7355. No money to be made in healthy people is a system that regards all things useful and not useful to humanity to be nothing more than equals as values to be exchanged. A house, a vitamin, a mineral, any kind of material, a tool, a person’s time, land, airtime, air space, food, are equal in the sense that you can trade one with the other in different amounts. Ben Franklin made this observation about society. He would be angry to see how this relation expanded into a complex society from its simple equation. He warned that when money is used to measure these values in order to exchange them, we make an abstraction of the differences of each useful object and the work that made that object. The weirdest example of this distortion is a person’s time. Time was never an outside thing measuring work and a person’s time was never an object outside of the person. Before the 18th Century everyone worked when the sun came up and stopped working when it went down or when the subject of the work was finished if there was man made light. In money a person’s time is among all the values that can be exchanged for money is a 400 year old idea that pales in comparison to the 12000 years of human practice working on a natural rhythm of the earth’s rotation on its axis and working the soil based on Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Native Americans mastered this cycle nearly down to a T. Knowing when it was right to plant and sow, change crops, allow soil to revitalize, hunt, fish, and live by the signs given to them in Nature herself (the Great Spirit). Technically, modern humans are off our natural rotation by using time as an outside element to measure the work we do everywhere. Its no wonder we are stressed and compromised, deprived of Earth’s natural properties to stay healthy.
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  7356. El Gringo dice: “...The US will find you and take you out.”, are clearly words of a gangster, thug. The office of the president is nothing more than a citadel of reactionary violence of anything that is not for itself. Obviously the Pentagon and the White House is using climate change to its advantage in destabilizing countries, governments, people it does not like. American people must feel demoralized the government they live under turns its back on them and their needs for social development.
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  7357. *One democrat down in Washington State, more to come. A sure win for Trump acolytes is a democrat that screws the people. I will never understand how people of color in politics can align themselves with a party that extended slavery and overturned the Missouri Compromise with the Nebraska-Kansas Act. Oh, I know, you’re going to tell that was a long time ago and MLK Jr was a figment of my imagination. OK go ahead. *$300K to finish Bolton is cheap. Why target Bolton when Trump gave the order? Trump was president when Bolton planned this assassination; Biden is president when he ordered the assassination of the Awarri dude. Don’t actions speak louder than words prove the presidents are the final assassins when they align themselves with the assassins? They order killings of people on advice so far from me they don’t make a difference to my life. * Trump does no more what all members of his class do when it comes to deflating his assets and shorting the tax fund. Congress does this too. Sheer hypocrisy. Bernie does it.
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  7358. Paying someone not to work is a window into the world of white collar privilege where crimes are rewarded. If one media corporation can afford to pay someone not to work then the other media mega-corporations are in a financial position to do the same and this brings in a question of the magnitude of wealth that has the potential to produce a hundred or more news organizations as a more robust industry is stifled by a monopoly of a few news organization turned into propaganda machines. Corporate journalism is not place where journalists can exercise journalism without reprisal and censorship is not concentrated into a power of five or six mega-meda corporations controlling the price of the airwaves and accumulating the profits for itself. All this allows, permits, enables, white collar privilege in and outside of their workplace. None of the news outlets know what to report on so they report on themselves; as if world history is not in the making.
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  7359.  @audiofunkdialect  You cannot educate sickness or you will get a sick educated person. Its the same as giving coffee to a drunk that only keeps them awake. But I detect resentment and disrespect for China in your last sentence about the Democrats enabling China to become a world power. What is it about their revolution that impels you to dismiss it?
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  7360. Pollution is the Achilles Heel of Ron DiSantis! As the biggest polluter enabler in the State nobody beats him. Even when science establishes cause and effect the science the polluters own the legislature.
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  7361. Well said and spoken with feeling, conviction, inserting the humanity of the issue of the system of poverty as a product of the poverty of mind of the society.
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  7362.  @peanut2us  Coming to these shores and succeeding over others never took place in the way you imagine it did. In real history the Indian Wars were fought by America's founding government to open the west to the first wave of humanity to diverted to American shores by Great Britain. England diverted the immigrant population from the colonies to fill up the American labor-market, many went to work in NYC's factories and stayed became the legends in history we know and many moved west to start their lives as settler-farmers, ranchers, cattle breeders, carpenters. Immigrants brought their trade and skills with them. Black American slaves were skilled workers for their masters on their plantations were just as skilled if not better skilled than old European skilled immigrant workers who came to America were free to start their lives as black immigrants moving west.  No love between the Red man and the Black man and the White man in those times. There is no culture, not one society where one lives as an Atheist, Jew or Gentile, Hindu or Muslim, alive on the planet who can say their country is not a monarchy, autocracy, dictatorship, or a patriarchy monopoly of some kind. Not one. Think about that.
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  7363. A Tale of Two Educational Systems; One for the Poor and the other for the Rich. Our educational system has not found or struck the right chord in mastering the art of finding geniuses in neighborhoods and communities where geniuses are not encouraged to expose their talent or where their are none! With the exception of the Ivy League Institutions, even there it is status not brains that places you in Congress, ----the other excludes you from the political life of your own hometown.
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  7364. Every pivotal moment in history when leaders formed an alliance with the US in reaction to the development of socialism has amounted to one social disaster after disaster. The history of war and containment from 1955 to 2002 is all the proof you need to convince yourself of this, total failure.
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  7365. What.
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  7366. Mmmm -- I can only imagine. Boys in America do lack good role models. So many fell subject to the predators of the institutions society praised as the answer to millions of displaced children. A boy with a home and a boy without a home were victimized the same by predators in different clothing. 2.3 million boys in the Boy Scouts, roughly the same number of boys serve as altar boys in the Catholic Church. The number of children transported by train from Ellis Island by orhanages placed several thousand boys and girls with Mid West Farmers. Abuse and neglect was not illegal in Ohio until 1974 with the passage of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA). A entire generation mostly dead now never saw the light of day of such a law. Their lives as victims of institutional and family abuse/neglect from the day they were placed into foster and residential placement waiting for adoption, is one big traumatizing nightmare, a night of the hunter. The well adjusted are in the minority. The same abuses and neglect at the hands of the State occur and reoccur in new form, i.e., containment camps of migrant children in the custody of ICE that died. Boys are victims and to be masculine in American society is to be a victimizer and re-victimize in a recurring cycle the same patterns of abuse and neglect learned from a society that abstains from nurturance and guidance.
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  7367.  Thrunabulax  Yes, but, where in society is the stuff taken from people, home, church, work?
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  7368.  Thrunabulax  The only thing that occurs to those who think to act with entitlement over the product of labor and the earth's resources is fear, when a people do preach an anti- system, that preaching springs from practical needs, the whole condition of life of a particular class in particular countries evokes fear and counter fear. Struggle and counter-struggle. To them if life were a thing they can buy the rich would live and the poor would die.
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  7369.  Thrunabulax  But this is a less important point to my original comment about the transformation of equality of individuals, as buyers and sellers, into unequal partners in production where inequality is the dominant form of productive relations. How the 1% stay as the 1%.
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  7370.  Thrunabulax  What would be the starting point for the the contruction of an anarchist society? Could you elaborate?
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  7371. Bourgeois societies consume the vital resources of life on Earth for the sake of perpetuating the Sale. Selling becomes and endless activity because money is infinite while water and soil are finite. Life itself isn’t the end and aim of bourgeois societies. People who live in a constant state of need should wake up to that fact even if they are too busy trying to survive.
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  7372. Israel’s PM warns of Civil War...to which it must be said...civil wars become social revolutions. Civil wars disrupt systems of production but it is social revolutions that change them.
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  7373. The legislators are the people who make the laws that force companies to throw out products. State legislators decide the culture, the law tells corporations that if they want the tax allowance they have to throw out the food. They cannot give it away and it’s on the company. The legislators are pricks! They don’t even want to meet a company halfway. We’ll pick it up every second Wednesday is too much to give. The “legislators’ in state government could have written the tax law to say; give it to people who need it or your employees and show us proof if you want the tax allowance and the culture of meanness in corporations never has a chance to be a reality. But the politicians are mean people. Back stabbers, liars and cheaters...you are stupid if you expect the same meanness does not spread across all social relations and institutions? The other way to see this phenomenon is through the lens of market forces. Sometimes cattle ranchers and dairy farmers deliberately lower their stock to raise the price because a tax is too high on them or a tariff tax makes the competitor’s beef more expensive lowering the supply can bring in a hefty profit for a lifetime. Not a nice thing to see farmers shooting down their own steer. But on the Dollar Store Corporation the legislators let in a parasitical business and made it a business model for all businesses to exploit its employees and the consumer, DG buys cheap and sells dear below the average price, they buy from Chinese mass production factories and sell in the US, they hire US workers cheap bringing down wages in general and the commercial waste is immoral.
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  7374. Be a wise thing to start a Senior Action Committee (SAC) and spearhead multiple takeovers of small town board members of thousands of chapters across the country. Collect a dollar from every senior citizen for a war chest in which to battle and overthrow the mid age cohort group from political power. Call it the Boomer Revolution and this way my headstone can read: “He Changed the World”. Right now seniors are relegated to volunteerism and senior centers with not much to do but rot playing cards and bingo, eating cake and visiting a doctor to quell the disease from excess sugar consumption; thus, leaving me at a loss for not only healthy companionship but in a dearth of stimulating conversation, which, incidentally, improved my writing skills, as a consequence, but for less functioning seniors isolated in a world of intellectual backwardness, apathy, mediocrity and monotony and at the mercy of less sensitized and sometime barbaric individuals.
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  7375. Planes lose flight control in turbulent skies. Look just went down with the flight to Hawaii injuring passengers. Turbulence and that wasn’t a Bomb Cyclone they flew into. An overnight Christmas in an airport. The Cold Bomb Cyclone That Changes People.
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  7376. @Penh Dog,----western observers critical of capitalism often find themselves forgetful of the rivalry between Asian nations going through their own capitalist drives for expansion. The tendency to forget the economic laws of motion of capitalism are the same regardless of the country capitalism is found. If there are many rivals the economic laws operating the same for each nation eventually meet their limits when there is no room for expansion.This is why I see it futile to base a critique the US as the lone dominant capitalist nation on earth, all others are subordinate, when there is a context of many rival capitalist upstarts acting as competitors. Both the US and China, as super powers, reside, in that world of capitalist competition between nations, I think what brings them together is losing to these new rivals, China having a better grasp of what they must do to remain on top than the US.
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  7377.  @markpukey8  You misunderstand. It is not historic rivalries we are talking about here. Its capitalist rivalry. A specific type of rivalry on top of historic and cultural rivalries. Competition for more markets which escalates into war. This is a WWI scenario repeat.
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  7378. My Conversation with Joe Biden: Biden your history. Sucked right into a war with Iran and WWIII the Biden Administration is isolated, ineffective and hated for not stopping Israel’s atrocities. Pivoting America to be against economies blocking growth uprooting millions of people are the effect of your policies Joe. Can’t you see that? You are so unstable the Billionaire Class would rather back Trump. All you have are anti-Russian paranoid neocon lunatics advising you. Good bye Joe. You paved the way for Trump. As much I dislike Trump he is way better than you are Joe. Too bad you were too stupid to not eliminate the neocons from your cabinet. Of course, you are old now, another four years won’t matter as death is right around the corner for you. But what a F’d Up legacy you leave on this earth Joe. WWIII, and more intensified climate catastrophes. What a man of high intellect you are. Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand. You going down to shoot Iran. Shoot it down the ground. You bring your own personal family instabilities and dysfunction into the world of politics where they do not belong Joe. And the best you can advise the future is to invest their money right. Since they don’t know any better they listen. Joe, you are like a used car. It might get me there and back but the car has no features I like. Poll numbers sinking Joe. You might want do the opposite of what your doing now. If you did you’d be in sync with the country you were born into. I got a few words for Mayor Adams too that are not too flattering. No more two term presidents or mayors from here on in. The intelligent masses will never vote twice in a row for the same character until they get one that makes the MASSIVE CHANGES this country needs and WWIII is not one of them.
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  7379. The culture you speak of, are American youths.  Neglect of youths and abuse of minors comes out of every pore of the established social system of society. Youths have no rights in civil society and are the most exploited social class that when capitalism does something to damage their social status internal injuries of class open sore wounds. Been going on since the Great Depression that youths are chronically unemployed, bored, and wearhoused and then placed in new homes because their original homes were shattered apart by the same established social system of American society, has deteriorated to the current state of American white youths. Do a comparative study about German youths of the 1930's to American ones in 2019 and the commonalities point to the same problems connected to capitalism.
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  7380. Within the framework of the prevailing social order Trump is the best we will get! He aims to make a few fewer and the wealth concentrated into their hands through the State. In the future if this opposition between the State and Civil Society worsens in the direction Trump is taking the State. This split will lead to people seeing in other people, not the realization, but rather the limitation of their own liberty. What will break down is our security. The guarantee for each of us the preservation of our person, rights and property will vanish in a constitutional crisis. The whole of Washington has become a political community that exists merely to preserve the rights of the super rich not the super rich as a citizen considered the true and authentic individual in the US Constitution. He will make the State exist for the few and the many in civil society fighting each other for crumbs.
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  7381. “Bring Them Home” is now synonymous with ridding the world of genocide. Two social movements that were originally oppositional in connection to the force used in Gaza, are becoming compatible movements demanding the same thing, in connection to the force used in Gaza, ---in response to this worldwide unity of oppositions, the State of Israel dives into a concerted effort of collecting and destroying all evidence of its crimes. Natural science proves a political economic law, quantitative differences beyond certain point become qualitative changes.
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  7382.  @hizzlemobizzle  All true,-- the double sided consequences, high rates encourages savings. No spenders discourages investment and borrowing.
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  7383.  @blakebortles6098  so is Bitcoin.
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  7384.  @hizzlemobizzle  It happened in Russia that a ruling class became callous and insensitive, that a small, remote, group was able to take power from the ruling class and make a revolution. Then the country lost the war. Unemployment was high, prices were high, food was short, the population was completely illiterate. The empire of the US fell already did it not? Looks like the US ruling class does not have the world at their disposal any longer, its dollar is weak, so thy must turn to the exploitation of Americans highly accustomed to a standard of living they will be asking all to give up, is going to make for a real big party.
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  7385. Compensatory damages versus build to last. The building industry gets its way with the crime of cutting building material short and bribing inspections and when courts award damages it is the public who pays the victims not the building industry that caused the collapse. America refuses to change.
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  7386. rEvOlt!
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  7387. Racism is a mode of production. It is tied into the economic structure of society and cannot be separated from it. Therefore, the economic structure is in control over human beings and not the other way around in the racist paradigm or economy. The problem with racists is their consciousness over racism, to them racism is a nature-imposed necessity that they cannot understand a 'black face' in historical context, for it is treated the same way the birth of Jesus Christ is treated as Born Again by christian Evangelicals despite being born once in history. Denial of history, denial of all facts and realities of oppressive forms in society. Where does the theology of VP Pence and the entire class dominating the political structure, come from? At the fall of the Roman Empire, from the Greek word 'chilias', meaning a thousand, (thousand points of light was the phrase GHW Bush used speaking to the evangelical faction of the GOP on the eve of the first Gulf War invasion about reading his lips on No New Taxes). There arose a mystical religious doctrine of the second coming of Christ and the establishment of the millennium, when justice, universally equality and prosperity will be triumphant. Chiliastic beliefs arose in the period of decaying slave society; they were based on the unbearable oppression and suffering of the working people who sought a release in fantastic dreams of deliverance. Those beliefs were widespread in early Christian times and later on there were constantly revived in the teaching of various medieval sects, are now revived in the Trump administration. Know your enemy.
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  7388. This is not important to Washington. Mississippians will never see or hear its current senators Cindy Hyde-Smith and Roger Wicker speak out on behalf of Mississippians flooded and displaced. The only thing holding them back from showing their faces as leaders publicly in a time of crisis is their courage. Governors and mayors have to go public and show leadership but the senators in Washington, they have chosen to hide.
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  7389.  @trentallman984  In 88 the opportunist who is Biden like all American politicians are opportunists, make a career of becoming selected by the class that donates the greatest amount of capital to their election to buy how they vote on legislation they no longer write themselves as lawyers, was the beginning of the disintegration of American democracy.
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  7390. @Varity Topic What would you do to change that deficit in people?
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  7391. This is pure bull.
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  7392. People fear telling him to change his suit and tie. Pathetic.
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  7393. Fascism in the west is as natural as fish are to the ocean. Italy is fascist, Spain has a long history of fascism, Germany we know had its own form of fascism. France is the birthplace of militarism and nationalism,i.e., Napoleon Bonaparte. Japan on the sea faces west more than east has its history of fascism. All the states named above were fascism took hold are states with Kings, monarchs, princes. States with feudal histories that never got rid of the old social autocracies, came into the modern era in many fascistic forms. The ones that successfully replaced their conquering kings and monarchs in revolutions are no longer breeding grounds for fascist inclinations. States that underwent partial revolutions or accommodated the old social autocracies regress and slide into fascism like a staggering alcoholic searching for a drink today and a fire engine without a driver careening down the street the next day, always generating a breeding ground for fascist elements to thrive and emerge. Current fascism are not the goose stomping cadres of old style fascism they were in the 20th century, they look like normal people. The distinction is that they are all white people sprinkled with a few black people for the sake of making political gains in a largely less white society as a marketing pitch for votes. Fascism in the 21st Century is racism.
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  7394.  @Historia.Magistra.Vitae.  El Salvador, Bolivia, Israel, Argentina, USA are all fascist states.
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  7395. Move over Rover, let Jimmy take over. My man.
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  7396. The suits made a lot of money in this war.  The boots made new brothers and sisters the suits are tearing apart.
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  7397. Gun lobby in Washington keeps selling those guns as soon as they roll off the factory floor...big profits...at the expense of small lives.
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  7398. THe majority of DC is Black and the minority is white; so what part are you saying is the swamp?
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  7399. All good but if we are to make schools free of cops and guns we also need the state to be free of guns and violence.
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  7400. If you are in your mid-forties in age I cannot blame you for not being aware of the social consequences of the laws passed in 1980, through the Congress at the time, specifically by Ronald Reagan and across the pond Margaret Thatcher. You are living through the experience of the failure and decline of unbridled capitalism or, if your prefer, privatization as a mid aged adult. Privatization is only working for the few, the many become destitute and pauperized. This is the part of privatization the Congress left out when getting the votes to pass the laws and when explained to the American people, that it would split society in two halves and cripple the nation, leaving one half of the nation without the means for its own support and the other half competing for full possession of all the means. It was fine in the beginning but now that its run its course lives are at stake.
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  7401. Crippling one leg of the patient than blaming the patient for not walking straight summarizes US Trade policy with China.
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  7402. Afraid not friend. The change will come when cops and their unions are liable for wrongful death and damages in lawsuits.
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  7403. The fact that these crimes are not against property but are crimes against persons is proof that cops do not stop crime and whenever the city wants to use cops in a preventative way that is when cops threaten to quit and complain pay is low. I am old enough to have seen this as a pattern. Based on your comment I can tell you are not old enough to have seen that pattern. But you will be as age catches up to you and the pattern becomes obvious; cops repeat the same pattern.
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  7404. Big story right there on the German officials secretly meeting and plotting to blow up Russia’s Crimea Bridge with Ukraine at the center of the plot is a Watergate crime for Germany. I hope this channel follows the story. In Haiti, gangs are forced to become an armed revolutionary army. This is because Haitian elites have turned Haitians into a people acting from the desperation of total deprivation there isn’t any choice. Elites have excluded Haitians from civil society and they created a class of poor Haitians not of civil society but living within it.
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  7405. Gold Digger Dave -- No, the system is set up to keep the working working and the middle class working as these two social classes are the most troublesome of the others, and yes, this does make it easier to control the flow of wealth produced by these two social classes.
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  7406.  @golddiggerdave  Nonsense...the private property of the ruling classes, slaves, land, material wealth, etc., before the state came into existence was private property. After the state came into being the property of the rich became a matter of public concern of the state and that is what has not changed since the origins of the state, dated around 450 BC. All that Templar crap is conspiratorial propaganda to keep your eye off the state and its actions in rigging the masses into subjugation is what has been working for centuries behind everyone's back, no less.
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  7407.  @InternetMameluq  Actually, I am a historian and there is more evidence authoritarian states were established by middle class individuals. There are only two revolutions in human history that were slave or working class revolts in Europe, they were the Paris Commune and Sparticus's revolt of the slaves against the Roman empire. If we exclude the Russian Revolution which is more east than west. Outside of Europe the middle classes produced no revolutions of their own and there are more peasant, slave, native, and working class revolts in European and South, Central American, history. Facts do not agree with your assertion.
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  7408. @José Pedro Coelho Wherever you are a revolution is needed as well. Obedience to the State is the basis of subjugation of people.
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  7409.  @ryanf5439  That why a revolution theory of change exists, so the passive masses can incorporate an active theory of transformation.
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  7410.  @abelincoln332  Partly true, the rich do not shop at Walmart, -- producers of consumer goods do not sell their commodities to the rich and the luxury commodity producers do not sell to the many. But it is true money is no object to the rich and money is an object to the many, as the increase of luxury consumption by a few is proof of the surplus value they possess the poverty of the many generated from that accumulation is proof of the accumulation of wealth into fewer hands. Inflation is more paper money chasing after commodities in circulation. Circulation is the only way the commodity producers of general consumer goods can raise their profits if they cannot speed up production for higher output in their factories. The last generation of the rich and the working masses were also more amenable, kinder, people, ore in touch with society. A few robber barons were cruel people to workers. This generation of the super rich bear an attitude of hatred for people not of their class is the difference between now and then.
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  7411. The community should demand along with their action the state provide the community with the material for the creation of a water harvesting system for every home. The state should use its, tools, facilities, industries and workshops for the production of the material to create a water harvesting system that will create a reservoir source when it rains while the state using its tools, facilities, industries and workshops, fashions the material for each home to have a water harvesting system. It is not a question of not having the means.
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  7412. Freedom Convoy Truckers should stop the Super Bowl. There are valid reasons for such a protest. The government cannot turn its back on an actual collapse of society and pretend everything is fine.
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  7413. The arrogance of the US position against Palestine’s admission into the security council at the UN reveals its ideological complicity with genocide. But it boggles the mind to me, how a black woman representing the US in that council identifies more with an oppressor than with the oppressed? Money talks. The approval of statehood for Palestine would usher in the beginning of a new world and the death of an old one. Colonialism in general and American imperialism in particular ends with the introduction of a world proletariat, the 99%. In America, Trump is the final gasp of a 649 year old protracted struggle for existence of an ancient European regime. Out of the rot of this old regime powerful social forces move rapidly to resolve every oppressive relationship that regime puts in its way and its reasons are “Universal”.
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  7414. Unless 35 year olds studied history in a serious way they really don’t know about anything older than their age. The younger the workforce the easier it is to fill 132 million jobs with 30 something people shaped exactly the way Capital needs. They can be easily molded and told what to think, what to do and what to say, that promotes capitalism and imperialism and never question it.
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  7415. What this shows is that there is enough material wealth and productive power for all to be rich. People do not have to worry about starvation by revolution. Without a job that is the thief of all social time humanity can pursue the goal of transforming the brain and society from poor thoughts to rich thoughts from poor people to rich people as long as shelter and susbsistence is not threatened. Every forebearing social movement who sought to change society had the problem of material deprivation. Russia and China overcame material deprivation and proved a nation can. But their's are not yet a full affluent and democratized society, therefore, partial democratic and socialized societies in whatever variant is all we will see on this earth and in our lifetime as long as the world gets smaller because we number more and there is little room for two systems to exist and one of them depends on expansion for survival. For all to be rich there cannot be any major class differences among people and nations. It cost societies and the planet to maintain and sustain social class imbalances in the consumption of productive power. This cost in the form of human labor consumed more by one and not the other is a key a generator of social inequality. Social classes take up more productive power and economic development depriving others of an affluent life. Everything will have to be completely and 100% democratized for a true affluent society to arise and for a new species of man and woman to develop.
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  7416. Nothing good happens in the market. Money was the bond that connected the individual to their society...that bond is gone in SF.
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  7417. The right wing agenda for America is not working. The Plan that experiments on the population with written laws to incarcerate black men by making their childhoods criminally poor get snatched up into the “system’, is a failure. The Plan backfired. The system has a loophole in it. Kids do not want to be controlled by an Establishment. Some kids know kids more worthy of democracy than some adults. Democracy bogs down the plan that the right wing must shift focus to get rid of democracy in the way of a successful implementation of the America they want for the 21st Century. The Age of Majority is one Achilles Heel. Black teenagers robbing Amazon and other delivery trucks, smash and grab robberies of brick and mortar stores, are sending a message to a deaf Congress in a love affair emulates Israel. Where all the Jews are rich and all the Palestinians remain destitute and the two live separate and unequal lives is not their idea of life. Only when Congress abolishes the rule of the age majority and give kids rights will the corporations regain some semblance of a market in which business can take place without losing money. Until then the entire social order is in jeopardy of collapse. The Right Wing will never put this genie back into the bottle they opened. In fact, I see no reasonable solution they can come up with but more of the same policies accelerating the decline. The same rights as everyone else above the age of 18. Eventually the kiddies will become decent and respectable citizens with the power of their own legal representation to sue for abuse and neglect of any social institution as the cause of that abuse and neglect, the real bad ones will learn there are consequences to their actions and the real good ones can vote and kick every republican and democrat out of office proven to be connected , directly or indirectly, with that Grand Social Experiment.
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  7418. 4:57 the government that provokes Russia into a war is funded by American taxpayers while the American taxpayer is not funded at all?
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  7419. America has no Bill of Rights for the workplace. The Bill of Rights it has applies only to a marketplace. The workplace is where all the social inequalities in society are found. The workplace is where Equality Counts, who cares if a buyer and seller are both equally OWNERS.
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  7420. Comments here are funny and filled with Me-isms. Well, here is a Me-ism to digest. One real problem with storms of this magnitude is the impact on the whole economy. One sector is devastated by a storm another sector cannot work and so on. Until all parts are up and running again the entire economy loses value and this translates into higher prices of the yearly product. Better stop here, give too much to think about and the Public’s brain goes into overload and shuts down.
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  7421. He personifies the general privileged social position of the printing of money that debt is expected to be paid off on the backs of the American people for generations to come.  Trump left a situation where if you do nothing to quell the virus the entire economy will collapse.  If you do a total recovery package of the sector hit by the virus the economy recovers but you rack up debt. How to get the American people to pay the debt is the pivot on which all politics on the left and the right spins in the current time in the US Capitol. An attitude all to common in the halls of money, capital, debt finance, gold as currency that working people with their labor will pay off the mounting debt.  Old Representatives who speak for things and the world of unit-values speaking through them has no time for being human about poverty.
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  7422. The realization might be shocking to people that people, places and nations, in social conflict are places where democracy never existed. Neither Jew or Gentile, or Arab and Asian societies in the 21 st century have democracy in their history.  They may be in conflict toward democracy but are coming from societies formed by thousands of years of social conditioning of autocracy and authoritarianism. If they attempt to build a democracy the first form of it is defected. This is where the idea of a more "perfect union" comes from in the US. Whatever democratic practice is in place in any society in the world today is a result of titanic battles of the people fighting for the rights. Otherwise all societies are still operating under the same framework that was passed down by generations. If its history is feudalism its society is feudalistic. If slavery was its history modern capitalism takes the form of slavery for the people. If there is a history of democracy and universal suffrage in a society's past than modern capitalism takes the form of a constitutional and representational republic. But nowhere in no place in all recorded human history do modern people not live under the systems that are directly autocratic, dictatorial an d authoritarian. All the nations in the world started out and came from social systems that were all autocratic and ruled by a single minority. NOTHING HAS CHANGED IN THE 21ST CENTURY.
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  7423. @marvink7969, wishful thinking.
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  7424. How?
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  7425.  @GR3YS0RG4N1CS  How do you get the military on your side to change how corporations are subsidized and from crushing our revolution?
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  7426. Republican chose bad candidates to nominate and democrats took good candidates better than them off the ballot. So we end up with CRAP!
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  7427. Government should station a team on all railway crossings to push across the tracks an elephant...a train collision will kill the elephant and passengers on the train.
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  7428. To divert water requires planning with the future in mind and that is not how the American economy operates. The economy is the reason why people do the illogical and irrational, they are manipulated by the market and the activity that comes from the purchase and sale of goods, is where the county gets its income for resources, in an effort to save the community their activity to get the town prepared for the market to the person coping with the damages makes no sense. The upside down world of capitalism answers your excellent question.
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  7429. Humans are powerless against Nature, and apparently we are powerless against the highway transportation system. Rail running parallel to highways and monorail would prevent being stranded by thousands of people on the highways.
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  7430. Too little too late. They ran on the Public Option and got elected on it and we never hear about since them. They never challenged the money to Ukraine. Home is a sacred place but homes are burning up in fires doing nothing about climate change. There is too much contempt for the American people in Washington. A man sends a letter to her office and the staff are terrorized. A contemptible reaction to mail if ever I heard one. You have to roll with whatever comes your way in Capitol Hill. I feel like a dog waiting for a piece of food from the table. American people have to bite the bullet, literally and figuratively. Planet protection and health care and subsidies expire is a serious issue and Brianna changes the subject to Manchin not being a real democrat. Such contempt for the working class.
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  7431. Bravo Northram for signing legislation to abolish the Death Penalty. Bravo Murphy for signing legislation to abolish the illegalization of marijuana. These are examples of progress and a victory of the public over the property owners in the states of both governors.
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  7432.  @chrisak49  I hate people who twist the subject from white collar criminals to the crime that victimizes people. Sounds like you are ready to be the subject-slave for a dictator.
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  7433. Since exchange is random, a particular job and object of 2019 equated to the labor time of when it was made has no effect on price. Nothing is ever! Not any person, place or thing under capitalism is ever true to the value of when it was made to the price it is selling for. In reality, price violates value.
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  7434. If China had this problem and it did. The US would condem China's actions but the problem for better or worse was solved by China's Cultural Revolution in the 1970s. Whereas racist social elements, the slaveholders who started the Civil War, lingered since the end of the American Civil War well into the 20th century.  America's Counter Cultural Revolution of the 1960s did not even come close to building a movement of abolishing racist culture and institutions for its lack of focus and intent to abolish racism but it had the right method of changing the single patriarchy of American society. All societies have to shake off the old social structures if they want to go forward and many of the old structures resist and often wage war of a restoration of the old society, revel at a lost way of life, look backward such as Mr. Trump's Make America Great Again looks back at the height of US industrial revolution. You cannot look back. You can only learn from what is behind you. One must remove the barriers in front of them one by one to reach the goal of emancipation from human enslavement. Russia had this problem with the "White Russians" who without a doubt holding the Czar and the Royal Family captive only fanned the fires of civil war. If you hand him back you are surrendering the revolution. If you eliminate him Russia gets peace and the pro-czarist forces, well, disapate. Human history always throws a monkey wrench on a plan. Venezuela has this problem and seemingly the problem has become a solution. Guarimbas were the proviolent forces fighting the government and burning people alive who supported the legitimately elected president they now interact with the working class on developmental community projects. The violent episodes in Venezuela are never to be reported any long in the mainstream press because they don't happen anymore. America has its share of reactionary social elements that it is going to take a massive government re-education drive most likely starting at the elementary school level where the whole educational curriculum will have to be revolutionized teaching the harder subjects in shorter modules to lower grade levels once the three r's are down pat. Ignorance can only be overcome by knowledge. In America's future society everyone will have to be trained in practice and skilled in theory to be on the same level as the rest of the world.
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  7435.  @4TheRecord  I would argue with you but I know for a fact you are talking out both sides of your ARSE sitting over their in England.
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  7436. 1:14 An idiot. One air conditioner does nothing but a million of them heats up the planet. Wow people in America are really stupid.
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  7437. It is easy to understand why gangs are so easily formed in the US with the type of parenting that goes on in this country there isn’t the feeling of wantedness in children from their own biological parents or from the institutions that are supposed to protect them. Time is the element not working in the interest of American families. Time is all gangs have. America needs to reduce the hours of the workday for parents and children to form more meaningful bonds and connections that men and women can mature on their own terms and ot force an adolescent to be adult because of the insufficiency of time, parents force maturity to develop in millions of inappropriate ways. Society is sick, families have no time and criminals have all the time in the world. What needs to be done is a mandatory obligation that ALL 332 million American perform the necessary jobs for society to thrive and the workday be reduced to 4.5 hours a day. This will end the habit of relying on 132 million people to do all the work and it will end the practice of overwork.
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  7438.  @georgefurman4371  On the subjective piece, let me get you straight, you are saying an individual is subsumed into the working class, loses their individuality, and becomes an object...thus, an individual is a particular subject that becomes a general object within the social category of a working class. If so, the idea that is revolutionary in transforming capitalism, would be the abolition of the working class! No more wages in exchange for labor-power. Labor-power is no longer a commodity. The necessaries of life no longer take the form of wages.
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  7439.  @georgefurman4371  To your first sentence: In the exchange between labor and capital, the capitalist gets the finished product impregnated with surplus value and the sale money of the product. The capitalist does not get from the exchange like the workers do, a lifestyle consisting of a certain amount of money (wages), the capitalist. The exchange of two substances, wages are a definite quantity of social labor or material wealth and the other is an indefinite quantity (profit) the income of capital. I would say that a worker or labor movement should strike, fight, not for higher wages but for a share of the profits and the half ownership of the product or to go further full ownership of the product, the actual tools (means of production), a public utility belongs to society not an individual. Higher wages will never free the workers from being a working class; it only raises their material standard of living which can be accomplished in the way that I suggest. Such a suggestion is never mentioned in the left, anywhere, not Wolff, Harvey, none of them...why is that, are they not Marxists? This question is ignored by the left. No point to answering all that you mention without resolving the first point (problem) then proceeding to the next issue you raised. Can the capitalist(s) recognize their exploitation? How is value production decided in capitalist production? Some questions that highlight this debate.
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  7440. I am disappointed the Cold War had not ended the way it should have in my lifetime.
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  7441.  @TheStedomi  Your comment is a big disappointment. Man, people here really know how to be real let downs. You should really re-consider bringing children into this world for only $7.25 an hour.
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  7442.  @TheStedomi  The Cold War is directed at Communism not at States, and presidents.
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  7443. The American working class is nieve working class; they sense the economy does not want them to live their lives out happily but to them the economy is a thing beyond their control, an alien force, and they are preoccupied with the failing health of the children, made worse by a Health Establishment and in particular the pharmaceutical industry. Biologists working in that sector have not the conscience to take a stand against their work as harming others. Many industries are contributing to the poor health of their children that it is the whole structure of modern industry ruining the lives of the working classes. Education has been misguiding them for decades: When people think of the economy they think it begins with money as the economic category from which profits come from, this thinking leads them to inflation eroding profits and incomes. Its not the relational contents behind the economic categories that is taught to them the economy as with religion is the cause of their faith in the dollar or in God, it is not God or crumbling value of the dollar that is the effect of their mass confusion, and so they become lost unable to distinguish the trees from the forest.
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  7444. There is no legal requirement or obligation for private industry to disclose their production processes to the Public in America that I am aware of. Privatization is a threat to humanity and the environment and has made humanity, community and society, a threat to privatization. People coming to the US who enter the working class should know this and expect that America is not the land of equality in the workplace. Do not be fooled by the illusion of freedom and equality in society means anything when it comes to your job, the work you do and why, for what, and with what, when, for whom and where. Your job is to enrich the company not question the production process of the company and this is the tragic reality that is rapidly sinking the quality of life for all in the US demands action from us all to reject privatization of industry.
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  7445. Well if the democrats won't commit to legislative disobedience than mass disobedience as the only way to unseat republicans will have to do it. There will never be another democrat in the White House.
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  7446. Good question: Why does the world need grain to be shipped from Ukraine? The answer is surprising and not at all in agreement with the opinion of the BBC.
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  7447. Great work people when people take offensive moves by combining themselves to strengthen a weakness that comes with being alone. There is hope!
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  7448. Sorry Mr. Dore I think your assessment differs from mine. Protecting the someone else is them. The masses are Omicron infested the Establishment Elites are not infected or if they are they can de-infect themselves with the science. Elites have been telling you all along they are following the science and medical science agrees with masks and vaccinations, that translates into government edicts in the name of public safety and since the Elites are a part of the Public, it is their safety that takes the higher priority. Separating the masses from the Establishment Elites is the best form of protection they can get from exposure of the masses and this is accomplished by limiting the extent of wealth and power the masses can accumulate. The Establishment Elites are placing the burden of safety on the masses, they perfectly realize the masses live in a world where science for the people is a contradiction in capitalism. If science is not used for capitalist production, but for public safety, science shuts the economy down, because the economy is not a relation of use-values and the relation of commodities to one another are not the subject of science is the contradiction. As the working class can only live as a working class by becoming buyers in a capitalist society, the Elites with enough wealth accumulated can live out the double standard and science can be the weapon that shuts down production and lowers the wages of working people as a blow against the demand of workplaces be continually made safe, would constitute an expenditure by Elites that would likely to sink profits below their standard of living. The burden of the new standard of living of the super rich imposed on the working population requires the permanent inclusion of a virus in the working population. Now the social policies the Elite Establishment pass through legislation can regulate people as if they were and are propertyless. So what would be the correct position to take? What we are seeing in Canada is who the State allows to protest and who the State does not allow to protest shown by the protest relation to the Cops, as friends, the protest is allied with a section of the State that is in opposition to the establishment in power.
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  7449. Democrats do indeed set themselves up for a defeat n 2024. So, what people should prepare for now is how to respond to the republicans when they assume power and Wall Street profits go up while corporations like Walmart keep prices down. Keeping prices down so as to not agitate an angry working class not earning enough when wages fall because profits have gone up. Biggest mistake people make is not understanding this contradictory movement between wages and profits and why it occurs? Its definitely a built-in feature of the economic order of things. Walmart and all the corporations are not in business to raise the standard of wages. As corporations their mission is to sink the standard of wages and this tendency is also mistook by the American public, more specifically, by the Left n Congress as an effect of competition. What they see as an evil or negative effect is in reality the successful working of an iron law of necessity for the survival of corporations. Americans and more specifically, wage -earning working class Americans are more exposed to the encroachments of Big Business and this has to do with the Left limiting themselves to waging a legislative war on the effects of a fall in the average standard of wages. They should be spending their efforts building levers to free the working class from that which keeps the working class in an economic low sandard of living the wage system itself.
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  7450. I don’t want Trump in office either but your statement makes me want to tell you that putting your faith in the Justice department to keep him from running is not going to stop the social force behind him. You already lost to a Supreme Court that has criminalize abortion and ruled on the side of police. Moreover the US prison system is run by the Justice Department is administered by a standing army of cops of one million strong, daily functioning in the same way gangs operate, doing hit jobs not policing society. You have a climate crisis that is decimating half your country and the people in it dying from natural forces and disease mishandled by deliberate incompetency. Making a disease then selling you a cure is an immorality Congress refuses to deal with. Action committees pouring millions to defeat anyone progressive. You also have an incompetent president that hands Trump a good reason to run again. And, you have a corporate wing of the democratic party who are worse than the far right of the republican party. I might vote for Trump is how bad the democrats are, most likely not vote at all. Am I wrong?
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  7451. The questions from reporters of CNN, ABC, NBC in general when interviewing elected party officials are not characteristic of exposing the political process of this country disrupted by internal conflicts within political parties. This episode is a rare exception to that rule.
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  7452. America absolves injustices of the past but continues them in the present and into the future is hypocrisy.
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  7453. Americans have to step outside of the mode of living that keeps them suspended in a state of watching the news being made by others and not making the news themselves. People need to make history not Joe Biden. To the credit of the Poor People’s Campaign, being a spectator of the news, a life by going to work and grocery store as normal, does not make things happen for poor people. Poverty swallows up more people into an abyss as the monopoly corporations become fewer and greater in wealth cannot stand any longer on the shoulders of all social classes and on the backs of the poor. The passive pressure in the Public that can no longer be held back or contained and goes unheeded, ignored, and dismissed, not worth removing the causes of suffering, will erupt in social rage and anger and bring the whole house down.
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  7454. A person works 8 hours a day. In 4 hours the wages paid to that person is replenished by an equivalent of what that person produces. Wages are self-reproducing. The other four hours is work given with no equivalent to employers and a worker advances two weeks work before their first paycheck has produced work of no equivalent to that person in the waiting period. Looking at it this way the wage fund is never depleted and all work performed for employers by workers is not paid work; its value producing work that happens in the course of a single working day by millions of workers multiplied by an 8 hour working day by the number of working days in a year and the results are phenomenal and astronomic amounts of value creating work at the behest of employers while one hours’ work equals one hours’ work for workers in the form of wage their productivity the employers exploit for their own purposes equals more hours worked per worker from fewer workers. Raising the retirement age would be a subtraction from the portion of the wage fund workers replenish in the first four hours of the working day to 2 hours and giving the 2 hours to the employers for nothing, is really the substance of this reform package. In a rational and more socialized society the less 2 hours it takes to reproduce the working class would become the source of free time for the working class as a whole not the opposite, more working time extracted from a smaller workforce for a capitalist class for their own exclusive consumption of the wealth. Macron’s reform imposes a longer system of exploitation of workers soon to come to America incidentally, and that he forced it through is pretty honest of him that it is a direct imposition, forced, on the working class.
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  7455. If it were not for the financial crisis that left EU member states unable to recover and develop out of this crisis owing to several factors not important to mention here and now, but led to multiple member state's referendums to secede that organization, and that crisis profoundly ruining the lives of the unemployed the EU would be the biggest competitor threatening the US today. Combined the EU member states total higher outcomes in GDP and population diversity, social investment, and capital than the US's fifty states combined. If it were not for the huge expense of maintaining a long national boundary separating itself from the continental US, California could be its own country is how big its economic contribution to the world market is. Its infrastructure and its social investments and population diversity rivals several members states in the EU. It could if it were its own country join the EU even if it shares the same continent of the US, for that matter so can Mexico and Canada join the EU. Yet, rightly so the US has its eye on China as the next global threat to its hegemony. The EU is not a threat to US hegemony any longer. Not while it is not a federation of classless states, that it left intact the old social classes formed in the mid 20th century and brought into being new ones with the same attitude. It separated members states into those that have and those that do not have, and, consequently, when the global financial crisis emanating from Wall Street tanked the economy, it struck down not only the poorer states but the working masses of Europe as a whole. Today it is palpable the EU can end if the elites fail to deliver employment and prosperity to the working classes. This is how insistent they are in replacing the Neo-Liberals and conservative ruling parties. The question will be replace them with what? The insurmountable distrust and lack of faith in the political parties has the working classes on edge about their future and knowing the inherent inequality generated by capitalism they fear a class war is imminent. They march in haste to form coalitions and ultimately a political party of their own or put candidates in office who they think will not only disrupt the reform proposals of the elites but fundamentally take all parliamentary seats from them and rewrite the laws on commerce, trade, currency, employment, they feel does not reach their aims. I can imagine the American masses feel much the same about their elites as they become more fragile and exposed to material deprivation than they ever had before. The shock of the reality the age of prosperity is over and are reacting to each other with animus and ignorance plus a dose of distrust and lack of faith for liberal politics is only the beginning of their class struggles to come.
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  7456. The problem here is that Montana has passed laws making it impossible for people to use public restrooms who identify are both male and female. You can’t piss in any public venue. Pretty evil legislation. Florida passed legislation that will turn you into a criminal if caught doing something kind to any person in need. Evil again. Both southern legislatures are christian conservative. The Montana legislature is going after trans people even if they are in homes the legislators themselves identify as christian. This is a case where Christianity faces its own contradictions persecuting a transperson and christian parents through the State’s department of social services.
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  7457. Iran. At the cost of... American hostages and victims of mass genocide...Iran is the target of the neocons in the Pentagon... a virulent right wing in the US and Israel are hell bent on conquering Iran. Ten middle eastern nations share a coast of the Black Sea. Two share the coast of the Caspian Sea, Russia and Iran, Pentagon “crazies” must think Iran is a good spot for a missile installation pointed at Moscow and Beijing. Iran is the prize... Every dollar spent on defense abroad is a cut in social spending at home... and the tax breaks to the rich leverage the working class into position to pay the cost of imperialism and war in longer working hours and direct abuses of inequality. This not only happening here but everywhere in all nations gearing up for war entails they cannot develop their working classes at home. Mass unemployment, and economic stagnation will come at a heavy price. Working people would become too injured to contemplate the politics or protest the military build ups when a whole class of employers gang up on their employees to extract more working time from them occurs in real time.
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  7458.  @Junglebtc  With innovations capital is armed with technology to reduce its unit price from 16 hours to 12 hours and the difference of 4 hours, equals a new surplus-value but human development digresses. All companies produce at the expense of the other companies. Competition is how they gain a larger share of the market and start a new social average. The net effect of all companies doing this is the cause of poverty, destitution, and desperation. Think!
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  7459. Christopher Blood Fascism is colorblind, culturally indifferent, it arises out of conditions of material deprivation of individuals in societies. I never said now that the whites are discovering this what are they going to do about abolishing RACISM in law enforcement the heart of the GOP? You may want to pay attention to the differences and read up on fascism. Fascism as it appears in several forms in several countries regardless of race. Trump's concentration camps in Texas is fascism, and converted are police organizations and law enforcement coupled with a fascist judiciary in general is fascism. You are living in a fascist society and are probably a fascist sympathizer if you draw opposite conclusions I am making here.
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  7460. We might want to test his hypothesis in his '..foreign goods and market barriers..' speech in light of the developments of larger capitals taking over more spheres of industries and the huge takeovers through the buying of stocks that began in the 1980's. This was America's last period of prosperity for the middle class and working class and the last run of capital accumulation by the rich and powerful. The tendency of the business community in the decade of the 19080's was to centralize their ownership of many corporations and centralize credit. Before the crash of 2007, corporations made the business environment hostile for small capitals to survive at home and Congress made it easier for these large capitals to invest in China's then emerging industrialization abroad. The sociological impact this tendency has on the American working class was to set the stage against any rise in wages that would include health care to workers. In this period, US employers leading up to the present time in 2017, employers get from workers more value in less hours without violating the legal workday. At the same time the American worker accommodated US employers and worked several jobs. Each individual worker in two or three jobs meant two or three separate employers were given the labor of one worker cheaper than had they employed one worker full time. From 1980 to now, constitutes a 35 year period of wage stagnation and an increase in the exploitation of the American worker by US employers. US employers have been developing at a brisk pace and accumulating wealth at a brisker pace because more value is produced per individual in less and less time for them. They are not about to give up, to the contrary, this only wets their appetite for the repeal of the legal workday.
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  7461. Israel plays a shameful role in history as the Apartheid State of the Middle East. Counterpart regimes in this region are no better. Especially the ones we never hear about.
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  7462. The Left does not aid the working class to become aware of itself as a social class. That is why the working class has mistrust for the Left. The Left had their chance back in 2008 to use the subprime mortgage crisis as a class consciousness raising tool when Wall Street bankers went under but they instead bailed out Wall Street. From this failure of the Left, the working class remains fragmented but learns by itself their collective consciousness and attitude toward life, race, gender, as more liberal than conservative because of themselves and their external relationships. The Left does not even know the language of class struggle, that is, the life of working class people much less talk to working people before even trying to convince republicans of their position, which, frankly, is a waste of time!
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  7463. You can fight the republicans but they in the House of Reps (not the Senate) are more pro-working class than the democrats i n the House, left liberals are losers in the House, Progressives and Co., collaborators with the elite republican and democrats in the Senate, remain silent and bother not to get behind Rand Paul’s excellent critique of the Bill to fund Ukraine/Israel. Which is more important to you winning political power or resurrecting McCarthyism? @leobigelow7021 
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  7464. You have to be in real dire straights in a society that has you indefinitely in a state of chronic need imbued with self hatred disguised as patriotism; or has made you truly a moronic human being to surrender or voluntarily submit your body and mind to be used by an institution as fodder for war.
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  7465. So pornographic...have you no shame, sir!
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  7466. Well the good news is that Jelly Fish have taken over coral reef and whenever jelly fish move into a coral environment of the coast line it is because the coral is dead. Jelly fish will kill you, your child, and burn your eyes to blindness, scars for life, and these fish is what you will have to dodge while you enjoy yourselves swimming at the beach. Good luck.  Spend a thousand in Atlantic City, be cool and get hospitalized the Jelly Fish leaving its lasting marks on your body. We got rid of too many sharks too. In the Everglades they raise the sediment up to confuse the small fish for a big helping and when you are permitted to fish in the Everglades, you'll kill off the sustenance of these sharks and think your'e cool because you challenged some wildlife spawning Mollies, Guppies, Toothkarps and Livebearers, in the process of fishing out the Sea Trout. To sharks and whales a helping of small fish and plankton you could imagine must be the same sensation we get when bunch of grapes are crammed into your mouth and squeezed. There is everything wrong with America that its all or nothing. Its productive powers are used against society and nature, all its brainpower is either medieval with respect to force and with respect to finness, delicacy, and grace, the brainpower goes into ordering more hamburgers. Americans are completely a manufactured people. A true passive Public too! Dead coral plant life turns white in its death. They look beautifully eerie but are dead. White plants swaying about in calming warmer waters makes it tempting to dive in and look. Coral Reef is host to most all sea life. Anchovies, small fish, come in massive swarms to spawn at locations, the whole process of biological reproduction looks like an underwater ballet, and the dolphins from below the swarm shape it for a nice big helping. Not only seal life benefits, birds, penguins, sea lions, seals, land mammals, you name it, the Coral is the Heart of the Sea of Cortez for the Blue Whale their sustenance. The killers of this food source are active out at sea. The fishing industry is literally on the sea all hours of the day, netting these swarms whre they occur. The plastics industries, luxury entertainment hospitality, beach resorts and boating industries sell a fantasy but in the process they consume the life sustenance of sea life to meet a human want, an artifical want or a false need, which is the condition the poor and working class are constantly at war with in their own lives. Boils down to a pacification plan of the public to exists in a perpetual state of need is the first condition and the second condition is the creation of a dependency on their products and control your pesonal consumption patterns.
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  7467. In the meantime employers and managers accelerate work-processes in their workplaces and KaBoom! Farming, mining, construction, meatpacking, transportation, sectors where people spend most of their lives working are accelerated work processes. The acceleration is to lower the unit price of the product by raising output from 8 hours work to 6 hours work make more product in less time undercutting the competition with a lower price setting a new average price in the market and finally taking the bigger share of the market by selling below the old average price and above the unit price. This is the business model of owners as competitors. Heavy equipment, buildings, bridges, tankers, in every workplace across the US made unsafe with incorporated hazardous raw material into the work processes is a battle field for workers performing the jobs. Machines, automation, technology and science incorporated into a work process work people beyond the point of human endurance. Workplace hazards are never made public for fear workers would resist working conditions and America will look like Europe in month long worker strikes across most industries. They provoke a class struggle and fear the temperature of that struggle from getting hotter. Classic line is “If you can’t take the heat get out of the kitchen”. Commercial media is controlled; so you are lucky to have this alternative. The public’s attention is to be kept away from the industrial war raging between the workers and the objective conditions of work in our society. Workplace catastrophes keep happening in other sectors of the economy the workers will start to focus their attention on employers. Employers have stacked themselves into a rear defensive guard, a giant wall of employers all doing the same thing, accelerating work processes. In that formation they can escape workers but workers cannot escape the whole group of employers offering one deal; take it and shut up! In the workplace work and relationships of work are not equal. Work and relationships are only equal outside of the workplace. But inside the workplace, workers mortality is the price they pay for the higher costs of health care and other compensation costs in government obligations against employers.
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  7468. Is there some rule that stops a judge from installing a shield at their own expense in their own courtroom?
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  7469.  @garryjones7893  They (Founding Fathers) did it (the Electoral College) because the American people at the time were illiterate farmers, uneducated, if left up to them , the founding fathers thought, would screw up the expirement that was to be America, the Elite educated by the Enlightenment heroes of the day, and that the country was full of slaves and semi-hostile naive Americans could not be left to the impoverished masses that immigrated from Europe. Just to show you how blind the founding fathers were of the Iroquois Confederacy was already a democracy of tribes, a Congress. Problem being the later generations of politicians venerated the Founding Fathers and utilized the College to maintain their position of power. The day people became literate was the day the Electoral College ought to have been abolished. In my view, the Dems and Republican are not even an American party but are a European import, an extension of the British Tory party. The American Congress would not look like it does today with its majority of people mostly white people. It would appear like a rainbow. I think its time for a revolution that should have happened in America is at least 70 years too late.
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  7470. If you believe in the Federalist definition of 'freedom' that comes with unchecked industrial pollution. The fine print in that definition reads you are free now but dead later.
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  7471. The administration is more concerned about not agitating the contentious social classes around this issue that would throw off re-opening the economy. The same is true on the international front with theopposite effect of escalating a conflict. Choosing the wrong side of events as in the side of Trump's detention without due process of kids. All this shows that it is only two sections of the same ruling class that take power over and over again.
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  7472. Cartels and drug lords are the forceful use of many indigenous populations in less developed societies for the extraction of surplus-value. Westerners in rich nations are oblivious to the fact that, drugs have internationalized capital, expanded the world market, and a method of production that uses the labor in poor nations to cultivate their product for sale in rich nations,--- leads to the disappearance of ancient cultures, and more natives have no choice but to migrate into the cities. Workers in rich nations have more than think in common with indigenous working classes, they are both exploited by the same international class of cartels and businesses.
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  7473.  Jeff Whitman  No this is not the Paradox! But it is one of the many contradictions that stun the observer. We are the paradox! The power, the ability, the real potential, the economic means, but no political and economic intellect to envision an egalitarian society. The brain is severed from the body. Over developed in Washington and underdeveloped in the American people.
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  7474.  Jeff Whitman  Excellent!
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  7475. The backdrop with the Chrysler building city-scape is fake and not even correct.
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  7476. Peeling away the layers of indoctrination of the American people is an essential first step.
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  7477. Why do you suppose that happened?
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  7478.  @darrylanton9323  What's the channel link?
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  7479. Bring down taxes as a bribe to open shop in NY is how Micron got here and he says he wants to bring down taxes as part of changing the regulatory environment. Another way of saying less regulations on how business make their stuff. The Fed will do the opposite and continue to raise rates because they want the unemployment numbers to go up not down to control inflation which is a greater threat to the economy than Micron and other business not opening shop in NY. In fact, states with high rates of employment is driving inflation and higher interest rates. What good is a job when can’t buy much from the money you make in a job when everything is financed? You would be working, sure, but working for nothing in return. Hochul is not great but neither is Zeldin.
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  7480.  @andrewdonohue1853  How YOU feel about them (which I can identify with) has nothing to do with the economics. Fed wants unemployment to go up to bring inflation down. Higher interest rates slows down employment. When you have no money prices gown is the idea behind the move. Zeldin does such a good job bringing business into the state that workers are working in jobs paying them good money but the Fed action cuts into buying power of employees, they earn not enough against the higher cost of living that just keeps going up, and up. Employers react differently, they get the tax benefit to offset the cost of hiring and raise prices to make higher profits because the Fed raised interest rates. A general hiring freeze follows. State employees get the cuts. Private sector employees loss value in their 401Ks. Health care costs go up more taken out of paychecks less actual savings for workers and work longer hours to make more money. Then you have the gas problem. Diesel gas higher than regular. After the reserves are exhausted the economy of NY shuts down. The Russian pipeline was blown up and the Keystone Pipeline was put off and remains unbuilt. What comes next, attrition...mass layoffs. NY will look like California which is the real reason you are for Zeldin.
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  7481.  @andrewdonohue1853  Baby boomers in general are screw ups but the economics is another animal boomers can’t fix, it will collapse on its own. I grew up my entire life in Manhattan. Albany bends a knee to Wall Street and NY for its entire history is the most corrupt city on the planet, Albany is second in line as totally corrupt; so you are not saying much to me. Sacramento bends a knee to Hollywood. I’ll give you a piece of inside information as a quasi-rich banker. Your taxes will never go down no matter who is in office as long as our military is used to abroad to get other nations to bend their knee to Washington. There is s direct relationship between domestic taxation and military expansion. I am not disagreeing with you I just hope your perception is changed on what really drives these problems and its not individuals, its institutions and the economic structure of society.
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  7482. The young can change this just as their parents when young changed it for the better of themselves fighting against wars that took bread off the table. Parents forgot this. When giving your children help give them a stipulation to use what they have and fight for a better life or no more help will be forthcoming. Parents should know better than to not give this advice to their kids based on their life experience with Nixon that if you do not fight for a better life it will be taken from you. The American Dream is Over because generations gave up the fight, turned their backs on it, and bought into an illusion of things come on their own accord in due time.
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  7483. Be great if the individuals composing the working class quit acting like individuals they are not and act as one! That would make it real hard for higher authorities get away with living lies and premeditating deceit. After all it is deceit pretending to be something your are not. Why partake in deceit because others are unable to be honest? We have not arisen above the social creatures we remain if we cannot identify ourselves in the same genus as workers. We cannot come up with alternatives and a general program for an economy that would work for us as a social class and anchor the other social class from going rogue!
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  7484.  @holidays4825  That does not answer my question...in fact, you are not understanding the question.
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  7485.  @mohaofa1544  Many of them can buy many homes, the help with give as a reward for their assistance is compensatory and you pay for that.
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  7486. The corporations are very pleased that government cannot pass bills or even function and carry out its duties. A divided government works just fine for the private sector. Not so obvous to the American public is the connection between the private sector and the democrats, if the corporations are pleased with a divided government and subsequent bills are stalled in Congress than divided government is not an issue as long as it is working for the democrats and it becomes an issue when it is working for the republicans. Tagically, the American people are never given it straight and abandoned in the alternation of the government between democrats and republicans.
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  7487. I would love to know more about the white guy talking about ‘savagery’ in the early propaganda footage from the 40s if he was a registered democrat or republican specifically and who wrote the script for him to read before the camera. The natives around him should have been identified as well. Relatives alive today might find one of their missing in them.
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  7488. I feel better about a Trump second term now that Sheinbaum is president. She is Jewish allays issues about Israel, makes it harder for a Far Right to call her anti-semite, and she is opposed to a US Stay in Mexico immigration policy. This will force the Speaker in Congress to take a floor vote on a real national immigration policy face to face. There will be fist to fist contact. Trump being far right on immigration, the Democrats, if they want to keep their jobs, a national policy on immigration all states have to comply. She is formally educated in the biological sciences her term will expand health programs. A female president in Mexico is symbolic of how far behind women in the upper echelons of society in Canada and the US are to being a first class citizen. She might deliver on a universal health care...if she does deliver a real national health program for citizens the Democrats and Republicans will be the only political class to cheap and too weak to de-privatize medicine and regulate health practices of the Medical Establishment in the US for its citizens. She wears a Wipil, the traditional Aztec, Mexica, Toltec garment brings the land expropriations of the indigenous by criminal elements a fact she cannot ignore or the Obrador legacy wears off and a new opposition emerges. One more universal than now. There is a huge gap between the high and the lower levels of society that puts her in the seat of hypocrisy.
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  7489. @Judith Myer...that is the point ...the sanctions do not work...the sanctions are punishing toward people and destructive to economies...punitive minded people make up the elite of the national security system have to be removed from the national security state.
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  7490. Comments on this channel are as ignorant as the commentary. Especially the culturally biased comments below... the “these people” comments...wow, pure ignorance.
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  7491. The world is a hostage to America’s national bourgeoisie.
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  7492.  @tmnt10000  Hey stupid, there are no bourgeoisies in those nations.
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  7493. This is because nobody in America are happy except the 1%. They are miserable in another way.
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  7494. Disasters are good for business in the US. The subjective reason is simple yet hard for many to grasp. If everyone's needs were met on the basis of quality what would be the point of having a life of quantity?
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  7495.  @ambriaharris4821  hope your water situation gets fixed. Victim is a dangerous word. It implies people can relapse when in a victimization mode,---a victim today is a victimizer tomorrow. The pattern of victimization is when victims lay the ground work personally and subjectively, for their new or old victim to rise up again and become a victimizer? Its never the same victimizer in the driver's seat.
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  7496.  @nosecandie3890  The public is not misinformed; we are NEVER informed. You know how one member of the family always says "nobody tells me anything', that is what the government does to you and you do onto your relations. People copy the same relations.
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  7497.  @EricAllen8494  I mean I will never pass through that state or buy anything from a person or business in that state. Me, that will be one less person Alabama. If I need something that an Alabama company sells I look for that item somewhere else even if I have to import it at triple the cost and I am talking high figures here. I am disgusted with American racists north and south and will use my dollars to punish them!
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  7498.  @montanamike7948  The money you make is money you made. All you are doing is repeating and reproducing your own wage.
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  7499. Yes it was a beautiful place and highly westernized. Photos of the period 1950 - 1965 show women and men in fashions that looked American. So why did America stop Iran’s liberalization when it was following in the footsteps of the US?
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  7500. Your analogy works. That’s right...do you know why? @LordBrittish 
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  7501. Millions of people are served this way and many other ways. Serve them as you can is the process servers work ethic. I'm no server but I can see the legal system of which this senator is a part. What I hate about America is its hypocrisy. So if this senator feels violated than he is in average company of at least 20 million people in this country who are served on a monthly basis. The senator was never asked why the senator was being served?
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  7502. This video is groundbreaking.
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  7503. The class system is older than capitalism, although the two social classes unique to capitalism are part of the whole class system they are not the creators of the class system, contrary to popular prejudice, that if we abolish the capital-labor relationship the whole class system will go with it. Sorry, the class system will not disappear if we socialize production. It would take more than that to get rid of a class system. Unique to capitalism is the value-relation between labor and capital, and only in production do they consummate that value-relation, outside of production labor and capital are not even neighbors in the same neighborhood. The rest of the social order consists of social classes much older than capitalism, i.e., bankers, landowners, merchants, clergy, politicians, military, slaves, peasants, are all ancient social classes. They have adapted to modern life or modern life has changed their appearance but economically as far as social classes survive through the ages they have always existed on wealth produced by a laboring class. Part of that laboring class became what is now free labor or wage-labor, the other parts fall into so many variables as to how people make a living is ridiculous! Suffice it to say, the wealth the social classes are supported by comes from the labor-capital relation. By now they have saved, accumulated, over thousands of years wealth through inheritance and wealth extracted from former slaves, peasants, serfs and the modern day tax payer, to never worry about money for the next ten centuries if what I will say does not happen. For this reason the tax code is well guarded in our laws as the prime mechanism preserving the class system. Can we abolish the class system by an abolition of the labor-capital relation? If we change the form of production from its present form of a class struggle paradigm into an antagonistic-free system of production wealth will still be produced. Labor and capital continue in new form. The old form resists is the problem. The class system survives on the wealth extracted from the past and the present is intact, but if we change the tax code, we change social classes and the form of production. The class system is still left intact through the laws of the state. The state is the home residence of another ancient social class, the politicians. The laboring population has to have a good reason to overthrow the politicians, the politicians have to become absolutely intolerable to the great mass of working people, just sick of the politics, sick of the general character of politicians, and be hungry at the same time. Not enough that they be jobless to get riled up, they have to be on the edge of starvation and the politicians have blind to reality, visibly living in the lap of luxury, for a takeover of the state by the mass of people to happen. Then you have to worry about the warrior classes, the Military, loyal to the old tax structure they are sensitive to losing income the new tax structure should make them an ally of the laboring population to defend the programs of the laboring population. The military can quell conspirators. Then, you have to worry how the other social classes will sabotage the programs of the laboring population and the propaganda used against the programs of the laboring population, and, above all, you have to keep the laboring population intact mentally, to keep from being poisoned by criminal elements within its own ranks. The laboring population has to become class conscious and united. Purify itself from the ideological contamination of superstition, false thinking, misinformation, ignorance, violence. On that basis push all this forward and desire an end to their own social class which automatically entails the end of the class system. If this happens humanity will never see another social class for as long humanity is alive on earth unless it falls asleep and a new class emerges to start the whole class system on a new basis, all over again. When a revolutionary plan is outlined and focus is given to the subject on how changes can be made, the project of social change, is a monumental task tried and tried again by many a people. The difference between the class struggle of capitalism to the class struggles in all human history distinguishes a laboring population movement from socialist and communists in this way, the labor-capital relationship is encouraged and socialized in order that the class system in general can be suppressed.
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  7504. Hey...not fair I want to be investigated. You get a lot attention when your investigated and friends. I could write a book about how I was investigated and become rich from it. Not fair a all.
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  7505.  @machsimillian14  You are pointing the finger at Harvard, guilty of that educational system. Ivy League Institutions created the content of education. They cannot be expected to amend a fake history with the real history of America. Astounding.
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  7506.  @misterlyle.  Relative to the creation of a slave republic of the 18th century in America, the practice of democracy among non-slaves was not any different the Greeks in Ancient Society, slave owners practiced democracy; slaves had no democracy. The gun was necessary to overcome the natural resistance of a man or women in becoming a slave and enforcing slave status, back then the Gladiator was the gun---you have to beat the shit out of kidnapped black people with a force greater than their own if you are to break their will and accept subjugation into slavery appears to be the purpose of the 2nd Amendment to the Forefathers.
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  7507.  @drmodestoesq  If the real history of the US is propagandized and delivers a fake history to Americans we can never expect they will have a grasp of the pre-history of America’s ‘original inhabitants’. The pre-colonial period of American history is a lie and the European history of America is a lie.
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  7508.  @benyahudadavidl  That’s far out.
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  7509.  @machsimillian14  How little of Academia you truly do not understand. Harvard has never taught accurate history. Want proof read about Agassiz of Harvard. Nothing worse than intelligent ignorance. Every academic institution in the US conceals the genocide and slavery of the US. Indoctrination begins with your mother and her choices on how to teach you about life and society.
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  7510. That is why I do not support Ukraine or NATO. Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe and the Biden family are the most corrupt in America. This is a consolidation of power facilitating a corrupt ruling class and exploiting the planet in the process.
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  7511. I like K5, he’s cute...and people like cuteness...they should be deployed to help people. Ask it any question about the city connections. What’s down and what’s up on the rail system. Chat with people, take selfies. Have fun with people. K5’s can be outreach resource for the lost. Greet tourists.
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  7512. Everyone has to get vaccinated...but the way to get vaccinated through a private sector is a failure. Making it worse is a president relying on a private sector embroiled in a conflict with employees to deal with a societal problem, really lame, or deliberate negligence?
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  7513. The point of a planned economy is to safeguard society from natural forces where they pose a high risk to the population. The point of government is precisely the well-being of its citizens. The point of science is to aid society. In the United States none of the above are an object of interest to industry or the government to any degree of compatibility. Typically the resolution is a crisis resolved after the fact through lawsuits and legislation when a community has already been decimated. This is the basic idea of a war economy to make sure 'materiale' is distributed after a defeat and does not fall into enemy hands. Either this government sees its citizens as its enemy or it thinks and behaves materiale is to be hoarded under lock and key? The civilian economy is the the total opposite of its military sister-economy, civilians are underdeveloped to handle such crisis and the military is over developed to survive such crisis. The lack of prevention and planning of the America economy expresses this point tragically in the fatalities that an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure is never put into practice in the industries producing dangerous substances. That field of work is not an object of interest to society for reasons that baffle even the most conservative European politician. Lethal industries and their work details, what they do and how they produce their product; how they dispense with material, how they process elements to refine oil and store lethal substances are not an object of interest of this government either! Really astonishing the level of apathy. In effect nobody cares or knows the gravity of hazards so grave they gave rise to a specialized social science called Industrial Pathology. The nuclear power commission has kept old nuclear power stations relatively safe for a 70 year old institution. But under Scott Pruit it is slated for cuts in its budget and many power stations on fault lines and near big cities are in need of constant renewal. Potentially some should not be operating under such precarious conditions. In short, this environmental crisis does not affirm the idea that self-interests helps the greater good. Far from it. Voluntarism is inadequate and philanthropic aid, i.e., Red Cross, FEMA, can't cope with such a crisis. No wonder all the free trade politicians are totally silent while this environmental catastrophe unfolds and reveals a really tragic death toll. Civilian economies need planning and its citizens need education, food, medical well-being. At the current level of mass consumption of oil the industry as a whole should be under the direct control of the government. Strong position but one that will not waver. The refinery industry and its individual competitors have nothing to say, they put themselves near the Gulf; easy access for sea transport of the processed oil is a motive that works for them not society or the coastline itself and subsequent sea life. This crisis puts the industry in opposition to society and its citizens, specifically the government person in charge of mediating this conflict of interest is the wife of Mitch McConnell, Elaine Chao.
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  7514. More people die of brain aneurisms than COVID... is my bet.
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  7515. There has to be something more to life for Lawrence O’Donnell other than Donald Trump!
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  7516.  @jaywalters5255  He should be addressing why floors are not used for walking, dancing, standing, playing, running, etc., but instead are used for studying as a condition of life! The country that does this needs manufacturing.
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  7517. Unfortunately the Inflation Reduction Act that has a provision of billions of dollars for the development of chip manufacturing did not come with the condition that the technology companies buy and use, convert, buildings in various cities where the middle class workforce has left to develop a working class the way China invested and made new cities out of the old ones and a working class. Overnight the number of cities popped up in China, they used national testing to recruit people with high scores in engineering, manufacturing, science, technology, mathematics, to live and work in cities, and the cities themselves are autonomous, meaning the people living and working in the manufacturing city-centers are also in charge of everything while the professional classes work remotely from wherever they live. America will have a nation with rich spots and dead spots because there is no future planning to the provision. The money will go wherever it feels like going and leave behind an empty shell to rot and look like a war ravaged Europe. In place of an even development it will uneven development and the equipment does not remain. It goes with them or is sold as their property, this is what kills the future growth of the American economy. When you don’t have it you have to start all over again takes more capital than if you retool the structures to meet the nation’s needs.
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  7518. Norma Moscoso, the economy is stable but not for the majority who still are under the effect of nothing done to resolve the problem and crisis of 33 million people losing all their wealth in 2007, in the biggest transfer of wealth ever. The economy is stable for those who robbed that wealth, for those who lost the equity in their homes to foreclosures their lives have not recovered the standard of living they had before the 2007 crisis. The very people who became rich during the crisis of 2007, Mnuchin, Ross, Paulson, are now running the economy inside the White House. These are men who know business administration, --- not the same thing as international trade and finance. Running the economy the way corporations run their corporations, the first priority is how to get workers to work more for less. If you ever worked for a corporation, inside one, you would know that it is paid labor but forced labor under a dictatorship that demands every activity be a wealth creating activity for the corporation. Making products is a nightmare threatening life and the environment in the manner Trump, Mnuchin, Ross, and others in his administration will do to make easier for corporations to make people work longer, harder, sets the stage for a class struggle between workers and employers, a battle between who sacrifices more, we who give value for the industries Trump is protecting from foreign competition or a higher standard of living for all, are the choices we have.
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  7519. 9:45,----10% of total world trade, he broke it down to 20,000 vessels that travelled the Red Sea, before there were more resistance forces. The US lost a big chunk of that part of the world market. In 1929 the stock market crashed and there was a global depression. In 1933 stagnation and high unemployment. In 1942 War breaks out stagnation turns into a boom. In 50 year cycles of the domestic economy, competition asserted itself but monopolies setting the price has come at some other nation and industry’s expense that unemployment has the face of squalor, pauperism and homelessness in the US. Monopolies don’t last and the Houthies by accelerating the process will have the effect of sharpening social inequality in the US. America’s political institutions are losing legitimacy and many of them in disintegration.
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  7520. Our politicians are incapable of admitting to the fact that exploitation is directly connected with the economic policies of the US. Everything to US policy makers is a subject of utility and/or exploitation. But not all periods in US policy history is this theory of utility and exploitation used in the same way by US policy makers. It just means that at all times all relations are reduced to that relation for US policy makers is their sole purpose in life. Creativity and Imagination have no place in the diplomatic world unless it can be used for some future acquisition or exploited for surplus value right now! The policy makers are America’s biggest enemy to peace and democracy and socialism in whatever form it appears in our current historical period; we are put in the regrettable position to overthrow, preferably by peaceful surrender, a government the politicians have robbed from a sovereign majority. But in this, we are not alone.
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  7521. American media is nothing more than an echo chamber, every network has the same headlines, are so afraid to deviate and talk about Christian repression of LBGT people which the perpetrator was identified in other news outlets. The children are the victims and the adults care in words but not in action. The book banning, the standoffs between far right militants and transexuals, the alienation and rejection, teen suicide. Leads to Nihilism that some one was bound to take an action like this. Assault Weapons Ban is not going to change this problem. This is a social problem not an individual problem. Its a subjective problem of society that the something that needs to be done is a ban of bullying and rejection. But that is not going to happen in a government divided. The police know schools are vulnerable and they park themselves near schools is the only reason the response is that fast.
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  7522. You make a good point and observation of a fallacy perpetrated by European academics reading far into remains, unable to match hypothesis, with hard evidence of a preceding civilization before Giza or Machu Pichu. The Egyptians and the Inca could not have possibly stone carved to perfection the structures they built despite the overwhelming archeological finds of tools of the period telling us how they did it s just one example of the political propaganda made of human history.
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  7523. A US Outpost in the Middle East...really, the military actually calls it an “outpost”. What are Americans playing cowboys and Indians? Hollywood has ruined the brains of state department officials, this 2024, not 1845. And the name of the “outpost” is called “Tower 22”? Are we talking about a military base or is it a prison? Technically if that is where you are stationed its not as if you have the freedom to walk off the outpost and sight see...you are imprisoned. Permission to speak, Sir. Permission to leave, Sir, Permission...where is your permit? Yes, your permit to be here. Stand straight soldier and guard that fence with your life! Speech, actions and movement do not belong to you in Tower 13. I am becoming very empathetic with the view that soldiers are prisoners without prosecution, and are at risk for their lives. It seems stupid to me to start blaming a president for not being tough enough when the perpetrator could be any number of tribes out there. Get tough on who? I seriously think the Joint Chiefs have no idea of what they are doing.
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  7524. What the rep for Alabam can't pull some string to get the poor the vaccines?
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  7525. He kept his promise made in his campaign. The promise to his very rich donors who want to see Jerusalem the capitol of Israel. People should not be surprised or shocked by this move. Trump has no principals and his evangelical supporters though they are deliriously happy about recognizing Jerusalem they are not so excited about trump himself. Neither are the Chamber of Commerce republicans interested in being identified with a sexist racist nationalist in the White House. They will not impeach him as that would cause chaos in the party. Rather the party split up is more likely the scenario to come. Transnational corporations are not married to Trump for the same reasons many of you cite, more conflict. There are three camps in the GOP and deep down they are each ready to split off from the other. The way I see it progressives will be pushed out the Democratic party by a merger between GOP big business republicans and corporate democrats. The evangelicals will have a party of some kind of their own. This can all happen in a matter of a few years.  If I were in the progressive wing of the party I would form a left party like yesterday. Right now everything is in flux and the changes happening over sexual harassment, gun violence and immigrants status are hot reasons for a rational left party of some real significance. So many of the problems emerge from false thinking about things and life in general. I hope progressives get their shit together and seize this opportunity or history will condemn them. That is just a short scope of what i think will come from all this.
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  7526. @Hammer,---that’s BS...this is because states do not have the money to make room in prisons and the Fed is not allocating to states federal funds to expand. For one thing it is bad optics politically to expand prisons and another the prisons contract private companies who cut back their service making conditions in prison life threatening to everyone who works in them,---so the Justice system of DAs, Prosecutors and Judges have to let inmates out back on the streets. America has a broken justice system and nobody in political office is taking about it; hey are just there to collect a salary and pretend they mean something to you as essential when they make fools of the average person giving them their vote.
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  7527. Americans believe sweat equity should be rewarded. There is nobody out there who put in the sweat, Bernie deserve the equity of the presidency. Besides the republicans and democrats have miserably failed the US economy.  Its chugging along like a staggering alcoholic when it could be taking big strides toward even keeled growth everyone can enjoy.
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  7528. Don’t you hate these people? They know you do. That is why they are not accessible to the public. Oligarchs have your ass from A to Z, I am wondering how Americans are going to break this oligarchy..or even will they?
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  7529. I also think it is disingenuous of a socialist to stand on a podium and announce workers are launching a major offensive against GM capital or beyond when nobody but a handful of people are there. He should take stock in the fact that unless he sees in front of him 15, 000 unemployed angry workers launching a fight back against the government for inaction. He should really go home or be honest and make a speech about a movement is needed like the Yellow Vest movement in France if workers want a future. These are lives worthy of a good fighter. That is one socialist that has a job and is out of touch with reality. Everyone is out of touch with reality that even the government shut down knocked some reality into people. Seems anyone with a job making money is grateful for a job that the fear of losing one stops them from empathizing with others who lost a job. They got a taste of reality filing for food stamps and falling behind economically into a lower social economic status. When the next wave of unemployment occurs maybe their attitude will change. No movement can emerge to improve working people's lives if there is no heart and no soul.
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  7530. Every one of those buildings are owned and when empty they are tax write-offs. The buildings make money for their owners empty. Now that is what I call a sick society. A building is worth more abandoned than it is occupied with people. Second, this is how slums begin. Eventually the building will decay and it will look like Athens, Greece looks today, a shit hole with squatters. Between the landowners, banks, retail chain corporations, cops, state government, chambers of commerce, councils, are destroying communities. I see this as economic attack on the working class...if you don’t there is something wrong with you!
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  7531. There are still 70 million plus or minus some defectors who would vote for Trump again and with Biden going back on his campaign promises and the democrats having nothing to offer the American people the likelihood of a Trump rerun is really high. This is why I do not vote for democrats, they turn on their base, they use them and turn on them giving a green light for republicans to sweep all power from them. The American people are truly stuck in a rut, captive by two right wing parties. In the end the 1% and corporations with money in both parties win no matter who gets in.
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  7532. Definitely one sided reporting here.
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  7533.  @op3129  The reporting does not look at the totality; action and reaction. Reaction is the focus of the report and questions not the interaction of the two moments of a totality not arriving at desirable outcomes.
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  7534. ​ @op3129  What's it about then?
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  7535.  @op3129  lol
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  7536. It is crushing American soybean farmers,---60% of total product is not sold to their regular customer due to retaliatory tariffs China imposes on the US. Trump has Big Tech in a vice grip of tariffs, move production back to the US or pay dearly just to access the US market,--- a double whammy keeping Tim Cook up at night. Tariffs in connection to industries in particular and nations interacting in the world market generally, sifts out the nations who will become vassal states, neutral states and enemy states, as preparation for a restructuring of the world economy.
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  7537. 2021 is the beginning of the movement of history toward a complete collapse of juntas, cartels, and dictatorships around the world.
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  7538. Mercedes Benz is a case study of a face becoming a commodity and the owner of that face a slave to it, a commodity-slave. If your face is not recognized in the data owned by Mercedes Benz, no match, no entry. Its also a case study of technology as an autonomous power over man and mankind, a false predicate to technology. When all employers apply this technology the employed are in and the unemployed are out of the right to self reproduce and socially survive.
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  7539. But the hybrid newborn occurs outside of the wild. Do we know it has what it takes to survive on its own? Whatever special features it would have perfected for survival in its natural environment would have to be proven innate to the species. They would have to release mother and child in the ocean and track their development or lack thereof. Could be a sad day or an amazing day.
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  7540. It is true that if America went socialist the world would go socialist and vice versa, if it is capitalist the world becomes capitalist. This awareness is a modus vivendi of the Pentagon and NSA, and the White House. But if I were Bernie I would have flatly stated it was irrelevant to the main problems involving Americans and just stuck to his plan for America. Russian meddling and the anti-socialism is too abstract to care about it while there are more concrete problems that will give him the election such as making black lives safe and families secure with health care. He would have taken South Carolina if he stuck to the matter of making black lives safe and secure from the criminal injustice system.  Social democrats tend to shoot themselves in the foot in this way when they come up against the elites and the black community is just learning more about him and his policies, in this sense he missed that chance. He does not even have to answer any questions on Castro or anyone. No matter what he says it will be used against him. Or he should make comedy about the anti-socialism...tht shows more strength and conviction that he is not worried about it. Its an old useless paradigm anyway. A vestige. This way when he gets into office he can let the right wing attack the American people demanding single payer and getting it, then let the working class do the dirty work of attacking the right wing as anti-American, turn the tables on the elites. He has the popular vote.
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  7541. Well, you have to recall that Trump rode the wave of disgust with Clinton and Romney. Sell outs who bailed out the banks. Let them fail versus Too Big to Fail. 10 years later after the big financial collapse what do you have? 2.2 % GNP and real unemployment at 7%. Capital accumulated hand over fist by an ever shrinking minority and mass human suffering and insecurity. Clinton and Wall Street and Romney and Main Street to these voters Trump was the outsider on their side of the fence. Bernie was the inside/outsider on his side of the fence who stood for social justice. While the Republicans concentrated on not losing senate seats to hold control over the Courts. Trump is a professional bankruptcy capitalist makes a profit by producing luxury excess greater in value than the loans they were built with. Definitely American made partially mob produced with NYC construction unions in the take. Over produced luxury consumption led to the collapse of the Trump empire in 1991. Who could imagine that middle America would fall for the cleaner more presentable side of the Queens Mob influences into NYC properties in that decade? Wall Street is not a Trump fan and the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times let him know about it at every chance they can get. But still, if Wall Street can turn a profit through Trump they are not going to turn him down. The whole business environment is each to his own. A jungle is more harmonious than the workplace and society is safe under the rule of law. Stepping in is Big Oil interests and a gun lobby, both interested in continuing the wars putting up cash to shameless candidates praising their donors as politically correct just to sit there and vote 'no' on a litany of left wing agendas. The biggest agenda being 'climate change' and abortion. A war on Earth and a war on Women is how it looks from the left. And, I agree at this point, capitalism is the single biggest threat on the planet and the GOP the most dangerous organization that ever existed in history. The attitude being now is the moment and fuck the future! Its all going to be run by people of color in matter of ten years. A surge for universal health care and workplace democracy is moving the needle into a conflict that is about social class, of the People versus the Transnational Corporations.
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  7542. The drug companies are cartel monopolies. A monopoly is the power to dictate the price of a commodity with absolute control over the means, technology and the science. Contrary to what Mike Johnson thinks the free marketplace of ideas to express your dissent against war and genocide does not exist. This is because the marketplace of ideas is controlled by a cartel of media monopolies who dictate the ideas and issues the country should talk about. Americans would be pro-Palestinian overnight if the real information were not sanitized to shape world and domestic opinion. This is a phase of monopoly capitalism that Mike Johnson defends. Repress dissent with force and ignore the formation of monopolies in the market holding the health of Americans hostage is what he does as a Speaker, he controls the floor, a monopoly over what Bills are voted and what Bill never get to the floor for a vote.
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  7543. The huge election turnout is the reason republicans are repealing voting rights. They can never win by election they must steal power outright.
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  7544. World production produces AI. AI is the total work product of the entire work population could not be more exact, it is, the total labor of societies and it has a double aspect as a mining tool under private ownership as well as a social tool for a higher productivity of labor. The two aspects of AI tech first used as a force to validate and maintain the values of a particular society will assure in the second case, the individual a given reality. Private ownership of language highlights the absurdity of private ownership in world production.
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  7545. Excellent. Sick outs! A good way to get around the anti-strike laws that smother the voices of labor demanding dignity and respect is how democracy is built from the ground up. Government workers under the restrictive anti-strike laws should do this the next time the government shuts down and many people will support you because each time the government shuts down millions of middle class merchants and businesses lose money cannot offer jobs for the young, who then engage in less honorable activities, if you know what I mean?
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  7546. I don’t find Rubio a choice period, much less reasonable.
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  7547. Chickens come home to roost from the barbarism America nourishes. Societies that lose the capacity for the sacred; die.
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  7548. So the FBI agents who created the fake Russia connection with Trump are the ones on the case determining what documents are considered high level national security documents Trump took? Clearly, the FBI is a tool to eliminate any opposition, and if you believe Biden did not know or authorize this you also believe Biden is not demented. FBI is a Corrupt Mob and should be ABOLISHED not Defunded. ABOLISHED.
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  7549.  @skvetny  You can only be achieve a true and full sovereignty when you have become fully human. Sovereignty to you means a religious freedom, or a political freedom, those freedoms is NOT the higher form of freedom, I hastened to tell you.
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  7550.  @skvetny  A better human is not the meaning of human emancipation to clarify the point. Elephants do not free themselves from other elephants because some elephants have a difference of quality, they treat each other as all elephants. One species of a particular kind is the meaning of a human emancipation, contained in all particular speices is their the commonality as a species.
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  7551.  @skvetny  Are not the groups of people you named all of the same species? All homosapiens. You are only telling me that the state or their political organization has not risen high enough to overcome its own aspirations of freedom. Therefore, all and any aim for soveriegnty of a people, is a partial and limited freedom of equality.
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  7552.  @skvetny  The theory is not fully disclosed to you to decide at this point. 1. The non-human world of nature has species who produce little and devour all, i.e., the locusts in Africa and Asia is one such example. Nature does devour nature. Baby seals are a food source for vampire bats. A herd of caribou is a food source for a mountain lion. Bears are omnivours and devour plant and animals. Nature in the non-human world has no choice but to devour other natural beings. 2. One species may produce the means of subsistence of another, or nature can provide and abundant source of subsistence for some creature. 3. But! Our species is the only species that must use its own body as a tool to produce its food source. First this was done by hand, now it is done by machines. 4. It is natural for the human body to be used as a tool within its natural limits and without force. In this 4th proposition is where humanity gets hung up between what is natural and what is social. The part that uses force, i.e., forced labor of any variety as tried under communism is where communism failed is social not natural. It failed because the people at the time did not have the skill set to take from nature in a form useful to humans without robbing from the non-human world the susbsistence they require to live, is an idea humans are not ready to understand and act in accordance with that relationship. Capitalism fails in that regard as well. All forms of society and social relationship fail in this regard, the failures vary in time and place and culture. The human world of nature does not see itself as nature. It sees itself as social and defines freedom on that basis. A social right is not a natural right. Food being natural to the body is not a natural right, good health keeping to the body and mind is not a natural right, a roof over ones' head is not a natural right but acquired only be means of social rights. The theory is still incomplete here but the thinking is on the right track.
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  7553.  @skvetny  I take your silence to my last comment/reply to be your surrender and my victory to the theory I only partially revealed to you. Your silence is the equivalent of a general who went over the other side on the day of the battle.
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  7554. The US is stuck with the dispossessed.
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  7555.  @grapeshot  You are so ignorant of what really happened. Let me fill you in. Lower level NK negotiators offered a total dismantling of nuclear weapons in exchange for a total lifting of sanctions and Trump turned around and told you that NK wanted a partial dismantling in return for a lifting of sanctions. If you are going to kick someone in the ass at least know why? Incidentally, Trump went to Vietnam not North Korea.
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  7556. The anti-socialist alliance of 1955 is not the same anti-socialist alliance in 2018. The structure of the power of the US is built on a contest between capitalism and communism. Its complete annihilation is its aim, on the other side, the party state is used as a defense against capitalist expansion in socialist societies and can never abolish itself, as long as capitalism exists. For the present socialist states are here to stay and in the hopes of Washington, decay with increasing pressure both political and economic. At this historic point the whole US workforce exists for this reason should be a remarkable statement of how our personal destinies are ruled by this conflict. If you don't get this big picture you will never understand the actions of historical personages positioning themselves within the historical tension between capitalism and communism. The difference between this anti-socialist alliance to its early beginnings is its rise to political power. Governing the state are professional statists with an allegiance to this alliance, bot ideological and military,. On the ideological side there are two strategies present in the anti-socialist alliance used to slow down the the progress of socialist societies; these include religious social pressure to appeal to families and individuals in socialist societies, which is why radios and communication with the west is restricted. And economic sanctions which deprive socialists societies to participate in world trade are intended to do damage to the family organization in socialist societies; while, on the military side, the ideological weapon is force and neoliberalism. The actions of individuals, Jong Un and Trump, in this case, can be seen as positioning. In my opinion what has been going on since the 1950's the trajectory of the anti-socialist alliance and, fundamentally, the war that cannot rest for US capitalism, morphed into big political state agencies with the religious right, MIC, Neoliberal ideologues, places the republicans and democrats on the same side in opposition to all socialist societies. How and why did Trump appear to come away with nothing from a socialist society can be explained form this historical perspective of the policies of this anti-socialist alliance to which Trump as a real estate developer/landlord/ capitalist, now president, has no connection to this history but has received the benefits of this alliance as a member of the capitalist class. He is not a politician to some, he is great businessman to others, he is not a statists to many. Provocation is not his game, strong arming China is his aim, as King of Debt, his focus is on the the trade deficit with China, he has no affinity to neoliberalism to make efforts to penetrate North Korean society to abolish it with the the productive might of the American working class. He instead will use the economic might of the working class's own enemy, the monopoly corporations, to overcome debt with China by means of seducing North Korea into the capitalist world market to raise the standard of living of North Korean families. Is he a racist, as much as we are racists, he is, everyone is racist even those who proclaim they are not, are racists with a veil over the eyes. We are racists because our society is structured on racism and slavery is still present in American society as a leftover from colonialism and slavery, not in the primitive form of slave auctions, but in the form of dependence on structurally racist institutions for the necessities to conduct a dignified life.
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  7557. The financial sector is in disarray,---the rescue packages and stimulus bills, are one two punches in the gut for working people. Budget gaps and layoffs caused by the bond market hit companies invested in the bond market and bond sellers finance city-state projects. The bondholders get paid their interest-profit after the debt is or not paid is the theory. In practice, the theory puts the working middle classes on the hook to cover the losses. Cuts in pay, loss of pensions, for remaining employees after 400 to 600 workers are laid off. Conditions are made desirable for employers to make longer working hours with new innovations. Rescue packages are not aimed at restructuring debt or mortgages. This would be one difference a Labor Party would make against how Republicans and Democrats use ‘rescue packages’ as a fund to withdraw money by the recipient of the package. The productive use of rescue packages depends on whose interest it is used for. Get people to understand these dynamics and complacency will start to become a social movement of non-conformity with the existing state of things...and rightfully so.
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  7558. Pretentious title. the Planet is not dying DN. The Planet's atmosphere is changing and this change is accelerated by human activity.  Hurricanes and storms, floods, droughts, mudslides, volcanic activity, earthquakes, natural fires, is the planet changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere. But over the last 60 years corresponding to the growth of human social consumption and planned obsolescence in production, the atmospheric composition of matter has changed and have the effect of intensifying the planet's movement. How humans consume to live and how they produce to consume will have to change to this new rythm of Earth's geological activity. Living on Earth can no longer mean over consuming her resources to exhaustion.
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  7559. This movement has a real good chance of getting smeared by mass propaganda if they are not careful about making sure their protests do not include Jews against the genocide The presence of Jews in this student movement is the only thing that stops a Jewish right wing from viraling a video of themselves harassed by protesters. Students have to fight the propaganda war too. Cover all the possible ways they can be set-up.
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  7560. This story illustrates the barbarism of the State and humanity a barrier to capitalism.
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  7561. None of you know your own history to know jail time never prevented a candidate from running for president. A true opponent of the Deep State would welcome jail time as a fast track to overthrowing the Deep State by popular demand but Trump is not that sort of man.
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  7562. Dick Cheney is the person who privatized USAID. American contractor companies (NGOs) turned the program into a competition between contractors never sharing what the other was doing in order to compete for the greater share US AID money, while being sent across the world, pretending to be humanitarian, were propping up movements and nations with USAID money to social elements who wanted to join NATO, to strengthen NATO against....you guessed it: Russia. Hey, you guys are getting good at this. Free market capitalism turned the program into a cesspool of privateers, mercenaries, CIA agents, you name it, our money was used topple regimes unfriendly to the Cheney mission to militarize societies through pre-arranged crisis. We, as the taxpayers, are raped for huge amounts of Congressional allocations by every democrat and republican overseeing in committees meant to monitor US AID, did so, with the intent to perpetuate war, instability and conflict. By the time Trump came around the program became ripe for destruction, a dismantling and freeing up that part of the budget Congress passes and approves. Question becomes, who has the ultimate authority over those funds and who is the ultimate owner of US AID dollars? US Treasury is another federal bureaucracy tat is ripe for destructuring and who heads the US Treasury, the agency responsible for the money supply, gold, treasury bills, domestic and financial economic policy to include tax policy? You guessed it: “the secretary of the treasury”, who is that? Now it’s a Trump appointee. The head seat of the Treasury has been vacant for a while. FAA is another institution that has been cut at the knees under democratic administrations. The slashing of the FAA is responsible for the pathetically incompetent status of BOEING and all the airline disasters thus far. I question the validity of workers’ unions leaders when all of this was going on, did nothing as part of the Public they are take action against cutting the FAA. Not even the Unions acted in the interest of the Public. This is a sad situation as all these programs and institutions are cut away they reveal the breadth and scope the American taxpayer and voter had been taken for “suckers” and left empty handed.
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  7563. Thing are falling apart and the center can't hold up. Water deprivation in the southwest. Farmers aiming their weapons at the government for shutting off a water supply. Native Americans suffering the drought and water deprivation because farming is more productive than reservations. Devastating flooding in the south. Things are falling apart. The supply chain can't catch up with demand. COVID spreads again. Nobody wants the jobs when the pay is too low. A vast desecration of public life with cold blooded killings and terror in the streets. The political parties really have a good thing going between them while the masses annihilate each other. Establishments on both sides unanimously agree to support a system even if its broken for the masses.  We get to see them disagree on how to run that system and dodge all the reasons to change that system.
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  7564. Oh brother another Boris Johnson. America does not have to buy dollars to trade its goods and services on the world market but every other country does. That America can print dollars is precisely the problem. For them and for Argentina the price of the dollar is not going to leave much left of that dollar for them to cover their own country’s expenses. This guy is going to drag a nation that was once thriving into an early grave.
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  7565. A bureaucratic department (community relations) is to you the same as if the Captain of the Police department does an actual physical appearance in the neighborhood his precinct patrols, wow...there is no hope for you. @ED-ie3et 
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  7566. Once it is known how much labor is needed to conduct the necessary work everyone hates to do there shouldn’t be the need for a specific population stuck doing it as a life sentence.
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  7567. Know your history. 1940-50s the test subjects were Central American Mayan descendants. When the Nazi regime was disbanded, prosecuted in the 30s, or exiled it was not just the main figure head of that party that was deconstructed but whole divisions of professional personnel and branches of industries that were deconstructed, demolished, ---- America military usurped this talent to rise to imperial power...NASA being one of the institutions founded,---America was the true winner that comes out of war ravaged Europe with the spoils, only the USSR posed a threat to its hegemony...the labs were set up in exile for scientists, chemists, medical, former Nazi party members into Latin America, and there conducting experiments carried on the work of medical experimentation and then destroyed the social system of native Mayan handicraft industries and agriculture. The system of property the same as those found in North America of the people of the Tribes formerly based on common-landownership, it was the US military who destroyed the federations of tribes to make room for slavery and settler colonialism in the West. It is the US military abetting the social experiment on a grand scale.
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  7568. They (Intelligence Community and Senate) would have forced impeachment of Trump forbidding him the run again if he went forward releasing the JFK assassination documents and pardoning Snowden. Toward the end of this term, he should have de-classified the documents, as he had the unelected part of our government at his mercy, but instead Trump went off on his own conspiracy theory about the election was rigged.
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  7569. ...Fundamentalism has a tendency for borderline fanatical, violent and political behavior and repeats itself through the ages in various forms. ... Technology beckons to become the property of society by reaching its limit as a counter constructive force on humanity.
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  7570. Little more than an impact and more like an imprint given how coup dé état has been the tool most popular with insurrectionists in the 20th and more so in the 21st Centuries...recent one I can think is the attempted one in Brazil this week and Jan 6th 2 years ago and ...you know what...the side of the insurrection or coup whether it is communist or fascist the Lenin imprint is more or less the same. The Right took it from a Russian revolutionary Bolton admitted the number of overthrows he planned and enacted as a CIA operative. He goes around the world and discredits a political person not liked or does not play ball with US foreign policy aims, then he plants incriminating evidence to remove that leadership from power, preferably jailed, the way Lula was imprisoned when Boldonaro ran for president. In a general election the right would never win. With the media generating confusion you step in as if you are in command and begin eliminating the opposition as Zalenski in Ukraine did with his opposition parties, religious and media outlets critical to his rule. Been going on for a long time.
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  7571. If I wanted the social security program abolished and the administration of that program crushed I would do two things, 1., fire the managers and mid-level administrators and 2., deport where possible all contributors to the social security fund. Abruptly stop the source of the contributions of SS, work itself. If people of pending legal status are not working the social security fund shrinks and with an audit under the guise of waste the remaining funds can be cut down even more. In a few short weeks the whole social security system has been eradicated.
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  7572. Any public system is destroyed when more private providers are allowed to enter the field of health care to sell insurance, devices, services, prescriptions and what not. Products and services a public system can provide society more fully and cheaper are used to sell as commodities and insured as commodities. When there are no products and services left made for direct use a public system cannot thrive.
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  7573. Your comment falls on deaf ears because this channel swamps the viewer with so much news that a discussion is made impossible on any given subject. Its all done on purpose to keep the Public controlled and subjugated that if a discussion takes place, the people talking about it, sound like disgruntled people...honestly, the media in the US is a tool of psychological terror because the only news that stands out over and above the killing of children, or wages too low to live on, is the evil character of Vladimir Putin to overshadow the culpability of your own media and government in making the American public stupid.
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  7574. It really is a stupid economic system that is based on the subjective emotionality of the individual....think of it...to hang the balance of payments and the deficit, the speed with which money circulates, and productivity, the employment and allocation of labor in society, on the hope that the market has happy buyers and never putting money in the hands of buyer/workers is really catering to aggressively myopic and dumb greedy bunch of moronic sellers who care only to realize their profit in the sale money they can fetch, is pathetic of America’s intelligentsia. The national economy is too important to have it customized and catered to a particular class interest. Time to junk this system. It makes sense to base an economy on the subjective well being of the individual, versus their subjective emotionality. Well being is concrete. Do you have a house, clothes, food, medicine, education, decent transportation, and a job that you enjoy...is the true meaning of subjective economics on which a happy society can be built. Time to raise the society the should be into a reality.
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  7575. Ruling Classes in the Democratic Establishment are highly self-conscious of their position in society whereas the Republicans are riled and excited to get their people elected. Winning the House and the White House is not the priority of the Democrats at this time, so the whole country’s issues are handled by way of how the market handles matters, very poorly. The police are clear example of the establishment’s insecurities is reflected in the democratic support of the police that cops are trained to protect themselves from the public not protect the public, and the police be used to protect the ruling classes when push comes to shove. Then pushing medicine that there is no science for is another clear case of bureaucracy working without direction for the sale of vaccines. Republicans will take power is what people can expect and the country moves more to the right that what we see occurring now will intensify. People cannot be a spectator any longer watching these people make history their way.
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  7576. Racist labor leaders and racist political leaders of the same political stripe. No wonder America does not have a labor movement. It is infested with anti-labor, anti-socialist, anti-communist, so called leaders elected and supported by a national political organization.
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  7577. Funny...if the airline companies are fined deep enough from all the corners they cut and all the people they fired and the whole industry becomes literally non-functional the government will have to take air travel over. Profits get choked and the airline carriers has no capital to re-invest to run their airline. Americans through government action will have taken steps against the will of the Senate nationalizing air travel. I would consider that a revolution and a victory for the masses who only had to stand on line for days at an airport, get lost, lose their luggage, or be on a plane that nearly crashes into other planes and never once have to fight in the streets, use a gun, attack a military, and charge a Capitol building in order to socialize a huge part of the economy. All the major industries are failing. Food, health, transportation, housing, civil society, law, military would all have to be nationalized because none of these industries is working evenly for 332 million Americans. The whole thing works unevenly for a tiny minority. Funny how socialism is inevitable through capitalism’s crippled non-functionality. So much for all the money wasted on building anti-communist hysteria in Americans. If we had a crystal ball this eventuality could have been foreseen saving the country decades of poverty and misery and some very stupid presidents. Americans are going to love socialism once all that money going overseas is spent at home. The sooner you end WAR as a WAY OF LIFE the sooner you will be LIVING LIFE not Killing It!
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  7578. Tribalism in media and tribalism in the Pentagon, tribalism in corporations, tribalism disguised as a management organization of work; they replicate the cult within their organizations.
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  7579. The term “empire” does not work for me. Empire is the productivity of labor and its economic surplus, total GDP. The task is to place that productivity of labor into the hands of the actors of the productivity of labor not into the hands of the owners of that productivity of labor. Its the relationships between surplus product and the degree of exploiting the labor of that product. Its the difference between value and the value of its constituent elements. Its the amount of use-values necessary for social reproduction that the value side of GDP registers as a given level of exploitation. Its a crucial relationship between which the class struggle is explained qualitatively and class expansion is explained quantitatively, that the term ‘empire’ hides. Empire is a cultural term of enigmatic importance; it suggests that it does not belong to the rulers but the actors of that productivity are not fit to appropriate their own labor. The recruitment standards for joining the military expresses the level of exploitation a working class experiences; a direct consequence of higher GDP and capital expansion.
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  7580. Union should never have gone public with a criticism of the governor’s plan without a plan of their own.
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  7581. What explains the fact that the connection between de-regulation of industries and life in general, is not made in the American people, that they allow this murder to go on?
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  7582. Important thing to get about the Republican Freedom Caucus and Donald Trump is that they do not have a social program or reason to oppose the establishment moderate republicans, though they appeal to the working person, pay lip service to the People, they have no agenda favorable to working people in their party or outside of their party. The republicans area a party of no substance and all form, while democrats have become the main anti-working class and pro-war party the republicans had been in the past.
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  7583. Big Business are big babies when it comes to losing a share of the tax payer's market.
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  7584. How does western media get footage from inside of North Korea of a military parade in the capitol of the country? NBC said the North Korea’s military parade took place last month. The missiles that can reach the US were shot off this month and a battery of F-15s fly the Asian skies. The preparations for war were made while Ukraine kept all the attention away from the US military build up in the Pacific is my guess. Europe won’t arm Ukraine for it will break out into a European war. The US won’t arm Ukraine because the resources are needed in the Pacific build up. Ukraine is left flat by NATO and the US.
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  7585. This is fabulous. American people are realizing the Republicans and Democrats intend to do nothing about gun violence in the US. NOTHING! Which means the parties have to be forced by mass social power to do something or forced out of power by that social power. I had been commenting the pattern of not disclosing perps and the press using terms like the “homeowner”, “the worker” , ‘a mild mannered dentist” , “the driver” whatever they are... the Press avoids releasing their identities is how the press covets their identity and when they are racists et al Nazis ...that makes the American media a tool giving the advantage to Nazis perps. The press including Amy Goodman ( of course, she is no Nazi...I like her) conceals the fact that all the mass shootings are a part of mass terror campaign to pacify Americans in preparation of the economic crash of the US to come...the BIG ONE....for which the Democrats and Republicans plan a war as the answer their economic dilemmas, as was the theory of how the US got out of the Great Depression, they believe the Super rich will spend their money and create jobs, rebalance the economic wheel, and America is back in 1965 economic levels but flat for the working class...a prosperity for them and poverty for you...with a bonus feature ...another Vietnam adventure...a foreign policy fiasco and debacle with China conceived as a war stimulation orgy. Through this they intend to put American people back into their role as a worker despite their intelligence, skill, and willing attitude to be productive people or move up the social ladder. The parents and grandparents of the people who run the US now (today) are all connected to the European Powers of Versailles, Britain and France and the US, all forced a surrender on Germany and punished her as if they had nothing to do with starting WWI. Funny right. You may move up in this world but will always feel unwanted. Like Trump. Super rich and the established super rich hate him they crucified him with dirt.
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  7586. This is what elite forces do. Specialized saboteurs working for the C1A. Hollywood propaganda movies glorify them. A big chunk of the American Public eats it up.
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  7587. There is no other president or prime minister on the planet outside of Joe Biden who puts another country before their own country makes me ask the question is Joe Biden even American? Its time Biden’s class of people get kicked out of Washington.
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  7588. Today, either the conscious direction of the masses in Honduras decide its history or it remains a republic of ruling class history.
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  7589. Americans should be made aware that they are paying the salaries of every government worker of Ukraine from the money Congress previously appropriated to that country for military gear and equipment. Many problems arise from this appropriation. Ukraine is not even a sovereign nation for Ukrainians who under a news black out and press censorship live under dictatorial rule. Do you ever see a Ukrainian Youtuber or Tic Toc celebrity from Ukraine? No we don’t. This would be because internet is provided for the government and not the people of Ukraine. Remotely America provides the technological capabilities for this war. But to learn... You work hard a long day at work and are taxed a higher share than you should be only to learn that the incomes of foreign government officials, on top of our own government officials, is where y(our) money is going, is to me a real shocker and a blow the lack of fealty, and callous disregard, for “us” in the US funding this whole debacle. American people are not given the respect or dignity they deserve for their sacrifices and support. I never heard Zalensky say to the American people, thank you for your support. I have heard him plea for more weapons but never a thank you. He has been given 50 million in cash and around 70 billion in weaponry from our pockets and not one word to demonstrate a reciprocity of gratitude but at home practices censorship and jailing opponents which make me sound like I have a axe to grind, or I am from the other side. No I am neither of these. Just a person who reads is who I am. Zalenski’s behavior is an insult to me but to people desensitized to their own dignity and self-respect it is not an insult. We cover Ukrainian government payroll and at home the people who should be taxed get to keep their wealth. Those who earn more pay nothing and those who earn less pay for it all. Biden has not done a good job. And the American people should not be giving the rich who die because of plane crashes more empathy than the Ukrainian people are given bearing the brunt of this debacle.
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  7590.  @backalleyburrito1815  The last mass extinction took place in a 24 hour period. Woosh, all gone is how fast Nature can change your world.
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  7591. If this is the kind of crap permitted over the airwaves than there isn’t a federal authority entrusting the public is not fed LIES!
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  7592. Wow, 20 missing? Sad day. Fred was a deluge. Freedom and necessity to this community came natural but in a forceful way. People freed from the means the deluge of water swept down river. Necessity because they start from the ground up and build no more than what you need. The days of material excesses are over. It is easier to save less than to lose more in the next flood they and the insurance companies know will come. Life changes to this new reality.
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  7593.  @x5775  You will have to overthrow ( I mean literally not figuratively) the class structure that exploit you and your children, families, and deprives of an education necessary to raise the level of the US from 17th on the list of places with the worst education in the world. The rich will get into Harvard and Congress and the masses will get the factory and service jobs n America’s class system of education.
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  7594. Prosecutors, judges and defense attorneys are confined to being a formal and negative social institution because, in the grand scheme of things, juridical power stops where civil society begins. Consequently, the legal arm of the State is impotent in combatting the unsocial consequences that come from the unsocial nature of civil society. If the American legal system were serious about ending alcoholism, racism, crime, it would have to absorb civil society and this, of course, would end its basis as an institution apart from society. This would mean the legal system would have to destroy itself as a political legal system. But these are the moments when the state is most aware of itself as not a true representative of its citizens, an institution where citizens hope to find a remedy to the unsocial aspects of society but never do.
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  7595. Spoken like a true nationalist.
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  7596. Americans use the roads to get to work and in their minds the roads are a means of transportation only. They do not think of the roadway as a workplace for others because the workplace for them is the hospital, the warehouse, the factory, the office,--- the place they are getting back and forth from home and because government does not make it a point to educate commuters what a road way is and is not. The single occupant commuter is a problem of wages and salaries too low that nobody can stay married but have to work to pay bills and find a job that puts them on the road again longer than their mind or bodies can handle, stressed to the max, lose control and act out in some way to get control back. Your bosses don't pay enough!
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  7597. Time stamp: 9:20 ‘Bamboozled’, she is right, Manchin and Sinema cut more than half of the bill down and shoved it down the throats of their own democrats for a vote got stalled. A wise move by the Speaker to hold the vote. This gives Europe some slack to shape American foreign policy on the Iran Treaty since Biden has nothing to substantiate his road to stability. Helps curtail military operations in the South China Sea the democrats are divided on cutting domestically in order to give more to foreign matters, and there is more money coming in from taxation on the rich.
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  7598.  @juanriingen  Time will tell.
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  7599. repetitive of the McCarthy period...
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  7600. Who Virginia...are you kidding..? The road departments have no experience with snow?
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  7601. China has a huge debt problem called the US. The economy of one nation is thoroughly interconnected with economies wth large debt everywhere. This means Germany, France, England and others who use China to produce are themselves skating on thin ice. Not a healthy value relationship among all economies. Crash and burn!
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  7602. Doug Jones defended blacks in the 60's but he is one of these people who never step foot in a community barber shop of a black neighborhood. Too scared to be in contact with black people, too scared to challenge his own opposition. Nothing comes out his mouth, not one idea, no mention of what he intends to accomplish, literally nothing! A hallow shell of man in contrast to a loudmouthed bully. The black community has no choice but to throw away a vote on a moron because they are repulsed by the racist running against the timid. If Roy Moore can't beat this idiot than Roy Moore is an ass. There can be nobody more out of touch with the black community than Doug Jones and Corey Booker supports him? That cop who shot Shaver is depraved but he is also a prototype personality, everyone knows one in their town or family. They are vigilante types, completely wired with the latest technology in their cars, ready to capture wrong doing by authorities and citizens on video, challenge rules and rulers by means of secrecy, sabotage, and feel justified. They find employment in places that fit their mold. Not all are bad, but the prototype is a social mold individuals fall into from an early age. This personality starts to shape early in life and is ignored in every corner in society when they become adults until something to reveal their inner poisoned feelings on average people is done is when we all say, the guy needs to rot in jail. So the cycle continues for the next prototype and be blamed the same way. Who is really sick here?
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  7603.  @clarahilairetessier5431  The police are an army of one million. Trained as military they are a standing army. The military is an army of 700,000 are used overseas are an active army. The police army can take over the country and the military are nowhere around to fight off an invading force. The people are not armed and work keeps them imprisoned. The society is a concentration camp.
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  7604.  @antonwearsakilt5209  A good deal of what you say can be matched with reality except for the part about freedom and free people. People in the west and even more in the US are free outside of work but they are not free inside the workplace. You cannot be partially free. Freedom talk is really nonsense. You are only free when you are not employed. Free in the double sense of the word. Free to choose who to be unfree for and free of food, shelter, transportation, gas, etc. Vaccine mandates reflect the power the workplace as a private entity outside of the workplace has over the people inside the workplace. This is the area of life in need of a full emancipation, be free outside of the job and the job does not make you a slave, would be worth fighting for but I don’t hear that in any voice in the extreme right.
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  7605.  @all1son984  They are of strategic importance relative to the US. You fail to understand this.
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  7606.  @ik1408  I take that as a rhetorical question than can be answered with none except China.
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  7607.  @ik1408  Any country that borders Russia is of strategic importance to Russia relative to American Imperialism. As long as globalists drive your country Russia will always defend its regional influence from American expansionism. Specifically, Kazakhstan is the subject.
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  7608.  @ik1408  China is a small country with too may people. Naturally, the prospect of expanding into K’stan is perfectly logical to meet the needs by an acquisition of land.
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  7609.  @antonwearsakilt5209  World Inequality Report of 2022, Thomas Pikety and Emmanuel Siaz, Lucas Chancel and Gabrielle Zuckman, released Dec 12, 2022 The report tracks capitalism over 3 centuries. Bottom 50% of 2.2 billion people have no income and even less wealth. Poorest 50% got under 10% to share all the income there was to be had. In contrast, the richest 10% got 52% of all income. The middle, (you and I fit in this group) 40% of 2.2 billion people got 40% of all income to be had. 50% of us (2.2 bn) own 2% of wealth. Top 10% own 76% of the world’s wealth. Dismal life under Capitalist Globalism. Conclusion: A global social class of capitalists in the West, 1., have no allegiance to a nation, 2., produces, sustains and protects, colossal income inequality and wealth. Where do you stand in connection to those conditions?
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  7610. Well, the Senator is not right about how we arrived at the $2K per month for working families. That amount is the average compensation of Canadian and European working classes receive in COVID relief since the pademic began. American working families are not given the same treatment by this oligarchy, in fact, a lower standard of living compare to their counterparts in other rich nations is what Americans got and now probably nothing as COVID rages through the population at alarming rates of infection forcing shut downs. What Trump did do is simply reflect the average amount of compensation of our west capitalist counterparts and for the first time we are seeing how this Congress positions the party relation over the compensation and the subsequent low standard of living of Americans. Yet, again, another sheltered Ivy League privileged young radical republican is marking out his ambitions. That social sector of society has the patent in producing opportunists. Object to the election results you win Trump supporter over and if you support $2K you get the essential workers suffering a higher infection rate from COVID over and then spend the rest of your life using one against the other for self-gain.
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  7611. Maybe its time the talent agency’s client/actors get criticized for collaborating with a racist agency. Force the agency out of business.
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  7612. Another reason for mass transit.
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  7613. We are seeing the type of training that American law enforcement provides training death squads in Latin America. Chickens come home to roost.
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  7614. This person is not analyzing the film itself. The BBC copy he reads is not analyzing the film’s merits either. He measuring a film’s worth by how much money a movie makes. Casablanca was a flop at the box office but it became a classic, a film critic would tells us Why. Analyze the story, plot, editing, cinematography, acting, directing, for its flaws. When you don’t criticize the film’s failures at the level of film theory and the film’s artistic value Hollywood will keep producing junk. They can’t read your minds. Thumbs down, I wait for a real film critic not a movie prize fighter for film producers.
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  7615. Superficial idiot but his edict will show parents who their administrators really are? When it comes to losing your salary some administrators are such lackeys they will sell their mother into slavery is how low they will go.
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  7616. You must be psychotic because there is no medical evidence marijuana is not safe or bad for human beings.
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  7617. All that work for nothing.
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  7618. No Capitol Officers were ever shot defending the Capitol in the history of parliament of the US I studied. This democrat should have challenged Clyde on that assertion, I would have. You can't go around making history up as you go!
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  7619. GOP are thugs, a Cartel.
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  7620. Nothing is more childish than the dogma "kids taking care of the parents in their old age". The young inherit the conditions of society and life and modify all that was built by the generation before them. If this material wealth in the form of cities and buildings, railroads, tunnels, parks, infrastructure and bridges is financed and re-financed till refinancing is made impossible because somebody cannot pay back a loan causing an international crisis and collapse of the economic order that is the fault of the youth not the fault of prior generations that laid down the material structure of society. That generation created the equity the next generation squanders and defends as its own when it belongs, technically, to society. It took centuries for a capitalist to come into existence, what is puzzling is how the general history of work culminates into particular type of relations of work that is its own barrier.
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  7621. Perfectly fine with me if the empire ends. End of Capitalism. Its not the end of the world if capitalism comes to an end. The main worry in me is the leading capitalist empire decides to blow the world up because it drove other rivals to blow up the capitalist world.
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  7622. 1:00 Why are the hundreds of civilians, elderly and children not shown in any video documentation to date by those who are trapped and surrounded in the Donbas?
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  7623.  @I999-g2s  insightful.
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  7624. I like to call it the unveiling of racist America.
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  7625.  @I999-g2s  Creeping fascism, eh.
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  7626.  @I999-g2s  Objective restrictions through a relation of things. There are two ways to examine the historical process of human reproduction as, 1., subjective freedom, and 2., objective restrictions.
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  7627. A Youtuber could have gotten better shots using a drone for arial footage of Yosemite and here is a multinational media conglomerate corporation shooting handheld from a distance on the ground. Brains do get soft the richer you are in the corporate production team.
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  7628. Soaring gas prices. Oil and gas executives agree it is never in their interest to not own land on reserve for oil and gas exploration. The national security of the nation is contingent on oil and gas land titles is better understood as an alliance built on a quid pro quo between the government and the oil and gas industry that is contingent on land titles to the industry. A double blow against the American people. Soaring gas prices and public land theft.
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  7629. Can you say that again? Sentence makes no sense to me.
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  7630.  @danielhoward4566  Ridiculous! Free Will...puhleeeze...This is workplace violence, period. Cost of firearms would be very low if people were happy in their jobs and given respect, dignity. Shooting people would be the last thing on their minds. I am not wrong because this is happening in many industries and that makes this no coincidental or isolated incident. Making you think it is a psychological problem just diverts the attention away from the abuses all workers are taking from their employers in America, and that is what America must accept or reject, as a way of life. Do you want to subjugated by Oe Size Fits All kind of laws and lawmakers or do you want to be happier people doing what you do most of your time; working?
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  7631. I like Tulsi, she has vision and will reign in the military.
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  7632. The connection to make about the nature of American totalitarianism in the state is not to the subject matter that this form of totalitarian rejects. The connection to make is to anyone who thinks that this totalitarianism rejects, no opposition at all, is what it aims to achieve... it requires a nation of idiots for an elimination of any opposition to its aim and purpose. Mitt Romney voted to cut retirement benefits for younger workers, and Manchin, Sinnema, a few other democrats voted down David Wiel to head the department of wages and overtime. The problem wth elitism is that you are limited in the number of people who can be offered as a president, we’ve come to an end, they have nothing to offer and are unworthy of representing the American people.
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  7633. Vote him out!
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  7634. We will witness a cultural meltdown in this country, for instance, when Afro American teens come into contact and interact with the same aged migrants from Africa entering the country how African teens will respond to American racism that goes both ways.
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  7635. That neocon guy Ned Price and cohort in the Pentagon have to go! As a country if there is no end to this war there will not be a country. War bleeds the US economy. War generates higher taxes to the government and every home-owning American hates taxes on top of taxes. We are not lending money to Ukraine we are giving it away and tax payers will not get paid back by Ukraine. The point is to end the war in a cease fire and start talk directly with the Russians. Not matter how you try to sell this war it is a war between Russia and the US. There is a direct correlation between war and taxation this generation does not know that spending GDP on the Vietnam War was followed by a profound double-digit recession and stagnation in the 70s,---this led to crime the only domestic issue republicans got elected. It was a democrat LBJ who escalated the bombings in Vietnam and he paved the way for a deep recession that gave Reagan and Bush a platform...pure propaganda that works on a racist segment of the population and works on dividing cities from the suburbs. But this time, war is ecoside, it is not the Vietnamese America provokes into war its the Russians it provokes into nuclear war. Neocons in the Pentagon always have their finger on the trigger as if the world is static, unchanging, the same as it was in 1945, ---they can’t tell when their time is over. Neocons have to be told in no uncertain terms. If this means throwing rotten eggs at war mongers, so be it! Taxation is unequal from the start is enough reason to oppose this war.
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  7636. Law of Accumulation of Capital...the swifter capital accumulates the more miserable are the conditions of the working class,---the economy they speak are the money markets not the job markets; a social class becoming more enriched at a certain rate as more and more people are poorer in rates quadrupled is the reality. Eventually, the bottom mass of destitute humanity will be so wide that the totality of human and economic resources will have to be taken away from a tiny segment of western population. An eye opener and a mind boggling reality.
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  7637. They do not call it a Ruling Class for nothing. The ruled get no share of the wealth they produce is the American Way.
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  7638. This comment section is highly flattering on humanity not Cruz.
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  7639. If nature and mankind are posited as opposites the way western attitudes posit man and nature, then where they intersect is where to look to change. Where nature and man intersect and interact with nature is in markets and in industries. We change markets and we change industry with the prevailing technologies we have now. We do this to form a more direct relationship to the environment by using technology that enriches the soil not rob it for lifestyle and profits.
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  7640. The good question the young lady asked the officer indicates that threat to the Pentagon are who the Pentagon call the biggest threat to national security. 'The scene is safe and secure in the Pentagon Reservation, no idea what the motivation is?' First time I've heard that expression for the Pentagon. All agencies follow one command is a highly organized method of severing an attack and capturing an enemy.
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  7641. I did listen to your video to the end, here is my reply: Missouri builds homes for the homeless. Problem solved because Missouri does not have a real estate oligarchy usurping land through a corrupt government like New York and and California have. NYC oligarchy is the quiet almost silent dominant force in city government. I think the corruption you accurately criticize cannot be rooted out until the Real Estate Oligarchy of NYC under strict and very tight legislation. City Council makes no legislation constricting the real estate oligarchy of NYC of its expansion and consequent usurpation of land the city can use to build housing. Who are that oligarchy? Trump the most visible oligarch is a part of that NYC oligarchy. Oligarchs push up real estate values that only the very rich can afford. Part of that oligarchy that is not visible but quietly active is the Catholic Archdiocese of NYC, NYU, Columbia University. These are large scale landowners, which by the way, own huge tracts of land outside of NYC in the mid-West except Missouri, is curious but explainable. The origins of that oligarchy date back to Civil War when merchant bankers made money on the sale of cotton financing slave holders in the South. Wall Street finances oligarchs with the capital provided by federal bail outs as in the Great Recession of 2007. I think I made my point.
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  7642. There were pro-Trump supporters and there were far right extremists and there were CIA plants in this protests. Of the two groups only the Far Right extremist can be encouraged by CIA plants to attack the Capitol. The peaceful pro-Trump supporters would not attack and had not. These people are everyday people. The plan the CIA executed, was a way to eliminate the Far Right opposition, and it is so far highly successful. But this also means that any future opposition to this establishment runs the risk of being annihilated by the CIA in the same way. In a way this clears the way for Trump to make appeals to the working class that was there to support him. The Far Right is out of Trump’s way and he now owes them nothing, maybe a pardon. But even a pardon is a political weapon. If he needs them the pardon is his call for them.
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  7643. I thought he was going to say instead of, “ We want a Worker Coop sector of the economy...” to what I think is a more immediate reason, “ We don’t want the factories to shut down in our town when the corporations decide to leave town.”...and you know they will, they have, they all moved their production to Asia and China left the American working class jobless with a million homeless and the British working class without any Coops they want(ed) and 500,000 homeless souls. What a difference a worker’s government would make...a society that battles all forms of social exploitation and inequality where it counts; the workplace.
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  7644. Its not going to be dust storms coming down on Utah, it'll microbursts!
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  7645. Time Stamp: 40:17, ---Femicide, is not limited to only Mexico its rampant worldwide; the most obsessively reported case of femicide in America is the Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petto case. I hate writing these, I wouldn't if the news media were not full of reckless reporting.
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  7646.  @miapdx503  Well so far the country has been led by a General out of WWII, then a Catholic in the 60s, a Texan radio and TV capitalist, a Quaker/Methodist in the 70s, a an actor n the 80s, and successive line of career politicians interrupted by a television/real estate tycoon...next I assume we’ll have a comedian for president, or a total clown of horror!
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  7647. Visually hard to watch for myself.  Panning is too fast. Pans should be decisive camera moves from point A to point B and never indecisive.  I do not want to be made aware of the camera as a viewer. I want to forget it is there so I can absorb he material. There has to be a way to slow down the speed with which the POV camera moves? Give the viewer a chance to take in the detail. At 13:56 " Lots of comfy stuff on the ground." Flooring not ground. Lots of comfy stuff on the floor of the room. I look forward to the next one.
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  7648. Missouri goes down in 2017 history as the first state leading a Pro-Slavery Rebellion since Henry Clay in 1820 led a campaign to make Missouri a 'free soil' state and a part of the Union. Blacks should have listened to Malcolm X and followed the example of François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture.
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  7649. Wow...Biden really blew it...he pulled out of Afghanistan in classic democratic style leaving behind people; he gave governors and cities a lot of money they can use for themselves as a recovery and let the private sector suffer, both employees and employers got thrown into a class conflict that was quelled before the pandemic; he imposed the vaccines; he ordered the overworking of the supply chain; he did not encourage democrats to pass the infrastructure bill before the social part of that bill...he really blew it. Then you have DeBlasio in a city that reflects the recovery, literally I think a guy who really hates the city, using that recovery federal money as vinegar to push the vaccine mandate when all he needed to use was honey money...what an ass of a democrat! The democrats are fast becoming a defunct party. Its all Trump to them. A really bad strategy.
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  7650. The general audience of ABC never comment on the news stories when you compare how many compliments they give to the anchor which is far greater. Shallow.
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  7651. Probably can say the same thing about your entertainment.
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  7652. The Russian economy would collapse if the Ukraine War came to an end that is how dependent Putin as made Russia on its military industrial complex led by a class of Russian capitalists. The American economy is dependant on its military industrial complex for its own growth rate. The warmakers are at the same time the capitalists profiting on war who make wars in both Gaza and Ukraine a vital part of their own development. Violence is an economic force for MICS but MICS are not vital to social development.
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  7653. NATO is led by a dangerous class of people out to conquer a territory and a people and the extent of the military build up is a drain of all domestic economies in a recession and a pandemic is an affront on every population afflicted by both. The military build -up in eastern European countries by NATO and American forces is frankly, disgusting! It shows ignorance and cowardice of foreign policy that is void of any real politics. Wars are created by the US in the name of democracy and freedom, mere concepts, ideas, it is not for the real conditions or real politics that a war is made necessary; not by either NATO or the US. Further, there is no communication to the populations who must bear the cost of war how the war is financed? If you knew you would be against it unless you too profit from it.
