Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/04/24/we-must-fight-economic-and-social-rights-and-against-shackles-debt
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But, DEBT is our last remaining successful export; now that we can’t GIVE our crappy weapons away, our food is basically lethal poison and we have to incur debt to dump fracked oil, LNG and fracked ethane plastics? Heck, we don’t even make successful hip-hop videos, our CGI movies suck & our: indentured servitude, collection, gambling, virtual serfdom, eviction, prostitution, repo & skip-tracing apps are invariably coded by drunk South Asian kids?
~https://taibbi.substack.com/p/why-securing-democracy-will-be-taught (resounding CRICKETS, like the “CA bans fracking” story)
~https://fair.org/home/the-system-for-building-wealth-is-designed-for-white-wealth/ (a crisis is a terrible thing to waste)
~https://wolfstreet.com/2021/04/24/how-much-are-americans-driving-and-flying-now-one-year-after-the-wtf-collapse-in-fuel-consumption/
~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u82iSLtylfQ
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Thank you for continuing the fight racial and human rights of living on this planet. A few have destroyed the planet, people, rights for all. It must continue and we the people of America need to stand up and demanded it for all.
Never give up.
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Once upon a time in early America --there was a wonderful concept in each city.
The COMMONS. Owned by all and used by all. And then—of course the ,“ALL,” got bigger and bigger—and the Commons disappeared.
I suppose that pubic and national parks are the last piece of what represented,"We the People. "
Somehow we have to get back to the concept, of the common good, because when we all do better, the nation and the People do better. I wish the concept of “Number One,” would disappear. Every nation has been THE ONE at some point in history—but America is not that now—I don’t see any nation being that now.
I see a lot of greedy people in business , in government and in the military—but I don’t see very many happy people on the planet.
DEBT is the GRINCH that stole our humanity. But debt is a “thing,” and we are the humans—so maybe believing that wealth creation is a value is just another case of people thinking inside the box instead of thinking that as humans we really can never be boxed in by “things.”
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Well there is our export of American exceptionalism, that’s pretty big also.
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The gift that keeps on taking? Yeah, you right! Guess, we could go back to blaming the British (since, just look at how well the natives got along with French, African, German & Irish? Marrying, adopting hunting, farming, tactics & stealing each other’s political systems). 'Murika do kinda seem to be one giant asshole magnet, alrighty? Like, here in NooYawkCiddy, my neighbors have 743,682 separate words for entirely unique types of entitled, dead-eyed, soulless, narcissistic churls, like Inuit have no single word for SNOW. When we did stupid, selfish, inconsiderate stuff as kids, we’d all get slapped, “don’t be such a thoughtless ASSHOLE! Nobody’s going to like you, if you’re a childish jerk?” Here, being a sadistic, craven heartless sociopath is a religious mandate, directly from god.
~https://truthout.org/articles/minnesota-workers-took-on-the-national-guard-to-defend-black-lives/
~https://wolfstreet.com/2021/04/24/how-much-are-americans-driving-and-flying-now-one-year-after-the-wtf-collapse-in-fuel-consumption/
~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u82iSLtylfQ
~https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-heroic-congressional-fight-to
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Both China and Europe refused to purchase any of our over abundance of fracked natural gas from PA and OH. They are buying from Russia and importing using pipelines.
We are using the not even needed methane to make plastic pellets near Pittsburg.
Rather than lower the heating bill amount due to supply and demand. (sarc)
It is a rigged game at NYC wall street, el bancos, supported by federal reserve purchasing industrial bonds that allow companies to repurchase shares that props up the price and low bond interest is a boon to the junkers like Trump.
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I’m FROM Pittsburgh and worked in the industry for ~4 decades. Nobody’s making plastic pellets from methane. That would be fracked ethane, about which I’ve posted SCORES of very pertinent articles, I believe to be SCARY accurate. Virtually ALL of this was under Democratic administrations (especially MSNBC’s own Ed Rendell, who did more to destroy my home state, poison air, water, food, and people, arrest, fire, blackball, evict, spy-upon, threaten and destroy careers of, than anybody since the robber barrons. I’d personally been exposed to LRAD, gas, police charges during Obama’s G20 and foght vehemently his implemntation of policies which might well have already unleashed runaway AGW. I don’t say ANY of this lightly, but have posted on this, inspected 7 of the 19 Marcellus gas pipelines and stand by all articles, I’ve linked to since 2006. We’d a gigantic increase in LNG, Fracked crude and Dilbit and this will now increase (thats much of what all the Russia, Syria, Iran & Venezuela bullshit is about.) We also sell MUCH of the fracked ethane which is cracked into plastics, via horrendously bad pipelines like Mariner East, to foreign owned processors. Shell’s $6B cracker is awaiting a 97mile gathering system, currently leaking like a seive. Whistleblowers told this truth, ignored by US media, can you guess what happens to whistleblowers, now? When these wells kick, blow-out or fail, we’ll have to “fix” them. Unfortunately, this is most likely impossible.
