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William Frenger's avatar

Capitalism will exploit anything to extract and justify Profit for those at the top of the Capitalist ponzi scheme. No aspect of life on this planet is safe.

TomL's avatar

You see how Karl Marx was right about capitalism?

Wrong about Communism, but 100% correct about the foul nature of capitalists, the worst bloodsucking ghouls in world history..

Capitalism inexorably leads to worker exploitation, environmental destruction, monopolies, oligarchy, the massive accumulation of expropriated wealth by the 1%, financial shenanigans, corrupt government, the loss of personal liberties, fascistic rulers, Gestapo-style police, and, in its ultimate stage, forever wars - everything that America is NOW.

A friend had this to say about how political operatives target the gullible:

"These con artists have always thrived on Southerners and Midwesterners who are the most mentally backwards people on Earth.

"Ever wonder why we don't have universal health care, free public college, five weeks paid vacation, paid maternity leave of a year or more, shelters for all our homeless, 100% sustainable energy, a healthy food supply, slim people, a rock solid infrastructure, convenient and efficient public transportation, a high-speed railroad network, living without the fear of random gun violence, a livable wage for everyone, equitable wealth distribution, 75% less drug and alcohol abuse, a moderate sized army, and clean water and non-polluted air?

"Look no farther than way down South in the Land of Stupid.

"Ever since day one, the South attracted the most foul people on Earth who gave us slavery, segregation, militarism, corporatism, unbridled capitalism, billionaires, blind patriotism, low IQs galore from inbreeding, money grubbing evangelist con artists, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh. Ronald Reagan, Bush Jr., and Trump.

"The South has been a curse on this country that has dragged us down to the pits of Hell ever since its origins.

"The worst part is the intelligent people in America stand no chance against this Southern mob of the mindless."

TomL's avatar

Today NPR had an interview of Senator Rand Paul by David Resnick: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/tnyradiohour/articles/why-senator-rand-paul-voted-to-limit-donald-trumps-war-powers Very disappointing, it's like almost all the Republicans are living in a fantasy world. I watch many of the interviews by Andrew Napolitano on Youtube with people like John Mearsheimer and Larry Johnson and many others who've been on your program. They are all agreed about the utter insanity of the Trump presidency. We are swiftly heading to a failed state, other countries speak of the "American tragedy". The Iran war could easily dwarf the Vietnam and other long term wars in all respects. It will take a miracle to extricate us with all the battle ready groups entering the war theater there. Morale of the US military is rock bottom.

The Gaza genocide, the war crimes in Lebanon, the threats to other countries in the Middle-East by Israel, even Turkey could be attacked--are indicative of the racist Israeli agenda to attack innocent civilians under the guise of "fighting terrorism". Larry Johnson had this piece about the reality of state terrorism: https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/when-it-comes-to-using-proxies-the A local, largely older men's Catholic group share articles with each other. The trend with the "leaders' is to push the "conservative" writers like Bill Donahue with typical Fox style propaganda. I've responded sharing some of the sharp, conscientious other Catholic writers who are deeply offended by the dictator in chief. https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/catholic-voters-trumps-record-may-be-catching-him It's like people have lost their minds as they watch "conservative" programming on Fox. The genontocracy is a severe threat to our country, we desperately need younger, energetic activist people entering public service.

Justice's avatar

I worked in a state tobacco control for many years. A few key factors drove the decline: high excise taxes that reduced initiation and frequency, indoor smoking bans that made smoking inconvenient, and strong public education. These helped make smoking rare and socially awkward.

Steve Skrovan's avatar

Sounds like a strong combination of a systems approach, excise taxes, smoking bans, along with public education. Bravo.

don dunne's avatar

In rememberance of Ernie Pyle 1945

Words from the front :

Hey Willie, the Trump boy's are meeting with them Iranian's in the next couple of weeks in Pakistan to decide the fate of this here Bibi's war. It must be the most important place in the world, don't you think ? Nope I don't think so, where do you think is the most important place , Willie? Right here in this trench with you , Why ? Because we're in it .

No Congressman's son's or trust fund baby's in this trench with us Willie, it's going to be boots on the ground soon, lock and load, door to door. Do you think they'll have a wall for us like the one they have in Washington for our Nam brothers?

I sure hope not , but if they do I sure hope they spell my name right .

Good luck America have a great day my friends

Adriana's avatar

I had to take a break before listening to the wrap up. The only goal of zionism seems to be to destroy Palestinian lives. Anything that they can do to cause pain and death, they will. Not only that, they are destroying any chance of the genocide against the Jewish people during WW2 to be something that the next generation will care about. They are also turning every Jewish trope we have ever heard into "not trope" anymore.

They managed to completely destroy Gaza but they will not destroy the resistance. If anything, they will bring more people into it

I don't have the appropriate words for Dr. Feroze Sidhwa. Respect and admiration don't seem enough. I can't even listen to the whole podcast because I feel so completely hopeless, yet he has been there not once, but twice, and would keep going if zionism didn't prevent humanity from happening. I can only say thank you.