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  7654. I disagree with the GOP senator. He should find another way to criticize his opponents.
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  7655. This is what a class struggle looks like in our time.
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  7656. NYC has the largest landowning class in America. Columbia University is the biggest worth 4 billion in property, NYU, the Archdiocese of NY own millions of acres of land across the continent. Than there are the other landowners like Trump, Hilton, Blackstone who own the land under the suburbs. The scale ownership is incredible that there is not a square inch of Manhattan or the US that is not the property of one of these big landlords. The smaller ones are big compared to the person who is not a landowner and owns a car. This is the extreme wealth gap that robs the American Dream.
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  7657. Capitalism is a social thing that satisfies human wants is what its prize fighters would tell you. Ii does not care or question if the wants of society are natural or unnatural. They would tell you...that's the beauty of capitalism...everything is a commodity. Well then, I would say in that case, we should begin with a commodity and deduce from that point what it is and what it is not? If you start doing that the prizefighters will flip out and start to over react; so there is no talking to these people. The only people who care to what degree are capitalism's successes and failures are its prizefighters. We want to know what makes capitalism tick? Equality is the starting point of capitalism. The law sees everyone as equal owners and makes no distinction who we are as owners. But at the finishing line where there is one owner-winner and many loser-owners there is an equality in everyone being a loser of property and there is the problem of the one owner a winner of property not being equal to all the rest. The majority develops a mass social psychological complex, as people who lose all the time, suffer loses and lose winnings, and the owner-winner develops an individual psychological complex around being special, unique, extraordinary, the one with the greater quantity of property than all the rest. Its a strange social system, everything human is incompatible with the process of converting money into capital. And, the distortion is immoral. The wants that capitalism satisfies are not real wants they are artificial wants conforming to what capitalism needs to survive.
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  7658. The first Chinese war with Japan in 1894 delivered the death-blow to the old China was a period of forced emigration as millions made their way to the US and Europe. Isolation became impossible for China with that war which introduced railroads, steam engines, electricity, and large-scale industry, was developed for purposes of military defense.   The second war between China and Japan of 1937, finally overthrew the old economic system of small peasant cultivation, where the family also made its industrial product itself, fell to pieces, and the whole economic system under which a relatively dense population was possible as millions were turned out of their homes and forced to emigrate; and these millions found their way as far as Europe, the US, Central and South America.    Once China’s industrial base was established on a mass scale, it brought rapidly to a head, the conquest of China by capitalism and gave impetus, at the same time, to the overthrow of capitalism in Europe and all the Americas.   In this historical context, that we should understand the present.
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  7659. The landslide defeat of the democrats is not a direct victory of the masses over the owners of property and financial wealth. Time will tell but the event of a Trump victory suggests what is underfoot is the conversion of a democracy into a free market system with no government strings attached, virtually, a cause and effect economy for the masses with no assurances of survival. I would expect Trump will betray the working classes that elected him in a very short time to come.
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  7660. FEAR! Every governor from California to the New York are afraid to tax the rich! The president is so fearful of them he decided to make them tax-free! He acts big and bad but secretly he kneels before the rich. Sanders is not afraid to tax the rich he has been running a campaign for a political revolution for the last 9 years. Its paying off, he is the only politician who listens and has his finger on what the Amercan people want, and all of us agree the rich should be taxed and pay their share of the tax burden, that the burden should not fall all on the shoulders of the other social classes in society and sclude the super rich. Doing this creates monopolies and mini-monarchies in American society, sheer chaos. So, here it is is, an authentic politician who will tax the rich and build a national health program just in time to fight against a pandemic. Nothing left about that, its progressive Americanism that has a long history characterizing Americans, it only looks left because the conservative forces have moved far to the right, importing European fascism to the US and Biden is part of that in that he works with that trend. He doesn not work against this trend of foreign origins to the progressive history of Americans. In the meantime, Bernie personifies American progressivism and pragmatism. If Americans do not see that in him they do not know the progressivism of Frederick Douglass, Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain, they don't know Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, they do not know the real first woman to run for president; Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement. When a people no nothing about their history a far right foreign invasion can easily conquer its people, its land and its society.
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  7661. garywegkarz,---tall order to mobilize by class across party lines. As a slice of American life, can you imagine talking to a Trucker republican and a Uber democrat they should join together in an act of civil disobedience against American oligarchs!
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  7662. CEOs set prices and workers acting as consumers pay the prices. This is a social model that does not work fluidly and without interruptions ensuring all members of society get a decent share of what they produce in the form of a house, food, clothes, yada-yada. Hardly a democratic process. Prices are set by a particular group for the general population is the root cause friction, conflict, etc. Its a formula illogical for the general public but logical only for a particular part of the public. Even stranger as consumers the social model is uneven and unequal, CEOs consume more than the general population who buy small quantities on a weekly basis. CEOs consume vast quantities of the total, a CEO may earn $100,000 dollars per day, buys a huge quantity of material in the shape of multiple mansions, islands, industries, and take up most of the talent required to make their lavish consumption habits possible, leaves the general population desperate for more of the living resources that make life better.
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  7663. The murder of the DNC aid is a story that will not go away. Conspiracy is a tool used to divide the public of its opinion of who is responsible for the dysfunction of the America economy at the head of the central government in Washington. Is it the president diverting attention away from his own economic interests or is the GOP infested with low lives. That conspiracy stories are being invented, fabricated, coming from a republican operative, Butowski, when all is said and investigated the GOP will have no choice but to impeach the president to save themselves from eternal oblivion.
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  7664. 2:22- But it is true there are biological labs supplied by the US government in Ukraine, that Biden can say it is simply not true, he denies in a bald faced lie with a straight face the testimony Senator Rubio obtained in a hearing from a high ranking official of the Biden administration, Victoria Neuland, as working to ‘secure’ biological labs in Ukraine from the Russians. So much more they lie about will exceed the brain capacity of the average American and cause an overload of lies. 6:16 Jackson nominee would be a favorable appointment considering she is the best you’ll get, a background fighting the government is better than a background that complies with the government. 7:30 - Stop driving, at the same time, demand work that is not detrimental to the environment, or to human beings. Throw out the combustable engine and shut down the war machines.
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  7665. The tell tale signs of a nation moving toward isolation and nationalism or fascism on an international level are concrete actions people can tell their government is swinging to the far right. Removing diplomats is the first step. Imposing tariffs on imports is another. Debasing currencies, cheating. A general news black out on international news. If you only know the actions of four out of 195 nations you live under a general news black out and your information is all propaganda. When Rights to you are sold to you. This is accomplished through markets. Market prices push working people out of a job and into two new jobs to make a living happens at one end of the society and at the other end the more money you possess the more right of access you have to the necessaries of life.
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  7666. Republicans in Washington need Trump because they have nothing and nobody else who can win an election for them.
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  7667. Environment changes society as the environment is changed by society. To Americans that relationship is turned around. They think environment is changed by man and nature changes itself. The ‘itself’ part is left to anything supernatural. The social organization of their society is the highest a human society can reach before reaching the boundary line between heaven and earth is the meaning behind the phrase of American Democracy. There is no more perfect society or social organization higher than the rule of law after it destroyed the rule of equivalents when things were democratic is a striking example of hypocrisy. As God’s creation Nature has its own laws. The work of societies changes societies but work does not change nature. It only moves it around. Shapes it. Like clay in someone’s hands molded into what society needs and to meet social needs; water is water when it is in the form of liquid or a solid; whatever humans do changes nothing about the water itself is the stance of a classic science denier And with that mentality the southwest cities go dry with desperate people in congested numbers doing desperate things. The forests burn with more desperate people doing desperate things. America represents the highest form of human social organization history will ever record.
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  7668. Tip my hat to Cuba: The rest of the 194 nations should do the same, preventing Cuban citizens from joining mercenary armies by statute is a good way to end wars, foreign intervention, destruction.
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  7669. I do not believe viewers understand what Macron’s actions are saying and doing. 1. The losses of the very rich he is attempting to save and rescue through this reform which is a false word for what it is he does on the backs of the working classes by extending the retirement age. 2. That a police response to an economic problem of the rich ( corporations and elites) demonstrates the government is broken and it will collapse. What is the point of a parliament if you are going to rule by force? 3. The super rich and Macron will be guillotined or leave the country as society is on the brink of a revolution. 4. This is a highly organized national strike not at all a spontaneous rebellion or protest of a small section of workers the American News shoves down our throats as a false narrative. 5. This revolution spreads the world over speeding up the end of western capitalism which has already collapsed in Europe and is pending in the US. 6. Everything you hear from this date forward coming from the News about what leaders are doing and why is design conceal a class war between the super rich and working people.
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  7670. An alternative society does exist that does not put all its eggs into the Stock Market. Every since the financial bubble in 2007, the US government has been enriching shareholders and CEOs. Borrowing against the hard sweat and tears of America’s working class and selling it as T Bills around the world leaving the real economy of this working class desperately poor paying these bills back to their foreign and domestic money holders. These economic desperations have rooted into the American soil a class of political opportunists cheating the sovereignty of millions and millions of struggling working people...calls for a whole new government...when you try to understand why the Chinese do better in electric cars, math, science, lifestyle and longevity, and other durable goods...why Westinghouse is no longer a household brand, why America has lost its edge, it is because the Chinese do not care about the stock market. The stock market and billionaires draw capital for personal consumption. Profits into a branch of industry that can employ the rest of the country and use versus the use of profits to pay servants to the rich as waiters, and maids, is considered more important. But rather than go full state owned and planned economy like the Russians, they took a moderate course of combining both systems, with the State holding the essential means of production... controlling a fury of market speculations from developing too big for its own britches that there is here in the US...what counts is the direct way industries relate to each other. They can only relate to each other in two ways. Relate in quantity and in quality. What does not count is their money expression as exchange values. Industries are not commodities in China. This is likely to be the single-most difficult mental block financial analysts have with China, and it is due to their knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing.
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  7671. I think its a beautiful mix...I can eat an amazing Mexican -Asian dish... right now ...Calientitó..por favor! One day the remains of an artifact or a fragment thereof, will be found in North America or Central America and connect Meso-America with Asia, finally solve the great mysteries of all peoples of the Pre-Columbian Era of human history with the history of peoples of all the Americas north to south. A social history can be written with dates and names of family dynasties, kings, princes, warriors, battles, clergy and persons of interest, tribes, language, arts, events, everyday life and work, diet, nutritions, wildlife, environment. New discoveries happening everyday its a new golden age for archeology. The story of the Americas has been really fleshed out that all it needs are some good historians to write an official Text Book on the History of the People of the Americas in Two Parts, Ancient History and Modern History. Can you imagine that? With everything so robust and uncontaminated by pollutants the diet of the ancients must have been just out of this world.
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  7672. So it will happen. They will agree with the objection presented by the young privileged Harvard/Yale senator looking to stake out his own career because of the numbers of voter he will acquire from Trump and they WILL throw out the popular vote. Do not assume these people follow the rules they create because they don't... its a power grab.
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  7673. “Disease” says the ADF&G? We are in trouble. Even I know that one degree in change in temperature of water will wipe out a species. A specific temperature of water is what allows species to reproduce. Too low they don’t reproduce too high they don’t reproduce. Case in point is the depth of the Colorado River. Too low the water is too warm heated under the sun the amphibians cannot reproduce. I am not saying that this is what is happening. The Snow crabs may have migrated to water more suitable for their survival. Either the ADF& G guy has been told to shut up or the man is ignorant. The idiot never mentions that we have already lost 30% of animal and insect species on the planet and unlike what the idiots in New Zealand have convinced themselves...it is not due to farming. It all the result of carbon emissions in the biosphere.
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  7674. In this decade it is the cult of law, the cult of state, that are the decade’s prominent features of achievements.
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  7675. Elections should be changed from its present function as a lever of maintaining political power of a Washington based elite to an election of purposes and goals of the Public.
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  7676. Workers should take over their places of work it will give them the power they need to deal with one of the factions of the military that are fighting when the fighting is over. Airport workers, factory workers, distribution workers, all of them...take it over and keep the economy running. This will position the workers to completely control all production. Don’t sit idly by. Take action and form teams to get things running and take advantage of the general chaos and confusion in the military and government and take over all points of essential production. MOVE NOW !
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  7677. I think the key tactical maneuver of the encirclement is to contain Ukrainians in Kiev but more so to keep the supply line out; cut off the supply line of arms and mercenary troops coming into Kiev and the munitions products from Germany and the US, NATO, the arms stations in Latvia, Estonia, Poland, then keep the Kiev government in talks to strike a deal. I think Juan hit the nail on the head at 5:56 - 6:32. Urban ground warfare avoided. As they say time will tell. Cockburn puts the war machine last in the subtext. I would have have put it ahead of Power and Profit. Hegemony comes before profit of industry and power, and it is the hegemonists in the Pentagon anticipating a war with China as a war against communism that Russia, Iran and others become subject to regime change
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  7678. So do nothing is your position.
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  7679. Apart from this being another distraction from the fleecing of Americans by Big Business. This story reminds me of what Eugene V. Debs said about WWI. In fact it fits perfectly to the military build-ups between nuclear powers and their proxies. WWI is a war between governments and billionaires not a war between working people of separate nations. Out of 100 million people in the US at the time 58 million agreed with him. History proved them all right. Without his insight and agitation America would never have had FDR and this generation would never have had parents raised in the middle class and boomers would have become factory slaves instead of what they are a ‘spoiled generation’ who should have never have had kids. The militarism in this generation is demoralizing and unethical..shocking the Norwegians would play a shameful role, I always thought highly of that culture, when they come home half a human being alive they will know better this is waste of precious social resources they will need later but was spent on...weaponry. People should be reminded the the project that became the EU is a system that was devised to develop big business not to develop the people of Europe and the proof of that is Britain after Brexit, a cold, lonely, wet screwed up island where everyone is miserable and broke. NATO has no other purpose on earth but to protect the EU for Big Business makes it no wonder all working classes in Europe are ready to tear their governments down.
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  7680.  @trwent  Typo should have read “I am in agreement...”
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  7681.  @Cade-Cade  Diplomacy is the art of telling truth to each other. Telling lies is government not exercising diplomacy. Reclusive and to itself. Like a boy who just stole some candy sneaks from the crowd is not diplomatic with the store.
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  7682. Well stated but it is about Gosar and the likes of millions of Gosars in America, for me.
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  7683. The first problem in America is the politics. The second problem society has been barbarized with all the militarism taking over the police. Third problem is the economics. Fourth problem is the ideal life in America is destroyed. Fifth problem Abbot is using the police as an army we lose the ability to not be killed when going to the store and taking kids to the park. Sixth problem is the appointment of Generals, resulting in a succession of wasted failure operations as the war escalates verifying the army not a police force usurp the spoils and the tax fund that supports them.
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  7684.  @truth4tufftimes705  Protest mandates and edicts in the workplace not the vaccines. You have no decision making power where you work or if you are an employer you exercise mandates and edicts everyday to your employees. You can't even get health care unless you are in a job and even then the employers have you working under the law requiring insurance and benefits be given to workers. That sounds more like a dictatorship than a democracy to me nut why not to you? Employers are mandating this because the pandemic is interrupting the normal routine of making money. I admire your vigilance and opposition to vaccines I just wish it were about mandates and edicts on the job, ----your aim is way off the mark.
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  7685. 10-15 years is the highest level under the law for crimes the Crumbleys are guilty is a real weak law. A law that has no teeth is the best liberals and conservative in that State’s legislature can come up with as punishment...is down right pretty pathetic... 50 years at minimum is justified... victims are serving a life sentence of grief and the everlasting curse of the crime itself...till death do they finally rest their grief, that if parents are younger in society is the trend the sentence in another crime of the same sort ends before parents reach age 40, in time to become new parents biologically. The legislature of this State the Crumbleys live has no insight into the social ramifications of the laws they enact involving domestic violence.
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  7686. There is no revolution without street action in mass form. The reasons for revolution are created by capitalism itself, these are: 1.Capitalism (US, etc.) and world production are incompatible, 2. Exchange and production are incompatible 3. the commodity form of the product of labor are incompatible, 4. the total labor of society and GNP are incompatible with a double social side effect. ----forces of production is used against the working class, ----its representatives in the political world are politically anti-working class. The above four points leave little choice but to make a change in the relations of capitalism an absolute necessity going forward.
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  7687. Not a good record because 113 years of traffic deaths at that road adds up to a substantial casualty rate sweats an hour out of a minute that you won’t get run over. It would be cheaper in the long run to leave it alone and build walks over it.
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  7688. Trump provides the Republicans in Congress a diversion while they pass laws that create hoops for women, blacks, Latinos, youth and elderly in general, in and out of the workplace as employers are granted immunity for the excesses of power and hubris they exert on their workforce(s). Workplaces and productivity do not belong to workers in America, therefore, workers are propertyless participants in the place they spend the majority of their time, yet this place in society is of no consequence to Republicans except as a tool for enrichment and must be America's best kept secret to wealth accumulation. Workers are subjects in society, subject to enforcement and objects in the workplace, subject to workplace laws in the eyes of Trump's Congress. A totally upside down reality.
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  7689. Historical moments are the ones that really change a mode of production. We seem to be on a precipice of such a transformation.
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  7690. I truly do not understand why Americans would be shocked at Boeing’s behavior producing faulty planes. Work in America is performed against the clock. People are paid more $$ to get people to work harder and faster. When people are told to do the job in a certain time frame and they do it in that time frame are they not aware their work poses a harm others? Why would they suppress these feelings and walk away knowing a hatch door at 12000 feet in the air will break open? America is in business for sale not for actual use and safety. Faulty products should be expected but the suppression of your conscience will turn you into a brute of a human being that it really is not worth covering up for a greedy corporation. The NTSB will not be looking at how workers are pushed to perform on the job. The root cause of faulty planes will be overlooked by the NTSB. What they will be looking for are the inadequacies of the production line itself the tools the management and the labor-process not the timing of the labor- process. The pace of production, the speed at which people have to turn out a certain quantity of product will not be the subject of the NTSB. The NTSB also works against the clock like everyone else and so oversights are committed. The next story and older one but still proves the same point. Nothing is made for actual use in America. Things are made for sale or they are not made at all. Nobody makes N-95 masks as a precautionary item. GM makes things for sale not for storage and distribution. When the pandemic broke out America did not have any N-95 masks. GM could have made a killing on that product had they kept the product line alive but neither was the government prepared. Private industry and government failed the American people. The migrant problem is another case in point. America can’t house them, feed them, clothe them, place them, nor can America be kind to them and host them, because in America, a house, food, clothes, and space, and time to kind, are things you buy and sell not things or actions used by people for people. This behavior is at the root of America’s chronic mental disorder. That all things must be made to be bought and sold. For some reason the entire 12000 years people have been making things for use is a history the Americans believe never happened. Whatever they are taught in schools it is not this. They are trapped in a belief system that things must be made for sale was the way all humanity for all history did things. Silly people if they were not so armed to defend this lie. In America, the selling process pushes the production process to the limit that for some overworking is beyond human endurance and hazardous mistakes happen frequently. Sellers push buyers into working longer when they are not buyers and when they are buyers the sellers want what little money they got from overwork. They giveth for long hours of work and taketh away with taller prices. This unnatural way of Being rapidly demoralizes people in society making it a crime to be kind and a crime to be poor in states making laws that further alienate people from each other unless they are buyers and sellers. If people are neither buyers and sellers they are materially deprived and are treated like a leper colony. For migrants, there is enough space in America to host tons of migrants but only at a price. Without the money to pay the price that space stays empty and Americans gets to watch their cruelty on TV, children and mothers freeze outside lays heavy guilt confusing Americans about how their own humanity turns into an inhumanity on others. The answer is; because everything is made for sale.
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  7691. Steve Bannon calls for the dismantling of the administrative state...Proud Boy leader calls for the overthrow of the state by becoming the state which amounts to replacing less extreme people in government with more extreme ones. They all have one thing in common a dissatisfacton with the state as is. What would become of the state under their rule?
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  7692. The dead journalists in Mexico and Central America were not mentioned by Trevor Noah.
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  7693. America has some serious mass transportation problems. The system of inspections on the work of private companies that are too many does not work! Also, the system of compensation for damages is a deficit driver, a cycle of Peter robbing Paul. Insurance pays out what it saves in taxes. This is the reason Americans overwork. Workers are providing the revenue to government and the surplus profits to private corporations. A double whammy, corporations are freed from paying taxes, raises the deficit, increases borrowing and spending is all thanks to Trump the last president to cut taxes. A tax for cut for billionaires is a tax increase for workers but in the form of more hours worked per worker from less workers. It’s death spiral for the working class and an open door for migrant labor to replace a higher priced working class. In this day and age the legal limit of the working day should have been reduced after WWII in the 1950s and 60s when it was cheap to raise a family and have a life. That would have prevented the prolongation of the working day in 2024. But that was a time then the Mafia controlled labor. Now it will take more working time per worker to cover the repairs of an aging infrastructure and pay back increased government borrowing. Worse yet, in a time, when it takes more more dollars to pay the rent, mortgage, buy food, eat lunch, pay child care and put gas in your car. Prices are decided by the same people who pay less taxes....this makes the assault a Triple Whammy. If this isn’t bad enough the Fed prints more dollars and cheapens what a dollar can buy. How do call four economic assaults a Quadruple Whammy. Social policies in America are in contradiction with what America needs. Out of sync. The failure of keeping the workplace safe could be a problem of dishonest inspectors who let things slide in the production process, or the system itself is compromised that it has no effect on the culture of work of private corporations. Making cars, trains, planes, machinery in general, for sale leads to inferior production quality and this is life-threatening. If you are making widgets for sale the number of widgets sold is more important to you than the widget itself and how it is made. This could also be a problem that there are not enough inspectors to inspect all the private producers. Whatever be the case one thing is certain. A higher deficit and prolonged working day in an age when reproducing yourself and a family was never cheaper in world history.
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  7694. I hope the hospital covers their bill and after care. The slam to a life that size could do some serious damage to the infant.
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  7695. What a tortured answer given to the question of markets going up and the economy going down. The tech industry that has two sides. A commercial side yielding high earnings in circulation and a production side with enough productive capacity to meet the demand with less the number of workers. Of course the technology of the tech industry can double the working capacity of the remaining workers still on the job. This chasm between the economy and markets will spread in the coming months where many industries will shed jobs and profit through the layoffs but the difference will be they won’t have what the giant monopoly corporations have to survive, they don’t have control over market share. One side of every business going in opposite direction of the other side of the same business as companies are enriched not through a higher rate of exploitation of workers. Tech stocks go up and tech jobs go down will be a common pattern as the ripple widens. S&P markets are doing great profiting in the sphere of circulation but in the sphere of production the tech industry slashes thousands of job and the workers are optimistic despite the layoffs. The generation of workers laid off in the tech industry sound to me like a truly passive workforce about to learn the hard knocks of capitalism the hard way. A corporation can do in America what it cannot do in Europe is the only reason American corporations hate Europe. Europeans have worker protections in place.
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  7696. This will bring further chaos and fan the fires of racism even more. When Belgium left the Congo after a revolution kicked them out they left behind the means to extract i.e., cobalt and rubber. The new republic of the Congo and the Congolese never had the training or knowledge to work the equipment and extract the mineral from the earth exported to the Congo by the Belgians. Decades pass and a rich country was home to three bloody civil wars and squandered wealth proving before anything is tried mass education is essential. Without education as a companion to the reform the reform will fail and in the failure comes the criticism descending into deeper racism against the oppressed by the oppressor.
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  7697. Way to go China. China ends financing coal fired plants. A very positive step in the right direction.
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  7698.  @pacerts2911  I guess calculus was never a strong point in you. So you are saying tax the oligarchies to shift the wealth and access to resources from them to you within reason, of course. Did you read my comment fully when I explain the dilemmas Congress tried to remedy?
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  7699. What is necessary to be done, goes beyond Medicar 4 All, every industry will have to be nationalized in the US in order to mobilize FEMA's resources to serve 332 million people and as far as the number of unemployed only 3.5 have successfully filed for benefits out of 43 million out of a job. This experience will transofrm America to develop a system of government comparable to the successes seen in the Chinese government to operate with the cooperation of the people are now have conquered the virus's exponential rise of contagion. Further, the US (Americans) are not only in an economic depression, shelter in place will induce psychological and social damage that will cause a complete social breakdown and anime of individuals and families. As far as Trump is concerned, this moment in history is a referendum on Trump, should he do the right thing as mentioned above and by the guests in this show he will win by a landslide, if he does not he will lose by landslide. Biden is irrelevant, I cannot stress that enough, he has absolutely no relevant impact as a viable leader for this country and will lose the nomination to any of the governors acting in a real leadership way the country requires at this time. Trump has a deep handicap for not responding when the warnings came in advance as America was caught completely off guard. As for the working class, unions, progressives, National Security Agency, the Justice department and Homeland Security the political conflicts between them and the push to suspend civil and constitutional rights driven by the Supreme Court, in their exercise of self-interest is a danger to society descending into barbarism must be reduced to rational and limited powers. This moment is a turning point in the economic history of humanity and America specifically, if not for Dr. Fauci's exemplary scientific diligence, calming and rational approach the people in this country would be entirely lost personifies the kind of mindset the leader of this country will need to bring about this transformation. As far as Europe is concerned there are real threats to democracy and freedom in the west coming from eastern Europe, specifically Hungary and Belarus's rise of fascist nationalism, America, China and Russia and Europe will once again have to suppress along with all of the criminally negligent right wing elements and general ignorance religious zealots pose to humanity by their inaction to respond to and deny medical science.
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  7700. Paint his face and he's the Joker!
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  7701. Remove God from the picture and we are all the same.
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  7702. ​ @marcinwojtowicz7664  Hey Wojo, --you saying socialism is the answer?
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  7703. Why is that ‘interesting’? The investigation revealed there was nobody in charge of the several units that came on the scene. The investigation showed the principal had a broken door that would not lock. The investigation showed Texas Border Rangers evacuated the children where possible. The investigation showed the Sheriff was chosen by the mayor not long before the assault. Many contributing factors that are guilty and lynching one person for errors of an entire system a shameful response to an endemic crisis nationally.
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  7704. Trump will never apologize no more than Hitler would have surrendered per Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Plea for an Apology from Trump. Trump called the Congress the hangmen and he the black slave with a noose around his neck, ---- a fruedian slip. These are words of a cornered and desperate man losing control feels choked to powerlessness without control over the whole political narrative. All the irony for union labor striking the car industry when one of their own is killed by a car. On Facebook, everyone should get paid for their data it harvests and sells. My guess, the contamination of baby food products will be the death knell of the Trump government once its FDA reveals it never monitored the baby food industry. Humanity has come to a point where reproducing the conditions of subservience to neoliberalism and its other cultural and social manifestations of oppression for another 30 years is simply, out of the question! Enough of the elections and referendums, the bullshit, humanity is tired of being trashed and made to feel responsible for its robbery and brute force by billionaires and the State(s). Humanity is further coming closer to a realization that neoliberalism and the State, is not the cause of humanity's deplorable condition, but both neoliberalism and the state are a consequence of humanity's disatisfaction with work, and in the very activity of work itself, its products and false wants, this is because under neoliberalism all of these products and false wants are human efforts, feelings and emotions, actions belonging to someone else making the work a day to day grind and hateful. Work ought to be a rewarding experience for everyone. Its not, instead, work and working is the cause of neoliberalism and its effect of this split between work and working, is the State arising out of need from this contradiction where people are working only to create wealth for others out of the necessary work for subsistence people must do for survival is the reality. Human dissatisfaction with the form of work under neoliberalism engenders the cause and the effect. Though it may appear that private property is the source of this social alienation occuring actively in where people work, its not. Private property of the few is a consequence of the lack of property of the many. Humanity has not yet come to this conclusion to remedy all of humanity's sufferings with a program for the generalization of private property among the population. In effect, capitalism which praises the values of private property are okay with it for the few and against it for the many, uses capitalism as an anti-private property social system is an active base of oppression.
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  7705. Taking the keys to the car from a reckless elder-driver rather than asking for them is the greater good for the community.
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  7706. Horrible...we live in a horrible state of affairs...loaded by contradictions...capitalism staggers like an alcoholic one day and the next day its a blind man crossing a thruway.  Its dysfunctionalism operates on blind working averages and behind what makes it tick is accumulation for the sake of accumulation. Capitalism does not allow society to move forward, human beings are its primary obstacle...but at the same time we are essential to its existence in the sate of existence we are under...this is a contradiction... when a social system is anti-social in every way that it hates people! Perfectly fitting for a 17th century slave owning class that never died out...to turn modern society into a plantation based economy with people once slaves to a master are slaves to the world market.
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  7707. The Liberal Establishment in America are really a disgusting bunch of people...arrogantly more right wing than the right wing.
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  7708. This was funny satirical critique of the state of America...great job...for giving us perspective and humor.
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  7709. Good story. It is a story that illustrates the contradiction between private property and private ownership. The Condo Association can’t separate ownership of the unit from the man. They could if they offered him a deal and bought the Unit back from him at which point the man is a seller and legally can make a killing on the deal. He can ask for three time the value of his unit. If they hate him enough he’ll get it. That is one way this contradiction between private property and private ownership incompatible and don’t work together gets resolved in capitalism. Another way is to forcibly remove him but then the State will arrest you for trying that. So this man has the upper hand. I hope he uses it right. He can come out of this far richer than he is now.
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  7710. The problem is that the subjects believe they are subjects is the only reason “He” has a power of a God.
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  7711.  @tomhermanson  On average 60 million vote in the general election. I expect that number will rise to 160 million of which there are 60 million voters the democrats and republicans compete for. Trump will have to appeal to people outside his base. I do see him winning if the voter turnout is low. This is a reflection of how bad democrats and/or elections being rigged. But I suspect the democrats deliberately want a civil war for that will place the democrats right in the lap of law enforcement and the military as a major ally getting more funding, far more than before. But I doubt Trump will win since the last three years have electrified more people to vote. Time will tell, as they say.
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  7712.  John  = shit for brains.
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  7713. Haitians should not be so nieve, Trump’s anti immigrant comment delivers the point that immigrants are less than human. Racism. When people of the same race confuse destitution with crime they are making it a crime to be poor and enable the rich to be their masters.
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  7714. The mayor has the Feds on his case. So he’s not too happy about that. Calling in the Cops won’t win hm any support if he intends to get re-elected. If he remains popular the Fed will have a tougher time bringing him down. Students are a powerful ally. He best leave the students alone. The grounds to move in on them are not there. I hate when anchors skip over a critical point...makes it appear its done on purpose...the Harvard professor explained a conflict that has serious material effect and control over academic freedom and free speech for Americans emanates from Congress and the Senate weaponizing endowments. They should talk about that.
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  7715. NY DA is Alvin Bragg is abusing the elderly by not pressing charges. First the employee abuses an elder and then second, the DA’s office lets the abuse continue. That’s another form of institutional abuse on top of individual abuse. The whole system is truly rotten! NBC News has the ability to pull up Bragg’s election victory video and campaign promises. Why shield politicians who say one thing and do another by not showing their campaign promises. Media does this with the president but never with the politicians below the president who make the decisions and run the machinery of the legal system. The current district attorney is Alvin Bragg. He was elected in 2021 to succeed Cyrus Vance Jr. Remember that name folks! NO CHARGES?
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  7716. This is not a police force, its a standing army. Americans are largely a compliant people and not in the best physical shape to be a threat to the State. I suppose if you clump us all together we can be a threat but that is nowhere the situation in any part of this country. There is no call for such an obscene display of material force an expense the Public pays. I guess its good they came out with this amount of fire power and armor. We would never see how much they accumulated in weaponry if they stayed warehoused in their arsenals. Its a standing army and America is under an occupying force. Security is the supreme social concept of civil society; the concept of the police. This is a concept of a military commando unit.
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  7717. Fantastic video...hilarious...I am on the floor with that video...comedians have it made in our society, they have more material to turn into parodies and spoofs that will garner laughs for a century...its a golden age for comedy...the social institutions have no legitimacy anymore.
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  7718. Protest are good thing because it allows people who live in a complex class society to clarify who they are in that constellation which can be very confusing that people get lost, disassociate, but in protest they find out more of themselves through the real reasons they are there in the first place. Contact with your own species. Identification with others through similarity and unity making a mark on history. Clarification and a higher understanding of themselves is what people attain through protests, knowledge through struggle. A society that can raise consciousness is the type of society you want.
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  7719. Will a vessel this big turn the canal into a lake by acting as a dam?
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  7720. Targeted! If it was not a murder-suicide, the case is a four count homicide case and the killer is still on the loose! Not knowing and a killer on the lamb that may strike again is a reign of terror on the heads of the community. How could an academic institution not see this effect is itself worth a probe into the dysfunctions of higher education. The University president should have held the students back to a date after the police could complete student interviews. A 50/50 chance the killer would have been caught by now. The deceased would be freed from this shroud of mystery of four young thriving middle class young people did themselves in.
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  7721. INSTALL, 2 Ls not one...and of course, you are not right @DeloresGrandy 
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  7722. Is it spiritual when the car manufacturer recalls your car to take it to the dealer to have the part replaced...is that a spiritual thing happening at the factory... do you think the auto factory workers had a spiritual reckoning and sent to car off to the market had forgot to finish the job on the production line...and the dealer selling you a defective vehicle...are connected by some spiritual existence between them... that what you think? You and your church should be sued for all the back taxes you are exempt from paying for such a monumental observation. @lastharvestPDR 
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  7723. I would not call the Royal Family a family. With that many blood ties not even a clan would cover it. Its a tribe.
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  7724. Infrastructure Bill. You can't make capital without free labor, then the banks, merchants and landowners can do their part.
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  7725.  @wallaceahtone6149  What working class Americans want is more of the same, and more of the same used to be that the US advances most of the credit and takes the least because the balance of payments due have to be settled immediately, this condition is unfavorable, even though the general balance of trade is favorable. All this is due to 50 years of exporting a huge quantity of capital loaned to foreign countries, so that a large quantity of returns flow back to it in commodities. This is not going to work anymore. Every social conflict distracts the working class from this crisis and peril living with fixed incomes and stagnant wages during inflation coincides with over production and over speculation diminishing the consuming capacity of the working class, they cannot replace that portion that normally enters into their consumption. Their material standard of life decreases in reality. Attention to the causes of the condition of the working class by the working class is deflected. Deflected by a right wing and a complicit media, ---they do not want the working class to know what is happening to them, they want you inside.
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  7726. Police, firefighters and EMTs need help from what...they are not doing anything?
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  7727. She is right that as journalists what is happening on the ground is more important than analyzing what elites are trying to do. American journalists do not do that at all. When they do its not on the same ground all people walk on but on the part on the ground a part of the people walk on. More important we know for a fact the US is buying Russian oil and from that angle assess the actions of US elites relative to sanctions, because money talks and bullshit walks in capitalism.
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  7728. Race is a characteristic in the Darwinian model. Nothing more than an alteration of human nature, a deviation, a variety of species. But race in bourgeois constitutional republics, is a process of preservation of a specific variety of people. The formation of a political relationships which are, historically, the fundamental thing. Its all about direct political force...indirect economic dependence are facts of a second order. An act of force is a political act. Enslavement is an act of force and and a political act at the same time, it is the starting point and the basic fact underlying the original sin of injustice. Watered down injustices. Property is founded on force. Legal force and enslavement is the basic fact underlying legal force. Force is then a means to an economic advantage to a specific variety of people is the sole end and aim for having bourgeois constitutional republics.
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  7729. Three biggest threats to society are imperialism abroad and at home, fascist totalitarianism, and incompetent leaders of the democratic party who never talk about what actions are necessary for the American economy to survive.
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  7730. It is not only students who carry this debt...grandparents and parents took out Parent Plus Loans also carry this debt! When I learned of this I found it to be immoral usury and pledged to myself I will vote for Bernie for that reason alone. This was the deciding factor that moved me away from Biden.
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  7731. I follow manufacturers suggested retail price data, and market forces are not determining prices. A monopoly organization of prices are determining prices which is why companies employing under 500 workers are unable to compete in the market without shedding their staff. @m6a1u57 
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  7732. Anyone who does think the motive to save humanity from an asteroid is sincere is ignorant or duped or both. This altruism is coming from NASA founded by a former Nazi in 1949. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (23 March 1912 – 16 June 1977) was a German-American aerospace engineer and space architect NASA is run and operated by the only and the first government that used nuclear weapons in 1945. Don’t you think what they are calling a planetary defense really means testing military weapons in Space? I do. Everything must be doubted for their authenticity. If it were about saving humanity they would not be involved in making weapons of mass destruction and sabotage to kill human societies on Earth.
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  7733. It should be made law surveillance cameras without sound are inadmissible in court than this man would have gotten off because the action and the sound are open to interpretation. When you cannot hear an incident the incident can be anything you want to make it out to be. A man seen running and taking a car can be interpreted as a man using the car to flee danger. A man fighting for men can be interpreted as a four men beating up one man. Without sound its all brainwashing and using video surviellience footage to report on a scene without verification of content in sound is an exercise in reporting for high school journalists.
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  7734. This is great. Proves he acted alone.
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  7735.  @shawncrawford3146  OK big guy start explaining how he did not act alone.
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  7736.  @shawncrawford3146  9/11 is your conspiracy the JFK assassination was not.
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  7737.  @Max_Mustermann  Sounds like you re repeating my comment about fascism already here in the form of social control and has been here for a while. I emphasize the point that it is here, now, forces you and your peers to develop some kind of resistance movement in the real world versus emulating resistance fighters against an empire in a Hollywood movie fantasy, or Video game, escaping fascism.  Unless you want to willingly be controlled, and your generation become a permanent underclass, a life of servility to the power of fascist rulers and not take a political stand for ideological and personal reasons against fascism then fine. But outside the US the world will pass you by. Actually, I think the world has given up on Americans. You may too young to have witnessed South Africa's Apartheid. But there it took one brave man with a camera to sneak into the country and film secretly or be killed the real way blacks were treated to expose that government for what it was, a country that lived a closed and racist society had shut the world out in every way. If this is what you want then fine, remain fascist with Israel, the only two countries in the world who does not interact with anyone in a world economy nor will the world care to interact with the US and Israel because of the fascist individual controlling your power not their's is overthrown.
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  7738. Talking heads of the war machine.
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  7739. This is an episode in manufacturing a crisis to weaken government to function for its people.
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  7740. What happened to Juan Guido, Washington recognized him as president...where is he? Washington gave up on Guido and now recognizes someone else as president who is not even there on the truck? What happened to the man that ran against Maduro...did Washington kill him and now supports Machado? Who is Maria Machado? This newscast smells like propaganda to me and the professor looks like he got paid to say, really, nothing.
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  7741. Ruling Elites also know that education is the key...this is why Public Education is destroyed in America...Ruling Elites do not want an educated mass of people for two reasons: One is the threat of revolution and the second is to cheapen the price of the commodity they hire. The point of Ruling Elites pouring billions into private education is to return to the days when the masses are illiterate through exclusion. I think Malcolm X would have been talking about this destruction of Public Education if he were alive today and shaming the separation of blacks through class and wealth.
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  7742. Yesterday a republican was for the emancipation of slaves, then they became the party of big business, then they became the party of law and order, today they are the party of the working class and law and order. Things changed. Parties are in flux with new party elements gaining momentum and steam so things are weird. Bernie has more in common with Rand Paul than he does with his own leadership for example. Democrats were in the past a party of merchants, banks, and landowners, this included farmers and ranchers, then they became a party of the industrial working class, a big movement, a historic shift, and held that position until they got into foreign affairs and wanted to prove they could be just as good as republicans re-arranging world affairs and world production and making money, and then they became the party of Big Business of Small minds. Pinheads, control freaks. Big Business and Industry always keeps their hand in both parties this way no matter who wins they win and the democrats left the working class hanging out to dry turning their attention to Asia to keep America making money. But societies everywhere are in transition, political and economic, there are many revolutions going on side by side of the wars. War and revolution, that’s the pattern societies undergo to make progress driven by struggles contained in them. Apartheid coming to an end is true human progress but that progress isn’t because we think it but it is because we see the hideousness of it in action and hate it that all join in to end it.
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  7743. Utahns are getting beat up by nature and by politics. I understand the legislature there passed a law that if you owe a certain amount of child support your game sport privileges are taken away. Seems like an indiscriminate punishing gesture, there are people who would love to catch up if only they made some more money. A lot of people in southern Utah just lost their job to mudslides and floods and are working on a free basis digging this town out of the mud. Sport game hunting might be the only means they have for subsistence. I reckon the legislature in Utah has a cold cruel and callous heart to pass laws that hurt people when they are down.
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  7744. Its a funny problem that Americans see as a social problem when really the migrant question is an economic problem that has nothing to do with traditions of welcoming the poor of the world. The more land is bought up by large monopoly corporations the higher the demand for migrant cheap labor the governors do not know what to do with. Where America is stuck is with a right and left wing of two parties content to have occupied by aging incapacitated elderly senators still in Congress who belong in a nursing home are presiding over the biggest expropriation of land and property owned by people of color and whites since the Reconstruction. Through natural and social disasters immediately following is an appropriation process that is violent, punishing, delays relief to victims and dispossessed, responds minimally to pressure the sale of land, buildings and property in one fell swoop to a consortium of anonymous and international investors. Congress has its head buried in the ground. The American people left defenseless to fight amongst each other in the scenario described above. What Americans need is a second revolution to overthrow the yoke that is a double economy, one that works for multi-national corporations and monopolies, and the other that does not work for the vast majority of Americans but props up the primary economy that is the military industrial complex. America has a war economy for its defenses and a command economy for its citizens. The command economy is subject to the will of institutions which presently is incapacitated by aging old men with a marked propensity toward sloth and a war economy that has all the supports, resources, at the ready for war and expansion to preserve markets and create new markets for the products of the multi-national corporations is its sole purposes exclusively. You need a second revolution, period.
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  7745. Racism is a cop out for those who do not want assume the responsibility of self in society.
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  7746. The video of the white parent of a child telling him to stop his call to the police might mirror the exerience African Americans I would not deny.  More indicative the video shows the face of a man who happens to be white has no parenting skills.
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  7747. Americans have lost control over their own social inter-relations, sheer anarchy.
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  7748. This man doing this video has to correct his understanding of homelessness if he wants to rise above prejudice. There are homeless people in Montana too. Its a national problem. There is always another candidate desperate to fill the job an employer made vacant because the employee ever has control of their future. California has a big real estate problem, billionaire landowners who take the prime land and they along with Zoning Boards and Builders, generate homelessness. Oakland is where the unemployed and working poor are forced to live because of that real estate problem. Homelessness is a consequence of Gentrification. It is cheaper to give a homeless person $70 K and an apartment than it is costs to lock them up. California in addition to this cabal of landowners, has a Justice System problem when that system thinks it is the answer to homelessness.
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  7749. Mining industry may have to get its act together and can do a lot more to protect miners in particular and all of us with respect to the environment but it is too cheap to spend the money, investing in protective gear for coal miners and regulating the time spent in the mine, not to mention paying more than a dollar a day. Democratic Republic of the Congo is nothing more than a sham that when it goes so will its brand of democracy.  Doing this would cut into profits of the mining companies and the miners can expect the government of this Democratic Republic will use force given the ministers decline to face the music. Instead of the miners getting the value of the protective gear and us (humanity) the preservation of the environment dirtbag ministers are paid off to live in luxury in exchange for their loyalty to the landowners. France great legacy transported to Africa left the Congo a landowner's wet dream and a people's nightmare. Pressure the ministers the same people who shamefully hide from the Public! No not these people, get rid of them. Obviously, they are committing a slow murder of Congolese people.
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  7750. Someone needs to make an App all can download that shows the cheapest gas prices near to you. This way the highest gas prices inflated will be forced to come down to get the business the lowest price gas stations attracted. I say if the oil companies want a fight give it to them!  Do yourself a favor and don't take out that car loan.
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  7751. All the mainstream news channels have this story as their headliner story and here is a channel that regurgitates the same story. Just another mainstream channel this channel has become. The only thing that exists in the world is Donald Trump. The young are the first to get co-opted into a system that corrodes the meaning of life.
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  7752. The fail is Warren allowed the elites coalesce over Biden and Sanders failed to build a coalition of all people of color using race against racism. Using race against racism is the way to beat the republicans.  But this country is so uptight talking about race that the republicans that progressive social democrats loose everytime. Number 2: Sanders reacts like a loon when attacked and does not look or come off as presidential. Number 3: Racism is the essence of the republican party that is destroying the economy and all lives of color.
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  7753. These images will be used by FOX to push the theory of black inferiority and a call for heavy Law and Order to discredit the theory of poverty the images support as a critique of capitalism. Both theories are valid when taken together but taken seriously as one or the other, apart from each other, the theories fail and degenerate into dogma, propaganda and ideology. South Africa does not have a rich and poor social class of different color, one dominant and the other subjugated by that political system, in the political life of the country. The theories of inferiority of races is never used in societies where the oppressor is the same color as the oppressed, only used in societies where the oppressor is a different color than the oppressed, makes it not a theory but a perpetuation of the use of a political system as a tool for repression.
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  7754. The only thing obvious here is your lame comment, full of bias, ignorance, hatred, and hubris. Additionally obvious is, ----you are not hurting for an income like many are hurting driven to desperation.
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  7755. What is suspicious is much of the recent videos capturing arriving migrants in Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, from Africa are all male of military age and dressed in western name brand athletic clothes have cell phones arrive on large military grade rafts are not your typical desperate migrant population heading to Europe as previous during the horrendous boat capsizes and drownings. I wonder if Elites plan to use these youths as boots on the ground in a war against Russia? Given the background of the splits and ruptures inside the EU between rivaling capitalist states war between them could break out! I could not disagree with Mr. Wolff’s talk on the conflict in Europe at all. His general overview of that situation explains the conflicts and where they originate; whereas, most other commentaries criticize capitalism with those contradictions and conflicts. Amazon’s treatment of labor unites labor here and in Europe is a development that fosters a new international movement of labor.
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  7756. Persipacity --So true, you and your race are direct descendants of the first free colony settled before Jamestown and Plymouth Rock in St. Augustine Florida. A free sanctuary colony where African American, Spanish American, and Native American people cooperated as free people in 1565. This founding of America precedes the arrival of British, German, Dutch settlers. At that time, to be one of these indigenous people meant certain death, slavery, and imprisonment in a corresponding slave trade and Indian Wars the German and Dutch settlers imposed on the indigenous people as more from Europe poured in. The second grouping arrived in 1619, they were to make America their home because they were homeless on the high seas getting here and there was no turning back. Some of them ended up in South Africa where Aparthied was tried and failed. The white male American has the same history of being a tribe banished from a homeland and then founded a homeland like the Aztecs had done in Tenochtitlan in 1325. I just to give you some historical perspective.
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  7757.  @Verradonairun  You are confusing markets with capitalism, which tells me you know nothing about capitalism. Just another prize-fighter for capitalism is all you are. I have what you need and you have what I need has been in existence for thousands of years, waaaaay long before capitalism. Its called exchange. At one time people used one good for another good and then at a later time money was used in the transaction. On top of confusing markets with capitalism you bring in the notion of non-interference of government to demonize government as the regulator of markets when in fact, exchange regulates itself. I have more money than you therefore I can buy more toilet paper than you. Government does not play a role in telling me that I can wipe my ass with a limited supply of toilet paper that I can only buy so much toilet paper. What government does do, to regulate capitalists through the use of laws, is to tell capitalists you cannot dump hazardous waste into a river, you cannot work workers for 15 hours straight, you cannot use dangerous and hazardous substances in your products and you cannot drill for oil in a national park, etc. I detect your anti-communist ideology dating back to the 1950s when you say state capitalism regulates capitalism which is another stupid comment because the evidence is plain to see that China does not tell capitalist what the US government tells capitalists, the communist in China do not tell their own capitalists what they cannot do in production. China is the leading polluter, or was before the caronavirus caused it to shut down production. You call this the exact opposite of "true capitalism"....mmm you are upside down. And your understanding of what leftists want is upside down. Trade deals with other nations are not deals of exchange, A = B, they are arrangements, i.e., trade arrangements into which the capitalists ensure they acquire the greater share of the profits and the market they intend to sell or produce. Finally, you realize government is necessary but only as a powerless entity made weak that it cannot intervene in the interest of society but only function as tool for private industry and Big Business. You reek to high hell of a living, breathing jackass!
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  7758. Looks to me like the religious right wing want abortion illegal so babies can fill the foster homes for adoption. Religious couples who cannot have kids can meet their needs this way through the destruction of the families of the poor and vulnerable in society. The Supreme Court has been turned into a conduit for the transfer of the children of the poor (black and white families) to richer white religious families. High risk and older kids get chucked out into the street as too old to get into a home.
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  7759. Corporate media is destroying democracy in America.
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  7760. What angers me about American Ranchers is their intellectual immaturity, they have been complicit with Big Agribusiness for decades. They have a Me, Mine, or the Highway mentality,---narrow mindedness based on a selfish attitude about property, as long as their land was pure other land did not matter to them and they took no political stand against PFAS chemicals the industry poured into the ground as fertilizer and as a waste product for the last 75 years since the end of the second world war. The science is taken seriously only when it hits them in the pocket and they find blame on others. The American government is even less mature, on purpose! The government gets all the science from the scientists’ of leading universities in Senate Hearing testimonies. These testimonies end up as measurements on how far the private sector can get over on the American Public, they are not taken as serious recommendations from intellects. Leaders in government have no intention about regulating private industry, they give free reign to the private sector over all markets, they stand on a non-interference policy for the State, not the other way around. Government and the private sector have become wedded as one entity, the private sector has captured government, and turned government into the common enemy of sadly...society. Members of society do not have a government...private corporations and the government on one side opposed to society on the other side. This alliance will not stop to destruct and self-destruct.
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  7761. Americans are a disturbed people. Harsh lifesyle in America. Harsh being a teenager, an adult, a child, a parent, a mother, a father. All harsh, cold, and disconnected. Media will never discuss this incident as an example of where and how this barbarism comes to be. They have vested interests in the barbarism and in not talking about it critically. One gets the sense that the working class in America is so disunited from the real world and what is happening to them in that world that all self-control is lost in their lives. Being pushed and pulled to meet the needs of institutions instead meeting the needs of themselves. Its a society under a constant state of internal conflict and external war. A society that is dissolving. A society where only the rich can live. Raised by a generation that bullshitted them to believe they can be all that they can be. Parenting or family, social structure, and technology are used as weapons for the annihilation of the working class. Literally, American society is lethal and will kill you is a really tragic state of affairs. That this incident is connected to religion is no surprise considering America wages war on Muslims. That this man attacked a baptist religious church and not a mosque tells you he was telling us he came to some realization about America's fallacies and hypocrisies. This generation of the working class were never taught the skills needed for social stability and long lasting relationships by anyone period. They will become a miserably depressed generation that will never experience joy in their lives...just walk through life projecting everything is ok when they are living a life on death row outside of prison. I feel sorry for America. It has a government that has no regard for human life.
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  7762. ​ @RicoCamacho  I wonder what made you join the military and would you join it again in light of your revelation about the US?
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  7763. One can make the argument that Biden and Trump, even Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham, Bernie and Manchin, the whole pantheon of rich senators, are the biggest welfare queens around and there would ample empirical evidence to support that accusation.
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  7764. If it did that would be great. 50 years ago a slice of pizza was $1.35. Rent was affordable. Incomes were decent but the cost of living was not high and the city was fun. Tickets were cheap to the theater, concerts, great Rock and Roll. Saturday Night live was free to attend. Obviously, you were not born at that time to know but I was and if NY fell back to when it was a working class town, that would be great!
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  7765.  @refundreplay  No---there is nothing worse than people who don't know their own history even if they don't live in NYC it is in your dam country the heart of the world economy. That was the 80s when all the rich gentrified the city and pushed whole sections of people out of the city with high rents, prices, and police repression, Stop and Frisk. Trump was a big part of that. Bloomberg and Guilliani, shittiest mayors ever. DeBlasio sucks too.
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  7766. At this time being called a socialist by the GOP is not going to make a difference to America.
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  7767. The anti-vaccine people are a separatist army in the making. They just want a civil war.
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  7768. Problem with the Democratic Establishment is when there is no threat to their rule they never act on the words they pay lip service to. They are never the first to go after fraud and abuse in bureaucracy or they would have gone after fraud and abuse during the time they ruled. It is this behavior that engenders people like Trump to come into power. They lost their chance. Trump is not the richest man in the world, he has a vested interest in preserving and expanding the Establishment he belongs, this talk about Greenland and Panama is an imperialist plan to secure independence from China and lock the northern hemisphere from any expansion of China. Problem here is the democrats do not know how to confront an imperialist when they see one.
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  7769.  @jerzen1493  At some point you will have to question how offering the public a fake progressive party or media is part of the pacification and misinformation campaign is done on purpose to nullify any movement of the American people for their own self-determination.
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  7770. The politicians never see how everything is relative in the real world economy. All they see are causes and effects and each lack dialectics. The whole world is a matter of polar opposites to them. When in reality the side that is under developed is the relative side where everything depends on something else and real support for it is missing. The side that is over developed is the side of absolutes, this law, this rule, this war, this patriotism. Things that never bring food to the table and the condemnation for it is missing.
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  7771. A remarkable exhibition of the bare naked face of racism in America in the south. But don’t think racism is not a social force in the north. Racism is the malignant cancer in the body of the US that it is normalized. The reaction of the Right Wing of the Tennessee legislature to the killings of school children is immoral. They made that angry and desperate tragedy of victimization, not a call to save children’s lives, but a personal crisis about them. The right wing are at the center of the whole crisis. They are not going to anything about gun control. They are the crisis! Parasites! ...the crisis that surrounds them is less important than social control slipping out of their hands...
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  7772. Being named Chase Oliver is a complete sentence grammatically with a verb and noun, a short but coherent sentence. Chase as a surname means huntsman or hunter, one who chases after game, i.e, Oliver Huntsman. Never met anyone who’s name is a sentence. Does he speak as coherently as he is named?
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  7773. Mud and clay...a living Earth. Natural catastrophes are to super natural events what man made causes are to earth quakes. Hurricane and drought in the right mix and temperature turns gentle winds into violent whiplashes of fire. Hurricanes and rain create mud slides letting water erode the system of fractures beneath Las Angeles. You live in a subduction zone and you are right at the center of the action. Sediment, mud, and clay...three forms of material deposits...fun to deal with when it comes in ounces and you can play with it in your hands but when it is deposited by the tons sediment in that form is no fun at all...its work...for the first time in your lifetime you are working with a hand shovel...to get it out of your living room...sweating it out...ancient Romans had molten rock from Mt. Vesuvius to deal with nothing but hand tools, horses and slaves, to move tons of ash where they couldn’t the ash petrified them in Pompeii.
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  7774. I think on the wealth gap we have to ask different kinds of questions. Like... What is value? How much living labor does it take to produce value? What constitutes value? ...for starters...oh yes, and where do you begin when you are examining this system?
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  7775. So, by this theory, the product belongs to the capitalist. The law of appropriation of some 160 million outside of the home does the exact opposite of every worker having the right of ownership of their labor inside the home. Value is produced outside of the home and inside the home labor has no value is the current social arrangement for millions of people in the US. Is it any wonder that inside the home there is little regard and respect or dignity between members of the family. Instead of millions of families of workers consuming their wealth they give it over to someone else. Quite the problem for humanity. Question for me is this a permanent condition? If you are not a capitalist you give up all claims to the product of your labor and no share of the market value that product accrues. This excess value goes to the capitalist is a legal right of way for the capitalist. When the workers receive wages for their labor...the capitalist is then owner of the means and the labor,--- the word capital includes both labor and the means of production (capital). Transforming money into capital depends on uniting labor and tools. Animating value producing labor and tools will produce a surplus-value even if the law of appropriation was changed back to the age old principal of the right of ownership belongs to all workers of the product and the share of wealth derived from that product. Surplus-value would not stop being produced. Animating useful labor and useful tools under worker control is still capital. It means making labor inside the home value producing labor as well. The work of all members in the family is productive of a value to society and is paid. Capital controlled by workers is nothing more than controlling their own social production and redirecting value where it is needed the most to even out the spread of wealth generally.  Repossessing the means of production and dispossessing Jaime Diamond of JP Morgan is the scary part that not everyone is on board with that endeavor, at least not right now anyway, but doing so will become a matter of necessity for the society as a whole not politics. Alienation of the means of production exist only on the value side and but on the use-value side it is a relation between workers and machinery as the prime engines of economic growth and material wealth.
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  7776. In Georgia because the vote electing Biden was grounded in solid social science and Trump could not find the number of votes he needed to put him over the top the average day to day struggle of the people of Georgia is now seen as an obstacle to the goals of the GOP. Even something as positive as the political efficacy of the election process in Georgia is nothing more than a cover for a communist conspiracy the corporations in the past have not been inclined to reject!
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  7777. When an orchestra can play a full score symphony without a conductor than the workers can run society without a government. So far there is no evidence of neither capabilities and there no aliens to guide us and there is not a single symphonic orchestra that can play without a conductor in the world today.
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  7778. A winner today is not respected high enough that people will see themselves as losers. They know everything is bought. In fact, the emphasis is so much on mind and body that a foot ball player is more revered than people with money. Pretty simple really, people are not interested in playing the role of losers anymore, they are wising up. @bestsleepsounds7370 
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  7779.  @jamesgribble4415  I stopped watching those channels too, a long time ago. Grains of truth just grains.
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  7780. It looks and feels like a coup because it is a coup detat. But I am not certain it is a coup of international oligarchs. Or even a conscious coup internally. People voted for him because he was not a career politician. The electorate voted him president because the electorate saw an ally. He has wide support from the GOP. It has not sunk into the heads of the average American that beneath the illusion of a distribution of wealth is an underlying process of appropriating the unpaid labor of other people. This is continually carried out in the guise of sharing the wealth of society out to other social classes and the State. This is why it feels and looks like a coup.
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  7781. Assuming surplus-value is the consumption of use-value of the commodity --labor-power...beyond the point it has created the value for its own reproduction...the working class first gets paid for the job...but the jobs of the capitalists corporations represent a two-fold process of the worker's labor, when incorporated into the product of the corporations, the worker paid for the job is expropriated from the value, more value and surplus-value created through the job. This material wealth is then thrown on the market and profits are realized. The question ought to be answered not with cynicism, '... people want capitalism without the capitalist...' that workers being economically injured by the expropriation want. The answer to the workers ought to be surplus-value is the consumption of labor-power by the capitalist. Since surplus-value arises from production and circulation with no change in productive forces, then the change is purely of a social character. The industrial revolution in general had nothing to do with inventions and machines as it had everything to do with the intervention of the capitalist into the labor-process. Effectively, this intervention changes how societies work and live. The economic progress of the corporations ensures the rise of general market conditions for the exchange of equivalents leads to a separation of the workers from the wealth created in production. The corporations and capitalists associated with those institutions as owners first appropriate this economic wealth, but, as in the current time, not the exclusive owner of the surplus -value. I think the point of even having a left is to realize that the working class as a class is positioned opposite the industrialized system of machinery through the jobs created by the corporations. In reality, labor is not labor under capitalism and an instrument of labor created two opposing positions in the left that led to a restoration of capitalism in Russia. The Stalinists in Russia emphasized the forces of production, western Marxists emphasized the social relations of capitalism. The USSR inherited the productive forces under force to transform while social transformation in the west is stagnant. France developed the industrial forces of production in its revolution under Louie Napoleon in 1850, whereas in England the intervention of the capitalists ended feudalism in 1850. Current evidence shows that the working classes in France in 2018 is better off economically then the British working class in England in 2018. The American Civil War in 1860 was about the intervention of the capitalists over the economic order of slave holders, and it seems since WWI the American working class is had one period in which to emphasize the productive forces and made a success of it in 1955 but since then the capitalists are unable to transform society by promoting industry and investment. In 2018 the American worker is worse off than the workers of a generation ago. The corporations and the flight of capital, actions that undermine the government's role in society as a protector of the environment, the work place, are actions addressing the corporation's primary concern to become the exclusive owner of the economic surplus and industrialization was never, according to its own history intervening into the production process of society, in its soul. Lest, I say, the working classes in the west are in for a rude awakening when the exclusive owner(s) of the total economic surplus, united as a class, emerges in victory does nothing with the surplus to transform society.
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  7782. If I am not mistaken the three books most widely read across the entire world population and in no particular order, is the Bible, the Koran and the Communist Manifesto. These three books are the most widely known and read in the whole of the human race in the modern period is pretty remarkable. I would think princes, kings and States live and operate under a continuous state of alarm that their demise can come from any three and one definitely of these sources of literature inspiring humanity.
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  7783. Campaign contributions in the millions to senators running for election and re-election and 4.5 billion spent on lobbying Congress to keep prescription drug prices high explains why the COVID Test Kits Biden promised through its website the government never sent out was part of a political strategy to prolong the pandemic. The politics is all cover, theatrics, for a grand social experiment on behalf of a pharmaceutical monopoly corporations own accumulation of profit.
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  7784. Ideal conditions for millions of Americans to come together and fight for M4ALL and 2K per month for the duration of the virus. Its all or nothing.
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  7785.  @briankoski817  Conditions are ripe with all the explosions of trains and factories contaminating the environment going on nationally that all options should be considered by States without discrimination. Toxic waste is now a hot political issue.
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  7786.  @elmerkilred159  Cost too much money for the nuke plant to afford a plan even if they came up with one. Cuts into their profits and that kills their jobs. You missed the point.
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  7787. Very good report. They need us more than we need them. Sovereign national debt is a little like the landlord who partially uses the property to rent another part of it or rents it out in toto but uses his tenant to pay the mortgage. The house owns the tenant and the landlord because a lender has turned the house into a commodity and what now hangs over the heads of people is the rule of commodities. A thing that is very hard for people to de-mystify and decode is the anatomy of a commodity that breeds money relations of credit and debtor. Citibank and other big banks offer deals to get a piece of the pent up pandemic demand to have you sign on the doted line for a new line of credit at an annual price, after all bankers make money out of money, so there is a fee for borrowed money. Bankers relate to people through commodities (things) never directly with human lives is a strange way of Being that at the same time gives a life of its own to the house and rules over the lives of many people.
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  7788. 5 permanent members (US, Russia, China, France and UK) , make up the security council of the UN. What an absurd arrangement! Clearly all 190 other nations are united under this UN bureaucracy as subservient to the five permanent members. The UN is a body that stands in the way of an emancipation of a majority of nations.
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  7789. His suicide if it was suicide was a pressured suicide by outside elements aligned with the system he intrepidly fought against,---that is my hunch.
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  7790. The social relation that inhibit individuals from expressing their want for freedom and equality in a capitalist society and in America in particular is equality. In the US the money relation hides the fact that all types of work and working relationships are not equal in the family and in society, that on the surface, the money relation dissolves everything into an equality that all things can be acquired through money and if one has money the problem of inequality disappears. This social conditioning has been going on for so long that a generation has grown up believing the person with the most money by nature makes everything equal and money itself disguises the real value-relationships that are unequal across the board. In reality, a president is a king only because people imagine they are the king's subjects. In America it is so much easier to attain equality through money than it is to attain true freedman and equality through struggle is a condition so designed as to oppress the spirit of a human being.
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  7791. You will get Roe v Wade codified through a revolution...vote Red for that revolution to happen faster! Would that be the inverse logic to the logic of voting blue?
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  7792. We are not going to get objective journalism from General Electric Corporation. A major weapons manufacturer tolerates free and objective journalism up to a point. After that, journalists who “go too far” reporting a two-sided reality, rubs up against the owner to whom objectivity is not allowed, they get fired. They cannot criticize HAMAS for its terrorist actions and cannot criticize Israel for its racist and aggressive actions. There is a muzzle over their mouths. We the Public can be ignored when the Press is Owned. Our voice and political power rendered minor, weak, uninfluential. Politicians can never make it past the Public and into Power under a medium nationally Owned by the Public. Out of 197 (?) nations a few use military power wrong are obsessed with power, force controls them, arrogant and rude, ill-mannered, poor temperament, insecure, these are the bullies the US, Britain, and Israel. Of the three, we are a people last on earth to have such weapons of destructions, the history of the US and the history of violence are the same for this country, violence is a national preoccupation in America, we cannot be entrusted with a gun stands to reason. . A country like ours is rich enough it can afford a Nationally Owned Press that no private interest can own and any journalist can have a decent career and life in exchange for their objectivity in news...
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  7793.  @Sofian375  Did you know that Darwin explained motion with natural selection. Indeed, you don't see it, feel it. But its there, so in the same way, you don't see the productiveness of labor in capitalist society. Marx explains motion between the products of labor as commodities with the productiveness of labor. Workers and capitalists are both dependent on the productiveness of labor, the class struggle hinges on productivity, but of course, I am speaking to an American who lost his productiveness of labor as a result of 45 years of Capital Flight the beginnings of American Neoliberalism and Globalism, because the concept of class struggle does not exist in the American mindset. If it did your laws would have been used to protect your working class from the denuding of your economy's industry the way the French working class protect themselves making it illegal for corporations to move production out of the country. You might have avoided a bunch of European White Nationalists with Jewish origins running your country! Who is helping who through their ignorance and inaction, me or you?
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  7794. In Long Island NY the beaches are opened but not for swimming. In Rockaway NY the beach is occupied by the police and shut off to the public. See the difference in treatment between communities its the difference between having privilege and power and not having privilege and power that favoritism are the actions of authorities.
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  7795. That’s easy....testing is a form of indoctrination that if you fail to understand and follow the rules of the road your license is revocable, its a device for social control. Second answer is that a nation is not a highway; its a living social system of living human beings.
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  7796. There are test: Civil Service Exams, unbelievable that you don’t know that...what else about government that you do not know...here’s one the civil service tests is how they choose a candidates passing the tests are interviewed by a higher authority in that department supervising the job that applicant tested for. You are charged nominally for each test and you can sign up for any number of them. You’ve been tested your whole life since 4th grade and not any more smarter about government procedures. Every hear the term: Deep State, the term is street language for civil service state functionaries who have permanency. Permanency is the same as what tenure is for a teacher. Once you are in; your in for life. To get around the inability to fire people the state privatized all its functions and stopped hiring through civil service lists. Now you have a smaller Deep State and a bigger group of private companies running social institutions like they were Walmart. @scottmoyer1357 
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  7797. It is a polarized society with a labor-market of hazardous jobs on this side of the fence that gets worse for millions and millions of people and a money market on the other side that only a few very rich players can play, I’d say a class polarization, we need to be honest about if we are to deal with the defects in American society.
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  7798. Sad. There is not an economic thinking in the Left about War that is solid. Capital at home profits from the mass displacement of people in war ravaged countries through immigration that helps the middle classes with a fresh supply of cheap migrant labor for their kitchens and plantation farms, workshops and crews and then, in turn, the corporations as the larger businesses profit when the middle classes are buying the stuff designed for their businesses to keep the whole she-bang going. I doubt the middle classes will cut off the hand that feeds them in the next election. To cut off this supply of cheap labor on the grounds they are Cartel mules is patently absurd but that is the level of awareness the working classes have about the situation. This ignorance enables them to embrace a complete hostile as their choice of person to represent their rage and anger at migrant labor taking over their jobs. And what does the intellectual left do? Talk about theoretical abstracts of war. Sad. And what does the Biden Establishment do observing these political cretans, they take notes on how to extract them from the political process. The working masses never get out of the position they are perpetually stuck with as losers surrounded by middle class merchants, landlords, bankers, courts and cops, and employers, who they owe.
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  7799. Quite an acknowledgement experts have known for some time is the Yuan replacing the US Dollar as the reserve currency of world production.
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  7800. The Play Station is only a catalyst for the release of tensions built up over a long period of time. It was a mother pushed by soldiers to her death that her baby carriage falling down the steps in Odessa sparked the Russian Revolution. In fact, if I shot a recreation of this PR scene I would show the mayhem crowd pushing for a Play Station. Hurls it flying through the air, mayhem people reaching for it, and it landing on the lap of a little black baby in his stroller. The crowd breaks mother’s grip on the stroller and flying down down steps at a high speed, whizzing past the mayhem crowd and three statues of lions, one sleeping, another standing, and a third in a roar, and the baby slams into an ice cream stand. The vendor reacts to the baby in shock and in the course of serving a spoonful of ice cream it lands on the baby’s face! Baby slurps and giggles. Mother not far behind is freaked out. This is a Putsch, a spontaneous revolt and from a PR pov, a disaster. Maybe not for the promoter. We’ll see and I think it depends on his charges and acquittal. No one person can be responsible for putsches. Cops were taken by surprise. Law and Order will always read this event as humiliating to Law and Order and be ought to punish. The one thing police are not is spontaneous.
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  7801. An Open Society and a Military are not compatible institutions in a Constitutional Republic, this is why the executive is also the Top Cop in Charge of the Military. There is a Free Press and there is a Public and a Bill of Rights the representatives cannot dismiss. The president can be checked by Congress and that rebalances the chronic tendency of sliding down the path of dictatorship. The Press could not report on military maneuvers in a dictatorship. In an Open Society with a Press strongly planted in the ground in a Republic with a 300 year old tradition is not about to cave in on its freedom any more than women want to lose the freedom of control over their own bodies. Dumb republicans are going pay big time for that. In an Open Society the Press can report and is obligated and insiders are often the sources journalists keep secret and sacred as a trust of confidence. So when the Press is owned the news is sifted and by the time it has come to you it is old news sifted through three times of its real and objective facts when finally consumed by the Public.
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  7802. This AlJazeera reporter cannot use the world "revolution" for "overhaul". An overhaul implies fixing the State, the popular revolts do not want to fix the state, they want it brought down. No longer is Lebanon in the news on the progress of that revolution is dubious of the media. They want the organization of the state, its administration and subordinates finished! When Trump said, people who want freedom now is their time, he committed the US military on the side of the Iraqi rich and corrupt. And, Mahdi took his cue to quit. A mass movement is a people's movement that develops from what the Iraqi people feel and experience from existing reality. Overhaul of the political system is a poor choice of words to describe a country in a process of a social revolution in its early stages. The attacks on the Iranian Consulate and the US embassy are signs not for a change of leadership but a sign of a people's movement that coerces foreign countries to be gone! Big difference when news is filtered through corporate news outlets. If this reporter were not on the ground the outside world would recieve a picture of a corrupt and inept government the people are angry at and that is all.
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  7803. PROPAGANDA, propaganda, propaganda.
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  7804. This is a very good video. Good idea to have women critique women shows on mass media...for me...Kamala is a boring woman. She would be a perfect bobblehead doll for the dashboard of may car. A reminder there are people out there who answer questions with nods when the person asking is behind a closed door. As far as VP’s are concerned from Cheney to Pence to Harris...its a sign of how little sovereignty the American people have in choosing who represents them.
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  7805. Funny how unarmed men, women and children are corralled and harassed even murdered at the Border was carried on for decades and nobody never said a peep until some dudes with guns show up and now its a disaster of humanitarian proportions! I think the Cartel and Border Patrol should annihilate each other.
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  7806. Biden’s bellicose threats will not go down well. Big Mistake is right.
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  7807. Farmer says the government does not have the money to fund the transition but the trust in government the famers do not have in the government is the biggest issue for them. Why is that? What in the government does the Dutch farmer not trust and if that trust is doubted why are the politicians not out there making the case to build that trust? Generally speaking, a market economy of any kind Dutch, British, American, Chinese, is not a system designed to resolve crisis of this magnitude although it creates a crisis or contributes to one it cannot deal with a crisis this big through individual companies interacting as buyers and sellers. Buyers and sellers do not fix environmental or social problems. Buyers and sellers fix problems that stop the flow of goods from hand to hand so they can make money in the process and this fact leads me to believe there is a third element involved that conditions have to be changed for it to develop further and the farmers are in the way of that process. I do not buy the Great Reset theory at all, to me that is pure bunk and explains nothing; it only misdirects people to act in regrettable ways for its own purposes and is used to distract from this third element involved that wants the farmers removed.
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  7808. The Uvalde Police having lied significantly in the face of grieving parents and to the American people, is a crime the American people cannot let slide as that would itself be a disgrace.
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  7809. This problem of media dictating the agenda will only worsen because the main opposition is between the poltical state and civil society not the media and the world of social classes in society. The French and the American Constitution are similar in that both are based on a separation of individuals, so that liberty to the French and Americans means there are limits to which each individual can act without harming others, like a boundary between two fields is marked by a stake. This seems rather normal when read by the average person...okay, so what? But what it entails is the necessity of a bigger and more powerful political state to enforce the boundary lines of a changing and growing diverse population, to narrow down the limits of each persons liberty. If the state does not enforce the limits on individuals using its force in increasing and more ominous ways, than it falls back into the hands of society and it loses its speciality as a political elite and its opposition to civil society disappears.
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  7810. The American people are materially deprived or they are materially endowed and both are absolutely miserable people.
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  7811. Irma should be dubbed the Queen of the Victimization Cycle. Her father abused her and she in turn abused other people. Victims become victimizers. A void of love and affection missing in her life got filled with hate. Her repressed needs for love and attention were perfectly suited for the Nazi regime. Why does someone join a gang...because a gang accepts them and the family and society from which they came rejects them.
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  7812. Watch and see how many realtors leave real estate now that a part of their income cannot come from a buyer of a home. This will bring house prices down and might have been a legislation passed to specifically force bankruptcies and a consolidation of real property into the hands of a few corporations.
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  7813. If Vietnam was the Illiad, then Venezuela will be book ii of the Odyssey. Too many variables and too many indigenous people in all states in Latin America have an affinity with each other regardless of nationality of state identification. The way of life connects them, there many tribes that form an ancient community, and just the other day a new archeological find in Peru affirms their natural right to the land that privatization seeks to commercialize. A Mayan is a Mayan whether they are in Honduras or Guatemala and the Inca are every where from Chile to Argentina. They will all see this as an invasion. Plain and simple. A land revolution would be fought as a natural right even if Maduro falls and regardless of the Monroe Doctrine. The respective countries in Latin America have their own elite social classes and these conflicts go back a long time that racism, economic inequality, and political repression of indigenous people is the context of their fight for land ownership. Some of the elites will have to give up this wealth and the US will end up backing this side in the societies where the native people's fight for their natural right of property. Their struggle for land rights and ownership reverberates all through the tribes in Canada in their struggle against privatization that eventually, some new movement of self-determination will span the entire north American continent.
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  7814. Compared to a feudal society, the modern state, declares all real distinctions in society as , "non-political". So, unfortunately, this means real social problems stemming from civil society don't call the attention of the politicians. State representatives strictly engage in the politics to access the economic wealth of the revenue created. When you get someone who runs on social issues they stand out as odd. To be the opposition to the State you have to be political and economic. Suit and red tie, a man with a plan. The state is purely a political place where people are elected to engage in political battle for control of the revenues. They go to Washington to redirect a greater portion of the fruits of society to their constituencies. If that means voting for a war and a constituent benefits in some way from a war, so be it, the voting record of that politician was pro-war. Politician may have a horrible voting record on social issues because the social problem itself is an expense on their constituent and see no contradiction in voting against it, that person may not even realize how it relates to a social problem. The communities electing politicians engage in voting for non-social reasons as well. The state has an economic and political existence not a social one. It only intervenes when harm threatens the interest of the society as a whole. Its third dimension is force and the courts. Maybe this is the reason revolutionary movements without a theory of the state don't gain much traction for their cause people, by and large, people want to know how will you socialize a political institution? How are you going to make the state see gun violence as a political problem and treat the NRA as a social force that is pro-violent?
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  7815. Russian speaking people wanted no part of the Ukraine government the war against them began. How the Ukraine government came into power is ‘the’ problem not for the Ukrainians to resolve but for the American people to resolve because it is through the agency of the American government that the break between Ukrainians and Russians took place to begin with and ramps up with intensity. This how all agencies of government stood to gain from the disturbance of an invasion was carried on, and planned, preconceived interventions, not for the American people but for a small clique is why this problem is distinctly an American problem. Embattling an opponent who is not as sure as was presented in all the western presses and media, a foe darker than evil, and whose armies not as sophisticated to conquer and manage a nation of less than 100 million people brought about a humanitarian catastrophe of historic proportions. Either American intelligence blew out of proportion Putin’s real strength or they knew it did not share the intelligence or advise against encouraging the split between Russians and Ukrainians, or the prize of Ukraine was too great to heed all reason as a result of private interest tying Ukraine and its resources to members of the political elite in Washington D.C. Distinctly an American problem because the American tax payer bears all the burden for the catastrophe, exposed to risks and harms and dangers of an economic collapse in the American economy, for reckless negligence by people, as the two political parties make opportunity out of a catastrophe endangering the planet, utter hypocrisy and are not worthy of leading this great country...is the problem to resolve.
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  7816. I think climate change will get the better of western governments, acting too little too late, and they will fall as a consequence.
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  7817. The Koch Brothers and the whole private sector is getting what they paid for from the Trump presidency. He is giving the private sector 1.1 million jobs six months into his presidency into which 1.1 million people will be working under a whole new set of conditions, perhaps not the best conditions to work, and not the same optimal pay new workers might expect, this is why it is important for a Marxist economist to show how Congress, on the one hand, gives free reign to industry and private industry, on the other hand, exploits labor and the environment when given free reign. The two markets doing well under this president are the commodity markets and the labor markets globally. Stocks prices rise, wages fall. A contradictory movement Marx found embedded in commodity production comes from the use of labor as labor-power to create more value for capital. The accumulation process for the private sector is also a process of dispossession of property and assets belonging to more people in the working classes. When a social and natural catastrophe occurs the state is unable to step in. For instance, Tyson foods has created a dead zone the size of New Jersey in the Ocean Gulf of Mexico as a consequence of the free rein it is given inside the factory. The commodities Tyson produces are foods and poultry, at the interior of society, the factory is where humanity interacts with science, technology, automation, machinery. These elements are employed to enrich Tyson. Not employed to enrich society despite the elements are consumed in common by labor-power. They are not controlled by labor implying labor is not in control of itself in production, nor outside of production is labor free,. The same problem exists in nature as the oceans, rivers, forests, pastures are not ends in themselves but are a means for the labor-process. The use of things is entirely dedicated to the value of things under capitalism. More of these scenarios will occur as this is exactly what this administration is giving to private capital. In this way Trump can boast he will be a most popular president on par with Lincoln for freeing capital from government restraint. Yet for the Democrats unable to recover from the onslaught of working class defection the use the state as an agency of reform is no answer to the problem of an enslaved working class under capitalism. With most US states adopting right to work laws the two markets freed of government restraint, the labor markets and commodity markets, we can expect to see wages fall and profits rise as a class dynamic in the economy. Jobs increase and stocks rise, business community thriving as the conditions of labor deteriorate and the 8 hour day become 12, 14, hour long days to compensate for the loss of 'hands' owing to innovation. Not good news for the working class from the standpoint of production and not good news for workers in the exchange of wages for labor-power. All this is very good news to the Koch Brothers and some sections of the business community. Banks would go along with it. Rent, interest, prices, all rise, except wages. Looking at the whole process from a subjective point of view, the worker's worst nightmare is being labor-power for capital. Labor-power is its imprisonment confining work into a narrow activity eventually destroying the mind and any latent potential individuals have that springs from their own creative juices. Labor-power denies labor the right to be freed from its own ancient curse found in the division of labor, over 2000 years of class divisions that withholds personal free will to rule itself. Mind is captured in the body of a slave and patrician, slave and master, wage labor and capital, in general history and specifically its historic mission is to free itself.
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  7818. Totally agree with your assessment Haley. But we must not bend over without a fight must be your conclusion.
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  7819. China will have to enlarge conservation lands or reduce the size of the animal population in those conservation lands, or do both. It will have to control the growth of rural farming taking more land away from land that could be conservation lands and this would make moot the above strategies. Somehow the entire world of human beings is going to have to figure out how to share this planet with all natural life. This is a big problem and one that China itself has. China is not a big country like Russia, it is relatively small with a big population.
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  7820.  @serafinacosta7118  I wouldn’t rest my laurels on how good unions are. A working class made up of two classifications and treated accordingly as not the same is an inequality in society. Practically speaking, a non-union worker and a union worker do not share the same economic interest defines how they are kept separated works out as a rivalry, envy, jealousy, a social competition between them. If a president slaps a tariff on a Chinese imports the price of American EV car shoots through the roof, is good for the union worker at Ford Motor Company but at the expense of the non-union worker outside of the plant who has to pay the higher price for a EV car not as good as the Chinese EV car. This action and dynamic lowers wages for the non-union workers. So its either one big union or no union at all that ensures there is no inequality among a working class. In this sense, a very real sense, unionization, treating one small group special in order to exploit the larger group presupposes a presence or intent of an exploitation of the entire whole working class .
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  7821. Is war and data collection for marketing the only function of technology in the 21st century? Because if it is not then the Americans are on the the wrong track of development. In fact, not like they will develop at all as a society if all technology and science is good for is information on the predictability of human behavior to sell commodities. Such a narrow use of such great power that its use to by-pass the right of an individual to determine or want a certain existence is a pernicious form of capitalism, yet, that is the sole purpose of the new forces of production in American society.
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  7822. Problem with Cops as Jimmy says, they need to be stripped of their political power. Cops have an International Association of Sheriffs that exerts international influence and cops have police unions that exerts domestic influence.
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  7823. Earth burns while Nero plays his violin.
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  7824. This millennial generation is not prepared to dive into the problems of capitalism in the sphere of production. To them consumption lags behind production. They have accepted an economic orthodoxy that has been wrong for the last 45 years.
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  7825. The car air freshener is a pretext to a show of force in the same way 9/11 was a pretext to invade Iraq. There was definitely a closed door deal struck; quit or go to jail on the female white union head and the Sheriff quit before he too would get hung out to dry.  The Police Union and Police Pensions should pay for any wrongful death and damage suit to the family. The way it is set up now the taxpayer, you and I, pay the jury award and that does nothing at all but hurt us and leave the police social structure to remain intact untouched even made stronger because we the taxpayer are made weaker from all the lawsuits on police brutality. Talk of accountability is pure BS if this set up remains unchanged.
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  7826. Trump’s Tariff scheme makes perfect sense for a general reduction of wages. Workers are sellers for eight hours of the working day performing tasks for their employers, ---assuming the objective is to re-invest in America there are only two ways to attract corporate investment. Cheapen wages, and raise prices. Everything depends where on the scale of sellers and buyers the “relative weight” of the burden lands. Tariffs pressure capital and tariffs breaks the resistance of workers to accept lower wage offers.
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  7827. Democrats In Name Only - A DINO is a politician who goes by the name democrat and pretends to champion working class interests.
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  7828. RFk Jr., is doing what any good mid western American socialist would do if socialism were truly practiced in the US as it was in the 40s. FDR’s VP , Wallace would have done what RFK Jr. Wallace served as Secretary of Agriculture under Roosevelt from 1933 to 1940. He strongly supported the New Deal and presided over a major shift in federal agricultural policy, implementing measures designed to curtail agricultural surpluses and to ameliorate rural poverty. Roosevelt overcame strong opposition from conservative leaders in the Democratic Party and had Wallace nominated for vice president at the 1940 Democratic National Convention. The Roosevelt-Wallace ticket won the 1940 presidential election. At the 1944 Democratic National Convention, conservative party leaders defeated Wallace's bid for renomination, placing Missouri Senator Harry S. Truman on the Democratic ticket instead. In early 1945, Roosevelt appointed Wallace as Secretary of Commerce. You can imagine how Wallace would have changed the FDA today. RFK Jr., seems to be going in that direction and with that Kennedy streak tied to no establishment scares the hell out of the Establishment.
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  7829. The employers ICE is targeting is not the 711 corporation itself but the individual franchise/owner operator who is not likely to hire the people ICE want to deport considering an owner/operator must document employees with a W-2 does not need a problem with the IRS. The reason they give for their Gestapo actions is a pretext and lie. A franchise owner is a member of the middle class typical franchises open the way for new immigrants who pool their money together or saved 20 grand or more to buy a franchise is part of the American dream they were investing into becomes a nightmare of persecution and ruin by a secret police agency. ICE would catch more illegals if they raided Hotel conglomerates. But that would be a crackdown on corporations something someone opposite of Trump's politics would deploy as a means to repress corporations. In a country where there is a political body there is no reason for force on either side when legislation can resolve the problem. This is what makes a Trump reliant on force to get rid of some of the countries growing from the world market. In a country where the gap between city and rural life is made up of the lack of commerce and industry in the country as compared to all the resources concentrated into Wall Street in New York City, Trump has not done much to improve the employment situation for millions of Americans, especially for all those middle class kids with student loans and the economy had not done more than a 2.5% growth. There is trouble on the Trump's horizon, he needs big stories and other conflicts to draw the attention away from this deplorable track record on the American economy as it weakens weekly while corporations strengthen their bank accounts. Trump needs more of the world market than it can provide to get the growth of industry he needs. This time it appears the principals of free market economics will not invest into industry, not while it is easier for the shareholders and CEO recipient of the Tax Bill collect and buy more of their own corporate stock leaving Trump with the legacy of being America's first dictator. But with the ousting of Bannon it appears the corporations got behind Trump and for the last part of his reign America's corporations will be the rulers of society the American people will be the ruled.
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  7830. Born and raised in Manhattan, moved when out when I was 30 in 1990, I can tell you that Manhattan is the most corrupt place on earth and from what I see the real estate oligarchy has launched an all out attack on city’s working population in 2022.
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  7831. 33:50 Chile ---- Rise of the Common People; A New Age.
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  7832. Time will tell...but making two wheel motorcycle bikes in the city illegal is a good start...making the city a city for walking would totally eliminate crime. The more people have to walk or use mass transit the less chance there is for petty crime to occur and civility is restored...I would also spread out open air markets and then get people in the city on my side to purge the poison in the old mafia structured police department, create a new force, she would have a generation grown up ready for it.
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  7833. With all those nations congested around the Horn of Africa chasing after the material resources that go into the formation of products societies consume truly proves in economics and in reality in general including the present that there is a Law of Value and that law is the same for all kinds of societies and nationalities. This is explains why the idea of a superior race or society is pure delusion for that too depends on a quantity of labor from the total labor of society to produce a fascist state. The wealth of nations is determined by the quantities of the various kinds of objects it produces. For America this law of value is in the form of a vast accumulation of commodities and this mass of products needs specific amounts of labor to produce so that the question becomes: How much of Somali labor is used for the production of mineral, ores, lithium that is not used for Somali society? Is the capacity to produce of the Somali people crippled of its ability to operate in a conscious way, and not even, an unconscious way, this law of value. I think we would answer that as a yes because on average the life of a Somali individual family is very poor, dirt poor. Very little of the total labor of society goes to the average day to day working Somali family. A fraction of that total. The conglomeration of all societies chasing after the natural resources of Somalia pulls Somali labor away form its own development and uses that labor for the development of the product the nations involved are willing to go to war over. Now why in the world would you perpetuate that relation of exploitation by choosing to make electric cars and rail, solar panels, and cell phones?
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  7834. A crack down amounts to bullying. Cops will pick on the the ones who least resist to show the plan works. In the meantime it will piss people off even more. It will jail those who should not be jailed. It will embolden youth gangs; it’s an overall police state . When you add up all the cities deploying more cops and national guard in cities like NY, Chicago, San Diego, LA, Philadelphia, the population is under an occupied force.
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  7835.  @fastrecon1  you sound like a person who had been abused their whole life. Victims become victimizers.
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  7836. Good analysis Jimmy. AOC et al the progressives are enmeshed in the party that gave rise to Trump are up against the greater evil in Trump must rally behind a lesser appearance of evil than Trump in someone other than the incumbent.
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  7837. The democrats want the re-election of Trump. Tulsi 2020. Bernie 2020. But here is the thing, no matter who I advocate for your vote. You still have to take a stand on climate change. The environmental relation to industry, the relation of the fossil fuel industry to other industries that the democrats support in the form of a military invasion into Iran or Venezuela is a quantitative relation that is 'social'. The blame will fall on the heads of the American people for failing to address the environmental relation of war to climate change.
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  7838. Keep listening to the junk passed through this propaganda media platform and you'll no longer have a brain of your own. Show trials of the USSR...cut me a break....these newscasters take advantage of the ignornce of history of the Public.
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  7839. The comment is not even worth a reply.
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  7840. If I were a banker like Chase I can now buy cheaper the money I lend out to depositors, companies, nations and governments. I can charge a rate to the borrower that is lower than the social average and yet above what I paid the Fed for the capital. Buying cheap to sell dear, is a capitalist principal. Those of you who think the Fed is not capitalism and our forefathers warned us against banks our forefathers bought cheap and sold dear also in their day. Two realities here; one reality for the borrow(s) and another for the lender(s), two economic effects.
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  7841. Vinegar is Mayor DeBlazio’s flavor...a man who does not know how to catch more flies with honey and a man who, I think, is wrong for the city because he has an aversion to the city. He never goes out. When times are tough and when times are good the city expects its leaders to appear. He fails miserably a that. Worse, he sits on a lot of federal assistance money and could easily go to the Unions and re-negotiate labor rates and contract to spread some of that money to city workers and get the city cleaned up, clear sewers and drain lines, prevent flooding, fix pot holes and clear out the debris in return get vaccinated to reopen the city. But the man is a six foot dud. The city needs someone who loves the city.
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  7842. This is why Zappa can never be surpassed.
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  7843. The working class in that region where the migrants cross are in support of deportation. There are some broader issues related to the inflow of migrants stressing Texas out! Usually the most resistant to migrants are the first one’s to support migrants and the least resistant to migrants are the most oppressive toward migrants which in this case would be the democrats on the liberal side and the republicans on the right side. Deportation of migrants in the long would cut off the supply of bodies the military needs for recruits as it deepens the war in the Middle East, thus recruiting working class Americans to be conscripts if they can’t recruit migrants with a deal. Many in Congress now are pushing migrants be given full citizenship in exchange for military service. If those measures do not come to pass working class Americans would find themselves fighting Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas all over the Middle East for a long time to come. The Pentagon does not want to recruit working class American bodies; they know what war does to people and what those people can do in retaliation to war makers. Also, they would have to recruit non-working class Americans. As unpopular as the Gaza war is richer kids are bound to spark a national war resistance movement to get out of it and the Pentagon has a big domestic mess drawing a war to a close.
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  7844. All that said we still have the problem of the whole economic pie going to an ever-shrinking number of CEOs. Living tax free places the cost of their standard of living on the shoulders of the general population. The gross national product for society is used up to offset the loss of income the normal operations of the State require in revenue that could have been accrued from the super rich is immediately spent. Gone, kaput. New taxation can only replace what was burned on personal and selfish desires rather than on public need. Roads can’t be fixed because the money saved by a shrinking number of capitalists is spent on personal choices. When they decide to spend it. No law says they have to spend anything. The price tag of Bezo’s rocket could have been money used to replace bridges, tunnels, drought problems, this is money blown away taking a trip to space to realize a boyhood fantasy. This problem will bite this country real hard and deliver some real bitter policies of cuts, austerity, high interest borrowing and higher taxation, and more cuts to offset past burdens carried over in new re-borrowing.
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  7845. Obviously you have not gone to NYC.gov, there isn’t a map there. Deep concerns is BS.
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  7846. America; you can’t have your cake and eat it too. The wars and poverty, crime these people are leaving behind are the social consequences of US foreign policy. It all comes back to what you do overseas and your political relations with nations abroad what happens to you domestically.
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  7847. I am laughing at the title of this video. Republicans are hoping they stay stupid or too poor to vote. The Trump voter made it easier for big business to crush small business to depress wages in general by being anti-immigrant. This was really ideological on their part. The idea of a false patriotism, and an idea of racial ideology, was played well by Trump, quite masterfully.
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  7848. Your generation gave all that up for a free and unbridled capitalism...this generation has no idea what is good for them...don’t know what you have till you lose it!
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  7849. Its let her out or forced sterilization; the legal system is not about to throw all freedom out the window to stop the poor from having kids and its cheaper she keep her kids than to place them. Besides if they can sterilize the poor they can sterilize women of any social class. Conservatives vote down social spending so the kid and the mother stay together no matter how bad the crime. Legislatures enact laws written for the legislators is the problem. Politicians are not thinkers and writers of the law. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) write the laws. Such laws are passed without media attention; some late at night, when you are asleep or working. Crime in society is business for the State. Washington prints money and States sit on surpluses of the money Washington prints to continue the same power line-up of all states individually.
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  7850. So,--for Pence, Trump has no real Christian evangelical values that he could consider proper to the faith, or does he? What has Trump done to not be worthy of the very wealthy and politically powerful evangelical community? Uniting our country around our highest ideals says Pence...well,-- there is it, the vertical alignment of values and principals, just below that of God and even before the Pope, long held by Christians to be closest to God in the hierarchy of religious doctrine. Shades of the conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism expressed through political families of both religions. How can there be a separation of church and state when churches are tax free, church people do work and their work is taxed but the church as an institutional employer is tax free, is a lopsided policy, and state has accepted religion to be a political since the 1980s when historically the state comes into existence to distinguish itself from powerful families in the form of monarchies with political power had to recognize no religion to treat every religion the same?
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  7851. Good show...I like this format and the discussion of the effects of victimization and imprisonment has no voice in a society that demands prisoners be deprived of life and Being of their maturity.
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  7852. There can be no change without deviation.
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  7853. If America did use its tax payer money for Americans there would not be a top 1% super rich in the US. Wealth is extracted from the world and flows back to this class and America is home to the last, most richest bourgeoisie the world has known to date. China is rapidly catching up with the richest. But in China the super rich are willing to work with the Communist Party and in China’s Free Economic Zones the workers are content, employers pay their labor well, and believe the worker are key to producing quality. This is not the case in America. Workers are the “Little People” in the words of Leona Helmsley, only they pay taxes. In America the super rich and Republicans are not willing to work with the Communist Party and they have a real piss-poor attitude for the little people. That is the difference the Democrats are too stupid to realize.
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  7854. What the French president is too stupid to understand because his background is in banking not in economics is that the basic condition for a healthy capitalist economy is the concentration of industry in cities. Yet however much urban concentration is a basic condition for a capitalist economy each individual industrial and commercial corporation is constantly striving to send their factories away from big cities created by this concentration. With the development of AI and computer technology, the remote work of making money is a deliberate abandonment of the old way of making money. No work, no future...and with police killing at will a member of the working class the unleashed raw power of the working class fights fire with fire.
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  7855. He complains more talking heads are not what we need and there he is a talking head.
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  7856. Basically the migrant catastrophe was entirely preventable. So is COVID. The small rural hospital lost so many lives. People blindly influenced by America's right wing to refuse the vaccine as some kind of conspiracy. A connection can be made between the Haitian migrant crisis and COVID anti-vaxxers. The connection is international among nations that have their own big capital industries take part on the US economy are always in demand for fresh labor supply. The migrants displaced from Haiti's first earthquake went to countries that needed labor and found the demand for day workers in Ecuador, Chile, Brazil. These countries were also anti-vaccine, a Christian Coup in Ecuador ousting a popular candidate, and in Chile a Neoliberal failure raising transportation prices sparked massive protests, and in Brazil with Bolsonaro ousting Lulu, had the highest fatalities to COVID and had the demand for labor-power clearing rainforest land for ranchers. Hurled off their ground again the new life seekers take the journey through the Darien Gap to join up with displaced relatives and family members already in Ecuador, Chile, and Brazil. As day workers they lost work and all income to COVID and policies that were anti-vaccine among an international right wing made conditions more hopeless for them and everyone else.
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  7857. making money is not the same as getting a share of the eco surplus. Americans receive no share of GNP because GNP is meant to be sold and what is not sold is a deficit. You need training in economics. @ryanwalters6184 
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  7858. Let me give you some real clear and concrete enlightenment on the US economy. It is weak. Fed waited too long to let loose its grip on interest rates, Fed is always behind the 8 ball like the Cops are always behind the 8 ball in the criminal world, there are 7 monopoly corporations determining your future and all the rest in the market, well they are waiting to die or have died. White House measures wealth by how much GDP sells and it sold a lot so to them the economy looks great, but only a few corporations sold a lot, the other in the general economy sold little, profits falling. Jobs and production, productive capacity, idle plants, are starving for growth. Jobs added in sales and marketing are subtracted from general employment and production the White House is not measuring. Wage reductions, cuts, layoffs, over work, over time, people working longer hours for less of the market share their wages buys them even as the wage rises. All this is ignored. If union workers feel the need to strike the economy is even worse for non-union private sector employees. Monopolies are monopolies because all their capital (material means, and labor) is pocketed NOT invested back into jobs and production but re-invested back into buying cheaper to sell goods higher. There isn’t any fresh capital investment entering the economy to pick up the slack of the mass layoffs resulting from the concentration of capital into the hands a 7 world monopolies, Alibaba, Amazon, etc. China’s production is in a major recession. Not only will you not be rich in your lifetime but you will also live shorter from the stress associated with a longer workday and job intensity.  @UCzDwella201 
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  7859.  @k.c.5426  The goal of life is not happiness, it is meaning. This Wall is a symbol of forces in society who want to preserve the world they knew being forced to change by the inevitable progression of history. Outer social institutions that are no longer in harmony with the values of their inner self. This poor woman and her unborn child is a victim of two forces in society, those who want to change the old order and those who want to preserve it. For the ones who want to change their life circumstances it is meaning in their life they want and for those who preserve the old order it is the lack of meaning they no longer experience from the old order. Amidst this whirlwind of change and transformation the key is knowing within yourself the values true to your being.
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  7860. Good insights from Michael ...less restrained of objective criticism than if he were on mainstream media...I’d have to agree with a lot of what he says.
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  7861.  @wallaceahtone6149  Right! Everything you mentioned wrong with our society is strictly coming from the social side of our society which, frankly sucks for all ages! We do not know how to be human or humane but individually we do. This means that our social order limits our ability to be human all the time not just when we are on our own with another person we know. A ponsi scheme is a social set up that without people won't work. If there is a revolution to be made it would be in the social side of our society. All social relations suck in America for the majority. But the side of our society that makes us inhuman to each other is our technology, science, education, means of production and for those who control, possess and use those resources have to be cut off from those resources for us to become fully human. That's the philosophical dilemma.
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  7862.  @wallaceahtone6149  capital does not demand competition, the "ism" attached to capital is a coercive law of competition that makes each individual capitalist lower the cost of their product as leverage against the competitor in the same field, and the result is a greater share of the market. Competition is the "ism" of capital. Capital is made up of two parts. I invest $1M in machinery, equipment, raw material, the factory space is one part of the investment and the other part is payroll, or wages or hired labor, living labor. Right now labor and capital are joined together in China still make up Capital despite the physical distance. Joined together in America they make up Capital. Chinese capital employs American labor. We can have capital without competition. It is competition that cannot have capital without the "ism", its own self-destructiveness. In a real sense China's mass productivity enables the growth of monopoly corporations in American markets whose capital works employ Chinese labor and that excludes competition completely.
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  7863. Like the pillow guy these men are capitalists who get into politics for one aim to weaken government and pave the way for the kind of exploitation of labor that existed in the 19th and 20th century.
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  7864. Now is a good time to advance a 3rd party for 2024. The chance to take away the establishment's ability to form a coalition against Bernie was lost was when Warren went over to their side. The fault of that lay with the progressives, live and learn, but now you have a crisis even greater than what a political revolution would resolve, an economic crisis.
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  7865. Siagon II, the sequel.
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  7866. Human development is held back by America’s violent social and stultified political relations. You cannot become a society like Japan because guns are an industry in America. As long as guns are an industry in itself violence will never be tamed. Guns just have to be guns regulated according to lethality and purpose. A license for a gun should be made law and outlawed should be production of guns by machine. Their production should be limited to manufacturing by gunsmiths, engineers, blacksmiths, to fit America’s needs for guns.
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  7867. Building and construction companies are stuck. Construction projects at a standstill, incomplete housing projects. 80% of their workforce undocumented do the jobs society cannot live without are targeted by the State to be deported. Tariffs intended to change the direction of capital flight, punishing corporate capital for capital flight,--producing outside the US, it is intended to change the direction of the flow of profits that had been moving from the periphery to the center,-- as a flow of jobs went in the opposite direction,-- moved from the center to the periphery attracted by cheap labor and efficient production. From the standpoint of labor, tariffs compel producers to raise their prices on everyday necessities. The inflow of profits and outflow of jobs has placed the American worker on very shaky ground, and had been circulating this way since Ronald Reagan was president, turning its back on the American working class. The remaining 20% of documented members of the workforce have to take a political stand against an avalanche of economic assaults. Think of all the homes wiped out by fires, floods, hurricanes, communities in need of rebuilding,---where will the contractors find the workers to do the work? Where else? From the Military. Thrown back into the workforce are woke recruits, men, women of one persuasion or another. As military they were unproductive labor, consuming more than they produced not adding value to society’s wealth as soldiers, but as a carpenter against their will, they make more than they consume, and add value to society...back in their decimated homes and communities spread across the country where they came from starts a long low wage journey for the American worker in Trump’s economic world of landowner billionaires.
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  7868. Since the Left got out of the business of forcing change through class struggle and class consciousness as a way to change people the Right filled the gap and took over the business of educating people with polluted ideas and conspiracies, government ineptness, and the glorified power of private sector corporations. The new conditions the Right Wing have brought into being present an opportunity to the Left to re-activate the class struggle once again. Retracting the Right Wing victories is a consequence of giving up the class struggle as a vehicle for a democratic workplace and doubles the work starting from scratch.
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  7869. “The System Failed” but why the system failed has everything to do with a system that places kids back into abusive homes because it is cheaper than placing them into a privately owned and operated residential treatment center. Kids this age are not placed into foster care. Foster parents prefer babies with the aim of adoption. Kids this age end up on some form of independent living after a residential placement that costs around $60,000 per year per child. Counties are, in turn, charged by the state and counties end up raising property taxes to offset the placement costs the State incurs providing room, board, health and educational services. This infuriates politicians who have to run on “No New Taxes” pressured by home property owners to lower property taxes. School boards cut back on regular special needs education and the families who live normal lives by all the rules suffer from a cut back in services their own special needs kids need. Thus, the whole system is a failure. When this abuse surfaces and is substantiated the State CPS system has no choice but to place them into a residential system which initiates the State to bill the county of origin for the costs incurred by the other country the kids end up for their long term care. To correct this cycle of insanity would take an act of Congress, which at the moment, is a Congress with its head up its ass about investing in early child development that would, in the long run, be more beneficial in creating healthy individuals when they grow up to be parents. The parents committing this abuse were impoverished in their own childhood and adolescence have grown up to be people who should never become parents are products of this failed social system themselves magnifying the problem as a generational crisis.
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  7870. Reading the comments posed here I can see why life expectancy is America is low. Fear is a killer.
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  7871. It would be a total disaster for Europe if Trump wins the presidency. Putin and Trump, Kim and Trump make the ruling classes of Europe tremble. Not to mention the Neocons in the “reservation” (Pentagon) would go nuts! But Biden cannot afford to lose young voters; he’s been a disappointment to them on Ukraine and Israel. Domestically a Trump victory would be a disaster. His court baggage all come around in his first term if he wins. Than the closer he gets to a win the more we start to remember how ugly Trump was to conservative women. Younger generation despise Trump. Who will be in his cabinet? We have no idea, all Yes Men bound to get burned by him later on. Haley wins and the whole energy sector dominates the office and with 90 seconds away from “Annihilation” on the Doomsday Clock she is not a good choice. Looks like Biden is the lesser of all evils. Or is he?
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  7872. Its a worldwide anti-labor movement that we find at least, 64 nations out of 190, attacking labor specifically. Shoving cuts, unemployment, and austerity down the throats of people who work for a living. The US is at the head of that movement, contrary to its founding principal that every man is entitled to ownership of the product of their labor the actual reality is that everyman, woman and child renounces any right of ownership of the product of their labor in whatever form they produce it. The labor movement is a struggle about dignity and it is made the more necessary a wide and strong labor movement emerge in the countries where the hostility to labor is most prominent which in the present time, is the US. They fight to win. A labor movement must fight to never lose again.
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  7873. Trickle Down Theft. Starts at the top and makes it way down the social ladder.
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  7874. The fetus child is not going to survive and the doctor must watch the death of the mother from the fetus is the effect of the law. The law criminalizes any form of life-giving and saving activity.
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  7875.  @andrea00001  I appreciate your thought and sentiment: Life only happens once. There’s more to the story that details the shock I felt...but I will spare you the details. Love life while you have it.
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  7876. An entire series dedicated to this type of documentary as recommended by a commenter below is seconded by me.
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  7877. Guyana is about to become another oil producing proxy client state of the US. Hardliners in Washington are thinking if Guyana can be used to overthrow Maduro it would be a success story for US oil interests.
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  7878. The answer to Jimmy’s question is in our understanding of ‘conquest’, as a regular form of intercourse as the official policy of the Biden Administration more so than his predecessors who laid the basis for conquest and war. The guest answered it fairly well from a sociological standpoint as a ‘racket for Ukraine’, and Putin spoiled the game pissed off the Capitalists in Ukraine and Capitalists in Russia, (recently Putin knocked off the Russian oil oligarchs compliant with NATO expansion give credence to the view of the guest) and in America, capitalists like Hunter Biden invested in Ukraine using Ukraine as a money laundering kind of thing is vague but not wholly in-accurate. Jimmy’s intelligent guess excludes the why war part of the question and why leftist parties in the west support it. War and conquest is the creation of the need for new means of production, i.e., capitalist expansion. War and conquest concentrates landed property a lot faster than waiting for old families to die out in an old society like Ukraine and their possessions falling into the hands of a few taking decades; and converting those lands into grazing land is a sign that Ukraine imports grain and goods leads to a total disappearance of a free population. Propertyless and poor like the American working class is propertyless and poor. Employment is the torturous grind keeping workers poor. Long working day, intensified work, never earning above survival and never falling below survival is a balance never struck in capitalist societies. Dollars enter Ukraine. Ukraine uses the dollars for imports of foreign cheap goods enriching government officials and creating a dependent population,---Ukrainian oligarchs get to own more land. America gets to expand its means of production into Ukraine, conquering the eastern European market for mining, drilling, oil and gas development in deals made with the newly formed Ukrainian landowning class. This is how capital accumulation expands in this particular case. Not all countries are the same.
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  7879. The Pentagon or the “reservation” ( a racist derogatory term for the concentration of Native Americans) is how the officials refer to themselves at the Pentagon, is the embodiment of institutional evil.
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  7880. Free and independent media spreads the news like prairie fire. The news of a railroad company’s aims to overload and overwork workers in trains that get longer and where staffing gets shorter is gradually revealed as a motive for personal gain, and reasons, for a 21 car explosion releasing toxic chemicals the EPA de-regulated, and because of the public health threat the railroad company presents to society Congress will have to investigate the hazardous nature of all workplaces in America. Workplaces made dangerous by corporate management speed ups of the work itself in the workplace and thousands of chemicals under use by workers themselves are de-regulated by the EPA. This is a historic moment for workers in America for a re-unionization of labor. The workplace will be the subject of Congressional hearings. It will be staffed by Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. This puts him in the limelight. Who does he choose to head the investigation? Those friendly to employers and unfriendly to labor from both parties to make it bi-partisan and heavy money lobbying from all industry employer associations and think tanks pressuring senators to stall, sabotage, wreck, distract, deflect, anything possible, to avoid signing into law a regulation of the workplace telling employers what they cannot do, is a decisive battle ahead for American labor.
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  7881. Bonifaz. Trump was never convicted and is not in jail serving sentence based on witness testimony for inciting rebellion/insurrection. The Constitution states a conviction is required to be barred from holding public office for life. The fault the democrats did not get a conviction appears to be for reasons they needed a foil to take the presidency in 2024. But it appears they have dug themselves deeper into a hole.
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  7882. America has not had a “COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION PROGRAM” ever, unlike other western nations. Its the only nation without one. Immigration is nothing more than the importation of a commodity. The only difference is that in this case the commodity is labor. The excess labor coming into the country is not in demand because of the high degree of automation. Industries need less labor. Some sectors are fully automated and other sectors are not. Some sectors are hiring more than others is how the labor composition of society shifts. America does not have a Congress that legislates according to the economic upswings and downturns. Our Congresspeople are law trained ideologues, opportunists and functionaries...they are not economists. People come into the country at the wrong time is no fault of their own. They have no idea the degree to which automation has spread across different sectors of the economy. These are not people educated to read how economies work in connection to automation. If they were educated they would have stayed put in their own country. But talking to them they have a perception that America is lined and paved with gold. You can thank Hollywood for that. Hollywood depicts America as a land of wealth and the films are seen all over the world is a false image. Naturally to the poor and downtrodden the place to go is to America compared to the war ravaged societies in which they live. Listening to the media even they are ignorant of the economic processes and do not know what to do or ask the right questions of their guests.
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  7883. Americans are a proudly ignorant people. With 60 million out of a workforce of 132 million languishing in dead end jobs, they are commodity unneeded as well. Sooner you face the fact America is no longer the hegemon of the world the quicker the country can get back on track. @hereweare2031 
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  7884. In so many ways Biden is worse than Trump.
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  7885. If the capitalist merchants and distributors can withdraw commodities from the market and not feel it in their wallet, that right there tells you they are sitting on an economic surplus that can outlast a strike if necessary, and a Maduro socialist party government is in their minds, a threat big enough to obstruct a socialist project from getting off the ground. The Washington Establishment makes allies with anyone who slows down or crushes a socialist project. But if the average American complained about Maduro I would really have to say to that person Maduro is of no concern of Americans, if he is a problem let the Venezuelans solve it. The average person is made to think he or she has a concern with Maduro, effectively, brainwashed by US mass media to dismiss a people’s choice in another society. He got 51%, his opposition got 44%, the remainder divided among a bevy of other candidates. More democracy happening there than in Michigan where West and Williamson and others are not on the ballot.
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  7886. “Try again, fail again, fail better.” Sam Beckett.
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  7887. He gave them a way to vent their anger out. That, in itself, speaks to the level of political ignorance of the American working classes. American corporations went to China, all of them are there not here, right now, they are there. Why did the corporations leave the US working class behind? Blame it on the lack of uniformity in mass public education that America could never find a consensus to improve education with job training for the working class due to individual states unwilling to cooperate, the government should have nationalized education. There was ample signs a virulent right wing was polluting education the very tool a nation needs to compete in the world economy were in the process of destroying it with cultural chimeras and social biases of evangelical christians. Democrats should have come out with a national education plan that no student can graduate without a science and tech degrees in quantum mathematics, machinery, engineering and worker safety. China’s factories after a fail are made 100% worker safe. Here the owners collect and move to the French Riviera leaving behind dead workers. The Chinese worker is so much more skilled they are leaders in the tech industry. They produce, fast, no mistakes, clean and good quality. Extremely industrious people. Runs through their history for thousands of years. They lead in robotics. But black Americans are also extremely industrious people. If not for them America would be a colonial mental case. Democrats failed to tap into that resource. I don’t think they can ever recover from it. China’s car makers out do Tesla’s top of the line car by ten times the quality and battery life. China’s education system is nationalized and top students are placed into industries China wants filled with the best through a national test. We got rid of national SATs to privatize education. in every step of the way American leaders failed to modernize and socialize America and did everything one should not do. The system there is a recruitment system the system here is a repressive system. China even under a slow down has a world market of 60 nations out 195. And guess what, if there is a war between China and the US those American corporations are not going to leave China voluntarily. State department know this, therefore, they are willing to share the world with China than be humiliated by telling several of its star corporations to come home or be jailed. Not the only humiliating experience the US State department dug itself into. China is aggressive, its build up is sending the message to American foreign policy makers to put in check a virulent right wing with ambitions of overthrowing China’s government and taking Taiwan! What to do about this? I say the democrats had their chance and should pack up and leave town, the republicans with nothing to offer to society should leave with them. No more Trumps. Pass the power over to a party that will enact the major reforms this country needs.
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  7888. Its one big club and you are not in it is a great and concise line. Hoh is right about not being a party in and of itself, a party that has no movement to back it up will never win power.
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  7889. True, Rate and Mass of Surplus Value did grow on the basis of the rate of exploitation of labor for surplus value by most capitalist countries except in the case of the US and China which depends on mass more than rate and had developed the mass of surplus value wide enough that a rate of exploitation of labor can work within it. This advantage might have something to do with the fact the US and China were serf and slave economies with a surplus already in the hands of an exploiting class. Less developed capitalist economies took the course of developing the rate exclusively, at which point wealth depends on a worker producing higher output in the same number of hours changing the working day itself extending the duration of labor. This happens anyway in rich countries, not by extending the working day but, rather, by innovating the labor-process, shortening necessary labor-time and this leads to a transformation crisis, how do all the capitalist countries realize their wealth stored in a mass of products? For which process the efforts of the State are needed to establish new commodity and labor markets for the sale of the mass of products and for the increasing appetite of capital for cheap labor-power overseas in the case of the US. China's population of 1.3 billion is large enough to mix rate and mass to accelerate capital accumulation. Old methods of capital accumulation are giving way to a mixed method of production to raise the standard of living without impacting the environment.
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  7890. As soon as the needle is moved toward a more socially responsible government to alleviate misery and poverty for America’s working masses, without hesitation the Press, the Rich, monopoly corporations, banks, the State, all line up in lockstep to push the needle back.
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  7891. Journalism is not a crime but the organizations the journalists work for are criminal.
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  7892. Short lived upswings in the economy might necessitate a swing to the left? It depends on how slow they are to react to the longer term recessions and the patience enough of people to wait for a real recovery. Never would be my expectation from this generation of Neo-cons and conservatives, liberals and social democrats.
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  7893. @Tyler Hawk,---any reason the Military Industrial Complex is not included as part of your definition the Federal Government, it is the most industrialized sector of the economy, and a third of 133 million in the workforce is employed by it? The other third and the last third are employed by small business and a huge service sector that each generation entering into that workforce is far from being able to compete with industrialized nations and this part of our ability to make things is threatened by monopolies that can buy up for a song huge tracts of land. America has a military and a landed aristocracy of oligarchs and society is divided between Haves and Have Nots more materially and intellectually deprived that a slave in ancient Rome lived better!
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  7894. Come again?
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  7895. Freaken weirdo.
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  7896. Exchange drives industry to produce more and, therefore, consume more. Need is the part of the drive on the other side of the produce. You cannot manage industrial production if it is all divided up into private hands. The work of 332 million people daily being allocated and decided by 5 million people through the unpredictability of a market is absurd. Agriculture and industrial production is no longer an individual affair not even a small operation to be treated like it is. I think Washington thinks this is the 19th century.
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  7897. Proof?
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  7898. Bolton’s criticism of the Republican Party are valid. The youth thing in Vance does underlie the oldness in Trump. Trump can’t digest a political doctrine without deviating into the personal is evident in Trump and Vance. The political is personal but the personal is not political in the Republican world of ideas; a party of ideology not science...an Anti-Science party. His criticisms is not coming from a place where you can actually measure progress, such as, how well the Republican Party performed on solving a climate crisis and world economy. Republicans are concerned with power exclusively and occupying political power not whatever the planet and the society experiences in the material world. Such matters are left to God. Trump is misplaced in a party of evangelicals with anti-scientific political views and the party is misfit with society.
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  7899. 5 million youths of the Nazi youth then are today aged in their 90s. They had 45 years to pollute the minds of their grandchildren born in the 1950s who are today aged 65-70 and these people had ample to time to pollute the minds of their children born in the 60s, 70s are now aged 40-50, and these are the people active in government today, they hate millennials born in the 90s are aged 30.
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  7900.  @teardrop-in-a-fishbowl  Don't put words in my mouth, I said 5 million former Nazis youth. Total population of Germany is 82 million, less 5 is 77 million WERE NOT Nazis youth. You have a problem over there, admit it and deal with it.
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  7901. You are not about Rights because three of your rights, Speech, Right of Property, Right of Free Movement, have been terminated and your people say nothing about those rights.
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  7902. Hypocrite! Her job does not add any value to GDP.
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  7903. According to the reporting of the Deputy Chief: At 7: 20 PM Cops get to the shelter. They find a naked and erratic woman burning stuff in the kitchen. There is no mention of a finding of kids in the shelter residence at this time. Cops hold the mother in custody at the shelter presumably waiting for the ambulance. Ambulance takes the mother to St. Barnabas arriving at 7:50 PM. Still no mention of the status of the children in the shelter during this time. Mother is discharged from the hospital and the cops are informed the father has the kids. At 7:55 PM a second 911 call comes in reporting the kids are not breathing and unresponsive. No mention of stab wounds to the kids or blood or trauma mentioned by the 911 caller. Cops return to the shelter and find two kids with multiple stab wounds. The kids, ages 3 and 11 are dead. Mother is in custody but not arrested and the father is not in custody but was the last person with the kids? None of the reporters question this timeline or why the father is not in custody as the last person with the kids. The very experienced police officers seem to have let slip from their view the kids during the first response to the shelter. Sometime between the mother’s release from the hospital to the cops arriving the second time to the shelter apartment the kids were killed. Nice job NYPD I hope you guys are sued for this and the experienced cops fired for negligence and dereliction of duty.
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  7904. But I don't understand? There is a suggested manufacturer's price which is the sales price for retailers and dealers ordering the product. If the manufacturers sold to the public directly they can charge a price higher than their own unit cost to manufacture the product and sell it slightly below what the retailers are selling the same article. Inflation occurs where consumers meet the product at the retail level. If the retailer is the one raising the prices what they charge is what the market will bear. But if the rise in prices begins at the point of the product's manufacturing this raises the price of everything especially if all manufacturers raise their prices collectively, as a class, to use as a weapon against another class, as a means to drive wages down but also the opportunity to increase profits is present as an aim.
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  7905.  @chuckleaf8027  '...expansion of the money supply...'? Too many crackpot theories out there sonny jim...one of them is your's!
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  7906.  @permarx1809  Solid thinking but there are no causes in Marx only dialectics.
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  7907.  @permarx1809  Production in general is based on exchange-value. I agree. Do you agree with that statement? The concern hidden in this statement poses a paradox in that we all agree to our own oppression as a condition; here is a community or a society, you, me, your family, my family, neighbors, basing our lives on these exchange-values. The outcome of our 'performances' posits private property over the product of our work as a condition, is the concern here of a historic paradox in making work, 'labor', 'performance' a general condition for wealth presupposes the separation of labor from its objective conditions. See, in the historical context the worker is the producer, when capitalism separated that aspect from the worker by first buying the product of labor and move in position to command labor in production, is when work became a value creating activity and nothing more; when a worker in society has no value because a worker produces value. This is a short illustrative example of dialectical reasoning at work.
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  7908.  @nebulousvoid  I bet if that hypothesis were tested you'd find another result...curious if anyone other than gov and owner measured arsenic levels in trees?
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  7909.  @SkyRiver1  The labor required to homestead is assisted with machinery replacing much of the manual labor, one person can make a 40 x40 foot garden plot and yield enough food for two families of 6, when done correctly. We have to accept the positive things about capitalism such as it takes less time to reproduce the species than it did in a pre-industrialized age. Use these forces for the improvement of human beings and life in general.
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  7910.  @htopherollem649  In this format maybe underestimated because the list of 'unregistered' chemicals is to long for this format; the entire work-place is your number one killer, chemically treated building materials, indoor air, high mortality rates due to the American mode of PRODUCTION.
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  7911.  @SkyRiver1  Right now 332 million people are dependent on five corporations for their food. China has 1.2 billion people and a small land mass and one half of its population grows their own food and owns land, no mortgages in China. Who's better off?
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  7912.  @SkyRiver1  50 million...when, where?
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  7913. I think you should be doubting the state as not truly representative of yourself and citizens like you. The state does nothing about the various disabilities in civil life that affect us all to remove them. See for yourself the recurring crimes never end they recur as part of the break down and disintegration of any meaning to the commercial life in society before COVID. Back then it was cool to be reliant on the market for life; today the lethality of market forces cause a breakdown of society.
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  7914. Obviously there is dissent within the Asian community that the press does not care to explore when a 72 yr old finds cause to assassinate people of his own community. The Press does an excellent job detailing what happen but does a very poor job investigating the Who and Why, background, affiliations, relations, that are more important than trying analyze in the mind what made a man go on a shooting spree. Americans are given the poorest quality of news information can be said because this is a patterned formula for American news. Never ask why just tell the Public what happened.
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  7915. I count this as part of the increasing misery, poverty of knowledge in the profession, and the deprivation the American Health Establishment dishes out to the General Public in the name of medical science. For this Establishment comprised of, Big Pharma, Hospital Management Corporations, Health Insurance Corporations and Doctors, all make health a thing that has to be bought, this means disease must always be present in society, never a disease free society creates the market demand for the commodity they sell, and by 99% of all deaths are due to this Establishment, the burden of disease is socially divided where the rich live in abstention of disease and the poor die from it, has hit one of their own. Get my point?
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  7916. US Military Generals are bought.
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  7917. Elect a German to the White House and you will end up like Germany. Elect a German who emulates Hitler through Andrew Jackson and you will end up with a forcible removal of migrants. The foot soldiers of the MAGA movement are not the type to work the farms and fields for food the migrants perform.
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  7918. Read,--- The End of Prosperity: The American Economy in the 1970s, Harry Magdoff and Paul Sweezy...a short book of 136 pages if you really want to understand what is going on.
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  7919. Finally, Algeria achieves its long overdue revolution...what a fantastic job the young generation of Algiers is doing...a total overthrow of the entire ruling elite. The French police are really conflicted, first they injure a protester as per Macron's orders than they bandage and nurse him as per their allegiance with the Yellow Vest movement's aims and objectives. A mutiny is the antidote to their dilemma. The world revolution might happen without the participation of the American people who are asleep or hostage to their ruling elites, or both. I love Greta. History will love her too. Marvelous young lady. That fucking fascist bears the face of defeat, i.e., Larry Mitchell Hopkins, brain rot.  Far right nationalists use assassination, fear, terror, violence, force to prey upon the working class as a creed. For them the the death penalty is justified. Seth Molten is one democrat who cannot see the contradiction between incessant continues economic growth (profits) and climate change.  Seth is a young Joe Biden, also a war veteran, but he appeals or represents a faction in the party who believe you can balance into a harmony the ruin of the planet with profits. Excellent! The Stop and Shop workers won a strike...baby steps are better than no steps at all. Good report DM.
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  7920. The better opening for the anchor was “the country is once again a hostage to a government shut down”, that is what it is. Americans do not get the federal programs unless the democrats or the republicans get what they want that serves the interest(s) they are representing and preserving at the expense of what the US population needs.
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  7921.  @theburden9920  To this date Mongols are conquerers? Have they not socialized themselves into society?
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  7922.  kaiss-kc kc  Dolly Parton not Patron. You don't need me to explain just google the name.
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  7923. I am pretty confident DeSantis’s quibble with Disney is personally motivated. He was likely teased as a child to have ears like a mouse and face to small in proportion to his ears like a mouse. I would not even be surprised his early impressions of himself was rife with envy and jealousy of Mickey and became Mickey’s long standing rival for never becoming the ruler of the Magic Kingdom himself so he became a ruler of his own fantasy land pretending there are no monsters in it. Somewhere there is a photo of him wearing Mickey ears.
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  7924. Right Wing Culture Wars.
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  7925. In the 1,2,3, scenario, all parties are liars. Party 1 tells a lie to the Public Party 2 repeats the lie to the Public, and Party 3, is created to confirm a lie to the Public. Yes, it would have to be a gaf that a senator would unveil the truth of the government he is a part.
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  7926. To bring to the floor bills that would not likely get on the floor with a democrat as Speaker. Part of their agenda is to cut social security, medicare and medicaid another part is to make the Trump Tax Cuts permanent, another part is to criminalize any political opposition, another part is total free reign of production to capitalists, prolong the working day and lower wages, is why they want to control the Speaker.
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  7927. Americans have the shittiest choices to be president. A puppet on the one hand and an opportunist on the other spending their tax dollars on a genocidal project while Americans don’t even have health care.
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  7928. He’s right. His methods of undercover camera work should be decentralized. So go out there and get them on your cell camera.
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  7929. Both social systems, colonialism and capitalism, produce morons for people is my reason we need to go beyond them.
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  7930. Based on what Christopher Wray is telling me in this video, that violence perpetrated by the FBI is okay but violence against the FBI is not, bears the premise the FBI can dish it out but the FBI cannot take it.
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  7931.  @Beastw1ck  That is not law enforcement...that is totalitarianism in the form of law enforcement.
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  7932. Iowa Caucuses are no alternative to the republicans. Imagine waiting on them to solve the climate crisis and starvation of wildlife. The Polar Bears are not the only wildlife dying off to the human activity the Iowa Caucus ignore.
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  7933. Absolutely right and no matter how many times the truth is spoken the American people bury their heads in the sand and remain second to the goals of dominant old men as a hostage people.
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  7934. The wooden log he was under is worth its weight in gold to those impressed with his artful skills dodging manhunts.