~https://wolfstreet.com/2021/03/15/us-natural-gas-exports-surge-with-global-impact/
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No doubt NYC residents are a different breed, I used to visit my grandparents in Brooklyn in the early 70’s, it was wild then, the Bronx was still burning, and stripped cars everywhere on the side of the roads. My understanding they’ve mellowed out somewhat today, but it’s been years since I’ve been in Manhattan.
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Think that’s ending, NOW. I’d joked with red state coworkers a few years back in tiny Steelton or Mckeesport, PA or Panama City, FL. how The Bronx might have a murder every three weeks, while the tiny mill towns would have 3-5 a night? I’d visit here in the mid to late 70s and we’re getting back to those horrific days, this COVID summer, pretty abruptly? But, the actual CRIME SPREE’s already happened: Cuomo, Trump, de Blasio fed hundreds-of-thousands of “essential workers” to a frigging virus, they HAD to work 1099 gigs, sick; infecting loved ones, commuters, coworkers, clerks, teachers, nurses, clinicians, uber & transit drivers… scared to leave, terrified to go, get cursorily intubated, tagged & bagged; being called for arrest, stroke, kidney failure. Never even tested for COVID. So, we’d >24K official deaths and ~35K excess within a couple months and several hundred thousandths of us with long COVID. Let’s SEE what NYPD does to label strikers & protestors: as looters, rioters or revolutionaries as folks all get tossed-out of rent controlled apartments by fellow 1099 serfs, working eviction, collection, repo or skip tracking apps? We ain’t seen CRIME, yet? Theres a stripped Infiniti G37 out front, today. Wedged in between a AMG Daimler and some kind of “Maserati” SUV from FCA Warren? All sporting last year’s CT, NJ or PA plates. Now, they’re all BACK to normal? 2 yrs back, I’d driven past a bullet riddled BMW, at a Mckeesport pipe mill BESIDE THE POLICE STATION. I’m afraid HERE, this summer? This story’s only just starting. Ever watch “Babylon Berlin?”
~https://www.courthousenews.com/amazon-begins-rollout-of-pay-by-palm-at-whole-foods-near-hq/?amp=1(They LIVE)
~https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/04/22/were-all-weird-naked-murder-monkeys/
~https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-04-22/americas-conflicted-landscapes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=americas-conflicted-landscapes
~https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/4/22/hldcarbon-in-the-sky-and-climate-change-earth-day-by-the-numbers
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Yes there are many predicting a crash, the likes capitalism has never seen before, for the near future. Even Richard Wolff is predicting gloom and doom coming.
No, I’ve never seen “Babylon Berlin”.
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Those, episodes available, begin AFTER Freikorps’ crushed the Spartacists in Bavaria, so no influenza & “stab in the back” stuff, but we’re up to 1929 and it’s not like they have to tease us with glimpses of what’s to follow? Probably difficult to read the subtitles while HIGH, they capture look and feeling, but it’s what a revisionist fantasy SHOULD be! For reality, watch “Boss?”
With both parties, the media, courts, boss, landlords, creditors and social networking ALL on the other side, just ITCHING to flip “our” homes, indenture us into 1099 gigs, at each other’s throats, there probably HAVE been easier times, for our old proletariat asses?
Boomer yuppies, here, are in specious denial, as their portfolios are missing astronomical NASDAQ gains, they’re still awaiting their trickle-down from 1981. I figure they’d missed, the 2% ladder being pulled up? Just IMAGINE, who Harris will choose as running mate (Neera) to lose to Ivanka & Chelsea? Wonder, who’ll slap together all those BYD EV school buses… and armored police vehicles?
~https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210414100147.htm
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