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  7935. Prayers and hearts with the families is not enough! Prayers might change Jeff Bezos’s behavior but I doubt it. Factory owners may be nice people but in emergency situations their role in production should end right there. The slow to no response of Amazon and other small warehouse and factory owners did not heed the warnings is not what I call ‘loving’ characteristic of a people who care for one another. Working people are not objects without emotion, connections, to be treated like objects was the point the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Tragedy of 1911 meant for working people in this country. One hundred and ten workers working overnight to fulfill Christmas toys! Really, America? The owners prove by their own actions that a private interest impedes rational decision making, they cannot act responsibly. You can’t put your life in their hands is the issue. Prayers and condolences don’t cut it. Future storms are guaranteed. Society has to make a real decision about production in general. Either owners have free reign over production and this happens or the workers have control over warehouse and factory operations and enact their own emergency evacuations because, 1., remote control by long distance management is a failure and 2., direct control by the owners is a failure. And 3., using the government to enforce owners and workers to do as told is a failure. Workers are in the best position to decide when Christmas presents can get wrapped, or when the mustard gets made, not the clock!
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  7936. Bob Menendez getting ready to take his wealth and leave the country in the event of a civil war or revolution might know something we don’t as it does feel the wars we are involved in overseas could bring those wars home with Americans taking sides on each other, tensions coming to head.
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  7937. Society houses them and feeds them, educates them and prepares them for a market exclusive to employers. No wonder the job market is always a buyers market...and this time for a generation to come. The product in this case are actual future workers meeting the requirements of large scale industry. What could be better if you are an employer in need of educated young workers at a lower price.
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  7938. Is the state that fragile that republican reaction to world events resort to censor and violence?  No grey area between, I think the answer is yes, one example is the Grey Zone is thinning out to the forces of reaction prosecuting it. The weight of prosecution can be lifted from the shoulders of individuals in custody of the police held for trial just to be jailed, silenced, an permanently put out of sight and mind forgotten by the public. We all read Alexander Dumas, or should have read his novel Man With The Iron Mask, and George Orwell's 1984. The ruling classes cross connect and intersect in the American police state. The people can lift that weight off the shoulders of Jullian Assange and Max Blumenthal, by challenging the bully state up front.
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  7939. Russian strategic importance is the main driver in all this.
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  7940. I won’t vote for a democrat. If you do vote for a democrat you are complicit with and (enabling) the institutional exploitation of all life on earth.
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  7941. A veritable indication of poor upbringing. Pretentious of you to use Sweden as a model of a socialist society that never succeeded. Sweden is a social democracy not a socialist society; you not aware of the differences, to qualify a position. Next!
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  7942. What if train terminals were the round table and platforms below it were the square where trains come in and out? If that were possible the terminals can have a dome. Space for bird wildlife to enter and exit. And there would be light. Natural light. The dome is clear or oblique for light. There would be plant life. An indoor man-made park doubling as a Christmas village for Santa. The spaces the people wait for the trains leave a lot to be desired. Older terminals are sterile, cold environments. The terminals in the era of the 30s were far more interesting generating artistic design. Escalator, stairs, elevator, platform, were the 80s. The new infrastructure needs to have form and function in the 21st century and this will take a new mindset.
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  7943. It could have been a real prosecution of a real corporate criminals if the allies of American government were not corporations. If the real ally of the government were the People...and eradicating corporate crime was essential for the growth and development of the American people. A changing of the tide to make America means something again. It could have been a victory for the masses over the property owners and big financial wealth if the people had a real political ally. Corporate crime is never prosecuted with jail time. I am hoping it will lead other state prosecutors going after other corporate criminals.
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  7944. I cannot stand this Epoch News posterboy in the ad. And I cannot wait till 5 to tune into the story about what Cuba Gooding Jr., did with his tongue. Why do the hard work of real investigative journalism when you can make the same money if not more money involving no craft or skill reporting a story of a tongue of a celebrity?
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  7945. Abortion facilities on federal land is a good idea with assurance government shut downs do not shut them down as well. Bravo Sen Warren. On the Russian default, I am not aware bondholders were involved with the Russian government of 1917, I knew Lenin met with Armand Hammer but this was for a pencil factory to battle illiteracy. Did the Bolsheviks borrow capital from western bankers...if they did they were fools to lend it...the dissolution of bourgeois economics forms is what a revolution is about? Much later in the century I can believe western bankers lent money to the Russian Federation. Western/US sanctions tightening the belt meant going full native to exclusion of all foreign lenders and building up Russian business. It does not appear to be a set back for Russia but a “we don’t need you anymore’ set back for the lenders.
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  7946. The downside of capitalism is---- it is its own barrier for its own growth. Because labor is a creator of value and surplus value, capitalism is pushed into an artificial need to accomplishes more product in a given time. Honestly, individual families don't need five cars or three houses and giant mansions to be comfortable and secure. Business is driven by external forces that turn industry and labor into a mere money producing machine. The consequence is that industries only relate to each other through a market and haphazardly produce and not produce based on the days results of market activity. DOW goes down someone loses a job. Some one gains a job when the market is up! The number of individuals losing and getting a job in high totals of millions in our world economy is where the total damage is real to the species and the planet. People need to get some understanding of what is falling apart in front of them? General competition forces every particular industry into reducing production time for a social product to be made and marketed. The demand for more surplus- value producing labor clashes with this reduction of labor, a result of competition, then as a consequence of technology and science injected into the workplace, Labor is supplanted, with every change in the technical composition of the workplace. The value creators, Us, sinks and so does surplus value. It would not longer be a barrier the day labor stops being the measure of value. That would be the day labor is a value for itself, a day of transformation and emancipation, until then under capitalism, labor, all individuals, have no value or worth as a human being; and the ultimate end and aim of life, as we told, is to be a productive member of society and in production, a detailed laborer of some kind creating surplus-value and a valued consumer in circulation. Ye, are halfway free. The other half of freedom has yet to be attained. Capitalism must expand and create and convert whole societies into becoming a new labor market the professional call 'modernization' and diplomats call, 'our friends and allies', for the purpose of consuming surplus-value producing labor, new western converts to the religion of surplus-value production, these trade deals an interventions take place to accommodate capitalism on its path toward its own destruction.
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  7947. It depends. Who controls Congress, slaveholders? Then no, Trump would not be impeached by the founding fathers because as a landowner Trump would have been a slave owner like the Founding Fathers. The slaves came with the land wherever slaves were. Even if he'd got caugt seekig dirt and a quid pro quo from a foreign country to damage his northern anti-slave democrat running against him. At the time all democrats were pro-slavery nobody would have been cheered. Trump's Mar-A-Lago would have would have slaves on it, to run it not illegal immigrants. Really the answer is who runs Congress and the Senate whether a president gets impeached.
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  7948. You have a real cunning and deceitful ruling class in America, they know they are squeezing you and are sugar-coating the squeeze as best they can with carefully chosen words; “A softening of the labor market”, in plain English means A JOB IS NOT THERE FOR YOU! Basically, when total wealth is composed of two parts, one part You and the other part Them, the wealth they want to make cannot increase without without your wealth diminishing. On the side they save the banks and hide their corruption. While they consume luxuries in secret seclusion from society the American working class experiences a ‘Soft Labor Market” and eats cake. What America needs is a social revolution to overthrow its very deceitful, cunning, parasitical and pernicious Ruling Class and Political Establishment. Americans are losing their dignity by the day.
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  7949. The crippling effect on the employment of humanity that has opened the gates of hell is the over saturation of of western markets. Than when markets contract, the labor capacity it took to over fill markets with goods cannot stop pumping out the prior rate of commodities produced. Unit price falls and the world has more peanut butter it knows what to do with. But there is an amplified double-result that gets fought out in wars, protective duties, sanctions, destabilizing whole regions and the world economy. A rise in productive power in labor capacity and an inability to sell previous quantities of commodities. A crisis originating in two economic spheres, simultaneously. The economic power is the “perpetual production” produces faster and more quantity at less per unit the cost than capitalism can realize in profits and markets are glutted while people starve and always hungry at the end of the month in southern markets.
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  7950. The darkened room with a blue backdrop and light spilling on the flag and Blinken not wanting to be more clear does not help to build up confidence that the military is not in a cold war with China.
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  7951.  @5british5  Got proof?
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  7952.  @5british5  Got proof of that?
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  7953. All due respect, I believe i.e., Thom Hartmann, lives in the same world I do, a world where religion fully dominates the State, is the State, and influences the State in all governments barring China, Cuba. Pence, Bush, both born-again christians, are specific examples of this unity of church and state for whom the invasion of Iraq of 2003 was a crusade in Bush's mind when he said it, and a war against Islam for Cheney was a choice to commit troops to preserve America's permanent high standard of living and lifestyle against annoying and persistent to the end militant organizations interrupting the perpetual spoiled habits of 330 million people, is what it comes down to. Fix this problem and the world will be a better place. To complete the process that has already begun and is half way there, the complete transformation of the State of the few into the State of the many only the few in control of the State, need to be replaced by the many and society (where religion exists) as it was since Ancient Rome, when christians were excluded without citizenship of Rome and separated from the state is on its way toward becoming its opposite. A long process of transformation that 2000 years later the rule of the many becomes the power and political power becomes social power. Historically, the choice is simple, either the political state becomes thoroughly socialized or the high standard of living and lifestyle for the many vanishes. Obviously, the baby boomer born-again christians will choose the latter and call it God's doing, nothing we can do but to put our family first, the nation's standard of living and lifestyle second, Their indifference attitude to a material decline such as what led to Rome's decline is palpable, i.e., real. Be grateful to them for they gave Americans the reason infuse science into society and adopt a lifestyle and standard of living of moderation and equality, and gave the reason for the removal of the religion from state both personally and politically, they are the reason because they are the few struggling to hold on to the right of power and exclusive right of ownership of the Public Domain, i.e, -- (the many). They must go! Through their ideological reasoning they have positioned the State to become a holy shrine of god's will, and opposed to the will of the Public Domain to the State.
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  7954. McConnell is a boring speaker. Lifeless. Always in retention...strikes me as surreptitious. Two parties out of touch with reality. Ain't that the truth. America can do with two new parties to replace the ones we have now. If it is a slap in the face of every rank and file police officer imagine the slap in the face working people get. Problem here is that much of the working population has become so desensitized, so brutalized that they cannot tell the difference between a slap in the face from a slug of a .45?
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  7955. Every former colony of the British Empire declared its independence a lifetime ago and are a part of the new world trading system of emerging BRICS nations...none have restored their colonial status with the British Empire...consequently the British capitalists availed and poured their money into Finance when independence would inevitably end colonialism...none of the former British colonies turned the clock back... but in the Philippines there is a remnant of a bygone era, a looking backward... a nostalgia...found in the son... identifying his role with his own father’s... commits the gravest error by taking the Philippine people not forward with the BRICS but back into the old rules and social relations, the old jobs and social institutions of a colony with a new look.
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  7956. National policy is not such a bad word when it comes to serving “them”.
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  7957. It becomes easy for them to label the movement as terrorists when you say “No Forest No Peace” the read is we’ll give you green space but if you are in the way we will kill you as a domestic terrorist because the no peace part presupposes you can be violent and the state tells us they will not tolerate violence, and the clandestine look, military fatigues, mask, does not help. Police are over militarized and Cop City is one step of increasing their militarization. A movement to de-militarize, de-escalate is what the American left should take a political stand on.
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  7958. The displaced suffering of the American people for a life of making a rich nation one of the richest is the worst form of compensation its government can give to its people in return for their sacrifices. This country is a disgrace! Its politics, media, industry, social life, economic life, are materially deprived while none of the damaging effects of that deprivation happens where the grass grows greener on the other side of the tracks, the class divide is deplorable and disintegrating everyday is its civil life, only to descend into barbarism.
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  7959. ... "conditions determine consciousness", and not the other way around. Three cops acting out of safety concerns, their safety, the pubic's safety and the safety of the person posing the threat. The long line of violent attacks on a specific population are the conditions and history this episode no matter how legally is found innocent can never conceal, hide or rationalize.
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  7960.  @Sloppyplane37  verbalizing inanities is symptomatic of post traumatic stress.
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  7961.  @Mark_GL  Putin is only one of 195 rulers. Biden is another, why are you only selecting one out of all the rulers of all countries. Do you not realize every country has their own ruling class whether its a political elite or an economic power and that history does not know who Putin or Biden are personally, she knows them socially as history’s actors.
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  7962.  @MaryAnnNytowl  Another world in China. You reveal more arrogance than you do opinion.
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  7963. I think the professor is mistaken about not having the materials to deal with the pandemic stockpiled and warehoused...what we did not have is a vaccine when the virus broke out. That said, with enough material support warehoused under FEMA's jurisdiction did not get to hospital staff and first responders around the country because of an administrative decision from the office of the president of the US to not distribute the PPE's. This is not a case of lack of materials and production as much as it is a case of deliberately holding back the material support by a president. This is a case of a weaponizing essential and necessary material to some other end which we know now in hindsight, was part of the process of destroying the government. Criminal, really.
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  7964. She never would have resigned if her actions were not caught on camera. The Baby Boomer generation are spoiled and people born from 1980 are the most callous and insensitive generation in history.
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  7965. Most Americans in the working class will recieve a check.  But the raises the concern about why there is a part of the working class who will not recieve a check?
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  7966. The last period of economic growth was largely in the financial sector and construction led up to the crash of 2007. This crash coincided with no economic growth on Main Street. Wages remained stagnant since Reagan was in office. What grew was technology and science. Nothing left in the workplace could be operated by manual labor and soon less living labor was needed to run workplaces. Cheaper to produce to get an edge over the competition became the rules of conduct for business and these rules do not come without prolonging the workday to offset the loss of “hands” when technology displaces labor. The effects of the crash had been devastating and a drop in the standard of living of the American people coincided with an on-going series of political blows after another that started with high interest rates, inflation, job cuts, to roll backs and political defeats in civil liberties lost to a virulent right wing who stand as a barrier to society.
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  7967.  @ShowMeWhatINeedToKnow  And who's fault is that?
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  7968.  @ShowMeWhatINeedToKnow  Your earlier comment about "We help our nation by totally..." How is that help rendered in what form?
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  7969.  @ShowMeWhatINeedToKnow  It is not a mode of production I would consider a wonder of the world.
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  7970. Smart China. Dumb America.
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  7971. Very crafty is right. The liberals differ from the republicans in that they surgically administer their corruption to give the appearance its victim is the perpetrator and this is done over a period of time. Republicans by pass corrupting influences, they just come out straight out against you.
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  7972.  @c000rr  All the event combined are the distractions, it is manufacturing crisis on a colossal scale.
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  7973. So far as we know human beings are of this planet and while occupying it we are consuming it. This one family distracts our attention from the problems on Earth caused by our habits of mass consumption and production that another news hoax is pretty much the subject of mass media. Conditions on Earth in the US must getting so bad a distraction helps the sedate mass shock. Realistically folks... NASA can invent satellite imagery of a planet light years away through Hubble but an alien life form that travels at the speed of light, 285,000 miles per second, is intimidated enough to play peek-a-boo with humans in the backyard of average Americans....cut me a F’n break! You know I have to tell you children of baby boomers, Superman is not real. Be a smart thing for a news team to report on what legislation got passed, if any, the moment the alien story broke out.
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  7974. buttafan - assassins are like cops they are never around when you need them. Yeah, I gues you can say revolution is a kind of therapuetic intervention.
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  7975. @Light Maestro I think buttafan meant the intervention has to be a Brazilian revolution.
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  7976. Its too late the small island of Taiwan and Singapore and other places have been armed and fortified with US forces. Treaties and deals have been signed. Marcos in the Philippines signed a deal with General Austen. From China’s point of view US aggression has become an encirclement of sentry states armed by American defense corporations. The build-up got no attention because to Washington the American people are not to know what their military does in the world. Its only when something horribly goes wrong that Congress investigates and we are lucky if we even get that. The American people really need to take a stand against the treatment as if they were orphans, the way children were treated in the Victorian Era, only to be seen but never heard. All foreign relations are a big secret and what is shown and told to us is never two sides of the same story is insult to injury. Corporate media is redundant, silly and futile because those who want to know find out anyway. Defense industry corporations profit from the war in Ukraine and Russia is bogged down by the conflict; the US oil and gas companies take the lion share of the European gas market. Blowing up another countries infrastructure is an act of war and Germany not doing anything about it really shows the spinelessness in European governments. We can’t point the finger at anyone else because it came from Biden’s own mouth that the North stream pipeline would be destroyed. There is a lot of stupidity in the White House spending money overseas and not spending it at home the government does not know how to take advantage of the strengths of the US economy to lift people out of their material and psychological depression because what matters more is their own political power.
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  7977. @Reg U, ---Wow, you are vexed wth a problem of limitations. Between the rock and the boss you're stuck in a hard place of seeing your own limitations. Every person in America sees in other people in America not the realization of their wealth or liberty, freedom or equality, they see in each person the limitations of their freedom, liberty and equality, which in this case the diamond represent great wealth, great liberty and greater equality...and this is what Trump/Biden, all of them, brought to the foreground in everyone's minds in his own country. Its what you own not what you are that counts will be the death of this nation.
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  7978. Imagine being Nat King Cole for second, living in a time when you are not the performer of magnificent talent, you were 1/3rd a man in America.
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  7979. Distract them first, take their keys first than take the weapons.
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  7980.  @dubrob210  It all catches up to you when you are no longer fit to kick ass. Then you will be in a box with a jury staring you down deciding the fate of your life for the crimes you committed when you were young and very, very stupid in an army the nation has dismantled and can no longer protect you.
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  7981. Roughly speaking, headlines were pretty good. You have to be impressed with Gabon’s coup the ANC and the UN are not. Well, that tells you the international institutions are part of the problem... they also had ample time to pressure the colonial powers to let go of their colonies. The few usurpers who had expropriated the material wealth of the Gabonese people had been expropriated by a popular coup dé état is a remarkable feat and to have mass support for it gives it a transformative dimension. I hope they set up new institutions that connects the hardware with the people. Not a shot fired, and the whole edifice of the old order is brought down is impressive. And the Bongo organization of corruption inside the judiciary, government, senate, national assembly, are gone, dissolved, made powerless is a double whammy. This was a revolutionary coup and a military thrown into a revolutionary position. The question for me going forward, will it be a revolution leaving the Establishment or a restoration of the establishment?
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  7982. An evacuation that is identical to the evacuation of the Fall of Saigon but on a larger scale. You have Taliban forces taking the country, city by city, province by province and none of the Commanding Generals of the US military did not respond or saw this coming is the first point for discussion? Then you have a president who leaves the country with who knows how much of the treasury he took with him and Taliban forces are at the gates of the capitol of the country saying this is the last stand quit or be taken down with force. Meanwhile, civil society is just that 'civil' to each other but at a standstill pending this change of power. Then Blinken of the State Department comes out with some stupid excuse about how this is not a defeat, not a revolution, not a loss and its not going to be another Saigon. Cut to the loop the media chooses to show us and not the footage of troops setting up the perimeter to keep people from the tarmac and the footage of planes taking off because that is the footage that was shown during the Fall of Saigon, hanging off of helicopters in the air the Generals do not want shown to the public to hide the fact that Vietnam was a defeat and Afghanistan is a defeat. This is a collapse of any brains and morals in the State department is what it is?
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  7983. Exercise bikes and air purifier with which to bribe a senator is nothing compared to US Supreme Court Justice Thomas’s luxury consumption habits.
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  7984. Ridiculous. Preparing for a conflict no other country on earth can attain but the US and so far there are no aliens to fight in space. I can’t believe Americans swallow this nonsense. Hey, its your money...starve yourselves to reach that totally absurd goal.
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  7985. A new Bernie third party would have to have an educational component to it. Americans are infected by European models of labor theory and action that a new party can become a party that sells labor out, as is the case so often with the European socialist and labor parties,--- many of them are right wing because there isn’t an educational component that politicizes wages, working conditions, the working day, as a way to rally a crowd, heighten awareness and personally shed outrages with their employers. Educational material on Who benefits from this party and the goals of the party. Workers and employers exchange in proportion in which the value of their wages are contained in the new offer the companies agree to when they get beat by a strike but that makes you a mere union. What would a party be fighting for if it offers no program beyond how A and B exchange are what the centrist democrats are about. Bernie has to break off into a new direction taking a program of action on how to resolve how A and B are appropriated to various outside persons and social classes. The employer and employees of America together are the true productive agency of net wealth, they add to the pre-existing wealth, the market or bitcoin only shuffle around the wealth between different hands.
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  7986. He does not want to kill Langley for killing Americans using Cartels to create a drug trade; DeSanitis is a sycophant.
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  7987. The big take away for the next generation in the next big economic and social revolution is never leave intact the pillars of the old social order. They must come down! The big showdown is with capitalism if human extinction is to be circumvented and here we are dealing with dejected alienated individuals.
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  7988. There are ways the government can do that if it were willing to put pressure on pressure.
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  7989.  @Miniburn_04  It will come that if people don't get vaccinated. Right now your cooperation is being sought but if you put society at high risk the Fed will pressure you.
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  7990. If you believe Trump is not a billionaire you are sadly mistaken. It stuns me that this anchor can say that. The Koch Brothers inherited their wealth from their father and they are billionaires and made billions more from that inheritance. Trump's sons and daughter will be trillionaires from the inheritance they acquire because that wealth produces more wealth and they are spoiled rich pricks too! Chelsea Clinton is a billionaire. In fact, very few American billionaires are self-made. All in the neighborhood of billionaires are non-workers. Meaning they come from the middle or upper classes to begin with. All of them steal and cheat, as cheating and stealing are the tools of the trade. Once again this anchor attacks the individual capitalist and not the social class of billionaires hovering over the wealth of society. This man is really doing a disservice to this audience and without shame!
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  7991. The poster the Jews in Israel should carry in protest should read: “Netanyahu leave government NOW!” Zionism is not Israel. Zionism is not even a religion. Zionism was a deal made with Great Britain, in return for a strip of land called Palestine help us take Germany down, said the British. Jewish caliphates sat around the table as they usually do took the British offer and in a pivot the elation was so great Zionism was born. A pencil on the map drew out the new homeland was a significant pivot for Jews who could never go back to an anti-Jewish Europe. The Quaker evangelist, Richard Nixon, and inventor of carpet bombing in Vietnam, are the actions Netanyahu copies and this always ends bad for the copier. The future of Palestine for Palestinians is bright, way brighter than for Israel who will live under the shadow of infamy in history. South Africa made the transition from an Apartheid to a social democracy with less difficulty is credited to DeClerk who made the end and transfer of power a dignified defeat. Israel should learn from that social progress let it be its guide to restore respect for its nation that modern history tells us was made in a backdoor deal.
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  7992. Diddy is a reincarnation of Ike Turner.
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  7993. What part of that sentence do you not understand? Are you just trying to bait me into a fight? I’d rather have you remain dumb and be controlled than to explain taxes to you.@@dreessennoel
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  7994. According to people who view this channel America is a society that can not be superseded by any society in the world today. America embodies the end of history. Societies can never do better than the US is the prevailing fallacy. Historical development ends where all cul-de sacs of suburbia begin. A great deception belied by a Grand Social Experiment brewed out the laboratories of the US institutions linked with the military industrial complex in the creation of more strains of deadly coronaviruses. Not knowing how the world has advanced and uninformed by news screeners withholding real news, Americans think this because they are not shown the progress made by other societies and are only shown the societies falling under the weight of their own failures or destroyed by outside forces. All information broadcasted in the US is sifted or screened by the CIA. What is shown to the American public is selected to reinforce the notion that the world is full of monsters out to destroy the US. This to justify the build up of its military where all of the efforts of the American people have gone and starving society of such progress itself as a consequence. Spain has made incredible progress, Portugal as well, of course China has made remarkable progress. Russia has made progress despite the hostility of sanctions. This is because the reserve currency of the world is fast becoming a worthless piece of currency to itself, the lack of investment into industry in the US and the financialization of production outside of the US. Comparatively, the US has collapsed and is a decaying society having had its height of progress when Amy Goodman was a young person of 18 years old...it is on the decline and fall...this process of decline does not happen in a day or a month but occurs over a period of time appears as though there are strange and bizarre people, flipped out, acting outside of the law.
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  7995. Big cities make embezzlement and financial crimes not a crime and guess what, arrests for embezzlement, bribes, and financial crimes went down, that does not mean the crimes did not happen, in fact financial crimes went up. We know this because law suits and class action suits on financial crimes are up. @johnharris6655 
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  7996.  @Rxnextgenradio  Since it is through the county committees the establishment democrats are selected to be elected the county committees (go by different names, i.e., county councils, freeholders ), is where community organizers and community people should seek to take over, little by little, and from there a new party can be built up as more of your people take over the local committees.
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  7997. Never would have happened if companies stayed home grown and mom and pop department stores dotted the landscape instead of these generic mall developments owned by handful of corporations and anchor retailers. People are more loyal to a company they know belongs to their hometown not to some foreign investors with controlling interest. Corporations do not know how a working class is made and/or people are sick of the lifestyle of the working class are two things I think going on here.
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  7998. Well 2 and 2 make four, if ISIS is the sworn enemy of the Taliban that makes the Taliban a friend of the US the sworn enemy of ISIS K and we are back to the same old formula of making enemies to take advantage of friends.
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  7999. Investigate and prosecute US weapons manufacturers for the deaths of children in your society and in war torn countries. This will stop the war in Ukraine.
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  8000. Goldfeder is an idiot! Policing is the problem not the Cops. You can have a slew of radical judges that send any repeat offender to Devil’s island for life and that still will NOT fix the problem. Recidivism is a weapon to use for elections is the problem. On an off election season heinous criminals are let go and politicians use their rap sheet to scare voters to vote for them blaming the opposition when they rerun. This was invented by a CIA man George Bush Sr., if anyone remembers the Willy Horton Ad he used to get elected. The fundamental problem is that neither the latte City Council crowd or the Cops, and this is true in places like Charlottesville Virginia, all City Councils deviate from the supreme concept of a civil society; that the whole society exists only to guarantee each individual the preservation of their person, rights and property. All of them get elected on some variation of the George Bush Sr., propaganda theme and violate this concept in practice. Rank and file Cops and the Citizenry are also a citizenry, thus ”recidivism” is a threat to them both. A Cop or a Citizen would never buy a house in the Bronx knowing their property can become a hospice site for migrants or some crook can transfer a title of ownership of my property to them and later sell it from under me and I would not a buy a house knowing my property can be lit on fire by some white nationalists in Virginia but I would buy property in both places if I knew the whole society was safe and free of threats. The Bush Family ruined your country.
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  8001. NATO should be abolished! The institution maintains the international arrangements that advance military incursions, low intensity warfare, and expansion of dominant super powers as a means to keep the world divided along the lines of over development and underdevelopment contributing to climate change as a consequence and generating ill will among people, displacement and disease in war ravaged nations. To end war and conflict it is necessary to abolish the institutions of war and the institutions dependent on war for their existence. The gun manufacturers in the US have destroyed the US proliferating guns falling into the hands of kids, as the world sees 15 year olds open fire in schools, a microcosm of the same paradigm. Put guns and dollars into the hands of nations to become client states for the strategic influence over a region or hemisphere by a dominant power.🧐 NATO is a gun manufacturer consumer/ customer/client of this industry, proliferating weapons of mass destruction into regions that provoke and encroach on the sovereignty of other nations, particularly Russia, as well as the US military, and as are Russia’s, China’s etc.
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  8002. @Julian- Fair assessment and scenario...could happen that way.
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  8003. At least Warren is saying something the others in her camp are too scared to say; Nixon froze prices and wages to curtail inflation. Powell is a sadist and Yellen is a spineless functionary and both should be removed.
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  8004. As billions of people walk off the job and take to the streets demanding governments take action on climate change, we can begin to see in direct contrast, between the issues the leaders think are important, i.e., border security, Brexit, Pro-Democracy in Hong Kong, protectionism, sanctions, anti-socialism in Central America ( a special case in itself*) are really self-serving ideas meant to preserve the state of the world as is, versus the actual threat they pose to the planet and all species life. The ideas they espouse become totally irrelevant to the existing reality. The global climate strikes are a social revolution. *Gun violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras is highest in the world.
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  8005. Any movement that starts with itself and begins to develop a consciousness of itself as a movement must account for the counter movement to that movement. What extreme lengths will men and patriarchy go to avoid the disintegration of their patriarchal social system? Ay serious movement must also pin the present extreme lengths a patriarchal will go to the magnitude of wealth it must preserve to the found facts patriarchy was developed in the first place. Why was it so important for men to have legitimate offspring that called into being marriage as a social institution and replaced matriarchies? In pre-patriarchal societies men did not care who got pregnant the actual basis that formed a tribe were the sexual relations of related members of the tribe and the tribe was one large family. It was not important to know who would inherit the land or village for matriarchal tribes. It became important when men found new forms of wealth from the rise of trade and commerce and acquired land became lords, employed vassals, serfs and usurped peasant labor, subsequently whole villages formed of these ranks of workers. I would think the patriarchal institutions of the the US would fight tooth and nail to preserve their material wealth. A feminist attack would strike right at the heart of the beast itself. Property owned as individual property.
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  8006.  @chasmurphy1227  Oh yeah...the FBI are experts in doing that. I mean infiltrating. Often the leaders of a movement that springs up in the US have leaders that were FBI infiltrator and informants. The only way to know who is an infiltrator is to spy on the leader(s) banking activity. They get paid to be a informant. They are not sociopaths but are quite adept at making suckers out of organizers and followers, that is why I wrote my comment. DN audiences are still lost in the woods about activism.
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  8007. Cuomo is a liability to the party. Now becoming the party of Biden. Biden runs against Trump in the next election.
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  8008. America needs a dedicated and sincere, objective, factual, national mass education campaign of its young if it intends to live in a democracy and not have individuals losing faith in their social institutions. A demagogue has seized on this level of ignorance in society for political gain is the fault of America’s educational institutions not making education accessible for one thing, and second, abandoning the industries requiring an educated workforce.
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  8009. I would call him, Kuznik, a professor of social history not history per se', the difference is that in history we examine human activity in connection to the development of the productive forces of society. None of the academicians I have heard thus far on this program and others emphasize the role of technology and science in the labor-process of human beings. War combines human labor and technology, but since, the technical forces of war are not productively consumed by the labor of a soldier there is no wealth generated from them. To the contrary, the expenditure of the labor of a soldier is extinguished by the technical forces of violence, whereas, the productive consumption of labor beyond the point necessary in a factory's technology and science produces value and more value beyond what the worker requires to live is capitalist production. Capitalist production usually follows after the devastation of war has flattened all indigenous methods of production in remote societies and cultures as a way of transforming those societies to meet the needs of a capitalist society. As far as this episode of capitalist development is concerned, the remarkable feature to it that I see is the resilience of the working class in Stalingrad in defeaingt the Nazis must have spooked the ruling elites in the west as a power even greater than the Nazis themselves that it sparked the Cold War, we unfortunately, still to this day endure as a hysteria of anti-socialism.
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  8010.  @dinnerwithfranklin  Half true, war is not a human activity that consumes and produces at the same time. The only activity that does this is work. Military basis create an effecive demand for goods from the domestic economy for the existence of military basis not for the development of society.
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  8011. The Federal government prints its own money is why mayors and governors apply for emergency funding. States and cities cannot print money like the Fed. The Fed has this power over nations as well. Nations have to buy dollars from the Fed or they cannot do business with the US and its trading partners. Vice versa trading partners with the US won’t trade in other national currencies.
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  8012. Its not really one click, its variations of 2.2 billion clicks, that the overnight delivery button is pressed. People who want their shoes now! Certain spheres of economic activity are suitable for a central authority and certain industries are suitable as a public utility, the task is to identify spheres and industries which work best under one or the other form has nothing to do with dictatorship or consensus which are attributes of people engaged in the political sphere of society. People willing to pay any price empower the companies to modify the workplace and the working time of the people who move the products from where they are made to where they get sold with new devices to speed up work cause accidents, deaths, disasters. If the workplace and working time of the working people involved in the work of moving the products people in society are demanding were ‘associated’ as a national association, controlling the flow of circulation in this country; some agreed upon turnaround time for shipments adjusted by what is happening can be solved by coordination not make workers work harder longer and faster! The individual companies who sell the goods are not in the business of shipping but their business is buying to sell products, is an activity, that has nothing to do with how products move from place to place and change hands.
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  8013. If you want to stop this mayor kissing the landowner’s asses and gentrification than organize an opposition to the Archdiocese of NY Catholic Church, NYU, Columbia, and the NY Real Estate Association and draw attention to the role they play behind the scenes in the creation of homelessness, poverty, crime, and more.  @beanpasteposts 
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  8014. BIG mistake to use renewable the better way is to bury the lines.
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  8015. No it isn’t. @Whoknowsme007 
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  8016. You bet they will and more coming.  @CoverageAwarenessStudio 
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  8017. Its a back up call for West!
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  8018. If you have 100 billions of gallons of fuel and that is the yearly output for this year and the tax is 30%, the remaining 70% of the income from the sale of the fuel accrued by the fuel producer increases by whatever cut the tax is proposed to be lowered. A cut is a give away and giving away the surplus reserves of the Public by politicians in Congress or Parliaments around the world re-enacts the with holding from the Public the grain surpluses by the Pharaohs for each epoch the Nile went dry. I have never seen a cop car fueling up in a commercial gas station because the politicians allocate the reserve supply for the cops not the public the reserve supply is meant to supply. Tells you of the kind of politicians you have to deal with.
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  8019. This is total BS! The AIE guy sounds more socialist than Wolf does on a policy level. How would we pay for it? Religion fits nicely into the theory of markets as a moral compass but then you have religion the opiate of the people. One problem becomes another problem. If half of Americans under 40 prefer a socialist society that number would include men and women and kids under 18 aware of socialism. Around 80 million people not including adults over 40 who desire socialism, 80 plus. That's big enough for a socialist revolution. Trump supporters are around 70 million and look at the damage they did. Could even be more than 80 million favoring socialism because there is also a working class of 122m people who could be attracted to socialism. Nearly 200 million people are languishing without a political party or leadership from any socialist party to lead the socialist revolution and its not like there isn't a socialist party? If socialism is what this demographic wants then how do they expect to realize a socialist society without a party? There are examples that socialism excels in lifting people out of poverty. China raised the lives of 700 million in one year no one lifetime. Socialism in Russia did the same achievement for its population and generalized capitalism too when the land was given to the peasants. Land, Peace and Bread was the Bolshevik Slogan. Its all based on permitting or nursing the productiveness of labor along in becoming universally owned and not privately owned. This is the role of the US government does not play in society.  The P/L is a rate, and the key which for the US is high and for China is high that poverty can be eradicated in the world in a day not a lifetime if both nations were socialists nations and not one in competition with the other. But among neither guests is the productiveness of labor the deciding factor in creating a true affluent society?
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  8020. Workers should take over their places of work it will give them the power they need to deal with one of the factions of the military that are fighting when the fighting is over. Airport workers, factory workers, distribution workers, all of them...take it over and keep the economy running this will position the workers to completely control all production. Don’t sit idly by. Take action and form teams to get things running and take advantage of the general chaos and confusion in the military and government and take over all points of essential production. MOVE NOW !
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  8021. The net effect of higher prices of houses is the number of buyers in the market for a house are way fewer. Only people who can afford it are buying houses; the American Dream is dead for the average working class family.
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  8022. This is the history of mankind not taught to children in schools, how America fluctuates between the suburbs and the cities a heyday of their own. Where presidents take their campaigns tells which life, rural or city, is the dominant life in this age-old conflict that started in the Middle Ages,--- is replicated in America in the 21st century. Somethings never change. This man does what many men before him did and for the same reasons. The part of life never shown or talked about where there is nobody who will buy the labor-power in this person and set him into motion in a job. The isolated man, alone to himself, where stealing is made necessary for survival, without a buyer for his commodity, he turned murderer and criminal for money. A sad and tragic tale in the day in the life of a somebody who became a nobody.
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  8023. The passage of the bill against homosexuals in Florida and in other states is a fascist piece of legislation that will result in trans kids never growing up. They will self-isolate and never mature into adulthood understanding the social norms and the socialization that makes a person and individual, this will then lead to their incarceration by the states enacting the law.
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  8024. Reliability of government statistics is a serious issue. Not only are the measurements questionable but the government is questionable! For instance, a clown produces a profit and that in turn invests in other acts employing more talent but society does not regard a clown a productive worker. Society regards a CEO a productive worker and the clown would be right up there emulated with the CEO if clowning were an objective of society. What is emulated in society are the people who produce profits though they are not allowed to use that term if they run for office. Profit is a bad word in American politics. The word to use is 'Jobs'. Jobs is synonymous to profits. Now the words spoken by our politicians can be understood more clearly that they are not talking to us but to the people who make profits. Language is the starting point of mass deception.
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  8025. Cops don’t prevent crime they have to wait for a crime to happen and then remove the criminal. Did you ever play the game Whack a Mole?
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  8026. So far on reflection of the headlines news presented here; the only social changes made in America have been superficial changes in the distribution of who does all of the work in society. Nothing has been accomplished to do away with the work itself. A shame for a highly developed nation that can easily reach this achievement. This would mean all 334 million people take part in the essential work to keep America running and the 132 million who do all the essential work now don’t have to work beyond the point they need to survive 14 hours a day. No generation in America has actually gone after the “way things are done”, to change them. Fight for a shorter working day that at the same time says you are not an American if you have no obligation to do your part. Every generation has avoided this option and so has every part of the citizenry turned their backs on a real freedom a 3 hour workday of 334 million people doing essential work society needs gives the body and soul. I can’t see DDS of Dentistry, Harry Greensmith, doing some garbage clean up on weekends so that a suburban family does not have to depend on the permanent and stagnant income of their father as a municipal sanitation worker and be stuck with that for life! This is how you get an educated citizenry, free time for self improvement by your own choice, and no force required just a lot of convincing. To choose a cosmetic freedom that brings nothing but a depressed and miserable humanity is a real loss. He Lies a Nation that Had it and Did not Use it, reads its epitaph.
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  8027.  @Sweetlyfe  That grave site was exposed during the pandemic and it wasn't the Russians who committed it. This is propaganda and you are taking it in lock, stock and barrel. Its a good thing I researched this two years ago. Now I know anything coming out of the UK News and Ukraine is pure propaganda.
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  8028. Now is the time for the everyday American to raise a stink or else the war mongers at the first sign of defense cuts will make noise to get the grease and the average working person who sat by and did nothing in America will get the axe.
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  8029. Inflating the prices of consumer goods is a reduction in the value of labor-power. Production under capitalism must have a use-value to produce value over and above itself, that use-value is the working class. But in circulation where prices, money and commodities relate to each other the working class is a consumer of values in general. Best thing to do is to force the democrats and republics to dismantle the military budget, cut the military instead of cutting services and social security. P.S. Feds are covering their asses from blame when the dollar falls...they are lying.
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  8030. Re: Lindsey Graham,---When you are continually enriched financially by munitions manufacturers you can’t be more than a prize-fighter for laissez-faire capitalism.
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  8031. “ A chicken has assigned gender but the chicken does not have a gender identity”. Might ask how do we know a chicken knows it does not have a gender consciousness of itself? What if I applied this thinking to a “worker has assigned task but the task does not have a gendered worker performing the task’, there is no division of work between male and female in the population. Men do female work and females do male work. We see women in construction crews outdoors and men indoors doing household work. The work itself as the same method of exploitation of ages past has not changed; what has changed is that men are not the capitalists and women are not the labor the capitalist exploits, the relations of exploitation of labor only the participating individuals have covered over their social roles. Capitalism is still capitalism.
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  8032.  @zeusmasterson4117  The struggle has not intensified yet, when it does the polls will show a real split Us versus Them.
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  8033. There is not a population on earth that is more jerked around than the American Public.
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  8034. The women are brave and angry and rightfully so. Religion in the west and in the middle east are true barriers to human emancipation.
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  8035. My comments are generally directed to chip away at the fear mongering in the news, a counter weight, to the mass psychological repression in the news the American audience are subjected. But I would throw this theory at you about why the US is reluctant to engage...it is because Americans will oppose a war if they see their kids coming home in caskets which is why the news never show the deceased and 2., the Pentagon officials pledge to have others do the fighting for the US. As more and more are reluctant to exchange raw material for weapons and US training that plan falls apart @firstblessings8777 
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  8036. It will be interesting to see who rises through the party after Xi. Its made clear the South China Sea, Taiwan, Tibet and Hong Kong are unfinished business for China as holdovers of the British Colonial Era and the Opium Wars. They were prizes taken by force and exploitation and never resolved is the historical side of Xi’s political framework and, perhaps, Kissinger would have understood better than State department officials now.
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  8037.  @zmaj6524  Do you think the time is right for the 99% to expropriate the 1%?
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  8038. Flakes are people so insecure they settle matters through force.
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  8039. Looks to me like America needs a new way of life, a lot of misguided and repressed energy turned into misguided and misdirected rage, they don’t see Teslas so they attack the family minivan. Morons.
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  8040. This means the days when two oceans was enough to keep America safe from a war on its own soil outside of the Civil War is over.
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  8041.  @katagiracharles5177  nonsense.
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  8042. Can we say that humanity is the result of processes involving the effects of the alteration of the earth done by human activity? But what the professors says is no more than what is happening in reality. Open and receptive to find blame for their circumstances they gradually figure out what has been happening to them has been an attack on the standard of living of the working class by an American Oligarchy of Corporations.
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  8043. Ventilators are not a big seller under capitalism. They are not a hot commodity market where people are buying ventilators left and right in Walmart stores,--- so they are not produced in mass. They may save lives and are a good device that they should be built into every residence in this country as part of a house, apartment or workplace but as a commodity they don’t sell. And since they do not sell the market discounts any job creation or new skill and development that could go into ventilators and when the next big need arises the nation is working with WWII era ventilators and not enough of them would be an example of the kind of crisis generated by a capitalist system of health care. What is a hot commodity in the health field is disease. There is money in disease. In order to make a population sick the disease has to come natural or be manufactured in order for the logic of exchange to take effect. The Logic: More people that are sick the more money can be made from the sale of treatment and medicine. In a capitalist form of health care, health becomes a thing you can buy where the rich live, and the poor die. Disease is the commodity on which the Health Establishment is built and the ‘social relation’ on which the Health Establishment will fall.
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  8044. If we want a Green New Deal superimposed on this troika of industries, i.e., auto, oil, and government, than the GND must be funded from the economic surplus this troika generates for itself, that is capitalized into profits for and by the owners of this troika. Profit is the privatization of the economic surplus naturally being produced by labor and capital regardless of their proportions in production is true for all industries of all types. Replacing the machinery that runs on oil with machinery that runs on sun power does not stop the process of production, to the contrary, new cars that run on alternative energy are produced and this eliminates the need for oil and the need for an oil oligarchy. I say this because the New Deal was funded on taxing the rich higher rates, thus a transfer of wealth, from the rich to the poor, creating a Welfare State, we all want to avoid in the future. The New Deal did not involve a new source of energy and therefore did not have to do away with a generic social class over which every industry has its own oligarchy, thus, many oligarchies as a generic class become ' a thing of the past' if all industries each generate their own economic surplus that can fund their own conversion. If a product can not be adapted to a new use even if its conversion has happened the industry will disappear. Government's role would be to identify what industries will perish in the new society and which ones will succeed and invest into its population coping with those changes. The only role government should have in society is defense, health, education, disaster recovery and conservation/renewal of the environment. With oligarchy a thing of the past the conflicts are social not both economic and social with oligarchs in place. New energy will call up new products and government subsidizing the rich or the poor, is a return to the past not a leap into the future.
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  8045. 16:00 Paris gets ready to host the Olympics,----3000 apartments will be finished in 6 months ready for purchase or rental or both in the Olympic Village, three stadium venues, merchandise stores, ready in 6 weeks for more than 4000 participants is an amazing display of the power of productivity of labor. If France has any homelessness it is not not because France doesn’t have to capacity to produce homes.
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  8046. Of course the live witness report is cut from this video and they are not sure he had a gun.
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  8047. Serving an arrest warrant; what was the arrest warrant about? Plain clothes cops is the best way to get guns off the streets. Age-old tried and proven methods of street intelligence gathering than bust. In the front end, your enemy is not the kid who kills the cop during an arrest warrant. The gun lobby in Congress is your enemy, representatives of Capital. These are people who do not have a problem profiting off other people’s misery. After WWI German chemical manufacturers were sentenced to prison for life for selling chemical weapons to armies despite the Geneva Accords. The passionate cry of the Police Union president on the podium speaks to this but can’t openly criticize this lobby embedded in Congress. This lobby using fabulous amounts of money from the sale of guns in the US and in the world draws a very thin line between patriotism and treason and re-election for politicians that they cannot be free to speak what they really think. Who can break this habitual silence and how institutions succumb to the force of Capital is going to take more than modest reforms to fix. Could be unfixable at this point. Several centuries of political reform can’t keep the genie in the bottle. Capital has grown to strong and has devoured the State that not too long ago was a greater power than the corporations. If the situation changes and lobbies are vacated from the premises,--- outlawed from politics the country can piece itself back to together again. I am afraid, however, this what we see in the streets is gold to the gun lobby.
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  8048. So,---according to this policy, according to G Will, the Ukrainians get the wrath of Putin’s defense encroached by (the pronoun George uses) the “We”. The global strategy of the Pentagon. The “We” in Washington D.C., as distinguished from the “Us” outside of the political elite hatch a plan that is two fold; take over and rule Asia, get Russia out of the way, bog her down in a war in Ukraine, before starting a war with China. Poor Ukrainians in the master plan of world domination by the US play the role of the worthy victim, those who suffer under the attacks of the west in the past, present and future the unworthy victims, and to the Russians resisting the pressure of west to penetrate the east the Ukrainians are showered with hypocritical empathy. What a sad plan...and if it does not work, then what, will the Pentagon order the first nuclear strike a death blow at the planet? A fight to save the Dollar as the reserve currency of the world from collapse over the Yuan. All that means is that a country cannot do business with another country unless it is done with Dollars. Through the dollar comes the whole financial structure of the US that a country can access what it needs to live by trading with other nations. The Yuan is changing all that and this is the reason Russia must fall and Ukraine must suffer! The old adage works better, as a foreign policy, if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em. The Pound Sterling was once the reserve currency before the Dollar. Britain did not seem to take the fall of its global control over trade too hard, before the Dollar, it could not keep India down, doubtful the US can stop the growth and development of the Yuan without a bitter fight, possibly nuclear war.
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  8049. The remedies they come up with are not remedies at all...corporate interests perpetuate corporate relations in their field and nations in their market. They are competitors. More than one corporation form a social class of billionaires. The race among them is who can lower the cost of production of whatever the product or service they make wins the position as seller in the market. Amazon, Apple, Exxon, Haliburton etc., lead the pack of sellers in their field. The historical approach tells us the Why and How they became monopolies and legal and institutional studies come short of the inevitable decline of monopoly capitalism. Business cycles are a necessary evil of capitalist life, because, 1., depression are due to “adventitious circumstances”, and 2., monopolies figured out they can use government for a program of policy for a free market and individual liberty of each monopoly company and prevent depression from restarting the exchange process. The Great Depression by this theory had to happen. A banking epidemic of small and inefficient banks and mismanagement in the larger banks, rampant speculation, mortgage foreclosures and bankruptcies, living on credit, underlie the process of monopoly formations in the market, were the causes in 1929. We never had experience with a market dominated by monopolies in nearly every economic sector. This is new terrain for the historical approach. The financial process of 1929 is not much different than the financial process of 2025, the mortgage crisis then and now are the same but larger in effect making more people homeless in 2017. Farm debt was huge and maniacal speculation in urban real estate, all reasons business fluctuations required more government controls and regulations coming out of 1929. Rebound never came despite the remedies until war. Capitalism would not make it out on its own without war and without the USSR. America owed its life to the Russians in 1929 and to the Nazis fo restarting the business cycle.
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  8050. Oh please, Chris Matthews is a worm. It be great to psych him out with a mock firing squad and watch him beg for forgiveness for all his digressions of anti-humanism. He deserves to be publicly humiliated wearing Depends and nothing more on 5th avenue. The one thing I would like to see Bernie do, is not use a teleprompter to speak live. I grew up in a time when candidates did not read off a teleprompter.  When they spoke from their heart and mind. Reading off a teleprompter started with Nixon mimicking the news anchors of the day. LBJ read his speech from a piece of paper on his desk on camera. JFK spoke from memory and insight on camera. Eisenhower spoke from paper and heart and mind. FDR spoke from heart and mind. Eugene Debs was a great speaker so much so they jailed him. The audience could follow his thinking as if the audience was thinking and using the speakers voice to express themselves.  He would be the forerunner of the televangelical snake oil salesmen speakers but not acting a role. Speaking from heart and mind was the acid test for the public. It told you that person was the right man for the job. Jimmy Hoffa was great speaker, he was railing like Malcom X and King. These guys shook you when they spoke.   Reagan spoke from a prompt his acting skills helped him but he was boring speaker also. Bush was so bad it was likeable and humorous, he was the Alfred E. Newman of Mad comic books.  He knew he was bad at it and used that to persuade. Obama was a scoundrel but good reader and used prompts. This is why listening to Trump speak wrenches my brain, he is such a bad reader, actor and person to begin with. Very hard to listen and watch him speak his placid affect and monotoned voice there is no authenticity in him. Listening to Bloomberg and its like a person speaking with their nostril pinched closed. Mellineals speak like wusses, no strength in their voices lacking conviction. Timid. Amy Goodman's voicing is ragged, comes a time when you should move over. She is like watching Mick Jagger at age 78 prancing around in tights. I have not heard or seen Buttigieg speak I have a hard time watching his face, it repels me with dishonesty.  Biden is torture to listen I'd fall asleep on him. Bernie has conviction but he uses a prompt when he does not need one.  Jimmy Dore reminds of the insult comedian Don Rickles when he speaks. Polosi is a bad speaker and Warren sounds like pontificating Nun in Catholic school. Black people speak horribly when they have not been literized. When literized they are eloquent speakers. Latinos are the same way. I've heard Russians speak English better than English speakers with an undetectable Russian accent and they also speak Spanish well. Americans have a hard time with Spanish, they are better off using a Spanish translator.   Guilliani smacks his lips together that you want stand back fearing he'll spit on you when he speaks. I forgot his name because he sounds horribly gutteral when he speaks I get turned off, leader of the democrats...oh yeah, Schumer. Netanahu is the same way guttural. I think the best speakers of the English language past Shakespeare's English are the Scottish people, they speak like its music. Forces you to listen. The Irish have a great sing song inflexion to their tongue as well. Southern speakers are twanged in the tongue and Texans speak like molasses grips their dentures. Bostonians are horrible sounding English speakers. Oddly the outer borroughs of Manhattan are also horribly speaking English speakers but those born and raised in Manhattan are good English speakers with no discernable accent unlike the borrough speakers from the Bronx, Queens, Long Island, Staten Island...god awful speakers and vulgar English speakers. Lawyers are the biggest polluters of the English language.  I haven't heard midwesterners speak so I can't gauge how bad or good they speak. Prompts are the training wheels used when one learns how to ride a two wheel bike. Its gotten so bad that non-human computerized voices do the speaking which brings a thought to me. Who are the people who gave their voice to be replicated by a digital sound the corporations use? They should be publicly humiliated along with Chris Matthews in his Depends.
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  8051. The freedom of choice of religion is a destination going in the opposite direction on the road to a human freedom.
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  8052. Way to downplay ability and skill. This type of activity is gymnastics. With practice and training Olympic material. People with your mentality do not know how to cultivate talent when you see it. @bxi1547 
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  8053. If I Google a question; for example: Where is the best place to live? I will get a list of countries to choose from. My own country is not one of them. My migration will proceed to the country I choose. When I arrive there are thousands seeking the same as me. I am told. The one reason given migrants are not allowed to enter. Is there a virus or not? Vaccinate and be done with it so we may enter. Truth is we do not want you here. A fight breaks out, looks like the word spread far and wide. More fights and reason is fading into hunger. It gets cold out here. I can’ turn back, my country is not on the list of best places to live. Flooding, crime, ground attacks by drones, wedding parties killed, innocent families caught in the crossfire of terrorists. My employer of ten years suddenly cut my job out: its gone. Never to come back. The employer that would have sponsored me to come to the US left me flat after 10 years of dedication.
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  8054. The Turk and Caicos guy intrigues me. Why would he bring ammunition into that country? What was his purpose? Basic questions NBC avoids answering.
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  8055. America’s economic system is a total failure for its people but a total success for billionaires and millionaires. “The most important thing is that our students are not exposed to heat illness’, says the Philadelphia School District Monique Braxton. She really means the kids shall not suffocate from heat stroke on our watch. Evading liability is more important than the lives of the kids. If it happens it will happen one dies from the heat let it happen when they are home. The woman could never bring herself to say we have broken infrastructure that cannot handle the heat or the climate as it changes before our eyes and cannot teach kids in a structure that is fundamentally a giant sized oven in the heat. Congress does nothing about it. These kids are not rich. The rich ones are still being taught no matter what the changes in climate are.
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  8056.  @amad8466  Neoconservatives were a minority evangelical anti-communist wing of the GOP before Reagan was president. The GOP took on domestic matters in the 70's for a military build -up in response to oil cartel threats to the industrialized world and the neoliberal conservative Reaganites in the democratic party ran on foreign matters re-branding capitalism as a 'harmonious' form of imperialism . All this at the expense of domestic issues and virtually abdicating any responsibility or representation of the American people, particularly the working class. The working class belongs to that social system but is not of that social system is present as a general feeling of the American people. Where do they fit in as members of society and to who do they belong among each other as personal relations? Not one politician on the left can sense this, not one politician on the left has a thorough understanding of the hidden injuries of class under capitalism and not one politician across the entire spectrum understands social production as being contrived and polluted by a class system, its social relationships appearing in concrete forms in society as a social conflict.
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  8057. Serious and alarming revelation in the statement of Acting US Capitol Police Chief.  The Capitol police need re-inforcements to deal with the Oath Keepers and the One Percenters, the Proud Boys, Neo-Nazis, planning to kill Democrats in Congress and the Pentagon intercepts re-inforcements, the National Guard, delayed. If they took the Capitol and killed democrats the action is nothing short of a declaration of war on the National Guard and Police by the Pentagon aiding an abetting three secret societies the Pentagon has warm relations with to seize the Capitol. Annull the general election results. To what end, to install Trump as president for life! This is an astounding page in history. Inside the Senate we have three pro-violent right wing senators, one of whom calls for a bullit to the head of the Speaker, and all three in one form or another connected to this virulent right wing,-- Cruz, Green, Hawley. Move into another area of society the private sector and mass social media abets and enables this planned coup in the form of Facebook nieve to the political situation.
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  8058.  @za2206  what the hell you are talking about!
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  8059. When he said someone with power has the ability to hold an employee's life ambition hostage or harass them I thought he was going say the employee deprived of power is the point of a workplace run on behalf of a private interest. The elements in the workplace, the tools, the shop, the factory, the office, the building, the streets, subways, roads, bridges and the mass of people who use them do not relate to each other as owners of these elements, in fact, they are non-owners of the elements as the elements, the land, the raw material, belong to people who are non-workers. The non-workers are owners and the non-owners are the workers. The trick is to turn owners into workers and workers into owners.
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  8060. What? There is no love and revolution in this social group the subjects of the investigation removed the investigators. A ‘female subordinate” not a good start for a new party. Pathetic.
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  8061. Frank Zappa taught us how to handle journalist voices of the military industrial complex, people should take their cues from Frank and see his interview movie.
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  8062. Great question, I hope you are patient enough to read my reply. 46% of 333 million is 157.8 mil., enough of a majority to overthrow the entire capitalist order in one fell swoop. Imagine if all 157.8 mil people stopped shopping for a day how quickly the money for jobs, health and welfare, would turn up! A one day mass boycott would yield big political wins for the Working class, rather than to express our discontents and dissatisfaction through an electoral process every 2 to 6 year cycles. Why are Americans so fearful of a complete revolution rather settle for a partial one? An electoral win is only a partial revolution, it still leaves intact all of the economic and class relations that are present in society. Is it for the same reason men and women throw in the twill and settle for whoever and whatever is around that capitalism is enabled by the Working classes? Is a partial and political emancipation for a woman to become a CEO or, president, governor, or director of the CIA, constitute a human emancipation for women in general? The Working class is an outsider, and when it participate in the political system, the Working class is an insider. Big landowners and big ranchers got Trump in office with their money. They want the Estate Tax repealed to which he promised. The Working class pays to play with their labor and money. Is it not clear to the Working class that this political system consists of anti-socialist alliance Washington leads, and the Big banks, landowners, merchants, industrialists are more united than the Working class would decapitate Stein, Sanders, through the political structure? Sanders or Stein could have promised a repeal of the Death tax. Abolish the Inheritance tax, that is less money the Big government has to work with. No third candidate knows how to build a coalition or a government among the social classes. They fail to see how private interests can be played to leverage the Working class into a better economic condition. Third party candidates can and should learn from their political enemies how its done but they don't. Too timid, they fear the mass of the Working class will not vote for them at the first sign of being in bed with an enemy. Too immature, so far there have been three coups, Bush's re-election win against Gore using the Supreme Court was a coup, the passage of the Patriot and Citizen United Act, the ousting of Sanders and Stein from the election against Trump right under the nose of the Working class. You and I are operating in a political order not a democracy. In an earlier time, individuals were more willing and less ignorant to see the rationality of a socialist society for a developed nation. Eugene Debs garnered 90 million votes against FDR, they tolerated FDR but not his VP, Wilson was decapitated, and Wilson and Debs would have transformed America into a democracy at a time when when only 500 out of 5000 corporations were engaged in commodity production exclusively. Early Westinghouse, IBM, Mobil etc., were still small enough to not be Too Big To Fail. Today 500 corporations dominate the world's resources by means of the force the American Working class provides, free, gratis. The working class is its military, is its national guard, is it police force, all these people were not born a Jared Kushner.
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  8063. Strictly speaking on the American Question; at this particular historic juncture human emancipation has no material force, not one social group in society through which it can find concrete expression and absorb all individual battles with all capitalist relations into one mass movement. This does not mean there are no active movements, just none that have taken the idea of human emancipation and made it their own. This is the problem before us. Your comment is well received; how does it advance this cause?
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  8064. One thing for sure US policies are opening the world to China and alienating the American workforce from participating, period. The American economy will not get a piece of that action and that has to change or the US economy will die!
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  8065. Its true that things are over valued and he does no more than what others in his class do, to be fair. Equity markets are over valued by around 160%, too much over what the shorter accumulations can bear. There is so much disproportion that the distance between what America needs and what America produces is so wide longer periods of growth are needed.
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  8066. I welcome this pollution. It shows the opposition to Big Oil Industry was right. Americans are an inert mass of people who do nothing until it happens to them.
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  8067. Maybe the complete annihilation of the State of the Florida will redirect the appropriations of Congress to Ukraine and Israel to climate change refugees who are American. Ya think?
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  8068. Well, --- if we had a real picture of Andrew Jackson, one that shows him as he really appeared in life unstylized and not romanticized by the artwork and illustration, we would choose Tubman for the $20 dollar bill. The Jackson portrait is a stylized piece of art following a tradition in art for propagandistic political purposes really pronounced during the Soviet and Nazi era, portrait artists of Napoleon and Ceasar made these dictators look other worldly, this stuff goes back a long way and we as Americans are susceptible to imagery. In this case, we are susceptible to an ideology through Jackson's image. A small piece of propaganda that goes a long way cementing a cult of personality connected to a romanticized idea of what it means to be a settler, colonizer, slave holder, land owner.
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  8069. Shows the political system of the US is not a political system that can plan or manage the whole economy to ensure the separate producers do not fall apart. If the buyer disappears from the supply chain, the farmer and growers are out of business, the food rots or is destroyed in order to raise the price of the product. An act of selfishness as an attempt to recover one’s own losses becomes the motive of growers. Not by intent are they selfish. It is a market system that forces people to become selfish and learn the ways of selfishness as a part of necessary survival. Farmers and growers act out of self-preservation but it comes at the expense of the buyers. This would be because a potato is a commodity and produced as a thing for its own nutritional usefulness to human beings only as an exchange-value. The sociological consequences is a collapse of the food chain and major social crisis entailing increased hunger, disease, poverty and social anarchy. The lesson perpetually ignored and unheeded by the political system here is that food should not be a thing you can buy and sell. Prices are higher for the buyer-consumer and the seller-producers have fewer buyers. This would not be such a disaster if the science of agriculture were not so advanced but they are in the US. Scientists and farm machine producers, must find a society where their skills and products can be sold and are put to use. The political system is a republic not equipped to deal with an economic structure and the social consequences of too much food and too many people hungry that the industries in the food chain lose more jobs than it can generate. Serious problem that can lead to the end of the US as we know it. CBC Canada, the Canadian equivalent of America’s ABC or CBS news, does an exposé of this crisis that people (Americans) should look up here on Youtube to learn more about who the actors in this food chain are and what they are doing that worsens the situation.
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  8070. Not it isn’t. Your premise is false. The Constitution is based on a separation of man from man. It is not based on relations between people. Liberty is defined in the US constitution as ‘non-interference”, like a boundary line divides your property and my property we can not interfere with what is your’s and what is mine keeps us separated through private property. Even the right of property in the US constitution is a right of self-interest and it leads to every person seeing in what other’s own not their own “realization” but a “limitation” of their own liberty. Your premise is wrong and your English is dry.  user-xz9zu3to2t 
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  8071. How do you want to get money out of politics if you do not get the capitalists out of politics? This makes no sense. You can’t just look at the period between two presidents figure out what kind of country you want, you have to look the long-term history of the US since the Civil War to see how things, your dreams got deferred and became a nightmare? The patterns are clearer, of a repetition of prosperity, stagnation and depression, when you look at the normal progression of capitalism. Americans are in worse shape today then a slave was in the pre-Civil War period.  The problem is not capital, that is money the country needs to run its economy, the problem is capitalists! The difference is night and day, one is a thing that runs the economy the other is a person man or woman that acts and behaves like a miser and hoards all the money and then takes power to continue to hoard all the capital the country needs to run its economy. This has been going since close of the Civil War, so what kind of country do want people, make up your minds?  All you have to do as proof of my point is see what has happened since the New Deal era. Reagan came into office in 1980 and undid all the programs FDR built leading up to now and Trump will finish the job Reagan started and take away social security. Social security is America’s sacred cow and the last of the New Deal cornerstones to be taken away from the people.    Very strange that a culture refuses to see th
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  8072. Should look at how the State cracked down on certain drugs as a means of repressing or segregating certain cultures in America in the west around the 1920's. Places like Wyoming were settled by Nazis sympathizers established Dude Ranches in places like Kirwin, Wyoming. After 1900, pot was associated with Mexicans, opium associated with the Chinese, alcohol associated with the Irish. Films like "Reefer Madness", meant to stir racial attitudes against Central Americans and Mexicans as destroying the minds of white young people. Native Americans and black people were not associated with a drug through which the State can crack down on Native Americans and black Americans but were subjected to the racial attitudes that steretyped them as half human before 1900 and by the lack of enforcment of the E. Proclamation of Lincoln. There is not one aspect of American culture that is not shaped by racism. Not one. I often wondered how Malcolm X and King would have reacted to Obama had they remained alive. Now that we are here, what does this mean for Bernie and the black vote after Iowa's debacles which we know was not won by Buttigieg?
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  8073. A very clear and cogent analysis of this dilemma which has a solution embedded in the problem, i.e, the DeIndustrialization of America and the subsequent destruction of the family patriarchal system. In order to meet the needs of capitalists the politicians destroyed the family except their own. Now they are going after social security because its a pool of money they have not appropriated for themselves to pay off the corporate debt and government IOUs.
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  8074.  Crap- I mean Rap music  CNN socialist, HA! Joke. If they are socialist than I am Jos Stalin. You've been duped by the CIA into believing they are socialist because the CIA and the other networks, ABC< CBS< FOX are all CIA filtered and controlled. Those red flags are my brothers and sisters. Stupid Trumpers do not know anything about how the game is played so they get played by the game.
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  8075. The scale of gas drilling and water fracking which uses water as a force to break open gas veins rises to the surface through wells the released gases from the drilling. Extraction industries pulled down the water table far below the depth of average residential wells tracing out a 'cone of depression' and finally waterless wells. They can do this because the political power of the extraction industries is far greater than the political power of McDowell County, West Virginians in Washington D.C.. To shut it down and restore the water table is not going to happen by itself if you get my drift.
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  8076. The focus ought to be on environments generating bacteria such as the workplace where humans come into contact with germs and toxic materials transmitted by indoor pollution. Buildings and offices, schools, hospitals, homes, all ventilated artificially. There is also the matter of carbon emissions in heating systems. Particles break down over time and chemically treated building material circulate enter the body. Susceptibility in children varies from child to child, some get strep and some do not, but as successive generations are less exposed to natural air and light and outdoor activity the rate of infection is high from constant exposure and the body never acquires the resistance to bacteria as it is constantly bombarded resulting in accumulated trauma. The quality of our food is another source of problems. This is a political problem that requires a political solution to lessen the time people spend indoors in their workplaces working under conditions that exposes them to chemicals, carbon pollution, and toxic material. In societies where the balance between the intensity of work and duration of work is balanced the immune system is developed and in some cases over developed with cases of people rarely experiencing infections. Americans have to re-examine their agriculture and their general working day before resorting to Anti-biotics doing the job the human body would do naturally if work and life were balanced.
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  8077. The Civil Aviation Authority said Thomas Cook has ceased trading, its four airlines will be grounded, and its 21,000 employees in 16 countries, including 9,000 in the UK, will be left unemployed. So, it is in Mallorca, Spain and with a travel airline industry that sets off the beginning of an economic slowdown that has yet to reach the US. When it does, the world economy is officially stalled as millions join the ranks of the unemployed, more can become part of the climate crisis resistance movement and regain their lives and jobs back in a new economy when it takes down the fossil fuel industry and the lifeline fueling it.
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  8078. America's political elite substitutes the classical technical terms 'civil society' and 'alienation' with the the more popular vulgar terms 'rule of law' and 'individualism' is a run of the mill occurrence in Washington DC. The term 'political elite' is broad and includes different social groupings of the wealthiest in their field. The popular vulgar term is the 'Deep State' people use implies here one not many social groupings of political power at play in America. This term does not adequately identify the social process of many social groups forming the political elite and how they come into being through the use of force. Obama was probably the more outspoken in the use of the popular-vulgar terms since being introduced by the right wing under Reagan. Increasingly the language for the two technical and classical terms were substituted by the vulgar terminology that is now a part of every person's vocabulary. Use of the terms characterizes them as 'vulgar', 'off-base', finally, 'wrong' because civil society comprised of several social institutions is unaccounted for in the term 'rule of law', which when used by the political elite signifies one social institution the Judiciary or the State interchangeably and never at the same time and when used by the oppressed masses implies a 'conspiracy of one to many' relationship and this does not adequately identify what is occurring as a social process.  Individualism is always the alienation of the material wealth of society from individuals, the separation of state from civil society is the social process, because what is being individualized is the material wealth of society not the members of society, is another social process happening simultaneously. Coming from this perspective none of this will make any sense to any of you without understanding the concepts and their meaning, the key terms 'civil society' and 'alienation', in other words, how individuals are beset by limitations in civil society, and how material wealth is privatized by the State.
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  8079. What does it say to you when a republican senator, an elected official and lawyer, sues the wrong person to overturn the election?
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  8080. Nuclear weapons is the biggest threat to humanity in our present form of government in the service of Oligarchies in your country. Better wake up dude! But I am happy to hear some like yourself are inching toward critical thinking and not sinking into the quagmire of fascism.
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  8081.  @mikezeke7041  Fido 11:46-58
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  8082. Ukrainians are pawns in this geopolitical war between Russian and American elites, people should realize this and take action accordingly. Elites are using their international institutions of power in a war/competition against each other and the people are caught in the crossfire. America wants to overthrow the Communist party in China so it goes after Russia to get her out of the way. Look at Germany, a relatively advanced nation, still took weapons from the US to develop its own industrial and military, since WWII this never happened before now. Shameful for a left government to do but it happened. They all want to copy the US. They all think like globalists, they all see in each other the limitations of their own wealth, power, and society, and repeat what elites have always repeated wars and competition to get on top. The danger in these younger or less developed former USSR countries is the path they will take if militarized, path Germany took in WWII. Endless bullshit people put up with from elites and fall for is downright stupid.
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  8083. Problem here is that there are many Jeffrey Clarks in the Justice Department Garland is up against. These are radicalized civil servants who cannot be fired unless by their own actions violate a policy of the Justice Department and warrants a termination, even then they could win their jobs back. If Trump gets re-elected these people are still there ready to service Trump in ways he deems will consolidate political power into his hands and as leader of the republican party bring all the republican governors together for a constitutional convention that would effectively, assign power to Trump for life! Goodbye to the US constitution if that happens and do not think it cannot is the mistake of previous generations. There's only one reason Trump is King and that is because there are people like Jeffrey Clark who want to be subjects to a King in this Justice Department. When Hitler was in power the Justice Department was completely under the control of the Nazi Party with many justices on trial in Nuremberg after the war. These people kneel to authority that they may share in the wealth a dictatorship extracts from society but they are not a political party, that would be the governors and mayors and sheriffs and then the Senate which in their present mindset are an extremist clique within the ranks of this particular bureaucracy and historically speaking a ball and chain choking the nation of its government.
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  8084. Neoliberal Barbarism is what it is! Overthrow it!
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  8085.  @meb6869  A right wing mash up of FOX is a great tool to show the fascism of the republican party.
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  8086.  @oldgordo61  Good of you to have those powers of observation, ---insightful.
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  8087.  @theverylastuser  they do work from the same sheet. Owned by corporations the corporations work from the same sheet. Their voices are not their own voices.
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  8088. This is great news. The people in America on the right and the left have a government that is their common enemy too should unite as the Chechs are untied here.
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  8089. Azov Battalion are supported because they can bog Putin down are doing the dirty work for the expansionists.  When serving their purpose the Azov Batalion would become an enemy after and if, they succeeded in driving Putin out.
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  8090. She is saying that it worked in Afghanistan, funding Osama Bin Laden fighting the Russians had driven them out, it should work in Ukraine...in her mind (Clinton) all human life is just a number.
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  8091.  @supportyourtroopsathletes6460  Hey wake up! The last time Congress declared an act of war was in 1954. Congress does not declare wars, they do not even debate if war should be declared. You’ve been asleep man.
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  8092.  @supportyourtroopsathletes6460  Nonsense, you sound like Dr. Strangelove. Your grammar is bad. You are projecting an imperialist view which is not not your own view but a view indoctrinated into you by the military. When you say you can prove something than prove it.
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  8093.  @JohnDoe-qz7tm  You and your friend Support your troops and athletes; have an imperialist view of this war...its not even a war but an invasion of imperialist forces. Americans always get other people to do their dirty work...shielding themselves behind other battalions and combatants, supplying them but never on the field of battle itself...and more to the point...never are US soldiers the sons and daughters of the rich...NEVER. You need to debrief yourself of the indoctrination.
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  8094. Why spend all that money on “after the fact” programs like first responders when you can have all 132 million working people be the first to respond to a disaster and cover all places at the same time as a way to lower the fatality rate in America. Bravo to the men who proved this point to the world.
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  8095. You have to keep talking about how people were let down by the federal government. They threw out the Obama national emergency pandemic plan and the pandemic caught them off their guard and threw out the economy. Now 32 million jobs lost and another ten million jobs lost for June would make that one third of the total workforce of 133 million workers out of work. Staggering number of people unemployed are not likely to be voting republican for the senate when cuts have to be made on pensions because unemployment funds dried up and states can no longer pay.
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  8096. A big part of the planning of the American transnational corporations is to make uniform a lower wage standard for the US labor-force. A union-free society and a der-regulated capitalism that promotes the sanctity of the workplace as private property. Those are big three objectives of all US corporations. By means of cheapening the commodities US labor uses in order to produce on a daily basis wages are felled by every increase in automation and innovation to the labor-process and with every intervention into a foriegn country where it can produce the goods cheaper for Amazon to resell. The scheme won't work if the US labor force does not have the purchasing power. US labor will earn wages higher than the global average but four times lower than the standard of living of the American labor force coming out of the Great Depression in the post World War II period. All generations since then will look back at that greatest generation as showing how a higher standard of living can be attained, real affluence. So another part of the plan is to ensure that history never gets told or told in a way that the period was a freak. Truth be said this is the same way American transnational corporations have interpreted the USSR attaining affluence under its Five Year Plans, emphasize the political ugliness of those successes and undermine the economic achievements. Tour Russia today and ask anyone age 70- 80-90 they prefer life under the USSR to Putin's Capitalism. Of all working classes in the world today the most economically powerful of all is the US labor force but it is also a living paradox lacking the intellectual and political consciousness it is unable to wrestle the productive forces away from capital gets clobbered on a daily basis under the Biden administration, ironically. History will show Trump provided a tiny not-worth-mentioning- modicum of protection for US labor from the economic attacks of Big Capital. But his purposes were all personal not political. The defenses are completely down now. Standard of living of American workers will sink dramatically even with the stimulus and beyond it, to no recovery. US labor has lost its middle class existence in society in a grand social experiment that ends in defeat. Got a couple of rounds left. The fight ain't over till the Fat Lady Sings.
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  8097. Obviously we can place blame on developing nations for their own inability on their part to free their populations from the politics of fossil fuel production. We cannot blame them for the doom of humanity though. But we can say corruption is a big part of the equation, if they had a vision of the future a full independence would have kept the oil in the ground. But this is not how history works. Nations are born, grow up and get old then die is how history works and the engine of that history is how easily a nation can satisfy materially its wants not by magic but by its labor capacity. Every generation believes what happened to people in the past cannot happen to them. There are always forces out there deflecting attention to this fallacy. Depends on how much of a sucker you are to believe it. Politicians resurrect the past and have no eye for the future, they sit on things, and the past happens all over again, in greater measure, proportionality and intensity, genocide, war, doom. The dirty world of politics is a constant process of never letting the past go and always promoting the same behavior, the same routines, the same relationships. People get flummoxed at the reality its happening to them when the same relationships of the past recur in the present keeps alive the dirty world of politics. It is over, finished, when we break away from repetition and habits of the doing the same thing over and over again. If we don’t we are finished. The planet will make earth uninhabitable for millions and millions of years through our encouragement. The political game of preventing a balance between intensity and duration; are the only two elements forming our purpose in life, two quantitative variables, is all we are as a species. Who we are and what we are...is never balanced but locked in a perpetual mystery in a state of unknowingness in life.
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  8098. The economy they are talking about is the real economy. The question I have is about the kind of economy that cannot reach a balance between production and consumption unless it throws people out of work!
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  8099. ...the imposition of a mask is less the issue, its the vaccine passport, that enables the government to track your movements and impede your movement at will is a foreboding of government control. People saw how China quarantined entire cities but what they do not know is that survival in China does not depend exclusively on continuing or finding a job. Their material necessities are not interrupted or the population deprived when quarantined in China. Employers there cannot hire and fire and wages are not frozen if workers are quarantined is the piece of information the mainstream news does not tell American workers. The CCCP will not freeze or forfeit your assets, suspend your insurance, revoke your license, because you are not wearing a mask or getting vaccinated. No the method is one, two, three, you are swept up, taken home, given the vaccine and if you are uncooperative placed on watch all done through social media and technology, follow the quarantine and then you are out as China had done. Cases dropped the the cities came back to life. But since a job is the only way to acquire the necessities and survive in America ordering employers to vaccinate workers or be fired is seen by workers as a breech of their right of freedom by the government. Workers are not against the employers but against the State. So really this Convoy is a sign of the employer/employee economic model working for the employer(s) but not working for employees though the workers only slowly through struggle become conscious the model is the problem and the State is the symptom of the model. The employers are the lifeline for the workers the State has become the object/enemy of worker’s freedoms. As a stroke of historic luck the State is in fact totalitarian. The workers point the finger at the right place but they still have the employers who really run the show keeping them down from earning a better living and determining their lives. Freedom is still not a reality for workers but it is for employers in the employer/employee model. This is why Trudeau is a numbskull, he could have simply ordered the mandates be gone and walked among the Convoy, shake hands, and everyone would have gone home. He, like many of his generation, have no understanding of this economic model and who in that model has the raw deal. However, going in person to the Convoy organizers would have meant overcoming the phobia associated with this bias against the people, the aversion to workers, having to put down his privileged biases and disdain for workers in society. So doing what makes Joy Behar anxious and coming into contact with people in a mass protest is not her or Trudeau’s idea of a safe place after a successful indoctrination campaign of dis information and conspiracies of an invisible disease put out by our friends over in the CIA. Poor woman, has anxiety. Further its a means of social control of the population by dividing the population into two groups in the hands of people like Trudeau, a closet racist and Nazi sympathizer, does not further his cause and makes it easier for government to crush any opposition to its over-reaching power and rule over the working class.
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  8100. That is why DSS was created to prevent families from taking political stands that they cannot leave their kids home...but where there is a battle to be had, there is always a way. Both students and parents need to take action together against the State! @johnjones-uc3ni 
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  8101. Ridiculous and ignorant comment. Children under the age 18 in this country DO NOT HAVE RIGHTS!@leasarnie3913
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  8102.  @BrokenAbyss  Google: Extinction Rebellion, there is also a Chris Hedges interview of its organizer, You Tube search On Contact: Extinction Rebellion for the interview to get involved. Wish you well.
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  8103.  @mikecorbeil to further placate your need for a link, search on You tube, Edge of Extinction: Examples of Rapid Extinction. Are you satisfied with that Mike?
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  8104.  @cjmacq-vg8um  okay...I'll check it out, but you do realize that Anarchism fits that mold, which is okay with me. Anarchists do good work when they really apply themselves. I bet you did not know that Catalania would not be in the high economic position it is in to demand independence from Spain if not for the syndicalist-anarchist workers movement that resisted Franco and fascism generally. Did you know that?
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  8105.  @ritatice6044  As long as you get my point is all I want. You can call them Aholes.
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  8106. The problem with our military is its concept of DETERRENCE the action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences. This concept has infected the population, the police, the government, the schools, the relations between nations a fear of annihilation from your fellow man. Deterrence has everyone is in a state paranoia about the world and its inhabitants. It is impossible, not to mention psychologically oppressive, to view your own species as not hostile, or incapable of attack, through the idea of deterrence. The concept regards all living beings as a threat is what makes it impossible to be human under this paradigm or concept. America’s military makes humanity fear humanity and live in fear of it. Deterrence is also a police and school strategy which explains why police cannot solve crimes, cannot protect children, and schools cannot educate kids, punishments, time outs, regulations and scheduling are all methods of avoidance; all used to isolate a threat, and this concept in practice extends outward to all nations from within the mind of the individual. What America’s military develops is how best to avoid contentment, happiness, love, compassion, relationships, structure and discipline, which are the primary and natural functions or attributes of humanity as a species versus the man-made concept of hostility as the attributes the US military projects on humanity through its industrial and technology expansion. This is what is wrong with ourselves and our military culture.
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  8107.  @danielhoward4566  That is not good enough. You must prove what is right about deterrence as opposed to defense.
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  8108.  @danielhoward4566  That’s a stupid idea to defund the police and you are a pretty stupid person assuming it on my part.
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  8109. This war started in 2014 in the Donbas with Ukrainian forces provoking Russia into a war. The American neocons want this war and reject any peace deal. Victoria Neuland spear headed this war is a neocon. The Gas pipeline sabotage was a neocon covert operation. Interfering with the lives of Ukrainians as sacrifices for the greater war against Russia is an overt neocon mission. The war is a neocon war... a fake war with real sacrifices... that has brought about fractures in the alliance Neocon wars are wars of desperation... that burn bridges between nations.
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  8110. This is why progressives should chip away at the senselessness of the US spending abroad. For example, once you free up war expenditure capital a surplus is created. What it is that makes progressives afraid to challenge her is the right wing who are fearless against Med4All and the Green New Deal. A push for M4A and GND will be met with a push further to the right...its a tricky affair. If Progressives left the M4A and GND and focused on the four big declared nations, China, North Korea, Russia and Iran, by the NSA/Pentagon to be the enemies of the US have been no threat at all makes US mishchief making a political embarrassment leading to a loss of seats in both Houses for the right wing. Progressives can then attack the center democrats who are in the way of M4A because center democrats do not have a plan on how to use that dividend on the economy and society but are scared enough of the social explosion to cave on the matter. The absurdity of the progressives is made by a world that is under a pandemic and natural catastrophe making all nations in no position to be a threat to the national security of the US and the big four declared threats are actually quiet and peaceful non-interfering in US affairs is not turned into political capital to defeat the right wing! The world to progressives is currently a threat to the national security of the US in their eyes...especially the four nations mentioned, they have not debated the case of China, Iran, NK, and Russia to dispel the right wing propaganda making them as bad as the right wing perpetrating a false characterization of the state of the world as out to get them, when the reality is pain and suffering of the mass of humanity everywhere.
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  8111. As a general overview: Police exists to manage crime and criminals, their job is to ensure that crime and criminals instill fear and repression in society to prevent and distract the Youth from making attempts to organize themselves into a powerful movement that can overthrow the government, is the lesson the ruling classes learned from the Vietnam demonstrations against the war that took down a sitting president. The greatest enemy of the ruling class are the youth. We saw what youth can do in lawless societies and in societies that need a revolution the Youth transformed ancient societies into modern day super powers.
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  8112.  @JAG8691  ...the Dutch, German, Spanish, Polish agricultural worker, in comparison with their predecessors will be changed for the worse, instead of the peasant becoming a serf again, the farmer becomes a proletarian again worse fed and worse clothed. The farmer’s son, grandson, brother, nephew, daughter, granddaughter, sister, niece, in other words, the members of his whole family employed by the farmer will become paupers under this Neo liberalism.
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  8113.  @katalackatt76  That’s different. CCP has to control the growth of capitalist enterprise from becoming too big and controlling over their own power and the economy of China, something that should have been done here to prevent the growth of powerful monopolies controlling the lives of most everyone on the planet.
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  8114. Is there a way to end war peacefully? Colombia can be considered a country under foriegn occupation and the Colombian State reflects that occupation. There is no political will in the Duque government to abolish social inequality, he shows every intention of inducing it. He is not open to gradually reform society. It appears the part of the left is wasting their time with empty rhetoric. Duque is in command of a state that can evaporate after its foriegn sources of support are cut off. Its main source of support is the US that yet another war for the accumulation of capital takes place in the name of the American people.
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  8115. If they want to preserve their profit line of expensive commodities the Big Retailers will have to lay out more Capital in guarding their merchandize or close shop. There is another option for the Big Retailers, the reporter could have asked; why not reduce the price of the merchandise? Certainly this would save the society the cost of putting resources which snuff out the actors but not the piracy and would not entail a huge move toward more surveillance in stores around the country. As long as people have a need for money they will take chances but in this report; it could even be that the Big Retailers, are recovering their losses in other ways and the lowering of the incomes of working people is the real aim and goal. We will never know the report stays on the surface and never dives under the water to see what is really going on.
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  8116. II find it incredible that with all the family relations there in Miami the authorities have not the autonomy to make a decision to organize these relations into rescue work teams. Its not as if they will not have respect, to the contrary, probably very willing to be useful in the rescue and recovery of their loved ones. You don't see this form of social control when earthquakes happen. The social structure called the 'chain of command' will not allow to help. You MUST be a licensed FIRST RESPONDER to help dig. Doesn't this tell you that the social structure of this country is designed to tell what you cannot do? Every law, ordinance and zoning pigeon holes the population into very narrow activities we can call freedom.
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  8117. Its over...there 22 million students in the US, of that 10.2 million are 18 year old boys...I would say the odds of 26 thousand secondary schools in the US having an attack is... do the math and any and every school has a 5 and 20 chance of an attack. All attackers are white male boys, no girls, no black kids. Just white lower middle to working class boys. A lost generation for whom the military is the only way out. When the military disappoints them they return to society no better off than when they went in. But now old enough to have their own family they raise new kids, something of their own, and the next set of kids are more nihilistic than the parent they came from.
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  8118. This is a case where government has been cut down to its knees. Kneecapped as it were by the idea of “Less government”, and government over time is staffed with less and less qualified people, they are influenced, from top down, to accommodate a private sector in whatever building project they undertake representing a sizable profit. Banks intervene with their power by foreclosing the home helps the builders and the city, stalling the law suit, the city’s lawyer helps the bank’s foreclosure proceeding and blames the home owner for launching a suit, not a lawyer I would like, and potentially the builders are gone scot free. All bank properties that are foreclosed properties are tax depreciable deductions for banks. The city county government did not record the easement on documents so thousands of homes in two counties have easements unrecorded and the one honest piece the 1965 Utility Employer letter by A.C. Hutchinson from the Right of Way Division Engineering Department to City Public Utilities Department, his letter fell on deaf ears. Hutchinson is the only honest person in this entire history, a worker/employee of a private utility company. His letter is written in a time when private industry operating in America’s home market was not weaponized to tyrannize citizens with a goed for profit. Hutchinson would have been fired is the comparative difference between the character of employers than and employers now. Had the government heeded the engineer’s letter he would have saved 300,000 people the catastrophe of a 100 year old water main splitting open eventually to flood this suburb. Heavy rains and flood will break the main. The case is a microcosm of what is wrong with America.
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  8119. “...If you expose (media) people to it they become desensitized to it....and accept this is the way things are.”, said the one millennial. 200 years ago a book, A Children’s Friend a primary education textbook was used to achieve the same social conditioning. It was widely distributed in town and rural schools that taught the children of a peasantry and artisans to accept their lot in life. “It is what it is” was the message of the Children’s Book. You’ll always be poor, dumb and lonely. Any deviation from that socialization process is revolutionary because it rejects the idea that there should always be a special class to run the affairs of society while the majority conditioned by overwork not be participants, active or revolutionary. The three unmarried millennial academics perpetuate in their arm-chair table discussion the same theme of the text A Children’s Friend.
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  8120. Petty and vindictive republicans expel an entire constituency by expelling their representatives. This is fascism.
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  8121.  @starcrib  make-up and plastic.
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  8122. The only normality to this is the fallibility of human beings. Everything else is working the way it is supposed to work. Deserts become veritable landscapes and lush landscapes become deserts.
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  8123. Biden is not going to finish out his term as president and will definitely not be running for re-election. Stealing government secrets is a crime higher than committing a crime against humanity for a president. Biden took secrets to his private office when he was Vice-president. Quite a long time to have them and never once returned them is theft. Whether he was conscious or not of the theft becomes a matter of degree of leniency.
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  8124. The Left has gown up when they begin to understand the events between bosses and workers are not premised on harmonious relations. Bosses are sellers and workers are buyers does not mean that bosses are never buyers and workers are never sellers. To the contrary. They are equal in business and unequal partners where work and employment is concerned. Production is where the real action happens. The markets is where the seduction happens. People are roped in through the market basket of goods accessible to them only through a job and when they have found a job people become unequal employees to all the bosses that job has . Bosses dominate the production process and in that process the politics of the bosses is anti-worker.
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  8125.  @kataratify  Don't let democratic establishment stop you, tell them to kiss your ass! I noticed the progressives are all quiet, see nothing, say nothing, hear nothing let Schumer and Pelosi shove it down the throats of working people a bitter pill. These two people are the establishment of the democratic party. Why are they and their ideas more important than the ideas of workers in society ---what is so special about Schumer and Pelosi that they cannot be criticized or even pushed to the sidelines and let the party wing of working people run the show! Because theer is no party wing of the workers and if there were one it should go under the name of the liberation caucus and make the progressives and the establishment of two people and their followers kiss the ass of the workers and beg for their votes, the progressives are feckless cowards who never had a plan to really get working people out of harms way. I believe they want working people to die and get out of their career climbing way! The workers who Bernie courted need their own wing and be always opposite of the GOP Freedom Caucus, the more right wing the Freedom Caucus becomes, the more left wing the Workers National Health Care Caucus becomes and when necessary do what the IRA of Ireland did, it had a terrorist wing, if it comes down to that. But that won't be necessary because Schumer and Pelosi are easy to get over on and the progressives are pussies that a Workers Wing can eassily be created at the next convention of the democratic party. You don't need Bernie when you have a movement.
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  8126. I have to ask why would you enlist if you know this is how you will end up? If you love your country and yourself and family then don’t leave it.
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  8127. ...this is because states do not have the money to make room in prisons and the Fed is not allocating to states federal funds to expand. For one thing it is bad optics politically to expand prisons and another the prisons contract private companies who cut back their service making conditions in prison life threatening to everyone who works in them,---so the Justice system of DAs, Prosecutors and Judges have to let inmates out back on the streets not put more criminals in. New offenders walk. Officials are the ones making the city streets a dangerous liability for people who have to go back and forth to work everyday. Only one person called the politicians out. A Wall Street Billionaire when one of their own employees was pushed into the rails of the subway. America has a broken justice system and nobody in political office is taking about it; officials are just there to collect a salary and pretend they mean something to you as essential when they make fools of the average person voting for the same person on a constant basis, is pathetic of the level of intellect of the voter on the real issues in their society.
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  8128. The presence of violence in the streets is to condition your responses in preparation for a law and order candidate in 2024.  Make life so bad you'll give up all your rights willingly for the freedom from violence if it means you can walk your dog in the park and pick up its feces.
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  8129. Should come as a revelation to western masses that their governments’ secret services are citadels for a mass propaganda campaign
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  8130. I seriously doubt Boeing is cooperating with federal investigators. Boeing has a back order of planes that an investigation into its defective parts will further put on hold its customers who already paid Boeing. United, Boeing and Airport Terminals are corporations but one is a manufacturer the other is a retailer of commercial space and the third makes a plane terminal, all three employ thousands of people working various jobs and skills. Millions of people’s lives and jobs hang on the single act of Boeing and United making these sales complete so they can convert that sale money back into its business as capital covers its payroll and material expenses plus make a profit. The crisis to crisis Boeing and United hobble through amplifies the mistake of making the sale the reason any industry should exist. This industry should exist for itself as one whole industry with all its trades and skilled operators from the factory to the air terminals to the cockpit and air controllers, all one team, one co-owned industry made up of its three main parts. This would make commercial air travel safe because exchange does not come between any of the main departments. Planes would be built for people with ample leg room in seats. People would be happy to pay a high price if the quality were raised. Treating this industry as one industry it does not become a bureaucratic authority like the MTA or Port Authority of New York, or the Tennessee Valley Commision; air travel becomes a cooperative corporation owned by all its workers. A system as an end in itself. By doing this it also does not abolish the free market system because it is owned by workers but is a real participant in the market selling quality air travel with pride and shares of stock. US Worker pride restored. Anyone against this is un-American. Currently, air travel, is divided into three separate corporations subcontracting all subsections of work to make the whole system work independently of each other. If one part fails the other parts keeps going. A problem can never be permanently corrected but only fixed temporarily to stay in the game of competition. The corporations are relating to each other through a strange and bizarre market relation and are not working with each other directly as a team. The whole process from making planes to delivering air travel is divided up into three separate private corporations and more subspecies of corporations performing the work and none are accountable for the work they do. The whole system is a crisis waiting to happen in higher frequency.
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  8131. @Daniel Duvalle,----If distribution is the problem than the problem is located with exchange because that is the way America distributes food, i.,e $.80 pound for chicken to $1.80 cents a pound. Farmers are sellers and the food banks are buyers. Capitalism, free market system, allows a farmer to switch from chickens to peanut farming because peanuts are exchangeable for more money. Farmers want less government in their lives, so they can be sellers, and government opens up a foreign market for their product they love it but when that foreign market is shuts down, they hate the guy they voted into office. The senator now becomes the problem as the man or woman who makes exchange the way food gets distributed in the world and in America.
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  8132. Hilarious moments of the uncanny...life is beautiful.
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  8133. This movement points to the Deep State, they see that killed JFK, and the jury is still out on that assassination, so we need not speculate if it was the lone man and magic bullet or many men with magic bullets because we can’t find them either on the grounds the assassination took place; its the connotation of conspiracy that comes with the turf, when an empire is sworn to keep secrets to remain an empire that it removes all opposition to it and manipulates reality for itself. Even if this movement is strange, its still a genuine homegrown American movement who in JFK, RFK, their world was lost to the social structure created by democrats, particularly FDR and LBJ, that makes Biden presidency a fraud to them and Trump their hero. They are like a resurrection of the last vestiges of the Old South under Reconstruction created a fantasy of its glory and dotted the country with statues. The South lost billions in property and profit; these people are losing their affluence and position by a society into which they are a minority. Lesson here is when you control both houses you ram down the throats the legislation necessary to raise the standard of living of all working people simultaneously, if you don’t want them to start interpreting deep state events as working against them.
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  8134. Is CPAC the place where people go when society is no longer their's to control?
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  8135. The infrastructure bill reflects the 10 economic sectors that are failing. Train derailments, contaminated water, power outages and blackouts, collapsing roads and bridges, dams, no broadband in rural and undeveloped areas, flooded and dangerous public transport, environmental degradation, jammed up ports ruining the supply chain, and this is not even the human side of the equation which hinges on poverty and inequality and this is supposed to compete with China?
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  8136. Supreme Court ruled the week of July 1 2022 the US Constitution does not obligate the Police to respond to 911 calls. There is no emergency in this incident. Supreme Court, Justice department, cops, HSA, FBI, CIA, all of these agencies are a repressive force that first went after black people and now are going after white people. Pure racist fascism.
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  8137. @6:55 FOXCON the prefix "FOX" and the suffix "CON" describes the job done on the Wisconsin community. The deal, an exchange between buyer, FOXCON, and seller, Scott Walker. There is more than what appears if Scott Walker's stupidity about how markets work is that bad. The conservative who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing can't be explained as a poor judgement.  Just because we have a market does not mean that a buyer has to buy. It does not mean they have to follow the reasons they wanted to buy. And in free markets, you cannot force them, on their own property, to create 10,000 jobs which is a chunk of human capital lost to the community. Wisconsinites better come out stronger against the people who elected Scott Walker. The next guy coming from them is bound to be worse if not an outright fascist. @7:30 Iran is actively testing rockets and the president told his advisers to go back to school.  Well, that should tell you who's King in Washington, when you can tell your intelligence community they are stupid! Perhaps the intelligence is trust worthy but the hubris is so confident that certain enemies have to catch up a little before the alarm can be sounded. A king is only a king because his subjects see him as a king and themselves as subjects.
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  8138. The difficulty for Americans is in not distinguishing individual capitalists from the corporation as a social organization of labor. People produce use-values in several ways for the market, self-employed, group employed, contract employed under various legal forms, a corporation, LLC, non-profit, etc. a capitalist produces money. Money and use-values are not at all the same thing. They appear fused together for Americans obscuring the social functions of each category. Excessive growth on the one hand for a capitalist individual(s) and the development of product economic relationships carried on for the making of more money, endless, and infinite growth for its own sake, overrides the power of individuals to be content when money and not rational material wealth is the aim of society.
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  8139. There are 40.3 million people working in modern slavery in the west, of that number 24.9 million people in forced labor, 15.4 million are in forced marriages and out of every four children one child is a victim of family and insitutional violence. These numbers are a culmnation of western advanced capitalist nations. US leads the way in the highest mortality rate among all the rich nations. Overwork is hghest in the US. People think that is a good thng when in reality it means employers are enriched by the added value provided in overwork to the employer's bottom line. In the US alone there are 132 million working class Amercans, only 18.5% work as higher skilled and higher paid trades workers. Not college educated but self-educated and trained in a specific trade. Like a welder. Machine mechanics. Fabricators and builders. The rest of the workforce are unskilled and not unionized, finding jobs in retail now devastated by the coranavirus lock downs that now too many previously earning under the $30 K per capita income will earn whatever benfits unemployment provides. Ther are no buyers looking to buy what these people are selling. Poverty is the inevitable outcome along with the decline in Public Health and environment. Half a million dead from the coronavirus and 717 million people are lifted out of poverty in China as I write. This is a remarkable contrast of what happens when the productive forces of a given society are not in the hands of a particular class-interest.
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  8140. Don't mourn, organize is the antidote for depression and suicide. Fight back!
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  8141. On the Crumbley Family,----You can’t make a horse drink water if it does not want water. Parents decline therapy because of the presuppositions of abuse and neglect, domestic violence episodes, therapists are required by law to report, i.e, Mandatory Reporting, when suspected. Whether those suspicions are unclear to the therapist(s), sets off an investigation for child welfare checks and assessment, or abuse and neglect found through the treatment process. Anonymous reporting sets the stage of greater suspicion in parents when they deduce the only person they told about their relations in the family was the therapist and now must go back to that therapist for treatment, sorry does not fly. The State legislatures turned therapists into a cadre of double agents are in opposition to the family in society despite the well meaning intentions for stabilizing the family. Next the politics of this country have divided educated and non-educated people as two antagonistic forces that when united under one roof a war would break out. This is the fault of the superintendent of Oxford HS who did not immediately refer this kid to the police to handle based on the facts they had. Cops could have gotten a search order on the home and confiscated the weapons that day from a judge. Bureaucracies are after the fact institutions, they respond only when there is a crisis that rises to a level they define as a cause to respond. When they do respond the response is punitive. Best thing to do here is admit the educational system in the US is a two tiered educational system divided on a class basis where the rich get educated and doors open, the middle class, poor and working classes get a uniform minimum general standard education and doors stay closed.🧐 This kid hated his life and found nothing in life worth living or meaningful, believed in nothing and nothing became everything, a world view e.g., Nihilism. He was not born a nihilist, he was socialized to become one through the relationships in his immediate family and community of peers. This is not to say his parents are not the living and real versions of the media archetype of the Bunkers and the Bundys in media, they are derelict people who should never be parents.
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  8142. Media and the audience media targets never ask🧐 questions. Smash and grab does do damage to small business if they are robbed but if the large businesses are robbed the profits of the large business is lost and making up for those profit losses the stores raise their prices and the government calls this inflation. Smash and grab opens up a market for small business if the super rich would shop in them because the big stores are robbed but there is too much social status associated with the luxury stores and the super rich are celebrities that they would never spend their money in smaller shops, and never do support small business, in fact, they aim the destroy small business which explains why the middle class reacts the way it does, trying to overthrow the government, conspiracies, gun violence, voting for Trump etc., its all a reaction the destruction of the middle class by large scale corporate giants. So, ---I would not go and start stereotyping black people as criminals for being at the bottom of society and taking the brunt of a declining middle class. The middle class historically has been reactionary class and favored a dictatorship that favored them.🧐
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  8143. Oh God...they made the story of Snow White about themselves in a Snow White world.
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  8144.  @harleydurianriders4477  Anyone age 80 alive in the world will be waiting for that song...I’d say around 1.3 million people. Baby boomers are still the largest demographic...that’s big.
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  8145.  @harleydurianriders4477  For some reason you seem to think the baby boomer generation is limited to the US. Anyone born from 1940 to 1955 globally is the demographic.
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  8146.  @amberwatson8043  You are an anti-communist...former Soviet Block...mmm...young kids your age are just learning who the Beatles were. I was referring to boomers in the West, you know, Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand that number in the billions who remember and grew up with the Beatles. Communism has nothing to do with my comment or Paul’s new release and as an anti-communist like yourself with an axe to grind, the new Beatle song is not going to affect your capitalist life...if anything...most likely enhance it like the Beatles literally pulled England out of a recession after the war. You should reflect what about communism prevents your from living...you seem much too young a person to have such a narrow mind.
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  8147. Good video and criticism of the politicians is right on target about what they are. Working class learns who are not their friends in society garners more recruits for a revolution.
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  8148. Uh, oh! If you do not want to raise taxes on the middle class and you don’t raise taxes on those who create jobs then the taxes will have to come from the working class in addition to cutting services to the unemployed working class. More people working may not cut it because technology in connection to work processes of employers in their industries use less workers and get more labor per worker. Employers do not need a larger mass of working people. If anything at the rate the work processes are enhanced with technology the less workers they need. The reform that would make sense is to hold back technology that raises the productivity of labor for employers. This would take up the slack creating more jobs and higher demand for workers thus increasing tax revenues for the State. But what do I know. The people you elect are geniuses.
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  8149. A point the professor makes: “ ...the end of abundance for the masses is a bonanza of abundance for the...financial sector,” does not answer the question; How? The inequality does not happen when workers and corporations exchange a wage for labor-power. The inequality of wealth between CEOs and workers emerges after the exchange has taken place. How this happens is technical but fairly easy to understand; the worker is working on the job for a fixed period of time in a legal working day. We can divide that working day into two imaginary but very real parts depending on how advanced production may be. Three things happen: first, workers transfer the value the corporation invested in the plant, office or workshop, equipment and raw material, to whatever product the corporation is making occurs in perpetuity. A product retains this investment even if the investment was made ten years ago and the worker preserves the investment value in the product. Second, the corporation(s) have not violated any laws of the market; things exchange only happens between two equal things. In other words, if there is no other commodity the object needs to show its value the object is not marketable. This circumstance is detrimental to workers when the commodity that needs to find a buyer is their labor-power but the same circumstance is not a detriment to corporations of any sector. The same circumstance also generates gluts and food abundance in stores in the midst of mass starvation on the streets. Or, by reducing a surplus to raise the price of the goods becomes more important than what good may come from the good itself. These are phenomena that happen all at once or in isolation but always recur as the professor well knows. The market is built on equality but inequality is the end result because equality turns into inequality as soon as two partners interact in production. Work becomes a means to the greater enhancement of prosperity for owners and simultaneously, a means for the greater poverty for workers who were equal people before they entered production together. Third anomaly to happen is sociological: Work is a commodity when it is not working and it is not a commodity when it is working becomes a way of life of distortions, complexes, and crisis for individuals and families in the working class. Work, skill and creativity, expertise, differences of the work itself, only count as value producing agents in the sphere of human activity most crucial to sustaining life on the planet, i.e., production.
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  8150. Why would a capitalist buy a social media platform, the quick answer is; the platform can be monetized. Does Musk have a commitment to insuring the platform stays an open source platform? The answer to that is; a capitalist has interest in social and civil rights as a means of profiting personally; a capitalist’s interest is making money. Your right to spread disinformation or accurate information on social media is not curtailed as long as you buy the right to free speech on that platform, is likely to be the result of his purchase of Twitter. An on line gated community. Free Speech for those who can buy their way into Twitter. If you cannot afford the price of admission that does not violate your right to free speech,---you’ll just have to do your tweets on a public street corner the old fashioned way...on a soap box.
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  8151. Looks like the Navy Seals have some sense of decency by rejecting Gallagher. That's a relief...either that, or the Navy Seals hate Trump and are rejecting Trump's political move to pardon Gallagher. ________________________ What is capitalism? People really think they know. Its not business management and its not making money selling commodities on Ebay, unless that commodity is labor-power to produce surplus-value. Best producer of value of the year award goes to; employee of the month: John Doe. Does the same job for less the cost. Trump foams at the mouth on that kind of stuff. Society has come to this that the only commodity that produces a value is labor-power and the only commodity that reflects its value is gold. It wasn't always like this. In my life I had several CD's that made good money. My home was Equity. The federal reserve did not mess with the value of things, tinkering with the money-supply and adjusting prices as companies produced more stuf. People don't even know what a CD is today? Home equity does not exist. If LP is the only commodity that creates wealth than they are going to come after you big time. Touting how this and that about the economy. Jobs are numerous, never better. I really don't believe the person doing the work of LP really cares as long as they are working and making enough to cover the cost of their own lifestyle and family expenses. A cell phone, vehicle, house, and enough for seasonal ticket to the NFL, a couple of quarts of beer, are enough. People in this historical period are fine with that. My generation was worse, it took very little to satisfy a man. The way to his heart was through his stomach. But it was tougher to get the men of my generation to be the only source of value in society. Big business was not as big. They got bigger because they got more people to believe more LP's is the way to go and they stroked their egos with cash, sex and credit to easily be seduced into being a value unit for gold. I also do no believe they care how the stuff gets into their hands as long as they get what sustains a steady diet of a repititious consumption pattern.  Oh, well, when this generation (Milleneals and Genertion X's they are called) reach my age they will learn the human body is not a permanent miracle worker on its own, it breaks down, and its stores decades of abuses done to it when it was young and healthy. Capitalism is the sale of your mortality and well-being.
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  8152. Only two countries come to mind...can you guess?
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  8153. Former MIke Mullen a CEO of one the Defense Contractors appropriated tax dollars to pay an Afghan Army as a Joint Chiefs of Obama. Revolving door between the private sector and the military and the tax payer is in debt for their actions. His honesty is welcomed but it does not exonerate him in the least.
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  8154. Yea but these people do not deserve the indignity of shit head democrats and cheap republicans. Good way to find out their shit don’t stink! Be more than smog the weather will report over LA @southerncharm1382 
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  8155. The same footage of a crime that happened a month ago does not mean it is as pervasive as they want all to think.
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  8156. What started the conflicts between the west and the Middle East were the oil blockades and nuclear alerts in the 70s. Western nations were threatened from the destructive onslaughts of oil-bearing nations in the Middle East and in response to the oil cartels the US strategy was to protect European nations and Japan. The only way to strike back was through a world credit system so that each onslaught would be met with an economic consequence, the dollar was not good enough it needed a backing more forceful behind it, and that would be the Office of the President and Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces. Countering every attack with sanctions the economic financing of the world economy would change that today the nations of the world are not hostage to the Dollar, and its declining value. US foreign policy on Ukraine and Israel reflects the range of the empire covers a small number of nations. Formerly subjugated nations have broken free from US constraints, and, under the right circumstances frees the burden on the American Taxpayer of every dollar spent on military excursions entails a deeper economic slowdown of the national economy. The longer it will take for recoveries. Socially made evident, in the Press who anticipate in their forecasting of the economy the next crisis. Crisis guides investment. Where crisis occurs is where money is made is a social dichotomy and paradox that now threatens humanity with nuclear war.
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  8157. This is a political struggle for the authority to decide the work of 2 million workers on the federal payroll. Where is their union in this struggle for power? Does Musk have the final authority over federal employers? Federal employees are the State and if Musk is the final authority over them than the president is no longer a commander in chief of that State. America is no longer a republic. The little child in the Oval Office will inherit the American government because it has fallen into the hands of his father the richest billionaire and owner of many government contracts in charge of auditing at hs command, in the western world who also has his hands deciding the outcome of the German election.* The public sphere; all of the things government manages and maintains for the society as whole is his to decide. The remedy to this disgusting and arrogant abuse of public resources, are the federal employees who should fight for political power and authority over themselves, throw out the bums! Federal workers have no private interest than the public’s interest, as one and the same interest, government cannot be sold to private interests.
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  8158. Re: Indian Point Nuclear Power,----Not that I am in favor of spilling radioactive water into the Hudson River but leaving it in the hands of private industry is not a victory.
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  8159. Chomsky is right about no evidence of Putin's intention to expand.  People are confusing Russia's right to the Arctic for oil exploration with expansionism and not looking at Norway's agreement with the US as expansionist. One major case in point is how the Arctic region and Norway becomes the scene of a potential WWIII with heavy arms build-up because oil production in the middle East becomes too hot to produce oil. Global warming is causing this shift as to where oil drillers excavate for oil they focus their attention through the ice. No question this accelerates sea level rise and increased flooding we see happening in all lands and nations below the new sea levels.  So, we are seeing a major escalation of US troops and deep caverns housing US tanks and Ice breakers in Norway along with other war preparation and materiale enables US troops to be sent over to Norway without the material as it is all parked previously in Norway. I doubt the Norwegians know this is even happening. But their government knows. But Erna Solberg knows, she agreed to it with Trump. A rude awakening that their days of peace are over sitting in the middle of all this build up. Then Russian nuclear submarines accessing the Atlantic Ocean from Murmansk and China building up defenses in preparation of a nuclear strike, are all there because Russia depends on Arctic oil, uranium, diamond and gold embedded in the Arctic
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  8160. Not the person we see in controlled interview settings. In a protest where nothing is controlled but rather fluid and flowing with a vibe Alex loses his balance and temper. A reveal into the real character of the actor as a human being. He can’t stand the heat and left the kitchen by armed escort no less. This is one for the history books as a pivotal moment for the underdog that it can only rely on itself to win.
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  8161. Who will get the Oscar for best screen play the writer or Ai the machine?
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  8162. American corporations in most industries, certainly true in the case of, chemicals, vaccines and foods, given the high rate of product recalls of these goods, cannot meet the demand the public puts on the usefulness of goods because that would subtract from the profit and interfere with the business side of production. Its profitable for manufacturers to spend the money changing the production process to shrink the product because in the long run a new social average price is established which is at the same time a new low average reduction of wages, workers paying more for less product. This is what is going on behind the distractions of Steve Bannon, Russia, or the incoming hoard of immigrants. A clever and cunning capitalist class of corporations with professional distractors to direct attention away from the subjugation of labor arranged by outside think tanks. Wake Up! Products have to pass the test as a truly useful for others before it can be sold, is no longer the case. A commodity only has to look useful to be sold in the US and there are millions of products the FDA has never even tested having been stripped of its testing capacity and mandate as a guardian of the well-being of the public obliterated by democrats and republicans. It used to be industrial sabotage in the tampering of products that were recalled. Sudafed comes to mind. Tampering done inside the factory. Baby carriages and cribs. Cars. Peanut Butter, lettuce, lysteria, ecoli bacteria, emanating from their production process. Today its in the very production process which means the sabotage is planned on the outside and brought into the factory as a definite work plan done by outside product developers and carried out by executives in charge of the operation. All this is happening because the side that rules work and production is the business side of production the process of producing commodities. The use-value side of production is totally outside the control of the workers is the reason the standard of living of Americans keeps falling.
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  8163. Senility is not the reason the US empire declines. It might be the reason Cheney is not cognizant that building a new society in the image of America by destroying older societies with bombs, bombs, more bombs, is profitable for Lockheed, Grumman, General Dynamics, and not a benefit to the society she serves.
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  8164. What is practiced today in the economic realm of the US government is the same working formula that the ruling classes learned from the effects on Germany by the Versaille Treaty. In only 14 years after that treaty was signed Hitler came to power. Hyperinflation is the formula, I should say the weapon, the ruling elite social classes have used during periods of prosperity for them with devastating results for the working classes know, the working class will elect dictators who promise food on the table and jobs. All nations within the realm of America’s influence are kept slightly above starvation level wages just as the American working class are kept earning more money with less purchasing power as the value of the dollar are exchanging expended energy in the form of concrete work and real life-giving activity, for worthless currency.
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  8165. The day draws near when the system of free labor is either abolished or transformed. The America Civil War was the event that marked the day when human labor shed its slave skin and donned a suit and tie looking for a job as free labor. The common form of production today is the capital- wage labor relationship reaching into countries that not too long ago were mostly peasant producing societies. China is a clear cut case in point. Gone from a peasant based society into a fully industrial society in just 30 years.  No article of use on the planet today is not made in China. The GOP's golden idol of Donald Trump at CPAC is made in China. That US industry has been hallowed out seems not important to the democrats and republicans, not for its sociological impact on the working class and not concerned for the economic survival of the US economy in relation to that class. So, I expect the crisis of stagnation will reach global proportions impacting more wage-earners than the world has ever seen before. Men and women bound by emergent necessity to come together and lay out their own programme to re-vitalize industry and resuscitate western economies by means of a new organization of production.
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  8166. He’s an idiot. The products coming into the country is not the problem. Incoming is highly efficient, its the receiving end of the supply chain that is the problem. Getting the products to the customers once they arrive on US soil. The sending of the products from the factories overseas are very efficient. One reason why China is successful doing business with other nations has to do with two factors; a high rate of productivity and they do not make countries do anything when they invest in a country, they find nations that are planning a project but lack the financing. When it is approved the Chinese get a return on their investment and the country has its project up and running...it could be a canal, bridges, most things that are long term are favorable investments for China. Americans take the opposite approach and impose conditions in currency, conditions in production, conditions on repayment, effectively the country is poorer. Buttigieg does appear to be a genuine political opportunist.
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  8167. I think the meaning was the stabbed teenager was not going to live from Gallagher's killing rage that he killed him because of Gallgher's brutality and barbarism.
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  8168. The Kiosk Workers who rent from Westfield and the Transit Workers Union who drive the trains for the MTA have a common enemy in the MTA. Workers, landlord tenant and a landowner, three separate social classes are involved in this struggle. Workers are most exposed to petty thieves and criminals, youth gangs and migrants. TWU and Kiosk workers have the fear of crime in common. TWU is fighting the MTA over safety. Westfield the landlord tenant is breaking its lease with the MTA citing safety and security problems. Remember back a year or so when a Wall Street executive got slashed on Fulton Street same station where a woman’s feet were amputated by a train when her boyfriend pushed her on the tracks. Big meeting between the mayor and Wall Street executives over their safety and security concerns with the failure of the MTA to take action. F The MTA is negligent in its duty to ensure safety of persons and property on its properties publicly used. What is the MTA? It’s landowner with its own bureaucratic structure dating back to 1904 set up as owner of the land under the train tracks of the subway system and runs the subway system.
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  8169. But here are some reasons why a workplace democracy is the only way. Right now technology and some sciences, especially in the military realm are a barrier to natural development. Societies are trampled on by a ceaseless system of production and not give a chance to develop on their own is definitely the case with societies in the Middle East coming into contact with America. Second reason: advances in science and technology in connection to labor-processes are independent of that process. The direct participants and users of the technology and science have no ownership of them. Society is made up of a majority of non-owners of the technology who use them and a minority of owners of the technology who use the science and technology for their ability to make work lighter and easier. Making each detailed operation simpler at a compounding rate. Patented the technology itself is monopolized through the price as a commodity in greater demand. People are not aware of themselves as the subject in the object because the object does not correspond with the subject, and from this incompatible dichotomy, a worker-management relation assumes the old class struggle between workers and capitalists, HR, Human Relations. Third reason is what happens when technology and science with its marvelous advances causes value to fall in each commodity and value becomes spread over a great many commodities. Socially we begin to see workers (value) laid off (fall in value) in several industries ( value in many commodities fell), a new challenge for the company to lengthen the workday as a way of offsetting the loss of "hands" ( not my reference). The rest of us will have to put in longer ours to hang to our jobs is how it all went down for small business during the pandemic as the new science and technology swept industries suitable for the applications like Amazon.. Fourth reason: A reserve army of labor, a constant supply of labor on demand, by which the employed portion of the working class is constantly threatened with by employers. I see these as four good reasons a new progressive labor movement should instruct itself.
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  8170. The fact that a few presses of buttons on a cell phone is a technology that can instantly call a representative in Congress it is also a technology that can instantly cast a vote from every person with a cell phone born in the US and this would do away with the power representatives have over their constituents, they represent, using votes to block bills from becoming law, or using their vote to pass a law society opposes, can be a technology that can make America a “true democracy” versus a “democratic republic”. “res publica” is Latin for a “Private Affair” the origin of the word “republic”, or the affairs of consultants to a king were the king’s “consults” later became through the ages kings themselves calling themselves “senators” and made the private affairs of the king they got rid of, taking over a king’s debts and assets, armies and money, and made them the affairs of society, they called the Public, who in effect, were working people who made a living from the land and bought and sold everything they needed from each other, these working people down through the ages never wanted or needed like a hole in the head the debts or assets of a king! From this where the concept of a republic comes from. There has never been a real democracy on earth but this technology and social media can make America the first in history.
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  8171.  @daniellarson3068  Providing a service that supports the sale is not the same thing nor the issue, dealing with the company’s administration and policies, especially if they owe you, is the hassle.
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  8172. So small, the outer edges of Europe in the east are left behind.
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  8173. The next mayor should be a labor candidate. The strongest opponent to a powerful capitalist(s) inside or outside of the White House for New York is not a mayor or a governor; it’s a labor force and its own elected official(s). Without a city workforce the whole state of the New York would be 9/10th farm and pasture land dominated by a landed aristocracy. Before the conservatives and liberals alternated between them the political power of the City in the late 70s, Manhattan was always in the black, rent and prices were stable and the cost of living was below the average wage. Industry made the standard for the rest of the country and city living high. Markets were robust in the country’s first city of ten altogether. Long Island and Park Avenue housed the rich, but the rest of Manhattan was the baby and brainchild of 8.2 million very bright, ambitious, and real talented, sometimes crafty, immigrant working people. The city is theirs and it should be run by them.
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  8174. Every since Homeland Security gave Israel their own internal FBI inside Homeland Security all the other 50 state’s law enforcement officials demanded their own internal FBI capabilities rivaling the special privilege given to Israel, consequently, every state has become an FBI fortress in their own right. George Bush Jr. created Homeland Security, he created a surveillance state occupying communities, eroded, freedoms and diminished democratic institutions.
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  8175. Evangelicals are a high risk occupation. I job I would not want to take. A faith is a job. Pastor is paid. Its not a real religion when it is paid to be made. You spend energy on a job and you spend energy on religion there is no difference, its energy just the same. As conditions worsen and more and more people become desperately dirt poor and have nothing to lose these folks are the first to get, kidnapped, robbed, held for ransom. They have a long history of being victims and then victimizing. They ratted out converted jews for the most mundane offense such as lighting Menorahs over to the Inquisition. They collaborated with the last Russian Tzar. They sterilized and murdered, nearly all natives in the American Continent. They are the authors of Auto Dafé the burning of books. They spy and enter into other nations they have no business in. Really horrible people. The security they get form our government is one of the reasons apart from living free off society as not taxable they got into government. They realize what they do is perniciously parasitical that without protection there is not a corner on the earth they can reside in peace wth people not the same as them.
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  8176. “The days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.”...federal employees are victim of the Enclosure Acts 2.0. The Enclosure Acts allowed landowners to consolidate their lands, leading to the elimination of communal farming practices that had existed for centuries. As common lands were enclosed, many small farmers and laborers lost access to vital resources, forcing them to seek work in rapidly growing industrial cities. What happens to people when they lose their livelihood, and thrown out of work? Federal workers are paid from the common fund the government runs on. Now it appears the common fund of the government has become the private fund of landowner capitalists.
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  8177.  @remogatron1010  Who am I speaking to...a master or a slave? Slaves make comments like yours. Plato noted this in his Republic how the slaves in the caves when their chains were broken off preferred enslavement despite being freed...is that you? I know you are not a master because masters do not write in comments sections they own it.
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  8178.  @JanBruunAndersen  Is it a fine thing to be half a democratic republic and half a republic of oligarchs? Are the people not ready to be a full democratic republic?
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  8179.  @sophiebell4758  Don't quit your day job...that is not what a political scientist would say or believe.
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  8180. We would never be seeing events of this nature if capitalists were able to cope with their diminishing share of its surplus-value since the greater part of what they accumulate is paid out in wages. The corporations are only profitable and work best under conditions that allow them to sell below the social average price but above the individual cost of the product they make. In lockstep all of the major American, French, British, German, corporations do not invest in domestic industry but seek labor-power at a cheaper price elsewhere to manufacture their product. Thy divide among themselves what parts of the world is their’s for exploitation. But in their respective home country if they must spend their accumulated reserves on higher wages, the corporations push for the removal of all legal limits to the exploitation of the domestic workforce, to make up for the losses of their share of the surplus workers got in the form of higher wages or from some previous victory. This is why we are seeing more workers strike over working conditions and wages in the west and more proxy wars and mass destruction in nations that still produce in the old and ancient ways of their ancestors.
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  8181. If aliens are real that would that end the idea that humans are alone in the Universe as creations of God? If aliens are true they are ahead of us with the ability to get here...they are more advanced than us.
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  8182. Sounds like it will be a package that will be a shot in the wrong arm.
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  8183. Kirillov’s assassination ramps up the tension with the west. The Azerbaijan plane crash is likely a sign of this hyper-tension inside Russia. The tension between the American Public and the Police has been heightened and intensified by the assassination of a billionaire CEO has similar effect to what it means to kill a general for the Russians in a state of war. Billionaires are prized champions of capitalism in America and Military Generals in Russia are revered with the same fervor and zeal billionaires are given. Admittedly, some billionaires are unworthy of the attention and accolades. Musk is one of them. A total idiot in my view and not even a genuine American himself as a descendant of South African settlers. A direct attack on a military general is big. If the assassin is not a trained assassin but by some fluke was there at the right time the country of origin of the assassin and its own generals will be spared a death sentence. Otherwise, I think, this war will be moved, in part, behind enemy lines, carpet bombing innocents, even low intensity nuclear warfare, can be part of this escalation, for the threats to Russia aim to cut off the head of the snake, ramps up the tension.
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  8184. Do yourselves a favor and boycott Dollar Stores.
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  8185. You are called a domestic terrorist if your online proclivities lead to conspiracy web sites and you are not in the military is a double standard that threatens society.
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  8186. We are late with this...but it is a new industry...the Russians sent into space old, young, black, white, animals, at least four decades before the US. Know real history or be dammed.
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  8187. America is at a point where everything it created in the past with a life of its own is dying. If not dead already. Waiting for new life blown into it. Other dying institutions beckon us to bow down to our past creations and believe in its ideas, chimeras, dogmas, as the rule of thoughts. Ideology clings to dear life! Letting go is too hard to do. Out of its demise is born a new age of realism that idealism cannot tolerate. Chimeras is the Vampire of the Mind, the light of realism burns to a crisp. People are trading these imaginations of thoughts for the true essence of man, woman and child. A more critical attitude knocks out the heads of people the criminality of rampant ideology. .. ...ideas in people’s brains get flushed down a prison toilet as a way of rescuing democracy. The verdict of not guilty in one case and a guilty verdict in another case on the same subject is an indication of a legal system controlled by the dogmas, chimeras, and ideas of racism. Racism is the subject in both cases, on trial is racism in general in Wisconsin, especially with an acquittal and, on trial in Georgia are the racist actions of a particular group of men suspicious of blacks. In the former case the judge disallows the prosecution, and omits premeditated anti-BLM racism and vigilantism that broke laws as a motive and in the latter the judge allows the prosecution to criminalize a petty trespassing misdemeanor offense where nothing was stolen or removed from the property. Judge favors the defense in one case and the judge favors the prosecution in the other.
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  8188. You do not have to be white to be bourgeois, i.e., Howard University.
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  8189. This was a blood bath! The superior force took more than three times its own losses. One casket on a gun carriage over many caskets on a hearse. A part of the federal budget should be dedicated to pay for recoveries from the era of the birth of America’s republic as a national heritage.
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  8190. It is a well developed speech from a capitalist point of view. The bottom line for capitalism though is it unpredictable nature in relation to gold prices. Countries can partake in free enterprise but at the end of the working day everything that was produced by these countries has to be converted into gold. The way the dollar measures all goods and services is through gold prices. Gold prices reflects US productivity. If its price is $1,045.00 per ounce that reflects a value productivity per worker per hour to be 1/1.045 value contained per unit in a product of one hours work time. Another way to understand---coats are manufactured in Thailand at a rate of 145 coats per hour enough coats to supply a huge share of the world market for some product brand. But in the Philippines coats are produced at half that rate. Insufficient to fill WalMart clothing racks because the coats take too much labor time to produce. They cost too much for Wal Mart. Wal Mart then buys the Thailand factory coats. Those are produced at an accelerated rate and sell much cheaper by the lot. I guess it is a truism to say Wal Mart dresses the buying public. The public does not dress themselves with clothes made by themselves. (Although the public dressing themselves is one thing and making clothes to their own custom fit is something entirely different---more interesting then the generic social products they put on their backs.) When it comes time for the Philippine factory to deposit its exchanges and count its proceeds the measure of how many gold ounces produced per hour is used to calculate its profits compared to many competing products in its class. If gold prices are high the Philippine factory will not buy gold but just accumulate its profits till it reaches an altitude where gold can be bought at sufficient quantity to be considered very rich. The Philippines is not in the game unless its economy produces at a high rate or it could end up broke and the coat factory foreclosed. If gold prices fall the Singapore factory could close the plant and not be any more mindful of its impact on the society because it can afford to buy enough gold reserves for two or three family generations before they start to lose it. Live out their lives in wealthy isolation till they dwindle to one homeless heir. An infinitesimal quantity of value is nothing for the rich country but everything for the poor one. Mainly because its productivity is not yet developed that the poor one cannot produce as many goods and services to add on the heap to possess sufficient gold reserves like the US can easily out-produce the less advanced countries. To become truly a sovereign equal partner in trade the traders have to come to the table willing to exchange the work of one industry with that of another industry is a form of mutual cooperation. American trade is about competition not cooperation. Chance and causality define the world of competition and poor countries cannot afford chances nor wait for causality to kick in a miracle. Without China's presence in the region and its big output gains all the Pacific Rim countries combined cannot match up to US productivity that competing with US is a death sentence for them. Rather than escape poverty with capitalism--capitalism would throw them into perpetual stagnation and abysmal poverty. China is the counter-balance to US productivity dominating that part of the world with its products, money and military. This is a humble Trump warning the Asian world to not add insult by ganging up on it to injury the declining power it is becoming. A change from the tone set when the world was told its either you are with us or against us. The tone here is I will be nice if you are nice and I do bite.
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  8191.  @zazasnruntz7505  More American than you third generation American, born and raised. People who make assumption are A’Holes.
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  8192. You should not agree with O’Rourke because the inevitability of more killings like this is imminent under the present circumstances and he is not addressing the circumstances. This is a stunt for his own political ams to get in front of media. Who should have interrupted the governor are the workers of these gun makers, the employees themselves. O’Rourke is a politician, he will be the same as the ones in office now. It is not the ma or woman that makes the difference its the inherent corruptive influence of the office that woman or man is made. For example, so that I can really educate you. See how Prime Ministers of other nations travel to other countries with out massive armed and detailed security that costs billions of taxpayer dollars for each junket the president travels. This is because the presidency is the office that oppresses the world. A sheriff needs a squadron or the sheriff will get killed because the sheriff is the oppressor using laws to punish people, ruins their lives. A sheriff must go around guarded. A sheriff’s rule is force, violence. A president is a sheriff, a cop. The effective power are the employees. Congress is immobilized, they legislate on behalf of the gun makers in America. Colt, Remington, Browning, Smith-Wesson, to ensure their products stays on the market and the government does not interfere with their production. You cannot change the actions of people. The gun makers use part of their wealth in connection with the oil and gas producers, Conoco-Phillips, Exxon-Mobil, BP, etc. pool their money to ensure the market stays open for them. If an illegal gun market develops or if there are bad actors in retail selling to traffickers that problem belongs to the politicians. None of the politicians say anything about cracking down on gun trafficking do they?
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  8193. So, 9/11 was the work of the US and outside parties.
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  8194. The only way America can protect its border from the millions of Palestinians making the trek to Texas to avenge the crime committed upon them is to end the policy of imperialism and cut off Israel from US Aid. America’s wars do two things to Americans, first, the Pentagon policy of Might Makes Right; exposes average Americans to terror under the cover of the inflow of migrants. Second, indefinite warfare keeps prices up indefinitely, except gas. Third, imperial wars displace people that their migration will totally eclipse any mass exodus that has ever happened before in history. The warning Eisenhower stated to the American people in the 50s is here and now the Pentagon. In the economy today, Gas is the only commodity whose prices felled and this is because of the demand for fuel to run war machines and fortresses on a grand scale. If not for the large retail food merchants who have enough distance between what they pay to sell us food and what they make on profit from the food sold to us, they are keeping prices low but when that ability runs out the real inflation rate will reveal itself.
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  8195. If there is a respiratory activity greater than sitting in chairs in a classroom and doing written activities it would be sports that would spread a virus!
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  8196. Cars are property and seizing property is theft of property. Big thieves steal from little ones is the American Way.
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  8197. If you analyze the details of the picture of the NYC Hostel Resident, you will find it is not the same person who got away with the crime. In short, the Cops know the assassin is gone. This case will open up a can of rotten worms for the police if they cannot find the assassin. Appealing to the Public to turn in the guy will not work since the Public are victimized by this dead man who belongs to the health industry. Before the ink went cold on the CEOs death certificate United Health appointed a new CEO and continued with their meeting.
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  8198.  @MM-vj4gc  The delusional one is you. The Taliban and the CIA go back, probably before you were born. Birds of a feather flock together. CIA created the Taliban. I think the history of Afghanistan you know begins in 1980 and ends on August 31st but the history before that period is erased in your mind.
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  8199. Climate change is the blame. BS. In the beginning water was a utility not a commodity. Now that we are at the end, water is a necessity. Water was the point of departure for the reservoirs creation in the first place. Dried up reservoirs now appear to be the product of the Water commissions of three or four states. What has come out of the work of the Commissions is a highly developed market for bottled water private industry profits and dried up rivers and reservoirs the public pays. What has climate change to do with that contradiction? The problems appears to be institutional.
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  8200. End expansionism in particular and end militarism in general.
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  8201. After the hot war in Ukraine is over, I see two new cold wars emerging, one with Russia and the other with China...depending or no matter the evens in Ukraine...a clash between two world economic systems. In the background of cold war events the Dollar as one of two reserve currencies for trade is the next chapter realigning nations in this new double cold war. America giving more to keep former allies from using the Yuan. Bogged into more foreign schemes to keep client states. More financial instability, crisis, and higher degrees of famine. If the end of the reign of the dollar is inevitable, it doesn’t mean America is finished. It means the Congress no longer spends higher amounts of America’s GDP income on defense and the nations of the world are free to develop their economies. It means we need to get into the act and lead younger nations on economic projects that end social inequality and projects that improve the health of the environment, improve agriculture, soil, water, sea life, ocean life. Right now there are too few rational heads in Congress who know when it is the donors talking through their representatives. Donors run the show in Washington and donors profit from war. Donors drown out the only voice of the American people shut out from being heard by representatives; the voice of the unskilled working class, and this on purpose.
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  8202. Expanding the electorate, 330 million and only 90 million, a third, vote. A third of the population realize that a vote is the only voice and chance to head the State. Without universal suffrage the State is headed by various factions of the ruling class indefinitely for the whole of our lives and beyond.
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  8203. Capitalism does not have a problem creating a middle class the problem comes when you have to sustain that standard of living in the context of a global recession.
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  8204. Context is everything when seen from the eyes of the crazy neocons in the Pentagon as crazy as the neocons in the Kremlin and in China. Vestiges of the Red Scare of 1922 still poisons the mentality of these higher unities and opens more rabbit holes of public opinion. Taiwan is the new Iron Curtain that divided East and West Germany. Circumstances are different. China behaves the same way the US behaved relative to other nations after the second world war. However, without acting as an interventionist the way the US intervenes in the affairs of the buffer nations it used, such as the Shah of Iran, Pinochet in Chile, Samoza in Nicaragua, and more to those of today like, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine. A second Cold War hotter than the first one: A limited nuclear war not imminent but heightened affects you, me, drags the masses into the hysteria as a third political movement, whereas between a communist country surrounded by anti-communists buffer nations to keep the USSR contained did not invoke a transnational movement in the name of the planet.
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  8205. Something is wrong with this feed...
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  8206. A step back in order to take two steps forward.
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  8207.  @themarbleking  By all accounts the most corrupt is the GOP.
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  8208. Industry executives from these industries control Washington policies, i.e., construction, electric power, and oil, add to that agriculture.  Our national economy is constructed from the products and materials produced by four industries and this enables the industry executives to control our politics and national goals. This is a hostage scenario of 330 million people held by a minority not a nation of soverign individuals. It means the national economy can never be anything else but what it is today, an accelerant of climate catastrophe. And the government can never be anything more than an instrument for a minority of industry executives. America was long overdue for a social revolution in the 1960's, it is a society in need of total renewal.
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  8209. Why? Trump's administration is the right wing. There is a war on Women. The war on women is not completely fabricated by Sanders or by anyone else. There is no war on women of privilege but there is a war on women in society of non-privilege. Haspel is not the average type of women under attack by the economic war on women in society. Haspel is a career bureaucrat with, good income and health care, political status and privilege, not a waitress in a restaurant. What Sanders is doing is making a generalization from a fact; then she declares the fact is based on the generalization. This reasoning makes no sense to the women on the screen because these women are also products of privilege. SE Cupp and Christine Quin are like Haspel and Sanders, none are waitresses in a restaurant. To make it more plain; Fact: the cat ate the mouse. Reflection: Cat = nature, mouse = nature. Consumption of the mouse by the cat. Fact: Consumption of nature by nature. Generalization: the devouring of the mouse by the cat is based on the self-consumption of nature. Generalization: the nomination of Haspel is based on the war on women. Sanders goes on step further declaring the war on women is a democratic war and lies to deflect the real war on women in society. Sanders was successful because the two women on the screen are talking about feminism as based on the success of careerist women in government or in private industry. Reductio Ad Absurdem.
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  8210. Keep at it. @samcrawford1159 
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  8211. A Retrospective: All economic relations are changing and dividing the population into two groups opposed to each other on the question of the economy surviving or coming to a collapse. Between the two opposing sides are no answers but of the two opposing sides is a higher level of social organization within itself.
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  8212. I love Jimmy’s quick summations of the real conditions that plays the American Public. if he were this age in the 1930s he would have made a great political cartoonist the art medium and close cousin of social media today. Of all the attacks America endured by foes foreign and domestic in its history only two were genuine foreign attacks and pushed the US public into war came from the British and the Japanese. The War of 1812 and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. I would not count 9/11 because evidence points to a purposeful surprise attack whereas Pearl Harbor had no evidence of collusion between nations or foreign nationals in the planning of the attack. 9/11 is still under scrutiny and unsettled to go down in history as was it really was. The balloon story cannot rest for the same reasons 9/11 can’t be classified as a foreign attack until all questions are answered. I have seen balloon shaped orbs in the night sky. A hovering group of three with colors orange, red, blue in the southeastern region of the Catskill Mountains of New York 7 years before this incident; they were too peculiar to be civilian I suspect they were military not of Chinese in origin.
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  8213. First coherent words for a child: “Mom shot, Dad shot”.
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  8214. FBI and Justice Department have a low opinion of the US Constitution. If they hate the Constitution than they hate the founding Fathers who wrote the dam thing~ they have allegiance to themselves and animus for all others not in their clique. Or they construe the founding of America as an uninhabited land mass and when this discovery would prove the founders wrong they made the inhabitants already here invisible to them as a people not the first to found America because these were not people, they were savages, a lower life form than human, sub-human, not even human they were animals, and their arrival despite all archeological remains showing a people existed with a written language, does not count as valid; and by insult the FBI, State Department, CIA and FBI refer to that complex of institutions of policing as the “reservation” acting with a general disdain for anyone they invalidate and dismiss.
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  8215. Americans have no idea how much the US economy remains strong as a result of this source of cheap labor getting across the border. When a crackdown stops this flow Americans will feel it in their pocket book.
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  8216. How prophetic, the bridge is named after the lawyer who dabbled in music and wrote our national anthem, collapses. Right now America’s legal system is as weak as the bridge is old and with one knock to the knee the whole edifice falls down the the ground. Very symbolic, indeed. A metaphor of what is to come for everything built in the 70’s built cheaper than bridges built in the 30’s still standing. Francis Scott Key’s descendant lawyers who use that bridge to get to Washington D.C. have to encounter the subjects the laws they write harm the most. Worst thing is the money you will need to rebuild all your bridges, tunnels, dams, roads, canals, reservoirs, utility plants, you gave away to Ukraine and Israel. Dumb asses!
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  8217. Part of the problem of being a billionaire in America today is being surrounded by people who do not tell you how you come across to the Public. They instead tell you how connected you are because the Public to the people surrounding the billionaire are a narrow and small number of people who live and have absolutely no connection to the Public. This is the case with Trump and Bloomberg. John Steyer is a billionaire of another mold as he is connected to the public by contracting with black firms and advisors in the process of making his money and will probably get a good percentage of voters for that reason. Biden is simply the older democrats living in a world of a by-gone era, they are the people who suggest WWI trench warfare for 21stcentury warfare, vestiges. The billionaire question on the minds of people, practically sick of the status quo, propelled, Buttigieg, Klobachar, Sanders and Warren in particular to the foreground of the political scene. The question is: Why do we need them when we actually do not?   The other part of the problem of being a billionaire in America, apart from living in a bubble, is that the real Public will have no access to all of the innovations in science, medicine and industry but the billionaires will. All of us will be living in the 1970s while the plutocrats live in the 21st century.  On innovation, the phenomena that has perplexed all economic thinkers on the era of modern industry is the effect of machinery to displace labor, this constitutes an economic paradox! The effect of machinery, science and technology on the worker is a self-evident law between the intensity and duration of labor prolonged indefinitely. But increasing the intensity of work, at some point, becomes complete inefficiency, and the shortening of the work day is a loss to capital strives for a solution. Piece work becomes the solution, what young people call the "gig economy", is piece work to the classical economists. The gig economy intensifies work because the worker is dependent on the machine to make a living. The machine back in the day of early modern industry was a sewing machine; today a cell phone and the data of personal lives harvested through the cell phone is the machine by which profits are accrued for a handful of billionaires. The more people use the cell phone or its applications the more profits are earned. In the early days of modern industry, the more the worker produced a given product they were paid by the weight and the quality of the product, the work intensified. Value was reduced to the quantity of labor. Time as the measure of labor.
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  8218. The allegation is fine but the cover up needs a motive for the suppression of the science. Herein are the reasons Wikileaks is suppressed. It could get documentation of policy decisions. Is chlorine gas merchandize and the battlefield the market...seemingly what begins with a war crime allegation early in the progression of war in the Middle East culminates into a world conflict in a eastern Europe surrounding Russia through Ukraine by NATO and US forces to isolate China, could detail the motives of the State Department.
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  8219. Humans are not built by nature to remain inside indoors. Shelter in place and curfews run against the biological nature of the human body. You can expect resistance. Perhaps a fight is what the authorities are looking for? A deprivation of a people from the world outside in which they live is criminal. And, meddling into Haiti’s affairs makes things worse.
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  8220. Why would a senator from New York want a building named after McCain? Not even the lion of the Senate, Edward Kennedy, of that senator from New York own party got such an honor.
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  8221. The public is surveilled more in the private sector. In the private sector there is no democracy. Your fired when you take your mother’s hospital records. Private corporations and individuals that own hospitals, stadiums, hotels, etc., are worse than the police. All public spaces privately owned are surveilled by the decision of the properties owner(s). A private individual can do what they like with the data harvested of the public. If the public sector is slipping down the slope of surveillance the private sector is already a surveillance dictatorship.
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  8222.  Gadget Carpenter  lol.
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  8223.  @nova396  The expert on BioEngineering has spoken.
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  8224.  @peterzynko2345  Americans will have to go through the experience of NeoLiberalism before they reverse neoliberalism. We need clarity and denotations once one understands that behind the facade or the 'illusion' as you call it, is a Grand Social Experiment of Elites to control the proletarianization of the world's population. This is succeeding on their behalf as around us we see the intensification of poverty, unemployment, dislocation and material deprivation, the next step in this unfolding of an expropriation of the masses through low intensity violence, climatic disturbances and breakdowns in the division of labor, will lead to a proletarian take over everywhere first and last in the US.
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  8225.  @kerricarroll7554  You must have money because when you have more money in America you have more freedom and since freedom is that important to you so is the money. You have a lot to be conservative about.
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  8226.  @duramaxdad  Wrong. Dead wrong.
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  8227.  @nova396  The critique presented in the video which I thank you for, does not seat the virus as a weapon in the class struggle, where it plays in relation to US capitalism aiming to subjugate the world as it competes with communism (China, whether it is capitalism or communism that we are seeing in China is a controversy) and specifically how that State Department and hence, the President's objective distorts the function and purpose of the state, and from top down, fails under the current political regime. So weakened is the American government, Congress acts only in the best interest of a particular (corporations) at the expense of the general (the interest of society).
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  8228.  @edwarddawn2277  He learn tax policy the hard way if he has a municipal pension and it goes dry.
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  8229. A fine example of talking to the wind when the gun lobby has Congress in its pocket. Gun violence in America will decline when guns are not a commodity for mass production. This is an industry that should have remained a manufacturing process with the elementary technology of its day and employing gunsmiths not machines pumping out copies of models for a mass consumer market. The gun industry pours billions into Congress to keep the government out of the gun market and out of its business. It sure has no problem meddling with money into a business that has nothing to do with selling guns? Can’t meddle in my affairs but I can meddle in your’s. That’s the hypocrisy of the gun industry. I doubt they are going to cooperate with cities to make it harder to get a gun. Certain industries should never get too big, the gun industry is one of them.
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  8230.  @jaypence332  i bet you voted for him.
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  8231.  @jaypence332  You don’t make sense. Your sentence structure sucks.
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  8232.  @GhostOnTheHalfShell  A strategy should have been laid out by Lanier on how to delete your social media account on a mass basis, be far more effective than leaving it up to the individual.
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  8233. A disgraceful and despicable history of American colonialism and expropriation.  Each generation is tested by history to shape historical circumstances or be shaped by them. I really hope this generation changes America.
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  8234.  @jonathansheehan3121  Nice story but it does not answer my question.
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  8235. What a waste of productive labor of San Franciscans. Well paved streets and sidewalks, clean infrastructure, all built to meet one need, to sell commodities. When commodities are taken away the entire infrastructure pretty as it is absolutely useless to human beings. When you factor in all the labor it took to build those properties and infrastructure for commodity owners (retail corporations) its an obscenity. In the closed state the owners are depriving the use of those buildings to the community. They can become small shops, small restaurants, small cafes, small office networks, preschools, anything that socializes them more, small concert venues, small art galleries, etc. San Francisco is not even home to many of these corporations, so technically, they are foreign owners making life in San Francisco a walk through city. The people are oppressed, pauperism, and disillusioned. There isn’t a working class on those streets. No butchers, barbers, shoemakers, tailors, plumbers, electricians, the kind of labor that makes a city is missing from this one. What’s there to rob if all the stores are empty of their contents? The police are there to prevent property from destruction and vandal. The looting happened already and gave justification for the corporations to pack up and leave. San Francisco is what capitalism looks like when there isn’t any capitalism going on. Cities and people are left under developed in worse shape then when commerce was bustling.
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  8236. A nation with a capability that does not use that capability will lose it! Why have commercial air traffic control when you can use NORAD.
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  8237. Pelosi’s mind is jelly. Americans who live on the edges of a decaying society are clueless of the advances made by the socialist countries since Kissinger was in power with Nixon. Americans who live inside this republic face internal contradictions and opposition are ignorant of the fact that the US lags behind the socialist world. Washington sanctions strengthens the currencies of the socialist nations and weakens the dollar, reflecting the low industrial potential of the US to catch up. Sanctions are an albatross around the necks of the US working class, -- they cannot feel or see from their isolated world of wealth and platitudes; compromise to death the needs of this working class. No society can live without a working class, and its economic recoveries too short they don’t last long enough to raise the standard of living of its working classes, these are the unintended consequence of the demented democratic party fearing its virulent right wing and militancy. The slightest criticism from anywhere will bring about a civil war, and the end of the rule of this self-conscious and fearful Washington Establishment and, ultimately, the end of their form of surveillance capitalism. Mankind has not invented a third ideology between a capitalist one and a socialist ideology, is why a pro-capitalist prize-fighter like Kissinger can be a voice of reason against this backdrop of demented illusions and anti-communist delirium running amok.
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  8238. I notice that America media never talks about the diesel shortage crisis about to hit the US when those reserves run out; how people are going to feed themselves, and if your thinking that you can hunt for your food then think again. All the news stations are big telling the story about the Pelosi attack but totally ignore what will come in 2023. They are all quiet about it.
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  8239. Pity, Biden’s advisors did not have the insight to meet Israel’s aggression with increments of AID to the Palestinians, this to prevent mass starvation. Democrats let Israel go too long on its quest for more land. On the republican side, it is so obvious the college girl murdered by the migrant from Venezuela was a coordinated crime to give political ammunition to Trump for a re-election, at the same time, a pretext for a US invasion of Venezuela when Trump is president and that girl’s murder is forgotten by fake reasons of a new communist threat from Latin America. This election is a continuation of all previous ones the Public is split and deceived.
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  8240. Sounds like a gross exaggeration to me if you watched the live arial coverage of the scene. If there was pushing it was a wall of people pushing back. Cops lifted the promoter out of the crowd to apprehend him. Cops were unable to penetrate the mass. Break them into smaller groups and move them was not going to happen.
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  8241. The internal combustion engine is a big reason war in the Middle East and with Iran specifically is on the table. America's economy is structured on whatever the auto industry manufactures. The architectural framework of the economy is designed less for people and more for the car and truck. Rail is used for shipping products over land. Roads and bridges are used for shipping products, lakes, rivers, oceans are used to ship products. Ships, rail, car and truck are products themselves we choose to manufacture. These material entities are the ones using the architecture and the car and truck ship people to a certain destination, mostly when people arrive they are in their role as consumers meeting up with the products and other people in their role as a producers meet up with the products when they return home delivering them. Even nature is a tool for this purpose. Humans do not use the oceans, rivers, lakes, land, roads, bridges, canals for themselves to meet their needs, they use these things to meet the needs of the products. The products need to move and since they do not move by themselves as dead matter they require human assistance. Every invention is merely invented to lighten the toil of moving objects around. In general people are in motion to either to buy and use a good or sell a good. People are not in motion by their own volition. Nor is their breath, pulse, mind and body their own when it to is used to move products around. In a very real sense 'free will' as natural as appetite is to the stomach has been extricated from the human mind, it does not exist in humans in this economic stage of their life. At this stage, free will exists as a latent potential, for instance, only when a person decides to visit someone for the sake of visiting, or traveling for the sake of traveling, or moving their bodies from one location to another by their own volition, is free will being exercised. This is when the mind begins to be inventive and uses nature and man's products to meet human needs that free will is fully integrated with being. A surfer has more freedom to decide how to use their own mind and body to transport themselves using the ocean's natural power over a person in possession of cars and trucks whose mind and body is used by cars and trucks to move their bodies around from point to point. The majority of the time in people's lives at this stage is driven by external need and used by an external entity not subjective free will used by the individual. Humans are not in control of their actions, rather, necessity is in control of their actions. Even if it is a fake necessity the fake-ness is real enough to make them do something in relation to it not in relation to Mind. Free will is the mind conscious of itself as being has yet to make an appearance in a new human being since it left in the life of humans before industrialization. This should raise questions that if free will does not exist than the 'free world', or the 'free market', 'freedom and independence', carry no real meaning in a world of objects deciding the activity of mankind.
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  8242.  @AgentRafa  You stake all hope for a social revolution on extremism and if given the chance you would seize and hold power from above! Left wing extremism leads to a left wing elite, repeating the same errors in the past trying to realize a social revolution by a political party or by a group of terrorists and violent means. Two things about socialism: first, it cannot be achieved by violent means and 2., it cannot be achieved by political reform. The gun has done nothing to change circumstances and the reforms are all right wing law and Order reforms. And, nothing in what you espouse cultivates and organizes a working class into a revolutionary working class who revolt in a social revolution to overthow the old society and make a political revolution to destroy the power of the old society, destroying capitalism is a two-fold job has to be propogated. Every act of left-wing violence justifies a tightening of state power and it defies the historical experience the left went through in the Russian Revolution about socialism and professional revolutionists.
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  8243. The demographic shows those who have guns in America are the teen youth and the 40 something year olds -- middle aged and both are males.
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  8244. I am going to start my own show: The Laughing Show. No talk, no questions...no commentary...all the hosts and guests do is laugh.
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  8245. A very constructive and positive statement from Chezeraiz, that the working class district he holds and the people of Haiti are going to choose who will lead them and how, is a statement that is open to elections and the start of a winning of the minds over the kind of society Haiti is to become. CARACOM consists of all outsiders and are putting together 7 members of CARACOM to appoint a new PM chosen from those who only support a UN security force in Haiti. In other words an occupation. The working class does not support a UN security force in Haiti. If it wanted Haitians would have called for it. As this history unfolds the contempt US backed ruling elites have for the working classes will be a running theme in this chapter of Haiti’s history.
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  8246. Two things Americans must be more mindful about is the double function of the tendency for capitalism to over produce. It used to be thought the source of capitalism's downfall is overproduction. Through mass psychology they managed to turn overproduction into a double edged sword and tool for social control. The first is whatever excess product of the primary commodity most consumed by the society is stored. For example, oil reserves replace oil consumed. This means, if all countries do the same with their excess, and they do, their militaries are never out of petro fuel and the populations are in dire straights without it. The second thing about over production people should take more seriously is the storing of a mass of goods for the gradual consumption of the rich and powerful. This action withdraws commodiites from circulation, and... ...withholding money from circulation is another way overproduction is effected.  When too much of one currency or too little is present in circulation for all goods to change hands causes indusries to over and under produce their commodity. These are serious effects controlling the mass of Americans as they are able to control consumption habits and biology of the masses and keep them in perpetual need and dependency when overproduction is used in a controlling manner.
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  8247. It appears the democratic party embodies everyone and all walks of life but this one group in society Trump is leading. Where he leads them is another question but what I noted that was sad and tragic to me about this insurrection is this. Once the Capitol was stormed the insurrection lost control of itself and it did not know what to do. It wasn't a sit -in or occupation, it did not hold the Capitol for a list of demands, or to make a call for a larger cause like end the Pandemic or Free Julian Assange. Random unconscious anarchy broke out intantly turning into violence and this gave no meaning to the insurrection beyond violence for the sake of violence. Speaks to a generation that grew up ignorant of the question of when and why is it right to excercise an insurrection. Consequently, they end up as criminals without the support of the majority when they could have ended as criminals with the support of a majority.
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  8248. It is out of awareness the republicans are the bigger evil that people give their money and vote to democrats. The black portion and the white portion of the working class have different perceptions of the ruling class and how to resist domination.
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  8249.  @timx9661  America is an apartheid society and state, of course, fear is an awareness guiding people’s political consciousness, ---be black poor and live in a state dominated by an evangelical white southern christian legislature, for a week, and come back to me about fear and awareness. The democrat is always projected and perceived as the lesser evil.
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  8250. If there is to be mass social rebellion...let it be one that has outgrown Donald Trump.
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  8251. Strong evidence suggests the American government and the ‘special historical destiny’ the American people possess as their national character is fascism.
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  8252. Americans are dragged into this atrocity through the irresistible urge of the arms manufacturers to accumulate a greater mass of profit, take advantage of the fall in prices, buy cheap, produce cheaper, and make more of the low priced commodities the working class consumes. The entire mass of consumer goods manufactured cheaper brings on a tendency to depress the value of labor-power, cheaper goods = less wages, pensions, etc., and overall the working class is working more for less valuable money commanding less of the quantities of the necessaries of life. By this scenario the wars and the production of arms for invasions perpetrated by ruling class individuals are supported by the labor of every working American. Anything that is used in this war in Yemen is an American product, all hardware and software, has its origins in the USA produced by the US working class. Americans sell to buy, the sale is in the working, the buying is in the wage, but the actual activity itself is the connection to the Yemenese victims of this holocaust, so that if a chemist of a chemical company produces a part needed for the weapons consumed in Yemen, that individual chemist has a moral choice to make, to work for money or work for humanity. In the case of the entire working class, their labor-power is the commodity they must sell to avoid material deprivation. The chemists and the system operators running the factory automation that fabricates the ammunitions and weapons are in a moral bind. Most all commodities the US military requires to sustain its own wars and this Yemen war puts the all the producers of those requirements into a moral crisis.
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  8253. North Korea will NOT denuclearize even if South Korea denuclearizes is the anomaly. Only a worldwide denuclearization movement can disarm both countries. A nuclear free world wide movement resolves the contradiction North Korea plays in its historic relation to the world. President Moon's position places American conservatives which include republicans and democrats, as the obstacle to a true peace. The victim in this history is Korea, the greater part of the damage of the Cold War Korean Conflict was inflicted on Northern Korea. Victims as persons are typically hyper sensitive of external threats, victims as nations are not much different, that as long as democrats and republicans are in power the victim will behave like a victim because victimization, expropriation, and appropriation by the few is the perceived policy of the US in South Korea. America will have to lay down its guns before Chairperson Kim disarms North Korea is anomaly #2. Nuclearized governments are incapable of disarming themselves, their power rests on threats as a precondition, if not power dissolves, industrial production of weapons dissolve, the basis of the power dissolves. The withdrawal of US fleets policing the Pacific Asian oceans is an indication Washington in losing control of the region as nuclear-free movements pick up momentum and carries Moon to be the historic leader breaking the use of power as a form of social control. The Col. points out the contradictions of the positions from the vantage point of the American conservatives in Washington, whose power rests on demonizing to the American public, any foreign country the US is losing influence over. Moon's position of denuclearization challenges the thesis of in keeping North Korea nuclear and would accelerate the decline of US hegemony of the region. This makes the US, democrats and republicans specifically, the primary opposition to a nuclear free world, which, in turn, positions the American public into contradiction #3? The question of its domestic economy dedicated to war and intervention or dedicated to world peace and internal social development.
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  8254. That is one way to deal with too many big oil capitalists becoming too powerful in your country. The west is a market source of their growth that they would defend it by treason or other means even if it means selling Russia out. Bad and nasty profit hungry capitalists do give grounds for nationalism in a leader to be a positive force. But I love how the anchor can’t make heads of tails of how these killings are happening and some of them are pretty weird like the one in a Jamaican Shaman ceremony. That’s straight out of a movie.
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  8255. Security systems won’t fix who is entering our country, why or how? Solving the problems that give rise to the reasons they should leave their country is how to reduce the number of people coming into your country.
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  8256. What a moronic question from the senator who most likely has a voting record for de-regulation: Why has the consumer safety administration not been doing its job, duh...how about 45 years of de-regulating the FCSA. As soon as someone sticks a lens at their face senators pretend they had no idea this was going on...and the American consumer as dumb as they are believe them. Builders really took that middle class family to the cleaners, eh.
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  8257.  @theFLCLguy  If we were in power we'd rig it our way. If we did not they would steal the power.
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  8258. Pretty amazing how a complex society can hold itself together by a market, this seems pretty high risk to me. How GDP are commodities in our three societies, Canada, Mexico and the US, and all these commodities become exchange-values, and then exchange for a symbolized exchange-value in money, distributes the total production of the three countries combined to a small number of people, is the abyss of parliamentary politics? The inequality is so great in each of these societies, that at the next crisis, the political parties of any persuasion will be representing a small percentage of the population while the rest are left to abandon out in the cold, survival and all.
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  8259. In exchange for time off a worker can work more hours in a day. This is coming to America, all that began in the 1980s, the crashes, and the ongoing social crisis as the republican and democratic strategy for class dominance has been leading up to the abolition of the legal workday. For those who do not understand the significance of a prolongation of the workday they need to read about past working class struggles for a legal 8hr day to understand what is at stake. Its your ass not mine that enters the salt mines a bushy eyed human being and comes out a shrunken and broken human being.
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  8260. The Nixon Drug Wars open the pathway for the rise of a militarized state.
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  8261.  @tomscott3  Many in the Bernie movement and many in the Warren faction and none in the Buttigieg following even care for they are all about capitalism and individual greed and self-centeredness and the Frist Amendment Audit video makers who challlenge police authority in public places, all have a conception indoctrinated into the their subjective and personal belief system that the rights in the Constitution are "permanent". An indoctrination that arises out or religion. The conception that all things are not in constant change and development, whether objects or subjects, the way they are is the way they are; ubiquitously translated into the American street talk as "It is what it is". 1st, 2nd. 13th amendments are forever and will never be changed, abolished or amended, the world is a creation of God and God is permanent. It is hopeless, a religious people are chiliasts, they can never awaken to the idea that a constitutional bourgeois republic can become an absolute monarchy even if it crashed on top of the heads. Earthly life is preordained to be a creation of God, interpreting gravity or natural selection, climate change through theological and ideological eyeglasses, not as a reshaping of matter by mankind but as laws of creation. Unearthly life is life is spiritual form in the heavens that destruction by mankind is concieved as a speeding up salvation for true believers. When the pilgrims, mormans, protestants, left Europe they brought with them chiliasm, that even the most radical person is not a pragmatist but a preacher. The Victoria Ortegas in American society haven't the slightest clue of this fallacy of an ideology to wake up enough to destroy it!
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  8262. The weapons used by corporate America to crush a movement include: Lock outs, Speed ups, Low wages and high prices, Starvation, Use their wealth to wait out a strike or movement. Best to immediately freeze their assets so that cannot wait out a strike or protest. Their weapons are economic, the State's weapons are social, economic and political/ideological. The producing social classes have to be on one side and the consuming corporations with the state on the other side puts the political and economic order in correct order. The order is deceptively reversed in reality to accomodate capital. The social classes that produce are consumers and the social classes that consume are the producers obscures the real economic relation. It will require education to get people to see themselves as the real producers after decades of indoctrination by the belief they are consumers.
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  8263. Abolish Think Tanks and PACS and democracy will be restored.
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  8264. The lifelong trauma on boys will persist until the standards of social media are raised to a higher educational medium in all 50 states.
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  8265. There are 25,000 toxic chemical that are not regulated in their use. Workplace is toxic.
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  8266.  @dennisgill3459  One, really, not because of two political parties. Well, I disagree, I blame the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) the political parties have used to develop the biggest polluter in the world; the US Military. and currently the two parties are in bed with the military and have been since Roosevelt was president. I am looking forward to see how these political parties finagle Laser Light Fusion (LLF) not for society but for the military while society continues to consume and produce carbon dioxide by the trillions into the atmosphere the military uses laser light fusion to maintain military supremacy over all nations. Technology must be made a function of investment so that, for example, Union Carbide cannot open a plant in the US unless it is powered by LLF and the industries that can be adapted be adapted by law. How’s that for a political program?
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  8267.  @peterbelanger4094  I think the micromanagement of your life takes place where you work. Every detail of your actions are managed by your employer. No freedom at all. Outside of the workplace you are free but inside the workplace is sheer tyranny. Every ounce of energy is sucked up by the labor-process of your employer’s management team. You do not produce to enrich the company you work for making objects that harm people who buy the stuff you are a gonner. So, not only do you not have control over what is made and how and when and how much but you are forced or hostage to work by what is a certain death without a job in America as a threat hanging over your head. The rest of society adapts to this tyranny setting up a social system that limits the movements and freedoms of people makes it appear it comes from the government when in fact, all employers are ganging up on all workers, using the government to subjugate the entire workforce. If you do not see this you are the delusional one.
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  8268. The technology is a productive force that cannot left in the hands of private capital. Someone should make a farce parody of the Lucy video on how stupid it is that we talk to each other through digital devices rather than using our tongues and brains.
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  8269.  @milenprada55  I directed my comment "Odious thought", to the verb, i.e, burning, in your first comment not the subject, Bolsonaro. But you have so much violence in you that you took my comment as a defense of the subject,i.e, Boldonaro. Fire begets fire, violence begets violence and hatred begets hatred.
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  8270. It does not help that our Constitution is based on pre-existing social divisions that our rights of liberty, property, and security are designed to keep people apart right from the start.
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  8271. Word salad,----are you for or against these actions?
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  8272.  @norbis3939  I really thought Kamala Harris took the prize on word salad. Wow, are you in the dark. So, you really do not know? You should really do more homework on this. 800 US bases and about 3000 American troops are disseminated and located around the world happen to be concentrated in Asia. Arms to the Philippines arranged by Gen. Austin this past September. US military drills with NATO in Murmansk is now a proxy war in Ukraine. You never hear about these things until an American is killed such as in Syria, 900 American troops are there. I was just listening to CBS this Sunday and even they (shocking to me) were questioning Kirby with some hard facts. My opinion: The safest way to prevent such killings is to not be there versus Being There (no pun intended with reference to the movie Being There, 1979). Let me count the number of America’s unjust wars. None of which were won. Going back to the Civil War of 1860. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine...why in the world do you suppose nations are alienating the US. Should I come to your house and plant my troops right next to you...would that be okay...practice firing a gun by your house...would that be fine...should I park a nuclear submarine in the Gulf of Mexico pointing torpedoes at Florida...would that be okay with you? I think you’d be testing your weapons if I did that.
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  8273. Maybe if Democrats were not in bed with Russophobes to the extreme we would get a pro-Russian relationship that can be normalized through diplomacy and catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but as it is the distortions produce more distortions and the Democrats are vinegar.
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  8274. Depriving the nations in the south of the vaccine will come back to harm the American consumer.
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  8275. Abolish the council! A better form of government is a parliament. Cidillo and de Leon are sabotaging the central nerve of the city from functioning.
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  8276. 0:10 After 15 weeks or 4.5 months of pregnancy abortions are to be banned. You'd like to live in a society where abortion has not become a necessity for women that you need a Supreme Court to decide if you can afford to bring a child into this world and your life. At the same time, someone feels like they belong to society when they have enough money. For a moneyless person a child is a bond, a belonging. Still the wrong reasons to enter parenthood but there is nothing else in society outside of gangs that girls are not rejected. But I guess that is why republican states have the poorest populations. The lower the standard of living with low wages comes the less choices women and the struggle for more freedom becomes a struggle for survival.
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  8277. A Fantastic Galloway segment! Good thing Hendrix died when he did or he would have ended up a Neocon and ruined the whole mystic of revolutionary music.
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  8278. Value is created in production and surplus value is realized in circulation. Is that how it works? Forgive me I am new to this discipline...learning a lot though. Workers produce value in excess of the values paid to them in wages when working on the job and the capitalist(s) realizes this excess value the workers formed in the finished product in circulation when selling in markets. Workers move from circulation to production and back to circulation their whole lives. They buy then work to buy more. A capitalist moves from production to circulation and back to production their whole lives and buys cheap to sell dear. Both social classes live their whole lives stuck in this cycle and production itself to both classes is an intermittent event, useful only as a means, not as an end in itself. The value creation process is used for a single purpose and not a general one for capitalists and for workers the production process the value creation process, is used by workers for a general purpose and not for a particular one like self-development, education, skill, etc. Both social classes misuse the productiveness of labor located in the production process of society for self-purposes. The productiveness of labor located outside of the workers, independent of them, as the property of the capitalist(s) make the two social classes dependent on this productiveness; the capitalists to exploit it the workers to hate it. Work is made to be not a joy for self-realization but a destructive force on human beings. That’s my take on all this. The answer is the full emancipation of the productiveness of labor from its status as the independent property of capital and be made a dependent property of the workers.
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  8279.  @scramptha5949  What happened to the chair that contains a surplus value, the value the tree cutter and the value the wood processor that goes into the wood for the chair, the value embodied by the upholstering of the chair, the threading, the fabric material, these elements go into the formation of the product, that when finished by the finishing worker, the chair contains a greater value than the value (wages) paid to the chair maker? What did you do with the chair friend? All one million of them which I must sell on the market to realize that surplus value or it will forever be tied up in its product form, unsold, after having made them in production? “When someone puts up a job posting for a chair maker at 25$ an hour, they are signaling that they value an hour of a chair makers time making chairs, more than they value 25$.” Here you agree with me S/V is produced in production by workers. “Similarly if you were to accept that job, you would be signaling that you value 25$, more than you value an hour of leisure time (or w/e other thing you could do)” Here you equate leisure time, a variable incidentally, with a $25 wages. I don’t know anyone who can go the Disney world on $25 dollars do you? What that person would have to produce is 200 chairs for a value equivalent in a trip to Disney, but if the chairs took longer to produce than it takes Disney to open a theme park then one chair would be enough. I hope your getting the point with these examples. But keep them coming I like the challenge.
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  8280.  @scramptha5949  150 million people in your country are in jobs that have nothing to do with their education and training. Unskilled working class cannot afford choice when looking for a job. Another 150 million people do not work in production of any kind, i.e, physical labor. That is a extremely high umber of people supported by the productive labor of the other 150 million, the ones who produce your food, underwear, and razor so you can look clean and healthy. Not that you are clean and healthy is less the point here. Getting back. Half the US population produces nothing of value and the other half produce all its value? Do you agree that characterization of American society?
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  8281.  @scramptha5949  Okay...I will talk theory with you. My original very first comment highlights one aspect of the theory and it stands. We deviated. Value comes from the use of labor-power in production by capital, its exploitation (synonymous to use and compulsion)), is the use-value of the living worker in real production for capital, the use-value of the commodity labor-power only exists for the capitalist as a producer of s/v...conscious of this or not the fact remains fact, the labor market right now is in great shape for capital, an abundance of labor-powers out there, ready to sell it for a song and praying inflation will not erode their $14 an hour to an equivalent of $5 per hour...when Biden’s sanctioning Russia is felt on te domestic economy...elites hoping higher interests rates will keep the working-class from spending ...capital is rich enough to cushion the inflationary blow but for150 million, no cushion at all except an inducement to keep your money in the bank. The strong labor market will become a weak one...capital does not have to spend and buy the commodity labor-power that has a price on it too low for its seller to want to sell goes over the heads of democrats, plus capital produces overseas. Capital does not know how much to produce proportionally to needs, so all the individual capitals (corporations) create gluts a consequence of the productivity of labor. Several more social consequences arise from the way capital exploits, uses, consumes, buys, the productiveness of labor of workers, that we need not go into here. Workers (150 million) are seven times poorer than the average CEO (capitalist) the workers naturally do not separate their productiveness of labor from their minds and bodies willingly, this separation comes from the labor as a two fold commodity, grandma’s tailoring is useful labor in particular and grandma’s labor counts as value-producing labor in general, as a senior the law says she can only earn a certain amount before meeting Uncle Sam’s taxman. You do not get to be the arbiter of value. The desired pleasure of your grandmother instilled in you for her that gladly pays the cost for her maintenance is not the value I speak of. When you said you are not sure you follow my reasoning you were correct. Value producing labor is a societal designation you are born into and become in capitalism of no choice of your own. This does not mean you were born into the working class and cannot become a capitalist. That is another subject involving the political system, not being discussed here. What kind of value producer a person becomes in a capitalist society is a societal designation only insofar as there are so many jobs Capital needs, right now. Society has no need for tailoring but it needs clothes. The sewing machine was grandma’s best friend until NAFTA was signed and all sewing came from Guatemala and Honduras, Singapore, this act of Congress downgraded grandma from home to nursing home..
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  8282.  @scramptha5949  There is a great confusion among economists, particularly about the wealth of nations. The quantities of the various useful objects America produces is how American economists and lay people examine American society. But there is a more scientific way of looking at the wealth of nations the Americans have not used in their methodology and approach on the subject. Aristotle came so close to finding this method; we owe it to him for this method. Nobody in America is taught Aristotle barring the Ivy League institutions. We know the reason Aristotle could not find the law of equivalents in his society; why A did not equal B? Slavery was the reason. The common substance that made things exchange or equal could not be found because labor in slavery was not free labor, the capacity to work was not a ‘free commodity’. Labor itself and the commodity labor-power did not exists at the time but the Law of Value, this law is a natural law and as a natural law it is the same for all forms of societies, and it is by this law that American society is criticized. All societies produce use-values for social needs to insure survival and the reproduction of the society as a whole, how the work is allocated to perform this function is a decisive question. Capitalism asserts production as a ‘blind working average’, it is criticized for not enacting social regulation of production; no equal proportion between the allocations of labor in society and the needs of capitalist society. The social relation of commodities and money that take the form of a social contract under capitalism, out of recognition of owner’s rights in the social contract, occurs as a force outside of the will of the American people runs against the natural law of equivalents. So it is impossible to know what is productive work and what is not productive work except by determining what work is exchanged against capital and what work is exchanged against the revenue of the State...economists also confuse revenue with profits; in addition to confusing the quantities of commodities with the wealth of nation (GDP); so we have millions of people who are working but in jobs that are unproductive of profit and millions in jobs that enrich capital. Capital knows how much labor it must allocate to itself to sustain its rate of profit but the government does not know and what capital does not employ the government cannot employ without heavier taxation on the productive sectors of the working class and as a consequence of this crisis the workplace has a high fatality rate.
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  8283.  @scramptha5949  Value is subjective...just not the kind of subjectivity you think...its human...its labor belonging to a human being, it human productivity capital extracts from workers’ bodies and minds in production after the exchange between labor and capital happens. This is the secret of success for capital. You get rich by exploiting labor not by selling Tupperware or Amway. I think that you think value is a subjective perception or consciousness. Value is the exertion of sweat, muscle, bone and brain of a subjective human being that gets, injected through work, incorporated, devoured, trapped, embodied into commodity production measured by time. Time (manpower hours is how Americans call this) is the general object the worker is the particular subject. Bit coin is a currency that resides in circulation, it is not capital. Bit coin has no part of production. Bitcoi competes with the Dollar backed by the force of power of the State. Bitcoin is not enforced by the State but it will be because it is a threat to the dollar. The dollar is represented by the Congress and the White House that is threatened by this ethereal currency...I say, that’s cool. Production has laws of its own apart from the laws of markets, which is why production in the US and markets are in constant need of a State to equalize the two. Capital is a social relation of two elements; workers and capitalists (employers and employees). Bitcoin is a means of payment, and a medium of circulation, and also a method of payment, but it is not a measure of value. Value units are products turned into commodities that relate to each other through the law of value, measured by time and time is crystallized in gold. What your country needs like a fish needs water to live is a social revolution. The separation between production and circulation is so wide apart that all your tax dollars are being used to support a parasitical class system of an ever shrinking number of super billionaires usurping the value produced by society’s workers. When inflation rises to 3-4% you will begin to see America rupture at the seams into a civil war and distress because production is over there in Asia and circulation is here in NYC. Brain is over there and the body is over here.
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  8284.  @scramptha5949  If you use anything as a standard unit of value that would result in the following equation: x use-value A = y use-value B. That is not the equation for exchange under capitalism, which is: x commodity A = y commodity B. Big difference, the former is barter and the latter is exchange involving money. In price-market relations when value drops because less labor goes into making a car than it did making a car in 1940, the money-name (price) of cars because price is fixed to gold and gold as a commodity takes about the same labor time as it did to extract from the earth in 1940 but in all the other commodities less labor to produce, the dollar name (prices) rises. This is not inflation. Economists confuses this too. Inflation is a group of employers who get together and decide the price of their commodities. Money in your example, we are talking about gold. Gold is money and value equals price are the assumptions to help us understand what the dickens is going on here in the very strange world of commodities and money. Value in your example is equal to price. Gold is money, but when gold is not money it is a commodity containing the same abstract labor as all other commodities. Yes, I would have to give you 10 paintings for your one painting constitutes the rule of equivalence (synonymous to the Law of Value) capitalism of any variety violates in every transaction occurring world wide.
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  8285. Lets hope he sees this show and how much of a fool he makes of himself.
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  8286. Painful is the effect of the CIA’s misinformation communications campaign on all Americans.
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  8287. How does bombing civil targets an act of self defense? Its not. Its an an act offense. Genocide aims to eliminate the ability of a species to reproduce itself as a species, individual, family, or society. Its targets are always life -giving objects is how you tell the difference between a defensive and offensive, just or unjust, war. The people or institutions that are directly and indirectly involved in the reproduction of social and individual life and promote life are targets constitutes a genocide. Eventually the children grow up to become fathers from which Hamas fighters are recruited seems to be the reasoning of the aggressor. The conundrum, however, is that Terrorist Organizations are built from the ranks of the aggressor. The aggressor’s survival hinges on the production of society’s economic surplus for its own appropriation and expansion; an opposite aggressor becomes a means, a tool, for that expansion or it loses its own reason of existence. Terrorist Organizations are a superimposition over the working population in Palestine, and not a homegrown resistance party of the working classes. Hamas Organization are not a communist party at which the ruling classes tremble from communist activity that immediately arms the working classes to defend themselves against aggression (Israel). Hamas is as criminal as Israel, they left the people defenseless and vulnerable is criminal. Every act of genocide has the aim of eliminating the biological and material reproductive capacities of a given people, culture or society. This is how you know objectively what kind of society; what form of fascism; what type of republic; the monopoly structure of the economy, a given nation is not when a nation calls itself a nation. There is a world market all nations are relating to that they cannot be relating to themselves when they become fascist republics. To sustain themselves as fascist republics the world market must be reconfigured in the sphere of human activity that directly reproduces life, production itself, and so its future campaigns is to change the industrial base of economies at the material level to consume the greater part of industrial output on an indefinite basis.
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  8288. Hey Joe! Ukraine is a big place that 100,000 troops might be fine for an attack but not an invasion. Invasion means you have to hold the country you invaded and you need way more than 100k Troops to hold a country. There is one other point Joe; Europe or Russia including Ukraine has no appetite for war. As a matter of fact, I don’t think anyone is interested in Joe’s war.
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  8289. right, time to check it out.
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  8290. I suspect this generation of Neo-Liberals are ignorant of European Fascism and Nazism.
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  8291. Really and truly sucks to be a kid in America,--- coping with their own identity crisis and no help from a society that cannot get its act together! Last born into society are the first ones burned by society in comportment with the theory of seniority, last hired, first fired.
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  8292. In so many words the founder of Project Dynamo, which is a dead giveaway for a mercenary force, admits the government the Haitians have overthrown and rejected is to be re-installed by an international force. It doesn’t matter what the Haitians want; what matters is an intervention for a Coup.
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  8293. I think the problem is that those who read the Bible become the news.
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  8294.  @JohnOhkumaThiel  A president is not a civil servant and does not take a civil service test to run for president. All those years have been wasted on your confusion between an elected office and government bureaucracy.
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  8295.  @JohnOhkumaThiel  You are wrong. Pardon my bluntness. Civil Servants are employed not elected and they are employed by a bureaucracy. When they move up the ranks of that bureaucracy they remain civil servants but when they are elected, they are no longer civil servants. They become an executive arm of the class that rules over society in charge of the government.
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  8296. Unfortunately, oppressors and usurpers are not willing to stop being oppressors and usurpers. More is never enough for these people that violence to be rid of them was the action revolutions took if a new society was to come into being. It is really because of this reason that the west sought to use the state as a means for an emancipation and that got corrupted along the way making the state an oppressor and a usurper itself. The west sought to avoid or side step freedom by changing society through laws when revolutions are successful by making individuals fit and ready to make a revolution by peaceful means. In short, the heirs of the Established Oligarchies in the west and the working classes were kept separate and apart for so long the kind of person this created in both social classes are only fit for dictatorship.
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  8297.  @harryfire411  Its a mad world.
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  8298. An American oligarchy of landowners want the EPA effectively destroyed. Without the EPA in the way of the aims of landed property and private Capital, the working classes would have no access to nature and nature’s offerings at all.
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  8299. lol
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  8300. What does it say when your attorney gets busted? All lawyers are corrupt or the practice of law is corrupted and lawyers cannot operate in an honest practice. You have to wonder why the National Lawyers Guild are silent and take no political stand in keeping the legal system a clean practice in reaction to this administration. Does that mean they cannot or will not, take a political stand? Or the practice is so corrupt that a political stand can't stand at all?
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  8301. Only if you were born late would you not know Bill Clinton’s AKA was “Slick Willy”. It takes someone slick to know a slick in the Clinton Family oligarchy.
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  8302. Its a pity protesters do not go into scrimmage formations and swamp the police using their larger numbers. They could be a Tsunami and totally overwhelm the police.
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  8303.  @EldritchEntityWithASmartphone  Only a fool would believe there is an ethical way to get rich in capitalism. Bernie did not exploit the labor directly that produced his book but his book is still the object that bears a higher value than what the bookmakers in the factory are paid. His publisher is the capitalist and his book is the raw material his publisher appropriates from the workers producing the actual physical book, even if that work is automated requiring one person to press a button to make a million copies,---the book is made offshore the book re-enters circulation bearing a higher value than its own material components. His income from this book is one of many items that form the cost of production of the book for the publisher. This arrangement puts Bernie where all workers should be in relation to the object they produce,---if they got a share of the product the capitalist appropriates rather than getting a straight wage to buy a pound of preservative rich bread to carry the workers through life without dying from starvation, a mere deduction from the value the book bears a sufficient income from international markets. Barring all other factors and influences this economic law holds true for all commodities produced for sale. You would be in denial into believing a man or woman can become rich without the exploitation of human labor. There are no ethics in capitalist production and private appropriation,----you will soon learn that in the coming months when your soil, water, security, food, housing, cars, trains, planes, all become threats to human life.
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  8304.  @jackjanpour8532  subsidies come from taxes and taxes is the excess income you lose to the government. If a billionaire gets tax subsidies it is on your dime that he/she gets the start of becoming a capitalist. So either way you are on the bottom and hardly ever do you rise to the top. It’s a rigged tax system and your buddy there is about to make tax subsidies to the rich permanent. It will be an avalanche of deregulation and gift giving, all on your dime.
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  8305.  @frankojudoka  make it easy on yourself and see it as one large international oligarchy. They are international and the working classes are nationalists. Go figure.
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  8306. McConnell, ---Two things are possible that an 81 year old man can assume the responsibilities of the job of a party minority leader, ----either the doctor is worse than his patient and renders a quack medical assessment or the party McConnell leads has become an economic parasite on society that work in that party is so light, so meaningless, so detailed, reduced to picking up fiddle sticks, a frail man with short term seizures can do the job.
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  8307. @Lost Hero Precisely, because they knew about its potential that they kept it from being used to improve life for the majority.
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  8308.  Justin Marion  Its more than cleaning up but I know what you mean.
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  8309.  @harambeegardens8705  You mean the culprits are not to blame but their victims are?
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  8310.  Justin Marion  Her voyage goes down in history; what have I done to change historical events...what have you done?
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  8311.  @charlestaylor7890  You are guilty of being complicit with the perpetrators not the blame!
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  8312.  @charlestaylor7890  The world's resources are still exploited by a handful of nations brought to you by Koch Industries. Humanity never regarding the world's resources as something to protect from monopoly ownership and control.
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  8313.  george mcelroy  You make it sound like the Germany, Japan, and the UK are no longer spewing CO2 by their consumption of what is produced by China, Mexico, Russia. Re-phrase your comment so that you may understand that man and environment are involved in a simultaneous process; the environment changes man as the environment is changed by man. Nature has been adapted to a change of form because of human wants, the former is materialized and the latter is transformed. With this you will widen your understanding of our species without excluding your self as a member of your own species!
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  8314. ​ @charlestaylor7890  And your remark pertains to which of the many remarks I made? Come again.
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  8315.  Justin Marion  Are you out of work?
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  8316. The first problem with western constitutions and the State is children in western societies do not have Rights. They do not have the Right of Freedom, Property, Speech, Liberty. They are the most exploited and the most open to exploitation as members of society. Whatever limits is placed on them it’s placed by their parents in the family and schools. Kids are truly “propertyless” and if there is a law the State is considering that saves children from a certain evil in society, that is a good thing. Is it only because there are too many children harmed it lowers how long the society can live? There is a connection to be found to the life-process of society and the State that children are important and this law was enacted.
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  8317. Grayzone reporting is way ahead of the curve and far more reliable than western media which depicts every leader falsely. Western media is a lying machine that had been burying these facts since 2014. People waving Ukraine flags from their homes are either Nazis themselves or severely brainwashed.
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  8318. I think the problem with the Americans is that they rely on political freedoms to bring them the universal freedom they want as the absolute form of human emancipation. And it does not work that way will be a big disappointment and let down. As far as real freedom is concerned, political freedoms is as far as one can go being free in America within the framework of a Constitutional Republic. You can broaden freedom inside of the State but it will come at the lack of freedoms in society in the social order itself.
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  8319. Be easier to handle the truth that we are not alone in the universe if the truth was never concealed, right? Amazing that the effect of the Cold War runs deeper than its effect on the political mind of the country. The public coming out of the war could not be given information that ran contrary to loyalty to their government and were since then not treated as smart enough to handle it by succeeding generation. You have to remember that the USSR represented more to the masses in the world as a chance to a new world free of the degradation and exploitation of man by man. A powerful idealism came with Russian communism. Hard enough capitalism is surrounded by communism and fascism that to take a chance the American people would not turn on their government in that war would mean certain defeat that then the decision was made to be secret in all way and manner and pass laws that would reveal the truth decades after the participants are deceased. CiA decides what the Public should know and that decision is based on the relative position of the CIA in society and government the threat presents.
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  8320. It would be the same in the US if a people’s president were elected. Congress would have and does have a low approval rating now as they continually attack the president sabotaging every measure taken the small minority that Congress represents, its rating would sink, while the embattled presidents rating would rise. Its a revolutionary moment of truth;
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  8321. Trump wants no competition from Cuomo in 2024 when he runs for office. Far right desires to take back the government.
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  8322.  @sadienailedit7467  The Double Whammy is; Republicans are more up front about their pro-censorship. Where do you go?
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  8323.  @gspaulsson  If you cannot provide proof Ukraine is Nazi -free then we have nothing to talk about, do we? You are brainwashed when you are dependent on third party information and without proof accept as truth. It takes longer than just two months start of the Ukraine war, to fill the brains of people with propaganda and for that to take effect on individuals. Brain washing in America began as far back as 1776 but for this generation it began at the same time the National Debt grew exponentially.
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  8324.  @jeepdan7776  Its the same here, paid informants by a two party regime, to control your speech and keep everyone in line. Anyone paid to tell you the news is paid to tell you news that favors the hand that feeds them. Party functionaries tow the party line gives the illusion of consensus. The voice of the ordinary person is silenced in all societies caught up in this paradigm.
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  8325.  @julianciahaconsulting8663  It is a far right wing departure from the 1st amendment of the constitution to create a Disinformation Governance Board. At the same time, it is also a far left departure for the Freedom Caucus to push for the break up the Big Tech monopolies. Politics of the democrats and the politics of the republicans hinge on a interaction. The interaction is between technology and society. Us, the Public influenced by an open technology that democrats see a need for a central scrutinizer to control technology and republicans see technology’s power becoming greater than the government’s own power.
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  8326. There are no wars in the East, internal tensions maybe, but not battles, wars and class wars are limited to the west between western governments and western working populations working in a relationship with corporations. The corporations internally are socially organized between employer and employee as unequal partners in production. At the present time the whole field of human production is dominated by this class relation of social inequalities. Inequality in terms of work, pay, gender...power, privilege, are about labor productivity. We treat labor productivity as an object, a thing that belongs to neither the employer or the employee, both classes of people are equally non-owners of labor productivity despite the fact that you cannot have labor productivity without a human being performing it,---we are all human beings. Herein is our misery, suffering, social alienation, stems from the separation of objective elements from the subject in the field of work that escalates into external wars. The diagnosis is the human element is powerless to administer its own labor from the object consuming human labor. Productivity and technology have a life of their own as elements of production, time element and technology, are the generators of economic growth, but they are independent of the work itself creates an internal conflict. The live subjects performing the work are working to enrich an employer is the contract relationship and this relation is not a generator of economic growth. It’s actually not even a necessary relationship and a bad one at that. The relation is loaded with social inequities and traps to hand over all power to administer labor performance and technology, this contractual clause is what makes lengthening the hours of work desirable to employers. People in the west are oly free and equal before they get into a contract relationship. Once signed they become unequal partners. Like a bad marriage in desperate need of a divorce.
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  8327. These are private companies not non-profit organizations railroading your community. Organize a Fight Back to expose them.
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  8328.  @suraj-op2bx  He took your tax dollars with him plus whatever was in the treasury :(
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  8329.  @videosyoumustwatch7681  Socializing your personal mistakes.
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  8330. History reveals, Ukraine is the biggest loser... in real lives and politically in this effort of the Biden Administration; the cruel policy of sacrificing Ukraine in order to bleed Russia. It did not work. A million Ukrainian lives lost is a substantial loss to a country of ony 37+ million people. They could have been spared if Biden changed direction earlier, if Kamala broke away from Biden’s policies, there were ample chances for the democrats to redirect that money to Americans when the first round of floods and fires tore up the infrastructure. The Christian nationalists read the writing on the wall and decided to pull out of Ukraine...leave Europe to deal with its own security in a bluff the Europeans took hook, line and sinker, in one form or another gave their offerings awaiting instruction on what to do next; the unknown had come true, they must spend more on their own defense in a time of tax cuts to the rich, the money they need has to come from the European working classes. Deeper cuts into pensions and longer working hours against a static wage are tough pills to swallow that the British PM was quick to offer sending his own troops to Ukraine if it meant the EU not fall apart to pieces speaks volumes on how emotionally not empathetic and remote the PM is to his people. The idiot not realizing the whole Ukraine campaign was meant to burn out Russia as a precursor to a NATO expansion. Russia lost millions too but the war for them meant keeping western invaders out of Russia gives meaning to their losses.
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  8331. Time stamp 21:00 Lt. Marine Office court-martialed for revolutionary comments against his superiors withdrawal of troops in Afghanistan is a pretext being part of that 20 year long occupation building up Daesh from the destruction of Sadamm's Guard early in the war in Iraq has radicalized the military rank and file into a paramilitary movement in the US advocating the overthrow of the federal government. Nobody is paying attention to this as all the right wing forces converge in 2024 to overthrow the government and leaving the rest of the population stranded under a new military occupation suspending rights, privileges and the US Constitution will happen overnight as there is no voting mechanism in place after the overthrow takes place.
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  8332. Can't forget the Iraq War Veterans, so angry at the liberal establishment who at the time was Joe Biden put them in harm’s way using 9/11 for a call for freedom and liberty against Sadaam Hussien and liberate Iraq. Congress went along with it hook, line and sinker. They gave Al Queda a place to fight Americans. The Vets came back destroyed, and used the only power they have to elect Trump, a spite vote against the liberal establishment. What did the left do? Nothing. What did the left do when these same vets showed up in Virginia armed to protest Northam's gun laws on MLK day 2020? Nothing. The left should have been there arm and arm with the Iraq vets. Biden was then and is now in the pocket of Raytheon Lockheed Martin. Grumman, GE, Exxon Mobil, the largest oil dealer to the Pentagon.    Biden formerly head of the arms services committee then became VP to Obama, hand-picked by Obama to initiate another war, the war we are in today, the war with the Russians to build up Ukraine. The next group of Veterans sent to war are not going to come back as close as it came with the assassination of Solemeini of Iran, because now they will be fighting entire nations in the Middle East. His America First policy puts all of Europe in the untenable position to choose between the US or Russia and China. With half of the British parliament invested in Hawei, England, France and Germany slides into a deep stagnation with Trump’s trade war on China.    As for Trump, he is the wrong man for the job. Wrong, because his path is not to deconstruct the arms industry and wrench the grip the arms industry has of our government, his path is to become an autocrat. Undo all the wrong wrong-doers prosecuted by the liberal establishment and create a fealty of the justice department. The people supporting him never went to war. An autocrat is natural to them, they are chiliasts, believers in the second coming of Christ, God, Family and Country. They are the NASCAR enthusiasts, rich, spoiled Americans, country music stars, with pro-fascist leanings.    Only Bernie opposed the Iraq War. Only Bernie opposes the misuse of the military, opposes invasions, opposes the arms industry, opposes industries with the highest carbon footprint. Vote Bernie if you are going to vote, it’s the last chance to restore America back to its original roots of American progressivism.
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  8333. Americans have been in last place since the assassination of JFK.
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  8334. Now you know why communism is the enemy of America’s two war parties, No Compromise.
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  8335. I am proud of these two, I have no relation to them, other than as a viewer. Blumethal and Maté are the ONLY team of reporter/journalists history will use to write itself. The contribution they make is indispensable for historians. When Stoltenberg says the world is made more dangerous he refers to an objective tendency history records and which Dr. King noted as the long arch of history bends toward an emancipation; humanity is moving toward an expropriation of the few. For which he feels requires a defense or inevitable death is the consequence. At the same time as the few are expropriated the many become free to develop commerce, trade, among them, and the social process of expropriation of the many pursued by the possessors of wealth quickly evaporates into an emancipation of the many. If it is not Stoltenberg it would be another Stoltenberg caught up in the desperate reaction of the World Oligarchy for their own survival. For Stoltenberg the comment “...makes us more vulnerable...” the “us” in his speech are the few in possession of the world’s economic and political resources, many former colonies and multi-national corporations, kings, princes, monarchs, dictators, are losing possessions attend DAVOS yearly is an act of desperation as Blumenthal notes. It would be a revealing moment if a US president attended DAVOS.
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  8336. There is a video about the grave sight in question that confirms it is a normal cemetery of deceased dated years past; it was filmed by Al-Jazeera, and it is not what it is being conjectured in the comments or in the video. But the food shortage to come is a real problem that Americans will feel more than anyone else because other societies that are less developed are less dependent on the market for their food. The societies who depend on world commerce for food will see around a 30% decrease in food and the cause of this was positioning Ukraine in a defensive war against Russia on its own agriculture soil. History will prove this a tragedy for that country and a failure of the west to prevent that from happening.
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  8337. Don't blame nature for lack of cleaning out drain systems when your town gets flooded.
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  8338.  @Novastar.SaberCombat  lol
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  8339.  @Novastar.SaberCombat  Is your power down?
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  8340. The FEMA director Peter Gaynor commands 14,000 employees, several huge federal warehouses that can fill three aircraft carriers stocked with material of all types from A to Z, and 13 government agencies. In short FEMA is a standing army and compared to the US military it is small. The military is a force of 475,000 soldiers and dwarfing the size of personnel of the military is a 1 million man police force in law enforcement all equipped as we have seen on occasion when called out to quell riots full battle regalia. The federal government, therefore, has three huge standing armies. The military has at least the same material but four times the amount of all nations combined, that is 127 nations! This is what makes the US an empire. FEMA alone could outfit the entire US with a hospital system in every state making our ordinary hospital system with all its combined resources the size of the state of New Jersey and with that shrinking, overwhelmed, reduced to the size of Rhode Island. The 14,000 employees include experts of all types, engineers, doctors, medical emergency and police, workers and the army Corp of engineers. FEMA could produce material and distribute material. The production of ventilators is a piece of cake if they do not already have them stocked which they do. The society I envision is one where the needs of all citizens can be met for three generations spanning 100 years going forward and a reduced work week from 40 hours per work of a workforce of 133 million people to 20 hours per week for all 334 million and not put a dent in the quantity of material and resources the federal government commands. To give you some proof of one small fraction of this productive power see Big Bertha boring the tunnel under Seattle Washington. One machine, a giant drill is run by four operators at the helm the whole tunnel project 2 miles long employs a workforce of 800 workers. In fact, of all the parts of the society as a whole the Public has the least down to a bare minimum hand to mouth existence from lack of its rightful share of the material wealth and resources its high level of productivity creates. In my view, the priority that makes the federal government insist the Public rely on the private sector for all its needs is its persistence to be a world empire which in this day and age is doing more harm to the planet and the species as a whole. This epidemic makes me question three things about America in order that trust be restored (1) capitalism or the government's reliance on the private sector, (2) ecology and economic inequality in society, (3) public health.
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  8341.  @stupidwars88  I agree. Used to be Sentry States to shield and spear China and Russia their government leaders are too stupid or submissive a people to know it.
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  8342. Insanity.
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  8343. The Male Centered Citadel of Capitalism are the Boards of Directors of Monopoly Corporations, who are not thinking about the future but only the bottom line.
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  8344. Lol...great satire.
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  8345. Elected official are all cowards they speak out about or act on nothing going on in society.
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  8346. The real concern is this. Disgusting! This officially means the American working class gets nothing. The US labor force works for the material well being of Israel and Ukraine, a direct consumer of American dollars. The elite leaders of the democratic and republican party is the Senate, and the Senate just raised its middle finger to the American working person and they are shamelessly lauding the profits the military industrial complex is yielding from continued war and intervention on the planet! The longer these wars remain the more lives are killed the higher the profits and there is not one progressive democrat in the democratic party that stands up against this! The American First crowd are really arguing for an America Last Policy. 61% of the US population of 332 million people live paycheck to paycheck, roughly 221 million people that if they lost their jobs would be homeless and destitute in a month,---this mass of people need to get off their feet and get political quick!
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  8347. In all the photos the police released the individuals are not the same individual they are looking for. Different back pack in one picture than what was found, a different jacket than what was worn on the city bike, has not been found from what the assassin was wearing at the time of the shooting, do not correspond. Too many incongruities thus far in their investigation. More germaine to this story is what the corporation did when learning their CEO was killed that fatal morning. Actions that speak way louder than words was the total disregard and indifference to one of their own people being annihilated reflects their attitude to the Public. Their meeting continued. Now I understand what Luis Bunuel was saying in his movie the “Exterminating Angel” when guests at the party could not leave the party. Evidently, the police do not have this problem with their health insurance revealing a double standard of practice or policy, in the health industry. By their actions the police reveal or reflect a social inequality as users of health insurance, there is insurance for the masses in general and there is insurance for particular institutions.
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  8348. “Our enemies are your enemies, our fight is your fight and our victory is your victory”, Congress may have applauded the speech with standing ovations but the Joint Chiefs did not. The part of government that is not elected separates the Congress from the Military as an institution that does not yield itself to a foreign agent of the US.
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  8349. Kerry married into the Heinz family, makers of ketchup.
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  8350. It doesn't appear to me Sen Kennedy knows what show he is watching?
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  8351. Bernie as Trump had said could have stolen the election from Trump in 2016 had Bernie stayed to the left of the DNC. Had Bernie stuck to his guns about working class incomes and expenses, he would have taken the nomination from Biden. Too bad Bernie takes a left position only when centrists in his party lose but never is he in it to win. Trump on the other hand, stayed to the right of his conservative party centrists and got rid of them. Bernie apologizing for his centrist is to me humiliating.
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  8352. I always thought the Manatee was a Hippos cousin in the sea.
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  8353. We always have to go back to ancient history to understand the present. The US Senate is based on the Roman Senate. Consultants to the king were made to be patricians after the king was expelled from power. They became an aristocratic republic chosen by landowners of the State. There was nothing democratic about an Aristocracy. Landowners in America created the Confederate State in the South and landowners created the Colonial State of the North. After the Civil War, when all states were unified into one union, lawyers selected by landowners became the consultants to the State. All came from Aristocratic lineages. Lincoln may have freed the slaves but the slaves were never freed from the Senate which no longer owned the slaves but stayed active, as aristocratic families, their home being the Senate, hired them on a hourly basis. Contract employments. Special contracts with the government is the transaction and embedded in the transaction are social relations Lincoln made universal. An exchange that all of us are the sellers and the Senate as the final appropriator of wealth is the buyer of our commodity Lincoln gave us. One has to remember that work in America before Lincoln was never performed in a fixed period of time. An outside time element became necessary for this exchange to work or society just collapses with the slave now gone. America needed a Working Day. Every one works against the clock because extracting the same level of growth or higher is what the Senate does when it owned slaves. Their job is to exploit you and I not as slave because we are now freed from slavery but to exploit humanity within a specific time frame, get the maximum profit from that exploitation even if the exploitation is severe and endangers humanity’s survival. As long as the profit average is higher than what it takes to survive is all that matters in the world of America’s Aristocracy. So there you have it, the US Senate that should have been abolished in 1865. If the aristocratic families were banned from the Senate in 1865, America would have its first social democratic republic even before the Russians and the Germans in its history. Just think had the American Senate been abolished Hitler might have never come to power in Germany. The commodity of major importance back then was cotton. Whoever controlled cotton was king. Cotton in a democratic social republic would have been impossible to monopolize and be used as a weapon to control the destinies of nations. There would not have been inflation and neither a Cotton Famine. Hitler would have had no case to blame Europe for German unemployment. Aristocracy from Europe immigrated to the Americas. Its all one big happy family. But an all out legal ban on the aristocracy from entering or creating a government has not happened yet and frustrations with that are mounting.
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  8354. Very good video. Strong critical thinking. All that this young man says is true... ...and what is more, cannot be fixed... only a revolution can end the suffering of all humanity. But the overthrowing of elites is not the main point of a revolution. It happens to be a necessary outcome and a result, even a key objective, but it is not the point of a revolution that elites are no longer in power. A revolution is the only way people can be themselves outside the context of a class society and their labor a value for itself can be fitted to found a new society.
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  8355. Just a note to you Bernie supporters. Your campaign is a working class movement. Bernie has created this movement. A movement that could die out as quickly as he built it as soon as it steps outside of the party. In other words, when the mainstream democrats close the door on the counter-cultural movement, democracy comes to an end.  In a sense some in those circles see Bernie doing all the leg work pooling the demographic together for them to slam the door shut behind them. What were two parties have merged to become one party with two wings. Within that environment there is no chance for the working class movement can survive. The rank and file of the party Bernie had brought into the process is now broad enough to be its own party.  This movement can get as big as it likes but if it is under the rule of the democratic party its like living back at home under their roof their rules. In their house the working class can never come into its own as a viable opposition to what is now one party with two wings alternating power between them.
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  8356. 4:28, --of all celebrities, I tip my hat to Kim Kardashian. America is a nation of 79.2 million families with 73 million children under 18 in each household and the second largest group are children with mothers only, like our NFL celebrity’s family who punched his girlfriend in the face after he waltzed into the apartment of Madonna and Child and took a swing at her in the State that regards domestic violence an affair of private property, is a role model for boys (especially black boys) under 18. Without Kim Kardashian every little girl in America would be a victim of boys following the footsteps of our NFL player. He exemplifies he confused state of American masculinity in crisis.
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  8357. First understand this about the FED rate falling a 1/4 % . All the FED has done by lowering the rate is to make the price other banks pay the FED for money they borrow to lend out to their own bank depositors, cheaper. The FED lowered the wholesale price of money. In turn, the banks charge a rate to other borrowers have more retail room to raise the price yet stay below the social average cost of a mortgage. This is good for the banks and stingy for the consumer who saves around $120 bucks per month in money less paid in interest. Not a good deal I would say, considering in my day rates went from 6% in the 70s to 3% in the 80s. The Fed went from Funny Money in the 80s to Stingy Money in the 20s. Wow, I am thrilled (sic). Socially, the nuclear family is destroyed, patriarchy is wiped out. To raise children in America both parents must work and since children cannot be raised unsupervised and there is no such thing as universal child care, one parent staying home is out of the question. The changing workforce has lowered wages in general; it’s cheaper to hire a woman than a man in America because women are still second class citizens in America. They have given up the fight for parity. Now the family is extended under one roof. Two families are under a roof or 1.5 families share the same address and all contribute to pay the mortgage. This makes the relative holding the mortgage a hostile relative to the relative renting to live under the same roof, a hostile relative when the rent cannot be paid. In America, people kill each other over the smallest and petty issues. The children raised in multifamily homes will marry into another multi-family home and America will have more renters than owners spurring the growth of a new industry that builds homes to rent not buy. This will create a social class of people renting by choice and renters by need leading to the creation of a social class of landowners. Before long, America has the facade of a feudalistic society in modern form.
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  8358. The political power demonstrated if the City of New York, Chicago and LA were completely shut down by mass protests would reverberate around the world as a signal for a mass uprising of humanity to do away with all oppressors in whatever form they appear as the start of the age of the common person. Think Big!
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  8359. Mayor enacts the role of Ponctius Pilot. This is the mayor’s way of washing his hands of them. Tighten rules around them and eventually the infractions will give the mayor the excuse of these are the rules to throw them out in the street.
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  8360. The first problem is that every living structure built in the midwest is the wrong kind of structure to build for that environment. American homes and buildings without external power to cool them down are giant ovens that trap air and do not serve to convex air to allow hot air to rise and leave the building and cool air to fall and come into the building. Everything is wrong in America, the way we work, the way we live and the way we travel is all wrong.
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  8361. You make progress when you accept truth does not depend on thought.
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  8362. These guys in the video only talk about “ideas”.and will never reach a consensus because their reality is purely in their heads. Real scientists start observing something concrete and particular; these guys start their observations from abstract and general notions that originate from the very same system they observe. They are fooling their audience and get paid nicely for it.@alwynraynott7303
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  8363.  @wout123100  Truth does not depend on thought and words are thought. Truth depends on material reality. Material reality does not lie like the human brain lies producing thoughts, words, ideology, religion, philosophy, theology, spirituality, law, etc. All lies, deception, deceit and denial. Hard to admit that everything you have been taught, told or learned is propaganda (another word for lies).
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  8364. The corruption and mismanagement in the Maduro government is likely real. The fault, however, is Oil as a World Commodity. Cotton was the world commodity supporting slavery. Oil is the commodity supporting capitalist competition. Competition is War. But the $3M worth of business CITGO gets from the US will be a blow to all those people who buy gas at CITGO stations. That number reflects the number American consumers purchasing CITGO gas. CITGO is always a dime to forty cents cheaper per gallon than Exxon, Standard Oil, Sunoco, BP, Shell, Cumberland Farms, etc. Sanctions are going to make all Americans pay more at the pump and more at the mercy of higher gas retailers fighting for the spoils.  Anymore dollars paid at the pump will have the effect of raising food prices reverberating across the whole spectrum of working people as a reduction of income from wages or salary. This on top of a big ass chunk of money lost to a government shut down. What the economy lost from that fiasco will be recovered slower and longer, more work hours, more work expended away from family and home, than if sanctions were not to added as salt on the wound. Income from Wages, Rents, Interests, Salaries are fixed so everyone is watching ever red cent they spend. Its at the point where people have to alternate between food and gas weeks at a time. It will be one less resource for cheaper home heating fuel for the homeowner, landlord, commercial truckers, commuters, small shops, mechanics and what not, higher landscape quotes for the suburban blind. Those who can afford the increases will pay it and more of those will take a mortal leap into a black hole of poverty. This should tell you if sanctions are in the best interest of the nation or in the best interest of US oil companies who can't knock out the competition in any other way but through a coup and by use of force.
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  8365. Trump's following are turds. People who ought never be involved in politics because they are all about themselves. Trump's weakness is his narcissism as a billionaire that the world at the present time needs like it needs a hole in the head.
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  8366. Good documentary, addressing the commodification of the necessaries of life under Capitalism. Individual, State and Society a product of the capitalist method of production and its fantasy life a product of neoliberalism. The political state falls short for every man, woman and child to be a part of a true community in a society where the 'person' and the political state exists in harmony with each other, unified, and not split off from each other, divorced, as a fictitious individual 'citizen' assigned political rights to oppose 'natural rights' of individual, family, community, society. How grounds for a social condition that replicates itself in personal relationships; part ways from themselves their own mass social power to rule over them as a political power in the State. Like the man said stop buying stuff, become a human being not a social consumer. When there is enough food on the table to go around nobody goes hungry. Only a class system generates hunger, poverty, unemployment, overproduction and crisis as a necessary condition for its existence.
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  8367.  @65minimom  I am 64, pleasure to meet and thank you for your comment, let's hope they did hear..."oil", time will tell.
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  8368.  @mmeis2389  I suspect the labor force would do that if it new for sure the political parties could not make a come back.
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  8369. The guy pointing his finger at Medea Benjamin emits a rant of a man old enough to have gone through the ringer of capitalism, exploited and taken for granted, treated not as a man with dignity but a tool in the form of a man in capitalism. And if that is a Communication Workers of America (CWA) T shirt he wears and he is truly part of that group a labor movement will have to molt its skin of these reactionaries. The real dangerous character is the one standing behind him bearded and incognito. Quiet with conviction. He would be representative of the Millennials socially conditioned by the militarism in typical of American capitalism. Russia has what we need and we are going to take it by force
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  8370. Hey Jamie Foxworthy --Not really...in Virginia the ruling classes saw that Americans will not disarm and are packed to the gills with weapons was enough to intimidate the crap out of the police. You give too much credit to the police and to these guys talking in this video. Iadarola and Klien are kids, no life experience in class struggles, they are actually marketing hucksters, make money every time you click on their show, in the old days we called them opportunists, angels talking over pinheads, not helping you, they appear left and democratic but are not. You just don't have any life history of experience in class struggles to know how to spot them out. i don't mean to be insulting to you. But in times like this we have to be brutally direct to teach people. The police are cowards and have been recruited from the lowest social classes of society. They are not intellects. The are men with a crisis of masculinity, they think to be a man is to be a brute, and the state recruited them to serve as intimidators of the Public. They are low functioning and ignoran men. High school level, when you confront them they wince. Give them a badge and gun and they feel like they can walk all over people and trample on people's civil rights. Low functioning people are easy meat...racists. They are the ones called out to interact with the public. Challenge them on first amendment grounds and they do nothing and say nothing and even take the verbal abuse you might give them.  Behind them are democrats and republicans, neither of whom want to take the blame for the dectruction of democracy and hallowing out of the rural economy of the US which had been going on for a very long time. Beginning with the infamous words of Ronald Reagan, "the problem with government is government", and you yourself not distinguishing government as the harbinger of your 1st and 2nd amendment rights got blindsided or gaslighted to believe that your rights will be secured if the state is diminished, i.e., less government and put your faith in worn out old free market ideas the transnational corporations peddle. Of course, nothing can be further from the truth. They know they lost the confidence and trust of the public. How they interact in the world reveals a hypocrisy based on this breech. They made a choice to be in your face as bald faced liars. They accuse the Russians of meddling in Venezuela while they meddle in Uzbekistan, Belarus and Ukraine, they wont' go to war with Venezuela or with Iran. Its all bluster brinkmanship also old and worn out. Domestically, they blew it by using a stupid police force and treating Americans like shit. Every grandmother tells you you get more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Trump is vinegar. It won't be hard to get rid of them, what is hard is to get youth in this country off the military kick. That will be hard because they are indoctrinated. Hitler made sure he had the youth in his pocket, 7 million. You undo the indoctrination by making education universally free, then the stupid men in society with a maculinity crisis will choose school and not the military or the police as an escape hatch from a dead rural economy. Then the corporations have no choice but to invest industry at home to give them decent jobs. Their strategy was to charge people for education causing student and parent debt, and the lower social classes will join the military or the police to avoid debt. Debt financing the wars is the way they are paying for the wars. You undo this in two ways. Impose a draft and Trump's halfwitted son goes to war right next to the lower social classes and you undo debt financing of wars do it by sending the bill to the super rich. Bernie is really good at doing these two things, they know he will make them pay. All you have to do is vote Bernie into office, he is independent of the two corrupt parties and then never forget this time in your life like I never forgot my time in life and voted for FDR who also ran as an independent. You won't need to fight them with guns just show them you mean business with your guns and they will run. This is why the Virginia gun demonstration goes down in history as a pivotal moment. It showed them that if they fuck up they will be shot and all Bernie has to say is exactly that and you''ll see how fast they start writing out the checks.
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  8371. Four volumes in fact merged into three by Engels. Only one volume the first volume made it to publication for general consumption the remaining volumes and all of Marx’s writings discovered later made publication in the 1950s and 60s long after the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Chinese Revolution of 1930. So they did not have the benefit of the entire work of Marx to craft their state into a workers state. However, the material was available to the capitalist state and when John D. Rockefeller was asked by a reporter when he was governor of NY during the Attica Uprising if he ever read Das Kapital his answer was yes; he said the book would be the death of him. The rich study Marx with respect the working class does not out of disrespect.
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  8372. The Russian Defense Ministry did not go off the wall the way Israel went off on Palestine says something of the Russian restraint in the conduct of the war on Ukraine. Israel makes Russia look like an angel by comparison. The elites are human and it could be a matter of an early onset of Alzheimer’s that Putin decided to shuffle his cabinet. Where is General Austin and who is running the Armed Forces in his absence? American can’t even put a face to who leads the US Military. Biden is on track to losing the election because of the age factor. The Youth in the West is the Age Factor that will do Biden in and the Russian elites in the East are united under Putin till death do they part.
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  8373.  @truthaboveall7988  That is how the American people are played, manipulated, fooled, turned into suckers for voting the same two parties over and over again. Mexico got smart and voted AMLO and their two parties called PAN and PRI, identical to Republicans and Democrats, were voted OUT!
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  8374. Trade tariffs on all products produced with steel and aluminum. This will force employers to reduce wages and extend the duration of working time in every factory and office. This will be the first generation of the American working class that will experience a titanic class struggle between itself and this dominant class of oligarchs. Previous generations could not overthrow capitalism of their day because a world market had not completely engulfed the planet for capitalism to run its course. Today the planet is too small for its appetite for profits and draws into a struggle with it people from all corners of the earth. Overthrowing capitalism emerges as a necessity not merely as an idea for the coming century.
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  8375. American consumers are the largest polluter on earth next to the US Military.
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  8376. France is shut down by workers over the retirement age for workers the government wants to extend and demand France withdraw from NATO; in Peru, a revolution is ripe. If this news and information were broadcasted on nightly news media the American Public would not be kept ignorant of how many populations are overthrowing their governments in these tumultuous times. It is not a matter of the American Public having no nerve or skills to oppose Biden’s policies. Its a matter of the information about the real conditions in the world are withheld from the Public. Our government and the oligarchs running it have shut off the American Public from the world.
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  8377. A true sycophant for the energy lobby.
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  8378. If Leoffler is a Klan member and a Senator, the richest senator in the Senate; you have a serious internal threat to the industrial base of the US in Leoffler.
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  8379. Bouncing from one employer to the next is your idea of freedom? All employers are alike and do the same thing to labor. You got rocks in your head.  @dennisthemenace8854 
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  8380. The Propublica video is good but it only shows the value side of the relations on how the ultra rich remain rich. It does not show how the rich use or operate the side of the relation that is production. How with their capital, the banks, the government and the working class alter production, distribution, exchange and consumption, as the other four elements every society have to get into motion if that society wants to survive is not explored in the video. But that's ok, people get the gist of it anyway.  A middle class fits into the areas of distribution and exchange and the working class fit into the totality at the start of the cycle of work and employment in production and at the end in consumption. Landowners fit into the realm of consumption. If landowners were slave owners they would usurp the first phase, production and at the end usurp consumption, where the working class today replaces slave employment in the spheres of activity named. Social reproduction is in the hands of the working class but directed by capital. When the video says the rich are in a separate world they mean the rich usurp this natural law. They exploit the working class in the four elements of the totality making the end an aim of each phase of that totality work for its own expansion. Before this natural law can be applied to society in a conscious manner production has to be usurped by one class not two, the billionaires have to be removed from production. Production is historical and human history is production, every economic system starts with production and ends with production. The billionaire presence in production is in the way of production becoming an end in itself and human history a chronicle of achievements for the species as a whole.
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  8381. @dondensmore4820 5 days ago The President is not the boss he is an employee. Perfect! ...true... the president has an employer. Voters only elect a person to the office. ...the court that comes with the office employs the president ...a court consisting of advisors and private interest lobbyists to which the office belongs...more accurately describes the situation.
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  8382. About the segment starting at 11:51,----It’s a big subject. Biden is by no means a genuine working class candidate but he is the closest thing America has to one and already the non-working class democrats side with republicans to crush any favorable outcome for working people. In this next term, Biden has no choice but to swing to the left, the president bears the responsibility of millions of people impacted by a triple crisis, climate change, social inequality, and material deprivation, for which we have more diseases, and the Far Right, who include democrats, want him out and rather have a man with no regard for human life but his own, in power! A character trait proven when paper towels were thrown at Puerto Ricans in the aftermath of a hurricane and flooding. A hubris worse than the last president to insult you never touched the ground but flew over it after Katrina. The democrats that have no position when they should have a position are not friends of the People either. If America turns fascist and totalitarian blame right wing Democrats for enabling what will be this time next year, a shutting down of America, it will be illegal to celebrate the 4th of July and the Smithsonian is closed to the public because these institutions are the landmarks of the American Revolution that broke free from the rule of King George of England. Fascists must have a king or they cannot be fascists. Said another way, you cannot be a christian without a god. You cannot be rich without poverty. You cannot love without hate in the world; few people are smart because many people are stupid. This individualism gives rise to Big Egos and Hubris. A trait the Spanish and Italians dislike when tourist consumers leave a trail of filth behind them in their countries not of their own as tourists. The medical concern on Biden is chimera, fear propaganda, like the Wall on the Border, pretends to keep out barbarous mothers and children, actually controls America’s slave trade of migrants; an excuse to take the power from Biden. The real motives for these actions among the Far Right is the fear of expropriation of the 1% by the 99% and losing to Communism that Biden raises the hair on their backs they will forever be second to another power on the world stage. Social and economic inequality in America looks like a bent rim on a tire, fat with air on one side and thin on the other end the tire hobbles the car, and finally, a major network begins to talk about this inequality after 50 years of hiding this crisis and pretending the accumulation of wealth by the 1% is perfectly normal and natural. Grand theft can go on behind the backs of the American people and Privacy Laws takes the media off the hook from revealing the 1% . The Far Right say social inequality is all in your head. They dismiss it. Many industries collaborate and comply with the Far Right. The Medical Establishment dispenses to the Public all the medications you need to keep you numb, stupid, unable to take control of your life, kept politically sedated. The Education Establishment teaches things irrelevant to your life. Privatized Christian schools are the only schools a kid can get an education. Working class kids get led before they get lunch or an education in public schools. Well, ----now that inequality cannot be hidden, you the worker reading this, the stagnation of wages for the last 50 years you had to live with is blamed on inflation, is also a lie, inflation. Charging higher prices is not an act of God or nature but of a single institutional central bank tinkering with the money supply of an economy. Inflation decreases the number of buyers in markets and this allows only the richest of the top 1% to purchase and accumulate the economic surplus the 99% produce. Jackson, Wyoming typifies the wealth gap in America. Can a working person, union or not, afford to buy several pounds of gold or spend $1,340.00 for a single ounce of gold just to have it? Right. A working person can’t. But a rich person can and bought more gold than they need for the sake of greed. Why do the 1% own more and more properties? Super gentrification. Money enlarges into capital but what does not enlarge itself is the amount of time it takes to build a home of a given size that the expanded capital can now afford to buy three or four homes equaling its new value amount. America is a big country but its size is not infinite, at some point everyone will get pushed out of a job and a home and kicked off the land anticipates the need for a dictatorship of a minority, a King to rule over this new feudalism in America.
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  8383. Industry is only useful as a value unit in capitalism and when its usefulness is needed to help society survive...industry as a value unit is useless to society.
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  8384. Patriarchy in the family is expressed in many different forms of social relations that call into question the viability of social institutions of the community and these relations are given a legal name for their countenance in the community and are socially transmitted from the past. They do not disappear on their own but require a complete break from the existing social order by masses of people no longer willing to play the role of victim and being blamed for the violence.
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  8385. This is what happens when a country sacrifices its self-determination as a national sovereignty and trades it, for the material wealth of a neighboring economy, it becomes a host a pariah can take over. Canada made this trade off back in the 1940's, its population was less than 25 million at the time. Puerto Rico became a commonwealth in the 1950's and falls into the same category of a island nation that traded its sovereignty for the material wealth of the US. Mexico is another country the traded its sovereignty to the US. Along with a whole range of republics in the northern hemisphere.
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  8386. If anything read the Chapter on the Working Day in Vol.1.
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  8387. This guy Murray is a jack ass.
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  8388. Protect the residents and first responders. Migrants are exempt from protection. They have been kicking the can (Comprehensive Immigration Reform) down the road for a long time. The GOP is not one to talk. They should really do a blind survey of all businesses and residents in their county to learn if it is a few or all that are against the migrants. Did you know that most migrant labor is hired by middle class American businesses even in Staten Island the restaurant dishes are washed by migrants. When the people elected Biden they elected his build-from-the-middle-out economics and he got elected. Now that it is a crisis of great magnitude the GOP whines. Classic.
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  8389. Monotoned Trump and his company have an interest in destabilizing Iran. It is the Jewel of the Middle East and if it were not Netanyahu would not encourage an alliance with Iran if the Supreme Ayatollah were overthrown as Trump encourages a revolution against their "dictators" said Nickey Haley to the UN Council. We can extend this analysis further and make the claim that all interactions between nations are premised on competition and each nation has an interest in destabilizing the other for a greater share of the world market for oil when it comes to this region of the world. The main competing national states, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, engage in endless proxy wars externally deprive the masses internally and in this way, through violence, chaos, revolt,  the precious land containing so much of the mineral sources other nations seek for permanent power is taken under possession.
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  8390. Well -- in this segment money is still the external thing alongside commodities --- just look at Puerto Rico and the demand for commodities that hurricane created for that population. Maria made it possible for a huge money lending scheme to migrate on that island as a demand for money just because it is money. Wall Street has a way of transposing all that demand for necessities into an accumulation scheme and swiftly convert them into commodities and then money despite the fact that circumstances on the ground had nothing to do with the demand for financial loans. If you are not killed by the wrath of nature you'll be slowly put to death by attritional loan payments for decades to come. What sad state of affairs for Puerto Rico never gets the deal it deserves.
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  8391. Rudiger Krech of WHO 8:21,---tobacco is poisoning our people but tobacco production is poisoning our planet, specifically capitalist production.
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  8392. The warning is stark. Right to life work laws nationwide would mean employers would have the right to fire and hire at will and have no limit to how long they can make someone work and under what conditions. Repealing Roe- v Wade would be an attack on the reproductive rights of women, no choice at all. Abortion is made legal. Extending open/ carry laws to every state...yes, I'd say these are stark warnings that he is ready to summon up violence to insure the Senate is preserved and distinct from the House.
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  8393. Police strategy was a disaster. They fired shots on a public highway with an innocent public! 2 innocents dead, 2 suspects dead...no apprehension and no interrogation. A tragedy. And a travesty of police work.
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  8394. She did not announce who she will endorse did she? Sitting on the fence, whether to give her endorsement to Sanders or Biden. Medicare for all is essential with a virus going around that can kill people. If someone is going to stay home from work there has to be a compnesation that goes with it. A society that allows a person to die form starvation and eviction before a virus gets them is a callous society, yet, the administration turning their backs on people who cannot afford to not go to work. Airport, transport, retail, the mechanics in Monro muffler, the health care workers themselves in hospitals, everyone, firefighters who have to fight the fires in California, if they are not in a union they cannot afford to take off from work, increasing the liklihood of the spread of the disease. This is serious, because will Biden make it an executive order that all these workers get paid while they re sick and who replaces them doing the essential jobs they cannot do if they are sick? No contingency plans, its anarchy how Trump's government is managing this crisis.
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  8395. Its a shame the discussion and the book does not explore ‘the right of ownership’ as the cornerstone of inheritance. Excluding this factor makes the work an incomplete work that cannot be taken seriously as useful for the left or as an advance in the history of social science. The right of ownership before the Civil War meant to be an enslaver, but, after the Civil War the right of ownership meant a black person is no longer sold once and for all as a ‘commodity-slave’, where the slave is the commodity! Black people became ‘free’, they became an owner with the same rights as other owners was the decree of 1865. The problem comes when there are two distinctive commodities owned by whites and owned by blacks. Society was split between owners of money and owners of ‘labor-power’. Money and labor-power became commodities themselves and the two owners of each distinctive commodities are equal in the eyes of the law, equal agents of commerce. At this point society demanded that labor-power should sell only for a definite period of time and the future struggle that broke out in America was the struggle for a normal working day, established the new society Lincoln called for. From this angle, labor and the union struggle for a normal working day facilitated the birth of capitalism as it left intact the ‘right of ownership’, the Emancipation Proclamation outlined. Personally, this view of the history should raise many questions about what the left in America should be and with whom it should build alliances and, ultimately, its understanding of the right of property driving social inequality in society.
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  8396. As a people we have to make it come to light because we are made the subject of this experiment against our will.
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  8397. Not hard to imagine how cruel teachers and fellow classmates can be and it should not be hard to imagine this kid felt well enough offended to murder his peers in retaliation for what he determined, real or not, to be constant harassment, intimidation, and ridicule from his peer group in closed spaces for 6 hours a day. It should not be hard to imagine that the only place to escape the dull drum of suburban life would be on line and become part of community not homegrown. Racism, sexism, cultural and social bias, form in the first stages of life and start in the home. If you father was a racist your mother married one makes her a racist too and it follows all offspring therefrom bear racism as part of their mental DNA. The problem lies in the fact that you have around 146 million 640 thousand individual homes as the place children acquire the defective DNA that explodes in civil society and we are back to square one reproducing racists generation after generation all carried over by parents. If America wants to be more social it will have to tear off the individualism to make a new human being or a being that is more human.
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  8398. I thought a coffin is a casket when the deceased is in it and a coffin when a deceased person is not in it...am I wrong?
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  8399.  @ashep9982  Curiosity got the better of me and I looked it up. You were real close. A casket has six sides and coffin has four. Was the Queen’s four sided or six sided... I am not there to tell?
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  8400. Lieberman was the first democrat to legitimize republican nationalism in the early stages of its rise to power for Trump that has led up to where we are now with out right nationalist fascism in the GOP. When they say he is dead they are not shedding many tears for Lieberman.
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  8401. Robertson was the epitome of presenting a front for a more sinister operation behind the scenes that is the hallmark of evangelical capitalism in the person of Pence as a modern form of Pat Robertson theories put into practice.
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  8402. Benghazi should never have happened said the president. But neither should the embassy in Iraq be under seige of mass protests for that matter! I wonder how many job contractors in the Bronx were murdered last year and the US military was not used to kill their perpetrators? Such action leading to a social uprising in response to a response is not unthinkable and absurd in Iraq but it is at home lays out the "double standard" in American foreign policy. For those who want freedom, now is their time, said the president. He is definitely speaking to the people in Iraq who are rich and need freedom to stay rich because once the masses take over Iraq becomes a freedom of the people from need. Need is the reason mass revolts happen. Ordinarily, people of any culture and society do not go around seizing embassies unless the need is so great that it reflects the utter decay of the dominant social classes in that society to extract the surplus from the labor of its individual members in society in an equitable manner. The revolt of the masses in Iraq is historically justified by the extreme inequitable manner the Iraqi government treat its people and the US supporting that treatment.
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  8403.  hope less  Your comment shows how little you know about human civilization and history.
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  8404. Dog is a 21st century rip off of j.B. 'Wild Bill' Hickok.
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  8405. So Ukraine’s major industries include agriculture, energy, metallurgy, chemicals, and manufacturing. Information technology (IT) and the high-tech sector has been developing fast due to Ukraine's highly educated and skilled workforce and Elon Musk.Yes, the richest man in the world’s Star System provides internet to Ukraine. Ukraine is where Big Western Capital wants to launch its invasion of western monopoly trade and commerce into Russia, ironically enough, an invasion of western monopolies that bring in luxury goods and very expensive real estate that only powerful elites can afford. Its a serious game being played with American tax dollars as the Russians won’t stand for what beckons war and solicits confrontation with the Russians drives them straight into the arms of China and we have a bigger problem... and a higher chance of low intensity tactical nuclear warfare in Europe, which is warfare that approaches the scale of the Ohio Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine Ohio of February 4, 2023, and toxic of radiation exposure to the soil and citizens. I have reasons why not to celebrate this war.
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  8406. You'd have to protect him from your own right wing.  The minute he signs legislation is the minute the defense establishment will move forward at an unprecedent pace to pressure his impeachment.
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  8407. The world has never known a female communist dictator.
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  8408. Rex is a mental health problem for the community.
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  8409.  @johntheclyde2816  Responsible for nothing implies there was something to be responsible...what is that something? Explain yourself or forever bit your tongue.
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  8410. If I were to put that quote into my words I would say: "My nation took everything from me and I have nothing I can call my own. My country is a thief. The only thing I have left is your face and my ass and I am ready to defend my ass with my country's prick", Arthur Schopenhauer. lol, slapping my knee.
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  8411. ....the government that talks about standing up against tyranny practices tyranny on its own citizens.... Courts decide what drugs you can take not YOU or YOUR doctor...
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  8412. The democrats are playing hopscotch while the republicans are playing Grand Theft Auto.
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  8413.  @ExileTheKnightsOfMaltaNow  Are you answering my question directed at R D Reeves?
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  8414. @UCLTuew98xSDGG04ILuD4m6g Anthony Stathers makes a valid point even if you are one of the people losing the gains made by labor over the last century or one of the victors demolishing the gains made by labor; he points to a class struggle, you point to Theism...odd?
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  8415. These are people who hate mandates and edicts but are protesting vaccines. Now if that is not sick I don't know what is. I think the Chicago police that are opposing their administration is about a dynamic not being reported and the same with the Seattle police. Its not about mandates and edicts of the employers for the Seattle and Chicago cops. If it were their workplace would be in the news about how one place is dealing with the pandemic without mandates and edicts and without a boss. There is nothing democratic about cops. The rest of the population opposing the vaccines don't know an edict if it hit them on the head! Edicts and mandates are written all over the place where you work. There is no democracy at work. Your fired if you oppose the boss. I doubt if these people even have jobs.
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  8416. America is a classic example of subjective labor-power splitting off from the objective conditions of labor. In the US, capital accumulation by the corporations and the whole of the capitalist class has two functions. 1. In and for itself capital accumulation reproduces capitalist relationships, the primary relationship being wage-labor, in which the working class reproduces its continual existence. The current level of awareness of the working class is to make America great again, far from being sick of being a member of the working class, or abolishing the conditions of employment, individuals want a return to prosperity as it was at the height of economic power and restore the greatness of the American working class. Prosperity for the working class will never return, to the contrary, it will be increasingly more difficult to enter another social class for individuals. 2. The only reason capitalist corporations produce is to consume the usefulness of labor-power because labor-power is the gift that keeps on giving. Corporations hire labor to produce the value of the product and labor produces the value of the product to consume the use-value of someone else's capital, ie., land, tools, technology. The current level of awareness of the working class as indicated by the demands for higher wages, shows that individuals unconsciously promote the ceaseless reproduction of the same social relations of capitalism, into which the subject/object relationship is strikingly dialectical and this causes the working class to enter into an alliance with the corporations.
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  8417.  @nativeamericancowboy5028  If you can't find one or several examples on your own you never will.
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  8418. Saving capitalism is futile. Its not worth saving. Capitalism generates poverty from its incessant need to innovate production. Not one corporation but all capitalists competing with each other, for markets or in the same market, actually without realizing or intending to, lessen the time it takes to socially reproduce the human species. Competition in the world market and competition in society cannot be reformed. Competition is based on individualism that no longer is appropriate for 2.2 billion people on a small planet. You cannot reform the individual unless willing but you can make it illegal for corporations to act individualistically. Reforming capitalism uses the state to eliminate the ills generated by capitalism and the result is a Welfare State. Competition in the 21st Century has to give way to cooperation on a world wide scale and take humanity to a place where competition between individual nation-states are no longer.🤔
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  8419. Bernie's speech in the Senate in 2010 of the loss of manufacturing jobs in the US is a dismal picture of the death of the industrial blue collar American working class. Their children misguided by neo-fascists on line, are lashing out with violent rage at the neoliberal order for destroying their future was an unforseen sociological consequence the democrats missed when they ran Hillary Clinton. That was the time to push legislation on the tech industry to root violent tendencies out of the internet to protect impressionable minds. The neglect in government is corruption serving itself as they say. A whole generation lost historical context and sense of belonging fell prey to the tech industry in search of belonging and context Trump was only too happy to provide a scapegoat. Corresponding to all that going on wages were sinking, as Bernie said and the trend continues. The blue collar working class is decimated, gone, and now the average working class jobs we see people doing around us everyday pay is minimum wage. Employers have a perfect economic situation to exploit, as their companies grow larger and larger from higher rates of productivity of workers inside the offices, warehouses, shops, distribution centers, they own they can hire more labor for the lowest amount in payment in wages to move more product. The worker's share of this product is nothing. Textile industry was the first to export production from the US and with the rise of industrial production in China, a huge chunk of American general production went offshore to China. The democrats failed to take certain steps to protect the working class from the sociological dimensions of losing a job, a career, a family, a middle class lifestyle. It would be an asset if more sociologically minded people ran for office, sociologists themselves, they have certain insights that regular politicians do not, they learn from experience what not to do. Insight in Bernie makes him so special, he has a sociological mind the general consciousness of the public does not. The Public does nt have much imagination we can call a universal awareness of its own common calling, that is why we have Popes, presidents, kings, monarchs, princes, and oligarchs, injecting ideas into our heads the class struggle and the concept of working-class emancipation as a self-emancipation is not real!
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  8420. The host to the far left in your screen states she was a former DOJ employee. She is now a media news show host. A lot of people don’t have the luxury or privilege to transition from one primary job into another primary job. Its usually from one primary job then into a secondary job that is not as good as the first. Then there are many in the defense department who end up in private jobs for defense contractors upon retiring and some even go back into the defense department is privilege. Privilege does not only come in the form of Hunter Biden. Anyone at least in their 80s in the Senate is privileged. All the Supreme Court Justices are privileged. Not the same thing as the tier line worker on an assembly line never getting the privilege of becoming a first tier employee. These differences in people are becoming more glaring by the day giving the semblance of an alien occupation of privileged classes who never work have stolen America from the people who built it. At least one among the privileged acknowledges the social effects of privilege when Charles Schwab said, “...they are out to get the Elites!, he wasn’t wrong.
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  8421. What! Who is this guy...Ibn Warraq? The majority of people in the west do not have the time to debate and speculate, they are compelled to work for their subsistence and are not free to pre-determine thier own nature.  Where is the freedom in that?
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  8422.  @macanocious3000  Don’t be stupid...and grow up.
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  8423.  @clickclack8081  FACTS or shut up.
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  8424. Right,---both political parties consolidated their turf and dumped elections in general with stupid pathetic candidates that no matter who is elected the public gets the shaft but the political life of the country is decided by a handful of political elites consolidated into red and blue states. The American way is an oligopoly of two elites insulting the American people with chimera while a vast accumulation of capital is amassed into private hands. A third party unknown has a real chance of winning because of this polarization and concentration of power and in spite of it.
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  8425. 1:41 a smart and beautiful lady that said about mental issues, poverty and neglect of children are all class related effects of society where these crimes never occur in Westchester, Wall Street, Park Avenue. This is because people who live there have treatment services for their mental issues and are not poor and do not neglect their children rather prepare them to become the inheritors of their wealth.
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  8426. The job scene is filled with jobs that do us, we are not controlling the work in those jobs. Work is programmed, we are instructed to do the job under the constraints of time and direction by upper management doing a number on our heads and our bodies, adding stress, to our person and being. You understand what i am saying there? Jobs are used as a way to get out of the job you are already in; the backstabbing, and the added stress of more overtime to make ends meet, or getting to another job because the first job does not pay enough. You understand? It gets worse. When something opens up and jobs are calling you because you took a test five years ago, this comes as a relief because the new job pays more. You managed to take off one leg of your routine. Now one job brings the pay of two jobs, but the new job has a new standard that calls for longer hours and less sick and vacation time. A new average standard of working longer than necessary is applied in jobs that even the educated workers fall into when they land a job out of college. Still, even if the job might kill you before you can benefit from its pension plan. You choose to do it anyway because its still better than the job from whence you left. You understand what I am saying here? These are horrid times that I can see will become worse. Worse than what work looked like in Victorian England at the start of the Industrial Revolution. No unions, working conditions that heighten mortality rates, disease, physical wounds, plant explosions, long term effects of contaminants on the job, and they know it. If you collect workers comp you forfeit the right to sue the company is the set up. But you can’t live without an income. Filing for workers comp becomes a necessity and in doing the company that maimed you, are off the hook. The job scene benefits the employers and the ‘gub’mint’ treats jobs and what its like working in those jobs as none of its business.
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  8427. “...a crisis caught just time’, describes American industry in general. As long as the machines are built with a manual switch mode a pilot is the only human factor between our lives and a collision between machines of all scale and size in an airport. They take away the manual override capacity in automation applied to all industries and when building new airport technology, machinery and plans ...our lives will be directly controlled by machines in an Orwellian nightmare of fatality and long term accumulation trauma from the dangers of America’s indoor and outdoor workplaces. Management is in charge of the Machines and workplace, they decide how planes should come and go the materials workers should handle, how and when. NTFSB and the FAA are investigating what caused a near fatality, they should investigate where Worker Safety is missing in the whole system, they are investigating hazardous materials on rail collisions, they need to investigate society and the lack of safety in general. Worker Safety is not taught in American elementary, secondary, high school or college and in particular not in Business schools, not even an elective. How then do investigators know what to look for? They are uneducated about the conditions of labor, labor activity, labor organization, labor development, and the labor-processes?
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  8428. You are only a conservative because you have a lot to conserve. The energy sources in place for America are in reserves for the military and law enforcement. You are energy dependent by choice not necessity.
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  8429.  @protorhinocerator142  You will need a national energy policy. There are thousands of nuclear power stations in the US already. Do a map search of all the pinpointed places in the US where a nuclear power plant is located,---you have lots of them. Aged and not maintained,---again a Congressional debacle of neglect that is to the avail of the fossil car and fuel industry. A national energy policy to the democrats and republicans opens the way toward increasing socialization in other areas such as medicine, a taboo. Big Medicine is a private interest Democrats and Republicans defend. You need more than an intelligent individual leading the country through this transition you need an entirely new Congress not ‘bought off’ by private interests like the Koch Brothers Industries. The printing press was a technological revolution as was the micro-chip in 1976, revolutionized industry, ---NY Times to be the first industry replaced the entire the typesetters. Congressional politicians are not capable of this, you have a moribund political class, unworthy of running your country, is the biggest obstacle before you can even talk about a transition. Lastly, electric car production will need the expertise of democrats and republicans to use force to go into other countries for lithium, and now you have a mining special interest as the first seller of the mined lithium sets the price, consequently, instead of the price of EV going down, it goes up, and only a small minority with money, can feel good they are not polluting but they because the mines are the polluters and damage the environment. The end users are not putting a single dent in reversing ecological effects. You have a serious problems on your hands as a nation ahead of you and its is not the catastrophic scenario you anticipate, its the political class making things worse, because they are moribund, useless, inept, functionaries for private industry and nothing more.
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  8430. A bought politician.
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  8431. Everyone will be trying to save their own skins if there is no street left.
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  8432.  @Rnankn  Your history is false. 2014 the coup backed by the US started the conflict for the Dunbas region. Mansk agreement was rejected by Washington. Coup began killing Russian and then the invasion happened. Americans are famous for re-writing history and you are one of them.
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  8433. The next mass shooting inches the Public closer to fall on the side of the most radical plan out there and perhaps, that is the plan. To pave the way for Law and Order, making it illegal to buy illegal weapons, and ignoring the illegal trade and bad actors make it possible for guns to fall into the hands of people planning a mass shooting,--- the Public grows weary, tired, of the inaction. Promising action rising up from the middle of two parties who are stuck comes a dictator. Germany of 1940 is re-incarnated in 2024 America.
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  8434. Pardon my saying this but this has to be one of the worst interviews I've seen. You have a guy whose language is over technical and a host who can't pin down the concrete impact of a trade war. All this in a news program whose viewers are on the receiving end of the negative side of the trade war with Canada and Mexico. For example, an American who buys medication from Canada will be forced to buy medication from American companies. We know why they buy in Canada. Any American who buys a 2018 Harley Davidson motorcycle buys a product not made in America closes down the Harley factory in Kansas. The reaction, so far, from Canada and Mexico is retaliation, a commodity to commodity price hike and the EU's reaction to US protectionism is cold. The right wing in the US perceives itself to be the victim in world trade. Not treated fairly by its former allies because of their quasi-socialist restrictions on capital but lay heavily on US military might to contain a Russia that is no longer socialist, makes no sense in defeating socialism in the form of China and North Korea, Venezuela. Populist movements opposed to all forms of neoliberalism in Latin America are re-shaping the world that it makes the so called 'social democracies of Europe' more socialist, although partially, then Russia is under Putin. In the context of the two largest vendors of military hardware the US comes first in selling the most and the British arms industry. The cozy relationship between Israel and Saudi Arabia, shows a direct interest in reducing Iran into a servile nation but, as a result , of a universal trade war with the US, each country involved in Syria and the Middle East, are acting like everyman for himself. The wars move in a westerly direction from Iran to Africa in search of new markets, new client states, particularly anti-socialist ones. And of all the most important issues the American working class comes out of their whole process of accumulation et al trade war, a shrunken human being and nobody's talks about it! Remarkable.
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  8435. That's cool, she is fine. Could have been just the combination of personalities. Her guest has a boring but detailed mind. Guest like him give you more when asked yes, no and why questions. Keep them short, prevent the twaddle and monotone speech.
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  8436. Bad reporting...go watch the original interview at Joe Rogan and give him a thumbs up for getting more precise information from Zuckerberg himself.
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  8437. When the largest donors of the Democratic party are celebrities from Hollywood, and one of them falls from grace, the democratic machine that handles such problems in Long Island cannot be objective of the crime. If not for this relationship between Hollywood and Washington, the war in Gaza and Ukraine would have ended long ago and Timberlake would be held to a high standard,--- his license revoked as others. For average people as a group or a social class who are not big million dollar donors of the Democratic or Republican Party and are not celebrities with residences in Long Island or Martha’s Vineyard, a county judge becomes suddenly very objective of the crime and throws the book at the defendant as punishment. America would be better off as a “... poor -violent -third word-refugee camp-society” than a society divided as it is currently by class and race according to the Hollywood and Washington.
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  8438. More important we understand the impact of science and technology on the labor-process, these are two variables. The labor -process is made a dependent variable because productivity goes up the cost production price to the capitalist goes down, that investment rate is spread over a greater amount of goods, higher volume the value per unit cost drop, the impact on the labor-process is fewer workers to produce as much or the same amount or more. All corporations share the same impact of this double movement on their internal structure losing more jobs shows the impact of technology and science on the labor-process. This is because tech and science are independent of the labor-process and control or regulate worker productivity as an outside investment the workers have no control over. The outside investment is the independent variable, variable because the investment size of the capital can vary, the science and technology of the corporation are a utility to themselves, they are an alternate reality to the labor-process, outside of their users T&S is applied to accommodate the aim even if it means violating physical limits of human endurance of its users. The workers have not yet begun to act for their share of the profits generated from the insertion of T&S into the labor-process. T&S control labor-power and the labor-process through the tools, instruments, science and technology of capital. The new class struggle takes the form of T&S versus Humanity!
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  8439. Unfortunately the media makes no mention that the first officer struck was his first beat on the job. A rookie among the three injured and the attack took place at the outskirts of the cordoned Times Square area. Inside the cordoned area are the revelers not one among them are NY-ers. It appears the Media thinks the public is not supposed to be informed of actual events.
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  8440. It is not a mental health issue that drives capitalism. It is a confidence in the tools of industry, but before it can produce water for sale it has to make water a free commodity. Breaking down the government that keeps water from becoming a commodity is the water's journey from a product of nature to becoming a thing only the wealthy can buy and the poor for lack of water to drink, die. But there is progress in the fact that water can be made pure from the power of the tools of the trade themselves and the remarkable progress of tools, science, technology, is worthwhile to consider as a basis for a new society.
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  8441.  @obione69  Fair assessment. The lack of concrete evidence something like a billion dollar deposit as down payment on a Trump property from Russian investors, if Mueller was looking for that, might lead to a conviction. But he was looking for collusion and interference, very specific. Conducting family trust business while holding a public office would mean actions were personal business. Ford pardoned Nixon, Pence pardons Trump. Could be why he perched himself in Trump Tower to close deals and making quid pro quo arrangements before he became the public citizen. He won't look as dumb as Nixon for keeping the tapes. Others are investigating this aspect of the case against the president.
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  8442.  @beachgirl5316  You are wrong. It is a highly intelligent statement that is in the minority. Not in check is your fear of the Deep State. When such fears of an enigmatic and phantom-like state entity over take a person the mind plays tricks on the real nature of its power. The plans of the Deep State would not be so deep if it cannot keep everyone guessing and confused for a fast getaway now would it?
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  8443. So,---NATO’s eavesdropping drone got knocked out of the Crimean sky. Western forces are ganging on up on Russia.
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  8444. White working class males in this country are in a state of crisis! America is the richest and dumbest country on earth. Many examples proves this so. There were stadiums, convention centers, malls and other structures left empty and unused during the lock down. Government never once thought to order utilize this 80% idleness. None were used to make school safe for kids, they have buses and a load of empty space yet they let their kids go into crowded school situations and get sick to die. Besides this you have educators who can’t keep kids safe from shooters when it right under their noses. Incompetence reigns. White males are drawn down rabbit holes about race, disease, conspiracies, and recapturing America. Pure stupidness. Surprising to me is the patience of the American people who are lied to everyday every hour of the day about all things is just astoundingly stupid they elect the same liars to represent them.
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  8445.  @user-gg4vh9jx8j  You make a real good pacifist. Why would you avoid a civil war when the presumed enemy invokes a civil war as its chief aim...is that not convincing enough for you? Fine excuse to not do anything about it. “...we can’t...” “...no choice...” is this a reference to being free in society but not free at work?
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  8446. Is her neglect any different than the neglect of city and state infrastructure that will also dehydrate babies?
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  8447. Jimmy and Co., redefine what progressive means and preserves its radical (roots) origins from complicit reformists.
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  8448. Without oil women would have no make up on their faces and that would devastate many newscasters. She does have a point though. If there is to be a transition it needs to be a planned one. Part of their deal with the corporation under contract is, for example, DelMonte buys string beans from Utah farmers, they cannot grow another crop on their land and these farmers employ a small labor force of living labor as they are 90% a mechanized operation. No room in the contract, it pays more to grow one crop, highly profitable if diesel fuel is cheap, of course, a farmer can get ahead if the contracted specified crop produces two products from one, than the farmer can sell in another market the second derived product. Price of diesel rises, profits fall. Mid sized farming sold out to corporate giants much land they can use in whatever way they want was the error. It never had to get this far out of control. Several and all past Congresses kicked the can down the road. America missed the boat on land reform decades ago. I doubt it matters what Biden does the land problem in America is a problem of giants dominating the field.
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  8449. Inflation will be the one of the many failings besetting the Biden administration on the minds of voters facing his re-election. Look at the things happening as a backdrop to his administration. The public disapproves of this president; he has a lower popularity rating than Donald Trump. Losing the White House will be a long term crisis for the democrats. Rather than tackling the crisis head on,--- they hope to prevent Trump from running again. They have no evidence against Trump. They have nothing to offer the working class and a virulent right wing that overturned Roe v Wade scored a victory are empowered along. Whether Biden should even run is an internal crisis for the democratic leadership and progressives are not challenging that leadership. If not him than who? He has gas prices hovering at $5 per gallon and a recession. Combined global and domestic recessions and he has stagflation afflicting the US economy, and his proxy war in Ukraine, plus more outbreaks of violence. To do something about it would be to take a stand and choose the side of the working class and work to get the democrats to defect from the side of corporate capital. Raw social power is the only thing that will move democrats to the side of the working class. Biden does not have working class social power backing him up. The people are against him and form part of the reason the republicans win by exploiting the failings of the democratic party continually abandoning the working class. The working class is continually played in every election in more less the same manner that when the republicans lose the democrats invent a character to run against never forecasting the possibility they will lose to the character they invented to be the pretend opposition to them, is a crisis for them. The working class is alone but it is powerful enough to defeat corporate capital if that aim becomes its primary focus.
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  8450. More deaths and hold-ups are related to hand guns than prostitutes. What’s the matter with this police department?
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  8451. Modern industry is not working for people but people are working more hours for modern industry! Talk about insanity. Revolutionize one industry and you'll find other branches of industry following suit. The economy we all depend on is killing us! One by one materially deprived by the economy. Insane that people are a barrier to higher efficiency and modern industry. Why not higher efficiency in and for living on the planet?
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  8452. Being sick and tired of being sick and tired is not getting you anywhere, is it? No, in fact, feeling dejected makes worse the condition you are sick of. Isn’t time you make your voice rock the nation in a chorus of voices? I think it is. The high and mighty filled your plate...with a hefty serving of crisis on top of crisis. The new multipolar world economy is a crisis for the Dollar. The mass migration of people looking for a better life is a crisis for your government. You have social inequality and a climate crisis bloated bureaucracies cannot handle. Congress depresses wages, pensions, retirement, healthcare downward so that rates, rents, profits go upward. It’s time to take a political stand on the quality of life in society.
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  8453. Trump will betray his working class supporters, an arch defender of capitalism he will turn everything into gold, and everything will take the form of a commodity. Workers will no longer be a part of the conditions of business. The final remaining unions will become extinct in order the destroy any chance of a come back of the democratic party, unions the social basis of the democratic party.
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  8454.  @Nine-Signs  Capitalism is its own barrier for its own growth is the downside of capitalism, including British capitalism. Capitalism in any society as soon as its reaches a technological point it no longer has a need for labor-power, and this reflects a change in the technical composition of capital, that living labor decreases. Britain and the US supplant labor but they both accomplish more product in a given time. The Oligarchs are in trouble in that they must decrease their demand for living labor if they are to accumulate capital. Profits must be secured in proportion to wages falling and this is only possible by advancing technology in the workplace. This phenomenon is played in the US with the creation of temporary workers, cuts in health care for workers, pensions, hours of work, high prices lowering the value of wages, more working hours and fewer jobs. I am sure it looks the same way for working people in Britain and France, soon Germany, as does for working people in the US.
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  8455.  @MrSean03839  We live in a constitutional republic under the rule of a dictatorship of corporations.
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  8456. I would imagine a planned flooding would be a way to defend lava from encroaching the town. The ocean looks not more than half a mile away from the volcano. Things to consider the next time habitats are built near or on fissures. Better still build far away from fissures and save yourselves the trouble of mass social displacement.
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  8457. Wow! I can see the start of a new world of social interaction between machines and humans from the Chinese Olympics. The Chinese are using the same Amazon warehouse technology and automation, robotics, for more than just moving products around or building cars, guns, boats, and houses, you name it, limiting the spread on COVID the machines that can replace human labor, is a springboard of applications that will make it cheaper to live.
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  8458. Your opinion is baseless. @HH-gv8mx 
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  8459. Iran as the crown jewel of the Middle East for raw material, uranium, precious rare earth metals, oil, as this relates to military power and industrialization goads the brinksmanship of the American president a notch closer into a war of conquest. Americans should realize that, at the outset, a war of conquest instantly places Americans on the wrong side of history if you support it. When nothing is done to stop aggression we leave a record of charges that indicts every future American for generations to come until atonement is made, which, in the case of Washington, has atoned once for its past trans-gressions, had never won a war and engaged in many failed conquests over ideology and over the raw material named above. The eighth wonder of the world of humanity, a country that destroyed itself through the perfection of force and justified it as a rush to meets its maker is its epitaph. In the larger scheme of things an elite ran the country six feet under and left its people out to dry. Now what future American is going to command some modicum of respect from 7 billion people populating the earth fearing the next American attack?
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  8460. linda green-- 'every' is right, because the war of independence was a war of conquest. The Civil War was a war of conquest, WWI, was a war of colonial powers which the US was not a colonial power at the time. IT lost the Spanish-American war but came out with two possessions Puerto Rico and Cuba and it lost one of those to revolution. The state department must be freaking out at how many losses they imposed on this country, the tax payer. WWII the Russians defeated the Nazis, the Americans only partook and rescued and reconstructed a war ravaged Europe and Germany, the Korean War was a Cold War, a war against communism that left hanging after decimating the north and dividing it from the south, is technically, a war within a Cold War that is a war of conquest of the Korean people. Vietnam was an utter failure, the Cuban Missile Crisis as an attempted invasion was a failure. America lost the space race, it broke the back of the USSR through defense build ups, it became the cop to protect the interests of its allies from the threats of oil bearing nations because of increased defense spending. No other nation would do this not even France or its cousin, Britain. When it goes to trial the prosecution can use this long list of losses as a declaration of an incompetent nation to be dismantled of its nuclear and military arsenal like Germany was stripped of its colonial possessions in the Versaille Treaty. The world of nations will declare it the last country on earth that should bear arms given this history.
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  8461. Its a contradiction that the government is pro-war with China and the American people are against war with China. Polls suggest that no matter what public opinion is the government is going to go to war with China. The Government sends billions to Ukraine regardless of polls against sending money to Ukraine. If it were not pro-war with China and Russia the money would be sent to cities and towns in need of it in the US. The action that speaks louder than words say we shall not share the world with China as another world power. The National Security aspect of this position is the not sharing part of the world economy with China the new competitor to the US that does no more what the US did when it was the next rising power over England, China copies us, but what the US is saying is; the world has no room for two powers. This theory defying previous 20th century history of a bi-polar world. World domination is what it is saying from the voices of this government in the Military, the UN and in NATO, in the State Department, in the White House, it is the language of world conquest spoken.
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  8462. America would be better off if the airline industry were nationalized. Better that way as planes would not be produced to make profits but rather for safety and regularity. I take my comment back. Americans are true believers of the free market system. Free market capitalism is what Americans want... a free market system chock full of chaos and anarchy is what they get. Bonus feature to the free market chaos is Pete Buttigeig... you get him too and a president almost six foot under with his drug addicted son.
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  8463. I see no reason employers should be given more work they are already receiving for nothing from workers. It takes 1.5 hours of factory labor to make a complete car the rest of the 6.5 hours of work multiplied by the size of the workforce, to be simple, 1000 workers the employer gets a value of 8000 cars at a given the rate of output. That’s a lot of doe in dollar terms. Way above paid out at retirement for a worker and that only one annual turnover. Imagine the market value generated by a 1000 workers pulling 20 years before retiring at the factory at a rate of 1.5 car per hour per worker.
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  8464.  @trickledowneconomicsfail7127  Ryan Webber makes a strong point.
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  8465.  @amiaswolfgang  Christianity tolerates other religions but other religions to Christianity are not the authentic religion.
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  8466. The necessaries of life are all the things that have to change not the people. When we no longer regulate the necessaries of life by the required time commonly taken in producing them is the first step and the second step is a mass conversion of exisiting Malls into trade and work centers. Then we can build a car that will last decades, fill that need, retool the car factories to make some other useful thing to the world. When a new generation of cars are needed the factories create them. Change the location of where we work. Bring work closer to home if not work from home itself but even then strict rules that technology is not privatized or you will then have a permanent stranger in your personal space and domicile through the device that beolongs to them. The idea behind the technology is not to create a Big Brother. The idea is to serve human beings. This is not a new idea, it can be found in anonymous work published in 1739-40 called "Some Thoughts on the Interest of Money in General, and Particularly the Public Funds." The other mindset shift is understanding all the phenomena on Earth and in the Universe are not acts of creation but are nothing more than a re-ordering or a re-making of matter. This is what we find when we examine the cellular structure of life on earth and matter. The laws of motion of the univers happen through two laws of physics. Creation only created the universe it does not explain motion in the universe, force, light, air, water, cellular life. The universe reproduces itself as a universe through composition and separation at the cellular level of micro organisms. When people get this idea into their bones we will be ready to commit to changing our present destructive way of life into a constructive one.
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  8467. From a perspective of Latin America, if they must borrow better to borrow from a lender who does not slap on conditions and interferes, directs, mishandles, and takes back more, what borrowers do with the money and what outcomes of that money are. The US and its World Bank is not the lender of choice. The choice lender is China. World market is reconfigured, been re-shaped by the presence of a competitor to the US. The tide of growing multiplex of trade relations between China, Russia, Asia and Latin America including Africa are not societies exposed to wars and other political disturbances the extent American society is exposed to wars and political crisis that impact its fluctuations in the business cycle.
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  8468. The American consumer, maybe even you as one consumer of Mickey D’s and all of your generation and the senior citizens buy food from an employer of children. Consumers outside of the US are not made aware as media there does not report on society here and media here does not report on societies outside of the US, how do people know they buy products produced by young slaves. You need a revolution in your country and your generation is doing nothing about shames all generations before you who did fight against this form of exploitation.
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  8469. I think the concern for the real rulers of society is how do they continue usurping society while it undergoes changes in social reality. But for the middle class retired engineer the concern is a lost society of competence and accomplishments replaced by a new society of individuals, never trained to fix things and make things, and engineer things to their advantage but have become the tool rather than use a tool. A new generation of people who appear to him as an appendage to a cell phone and social media. It does not occur to the retired engineer that the machinery in his society in his prime and the machinery today are tools of a different sort and bring about new ways of people relating to each other and working together. If the old tools were still around Detroit would still be a thriving middle class city. But since the new tools have gotten smaller, and smaller to pocket size a city built for making cars is not necessary and the whole society that city created falls into a ruin. The rulers think in a economic way on how to exploit humanity and the planet and the middle class professional worker thinks in a social way on how to exploit their own resources while the working classes become paupers in increasing numbers and are the most exploited.
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  8470. Well, revisiting this newscast in 2021, enough time has passed to see there has not been a turnover of the Venezuelan government as of late. History since 2019 does not confirm the sociologists' view. A civil war has not broken out in Venezuela and the Maduro regime has held popularity over and above the General Assembly opposition. Several coup attempts and assassination attempts failed and V has Russian military support. Further the return of its gold is at issue. Incidentally, Trump should know that Cuba is not a major oil consumer, more gas than oil. The bottom line is that V's oil is a commodity the US cannot buy and when things cannot be bought by US corporations the entire corporate social structure whines because no longer can this resource be used to perpetuate their dominance in the oil market. Understandably so, the world market for oil is fiercely competitive, titanic struggles between corporations take place for regions rich in mineral and oil deposits. If oil need be produced it does not need competition to produce it but competition needs oil to be competition and nations are caught in a vicious cycle of ever escalating conflicts. The US appetite for oil is insatiable losing the largest oil reserves in the hemisphere due to incompetence of the last four presidents to resolve war and conflict in Latin America, its a lost cause trying to get it back. A sign the Age of Oil of things to come when the few are expropriated by the many in almost all the nations on earth rejecting the modernized material lifestyle of luxury consumption and its apparent accompanying social and class inequality.
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  8471. Great job, great effort, great response but no results in curtailing crime.
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  8472. I hate American media, and its egoistic onesidedness of reporting, especially when high powered elites lost control over their own societies and the world they govern. If a reporter is going question Putin about imprisoning Novalny then the reporters should ask the same of Biden regarding his political prisoner Assange. Present the relationship between the two countries with objectivity and not as you are told.
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  8473. Heavy symbolism here. This crash between machines is a clash between technology and society at the site named after the father of Neoliberalism. FAA, Air Traffic Control, Military are falling apart, failed institutions. Over investment in one is the under investment of the other and all three parts of government have turned the commercial airspace into a virtual battlezone of projectiles. They cannot serve their purpose any longer making deep reforms necessary to restore safe air travel for the public. Congress controls the FAA, the president controls the air traffic controllers and the military controls itself have their own internal battles that safety is probably the last thing to be restored to the public.
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  8474. Who came second is more interesting than who came first.
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  8475. Why would Mitch O’Farrell ever begin to attempt to speak in Spanish when English is his first language and why would an English speaking audience need a translation voiceover when Mitch switched over to English? Media and this Council member must take everyone for morons. I get the sense the transgressions are truly understood by the transgressors. No quorum the Council is defunct, stuck. Moribund, it cannot pass new reforms to operate city services. Pinning vital services of a city to a form of governing prone to political sabotage is lunacy. Currant Price calls the resignation the beginning of a trend to eradicate racism in all its forms in city government. Let’s hope so. Lesson taken away for him is a crusade against adversaries dividing Los Angeles’s diversity. Paul Krekorkian,-- Can the Council represent 4 million people after this is on his mind? Bob Blumenfield,--- hopeful they quit and Council can do its work...more resignations to come. Pragmatic answer. Paul Koretz,---hard to decide what the next steps are in the healing process. Feels betrayed. Steps: 1., Enact New Operating Reforms, 2., form a United Council. There should be three resignations not one, DeLeone and Cidillo are pending their resignations. The meeting with council members was shut down when DeLeone and Cidillo left the council without a quorum and powerless to do anything! As it stands, three individuals and one quits leaves 2 still blocking the Council from moving forward with a full quorum of all members to change the operating procedures in running the city of Los Angeles. Everything is the same as it was for the city before the audio leak. This scenario can last longer than the effects of poor management of sanitation, transportation, utility services, housing, security, will have on the community; all falling apart when a recession is around the corner does not make the community of 4 million people standing on less timorous and shaky ground. A new form of governing is needed; an assembly, a parliament for the City of LA.
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  8476. Ultimately the stage is set for a militancy of some kind of armed insurrection to occur, its just a question of when and what instigates that insurrection and whether it comes from the far right or from the working classes themselves. Guns permeate American society to such an extent that it is impossible to disarm the nation and different segments of the working classes are armed legally and illegally. The divisions among them is so wide and infested with ideology to see themselves as brothers in a war against their rulers they must rise to the level of class consciousness and that is less likely to be encouraged by any faction in the political arena on any side. What would change the direction of a civil war the country is headed is when the working day restores capitalism under the new tax plan, assuming it passes. The plan will win over the middle class bringing some measure of prosperity at a cost too high for government to service the debt and pay for social programs. This is when we will begin to see the start of more intensified internal social conflict, particularly when the rulers roll back the clock under Clinton's Crime Bill, to repress protests and incarcerate more of the people left out of the tax plan.
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  8477. This Sunday Morning presentation of science is wrong. No mention at all of solar flares hitting Earth’s magnetic shield by the Sun. Average people are wrongly assuming Weather is a science in itself. Astronomy is the science and meteorology is a subsection of astronomy. “Heat does not get enough Love”. The source of heat is the Sun and solar flares comes from the Sun. We are not paying attention to the Sun’s activity affecting our planet. We live in heat generating social structures because our economy is a fossil fuel economy. City living produces more heat than the planet can absorb. Suburban living produces more carbon dioxide emissions changes the compound ration of the atmosphere.
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  8478. Lost is the social basis of the Democratic Party. Cut and dry it is not a working class party. The Democratic party consists of banks, landowners, merchants, corporations, billionaires, and labor. It is no wonder the democratic party has no focus as it tries to satisfy interests that are not compatible. The leadership discourages coalitions except when elections come around then everyone must vote for their selection. The authoritarianism in the democratic party leans against labor is the track record of the party.
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  8479. It’s a pretty stupid way of handling such problems. Investigation--charges--compensation. The actual problem is never corrected. @jennyeagan1840 
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  8480. The government you have is a punitive government; repressive, why make it easier for authorities to throw you in jail is common sense to me.
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  8481. Well then everybody there should be opposed to mandates that restrict abortion which is another form of control over a woman's body by the state and employer though a vaccine is not an abortion the pathogen it represses remains dormant in a carrier and has killed 700,000 people so far,---through the unvaccinated! Now if these protesters are opposed to the employer dictating mandates in general, especially since many industries have been virtual battle zones with employers for every ounce of strength left in the employee. A general de-valuation of employees across many branches of industry happens when the protesters leave their jobs and are replaced with new vaccinated workers for lower pay and no pensions the employers have then successfully lowered the value of wages. Maybe now you can see how ignorance of the middle class leads to a decline of the middle class is a success story for the upper and ultra powerful corporations.
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  8482. 1960s was the last time the US economy saw unprecedented expansion. It has been all downhill the day Gilligan’s Island went off the air stunted by longer recessions and shorter recoveries. Debt is greater than assets. Double digit inflation in the 1970s. Stagflation, when the economy is stuck at 2.3% GDP and the price of meat goes up. A short ten year period of expansion in the 80s all built on borrowed time and money. Cuts in social spending in the Crime Bill and the Welfare Reform Bill of the 1990s as preparation for the decline of the US economy foreseen in thousands of hearing testimonies to the Senate on record from economists. A bank crisis in 1990 and the Gulf War. This is the pattern ever since...crisis and war to get out of the crisis. Expanding personal debt relative to individual assets owned saw a huge gap inducing more borrowing. Working people were indentured to credit lost financial freedom in return for cheaper (China Made) consumer goods. Another bank crisis in 1995 culminating in the Subprime Crisis in 2007. Safe to say a pattern of crisis is an imminent feature of the financial credit system. The period before 1960 right out of the war (WWII) and the Great Depression seems to be the prevailing mindset that permanent war will mean permanent prosperity just not for all but will pull the US economy out of a depression. Well so far the “forever wars” have not worked to restore prosperity at the level of the 1960s. Its not that America cannot reach that level with the right leadership which, at the present time, is nowhere in sight.
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  8483. No talk about what happens when people are thrown out of work which is what a shutdown of government means for businesses that rely on selling to the government’s workforce all kinds of products, food, necessities. So that every General leaving the Pentagon has milk in their refrigerator the next morning. There are two workforces in Washington, the ones who do not report to work in a shut down, end up using accumulated sick, vacation, leave, time have options the working classes do not in the private sector. Non-government workers get fired or laid off, get on the dole, if the shut down drags out too long. This is a life-consequence of evil that should be confronted and history is not kind to those who turn their back on those who are thrown out of work. People do not like this to happen to them. Where is the sensitivity?
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  8484. Too close to the edge.
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  8485. Obviously there are social forces that want the production of fossil fuel and gas, coal mining and drilling to remain just the way it is.
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  8486. Well, ---if we confine our own economic diagnosis on high sounding dramas of presidents and states we'll miss the essence of the moment in our time for action!
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  8487. McDonalds is okay with this because the cost is paid by the customer not born by the franchise owner. Customer pays in quantity and quality. The franchise owners pays in quantity only. Its a bad deal all around and should disappear. There are better ways to make jobs for people to do.
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  8488. Echo: Owners of Money and Property are the Elites. This class of people operate, dominate and control, three main social spheres of life. The political, economic and military spheres. 173 million people in America live their lives vicariously through the privileged power elite. When the elite want to defend their interest, they recruit manpower from this class. When the elite want to hold on to political power, the dejected ranks of this wandering public vote for them. The working class has its own sphere of life as non-owners of money, a job used to be a living and means for making and saving money, people of this social class did not start out as owners of property in America, they started out propertyless immigrants and indigenous. The Elite states are NY, Ca. Hollywood is not a state its a celebrity social class. Also oil, gas, drilling and mining industries active in NY and CA are a social class of business elites, they control your power and light, at the same, the fires on ground out west and combustible water below ground in the east is left in their wake. Alliances among the Power Elite are made on the basis of cheap prices and low wages. This is their business model for higher profits. It has been made the political program against the working classes. The business model of cheap prices and low wages appeals to cattle ranchers and farmers, big Landowners, the Catholic Church, NYU, Columbia, Harvard, Senators of Congress earn higher profits from this business model. The ground you walk on and the building you visit to the roof over your head is the private property of one of these owners of money and financial wealth. Elites compete against each other on that basis for the exploitation of labor by the 1% is the business model. That the 99% has not realized they plan to subjugate the working class and Nature under the rule of the Power Elite1% is downright shocking!
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  8489. If you get rid of the Cartel gangs there would be no justification for the military. Putin or Xi, are not going to invade Tijuana. To justify the existence of a military the community has live in tyranny. Profit, drugs, violence, and crime justifies a military presence in society. This is why the cops do not arrest or shoot down the gangs. Just do enough damage to make it appear they are on the right side of the community but if you chop off the hand that feeds you there will be no more reason for the escalation of troops, curfews, and surveillance with which to place the community under total control of the police and military. There are no international threats coming from anywhere that justifies a military. There has to be a justification somewhere and the Cartel gangs are it.
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  8490. Stupid society when a mask gets the attention and the economy with so many unable to live does not.
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  8491. The death agony of America can be a lot shorter with fewer innocent lives killed if the social policies of American government are put out of their misery...they shoot horses don’t they.
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  8492. Well, ------no chance of that happening from your living room.---is there?
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  8493. The revolution the Americans need is one that changes the way needs are met in society. Forget confronting the state, we are in no position to confront a military machine unless we (the People) are united and armed. Besides nobody on the left in this country is into a blood battle. Individuals is all it takes, willing to organize their community. Organize 200 families in your community, collect from them $50 dollars a piece, go to several local farmers with the $5,000.00 dollars and open up an account with them for a monthly pick up of vegetables. Bring the 200 families together to a place where the food can be pulled off the truck and sort the food into two hefty bags per family. Freeze the excess food for any emergencies. Do this on a monthly basis and you will begin to change your persepective. Become a food brigade or the Hunger busters. Do not become a NON-Profit. Always run alongside this a voter registration campaign. Keep the government out of this entirely by never, never becoming a non-profit. Once you do this the movement is dead. Cut out the middle man and buy direct from the farmer(s). Do this and replicate it until the country is covered by this new way of feeding ourselves. When the economy tanks from lack of sales in the food industry the State will come after you but they can't do anything about it. Perfectly legal and within your constitutional rights to buy and sell whatever you choose to buy and sell and from whom to whom. But by this time this new movement has become national and it is ready to take on the political state and its violent mercenaries with mass people power. Now, voting makes sense as the movement is big enough to have destroyed agribusiness and raised the economic status of small farmers who will be on your side when the actual political revolution is necessary. No consumers for big businesss no big business. This capitalism 101 people, so get on the stick and do it before it does you in way you see here in this DN report. The food you are buying in the stores are all grown in a way that is contributing to global warming, poverty, and to the police state we are witnessing in this travesty. Again, the revolution America needs is not a violent one but a change in the way we meet our needs. This is not a call for a REDISTRIBUTION of Wealth, this is a movement to CHANGE THE WAY, manner, culture, of producing stuff for our needs. Create a new food economy and the political superstructure of the old economy is so weakened the revolution will take place without a shot being fired. This is, of course, if you really want a change.
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  8494. An example of what is called 'organized retail crime' by police is the product and result of actions of Walgreen's practices of 'racial capitalism' depriving East Oakland of a vital service.
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  8495. The comment of Matthew Yglesias, is truly a stupid comment but it is reflective of the mentality of a specific social class American government attracts internationally and incorporates into its society as a way of eliminating any internal opposition to its rule and authority: “If you are not with us, you are against us.” George Bush.
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  8496. ​ Rob Blues  There would be no deficit in your thinking if the simultaneous process of humans and nature interacting were static! But its not. Soil and water are universal instruments of labor and are the subject of a labor-process changing soil into corn, a river into drinking water. Nature can function as a raw material in one kind of industrial activity, or as an instrument of labor in another, depending on what position it is used in a labor-process. But in all cases that nature is adapted to a change of form by the hand of man and not by the hand of God is fact. Environment is adapted to a change of form because human wants are materialized from it but humans must adapt to a change of form because nature is transformed through a labor-process.
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  8497. That is exactly the kind of forgiveness he’d rather hear than the sounds of pencils sharpening and a reckoning of his books.
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  8498. Technology in the US offer all the advantages to big business and no advantage to workers on the receiving end of competition. This is troublesome and inhibits competition in the market as machine making industries have to sell their technology and science for less is the effect on big business and the double effect on workers is a higher productivity of labor that, ultimately, means more workers displaced from jobs by technology.
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  8499. There is no question the far right will do with the State what Hitler did using the State. Assuming the get into power. Hitler used force to threaten corporations if they do not go along with the Nazi plan. The far right would deny corporations that they find are enemies or threats to their aims the license to do business in the US. But what s paradoxical about Americans and I am reminded of a great Humphrey Bogart line 'I never met a dame who did not know the difference between a slap in the face from a slug from .45.', describes this generation of democrats, weak as they are, partially right wing themselves, timid, they don't what fascism is even if it hit them on heir heads.
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  8500. .As a Grand Social Experiment conducted by the republicans, have produced a budget that facilitates a change in demand and the needs of society..the fact that medicaid is targeted for cuts...really, any program targeted by republicans for cuts is a program where dollars can be diverted to serve other ends and aims, namely, republican ends and aims...all this tells me and should tell you that, 1., Medicaid is where the more is...medicaid and social security ...together they must add up to $5 Trillion...wets the appetite of Big Corporations the republicans preserve and serve...as property that is not their property, republicans and democrats are elected to administer the fund, not own it to use ...and 2., the present track the corporations are on is to make products so cheap they are not even real anymore including prepared foods. Food is where the biggest offenders lurk selling science experiments in the name of hamburgers...foods that never decompose as they should... 80% preservatives, 20% what the product claims to be, tells me and should tell you...that American capitalism is in the market using science and technology to sell fake everything ...the corporations cannot adapt to socially acknowledged needs and demands of public health their attitude is to change our needs to adapt to the corporation as a model for living...even if it means killing you!
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  8501. I remember the praise AMLO got from the left when he won the election and it turns out to be a let down. Beatle’s Don’t Let Me Down...guess what? Biden and AMLO turn out to be a greater disappointment than their predecessors. Is this history acting on individuals that they end up to be disappointments or is it subjective, politicians lie?
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  8502. A man labeled a terrorist submits to the pressures of a life of a suspect falls to pieces in a violent snap.
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  8503.  Citizen 1  He reached his limit and imploded.
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  8504. Journalism needs to stop shying away from using the word, Capital. "Business" is too vague and abstract. Can an agrarian revolution in India skip capitalist development? Seems to me the encampments surrounding the city on three sides is already a microcosm of collective farming and land ownership.
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  8505. The withdrawal from Afghanistan is a sign of a decline. Gun epidemic is a sign of a decline. Supply chain failure is a sign of decline. Promoting more war is a sign of decline. Mass social denial is a sign of decline. Raising prices to offset profit losses from the last two years and blaming it on someone else is a sign of decline. The middle class is now poor is a sign of decline. The sooner the America people admit Washington DC where all the collapse emanates from is no longer an empire the better off they will be. I say emanate from Washington DC because the American people cannot connect the dot between no tomatoes on the shelf and tax breaks given to Elon Musk et al. They are stultified that the resources that would put tomatoes on the shelf are being used to send billionaires to space. Who is a trucker going to haul for the billionaire or the supply chain outfit sill paying 1980 wages?😉Think!
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  8506. Obviously there is another reason the man in the tinted windows of the SUV was pulled over than for not wearing a seatbelt reported as a routine stop but ends in a Bonnie and Clyde shootout. What vision of a Cop penetrates a tinted dark window? Americans are never told any truth in mainstream media.
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  8507.  @IrishMcScottish  1. Why keep you wondering?
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  8508. Well the fact is the masses like when somebody pokes fun at the Establishment. The masses never get the chance to hit back the Establishment with any degree of certainty and when somebody comes around that can do it for them or in their name, they cannot get enough of him or her. Mocking the elites, “Sleepy Joe”, “Comrade Kamala”, a segment of society that is crass and base eats it up. This is how Trump agitates his masses. Charlie Chaplin mocked Hitler and the timing of the release of the “Great Dictator” was patriotic for Britain entering the war with Germany. But twist and turns of historical events also made Hitler favored by the Establishment in the war against communism, for that he was a hero, and Charlie an anti-hero to the Establishment. He was expelled his movies not shown in the US. In the beginning the Establishment accepted Trump, he was given stardom, free everything, his own show, that is until he went against the war in Ukraine and showed he could work with Putin and admired Xi. At that point Trump go slapped with all kinds of charges, Russiagate, everything was set into motion that would bog Trump down. Now he is a threat to the Establishment and the other guy, Elon Musk, he associates with is somewhat sketchy a character to the Establishment, weird, different just as Howard Hughes was weird and different being richer than the Establishment of his time,--sometimes they cannot be kept in line. But together, Trump and the Establishment, fighting their battles for the throne, awoke a behemoth in the working person in this country, a giant with a split personality, one part pro-Trump and the other part pro-Kamala, one part male and the other part female, one part middle class the other part working poor, one part homogenous in character the other part heterogeneous in character, has generated fears as this giant awakens the Establishment will lose control. The biggest inconvenience to the Establishment is revolution, fearing that more than communism, although that’s spells the end of their reign too.
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  8509. Scarborough cannot call Trump’s fascist movement a fascist movement. I guess the word “fascism” is forbidden from use by anchors. This is why there are never any historians specializing on fascism on MSNBC to shed light on its history and development.
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  8510.  @begintothink  Usually when I get a response like yours its not from voices of the salt of the earth.
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  8511. Workplaces are living hells for millions of people. This would not be so if there were not the empirical evidence of a social, physical, moral, and spiritual degradation of the working classes in the west. Life expectancy is lower and mortality rates are higher and the standards for fresh new military recruits have dropped. The free reign over workers and the workplace in all societies where the capitalist system is the norm has led to a reckoning point for all workers that makes them special than the other social classes in societies of that system. They are essential without whom all of society’s capabilities cannot come together to support life. The other social classes exist by taking life. No other social class does this is what makes them special and unique, they have the power of life. All life is composed of matter and labor. Labor transforms nature and is the giver and producer who consumes to produce. The other social classes are the takers and consumers. They produce less and consume more is the sharp truth about why a worker is more essential as a life-giving activity than a banker, lawyer, doctor, president, King, monarch, oligarch, Pope. The day workers validate for themselves their own essentiality and begin to use all of societies capabilities to improve their social condition a new social order will be created in the process.
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  8512. US advisors will say that the release of two and four hostages does not square with actions that speak louder than words in one side of their mouths and on the other side they will say they would negotiate when they see Hamas release hostages. Pilots that are kamikazi pilots might have something to do with the fact that their airline employer treats them like ‘garbage’, a mere tool and not a human being that is worthy of dignity. I doubt the motives are for God and Country that pilots would take down a plane full of passengers and annihilate themselves because they are mentally ill or are patriotic zealots. Hilarious. The “experts” know a “super fog” creates horrendous driving conditions and give no warning or advisory to not drive to the public but if there is a missing 13 year old the advisories hit every cell phone in America with alerts and look outs. An American Olympic Gold medalist has no health insurance does not phase the average American as abnormal tells me that the mental illness in Americans is normal. America is truly a sick society.
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  8513.  @zradogonta7761  I agree.
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  8514.  @bencampbell6479  That is because retirement for those who work was left to those who do not work. That is in part the fault of the people who work; not having strong unions, and a union filtering process to double check and rebalance the experts who are structuring companies in a way that makes companies profitable by cutting jobs and easy to sell for a profit, besides putting capital aside for that rainy day pension fund was left wide open for abuse and grand theft by raiding it. Where did it go? To China. Mitt Romney of Bain Capital based in Boston is part of that entire class of Capital Investors who moved production from the US to China, who today moans and groans about enslaved or deprived Uyhgurs in China when he made 43 billion by investing his consortium of capital in the products the country persecuting the Uyghurs,-- producing for American companies in the US out of China. Shameless hypocrisy. The other part of the fault lies with those who do not work and have no appreciation of the life of a worker, and raided pensions and retirement funds for capital to invest. Some won big others lost big but it was other people’s money not their own they lost or won. Government looked the other way. And now a titanic social battle as big as the Tsunami about to smashed the West Coast erupts from beneath the facade of ‘everything is fine’ in America, our working lives have become the chains that hold us down to the commands of Capital comes with a growing resistance. To what end awaits to be seen.
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  8515. Humans have transformed the environement in such a way that it has changed our relationship to animals. With 1300 species of bats and 6 to 5 caronaviruses in all bats severe acute respiratory disease spreads through a sick planet where humans have changed the ecology in how we live with animals. We are exposed to the spill over from animals and our intimate living with animals of all varieties in cultures that either revere them religiously or adopt them as part of the society we live. The Nippa virus epidemic was caused by deforestation and the movement of bats closer to other animals. Changing ecology is crucial to how animal and human are related. Higher temperatures, human and planetary health is at the basis of this crisis and pandemic. Africa, Latin America and Asia are ticking time bombs. None of your candidates spoke to the issue of the ecology and planetary health as it realtes to diseases should tell you that all of them politicized this crisis and ignored the medical-ecological question of human habitation and health. The public is completely ignorant on the question. No question Bernie would be better than Trump because Bernie is not anti-science but that is the only reason he would be better than Trump. Trump would be better than Bernie because Trump is not anti-capitalist and will pull out all the resources to save capitalism which of necessity will call out the military who will call out the scientists.
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  8516. BABY BOOMERS.
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  8517.  @Papawcanner  The economic system they created represses by design private ownership outside of the workplace.
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  8518. More accurate data for the US: TOTAL CONFIRMED 9,205 DECEASED 154 RECOVERED 8 SERIOUS 60 Source: NCoV2019.live For Italy: Italy Confirmed 35,713 Deceased 2,978 Recovered 4,025 Serious 2,257 Source: NCoV2019.live The number of recovered cases is a number the America media is not showing stirs the panic. Compare Europe's totals to China's: EUROPE TOTAL CONFIRMED 90,487 DECEASED4,291 RECOVERED 6,058 SERIOUS 4,278 CHINA TOTAL CONFIRMED 80,928 DECEASED 3,245 RECOVERED 70,420 SERIOUS 3,557 Compare the number of people recovered between Europe and China. Obviously, Europe and the US is doing soemthing wrong and China did something right. Why are we not learning from countries that are doing things right? Singapores totals are nearly down to zero. Go the source and see for yourselves. Source: nCoV2019.live
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  8519. Not only are humans powerless against Nature but they are powerless against their own creations! Its time to change that and take action. Regarding mobility in society, nothing is built for the foot. A break down of the highway system and everyone is stranded. How a train track and an above ground monorail system in the middle of highways would solve this nightmare. Science and industry was a powerful tool for a very long time until Nature imposed herself and made obvious the inadequacies of the man-made road system. Built to accommodate industry and not people, is also the Industries in general, their Achilles Heel. The land on the highway system is the only land in America that is Public Land. Highway land is not private land or federal land, or state lands, it is Public Land owned by the taxpayer. American law and British Law is founded on Roman Law, Public Land in Rome was called the Ager publicus in latin, meaning land owned in common by all citizens. The Public Lands would are the meridians and the sides the highway system in both directions. Technically the public are on their property and could if they wanted to get out of their cars and open the truck trailers and use all the cargo as means to set up a camp (better than staying in cars and dying from dehydration and frostbite ), it could repay the manufacturers of the products used since the number of people stranded are in the thousands, a collection would do, plus the greedy manufacturers will lose their reputation if they insist on repayment, and trust me there are quite a few who would sue for it. But you have the problem of people not fit for the ordeal under those conditions who cannot get it together and lose it, cause and provoke fear and people then get led astray and lose their potential to be a part of the group. Americans are not in the best of physical and mental shape but they seem to have no choice in the matter but to pull it together. Plus you have wireless and cell service makes this a world shattering event and wake up call! Thousands of people are stranded where the National Guard can evacuate only by air helicopter, as access is made impossible by road, and all the people are stretched out on public land is a crisis for all nations. Something will have to be done and hopefully some smart people will get a plan going because there are important biological functions that a human being cannot perform on a highway. A people made hostages by a creation of their own doing, cut off from the means of life, have to build it right on the spot...this is one for the history books.
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  8520. The firewood commodity controversy of collecting wood in the forest that is private property is reminiscent of what happened in 1842-43 in Germany’s Rhineland Parliament on the same matter. I find it surprising and, frankly, disappointing that the German Parliament’s lawmakers had left this law on the books since then. They made a law on wood and timber and they (lawmakers back then) were instructed to treat wood and timber as wood and timber and not make a law to solve a social problem in a political way, that is, in connection to a material poverty people are experiencing in not affording heat to their homes that in 1842 this law unleashed the police and charged with the crime of theft were people freezing to death and without fire to cook. Really shocking of the modern-day lawmakers to have left this in place. What a disappointment to me, a failure, that lawmakers took advantage of the out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude of the German Public during times of prosperity and then turn rough forget how important it is that lawmakers be independent of a private interest influence at all times. Almost 200 years later, this poverty of lack of heat rears its head and the State takes the side of a private interest. All the forests are private property. The law was never amended that would make it law private holders of land make all broken timber and wood collectable free of charge when there is a dearth of wealth in the economy. The social democratic party should be called the social partially democratic party! Some things will never become private property of an individual without injustice; and, counting every violation of property as theft, is a contradiction when private property is theft. I hope the German middle class wake up from their delusions about capitalism. Not even the richest of all capitalist nations is without injustice, in fact, present day Americans live below or at near poverty levels and America’s shrinking middle class illustrates the future of the European middle classes, Germany’s is no exception to this unnatural recession; and while sabotage cuts off the heat supply to Europe the politicians scuttle for excuses are really doing the Public a disservice representing a private interest in that recession; a foreign private interest that is not even their own home based private interest.
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  8521. Me-ism, the world exists for them. Hubris or ‘me’, Me-ism. Prosecuting this behavior is not going to change the condition that had been inculcated over 50 (1980) years of self-absorbed and self-centered consumerism.
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  8522. Get a life, Trump. But he has a life...its a gaudy one. Vulgar, materialistic, plastic. Exactly what our economy produces.
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  8523. A large sweeping form of social change is needed says the professor. Revolution as the content of the change needed requires a social form. How will this revolution be arranged and carried out and by who? For this crime, the Smithsonian should conduct live ceremonies for the Public to view, the return of the bones and artifacts to each surviving relative(s). One family every two months is seen receiving their relatives given all due respects as part of the restitution. A well-planned speech given by the president of the museum and one world leader whose nation had a hand in slavery and colonialism announce how they will change and be part of he change, not resist the change. World leaders can decline but they will have to deal with their own public more aware than not that a social revolution is needed. Ruling elites can exit political power in style or face expropriation by the masses of he few, are the two choice history has given them. Neoliberalism is dead and the crap of the ages they dished out has all caught up to them. This may seem strange but it is not. European colonialism of the 18th century shaped the US into the divided nation it is today. These activities should continue until all surviving families of the oppressed ancestors are given due using the museum where this history is addressed. With this going on the background current tensions between nations should be less frictional and more cooperative. The surviving relatives are part of a continuing oppression by the modern 21st century police. The sweeping change needed here should occur simultaneously with the ceremonies. This should coincide with a sweeping revolution in American education. I think that timing for a reduced military budget proposal from a president to Congress would have that support of the American people. If we are going to have a social revolution we may as well have it controlled and planned out. Forcing a vote in Congress to de-politicize and de-militarize the police social structure is really the only reform needed to reduce police political influence on Congress. Congresspeople on the left should force a vote that the police police themselves and purge their racist elements. Autonomy with conditions. Fire them under the rule (law) that wrongful deaths suits are paid from the police pension fund. Social inequality is critical on the list of things to undo or none of this will ever get off the ground. Anyway...some thoughts for a revolution of real significance this 4:00 AM.
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  8524. Diddy should have stayed out of the US and remained in exile in a country with no extradition and he be free and outside of jail now with his millions. Dumb Diddy done did it to himself.
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  8525. “Together we can make Israel stronger”, it was never weak rated to have one of the top militaries in the world...and not likely to lose the support it gets from the US taxpayer through Uncle Sam, the quote strikes me as “out of touch” with reality, and at the same time, a reflection of the degree change in the world looks to these folks as the end of the world! Extremists.
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  8526. I find it funny that he did not refuse the colonoscopy given it is considered a weakness. He conceded to do it anyway.
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  8527. The senate is much kinder to one of their own than to the horned headed storming right wing racist middle class balded white dude posing as a Native American Shaman at the Capitol.
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  8528. US sanctions are in place to prevent the people from making history.  Such an accomplishment by the poor in society would send a message to the world another world is possible and the poor and working poor already agitated by retrogressive regimes to make history as well. A way can be found to survive the mighty empire's grip on the world market. The State department is fully aware that the way to stop the people from making history is to stop the people from building a new social order. To do this they must cut off the necessaries of life.  In cutting off the necessaries of life, they can throw a society back into an earlier age; when people were thoroughly preoccupied with the production of the necessaries and had no time to do anything else beyond producing cultural objects. The State department knows they can reduce the sensient world to a minimum, to a stick, and a stick presupposes the action of producing a stick. This is the fundamental fact about the Washington establishment in all its significance in regard to Venezuela and Iran. The one fact they did not count was the intelligence of the people. The poor and the working poor have been in the process of building a new social order from the day Chavez took power in 1998. This new society did not take the normal route of a outright social revolution or nationalization but it financed its new society. This new society emerging from the ground up is deeply seated with the mass of Venezuelans and its beginning push out the remaining upper social classes more affected by the sanctions for they are the typical consumer market for American products . Venezuela would have been reduced to a stick if it were not for the poor and working poor re-organizing the way society gets its food, housing, clothing and many other things.
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  8529.  @lorriec8743  🌈
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  8530. These guys can’t even resolve government in the US never mind resolving the problems of governments in Palestine and Israel. These prognostications by conservatives are proof that the republican party is not the party of the working man but an extension of Israel.
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  8531. Everyone watching this video, should call every number on that resource list and drive them crazy...make them work for their money.
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  8532. This generation notably the rich and middle class 40 somethings are spoiled. Privilege gone to their heads. No humility whatever. Lots of hubris. If they can not see it there is no evidence of truth in it. Truly a lost generation. Motivated by ignorance and fear. Forty years ago Reagan broke the back bone of the democratic party. Janice McGeachan was an infant at the time watching episodes of Barney the TV sitter in the household. Her world would be the first to have no Salt of the Earth values in her Being. Comradery, cooperation, solidarity, were not the virtues of the 80s. Former freaks and hippies became Born Again, Yippies became Wall Street brokers and juvenile delinquents of the 60s all converts to christianity The democratic party had nowhere to go but to get funded from like minded big businesses since the Unions were destroyed. The way the Southern Plantations were ripped out from under the Oligarchs in the South sweet revenge was took out on the base of the Democratic Party and then came the Clintons, Obamas, the Bidens, all corporate democrats. Poisoning the minds of children to be anti-government was pushed further depicting government as cronies, fools, hacks, idiots, over reaching and endlessly probing into the lives of characters on the Big screen. 'What...didn't you guys ever go to Sunday School...you know Mt. Charub where Moses carried the Ten Commandments', government were always stupid and on the wrong side. In reality, the US government as a world power is on the wrong side of history when it comes to Iraq, Afghanistan, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Libya, Syria, Drone killings of innocents, water boarding and torture...simply horrible and shameful with a deadlocked Congress. Big impressions for a generation to grow up in a world decided by bigoted American foreign policy. To Janice McGeachan not even Bonanza is a memory to many of us still alive. Civil society the way I remember it before cities and towns sold the farm and store to developers was a real Christmas Story, fun. Ralph was a real brother in millions of American homes. Nothing in the era after the second world war is real to this generation
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  8533.  @haleybrown2836  That is not the reason. Its a natural reason not a political one the pipelines are open. NATO’s mission since 1991 and Clinton expanded NATO, defend pipelines of gas and oil, and mining as a strategic defense per the US is the political reason they remain open, and this is because US Big Oil can invest cheap and steal that market from the Russians through regime change in Moscow.
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  8534. If there is one you can be sure there are others...hopefully this could be the start of a string of prosecution of high officials complicit with this crime. This idiot is like the other idiot Trump functionary who complained he was not getting his daily requirement of health food in prison. Good interview.
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  8535. Monarchs are people who are non-workers in society the owners of the economic surplus produced by society. This social condtion is a contradiction in terms; how do non-workers become owners and non-owners become workers?
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  8536. FLAKES!
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  8537. Its about time, ownership, power, wear and tear and efficiency, if you are a democrat. Republicans of any stripe are about new added value ( the simple addition of work) by the quality of this added labor the original values of their investments are preserved. The parties will legislate to effect a modus vivendi, some strange and bizarre plan to reconcile the irreconcilable. I don't expect the situation to get better till after the storm.
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  8538.  @ValentinoBentley  You fail to understand the point made in that comment.
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  8539. Hakeem Jeffries is a progressive but sounds more like a preservationist of the establishment in conflict with Trump.
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  8540. NBC will do everything to avoid covering the war games going on in the Persian Gulf and in the South China Sea.
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  8541. No connection to terrorism but there is a missing connection to humanity. The driver of that vehicle has nothing but rage, anger and contempt for the society that driver lives.
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  8542. China retaliated very quickly acted in response to Trump protectionist policies around the corner, the outgoing president is so identified with Trump policies, little difference between them, China applied a bit of protectionism of its own, a ban on the sale of rare earth metals to the US Chip industry. Ores and metals will have to come from Africa where China has established firm relations, in order to process for the production of cell, satellite, defense systems of the US. Without the essential raw material the whole industry goes in the tank. Massive layoffs. No reason to produce the required systems if there is no money in producing them is the American way. Naturally, the imperialist president got on the plane to Angola to secure such raw materials and metals with a wallet full of tax payer minted money. Another area to watch and learn how empires disintegrate is reflected by the hasty actions of smaller nations dependent on larger ones for their security such as South Korea. A sudden fit of paranoia impels the president to declare Marshall Law, suspend all political activity, specifically pro-communist groups in society. Small nations would not behave this way if larger ones were not themselves teetering on the brink of extinction. I give it 50 years, by then the US that began with a lie will die in a lie.
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  8543. I blame the alternate reality on the Ritalin they took as children.
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  8544. It is desirable for corporations to speed up production because the effect is a rise in profits at the expense of the lives of workers. This is how they see and understand the productivity of labor.  Speed it up until a person dies, then they know that is the limit to which they can extract labor from a person.  Not a direct maliciousness on the part of employers that workers are purposely killed on job. They don't want workers to die, they need workers. Its just a historical fact that labor and its productiveness raises the standard of living. You do it home, you build something and you got an increase of material wealth of your own. Your home is worth more than when you did not renovate the house. Production has laws of its own and are incompatible with market laws of supply and demand. Both workers and corporations or capitalists are not aware of this effect that human progress is taking place. The whole species takes less time to materially reproduce itself and neither class can see this because neither class are educated to allow productivity to raise humanity from a living in a ditch. But it is a fact, and it is proven by every form of cooperation. Basketball team, a military team, a worker team, together and combined they produce more is an economic law. This is how corporations become giants, by the cooperation of many workers each worker doing a tiny part in the whole production process, the business expands its employee pay roll, some corporations employ more than 5,000 workers, a 1000 workers and 500 workers, 100 workers and the smaller the staff the larger is the automation and machinery invested. This is why agribusiness employs one worker and humongous machine to plant and harvest a greater output. This is good time for workers to organize. The public is on their side if they do and Congress hates the president who is anti-union. Silly not to take advantage of the situation. Do it for your kids. This is my message to workers in America on this May 1st, a legal holiday for workers, that began in the US and a day your government and employers do not honor, because a day off from work is a day lost in profits. Organize, don't Mourn.
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  8545. 33:13 Dumb Cops.
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  8546. Conservatives like Manchin censor themselves from using the terms 'socialism' and 'capitalism'. They cannot bring it to themselves to mention the split in society between the working poor and the filthy rich in reference to what the 1.3 trillion package would do to help the working poor. They assign themselves to an immoral defense of the obscene rich to protect their own money wealth.
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  8547.  @patkane761  No individual president is responsible for crisis in the American economy. Crisis is built into the system. This is how the world economy works when there is no regulation of what is produced between nations that produce for exchange exclusively. Goods are bought and sold on a scale as blind working averages. All guess work. Incidentally, the person who did raise protective tariffs on foreign goods, he plans to amend your constitution and establish a dictatorship. I do not think the democrats can stop him or want to, or can. This brand of republican comes to finish the job with dictatorship as their weapon. Are you prepared to accept that consequence, I know the German people did, very willingly at the time. The GOP is the new Nazi Party.
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  8548.  Howard Webber  Exxon-Mobil, Conoco-Phillips, Shell Oil, big monopolies stock pile so much oil that it should be a dollar a gallon. The government is too weak to restrict the power of these monopolies and they do not have to comply.
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  8549. Its time take the keys to the car away from grandpa.
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  8550. right, point stands @KohalaLover 
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  8551. When the price of a commodity rises what this changes is the number of buyers who can afford that commodity. Gold is a good example. An ounce of gold was $45.00 dollars from 1945 to 1965. Gold today is $1,180.00 dollars an ounce, fewer buyers in the market for gold. Retiring large scale farmers have no choice but to sell their land to billionaires like Gates. People in the middle and below are priced out. This is why land reform is necessary. When an individual controls the land and food that individual and his/her family become Lords employing the community as serfs, peasants and small producers. On the lower half of society people priced out of the real estate market has a side effect when the price of land as a commodity rises, people take on mortgages/debt for bought houses that were worth far less than what they paid. In the Medieval period, monarchies cancelled debt as a way to keep the loyalty of the people and to start the economy with a clean slate. US Congress does not do this, they do nothing but allow the rise of feudalism through free market and a de-regulated real estate business.
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  8552.  @Paul-ew5st  Tennant farming is the architecture of an agrarian feudal economy. Monastic monasteries in Europe leased land to tenant farmers and the tenant farmers in turn, hired day workers, to work the fields and produce the food. Monks believed their role in society was to do the worshipping and praying, and receive the punishment for the peasants, workers and farmers, or the worshipping would take them away from work and the food would not be produced. The British King destroyed that system and introduced the capitalist who in America the capitalist reverts back to being a landowner of thousands and thousands of acres, is a bizarre direction for a modern society to be taking. Backwards.
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  8553. But I think you are missing the fact that the Tariffs are a double whammy for China. US tariffs are punishing other nations to prevent doing business with China...this is intended to cut off new suppliers to replace what the US sells to China. Other nations are being coerced into taking a side.
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  8554. People are questioning why a kid would be walking around with a fake gun when they should ask the question why a fake gun is made? The parent is demanding answers but two wrongs do not make a right has the parent confused. He should be asking why his parental powers to control his kid are undermined by a market of guns. A gun market invading black communities.
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  8555. Green Bay Packers are not a private sports club owned by private owners, they are publicly owned making them the only socialist team in the NFL...how’s that for anti-communist America?
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  8556. The mid west symbolic of the military heartland of God and secret caverns and installations versus allegiance to no God East Coast Financial power; and many in the mid west made their wealth in the East do not want to bite the hand that feeds them, starts this republican rumble between Cheney and Trump.
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  8557. What a blatant lie, Marx had siblings and none called Anya.
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  8558. “Nobody needs an AR-15” in society. Will turn the tide against the republicans.
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  8559. The real tragedy of America is,---- an individual does not vote because of world matters, they vote because of the cost of a thing essential to the life. Their vote depends on whether they live or die is coerced from them and their condition is used against them.
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  8560.  @elnegrobembon  I think if there were reasons for workers to unite they would not be for concrete changes or to save themselves. One reason workers should unite is to overcome fear and that their movement should be one that forges a new social culture and lifestyle for themselves, and change as a class, the others in society come to see as transformative and freedom giving. Unfortunately, that is not how things are. Workers free themselves not as a group but as separate individuals. They leave town, move, change places, start new somewhere, runaway, whatever, get high, even die of regret to be free of the "man".
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  8561. Excellent video. Do more about the direction of America media and juxtapose it to past footage of American media doing the same thing. Nobody on Youtube is doing this.
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  8562. The working people there should arm themselves.
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  8563. Here is the problem of electing someone who will legislate and decree in favor of the working class. The ruling classes interpret the mass support of that person as naturally conspicuous, as anyone will be your friend if you give them a piece of the pie. Earnest fights for dignity are dismissed and very nastily, I might add. 1. Elections can be rescinded as a product of a social structure that is theirs not the workers. 2.. Thus begins a narrative on personal responsibility and sloth attacking the workers and their leader politically and legally with force and incarceration, the workers movement decays, degenerates, and this episode in the class struggle ends with defeat. Workers have to be more intelligent than appearing to the ruling classes as players in the game but want a better hand, no matter who they may be, thugs, criminals, might Joe Young with a gun, or good looking snappy super rich dudes with a good line, to not come off as parasites unable to navigate their own productive power in resolving the contradictions of capitalism the rich are perfectly aware of, is a recipe for continuous and episodic defeat. People begin to believe they are stupid by birth and ethnicity. Workers need to stake a claim on their productive might and make it theirs in the name of all the other social classes stuck in a bind and tell the super rich snazzy dudes to step aside, we are taking over the driver seat. This way the ruling classes have to rely on force which they rely on anyway, so it does not matter, but all the BS in between is removed. Starting punching and aim to beat the opponent and you want a knockout by the end of the first round. Then workers had better have a plan to run the economy and resolve the contradictions or else they lose the support of everyone not a worker.
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  8564. The Swedish doctor raised the level of urgent care so only the worst of the severe cases are hospitalized is death by attrition under the cover of herd immunity..
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  8565. It would have been a more revolutionary moment if a hot dog vendor got 10 years in prison for selling hot dogs at the Capitol during the riot. Max got it right about Ray Epp.
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  8566. I am voting for him because the trail he takes is different from the One System, Two Party Doctrine of the average mainstream.
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  8567. Perpetrator is an arrogant know it all. “How would examine the evidence to discern that...”, that is what I call bending the facts to fit into your theory. How about we go with the facts as facts. There are a lot of Koberger personalities in America. His character traits are venerated in America, rewarded.
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  8568.  @cleorikki2145  True, some people embrace a lie told about a given subject as truth and 9 out of 10 times people are completely wrong about a given subject.
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  8569. Employers demand labor-power, so they create jobs. Labor-power is the source of value and more value for employers. Naturally they want to hire people... People who apply for a job do so to access health insurance and an income. What has to change here is the employer/employee relation coming between people and their health. When that relationship is terminated in the health field, doctors, nurses and patients, can be doctors, nurses and patients...and we will begin to question why that same social relation is needed between gainful employment and ourselves! At which point labor-power is no longer the source of value for employers, workers can be workers like doctors and nurses can practice their craft free of compulsion to produce value.
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  8570. Insurrectionists were open about civil war they were not calling for the overthrow of the government, that was Trump’s plan with the White House Council still working there, I would imagine, why not call that guy to testify? A coup is an overthrow of the existing government replaced by another government. The insurrectionist are open about overturning the current system but that could mean anything most likely the politics of neoliberalism not capitalism which would entail the abolition of a class society and a freer association of workers and the industries they work. There is no economics in their plan. Their plan is all political. Societies are not all political, they have political elites. Political elites are a social class that no longer connect or associate with the masses. The rest of society is social and sociological, I might add confused, they are an interplay of both economics and society always evolving and this is the crux of the problem. The political elite snuff out the evolution of a society. The natural things all societies do is grow, mature and this political elite stand in the way of that in every imaginable circumstance choking the development of the working classes. If this event were a revolutionary insurrection of the working class and a coup was planned the soldiers, cops and secret service, would have mutinied against the ruling power(s) was the configuration of events in the Russian Revolution of 1917, ---not the present day configuration of the US. Its like we are looking at history from behind the mirror looking into the mirror comparing this insurrection to past ones, the Paris workers insurrection that led to the Paris Commune is exactly what the Washington Police would have done had the insurrection been a people’s insurrection, a non-white nationalist rebellion, they would have crushed a people’s insurrection like we saw in Ferguson come out in full battle array making the Russian tanks rolling into Hungry in 1956 child’s play. They would have smashed it violently! At the political level where Trump is concerned a coup d’état was in the making and moving in the same direction the insurrectionists were going initializing an internal conflict with its attack on the Capitol. Had Pence disqualified the election, and Trump’s coup succeeded that may have been the signal for internal sympathizers inside the Security Forces of the US in DC, acolytes to the cause of white nationalism to arrest any internal opposition to Trump. The next day the House of Representative would appoint Trump president indefinitely, and all branches of government present not a word of protestation as though it were a coronation of a king. The day after that every piece of progressive legislation this country had put forward in its history would be repealed and all American history re-written, abolition of the 8 hour workday, unions declared illegal, censoring Free Speech, would be hard to achieve in a country with well entrenched institutions, but it will be tried. The more stupid people become the easier it will succeed.
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  8571.  @samudramanthan8645  I was going to say...a writer always wants to leave no stone unturned in politics. Its a vicious thing. The challenge is making short points to make the reader defect from their prejudices.
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  8572. something does not makes sense. Decent folks disapproving of capitalism if they knew of its reckless and psychopathic disposition...is this why Daddy scolds the children when they want to get paid for their chores. Daddy's repression of capitalism inside the home acknowledges paid labor outside of the home is inherently exploited by capital for the extraction of surplus-labor in its production process.
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  8573. Imagine that!
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  8574. It is punishment for non-compliance but for the reasons Iverson exclaims. Second, airlines would no longer land and take off in Miami if the State of Florida strikes down a mandate. They are not going to stop flying because DeSantis is anti-mandate. If that happens DeSantis could stand to lose Disney and host of other attractions. Corporations can move the States cannot.
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  8575. Of course, but greed is theft. A national health service would cost Americans peanuts in tax dollars.
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  8576. Lose the keys to the state car would get you fired real fast. There is nothing in policy that describes or covers social conduct or what actions are not allowed by cops in society. Policies are not about people of society when it comes to the State, and not just your state but all states including the federal; policies are rules for hired people on how to relate to things, objects, like state cars, computers, takers, guns, tactical gear and weaponry, vehicles, machinery, warehouses, products. Officials make polices on how to preserve those material investments the State has made. Contrary to misguided popular belief, elected officials do not write policies on how people in the State should relate to people in society outside of the State. America is about the commodities it purchases not about policies that educate people and how they should be relating to other people.
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  8577. Nine babies...wow! An instant clan, image that. These kids are going to grow up appreciating every morsel of food they get. One of them or more or all are going to be 'really something', in the future lives. I would love to see how they turn out. All the best to the parents.
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  8578. Damn nearsighted Russians!
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  8579. LEAD IN BABY FORMULA!!!! No wonder America is learning disabled.
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  8580. Too few hands (people) own the means of production that growing numbers of non-owners are dependent on a minority is true in the corporation, government and community. The danger comes when one or all institutions fail they takes down millions of people with it. But this condition contains a paradox...having millions of communities dependent on government, and communities dependent on corporations, and communities dependent on small local boards and councils, is...there has never been a greater time in history for this class of millions of people dependent on some minority formation to act! The paradox is the educational incompetence in this social class that they do not act for themselves.
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  8581. How does a Cherry Picker light up on fire?
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  8582.  @51WCDodge  ask a question and eventually someone will provide the answer, thank you.
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  8583. Based on the limited footage and there is no telling how people in the parade reacted, or the spectators, to the car coming out of the blue, but I will say that people are sitting ducks in spectator events. Police will have surround events at a real cost local departments cannot afford. Spectator event in Texas will lead to changes in this industry, might even be the death of it, and this parade constitutes a spectator event. It will take an act of Congress to rid the violence in society and half the Congress indirectly condones the violence by its inaction. People cannot afford to have their attention taken away from their surroundings by events meant to entertain, not while actors of terror live in society and Congress does nothing about it.
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  8584. no passports and license applications, permits, etc., also...a lot of businesses can’t go forward and people waiting on those jobs have to wait to. Not a way to win a majority. @ellierivera5519 
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  8585. ...if American workers were conscious,--- the power of regulating their productivity is their’s if they want it, and restoring back to health, air, soil, water and lead free pipes in particular would be dirt cheap to produce and benefit all... but the American working class is unconscious of that power and unaware of what the magnitude of a 132 million workers can do that the present structure of management cannot ever do. It is their’s if they want it!
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  8586. She is establishing a line of questioning senate hearings have not had in over 50 years, about what the subject is not line of inquiry. The last real senate hearing that put capitalism on trial as a viable system took place in the 1930's during the depression. Senate hearings, resolving disputes on bias, had been sham hearings in the Civil War period. Smith is right about money in government is nothing new and darker back. But she masterfully mirrored government's relationship to society using the participants to verify the inadequacy of senate hearings as bought off to private interests. Her enemies are lining up at the door. You did make a good point, the last one in your vid, about bias the Public can help remove. That is to stand united against the idea that government and money are inseparable, or self-evident, or a nature-imposed necessity.  Stop believing in ideas of things being immutable, forever, permanent and the purveyors of that notion will have no market in Congress for the sale of 'all things are permanent'.  Certain groups are prone to selling this idea of money and government are ordained as natural, intended by God, to be fused into one cannonball with which to drop laws on society, these are evangelicals in politics.  The Evangelical idea of religion is, if it is not heir it is not a natural religion. This idea fused with the state presents catastrophes unfolding in the world today. We, as a People, have to disassociate, even renounce, the ideas of money, politics, government and society as permanent.
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  8587. Data fascists. I bet if we stop all the injuries inflicted on human beings ranging from violence, radiation, stress, crap food, pollution, and fascist politicians and journalists like these people the pulmonary pandemic will disappear.
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  8588. Why rent to a local when you can rent to an endless stream of visiting BnB travelers at prices that keep going up? Vulture and monopoly capitalism Barcelona style.
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  8589. How absurd of Biden and he is setting a precedent of a worker’s right to strike only when a strike furthers another aim and not about the dignity for workers. The lock downs did more damage to the economy than a rail strike would...give them the free time they need to do what they need or want.
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  8590. Inspector-General in charge of the investigation of the prescription rip off scheme has too much of an aloof attitude and offers little advise to patients at home. It appears he would be the type of functionary, I hate to judge but he is too laid back and not shocked, by the mortality of the scams,---he lost the real purpose of his role as a prosecutor. Get tough and go after these people.
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  8591. When evangelism is given its historical name, "Chiliasm", it is easier to see it as a symptom of oppression and not a belief system beyond oppression. Fantastic dreams of deliverance were not uncommon for the working people in early Christian times to conceive. These were widespread beliefs constantly revived in the teachings of Medieval Sects. Before there was TicToc there was the last book of revelations. In the book we read the four horseman as supernatural forces of God but to the early Christians the four horsemen were four emperors who persecuted them. Slaves did not read and the books were not published and distributed. The book was recited in public by preachers which became the basis of the practice of mass in Catholicism. Mass gatherings and the book itself a subversive document by the rules of the Roman Senate. underground to avoid arrest.horribleChristianity their
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  8592. I thought it was going to be about a year’s long assault on the working people of this country, pandemic, firings, inflation, high interests rates, but its not ...its more about Trump.
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  8593. Liberal democratic socialists cannot renounce Orwell as their beacon for anti-communism when republicans use a literary criticism directed at the only communist state the author could have known of his day to the Department of Homeland Security of the US the author could not have known in his day.
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  8594. The probability of a crisis, and extinction is high, the market is the only bond between industry to industry. When the market breaks down; when there are no buyers and sellers to connect the products of all the industries together, entire cities, suburbs, and rural economies shut down. No work for anyone, a full-fledged depression sets in. The economic system of the US will never provide the American people, specifically the working class will never see another period of prosperity again. The only industries that will be connected by money, where there are many buyers and sellers, swiftly accumulating profits are war industries active in war zones. This explains why America withdrew from Afghanistan, more money to be made in another war waiting in Ukraine. Even more money to be made in a war with China in Asia after Ukraine.
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  8595. Washington is terrified of a Haitian revolution and it looks the masses are ripe for one in Haiti! The state of Haiti is one of perpetual crisis. Natural and man-made disasters besiege Haiti. Earthquakes and hurricanes and poverty-born diseases of cholera and COVID. What appears to have been five persons posing as DEA officers conducting an operation ended up n a skirmish with security guards leaving three assassins dead and two captured. In the background the interim president vows to restore order and the western nations condemned the assassins. But for the US the situation of Haiti presents a unique American problem. The whole history of US race relations from the abolitionists to the civil rights movement might not have had happened if not for the Haitian revolution in 1791. That revolution was the biggest anti-slavery weapon the slaves and the abolitionists ever had. That revolution defeated two empires, Britain who glossed over its role in slavery ended slavery by Parliament, and France was kicked out of Haiti and went broke trying to defeat a Haitian General greater than Napoleon himself was forced to sell Louisiana for peanuts to the Americans. 'Very worrisome...' said the president. Indeed, are the thoughts of the Pentagon. Haiti has had a provincial colonial American government ever since its revolution as the counter-revolution and now a political vacuum is created with this assassination,---the nation becomes America's Lebanon in the Caribbean. The Washington dilemma is historically conditioned. A much delayed emancipation from colonialism and slavery by around 116 years might happen without a shot because a military solution won't work for Haiti. A foreign power in Haiti immediately following a 20 year long failure in Afghanistan and Iraq, Syria, Yemen, could react back on the continent as an anti-war movement and a second revolution in Haiti would further weaken America's position in the world as an empire. Washington is myopically desperate to prevent the spread of a second revolution and such an invasion puts Washington in a straight jacket, damned if they do and damned if they do not invade. A military solution is not going to rectify these contradictions in American diplomacy. This event might be the final act of the revolution Washington suppressed back in 1795 to 1905 and it may be the day when the US gracefully exist its dominion over Haiti as militarism begins to fade away in order to rid the poor nations of poverty born diseases invading the US.
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  8596.  @danialhillmann5374  Freedoms? Your are free and not free. Your freedom is limited to how much freedom your bank account can afford. Freedom to me means free to live.
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  8597.  @Gabriel_McMillan  Well you are the new Inquisition of the Modern Age of Constitutional Republics. Even the Greeks thought representational democracies was defective though I get the sense from your retrogressive thinking that you read any of the historians of ancient Greece. It was blasphemous to be scientific and go against the Social Order of the Church in the Middle Ages. You were burnt alive for treason, the Inquisition also thought the few should not punish the many of their right to bear the Bible. You were born in the wrong age. They said the same thing and where is the Inquisition today, dead. Never say never Mac!
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  8598. @Ad Zing....another stupid comment...Obama withdrew too many troops and left a real problem, withdrawing too many too soon, for little good reason other than the American people were weary of war they did not understand and still do not understand and you are among them...idiot.
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  8599. The US economy begins to collapse rapidly from this date forward and by the end of summer it will look like the building that fell in Miami.
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  8600. Beside the fact the universities, Harvard and MIT, are partners with a totalitarian regime, they sell or rent out their labs and the use of students. The Harvard and MIT, Yale or New Haven, faculty and students are bundled as one commodity. The free market policies of universities allow anyone to purchase the use of these commodities is to me the greater evil than Universities partnering with monarchs. Students are either unaware of this economic relationship or are acquiescent.
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  8601. Come on, man. The man is a pig surrounded by pigs. Quit being so gentle with Trump.
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  8602. The world is a big place with a lot of news happening. A national news outlet that has 6 news stories to report about most of which was on Trump is pathetic. If you rely on this station you are totally living life blind with your head in the sand.
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  8603. The language used by these parliamentarians to describe the Convoy is despicable, i.e, siege, blockades. This PM has no intention to sit down with the Convoy leaders and the other side is not encouraging a meeting.
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  8604.  @bodhisattva71  The wording is going over your head, read again.
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  8605.  @tbell1698  An organization within an organization?
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  8606.  @cecipalacios1007  A value-relation of everything becomes an objective power over us and we are its creator.
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  8607. US should mind its own business. Nobody has their ships in the Long Island Sound or the Gulf of Mexico. America should get her ships out their backyard and grow up! Too many people on the planet for this. World Trade connects everyone that a war between two countries even if they are small drags all nations into it. World trade and its quiet companion the Earth, has made three concepts obsolete, 1. the nation-state, 2., war., 3., competition. When you break down how the world economy has allocated parts and labor bringing all nations into the fold too many nation-states place the species in peril. Productive forces have become destructive forces in the context of 2.2 billion people on the planet and three quarters of them are poor in need of self- development. Wars won’t defeat an aggressor or the victim of the aggressor; poverty and disease will. What is needed is not the extraction of resources the aim of nation-states but the injection of labor for development and self-improvement as people are truly becoming a moronic animal not performing life-giving work.
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  8608.  @ziggyzugg  Yes, the mass genocide of Native Americans and the US forced sterilization programs of Guatemalans in the 1940s are stories I heard about too. Time to grow up.
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  8609. One thing not detected and investigated and prosecuted for trial is, -- who increases their salary by tens times as much wrung from Parliaments and National Assemblies when coups are carried out. Money that disguises itself as fees, representation moneys, and the artful talents of some of these miltiary and right wing leaders to feel out the weak moments where they can squeeze out more money from their class supporters and the tax payer. Millions of dollars in claim damages for the votes alleged to have been cheated during the count off are just another way of stealing the public fund, but as long as it weakens the opposition, it is considered politics. Do this in the neighborhood, the same action is theft and a crime with the punishment of imprisonment. Murder is forgiven at the high levels of governments, to kill a lot of people is public policy, to kill one person is a capitol crime. The other thing right wing opposition groups carry out as a strategy for a successful overthrow or take over of power from a person they do not like is to jail them by means of a tagging a false crime or find in the crime they committed an offense warranting imprisonment. This was done to Morsi and the Lulu deSilva of Brazil. It would have been done to Puidgedemont of Catalonia if he was not in exile, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning, and many more where there are right wing authoritarian elements gearing up to take power and then through an appropriation of Public Funds the judicial system, law enforcement and the military, form the three pillars of the right wing phenomena people are calling fascism in this century.  The population protesting and demonstrating are really outside of the franchise even though they pay the tax to run the franchise the coup participants expropriate for themselves and allies. The old saying, showing me your friends and I will tell you who you are, applies to the right wing. When they are in power the spending of the Public Fund is non-stop and this is to keep the popualtion doing what it always does the majority of its time, working and replenishing the tax fund, keeps the masses busy and out of politics while the Public Funds spent on lavish living and military might can go on behind the scenes.
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  8610. The American people will have nothing of a government left it is that entrenched into every economic aspect of our lives,-- the more DOGE keeps cutting services. All of us are interconnected through the government, we saw first hand in the Trump-Zalenski meeting at the White House, the problems of a rich country dictating to poorer countries. Its a problem as well when the rich start dictating to the poor in their own societies. Prices went up in the era before the Great Depression because people bought more stuff. Eventually, the bubble bursts brimming with overconfidence and the whole economic system crashed. The private sector was not about to hire millions of unemployed people. The extra spending would have be made up of revenue from the higher income bracket earners. To ensure this never happens is the rationale behind making permanent by law the Trump Tax Cuts to the Rich, Billionaire Class. When it is said the system is rigged it is rigged in favor of the dominant social class in society. We know who that is. But republicans have weaponized the Congress as an institution that works against the majority of the American people, to repeal these Tax Cuts would take an act of Congress. None of the representatives of the American people in Congress are about to repeal the tax cuts. In the post Great Depression era government public spending hired the unemployed, the workers produced what the private sector refused to produce, they made things that cannot be sold for a profit, everything from respirator machines to Mt. Rushmore, things that a society can use, and benefit from, is how government over time took more control over the economy...and economy is nothing but people...the control over the use of things and people. This New Deal was not enough to get America out of the depression. WWII took us out. If you call for peace in an economy that depends on war spending in a time when the unemployed are swelling in size, a hiring freeze is sure to bring a total collapse.
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  8611. US Military will annihilate the human race before surrendering to the human race.
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  8612.  @ArleeStarr  If it meant the US would have to do something about genocide or slavery if the admission were made the Pentagon would tell the Jewish Commander to shut his face up. The Public has to force the admission out of Austin’s mouth and Jewish fascism would lose its American support.
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  8613. So few homes are for sale. Low interest rates, short on supply. The combination that does nothing for anyone. Yellen and Powell are not the sharpest tools in the shed. There isn’t the profit for construction companies to build middle class homes but there is profit in the construction of mansions. Across America the division between big and little has been created thanks to the bad math of the Fed if you look at it from a working class position but from the standpoint of the rich the math is great, perfect chemistry between banks and corporations and super rich people, low cost capital to pay off earlier loans of a higher rate. The middle class home builder should have been the priority of the Fed offering easy and cheap loans to beef up the supply. Once supply reached a level high enough a new middle class will emerge. Time to ask why not change position when the cure is the disease.
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  8614. It pays to think before you speak and do.
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  8615. Actually she is right the idea of concentration camps did come from the Russians but it was not the Bolsheviks not to say millions of Christians were not killed by Bolsheviks in the Civil War, there were, but the real origins of concentration camps came from a Russian slave owner and landowner in the 18th century, also to recapture runaway slaves adapted by American slave owners in the South the Bounty Hunter was a Russian invention. Hitler got the idea from the Confederate southern slave owners. This form of slavery runs through the entire course of human history before the Renaissance to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians before chattel slavery was broken up by the revolutions in England in the 1600s, France a hundred years after England abolished slavery and the US last on the list. But one group never talked about even more oppressed than Haitians and Palestinians were the Roma people in Bulgaria, Gypsies, to whom the Bolsheviks when Bulgaria was part of the USSR were first to educate and employ better off than they are today. These people are depicted as the incarnation of evil, witchcraft, theft, slite of hand, thievery, diseased, are in actuality kind human beings treated this way because of the color of their skin.
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  8616. Let’s assume Dolton has had a corrupt police department for decades and town contracts were given to a certain group of businesses had been going on for a long time and then I come along, get elected, and start re-directing the contracts to a new group of businesses and get a cop fired upsetting the apple cart. If I did not expect the old gang to not come after me I would be nieve. If they succeed and remove me from office by whatever means, nail my allies, they come back resuming the same patterns of exploitation of past decades in Dolton. What has really changed? The residents of Dolton are taken for dolts by a small town social clique.
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  8617. So the total failure to gather intelligence from the first balloon blown up is not a problem for you?
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  8618.  @reidfmorthel5597  Of course they are gathering intelligence, I call it pieces of debris...you call debris intelligence. it will take intelligence to puzzle solve..several thousands of pieces of evidence to put together again. Time they have because its your money buying their time. You do not think or believe another way off leaving the vehicle more intact could have been asserted to bring it down? You demean yourself presuming you are the only one in the world where espionage takes place, fool.
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  8619.  @reidfmorthel5597  Did you learn something about your intelligence gathering or are you in denial that the method of gathering was a colossal stupidity.
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  8620. Cubans do so well with US Sanctions against them imagine what they can do without the sanctions.
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  8621. They know how to talk the talk but not the walk. Time Americans be represented by real pragmatic leaders who walk the walk and talk the talk.
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  8622. It just says that most politicians in the political world do not have their origins in the working class and as soon as few working class people, rich or poor, get into office the political world is rattled. But he does not analyze the social composition of the Republican Party, the industrial and financial sectors, the religious wing, the neocon wing, the libertarian conservatives, the agricultural sector, they are a party of the all the heads of these productive sectors, the capitalist class as a whole. One of the many factions that make up the GOP, struggle to lead the rest in meeting definite goals serving their class interest is a way of overcoming their fears and phobias. Fear of being overthrown, fear of terrorism, fear of climate change, fear of socialism and communism, when workers begin to strike, fear of them, fear of students when they begin to strike, as a whole subjective motives of one capitalist becomes an objective reality of the whole class in a violent reaction to the fear of social revolution, using its economic controls of the economy the material exchanges of society to hold on to power. Excluding everyone not of their social class and making sure the judiciary and the military is under their control at all times. The psychology of this group acting as an individual or as a social class is based on racism. For this reason, People need to pay attention to the political objectives and consequences of a one party state, if all states are red states, a ratification of the Constitution is made easier and likely annul civil rights, i.e., Roe v. Wade, and redefine citizenship along hereditary blood lines, overnight we are in a republic of an oligarchy done in the speed a pot of coffee is brewed in the morning. This would be a restoration of conditions the French Revolution of 1789 violently overthrew, a Constitutional Monarchy against a Nobility, only now in a new modified form of a republican oligarchy of government makes itself a permanent restoration insuring all opposition is outlawed and censored.
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  8623. The better news story that ought to be thrown into the faces of Americans who are denial of barbarism is not the Swat team invasion we see all the time in the news. Images of violence desensitizing viewers. The opposite is in order. No,-- I think the real story is not the fascination with machines and mechanisms that produce force and explosions. I think the real story is the human story which the likelihood of this new station ever covering the human story is higher than getting struck by lightening. Who will bury these people and how will their internment be treated? Will they receive the dignity given to a fallen veteran from Afghanistan or a police officer in Utah? Or will they be boxed into temporary refrigeration pending the once monthly state order of cremations erased of any social history of their own? How we treat our dead tells us more about who we are as a people.
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  8624. Well, if Robert Weissman, the President of Public Citizens had his way, a civil war would erupt! There would be so many people destroyed by a rapid reduction from fossil fuels. The transition he wants relies of shaky ground the transition I want avoids a civil war by developing more mass transit and make society less dependent on the car, change the suburbs, change the highway system, build a high speed continental rail system, all this gets more people off car dependence and producing less carbon emissions as a result. Biden tends to take back his promises but when he is half right developing a policy a public advocate should be adding the other right to fix his wrongs in that policy not suggest an agenda that will lead to a social catastrophe, rather, should make Biden’s windfall tax more complete toward a practical transition. And so this is what is wrong with America’s Left; no practical social analysis. It would be beneficial to the planet if Americans took a stand against the war on grounds that war spending leads to recessions and inflation and increased taxation, this reduces carbon emissions when the military has less money to work with. A ceasefire and renewed talks with the Russians would lower emissions, stop the threat of nuclear war, end oil profiteering, lower taxes at home, bring down inflation and put more money in people’s pockets.
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  8625. What is evident is that they all do it.
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  8626. The reason Central Americans are migrating has less to do with crop production made impossible at high elevations and soil erosion from climate change.  Inslee is wrong on this. Since the start of the War on Drugs in the 1980's, land and peasant production of the land in Central America are caught in a crossfire of the military, landowners and cartel drug lords, fighting for control over the land and control over the extraction of peasant production. The internal warfare in Central America are parasitic wars that had entrenched the peasantry into a corner where the only choice is to leave. America's role in this expropriation process was to militarize the state and drug lords against the peasantry. This was the function of Oliver North and Eliot Abrams back in Contragate and today under Trump in their aims to overthrow left governments in Central and South America. Subsequently the freeing up of millions of small plots of land formerly owned by peasant farmers open commercial speculation by capital in the world market on land. In Latin America, the South and Central American countries, exhibit fedual methods of production within a world market. The entrenchment of the peasantry led to its break up the more the world market expanded into its area. Now the problem is what to do with the parasites; who are the most productive of establishing a liberal and capitalist economy in Central America? Not the military nor the drug lords, the former does not poduce any value to the general economy, rather, it takes and the latter produces and illegal value that would cause a many political careers to fall under Congressional investgation and scrutiny leading up to the president. The land therefore falls under the control of the landed aristocracy, large scale industrial farmers, who will open the land up to investment and construction, and this will lead to a rapid depletion of soil and more intense natural disasters relating to land and land use in mining, drilling and deforestation. Hence the alliance of right wing governments who use their populations for the extraction of wealth by international capital. Inslee presents a classic liberalism of capitalism emphasizing the socializing strength of capitalism, new schools, a fair legal system, and educated workforce, open immigration, liberal government, does not solve the problem of a peasantry expelled from the countryside and the new class relations that oppress them supported by American corporations and foreign capital.
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  8627. Trump's racist counterpart in Britain First; how does a confrontation with a muslim(s) make the British economy great--it doesn't. Nazis shrouded in religion uses a video of a real event in another country that happen several months ago. We can say Sarah Huckabee is a real threat to the American public by not focusing not on the economic plan set into motion by republicans. Lauer, Keeler, Franken, Sweeney, Areskis, Conyers, are men in private industry can be fired and the industry will not be damaged but the two men in government who, if they do step down will require the entire Congress to step down for they are all sexist pigs in Congress and guilty of harassment of male aides and females.  I do believe this is the world's first live video recorded suicide. Slobodan takes his life as did his Feuer took his own life to avoid capture and defeat by the enemy. In this video the second of realization that the poison he drank was irreversible is read across his face make this video the first that I am aware of. But as a general comment, I am not aware his country has made any marked improvement in the economy during his hold on power or by the rational behind his pernicious policies. What have his people and his country gained by his white nationalist ideas? The will to invest or purchase or sell regardless of the sum of money involved had never in the history of capitalism required a tax exclusion on behalf of private capital. The one is not a condition of the other in historical terms. But in social terms a tax cut on investment capital serves as a means of risking public tax dollars and not the personal capital of the investor in the event a crash inevitably occurs as proven in the business cycle. This way the public's money is lost not theirs.
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  8628. These people are absolutely nuts! They do you a disservice not explaining the difference between a business cycle and an investment cycle. How frequent does a given industry start new capital? Not frequent enough. Every 20 years the investment cycle booms and then goes bust but not in all industries. This is uneven development across the board leading to absolute degradation and inequality in the economy. Recessions in the cycle have been longer than recoveries and when recoveries do reach full employment a recession, right around the corner, takes away what a recovery produces and roughly the 30% of the total workforce are constantly changing employment and more everyday giving up looking. This is no way to live. Out of 132 million in the workforce, 20% are unionized, 80% are not. Most States have Fire At Will laws. No buts, there’s the door. Start walking. The social composition of the workforce is largely employed in a service sector, and are women, and the industrial sector remains an exported enterprise. Administrations have done nothing but to bolster supply and ignore demand. To the contrary, the liberals did everything to choke or discourage capital investment in the home economy.
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  8629. America's racist far right wing in the republican party are responsible for this debacle. The anti-immigration stand of the right wing and the photo propaganda they used showing C-30s loaded with Afghans politically drove the debacle where it remains in crisis the democrats taking blame as a military failure for not evacuating friends and allies and Americans in the country's interior. This right wing has no kind words for allies that are not American and not for Americans helping non-American allies are the words kind coming from the 'Freedom Caucus'. But as it plays out the occupation of the US in Afghanistan intensifies and surrounds the country with more troops from the sea and land. Both parties have their fingerprints on this debacle, they lied successfully to the American public the secrets of the war over the course of the last four presidents.
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  8630. Californians are hit by climate crisis in the form of uncontrolled fires and still they are still buying oil, gas, plastic, meat? Nature fires back at humans destroying the domestic citadels that harm nature! They are paying the consequences for having policies that do nothing to roll back the negative effects of drilling, fracking, timbering, fossil fuel burining, etc. Hopefully, the fires will burn the climate crisis denial up in smoke and they get real about it. Hypocrites!
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  8631.  @johannesswillery7855  Part of the problem is human wants, we do transform nature to satisfy our wants; in doing so, nature transforms humans. The other part of the problem is the total benign neglect and ignorance of that fact.
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  8632.  @johannesswillery7855  Interesting, not that I said anything about corporations being at fault for California's government misguidedness because I did not! It would be interesting to know what did lead officials to approve the development of fire zones. After all, a 'zone' of any kind presupposes a 'law' of somekind that apparantly was broken.
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  8633.  @johannesswillery7855  Everything is connected. All the phenomena of the universe and Planet Earth produced by the hand of mankind or made by geologic forces, are not to be conceived as creationism but as a re-shaping of matter.  From top to bottom the US government is filled with creationists, without renouncing their religious beliefs it is impossible for them to concieve of the Universe in any other way but as static and unrelated products of a creation, thus earth geology, science and biology is excluded from practical zoning and legislation leading to human fatality.
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  8634. Good lord...this guy interviewed beats around the bush saying the natural resources of the country are extracted by a few foreign capital investors and that mining operations in Sudan including the labor of the Sudanese people is exploited to enrich a military faction of the Sudanese State backed by foreign interest and a private mercenary army...while basic necessities of the majority of Sudanese people are unmet an elite minority get to live!
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  8635. commodities are mysterious to people...because people are never taught the equation, A = B. If money and commodities were easy to understand you would not need advisors on how to invest your money... and I am not even sure advisors are really sure they know what they are doing...they may just be acting in concert directing more capital where growth is happening...this subject will always be mysterious...to Americans...if nation A makes the linen and nation B makes the coats, it is because the amount of working time to make linen and make coats are equal and affordable to both nations, a mutual exchange but when the Dollar is used in that exchange the coat and linen trade in quantities the dollar measures. Working time in one country changes relative to the other and vice versa. If the dollar measures nothing the coat and linen don’t trade at all. If the dollar measures value it measures its own value and affordability against the values of two other separate nations finding it not affordable to buy with dollars and the linen manufacturing industry which employed a million people in the country that supplies linen to the country that manufactures coats, all lose their jobs, no trade means no work. The reckless way money advisors and investment firms decide where capital should employ labor-power (growth) by the way commodities are trading in the market tells me they know little about value relationships determining the Dollar world economy as the driving force for its shrinkage.
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  8636. Coup makers are fast at work in Argentina and Peru and highly adept at eliminating any opposition to regimes favorable to Wall Street. The tools they use are frame ups and bribery and set ups, plant false evidence, cloak and dagger stuff, and go so far as to abuse a legislative institution, the State, to trump up charges on anyone that speaks in opposition to the agenda of a small percentage of the population. Keystone Pipelined erupted and spilt its oil in Kansas. Enough to kill more species life to that area. Ruin the soil for agriculture and spawn more cancer for people in Kansas. A single extraction corporation’s intent to expand, grow, become large and universal like Exxon-Mobil is to supply the world market that specific commodity as it generates tremendous wealth is more consequential than the busted pipeline, and the idea oil-bearing nations have Americans by the throat is all hot air, ----it will take a crisis to wake Americans up to what the left opposition had been saying all along. End Fossil Fuel Production. Not Go Green, I mean change the mode of life completely. Indigenous people, Climate Scientists and Extinction Rebellion the most consistent in fighting Big Oil might get the mass support they have been striving for with this spill in Ma and Pa’s backyard. Time will tell.
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  8637. Too early to put to rest the greater mass murder theory levelled at socialism. There are millennials who are the prizefighters of capitalism and could be mentally ill for one thing, too far gone for remediation, denying the evils of capitalism.
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  8638. This is important because unlike any other social system the world has ever known, capitalism will assure the individual a given reality. The given reality American capitalism is giving the individual is its failure to carry out its most basic functions necessary for human life! America’s primary purpose of creating useful objects is fundamentally non-existent.
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  8639. It proves that cops are only trained to kill and do that well when there is a threat but as far as policing is concerned the cops are untrained and poorly educated in what it means to have a civil society.
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  8640.  @d.f.9064  US helps them with conditions US corporations impose. The help is not wanted. Nobody wants it.
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  8641. It’s a very strange society,---technology and people are united at work but separated outside of work. What a contradiction? This is why people are exhausted and beat up, worn out, technology might make the work lighter for people but it prolongs the hours of work. Cuts short your sleep and restitution. Outside of work there is no technology other than a cell phone that enhances life when it is living. It is only when life is working that technology is used to enhance a production process, and not used to enhance society on how that production process is actually working. You never know what is going on indoors, behind the scenes, there is a forever wall between user as a consumer and technology. So, if a highway shuts down people can be stranded never knowing what is going on for hours because drones and cell phones are not linked up to inform people, cell phones and drones are linked up to sell people.
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  8642.  @bnalive5077  All countries acting for themselves promotes nationalism and war.
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  8643.  @TheSouthernLady777  We are talking about your leaders not your country. I like my country too. Its leaders are bad on the one hand and worse on the other.
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  8644.  @Galactic_fart_sniffer  Does your department suffer from problems created by the department?
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  8645.  @Galactic_fart_sniffer  In other words, can you solve the problems in your department without angering the department heads?
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  8646.  @Galactic_fart_sniffer  Can you satiate your department heads and solve the problem the department heads created?
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  8647. Interesting of the network of information derived from transactions. Exchange carries your identity, time of transaction, what was purchased is picked up through diplomatic ties between governments when you are a person of significance.
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  8648.  @kimbok5971  Though you are right, you forget to run for president you have to be born here, and have what it takes to become president. He became president because the democratic establishment is out of touch with the world of work, that an entertainer game show host poked holes in a political elite full of lies and hypocrisies.
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  8649.  @vallee7966  think NATO wants to join Ukraine, gain more territory, more influence, positioning of forces, and you will see things differently about Ukraine.
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  8650. Well, I would agree with the professor but we do need to know what are the economic factors pulling trucker’s standard of living down? Is it the mortgage on the truck, or the money corporations pay for hauling just to isolate a few issues, and once found out what is the cause of economic dissatisfaction then that can be injected into their demands.
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  8651. Artificial intelligence study decodes brain activity into “diaglogue”...I am confident the people at NBC are morons.
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  8652. The far right see Mitch McConnell and his gang as collaborators with Neo-Liberalism. We on the Left do not push hard enough our own moderates on a score of issues. The right wing elements have an advantage of unity that the Left has not acquired in unity. The right is homogenous and the Left is heterogenous, both in mind, body and spirit. In Houston and Puerto Rico the working class poor are decimated, expropriated. In Alabama, the expropriated are takers and the right wage a fight on Neo-Liberal David Jones, and the long line of empire builders. The right connects the general to the particular. The left finds no subject in the object. The general contention has no shape in a particular voice. They win they are doing us a favor in dismantling the 'administrative state'. However, history has proven the different purposes of the administrative state depends on keeping the working class down. Where we differ with the right is in the use of the organs of the state, the military, police and justice system. The far right made it into the White House is an advantage over the far left. It gained hands on experience how to use the organs of the state. The far left has not. The far left has a real presence outside the state but no presence inside the state barring a few exceptions. It needs both to succeed, a street movement and a party of its own to replace and occupy the seats Neo-Liberals presently hold.
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  8653. We should pay less attention to Trump and more attention to what happens to our productivity in this society. If the US makes a missile in one hour and increases it to two missles per hour the missiles can be sold at a 50% decrease of their value which is billions but still to a buyer like Saudi Arabia, Turkey, its gets a good deal, more missiles for their money. The seller makes a bundle too can mark it up by 75% and still be under production costs. Productivity has created this beneficial change for capital and encouraged an administration to use this arms manufacturing productivity in that industry to proliferate an arms race. This is the kind of thing making us, all people who work in all industries, directly irresponsible holders of our own worker economic muscle.
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  8654. But we never get the same surrender and unveiling of privacy of Zuckerberg himself and the other owners of social media products, do we? So it is a one-way street, we cannot track Zuckerberg and his data as it changes through the course of his life is secret but he can track yours and in the process ruin your lives once this technology is used against you with more frequency and under less government restrictions.
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  8655. SOBER HOMES SCAMS,---Embedded in America’s economy and how people are making money these days is dominantly by turning needs into commodities. Government officials are believers in the free market, it is on purpose that they make it impossible to not be a migrant, not be an addict, not be a sick person, but be a mass of people in need. You would not need government in the first place if you were all these things by yourself. Neediness in people is essential to create a free market system. This is why war and capitalism are a perfect match. A little piece of heaven on earth. Wars make people destitute and needy. People with nothing must depend on sellers who have what they need. The only problem is.... the needy have no money. Money has to be put into their hands. The government of free market believers does just that through Medicaid. Money goes right into the hands of the needy population and the sellers move quick to deceive Medicaid as legitimate providers to intercept the money. Similar thing occurs on a world scale. America puts money into the hands of needy nations and exploiters intercept the Aid. Terrorists are exploiters. They are not in it for to free the needy from need. Money is printed by Washington, a privilege no other country has actually robs America of every incentive to reach a higher standard. America thinks poor as it lives rich and everyone else has to buy dollars must steal, rob, loot, connive, to get dollars. And when the math is tinkered with the thieves, crooks, robbers, liars, cheaters from King down to the lowliest social survivor in society come out of the woodwork on a hunt for more dollars to buy the same need on a redundant basis.
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  8656. According to this weather forecast Buffalo will get soaked with rain saturating the magnitude of snow on the ground now.
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  8657. Clearly, the Olympic Athlete’s condition highlights the need to socialize medicine in the US into a national health service. It is practically absurd, irrational, cruel and callous, that Americans are the only people on earth without one.
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  8658. You have to look at the past to know the future. In all human history there have been 70 empires and where are they now? Exactly, they are gone. Empires do not last forever and some go down fast and quiet and others with a bang. The process of disintegration is never announced, probably, it is the biggest secret the government has... in consequence, the breakup of states is a series of human activities responding to the slow growth of markets, a contraction. Not from internal causes is the disintegration felt as was in the past with labor battles. Less places in which to expand markets and the rise of a multipolar world economy cause markets to shrink should be the way headlines read. Many nations are getting what they need from other nations. They are not getting it from the US. Prices would be held artificially high that all American manufactures reacting to all nations taking the same protectionist stance Trump takes will have to fire their workers. If a nation wants to develop its trade and industry in a multipolar trading system it can develop without having to buy dollars. The disintegration is going to be a rude awakening for the American working class who have been placed in the unfortunate position of bearing the cost of the disintegration.
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  8659. They appear to be Blackwater Mercenaries and Border Control Officers.  I would not be surprised there are imported mercenaries through Blackwater.
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  8660. Blue collar middle class workers like to believe Trump is for the working man but Trump’s track record speaks against that. This is the myth democrats should dispel.
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  8661. Sliwa is an idiot.
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  8662.  crooko dile  a voting qualification is a step back into the 19th century is not the answer.
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  8663.  crooko dile  No it would not. Your comment makes no sense.
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  8664. There is a deep history of socialism in the US. Read your peoples history and you will find so many socialist traditions in communities in the US. Its just a matter of time.
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  8665. Buffalos’ Emergency Services is in a state of decay and chaos, dysfunction. DOT doesn’t have the practical equipment to handle floods or major snowstorms much less keep the power on for the city. Real services had been cut from the budget despite a budget surplus from the COVID RELIEF PACKAGE of 2020. Its become a bureaucracy that purposely makes access to the necessaries of life impossible and its leadership are incapable of reorganizing the equipment and allocating the crews where it best benefits the community.
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  8666. In Manchin and Sinema I see opportunism.
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  8667. Comment section reads like Americans are signing a “Sorry for Loss’ card sent around by HR out of respect for the death of the boss. How about writing something original?
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  8668. America’s has created a Nihilistic Youth that have nothing to live for?
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  8669. 4:04,---right, so...you blame the parents for the unruliness of boys and girls in college. The object lesson here is the City failed the Students; Police did not intervene to protect students from assaults by counter protesters ( they were counter but not protesting, they were inciting violence on the students that is not exercising the Right of Free Speech); clarify what you really mean to say. Parent(s) are to blame for the City failing the Students...sounds like you can’t blame the City and you can’t credit the students for exercising Free Speech...you are not criticizing the counter “protesters”, so what are you if you can’t definitely state what you are?
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  8670. You shouldn’t call this a humanitarian crisis its not a humanitarian crisis. People have been migrating for a better life for centuries including your own kind and if anything their movement from home to new settlement might have a crisis of humanity along the way but that is not a humanitarian crisis. No again..., NYC is the number one destination for migrants for the same reasons you migrated to NYC if your from out of state. NYC is where the money is.Its where the jobs ad careers are. I am taking your video to be divisive. Right to shelter to anyone who asks,---- if such a policy exists and if it does you should show it in your video as proof of what you say are nothing more than politics, attitude, bias existing in your own generation. Migrants coming into this country in the past came and were naturalized. Naturalization was the policy until that procedure was deliberately sabotaged to make a political pawns out of migrants, used against You, a citizen, to fear monger, to hire them in jobs you won’t do, and to get you to blame migrants for your own economic woes Get that $12 billion from Wall Street that’s an option seemingly Americans refuse to consider....why is that? If Abbott really wanted Congress to take action he would have sent all the migrants to rich communities in America, and see how fast Congress comes with an immigration bill. Americans should stop enabling the rich! They can use all your roads, airports, water, electricity, and not pay for these necessaries should come as no surprise city governments have to cut services to come up with the money. A situation is created where city workers use the courts to force the mayor to pass the cuts over to another part of the total workforce. A not in my backyard mentality. Parks uptown will get the cut. Parks downtown don’t. The rich are untouched. What is happening in Argentina is starting to happen to you. The next mayor you get will be the axe man Argentina has now. He will come off as a radical and fool you into voting for him and once in office the cuts and austerity program begins backed up by a police force of one million strong.
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  8671. Why Greenwald appears on Carlson’s Show also has to do with a couple of things other than the mainstream outlets not presenting him on their shows. One is how the right can find commonality with the left because of an establishment in Washington is their common foe. Another factor is that the right media has more viewership than the left at the right time of the day or night. An expedience in media opens up to a wider audience helps to broadcast a left version as another version other than the right version of events. Social conditioning is a critical point for that is a big piece of our disempowerment as a people. A Grand Social Experiment of Behavior Modification, Social Conditioning, and Psychological Warfare waged on Americans that science and technology, intimidation and violence, and media are used to disempower the power of the masses. Basically, we have arrived at a point where all of our productive forces of society are used to break down the political will of the masses.
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  8672. People should recognize that constitutional governments such as that of the EU and the US are legal institutions not social ones. The changes being made in society are coming from the changes in the way work is carried out in society.  People will be working from home and those industries where jobs cannot be performed at home will go out of business.  History suppresses certain branches of industry as it also promotes the development of new ones.  China builds hospitals in less than two weeks is an example of a government that is not a constitutional republic but one that is a social institution responding to social needs in a proactive manner. Instead of spending resources on defense because of national conflicts, government can spend resources on meeting human needs. When work and society are transformed, the family is transformed, requiring a transformation of government to become a central organizer and planner to have all the needs in society met. Humanity arrives at the 21st century and 2020 is that transitional moment that breaks away all the things of the 19th century we still use today. This new way of work will call into question the need for the old economy. Why do you need a stock market or a central bank, or a boss? Why will we need school boards determining school taxes when school buildings are unnecessary when all one needs WiFi and a lap top to educate children all over the world? Why do we even need money to represent working time when work is no longer used to make goods for exchange? Why the need to retain all the things the old economy needed before the virus when the virus has changed the way we work and live giving birth to a new economy? From the changes in work and family our needs will change and in turn, the needs change our products as we become more accustomed to finding meaning in our new family arrangements, less divorce, less juvenile delinquency, less suicide, less depression, less loneliness. With less of the present-day maladies in society there is less of a need for massive military and police institutions expenditures. The major focus will be agriculture, the area of human activity vital to human survival. Search for a better life comes to an end. No more mass migration for societies ravaged by war the need to get them re-oriented to the new way of life the new international mission. Why will we need nuclear weapons if societies are finding more contentment at home? I see many benefits to this crisis. Our fears are really about losing the old way of life we have become accustomed to living. The second benefit to this virus is the environmental change, improving nature as it gets a chance to recover from human damage. Less to no fossil fuel emissions, less chances of infestation, disease and a strengthening of the human body's immune system through the increase of oxygen in our atmosphere and as we know from the paleontological record a greater diversity of life, and a general slowing down of climate change and oceans rising.
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  8673.  lukomoon  Ask Boris Johnson, he said NHS performs miracles and you are unable to discern political satire when you read it?
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  8674. What was true in the 19th century is true for the 21st...the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War is important to study as a revolutionary period that was not,---many of the present day issues are Reconstruction issues. Reconstruction meant reconstructing the south in a capitalist form, or giving capitalism a brand of the feudal south that are exaggerated in commercial stereotypes we know today. Reconstruction is loaded with labor actions that led right up to one of the biggest unions in the country, one big union, but it was the coal miner’s strikes that reduced from 10 to 8 hours the working day,---this before the start of the first world war. Don’t forget women were calling for the vote and there were some heavy weights that bowled over the patriarchy. The problem of homegrown terrorism and the problems of syndicalism, corruption, trafficking of slaves, who had rights when the law now recognized all people to be free and equal, who can own guns, property, speak freely and who can’t, did birthright citizenship under the definition of citizenship in the constitution apply to freed slaves born in the US after all America by then had 230 years of slavery under its belt before the Civil War broke out...all Reconstruction issues... the Trump administration, has in common with the period.
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  8675. The American people in Florida will have to decide if a state representative congress person can hold a public office and perform functions that are unrelated to his office.  In support of Maduro, no other nation outside of the US can sabotage a power grid from space.
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  8676. 4:40,----“So what do you do?” The workers working on the bridge and roads could use a water sprouting fan station at the job site but who ever makes the decision to use them to cool people off decided to not include the workers, why, are they not human? Blind errors like this are the little decisions made by big people that have big consequences. Amazing to see priorities of this society permit such a shameless use of water resources; priorities so screwed up that a bunch of Tennis spectators cooling off with water packs, bottle water, wet towels, water spraying pretty white fans, is spent on people not even doing a job relevant to society!
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  8677. The retroactive benefit is not any good to a farmer who is no longer a farmer. The closing of a farm and liquidation of all its assets can happen way faster before Congress cuts a check. Plus what if the Republicans take the House and Congress. Sleepy Joe does not get re-elected, than what? I seriously doubt they will put a blue state ahead of the line because a blue state filed faster. Besides all indications show the earth is heating up and glaciers are melting. We are not cooling down. We are accelerating the intensity of the heat. In bound land drying up and coastal lands under water, swing storms everywhere else. Filing first is not going to take precedence over who is suffering the most. Economic Disaster Loan...don’t forget the interest on that loan is higher today and likely to be higher tomorrow. I think this is what a decline of our economy looks like. So far unaffected by all climate disasters thus far, are the Super Rich. They can move around, farmers and communities cannot pick up and go. They have ways to escape the disaster. Humanity is stuck in place.
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  8678. A conservative victory through policy, personnel and training, sounds ominous, like it amounts to an organized fleecing of the American working class! A Plan that would entail a social conversion of all property exclusive to capitalist society and leave the working class without property except for that property the working classes bear in their own personal individuality. Sounds like a Plan to make America a modernized version of the Roman Empire, ruled by Senatorial Patricians, over a society dividing the skilled from the unskilled, in a new system that obscures the inner-relation of enslavement producing commodities and all the detailed operations of a social system guided by market crisis. One social institution to the next social institution, one social class to the next social class, all guided by self-interest, becomes the basis of a society that draws itself inward, and dies.
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  8679. The last empire that laid off millions of soldiers after fighting for it in a war against Spain was Great Britain and we ended up with piracy. The war mongers learned from that experience to avoid the growth of a scourge on society was to set up the GI and that generation got the GI Bill and medical assistance. The war mongers today refuse to learn that lesson is why the war mongers must be taken out of the offices with decision making powers.
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  8680. Thumbs down to this video. You need to investigate this deeper and drop the assumptions about the character of this kid, his life and his abilities, his job. Somebody hired him and made the judgement he’d be suitable for the job. He is there and you are not. You are on Utube making money as a merchant and you judge workers who make their money through labor. Sounds to me like you are the problem not the kid. He is also crying in the store itself. A store he says has three people in it. Lots of traffic. Somebody must be asking where the hell is ‘what’s his face?’ If he does 20 hours a week as a student and 20 hours a week as an employee he is still getting cheated by his employer and his college. Not working long enough hours to qualify for insurance from his employer and not pulling enough credits to qualify as full time matriculating student, a double whammy that, you have not determined what is situation is. He could be overloaded. Thumbs down and keep your merchandize that isn’t even made in America.
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  8681. If you don't impeach Trump he will be free to return to politics!
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  8682. Historic moment.
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  8683.  @victorseger6044  Historic on the side of China as the ascending power and the on the side of the US as a descending power.
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  8684. You must be high!  @MinervaAlvarez-dx3jc 
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  8685. Sure it can be stopped. But not from home or the office. Americans are the only ones who can stop it. The way to stop it is to confront America outside of America. Americans exposing military bases around the world to the world exposes the aim, purpose and function of the military to Americans inside America can end Reaganism. So Reaganism can be defeated inside and outside the US by Americans only.
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  8686.  @TevKane  If left ignored a virulent right wing develops, if you want these people out of the way, politically or ideologically, you have to prevent their presence and involvement by challenging them direct. Ignoring them does not work, they must be confronted, they control the conversation and impede new ideas with generalities and abstractions. There is no Who, from which America is in danger who are a foreign element in society, all the danger comes from within a virulent right wing as domestic terror.
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  8687.  @DarkMAGAOfficial  Its become traditional standard practice since Richard Nixon that every new president-elect have a back channel connection to the Russians before taking office. Kissinger did it for Nixon until 1991. Before Trump took office the back channel connection was done by a man who knew he would be wired and was, Michael Flynn, why would he do that...to establish this connection, Trump used him.  Obama threatened the Russians with cyberattacks and his VP Biden went on late night TV and laughed about it. With the Russians watching Biden's personal proclivity to disrespect people's space, it was not funny. The far right neocon crazies in the Kremlin were so alarmed they argued Putin to order a counter attack on the US. Trump sent Flynn to tell Putin not to freak out, he will sort it all out when he takes office. Putin and Obama never got along. War with the Russians before taking office was not a what he wanted. Flynn was sacrificed and to jail he goes.  Moral of my story which is true, incidentally, is that at this level of affairs the things that matter to you and I, are to them not political matters worthy enough to get the attention you or I, demand from them! This is why it is perfectly foolish to throw yourself at their feet believing your matter rises to the level of their concern, when your matter is not political enough of an issue. To Trump's credit, and I would have done the same thing, he sent an emissary to the Kremlin to calm the Russians. Hillary and her democrats are just sore losers and made up the story about the Russians were destabilizing the election through social media.  We know from the latest allegations against the former vice-president the slime in that White House, headset the toe for the next guy to be as much a pig as he likes as a man of great power, and a former president who is nowhere to be found, says nothing, on the matter of Russiagate which started under his watch. I say to you stop giving yourself to these people blindly believing your matter is truly the priority of their lives. It isn't.
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  8688. The world today people are unfree of COVID and free to get COVID.
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  8689. What makes a revolution or to make one two ingredients are needed. Two social conditions. The People must lose trust in their leaders and the system itself does not work for the People. Under such conditions Jimmy Dore and Co., a relatively, small rag tag political comedy group out of LA, might find themselves today on youtube and tomorrow the head of a new government reading over the long list of items to cut and redirect, administer for a new society. When that trust breaks and system failure happens at the same only the people talking about it, are chosen by a people expecting this change to have happened yesterday! System repair and trust encouragement in a new social order.
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  8690.  @dustin628  Blow what?
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  8691.  @zeppkfw  'primitive' the sociology that comes out of minds not trained in sociology is primitive. Chew on that for while.
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  8692.  @realdeal3202  Afghanistan never needed the US for anything. They can do just fine without our help and if they want to become a mini-copy of the US they can do that internally without interference, eventually they will industrialize their own way.
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  8693.  @consumer5631  Their country is not your's to decide how important it is relative to your needs. Or how important it is to your enemies that makes it important to you!
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  8694.  b52gf16c  Were you an adult during the Fall of Saigon?
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  8695. That is what I call arrogance tearing up his speech. What a mess, you have an arrogant christian Speaker of the House and an arrogant white nationalist president? Hopeless.
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  8696. This is all speculation.
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  8697. Wow! 132 million people are given one day of the year to see their families as the only paid time off from the job. This on a normal day overloads the air and road traffic system much less on a day of an Arctic Cyclone leaves millions of people stranded and overloads services for rescue and recovery. If Congress takes no action on this fiasco yo have a dead Congress.
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  8698. He went to the Alamo to take a stand. He is fighting a race war against American multiculturalism. If Woodrow Wilson were alive he'd be a Trump supporter the avid eugenicist Wilson was. If Leona Helmsley was alive she'd be a Trump supporter for Trump looks down at the "Little People" as taxpayers he takes for a ride. Leona thought taxes were for little people Trump thinks the little people are suckers for a Big Lie. The lie he repeats over and over again would make Josef Geobbels Trump's master teacher proud, the election is inauthentic for it includes the Black Vote. He fights for the Lost Cause of the South and for the realization of the Aryan race, millions of American grandparents fought against Nazi atrocities in WWII, for his denigration of their legacy and the legacy of the 1865 Union he erases the wrongs of racial discrimination as if they never existed, dismissive. I think the high rich and very powerful elies have gotten all that they can get from Mr. Trump and are ready to let him go. He had them on his side until he went off to speahead a pro-slavery rebellion in the US, ---Trump's Race War.
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  8699. Funny how big mammals are afraid of little ones.
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  8700. Fair to midland point...
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  8701. Since war and conquest between social classes is the content of all history and nobody has a monopoly on how to interpret historical events than you might not mind me using the DNA genome findings to destroy the political rationalizations promoting War anywhere. Given the gene content between Asians and Europeans, if war with China occurs (and Americans are of European descent barring Africans, Native Americans) modern Europeans and Asians sharing 4% Neanderthal genes would be fighting their own relatives. But this mix also means that Europeans came into contact with Asians through migration into east Europe and Russia that if modern Europeans went to war with modern Russians they are also fighting their own relatives. Hence the war in Ukraine is a war of a people of the same species, indicating the political rationalizations and institutions promoting war, deterrence, conquest, disallow the natural progression of human development of the family is a dim picture of reality that modern man has not gotten past the relation of master-slave but has only created a new form of it.
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  8702. It boils down to the fact that not enough mass social power is out there among the American People that conservatives and the Freedom Caucus get their way.
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  8703. SPACE JUNK is what it is. Cosmic Debris. The change of climate on earth does not happen without or independent of, changes in our galaxy and earth in particular as a planet in space. In this case the aliens are human with their human debris falling from the skies. Appearance is not trustworthy and human observation is extremely unreliable.
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  8704. 23:24 Doesn’t help if the Taliban can watch US news reports of underground schools exposed by a western female white reporter totally reverses what the press ought not to do that would bring down the wrath of these religious fanatics in power on the Afghan women. Seems like there is no solidarity between women who are free to educate themselves and women still oppressed from education in the world.
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  8705. I has taken humanity 12000 years to become a nation-state from a tribe, make a perfect nation from one tiny locality, and by freak twists and turns become a civilization at the near end of its time on this earth as many would believe. But the lasting impressions of absolutism in Europe goes beyond the collapse of a given empire, it is a thousands years of nations never knowing democracy. We think we are not in Europe when in Belarus but that is the far eastern corners of Europe that resembles nothing like France, England, Germany, Sweden, but is its ghetto, dark, blighted, and completely destroyed by corruption, crime and strong arm rule. A sad and tragic locality still in the stages of modern barbarism.
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  8706. If America had a great comic there is no end to the political material a comic can use that can be satirized, ridiculed and parodized.
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  8707. Pinnochio, como esta?
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  8708. IF I WERE YOU I WOULD CEASE BUYING HAMBURGER MEAT! BIRD FLU DISEASE. In fact all of America’s factories and farms are poisoning the necessaries of life.
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  8709. Criminal justice system is an endangerment to the community.
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  8710. The formal view of the class struggle in society is straight forward. Labor is labor and capital is capital. But there are other ways to understand the class struggle. Just like there are two ways to understand labor and capital. The class struggle is a way of understanding historical development as the way societies advance themselves through social conflict. But! Labor is not only labor and capital is not only capital under capitalist relations. The real relation is in connection to the material development of productive labor over the ages. The formal view dismisses the productive forces as a product of labor. The real relation is, labor is capital and capital is labor. The creator of capital is the working class ( a special class) and the work of the capitalist is to extract more labor to possess the capital. The general law of capitalist accumulation is based on a), the increased demand for labor-power, and b.), denying the initial premise of an increased demand is a decrease demand for labor-power as a shrinking portion of living workers in connection to the product. In this framework the class struggle occurs in the workplace where workers producing use-values are producers of value and surplus-value and in connection to the product the number of workers falls as innovation rises in the accumulation process of capital. This creates the conditions for a relative surplus-population in society. But also in value terms the necessary labor-time produces more surplus-value. Greater material wealth and more free time to individuals is the benefit to society in a world with out the capitalist and the relations of capital not capital itself which is labor in its objective form. The capitalization of the surplus-value of the workers requires a social organization of capitalist relations to execute its realization and accumulation and this is when the production of surplus-value extends and the sphere of capital accumulation expands to open more centers of production to satisfy its increased need for labor-power, in the first premise, a)., is imperialism. This is a much more interesting view of the class struggle than the view that there will always be social classes fixed for all time. If this were the case why isn't Rome still an empire?
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  8711. I am all ears.
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  8712. Quit the Bullshit; Workers Unite! Your lives depend on it! This is not the time to talk like angels over pinheads. European brethren are in no better shape than Americans.
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  8713. The economic mess the sanctions created also made a world wide migrant crisis. I wonder if the sanctions were never in place would these conditions still arise? A big headache for the countries that are prohibited from doing business with Venezuela for fear the US will impose sanctions on them has plummeted the Venezuelan people into a nation that has become needy, a welfare client. The young leave. But they leave with an awareness of how their country has been deprived by force and that is where the nightmare begins, they head to the rich nations in massive numbers.
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  8714. seems pretty pathetic that social media of great social significance and consequence and power should fall into the hands a punk kid and geriatric aging old man. The means of communication should be the first thing to be fully nationalized is the intelligent recourse of such a travesty of ignorance and apathy.
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  8715. I am going to guess this is another case further eroding the foundations of society.
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  8716. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie is no longer discreet.
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  8717. Modern men and women are oppressed by capitalism and religion. Before capitalism, slavery and feudalism and religion, oppressed humanity. That the world still has traces of slavery, feudalism, religion in it governing (ruling) the lives of human beings. It is accurate to say...modern men and women in all parts of the world are oppressed by capitalism, religion, feudalism and slavery. Humanity has not budged one step closer to its own emancipation in the last 1500 years.
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  8718. Anyone not in that world would be in contempt of court and depending on the matter, jailed! Congress is not the great leveler when it comes to equality in the treatment of all individuals in society. She ’s right about weakening Biden, the right wing in the Senate are doing everything by doing nothing to undermine Biden.
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  8719. Its a Mafia.
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  8720. Draft resistance.
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  8721. We are a society of denial and extremes but we are also a society where Capital does not have to be the general form of our social reproduction. So it does not matter if you are in denial or extreme the process is happening anyway. The superabundance we have opens up a new industry that a huge number of craft people producing custom articles made from the excess material of the capitalist system will rise. Once sugar is extracted from plant material and applied to power machinery the established markets of the oil industry will shrink more people can afford quality that hand labor alone can produce. This will most likely take hold in the development of recycled fashion using material recycled in large scale factories by the tons and articles thrown away bought once never used again is a changing attitude about ourselves in relation to ourselves as a species engaged in a process of change with nature.
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  8722. The democrats are a dangerous political class, it is even debatable if they were ever to the left of the republicans.  At the turn of the 20th century, anarchists, socialists, communists, were never a part of the democratic party, so--it rejected native working class elements, the party was a syndication of the criminal elements, i.e., gangsterism and corruption, so bad that FDR had to run under another party name.   The GOP was always the party of the rich ever since slaveowners lost their status as the principal producers of wealth in society to another actor as the main creator of wealth. The capitalist and his own personal army of 'free' workers, from this point forward the social model in every relationship on a personal and social level adopted the capitalist model of social organization i.e., family, civic organization, church, local government, replicated the "one to many" equation, one capitalist and each capitalist was an owner of their big factories had their own personal industrial army of workers, and these workers were agitated by communists, socialists, organizing workers to conduct strikes for an equal partnership in the factories and higher wages. With this new social model of production the political parties took sides, alternating between workers and capitalists, as to who was seen to be the ultimate owner of the wealth. Was it the working class since without free workers, wealth or capital would not be, or is the capitalist the ultimate owner and be the one the rest of the social classes in society should depend on? Funny thing is the legal system codifies the new economy in the post slavery period on a personal basis. Property is personal not social, wealth is personal and not social, jobs are the personal property of the capitalist because labor is made into the personal property of the worker and all material wealth is personal and this changed the Overton window moving the democrats into position to be the only political representative of the working class as the opposite to the party of the rich.  Where and when did the Supreme Court come from? The Supreme Court came into existence in 1789. It is 300 hundred years old as an institution and the social model of this court is modeled after the Roman Patrician State, 500 A.D. Congress and Senate on the model of the Roman Senate. Americans have been living under a legal institution that dates back to Slavery some 2000 years! A long history of continuous rule. Its religious organization dates back to Rome and its financial system dates back to Rome. The only social institution that is an original product of the 20th century, a modern institution is the Military Industrial Complex. A military that is structured on a Roman model of "one master and a personal army of slaves". This makes every generation born into this social structure responsible in transforming it because the social structure passed down from generation to generation with a life of its own increases its social control over all aspects of human life.
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  8723. Prosecutors trying to find dead bodies in Trump and Wiselberg (?) to avoid exposing bodies in the real estate industry. Trump did no more than what the rest of them in his class do.
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  8724.  @technical19d34  'If I have been paying attention...' how old are you? When asserting a claim provide proof of the ineffectiveness of the vaccines.
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  8725. At least they did not buy a ticket to Mexico.
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  8726. America and Israel create their own enemies is implied as insight, “...from their own ranks...” said Einstein in a letter he wrote in 1948 declining his name be attached to the Friends of the Fighters for Israel in Palestine as an endorsement. His stance still holds. Einstein noted in the letter the parties to be blamed for the catastrophe a two state system brings first goes to the British and the second responsibility goes to the Terrorist Organizations. Listening to Hillary speak about HAMAS the truth is revealed that all the terrorist organizations that have plagued the Middle East, Africa and Latin America from the second world war to the present were the creations of the CIA form a big reason elites cannot see how their policies as directly the cause of the state of the world in catastrophe is today.
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  8727. Many people like the Minnesota guy are going to vote against the next anti-establshment guy or gal for the reason the Minnesota guy just explained.
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  8728. Gold is becoming the most sought after commodity because a particular commodity is needed to measure the values in all commodities. If this does not happen then we will never know how much to produce, how long we should work, and what we should be making if we continue to depend on sale as a measure for their values. The characteristic movement of money between industries is not the same as the movement of capital dependent on sale, they clash. For instance, between industries and nations trade between them has the ultimate end of use-value clashes with the ultimate end of exchange-value by capitalist corporations. We cannot tell from price relations how much value is in this good or that one. How much wheat for how much iron a nation has to give in order to receive needs a socially recognized equivalent to measure the value contained in the wheat and in iron, or coal, sugar, etc. If we allow private exchanges to decide values and price the economy will work by the skin of its teeth and this threatens the survival of society which requires consistency. Governments will never know how much to allocate resources to all social classes in society and forever be in a state of crisis. Of course, the victims of market forces who invest too little here and too much there will reach a balance between work and life for those who have to work for a living.
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  8729. Don’t bother trying to make me understand and the “not in my backyard syndrome’ does not apply. Get Trump and Musk to understand: You don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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  8730. 11:12 ,-----“if somebody stepped up to the plate other than these these two, (raises her arm at the photos of Trump and Biden and drops her arm like a light mallet), and says....”I would consider it”. Her arm gesture was the lightest body action of heavy universal disgust I ever saw...perfect action, if there were no words heard by anyone, they would still understand her disgust with Biden and Trump. I would vote a third party candidate, a unity vote to me is a protest vote, and it won’t depend on who’s name appears on the ballot, they are getting my vote anyway. It could be Maryanne Williamson or RFK Jr, better than what we have now the lessers of the two twin evils.
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  8731. With Trump gone I don't think CNN will survive.
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  8732. And you thought Putin was more of a tyrant as compared to Netanyahu! Nearly incomprehensible that these are the days of a dying empire, the US, has lost all soft power and influence in the world. What you see going on around you is how empires die. The whole plan was to encircle China and along the way force regime change in Russia. How hard could that be? Russia was the assigned target for NATO and South East Asia was the assigned target of the US. They blew it! One reason why they blew it and the project for a 21st Century America goes up in smoke has to do with their psychological mental health, they are all disassociated from the life of society. Some are living in nostalgia. Some are plain out right insane. But all are looking backward for the future and where does the world wide working class find itself in this chaotic collapse of western capitalism. Best answer, they are beginning to not wait around for Godot. Not waiting for the ruling elites to make things happen that is for sure. People are making their own hope and doing it through struggle, actively, blocking and disrupting the ruling elites and come around to know themselves as more than a peg in the board. Now look at where they are. The EU ruling classes are a psychological circus coming back with the wrong tact, out of touch with people, and getting nowhere fast. Utter and complete failure. Nordstream pipeline. Gas flows to Germany as I write. All failures. A record of failures since the invasion of Iraq. One set of elites to watch are the ruling elites in the Middle East. What happens when they come down on the wrong side of the Palestinian debacle and there is no right side for them is a tough spot to be in. The US has no credibility in the Middle East and Israel’s genocidal war demonstrates Israel to be a hostile aggressive state that has the full backing of the US. Everyday makes it more evident that Israel’s application to the UN should never have been accepted n 1948. Imagine a settler outpost getting recognized by the UN in 2023. All along US imperialists would use Israel to keep the Middle East in war, preoccupy OPEC nations with instability, unable to assist Russia bogged down in a war with NATO. Failed policies. None of the ruling elites know what to do. All are stabbing in the dark at the forces coming their way, floundering, with no answers to the “what” the people want. Every government and politician is completely out of sync with the masses. Government moves to the right and the societies move to the left. The mass number of resistance fighters to US imperialism the corporate press constantly refer as “terrorists” is world wide! The mass number of social movements is hitting the US in a big way. Everyone knows the US is behind it all. The curtain has been pulled down and the isolation is intense, the social pressure is monumental, spontaneous and creative, take overs, sit downs, protest right at the homes of the weapon makers, even smash and grab, riots, protests, tear away at the ability of capitalism to turn a profit. US and Israeli ruling elites are lashing out trying to save a drowning mode of production that no longer works for humanity.
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  8733. The seeds of a revolutionary movement are sowed.
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  8734. For the weapons contractors, Lockheed, Westnghouse, etc., weapons are constantly revolutionized with new technology, to stay on top of the crest of products that become second generation and widely proliferated. This is what drives the exchange between manufacturers and the governments of the world involved in this arms race.  The business of weapons is another matter where the manufacturer sells only to become enriched is laced with the immorality of profiting on other people's demise and misery from war. But to a high official of the military or the government, a manufacturer should get rich off of arms sales, this is what the American people want and expect from their leaders. If you ask any CIA-Pentagon official they will advise truthfully they do no more than what the American people want. This makes the American people the immoral entity if the action is immoral, and escalation is immoral in a nuclear age.  Elected officials will cop a plea, cast blame, deflect and deny their responsibility and culpability, and say they are the servant of the People, their constituents are his/ her people, differing constituents want different things from their representatives, and it is the People who have sovereignty over their lives as officials. They are not to blame for the annihilation of a nation if they voted for an escalation and not renew treaties, treaties are not what ther constituents want.  These are representatives of small number of constituents that do not want treaties. The mass number of constituents have no voice are not involved or asleep and unconsciously walking through life. Who is to blame are the people who pay for all of it. For not taking notice where public money is spent, for not demanding representatives meet the communities to explain why the spending spree for more advance guns and weaponry? Public officials are pedigreed to avoid discussion and debate and keep town meeting agendas very general and abstract. They are runners, which is why they run for office all the time. When they run what runs with them is the money, the wealth. Many will not show. There is your truth.  Lockheed and the rest of the arms industry will bear no responsibility, not under America's social framework. The president or the Senate will not bear responsibility for extinction. They do no more than what the People of this country voted is what transfers their guilt from them to the American people.
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  8735. Glad you left because that Rising program is pure shit, especially that Grim schmuck, a real worm and a paid goon.
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  8736. A news show host who is an heir to the Swanson (TV dinner) Dynasty tells you who is in charge when one of their lackeys and functionaries appear on their shows begging for forgiveness.
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  8737.  @Sharkweed  Its also a disaster that a baby formula manufacturer in the production of baby formula contained elements that killed two babies...think you can trust private industry to not cut corners on their product for the sake of higher profits...if you do you deserve the disaster.
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  8738.  @sisk22  Fool
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  8739.  @sisk22  Right the Hoover Dam was not created by the Works Progress Administration. It was created by Acme Tool Co., of Warner Bros. The computer and the internet you use was not created by the government. It was created by video gamers. The government you live under creates oppression and repression, promotes human exploitation, and borrows against your children. Nah, the government does not create... I think you’d be better off with a frontal lobotomy.
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  8740. The DNC party line despite calls to end the war in Gaza on the podium and on the floor to the streets, is not for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. War has become a substitute for what normal recoveries were in the economic cycle. The extent to which war is central to the long term sustainability of capitalism the political parties shadow and reflect this economic fulcrum to keep a working class alive and supplying a fresh supply of living labor-power. It used to be that over a 20 year period a recovery would last more than half that time period but today that is reduced to a third of the time and without war in the making or in process the system stagnates. People lose security and stability when they are thrown out of work. Oil bearing societies and corporations are enriched in wars and as a result they are one sector of the total economy with sufficient capital to shape the society. Recessions are longer and recoveries are shorter. Prosperity resulting from long periods of recoveries in America took a nose dive in the late 70s. Only under wartime pressures can full employment be achieved and long term growth sustainable are reasons why the political parties avoid peace. In peace there are no economic recoveries big or long enough to keep a working class employed in present day capitalism. War is the only option in the economic system the DNC and RNC belong.
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  8741.  @jacpratt8608  Sure they are. They have the means and you don’t is a condition for the existence of billionaires. The existence of many to be without is a condition of existence for the few who have.
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  8742.  @KimSooAcu  The transferring of wealth from the people to billionaires is nothing short of theft! Big thieves steal from smaller ones. Form of wealth is another matter of great importance, and that has everything to do with this crisis of separating subject/people from object/land. Contrary to popular emphasis given to the content of capitalism, namely, profits foaming at its mouth, it is the form of work everyone lets slip by that is actively doing the wealth transferring. The passive individual transfers value as the active value producer in a labor-process or work done for capital. Every individual in a role as a detailed worker in a labor-process create the expansion of capital; the more expansion the more resources used for expansion the more rapid is the death of our species.
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  8743. Why would I want to do that when I want something new to emerge from that which collapsed. We are not talking about a country operating at a very low level of productive power. We are talking about a corrupt polity using that productive might as ends against our national interest. If the economic order collapsed tomorrow the immediate threat is the lack of food; we can live without cars but not buses, trains, and trucks to get that food around. Ok this is not a problem for we are not a country with a less developed road system. We have a developed rail system and trucking industry, and a developed road system for mass transit conversion. Reduce our oil consumption. After a collapse we are still a total amount of 8 hours multiplied by 130 million in the workforce of which 820 million hours a day, a year, a decade, etc., does not change. Collapse does not change the value aspect of employment. This is why the bondholders will insist by means of war if necessary, repayment on bonds. The workday will still create value. The collapse changed our productive capacity from 2.3% GDP to 0% GDP under capitalism. Really it is not the general economy at all that fell apart. It is capitalism that accumulated beyond what humans can produce and used this productive power to strangle society. Let me be more concrete. Dock workers in all ports get news of a system collapse the command structure is gone the only workforce in position to move the goods are the dock workers...naturally, they will fix the supply chain problem because the supply chain to them is nothing more than a supply chain. They have no other aim but to make that chain work like grease glides a wheel.
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  8744. @Jack Barry,----I will prove to you using yourself with no malice intended that the man on the right is wrong with one simple question? If you can answer that question than you have been taught well but if you don't know the answer and seek to look it up you have your own conscience to deal with for lying to yourself. Here is the question: Where is the Plantation of Jefferson Davis, first president of the Confederate Congress of the US of 1861? Not knowing this answer is evidence that all the statues placed everywhere have done nothing to educate a person about the history of their own country. If they all come down it will not make a single difference and people will not magically become enlightened historians of the great pillars of American society when they do come down. Finally, what has become of this plantation: Why do so many not know where it is and what happened to it?
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  8745. For the first time the US could get hit. It is no longer protected by two oceans. Ordinary Americans can look up at the sky and watch a warhead appear as a shooting star and land far away with an impact that triggers Yosemite. If a Russian nuclear warhead gets through our defensive shield and you know one will, --- 9/11 is a case in point everyone was asleep at the wheel, the planes got through where they were not supposed to be; one is all it would take to throw the American Public into absolute chaos and material poverty, one strike hits a nuclear power station of which the US has thousands across its land mass, we are f*cked! Plutonium leakage, nuclear fall out, water contaminated, and as we saw in Texas the whole power grid shut down, from one storm, one strike will permanently disable power leaving us in the dark for months on end, waiting for FEMA to drag your ass out wearing hazmat suits! Not exactly the American Dream. What life in America ought to be and what is; makes a trek across the Grand Canyon a breeze. Ukraine’s neo-Nazis getting armed by our government are not going to have the corn, seed, wheat, in massive tons to send the US when Americans are flat on their face! Joe Biden exudes confidence in me that he knows how to choose totalitarians as his friends and knows how to turn his back on Medicare for all. They are on a bloodbath tirade to control Asia, global control is the only thing that matters to the Establishment. Bog Russia down till its out of the way to tackle China. The Yuan is poised as a reserve currency accepted by Saudis who snubbed Joe Biden. Congress does NOTHING to re-establish the dollar by developing the domestic economy and re-industrializing America! Frankly from the likes of American senators I seriously doubt they know what to do. After Biden gets done with the Dollar it won’t be worth rescuing. Even the progressives see no evil and hear no evil, nor care to remove all evil...people who put stock in the Washington D.C. policy of no policy at all are profiting and the media want to see a NO FLY ZONE, they want nuclear war, push the administration when are the Ukrainians going to get MIG Fighter Jets, these are middle class Karens in the Press Corp who want war.
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  8746. The decade of the 90s was the only period of prosperity in America after the last period of prosperity in the decade of the 50s. Between the 90s and now its hell on Earth. There has not been a peaceful prosperous future for the last 25 years in the west for nations beyond their own individual wealthy elites since the start of the Iraq invasion. Perpetual war, these people are divorced from the real world. In the last 20 years never mind the last 25 or 30, we saw the rise of the Yellow Vest movement in France, we saw Brexit, a break away vote from the EU, we saw Greece get economically strangled, we saw drought, famine, climate disasters, recession in all of the European economies, a Great Recession bigger than the Great Depression of the 30s, a Pandemic, we saw the rise of digital currency as a way of not using the Dollar for trade and commerce, and so much more has happened, not to mention western allies abandoned in Afghanistan. We saw Russia bogged down by extremists receiving guns and money from Congress as a matter of policy among Congressional senators and to the average American for losing jobs of no fault of their own, a measly check. We saw riots in every city. Children shot in the crossfire of civil society falling prey to police violence and overkill. We saw barbarism in America...2 million elderly dead from COVID and Nursing Home disasters. We are in an inflation. These elites won’t even do what Nixon did to curb inflation. Why should I believe Elites presiding over the last 20 years will bring peace and prosperity in the next 20 years? You’d have to be a psychotic like they to claim they are worthy of my vote in the next round of elections, assuming election are not rigged, another thing we saw under their watch. We saw the rise of Donald Trump as an expression of how much the elites are despised by the 74 million Americans. They are not sincere on the words they speak. When they get into power the first entity to get the appropriation of the nation’s wealth is the military, year in and year out, as the only program worthy of government funding tells you something about who they are.
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  8747. You are the only person who makes sense and if I carry your observation to its logical conclusion changing the circumstances that allow this ‘racket’ to happen and thrive should be the true purpose of the Left.
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  8748. Tax payers are supporting law enforcement that needs criminals to exist. Nothing is right side up anymore.
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  8749. You are really saying capitalism is not a system where peace can exist but thrives best in war. War being an economic power itself it keeps a working class employed and basically content enough to accept the ruling classes. Israel and the Middle East are all capitalist states. Israel went past the point of no return with so many war crimes committed if it accepted a peace deal its rulers would be prosecuted for war crimes.
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  8750. This Black Dude is the Senator Bob Menendez of the fake religious world. People get trapped between capitalism and God thinking,-- you are closest the God the more gold you own. Compared to all the gold owned by the Catholic Church and the Vatican, this preacher’s gold supply is petty, small, minute, peanuts, yet that small amount of wealth inflated his head so high he saw God! As soon as he donned the gold necklace he began to rise up from the ground elevating himself to heights high above ordinary mortals seeing the whole pantheon of heavenly bodies where there are no saints and sinners seated beside him on his throne of denigration. He will do just fine as the prison preacher with a huge stash of cigarettes as currency
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  8751. She cannot stop injecting herself into the political process because nobody within her circle of friends likes Bernie Sanders. Outside of her circle of friends millions of people like Bernie. The GOP is no better. Bernie is hated inside of the GOP. Republicans are corrupt and the democrats are flawed. Both parties are equally corrupt. Nothing but conspirators run this country, cover ups, are as natural as fish are natural to the sea in this system. This makes Bernie more authentic as an honest man with intergity, not to mention, more intelligible than Trump's monosyllabic speech, his own personal history of corruption operating in New York City politics in a highly corrupt real estate market as developer is a history that is authentically corrupt. Trump's trick is to demonize the democrats as the elites responsible for the condition of working people in this country. He doesn't want to take any responsibility for that condition and neither does the GOP.
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  8752. You are capable of not voting for them!
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  8753. The economic blockade prevents other nations from buying Venezuelan products effectively the exports of Venezuela remain lower than its import needs. Exports are sales and if a person cannot sell anything the sun sets and the butter they try to sell melts when there isn’t a refrigerator to preserve it or the next day venture in marketing starts with a messy butter nobody wants. Imports are purchases and if our friend cannot buy a refrigerator to keep his butter well he then has to let the butter go sell what he can and cut his losses. Price of his butter drops with every step he takes to the market. The sanctions turn a nation into a welfare client, always needy, never able to meet those needs by themselves a nation is crippled and whatever socialism that may emerge as genuine to a working class emancipation it professes to be within the capitalist world it never has a chance to start off right. This point is the Achilles Heel against the America First people. First to defend with force (sanctions ) are first to harm working class Americans as they get put last on the help list policy. Another is the devaluation of the currency that it becomes good for wall paper is a result of the inability to sell to other nations forbidden to buy from you. Inside communities in Venezuela they are forced to produce with what means they have. Whoever can make something others need becomes a producer and as more people start meeting a need of their own and others, a bartering system arises, and it is as if we stepped back in time when isolated people were private producers and a collection of them traded their products, one use-value for another use-value, the currency is so debased it is not even used as a measure of value. Sanctions are force and force is an economic power in itself. The poor evacuate Venezuela because sanctions force an evacuation.
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  8754. The most virulent right wing on earth is in Sri Lanka.
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  8755. @The Doge-Emperor of Dogekind If its a lie than what is the truth?
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  8756. The minor who murdered her assailant sex trafficker in self-defense was justified is another example of how the Democrats are complicit with the oppression of young black women in the US.
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  8757. Who are the parents/relatives/ families of the five cops that killed Tyree and raised them to be barbaric police officers willing to join a Death Squad they call a ‘Scorpion Unit”? They do deserve to live the rest of their lives in shame for what they produced as human beings. They raised Nazis in black skin. Stripping away the political power of law enforcement in the US is more effective than de-funding them. Without the political power they have now their influence over politicians as a powerful national and international lobby group and immunity would fade away! De-politicization will neutralize the culture of violence in the police.
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  8758.  @danielhoward4566  The murder has nothing to do with the parents, The psychological character or profile of the murderers have everything to do with how they were raised.
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  8759.  @danielhoward4566  Were you raised by one parent decisive and the other parent can’t make a single decision, or by one parent that was never decisive, or did you spend you adolescence in front of video games on line? Show me your friends and I will tell what you are.
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  8760.  @danielhoward4566  I never use good or bad as these are moral judgements and what is bad to me could be good for you and vice versa...I prefer to judge people by their friends and by the kind of stressors parents have to deal with preventing them the time to be healthy parents on top of raising children the hardest job in the world...and a kindergarten teacher is second biggest influence on children as little boys and girls. I blame the gaming industry, you and I, in short, the whole society created these monsters. But I am happy to hear you coming around to the first position, I am on third base, waiting for a home run to bring home.
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  8761.  @danielhoward4566  Foreign wars have a big influence on how civility and peace is handled in society. How the Military behaves in the world influences how Law Enforcement behaves in society. Conversely, the behavior of Law Enforcement on its citizens reflects in the exact same measure the degree the Military behaves toward foreign nations. If respect and dignity does not exist in them here it does exist outside of them there. Both institutions contain youth and youth are immature underdeveloped individuals. The immaturity of youth binds the Military and Law Enforcement together as inseparable when in reality to provide security for society and to defend a nation are two entirely distinct roles one less none as more important than the other. A nation of citizens must treat as a given both institutions as too immature to handle political power. The military are bright children the society are the old and wise parents who are the real producers of all wealth. This is true because labor is a highly functional activity of brilliance and genius making things relevant to making a society work for all. This is profound wisdom to produce all the material wealth for the entire human race. Citizens cannot afford to give up their labor as the creator. Losing the power of creation entails it is used by others and not for itself. This is why the military and law enforcement should have no political power at all. No unions and no International Associations. This is what leads to fascism and dictatorship. Authoritarians are people with a lack of substance in their Being, hallow mind and soul, typically white men who must rely on hierarchy for respect and dignity succumb to this frailty of Being. Masculine is not masculine so it turns to become feminine and feminine is not feminine it turns to masculinize itself when dignity and respect become values not taught to children in their personal, social and political relations. Food for thought...and action!
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  8762. Barbarism!!!!!!!!!!! America is already a nation of idiots. Capitalism will take America to the grave. My comment has to do with the high frequency and intensity of crimes happening simultaneously around the country. Crimes layered by police brutality, extreme destitution and desensitized poverty, political corruption, scandals.
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  8763. Looks like a soft coup. Ruin reputations in some way that guarantees they don’t come back and then assume authority.
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  8764. Losing faith in the national debt is as bad as a catholic sinning against the Holy Ghost, for which there is no forgiveness. America has a financial system of public credit if you look at it from the position of the Fed and Wall Street. If you look at the financial system from the position of average working tax paying family and individual its a system of public debt. We were never told the origins of this system in school. It is assumed to have been handed down to us by God himself. Nobody questioned it, till now. No matter what kind of government we are talking about they all did it. Commercial wars, manufacturing and maritime trade brought about the right conditions for this type of financial system in the Middle Ages in Genoa and Venice. It spread among the potentates. Public debt became a powerful lever for the accumulation of capital. In one click, investment houses on Wall Street turn money that is sitting around doing nothing into productive capital that the only part of the nation’s wealth that falls into the collective possession hardworking tax paying Americans is,---the national debt part. This money that Wall Street waves its mouse over drags it out its slumber without the risks of exposing it to the troubles inseparable from employment and industry and from the risks of money borrowed by all kinds of people and businesses with near bad credit potentially never getting it back is free money! Its the savory gravy that keeps pouring over GDP like a mashed potato. For the amount turned into public bonds the government’s lenders lose nothing. Bonds go on functioning in the hands of bondholders the same way as would cold, callous, hard cash. Public bonds, easily negotiable. Bondholders (in Genoa and Venice were considered a class of idle rentiers) with financiers as the middlemen between the government and the US taxpayer (or the nation) Wall Street investment houses are a modern form of a Middle Age relic as a class of idle rentiers. And where does this Capital go or get spent? In Biden’s world of increasing the national debt, its spent on how best to contain China from becoming a super power, that America is now a Pacific nation abandoning Europe and Ukraine just as it had with Afghanistan and the Middle East to retry in the east what it cannot do in the west. America is the new comer foreigner on the block in the east China has been around that neighborhood for thousands of years. Becoming Pacific is as bad a handicap a golfer can have on the course. America’s best bet is to re-industrialize its domestic economy badly in need of total restructuring to level out the inequalities eroding society.
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  8765. From this video an explanation arises as to why Mayan Pyramids are so tall and their steps have tall risers, to see over the canopy of the jungle. A jungle canopy is non-existent in ancient Egypt and the stairs’s risers are normal for the average human being to climb. Height was not a factor in Roman or Egyptian building except in certain cases and probably to emphasize power. But for the Maya, the height of the pyramids gave them the first view of their life and surroundings from above,----what does the academic community say of the height of the Mayan buildings? On another note, I watched Foerster’s videos on the shaped heads of the ancient Inca as a practice emulating a being(s) not of this earth,---- I thought was just bizarre.
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  8766.  @practicaliching2311  Yes,-- but GDP is only 2.3%, the total output in volume is reduced and 3% of less volume takes most of the total. Second, you spend more on administration and bureaucracy in health and human services rendering very little effect or enhancement in the lives of those people the agencies are expected to provide. We did not get everything we want.
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  8767.  @damintten  50% goes to war? Ask why that is the case? Why is war the only stimulus that generates full employment for American working people?
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  8768. Why am I not surprised? Humanity has been waiting for the second coming of Christ for 2000 years that too is a complete fiction yet millions of people believe it. Of that number of people on Earth, facts are that 40 million people are modern slaves and for them the second coming cannot come fast enough! The desire to be freed and in a life they control not controlled by third party opportunists and exploiters is so great they would trek through anything to find for that chance to be free. To believe in the second coming of Christ made you an enemy combatant of the state, it was considered a seditious crime by the Roman Senate. The jan 6th Insurrection is being considered a seditious crime. Many combatants took part in an attempt to steal an election cancel the vote of the majority to enforce a power of a minority in government is a mass planned coup d état taken very lightly by the power structure in Washington. Is her participation fomenting sedition not a crime? It may have looked like the peons gathered in the streets of Rome to share a good time listening to an orator reciting the Third Book of Revelation to people who could not read. But the stories recited in that book were filled in by the imagination of the peons, slaves, ready to overthrow the Roman Senate. Since those old christian times it has been customary practice to use the least literate and intelligent segments of society as canon fodder for an outside political and economic gain. With only a face a mother can love there is no other field better than the legal field for social creatures who use the least literate to exploit to exist.
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  8769. In a sane society the government would be charged with sedition and giving material support to terrorism by militarizing them. But since America is not a sane society the individual is the blamed as sick. In reality young boys and girls are socially conditioned to be desensitized that fundamental values of cooperation, community, and peace is absent in their lives.
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  8770. Hancock’s theory of a lost civilization responsible for the construction of Antiquity robs modern descendants of their own pre-recorded history of the construction of their ancient cities, crafts, labor organization, culture even language. The living Maya and Inca today are dismissed, made immaterial to the subject, as having no bearing of their past civilizations because labor organization in general and skilled labor in particular plays no role in the actual physical appropriation of matter in Hancock’s view. He is not a materialist which then makes him an idealist, truth depends on thought, versus truth that depends on matter. Ultimately, he presents a world without dialectical reasoning. The most abstract form of the concrete is not a result of a relationship but a concept of the mind, i.e., a false consciousness. Man and Nature are not the active participants in a “labor-process”, in Hancock’s mental maneuverings, as the only way humans can appropriate nature’s productions in a form useful for human beings, the mental and physical powers of humanity exert themselves as tools, conduits for human activity, in this process.
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  8771. The Foreign Intelligence Service appears to be the nuclei of a general fascist movement in America, amassing unders its control every means that can and does control people, and controlling through government the economic power of the nation to produce a surplus product from its working class even higher than what the surplus product may contain after all luxury items brings this country at a historic inflection point; a decisive battle between labor and capital.
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  8772. Last time Congress debated Capitalism was in 1940. Its time it debate again. So much of it is under scrutiny. Parts of the economy, institutions, are broken. User databases and access to it should belong to the user.
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  8773. BUY ONLY THE NECESSARIES. 🧐THEY ARE MAKING YOU PAY FOR MONEY THEY LOST IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN. Redefine Christmas in your family. Retailers are losing value from many problems not created by you. Robberies and a supply chain that is stuck comes at a great loss to retailers that their prices are higher to recover those losses. Transferring losses over to you is not the kind of Christmas you want or need. Mass volume business killing small volume business and you as the consumer become the losers.
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  8774. Definition of a Cult is the demand it makes on the individual. Its a faith in a personality who wants your personal intellectual sacrifice. You cannot have a mind of your own to be in a cult. Your mind has to get filled and wrapped up, absorbed by the ideas in the cult for you to freely give to the cult of personality more of your independent self-generated minds and and self-motivated bodies. What’s weird about cults is the followers, they treat themselves as dependent on their own creation. Addicts.
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  8775. A national strike is significant.  If the American working class went on a national strike it would spark a world wide revolution. One by one the governments where landlords, capitalists, merchant-monopoly corporations, rule the government would topple because the exploitation of labor had been for decades in the present and centuries in the past a curse on humanity. People are downright sick of being treated like S@*t, they want to exploit the labor -process they carry one for themselves...and their time has come. Its been in the making for 2000 years that the working people finally end sacrificing themselves for a venerable political minority. Proof is in Book II of Platos' 'The Republic', he said the division of labor is a brutal system of exploiting labor. It was no better in the manufacturing age then it was in the age of slavery. Arguably more lethal an effect on the working people of a country that the labor-process has become an independent power like the Military Industrial Complex. Duque and Trump are the kind of people who people would hate to service because no worker who works for them will ever get the credit for the sacrifice they make. A token of appreciation only if you unconditionally surrender your individuality over the Trump and Duque.  A social revolution is what America needs to shed the skin of its racist and colonial past, but its not going to get one with the establishment democrats who will buy it off before it begins. They know how to allocate the national income, proverbially; "Get Things Done". What will get done is a deferment of the 2000 year old wish, dream, desire, to be freed from the curse of the division of labor. The hierarchy of labor that breeds in the senses of people an attitude of not obligated to lift a finger as not in their job description under the democratic and republican form of allocating the work to be done in society. It will get one but not the kind of revolution America needs when the republicans snatch political power for another time that work in America will spark a revolt of the working class. A revolt that will need guidance and direction of its anger and not play into the formation of a dictatorship. The American working class to the republicans are a punching bag that with every blow received all they have to do is to play the recipient's anger and point the finger at the establishment democrats. For the democrats they mend the wounds with material benefits after punishing the working class for being workers. A national strike takes back the labor-process but a national factory take over is a revolution in the way we make a living, and that is the kind of revolution America needs, an economic and social revolution.
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  8776. There are grains of truth in this but 90% of it is propaganda. Plus, one has to remember A Yale Joint Senate Committee commissioned to find what makes the US economy work had found that war is necessary for US growth. When an economy cannot work unless there is a war demand for it then most everything that comes out of that society is going to be biased in that direction.
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  8777.  @oooooofburger4232  They never shoot at rich civilians.
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  8778.  @elizabethstuart7406  Young white male 'White nationalists' in the US are directly influenced and linked to White Nationalist parties in Europe and eastern Europe through extremist websites. Their aim to destroy the administrative state, i.e, the Nanny State as they call it. The republican wing of business"men" and 'women' in the GOP are divided along class interests by the product they sell, i.e., agribusiness, retail, gun, medical, energy, entertainment, lobby Senators to protect their profits. Multiple tax cuts freed them from the Nanny State leaving the military and the working class dependent on the federal budget. This to me is the context from which to view the class nature of attacks on American citizens.
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  8779. @No GMO Joe You mean white European nationalists anti-immigrant parites and groups are influencing these action not communists. The communism thing aint working.
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  8780. Rwandan president murders his people trading US guns for diamonds, Clinton takes it to the bank then teaches GW how to stick to the same business plan with Afghanistan. I think that nails it.
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  8781. Girl was drawn to a father figure in a man old enough that filled a need...a need, her mother or young men or the institution she ran from could not satisfy. Young men think but it is not with the head on their shoulders that relationships are given respect. Like many girls caught up with blame on them from two worlds, family life and institutional life, neither of which world accepts their complaints as valid they make their own reality.
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  8782. Clarissa Ward describes a scene out of the Titanic the movie when passengers were women and children first escalated into a everyman for themselves.
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  8783. If it is not criminalized in America its mandated and whatever is not mandated gets criminalized by America’s governors. Governor’s do not govern in America, they criminalize, militarize, mandate and colonize the US.
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  8784. Kansas is the birth place of the American progressive movement. It certainly isn’t Delaware. How about that arms deal with the Saudi Prince that Biden closed for Lockheed and Raytheon after his visit to the UAE. Who in the democratic feels betrayed by this act, not Bernie? Where is Bernie anyway?
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  8785.  @TheVuduYuDu  What bill are you talking about...the CHIPS Bill he objected? Republicans have you over a barrel because the importance of making it a law that technology be a function of investment capital should have been debated in Congress and in the bill he wrote. I repeat to drive the point home: Technology should be a function of capital investment; operative word is ‘function”, meaning the technology (the means of production) stay home the capital can go if it wants. Bernie focused on his usual rebukes about tax payers funding rich corporations and the means of production, well I guess to him, that is the private property of the corporations to move as they see fit around the world and the military there as an accessory to the movement of capital investment; it goes where the money goes. Republicans can use this to make you look stupid: furthermore, I never said Bernie was the problem. The problem is not Bernie, thank you, its you, sorry to say, for not having a counter argument to the foregoing statement given by a progressive, is fodder for the right: “The left in this country has generally sort of failed to recognize the importance of capital investment. At the same time, they’re sort of complaining about companies not investing in America, they haven’t actually supported the companies that do invest in America,” said Michael Mandel, chief economist and vice-president of the Progressive Policy Institute think tank. Is this the bill you are talking about?
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  8786.  @TheVuduYuDu  Was that the bill you re talking about?
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  8787. 3.35% US GDP is not that great Joe, last year’s GDP quarter was 4%. US GDP was highest from 1955 to 1965, stationary at around 6%. But all that is meaningless without comparing Productivity behind GDP, ...productivity steadily climbed in the US since WWII. What GDP was worth in dollar terms fluctuated. Also, geographically, it was easier to get the the US than it is to get to Russia if you are migrant.
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  8788. I prefer the less contrived intellectualism of Real News to the interpretation of this movement in world history. The different forms of unearned income, i.e., profits, interest, rent, taxes, are all unearned incomes from use-value and value. The crisis facing America's capitalists, banks, landowners and the State, as the owners of money, cannot find labor-power for sale in any society for the conversion of that money into capital. These are the sellers of commodities who possess the means, the raw material, implements, who before their money can be converted into capital, need free labor. Free to disposee this labor, and free of everything necessary for the realization of this labor-power. In other words, the means of subsistence have to be free of ownership for the realization of a working class. Owners of money on one side versus people possessing nothing but their labor-power on the other side. These condtions are unnatural and also have no social basis but are the product of many economic revolutions of past historical development, the extinction of an entire series of older forms of social production.
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  8789. Pathetic. Americans voted into office of important decision making power assholes and people who love the income from a government job but hate doing the work of government. Going to need a revolution to get these functionaries and parasites controlling the resources that will help these communities out! They are not going to leave those political jobs while they are making money hand over fist on the suffering of others. Each dime of rescue money that comes in goes out as two dimes owed by the community.
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  8790. This tells me that the world economy is run by a small cabal of capitalists and workers are nothing more than a means to their ends. Expendable after the fact.
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  8791. At 11:15 the concept of stealing themselves of their owner's property served to restore the plantation system and the slave to their original status as a means of production.
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  8792. The police in America are a standing army. Armies conquer and invade. Security is not for society its for the police from society.
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  8793. But even if the republic is dead. So what of it? The republic was nothing more than a stage in the social evolution of civilizations. We just happen to be living in the time of its decline and transformation into something else. If it is destroyed by another stage of social evolution that is the stuff history is made of. Get over it. But here is the point about history. It never follows set patterns or stages of progress when people put their minds to something different. As negative as the republic was, all its defects, even more uglier today than they were under the old republic does not limit the possibility of a total departure from the ugly and horrible. The old republic bowes to its new masters but the people rise up is the stuff of history in the making.
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  8794. Congress was created because most governments in Europe at the time in the 18th century consisted of Kings and the Court and the framers wanted the people to have the ultimate decision making authority not the executive. Be stupid to throw all that out the window.
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  8795. Come on people, this has been going on since Jackie Coogan starred in Charley Chaplin’s “The Kid”, in 1906. Child stars exploited by their parents. Don’t you people learn anything from experience this will go on and on and on and on and on and on and on...you become a real sick society of sick. Get Congress to act on this!
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  8796.  @EnzoVecchiaio  100 years is a long time and we still wait for a generation to arrive in the West to replace the old rulers of society who write the history. We passively wait for a generation to become the new rulers who make society historical. End biosphere destruction. Eradicate political detriments in society. Make what is implicit explicit in corporate behavior. None of that will be achieved by an individual you elect. These are momentous ambitions that only the power of the masses can match and vanquish the unity and power of the Old Rulers of Society. We pretend a revolutionary generation is made without the effort put into it. Coming together as a force of opposition is the effort that goes into transforming the old society into a new one. The point is not to replace old rulers with new ones and switch seats. A hundred years of documented repetitious rapacious capitalism (stats actually go back further than 100 years) is too long a time to wait for that generation to finally be the generation that buries capitalism in the West.
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  8797.  @EnzoVecchiaio  🙂
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  8798. DON'T SPEND YOUR MONEY IN THAT TOWN OR CITY!
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  8799. He is being confronted and cornered by a flotilla of destroyers, submarines and aircraft carriers, battle tanks, missile launches and dozens of infantry soldiers on land. Once in awhile the press shows the military build up as a parade which really tells us nothing of real capability whether an ICBM can reach NYC, or San Francisco; so we know nothing and are putting our trust that our military can guarantee civilians here, there and everywhere are not annihilated. Who among you are confident you are safe from nuclear annihilation?
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  8800. Deficit hawks want the economic surplus for themselves to spend on the commodities that support a fake lifestyle of vulgar materialism in their politics, religion, ideas, attitudes, and mindset and everyone else, be in life no more than added labor-power to the total product.
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  8801. Well, the study on near-death experiences confirms every adolescent’s nightmare of being buried alive. Usually that is how your own mortality comes to you in a sudden awakening through a dream. The last dream.
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  8802. So, ---according to the White House the movement of tactical nuclear weapons into Belarus is not an indication Putin will use nuclear weapons. The White House advisors and military are detached from reality or on purpose want a nuclear escalation.
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  8803. The US armed and financed Franco. Industrialization never took off in Spain under Franco. It is paying for that consequence today. In the normal course of industrialization without political obstacles like war, dictatorships and fascism, Spain would have shaken off its agrarian feudal relations in succession with France, Britain and Germany, then Italy and Greece. But there was no such normal course of development in Europe. Its all class struggle in Europe. Still is by a different name. The Franco regime economically usurped the nation's GDP for the duration of its life; whereas Barcelona which had a working class avoided Franco. But! There is no one in the Spanish State capable of stopping what was already done. An opportunity and the a problem. Leaving the mother state and getting into the EU will mean accepting the conditions of the EU. No one has yet began talking about total independence versus leaving Spain and joining the EU.
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  8804.  @donHooligan  With the world's population in motion against neoliberalism in the advanced capitalist countries and colonial capitalism in the less advanced nation facing mass mobilization of peasants and workers, it appears the Age of the Common Person, approaches the hour...and what is absolutely glorious about this world revolution is that is being made by a proletariat; composed 99% of the world's human population, there are hardly any peasantry left in the world today, everyone is a day worker...all must sell their labor-capacity for money to live, and this has never been the case when the classic revolutions took place in the 19 and 20th century. Its one thing for the masses propel themselves to freedom coming from the position of a slave like Sparticus or a peasant like and totally another coming from a position of a industrialized working class with only the forces of production to promote. A universal political program is now real and probable, a pathway to a classless society by using that productive might of the 99% for the 99%, Universality and Equality, and what is even more glorious about this historic enterprise, it comes just in time to rescue the planet and all life on it from extinction!
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  8805.  Jan Reynolds  Abolish the wage system and you won't need money. Money is what keeps you from eating, sleeping and living. It makes no sense that the food, textiles, and housing you produce should be sold back to the ones who sowed the field, wove the cotton and stitched the clothes, and built the shelters at a price because they are made for exchange. That's crazy logic. No wonder capitalism is in decline. Its only good for people who own money.
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  8806.  @audimaster5000  What Trust Me does not know is that the Jan 6th insurrection the Oath Keepers carried out for Trump positioned the GOP dead against 132 million working people in the US, and half the world's working population, ---a social class whose time has come will sink their ship forever.
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  8807.  @hikingviking859  That’s a pipe dream. Putin is not hated by Russians...there is an opposition but its a westernized opposition the rest of Russia with its 15 different languages and cultures that opposition does not even connect with or relate to. Russia is an interesting place you should get to know it.
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  8808. Elder abuse. The powers behind Biden did to him what Hollywood did to Judy Garland.
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  8809. Time stop 19:00 The Sphinx et al were ‘looted ‘of its bricks to build the city of Cairo. Loot would be a poor choice of words if it were not true of other cultures. Spanish looted the Aztec Pyramids of its bricks to build Mexico City. I guess if every generation builds on the foundations of products of past labor,---passed down to them the same occurs across all cultures. A habitual relation more unique to the species not to the specific culture of the species. Reusing ready made material to tear down one ruling idea that is not compatible with another ruling idea behind which is the subjugation of one ruler by another ruler, replacing the way of life (society) that ruled the ancients with a way of life (society) that rules the victor. If this practice is found in particular, the metal stretchers that could be cleaned of toxins in the event of gas attacks and harm an injured patient carried on them when Britain was bombed in WWII, the same stretchers are used to day as railings. Reusables is a natural habit, saves labor. Not all what we are about today. Things are made not to last. The Sphinx was then molded or sculpted out from rock would then mean the rock before it was sculpted had a similar shape of the Sphinx. A rock that lent itself in the eye of someone to the creation of the head of Sitting Bull in North Dakota or the heads of the presidents in Mt. Rushmore is a rock someone saw as the body of a lion that could wear the head of an Egyptian. The tools explain how it was all done. The modern rock sculptures had the handiness of TNT the ancient sculptors had rock to shape rock. If water lay underneath the Sphinx contributing to the erosion of the body would the sink eventually sink the way San Francisco High Rises are sinking built on sandy bedrock?
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  8810.  @michaelwoods1924  Uh, let me ask you? Do you have stock in Lockheed? If you do I understand why you would say that. But if you don’t your in dream land. Everything you said is what they want you to think...you’ve been brainwashed, bamboozled and hoodwinked. There is no democracy in Ukraine. Do you really think the most corrupt country on the planet before the war becomes a democracy through a war?
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  8811. US gas prices are not cheap for Europeans they went shopping elsewhere for gas. The administration better have something substantial for the pause in their studies and conclusions on offsetting this loss is more like the thinking of conservatives on the issue.
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  8812. Happening since 2019 and this is the first time Americans are hearing about it? And not until the end of the video are the real reasons for the farmer’s actions talked about and only briefly at 12:35. This news outlet enables the process the farmer’s are protesting as a disservice to its viewers. The true culprit here is large scale industrial agriculture that the land is needed for its production of goods and to accommodate the workforce agribusiness employs. Cargill, a monopoly agribusiness conglomerate must own the Rising.
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  8813. Anyone know if that sign person is actually doing sign language?
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  8814.  @FirstNameLastName-wt5to  Arming teachers is not a protective measure it is a change of job description for educators. Its not necessary nor is it even a answer to the problem.
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  8815. Police crime statistics are false. Unreliable.
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  8816. Worms is the best word to describe the foot soldiers of the establishment’s mass indoctrination campaign.
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  8817. How much of the social classes of the UES, about whom we never hear or see in the news, agrees with the UES Foreign Minister? That the monarchy is prepared to go nuclear if Iran does? Are the lives of the people in Saudi Arabia such an enigma they don't matter enough to be shown to the world as to who they are, and the distance between them and us is a dimension of desensitizing fraternity with working people about what conditions they live under and how that monarchy exploits and allocates its social labor is not directly tied to what lies under Iran? How much of Saudi Arabia is industrial and mechanized and how much of it still a backward country based on one crop, Oil. This is a country who we never see a product on the shelf labeled made in the UES. No Jams, Fruits, Vegetables, no washing machines, tools, cars. The enigma of this country; it does not seem to have to live by producing and selling its commodities in the world market. Yet, the country can jump right into the nuclear age. Would it survive if luxury is all it consumes and oil is all it produces? Next to Saudi Arabia the geology transforms dramatically and contains a more diverse composition of elements that lend themselves to industrial development and in this region of geography sits Iran. All within Iran's borders is uranium and rare earth metals, these elements make this country the crown jewel of the Middle East. A problem for the US is when there is a country outside of its circle who knows it has every right to exploit its own social labor for the rise of industrialization and nuclear energy development. A very perplexing problem for the US that keeps bringing it back to the Cold War when the rest of the world dropped the Cold War decades ago.
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  8818. Indeed, Europe is in a Vice. It must decide its fate and future. ...it cannot continue Shut off from the world economy. ...disenfranchised ...productive power weakened Africa and India are the better diaspora for Europe ..gateways to the east and distances itself from the concern of the US the Pacific East.
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  8819. I wonder if the Public would treat Brian Laundrie the same way if he had not murdered a woman but had murdered the Border Patrol Cop with the Whip?
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  8820. The working classes in the west are led by parties that only pretend to champion working class interests. RINOs and DINOs in the US.
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  8821. Washington’s two party system responds to the country’s water crisis like it does not exist. No urgency to the matter...a lot of indifference when actions do not speak louder than words. The water crisis is not greater than losing world domination on a military scale because they have water! Shocking the thought. If the water crisis hit Washington D.C. and rendered serious harm to its survival Congress might then stop politicizing nonsense and legislate billions to correct this problem. Tells you where the country is and its capitol is not.
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  8822. Yeah but! Capitalism reduces the working class to wages not to the actual share of what it produces for the Waltons and Jef Bezos by running their companies. If labor got a share of the accumulation of profits of American corporations it would have remained middle class and growing considering the diversification of the surplus-value, that is, company earnings invested into bonds, securities, stocks. These are all interest bearing accounts. Instead, labor got wages, a certain sum of money for a certain sum of necessaries, which was an equal trade at the time and some deals include the cost of living adjustments, but it is nothing like earning from tax exempt profits producing residual income. The actual problem for labor is the commodity labor-power that reduces the working class to remain just that, a 'working class'.
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  8823. It appears the worst of Ukraine society are recruited. The ones with money can buy their way out of the draft. Like Trump who dodged the draft in 1965 with a medical excuse. The privileged find refuge in America and the under privileged who cannot get out get inducted into a war as “expendable”. Most countries stand for something with purpose, Ukraine is nothing more than a lottery of victims and nation built on attrition.
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  8824. Doubt the facts will be given to them. Democrats are in trouble. Really tight election in NJ. They lost Virginia. The Build Back Better Plan is not enough to win. Republicans delay cooperating with the committee makes Biden EO weak is a strategy. A strategy flying over the heads of democrats. Biden will be 80 years old. Democrats marginalizing Harris helps Republicans. Too much inconsistency between what Biden says and does. Its all going to used against the democrats.
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  8825. Navarro is so right.
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  8826. Americans who elect a president every four years are gluttons for punishment. It is not a democracy when the only participants in politics are billionaires. Its a dictatorship of billionaires from the private sector and people who move up the ranks of the bureaucracy as civil servants. None of these classes of people can identify, relate, understand, or care what the majority of Americans need and are experiencing in their pain and suffering.
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  8827. Good that they stopped a city gang from forming. Remember the movie “Scarface” Al Pacino plays a Cuban migrant and becomes a cocaine crime boss in Miami. They start small and the founders of the gang are the gang’s nucleus that more migrants getting more desperate would be willing to join. But there are so many behind the few busted that a real crime element exists in NYC and the US. Authorities will never find a balance between prevention and protection, they never do, so I expect Law and Order is just more gas on the fire. I have to think about it more but the idea of migrants becoming military conscripts has some merit. Migrants and Americans of that same age group in the same classes in schools are just battlefields waiting to happen. It is not because of race that gangs would form. Its because of genuine ignorance and the need for money and all that money brings that dominates the psyche. The authorities will have a big problem. Working class parents would be living a life of constant worry their kids are not inducted into gangs or taken into custody and sent to jail.
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  8828. Its over for the US. Unless the people adopt a social and cooperative attitude toward each other and change the meaning of life and wealth in their own minds, the attitude of individualism will be the death of them. The productive power of the American people for lack of direction and guidance by their government made a social culture of materialism for people to enjoy but over the course of decades that material culture served no purposes to further life and make it secure. The social culture is totally dependent on external support and is itself inefficient. Not a good combination when life in all three parts of the continent are under severe natural threats to survival. In the face of the devastation people rise to the occasion to help others but they do not have the means or the preparation to assist each other as cooperative unit, they have individual structures that isolate them and become lethal to them under natural threats and not one central locality for goods. This culture of individualism meets every need through external markets and markets depend on roads and external transport which are destroyed in a second by the force of nature. It really is sad tale to tell about a society that could have been the model of living in nature and not against it for all humanity. But it did not for lack of educating its population on this one concept all societies are concerned over, i.e., real not elected or appointed planning and development for social survival but permanent planning and even development as a rule of life.
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  8829. It is a blow to rail road workers. But 79 republicans voted against the bill as did 8 democrats. This was one dispute in the battle between workers and bosses the state would have done better to not intervene. The strike would have been over quickly and the workers would have won a gain. The rail carriers are also sensitive to public scrutiny and have the money to give a better deal to their workers. Being cheap around Christmas time is not good press. Democrats have no ability to determine what disputes need state involvement or require just monitoring and they have no working concept of proportion because they have no sense of social reality.
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  8830. I like Tulsi. I like her laser focused attention to reaching objectives not left open ended. Work and income are not made simple to attain in our society and in our jobs or where we shop transparency is absent. Nobody really knows what their real true worth is and everybody knows they are expendable?
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  8831. Biden is the closest thing you have to a person whose origins are not of the rich and privileged like Trump handed everything on a silver spoon from birth. A vote for Trump is a vote not only for Big Oil but for all the children born into rich families to continue their rule over society as “special” people chosen by God to lead a humanity by the nose. Get rid of Trump first than get rid of Biden second and than get rid of all the politicians who make a mockery of democracy insulting America’s revolutionary history and foundation.
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  8832.  @jamberry8026  Automation is not shocking I welcome it. Part of the problem is the left in America, it grew up without Marxism and was never introduced to the Concept of Relative Surplus Value its foundation socially necessary labor-time as the theory of value, to build socialism out of capitalism. The right wing in this country deprived the working class of Marxism, the key to pass over capitalism and thus will evolve into socialism not by conscious application through a revolutionary movement the theory but through catastrophe and war. The only person that was coming toward a version of Marxism toward the end of his life was MLK his last speech and on that day, the right wing decided to kill him. This is when he began his poor people’s campaign. King had the answer. Since then, the left in America are worthless.opportunists. In the 60s when I grew up too young to be a left I wondered what in Marxism was it that feared everyone and began reading Marx, only to learn that the radical movements of that day were ignorant of Marx. To your point, automation reducing socially necessary labor-time is the key, it is also the Achilles Heel of Capitalism, it is the downfall of capitalism and the blueprint, the actual way to build a socialist society.
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  8833.  @anthonyamodeo-thomson1033  Do you believe Facebook should be a Public Utility as a private company? If you do not then you are happy with phone companies shutting off your service because they don’t like the way you talk on the phone. Why would Facebook be any different than the phone companies that they can censor your posts, your page, from Facebook...isn’t Facebook a social technology like the phone system?
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  8834.  @anthonyamodeo-thomson1033  I am not a believer of a Marxist cultural revolution I am believer of the presence of a class struggle and historical materialism, as a means of understanding that class struggle i our current historical period, the relation between employees and employers. I am not interested in truckers except by way of their position in the class struggle, whether they advance the interests of capitalists or the proletariat. Cultural Marxism is a liberal concoction of a left that has no ground theoretically, much less practically in the class struggle. Failures is what that is and misleading of workers, insincere, unscientific.
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  8835. At this rate they have it better than US teachers who get death threats and schools get bomb threats. These are signs of a system of social competition that robs education of education for its own sake.
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  8836. This is workplace violence, period. Cost of firearms would be very low if people were happy in their jobs and given respect, dignity. Shooting people would be the last thing on their minds. I am not wrong because this is happening in many industries and that makes this no coincidental or isolated incident. Making you think it is a psychological problem just diverts the attention away from the abuses all workers are taking from their employers in America, and that is what America must accept or reject, as a way of life. Do you want to be subjugated to One Size Fits All kind of laws and policies or do you want to be happier people doing what you do most of your time; working?
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  8837. Duration is how employers rob workers of their free time and affordability. Duration becomes an outside time element to determine value for employers. Its the concrete activity that workers do to get or make the part or the whole product that duration, a time element, ticks away measuring and ensuring every second is not wasted in the conversion of concrete work into an abstract value. Duration of work is the only way to make the conversion and this can only be done by using time. Time is then translated into hours, weeks, days, months, and years. A slave master had a concept of time that started in the morning and ended at night. The person or family doing the work was available 24/7 to the slave master. Working time was spread across the calendar year on the plantation. Employers in the post world of slavery have a time limit. Society decided Time, all wealth has to be extracted within a specific amount of time no more than 8 hours average. You could not work people longer than that credit to our ancestors who made that a reality with their lives in many class battles with the bosses. There wouldn’t be any science if not for this 8 hr average the constant conversion of our products into commodities meant innovation to get the job done in the time given. People assume, falsely, that Time was always the way they relate to time today. Time in the days of 1618 to the days of the Civil War was one calendar day. Whatever had to be done got done the next day if it wasn’t finished the first day. Work was forced labor but it was not intensified labor as it in getting the job done in two months. You can imagine it got worse for you not better on the day you showed up on the job and the boss said to you; “Hey, you are only working 8 hours from now on so I need you to get that pile you been working on all year done in three weeks at 8 hours a clip”. Emancipation just made your work more intense you can’t put off the work for another day and dodge the whip anymore. You were now a free man, a free worker like the other 35 million. Time itself has more than one dimension as Einstein proved but to capitalism duration is the only feature time has. Time as duration, how long, how much. That’s it. Why bother learning a language? People get along with how much and how long. Never is time a question of quality, as in Relative Time. This kind of time is reserved for people exempted from living the duration of time. As you are working, people will like you. Time as duration destroys sense of self worth. Once you are out of the duration the world of capitalism pushes you away and production is closed off to you. Survival on individual terms.
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  8838. I think the problem will be a global collapse of western economies that will overwhelm the Trump administration from knowing what actions to take. Stock markets and the rich becoming richer through schemes is not going to re-industrialize the US economy and generate a new industrial working class. A new division of labor to process all the raw material from the western hemisphere. Unless it intends to have wages rise above the cost of living to whom will the products be sold if they are still above average in price in other markets?
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  8839. Looks like DN got fooled or were complicit with the game of mass media psyops and diversion on its audiences. Amy Goodman plays you like a fool, (sucker). The CIA puts out a document scandal and the Media reports it long enough to take your attention away from Patriot Missiles sent to Ukraine. This action constitutes an escalation of the war by means of a Covert diversion of the public and likely Congress too, although my faith in Senate Committees on National Security are also pure theatrics, is low to none. My sense is that the national security state and the Media truly regard you (the Public) as stupid. Whatever they think of you...their strategy works to divert the public from the retirement age increased to 67. The escalation of the war. The Abortion Bans passed in Southern states. Inflation and unemployment. De-regulation of industry, etc., Hitting the Public left and right with a battery of assaults constitutes a class war. Was it not covert what DeSantis did signing an abortion law into law before midnight and announcing it as law on Twitter. All done from the privacy of a private house? He took his lessons from the pysops diversion programs. What is not reported is the massive quantities of Patriot Missiles sent to Ukraine while this document scandal unfolds. Escalating the conflict and causing a reaction from Russia to counter the new battery of weapons with harder ones. Ukrainian soldiers trained in a military base in Utah are back in Ukraine and their presence here was never reported, i.e, another covert operation. Bamford must be in on it too since he never mentions the breech of constitutionality of a government agency eavesdropping a private chat platform company without probable cause and the theft of the documents gives the national security elite probable cause to surveil or shut down a private company as a threat to national security. One hell of an evil national security state really plays tricks on the heads of the American Public paying for all this.
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  8840. Prison is the extreme form of a forced subjective existence that already exists in society in moderate form as individuals separated from conditions of life and the means of existence.
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  8841. Must have been one hell of ride. I would have loved it. Technically, the first Love Boat on land because the ocean is considered land in economics.
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  8842.  @snowleopard4203  How easily reform turns into revolution! Macron and the aging bourgeois baby boomer oligarchy refuse to acknowledge the anger of the masses at this alleged reform. An attitude of disdain for the working classes that has prompted all of history’s most notable working class revolutions; they repeat the same error. The chance to retract the reform has been refused. The matter now belongs to history as revolution.
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  8843.  @lestrem11  I wish I can see your face when your private pension dries up. Are you a boomer?
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  8844.  @fredmasse6451  Thank you for that report on the situation in France of 67 million people...and the description of your work . Its been a great pleasure; how many are in the workforce in France? P.S. Your English is good, definitely understandable...practice makes perfect.
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  8845. Really bizarre and a circumstance that speaks volumes about the absence of Free Will in society, that people’s jobs would be a tool to lower interest rates. Throw people out of work cause them pain and this will garner the empathy of the Fed...highly doubtful the Fed will care since prices are not set by the Fed but are set by manufacturers who are at the same time, sellers and employers. Employees have no say in setting prices or wages is for 132 million people in the workforce a life of chance and causality whether they live or not and is none of their business! How do you draw empathy from institutions that are built on the lack of empathy,---you don’t. Why would this person ( 6:57) and individual life and their means of survival is a crack in the system.
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  8846. Incredible how a wealthy political and social class in Washington lives off the wealth of the nation free! A congressman is against statehood because if Washington becomes a state the wealthy in it can be taxed.
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  8847. What it is; is Behavior Modification. Reward and punishment social conditioning and conformity.
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  8848. The Mexicans have the right idea to protest the mass production of products by industrial producers who consume the greater volume of water to sell a product. The products they produce are not a necessity. Sales will fall sharply. To offset profit losses spiraling the western economies into a depression in North America and Europe the big industrials will fire workers when they could be legislated to produce water for mass distribution not soda. Sitting around watching this crisis unfold in the news will not prevent a drought from affecting you and prayer won’t help, you have to make the news not watch it.
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  8849. Not much land to be occupied left. Its all property of various forms. Private, state, public, federal, and national property are forms of property. Every inch of ground in the US is property in those forms. And every form of property is regulated by the market in this particular moment. This is why there are so many homeless for they do not have the money to buy property. They occupy urban property which is public property thinking the property owners in this category of property resent the homeless the least or help the most out of the other category of property owners. State, Federal and Private Property are defended by force. Occupying these lands is asking for trouble. About the only land that belongs to the nation is the land the national highway system is built on, and these could be occupied, but it would involve a Federal response to an occupation. A response litigated in federal court. Potential involving the National Guard depending on how rowdy the occupation is. Either way I think none of these are good strategies for social change. Our present situation calls for universal action. All the particular threats to humanity have added up to a threat to all humanity and the planet. Its time for the Age of the Average Person decide the fate of humanity and its time Mass Action be its usher.
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  8850. Clearly the surgery relied upon by the medical community to fix broken knee bones in athletes was to get the athlete back on the field where the athlete is making money for their owners that longer term self healing would disrupt. For the longest time the Medical Establishment was nothing more than a triage for the sports owners to keep athletes like horses running the race track regardless of their medical and physical health. No matter what kind of labor it is, athlete, scientist, journalist, plumber, electrician, union or non-union labor, etc., human activity of any kind that produces no value has no worth of its own in America’s economic system. America’s economic system has no humanity in it..
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  8851. On a serious note: People who chronicle the society in this medium have the advantage of a power of a medium that can end the exploitation of man by man. Our society can materially afford to end this scourge of humanity. Build a society where nobody is without means and subsistence. Take the reverse direction the Establishment does not want to go, consequently does not take us to develop into social human beings of intelligence.
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  8852. Don Ghidoni - Nonsense.
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  8853. @Lies Bus Not nonsense.
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  8854. the millons going to foreign countries is actually millions going to military interventions engaged in 120 countries...its not going to those countries as you wrongly state, it goes to the US military in those countries.
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  8855. A Black Female Chauvinist writes laws for society...pretty sickening what she must think of the Public in general if she thinks her staff who are members of the Public in particular.
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  8856. Eeehh...Robertson was right about the situation in Russia before he said ‘false pretext’ and then wrong in his assessment after he said ‘false pretext’. Reporters do this when they want to protect a side. NATO expansion since WWII is not a false pretext.
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  8857. Republicans are a party of private interests, there is no possible way they can win in a general election representing a private interest. They must resort to other more creative ways that appeal to a broad group of people and this is becoming harder and harder by the day for them to do.
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  8858. Soil and Water are the elementary factors of every Labor Process.
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  8859. It can only be a question of how long is the working day to be since wages was not the variable for the 45 years? When was the last time you got a pay increase working in the private sector? Right, ---my point exactly.
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  8860. The overthrowing of elites is the least important thing about ending the suffering of the working people in this world. Its only in a revolution people can take off their personal armor and defenses and not be pressured to hate each other; be themselves and more.
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  8861.  @atambwalisametana6363  Open your kids history book and read the acknowledgements. That tells for who that history book was written. Teachers may or may not know that themselves. When there are no acknowledgements a long list of people thanking them for their support and cooperation, etc., etc., the author wrote the history for the sake of the history and is likely NOT revisionist.
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  8862. All this is leading to the break-up of security forces of the government and to their privatization. Taxpayers still pay a private security market for high level people as they do now with government security. The difference is that the taxpayer will have no say at all about how much and who gets paid with their money.
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  8863. Very good video especially when you pull up the old footage of the Neocons like Bill Clinton. Do more of this. Viewers: Look up the movie with Robin Williams called “Man of the Year” by Barry Levinson. The film affirms Jimmy’s point and message.
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  8864. Why does ABC not interview legislators about climate change or announce legislators were asked but declined to comment?
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  8865. The US does not produce with an awareness as human beings, it produces in a thoughtless manner, at the mercy of chance, that it will find itself in the midst of a social revolution such as never dreamt before by any social scientist, because crisis has been kicked down the road for generations that each succeeding crisis takes on more universal proportions. What is the true nature of periodic crisis in America, nothing but the natural law of development asserting itself. No different than an apple falling to the ground asserts its relationship to the center the earth as a specific weight of gravity. Even when this natural law of the value of things asserts itself human development is understood as a periodic correction in the political world in Washington. Recycling its waste like Sweden; people work in America like dispersed atoms seemingly totally unaware of their own species. There is a strict delineation between civil society and the government in that people in society are concerned with civil and economic matters and elected officials in government are are not. This is why America lags behind the social progress of most other states. It is the last citadel of hostile reaction to true human progress and development that its foreign policy is anti-development, anti-social, anti-human, along with a few other minor states envious of US power.
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  8866. Grandma and grandpa were right when they said you cannot leave it to private power companies to make the conversions to the power grid to supply electric cars...they are only in it for the money.
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  8867. Whoa! This is big. The rule of the jungle is the rule of Cyberspace! Might do us all a bit of good if these big fellas came down to earth. There are millions of satellites swarming around us in space like moving in slow motion but if sped up would look like moths attracted to a lit incandescent light bulb in the dark. Rotating and roving over us, some falling to earth, some colliding with each. Some getting knock out of orbit into a new path. Some struck by electricity forces and magnetic force pulling them down. What they are doing to the natural gravitational relationship of the earth's inner core is something they probably don't care about. Our immediate stratosphere is a massive weightless junk yard of metal that reacts to whatever the universe and our planet puts out. We are a crazy species. We've made it so hard for any clear path landing back to earth. Any alien UFO would be dodging the space debris is how junked up it is. 'I think by accident the junk yard might turn out to be our best defense from an invasion from space if there are aliens. But so far nothing. Therefore, drop the speculation. Would not be surprised that the UFO sightings are really nothing more than space debris activated when re-entering into the atmosphere according to the design of the craft. The craft is also a satellite its main utility. But this is nuts to spend all this human effort that could really do wonders for earthly lifestyle is spent on defending secrets.
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  8868. All this tells me that the moderate wing of the GOP no longer has a party. People like Romney are without a party. A man with friends but alone in the party. The Freedom Caucus is the party now...the "Crazies". What is regarded by Democrats as honor, patriotism, and reason, means squat to the Freedom Caucus. Democrats will never sit in the same room with them because a fight will break out. I doubt the democrats will have enough restraint to contain themselves given they bear so much disdain for everything. More polarized than before, more irreconcilable. The phone conversation between McCarthy and Trump is significant of this split. Democrats have the "crazies" on the right to negotiate budgets and policy with...loads of fun...where nuttin' gets done. Moderate democrats will be tightening the reins around progressive democrats from getting into the same room with the Freedom Caucus. If it were up to me I'd let the two extremes duke it out. Sequester they not leave the room till a resolution is achieved. They have some more common issues with the right over how bad things are than the moderate democrats have with the far right.  At least this way the country will get out of the dam mud and the government stop hobbling on one leg.
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  8869.  @vgus15  They had body bags back then...and it might have started to decompose but the trip is not impossible. His body could have been frozen and then truck transported and dumped in Secaucus NJ, lol.
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  8870.  @ludmilaivanova1603  I have been thinking about that...not sure if it all as nihilistic as it seems. I am leaning toward Climate Change as the biggest threat to the lives of Gen Zers (16 yr olds) and they seem not sure of what they really stand for about the social issues we face today. I do not see them as over sexualized as depicted in certain movies but I do think they can succumb to drugs as a means of desensitizing themselves to the threat climate change poses as the end of the world. They live on line and they tend to party hard. They developed a language that I still cannot decode after all I am 76 years old...I hated my generation,--still do, all baby boomers I view as thoroughly selfish and spoiled, even rotten. For example, Cher, Neil Young, Warren Buffet, Fauci, Biden, Trump, are horribly greedy people. There is very little sociology on this generation which is a tragic and my generation makes no effort to speak to them. One thing about them I admire is that they seem to know how to treat people and what not to do in treating people and are far more racially tolerant than boomers. They may the generation that puts off parenthood, and this would be a disaster for the US getting older. I do believe the Marxist have a strong paradigm far more practical than liberals but what the Marxists have not figured out is a way to communicate in their language. These kids have no adult role models directing them on how to think about the general state of the world. Somebody needs to interview them I think we have a lot to learn from them.
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  8871.  @trentwolfgram9571  Study 1918 a turning point in history explains much of what is going on among the rulers of society today, their plan, their actions, their aims through their descendants. Your generation has no ability to change anything in society because your generation has too much to lose. Unfree of a particular interest. You did not learn apathy from your parents. The apathy was encouraged by the rulers of society through popular culture and language indoctrination. A generation has arrived that can and will change the world. Their chains are radical chains, they are a class in society rejected by society, the character of their sufferings are universal, in short, they are total loss of humanity and they know they can redeem themselves only through a total redemption of humanity in the dissolution of the harbinger of their sufferings in American society. This is so because their situation is intolerably desperate they have nothing to lose by revolution, they have no special interest to protect and can only free themselves by establishing universal freedom. You can thank the Boomers for this who have become the fascists of the world today.
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  8872. I note that Bernie Sanders has nothing to say about this flight reveals how not progressive the progressive wing of the democratic party are. They must feel humiliated that a progressive stand against war provocations is taken up by the conservative right. They must think themselves too high and mighty to join the right in their opposition to war. Just as soon as McConnell announced his support for the trip to Taiwan that announcement put Bernie and his bros in the camp of the Republicans In Name Only.
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  8873.  @72marshflower15  Your country! How about your neighbors calling the Cops. They live in the same society as you do and see the same police violence as you do and yet they call the cops. Never enters their minds the cops are totally useless and not to call them for anything.
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  8874. I've come to the conclusion that God is not a Being but an Action. Not a spirit, an idea, or an abstract concept...god is human action in the form of labor. This is because Labor is the Father and the Earth its Mother. A particular kind of labor is God manifesting itself through human labor in general. From the interaction of the two nothing ever remains the same or is unmoving, everything changes. This would account for the diversity of earth at a time when labor was only hunting, fishing and farming and the lack of diversity on earth in our time when labor does not get what it produces but gets a certain amount in reshaped form of satin cloths, a gold watch, a small mansion, two SUVs. Twelves hours work brings less of the material labor produces to the actors doing the work and more to the actors that do not work covers the same injustices passed down through the ages.
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  8875. Making a union is a great thing but now comes the matter of its leadership that in every union movement in America became corrupt and sold the workers out. I attribute this failure to the fact that people in leadership work to maintain the exploitative structure of the wage system Amazon and Alibaba is infamous for. How to eliminate the unfair relation of worker to company is the point and goal of all workers when they accept that goal mentally. A union should be a stepping stone to make a new deal with Capital, a piece of Amazon’s market sales and social ownership of Amazons distribution system that is the capital of a company, would end the corrupt nature of the wage system unions perpetuate when they remain unions of many particular branches of industry and do not grow to become a worker’s national association of industry.
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  8876. Trump's pro-business agenda is far too important to risk it on a bunch of loser white supremacists. The anti-fascists protesters should consider using creative actions aimed at deconstructing the cult of false history in America about American history. Keep that momentum going through art, culture and politics. Rename streets, towns and cities named after colonists, slave-holders, politicians and cops that should have been jailed rather than praised. Mark places where education still uses a false history to educate the young. Anti-fa is in a position to start a cultural revolution using art and music as a weapon for the transformation of our environment and society. To me this would turn a positive-negative movement into a positive one that vanquishes racism in society in one fell swoop. Killing three birds with one stone, root out fascists, transform the environment and change false history into real history, and empower individual talent to rise above commercial celebrity status gain enough social support for a political and economic advantage to peacefully challenge to Trump's pro business agenda and change our economic structure.
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  8877. Wrong! Afghans suffered through murder not war and violence. This was not a causal incident generic to Afghan society. It is another immoral treatment of a people deliberately murdered by the Americans, French, British, imperialists!
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  8878.  @zakariyeyahye5566  Afghanistan had a government that was committed to the rights of women and education for all. The US built up the Taliban to overthrow that government! The US bombed hospital(s) and communities lost the lives of ten civilians in the last month before this Taliban victory is not what I would call respecting the rights of anyone much less women. The US military is so into human rights I think they should invade and occupy Los Angeles and bring in emergency medical and humanitarian aid to all the homeless in America who have are job but are paid so low it doesn't cover the rent. Incompetency level of the leadership in Washington cannot even solve the COVID crisis. Biden is bombing Syria right now and spending more of our budget. The war machine funding the media will criticize him for pulling out from a war but never will they criticize any president for going into a country to start a war. War =profits.
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  8879. Can one claim America is not a racist society? Exactly, you cannot make that claim. Therefore, all institutions are institutions that lives with a racist society. FBI director, Wray, does admit the Chinese communist party is too big for the FBI to handle alone. He cites a weakness that is a threat to national security goes over the head of the senator interrogating him. Dumb senator.
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  8880. The reach of America's IMF is far and wide. The very rich in societies borrow IMF loans in the name of all members of society but are not obligated to pay it back as members of society. The political representatives of all members of society sign off as the obligers for its repayment. They make society responsible for its repayment. Naturally the interest on the loan is low enough the societies do not collapse but not low enough to emancipate the borrower from the loan and in this way a relative exploitation can take place generation after generation with slight modification to the deal. Argentina like the other societies that have borrowed from the IMF are obligated to cut wages and pensions and increase working hours, also they must rearrange in society the social division of labor. Every new agreement with the IMF requires the division of labor be adjusted in order to make people who work and do not produce a profit for their employers in soceity profitable and productive labor and those who 's labor is already profitable as productive labor more profitable, is the theory of compensation for labor under capitalism. The only way societies can no longer be indentured borrowers in perpetuity to the IMF is an international labor movement that struggles for its own emancpation from IMF loans, and fights for its dignity and respect causing the political representative to find the money somewhere else for its repayment, they can no longer bully around and fool people to sign on the dotted line.
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  8881. People in Europe hate NATO because it is seen and understood as a tool for American domination over Europe. American democratic socialists are not progressives, never were. They are anti-labor and pro-war. When Michael Harrington founded the DSA in the 70s he created a cosmetic left faction of the democratic party to replace real progressives that challenged the democratic establishment on the Vietnam War, the DNC crushed the first progressive and lost the election to Nixon, and that person was George McGovern of South Dakota in 1972.
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  8882. With Biden out of the way, the Democrats have a chance at crushing a rerun of the 1968 election of Nixon who extended the life of the Republican Party for 8 more years and laid the groundwork for Reagan to crush Unions, now 70% of the American working class ages 18 to 49 favor unions. Anti-unionist propaganda never works. The election in November is a historic showdown between Labor and Capital.
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  8883. People are really stupid thinking that with force you can bring peace. Fear is why they support it. Walk Softly and Carry a Big Stick. War Games, Mind Games, Blow for blow, tit for tat. One nation submits to the other. The spoils are bigger markets. Big Thieves rob from small thieves. Destruction is built-in our social system; it’s a structural condition. An internal condition that makes destruction of societies and nature inevitable and humanity is given no choice or say...I do not like that. Americans are not protected by two oceans. And believing its better to have war there and not here is another dumb proposition. On a scale where 5 is full maturity, western governments are on a -1 full immaturity, stupid and selfish, diving into self-annihilation.
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  8884. The unhappiest societies are the gun societies.
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  8885. Samsung produces memory microchips more than anyone on the planet but they do not produce logic microchip processors which are made by TBCS in Asia not China and are in greater demand than memory chip processors. TBCS engineers are the creme of the crop in this technology. But recently a new manufacturer of the component is on the scene does not design or engineer but only manufactures the unit. The Senate seeks to capitalize on this industry for the production of logic microchip processors that go into semiconductors. The Bill is a shot in the arm and gets the attention of the Senate more than the American Rescue Package watered down which is to resuscitate the failing US economy for millions of Americans. But I have to say all this comes too late as China is light years ahead of the US moving toward technology independence. Both parties coming together on this issues signifies the Senate unites on ideology more than common sense brings them together because what good is a semiconductor industry if you do not have the brain-power. The brains left the US to follow where the semi-conductor business went which used to be in Texas and is now in Switzerland happened 20 years ago. That's how late this Senate arrives at the scene. Too late. While the world was taking real steps toward this technological development the Senate was divided on ideological grounds and let the economy go to pot. This can only mean the Senate is delusional not building from the ground up to develop the brains and general economy and then the semi-conductor industry are pressured and making decisions according to the fear they have of communism not according to what the US needs to remain dominant in this field. China has the Five Year Plans and the Senate has reactionaries as elites who never surrender to communism no matter how wrong they are.
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  8886. Exactly...partisan rallies on television is a propaganda medium.
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  8887. Cutting emissions is a way of reducing the supply of oil reserves and thus raise the price at the pump. The removal of government regulations is actually replaced by the regulating power of supply and demand to the detriment of the consumer and the environment as consumption increases production.
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  8888.  @EricK-tb2dn  lol.
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  8889.  @emmaevans7011  That treatment may come from the grocery store customers to the supermarket worker but I am talking how their management treats their workers in terms of the conditions of their work is a management/employee relationship you are likely overlooking.
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  8890. Mind you the term “civilians” is a military term applied to people who do all the work in society. People who run the trains, buses, airports, warehouses, schools, museums, libraries, markets, pay the rents, feed the children, clean the house, make the food and the people on the farms fields...and in the workshops...are not “civilians” in the sense Sudanese people refer to themselves as “civilians”, they are a homogeneous society of 45 million. who refer to themselves as relatives, kinships, tribes and extended families, are the workers who make Sudan what Sudan is. These people should step in and run things for themselves better than leaving the fate of personal life in the hands of Military egoistical know nothings! This is a tragedy of untold proportions... The inability to organize a society as headed by a military. Plain to say the Generals understand “Force” but do not understand “Bread, Land and Peace”. While the Generals fight and spread chaos the Sudanese people should talk and spread mass organized uprisings and take overs. Religion is not a faith in this century. It like everything else is a device to spread social antagonisms...the long shadow of Militarism.
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  8891. Objective conditions become highly organized the more subjective freedom is lost. Think hard about that sentence folks and its ramifications. The implications are serious and they are: People are further imposed with objective restrictions by a relation between things. I will say it again in another way. Individuals will be subordinated to an external condition of surveillance. All freedom is lost.
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  8892. Completely SCANDOLOUS!
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  8893. The fate of the indigenous working classes in all Latin America to overthrow their respective oppressive oligarchs, cartels, and military dictatorships, is, unfortunately, in hands of people who have not awakened to the realization their economies, lifestyle and their consumption patterns perpetaute the exploitational relationships of capitalism in Latin America. If not for the direct support the Latin American states preferred by the congress in Washington recieve in military, moral and economic support, services and products the Canadian and American people produce out of dependence and necessity, the indigenous working classes would have long ago overthrown their ruling classes.
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  8894. Single payer will cost more than what the government (we) take in for just health care said the president. Michael's unresponsiveness to Amy's question and the president's condemnation of single payer does not help to convince viewers unsure of the argument for single payer. That said, Trump's statement against single payer reveals a conscious bias in the privileged classes toward the nation's economic surplus, whether they acknowledge or not, that surplus comes from the working classes, is viewed as theirs by virtue of a God-given right is now a significant problem for the working classes. The privileged social classes in the White House are imbued with an ideology blind to themselves as ideology, and prevents them from making real achievements, proves to the working masses that capitalism cannot be harmonized. Cuts are never temporary lay-offs but permanent. By not acknowledging the structural contradictions of capitalism, exactly what the liberal Democrats are doing, leads workers to their own demise. Because the side Trump represents is bent with iron necessity on their demise. The economic surplus and the greater part of it is in the form of the US military, the other parts of it in the form of social spending. In the biased view of the privileged in the White House, single payer is to be paid from social spending appropriations they intend to cut. They think that because the other part of the budget in the form of the military industrial complex constitutes the government has been given legal immunity from cuts. Government does not cut itself when it is occupied by the 1%. We can expect them to say a medicare expansion is lunacy and commence an all out economic war against working people. The budget appropriations enlarging the military is an unchanging constant to them, in fact, it is vital component to their survival as a social class ever since the state merged with the private sector. The other part of the budget; social spending is the only variable. The workers will have to push for cuts in defense and war expenditures out of which the 1% are lavishly compensated and unwilling to lose the cash cow the Middle East has become. The very rational for war is tied to this push for medicare expansion, and so is climate change, and in particular the average worker is tied to this push as a fight for dignity and humanity.
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  8895. Executives are employers and employers are anti-slavery? I am shocked.
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  8896. Its intimidating to be on camera when that is not your job. The most important words the CEO made in this interview was: “None of us are prepared for this.” Prayers and hearts with the families is not enough! Prayers might change Jeff Bezos’s behavior but I doubt it. Factory owners may be nice people but in emergency situations their role in production should end right there. The slow to no response Amazon made to not release their workers is shameless negligence, and other small warehouse and factory owners also did not heed the National weather warnings. This is not what I call a ’loving’ characteristic of a people who care for one another. The working people in those workplaces are not objects that can go to cinders with the other objects in the factory or a warehouse. Die in a collapse, explosion or fire without emotion, be treated like objects. This was the point the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Tragedy of 1911. One hundred and ten workers working overnight in a warehouse factory to fulfill Christmas toys was not as important as getting out of there before tornados come! The owners prove by their own actions that a private interest impedes rational decision making. They cannot act responsibly. Odd thing; it was all not just one employer/owner acted the same. You can’t put your life in their hands is the issue. Prayers and condolences are not a good defense against future tornado storms. Society has to make a real decision about production in general. Either owners have free reign over production and tragic yet avoidable events like this happen, or the workers have control over warehouse and factory operations and enact their own emergency evacuations. Because, 1., remote control over work and workplace by long distance management is a failure and 2., direct control by the owners is a failure of over-efficiency. And 3., using the government to enforce owners and workers to do as told is a failure. Who are i a better position to regulate production are the participants, the Workers are in the best position to decide when Christmas presents can get wrapped, or when the mustard and candles get made, not the clock and not government.
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  8897. The creation of this job does suggest one thing. It suggests that the BBC host is economically separated from social media technology whereas; Jimmy is not. The alternative social media producers are united with the technology but a hired social media expert is using the social media and technology of their employer. Whereas it is Jimmy’s voice and free thinking we see and hear producing in social media but in the BBC host the voice we hear in social media are the voices of BBC owners. The host is not free to be her own person as a BBC employee. The worker-management relation is an oppressive social condition for employees.
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  8898. I love how Dr. Wolff explains the difference between markets and capitalism. Sooner or later the slowdown will hit the US economy. Stock market is up, shows the stock owners are making money not the economy. Obama holds the record for highest profits to corporate America. Corporate America would prefer another term of Obama than another four years of Trump. Why? Corporate America and American workers and farmers of all kinds are in worst shape under Trump. This is fertile ground for an alliance against Trump between workers and farmers with corporate America trying to wiggle the alliance to their favor over China. The politics of this economic relation can bring about no changes at all. But there is a contradiction, the Social democrats are not friendly to China. Corporate America is friendly to China, they are making money hand over fist producing their products in China flooding the American consumer with cheap products.  China is at 6%GDP, the US at 2.2% GDP is for corporate America a contradiction over their allegiance to American society and its workers and farmers. Is it profits or people? Lower wages of America consumers is the inevitable result of buying American is a contradiction for workers in America. When corporations export production this displeases Trump about corporate America is a pro-worker position.   To get those blue collar votes Bernie and Trump will have to take the same stand against the corporations. How does a corporate president denounce corporations when he owns a corporation and is as rich unless he intends to divest from his riches? But he has not and he will not or would have a while ago. How does Bernie get workers to stop buying American without anti-American accusations damaging his reputation with workers and farmers? Conservatives in both political parties cloud the distinction between markets and capitalism all the time. The market is a system that favors the rich and the rich love markets. Naturally, we'll recieve a steady diet of propaganda bombarding Americans from every pore of society with the notion of free markets. Educating others to the reality that markets are not free and never were could not be more clearer said with Dr. Wollf telling it. Corporations know exactly how markets work, a free market never existed, the notion has a long history in capitalism as an ideological weapon to preserve class relations.
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  8899. Lock Downs are in-humane.
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  8900. The equity capital money market managers that are top in the field say the same about Trump except they expect a big fight when Trump gets down to the real business of cutting the federal budget and social security, medicare and medicaid, on the chopping block!
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  8901. I get it. The “international community” is really the US and its targeted sanctions. Whenever the term is used it is the US that is implied but cannot be directly named as alone in that community. One factions’s leader cannot give in to the demands of the public or he loses his wealth and power status and he cannot give in to the demands of a cease-fire or he faces targeted sanctions,--- the US takes his wealth. If the other goes forward with a peace agreement he faces the Old Guard and if he does not accept the cease fire he faces a social revolution. Crony Capitalism is behind it all, commercial economic interests sucking out the resources of the country while rival paramilitary forces engage in armed conflict would be the US commercial interests profiting in the background. In other words, American Imperialism in the person of previous presidents and in Joe Biden. Sudan is a miniature model of what will happen in the US once radical elements of the two parties split off into rivals in a power struggle and take with them their donors and factions of the police and another in the military for the White House (power) while American corporations profit in the background in the US economy. Imperialism abroad and imperialism at home. This is why China will become the next world power. China doesn’t foment wars in countries for its businesses to profit. But in order for the People of societies to not become pawns in a power struggle within their own nations they would have to resist any agreement that enables imperialism and focus their protests directly at the foreign power to leave the country and take over all the critical infrastructure to get the country running and dissolve the political parts of the government leaving intact the financial parts of the government but under their control.
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  8902. You bet be blunt about it. Turn it back to the states is all you can expect from these parties. Keep America all split up and divided. The head from the heart, the nation from the country and the state from the person...keep them all divided.
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  8903.  @LaVon2120  No, not men in general, religious men in particular. Men like Joel Olsteen and other evangelical men are pushing women back using their capital and connections to other men in Congress.
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  8904.  @dmangela5677  You must have a lot to conserve.
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  8905.  Alfonso G  Don't give up, keep the movement alive and join hands.
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  8906.  @moonbeamchaos  There is no age requirement in developing a government system beyond a republic. My point went over your head, because a constitutional representative republic is in your view a permanent form of government. You're thinking within the narrow confines of the present context.
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  8907.  @moonbeamchaos  Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are?
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  8908. This audience and its’ hosts should read “The End of Prosperity: The American Economy in the The 1970s” by Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy”. A must read.
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  8909. On the Potter Case,----analogous to this trial would be a case where the suit filed is against a corporation heard by a judge owning a third of that corporation and expecting the judge to be impartial. Good luck with that Bro!
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  8910. American government all in one place at the SOTU address, i.e., the Supreme Court, Joints Chief of Staff, the MIC, the Senate of Patricians, the democrats and republicans, oligarchs, the whole Power/Political Elite, came off as Single Party Rule, equal to each other, sharing control over the economic power of the working class, struggling to retain control and authority over the Public Domain, reconnoiter for a clarification of an anti-socialist pro-nationalist mission for total and absolute rule in the world, is not what I call a government. Its a class and this is class rule. Each aspect of this social class are disguised as institutions modeled after past institutions and is a collection of institutions sharing equally political power exploiting the resources of the Public and the Public Domain, they behave like a gang of nationalist clean cut thugs, is not a government. Workers in America better take their cues from the French working class on how to fight a capitalist class, expect successive straight weeks of directly challenging their police and law enforcement forces, and work to get the rest of the population behind you to realize this is a Class Rule and not a democracy of the masses. It is necessary the whole working class participate and force a shut down of the entire US transportation system of trade, commerce, and industry to end its existence. Its that simple folks! You must propagate Yellow and Red Vests on Everyone, Nobody Left Out. You must send your reporters to France and cover developments to fight the media. Though members of the elite media likely there in person, the media as a weapon in the hands of this class not there is a part of the Ruling social faction. No member of this social class sitting in that rotund barring two, and one not there I totally respect for not being there, Tulsi Gabbart, will address, alleviate, remedy, eliminate, the serious, serious issues raised in this panel but YOU! A government is a collection of individual representatives, caucuses and delegates, who operate in accordance to a Constitution and amend the constitution to fit the changing lifestyles and life-process of society all decisions by unanimous consent. This event is a public display of the capitalist class legally self-installed into power through the power of money in society saying to the Public, your lives are not worth shit ours is worth the world. America's working class a has a big fight on their hands. The objective is to overthrow them and forbid them from ever entering politics again. But since being in power, so accustomed to power, they are totally unnatural without power and completely comfortable in power intimidates the American worker from challenging them can be overcome by example of the French worker's yellow vest movement, and if it ever intends to get anywhere in history for itself the first fight will be the destruction of this ruling class. If tomorrow Macron resigns it ought to be the signal for the American working class to tear off the yoke around its neck. They are a yoke around the neck of the people. As a historian looking at societies in the past a Roman serf was better off than the American worker and an American former slave was better off than the American worker is of absolutely no consequence to this Political Elite. Die for all they care.
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  8911. It is not as funny as it appears in the context of Biden meeting with foreign investors of the America’s economy, the Prince of Saudi Arabia, want to be reassured the American working people will get to work is the reason for the emphasis of transportation. As the US economy receded, he and other foreign investors have a real claim on the US economy, to be exact 40% of US GDP never encountered a downturn. The prince is a Millennial, of an economy whose basis is one commodity, experience with the investment cycle of American Capitalism is more complex and the Great Recession of 2007 was the first contraction witnessed since he was born. American IOUs and its balance of payments, its trade deficit, imports versus exports, that, one after another, the countries have become involved in a crisis that all of them, with few exceptions, have exported and imported too much, so that they all have an unfavorable balance of payments. If you owned 40% of a given nation’s GDP I think you’d want its leader to give you some assurance you will get paid the return on your investment. This is the part of the story the news keeps out. Why reporters are kept at a distance. What is not heard is the private business exchange between seller (US) and buyer (SA). America collects from its workers through taxation to pay off its IOUs and its foreign investors with the revenue collected from the employment of 132 million people constituting the workforce. So, Mr. President will you guarantee me Americans will be employed so that you may pay me my investment return? Poor Kamala has the job of making transportation exciting but she can’t without the ability of economic thinking. Connect the commodity labor-power with transportation and IOUs. She does the best she can and is ridiculed by a public who are legislated to work overtime or foreign relationships if it cannot pay goes sour! Further, America, specifically Trump and the Pentagon and Congress approving the deal made the mistake of selling SA massive air power weaponry that if America defaults a declaration of war is just around the corner. Put this way i bet you folks are saying...holy shit, this is serious, and it is serious. The burden of repayment is on You! The media concealing the gravity of this crisis from you is insulting; as too stupid to give you information in a way that makes you think! If I were you I’d be real pissed at the media.
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  8912. America is too big a country to be an Apartheid.
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  8913. Happy to see them jailed or going to jail but it is insignificant.  The demand in the US for prostitution is so high there are 42 million prostitutes in the US. Trump got elected on 75 million gives you an idea of how many women sell this commodity. If prosecutors, lawmakers, politicians, etc., were serious which they are not they would address prostitution from the demand side of the commodity. And that would only be half serious about abolishing prostitution. Full seriousness would be to address sex as a commodity in the first place. Why so many girls become prostitutes and the younger underage minor females are trafficked by legal aged prostitutes themselves requires the problem be addressed nationally by Congress and they are not serious about the social condition of women in society. In short, young boys and girls are powerless commodities meant to be bought and sold by this industry and for this industry to flourish, and flourish it does, billions worth of lost value drained right out of the economy in what a young person can produce. Trafficking only means the commodity moved from one place to another place. Laws that pertain to the commodity itself do not exist. The severity of the punishment depends on what state was the commodity bought and sold? Really insignificant of a measure, almost meaningless really.
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  8914. The Intelligence leak story. Is the proof that those in power are incompetent, wrong, dangerous, and a threat to world stability.
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  8915. Ukraine is in a death spiral. It was not worth the loss to let the Foreign Policy Establishment in Washington make them not cut a deal with the Russians when they had territory and were able to defend it. Now it’s is too late. Ukraine’s army is decimated and in total disarray, and they have to continue fighting with an army in complete chaos. This is going to be a major catastrophe and the Foreign Policy Establishment were WRONG now have the blood of Ukraine’s on their hands. This is really terrible. General Mark Milley was right. He knew Ukraine could not make anymore advances and gains and had called for negotiations. Foreign Policy Establishment sent Boris Johnson to tell Zalenski to kill the deal, that was his grave mistake. The war would have been over with Russia going no further into Ukraine and Ukraine not entering NATO. Very tragic for Ukraine.
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  8916.  @nonamegame9857  Did you use the self-check out? If you do the will make you a hypocrite. Why are you going to Walmart at all?
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  8917. You'd still have a robust middle class and a bourgeois democracy if the Tax Cuts to the Rich never happened beginning with the Bush Tax Cuts and the Trump Tax Cuts.
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  8918.  @nunyabiznez6381  never said they were playing in the sand and I am not referring to the diggers. My comment is aimed at the conscience of the decision-makers and the public of the sociological ramifications of failed policies and practices.
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  8919.  @nunyabiznez6381  There is no implication of criticism, it is a statement of fact...the bones cannot remain in that location forever. They must be exhumed from the rubble and returned to their families even if it takes ten years at a snails pace,---they must be interned properly. I never in my sentence name anyone much less the recovery teams. There is nothing to retract. 40 year inspection cycles? What office or agency or political entity came up with that number I'd like to know?
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  8920. The institutions like the Kremlin and the Pentagon, NATO are products of history, products of past wars and revolutions, that officials of that generation embody the ghosts of the post WWII era.
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  8921. We can say the Congress in the 18th century did something. They built this Congress in the 21st Century. A venal parliamentary system that belongs in the 18th century. Never changed with the change of America. May as well place the fate of the world on a coin toss.
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  8922. Well I would feel more confident if the US had an actual solid track record in winning wars and managing colonies. It came into the colonial world of empires solidly against colonial possessions it should have never attempted to possess any colonies. It did and they are all fucked up. The Republicans or the Democrats are experts in starting wars but have never won a war they started. People think the US won the second world war but history reveals the Russians defeated the Nazis not the Americans. Ever since every war following the Civil War has ended up in a loss for the US. So, it is time to get rid of the two parties unable to break the incessant habit of starting wars, a fundamentally immoral lunacy that must be vanquished from politics. Their proclivity to start wars is a mania and driven by profiteers. America fought a defensive war only once in its history, i.e., WWII. That is the extent of it. That is my message on the international scene to those reading this. They are no better on the domestic scene, what the Democrats and Republicans will do is wait till the public simmers down from all the commotion. If there is a movement that emerges from all the protest action they will begin to study how they can redirect it as their own, how to integrate the problem the movement drew its inspiration into their politics. Masterminds at cooptation. This time a Billionaire New Yorker got chosen to lead the Free World if there is one left, one who can't think past personal enrichment. He brought along with him other New York Billionaires like Carl Icahn, Mnuchin, Pruit, to handle the dismantling of regulations in typically male dominated sectors of the economy such as the energy sector, banking, and he chose female billionaires typically from the Mid-West to dismantle regulations in education, media. Democrats are useless in preventing the dismantling, they cannot win and have no agenda worthy of the American vote. This leaves the Republicans in a frenzy of deregulation leaving the American public as the loser and the billionaires the winners. If a movement emerges that is not strong enough to throw out the two parties the losses will extend across generations of Americans never to see the light of day for the rest of this century as a beacon of democracy.
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  8923. When your laws and lawmakers are to weak to enforce the law they must be removed from their positions. Capitalist relations leads to cuts and unemployment which even the labor unions in France had to administer to their own rank and file. They humanize it by calling it layoffs, but it is the same thing as losing a job, and all of the western powers fall short in acknowledging the structural contradictions of capitalism that, in turn, lead workers to their own demise. Observers on the left see the capitalist creed of innovation lead to a falling rate of profit, but the capitalists themselves and the mainstream, have no idea why or how profits are falling. But falling they are and they are not about to hire more workers to produce value. Instead they innovate production to get more value out of less workers.  The French workers and their theorists are big on the idea that wealth is produced by labor but not big at all on the idea that nature is a producer of wealth more so than labor is. This is because labor produces value and less of it given the technological innovations. Nature produces wealth and there is differnce between wealth and value. Hence the falling rate of profit, less value from live workers due to unemployment, and innovation causing unemployment to rise, work against each other, less is sold, less sale-money becomes capital, less profits. Where this trend is not happening is in the USA. There the workers work overtime and innovation created a high productivity of labor that profits falling domestically is offset by their productivity and by profits acrued internationally. The US must maintain its beligerent posture to maintain the standard of living of its working class and that of its capitalist class, war is vital tool for hegemony. If the US were the size of France it too would be in a recession and in material decline. But is plain as day that the French ruling classes do not know what to do and the French people have to remove the incompetency rampant in their government.
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  8924. I seriously doubt any other nation will be willing to buy an American made helicopter (if this one was American made) given the industry’s poor track record for safety and quality. It appears the government contracts given to manufacturers to produce planes, trains and automobiles come with no restrictions against cheapness or oversight. The manufacturers are given so much free reign over their production that they are selling crap and placing their own people in peril and where they fall from the skies and land in a particular district to crash the Congress person of that district remains dead quiet. But that’s okay. Money talks and BS walks in the world. Buyers will go to China for helicopters or Russia. America can live with its greed all by herself. Congress does not seem to care why should the public?
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  8925. FAA should use the Military’s air traffic control system which is above commercial airline space but can monitor the traffic on the ground with great detail. Duplication of Services is the bureaucratic term. Private airline companies are too cheap to monitor air traffic. But the government’s powerful robust air traffic system, which you already paid for as citizens, has a single use specifically for incoming missiles. Nobody fires missiles at the US which explains why military air traffic controllers were asleep at the wheel when a Chinese Spy Balloon flew undetected in US airspace, they are bored from under utilization and over efficiency. US Military has aircraft permanently flying in space all over the planet the capability to control commercial air traffic is beyond what society needs. But I think Americans have seriously delusional people running the show. They cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. A heavy air traffic control system is used to deal with light problems and the light private air traffic controls system is used to deal with the heavy traffic in the skies. Over efficiency and underutilization on top of impractical application is a mark of a Stupid Nation racked by contradictions. The US has no sense of proportion when it comes to matching a capability with a need.
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  8926. Anti-Masks is only a cover for not knowing what to do but to be in the way of socializing protocols.
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  8927. Americans have no grounds in historical fact to declare Russia an adversary of the US.
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  8928. Such masters of deceit, litigating the area of the constitution that depends on custom and culture, tradition, and has nothing from the 1700s written down that the general population supercedes the electorate and the electorate challenged 400 years later along split party lines.
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  8929. So, really the virus is reducing the retirement age for social security for the American working class. The younger generation if and when infected with Omicron, as age sets in, become more susceptible to the virus that half or more of the population will always carry in them. Gen X-ers and Millennials have a higher chance of dying before they file or collect as little from social security and pensions before they expire. The young get old too and Omicron is a capitalist tool in a land where there is no universal healthcare to extend your life!
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  8930.  @kateoneal4215  As a Marxist Richard is not that great to my surprise. My worry with him is the four elements that constitute the Value Theory in Marx, the first three chapters of Capital. He is a moderate to the right of Lenin. Lenin gets it. Richard misses it and when you miss that you miss the whole of Marx’s economic system; his methodology, exposition, and practice. Bernie falls nowhere near this panoply of Marxist scholars. He is to the far right of Lenin. With Sachs the worry, as he explains, was thinking like an economist when your enemy is a political class that is a Mafia. But I love them all because I have a passion for life. These folks lack a lust for life. I just wish they had a revolutionary bone in them and learned to talk to people the way Jimmy Dore talks to his audience. Fire people up. Agitate, agitate, agitate! They do not show they care. The anger in them is either absent or inauthentic. The academic aura they casted for themselves as a result of being boxed into bourgeois universities makes the revolutionary theory that the Theory of Value is a fossil. Dore shows anger. He confronts people of their stupidity without insulting them. He is a natural born teacher. Dore has the delivery down where people listen, Sachs and Wolff do not. Listening and hearing is forced when they talk economics. The point is to motivate people toward overturning bourgeois society. The socialists in the US are intolerable to me do the exact opposite. They are ideologues. For example, if the Proud Boys take a stand against the FBI or disrupt the Democratic Convention because the Proud Boys are Proud Boys the socialists would condemn the action despite the act being a good one for the working class. When the patient has no idea what is good for them they cannot administer the medicine, they let the patient suffer. On the right the Neoliberal have no reason to attack Trump when he has policies that the capitalist class really like, The Trump Tax Cuts, but because he is Trump he’s not their brand. The US military, the real enemy, the actual Mafia holding the World a hostage by the point of a gun, hates Trump. Would I vote for him? Certainly not. He’s no good for the working class. But i would support him if he reduced the military budget while in his term in office. He is now a victim of the FBI, so was Fred Hampton, Malcolm X., presents a good opportunity for the segment of the working class that is black. Obama, a sophisticated imperialist and a non descendant of American slaves, was the worst president for the working class. So it is a mess, a carnival of ideologues. The objectives of each individual or group are abstract and not grounded in Marx’s scientific thinking which makes them easy targets for the right. They lose the art of revolutionary language, words that evoke clarity, ad fail to gain traction with the Public. Harvey is another in the mold of academia that is all theory and no practice. Its a matter of principal that theory be honored and respected but not when it is does harm to the working class. None of them talk about labor, the working day, the conditions of labor, the products of labor, the double aspect of labor, the relations of work culminating into how wealth is formed in a capitalist society, the struggle for dignity, wage and social inequality, in concrete terms where people can develop a strategy to express their dissent. The working day is the weapon of the working class with which to defeat the right and far right and none of the professors teach workers on how to use it. Chomsky is more helpful, communicates to average people in a way they can follow. and presents clear analysis of the power structure as One Party with Two Right Wings. There is a Scottish economist on YT who I truly find distasteful for one reason, he has the poorest diction, speaks rapidly, thick accent, dismisses his own points and is loaded with inaccuracies. Americans have serious trouble ahead of them but they also have the ideal conditions for a revolution that will go to waste because they do not have a theory of change. A Historical Paradox the professors ought to put front and center of their lectures as a unified theme but do not for the simple reason they are not unified themselves.
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  8931. “I just feel like I am being victimized over, and over, and over again”... 132 million people in America would instantly agree with that statement. It’s a working class condemnation of capitalism. People are sick of getting burned... globally, 8 billion working class people would instantly agree with that statement too. Capitalism inside the US is worse outside of the US. So bad it makes capitalism inside the US to the American working class look good when it really sucks for them! Time is coming the last gasp of an ancient regime breathes life into a new social system that will bury it. Outside,-- capitalism makes profits through the destruction of older societies; to modernize them with its ingenuity and equipment, it all ends up bad for people who lost their small farms and the jobs replacing the millions of little farms around the world are not ends in themselves, the jobs become a means for a future acquisition of profits,---than, of course, there is mass forced starvation and ripping the land out from under whole populations through any means necessary is carried on as if these were events not man made. Inside,--- things get worse. Mass material deprivation worsens for 132 million working class Americans, victimized over and over again. The American working class they constantly violated and exploited have nothing left to give anymore...its over. Very swiftly new and more meaningful social bonds will unite people from all walks of life. What capitalism held back for so long subjectively has been released from its chains.
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  8932. Under women are African Americans and below the African Americans are the Indigenous People of the North American continent is a strange racial stacking of capitalist preferences in the world of Anglo Saxon sociology. Still that is not Phratry, the real term for Patriarchy. Phratry is a brotherhood that emerges where two or more families in the same tribe freely form an organic union for certain common objects. You can see how phratry is not limited to the State of New York based on that explanation but is replicated in the modern state and its origins are traceable to the family. Think of the meaning of the word 'benevolent' in the title the 'Police Benevolent Association', and the word 'association', another word for union and what do you have? Benevolent signifies the common object all police have and the association is the brotherhood of Police existing within the state, in a way, a double agency one is seen and the other is unseen. It is easy to see how the public is susceptible to conspiracies when phratries surround our lives. The four tribes of ancient Athens were organized into three phratries each having thirty gentes, 12 phratries and 360 gentes. Pretty even-steven that it was produced by legislative procurement not naturally evolved. How many department chiefs does the modern state have is the number of phratries and the number of under functionaries in the bureaucracy is the number of gentes...the entire super structure of society reflects what is not natural to mankind but is legislatively procured by the state. The Roman Curia is analogous to the Greek phratry, ten families to each curia and ten curiea and 300 gentes of the Romans. Curia entered directly into the functions of government voted by the curiae an assembly of gentes having one collective vote. The Senate in Washington is analogous to the Roman Senate, two political tribes subdivided by a brotherhood of 400 senators and 50 states composed of millions of families and three or four votes must be got last minute before default the fate of 332 million people in the hands of a legislative body. It starting to look pretty real and huge the more we peel the lid off of patriarchy. This patriarchy sweats out of every pour of American society sure gives observers an idea of what a revolution would have to leave no stone left unturned to heave off its shoulders a patriarchal superstructure.
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  8933. The media news outlet that decides to no longer manufacture consent and be independent of filtering information to the public as per the dictates of a third party interest, will make the side obfuscating the truth a lot less confusing and unclear to the masses making it easier for the public to take a stand, if that is what is being sought after in this commentary on this on-going coup that is leading up to its coup dé gras in 2024?
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  8934. 6:00,---glad he pointed the exercise in raw power of the SC is in the number of justices and nothing more. There are more of us than there are of them will be a lesson in the chemistry of raw power made into social power. Exerting legal force over the wills of millions of individuals by narrowing the range of freedom of access of the necessaries of life a person can have in society on top of the limited range of freedom a person owns in the form of money, wealth, capital is an exercise in evil and immorality.
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  8935. Well, that is really stupid, discharging migrants to the street. More keep coming and these people are not stupid. News travels fast. Cops are going to be earning their keep for sure and Denver will become a ghost town. All the big retail corporations will pack up and leave Denver. Small businesses will go broke. Crime will be so high nobody will dare walk the streets of Denver. All because of a Shelter. The Shelter Director is an ass!
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  8936. What a contradiction on TicTok. You cannot force a sale, if you do you are a dictatorship, and you cannot shut down it down as a tool for millions of people. You’d have a 120 million people become instantly registered voters and you’ll never see the halls of Congress again in your lifetime. Obviously the less extreme members of Congress will make it criminal to share America’s privacy data. But what is good for TicTok is good for FISA and behind FISA is the National Security State that has full sway over the privacy data of Americans.
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  8937. What is occurring and how the misinformation is treated by media is the same with every crisis generated in other industries. The industries continue to do the same thing as before because the objective of the prevailing philosophy of less government, in practice is to ensure there is no government interference in private industry gets acted out in journalism n the public realm.
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  8938. The smoke from the fires and the Ozone smoke humans produce combined is DANGEROUS! It also spreads and covers a wide area in a matter of a few hours four or five cities can be engulfed in very poor quality air with high levels of particulates. People should not make it worse!
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  8939. Racism, does anyone know where and when this happened?
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  8940. The News reports on this shooting and others protect the identities of the shooter calling them ‘homeowners’ is an indication that Big National Media Corporations like NBC are part of the tyranny of average working class Americans.
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  8941.  @davidcanatella4279  You'll be doing that for the rest of your life. Ruling class propaganda is a juggernaut,--- can only be stopped when the means of communication are not in the hands of monopolies that tey are, to keep themselves in a position of determining thought. Thought police. I go more simply, change the way we meet our social needs. You got a toothache you go to the dentist. You don't go to a bureaucracy with pain in your mouth to fill out papers to determine which dentist before you can get to a dentist. You need to raise a child and go to work as a single women, here is your support network, simple. We all pay for it because we all need it. You say equality and ecology are not separated in the ideal world but in the real world they are separated, and the justification for the separation has merit for those who have direct access to the advantages of society. It works for them not for us all. Refutations bring nothing of real change but mass action does. Currently, everybody in the US lives under the direct rule of Billionaires but the billionaires do not have to follow the rules they lay down. Refute that condition all you like but expect nothing more than a comment.
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  8942.  @davidcanatella4279  So what would you change first and how?
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  8943. I like the strategy.
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  8944. Private appropriation has become internationalized. Billionaires from many countries invest in the world economy through stocks, bonds, funds, even lend money to other governments. They cannot be nationalistic if they have capital invested in another nation, they have to be neutral or form an international cartel of other capitalists and break nations and nationalism down. They must consolidate all social production to the point where each government is a weakened government for them but kept strong enough to crush resistance. Most of the resistance to this consolidation of the world market and world production is channeled against migrants but it is through the closing of industries that has been taken away from the working classes completely decimates their social condition.
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  8945. I cannot trust a vaccine makers opinion of its vaccine when that vaccine to the vaccine maker is a means of exchange. You understand what I am saying, there? Is the vaccine maker(s) urging me to consume the vaccine for my health or to turn a profit? If the vaccine were not a commodity for sale people would be less untrusting of government and private industry. This is the first problem we Americans are divided over. Half the country has faith in its enterprises and endorsements by government and the the other half doubts everything. Doubting it all is perfectly a rational position for the precise reason that corporations are turning a profit at the expense of the health of populations suffering a pandemic. US pharmaceuticals would rather deprive humanity of an antidote than lose billions in profits. This government cannot condemn capitalism after announcing itself capitalist. The one glimmer of promise is that the use of the vaccine to date that we know of, is safe. And by the use of the vaccine in nations where vaccines are not the product of private industry meant for sale but the science is the same have passed the pandemic. This experience corroborates the actual use of the vaccine that the product is an antidote and not a conspiracy drug.
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  8946. I don't think you have to raise your voices to end mega-farming...they are only producing what you like to eat in addition to making money for producing it. The end of mega-farming begins by changing your lifestyle. End the consumerism associated with mega-farming and it will go away... you'll have to raise your voices at government to get them to change...I think that is a lot harder than changing your lifestyle and consumption patterns. Government cannot put-up a fight or save a dying industry if people decide to stop barbecuing and spending money in big beef restaurants and fast food chains, its all killing you anyway with disease.
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  8947. Thousands of years from now the mass graves buried today will be found by future archeologists and they will have found blunt force was used to kill humans of this time period in what they would begin to explain as an Age of Terror in the evolution of mankind. They will have noted that from the start of human civilization some 12,000 years ago the culmination of civilization has ended through force in its simplest form with fire to its more complex form in nuclear, hydrogen and atomic power. The blunt force used in the destruction of rich and poor nations on a world scale was its technology and science.
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  8948. The Donbass region of Ukraine was developed by the Soviets as a mining industrial center. Now only the shells of the mining infrastructure and equipment are intact but the soil is still rich with minerals and ore for mining development and its geographic location in the region is a strategic acquisition of the West if the pro-Russian Ukrainian government was overthrown.
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  8949.  @wakeuptheresnospoon  Are you the censor?
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  8950. It is going to be impossibe for the DNC to ignore Bernie's growing movement of people and the mass of people taken to the streets in all US cities, as more than 50% of the American population support impeaching Trump. They will try every trick in the book to derail the Bernie campaign. They are motivated to save their own skins. Thanks to Trump many Biden supporters will defect to Bernie as their electoral choice. After all there is no other alternative for them. Biden and his spoiled son no longer represent what America is about, are over. That demographic of the democratic party has only one more person in their arsenal to give the election over to Trump and that man is not in the campaign, Obama. I only hope Bernie's campaign managers are more aggressive and do their research on every person launching an attack on Bernie and come back strong with concrete reasons why the attack is pernsiciously meant to de-rail the people's movement he began in the first run for the presidency. This movement has to prepare for the battery of techniques used to sabotage as a people's movement grows. And it has to accept the fact that its enemies are in fact, enemies.
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  8951.  @j.n.sloane  Fascism.
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  8952. 14:55,---There you have it the Political Elite have a disdain for the people. Rich bankers, merchants, landowners, finance capitalists, all hate the working classes. They think the people are stupid and cannot run an empire. I would agree on one thing about the People the Establishment regard as stupid it is their identification with an Establishment not of their own class that they can be humiliated. 15:15,---Regarding Le Pen, her protectionism is a right wing policy. Protectionism is a policy that historically never came from the left in any left government and is not a left wing policy, this commentator has his politics all screwed up. What else is this commentator from England saying that is based on a false premise?
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  8953. Bernie supporters should call their rallies 'BRALLIES', so they can continue the rallies after he wins.
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  8954. Government “regulators” have lost control over the society.
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  8955. The American government has never supported a Leftist government since Paris 1919. This fact tells you Lula is left of Bolsonaro not a leftist in the same way Biden is left of Trump not a leftist.
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  8956.  @rosedudesert4389  Who told me? The video told me: Why should I believe the Israeli prime minister’s comment that the allegation leveled against Israel is a monstrous lie and morally wrong? So tell me why should I believe the Israeli PM?
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  8957.  @whydoiexistrnwhy  People who answer questions with questions are posers who have no answers, that’s you!
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  8958. So many labels used in the left, the young left should be focusing on the problem of inequality in society. Inequality appears in America as surplus-value benefitting the 1%, objective reality serves this one class. It also appears as 99% of all objective reality in America suppresses the 99% of the population. What has been done today to free objective reality from being used as a political power against its own people?
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  8959. Eric Zemmour, the far right candidate polling 13-14% for the presidential election who said immigrants are thieves, murderers, rapists; moved LePen to propose lowering the retirement age and higher wages, is pandering to the working class. People who do not know better fall for it, polls rise a little. Although, wages have been held constant over the past 5 decades, they are by nature a variable and can fall below its own value if prices go higher than what a worker can afford to buy. If employers raise prices early retirement could mean an early death for a lot of people in the working class. If wages rise and then fall before you retire with the expectation you bought a personal retirement fund the contributions get smaller the pay out is less, or when paid out is strong but prices rise again and you are living on very little money after all monthly expenses are paid off. Wages and prices are not fixed values. What is constant is the torture of the working day grind and that is fixed for its golden outcomes. If the left can talk about the working day and conditions of employment they can gan a lot of traction with the working class, but my gut sense is that the left and the working class are people of another color and persuasion, don’t get along, and this is the challenge...making a connection.
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  8960.  @coopsnz1  You might want to fix your grammar and English writing skills the way your write is jibberish, if you expect people to understand what F you are saying?
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  8961.  @coopsnz1  Your writing skills suck and that means your brain is limited. Your opinion does not add to much when you cannot express yourself. If English is not your native tongue than say so...that can be forgiven...but if you are American or British...the only excuse for your illiteracy would be American slavery and you are 110 years old. I sure that went over your head.
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  8962. What the experts got caught up with is the fact that COVID is transmitted through the workplace in buildings with poor ventilation and high incidence of indoor pollution. Treated building material that breaks down over time and flies through the air in particles finally entering the human lung in addition to pathogens coming from the workforce. To correct this means the owners of the workplaces would have to spend capital to fix it and this goes against the profit margin. Better to test something that was never tested on humans than to have corporations fix their workplaces of indoor air pollution in a Grand Social Experiment. In short, Capitalism and COVID are inseparable and generate a morbidity rate for workers as an added workplace hazard the government chooses to ignore.
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  8963. Democracies are not fragile if it is a full democracy, a people’s democracy versus a democracy for the people. The heirs to the creators of the democracy of, for and by the people abstain or reject their partial democracy from becoming a full democracy. Every country has their own style of social democracy. The common myth generated is the destruction from within idea that a social democracy will bring. To them the social democracy contained by the shell of the partial democracy is a negative thing that will bring destruction because it is the half democracy that serves them better in society and a social democracy will some how cause the ruin of their position in society. In defending this federalist democracy, we are aborting the social democracy from becoming an objective reality that it seeks to become from its latent state of being.
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  8964. Excellent report! Papa Smurf said the diamonds are valuable in the human world. Worthless in the natural world of serfs. Hardest rock on earth turns to dust if it is pulverized. What good is it?  Rude little Smurfs bullyfye one of their own and cast blame and shame in the heat of their anger. Telling the family of Smurfs, Papa Smurf said their friend was taking advantage of their time. "Time", the human world did not always use time in such a way as to measure how it long takes someone to make something. Smurf time was used for a specific aim and before man used the labor of other men for wealth accumulation as a specific aim, human labor of any kind was a natural activity in finding and creating useful things. An activity of some useful kind, constructive, be nice to go back to that, live in the natural world of Smurfs, where time is not used to measure labor and labor is not time. Before there was a Gargamel invading the natural world of Smurfs, Smurf activity was spent producing use-values. Anybody who interpets the Smurf barter system economy of one use-value for another use-value is a real life Gargamel in propagandist clothing. Naturally, the serfs spending their labor time on something valuable in the social world of capitalism whether by chance or trickery, angered them.  Gargamel needed their labor time, as in the world of capitalism, capital needs the labor time of the working class first. Diamonds, gold, drugs, oil, or food second, and then to avoid an expropriation by the angry Working Class, Capital must annihilate labor! They have enough wealth the working class is no longer useful to capital. Gargamel can't get off that easy, if he is accumulate more diamonds out of the same place in the future he needs more Smurf activity to be useful as a value -producer. The rage of the Smurfs against the fear of the Gargamels and a planet that cannot tolerate the conflict. Happy X-Mass All.
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  8965. The Shame of Silence in Parliament.
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  8966. 2023 is the year of the collapse.
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  8967. Officials in Idaho are LIARS!
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  8968.  @shirleyandrews1152  Indeed it is...what gets me is that the CEO is somebody’s son or daughter. What in that parent made a person be okay with enriching themselves at the expense of human life? What in a parent made five cops kill a young man? What in a chemist makes them make chemicals that harm others? I am saying these immoral individuals came from families with no soul or humanity.
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  8969. Leadership is using them the poor slobs.
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  8970. So, ---the Buffalo officials are refusing to accept failure but are instead blaming each other for the catastrophe unfolding in Buffalo,---the officials in Buffalo are incompetent leaders. An incompetence that runs rampant in all government departments at the city, state and federal level can only be answered by a mass social upheaval to unseat officials holding offices of vital importance.
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  8971. Capitalists in the Senate who are fine profiting on the misery of the American people.
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  8972. Grow Up!
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  8973. But DA Doorley, our bourgeois Karen in government, is only the tip of the iceberg. There are others as bad if not worse than her.
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  8974. It’s not that all these stories ABC report are lies because they are not! It’s that they are not reported with any objectivity that they become partial stories and shape your Public Opinion on partial facts.
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  8975. The men and women on this panel are way too soft on the rise of fascism in the US. In fact, so soft, it’s an easy takeover for fascists who are more streetwise. The history of fascism is absent in their discussions. They do not get it and they are using a national media platform is a disservice to you!
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  8976. When you are captured by the enemy, (the enemy is socialism in the GOP), you are a coward for not killing yourself in place of being a prisoner. You return to society as a POW. All POW's captured and died reflects badly on you as a survivor. The social code violated, the living non-soldiers reject you on behalf of the dead they killed in a war against socialism. It is manly to commit suicide than to surrender, comes from, Hitler's final act of suicide as an act to escape justice and punishment by death. The political mission of the party, therefore, since many GOP'ers do not have the guts to kill themselves in the face of surrendering to the revolution, is to immunize themselves from prosecution and punishment a revolution and world court would inflict on them. They also have access to assisted painless suicide. This is the only rational pathology that bonds the right wing together, they are all anti-socialists committed to annihilation as a last resort. When you extend this red pathology to the national security agency, annihilation takes on greater proportions, in the destruction of society and the planet as a last resort, rather than to surrender to socialism. The red scare runs through the GOP as a pathology; it becomes hysteria the moment a step toward socialism is taken such as the Affordable Care Act, seen by GOP social conservatives as Obama going too far toward socialism.
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  8977. The Carlysle Group's Jerome Powell in the Federal Reserve sets the stage for more borrowing by the government. Increasing military expenditures while privatization replaces real social spending turns the government into a conduit for private capital and the tax payer into a mule.
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  8978. Who owns Cracker Barrel?
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  8979. @Oye As wth everything else America(ns) are obsessed loving corporations and billionaires and hating them. They also love and hate the little guy. Frankly, you’ll have to tell me what your country stands for because it is not clear to me what America’s objective aims are outside of conquering the world and defending it for its own sake.
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  8980.  @mooseandsquirrel9887  You can say that again, your republicans gutted the government that is supposed to work for you. This incident and all the other incidents of condos coming down, gas explosions, food poisoning in restaurants, building fires in Philadelphia and NYC, failure to inspect and secure smoke alarms and detectors killing children. I would say you don’t have a health department at all...you have functionaries in those departments nationwide.
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  8981.  @rhoanjenson7475  EPA and FCC are permanent fixtures of the government when Trump leaves they stay. Give them too much regulatory power they become corrupt themselves or an over-arching power proving that type of monitoring of public safety is the wrong approach to a healthy society physically and mentally. The correct method that empowers good standards of practice comes from the workers themselves, who in America have no role or responsibility or power to monitor or regulate, modify, or implement a plan for public safety outside and inside the workplace, is the mistake.
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  8982.  @adb012  I would junk the republic for which it stands. The only social class in your society not straddled by debt are people who do all the work in your society and this is to perpetuate them as a working class for the benefit and convenience and use by people who have no part in the work they do, or the work that gives you the necessaries of life. Your society exploits this group, they will one day destroy this Republic for a better system that gives them the freedom they seek. They are children now but when they grow up and you grow old...you are in for trouble.
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  8983. Pretty nasty formula: I’d say it is immoral of the western powers to follow suit. Getting inflation under control is what the Fed tells the US public is the reason for higher interest rates. For the last 45 years productivity has risen and actual hours worked per worker in the US fell owing to automation and other negative influences. Wages remained constant and profits rose. Not until inflation became a necessity to slow down China that American working classes would feel the difference between a static wage and a rising cost of living. Rising fuel, rent, food, tax, utility prices paid from earnings of two jobs because actual hours of work per worker fell in all the prime industries in America made one job not enough to live in America. But from the standpoint of the development of smaller economies and China as a competitor and a changed world economy. The high rates is to slow down or destroy the progress of China damaging smaller economies in the process. The high rates debase the currencies of smaller nations of their purchasing power for the necessities. Failed States and broken societies. This is what we have when the political and social dramatics which conceal the real deal are stripped down.
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  8984. The Public Utitlity (Denton Texas tax payers) in the de-regulated market are charged $207 million dollars for few days of energy costs for the city of Denton. This would bankrupt the public utility and it would have to shut down and stop providing energy to the city of Denton. Or the public utility will have to borrow from bondholders to pay off the private energy corporation and the city residents of Denton owe Wall Street bondholders. It has no other choice the republican philosphy is to exclude the federal government as a back up to a national grid. Denton is on its way into becoming a dead city, empty. A place where boarded up store fronts and empty apartment buildings are common. It would cost a fortune to live there but $207 million dollars is pretty cheap for a company like Blackrock. A negotiated settlement between Blackrock the buyer and the Bondholders the sellers and Denton will be on its way to becomng hthe luxury capital of Texas for the rich. A total demoltion of the old Denton and new upstarts of bourgeois culture and commericalism too expensive that only the rich can afford. While the former Denton families are forced out of their properties by the pressure to sell to Blackwater, coming on the scene as a personal buyer on the market connected to all the realtors. Texas republicans are desperately blind to the life and death issues of their policies. If the whole society today runs like a fire engine without a driver and tomorrow staggers like an alcoholic, they don't care...as long as the final outcome the bottom line is greater than the amount invested. They live by the creed "buy cheap and sell dear". P.S. Is it Blackrock or Blackwater the giant real estate corporation I refer too?
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  8985. Bravo Dr. Wolff! The Big IF you describe is the if to strive for, a great idea that can only be made real needs a social force to make it real...equitable and even affluence as undivided as the world can be made would be the end of human history as a story of kings, generals, monarchs.
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  8986. From 1992 to now that's 29 years of republican reaction to world events and social movements in that region of the world tells me everything I need to know about the republicans.
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  8987.  @kctaz6189  You are not your own person with own voice and free will. Someone by the name of Thomas Sowell inhabits your brain.
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  8988. Manchin's hands are stained with the blood of humanity as a direct connection to the heating of the planet and the fires in northwest Canada, which, by the way, people should not be on floatation devices and standing in water under the direct sun. If they burn and die, Manchin as the pivot Democratic vote could be blamed only so far if people are not intelligent enough to get where shade is provided. The lobbyist is symbolic of America's Black Capitalism, which is no better than America's White Capitalism, both forms of colored capitalism make a world social revolution necessary and the only way to force Manchin's social class to leave government. Should be shocking to the viewer they are watching children in the footage of the schools to re-socialize First Natives of Canada, as they climbed on their beds and under the sheets in their boarding rooms, ---little children were murdered by their caregivers in that institution.
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  8989. People spreading rumors and lies in a time like this are worms.
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  8990. I don't like the new forms of surplus extraction they come up with to try again. Its not cheap. New and higher tax, fees and renewals. We are nickeled and dime-d to cover the cost if they don't get it right. We'll never have a generation that is not bound to hours of work beyond what it costs to live and to the point of total exhaustion even early death to pay for all these failures. They are not paying for it so there really is no vested reason to make a deal that works and lasts. In fact the crazy thing is that we pay them to fail!
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  8991. The city government is due for a takeover of political power. City Council should file a Notice of Impeachment against the Mayor, take power. Override his orders. The ridiculous and the incompetent need to be removed from the control of the resources of City Government. The cuts are unjustified and are the result of the inequity in the distribution of the costs of running a city is the inner problem. The migrant crisis eats up the greater share of federal money through the cuts in a food program for kids in school is no way to deal with that inner problem of inequity. It’s actually a very stupid way of solving the problem of inequity and harms the biological development of youth. Children become less the potential they can be because of hunger is an immoral criminal institutional abuse justifies a takeover.
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  8992. Lawmakers can threaten the lives of other lawmakers renders the law lawless an hypocritical.
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  8993. Joanne Apple silencing the voice of the people is what liberals do with disdain I might add.
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  8994. Abshir - Very good, summation. But are AIPAC lobbyist(s) Isreali or some other foreign national? If so then would those lobbyist(s) be Jewish? Would those politicians paid by AIPAC lobbyists for their loyalty to Israel, are they Jewish? If so, then the absurd equation between evil Israel and Judaism is contradicted by the fact that ethnic cleansing is carried on against a non-Judaic people as a matter of social policy of the state in Israel. Jews can do a combination of one of two things, overthrow the state or renounce Judaism, or both, retaining one does not stop the genocide. At this point, we could not even abolish Judaism while leaving the state in existence.
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  8995. Every social segment of the working class is under some form of attack in the US. Abortion is an attack on women in the working class. High rents is an attack on urban and rural residents in the working class. Inflation is an attack on the working class as a consumer. High interest rates is an attack on the working class as a borrower. Low wages is an attack on the worker class as wage earners. The absence of development, security and safety is an attack on communities of youths and families of working class character. Government cutbacks is an attack on the working class as a citizen. All of these attacks are coming from landowners, bankers, merchants retailers, employers, government. Every social institution is under direct orders in a command from the Establishment that if you do not attack the working class you will be charged with hate crimes and anti-semitism your life destroyed. The Establishment uses hearings to purge those who are not complicit. In this social experiment using language and media the working class is made to attack the working class with violence and vitriol emanating from that media. The Grand Social Experiment of the Establishment has the working class on high alert and isolation, hating their neighbor, living under a reign of terror, to preserve the status quo and never oppose or question the rule of the monopoly government of the Establishment. Elites are frightened they will no longer have control over the whole range of America’s productive power is why the state of anarchy and terror persists.
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  8996. A poetic polemic attack on Neoliberalism...in an economic example... when land, water, soil, and raw materials become things that can be bought and sold, specifically...material Nature the lives of human beings are based... only the rich live long lives... and the poor die too soon to be old. ...when land, soil, water lose their universal quality as instruments and means of production to private ownership... are things you can buy... ...the rich live and the poor die!
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  8997. The flip side to the argument of the single mom that is pissed off by the thieves is the sons of single moms in many cases are part of the mob of thieves. If there is no other way to financially help your mother than lifting articles she would otherwise have to buy for you makes sense to the would-be thief.
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  8998. Voluntarism lives in Florida, government is paired down to first responder divisions.
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  8999. Fundamental problem here is a society whose only purpose of existence is to buy and sell. That in a nutshell is the meaning of life for capitalism. Mel Brooks could not have said it better in his movie "Life Stinks." The absence of real meaning of our actions comes from a continuous process of buying things for the sole purpose of becoming more money. All of us do what we do for the sole purpose of commodities becoming more money is a striking revelation. This is a pretty narrow aim for a human being that took 12000 years to handle more than capital increasing itself! Commodities rule over, we become commodities 12 hours a day, then we transform become human for another 12 hours a day. To many we don't know which we are anytime of the day. Eventually the commodities wear us out the human spirit dies and any light that can be seen behind someone's eyes dims lost in a world of commodities and money, rules of trade, laws, leases, titles, is nothing but a battlefield where commodities go to war to convert themselves into money, doing all the action and getting all the attention, they have men in black suits speaking for them in their own special language, they have shared international press and they use their name as a number so when money comes walking by, they can scream they can scream out loud enough to yank the money out of your pocket...and you really think you are in control? But something new has creeped in. Commodities hide their price from you and make you ask for the price leading you into the hands of a capable salesmen. Commodities push that person to sell more on the person already pushed by the first commodity looking for a price, every action we do is done on their behalf is a fundamental problem.
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  9000. Higher ground or long rolling hill high altitude valleys is where to live.
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  9001.  @kimberlyperrotis8962  You don't have to be troll to throw out an opinion, do you?
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  9002.  i am fierce  First allow me to kindly adjust this misperception... when I said the US will not last another 20 years...it was hoped the reader would fill in what is not said in that sentence but is inferred. America will live in 20 years as something else. What will die is the US and its political superstructure, but what will live is America. So we bring out a distinction between the US which is a nation-state, and America which is a land of many people in motion and practice. This my friend, has little to do with Revelations. Revelations is a drama of ruin, destruction, a descent into nothingness...no dear friend, I see an ascent into something-ness.
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  9003. @Jay Dee Every American family has an Uncle Fester.
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  9004.  i am fierce  The stardust in you has dimmed.
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  9005.  @jamesmitchell1815  That's crazy. Maybe you are crazy...I don't know. The world is not going to end. It will change but it won't end. Don't worry about the world. No matter what we do to it. The world will become something we know the world not to be and we will not be here to see it. What will end is society as all societies have a beginning and an ending. Societies can die in a week and no matter how tough they think they are if they cannot socially reproduce (bring food to the table) they are history.
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  9006. The neglect of America's infrastructure corresponds to one generation's lifetime misses the point of the cost of maintaining 170 military basis around the world and the cost of wars. Since WWII, invasion after invasion, the US taxpayer carried the cost for one social minority controlling the energy sector to get the return on the government's investment and then with that return that minority lends back to the US taxpayer with interest as high as 19% the cost of running government. US taxpayers have been the fools playing the happy consumer while paying the cost of Candy-land for the energy sector industry while the poverty, decay and disease destroys life on our planet.
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  9007. Without an opposition workers party to the two party cartel in Washington, Americans may as well voluntarily drive themselves to the concentration camps.
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  9008. Nice sentiment but completely useless in the war between police and the people. The number of cops who are pro-Trump anti -gay, and anti-black, brown, blue, green, etc., is high enough that not even the police unions condemn Trump’s transgressions in open public, is what you want to discover or rule out. Same deal with the UNIONS, so many Trumpers in them the leadership are quiet. Civil Liberties, its the same. Leadership are quiet. But it is a nice sentiment the haters go nameless but that does not root out your enemy if you are gay.  @jaynederp5236 
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  9009. Time will forget you and me and we are decent people...what makes you think this man would be memorialized? Nobody will remember. There is a right wing Trumper in every social organization in the US. Every one of them from top to bottom has a Trump component that keeps all the leadership of these institutions deaf, dumb and blind to this virulent right wing. If you do not know who your enemy you lost your struggle...they will fight you till you’re erased from earth. Your thinking is all to common and it is the reason the American people don’t stand up @Youknow1t 
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  9010. I was half right. He is a foreign student. But I knew he was not some punk suicidal racist. Let me ask you who cleans the bathrooms and cooks the food at Chapel in the homes of academia and at the college.Certainly not the bourgeoisie of Chapel Hill @Jodie-ux1kn 
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  9011. Ordinary Americans do not realize that the White House, Senate and the Justice Department would have been the only institutions of their government saved from the destruction by insurrectionists had the coup succeeded. The nation of the First Founding Fathers, a closed chapter in history is how close the coup attempt came. The US Capitol and the House of Representatives would have been burned to the ground. senators in session surrounded with Capitol Police Officers in a war with the insurrectionists. Remember when John Kerry went to see the barricaded Ukraine Capitol held by insurrectionists, Ukraine Parliament burned down and at gun point kicked the Russian president out of the country, events unfolded in a series of violent episodes involving protesters, riot police and unknown assailants. The controversy was about Crimea, but the ingredients are the same for any country when it comes to violent coups, Americans are no exception. Protesters, riot police and unknown assailants gathered became an insurrection, Trump agitated the protest and the army was nowhere to be found. We would have had rump as America's first dictator using the pandemic to force the population into submission through acting as a benevolent concerned white patriarch.
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  9012. Looks like Zucker emulates and mimics the life of Randolf Hearst, who with his tryst had built the Clarendon Building on Riverside Drive in Manhattan, a cat walk leading to a secret apartment on top of the building.
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  9013. A political war may be won but it will come at the cost of losing a biological war against disease from the fallout of low intensity nuclear warfare.
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  9014. The crisis is that the commodity that you have and the commodity that you need are two different things and probably in two different places, and money is the commodity that gets you from the commodity you have to the commodity you need. This is true of nations as it is of individuals inside nations where money is used. When you are trying to accomplish this transformation and a rail system and black out happens and all energy is down all the useful things stay where they are, commodities do not move between persons. The only thing to do is to walk home or try to complete that transformation by whatever means within reason because the money is desperately needed. Or the other person needs your commodity without question. But the person with the money will not sell it for your commodity because your commodity which is to be sold to someone else is not buying so the object stays put and people are stuck with a thing of no use to themselves. All the useful things that should be in use are in storage perishing as I write (in this case money being the useful thing the person is trying to attain) the money stays in the bank, circulation has broken down, there are no exchanges involving money, people will have to exchange one useful thing they own for many useful things they need from another person or family by daylight. Refrigeration is gone. How are people surviving in Venezuela in a commodity producing society that is no longer producing or selling commodities? For some 30 million people daily life will be exactly trying to overcome this very problem of getting rid of things useful to other people in a desperate act of trying to get to the product or make the product they need to live.
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  9015. Kid should have gone straight to a shrink ordered by the school.
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  9016.  @qjtvaddict  Indeed. Depends if the people go over to the side of revolution or if they remain inert between two opposing forces. Washington will invite the people into its world with flowers and will see them off with machine guns.
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  9017. They blame Biden when in fact it is has been the weakening of government over the last 45 years.
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  9018. Better get Congress to regulate Mark Zuckerberg.
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  9019. All of America’s dysfunction come from weaknesses in production where employers and employees have conflicted interest produce defective products and services. NO PART of society is safe as long as production is dominated by two groups that are embroiled in an economic war with each other. In this war, the employers are organized and the employees are not, they remain isolated and fragmented, powerless, and in opposition to each other. The role government, specifically the Senate, plays in this economic war against employees is the enabler turning its back on employees and siding with corporations. Corporations have free sway over production where the planes are made poorly, where the wells spew toxic waste, where emergency crews are led by incompetent leadership, where the food is grown, where the houses and building are built and either blow up or collapse and where kids are taught they are shot and where people are treated they come home in debt and in worse health than before they entered a hospital.
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  9020. This guy Ezekiel, if academically tested today would have a 10h grade level formal education at age 38. He was 16 when he first broke the law and had not been in school since. He is a product of an unequal public education system and now a dependent on a criminal justice system.
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  9021.  @shandorkato  Rule of Law...sounds absolutely nasty. I don’t like laws. People who need laws are people who exploit each other. Laws are limits that prevent people from harming each other which happens anyway renders laws useless. American media is a tool of the government and industry, used to pacify Americans, prevent them from becoming aware of their own oppression.
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  9022.  @shandorkato  No better way than to lure out extremists than with extremists opinions.
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  9023. Perfect, with this capture the family should be put on public trial, so we can learn the issues children and families have that drives a child to kill.
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  9024. Biden missed an opportunity to speak to the world as a world leader should about conditions of life generating violent hate and frustration that plagues the western world.
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  9025. What gaurantees others do not follow Camacho when he is kicked out? Camacho is a Judas, sells one soul for money.  History has a long line of Judases willing to betray their own for money and property. State department has the power to set you and your family up in America for life.  No worries in exchange for vital information leading to the arrest and capture of the true leaders of the people. We all know the story. Something more profound is needed to really deal with the problem of what makes revolution necessary?
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  9026. You owe it to yourself to take the time to become political aware; you would learn your political system of 50 states and 50 legislatures dominated by two parties lacks consistency, uniformity, and is totally chaotic.  @patriciaegan7244 
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  9027. Trump won’t have to sell his buildings to come up with the money to pay his penalties and fines. His buildings are productive properties making profits. They actually become national treasures of historic significance. Banks will happily advance the capital to him and he can call the terms of what he borrows to pay the State of New York. These properties are money making money even after he dies. Another important issue for Americans is how deep the government is inter-enmeshed with the economy that a ‘shutdown of government’ would leave the corporations as the last man standing if the shutdown is prolonged past the point of recovery. At this point since there is no retreating of government enmeshed with the economy and the corporation are not coming back from China it makes more sense to stop leaving the economy hang on the chance two political parties will make a deal. What if one party says “We don’t want to give you Ukraine and we will defend the Border ourselves, like or not.” What then?
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  9028. USA here- I love this show...nothing like here in the US.  All of us have to decide what kind of society we want? Providing unpaid labor is enslavement of the citizenry to service the corporations. This is a problem our governments have placed all the citzenry into this position, by allowing technological machine producers to develop machines that squeeze from the public bits of time from each person adds up to billions of dollars in profit from the automation to the machine makers. Totally immoral.
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  9029.  @StevieB275  You bet. Democrats are racists. As racist as the republicans are racist. Unresolved racial segregation in America imbues all its social institutions and individuals with racism. Racism is inextricably connected to your history the bias is expressed in different realities of the same thing. So what you think is not racist is racist owing to the whole social context the act takes place.
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  9030.  @punkylilkid  I remember when white people pulled the fire alarm in movie theaters, that was shameful too. In other words, your shit stinks too!
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  9031. Withdrawing American support is precisely what needs to happen. Please, by all means, do so, force our government to withdraw all American support and this way the Duque dictatorship can only lean on Narco-drug lords. A complete withdrawal of US moral, political, financial and military support, will level the battlefield. Duque can topple sooner than later and the indigenous people can set up a new society in Columbia.
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  9032.  @ethanstump  But that is not the vexing reason progressives do not break away from the establishment and forming that third party?
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  9033. I am never going to get an overview of the anatomy of the system under which we live from Cheech but he gets one point true to humans, education is the point of life for individual humans... but financial gain is the point of life for the society is incongruous with the personal point of life to individuals!
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  9034. One million Americans in their prime and elder years are dead to COVID is abysmal! Worst in the world in the richest country in the world. American priorities are upside down and inside out...all screwed up, as it were.
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  9035. Brutes without an SS insignia! At this point cops are soulless tools for force not people. The brutes are doing the work of publishing monopoly dominating the small town newspaper market and the last bastion of Freedom of the Press’s small hometown news is the Marion County Record fighting a Goliath. If the accusations (no matter how vague) rise to the level of national security (a threat to the State) the police can by-pass a warrant.
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  9036.  @itsolivier  I don’t think you use of the categories are understandable, relatable.
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  9037. Recent poll suggests the Gaza War was the reason Harris lost to Trump. Had she broken away with Biden on supporting Israel she could have lost with integrity and authenticity as the worst case scenario. She’d have left herself in position for a second run in 2029, but now the democrats are in a hole. They’d rather not make static wages and interest rates and loans a political issue for the working class than forsake a Zionist nationalist and racist passion to obliterate Palestinians, which in another poll in Israel suggests the majority of citizens in Israel support the Gaza war and the portion that oppose Netanyahu on how to prosecute that war is not as large as you might think...much respect to the Hasidim at the least a definite resistance to the draft worked with a movement to stop the war. History is beginning to tell the story, Biden, Harris and Trump, are starting to define the era as the era of class struggle, and nationalism that if there were no hostages the zionist settler movement would have gone forward with conquest unhindered and with majority support. For the American worker who knows the only wealth in Israel that is not paid for by the US taxpayer, literally Israel is a Welfare Client, are its archeological remains of 2000 years ago. Wow...betrayal of loyalties to what nation centrist democrats belong runs deep. American nationalism never went beyond protectionism and trade wars. Trade wars and high tariffs on imports have been tried before and never good for the working class only good for the oligarchs, in retaining more of their profits, workers are going to suffer more of the burden in cuts, layoffs, company closings with no new avenues of employment on the horizon. On the other hand, for people to not vote for Harris, or stay home and not vote at all, they must have been so repulsed by Israel, less concerned about reproductive rights, more concerned about prices, rent, wages, interest, taxes, mortgages, loans, ---rage and discontent spent their individuality on Trump to punish the democrats.
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  9038. What it shows is that the social movement that supports Donald Trump is enough of a rebellious movement to intimidate the Justices to make that decision. If anything the decision affirms this social movement as getting closer and closer to the seat of political power and the court shows its acquiescence to whomever that power the movement decides most represents them and their class interests.
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  9039. Interesting conflagration of social control over the American people. The military rank and file are racially heterogenous and the police rank and file are racially homogeneous. The potential for a race war is a latent possibility in these social compositions of both social institutions. Trump has command over the military rank and file and can order them to defend his regime.  However, law enforcement is the enforcer for the judiciary.  Trump and the Judiciary have to be aligned for law enforcement to arrest and kill protesters in the street.  Governors are a smaller version of the presidential power over the state national guard and law enforcement through judges they appoint to the bench.  The form of social control that encases the American people is suffocating, and they might be consciously and unconsciously feeling powerless to overcome if Trump declares himself dictator and steals the wallet of the American people from Congress in 2020.  With two institutions of violence poised in opposition to the American people the odds are not good in a revolutionary situation that a race war will not happen.  The Yellow Vests movement overcame that problem when others outside of France joined them which we saw recently in France the unions joining them, the police took off their helmets to the yellow vests, is an example of how the American people can turn the tables on Trump's control over the power elements of the State. America needs a yellow vest movement.
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  9040. It tells me that young people are not fully conscious of their vote and still not enough of them have overcome their apathy. They should easily have outnumbered the older baby boomer black vote in the south.
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  9041. The only way to access the chemical compounds in the weapons the manufacturers use in their products for testing is when in use. The police are the primary domestic customers of these weapons, thus the suit is aimed at the police.
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  9042. Youth in Durham North Carolina have a problem with a city that seems to walk by its youth problem, more important is Black Friday, getting people to shop. If the city puts half its resources encouraging real education and employment it might not have a bunch of adolescents running into public places having rival wars with loaded guns and if it banned guns within city limits. Dumb kids and dumb adults are running Durham.🧐
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  9043. Not sure how much longer the other part of white society is going to be tolerant of the pastor Jefress (sic).. Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are is all you need to understand about the mentality of this virulent form of racism in the (no pun intended) White House.
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  9044. The self-checks outs are put there to avoid hiring people by the company.  People should not use them unless they want machines to replace a job a person can do.
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  9045.  @SuicideRedemption  But in other Walmarts people were fired when they got them.
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  9046.  @Penny-em2cs  If the Vote could abolish the citadels of capitalism they would not have made the vote legal.
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  9047.  @williamabbott9437  The way to correct the growth of an oligarchy forming out of a entrenched bureaucracy is to redraw the map of the US and reduce the number of states from 50 to 20. For example, three states draw water from the same source I would redraw that map into one state to level the uneven pattern of consumption of water and soil, vital resources. There are other ways to fix this problem but all of them require the American people take control of the government. Washington DC is a district, as such, it’s legal status is separated from the legal system of the US, similar to how the Vatican is a nation within a nation with its own laws, currency, the legal status of DC should change to the city of Washington, home of the national government versus its present status as home to an oligarchy and establishment siphoning the wealth of the general US economy. Further, the nation can be run without the Senate and the Supreme Court. To me these institutions are the arm of the oligarchy, get rid of both of them, leaving the House, the Congress and the White House. In need of radical reform are the military and law enforcement, nether are defense forces but are deterrent forces which presupposes a world of criminals for their existence. Anyone who has traveled outside and inside of the US knows the world and society is not filled with criminals. Criminals are man made. The State Department’s primary clients are criminal elements. A revolution is definitely required to abolish the criminal elements acting in the world economy. The triad between the State Dept, White House and Homeland Security currently dominates the political life of the US, they make the world the way they see or imagine the world should be according to them and the Oligarchy and they block any progress the American people might enjoy otherwise.
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  9048.  @williamabbott9437  You bet. Doesn’t mean you reject communism because it has problems. There are solutions in communism there is only one solution in capitalism, i.e, revolution. I prefer solutions than revolutions, Frankly, I like owning property, giving land to the peasants is a good thing, they become independent. Capitalism destroys property and then acquires it after its destruction for its own development, see what is going in Hawaii. Take land away and you have institutions like Black Rock, Bill Gates, Elon Musk owning all the land. Capitalism is anti-property ownership, think hard on this before you take a position, monopoly capitalism is why the American Dream becomes harder and harder to reach for average working class Americans.
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  9049. manuen Gonzales...what can they do about it? Let's analyze what they can do about it together?  This is not a challenge to you. Its an invitation to cover all the angles where you think Max can be harmed. Let's start with what crime is he committing?
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  9050.  @paulembleton1733  Would not have been so congenial a relationship between Churchill and Attlee et al, if there wasn’t a Nazis regime bearing down over you and Europe threatening the crap out of you.
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  9051. The German diplomat sees the agreements the Russia see the agreements as concessions. Give the west an arm and they will take a leg.
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  9052. I like that Biden discusses the political economy of the economy with the facts. All other presidents in the recent past since 1980 never talked in economic terms.
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  9053. Developers will be stopped by people not mangroves because developers are going to go out of business continuing to make single family dwellings that pollute just as the car industry will go extinct because individual transport is a big polluter than mass transit.
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  9054. It was a serious reflection point for the blue collar white working class at the time. They were in a turbulent rejection of organized union authority for not giving the same protections to them as middle class executives and professional men had; everything could be jeopardized by a radical change and in 1968 it began to look like that radical change was becoming a reality...workers revolts, wildcat strikes, factory takeovers all over Europe would spread to the US. Jan 6th is a culminating point of a long history of losing confidence in elites and groping around to find a voice since the democrats turned corporate in the 80s; when they turned their backs on America’s white working class. Biden as president called himself a Capitalist. At the same time, it was sheer bad faith for this segment of the working class to dwell on its own problems at the expense of understanding the problems of other were able to be manipulated and misinformed, mis educated, at best. Indoctrinated at worst. Demonizing the wretched is not the decent thing to do and communism in Europe was no threat since Stalin announced Socialism in One Country after the war...in the end, which would be our current situation, generations later, this segment of the working class did exactly what elites wanted them to do, revolt, and not sacrifice their reasons to be conservative for the greater masses, but, instead be available for one elite to be used to crush another elite.
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  9055. Its not going to stop what the administration is going to do but it is a start.
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  9056. 195 nations on Earth, of which 10 nations combined exceed the GDP of G7 nations, that leaves 185 nations less 27 EU nations, leaving 158 nations, mostly all in the early stages of capitalist development some 10 nations participate in their own trade, China who sells to 60 nations the balance of this world market is left to the US, roughly, 148 markets also in their early to middle stages of their independence and development are 54 nations of Africa and 33 nations in Latin America, the relations between nations is more important than endlessly talking about Donald Trump. These people get paid a lot of money to not mind talking about one subject all day do the Public no favors keeping up with the rest of the world.
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  9057. I do not think the motive is a false flag operation and blame Ukrainians...what would be the point, they are already at war. I think his aim is to throw nations dependent on Ukrainian grain into a long term recession. A grain shortage on the world market could induce gain buyers like Kelloggs, Post, Quaker Oats, to lay off more workers and raise the price of their cereal products or not be profitable.
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  9058. Afghanistan is proof that privatization can never produce schools, hospitals, deliver clean water, collect garbage, and the war proves that US forces were obstructing the growth of a government that would meet these fundamental social and civic needs. A horrible example of naked self interest motivated by oil that an occupation took place for decades and history reveals certain characters were not at all humane when stealing their oil was the criticism used against the establishment as the right course of action not taken by the prosecutors of this war, the longest for this country. Barbaric.
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  9059. The question is how much longer must we be charged to pay for lawsuits through taxation as a society because of laws that do not target but, instead, covet incompetence, corruption, and repression, of the social structure of the police? They cut Potter a deal. By quitting she avoids criminal police prosecution. The situation is so tense you really know who your friends are.  This is a tragedy in the forefront of all parent's minds that their children outlive them in a better life and the governor calls out the national guard... is no way to console a grieving community? But is this not the same warm welcoming treatment another part or branch of the social structure of the police dishes out to Central American immigrants seeking a better life, I see no difference. The son of a white working class women killed by a white middle class female Karen, privileged by her position in the union. Potter takes her chances the family does not file a civil law suit which comes with no jail time that in this case cannot be fudged. How this all can end is with society bearing down on the politicians to change the laws making police and police funds immune to law suits and damages.
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  9060. 3 rural town idiots. Idiocy begets idiocy like violence begets violence.
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  9061. Paying close attention to the first employee working with the Public was the reason he quit. He commented on the public’s attitude who don’t want to follow the rules and rag on employees. Customers who throw soup at managers that they are not paid enough for the crap the public throws at them. Its not in your job description as store clerk to fight off bears that wander into the store in some remote rural regions in America. Employers in the service sector created conditions that later came to bite them in the rear when nobody will work for them.
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  9062. Well the military is not wrong. Littleton NH is a white supremacist small city. Fascists run that town. How do I know this soldier’s home town is not Littleton NH?
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  9063. You would not be wrong if you believed all members of our society are split up between slaves and partial slaves. A man, woman and child are forbidden by law to sell themselves as commodities to another but are free to sell the commodity they own that is inseparable from them to another for only a stipulated period of time. You would not be wrong if you said the Civil War was about that stipulated period of working time becoming the law of the land. The truly free man, woman and child are people who derive their subsistence from their own labor instead of buying their subsistence from a market of mass producers. You are then free from the will of the mass producers, their decisions do not cut you off from your subsistence, as long as property in the form of land, tools, livestock and yourself, family, etc., are not separated from you by a cabal of greed infested real estate developers and a juggernaut of corrupt government officials using their power to kick you off the land!
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  9064. Excellent video very informative and entertaining. The Gulag camp was riveting.
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  9065. People are finding themselves spending more time off the job than on a job! This is a direct consequence of workers performing super well on the job and they have no control over the pace of their work. Tools and technology are independent of the users that they serve the puprose of creating 'indefinite work'
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  9066.  @michaelhayes4615  I find Dave Blackman’s comment interesting because the “BOSS “ is the modern dictator.
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  9067. Adorably dangerous.
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  9068. The American people lost material wealth and are sinking to the same level of poverty endured by others in the world. Feasible that many Americans will be as poor as Haitians striving to enter America. The deprivation is happening at an alarming rate and at the same time material wealth become objects for sale at an expansive rate. The necessaries of life become commodities is the presupposition that a disintegration of the middle class is happening as a means to de-privatize the working classes of all property in their possession and make the whole population an object-less social class except the monopoly Capitalists empowered by government? American capitalists (quietly in the back ground, out of sight out of mind of public view) are in the process of making the money-wealth they accumulated from the 80s to now, into Capital. Cash has to become hard property that over the last five decades in stocks, bonds, the profits accrued trillions of dollars into few hands now has to take the next phase of creating commodities out of all the products of labor by means of separating people from their property.
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  9069. Americans are under the delusion that social security is not a self-sustaining program. They will get suckered into believing the program has to get cut because it raises the debt ceiling. Social security is not financed by the government. Government does not borrow money to pay seniors and people on disability their social security check. Social Security is fund every working person in this country and every employer paid into over their work lifetime. Republicans and democrats will be making the case the debt ceiling and social security are linked together. This would be deceiving. The two forms of debt that are linked together are corporate private debt and government debt. Both of which can be resolved by raising taxes on the rich and ending the war in Ukraine and all wars that sends money out of the country.
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  9070. And what or whom do you propose replace the democrats and republican legislatures?
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  9071. The conservative agenda would end up turning society into a concentration camp. The American people would have to rise up and overthrow the Fortune 500 capitalist class to bring democracy back to America, is the only alternative. A war against the working class has been a constant feature of American capitalism since its turning points in 1963 and 1974. It went full throttle in 1980 ensnaring the working class with debt in order to position the whole working class in a place where utter dependency on a job was the sole function of life. Through the two market crashes land and capital, machinery, science and technology, concentrated into the hands of monopoly corporations vis-a-vis bankruptcies and liquidations. Conservatives made sure that bankruptcy laws were reformed as a means to shatter the middle class and introduced legislation for imminent property confiscation under rigorous drug laws Richard Nixon used to destroy the anti-war movement and criminalize millions. The Conservative Capitalist Agenda is a Doctrine and every conservative for it is doctrinaire, didactic, and spins off the Monroe Doctrine when it comes to their views on the world and humanity. With a good chunk of the working class cut off from production and a series of democratic and conservative governments legislating to free capital for the perfection of machinery and technology in the workplace and then create a new class of few technically oriented machine workers in the tech industry aiding monopoly capitalism, these become powerful forces against the working class; and are a constant dead weight on the limbs of working people in its struggle for existence with capitalism. Working people who have been made homeless, separated from home and family, cut off from employment, hounded by ordinances and laws, incarcerated, break down till they perish in numbers, are not given the right to exist in the conservative world. Science, technology and machinery in capitalism are the weapons in the war capitalists have against the working class.
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  9072. One reason the money lent to construction companies were all high end and the lack of capital invested in low end housing never happened. Second... Throwing people out of work is a ‘correction’, for capitalism is an irrationality of capitalism. A ‘correction’ is a misleading term for a recession, a recession is a term for unemployment rates measuring how much of the total workforce can find a job. This government’s statistics are inaccurate of the real rate of unemployment. In the investment cycle, recessions are longer than recoveries, and GDP falls short in the repayment of borrowed capital, largely spent on Ukraine and Israel...but when the economy contracts and people are laid off, the recoveries are not sufficient enough to lower the unemployment rate, more and more people are losing jobs...and recoveries are short ended. Another factor, is, the rate of exported capital in the manufacturing of commodities the American working class in the 80s had no political response to the export of capital. It completely went over the heads of the American people satisfying its insatiable appetite for surplus-value by means of cheap labor the American, all other western corporations followed suit, opened shop in Asia and China making unemployment a permanent feature of the US economy, this came in contrast to China, employing 700 million raised out of poverty to meet western demands for a highly effective labor-force less than what the corporation would pay in wages and salaries to the average American worker. There is so much more to this perplexing struggle...time is now for people to take a political stand against the irrational policies of capitalism.
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  9073. Everybody should simply move to Rumbl where Joe is broadcasting and leave the place (Spotify) a stupid name anyway when you ponder its significance, that left him!
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  9074. Fascism is also about a personality structured to conform with authority. An Authoritarian Character carries with it an authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, anti-intraception, superstition and stereotypy, power and "toughness", machismo.
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  9075. Un calls 911 and reports an emergency and the whole US army has to gear up and swat an incident that never happened. Boy, the prep work to get in battle gear everytime someone calls a fake emergency....A soldier’s life stationed in South Korea is worse than the soldier’s life ordered to guard a chain link fence in the middle of Montana from what not even the Captain knows. To be ready is to be sweaty.
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  9076.  @Kelpy  ...its very related I would say. When you study mankind; its plain as day, society,---species life is not an external system. The system exists to maintain the separation of the species (total productive capacity) from the human individual and there are guardians to that system who use it to place limitations on the original independence of the human species.
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  9077. ​ @guyoflife  Capital is so diversified that it can swiftly move from one industry to another. Corporations are in the financial industry in addition to their subsidiary industries they are known for. Profits are accrued from a diverse range of sources. They don't need to call out the cops to batter protesters at the first sign of opposition when they can move capital around the world and still be profitable. And I am talking about all 500 transnational corporations doing this. As for the GOP, once they are cornered and ashamed for being the one's responsible for the collapse of the American dollar and economy, a power transfer can take place quietly. The GOP tries but it will not succeed covering up its dirty track record. They do not want to go down in history as the biggest criminal organization known to mankind. When the republicans are fully exposed and discredited for their absolute corruption the democrats will go down with them. This violence would only come from the national security apparatus if it is threatened, and since it operates like an inner fortress of foreign influences, Congress would have to strip its political influence.
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  9078. @Drav1212 I see...the short answer is, as with all things American these days, it is half assed.
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  9079. Wow, I knew this two years ago and knew that Fauci helped get US tax funding to that lab to the ‘Bat Lady” working on viruses in China.
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  9080. This is another fiasco of the greatest magnitude, expecting patriarchy to disappear by railroading one predator, is what I call a prepronderance ineffectual feminism. I am sure the poor girl in the Bayou of Mississippi is going to find solace that her predator will stop molesting her if Harvey gets jailed. Is it not clear that Harvey is a cesspool of money attorneys bill $500 dollars an hour and enrich themselves the longer they try the case, the more the women seek justice in a court of law. That is like meeting a monosyllabic librarian who tells you the library does not repair books. America is real sick society?
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  9081. Corruption. Corruption obstructs human progress and social development for the mass of people in society. It is the same in the US. The Press, the American Business Oligarchies, two Ruling Parties, all are barriers to real social progress and development for the American people. Corruption there is corruption here that must be broken at the same time by the people there and by the people here. United Fruit Corporation does business there but makes its home the US (Boston USA). It is the same, identical, relationship that a media, ruling elites and the government have with the people of the country is a parasitical relationship. One cannot say or proclaim it is their problem not our’s when corruption starts here is the source of the sufferings there!
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  9082. Telling the truth gets you into trouble in Washington. The American people have been lied to for so long they cannot tell what is the truth. Even if the truth hit them on the head the truth is perceived as a lie having been conditioned to lies and manufactured consent for decades.
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  9083.  @jvh22a  Stick to protecting your own dam property and people...you have no right to protect the property of others. A private citizen would be a pretentious fool to stick their neck out for the protection of property belonging to another.
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  9084. Supreme Court looks to me like the Death Panel of Obamacare propagated by the right wing.
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  9085. Trump and his family have no stake in the game, he is rich and he is president...the cushion he sits on thick enough to never leave a dent in his income, wealth, status or power...only an extremely insecure ego as an individual can be as vindictive, cunning and callous to dish out this level of pain to millions.
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  9086.  @65minimom  good point, I always thought the draft is a preventive tool against wars. But the very rich and the political elite will not send their kids to war, not when the Estate Tax is passed, who then will inherit their wealth, if their child comes home in a box, their other dysfunctional child?
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  9087. The prayer comments everywhere fall as hallow as saying hello, everyone, prayers to all from the CCCP in China.
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  9088. Thumbnail said Why China Looks Down on India and really the story is about a huge power struggle with China centered on Tibet. China's story is a remarkable story for humanity. Whereas other nations do not for some reason learn from each other to improve life China observes and learns and applies what other nations have done right to reach a higher stage of development. She has lifted 700 million people out of poverty. Eradicated illiteracy among men and women. People live longer lives there. That is the equivalent of the total US population by a factor of 3 to give you the enormity and magnitude of this economic system the Chinese call communism.  Whereas India has 3 out of 5 women who cannot read or write China has 1 out of 5 who cannot read or write and China compares to India in the sense that both nations lived for generations under a caste and peasant system of production under ruling dynasties for a thousand years before China became a socialist society is a remarkable story of achievement compared to the mortality, literacy, and life expectancy rates that take into account poverty as a catalyst since India became a capitalist economy are, frankly, abysmal. China has stated its aims. Its track record verifies its stated relationship to the world since it came out into the world stage, it will not bully and not be bullied and nations doing business with China do it voluntarily, their reasons have to do with going nowhere fast under a western paradigm.  What is being presented here is an attitude Hillary Clinton exhibited about China when she ran for president; 'the rise of China is a threat to US national security', she said the rise of China, as if to mean nations are to remain underdeveloped the position of a higher stage of development is a spot the US alone can occupy. Great arrogance coming from a white woman. But it is par for the course in the American economic system that red baiting fears are ginned up when the economic order of the ruling elites in the US is underdeveloped to China's economic model. All history is re-written to propagate Hillary's mythology and to believe in that myth is where the danger lies, it is never the war on Vietnam, or the war on Afghanistan, or the war on Syria, as if these countries had wars that internally developed...not at all, history in the attitude Hillary Clinton exhibits call all these American interventions the Vietnam War, or the Korean War. Korea on its own never had a war. America made war on Korea and is still at war with Korea the divided nation that country has become the eastern outpost version of Germany's Iron Curtain.
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  9089.  @dianegron  Pardon my intrusion ...Makes them complicit not spineless. You cannot prosecute someone for having no back bone.
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  9090. A very thorough and pathfinding report that exposes the naked truth of Establishment lies and deceptions.
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  9091.  @patrick_biden  You achieve more and higher economic growth when the money is put in the hands of working people who buy. So far that has not happened and all the money has gone to the top 1% into hand of people who do not buy, and the economy is in stagnation. Don’t be stupid.
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  9092. Intelligence in the State Department is sorely lacking. State department officials do not change if a new president comes into power. The job is a career and lifelong. So if they are stupid now they are going to be stupid tomorrow! I predict the whole military will have to divorce itself from the defense industry and Wall Street as its tool for maximizing profits.
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  9093. American news stations are doing you a disservice when the reports do not show how they are politicized that they really do not care about fixing the migrant crisis. The crisis is political capital for the republicans and for the democrats to use against each other while human beings are played as pawns, hostages, to interests that only want political power. Shameless hypocrisy.
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  9094. Eric Trump is not wrong when he say 75 million people love and will miss Donald Trump. I disagree wth those 75 million Americans but I will not say these 75 million people are not a serious problem when the balance of the population wants to move in the opposite direction. A good 12 million of the 75 million are millionaire families and America has 12 million millionaires likely support Trump. There are 800 billionaires across the US among the 75 million Trump enthusiasts are likely Trump supporters. That leaves a balance of 63 million Trump supporters who are not millionaire and billionaire families but in some are are property owners whether of a business or home and these could anyone from ranch owners to suburban condo owners mixed in with the millionaires as employees are on the recievng end of the pressure to support Trump coming from their employers, like the Pillow Guy and his staff of 1,500 wage earners. We have millionare and billionaire families constitute the upper middle class and the middle class a number around 20 million and the balance 43 million are wage earners constitute the middle and lower social classes in support of Trump. Then the age factor in support or not of Trump among this 75 million Trump supporters is divided with the larger active group being millennials and the older and younger generation less supporive of Trump over his failures with the pandemic. Outside of this pro-Trump social force is the mainstream of society a balance of 260 million people non-Trump supporters. Pakman's assessment ought to be about how the 260 million people in their aim to overcome the virus and reset the economy are kept back by this pro-Trump social class's ideological positioning relative to the pandemic and anything scientific. Fighting the ideology they hold is more important than making a quasi-psychological assessment into the character of a leading pro-Trump supporter.
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  9095. The rural Americans who are rich are pro -Trump get their health care through private medical practices and not from rural hospitals is the reason they would not care when hospitals close. They do not use those hospitals is one good reason rural Americans who are not rich do need these hospitals should demand a national health care system and the rural hospitals would be supported by the entire nation. Reality says, when health is a thing you can buy the rich are the ones who live and the poor, die. This is a consequence of privatizing health care that this Trump movement, consisting of, conspiracists, Q-Anon, and Far Rightist Military Veteran’s, judges, police, lawyers, doctors, teachers, administrators and bureaucrat civil servants, is a distraction from this fundamental need that has blown up into a social crisis shortening the longevity of average Americans and blue collar contractor-employers. These people are pushed out of the market of health care and the government assistance given to people in need the private health administrators rape the government program who, ultimately, does more damage to my wallet, the TaxPayer. On these grounds I find both parties guilty as a party of deplorable politicians.
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  9096. The dominant social groups in America are still brown, black and white, and about a 100 other ethnic minorities from all over the world speaking their own tongue make up a smaller percentage of the population. Under these circumstances, everyone needs to be trilingual in the world market.
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  9097. 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑
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  9098. j s -- Of course he is responsible.
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  9099. My numbers not exact but the social configuration of how they fall is close to social reality. 64 million in the workforce earn minimum wage and less 20% of 100 million in the total workforce are union workers. This division comes in three separate class relationships American families seem unable to overcome, stuck generation after generation. The total US work force is separated by income and ownership of property along three tiers. 20 million union and middle class, 64 million on minimum wage and working class, the balance of 16 million plus working people earning below minimum wage are working poor, and in this way the division of labor conquers and subjugates individuals to its economic will and it is shaped by economic policy at the international level and domestic level by representatives in Washington who, in the main, seek to defend it in the name of freedom and democracy and even shore up the rigid demarcations brought about by conscious and unconscious, direct and indirect forms of racism, comes with a promise to defend property appeals to the middle class worker-owners but not to the working poor and minimum wage workers whose property is none to protect. With this message of leaving the middle class worker's property intact the eye is taken off,  of the injustices of the division of labor, devouring every last man, women and child into a living hell of a life without privilege, access and development, is skillfully resolved into a question of "protection" from elements out to destroy the US. The international concern of the rulers have to be made the concern of the workers ruled, is not to say,  that the workers ruled do not have concerns over the rules of work to come from the need to protect the property of other social classes abroad.
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  9100. I would say the suspects behavior reached a breaking point of paranoia based on the news facts thus far which, by the way, is questionable. If this man's actions is a cry for attention in the worst way, it is a cry too late. Violent episodes against the Public incites revenge not empathy. For politics, actions like this is exploitable for more law and order and social control. I do not think this is what Americans want but they will get it the more the youth of America are brainwashed.
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  9101. Its BeetleJuice not Shakespeare. BeetleJuice is not theatre and is not worthy of being a play. I would have lit a joint and passed it around if I were there. If BeetleJuice were made in the 70s it would have been a cult classic shown at one movie house in Manhattan every midnight with a long running audience of Cosplayers. Those who take that story serious enough to be a play are butchering theatre would never comprehend Othello.
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  9102.  @VlanVader  A flag brands the skin on your back.
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  9103.  @Owen-hd3oq  I am not following and I am not going to try to guess what you mean, your are being too vague. From what place are you looking at the world?
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  9104.  @Owen-hd3oq  Born and raised? Then your comment about the right wing is not about the American right wing, is it?
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  9105. At this point if people were not indoctrinated in west capitalism could not last a week. The only thing that appears to be holding back the masses from overthrowing capitalism are the ideological impediments they hold about communism.
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  9106. Vivek is not right. But he makes a valid critique of the media. The CNN anchor is way off track. Economic stagnation for whom is the better question to ask. Economic progress for whom? America’s economy is double sided. A duality. On one side are the workers not good at all on many fronts. On the other side are employers (capitalists) doing well on many fronts. The tension, fights, violence, between workers and CEOs highlight a real class struggle disrupting the rate of survival of the country. Just because a country is rich does not mean it will not fall.
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  9107. Capitalist development is abstinence of human and social development; it is to be expected that human beings living under a capitalist society will be producing nothing of value! A question about the State in relation to the total workforce is relevant: Out of the total workforce the percentage of people working in jobs creating nothing of value to society is further divided by people in the public sector working for the arms race...these people and the administrations they form are responsible for consuming a given amount of labor capacity for products of no value?
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  9108.  @jgalt308  How do you define non-productive? Government is more capable than private industry in the economic history of the US. Same is true of the Soviet Union, as in China. Tennessee Valley Authority is an example of the productive power of government. You might be confusing bureaucracy with government. Bureaucracy is highly inefficient, slow and unproductive and it is the typical form government assumes as a way of disposing its revenue when it is not constructing massive social projects. So if you are going to have government, better to have people in government who invests its revenue into human development. What you have now are people in government who know the price of everything and the value of nothing!
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  9109. Do not take these signs lightly they are leading to a mass censorship of all alternative media as part of a mass communication campaign to separate the American people from the world.
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  9110. This will only move the parties off the streets and into private places or not take place at all and the communities will go bankrupt from huge losses of tourist dollars.
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  9111. Geology, rare earth metals found in Syria is the treasure to be had by the power that occupies and dominates Syria. Metallic rock ore, uranium, gold, silver, iron, tin, aluminum, lead are grouped together on the periodic table is the chemistry, to be extracted and processed, that makes a military power a world power. If you still can't make the connection between why Bolton and why US-Isreali aggression in Syria and the role of American industry in regard to mining and drilling in Syria than you are as much focused exclusively on the rulers's personal myopic viewpoint than on the actual historical significance of those rulers unable to cope with industrial development that is not their own.
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  9112. Here’s my essay for people who like to read more than two lines. Merchants are lining up at the door for the Mug Shot to appear on their T-Shirts. The joke is on us, but at least the booking process of the former president took 30 minutes not a day. At the cost of omnipresent security services to protect this guy when he is not at home with his own security detail we got charged around 3 to 30 million for those 30 minutes not to mention the peripherals required. I doubt the GAO will publish its accounting on it. A better society would come from one change though; a newly elected president should be mug shotted on day 1 for crimes and infractions they will commit in the next four years of their term...they all do. If they are war-free the whole term expunge the charges and record. He/She goes home free. If guilty they can be escorted right from the White House at the end of their term and run for re-election from jail of stay there full sentence. If it was a crime to do war the whole time the war is going a president would be in Congress defending his war would be my way. If I were Speaker i would try to push through a constitutional amendment on declarations of war to be restored to the Congress as it was...and that would be the end of war presidents and profit wars of attrition. If the Rich and Powerful don’t like the draft, Trump case in point got out of the draft for Vietnam on a medical condition. Imagine Trump a Vietnam War Vet, would have done him good, he would have had a privileged position in the military, but parents of rich kids at the time did not want their kids go to war alongside the poor ones and die in battle. Pence takes this attitude to a higher level, he said in the Republican Debate of 2 days ago, that in foreign policy he will work with anyone to fight communism so that American kids do not have to do the fighting, hence we got Ukraine to do the fighting in a country Pence believes will resurrect communism in Russia. The way things are going I would not be surprised. Russians were better off when Russia was the USSR. I think every kid should do the military at least two years for national defense duty on all forms of disasters and there learn trade, business, skills, of an equivalent of 2, 4, and 6 years outside graduate school, if recruits so choose, and all curriculums in the military require employment and industrial safety and design to operate all facilities and infrastructure renewal that society uses on a daily basis
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  9113. Very good.
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  9114. Look how one side of the highway is unused for an evacuation. This to me is endemic of what is wrong with bureaucracies, they cannot plan, what they do is fix things after a tragedy but to prevent a tragedy bureaucracies are useless and do more harm than necessary. The highway transportation secretary in the White House has not worked with Louisiana state officials to use all lanes as exit lanes and the police to direct the traffic coordinate a 200 mile radius with other police to allow for this traffic to escape and thin out. Such a coordination is only possible according to the military Generals a job the military can do and nobody else? The feds cannot evacuate a small airport I seriously doubt they can evacuate Louisiana's third of the population, much less the bureaucrats in the state who have no experience in evacuations and coordination except when it comes to punishing people. But it does not take military experience to open the lanes to one way traffic, it takes common F'n sense bureaucracies cannot exercise because bureaucrats have no immunity from responsibility which explains why covers up are the life blood of bureaucracies. Bureaucracies are the worst form of government a society can have.
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  9115. @Rainfriday,--- Every four years we elect an emperor as president. Selected by a Senate comprised of two parties. As far as I can tell that is the extent of our direct participation on matters of the Senate, beyond that, all Senate business on society involves no direct input from society.
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  9116.  @gwreevesReeves  ​ @gwreeves1987 Reeves The why the term “empire” used to describe the US? Aren’t they synonymous in practice despite the theory?
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  9117.  @gwreevesReeves  An international class of capitalists.
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  9118.  @gwreevesReeves  Work under fascism is forced labor. Are you saying the workforce are forced participants working for Home Depot, Target, etc.? Heavy charge, Sonny Jim. You cannot have two of the same things on opposites sides. They have to be different to be opposed. In the opposition they take up positions and positions are never static. Its either too small of government on one side and its opposite on the other; big business. Big government and big business that’s not happening.
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  9119.  @gwreevesReeves  Been referring to your comment about corporate fascism all the while.
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  9120. Alabama has a sexually repressed and predacious senate for a state government.
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  9121. No but I did notice that Gold is the only religion, state, and family when republicans are in power.
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  9122. Nature’s changes is imperceptible to the human eye, as a process of degrees and not immediate as man changing nature to suit man’s needs, and shape nature is immediate and perceptible to the human eye. But nature on its own goes without saying does change is not the point. Climatologist blame high temperatures but the reporter does not say the high temperatures are caused by industrial production and consumption, a process of interaction between man and nature. You can put solar panels and change zoning laws, ease the demand on water for electricity, but that is not where the problem begins. The point of consumption is not the starting point of the human activity causing climate change because both are simultaneously two separate processes in one, consumption is production, its by-product are CO2s and production is consumption, this activity uses natural resources such as water as an accessory in the process of extraction, same with large scale industrial farming, and drilling. The environmentalists do everything to avoid the elephant in the room the need for a national policies on the use of water, land and soil, they would rather dive into their technical brains than to deal with the politics of climate change and make drones to pollinate fields rather than the government invest in the cultivate bees to be released in the wild and stop the cause of their disappearance which lies in the production end of human activity. The production of drones requires material elements obtained through mining, an extraction process, causing climate change never enters the heads of environmentalists who are not real environmentalists. This is how illogical America’s environmentalism is? On the other extreme are the legislatures filled with religious people who pray rather than legislate; bury their heads in the sand from the problem to avoid using their legislative power to tell the industrial producers of food, oil and gas what they cannot do in their processes.
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  9123. Would you defend a constitution that violates the rights of its citizens is a question I like answered. Or a constitution that permits the killing of non-citizens? What strikes me is that there is not one single face that is not white in the Capitol Riot. This putsch was a middle class putsch reminds of the same putsch John Bolton said he organized and failed in Live Aid to Venezuelans on the border of Columbia and Venezuela billionaire Branson funded. That putsch thought they were going to incite a reaction from the Venezuelans but little did realize the lack of a reaction was key to its failure and thus, they pretended there was an enemy on the other side of the bridge, throwing firebombs at their own buses. There was an enemy watching the putsch participants and were probably scratching their heads at them. If there was a black man there in the Capitol where Hawley ran for his life that black face cannot be seen on camera or not caught on tape, and does not represent the majority of blacks in America. Besides there are more important things than this but I will say the committee did a very good job detailing the event and exposing the close relationship between Fox News and the White House. Murdoch is now upset that Trump used his media empire but it was the media empire that profited off of Trump. If the rioters are traitors the media is culpable of that treason under cuts the committee’s objectivity republicans used successfully as partisan politics...and so this will go down in history as a failure to slow down the death of the US as a world power the world can trust.
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  9124. Every movie on this subject paints the State as the bad guy. Even in the greatest novels; Count of Monte Cristo. The State is the Oaf and the Cons are the Smart Guys. The French started this whole thing in French Guyana. Alcatraz, Guantanamo. The notorious Isreali prison is no exception. The British went over board and outcasted prisoners to Australia. The last Colonizers of the last century and19th century are the US, UK, Israel, Australia and the French.
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  9125. Excellent critique against the prize-fighters for capitalism. Free-market fundamentalism is radical in the same way caging children as a way of dealing with immigration is extreme. This is a particular virulent right wing ideology to whom human beings are a barrier to the development of capital.
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  9126. Long time coming that PR should decide statehood or independence for itself. Africa joining the G-20 is a tough deal to turn down for African nations. But they still cannot trust the US. The American Congress will never do what Spain did. Three senate republicans felt it necessary to block a bill that would accommodate pregnant workers in the workplace. America will go in the opposite direction Spain goes and make the workplace a living hell. But at least we are beginning to see the beginnings of an opposition forming inside the US. I am split on Musk because the mainstream media is trash but on the other hand, Musk is a desperate man.
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  9127.  @speakingtruths4215  You said it not me.
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  9128. Zalenski was pro-Russian before he was president....there is a video on line of him praising the relationship Ukraine has with Russia...what made him change his position was his life...if he did not play ball with western forces, particularly the US leading the whole charge at Russia, he would be dead not showered with riches. He chose US AID (weapons) at the price of sacrificing his own country and people. If the US can do this to Ukraine what makes an American think it would not be done to them....nothing...especially when American corporations and the police on their side can treat an American citizen. As a consumer the man from Puerto Rico is a non-citizen of the US in the mind of managers of Hertz and Spirit Corporations, are ignorant of PR’s status with the US ...is a sign that they are not taught anything about their own country in school grow up to become stupid trampling over the rights of their own citizens.
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  9129. @R C You do not want to see is why. Boston Archdiocese, NY Archdiocese. Philadelphia Archdiocese, Catholic Charities...add it all up the landownership is significant and this is only in the US not to mention world wide holdings. Rome has 3,540 acres and that is the smallest landholding compared to the rest. It has a gold and treasures and has no debt or taxes. Its all gravy baby.
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  9130. Its stereotyping that in the history of the US since the movie by DW Griffith “The Birth of Nation” initiated in the culture of elites of the time in 1915, the film is a message, it was made for them as an audience, telling white elites of European stock, how they should treat those who are not a part of the elite, in order, to keep that elite pure from mixing races. This is sexism in media instead of racism in media. Sex and race are the twin evils of American media when you have lost your imagination. People produce crap. These ads are uninventive crap.
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  9131. I would not want to be a part of a security alliance that depends on a mutual agreement of all its member to defend me if I am attack. One dissenting vote in NATO and there is no aid to my defense. Precisely because Ukraine is positioned geographically as a strategic location between east and west neutrality is its best option. But this is not about real security and all the players are not about establishing security worldwide.
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  9132. Its a beautiful train and engine, absolutely gorgeous. I bet the engineering is top notch. Gliding on tracks against a sunny rural background...its picture perfect. I’d lay money down the richest man in the west would buy the train in a heartbeat. Big country that Russia is. Putin’s train has all the detection systems the trains in East Palestine Ohio that went off the rails did not have. Those were trains equipped with Civil War technology if you want to compare trains you can’t. This story comes off to me as spiteful of the fact that Putin remains in power. Conjures cold war hysterical, historical memories of an earlier leader of Russia accused a German collaborator for taking a German armored train back to Russia as if Putin were the re-incarnation of Lenin. Surrounded by enemies bunkered in an armored train is as close to the real thing in history you get has got to be working pretty well for Putin in the motherland for the generation that remember Lenin. Really that is a beautiful train.
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  9133. Previously the land there functioned as a use-value for farming and cattle grazing, distributing products, etc., but today those occupations are completely suppressed by a natural occurrence caused by the same activity. Nothing natural about this deluge. The deluge is man-made from carbon fueled activity. But people refuse to accept this until it comes into their back yard.🧐
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  9134. The liberals in government and the conservatives administrate the soil in the form of water and land to collect a surplus value in the form of rent and taxes. There is no surplus value production in the relation the anchor-outs have with the body of water they have an affinity toward. The soil, and water is soil, as it is also land, is not a means to ends that can result in incomes in the form of rent or taxes because in the anchor-out relation the soil, water, land, are use-values and life-giving entities. Soil in a purely commercial society relates to things as a relation of things, are alienable objects, bought and sold to capture rents and taxes.
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  9135. What is good for the planet and the human race, that is, less of the raw material extracted, less mining, less polluting and less revolutionizing life with microchip processors into our daily products, giving nature the chance to recover, rejuvenate, heal in many occasions, allow for us to find our relationship to nature, is a disaster for Big Business, Wall Street and Government. The world must never be at rest or pause from conflicts, between the three institutions the affairs of world must remain instability, violence, must never reach equilibrium, must never achieve full employment, must never meet every need, must never reach a capacity of independence for that would mean the death of the business of making money, if it stopped to re-humanize. Our three passengers would get off angry for losing the privilege of riding the gravy train when it derails and then blame the engineers for their derailment of the train.
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  9136. Seems to me a plane or boat cannot even get into Haiti much less deport Haitians back to Haiti. Trump will have to pay another foreign country like he did with El Salvador to house the deported immigrants.
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  9137. Trump released an Ad, highlighting the same signs of decline Chomsky identifies, not exact but close enough, to cull his supporters for a potential rerun of Trump in the White House, and to use against the democrats in 2024 for those running on his platform. Chomsky’s comments about Civil Service being filled with Trump loyalists is very real. The Washington democratic establishment are feeling their power slipping away is myopic and desperate to disable Trump. A two term president is a thing of the past.
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  9138. The drugs are necessary to make a population docile and susceptible to authority, easy to push around and boss, they are pacified. Its a humiliation of the American working class for these people were once working and functioning individuals until something went off the rails for them and landed them where they are now, homeless, but it is also an expropriation from ownership of a lot of land when so many become homeless. Being forced out of their house and land to end up hospitalized then placed by a court long term either because they are addicted or have charges of endangerment to themselves or others is a process of expropriation that benefits other social classes from this misery. The Opium Wars that separated Taiwan from China is a historical example of a pacification of a people for the forced colonization of Taiwan by England, a pacification exercised on Americans as part of a land grab is the same thing on a smaller scale. The shocking thing about it as Americans believe in a false sense of security that it would never happen to them the whole swindle happens like a dream to good to be true.
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  9139. The American people suffering from workplace hazards and disease coming from workplaces, over work, layoffs, speed ups, and the Committee on Education and the Workforce is holding hearings on anti-semitism on college campuses. This is what a right wing do, they undermine the important stuff and preoccupy people from the important stuff as a Fn political distraction...the new Joe McCarthy is NY’s Stefanik. “ Do You Want Columbia University to be Cursed by God and the Bible!” What an A’Hole! The Columbia College President is a COWARD, spineless, A’hole herself chomping words and never taking a stand against an idiot acting like we were in 1955 as Joe McCarthy.
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  9140.  @bbirda1287  Voting for a select number of the people of the population to make all the decisions of a nation is not a democracy, sonny Jim from democracy now. You can revoke a president but you cannot revoke the institutions that govern the nation such as the Pentagon, Federal Reserve Board, Supreme Court, Wall Street, Multinational Corporations, Church and Clergy, the Senate, all remain as un-reformable Citadels of Political Power while the president can change every four years seems to me you have been duped to believe America, a Bourgeois Republic, is a democratic society. Its even more perverse when you have the technology through social media to make a true democracy. You give yourself up to easily to the propaganda and false thinking.
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  9141. If we are ever to break free of the chains that enslave us we must view the capitalist regime as a passing historical phase. The social antagonisms we experience under the relations of that regime are not a social law of Nature, such a belief locks our minds and bodies permanently inside the boundaries of that regime, we then enable that regime as the final form of social production that it is not.
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  9142. I'd like to see Cenk, Crystal and Saagar, raise the question of what kind of society Americans want because it has been 163 years that the question of the will of the people in America has been deferred and distracted by all the periods of American history, by every president, and by every counter movement that came up to repress the will of the people when this question was on their minds, or when risen to a higher level than just swallowing the bitter pill democrats and republicans dished out. Whether that was the aftermath of the Civil War, to the Great Depression, the Vietnam War, to the present day with how we treat South America, always deferred and the capitalists remained in power for a little under two centuries, from the Civil War to now. What kind of society do you want America? Mexico has this same problem? Two centuries of two parties really one dominant class and one party with two faces. Do you want a society that meets your needs or the needs of the capitalists, because if you look at American history every single far left liberal and democrat managed to corrupt the People's will. Whenever the will of the people came to the foreground the capitalists still held power, even during FDR, we still had corporationsn and big banks, industrialists and robber barons, and capitalists controlling Washington DC., during the New Deal. It just baffles me that people want to get money out of politics but never tackle the classes of money and most likely still stay in power with Bernie as president. Older Americans like myself can see this but I do not see younger Americans deviating from the same patterns of the 20th century, they are probably just so fearful to be associated with communism that Bernie, Ocasio-Cortez, and others like them do not take a stand on eliminating money from politics...how do you expect to ever get money out of politics if you do not remove an economy that is built around money? Eventually, the power of money will undo whatever Bernie will do just like what FDR had accomplished was undone as soon as money came back into power in 1980 with Reagan. This is crazy cycle of insanity that Americans do over an over again and expect a different result each time they do find a progressive candidate, this will only demoralize the generation that comes after yourselves, your children in the near future. They will become despondent and demoralized, depressed people when they grow thinking things will never change and we may as well all be slaves is all you passing on to your children.
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  9143. Even with all the tools law enforcement has can the community be protected and the answer is obviously not with weekly mass shootings intimidating communities. You can’t have governments, organizations and associations without a police force preserving the rights, property of different social groups who make up that community. Security is the supreme concept of civil society. Preserving the rights for a few who do perceive themselves as potentially becoming socially irrelevant or extinct comes at the expense of the many who do not feel the need to be armed against members of their own community is a position that does not understand the historical context of the 2nd Amendment, but also is delusional without basis in reality.
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  9144. Voter apathy enabled the 45 year long process of privatization of New Deal programs of the government. The population of 332 million with the right to vote don’t use it. The far right ensures they get their people in positions of power the left does not but relies on a progressive wing of a right wing party that fails them with false leads and broken promises. The average who do use their vote about a third of the total enable this duopoly representing different sections of a large social class of owners to jockey power between them. A great contest for the owners who among them get to rule the country and a great social experiment conducted on the total population has been the social history of this country for the last 50 years and technically going back to the Kennedy assassination. A history of incomplete social revolutions and a series of deferred imperatives crushing the aspirations, hopes and dreams, specifically of blacks who fought the struggle for civil equality, opportunity and independence, prove how unequal markets of buyers and sellers truly has been since 1865. The Supreme Court Decision to strike Roe v Wade is a direct blow to the southern black section of the working class because it is not a blow to a southern rich section of white ruling classes not infringed by the decision. The SCOTUS has made abortion a class issue; black buyers because it hurts them the most are unequal to white buyers and the sellers have been pushed far away that only a rich person can use the service is a legal method of changing the economy to produce inequality in society. The method is evil to say the least. So 162 million people who do not vote can break this duopoly! Question becomes what does this Left do to rally the ones who do not vote? Get all of them to be a dollar or broke and committed to the cause donor as a monthly a member of a party standing ready to assume power in the name of their membership. The Workers Party from which the right kind of candidates are offered in opposition to the right wing for all elections is close to what America needs but not exactly. Since America is a multicultural place consisting of traumatized immigrants in the working population the language of a third party must be all inclusive. All In and Nobody Out makes the old new again.
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  9145.  Phil Jermakian  The US is reacting to a rising economic power the name of that power is socialism and the face of it is Chinese. Pretending this struggle is not a struggle between capitalism and socialism is like saying the Koran, Bible and the Communist Manifesto are not the three most known and read books in the entire world. I prefer to not kid myself with illusions of the epoch we live.
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  9146. Silicon Valley Bank will trigger a collapse...because there are few buyers in the market it owes Banks B, C, D, E, F, etc. a long chain of international and national banks, and these banks owe capital to each other. When one cannot pay its liabilities and IOUs the rest cannot pay off their IOUs and the reserves of the bank in particular are lower than their assets and their assets are eroded by its debt and liabilities triggers a fall in profits for banks in general who then cannot pay off debts; enter the Tax payer to shore up the banking system once again, or is the credit system in permanent decline worth shoring up?
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  9147. A good percentage of working class Americans are more adamant about a vaccine shot than they are about low wages and poor working conditions, tax increases, and no health coverage, lack of control over jobs, industry, monopolies, infrastructure collapse, the republicans and democrats defer is shocking!
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  9148. Mr. Cardin, new chair of senate foreign relations committee, replacing Menendez the bought off Egyptian tool takes a constructive step toward improving our balance of payments. We end up with more inflow of capital than outflow when our customers have less dollars with which to buy US properties and weapons. Of the $70 billion invested in new factories from Michigan to Georgia attracting a working force to fill 14, 000 new jobs for electronic car batteries only $20 billion of that is American capital. This ratio is harmful to our prosperity. We end up borrowing more capital, increasing the deficit in the balance of payments and what is worse the capital we borrow is foreign capital, at interest, repayable to outside private hands was originally capital income projects made from the purchases of properties the foreign conglomerate made in the US. More of the American people are employed by foreign interests is a liability the Department of Commerce knew about. Survey of Current Business, October 1972 for the period 1950-59; and June 1972 for the period 1960-1971. A notorious selling of America.
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  9149. “Possible Meteors Caught On Camera Over Utah”...were there one or two or more meteors? They cannot tell for sure if it was a meteor. Can the experts tell a long range nuclear missile from a meteor? Meteors do not burn up and disappear. They land somewhere. That’s why we have craters on earth and on the moon. Remarkable reporting and copy editing from the best minds in journalism right here on NBC.
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  9150. Torch heat.
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  9151.  @eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee9531  When the government is a thing you can buy, the rich get to lie and the poor, die.
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  9152.  @Symbiote-hq6pn  from the inside you torch heat the glass
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  9153. Fascinating speech and critical of the west. Interest rates in the west are up and interest rates in the east as down. The west operates on a budget deficit and the east has a budget surplus. Its a tragedy because in the west so much of what is individually consumed is unproductive to the whole society...I believe this saddens people when they cannot find what they mean to society...our societies are organized for people individually consuming our lives away is productive to a class of workers for itself as a source of value for the western governments and its wealthy elite allies.
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  9154. You cannot celebrate muticulturalism and democracy, the most compatible system for a multicultural society, in a homogenous white society so the republicans have to impose on society a system of color segregation and promote authortarianism in the establishment of a "fearless leader", the most incompatible form of politicial organization in a multicultural society.
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  9155. Not after the encirclement and the containment policies resulting from the Versailles Treaty of 1918 by France, England, Germany and the US will Russia and the East be taken off guard. Besides,--- developing economies and socialist economies are not containable in the 21st Century. The policy of the west ought to be working with them not against them. Despite what you think of developing and socialist economies they have lifted their people out of serfdom, poverty, slavery. Africa is not the Africa of Edgar Rice Burroughs and China is not the China of Britain’s Opium Wars, India is not the India of Gunga Din...these countries have matured...its time the old gun slinging Hollywood policies get chucked out the window for more intelligent wisdom in shaping the 21st century.
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  9156. These are not criminals. Criminals do not commit violence for political reasons to immobilize the law biding citizen.
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  9157. I think the contradiction is that the Democrats are driven to lengthening the working day for Americans in order to compensate for all the workers laid off due to the increases in wealth accrued by CEOs in all of America’s vital industries and are now a political cartel exposed acting on their behalf. Blame the CEOs and you’ll have a revolution; blame a scapegoat and your’ll have a war. Democrats do not want a revolution. Prices of goods are decided by CEOs. Workers have no part of deciding what the manufacturers suggested retail prices ought to be, this in regard to inflation. Inflation is not an object, its a small clique of employers, who decide price and use prices as a means of coercing workers to voluntarily work more hours, especially in places where people are paid by the hour, more hours of work increases the company’s wealth, more volume of goods are made, etc. This puts all the CEOs on a track to get the government to open more markets because of this higher volume and their cost is less for the CEOs making them, the profit is higher, and making them is even cheaper when not in a place where wages are high; but the contradiction is that these CEO actions lengthens the hours people have to work to keep up with the cost of expenses (prices going up). If technology and science can raise output and lengthen hours of work it can also shorten hours of work and bring prices down being cheaper per unit made. If workers acted on this side of the contradiction the propaganda of blame your poverty on someone else will have no effect on the minds of the working people; they could make some real changes taking collective ownership of technology and science.
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  9158. A gun is a commodity and all commodities in the US are objects produced for purchase and sale. If someone buys a gun it is purchased legally background checks and clearances. How the person intends to use that gun is a choice of the individual. This is the case with all commodities. The law and the state ensures commodities are marketed but after they are sold the authority of the law and the state ceases. It is not about the type of gun that becomes the real problem. Its about commodities which treats all different kinds of useful tools and objects, a gun included, as having no difference at all and can flood society when they fall out of circulation at the point of sale.
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  9159. The problem I have with Larry’s confidence with advisers to the president is the reliability of facts the advisers themselves use for the assessments on a situation or circumstance to the president. When the World Bank issues a projection statement for economic growth, saying the GDP rate of China is three times the expected rate of growth of the US held at 2.3 % for 2024 going into 25, and the US president makes comments the US economy is doing great,---you better start questioning the advisers, I can’t rely on the president’s facts!
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  9160. Republicans hate government because it forces corporations to spend their money in meeting the standards of living in society. The soul of their existence is to reduce the standard of wages by cheapening every aspect of our material wealth. Corporations have one leg in each political party so that no matter who is president they win and this is why democrats are no longer a working class party. The US labor force has been given a temporary fix but it is officially extricated from the democratic party and is on its own. There isn't a national insitution outside of the federal government what has not been shredded yet, dedicated to defending working people from the encroachments of very large and complex social institutions.
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  9161. Fired for not following the decisions made at the top of the chain of command to vaccinate teenagers is a flakey pretext. But it shows the Department of Human Services (horrible title with nothing humane and servicing about it) is a bureaucracy that models itself after the Military where secrets can land you in prison but in Human Services what secrets are that big? So what a teenager asked the question to a doctor 'can you give me a shot?', and the doctor is unsure and makes a call. For this the State Human Services officials fire a lower ranking bureaucrat, clearly life is not worth much to Human Services? The real reason for the firing is at legislative level where the law contradicts the move in many state republican legislatures to have 'free choice', not in abortion but, as in, free to choose to not be vaccinated that our nice former state doctor of Tennessee is the first casualty in this pretext to divide the nation into two parts.
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  9162. It took a revolution to establish democracy it is going to take a revolution to restore democracy.
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  9163. Its anonymous, why lie? I guess you never filled one out.
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  9164. The hypocrisy and deceit shown to the people who elected Trump is rampantly shameless in the Trump administration. In fact, it is correct to assume that any nation this administration accuses has resources it wants as a prize to be had. Then what it tells the Public is a story based on a moral world view up against an immoral foe.  A cunning maneuver to gaslight public opinion from being enlightened on the proxy cold war in the region. Iran is the jewel of the Middle East, whoever controls it controls the entire region. Trump sees his historical legacy in the capturing of that jewel.   In rearranging the affairs of the middle east, a Muslim patriarchal family monarchy and a Jewish zionist state become allies and co-exist as a buffer for US/Oil hegemony is a trilateral arrangement of a power share through the US. At a time when banks see the writing on the wall renewable energy will be the death of oil a vain attempt to turn back the tide is made on a people so poor, so destitute, so deprived of the means for life that desperation blankets their faces so that what lies underneath their ancestral lands can be turned into hard cash.
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  9165. So why is this water vapor producing machine not being used to relief the drought in the US?
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  9166. Global warfare can only enlarge the amount of people on the move. The only country waging global warfare is the US and Israel. Everyone else may be at war but it is within their own countries. The US has 800 bases all over the world and involved in 15 wars. I can’t see how Texans can complain about that which they sow and reap. If you don’t like people invading your nation stop invading their’s.
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  9167.  @venetianlute  See this on YT, Gore Vidal interviewed by CSpan...his analysis is precise and concise. How the Elite Are Trained to Be the Ruling Class in Secret & Are Never Named: Gore Vidal (2000)
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  9168.  @fredgarvinMP  That group are the capitalist class. They own the politicians. It is their private interest that has defeated the interest of the people through the efficacy of its political party. The left wants a third party and not knowing their own political history they do not know a previous generation tried and failed, the People’s Party in 1959, and the Green Party of Ralph Nader. The Left ignorant of their past,---not knowing the past the Left repeats the past in their call for a third party. The right calls for the past too. The reality is; only one party in America exists and it has two right wings, Democrats and Republicans. A one party constitutionally elected state. I think Jefferson flipped in his grave and Hamilton is eating caviar with the bankers, landowners, capitalists, merchants. toasting DAVOS in the present. The Left should be calling it a second party alternative not a 3rd one from LaLa Land. This to make the people think like I am making you think how the Left enables the capitalist class and completely ignores the real interest of the people, even go so far as to insult the oppressed with arrogance.
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  9169. There is no elected official in the US important enough to justify Ted Cruz's use of a police escort to flee Texas with his family. His was a shameless move to leave his constituents hanging in the 19th century amid a catastrophe unfolding life-threatening conditions. His escape is the middle finger to Texas and it does not make him any more important than those who cannot flee. At the same time nobody is that important to justify the consumption of excessive military flights by top officials of the presidential staff. But they do it anyway because we do not speak up against it. The taxpayer is paying the cost of the private consumption of elected officials who abuse public means for private use. If you don't see that as hypocrisy and a contradiction in terms than you do have rocks in your head. A matter such as this goes unspoken in mainstream media tells you what side of the issue the media is on.
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  9170. If there is its not reported but from a national standpoint the Capitol, where the policy makers work, make laws based on the separation of man from himself, is hardly protested in the way other protests are coming up with creative and spontaneous ways to disrupt Big Oil, Banks, Government, but the US Congress quietly dodges public scrutiny. The one action disrupting Blinken’s testimony to Congress was a solid way to make a point and change the direction of policies but there needs to be more action to pressure the ‘policy makers’ to write policies based on relations with other people, even to the point of a political revolution.
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  9171. This action tells me that America can’t build up its own microchip production in the US,---so it has to steal it from Taiwan. Brilliant foreign policy from cheap and stupid Congress leaders.
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  9172. US Department of Transportation does not interfere in the business of private business.
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  9173.  @kimbarrett6842  A problem so grave that only a social revolution can solve it.
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  9174. Deep partisan divides, you should attend Congress when it is in session and watch from the upper tier the democrats and the republicans interact. You'd be shocked! The democrats are sticking to their guns and principals and the republicans sneer, grunt, mock, irritate, verbally accost short of spitting, sneering at the democrats and it gets worse if the democrat who has the floor is black or brown. When republicans have the floor they invent things in defense of Trump and the democrats do not engage. They are Trump loyalists in the process of disintegration. The Congress is so divided by race. Republicans knowing they are shrinking minority and America has changed so much in so quick a time that this white minority feels they are on their last dying breath are desperately clinging to life! The special interest they have come to represent won't set them free off the leash. Race is really the big feature in Congress. The race relation inside Congress between white old and all male republicans and a variety of young democrats is not the same dynamic of inequality in society but it does reflect it. Outside of Congress noting a class system in society between who does the work and who does not is a revelation. Quite an eyeopening experience. CSPAN does no justice in showing the Public the interaction between republicans and democrats, the gestures and body language, the roaring grunts that sounded like a dying animal in a jungle coming from a group of old white men on the floor. Pelosi gesturing her fellow democrats remain quite or neutral. If Americans saw this of Congress they would be a hell of alot less passive about politics. I bet the people who sat out the last election will come out and decimate Trump. I am hoping this group gets electrified by Bernie.
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  9175.  Trish House  I don't know...price can be pretty tyrranical, rents can be tyrannical too and profits are notoriously tyrannical. Interest are below zero is causing harm to the balance of trade. I don't mind paying a tax for clean water but when you compare incomes and single out government taxes as the only form of tyranny that exists than you are indoctrinated to believe government is evil and merchants, banks, landowners, and big business billionaires are not.
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  9176. Nicki Haley just walked past Picasso's Guernica to the podium to speak in the clip shown on DN. How ironic. www.pablopicasso.org 'Guernica' was painted by the Cubist Spanish painter, Pablo Picasso in 1937. The title 'Guernica' refers to the city that was bombed by Nazi planes during the Spanish Civil War. The painting depicts the horrors of war and as a result, has come to be an anti-war symbol and a reminder of the tragedies of war. The Icelandic Women's Rights Association said the pay equity law is first of its kind. Under the law companies employing 25 or more workers will have to prove to the government they are paying men and women equal salaries or face penalties. This is a concrete example of a positive law most Americans see as a socialism. To Icelandic women its basic common sense socialism or not. They are not hung up on the abstractions made of the pay equity law.  An example of a government that is not Washington is a government that passes laws to ensure worker safety and security and positive personal life development. You know, Trump can take credit for any of the actions in the economy that are positive and forget entirely the ones that negative. I only wish the people running the economy understand they are the civil society Trump is profoundly against as an individual capitalist himself. He objectifies civil society which means people are object related to him by what they own or possess not by the qualities of their being. So you are not going to get a lot of very bright minds hovering around Trump. Most of his cabinet have not appeared anywhere and the ones we see daily speak with a cracked lifeless monotony that people just turn off the sound. He is there to figure it out all himself as president. Take credit when the economy succeeds and be silent when it fails. Chance and causality is the rule of the jungle of capitalism. He is social in the object world and anti-social in the subject world. There is no other self he can be like an actor can assume the life of another person and be incredible every night on a Broadway stage and leave as himself afterwards feeling an emptiness of self. That is not Trump. Trump is all object personification, a man of the street who never fought a street fight. Just plays the heads of his unsuspecting rural clique who go with him as long as free trade extends beyond America's borders.
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  9177. Dislike this video.
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  9178. Oh, come on Ari, get it together. You are not looking at these titanic battles from a working man’s point of view. Carlson and Trump see Russia as a potential ally with which to subjugate China. If anything they are more practical than the Russophobes who think they can take China after Russia is disabled. But all three of them, Carlson, Trump, the Russophobes in Congress and the Pentagon, are aggressive and destructive imperialists.
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  9179. For me the intriguing mystery about capitalism, --is... The expropriation of a few usurpers by the many will be the fault of the capitalists themselves.
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  9180. Problem here is that the science is driven and owed by multi-national pharmaceutical corporations and social policy is driven by multi-national corporations that we are seeing many countries force vaccines on the populations of their countries. Australia for example, is a police state with a resignation of a major political leader who could have saved her job by fighting the corruption allegations but she chose to quit is an indication the corruption was real. The consequence is that the government will never say or admit they were wrong about the vaccine without betraying their loyalty to a particular private interest.
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  9181.  @redixdoragon  If the object of capitalism is to own the MP then the end game of capitalism is not monopoly. If the object is to eliminate the competition than there is no capitalism without competition. Let me straighten you out about capitalism. The use of the labor-power of people for the expansion of capital is the goal of a capitalist and captialism.
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  9182.  @the_gilded_age_phoenix8717  Yes what you say is true, it is fact. What you did not say is who the slaves are. The labor-power the factories and the fields exploit are children from Central America and beyond. Non-citizen migrant families exempt from the laws regulating the working day and working conditions. This is how capitalists get around the 8 hour legal working day and recover to great excess the loss of value produced in a shorter work week by workers who are legal. One group is played against the other. Migrants must fall into the category of illegal than they can be slaves. American Capitalists want the labor-power of migrants because migrants are desperate and work more than necessary to improve their condition in life and send money back to la Abuela. American employers love that work ethic for the value it produces not for the ethics of hard work. Capitalists have a forked tongue when they praise ethics of hard work they are insulting the workforce that are citizens as lazy and self-fish for balking about 8-12 hour working days. The children migrant population is the most productive labor in America today for the value they produce is so high it supports an America becoming a slave society. The whole trafficking of people from Central America and beyond is a system for that criminalizes and delivers migrants to American employers who own the factories and the fields. American government is nothing more than a tool for American capitalists.
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  9183.  @ellenbenson7895  Yes, she is not an internationalist or Italy’s borders would be opened to immigration but she reflects where Italians are at. She promotes nationalism as a way to insulate Italy from the huge uplift of migrants in war torn nations.
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  9184. @sultan whomever You got.”Rice pudding between the ears. Shortchanged by the Lord and as dumb as a jackass.” from the movie “Being There”.
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  9185. @sultan whomever I had a feeling you’d like that.
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  9186. Teachers who are armed are not real teachers. Real teachers never needed a weapon to teach kids in the history of education in America.
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  9187. So what is the right thing to do if damaging property is not the thing to do Cenk and Anna? If someone had not brought attention to the extreme wealth in the hands of the 1% the media will never examine the distribution of wealth in this country.
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  9188. It cost society money to detain 1400 children indefinitely.  Plus, whatever they produce they produce as slave labor for being born into detention not for a crime committed is immoral. Children not incorporated into society with their parents is a sign of weakness and decrepitude. Left to languish and reports of children dying are not fabricated stories. A slave system exists inside America's detention centers. It develops its own industrial complex until detaining is no longer possible.Then what? What do you do when the kids have aged out? Let them go into society crippled as they are or do they remain as slave labor in detention? When they go the industrial complex of the penal system is left intact. I can think of better ways to spend social labor on repeated failures. If people knew penal colonies in the past were failures they would protest this policy vehemently. The Penal Colony was tried by many nations and they all failed. Devil's Island, Triblinka ad Aushwitz, Alcatraz, Guantanamo, the Americans do not want to let slavery go, if it cannot migrate into society, then it migrates into the prisons. Slavery is always around in one form or another creeps into the family and in society as an Aparthied System, it cannot exist without enslaving others. That system is gone too.
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  9189. Do we not have enough phobias that we can tolerate a phobia at Russia? I do not need another phobia.
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  9190. You mean leeches like billionaires who’s taxes are cut while the government is spending your money like there is no tomorrow. Yeah, a tax revolt is a good idea. angryfarmer2024 
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  9191. In China one apartment building would contain one family.
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  9192. Because capitalism develops like a bent wheel when the curve meets the plane of the elipsis is the only time workers find a job appears to them as fate would have it.
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  9193. This is an important case.  Its shows how self-conscious the state department and White House are about freedom of speech. It also shows a society of government and laws falls short of its own freedoms to its citizens because of the hyperactivity of derregulated capitalism and a lot of bad actors in the market.
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  9194. Tucker Carlson is an anti-Chinese racist and Gretchen Carlson (any relation?) is a anti-Russian racist. The world does not need any of these racisms.
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  9195. I understand the plan is to keep everyone permanently poor in the UK.
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  9196. When a vaccine is something you can buy, The vaccine maker will decide who lives and who will die.
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  9197. So,---the New World Order, everyone keeps talking about...telling us to ‘wake up’ its in formation prescribed by a powerful political elite is taking clearer shape. In fact it looks a lot like Putin is banished from the lunch table for bad behavior in grade school. The question is how do they let Putin back at the lunch table.
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  9198. Big Thieves rob from the smaller thieves and accumulate a bigger piece of the pie. The small thieves rob from each other and have no share of the economic pie is the real condition we see around us. People are fighting over crumbs. The excess through an operation that consolidates technology and science into workplaces as a means to extract overtime from workers, prolonging the working day, producing surpluses, is a system on autopilot. Workers are producing surpluses that are used against the workers and the workers emulate the surpluses accumulated by people who never worked a day in their life is the strange and bizarre effect on the consciousness of the human mind on the nature of the capitalist system. The news is the enemy of the people. Listen close to the report on Ireland’s protests. The narration uses extreme right wing ideology not to analyze it as a social problem but as a motive protesters are too stupid to see through the far right as false thinking and had sprung into action to become racists all at once. The media is the friend of politicians and the politicians have a real disdain for the people, especially those who protest the crime of an immigrant not get a free ticket from being punished...the Irish working class are treated with less dignity and to be called the bigots by people who let this guy walk free is a real indication they are the enemy of the people! The racists in this crime is the racism of the establishment and how it sees the crime is broadcasted on all the establishment news syndicates and monopolies.
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  9199. My yield, thanks. @Lamin_G 
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  9200. I remain wary that one bully is replaced by another bully and humanity remains living under a siege of forbidden free will. A Reign of Terror that makes all nations bear the weight of their own personal survival on a scale of how much force they can yield is no way to exist. There are examples of species in the non-human world of nature who produce little and consume everything and examples of species that make the subsistence of another species but none in the non-human world of nature have the capacity to self-annihilate their own species. This is strictly a human paradox humanity has to resolve; it provides a palette of reasons to live, a primary mission and purpose of existence to render moot the misuse of force and all forms of its oppression fueling the paradox. Ignorance!
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  9201. Clyburn? You mean the senator from North Carolina and lifelong friend of Strom Thurmond can influence the public to vote for a socialist? What’s that say about Sanders to be endorsed by a friend and ally of a southern racist?
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  9202.  @kathydb613  I cannot disagree with your perspective. He did move the country to the left and society has changed. It is never really unchanging is it?
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  9203.  @erigerontriteleia  Nerves of steel is a missing ingredient.
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  9204. There is a coup in every country where the US military is active....why is that?
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  9205. The D-Day generation had a life way better than their children. Prosperity, but not for all. A color line was still deeply rooted in American life, but I’d put the start of the epoch of America’s decline on the Vietnam War. Rosie was riveting the battleships and armaments holding down the job until Johnny came back home. To do their part grandmas and pas were in civil defense. All the little rascals of that time were members of Boy Scouts, teenagers working with the CCC (Conservation Civilian Corp), apprentice programs, making all those small cement bridges across the US dated in the 1940s on them are still around today, reinforced with metal rail. Everyone rationed and tin was collected. Raimo’s junk yard is a holdover of the days when America’s industrial base needed metal. Waiting for the WWII Veterans to come home and reoccupy the jobs that came about at that time were the assigned roles of a modern civilization, thinkers and planners and the GI Bill, workers and the super amount of jobs open for managers, lawyers, doctors, teachers, Hollywood screen legends needed to filled with talent, the Arts and Sciences, America was just starting to become a real nation coming into its own came to a halt in the 70s. A decade later one out of two divided countries were reunified but it came at the price of a sharp decline in lifestyle, health, mortality, and general well being for generations following the baby boomers. The threats got bigger as a the nation became weaker that now the illusion broadcasted to the nation is the notion that any power can run roughshod over America and it would not even know it, is our present-day danger. Far from it. If Americans are poor the rest of the world’s population is even poorer. What goes down here economically goes down tenfold in another country draws the attention of the world to an America that is too weak to handle its own problems much less others.
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  9206. It reveals how incompatible nationalism in a world economy based on an international the division of labor is that one can more easily identify as having no country of origin, therefore, all countries of origin that comes with the internationalization of finance capital brings in a citizen of the world.
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  9207. Anvil or the Hammer Be.
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  9208. Well thanks but the question was about re-integrating into a free society and how much of an adjustment that was for Stuff_And_Things, really the question was not directed to you.  @davidwelch2791 
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  9209. You have to follow orders wherever you work and in the military you have to follow orders, and in kindergarten the kiddies have to follow orders too. High School and college as well. Basically following orders begins with your home life and parents...it appears the only sphere of social and personal activity that is truly guided by free will is through land ownership, i.e., farmer or self-employed owning the means for your own survival and that of your family. Not even a billionaire has absolute autonomy and free will as that billionaire has a higher authority over them. Seeing places is not free will. It would be if the choice was yours to stay and live in place you saw without the consequence of landing you in the slammer as AWOL. Don’t get me wrong this is true all over the world. Humanity the world does not exercise free will.  @Stuff_And_Things 
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  9210. Democrats are a vicious bunch aren’t they? Talk about the suppression of Free Will if you don’t follow the party line you are punished and barred, reminds me of the Stalin Show Trials. I have no kind words for the Republicans either. GOP and Dems are all about preserving a venal and chauvinist parliamentary system that for 332 million people does not work. Here you have an Olympic medalist that has no health insurance and suffers from a debilitating disease, and the cost of life saving medicine, costs an arm and a leg. 99% of the deaths in this country is due to the health establishment. Bad medical practice they cure the disease with surgery but the patient dies from infection. What a fine system for people who sacrifice their Free Will for my Free Will. And now with no Speaker, VA hospitals will lose their funding. I wish you luck as a Veteran. It is no wonder Americans travel to Europe or Mexico for treatment and meds. But we have no choice on how or where our tax dollars are spent do we? We can say no if Ukraine gets the doe or anyone else but they write off the will of the American people anyway. Every favorability rating a president has had that ask if the country is going in the wrong direction under that president...oh, well, that’s too bad. They really do not give a dam about us. You know what a 142 billion dollars can do? Its you future not mine. @Gr8FriknApe 
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  9211. Considering the fact that everything in America is made in China, it appears the large scale corporations has left the US for China to get their products made and America is left with two political parties (republicans and democrats) that the corporations have said...thank for the the great years, but its time to say goodbye. they have nothing to offer the American people but foment chaos and war, spending our tax dollars, to pay off foreign bond holders with a claim on the US economy, to keep us from aiming our anger at them. Only the few industries left that still produce in the US remain, Ford, GM, and a bunch of mid sized fabricators, not big enough to hire workers for industrial jobs. I am pretty sure that if you open the parts of your gun you will find all its parts are made in China and assembled in the US. The military has its own industrial production which for the majority of Americans does not absorb or need a civilian working class. Its all service and retail as the last frontier for employment for generations to come. Both these two parties hollowed our country out...oh, the same is true for Europe. Nothing there is made in Europe too. All the patriotism meant nothing. It might make sense to you why our leaders are such jackasses when you see it all in the context I just laid out. @JonatanRaven 
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  9212. Forcing you to think is a good thing.@MODTechWave
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  9213. If you did exercise free will as a sailor and marine you would have been thrown in the brig or kicked out of the military. There is no free will in any military worldwide. What you experienced for the last 20 years is the absence of free will and subordination. @margaritocasaus8210 
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  9214. One, I never trust people with hyphened surnames. Second, Greenfield lied three times. Third, all evidence proving her lies are suppressed. Russia never used chemical weapons on Russians. Never used chemical weapons in Syria. According to Victoria Neuland testimony, the US is securing chemical ad biological labs it helped to build in Ukraine. Lies, lies, lies, tell me lies Greenfield.
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  9215. @Weevil, ---sounds like you are saying the capitalists despise anything that rescues them, yes?
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  9216. Capitalism is criticized for not enacting a social regulation of the production. Production is asserted as a ‘blind working average’, employment is never consistent. Unemployment is consistent with capitalism. It cannot live without joblessness. The only time the equal substance between two things shows up on the Richter Scale is when capitalism crashes! The other way is the spread of pain to all social classes or direct the pain to one social group in society to bear the cost until the two things find their normal amount of work time to produce. Since all things are made by labor even if it is a small amount of human labor the working class bears the cost of equalization of price and value to restart capitalism. The working class gives birth to capitalism in the beginning and capitalism in the end punishes the working class for its joblessness throwing the ratio between prices and values back off balance. The cycle never ends and both social classes fly in and away of each other in an eternal ellipses that makes life for each capitalist and every poor worker a purgatory and hell and heaven is the luck of the draw. The other way to run a society is to follow a steady straight inclined line, all social classes in the boat, and at a certain point where all are affluent hold the rudder
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  9217. So, it is still the problem, it was the problem in America during Reconstruction after 1865, and still it remains a problem in 2024 that capitalism does not know how much to spend of the profits it accrues on income and development of the working class. This is why pensions funds go dry and the distance between what people need and what we as a nation produce gets so wide that we need longer periods of growth to fill in a gap that never shrinks.
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  9218.  @AcmePotatoPackingPocatello  I am not going to disagree with you there...all that you said is clear as a bell to me. What is not clear to many is the inter-capitalist or the inter-nationalist rivalry playing out in the world today. This piece of the puzzle is totally ignored in US media. In its place is a bombardment of American exceptionalism with unwarranted and unsupported theories, or conclusions built into public policy.
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  9219.  @AcmePotatoPackingPocatello  It is good to finally meet a person on the same level. Currently the president aligned himself with the democrats knowing they want a greater amount for the American people in a stimulus, and knowing that a greater amount to the republicans is a cut into the profits of the oligarchs they represent. Knowing this, the republicans will not betray the interest of their donor class and the stimulus deal will collapse. The gateway to socialism is socialized medicine for the republicans; they will never submit to a stimulus that gives the American people the amount of money and support Canadians are paid or covering the cost of wages during a pandemic, socialized medicine would come next.  In contrast, social reality speaks louder than words. So far, 44 million Americans are out of a job, another 44 million are making 18K per year; all of them have no health coverage if not attached to an employer, and the ones that are attached to an employer fear debt racked up by hospitalization costs; a public health crisis, mass unemployment, climatic catastrophes, housing evictions loom, food insecurity, in a society that produces hunger and homelessness out of material abundance. This is the law of capital accumulation at work polarizing capital and labor producing social contradictions and hypocrisy, internecine police and community wars, as a prelude to a social revolution in the US.
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  9220.  @ewalker1057  How you think is written in your words unless what you say covers what you really think. What is anti-education (aka anti-intellectualism) your comments about education or me not knowing what those comments were? Evidence, I would need access to all your recorded writings for evidence; claims; not exactly a gold mine worth staking a claim. What I know is that its the few who are complicit with the commodification of education in the US?
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  9221. This attack is an attack on the working class.
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  9222. A key concept is surplus-value...(take Elon Musk for example, a reference only here used as figurative to illustrate the calculus) the unit price of making a Tesla car is reduced from 16 hours to 14 hours, the difference of 2 hours equals new surplus value for the personal consumption of Elon Musk. When you consider the fact that society is a collection of private capitals with corresponding industries doing the same thing as Elon Musk that is a huge number of workers taken out of production. For them the society that says survival is your own responsibility the layoffs are a serious problem. Short of a revolution these people hope their vote will change things around so they can get back into production. Sadly that is not going to happen. Expect more rounds of layoffs as AI takes root in the industries that normally are automated and use less people for the work to be carried on and the industries that need people to carry out their work are not hiring. Nobody but the department of labor and its unemployment compensation will pick up the slack and at expiration it’s a mortal leap for millions of people. So, relative surplus-value is the key theory to understand competition and establish real clarity, competition is misunderstood without knowing the concept of surplus-value, and where it comes from, why it acts as a coercive law on people like Elon Musk. Make them do things beyond dignity and respect to meet this end. Corporations are people, said Romney but not people like us, they use the surplus-value for the Self while the surplus originates from society and is not being used for the Society is the distinguishing feature. Competition is an important mechanism in which to gain more surplus-value. For reasons of a larger share of the market and to create a new social average is why the working time to make a car, a house, or any product happens and more automation in the name of efficiency encourages owners to prolong working time beyond what is necessary the human body can tolerate brings on a population decline with social consequences. A big dunk for the society as a whole into a rut so deep it has to be heaved from the rear with massive doses of capital is the Biden solution never once thinking it can get that massive infusion of excess capital from Elon Musk and Co. instead of borrowing it and printing it.
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  9223. 2:00, ---Who wants to live in a world where Green Peace calls the shots? If they were sincere they would protest all oil companies not just Russian ones.
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  9224. Remember this, repression, expropriation, separations are violent processes in human history but human history is not a part of violence,---societies can develop along another path of growth.
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  9225.  Papa Jose  We cannot abolish racism, a non-material reality ( you did say racism was psychological in nature, therefore, a non-material force). While racism is embodied in the body of capitalism, racism is a material force that appears in the form of capitalist class relations. If racism is what you wish to abolish then the class system is what needs to be attacked! If racist ideas can become a material force so can revolutionary theory. Racism in itself has no revolutionary component that can advance the interest of the oppressed, to the contrary, it is a poison the oppressed should cast aside for revolutionary theory. The reverse racism idea, to me, does nothing to destroy the class system, therefore, a worthless as a revolutionary tool for the abolition of the class system. The extraction of material resource, metal, ore and mineral wealth as the basis for Haiti and the rest of South America's subsequent rule to the US is a particular interest of the extraction and mining industries, but not the general interest of the state department and its rational for the oppression of people of color in the South. In the White House sits a racist in the form of a capitalist, an individual capitalist trying to lead the whole capitalist class into a new war against socialism, indicates to me, an inability to re-arrange the affairs of the world to the needs of the capitalist class. Your thoughts?
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  9226. Ontario supplies the electricity to New York and other states. A trade war will send electric bills through the roof for Americans. On top of inflation, high interest rates and rents, and paid wages that buys less, many more families will fall into poverty. If working people in America don’t take a political stand against Trump he will offload all of the economic problems generated by corporations on the shoulders of America working people.
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  9227. I guess the human equivalent of an affinity to certain material would be its opposite; the repulsion our bodes go through when we hear nails scratching black boards or styrofoam rubbing together makes people want to throw up.
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  9228. Insulting Bernie Sanders as an anti-Semite is anti-semitist itself. Behind its politicial motive to hold Bernie's movement of the people back, the charge comes from a place of self-hatred. People who accuse a man who's family died in the Holocaust an anti-semite are self-hating Jews disrespecting the victims of that experience! The accusation don't work on Bernie. People see through it. If anything Bernie is probably the only person who can redeem the pragmatic side of Judaism and the jewish people from the debasing projections of eugenicists.
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  9229. Blah, blah, blah all talk and no action! This is one case where the Biden administration and Congress did not have to intervene.
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  9230. A DINO is a politician who goes by the name democrat and pretends to champion working class interests.
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  9231. Biden is the Establishment. He’s their man. If you want to bring down the Establishment in an election than...RFK Jr., and Williamson should run on an independent ticket and create a third column in the DNC. Straight up the middle and take power. But they won’t do this. They will both end up asking you to support Biden the same way Bernie did.
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  9232. I do not think the collapse will be global, that implies the entire world will go under and that is not the reality. Half the world will go under, that half that is the West. The West that does not have its own supply chain and a weak manufacturing capacity will go under. The other half of the world that built up its supply chain a n d industrial capacity will thrive. The workers in the West will have to copy the progress workers made in the East if they are ever to reach a stage of manufacturing made completely autonomous the East already has in position for itself, i.e., Robotic Factories. The workers are freed from factory work brings about a qualitative change in life, people put to use in other areas for the society to increase its self-reproducing capacity. The West could have been in this position 50 years ago had workers challenged the Reagan-Thatcher Establishment and not permitted the wealth of its produce be spent on war and luxury consumption for the rich. We mustn’t blame other countries for spending their savings on industrial progress. Workers in the West were deliberately misled to permit a private appropriation of social production. Now Workers in the West can’t reach the level of industrial functioning of the East who are fast creating a classless society of general affluence from its benefits,---without the overthrow of the Rich and the whole capitalist system. Seems to me what workers need in the West to get some skin in the game is not a tariff war and another Hoover, they need a revolution!
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  9233. Great subject, keep this subject alive. I ask commenters here to join me visiting videos put out by Chave weather on youtube where the commenters are mostly all chiliasts, there I am battling a lively crew of religious zealots interpreting environemtnal breakdown as the end of times. If you know your geology you will find more converts to science as they are the victims looking for answers.
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  9234. Wherever people are dependent on a machine to make a living their work is paid as piece work. The more your produce the more you earn, its totally up to you culture, piece-wages is a sign society has lost all balance between the intensity of work and the duration of work of workers in the workplace and that at some point, we are approaching now becomes complete and utter inefficiency. For this reason we are in no position to start a war with China or engage in hostile acts toward NK, the American economy is not functioning with any regularity and the lows (recessions) and much longer than the highs (prosperity)!
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  9235. Klaus Schwab, what is that Jewish German or German Jewish? Whatever it is not native to the Americas. So then, that would mean the oppressed non-natives of the Americas have their own oppressors with them in the Americas, and are left with one recourse of action to save themselves from this Klaus Schwab pipeline of little rulers...with which to break the economic chains of capitalism, the fight against the lack of freedom of will of the individual and the social control over all humanity through the institutions of the ruling classes.
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  9236. Corruption and self-interest of a big share holder of coal and other industries would be more aptly put to describe Joe Manchin. Americans can hardly expect one billionaire to vote against the interest of other billionaires unless that vote shows a pathway to become head of the class. Occupy Wall Street sprang up spontaneously. It garnered tremendous support. Where is it now? Wall Street is the heart of the Empire that brought the unsuccessful Afghan War, the privations suffered during the pandemic, the unemployment among the working class and the ruin of the lower middle classes; the indignation of the masses against the upper classes and against the authorities who display utter incompetence, the vague unrest of the urban working class, the death toll from rural factory disasters, immigrants discontented with their circumstances striving to reach a different social system; the reactionary composition of the Supreme Court; rousing apprehensions of the fate of Roe,---all this and many other factors of a failed economic system and political elite combined is enough to drive the population to a mass spontaneous social occupation of all Wall Street’s assets, and shut the operation down.
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  9237. The GOP is a fascist nationalist party. The Old GOP is finished. Democrats should wise up to that fact! Call it what it is. Stop pretending they are lunatics!
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  9238. Money sweats from every pore of capitalism and opens a space for its opportunists to emerge. Since the human compulsion for money comes from the real condition that nobody can live without money, Kysten Sinema can be viewed as a creature not from Arizona but from the world of Money. Arizona was only an entry into that world but staying in that world is another matter.
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  9239. The one problem on taking the position and encouraging parents to make their own decision will back fire on the governor when people and their children start dying and they turn to the government and the government by order of the governor are powerless to assist. The unvaccinated ones are the most vulnerable. Some will slam their doors shut on desperate parents and some will yield to pressure of the blame their child has died from exposure and transmission, so the governor is reckless with a smiling face.
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  9240. Big Oil's greed is based on consumer greed for oil.
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  9241. This News Channel is pathetic...they have nothing to report. The pandemic is gone, over capacity of hospitals, and COVID deaths, the mask battle in the schools...all magically resolved, gone from the face of headline news...but to stand in front of a family's house expecting the person who went missing from that point on the geographic map waiting that he will re-appear is my definition of a psychologically deranged news system. Brian should crawl out of the basement of his parents house and prove the media and police force were right in their state of obsession. Infantile media.
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  9242. People destroyed the Sewing Machine when that came out, i.e., Luddites.
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  9243. All cases of police brutality investigated by the police is an absurd reality. Its the same thing as putting bankers in charge of regulating their own bank crisis.
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  9244. Private health care system is a disaster.
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  9245. No sound to picture in the video of the two boys and women. How can you tell who provoked who?
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  9246. America trains young men to be killers and this is what happens. Imagine if America trained its young men to be non-murderers how much better America would be as a society.
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  9247. I suppose any move to the capitalist class that has the desired effect of a rise in profits...will do...its base level... standard operating procedure for the republicans, not to tax the super rich and international corporations. As taboo refusal to tax the Capitalist Class extends in the democratic party deeply. Leading to your demise as a politician if you violate that oath. However, how historical materialism understands production is very different from the way the capitalist class understands production. That’s the beauty of this particular branch of economics. HM separates historiography from actual economics. You can spend forever analyzing prices and profits and get no closer to the truth about what happens under the same conditions to the commodity that is not a thing. Laws of the market are not compatible with the laws of production and this is why capitalism is constantly running on the edge of crisis, day and day out, its crisis magnifies and the participants of capitalism are unaware of the long term effects of increasing the productiveness of labor. Marx wasn’t the only one aware of this internal conflict the Classical Economists were aware of it too. Problem was like many today, Ricardo, Smith, etc., could not untangle themselves from the concept of labor and the commodity labor-power itself. Mainstream as pure disinformation will never talk about prices and profits, resulting from changes in technology in production, and how it effects the working capacity of a working class! I
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  9248. American media completely and entirely ignores the millions of people from Brussels to Italy protesting vaccine mandates.
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  9249. First of all, look at his audience in Davos, bankers. Big business in America has shut out the State from any influence on the development of its property since the 1970's. Gradually the owners of big business by means of tax cuts bought the State, which has fallen entirely into their hands through the national debt. The State is now theirs and the national debt is the Public's burden to bear describes the economic reality in the US. Now we have a situation where big industry and universal competition is about pure corporate movable property and capital invested in manufacture around the world. A given multinational corporation employs an average 5 million people worldwide, its tax benefit may not be higher than the rate of exploitation of labor it achieves somewhere else year after year. It may be harmful to itself in its quest for new markets to divest and from the standpoint of big industry, Koch et all, giving them the money that would otherwise go to the government for essential services, is likely to be added into the already existing diversified accounts corporations hold in the financial world. Third, the part of capital once used to re-invest back into factories in America's heyday are gone. Fourth because wages in value have sunk below levels of survival in America they would have to rise close or cut into profits to offset the debasement of its currency. Fifth, the world has other avenues for economic growth that bank and industrial capital must figure how they can profit from the new conditions of the world market. If anything the world market is carved up already with many state-capitals, universal competition, and much of America's share has been lost. The last frontier American capitalism lost was China .
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  9250. definitely ideal for small town rural mass transit. Municipalities should buy a small fleet to get people in their town stuck at home around their towns. Money can’t walk on its own.
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  9251. The American Public's inability to know when it is being bamboozled and hoodwinked is the bigger problem here.  Ever since these words were uttered; "the problem with government is government', making government hobble on one leg was the aim of goal of the GOP. The misinformation began in movies hitting the adults now when they were kids with ant-government propaganda. The government is always the focus of mistrust, suspicion, secrecy, and idiocy in movies. But if the private sector screws up they are pampered or they are given no consequences for killing people with their product. Johnson and Johnson,--- no consequence or public condemnation.  What is not obvious to the indoctrinated is the pattern of growth of mistrust in America's government is a political strategy to bamboozle the Public into blaming government thereby ending up abolishing the only institution that expresses the sovereignty of a people. Fault is the left, they never should have used the government as a vehicle to resolve the contradictions of capitalism, or in layperson's terms, 'throw good money after bad money'.
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  9252. Heard nothing from these democrats or republicans who pushed through $40 billion to Ukraine and how that will get paid. Actually, that’s not true. Two or three republicans did take a stand against the bill giving Ukraine $40 billion. Suddenly when it comes to bailing out a student there is no money, when it comes to giving decent health care, there is no money...it will cause prices to go up...they truly hate working Americans.
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  9253. Extinction, if we solve our economic problems and do not solve our social problems that will do us in.
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  9254. June 19 must be a Federal Holiday. Baby steps first, then craw, then walk.
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  9255. Yes, but the American people know this about the US military industrial complex and its head agency in the Pentagon. Look how many voted for Obama, Biden, more than half the electorate. Of course the Public were lied to but they also know the politicians lie to them. It seems the American Public like getting fleeced by a democrat and do not like it when a republican takes power. In reality the two parties are right wing parties. So really there is no excuse for the most powerful working class to be that stupid as to let war mongers dominate their destinies. The American Public are as imperialistic as their government for they allow the appropriations of their tax dollars to fall into the arms of the industry. Needed is a conscientious political program that dismantles the Military Industrial Complex American were warned about. The violence in society is directly connected to this parasitical institution.
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  9256. Right,--they don’t give a shit about your country,- that is why being a nationalist plays right into hands of corporations profiting in the process of wrecking your social life with crime, repression, and and external wars. A political right wing uses that nationalism to maintain the status quo which is all you will get as a Republic.
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  9257. With no other information to ascertain from this report I have no choice but to assume this was a double suicide. People who commit suicide are not happy people and when two people commit suicide the unhappiness residing in both is a response to a world that rejects them or does not understand them presents an overbearing pressure they can not bear alone. On the other hand, this could have been a case where two kids jumped and cannot swim got pulled under and never came up. But this would be inconsistent with people who grew up surrounded by an ocean in the Caribbean.
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  9258.  @ahotdj07  I do not care what you doubt I care about having no further information to ascertain from the report. Why report it if you can’t INFORM? I stick to my deduction; DOUBLE SUICIDE unless proven otherwise. The boys hated their life and family like Romeo and Juliette society is a miserable host for their gay tangential love ( I am assuming you read Shakespeare or is that too much of an assumption?)
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  9259. Patriarchy cannot be reformed! In nature, it is international and individual nations harbor their own variations of a patriarchal economic system. Therefore, patriarchy crosses over national boundaries and is not specific to one country but is present in all countries. Western feminism is too narrow a movement that does not include all women on earth for it to brand itself as international in scope. A female CEO of a multi-national corporation in the west is not reflective of the condition of women globally. The oppression of women is as bad in the west as it is in the east, north and south. Its ability to survive 2000 years, along with the institutions of money and banking, dating as far back as the Roman Empire and Alexandria, was its ability to evade social revolution and adapt by controlling the necessaries of life in one form or another. Nothing short of a social revolution on a global scale that all governments suppress in one form or another to prevent from happening, by means of distraction or by direct brutality, is the only way to abolish patriarchy.
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  9260. Trump and his cohorts are going to hit the American people, all generations, with cuts and unemployment, austerity measures. Where is his opponent? They will say there is not enough money in the budget to cover the cost of maintaining all social programs without cutting the military budget... and in the context of ramping up a slowdown of China and the BRICS...all the conservatives and centrist liberals will vote to cut social programs and pensions...shoving it down your throats... what I like to know is how this generation of youtubers are going to prove there is sufficient money to cover no change in the standard of living of the people and then some... what plan will you have to show the unemployed what parity means in their economic life and how to get it!
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  9261. Absurd. HAMAS means government . Protesters are not going to ask people who are victims that they give up their only government they have.
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  9262.  @grahambell4298  zzzzzzzzz...
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  9263. Two things democrats at the upper echelons of the party really know how to do is throw a party and eulogize ceremoniously while they dish out misery through policy. Trump delivered a real identification blow to the democrats blaming them for the travesty of 2 million young black men incarcerated in a prison industrial complex. Using race to his advantage. The Crime Reform Bill and there stood the man who passed the bill in 1993.
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  9264. Under the RLA the government has a right to put workers back to work cancels the right of workers to strike. Clever legal maneuvering. What I see going on here from an economic point of view is that the commodity of the workers, their labor-power, has a price before it is a use-value, or put to use by its buyer is one observation. The worker’s commodity is a peculiar one because it becomes a use-value only after the contract between buyer and seller has expired. A worker is useful when not employed and during employment the workers become vital to the bosses as a value-producing asset. All workers face the same economic situation that their commodity is determined before their labor-power passes over to the hands of the buyer. Second observation: This relation is built into the very structure of a capitalist society, in other words, the set-up of the economy is built on a pre-determined price, that the parties, labor and bosses, know before hand the price of that labor-power in negotiations. The existence of workers as a use-value and the same workers as an asset to the company does not coincide in time. That is not the case for the bosses considered by society and the government as an asset and use-value at the same time and at all times. This relation is closer to that between a person who rents a condo. The use of the condo is sold to the user for a month, its only after you’ve lived in the condo for a month that it becomes a use-value and the rent is due, after you used it up. So it is the same with the commodity labor-power. Labor-power is paid only after it has been used is the rule. Workers advance their labor-power the use of their commodity to the bosses and permits its consumption by the buyer, in other words, a credit, before receiving payment. That the workers constantly through renewed contract negotiations between bosses and unions is no empty delusion when a crisis is at hand. The argument they make in the video about the politicians, right and left, is that the political Right and Left perpetuate the above- social relationship I explained is what distinguishes Marxists as empirical social scientists from the ideology of socialists as two different brands. It is also why the rank and file workers needs their own national, preferably, international association, a league, apart from the unions and the bosses.
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  9265. Trump is an example of the privatization of a public institution one of many who appropriate a public office for private gain and interest.
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  9266. The organ of the human body that produces consciousness is the brain not the heart. The epidermis and the heart are the first organs to develop and the brain is the last organ to develop in the womb and does not fully develop until late adolescence outside the womb. A brain does not become a mind during gestation. The whole argument of a conscious human being lays in the womb is the product of minds still not developed in adulthood.
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  9267. Ancient Egypt was a city and a state and had property, i.e., city-state property. City-State property in Latin is Ager Publicus. The Roman Senate distributed the Ager Publicus to an assembly of Patricians. A settlement of landowners in Ancient Egypt and Rome and a population of family units did not have the political power to distribute city-state property. In Egypt, the Pharoah would be the first administrator of city-state property and in Rome a class of Patricians are the ultimate owners of the Ager Publicus. Landownership and agriculture unified rural settlements with the city of Egypt and Rome that later in our modern times city and country are separated because agriculture no longer is produced by independent families and landownership is concentrated into fewer hands. This area of social life is primed for exploration and study to the formation of social classes. Farmers and family producers had no right to administer city-state land because they had private title to their own land and soil was a tool for their own occupations and survival. I think the view that shows of how we arrive at developed social classes today from the earliest social formations and settlements answers more questions about our species can use ourselves as tool for the soil or use the soil as a tool for ourselves is a richer understanding of human history....great video and thank you for producing it.
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  9268. I could do away with large scale insurance monopolies with one National Recovery Disaster Fund. Instant coverage for 332 million people. They file a claim with proof of their property, no matter the quality of the property, a guitar or a mansion, a check is disbursed in five days. The civilian economy should have the identical insurances and guarantees the economy of the military has, instant replacement. America must do away, abolish, the two economy system dominating the country where one secures because the other is deprived of security.
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  9269. Its more a matter of how much did Trump know of the insurrection and when did he know it? If you follow his timeline his actions are louder than words. From his speech back the WH. Then on the phone arguing with McCarthy pleading he call off his supporters presumably, while senators were ducking for cover from the insurrectionists in the Capitol, and he was on the phone a state reperesentative to buy time, 90 minutes after the Capitol was breached and representatives in fear, he tells everyone to go home with blessings of peace and love, presumably federal law enforcement would take over. Those actions tells me he was working indirectly with the planners of the insurrection to time his actions at the same time as the certification would be intercepted by the insurrection.
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  9270. Gov Abbot is a sadist. Pentagon is useless. Congress is defunct. Biden cannot solve the Covid crisis. The workers empowered in America is the only light at the end of the tunnel.
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  9271. I'd have to differ with David Graeber's view of the world. @notsoancinetpelican, --- I would substitute the words "rich and powerful" with "Capital" so it reads for the benefit of capital in your third sentence. Why? Because the rich and powerful are only representative/owners of capital. Capital itself is a capital-wage labor relationship. The day when labor-power is no longer bought and sold as wage labor will be the day working with the forces of production will take a new social form. This is the difference between the Graeber view and the view that examines the general history of work developing through time into new social forms in different epochs. Our's is an epoch towards its end; an end not without absence of a beginning.
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  9272.  @weiskl887  Good deal to consider in your comment. You need a theory about how to investigate these institutions so that there is a logic to their existence and the person walks away understanding why things are "upside down" in the real world and not all built on chaos and disorder, chance and causality, that they can actually do something about it and become millions of decision-makers united by one movement that aims to remove all barriers of oppression wherever they appear in the old society.
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  9273.  @weiskl887  That is not a theory for change, action, that is sociology. You need a theory on what to do not a theory about what is.
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  9274. ​ @weiskl887  Oh my. China. China came to Marxism through the Russian Revolution and both China and Russia are Asian in social orientation. Both China and Russia are former peasant based societies. Russia embarked to skip a stage of capitalism and it fell back into it is its greatest lesson for the Chinese communists. China decided to incorporate capitalism into socialism. Smart cookies. Marxism is a western born theory of German, French and British left oriented movements in the 19th century. Then there were no Marxists, Leninists, Trotskyites, Stalinists, there were only utopian socialists and communists. I like to refer to these folk as part of a theory exploratory scientific method movement or people really into translating social theory into action. But I am pretty sure the new Chinese person will tell you the thousand mile journey is from the old China.
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  9275.  @revgenahopper3988  Yes, its pretty bad. Patriarchy is a much older form of oppression than capitalism. Unimaginable sufferings of women and girls through the ages, as the property of husbands and fathers. Puts men in a bad spot too, the guy who can't truly be a father or a son to a father and mother without social rules dictating the norms of behavior. People forget that capitalism is a social system of exchange of equivalents, and out of equivalents exchanging for each other comes a surplus-value; an inequality comes out equality is the paradox that perplexes people brings them into denial there is stark inequality when the surface of society is nothing but the exchange of equal things. Its when billions of unit-values are changing hands. This would happen anyway, but when money is involved in the transactions it is no longer an exchange between one useful thing for another useful thing and their amounts decided by their owners; no my dear, money makes it an exchange between one thing acting as a value through the use-value of another thing. Apply this principal to the various actions from individual, town, city, nation and you get eye-opening results of the horrors of inequalty are the criminalities of money using other things as a value for itself and producing great wealth from that exchange.  The real use of money is to ensure you have what capital needs and money has what you need, its exchangeability, to buy enough subsistence and survival, fulfill our need, when that fails the social order is threatened. In this way, a population is free and this freedom is mistook as a poltical right of liberty by the population against masks at the present time when it is really a condition for the exchange of equivalents to take place and that's capitalism concealing patriarchy and patriarchy concealing racism.
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  9276.  @InfoForYou8  So you are not disagreeing with P N, but more or less as it remains a tool of oppression of the rich and powerful.
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  9277. Excellent summary of Marx's contribution to economics. Happy 200th KM.
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  9278. Fantastic Title for a Movie: Filthy Rich. I think this subject would make a fantastic subject for a period piece comedy. A crew who want their freedom from the Lord perform the duty of cleaning the shit streak off the castle wall in addition to their other duties. They quarrel, empathize, and procrastinate amongst each other whether the work is worth the freedom when life inside the castle is less degrading. Could be fun a big laugh is what the world needs right now. Otherwise a very enlightening video, I gave it a thumbs up and subscribed.
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  9279. Any black elders here? If so, my question to you is this... Will voting for Biden lessen the racial tension in America? I know your concerns to not have your children go through the racism you experienced in the past. Biden is not your answer. Biden's racism is not a personal one based on the color of your skin. His racism is institutional. And institutions keep most of black America down and a few better off. That is not a real emancipation. Our real answer is a full emancipation from racism as a people. Better to have a non-racist in office than a partial racist like Biden in office. Its not because many or I want to see Bernie in office that I say this. Its because we cannot overcome racism without learning by example from a non-racist as a role model that we need Bernie.
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  9280. If the Earth is going through another Ice Age than the government better produce the infrastructure for Laser Light Fusion Energy (LLFE) now as if it were yesterday! This energy can power machinery. Fossil fuel cannot be delivered in temperature plunges this low is a social catastrophe of millions of people freezing to death. Laser Light Fusion can travel through space and time over long distance, people, homes and cities remained powered and can survive an onslaught of an Ice Age. The development of the infrastructure where a fusion colliders emit electricity from the collisions. Colliders never shut off. Electric power emit no carbon dioxides and costless to societies are two side benefits for the Earth and Humanity.
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  9281. How can an American school principal take so lightly his own school is part of the problem of not producing math teachers just as much as the next school district produces few math teachers and be so calm about this apparent deskilling of Americans? The method of teaching is a failing method if young people cannot get excited about mathematics to make it a career.
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  9282. Janet Yellen going to Ukraine with a Capital of $1,000,000,000 to deposit into their bank threatens China with severe economic consequences if it provides material support to Russia. Pure hubris.
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  9283. No long ago at all.
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  9284. Not a good scenario for many Americans this coming year. I know the reports are all showing positive gains for many economies. Japan the US, etc., but those numbers reflect one side of a double economy. Not a good year for first time home buyers who should be in a house of their own by age 30 are still living at home with the aging parents is a crisis, in the housing sector. The national reports call this a shortage of housing but local news reports this housing shortage as a son murders his parents living in the same home...in Brooklyn or in Louisiana, anywhere. The shortage has real life consequences traceable to the Federal Reserve Board and its interest rates too high for the average person to get a home loan and move out from their parents home. Not a good sign as not one single senator in Congress would live in their parent’s home without feeling humiliated enough to blame them for giving birth to a failure for not holding a job and getting your own house. Total humiliation in a person has a bad turn out. The national news say consumers are paying less for gas but more for rent, goods, and food and many corporations are letting go huge amounts of workers. But if you are a consumer today and you lose your job tomorrow and the government shuts down the bills keep coming in no matter what your crisis is. Really not a good time for at least a third of the country. To make matters worse you own government ends up responsible for the death of your child because the links between the Middle East and American citizens are now blood ties, your child was at the wrong place at the wrong time, in a war zone your government condones and was in the right place at the right time visiting family as an American. Does not look good for the State Department, where will their allegiance be with Israel or with Americans? If it were me I would vote a Third Party. America has too much junk in the trunk.
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  9285. Employers in the US cannot get enough of that cheap labor. Don’t like what you see? Tell it to the representatives of these industries, hospitality, landscapers, warehouse, construction. They are the employers. They create the demand for cheap labor. Cheap labor competes with the US workforce by forcing wages down. They keep hiring illegals left and right and the government turns the other way word makes it way there are jobs in the US all the way down to Venezuela.
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  9286. Under the direction of Steve Scalice and Stefanik, the party is doomed to infuse itself with new forms of ideas of the past. What was old is new but this time it won't work. History is doing more than watching the GOP; history is more actively dissolving out of existence all forms of social reaction against a rising humanity impacted by climate change and social inequality the lives of republicans are out of touch with. Oceans are not encroaching on the rich and powerful. Cheney is right in the sense that being out of touch will lead to ruin and this brand of republicanism desires to be out of touch. So it is headed down the path of supplying the grease on the rails for the train car of socialism to roll right over it.
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  9287. “Competitive threats”, important reference to coercive laws of competition no capitalist can escape. Disruptions in the supply-chain coerces all companies to raise capital. When their cash position drops there will be trouble. All of them will cut workers from the payroll. It is the only way for them to raise the cash. Without net cash they cannot fund their operations and absorb payroll costs, pay shareholders. Companies burned their cash during the disruptions of the supply-chain. They are more desperate, more hostile to any labor action that would raise the price of labor-power, corporations have to make up for the losses. Once you become a capitalist you are loved by a good many Americans. But it is not true you become a friend to other capitalist(s) and this is true between capitalist nations; even allies are rivals at the global level. There is no escaping the fact that the other coffee competitors threaten the survival Starbucks. Today’s Starbucks public relations campaign conceals a trick, scam and scheme of countless ways to cheat workers. They must buy labor-power cheap to sell coffee dear. Sell coffee above the average price, and still higher than what it costs to make a cup of coffee, to undercut the competition and stay in business. Coercive law of competition is that each one of them must get a bigger share of the coffee market is a do or die scenario.
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  9288. NATO from its very beginnings was never an independent institution. NATO was always our (USA) man in Europe. It came into being as part of the many nations America used to surround and contain the Soviet Union. It continues as an extension of the US. People born in the 50s should know this. Born in the 60s should know this. Born in the 70s people forgot this. Born in the 80s people were told a lie about NATO and believe the lie. When Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers in 1980 he was signaling to all the CEOs of multinational corporations that in a war against employees the government will side with the employers or not side at all. Employers took that signal and ran with it unleashing brutal assault on American workers. The 75 year long dream that started with the GI Bill and gave workers a home, car, family and loads of fun and education at a modest price was over. During this time it appeared there was no such thing as a class struggle when America was in direct competition with the Soviet Union. American workers were better off that even mentioning the term was frowned on but all that has changed and there beneath the surface of a working economic system are virtual battles, war zones, fatalities, in every workplace in America, a class struggle never left and we can see how through it social progress is made in America’s failing economic system. Class struggle, the war between employers and employees, was quietly moving around beneath the surface for 75 years. Nobody questioned NATO real reason for existence, but that struggle has surfaced with all the indignities the working class has been enduring from this insulting rich arrogant and immature elite, the economy was made too thin to hold up NATO and the Military, multinationals and banks, all grew to scale unmanageable for us, too big to fail, to not see a collapse of American society is imminent the second one of them goes under. Under testimony to the Congress n the 70s the corporations acknowledged the US economy and the US Monetary System was going to fall and the working class would be on the receiving end of the fall. With that testimony and full knowledge of the dire situation of the US economy and world monetary system the Democrats and Republicans chose to side with the employers in what was to become a war on America’s working class, when they could have taken the Keynesian route, and ordered industry, big corporations, banks, to invest in American workers. Instead they chose to spend tax dollars on foreign intervention and expansion. Virtually pissing good money away in order that the likes of a small minority of people in power can have the satisfaction a doctrine they concocted would be implemented as gospel is the part that makes this all the more egoistic.
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  9289. Talk is cheap until you have to pay for it. He does deserve to be made an example for others with the intent to drag innocent workers of any institution to hatch out a political conspiracy. Jury is so right in this case. So right and should have ordered the government place them in new identities and lives at Giuliani’s expense if so willing.
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  9290. Biden’s policy as a covert and primary arms supplier to Israel is an appeasement policy, same as Neville Chamberlain’s Munich Agreement, in particular, which emboldened Hitler and convinced him that he could continue his expansionist policies with impunity.
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  9291. Trump is not skilled as a generalist, someone who can see the Big Picture, and bring the parts together to make them work toward a goal. As long as he is taken care he'll push the republican agenda through.
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  9292. Nothing like a forged voter.
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  9293. The Medical Establishment in America, sucks for Americans.
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  9294. Jews in Israel refusing to ride the bus with Palestinians. This is the same attitude expressed by whites in the American South of 1955 when Rosa Parks was told to get to the back of the bus.
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  9295. I doubt the bone fragments found are actually Laundrie. Bodies under water are preserved longer than exposed to air and oxygen. Bodies in mud are well preserved. Even if eaten by wild animals, the skeletal remains are usually more than just a skull fragment and teeth. I am thinking this will be a great day for forensic anthropology when they determine this is not Brian Laundrie. If they cannot determine from the fragments found then the entire fossil record falls into doubt.
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  9296. There cannot be a better and more clear expression of how disconnected working people in the US are from the political process than Elizabeth Warren. There is not streak of salt on the earth she walks and all this talk of converting the party into a party of Ideas is an expression of alliances between industrialists, finance wealth and landowners falling apart.
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  9297. This verifies there is a thriving illegal drug trade in the US. Oxygen tanks in millions of private homes for respiratory use supplies a cottage industries of pot growers.
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  9298. The thing we are not understanding of the Trump social phenomenon is that he is to them the incarnation of everything authentic to the American experience and democrats are not. Democrats are at fault for opening society that was once thriving economically on a homogenously anglo basis into a society in a multicultural state of depression and chaos. Facts don't matter to this ideological right wing willing to defend their incarnate leader and the forcible removal of democrats from political office. The elimination of any opposition party no matter how rotten to the core that party may be establishes a one party rule, ultimately, results in dictatorship; a restrictive and anti-representative government. The institutional complex expects individuals to make their own way in life through their own exertions but somehow not in competition with this far right wing failed in the past will fail again in the future.
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  9299. I like the way there are well documented cases in certain provinces of bad treatment or killings by the Taliban and yet we can't see any of that documented evidence! This channel has no respect for the public!
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  9300. I see this as a gift for the democrats on which to run on that republicans go on a war path and make a big stink about this. It takes all eyes away from our climate catastrophe and the current recession of the economy that is survivable if you have three jobs not one. The dollar is strong only because GDP and currencies are weak. Not because the US economy is expanding, to the contrary, its contraction actually encourages more capital to invest in Asia and Russia. All this accelerates a decline of the US economy. But for now I move my money into T-Bills I do so at a loss (higher rates) but it is better than losing the whole million in the UK, Spain, Netherlands or elsewhere in Europe.
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  9301.  @jandllc  Go back and read my comment.
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  9302. The anti-tank missiles HAMAS no doubt obtained from the Black Market in Ukraine. When the US sent all those weapons to Ukraine and lost track of them they ended up in Gaza. The US should learn how to cut out the middle man and send weapons straight to Gaza. For all intents and purposes this is what the US State Department and Pentagon indirectly provided to HAMAS. America is full of black markets, i.e., counterfeit products, arms and guns, all obtained through cartel criminals from around the world.
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  9303.  निगा बाम्बीनो  Don't put words in my mouth. Modi is India's Trump.
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  9304. The world rapidly moves into a multipolar world of trade and commerce which entails the end of the American empire. At least Vietnam had a reason for the war even if it was an immoral war. Wars since then have had no good reason to be wars. In the spectrum the most left wing president in the history of the US was FDR and the most right wing was Ronald Reagan. In Russia, Gorbachev was giving the rich title to Russian assets and gave Ukraine as a concession to the west with the promise from Bush Sr., NATO would not expand. Yet the enemies of Gorbachev were charged as right wingers because they wanted to give no concessions to the west and keep Russian assets in the hands of the State. A restoration of capitalism was going on in Russia was the real deal. During this time nobody demanded justice for the poor, underprivileged, that it became easy to charge the left as conservatives and the establishment evil, this is the start of the end. Elites will never get the full cooperation of labor is a strain that leads the decline of capitalism in general. By now capitalism encircles the globe transforming the world population into proletarians. Day workers and migrants in the millions always on the move furnishing the bodily material for the cheapest labor money can buy. Old men in succession began dropping off like flies, Breshnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Gorbachev, with the USSR gone . Only one empire remained and the unipolar world of the US empire unfolds its own weaknesses in other nations. Europe and east Europe, 2 years after Shevardnadze quit in 1991, the west remained on edge. Chernobyl was leaked by a Soviet engineer, Vladimir Suchenenko, gave the Gorbachevistas in the Kremlin control over material sensitive to the military, the meltdown was a failure of the military. Radio Moscow was Reagan’s favorite channel reporting the progress of the withering away of the State in Russia and the Democrats sign away in NAFTA working class industry and jobs never to return again. After 9/11, the prison network expands is a signature weakness not aware of itself as a weakness.
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  9305. In order for Haitians to relate their nation as their property again another system must take place other than the system of private exchange that dominates the entire North American Continent. In order for Americans to relate to their objective conditions as their property communities have to be working locally to produce use-values as exchange-values for use-value.
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  9306.  @haleybrown2836  link?
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  9307.  @haleybrown2836  got it, thanx
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  9308.  @danialhillmann5374  Only great for capitalists,---that must be what you are?
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  9309. More of the same. Hillary and NY. Oz and PA. Walker and GA. Rerun dilemmas.
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  9310. The heat will do us in before the other forces of nature do. Once the planet heats up it immediately affects our biology. And that is serious because our biology works only under a definite temperature. A too high or too low a temperature seriously reduces life expectancy.
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  9311. “Put His Hand on the Machine and Got Pulled In.”, There are two ways to look at any process that involves producing a product. But when the worker pays the price with their life and the employer can accelerate the work process to make up for a dead employee that would be a sign there is a war raging in America’s workplaces in Congress. Sides are taken that Congress makes no order of the government to curtail employers and keep workers safe. Life is so important to the government outside of the workplace but not the lives of the very same people inside America’s workplaces. The most important interest the government minds are the interest of a few, the employers. The survival of workers is threatened by employers who refuse to slow production down because of a loss of profits. So they speed it up and this increases the physical hazards to all workers and the health of all consumers.
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  9312. The tool of the government and private industry is the media and there is no better example than that outside of this video. Why are these guys wearing the same matching pairs of shoes? Women in a yellow dress with blue shoes? '...Urine and Pot...!' This is funny and they know they are not serious. These people are playing it up for $$$$$.
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  9313. Labor will have to organize internationally. None of this is good news for the populations that are employed and have a job. Corporations will be compelled to increase the workday to compensate for the layoffs during the pandemic.
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  9314. So, bitcoin is nothing more than a use-value for the simple circulation of money, a certain amount of bitcoin is exchanged for a higher amount of bitcoin. An imaginary currency that is not codified as legal tender by the government. M prime is made from money, money makes money. Money buys bitcoin and then sells bitcoin at a higher price acquires more money for the owner of money. The opposite process of this action for the seller of bitcoin is only a change from the commodity bitcoin into the money bitcoin in its role as a means of exchange among bitcoin users. Bitcoin is the commodity that is bought and sold but it may is useful for the owner of bitcoin trading for other use-values with other owners of bitcoin but for the owner of money bitcoin is only useful as a value to be exchanged for more money through an exchange process. Bitcoin is a commodity satisfying the need for money to become more money that is running people's lives here and I thought people were being freed from money performing its magic act of increasing itself.
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  9315. GM could never get away with this in France or Britain. Factory acts in the 1850's were bold measures preventing abuse to the working population. The working population in 1850's America had no legal limit of the working day for two generations the working day was decided by strikes and labor struggles until it became law in 1938! A three tier labor hierarchy, top at $29 an hour, middle at $17 to 25, temps at $15... create three reasons for the strike. This is a GM model for labor organization i n the factory. The jobs corresponding to the pay scale are not all identical jobs to each other, there are differences in the work in the factory. The work is modeled after the given technology used to complete a stage in the makng of a car, that a worker is assembling a part of a car. Anyone able enough can do the work with some immediate training on the automation is the type of work generated by the technology in the plant. But the hieararchy of wages and work divisions is a GM form of management of a GM labor process. A particular type of management of which the larger share of the market for GM cars and trucks proves is a success for GM profits. What makes it work? The same duration of working hours for less the cost to GM. Passing the cost of healthcare insurance for workers to the union and raising worker productivity with machinery and technology in the plant increases the volume of product at a lesser cost than previously for GM, increases its profits. A healthy enrichment I would say for stock holders. We are witnessing a paradox in situations leading to a worse situation coming from the increasing over reliance on automation and technology in the labor-process. Workers are less enriched by its introduction to production that they become materially deprived from it. When it should be decreasing their work time it is increasing it into overtime work, doubling the value output of one shift and trebling the quantity of product without violating human endurance. Work intensity increases taking more energy from you and more money offered creates the option for the worker, may as well be working than hanging out at home doing nothing, that you begin using your free time to stay on top of the work expected of you, all those hours add up for employers. The overtime you are paid is the rate of overtime after the nomimal wage of an eight hour day. GM comes up against a physical limit of endurance of the workers to work beyond what is necessary for their recuperation and devises a plan to break up plant operations into its component functions and fit people into that labor-process with three shifts to create a perpetual process of production of 24 hours. To be fair to GM, Congress has not changed the 8 hour day based on advances in technology in the workplace. GM could have kept the same rate of pay for its workers and make three shifts of 4 hours relative to the number of cars and trucks it produces. Congress had not asserted itself on a presenting public health issue that so many workers nationally would present a public health risk in their condition as having no access to health care.
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  9316. I couldn’t agree more with the officials who quit the administration...for quitting and going public...but the policy in Gaza is a success story for capitalism! The policy has to be regarded as a passing policy for capitalism and the threat to the humanity it poses in Gaza is a success story from the standpoint of bullets, arms, munitions, technology of advanced warfare systems the makers of these products sell to Israel, furthermore, actually paid by the American taxpayer for Israel. Israel does not carry much debt for a nation the size of New Jersey. What debt it has its owed to private capital not the IMF or World Bank. Even the brightest have it wrong when they condemn a policy on the basis of a morality and not on the basis of what is wrong with the relation itself.
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  9317.  @mehjones8008  TV is not in my life. There are 58,000 nuns left, they have their own social organizations that are active, some political and radical, their politics as varied as the teeth in your jaw are broken.
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  9318. They (i.e., democrat liberals) are not reciprocal to not hold grudges against you is the problem. They have a problem honoring treaties.
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  9319. “Russia considers foreign armies to be mercenaries.” Poor wording. These are soldiers of fortune, most likely former Iraq US vets. This is why I do not support the Veterans in America; it s a front for cash for characters like the ones captured in Ukraine. No answer from the State Department is the State department abstaining from giving a confirmation of Russia’s definition of a soldier of fortune as exempt from the Geneva Accords. “Bad news for the families thy are prisoners; good news, is they are alive”...what a stupid line. They are as good as dead. I wish these smaller news outlets would do some real reporting and not read the script given to them from the major news outlets.
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  9320. It takes one to know one right Ricky-Boy. @Rick-gf1fi 
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  9321. That would help, American do vote for idiots, neophytes, liars, opportunists and thieves into offices that are supposed to assert your interests not their’s. @ItsMeSadeNYC 
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  9322. Asylum is a chimera, (do you know what that means?) they come because US employers want them to come to replace a labor force they do not want to pay a decent wage. The employers are also democrats and republicans. Why would you support them? Are you an employer? @DemocratsUnite 
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  9323. Tax 1000 of the richest of the rich families at 4% and that would come out to 1% of US GDP which is double the expense of health care in the US....they would never feel it or know it...the wealth of the richest of the rich is, infinite wealth.There is no cash or credit card in their world, they never buy or sell, everything if it is given to them is a gift. When King Charles is given a Rembrandt the giver of the priceless painting is compensated by the British working class taxpayer when Parliament decides to cut taxes for the rich the giver is the beneficiary. In our scenario, King Charles is the consumer of the painting whose inestimable value remains intact for his heirs to inherit. Valued material wealth is passed down generation after generation a Monarchy consumes the largest share of British GDP and produces the least increase of that GDP.  @wattersi1968 
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  9324. Its to the point that if you do nothing and say nothing you are promoting US aggression and militarism around the world. Most likely in the very countries ancestors of your own are buried are oppressed by US aggression.
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  9325. Every single one of those workers are what they cannot see in the Scranton Pennsylvania’s armament factory of General Dynamics. They are performing an immoral job that kills human life by producing bombs, rockets, and bullets. The product they produce define what the workers are. The apathy among that class of individuals in American society is partially to blame for the level of violence in society and in the world. The workers need to realize the effect of their jobs allowing themselves to be used for the production of weapons makes their job a means of war.
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  9326. Do you drive a car?
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  9327. Since you are identifying who you respect and admire I’ll take it...thank you.
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  9328.  @TM-sm5qy  Who enforces that? What’s illegal? Is it the quoting of a published work without a citation the infringement?
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  9329. Don’t you hate talking heads. But the anchor did hit them with a good question about social media and US policy. The talking heads never answered the question. The answer being social media and policy are tools for American capitalists and capitalist expansion in the hands of Musk and Biden. It would be the same with Musk and Trump showing no difference between a democrat and republican on the matter of capitalist expansion and American competition.
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  9330. Russian oil Oligarchs are rich and we can compare their material wealth is less than the material wealth and standard of living of American Oil Oligarchs.
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  9331. Looks like a boot and acts like a boot and it fits a foot like a boot but its not a boot. Its a commodity posing as a boot. And since it is not a real boot but a fake boot it has no boot making craftwork embodied in the boot. The social consequence of putting fake boots made by machine on people’s feet is that you end up with few people wearing real boots made by hand. Same problem with the gun industry in this country. You don’t ban guns or put excessive laws on them. You don’t let gun makers become machine made gunmakers where they can put a gun in everyone’s hand. Certain industries should never adapt to machines to make their product but stay as manufacturing employing labor to make the product. You end up with a few boot manufacturers selling hand made boots for $500 - $1000 when you could have had many smaller boot manufacturers making real boots in every county in the county and the price falling to a more affordable level, say $100 to $500 bucks a pair. Plus, less podiatry issues and people can become proud boot makers of America. There is nothing better in this world for feet than a hand made well crafted boot.
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  9332. Too bad...the economy is good for the middle class but not for the working classes. Landlords in cities are happy but working class tenants are not. When it comes to prices, rents, wages, and working conditions, worsened by external wars, there is enough disappointment in those areas that would cause Biden to lose votes. And, enough disappointment for Republicans to turn into political capital against Biden. I think the only thing trump does not have in his favor is his fat mouth. His mouth is a turn off for many rich republicans is his handicap. The poor ones like his mouth. Biden has more handicaps than Trump. Democrats blew it this time around.
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  9333. A pro-Ukrainian very mentally sick nationalist. Man does not want Ukraine to lose the money and arms Ukraine is given.
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  9334. Based on what I am reading in the comment section of this channel, I am guessing if people cared somebody would say something about what the evangelicals are doing to the Public, in their political struggle to repeal Roe v. Wade.   Its not like the people here are above the law against early termination. Money is not going to buy you out of this one.
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  9335. I have to say no more than what actually happens in reality...capitalists in capitalism destroying each other is the only mechanism to keep capitalism moving forward and in existence.
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  9336. They fail because there is a powerless element in power.
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  9337. without being specific ... unions were infiltrated by the FBI and the Mob, syndicalists, thugs and assassins...you’d have to go back to 1965 for the start of the death of unions...the biggest and the last bastion of collective bargaining left in the US economy is UPS, a union in negotiations with private equity investors and Wall Street who want wages reduced, cuts in pensions, and payroll cuts,---compensating for the loss of employees, they want technology in the workplace that speeds up the work and increases the output of the workers. UPS makes up 13% of US GDP, that’s a lot. It stands to add more from fewer workers. There aren’t any Mobs, and Moles infiltrating the unions today and there are no socialists and anarchists in their ranks, what there is, is a class struggle between labor and capital.
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  9338. Well a person wearing a MAGA hat, Trump, for example, accepts and embraces the racism of the days when America was only great for a small number of African Americans and Native Americans, a minority of Asian-American, Mexican Americans benefitted from America.
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  9339.  @lyndafaye6748  America has all kinds.
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  9340. Keep you eye on events happening in Brazil. America's right wing neo-Nazis anti-labor and anti-communists are attacking worker's strikes and Brazil's Socialist Party. Workers need to get super tight in their organization in their fight back and defend against covert and overt attacks to their movement from this right wing. They very violent people. They are always the people inciting civil war and opposition for the sake of blocking worker's progress.
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  9341. Any forfeiture of assets that does not go to the next of kin of the convicted is a bigger crime than the one on trial.
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  9342. Sanders is nothing more than a sycophant and an apologist.
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  9343. Sediment, sediment, sediment, there will be more sediment all over the place. Sand carried by wet intense winds that will cut into your skin like a million needles. Sediment carried by flooding waters,----MUD. Slip, sliding away. Don’t know the difference between a warning and alert...turn on your portable alert system.
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  9344. Craving dolls that have no anatomy is a weird craze.
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  9345. There was a time in America when the deceased had dignity and no matter where their demise happened on the continental United States their corpse would be sent from one funeral home to another to the cemetery was affordable. Those services are available at a high price and a growing majority dispense with a life insurance policy before they expire is a dilemma for 35 million people facing greater hardships, they live cheap to avoid passing debt to their loved ones and never have the security of knowing how things will turn out for them at death. Death and dying is a thing you can buy...the rich die in dignity and the poor die invisibly.
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  9346.  @painkillerjones6232  It was meant to maintain a wage system that has a maximum before it dips profits and a minimum before someone dies.
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  9347.  @dustinsmith8854  How about you keep buying and selling relationships out of family relationships, period. Wrong with the country is you and your ilk personalizing cultural issues to deflect away from employers using the free market system to drive wages downward.
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  9348.  TheMightyZim26  Flipping burgers even if it pays $30 an hour is not going to increase the industrial potential of the US or return production from overseas. Its not going to stop bondholders and Wall Street private equity firms selling out industries to foreign investors, or strangulating cities and property owners of taxes rising to pay off bondholders. Its not going to end the corrupt practices of real estate appraisals that serve to raise taxes in relation to banks. Your eyes are way off the ball. Its not going to forestall another housing crisis greater than 2007. Its not going to restore US influence on the planet. It will accelerate US decline especially in relation to China. We need a new economic system, period.
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  9349.  @ThisisKyle  Raise the wage and its gone.
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  9350. For dissident artists, its not important the type of music a band makes what is important is being together as a band.
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  9351.  @atlas2296  Hey, I’m rich...I don’t go to hospitals for treatment I go to my doctor on Park Ave and if I have COVID the authorities will never know because private practice doctors for the rich do not report COVID cases. This is one certain sector that is not included in your hypothesis...how do you square that in your thinking?
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  9352. How did a small country like Myanmar, formerly called Burma, made by the British into a province of India in the 1880s, acquire such a big military? British exported crude oil from Burma to European markets in this time period. The British capitalists were of mind to extract oil and mineral wealth from Burma. The British ranshackled the country and demolished all its indigenous and natural industries. GDP became controlled by the British. Produce oil and you end up with a British military command life regulated by hierarchy. The military relates to human beings through machines because it cannot relate to itself as a human being. The combustible engine embodied in planes, ships, bombs, submarines, that never ends distances human emotions the further away from being one becomes, the military armour humans wear show no trace of a human being in the military brain! This country was a trade route between India and China, ---a mere child. The British did all the support, maintenance and repair work of the whole military apparatus to parent this child. Now the military has taken the country dominating GDP,---what will it do with it? What is its economic program to keep all this high maintenance paid for? A is for Austerity, not progress but cuts and unemployment pays for big military industrial complexes the world now has three big ones, each doing the same dirty deeds, to pay for in cuts and unemployment. And for what? if Myanmar is a country just beginning to find its own essential independence with its first civilian president, so what? Why should a miliary fear it and lock up its leader? Because they are them, the same, identical but opposing entities,--- competing elites within the same identity or soul. Not inter-rivals but intra-rivals of the elite social classes taking the majority of the mass of people and their bitterness for a ride. Cultivating false hopes and promises from a weary, tired, public, for votes they will later betray. Navalny is a Putin and a Suu Kyi is a Navalny like Trump and Johnson are all Navalnys
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  9353. West Virginia coal country is a classic case of an industrial economy that is no more and the region's job loss...comes with the disappearance of coal production by 80% of what it used to be in WWII. Industrial capacity in the US continued to rise until it began its fall at the start of the resignation of Richard Nixon from the date of the New Deal when government marshalled all industries for the war effort. Coal country was all soot and mine ash falling from the sky. White clothing was never worn and people stayed indoors as much as possible. Black Lung Disease was the fatal curse of the coal miner and when you compare how other coal producers have made mining safer for mineworkers, coal country in West Virginia was not among them. Other mining industries have done way more than US mining companies to make mining safe from black lung but it is the highest fatality occupation next to trucking. So what happened? Capital took flight. Corporations began making their product in foreign countries leaving American labor to find employment in the service economy. The sociological ramifications of the flight of capital are enormous and felt by a reaction from America's middle class of the tendency of monopolies dominating most markets. Storm clouds were gathering. A general wage stagnation coinciding with a swift accumulation of capital began the date Clinton signed NAFTA. The 90s is history now. Easier to see it from a distance that periods of prosperity are accompanied by war for which republicans pursue and in periods of recession republicans pursue austerity, cuts and unemployment. None of them voted for the American Rescue Bill but this time the rescue plan will be paid for by the rich. We are not out of the woods yet because the US economy is too tied into the world economy for the mass of humanity to be sick with COVID variants. Democrats want to stay in power and that can only happen by regaining the confidence and trust of the voters. Going big is to show government is a lever to raise people out of poverty. If their plan fails the country is looking at throwing its vote to the most anti-establishment candidate known yet. But from the Trump experience we've learned that playng the angry guy is not enough to remove the failed establishment from power. It'll be someone revolutionary and universal because their message will hit home to all that the flawed opposition parties of the establishment are no longer relevant...time goes forward...
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  9354.  @philhunt26  I am fully aware of your point, you need to tell TYT that message and get them to talk about why it is you have a weaker support base and are conquered.  Because the reality is that American working people are conquered, the question is what to do about it, ---making fun of a right wing ideologue's religion ignores your status in society as conquered by many new forms of indentured servitude. Tell them not me.
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  9355.  @philhunt26  As I read our thread, or conversation between you and I. I noticed an interesting timeline. One week ago you replied to me twice. At that time, I inferred you raise your point with the TYT people, not me. 11 hours ago your most recent comment, condems my writing about lengthy paragraphs that do not '...really say much.' Life must be very busy in your world for you to cause such wide gap of time between your comments, or I hit a nerve that you could not leave alone? Why did you wait so long? What part of the long paragraphs I wrote says something and what part does not '..say much..' according to your words, is a mystery that only you can answer?
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  9356. It does not lead to an action to talk about the conflicts between political Elite social classes in Russia and the US without talking about how that conflict affects us at home, whether it means less time off the job for those who are working now or for those struggling day in and day out, will sink deeper into the abyss of poverty. It also means the money to fund this campaign comes out of the pockets of all employees, and that every dollar spent on defense is capital not invested in society. Spending money that is not your’s means the spender is not responsible for the spending but the owner of that money is responsible and that would be on all of us that our own society crumbles for lack of investment so that one elite power can dominate another other elite power in a war of competition for gas and oil.
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  9357. Guns can be taken off the street by offering an amnesty award that this is not offered to the Public as a plan to clean up the streets of homicides is deliberate.
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  9358. Good luck with that, humans can't even walk and chew gum at the same time.
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  9359.  @Anonymous-pm7jf  Don't take that comment seriously, everyone has their moods, and say things they should not. It was a fleeting response on a day when I felt like agitating someone not at all representtive of my more open level headedness. There are positives to AI but in my vew, only when AI does not serve a particular interest will it be truly positive for our lives. Be well brother. There are bigger storms ahead between this administration and the American people that I hope you are on the side of the people when those storms come.
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  9360. I think there is a conviction accountability project has become a division of a prosecutor office, I believe, has started in NY.
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  9361. Americans have to go to Mexico for medical treatment?
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  9362. Capitalism. Funny thing this is the same man who was governor during the period the rules were relaxed that regulated highway safety is the same man at the podium and the rules that regulated what business owners can or cannot do were weakened to the point they could do anything without the State interfering in how work gets done in society. When the State was accruing revenue this governor sang another song. The Public corrupted itself from the rent and subleased arrangements is a practice the State has no power to get rid of, the only power with the strength to remove the practice and this only because it threatens mass transportation and therefore lives, is the fire or any fires in these spaces occurred. Otherwise the government is useless.
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  9363. History is still in 2017 a history of the ruling classes. Expropriation or dispossession of the many by the few is the story of mankind before recorded. This social history is brought to focus by archeology. But the social history that tells the story of dispossession of a few (a handful of multinational corporations) by means of the many is the story of mankind in recorded history since the first industrial revolution. The many (us) are (pawns) absorbed into the corporations or government that we have become the means a few giants can dispossess each of their property and thus accumulate more. Therefore, everything we read and write is not the story of the absorbed masses used as combatants to destroy another competing capital (oligarch). Ruling class history is the acquisition of property that controls the economic life of a people in individual countries. The social history that brought about this conscious attitude that the only property worth possessing is property that dominates people and at the same time leads to accumulation of capital is a one to many relationship. Each corporation strives to attain lower costs and has it own legion of workers multiplied by the thousands who serve as a productive power house in which to destabilize a competing corporation regardless of origin of country. To many the capitalism described above is not a system but a consequence of a series of transactions and , therefore, a just and harmless endeavor that each country has a right to conduct its business in any market in the world. These people do not see a difference in productive consumption (reality) which is a historical category and the consumption of production (illusory) which is a historically specific category. But the Pentagon does understand the difference, the working masses do not, is our current dilemma with respect to a humanity guided by individual free will and purpose. Any news outlet that does not focus human relationships on this historical premise is 100% junk propaganda in my opinion.
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  9364. In a social system designed for people the lost luggage would be sent to a clearing house for distribution to places like Good Will store. People can buy what they need cheap and the material wealth gets used not thrown out or sent into indefinite exile. Lost luggage owners compensated for their loss. In a social system designed for money and goods and services meant to be exchanged planning at the national level is impermissible to a market system of exchange. Society as a whole is forbidden to take a role in solving huge problems in a market system. Society is punished when it tries. Taught and told never to use its mighty social power as a collective power. Society would get in the way of the market system. The market system deals with natural disasters, lost luggage, gun violence, crime, political corruption, pandemics, market crashes, recessions, inflations, stagnation and depressions, wars, all the ills in society at present, in an individual way between small property owners and individual companies. Companies who must balance the service against their profit at all times or die. Social problems and social conflicts are too big for the private market place to handle and the individual companies in society run away, close stores, hide, are scared, chicken, or swing the opposite way, give back, try heroics, even cause mischief. Populations bury their heads in the sand as individual entities cannot cope, deal or handle the conflicts, crisis and contradictions, run to the government for help on an never-ending basis usurping the total economic surplus that when we really need it the problems too big to be handled by a market system the economic surplus has dried out. This is ultimate stupidity of a market system that will destroy America if society does nothing about it the way the government does nothing about it. Society has a role to play and and a valid place from which to solve the general crisis government and private companies cannot fix, incapable of fixing, crisis too large reforms proposed over and over again cannot fix! Society can fix the general crisis in a month. If society can fix the crisis why do we need government or private industry is why society is constantly held in a state of need and desperation, hobbling on one leg, injured, to prevent its collective power from taking a role finally freeing humanity from the curse of the ages.
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  9365. Two missiles shot at the balloon missed. Consider the expense to society for this operation. Cost in fuel, cost in materiale, cost in manpower, preparation, support services, command, the whole defense system mobilized just to knock out a $1200. dollar balloon is straight out of a Norman Jewison’s movie. Absurd. This administration has two unintelligent and desperate acts on its record. The Russian-German pipeline sabotage and the incident with the Chinese balloon. Don’t think the republicans would be less frugal with society’s money because they wanted the balloon shot off the ground where it was launched 8000 miles away pounded off their chests is even more unintelligent than what the democrats did. Stupid. The head of the American Association of Balloonists, should start selling life insurance to all members against the remote possibility of a spate of disappearances of balloon enthusiasts is out of control this part of society has become.
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  9366. We may end up with two new parties on the right and the left and the mainstream parties may become minor parties. Time will tell.
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  9367. The Border Bill passed in the Senate is a middle finger for people who need the assistance in the US more than Ukraine should be supported because national interests depends on a free Europe. Europe is free as it wants to be and it can be freer by diplomatic means but war profits are lucrative and Senate members are making huge profits the more the war extends, despite universal European consternation against it. To the person living day to day on a wage, the Bill is a flat out rejection that their condition in society does not matter to the Senate, i would hope the republicans in the House oppose the Bill, and take out the portion funding Ukraine and Israel as a pre-condition, just do the Border piece. Bear in mind what Congress does on the southern border it will have to do the same thing on the northern border or there isn’t a point to the money spent if one border is left open and another is closed. Migrants always find a way. So if it were me I’d use more government intervention with commerce and trade and call it the best border security bill on earth. Nobody illegally enters that way. The Canadians will insist the best border security is more commerce and trade and they are not wrong. We already do a ton of business with Mexico. The flow of products is enormous and stopping the flow of goods harms working Americans who pay higher prices for the scarcity that did not have to happen! The Elites of the both parties in the Senate are not representative of the American people, however, old and feeble, they have more to conserve, whereas, the lower house is more reflective of millions in districts that have not and could use $70 billion. Many of you are hard up about more government, citing all the layers of endless bureaucracies, fees, petty rules and regs and what-not,--so recognize the bureaucracy of the Cold War era cannot do what the society wants it to do and junk it, period. Let the new technology do the work.
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  9368. It has nothing to do with stupidity and everything to do with evangelical christianity, or Creationism. They are not stupid people. They were very planned and methodical in their capture of government. Americans are now a subjugated people in the states they dominate. They performed a coup dé état that was slow and gradual over the years. When enough of them made it into government they became what constitutes a social class of christian capitalists (Amway, etc.). Pyramid schemes as you might heard of before was their business plan in the early years and putting into the hands of unsuspecting Americans their source of funding, ---profits from the sale of Amway, Mary Kay, products. Convention meetings in Vegas and other venues is where they held annual profit rallies for the corporation rewarding people moving up the pyramid. Raising the capital to get elected, changing election laws to stay elected, ruling society through material, spiritual, legal, political and social, force. That is not stupidity. it’s a very well thought out successful and calculated plan for conquering the world. They targeted people whose incomes was never enough. The “never enough” crowd can be a powerful social force when glued together into a pyramid structure containing them. They are brainwashed people. Fast forward 30 years and the government is 7/10th occupied by Israel loving evangelical christians. The first genocide under their watch is the genocide against the Palestinians is no coincidence. If Americans want their freedoms Americans have no other alternative but to win power. Evangelism appears over the centuries in various forms. It dates back to the early Roman christians who suffered so much the second coming of Christ became a religion for them. Evangelism has a despicable history from the 15th century going forward, more criminal and genocidal than Hitler, Stalin, Mao put together, the most deadliest of all homosapiens on earth are christians, that in every likelihood the extinction of the human race would be their doing. Not knowing your enemy is stupid. Not trying to insult readers of this personally. It is vital to orient people on how to start thinking about these people and their methods of subjugation. Creationists are infamous for denial of empirical truth and objective realities. You need to know who they are? What jobs do they hold in government that control our lives? Questions to start thinking about NOW not tomorrow. Tomorrow is too late.
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  9369. All National Security Inc. Security companies hire out security guards to who ever pays the most. They are mercenaries for profit in many cases when they exchange money to meet a political need of someone else, a third party. If employers want to continue hiring security firms then they will never find workers to hire. Workers are not gong to be treated this way. Take your job and shove it! People no matter how poor or desperate still have dignity, so close to death under normal circumstances, nothing to lose is the fate of the masses, resistance to fascism makes death honorable and victory sweet. Cease hiring security firms and drug testing abusing, controlling, tediously scrutinizing people and you'll find loyal workers. Employers are not economists or sociologists their thinking is cunning as deep as their pockets. If I am oligarch worth 2 billion and I do not like a certain president and wanted that president out of the way of my projects or intentions to make a killing in his country, no matter what country they are president of, I can approach a security firm and ask if they would take that assignment, and since they are covert military trained security firms catching them is going to be difficult for the authorities to do. No money trail paid in cash $1 million. Just don't get captured Trump does not like people who get caught. He'll never hire you if he ever needs you. Truly, we have become a F'd up sloppy fascist society. America is a fascist country ruled by fascists and the people standing around watching are the same as the jews who willingly got on the trains to concentration camps never putting up a fight. Apathetic, don't know what to do type of people who look like deer staring into the headlights of your car at night. Warsaw Ghettos Jews did fight to their credit and example, they never surrendered they died honorably. Cops, security guards, military men are the people who use us to go against people who fight fascism. How wrong we are to listen to them. All the security firms are competing for dollars and are all from one quarter or another man-made mercenaries armies formed in the military and law enforcement. If they were not they would not be international and conspiratorial by nature linked to assassinations.
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  9370. This is white privilege in action. The kid demonstrates the world is his private property and personal ownership is something he can dominate, take, steal, rule, possess. The kid has the Self and Personality profile of what will make a capitalist exploiting his workers with no remorse and what he makes for sale he profits on the misfortunes of others. He bears in embryo form what later will become the callous disregard for human life we see in Donald Trump and Joe Biden, Netanyahu. This is how capitalism perpetuates itself repetition of the same social relations through individuals.
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  9371. Just a real fast sketch on this question... Donald Trump is responsible for his own vision of society which happens to be the same vision white nationalists have for society; An Apartheid System. White nationalist are nihilists, they would destroy everything and start humanity from scratch on an homogenous basis or kill themselves. Kids become white nationalists very young, 8 years of age they begin looking at the popular conceptions of the world given to them in every form of medium that can spread the fallacies far and wide. Popular movements and culture of the baby boomers virtually threw white supremacy into the far, far away fringe of total discreditation and humiliation. By the time Reagan came around they gained political legitmacy appearing with smiling faces while spouting white supremacy. The alliances Trump is making with Big Fossil Fuel Industry and Big Pharma, Big Agriculture, basically all the Big Social Classes want the US to be Union -Free and Employer RIghts upheld.  Everything else is a people's problem that can wait, except scientists are warning us there is no waiting. And, when you look around there is no waiting, extinction is upon us at the microscopic forms of life and creeping upward to the more complex forms of life extinction threatens society, property, humans and mammals. Big, midsize, employers and banks cooperate with fascist regimes. From Napolean to Hitler to Trump, strong alliances between bankers, landlords, merchants and manufacturers are built through someone who promises to force labor to work overtime and use the State to do it.
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  9372. I think what is happening is that the generation born in 1980 and those thereafter are unable to conceive of a society based on cooperation, a society that is not based on competition. For example, the Clinton Reform of Welfare is the epitome of Neoliberalism but for lack of education of other social systems to compare, Americans, particularly the middle class has learned to perceive societal issues as personal and subjective. But as the economic position of the middle class slips downward they are beginning to see the ruling elite behind the ruling ideas that become the ruling social policies. But to really understand what i am saying the person reading this has to go back to the 60s to understand the ruling elite in the 70s and 80s when they finally were triumphant in changing an entire population from radical left to conservative right through religion and the suppression of history, that now the ruling elite can erase the historical record and the Civil Rights and Anti War Movement of the 60s. Right up to erasing Barack Obama as president from history, that it ever took place. This may help to understand how to get people to break out of the Me-ism of the period; individualism, personal responsibility and put the values of cooperation, community, comradeship, society, back into the equation Neoliberalism erases everyday with its outright denials.
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  9373.  @Col_Panic  Sounds good...your heart is in the right place.
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  9374.  @gitteholmen8156  The capitalist mode of production has run out of time, I mean, labor-time. Productive forces are so high the productive power of the class that uses the forces of production can feed, house, and keep clean the world and its people a hundred times over. This makes poverty more obvious of a consequence of the accumulation into private hands of this productive power. My life, my family’s life are excluded from the club and not considered more important than the private accumulation of capital of a political class consisting of corporations, banks, large scale landowners, and huge retail merchants of commerce. We (people like my own person) are not even regarded a national interest. We are a ‘special interest group’ to this political class. There is no reason, incentive, or desire that I should put my mind or body to use for their aims or into their hands in whatever form, as an outsider.
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  9375.  @Col_Panic  The more obscene it becomes the more incapacitated the economy becomes...lets hope the American people throw a sucker punch and knock out the war parties in Washington.
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  9376.  @briansearle6868  Uh huh...heard that before...incentives...you need an incentive to work and live...you sound like a Pavlov Experiment... Venezuelans are not like Americans nor is their government a Mafia like the American government...neither does incentives replace Individual Will for Venezuelans, a thing missing in the American people thanks to the American government who provides incentives and then takes them away...such bad parents is the American government and such a low level of GDP for a rich nation with a mighty working class pummeled into illiteracy. You are right about one thing giving power to your government is a BIG mistake.
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  9377.  @briansearle6868  competition...ah yes...the ages old idea of Adam Smith that in the modern times leads to monopolies...and from monopolies being broken up because they choke the society...creates competition...and the cycle repeats itself, over and over again...that my friend is the very definition of insanity. That is why people in this society digress and never grow beyond the limits of a repeating cycle. Free Will is snuffed in such a system. In place of free will, is social conditioning and indoctrination, ultimately, creating individuals of self-interest and no sense for the interests of community, society, family. In that repetitive cycle, competition into monopoly and then monopoly back into competition, must be like living in a hamster wheel, with big incentives to stay in the wheel. Plato wrote in his Republic, the slaves even when the chains were broken would not leave the cave for fear of the sunlight, so condition they were to living in the dark...describes your individual and social situation.
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  9378. The New Orleans Chiefs in charge of the investigation define terrorism as 1., ...”hell bent on destruction.”, and 2., as “violent extremism”. These are vague and abstract definitions. Terrorism is violence with a political aim to it and extremism can be anything. The Chiefs never mentioned the perpetrators were political identified for the Public unless they are keeping something from us, we don’t know, is the main concern here. Neither of these bozos had a political aim or purpose motivating their attacks. For one of them it was all personal. The other we are still waiting for the investigation to tell us more about the Las Vegas nihilist. What we do know is two Alumni and one active service member are of the US military, they became all that they can be, are not the only ones who are shaped by the US military. The new recruitment campaign ad says, “Marines are born to be a marine”. A marine even before you were an infant out of the womb of your mother. The US Military believes violence is not a learned skill though they teach you how to be violent when necessary and alert at all times, they believe the violence you were born has to get shaped, fitted, indoctrinated, molded and trained to conform to a hierarchical social structure of the military and society. Americans go into the military all bright eyed ambitious and bushy tailed and come out of the military a shrunken human being only to have you labeled as hell bent on destruction. Vey much the way jobs are allocated and apportioned to members of society through a market. You go into it fresh and come out after 45 years of chance and causality that you find a buyer a broken human being.
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  9379. VW is not your friendly European trendy car maker of the pop-up bus camper anymore. That VW has become a destructive behemoth in the car industry in a war with rival car makers.
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  9380. You’d think CNN’s graphics department would come up with something less cheesy for a backdrop for their anchor? Look at that thing.
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  9381. I would not restore that government. For the simple reason another family can come into power and do the same thing all over again. Its an oligarchy government and there are more oligarchs Sri Lanka. That government needs to be smashed and replaced by a government of the people. This event was not a protest. Its a social revolution when people from all walks of life with no arms or malice march and change the material conditions of their life. Removing an Oligarchy from power is a concrete material transformation of a social condition, the infected wound has been removed from the body and what is left is the outer shell of a government that does not work with the change but, rather, against the change.
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  9382. The Pentagon tests a second strike ICBM capability launched from California and are confident of the effect. Think about that.
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  9383. @Political Economy,--- Well, of all people you should know profits, interests, rent, wages, are forms of the social surplus...historically specific social forms that have corresponding social classes representing these economic forms would be the general outline of the theory. The forms of the content are not immutable. What I like about Marxists that Libertarians refuse to accept as fact, if there are any of genuine persuasion is the emphasis given by Marxists to production. Production has certain laws of its own and these laws are incompatible with the law of the market place Libertarians deify. So it makes for some good fighting. How, in effect, blind to the effect of a rise in profits desirable to the entire capitalist class, as it is desirable to the working class, are unbeknownst to employer and employee, detrimental to both social classes, is the difference between the concept of labor, one lives to work, and what the commodity labor-power performs for the capitalist class from the first day on the job in the creation of surplus-value. Then to not understand that corporations become giants through the value changes in production and through surplus-value more can be employed than the average small producer. Smaller producers have two choices to work from the shrinking pool of labor, the larger pool of labor usurped by larger capitals, who now have to hire below the average, offer a shit wage, or cut their surplus-value by selling under, or sell with no return at all. Big social ramifications when the rules of the free market clash with the rules of production. A simple change in production of the number of workers raises productivity and quantity turns into quality, capitals vary individually in their economic composition, but as a social whole they average out to a new higher standard of consumption of a shrinking number of capitalists, and a never-ending thirst for labor-power, a ferocious appetite, for the destruction of all prior existing economic formations for the creation of labor-markets and commodity markets.
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  9384.  @chrisj984 A slave for the highest price is what you are calling yourself. Wherever the highest price is paid for my labor-power is where I will go and have gone... is the story of America.
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  9385. Every generation is smarter than the previous one and has the responsibility of overthrowing the old for the new generation to create the society it wants to live in according the to the march of progress in human history.  If a revolution to overthrow the psychosis of the boomer generation infesting government with its core central values of commodity fetishism you have only yourselves to blame and history will never forgive you. Get out there and tear it down!
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  9386. I love your videos... great work, this one had a lot of humanity and subtle humor to them.
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  9387.  @sdays59  the body buried is an indicator the killing was not an act of random violence but one of planning and ritual. Why the shallow burial is the question Watson? Was the killer rushed? Conditions to hard to dig deeper? No tool or the wrong tool.
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  9388. Humanity would have become extinct long ago living in less life supporting and inhospitable environments. Died out from disease. Hardships. Ignorance. Famine, Drought. Flood. Etc. Indeed. But I am confused about what the relationship the extinction of humanity has with what Marx said about the spread of ruling class ideas that there is no alternative to capitalism, would be?
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  9389.  @bonitajanssen745  Nonsense. There is a game of subjects and you play the subject in the game. Its only because you imagine yourself as a subject that a man is God or king.
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  9390. I would not restore that government. For the simple reason another family can come into power and do the same thing all over again. Its an oligarchy government and there are more oligarchs Sri Lanka. That government needs to be smashed and replaced by a government of the people.
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  9391. The last refrain of a dying political party is denial.
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  9392. The person who is armed is protecting the right of property to exist not the right of the person to exist. Property is the subject and the person(s) are the object(s). The two people, defender and perpetrator, are both subordinate objects to the rule of property the main subject of the law. The legal system expressing the right of private property to exist has reified people and personified property ripping society apart. Basically, its a society that will tear apart between big and powerful private property such as the owner of 170,000 acres of home and land who never has to worry about packing a gun to protect their property and millions of tiny property owners desperate to hang on to a piece of real estate fully armed and willing to objectify themselves to a bullet. And that lawyer at the end of this video, a representative of that legal system, is the kind of ilk hastening this society toward a society of haves and have-nots, who, in my world, would be disbarred from law forever.
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  9393. Iran is what Russia was in the early 1900s. The Tsar and Duma in conflict about which institution was the legitimate ruler of society laid the groundwork for the Russian Revolution is the same conflict between the Supreme Leader of Iran and the President of the Political Establishment. Iran’s Supreme Leader is a king. Kings are kings because other people in the court of the King, see themselves as subjects to the king. People are not born by nature subjects to a king, there is not a DNA sequence in humans that makes them subjects; it’s all mental, they have to believe a king is king to believe themselves as subjects. And once you are subject its for life. The belief system is strong. Pope is a pope only because in its religion, cardinals as consults to the Pope see themselves as subjects to a Pope. The Tsar conceding to Karensky’s political establishment limited powers was a necessary step in liberalizing society, in other words, breaking up the peasantry, fighting a war with Japan, and a war with Germany, rising prices, poor crop production, had the country in a messy road toward liberalization, the whole affair ended the lives of 22 million peasants. The Tsar was out of touch with the suffering of the people, maybe kings do better now...our American news organizations do not educate viewers enough for us to know who or what king or government is actually better for the suffering masses? Supreme Leader of Iran is a King, and the president who just died on a helicopter crash; the leader of a political establishment. The winner is the power that fills the vacuum left open by the death of the president. Will it be the king or will it be the Iranian masses or will it be a liberal political establishment who are to wield political power over society?
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  9394. US manufacturing sector brings in $2 trillion, 10% of the US economy so what is the cost and benefits of going one way or the other? Bernie has a good chance building on this manufacturing sector and position the US as a green climate change producer. This manufacturing is largely in Texas is half the size of German GDP! Not to be snuffed at. So how will we choose our value units? Trump has a impoverishment of ideas, no alternative and the internal deficit gets worse. Left populism is big but corporate new media focuses on the right populism as more news worthy becausee it is uglier than the left populism. Europe in the next ten years will be a tragedy. Supply side metrics, everybody cannot be an exporter. For the system to work you need buyers and sellers. If Trump wins, his tariff war with China will be extended to Europe. Not good news for Europe, which is why Pompeo speech in the Munich conference did not go over well at all saying the West is winning. Winning what, and this implies somebody is losing...namely, Europe. Europe is caught in the middle with bad and weak governments no ideas, no solutions, embarrassed by a little girl so they ignore the problems. Between China and the US, Europe is trying to run a surplus against the world of two major supply chains is ridiculous. But since people do not feel they have any skin in the game there is more going on then a spread sheet. Austerity is the response to all the ingredients of the cake there for a long time the economic system should have been reset ten years ago and ten years out the politics has changed. Conditions were right for the left, instead the putative left were all in charge when it all went down and what did they do, they bailed the banks and this invited the right with "this is not capitalism". It wasn't capitalism. So there is a loss of credibility of the left. This will take time to rebuild but Corbyn did it brining in more members to the labor party. The supply side does everything, doesn't add up. Europe cannot agree on anything at this time and will be playing in the margins for the next ten years. No wonder Salvini in Italy is popular and Germany's right wing rears its ugly head. Governments just pull a magic cap over the heads and pretend the monsters are not there. Bernie can do more than just America First, he can level the supply chain imbalances between China, Russia and the US, raise rates, and ease Europe's push toward austerity, but they have to get rid of their current leaders. Nobody can work with Trump, and Europe's leaders are incompetent, a bad mix, as he is impossible to work with and the west needs pragmatists such as Putin and Xi are.
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  9395. The Supreme Court, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury Department, the Pentagon and Homeland Security, are five institutions that use law, money, taxation, military might, and secrecy as weapons to rule over 332 million people in the US, and the world economy. Ladies and gentlemen you have a long way and a big fight ahead of you before you can consider yourself a free sovereign individual in total control of your own Will.
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  9396. We are not fully sensitized to life, reproduction of life...and we are half-conscious of texture, the material used to make the things we want and need is our reproductive cycle. We take matter for granted in that relation. Texture is taken for granted. We want everything clean and erased any history of our own dirty tracks. We ignore ourselves in that material exchange: Nature is changing us as we are changing nature. The most reckless way to do that is through war.
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  9397. All three stock exchanges performed well this year. Behind these numbers and transactions recorded on the Big Board are a class of people, the owners of financial wealth, getting rich from the sale of the means of war the corporations provide to a War Machine. The necessities of life become scarce from all the destruction and this keeps consumption below the necessary point of doing well and in starvation mode. War is keeping Palestine at the level of starvation and war is keeping Americans are at the level of making just enough to survive, barely making it. Starvation and existence are the only two modes of work for capitalism. Keeping the masses at a level where food and other necessities are barely had is in the interest of increasing profits. One of the main tasks of a CEO is to make sure consumption does not exceed production. If that happens than profits fall and wages rise. Under capitalism war creates the ideal condition to expand markets. it keeps the productive capacity of capital below the rate of unproductive consumption of the masses and production in general runs like a well oiled machine on a perpetual basis. The notion of “forever” is attached to war, unemployment, crisis and capitalism. These evils are essential if billionaires are to be made. Consequently, the corporate form of capitalism, as there are many different forms of capitalism, the American form depends people who are okay with crisis, war, job cuts, longer working hours and increased exploitation to enter into that social class after the old ones die off. They have to keep the class going to thrive and survive. Same thing with the working class. You have to keep a working class going and make sure there are replacements after working people die. Peace and prosperity for the many do not make billionaires. Peace and prosperity makes affluence which is more than enough to get by for all. Making an ever shrinking number of billionaires happens because an ever growing amount of capital eventually gets owned by fewer billionaires. It will take a while for you to let that sink it. Truth is painful but also liberating to know the system you are struggling with. The peace movements are a threat to that existence, peace is the antithesis of war and capitalism; if the masses want peace and longevity they will have to take back what they gave in suffering and invest that wealth back into themselves, roughly numbering more than half the US population need a permanent home that is not owed by a bank. For their lives to be equal with their neighbors of greater wealth a Mass must take place not just on Sunday but everyday redistributing the bounty while dismantling the old institutions half of which do not work anymore should not pose a problem to let them go.
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  9398. Why an autopsy when it is plain as day how they died? Evidence is concrete. Coroner must be a necrophiliac, there is no reason for an autopsy. Cut open their bodies...not even the dead are given dignity in this country....is disgusting!
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  9399. Decoy Vice...you can be an idiot at times, this is one of those times...AA is not about lowering standards; its about inclusion. 60% of Congress, or 60 out of 100 senators in Congress are descendants of slaveholders and all are Ivy League graduates. You would be nieve to believe that Congress will get to the bottom of the disparity in education when Congress and the Supreme Court are the cause of disparity.
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  9400. On this day, these events happened, Trump is slapped with a new indictment for Jan 6., Kamala finally goes on TV to make her case to the American people since Biden passed the torch, Israel raids the West Bank escalating the war, and a big Lawyer was enabled by the Bar Association of California is convicted of embezzling clients. Of course there are more things that happened we are not told about but suffice it to say what we do know does not look good, more trouble every day. What is worse the calls made to the people who can make things better are not responsive.
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  9401. The horse story is a lesson in capitalism. Horse is a commodity in the story and how it becomes one. Government sells the horse cheap and new buyers through the adoption program re-sell the horse at a higher price at auction to slaughter house dealers which means that American consumers are eating processed horse meat and a certain class of people are profiting on this. What would a slaughter house need a horse for? Such a claim is supported by the high frequency of food taken off the market that they got into the market in the first place is a condemnation of agencies in the government not protecting the consumer and are not truthful about food inspections that a side of beef in America could be a side of horse or burro.
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  9402. I hereby am the first person, here, to coin the term to apply to democrats; “DINOs”. Democrats In Name Only.
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  9403. I am going to speculate the liaison police officer was not included in that school meeting with the Crumbleys has to do with the school’s perception of police officers in schools is not part of their bureaucracy but belongs to another payroll and another bureaucracy.
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  9404. Why am I hearing crickets at 2 in the afternoon in the north east?
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  9405. It most certainly would have been a different world had the German Revolution succeeded in 1918-19, America would never had risen seven times the military might of all nations combined that it is today... the German social democratic party were huge as one, when they split on voting for or against the war between colonial empires, the revolution was lost, but had it not been. WWI would never had gone beyond England recovering its losses from France, Portugal, Belgium and nobody in America would have given a dam if Africa and India developed without the colonial powers or with them. The biggest worry for the American government were the revolts and revolutions on the continent and in the Caribbean, and as a country we would have been focusing on relations west of the Marianna’s Trench to the Pacific and the East had the German Revolution succeeded.
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  9406. Markets exclude people, sellers in the San Francisco market want the rich not the poor.
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  9407. I think most people are confused about 'money'?   The price of a car in money terms is priced at, say, $30,000 dollars. This, not because the dollar is backed by gold, another widely held confusion. The value of the car is measured by the value equivalent of some other commodity and then money is used to express this fact! I put more paper money into circulation the price of that car will rise in price. Dealers raise prices and freshly printed money is taken out of circulation. Directly, wages fall in value. I put less paper money into the economy the price of that car falls. Dealers can't make enough profit over their cost price. Indirectly, wages have risen in value. Of course, a lower price on cars and other goods stimulates growth, yes, it does, but it is also a raises how much of the market basket of goods wages can buy.  Wages can buy more goods and this corresponds to a fall in profits. Profits are supported to rise by all the financial tools government has is the present situation. The Fed's job tends to equalize prices to rise and fall within a narrow latitude of movement to not invoke a crash or a revolution, to be frank. But in the main, people are confused about money because they do not understand commodities do all the exchanging and invades communities for more commodities to equate themselves against a third commodity measuring their weight. People miss the fact that a pound of bread and a pound of iron is expressing their same weight. All they see is the bread and iron not the weight common to both, in this way they can't see value common to all commodities. Money or the price expressing the value of the car is using gold as a commodity and the car as a commodity to measure the car's value. When gold is money then all the commodities in the world come alive all seeking their value equivalent in gold while the outside world sleep and is still.
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  9408.  @65minimom  what's the "kiss' for? A typo? Worth, riches, wealth, synonymous to the category of use-value. The tailor's work is a value because the coat is a use-value, the coat needs something else to measure its value, to qualify as a commodity is the logo of exchange-values. We have a hard time with this because the terminology is not in our vocabulary.
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  9409. I doubt a privileged social class of police are going to get much empathy for their cause in the context of a city suffering from all kinds of exploitation and discrimination not to mention poverty, homelessness and unemployment in a pandemic.
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  9410. Hard to put your finger on the blame for the paradox the American people have become? Working people in America have become psychologically desensitized to what a working day ought to be versus to the virtual battle zone the working day has become in the last 50 years. De-regulation and free market ideas of democrats and republicans weakened government that it can no longer contain a class battle that threatens to rip the nation to pieces! People are easily demoralized and lost skills of cooperation and universal suffrage. After they walk away from their jobs its time to think hard about the consequences of that action.They must somehow learn to fight back and regain the power of cooperation. An unorganized walk out that springs from being fed up might be to workers the job is not worth the sacrifices but to business its a threat to its existence. Business feels it has a right to exist the feelings workers have about work does not matter to business!
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  9411. You can fire the CEO. You can punish him but that will not change way rail conducts its business. The rail industry is unsupervised by the government. The government’s overarching premise for a rail industry is wrong and if you accept a wrong premise everything after that is wrong too. Leaving individual rail companies to act on their own when they do not know how much to transport of the nation’s goods is the premise! The exact opposite should be the government’s role in the rail industry, supervising restoration and modernization of rail to make communities safe from the railroad.
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  9412. With all due respect to the families of the victims of this tragedy, I say this.  The building industry will cover its own tracks using the government because the building and real estate industry is huge and politically powerful. This one fatal incident is not going to stop business as usual. The tragedy exposes the toxicity of building materials. The blame will fall on government for scheduling long durations of time between inspections to draw attention away from the cumulative trauma of toxic building materials when so frequently structures collapse. Officials will be portrayed as incompetent functionaries alerting too late to the company a crack in the wall they saw a year before. Instead of this leading into an investigation that from the lumber industry to the construction industry Americans are exposed to chemically treated materials the cause and effect of cancer, leukemia, hepatitis, low birth rate and birth deformities. Private construction firms involved and the Condo Establishment, notwithstanding any deviations from the plan during its construction, will come out looking clean. Business as usual a year later, in fact, the memorial could even attract new sales to the morbid. Some lower official's head will roll and more frequent inspections of buildings should sooth the public that something is being done. But America's national diseases will continue to shorten the lifespan of individuals as caused by the de-regulated use of 250,000 chemicals applied to products of all kinds, everywhere, in everything!
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  9413. What a waste of historical time to be spending it on bans when there is a revolution to be made. The only point I would make to this is put to you subjectively, if you truly believe in your god you should not require the rest of society to support you, anyone is free to have a faith, is a liberty, having tax exempt status is not a liberty nor a privilege but a lure, an escape hole from which outside religious individuals in group form can enter and invade as Trump puts it, this country. Poor America, she has a history of being invaded. Taken away from the 'savage' and reshaped into a land that it is today. The bloody masses in their own inversion of the real world into a deity see America as the society were the religious belong. A more effective way of ending a Muslim invasion is by the abolition a tax exempt status for religion. But, of course, in the context of the society America is, that would require Trump to renounce his religious-- whether its Norman Vincent Peale or Jewish, I don't know which, beliefs. Evangelical Pence and whole of the US Congress who pledge a prayer everyday to a god and swear truth emanates from the bible in parliamentary politics and in court. The flag gets less attention than the bible does from this social class in power. Its the only dam product that has a label reading Made in America and none of them use it to show the sorry state of society having lost its industrial base for growth and prosperity. The hypocrisy of its policies is glaring and astounding. Maybe , over time, after the fall of the Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court, religion will wither away in the light of discovery the planet no longer sustain human life since there will be no constitution left to protect it the country breaks out into another Hundred Years War and waste more historical time not committing itself to a social revolution. Religion does not put food on the table, why not a tax exempt status for anyone starting an industry as a start for a social revolution?
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  9414. How do you prolong an injustice the way the Supreme Court prolongs one you stack the court with people who you know will never reach agreement.
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  9415. Horrible comment...Brother or not, prayers perpetuate the violence of the State attacking indigenous people!
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  9416. 0:49 She is not lying. She wants to improve the DA’s office but she did not say eradicate corruption in the DA’s office. If I can choose the right word she as a lawyer should do better than ‘improve’ the DA’s office. In the end the office got to her, she perfected the corruption of the DA’s office with a corruption of her own. But the whole plot has the feel of a sting operation.
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  9417. WHO is the father of the child shot in the head and WHO shot him is obscured by bloated bureaucrats grandstanding the public?
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  9418. Animals in a Zoo live better than Americans in their own society. This is because the form of government and the form of social production are compatible with each other but not with society. Animals may be caged but at least there is a direct relationship between their care, food, health and their lives and needs. Within the democratic party, desperate right wingers want a young person they can corrupt and influence. An old guy is too stuck in his ways. The old dude running for president in 2020 has been around the block and wasn't born yesterday and the right wing in his own party are a generation younger than him. This makes them really nervous that Bernie would bring down the comfortable social arrangements the right wing of his party are accustomed to.  If he selects a young running mate which I would if I were him because I can mentor and shape that young person to finish the job I started. This is exactly the same situation the right wing of FDR's party worried over. The old guy in a wheel chair had a young Wallace more progressive than Cortez as his VP. FDR was also not going to abolish the capitalist system but Wallace may have, as Cortez might, if he selects her, had the red scare not been initiated by the right wing of Wallace's party, America would be three generations deep in a socialist society. The republicans are overt in their repressionist practices in politics but the right wing democrats are covert with their repressive practices. It is easy to deal with a Tucker Carlson republican right winger than it is to deal with a Chelsea Clinton democrat right winger. This generation of Americans are under the rule of a form of social production that takes the shape of 500 transnational corporations, they constitute a social class. And, this generation is under the rule of a form of government that is apathetic of the actions of transnational corporations. They turn their back on the people to give room to the corporations to make profits over people. My position is neither form should exist, government as we know it today, and the transnational corporations as a form of social production puts human life in danger. Boeing makes 737's that crash, the Public is at risk and this form of government ignores it. The forms are antiquated and the republican free enterprise theory is about creating sycophantic parasitic social classes using institutions that are prone to abuse and corruption.
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  9419.  George Orwell  You are an asshole George Orwell, a total asshole, I am 85 years and probably have in my savings account three times more than you will ever because the dollar you earn is a note. The dollar I earned over my lifetime were certificates. College graduate, what an arrogant moron you are.
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  9420. The key is to make technology a function of investment. For example, Elon Musk moves his factories to Texas he would be depriving his workers in California of their jobs that workers in Texas shed no tear over. When Elon Musk moves his factories from Texas to Indonesia his workers in Texas are in the same position as his former workers were in California, i.e., jobless. A trail of joblessness is left after every move. If strict laws were in place the factories in California would remain in California still producing and selling an electric car, is kept operating by the State pending a new owner which could be the workers themselves or a private owner. If such laws were in place nationally Detroit would still be a functioning city reconverting the old factories long ago paid for into new workshops and separate factories producing something society needs. Production at the base of American society is weak and circulation at the head of society is top heavy and strong cannot stand up straight on so weak a foundation.
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  9421. The child will grow up to become a monster seeking and wreaking revenge and hatred on the society that tore his family apart. He is cherished now for his plight but the moment his adolescence changes into young adulthood he will be shaped by forces of incarceration and imprisonment and be another number forgotten and buried until the next politician uses him as a means to get your vote. The only time we will remember him is when he is shown in shackles entering a court room.  He is the victim in this and his family left Nicaragua because not enough of the riches of Nicaragua stay in Nicaragua to keep them there would lead to investigations and expose wrongdoing giving wind to the sails of a Comprehensive Immigration Policy. Better that children lose everything than a handful of lawless policymakers go to jail.
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  9422. The media reports war and conflict to the American public as though war and conflict were a museum exhibition of the government and its unregulated showings to be arranged. We should all be selling Tupper-ware when the NBC news reports on war and conflict because Tupperware party-ers is the media's concept of the public. People they broadcast receive information on a need to know basis and are regarded as intellectually challenged, too stupified by Tupperware culture to digest the hard facts of war and conflict as new militia groups are identified and suddenly the region is infected with new militia groups all proxied by their main adversary is too obvious a scandal that the media would prostitute itself into being a tool of the government.
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  9423. Two left candidates against one candidate on the right deliberately splits the vote. The right candidate wins. No question that was strategized from Washington via its command center in Florida monitoring the Caribbean and southern hemisphere.
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  9424. Republicans don't care of the suppression of the white working class vote along with voters of all colors in the working class. They have no interest in appealing to a majority of voters; they intend to stay in power by theft and then by force. Who they represent are the "owners of money and property", the small minority who control the productive forces of society. What is revealed in the actions of the republican party is a way of being, a mode of activity, perfectly consistent with the destructive nature of Amercica's economic productive forces. By alienating every other social class in society they lumped us all into a class that no longer counts as a class, not recognized as a legitimate social class in society, republicans have created the expression of all nationalities within the present society the dissolution of all social classes.
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  9425. Here is the flip side of the historical reality: Regarding the intention to keep in a low place the Negroes, I take it to mean the Right to Bear Arms is less about fear of tyrannical government and more about a fear of black armed insurrection on account of the greatest slave rebellion in Haiti that expropriated three colonial empires of all property and power of Haiti that black people should never be armed. In regard to they obtaining political power and gain supremacy inside Congress, I take this to mean that the descendants of slave holders of the Confederate Congress of South Carolina who seceded the union aim to become rich not through chattel slavery but through the slavery of free trade. Regarding the rebellion the grudge dating back to the first southern secessionist rebellion of 1832 is alive and kicking, simmering and signaling for another secession in this century.
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  9426. What is a real advantage the capitalist class over the US labor force and they use it to hammer labor down is that they can manufacture goods outside of the reproduction of the working class. They can shorten the working day and invest more capital into machinery making machinery cost less and the cheaper machinery proliferates into other industries that do make products for the reproduction of the working class creating a double result, a double blow to workers everywhere, of cheapening the value of necessaries and lowering wages. Capitalists use innovation as a battle weapon to raise productivity, they want the working class to be as productive as possible so that it cost them 3 hours not 8, or 7,6,4 hours in wages. If they clear 5 hours productivity from each worker that’s 5 hours worth of labor, or the 3 hours would equal one worker and a part timer a capitalist saved from hiring--- comes out to a lot of money, as profit for the capitalist but a disaster for the economy.
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  9427. History is felt as something beyond human to us. The only time of the year when we see history when the higher unities come out in full regalia. Queen and Church, monarchy and papal aristocracy, are the highest social orders next to God in the material world we have. History is determined by them. Their ideas, their values, their beliefs, the rules they endow upon us, sometimes with benevolence other occasions with brute force. Down through the ages from the ancient world of higher unities of the pharaohs to modern day princes and kings, our coventry. Perfectly natural that we assign ourselves, the lower unities in society, the mental work of creating the mystical shell that covers the unities for the rest of the year.
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  9428. Voyeurism is the subjective psychology of the State’s mass surveillance program made non-pathological by bourgeois politicians in government.
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  9429. It'll be easier for the republicans to refuse the Congress the more the democrats throw all their hopes into absurd investigations. The Mueller investigation was a gift to the republicans. People are watching the illegitmacy the democrats bring to the Congress as the republicans use their side of the government to break away from the legislative side of the government. They appear ever more likely to succeed in the abolition of the Congress and amending the constitution among themselves given the democrats cannot identify a robbery if it took place in their own home. The judiciary, the military and law enforcement part of the government versus constitutional part of government, the actual governing body. The main thing is to keep an eye on what the democrats offer the republicans in addition to the tax breaks and regulations already given to that further abandons working class interests.
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  9430. International and domestic policies were consistent with each other coming out of the second world war. America was the only industrialized nation in the west that was not destroyed. So what happened? Who is at fault for the decline?
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  9431. Demoralizing that through the instrumentation of the US Military, a capitalist accumulates the wealth of a nation. Then becomes the ultimate owner of that wealth, and the final appropriator of that wealth. What is the wealth? Its the engineering; the science, the technology, the raw material, its the productive power of American industry and its labor force that constitutes how wealthy a nation can be...and for all this to be consumed to that end is demoralizing when it can be consumed to more humane ends. So dealing with it is a direct challenge to the only live component of that wealth, the workers themselves. Where are the heads of the workers, we can see from the oppositional relationship, they are positioned precariously between life and death, never having enough, that they fear revolution. Their heads are aligned with the real rulers of society and in denial of the real forces that rule the world. Where are the heads of the Left on this class struggle, they are preoccupied with cultural predicates and abstract ideas of ideology in the world, busy denying the validity and the truth of the concepts, avoiding the real relation of dependence between private property and the State.
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  9432.  @annholl1603  That feeling has an embedded hope that people will rise up. The feeling is not wrong when you are up against a highly organized State relentlessly attacking the American Public. Lockdowns, police repression and raids, low wages, no health care, inflation, material deprivation, and all weaponized against the American people. But a fractured and disorganized public is no match for a well organized State and there is no one to turn to for help. When the traditional avenues of help and representation in government are captured by powerful institutions and are closed off to the Public the only thing left is to rise up. I feel like Americans are the next Palestinians under a Grand Social Experiment of total control but have not come to the realization this is a planned form of repression and oppression.
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  9433. A remarkable summary...GDP is measured in the US by how much of the total output was sold. This makes the work of a person who makes watches less productive than the person who farms land because more food is sold than are watches. That appears to me a distortion between what kind of labor is productive and not productive. When a certain kind of work is considered unproductive that work or industry dies away and vice versa a certain kind of skill is productive that skill is enriched, enhanced, given all the attention to increase its productivity. If hamburgers sells more than books the book trade dies and the fast food places get all the latest technology for its high amount of sales; how then can you compare the real productivity of nations if the standards are not the same...you couldn’t even tell what in value went up or down, if both fell, or if both rose, or if neither fell or rose...the whole society is working on a blind working average, cutting it close by the skin of its teeth, whether capital should get invested in this or that or if the country needs more of this and less of that! A total crap shoot for an economy. The above scenario is the economic side of the pathology, a psychological side is a phenomenon across all western rich nations share alike. This is the social relation I would describe as a competition of nations that must have domination over things in order to dominate other competing nations on a world scale sets individual people up in each competing nation to be controlling of other people in their own lives, homes, and workplaces, by controlling the things people need to live, work and survive, is a curse on us all transmitted from the past we should be clamoring to break free from!
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  9434. Virus is spread not in the classroom where kids are expending mental energy. It appears the US population cannot go against those school programs that bring money into their school districts even if it means a higher incidence of coronavirus infections. The virus spreads when the kids expend physical energy in sports! Administrators of school districts in practice are not consistent with theory is becoming more evident the more this mutation infects the unvaccinated.
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  9435. To bad the News never makes the connection between the heavy rains, hurricanes, and severe storms to the huge carbon footprint of Trump, Harris, Swift and all the rest of the billionaires and their families, celebrities and super rich. Luxury planes, yachts, cruises ships and jets are huge oil guzzlers and polluters and the skies to the super rich are what the highways are to average working class people used daily without rest. I seriously doubt the nation is not on the decline not from too many mouths to feed but from too high a price for the necessities after all the wreckage and devastation is done.
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  9436. Out of 195 presidents in the world, 2 are the only ones we ever hear and see in the news. Literally, the other 193 presidents and prime ministers are people Americans know nothing about thanks to mass commercial media obsessing over the US and Russia. Its all about a handful of leaders that come off as some kind of dysfunctional family are given all the media attention is shoved down our throats! Really pathetic how American centric the press sees itself in the world. No other voices matter. The American attitude toward Russia as a demon really serves to rationalize how submissive the state department responds to force. America may have more military might but it is not invulnerable to nuclear annihilation and not invulnerable to lesser forms of violence like technology used against people. What other countries do to the US is what the US does to other countries is not a subject under discussion but ought to be the discussion between these two leaders. These big talks, HIGH STAKES talks, completely drown out the serious and more concrete problems the other 193 leaders in the world in crisis are coping with that the last thing on their minds is Putin and Biden.
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  9437. If we did not have these insttutions put in place by FDR, that kick in when a crisis happens, as a result of the experience of the Great Depression, Americans would be in the same state of chaos as the Europeans. FDR was right in seeing that a bourgeois democracies will not survive if the most vulnerable in society are not protected. Social inequality is a real cancer and it is generated by the monopolies. The US can tell Europe its our money and its their problem because we print it as needed. Our stupidity is that we have dumb politicians who give to the wrong people.  Social inequality squeezing the middle class out of existence, enter Trump, and his angry middle class prone to violence.
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  9438. America has yet to realize its true purpose in the material at hand. All it has achieved so far in its history is the effect of change of form of material but to its purpose, the nation draws a blank!
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  9439. What does an incarcerated migrant labor force do for capitalism? If they can get away with it, it is a blessing for the corporations. If Trump pulls it off the corporations have a cheap labor source contracting with the federal government. Notice the corporations are silent on Trump's incarceration plan, all but one airline company. Apparently, Trump's plan to make America great again and return capital to the US is to create a labor force that operates in confinement for which the tax payer bears the total cost for the population. Typical of capitalism in the last century was the creation of a labor force and a money market in other countries, a strategy that is not altogether abandoned by industrial capitalists in competition with its rivals. US capitalism has reached its limits for imperialist expansion. It must turn inward for solutions to the falling rate of profits of corporations, averaging 2% stock growth and GNP for the last three quarters. Pretty dismal results. Is Trump winning, he is winning against the Left but not against the Public and the left and the public have nothing to do with each other. They had split off from each the day the democrats learned they can make money like the republicans make money working for corporate interests. This goes back to Bill Clinton that the democrats abandoned the working class. How will it depress wages for the civilian workforce in the US? If you are not asking these questions than you do not understand competition in capitalism. The corporations inexorably seek to lower production costs and produce cheaply. Corporate capital accumulation depends on supplanting labor by machinery is applied on the civilian labor force a method not abandoned by the industrial capitalists in competition with rivals. There is more capital invested in machinery and technology than there is capital invested in labor. People erroneously think this action causes an increase in the cost of machinery because of a greater demand for it by industrial producers, however, they would surprised to learn that machinery and technology as a product of labor itself is cheaper. The overall outlay of capital is less the profits are higher as a result.There is a smaller amount of investment compared to old machinery and technology owing to the increase in productivity, more units produced at the same rate. Suffice it to say the civilian un-incarcerated labor-force has been increasing their productivity since WWII. The American worker made themselves over efficient and too costly for Big business to hire to compete and with the rise of China and other socialist economies catching up to US capitalism the threat of extinction is very real to the whole capitalist class. The radical solution to the economic paradox of falling profits is to create a labor force that works free and have the civilian working class pay for it while it becomes the managerial class coordinating prison production from remote offices in the country.
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  9440. If the economy were a garden and all of us are vegetables I'd want this gardener to manage the predators.
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  9441. America's first of series of imperial presidents to come. You might wonder how its possibe when an imperial power is elected not appointed? One thing that runs deep in the Anglo Saxon culture in America comes from the Southern plantation owners who defended hereditary privilege based on birth right when the rights of the aristocracies and monarchies of Europe were being challenged by the European capitalist classes. The idea that all men are created equal contradicted the facts of daily experience for most Southerners at the time still contradicts the Anglo Saxon belief system of race. A president may never be elected again but passed down from one son or daughter to another in the same family creating a dynasty with a belief system that holds them as above the law, above society, and closest to God. America could become what Russia was of 600 years of dynastic Czarist rule. European monarchies and dynasties and the Southern slave holders in America in the 19th century had a real affinity for each other, they lament the slave master system as the best most natural order and productive system on earth to be had. They believed the system to be the best method of creating wealth cultivating land, selling and breeding slaves, just as the Physiocrats defended the Feudal nobility. Marx said, " Bourgeois society reproduces in its own form everything against which it fought in feudal or absolutist forms", very insightful. He would see this coming to fruition in Trump, he as the incarnation of an absolute form of power.
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  9442. The pandemic is powerful weapon against capitalism in the airline industry and in other industries too. 'The Mask That Killed Commercial Travel' would be the title of my next episode of the Twilight Zone. Americans have decided to make a medical mask a political sacrament for which they will suffer as citizen martyrs are effecting a revolution never the less.
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  9443. These CNN people make the incident the story not the reason a drone is there in the first place the real story.
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  9444. Quantitative differences beyond a certain point lead to a qualitative change.
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  9445. Mainstream news corporation must be freaking out, losing relevance overnight. More people get their news from social media than from CNBC et al. You get more facts from Joe Rogan if you want to know about COVID. You get more facts from Dem Now if you want to get news of the world and society. All you get from NBC is Joe Scarborough and Mika’s subjective opinions and platitudes about a personality in politics. The View is ridiculous, practically a bourgeois parody of American Womanhood. I mean, seriously, with all the lies spewed forth from print and news media the internal social structure of society is decaying in front of our eyes. ...an evaporation of trust and confidence on the accuracy of commercial media covering for the inaccuracy of government statistics and behavioral facts. People knew this back in the 70s’, the establishment media would have gone through a phase of irrelevance and ultimately, sold, if the world wide web had been as developed as it is today.
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  9446. Germany sends tanks to Ukraine the finger is pointed at Germany for an escalation of the war potentially dragging more of Europe into the conflict. Why tanks?
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  9447. A war criminal reaches 100...crime does pay. Elites outlive the rest of humanity.
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  9448.  @pleiadesstarr453  The existence of Hell is based on faith not fact.
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  9449. In the context of the World Inequality Report, getting workers back to work is essential because otherwise 70% of all land, capital and tools would be unused, unproductively consumed. If mandates and vaccines get people back to work the top 10% are happy. It means labor and capital are rejoined and the means are productively consumed. But if labor and capital remain apart then societies are in peril of survival. But for the many who are unvaccinated the mandates cut into personal freedom outside of work. The contradiction is no freedom of choice on the job, be vaccinated or be out of a job. The employer position brings into question the half-nature of freedom in America. Are we free when you are not free? The report shows a humanity divided into three parts. The poorest, the middle, and the rich. The rich who have the means are few with the greatest freedom inside work and outside of the job, and the poor who have no income or wealth and no freedom if they do have a job, n choice but to be vaccinated or perish. Our minds and bodies are not fully owned by us on the job(s) becomes the philosophical and legal question of what defines citizenship as free in modern America? World Inequality Report of 2022, Thomas Pikety and Emmanuel Siaz, Lucas Chancel and Gabrielle Zuckman, released Dec 12, 2022 The report tracks capitalism over 3 centuries. Bottom 50% of 2.2 billion people have no income and even less wealth. Poorest 50% got under 10% to share all the income there was to be had. In contrast, the richest 10% got 52% of all income. The middle, (you and I fit in this group) 40% of 2.2 billion people got 40% of all income to be had. 50% of us (2.2 bn) own 2% of wealth. Top 10% own 76% of the world’s wealth.
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  9450. Officials are going to wait till the water recedes??? Wow. We are not going to pump this water out by other means say city officials.
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  9451. American political factions on both sides don’t know what they want. They want immigrants but do not want a national immigration reform. The want prices to come down but do nothing about a drought. Basically, I see them a Full of Sh*t.
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  9452.  @paulineweber9331 Not the historian are you?
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  9453.  @hjoseph777  The Americans got involved in Afghanistan not for the reasons you are presenting. From the perspective of Afghanistan, America was another foreign colonizer as were the Russians before the Americans and the British before the Russians. A history that parallels Vietnam's history of foreign meddling, colonizing. The Americans went in after the French. What you call 'their war', is an organized resistance movement to free Afghanistan from colonization, and like the Vietcong defeated the Americans so had the Taliban.
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  9454.  @paulineweber9331  The Americans got involved in Afghanistan not for the reasons you are presenting. From the perspective of Afghanistan, America was another foreign colonizer as were the Russians before the Americans and the British before the Russians. A history that parallels Vietnam's history of foreign meddling, colonizing. The Americans went in after the French. What you call 'their war', is an organized resistance movement to free Afghanistan from colonization, and like the Vietcong defeated the Americans so had the Taliban is the point!
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  9455.  @daniellipari1350  Why? Geological reasons is your answer. Geology has no beliefs. Too rip off Afghan mineral deposits is why Americans went into Afghanistan. Why Americans used your money to pay the wages of your Afghan army is your problem.
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  9456.  @daniellipari1350  What would be the other reason?
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  9457. As a sociologist rejected by the state and ignored by the people that makes me part of the intelligentsia, along with teachers without schools, lawyers without practice, graduates without benefits, chemists without laboratories, technicians, engineers, without industry. So where and how do we an intelligentsia fit into this struggle? Where are all the gentle dreamers, reformers and humanitarians constantly punished for their dreaming that have not, in spite of themselves, been driven into open rebelliousness? There is no mood general enough that the very word, "student" is not synonymous with revolutionist. Thought and feelings are accumulated potential like a dammed-up stream has not broken the dam yet, or ever will. What the inteligentsia feel is patriotic defeatism. This energy of dammed-up thought, prevents the overflowing into action. The First Amendment auditors with their cameras, Extinction Rebellion chaining theselves to the pipeline, the 2nd Amendment gun right protesters that marched in Virginia against the governor Northram are not there? This is the State, the injunction area, the flashpoint of the war. The region is ideal for stopping an invading army, Natives have on their side three Generals, Mud, Winter, Ranges but the indigenous are not armed not organized as an army to draw them in and attack with Scythian tactics.
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  9458. Recoveries in the American economy are short and evaporate before full employment can be reached is a serious problem. It means that the US economy performs poorly and is unable to sustain long term economic growth and full employment without constant interruptions in the cycle that throw people out of work. Huge chunks of the working class fall into greater misery and deprivation.This makes for a very sick society. People are not pleasant creatures when they are not working and unable to meet their own requirements for life and necessities, they tend to steal, rob, riot, revolt, commit suicide, enact homicides, lose confidence and trust in all basic social institutions, when they no longer can feed themselves or their families, pay rent, utilities, etc. This number of people thrown out of work gets larger and larger as employers shed more of their workforce particularly in those industries where automation solves the problem of high wages employers resist paying, more people are thrown out of work and in industries where automation is not adaptable to the work, migrants are hired. American enterprise slams the door in the face of people of the right to make a living. America has a full employment problem; it cannot put people put people to work unless it is under pressure of war.
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  9459. I think the progressives are right and the moderates are wrong. Moderates are negotiating to negotiate, stalling, obstructing the passage of the bill. Their behavior and comments to the media signify a third party interest motivates them to not name or identify what they oppose in the bill and what they would negotiate. This is the part of the democratic party who's soul is bought off by key and powerful private interests to not act in the interest of society or the greater part of America's working population.
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  9460.  @breft3416  rent is surplus-value.
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  9461. @ ExPwner,---idiot or enemy which are you? The uneducated do not know profits, wages, prices, rent, loan interest, taxes, are nothing more than a conventional modern terms for surplus value.
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  9462. Functionaries and bureaucrats are really soulless individuals.
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  9463. lol
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  9464. In these last four years we will see Donald Trump, he will lay the basis down for the real fascists, to finish what he started...that is your danger. Trump is not a fascist, if anything he is a mercantilist capitalist by his own business outlook. Once after the side of government that works in the interest of society is destroyed, the other side of government that works in the interest of money, trade, finance, commodities will get reshaped under a brand of a religious conservatism and patriarchy, in a new modern fascist form.
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  9465. We would have a workday of three days a week living like kings only if the obligation to work is equal across all social classes in society so that from the president down to the janitor all work to produce the necessaries of life and the necessaries of life are distributed equally across all social classes in society. Only if the workforce is not a third of the population but is the whole population that we can reduce the work day and be affluent at the same time. That is the only way to eliminate the inequality between social classes on a permanent basis.
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  9466. 'Its an unfortunate situation all around', said Branko Marcetic of Jacobin Magazine. Money sweats from every pore of capitalism. The Congress by not acting earlier and the Biden Administration slowing down his own progress with the bill, allowed time, and opened a space for its opportunists to emerge. Since the human compulsion for money comes from the real condition that nobody can live without money, Kysten Sinema and Joe Manchin can be viewed as social creatures not from Arizona and West Virginia but from the world of Money. People who wholeheartedly believe in Money as a necessity and not a symbol of the State. Arizona and West Virginia are the entry points into that world, other states are no less the same, entry points for current and future opportunists, but staying in that world of money and power can only end for them when the people relentlessly remove them from office and establish a government incorruptible by the influence of money. There is no other option to unseat the opportunists of money, but through a relentless, political revolution from below.
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  9467.  @rexrocker1268  I’ll tell you something else you never heard before. Constitutional Republics are forever struggling to resist dictatorship and are constantly falling back into dictatorship. I would respect your opinion about being happy those days are over if you were a person that lived in the Soviet era ad could speak from real experience.
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  9468. See the cat at the door of 10 Downing Street...see the door open the close gently...see the cat nod its head...watch it.
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  9469. Yes and no. The presidency became a more autocratic institution because society became more autocratic. Work in society developed replicating forms of hierarchies that the bottom of society mirrors the top. It began with Kennedy that America emulated the British monarchy placed the Kennedy family as America's "Camelot". But this apparent evolution of the presidency as a royalty corresponds with the rise of the power of the transnational corporations over government and the general corruptiing influence of money. Previous to Kennedy, Ike was an old fart as was FDR and Woodrow Wilson. Obama was a young man and he did more damage to the country that we care to admit, after all, his chose Biden and he left the country vulnerable to a guy like Trump. If you look at Prince of Saudi Arabia, a young man, is a butcher. The right age is a middle age but more than that it is a social system that has matured and aged that its leaders are old. Carter might be saying to us indirectly that the presidency needs to be scaled down to a public office and without the trappings of a monarchy.
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  9470. Why can' t Russia be integrated into the world capitalist order is a question that presupposes culture, history, sociology, politics, of a country are not deciding factors for integration. Second, the contention is about competition. The same question can be posed about socialism that its appearance in one country is not the same as its appearance in another country for the same reasons. Denial of this proposition was the basis of the ideological fight against socialism in the US. A "One Size Fits All' mentality is asking this question. We get nowhere toward a real understanding of the dynamics of either economic order when the premise is a generic premise. Capitalism has a generic aspect but socialism does not because that system produces for use not for exchange value. Use-values have different qualities that would make socialism completely different from country to country. Capitalism produces values and as such anything is a commodity, a generic category in itself, that things produced by human labor take this form generally. So the contention between Russia and America is not capitalism it has in common but exactly capitalism as a system of competition that it has in common that both Russia and the US remain rivals in the world economy.
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  9471. Biden and the Washington establishment is enabling genocide. Trump should take the presidency. He is the only challenger to the Establishment. There is not other group in society presenting a formidable opposition. An opposition does not exist in the US was the initial plan of the Establishment. I think your only choice is Trump. Sad as that may be. America’s working class is subservient to the Establishment. The middle class in remote areas prone to ideology and extremism presents the only problem to the Establishment. You’d wish the working class had so much intensity. But no such luck. America’s Military, Law Enforcement, Unions, Civil Rights organizations, Media, Academia, Medical establishment, Religious are all subservient to the Washington Establishment.
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  9472. It is by default that the whole nation will get vaccinated. Washington is aware that employers will have to spend a lot of money and labor time keeping track of Covid free employees. It will put a crimp in their profits and states issuing anti-vax laws will get the pressure from employers in those states to lift those laws. But in the US legislators made the law a recurring one, if suspended today and put back in force tomorrow, the law picks up where it left off creating a possé of anyone who is not vaccinated. The same way the Anti-Abortion Law works.
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  9473. Socializing medicine means workers in medical heatlh industries are not commodities themselves as they would be under privatization. The use of their professions cannot be purchased or sold in order to practice medicine. They do not have to wait for a capital investment to start a hospital or practice medicine. It means a community is not without a medical facility nearby. People's work and professions are not subject to exchange, and bills does not follow a medical procedure or treatment for a patient. The patients, workers and professions act out of their passion and interest and not to promote or demote a patient into more or less services beyond what is necessary for the patient. There should be one plan from a single fund to cover the cost of a national health care program. A blown out proporation military is supported in the same way, America can do this with medicine and society and not even put a dent into the standard of living of the American people.
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  9474.  @dcmccann11  And they shall be treated like others. The standard of treatment is determined by the state of medical science in society.
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  9475. Where are the deceased of the Polar Bear Expedition buried, are they all returned to the US?
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  9476. Manhattan is where all the social action happens. Its a place for the young and young at heart. But life north of 14 St. is a place for the old. People forget that places like Chelsea, Park Ave, West Side, East Side, Harlem, Jackson Heights were individual towns within the city. Settled by early immigrants and divided along class lines of rich and poor these places became city neighborhoods when more of the grassland was taken up by building construction they became little towns reflecting their immigrant origins. More people, more apartments, more buildings they lost their early town feel and became city neighborhoods. The entire world is packed into an island today. The real action all happens above Wall Street and below Union Square. This is where all the social experimentation is made. Creative people, wide open, and on the edge. Take a historical tour of the Village you’d be surprised to know who were in those buildings, cafés. Rich history of individuals from every era. City life and suburban life are opposites. Narrow and slow, a bar and church, the lodge...a mall...meeting your every need. Society should close the gap between town and country. I would imagine a car protest would do that.
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  9477. From 0:00 to 9:99 minutes of dubious reporting, believable only to people who never been to eastern Ukraine.
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  9478. It has nothing to do with stupidity and everything to do with evangelical christianity, or Creationism. They are not stupid people. They were very planned and methodical in their capture of government. Americans are now a subjugated people in the states they dominate. They performed a coup dé état that was slow and gradual over the years. When enough of them made it into government they became what constitutes a social class of christian capitalists (Amway, etc.). Pyramid schemes as you might heard of before was their business plan in the early years and putting into the hands of unsuspecting Americans their source of funding, ---profits from the sale of Amway, Mary Kay, products. Convention meetings in Vegas and other venues is where they held annual profit rallies for the corporation rewarding people moving up the pyramid. Raising the capital to get elected, changing election laws to stay elected, ruling society through material, spiritual, legal, political and social, force. That is not stupidity. it’s a very well thought out successful and calculated plan for conquering the world. They targeted people whose incomes was never enough. The “never enough” crowd can be a powerful social force when glued together into a pyramid structure containing them. They are brainwashed people. Fast forward 30 years and the government is 7/10th occupied by Israel loving evangelical christians. The first genocide under their watch is the genocide against the Palestinians is no coincidence. If Americans want their freedoms Americans have no other alternative but to win power. Evangelism appears over the centuries in various forms. It dates back to the early Roman christians who suffered so much the second coming of Christ became a religion for them. Evangelism has a despicable history from the 15th century going forward, more criminal and genocidal than Hitler, Stalin, Mao put together, the most deadliest of all homosapiens on earth are christians, that in every likelihood the extinction of the human race would be their doing. Not knowing your enemy is stupid. Not trying to insult readers of this personally. It is vital to orient people on how to start thinking about these people and their methods of subjugation. Creationists are infamous for denial of empirical truth and objective realities. You need to know who they are? What jobs do they hold in government that control our lives? Questions to start thinking about NOW not tomorrow. Tomorrow is too late.
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  9479. Well if the dollar did not reflect commodities but actual gold the amount of Bette’s currency would not have to increase to chase less goods in the market. You’d be forever printing new dollar bills to give Bette because actual commodities are made in less and less labor time. Stimulus after stimulus never align value- price oscillations. This is the real reason prices keep going higher. America’s values that we never see, think, or talk about is a ghost, an enigma, of goods containing less and less value is only good for sellers of those goods fetch higher and higher profits and no good for Bette. Her currency is worthless. The same worthless and powerless currency the airline uses to pay her for her work. Bette has to borrow to buy and care for her disabled son. Not knowing the back story of her son’s disability we can assume it was by no fault of their own that the original family structure that carried her son into the world before a disability emerged in him was ripped to shreds by the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, the Senate and the White House.
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  9480. To add insult to injury the war is extended only to keep Netanyahu’s coalition government from falling apart and him, out of jail.
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  9481. I am still waiting for the results of investigations of shootings from last year and the year before that. As time goes by the public will forget this investigation and will never get the results as stated here to be released when information about the Whys, Hows, and Motive is obtained.
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  9482. Black Death last 17 years in societies that had no vaccines or a developed science, 200 million young and old dead. Coronavirus could potentially wipe out half of the US population and this is a society with a developed science and vaccines. Something like this is going to happen America has an economy that if it shuts down the society will die in a week. It will be worse to shut down than to live with the coronavirus are our choices. Shutting down is key to eliminating the virus. With vaccines and shut downs and there is no chance at all of spreading across the population. But if this happens society stops working...the workforce stays home which it cannot in a week society will rapidly decay and die. No more production. A shut down will drag the US economy down into a long and deep depression overnight is how tight of a fix we are in.
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  9483. The world does not have choices. Nice to have this luxury to choose another if one vaccine is no good. Privilege truly breeds indifference in rich people in America. Selfish. The J&J vaccine has saturated the world market. Many nations are unvaccinated and waiting while J&J internal management F'd up its own vaccine production! Things like this is what makes America lose positioning as a world power. Without thinking another nation steps in and fulfills the need and a long lasting relationship is formed because that is how world trade operates today,--bilaterally. Need equals trade and the rest of the world develops leaving America behind in its privileged state of stupor only to wake up and find it has no relevancy anymore. A society that has the biological means and does not know how to use the vaccine in its social life because of its obsession with privilege is no special accomplishment but an embarrassment. If there ever was a nation that threw into the arms of enemies its own regional allies it is the US.
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  9484. I must have reasons why Russia is a threat to American national security! What is it about the national security of the US that makes Russia a threat?
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  9485.  @lisawoods9795  I’ll keep that testimony and hold it as reliable. Is it an eye witness testimony that all businesses were open, or did you get that from another source?
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  9486. worm
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  9487. Greatest deterrent to crime is not the deterrence the justice system exercises and formulated by academic criminologists. No, its not more police or more guns, more punishment...its not “Punitive Segregation” that makes a criminal a non-criminal; its when the masses take the streets over that criminals stay away and when the streets are occupied by the masses not just for one holiday but for the whole year, decade and century, crime disappears completely at little to no cost to the tax payer.
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  9488. Democratic party are not an opposition party, period. Americans do not have a democracy they have a "One State Two Party System", in appearance but in reality they have a One Party State System. Impeachment will go nowhere and Trump will get re-elected because of the Democrats. If the Democrats are not an opposition party then the people need to be a mass opposition.
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  9489. We shall see this Sunday if Japan swings to the right?
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  9490.  @view1st  Sure it does...and I do not mean a political left. You don’t know about it? In other news not told to you is Holland’s massive national revolt against DAVOS et al, and America has an imaginary alliance in Europe. EU parliaments condemns US Supreme Court ruling on Abortion and Biden Big Alliance has fallen apart. Looks like DM peddles the same news the corporate US news peddles. Does America have a left is the more appropriate question?
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  9491. That is the western analysis...what is the Russian analysis of the same period?
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  9492. Exactly. This NBC piece is propaganda. Not because I am biased is it propaganda. Its propaganda because the characterizations of political leaders are one-dimensional and meaningless of reasons why a right or left dictator is admired and in power by the society. Its like a 50s-60s-70s Hollywood western where the cowboys are the good guys and the Indians are the bad guys.
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  9493. LAND! Imperialism and land acquisition are synonymous. Greenland would become a protectorate of the US among the other US territories. The very word protectorate contains the word protect and the acquisition of land is the trade off. Michael Hudson speaks to this issues of US imperialism very clearly and accurately. You folks should get him on your show.
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  9494. The DMV in my neighborhood is painless. But the video only uses the DMV to vilify government. Government is an institution of the people. To abolish it is anti-America and violates the Constitution. Issuing state certificates is not all that government does. Government created the Internet (1969), took all the risks and pays for the development of these innovations. A citizen-astronaut went to the Moon not a capitalist. Innovations make their way to the general society via the military. and how innovations get used is where the market is useful. Buying and selling apps, and space on social media..a way to move products around. These are great applications to connect person A to person B and exchange money for commodity and vice ver. But this is in the realm of markets, circulation, exchange, trading, money for goods this is not capitalism. Capitalism is something new and different. It is not markets. Free markets are older than banking and banking is thousands of years older than capitalism. Capitalism is when production is no longer owned by the producers. Government becomes all the the People have to ensure their security and survival. It has to abandon its ideals to be the defender and protect the unprotected producers who no longer in possess, as they had centuries before capitalism, the tools and land to survive and trade their surplus products. So, really, in effect, we in America are not even using government as conceived by A. Lincoln, as 'of' and 'for' and 'by' the People. The ideal of government has been robbed from the purpose of government as laid down by America's most significant architects of government. Your Problem--- government is a government of more than one capitalist. This class diverts what is available in our age to use (produce) in ways that would rival some of the more incredible innovations of prior historical ages. Private appropriation appears as an individual but it can be large group of private owners. In fact, innovations are used for one single aim and purpose for themselves not for humanity and society as it should be.
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  9495. A battle scene that will live in infamy.   This would have been supportable had the purpose of a protest/insurrection was about getting COVID relief and Med 4 All. Supportable by 2/3rds of the population now suffering 300, 000 deaths per day.  How it would have been a miraculous turnaround for Trump virtually turning him into a super star if he set his sights on handling the COVID disaster and taking credit for the most incredible vaccine advance ment in world history, rectifying the health system into one national health system and using the Defense Production Act to get the population working again and cooperating with the science but his personality got the better of him. History will be less kind to him for playing a mediocre role and be forgotten after he gets nailed to the cross. How Biden gets a handle on this COVID nightmare will define if he gets another term. Within the first four months will decide his fate as a one or two term president. If the elections were not rigged now they better not be in the near future because Trump and Trumpism will still be around to claim they were right and the insurrection of the Nation's Capitol was a victory. In a way the insurrection is warranty that future elections will not be rigged for that would spell the end of the democratic party if elections to re-elect Biden were rigged and Biden failed to nail the virus and put the economy back into working order for the ones without a job, future, wealth. It would be a last gasp for that party that could put Trump back in the driver's seat. Unless he has something else up his sleeve that we don't know about as he is still commander-in chief his powers don't evaporate until Biden is Inaugurated.
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  9496. Define Normal? You use it a lot to describe the neighborhood and France. Never a good thing to begin an essay with an abstraction “population or normality” for you end up with an abstraction at your conclusion. I think you missed the source of all the trouble which began with Renault and Peugot seeking to produce with cheaper labor had imported that labor from Africa...that is the source of present-day conflicts inside France, everything else is all in reaction to the social consequences of corporations increasing their output by cheapening the cost of production. The coercive laws of competition between capitals drive each industry to do the same and cheapen production costs...an economic analysis of external forces is overlooked in this video essay as the primary cause for the exclusion of black and muslim communities in France. For France’s auto industry to remain competitive drawing labor from its colonies was a solution that benefitted the corporations twice. They got cheap labor and they got to use that labor-power at the expense of the French taxpayer and each time a prime minister and parliament hands over a tax cut to the rich the corporations benefit thrice, they profit and pocket more, and they become lenders from whom the government borrows, at interest. This same economic phenomena appears in the US, Germany and England as endemic to capitalism in general. A cycle incurs the corporations operating under these coercive laws of competition raise the productivity of labor again, displacing more workers in society, and consuming less labor-power in production. The government requires more money to ameliorate the stressors and conflicts between the social classes and a never-ending cycle corresponds to the never-ending cycle of corporate production. In Latin a ‘Perpetuum Mobile”, or “ceaseless production”, frankly, a chief human cause for the melting of the permafrost. Your original problem is the private consumption of the means of production by a handful of corporations that all workers not just the black ones are divorced from the necessaries of life. Hence, you get riots and revolutions as that structure decays material reality and social contentment. You will never solve or explain the source of crisis et al your problems limiting your analysis to socio-political categories exclusively. The urban development project intended to house immigrants the corporations desired as a source for cheap labor, in order to remain competitive, is nothing short of a concentration camp built of buildings..to serve to exclude this population from the mainstream of “bourgeois and petty-bourgeois French society”, where, liberty, equality, fraternity, are shared values among the upper social classes. France did everything for them was a mistake by design because what is called immigration politically is really a demand for cheap labor by corporations economically. Now that the corporations are done with that labor-power it is thrown away. What reason do they have to not be riotous?
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  9497. Higher unemployment benefits compared to low wages offered by employers is not the reason for the low jobs report. Even when unemployment runs out the jobs situation is going to get worse, really bad. Mass unemployment that will be chronic amidst glaring and gross obscene pockets of people with great wealth and an incredible amount of food people cannot buy. The reasons have to do with production. Part of it is overseas the other part is automated and the demand for labor-power is thwarted by the high productiveness automation gives labor already employed. Employers are raising their prices which further pushes down wages and the money sitting in the bank of millions of people from the lockdown is money employers are chasing after, thus inflation. This jobs report profiles a problem inherent in the US economy where half of production is at home and the other half is international and the part at home is insufficient to absorb the demand for jobs.
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  9498.  PainPillzPittBullz&Pistolz  Cops do not stop crime, cops protect property.
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  9499. Not grown up enough of a statement...if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck its a duck...was phrase invented for people like you but can’t verbalize aloud this is racism and Nazism and bury their heads in the sand afraid to take a stand against it!
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  9500. 'Multiple agencies' form a foundation of the State. The interesting thing about the Brian Laundrie disappearance is we get to see the what the State has built up and accumulated over the decades the hardware and technology at its disposal. We get to see its inefficiency and in the back of ours minds the high cost of the equipment upgrades pushing taxes higher. There are further designations separating the work of the State into 'genera', such as state agriculture and industries. Remember when Cuomo came out with his own sanitizers and masks during the first outbreak of the pandemic when Trump hesitated on the Defense Production Act for protective equipment to be manufactured. We have our own state owned industries and functionaries. We can divide the state by its agencies as their specialty is used in this manhunt for Brian Laundrie the problems encountered by land and the distance between the hunted and hunter. A very expensive ordeal for people to pay but revealing of the over emphasis of hardware, technology, equipment, that make the old days of a team of hound dogs a cheaper and more effective hunt on land and drone by water. The State has no awareness of itself, its bureaucrats are inefficient, all the detailed specialties of the agencies involved, keep coming together at the same place, to no result repeat the same actions. Night after night the same stories droned into the minds of the Public. Factory News.
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  9501. Inequality appears as surplus-value of the top 1% of society. The progress made by the FDR's New Deal- enriched the 1%. All progress in every industry but one derived from this surplus-value in this society - benefited the 1%. The only parts of the total surplus-value distributed to the 99% were in housing and education, military, during the New Deal.  The rest of the parts of the surplus-value i.e., communications, science, technology, the world market, the internet, machinery, inventions, divisions and combinations of labor, in short, the whole productive power of labor itself, from 1940 to now benefits the 1%.  If you can see your way clear beneath the appearance of things being fake the absurdity of the proposition of a New Deal stands out as wishful thinking for the days of FDR. To me 'Inequality' appears as our own labor used by a 1% that relentlessly moves to exploit the 99% of all objective reality for itself. Objective reality being the surplus-value, surplus-value being past and present labor in all forms, labor being living human beings past and present, is the heart of the matter and nothing else is more important than how surplus-value is used to treat human beings. Where 99% of the working class is suppressed by 99% of objective reality, or the surplus-value is used to suppress a population into being no more than a working class and no less than a working class constitutes the battle of the century, do individuals wish to surrender their creative capacity to a capitalist or to a society for themselves? To this question another New Deal is on the side of not breaking the class existence of individuals, but keeping the class structure alive and well, once a working class always a working class, in a world where your own creative talents are turned against you as more inequality, the final outcome of the New Deal made with the 1%.
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  9502. As MLK Jr., advised and warned in his Letters from Prison, Birmingham Al., the “Liberal Moderate” is your primary enemy in the class struggle. They are the people in institutions who tell you “Not Now”, “This is not the time for mass protests...”, “We must first elect this man to defeat that man...” These are people who feel they decide when the right time for another man’s emancipation should take place, they are the Liberal Moderate Democrat. They get angry at you for starting a non-violent movement, angry at you for asserting your independence. They defend the status quo with an arrogance at you for not playing ball with them. They are the betrayers and the true traitors to the country to which your sacrifices have been made. In secret they embrace disdain for the working poor with a load of arrogance embedded into a racist belief system that perpetuates their class status.
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  9503. Thom Hartman, the dismalest commentator on Youtube and the one most capable of discussing what should the working class do when capitalism collapses? The other Youtubers are middle class head cases with some or enough money to last longer than the working class in a crisis, when basic necessities are too expensive they rot on the shelves for not selling at normal prices, what do working people do? When oil and heat, electricity, and food are stored and locked up by their owners; even the middle class will make choices between spending their money on food or fuel, all goods and services depend on money for their consumption and the despotic nature of prices hits working people first to be deprived of these necessities--- first in line to be empty handed of money, cashless desperate creatures. Doesn't Thom et al have an obligation to humanity to come up with a bona fide answer, a plan to get the economy up and running again for these people? Of course he doesn't but he can. It is not enough to present a doom and gloom scenario without a discussion of what can and by whom, about what ought to be done? The alternative to violence, mass looting inciting the State to defend private property. Do people in this media have a responsibility in addressing this moral dilemma capitalism imposes on the working class? We know what the money owners and the owners of finance wealth will do, lock everything up and evacuate the country, where their capital is already stashed outside the US. What will happen is less likely to follow the logic of what should happen. Trump is likely to go against the logic of what should happen such as repeating what Obama did with TARP, by resuscitating the banks with an infusion of capital the banks depends on. Feds print more cash. All this does is make worse the despotism of prices against the changes in production. Favoring tariffs and protectionism against China, Trump will likely make China unload US debt no other capitalist nation will fund. In addition to Trump's proclivity to over produce in luxury goods and increase his own individual consumption, the same as what caused the Trump empire collapse in the 1990's. In the immediate aftermath of the collapse there will be no capital to invest in jobs and the working class is conditionally out of work. No work here, there, everywhere won't sink in until a year later that it is a final condition. Production comes to a standstill; what political program is going to rectify this contradiction, a neoliberal one? Of course not! People either work to live or die from the absence of work under capitalism. It is natural for a human body to be used by its possessor as a tool and be working to stay bright, healthy, ingenious. The relations of work will be the subject of the new economic plan. In the post-collapse period, all people will work the necessary amount of time needed to live. This imperative will be met with resistance from the private interests in production. All workers will want to de-privatize production and freeing science from its enslavement to capital while the owners of production simply close all places where the necessities are made. In the case of the 1990's the decade of capital flight, this means the factories outside the US stop working. This class is not likely to acquiesce with the plan of the workers to free themselves from having to be sellers to make a living to re-industrialize America. The collapse also effectively destroys the quintessential relationship of capitalism, the buying and selling of labor-power. The owners of money are not buying labor-power. The workers are going to have to take over the industries that are still here and build a new society with what they have. With a state behind the owners of money the workers are going to have to defend their actions unless the owners peacefully de-privatize production. In many ways, American working people are in the limelight coming on to the historic stage for the first time in history after the Russians had before them and the Parisian workers before the Russians and the slaves led by Sparticus before the Parisian workers. If the world community of modern workers do not come up with a plan for a new world economy built on cooperation the species will perish and there is no movie plot better than this movie when the ordinary person is dead center carrying out the extraordinary task of saving humanity from its stupid side of the Self, the Trump side et al. Revolutions are healthy thing, they occur every so often in human history and bring into the world a baby called communism based on industrial international cooperation. For the first time mankind is not an social animal like Trump and Co., but a species with an acute sense of being part of a human community and thus a new being.
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  9504. Except for the fact that 6,726 views and 67 comments constitutes a concerned audience searching for answers. We do not live in planned economy, the future is uncertain, and people do find that they have no control over their destinies under capitalism. It be great if all industries related to each other through cooperatives, and not relate to each through market prices. Mr. Wolf seems to believe cooperatives and capitalist enterprises can exist side by side, and the latter has no intention of devouring the former. Cooperatives are a closed economic system, they produce for themselves and sell not for greater market share like capitalists enterprises do for full market control, does not appear to be factor in his perspective. In reality without a strong state to restrain capitalist expansion and economic formations of monopolies from occurring in the market, cooperatives are doomed! Conserving oil is no longer a priority in the White House is how commercial media reports to the Public the White House has lifted all EPA regulations for the extraction industries. Car makers are not going to reduce their standard of emissions, in fact, higher fuel mileage vehicles will appear in the market, given it is a selling point the public wants. This alliance between State and Big Oil is for another type of consumer, the military. A military with its own fuel supply.
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  9505. History is loaded with the growth of small common bodies existing alongside 'higher unities' as in oligarchs, lords and kings, presidents. Instead of a Congress, America has a politbureau next to an executive king in alliance with Big Industry against the US public.
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  9506. At the time when Hillary was young mid -western progressivism was still alive with traces of anti-Vietnam war counter culture the Clintons found a niche in the Black South countering elites by getting into the elite through education, and taking the Establishment away from East Coast and Texas ruling elites. With the Vietnam War coming to a close and Nixon resigning Hillary the timing was right for a liberal left as more women were making up the workforce and less men.
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  9507. NYC is a cruel and disgusting place when it comes to bureaucracy. It is the most corrupt city in the world. Punitive on all matters it does not like and apathetic on what city residents like. Any city modeling itself after NYC politics and city government are taking their playbook straight from the annals of extortion and gangsterism.
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  9508.  @juulee  Your apathy performs the atrocities when you rise up against war atrocities so will others. Till then there is no truth.
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  9509. Well, if you look at the Girls Scouts of America they have squadrons of minor unpaid little girls acting as salespeople and the whole CEO organization earn a half million for each CEO. Its a feudal economic system the Girls Scouts use and condoned by Barack Obama no less, with GW Bush too. What’s wrong with America as it becomes a feudal society that the feel good story in the news is about a child who paid the debt of kids for their school lunches or meeting a sales goal of a 1000 cookies and never getting compensation for it because you are a child with no rights, sounds to me a like feudal society.
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  9510. Trump casinos in NJ was a disaster for Atlantic City it went bankrupt in 1991. It was like an oasis in a desert. Sucking up all the city’s resources and development projects to develop Trump Casino and the surrounding communities are left in desperation. In the end, all the people his casino employed lost their jobs. Its just an ugly blighted eyesore on a boardwalk today standing there doing nothing. Its a failure when a business man cannot make an industry work and employ people for longer than a lifetime. It shows that industries to some capitalists are never meant to last two, three, generations but were meant to be seized upon to make a killing. Its all about excess production. Opulence was his art. Too much, too big for one and too many living with too little, too small. His living space is a couple million square feet and the Atlantic City resident lives in a 48 square foot space in the cabin of their car.
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  9511. That’s your reduction not mine. Speak for yourself. @williamgordon 
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  9512. Americans sports spectators are drunk consumers who are totally ignorant of the dangers of the Coronavirus variants which are 700 variants in all.  Variants crippling the health systems of South Africa and in Great Britain, and crippling the health system in the US go completely out of site and mind in these young American consumers. A level of consciousness that present itself with no shame or reverence for life in general that is not their own. A people shaped by the commodities they consume gives truth to the idea the fury of exchanges at the bottom of their existence is money controlling a people and a people not in control of themselves. A fetishized social culture with a commercial identity to a product. Ignorant that disease can wipe out whole populations as variants move from body to body not one person, place or thing comes out to educate them.
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  9513. America's middle classes are irrational in their response to COVID. But this is not the case with the working poor who fear COVID exposure in their jobs.
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  9514. Capitalism perceives any social control over its activities a threat, an attack, on what capitalism regards as ‘sacred’. For this reason any ‘socially conscious regulation’ of the workforce and working conditions as a political program would be confronted by the hostility of the capitalist class. Having control of the government this social class also controls the armed forces along with everything else the federal government controls. But one thing it does not control is the ‘iron law of proportionality’ operating inside the factory floor, workshops, offices, field, wherever labor is employed by capital, to adjust working time proportionalities, how much time should be spent on this or that, presents itself as a social modification program to increase the ’time efficiency’ of workers on the job. In the old days it was called ‘Taylorism”, what is old is new again, a particular specialty of Elon Musk. Outside the factory the proportionalities of working hours in all the different industries is reflected in the price fluctuations of the commodities in relation to each other, as value units they are exchangeable against each other at given rates and known quantities, so many shares of Exxon in dollars is equal so many shares of Lockheed Martin are exchangeable does not tell you much, so what, about what is happening in the real economy of work for the production of actual commodities of agriculture and industry, the price of a dozen eggs pulled up by overvalued stock and equity markets leaves in its wake of higher prices on all products prepared with eggs across several sectors of the total economy, to which massive cuts and layoffs is the only way to lower the cost of producing. So, in reality, the experts in the White House do not know the real state of the US economy by measuring what is happening to value units in markets. Capitalism promulgates wars that bring down empires and tear apart markets, lower the standards of life in general, to force the values in relation to each other to stabilize to make them profitable again over the most common household items, why not eggs?
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  9515. Jerry White the Trotsky-ite is a demagogue. Left wing demagoguery cannot play a revolutionary role in society as a product itself of an oppressive society. Jimmy provides a case for splintering the left to separate a rational argument for revolution from those who appeal to the desires and prejudices of the ordinary working class people.
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  9516.  @chrisb8655  Apathy must be reproached.
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  9517. Such a gold mine opportunity for employers on the American side to find such willing to work people for a new life in America and be illegal for as long as the government keeps them illegal.
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  9518. Some people can never be satisfied.
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  9519. China and the US meet now in Europe. Jake Sullivan and his counterpart in meetings now. None of this hypersonic missile system that can circle the earth three times before hitting its target was reported as being on the table. I'd be suspicious of a private interest behind third parties like the Arms Control Association...pretentious title isn't it? Time stamp 1:30.
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  9520.  @kem1233  you would think right...I thought that too...until Biden congratulating Lulu in his victory threw me for a loop...since when does the American government support a leftist government...never, so what’s up? It was a message to Bolsonaro ...eh, eh, no coup. Research Lulu and come to find his Brazil is a nest of hornets, Obama went to Brazil...Lulu is the preferred choice over crazy flipped out evangelical Bolsonaro who loves Trump, and Trump loves him, and Lulu has no choice but to deal with the US with 180 military basis in the country, plus the US corporations, its not like Nicaragua where he can see “Yankee Go Home.” Besides there are other checks in place to turn back or stop Lulu if he goes overboard helping the poor. This must be shocking to you. Your whole analysis has been crushed. Not to worry I felt the same way and the recovery from the crush is more enlightening than the popular left analysis. You’ll get over it.
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  9521. I told you Bolsonaro will concede...his supporters are only the foot soldiers of his support who are blocking traffic; they are not in the game except as pawns...tomorrow their fervor will wane and back to work they go miserable as always...lesson for you me is the way we see events between the elites and we read their messaging to each other all wrong to our own detriment, and very often stuck in our own dogma. Like Lo-fi commie...he is lost in his dogma.
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  9522.  @kem1233  I thought I was talking to an intelligent person but I guess its a pawn with pawn sized thoughts I no longer care to talk with.
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  9523. Granted the child support system is a system that needs to be abolished as a means for incarceration but this person Leo Ona is reacting to a society that values objects instead of people. Such as society is not broken but functioning perfectly according to the needs of the object not the person.
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  9524.  @vitruvian4114  Unless the state advanced the arrears owed but could not collect from you as so ordered they will offset the amount of your stimulus and reimburse the state for the advancement of support received by your ex. Regardless of what the ex may earn. Also, states do not base support on total household income they base it on incomes of the parents. The permanent solution to this problem is to abolish the wage system.
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  9525.  @Kevin-pv3kg  Right..thanks...
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  9526. @Trinacria Nelcuore Renaitre is not a troll. You are making the wrong choice by taking sides.
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  9527. @Trinacria Nelcuore Why should anyone bother speaking to you?
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  9528. It would be great that the alliance of the five nations be broken up. UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, Israel, are not united because they are anglo Engish speaking countries. They are united because thay have an affinity with each other as settler nations in their founding. They colonized and settled countries with inhabitants by force and genocide. Historically, they rationalized and justified their actions against each other making the holocaust of indigenous people a non-history. These are the five most racist nations on earth with the most racist governments superimposed on lands originally belonging to people there long before they arrived. In effect, from a historically natural standpoint they are a people without a history, a people that faced rejection for their religion, a people that had no homeland in Europe or anywhere else. They were a people without a country, culture or society. Everything they produced arises not form a natural historical standpoint but from a super imposed idea on a foreign land. They are all foreigners. These are people who knew when they left Europe there was no returning to Europe and whatever they were to encounter in the new lands they settled they would forcibly turn it into a vision of home which came from one source, the Bible. They occupy these lands to this day, by force, the only language they know.
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  9529.  @priceisright1580  Senseless babble.
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  9530.  @thedarklord573  That, even if 9% of the bill went to COVID ----the Tax Cuts did not go into the economy that got shattered by COVID.
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  9531. @Dwayne G Do you walk around saying to yourself you have one responsibility and one function on earth?
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  9532.  @tammyarnette3697  Sorry does not cut it...to explain the trouble with utility bills, when the prices of utility commodities fluctuate up and down, above and below, the incomes of people, because there is no conscious regulation of energy and there can be a number of private companies get into the market to resell gas or electric higher than what they bought it for,----and utilities become nothing but a means of enrichment and competition, as if the needs of the community for light, heat, air, where the godam Hollywood wild west; nothing to be regarded as necessary. Anti-humane social policies wherever you live.
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  9533.  @thedarklord573  I seeeeee...You don't know about the Bush Tax Cuts of 02, do you...mmm...well a rude awakening for you comes. They were expanded by Trump in 2017. The billionaires were freed from paying taxes to your government not once but twice at a compounding rate. Once before the Pandemic and during the Pandemic, in addition to reducing the workforce. Why would a working class person support Trump? The answr is ignorance. Profound ignorance. Now the government is funded strictly on the backs of people like yourself through hard work and taxes. Biden's American Rescue Package has angered the mighty super rich under whom our lives are determined, as an attack. The filibuster is the only thing the entire class of billionaires have in the Senate to ram down our throats austere anti-social legislation that will convert democracy into dictatorship.
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  9534. @Dwayne G You bear disdain for your fellow man and woman who are less fortunate than you are. This makes you less than not greater than those you insult.
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  9535. @Dwayne G So Dwayne you own land and feed the kiddies freshly killed deer. Grow veggies and consume an awful lot of consumer news which is part of consumerism. You consume the land and you consume bullets. Both land a bullets are commodities in your culture. They too get bought and sold like the bulllets you consumes killing other mammals. Unless you thought news was not a commodity for sale and not destined to be eaten up by viewers like yourself. There is no escaping consumerism Dwayne. You re the epitome of American consumerism Dwayne...better wake up son.
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  9536. The news about Bernie Sanders's campaign rising to the level of taking the nomination of the Democratic party is historic news. Sanders's significance is more than just a politician of the left wing of the Democratic party, he is the only baby boomer who can redeem the American baby boomer generation. The baby boomers will go down in history as the most spoiled and selfish generation in history that did nothing to prevent the acceleration of species extinction on our planet. With the other candidates running and with Trump in office, the baby boomers fall into the lowest of the low. Apart from Sander's economic and political program, Americans cannot afford to not elect Sanders even if you don't like him per se, or because the other candidates are not genuine enough for your choice.
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  9537. This collision clogging up the main artery of trade has caused a blood clot in the circulatory system of economies a doctor would say.  The diagnosis is not good, too many dependent on trade running smooth, regular, consistent that one interruption in the cycle can sink a whole bunch of nations into starvation and ruin.  Governments failed to learn the lessons of the old tried and true fable, never put all you eggs in one basket. When things run smoothly nobody pays attention to the inner connection of trade and nations. With goods backed up this should have the effect of lowering prices, the ones waiting will cause a glut, but that would be detrimental to men like Mr. Moneybags from Japan. But he seems earnest apologetic enough only time will tell if he and others of his type will take the high road of not raising prices to offset their loss caused by nature's interruption.
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  9538. Humanity should strive for and attain true affluence and even social development across the world.
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  9539. “BRICS will not by themselves to change the world”, the privileged position of the Dollar reflects a privileged position of an American middle class labor-force who have it better than the rest...DM should test this hypothesis with interviews of the blue collar worker. Ask if their material condition in America has improved or worsened? Get to the bottom of their real condition and ask what is to be done about it.
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  9540. There are several balloons the US military encountered and still no identification?
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  9541. I agree the young man was composed and got his points across. It takes guts to go face to face with power of any kind. What these people are doing as foreign policy experts so called; is destroying social relations in more than one society that are not compatible or inappropriate to capitalism. They invest as a life choice their talent in destructive forces against their own species and this should be made clear to them.
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  9542. America is not a society. A society is a place where everyone has equal access to all the things needed for the development of their person.  A place where relationships are front and center not the center of focus of humanity are things. Forgive me, I am wrong, America is a society of things not people. The real definition of a society is an organization of individuals that promotes the development of the mind. Mind is undeveloped in this neck of the woods. Everything built in America is an aid or an accessory to work or a labor-process of some kind. A road is built to get people to work.  A restaurant is made to provide the body its fuel for more work. Its a place where the end and aim of life is work. And since it is place where the majority are not allowed to work unless the few put them to work it is a society that works only for its exploitation. If Americans want a society where social activities are encouraged and promote good will and development among people they need to build a society conducive to intellectual development out of the society that is built for one thing only, i.e., work and exploitation of work Americans call "opportunity". For it appears that too much work for Johnny is unhealthy and lethal for Johnny and everyone else in Johnny's life.
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  9543. Of course, we re in the middle of this squabble that we are not privy to who knew what and when, even as they use the claim that the property alleged stolen from the White House is the property of the American public; whether Biden was advised or told to pretend to not know about the raid begs a million questions. The politicized raid does distract us from a decaying economy. I’ll give them that. Distract us from the unsocial consequences of society and of natural catastrophes made worse by the totality of our industrialization. We are on the outside of this squabble and we choose a side of the divide between billionaire politicians representing other billionaires and trillionaires who have no country the world is their pearl. Trump owns a building in NYC, two large estate mansions in two states, several thousand acres of golf course consuming water drought stricken cities and towns in America and in Europe desperately need; in his possession is a huge quantity of material wealth that in comparison to his supporters is infinitely higher than one house, two cars, toys, on 2 acres and one mid size business with which to support the family, the ones richer than these folks have more and since the democrats representing the Haves there are other Haves to side with...but are they really representative of the average American who’s property walked off the White House ...and so what if it did? Who is protected by the secrets in the documents enclosed? National Security is protected by its secrets from enemies is the prevailing theory and reply to the question if you ever get a chance to meet any of these people but that is not how the world today works. Competition is the character of western societies. Everyone is a competitor to us and a threat to national security just as we are threat to their national security as competitors to them. Competition works against the idea of making friends and allies; there are no friends and allies in a world of competition. Above that world where you and I compete to work harder everyday not out of will but out of being a Have-Not is the world of super rich people who are split in a power struggle with each other. The bubble in which they live is a wall of cameras that puts us on the outside as spectators who can choose a side.
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  9544. Your comment reminds me of the same ideas proliferating a fake archeology on the Internet that carvings are so precise, cuts and polishes of granite, marble, sandstone the Ancient peoples used to make huge structures could not have been done by their tools. Despite the fact that it has been proven they were made by the ancients using their tools. How people can be so stupid is beyond me. An advanced civilization must have made all the work is the preposterous claim. Comparing what is prosperous to you in a country that does not use the same measurements as you do to measure prosperity is just as idiotic as measuring ancient works using modern methods and tools.
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  9545. Well organized. Excellent.
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  9546. Let the family go on believing the guy was their father and husband.
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  9547. The answer is NO! There is not a prosecutor that wants a conviction of Trump. There is no conviction to convict Trump. And in the war against the American people as the agenda of Trump the Democrats have no spine. Without a revivial of a labor movement the losers here are the American people. Its that simple.
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  9548. The more this continues the more discredited the Left becomes in the eyes to the working classes oppressed by the corporatization of the world economy. A real left opposition will have have no credibility. Imposters, frauds and fakes working within the political structure will have completely decimated the viability of a real conscientious political program in general and a real working class movement in particular. The whole political system becomes a verbal masquerade where individuals in the political left derive benefit for themselves by doing harm to someone else is the actual case of the corporate ruling elites masqueraders adopt as a religion. How does a real left movement deal with this political charade?
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  9549. Brava Senorita Ramirez, es una barbaria...we must advise our American friends that bulls are not the only animals for our mass consumption that are grown for slaughter, are found dead in an arena or on our dinner plates.
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  9550. This amounts to rejection and non-conformity. Not to mention nothing to do with the country. Americans are a real clique-ish society. Every social institution has its own hierarchy is learned from Washington politics. They set the tone. The masses replicate hierarchies and the tone in every pore of society.
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  9551. Totalitarian Capitalism.
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  9552. The State Board of Elections suppresses democracy. Better to sow disloyalty among the loyalists and mass confusion to get a third party in. The mistake here is doing it by the book. A book written by them.
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  9553. White Nationalists, lower middle class white kids disguised in hoodies decided to reign terror down on a community and the new Mayor thinks this is gang?
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  9554.  @leonardsowders7985  Until what it is they have is no longer worth not fighting for something better is when they will not care about losing what little they do have.
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  9555. Corporate healthcare hiring scabs to run ERs. You better stay healthy.
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  9556. Looks like NYU decided to act as a responsible member of our planet and divest from fossil fuel. It won’t be long when the private affairs of all big established family institutions and their retainers will be the concern of every citizen. Right now if we taxed a 4% rate on all 1000 of the super richest families of America that would equal 1.2% of US GDP, enough to make health care universal, and not enough for the super rich to feel or give a dam about and start a counter war to roll the measure back...they would never feel the tax. This is how cheap American politicians and how infinitely wealthy the super rich are that US politicians would not even approach taxation reform unless the super rich remain untaxed even though they live here and use everything made and tilled by Americans in America.
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  9557. Capitalists are emulated by the working class and held in high esteem by society because the real economic surplus is obscured by the existence of buyers and sellers. Before the Cold War the market demonstrated to people how hard it is to sell billions of goods to make billions more in dollars by positioning buyers and sellers. But after the Cold war, the market has many cartel monopolies and these drive the economy into a ditch. Fewer companies own money the majority use credit capital and cash advances, they were buyers forced to become sellers of their businesses repetitively, and larger capitals buy smaller capitals. This is the end stages of monopoly capitalists; a society of fewer banks in the business of banking, a society with fewer industries in the business of industry, a society with less buyers in the business of buying, and so on, and the reserve capital of banks mandated to have on hand in the event of a crash are actions of withholding money from getting into the hands of other companies for expansion, this becomes too costly for the planet’s material resources and as a cost to the working class, a greater level of material and social deprivation. It’s basically a Decline of Monopoly Capitalism the rationalists are denying to themselves,--- the general crisis of war, overproduction and unemployment, are indicators of the last stages of monopoly capitalism. But not of capitalism itself for that would entail the working class embark on a self-emancipation project to dissolve itself as a working class; only than would capitalism cease to exist.
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  9558. Bravo! My thoughts for a while exactly. Just to add to the excellent commentary given by Carlson, I’d say a thing or two about Hubris. Hubris causes mischief with society’s powerful productive forces, plays with fire. Hubris creates the conditions for more hubris to replicate itself generating more mentally ill people in positions of power. Hubris has a way of doing things that abolishes the real democratic practice of humility, honesty, understanding, in all human affairs. The only way to extricate hubris from political power is to establish a society with a new form of political power that is the opposite of the form of administration of political power established by people of hubris in political power.
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  9559. If Putin is a true butcher you would not have to muscle 90 nations to be on your side in the Security Council and 100 other nations voting against you with five abstaining. Its all Hocus Pocus with Joe Biden the known Catholic Capitalist President, hypocritically clean free of war crimes himself, strong arms nations against their will is a crime itself and assails Putin as the Butcher of Europe.
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  9560. A viral infection causing nerve injury which leads to partial or full paralysis. Many of the infected persons did not show any symptoms of Polio. In 1955 the vaccine was introduced and approved. Since then there have been ZERO cases of POLIO in America.
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  9561. Canada has another economic weapon it can deal out to the US and really cause major damage to Trump. Our electricity comes from Canada. Utility bills for every home in America serviced by electricity from Canada will go through the roof! The narrator does not name who built the Alaska Highway. Trump will use it against Canada as he used the Panama Canal against Panama.
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  9562. Poor Iran, it relives the reign of terror of SAVAK of the Shah’s secret police the Iranian Revolution overthrew 44 years ago in the heroes of that revolution. The mission of the Ayatolah’s overthrow was not a revolution in social relations in society; charting a new path in a chronology of human affairs; not at all this, its history has been a class history of one oppressor replaced by another oppressor. That suggests its revolution in 1978 was a coup dé état and technically, a revolution betrayed. Because prior to these events in the previous decade before Iran became a proxy state for the US under the rule of the Shah. Iran was on the road toward modernization and liberal democracy using its oil to finance its reforms. Same measures was done by Hugo Chavez had done in Venezuela. The same measure was done in Guatemala to get a share of its huge banana export. But all this was seen as expropriating American Companies, there to extract oil or fruit, textiles, or plants for sale on the world market, and deprive the society of the market price and profits of their commodities... and the Cold War was moved from the Middle East and Eastern Europe to Central America. The efforts in Washington was to fund and crush social opposition and destroy the ability of the society to sustain a population who are today the mass of migrants at the border.
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  9563. The Liar blames Russia when prices began rising two years before Russia invaded Ukraine. It is not government ignorance that America buys oil and gas from other countries. The reasons are two-fold, one strategic and the other political dominance of the world in perpetuity. Americans who believe the government is dumb, are nieve or the real dumb ones for not seeing the real reasons.
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  9564. They fail because mining is only useful to them as a means to greater return on their investment. The mining company that ruined your environment were working to enrich a company. They were not mining out of respect the earth’s bounty or for direct use of the ore or mineral mined but for the indirect exchange-value of the ore or minerals mined which takes no account or regard for the How and What in mining. My point should give purpose to your research. Revealing the process of mining as a double process. Yes it is mining for ore and yes it is mining a commodity. Mining takes out of the earth a particular object that is useful in some way to us all and the object loses its character as a use-value the second it is made for sale; what results from the sale drives over production and and over consumption causing environmental decay.
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  9565. The gangs are the poor Haitians. There isn’t the separation the news is talking about between working class youths and the gangs. Police are fighting gangs to win control back of Haiti’s Capitol City. This is armed insurrection by working class gangs. Gang leaders are untied against the Cops and telling us they have objectives identical to the objectives of the whole Haitian population. Do Americans listen? The haven’t heeded the sufferings of Haitians for decades why should they now, a change of heart is doubtful.
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  9566. Because the government is unable to overcome the egoism of civil society and create genuine community, someone has to do it, and it obviously, cannot be the corporations or the big landlords, or the big merchants, or by no means, the big banks! That leaves us?
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  9567. What the administration does in the international arena directly extends or contracts the working day of the nation. For every dollar the administration spends on defense extends and prolongs indefinitely the amount of time a person has to spend at work to replenish the government's income of what was spent and annihilated in foreign wars and destruction. Duration of the working day is always a question left open ended by the Senate and Congress. Employers would push workers on the job day into night if it were not for the limits of human endurance. Their factories pump out war products under defense contracts like there is no tomorrow when a war is in process. Other parts of the economy chug along or stagger, or collapse from a dearth of investment. No employment, or people dislocated because of multiple employment, each part time gig too thin to earn a living. Families are broken down. War is a boom for the arms weapons industry and its specialized workforce. Defense fueled by the investment directly take from a public fund the Senate is the ultimate authority on how GDP gets spent and for what. The Senate has control of the work day and all the workers in the country as to how they get their share of the gross domestic product. The Senate takes its share first and buys with it the life only dreamt about in ordinary minds. Society can live without the Senate but the Senate cannot live without society. The Catholic Church is not a vital institution to the survival of a country the Senate is not vital either. The Senate's attitude toward society is like that of a parent obsessed with control over a handicapped child, along with employers strict controls over the child's movements are placed on workers to limit their movement on the job to a single redundant action. Ask no question just do as you are told.
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  9568. I would place red and green traffic lights over and behind the debating candidates and have fact checkers flash green for truth and red for a lie following their answers. The NYT is a Pro-Israel newspaper and Trump would bring in a new administration a lot more friendlier to Israel, a wider war in the Middle East more likely. A wider war in the Middle East is good business for Defense Contractors. At the same time a wider war in the Middle East will squeeze even tighter the middle class on taxes to fund US involvement in the Middle East, less capital investment for jobs. As it is the stock market is averaging low profits and higher volatility. The national economy is directly impacted by what happens in the world economy. Increased defense spending which Speaker Johnson is all so ready to allow will come from large cuts in social spending. Thus, what is in the interest of the NY Time is not in the interest of the majority of working class Americans regardless of their color and religion.
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  9569. In the end the forensic science will disclose the killer. So much DNA the task is to strip away DNA older than the night of the crimes,---there is no question the perpetrator will be found out.
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  9570. If workers owned the product they would never allow their product to be damaged or ruined by a strike. If the workers owned a share of the market value of the product they would never stop production. By the same token if workers owned a share of the product (i.e., the factory, trucks, cement, sand, machines and tools, etc.,) they would never destroy that investment which is partially their source of income and employment. But as long as workers do not own a share of the product (i..e, factory, machines, etc.,) or a market share of the product it is the vast number of consumer-buyers who are made dependent, therefore, live precariously, on that industry for its necessaries and who suffer if that industry cannot work or function. I think workers should build a movement for more ownership of the means of production and half ownership of the market share of the products they produce and which corporations sell on the world market despite what the Supreme Court rules. Such a movement would be more powerful than the state’s repressive resources and make any decision of the SCOTUS ineffectual, because such a movement changes the relations of property of a particular social contract to a more general social contract that no longer engulfs employment and industries into a social conflict. Wages and salaries can be a thing of the past.
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  9571. Non-union workers have to be led into a union with union help, outreach and education, and in a place where they wont get fired! @cimabuehw 
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  9572. @IXL2BW, ---You talk like you will never age or invincible from need of a doctor or hospital. Sounding privileged as if you have a doctor and health services of your very private own.
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  9573. Change American foreign policy and American borders will close. Its that simple, too simple! Everyone overlooks how what we do overseas determines what happens at home. Blame the foreign policy makers not the migrants detached from their homeland. They are not coming here from war torn ravaged countries to visit take in play on Broadway. Invariably behind all the causes of mass migration is war and war is the heart and soul of the US foreign policy makers. You reap what you sow.
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  9574. You are hopeless misinformed. @Arthur_King_of_the_Britons 
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  9575. The underlying story of the insurrection is this. Someone who knows all the functions of all security details and detachments to the Capitol grounds and building would have had to be the insider/enabler.
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  9576. Artilles was making "illegal campaign contributions to get a candidate to run", that is illegal. Anyone can run as a fake candidate and anyone does not have to get bought off to act as a sham candidate. The plot would make a good movie exposing two shams. The sham of the fake candidate and the sham of the real candidates. Rodriguez could have turned his sham candidate into a farce on the real candidates on his own accord. He would have gotten away scott free with the money Artilles, "gave" him is the operative word here, in addition to damaging the reputations of the real candidates and Artilles in a "I go down they all go down" scenario, The Good the Bad the Ugly and given the Public something more to think about how their elections are all shams to push a diversionary agenda down the throats of the electorate while the robbery takes place. We all know the real candidates are the crooks, liars, thieves, and scoundrels. But Rodriguez had no social awareness beyond his own selfish desires, a scoundrel himself, that he did not use his 15 minutes of fame to broadcast the real sham in the elections in Florida. So he is forever recorded in a most embarrassing and humiliating way for all his antecedents to see in video or be used against him on the judgement of his character. This is what it is to be poor, a poverty of mind.
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  9577. Why are their so many young men who lost their legs?
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  9578. Employers and managers accelerate the labor-process and KaBoom! Farming, mining, construction, meatpacking, transportation, sectors where people spend most of their lives working are accelerated work processes for more profits. Heavy equipment, buildings, bridges, tankers, in every workplace across the US is made unsafe with incorporated hazardous raw material into the work process and expose workers to the dangers. It is not workplace violence when employers want to make up for higher costs and make worker work harder. Employers accelerate the work-process. Making machines work people beyond the point of human endurance. Crashes, cuts, explosions happen. Notice how the causes to these workplace hazards are never made public and are always under investigation is the routine answer. Commercial media is controlled that the public’s attention on the industrial war raging between the workers and the objective conditions of work in our society is non-existent. When all workers connect the dots about the work taking place in America today in her factories, farms, construction, packing industries, mines, are life-threatening for the workers performing the jobs a labor movement will be born. Right now the focus is on the contamination, a hazard effect of workplaces accelerated for higher profits, but when the catastrophes keep happening in other sectors of the economy the workers will start to make the causes the focus. Workers are confronted by a giant wall of employers all doing the same thing providing no escape for workers while, employers face an isolated worker and can get rid of that person if they do not want them on their premises. In the workplace things are not equal. Things are equal outside of the workplace but not in it where the rubber meets the road. Where the best part of our day is spent and robbing the life-giving work that working can be from the workers giving all praise to the employer for work employers never do.
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  9579. People are saying this is what happens when fathers and mothers lose their rights? The State disallows parents to strike their child. You know what I say to those people; they are full of it! They are ignorant and full of excuses. The State would love to see parent’s discipline their children and the children would love to be disciplines by their parents. What the State says is that you cannot injure, leave marks, bruise, or castigate or deprive them of the necessaries. So people who blame the State are refusing to assume responsibility for their own shortcomings. What I noticed about Americans is that whenever they go to another country they go with a military and whenever the military is in a country there are more fatherless children in those countries.
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  9580. The success of this censorship depends on how easily people can be set against each other.
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  9581. When poor nations are so poor it is because rich nations have set the price of life so high that too much gold has to be given for so few commodities. So few commodities that the image of the black child on a barren bed all alone 8:45 is an image of social genocide by rich nations who hypocritically project the usurpers are someone else. American mining and drilling companies have made ripe for all the gold deposits to end up in Fort Knox.
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  9582. The attacks were on individuals in the subway system. The individual is the subject the object is the subway. Ms. Hochul makes a mistake many commonly make when they are describing their jobs. They sublimate or immerse themselves into the object. So fused together only the object gets the attention the individual immersed in the object gets no attention. Why is this important? It’s important because people are burying their feelings beyond the point they can conceal than burst! Dignity is damaged in a person; some people lost all dignity are barbaric creatures and desensitized monsters. They live but it is a life of suppression putting themselves second, compromising, and settling for not the first but for the last in too many cases. They are unaware of the overall process but are sensitive as participants to the fact that they make an industry out of tools and products. We see this process in action without the laws and institutions covering the process when young thieves steal jewelry stores because they have buyers lined up for jewelry. They know they are creating a value creating process, a market that starts with theft as its first investment. The minute they do this the street and citizens, the gun, and the car, the store and the merchant, and finally the jewels is their workplace tyrannizing a majority who belong to that workplace. They are creating more value illegally than the legal workplace creates its own value. The only difference between them and Wall Street investors is the initial investment is not robbery, it’s a mutual fund. The robbery comes later. People turn to markets because everything is suppressed outside of markets. In effect, all that is being transacted between them in markets when they are behaving as buyers and sellers, is living labor for dead labor, present labor for past labor, working for work performed in a product of labor, in effect changed forms of the same matter moving from hand to hand, a subject person has to make money from the object and gets lost in the object or the object which has become money from its sale ruins their life.
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  9583. Good time to shop local and at your small store. I am not sure which thief the crime investigator is talking about when she said billions are used to fund other crimes...anyone know?
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  9584. It does represent a rupture between the normal process of exchange of sales and purchases among all banks and investors when you factor in the context of the whole economy. When A sells to B and B sells to C, and C sells to D, this line of borrowing is built on the presumption that all banks can pay their bills and have sufficient capital in reserve to cover their debts and liabilities that the long chain of credit capital starts out with money and ends up with more money for the banks is not disrupted. When this comes to a halt the effect on buyers and sellers is to stand still. Being still threatens the whole process because the process of credit money is to transform money into money prime. Money makes money in this system of interest-bearing capital. But outside of the area of circulation a step in between is ignored. Acme Ace Tool Manufacturing stopped making tools, temporary layoffs, and more goods remain in circulation that would have otherwise made their destination into consumption. It appears that Acme Tool Manufacturing invested in Silicon Valley a 3rd of its profits and now its future looks bleaker. No telling when those jobs will open up again.
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  9585. The racism is so blatant its pathetic, ICE should go after all the eastern European and European migrants here illegally in NYC and LA.
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  9586. If this is public relations it sucks. Where is the investigation results?
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  9587. You get your money's worth of thrills, risks and adventure when you fly Spirit. I guess they called it Spirit because sprits do not walk and neither do their planes even if some humans cannot stand to be off the ground.
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  9588. This is a slave trade of migrants of the US. How about the buyers of the commodity slave migrants in the truck, they were being delivered to their owners in the US?
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  9589. Understanding “Reciprocal Tariffs”, from a working class point of view paints another picture. Impacted by this trade war are working people. Working people in Canada, Mexico and the US are being asked to lose more of their living standards, temporarily....as each nation impose their own tariffs on foreign imports. Temporary tariffs are a permanent pain for people who are not owners of businesses of any significant size. The burden for them is a longer working day, job losses and bills going unpaid. The competing nations sell less of their products in this trade war. This circumstance forces the price of goods to fall in the home country but rise in the foreign country. Mexican goods are cheaper for Mexicans and expensive for American consumers and conversely, American products are cheaper for Americans and more expensive for non-American consumers. In each country the total value of home market necessaries falls, cheaper to live, but this does not mean the class struggle has vanished, not by a long shot, all three societies have social classes earning incomes from rent, interest, profits, stocks, dividends, bonds, pension, all want to get paid in exchange for what they sell, and employers, a separate social class, who own the means of production offer a lower wage to offset cuts in profits the tariffs impose. What has been achieved is a new social average for wages as prices of home produced goods continue to fall for each of the working classes in the three nations. This would be the come back, the recovery seen forma working class point of view. The US corporate classes are victorious in worsening the condition of the working classes.
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  9590. Right now in this video and on that podium Biden is pandering to the anti-communists that he can be tough on NK, this has nothing to do with the needs, wants or desires of the people of the US.
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  9591. Not clear to everyone is the role of history for the interpretation of what is going on right now. Go back to peak moments when Ruling Classes were overthrown by revolutions, 1798, 1848, 1917, its pretty clear that revolutions don’t happen a whole lot. This is because Ruling Classes are really hard to get rid of. By their rule over society, they have generated so much vile and hatred among the ruled that revolution is also the only way to get rid of the self- created prejudices and stupidity that their miserable condition in society induces in the mass of people. We are people in need of a revolution. Its not even about the Ruling Classes that revolution is necessary. Its about becoming human again that makes the Ruling Class not compatible with revolutions. Prejudices and stupidity build up over time and come to a head that they have to be gotten rid of.
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  9592. Is the road, county, state or private property?
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  9593. This is why nobody gets their news and information from traditional news outlets. Social media lets you witness the event yourself.
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  9594. I can never help ‘not’ feel that it is all projection when it comes to western analysis of the communist world and that the real historical journey these countries are taking themselves into is never understood by the average westerner through western media analysts. Western societies do not journey into the future like communism does with its five year plans designating very specific milestones for the nation to achieve, and for this reason, the west is stuck within its own paradigm looking out of the world incapable of understanding that world. Never does a prime minister or a president announce to the Public this is where we as a nation need to be in five years relative to its problems. Remodeling its material substructure and relationship to nature adapted to human wants is not planned in the west but is causal, happens accidentally by chance or through legislation. From a personal or a subjective viewpoint of what is going on in that world we know nothing about; a leader with many years ahead of himself responding to real external threats his party’s senses. Recall they do communicate. General Miley and his Chinese counterpart, and the last set of meetings between Blinken and his counter part in Europe, on return officials report and formulate in a plenary the results of those meeting and communications as sincere or not, and if they find threats are big enough Xi is called into position to be China’s historical figure. This may be how things are working out versus how we think things are in China that is leading western analysts to see the gesture as a power play for a life term as Chairman.
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  9595. That do not care has to do with the expectation they have of their own working class citizenry, to make all the necessary adjustments for a life of mediocrity.
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  9596.  @jgalt308  vhat fusseldud be of this schlegle...:) read in German accent and then go watch Life Stinks by Mel Brooks.
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  9597.  @jgalt308  I would not have gotten a laugh had I used the line accurately...getting a laugh was more important...and I got one...I made someone’s day or half day :)
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  9598. Rather than inviting Russia into the west with its gas and oil to Europe and becoming part of the western economy, a partner, and ally because it has what the west needs and the west has what Russia needs, a mutual relationship, the Democrats in their grand stupidity decided to impose sanctions on Russia and in doing so made the Ruble a stronger currency and ruined the standard of living of the American people and those of the west, and further ruined Ukraine, a state Russia conceded to the west. In my day whenever I made trouble the adage was: “You made your bed now sleep in it.”
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  9599. No intelligence gathering in the Intelligence unit. Just think they could have saved those lives that leaped from the Twin Towers had they infiltrated. Funny they are good infiltrating black and white gangs in America but can’t infiltrate an islamic terrorist organization is a matter of priority. They had no spies on the ground. All the spies at the time were Hollywood movie spies, fake spies like Spies like Us. In reality, the Spy agency was nothing more than a bunch of computer nerds. I definitely see this guy as one of them and cashing in on the illusion of intelligence gathering Hollywood generated.
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  9600. Voting process has to be rigged in Kentucky for Rand Paul to never leave office; or only one type of person does all the voting in that state, types like him, not sure which it is but it ain’t kosher.
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  9601. The myopia of elites is they think everything is their personal property. The masses who produce everything are not the ones who share out the wealth are conditioned to believe the elites are forever and exist for that reason. That message is sent loud and clear to elites that they do not even hide their conspicuous consumption habits from the masses.
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  9602. I really do not see how not funding Ukraine is a threat to American national security Mr. Schumer. National interest of the US is two parts, one part general and the other a particular interest, and the particular interest of preserving a Europe from a Russian invasion is not the most pressing interest threatening the US but the side of national security that is threatened is coming from the inflow of the dispossessed into American society, along with the trafficking of weapons, slaves, kidnapped, drugs, money, gang members, is an invasion happening now is what should get the money not some future event that has not happened yet some 8,000 miles away.
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  9603. Strikes me as a stupid thing to do; impose a tax on his own trading partners, perhaps, this is Trump’s way to abolish the “Administrative State”...if so, he is headed in the right direction... the tiny problem a trade war will bring....is a massive unemployment problem. Oh, oh. A minor inconvenience, people will get over it. I still feel that by electing an old school nationalist moron the voter will get moronic government. $10, $13, $15 dollars for a dozen eggs....no big deal, four years that could have gone to reconstructing a better society Trump shat on it.
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  9604. Actually, Putin will go down in history as a great statesperson. Democratic centrists represent Hollywood and Martha’s Vineyard more than they represent Michigan working class voters.
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  9605. Mearsheimer’s is half right about Ukraine playing along with their own wreckage. By wrecking Ukraine there begins a process of bogging Russia down with insurgent fighting in Ukraine for decades unable to assist China when war commences against China.
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  9606. Gonna be a tough climb for Amtrak to clean up its image as the OK Corral when it will depend on more customers to pay off the big infrastructure investment it makes for its transit system. If I were Amtrak I'd head down to Washington, shoot outs and cops and robbers, is bad for business! Time this country grow up and get out its lame denial.
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  9607.  @anonymousdonor8084  The end game is not that hard to ascertain. US Hegemony on the decline is why America’s Oligarchy behaves for itself and why nothing functions in society for its members is the short of it. A president’s job is to be an imperialist and as Eisenhower warned Americans ( who have yet to heed that warning about the US Military, coming out of WWII), is used to bully nations and Americans into submission to its needs which has been effectively achieved. Now the goal is to use soldiers of other nations to do its work fearing Americans will revolt against them if Americans were coming home in body bags. They learned that lesson from Vietnam. Never show a dead American in the news. Capture the news to control opinion is the Grand Social Experiment American Boomers fell into and failed to finish the job. Now it is up to your children to carry that warning to fruition and terminate that office. The Whys of it lie in American industry that forms the skeletal structure of the US military.
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  9608. What would normally take years to compile by a historian to pull the facts together about what really happened to a president can take but a few minutes in our age of social media and this heightens the paranoia of the ‘Deep State”, the unelected part of government that never changes and comprises individuals who rely on secrecy, to maintain power.
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  9609. The separate privately owned companies in this industry compete for the same market for the sale of their cell service. It should be a given in consumers they never plan according to what you, the individual, need. Reliable contact is what you need, with work, friends, family, that as much is not the primary reason these companies compete. They work when they have enough users/consumers, to devour each other for a larger share of the market. A consumer cannot jump from one service provider to another when one fails because they are not one large national service. And it does not appear Americans have a Congress of politicians ready to legislate against the dangers of monopoly control over communications.
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