Amy Harlib's avatar

The parasite criminal ruling class always projects their crimes outward, blaming and gaslighting the victims!

We the People must restore The Constitutional Republic!

Congress recently passed a BRUTAL BETRAYAL BILL that robs from the poor and neediest to give more to the rapacious rich and psychotic murderous Military Industrial Complex, NOT what Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness and promoting The General Welfare is supposed to be!

The monsters in human skin suits (Trump and Netanyahu are exemplars of such), who rule the world get a sadistic vampiric thrill and boost from perpetrating the vilest most demonic crimes against the most vulnerable (babies and small children) and then corrupting the system to get away with it scot free! We the People must stop them, there are a lot more of us than them!

Please check out this substack! ponerology.substack.com

This horrifying Congress Critters, Governor 'Gulag' Hochul, Gates, Governor 'Gruesome Newscum', 'Lone Scum', Soros, 'Benedict' Biden and Harris and even Trump, Vance, and 'Ramaswampy' et al are blatant fully owned and operated puppets of their globalist technocrat parasite masters same as other numerous 'PUBLIC SERPENTS' infesting by design from above, the bureaucratic apparatus.

Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!

Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

HELL NO TO GENESIS MISSION/STARGATE/DEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI! technocracy.news

BURN BACK BETTER!

Anyone with 2 brain cells would know that 'NET ZERO' is an utterly insane off the charts idiocy, an absolute mathematical, physical, statistical and practical impossibility that can never be achieved or exist in reality!

Electricity has to come from somewhere, and the only reliable sources are coal, oil and gas (nukes don't cut it, the radioactive waste is too poisonous).

The 'CLIMATE CHAOS' fraud is the excuse and propaganda misdirection justifying attacks on farming and food, concealing a profoundly inimical globalist genocidal enslavement scheme.

Do you want to live in the squalor and drudgery and misery of the pre-industrial age? HELL NO!

HANDS OFF MY GAS STOVE! I LOVE MY GAS STOVE! Ever try to cook on an electric stove - absolute nightmare!

Can't say this often enough! CLIMATE CHANGE IS AN EVEN WORSE FRAUD THAN THE PLANSCAMDEMIC! SO-CALLED GREEN TECH IS A GIGANTIC SCAM! MINING AND MANUFACTURING 'GREEN' PRODUCTS NEEDS COAL, GAS AND OIL AND MINING RARE MINERALS IS MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY TOXIC AND DESTRUCTIVE THAN LEGACY PRODUCTS. SCREW YOUR DAMNED GREEN GRIFT AGENDA! climateviewer.com

CREATIVITY! ARTISTRY! IMAGINATION! SPIRITUALITY! HUMOR! LOVING KINDNESS! These are the best ways to fight THEM!

I also have a landline, a wired laptop and a wired monitor screen, and I never had or will have those infernal mobile devices designed to enslave you. I also use cash as much as possible, no cash is TOTAL SLAVERY.

It is heartbreaking to witness the holocausts happening and so many fellow citizens are brainwashed/bamboozled by the propaganda media, they are oblivious!

MISTAKES WERE NOT MADE! THEY can't get rid of the 'useless eaters' fast enough!

Peddling pure poison! Folks have to wake up to reality: health comes from organic diet, daily exercise and clean living and never from a needle or a pill except in dire, rare traumatic injuries.

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back! And toxic injections/pills were/are a huge part of their arsenal! And kinetic military ops!

Can't say this often enough! The Military/Industrial Complex and the Biowarfare/industrial Complex, WEF agenda and the evils assaulting humanity are from one and the same source - it is the 99% against the diabolical GREED of the 0.01% who should not be in charge of anything!

JAB INJURIES: GROSS CALAMARI BLOOD CLOTS/AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.

And BIG pHARMa is an arsenal making permanently sickly addicted slaves dependent on their products - the complete opposite of actual health.

Can't say this often enough!

SCREW THE HYPOCHONDRIA GERMAPHOBIC FEAR HYSTERIA! DO NOT CONSENT! Avian flu is for the birds! RESIST!

KEEP FIGHTING! All the perps who pushed this greatest crime against humanity, all the way down to the local level, must get their comeuppances!

Proudly ANTI-VAXX! Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.

Ban all vaccine jabs! There has never been a 'safe and effective' vaccine since Edward Jenner's fraud over 200 years ago as per 'Dissolving Illusions' by Suzanne Humphries and 'Turtles All the Way Down' by Anonymous. Health can never come from a needle or pills, but from healthy eating, healthy exercise and healthy living! virustruth.net

PSYCHOPATHS! MEGALOMANIACS!

Bless and thank you for doing what you do.

Sue Cloutier's avatar

Ralph thank you for your vision and understanding

Paul Palmer's avatar

Ralph:

BTW, my theory of how to approach the solution of waste problems is called the Theory of Real Zero Waste, to distinguish it from the faux theories which abound but are just applications of futile recycling notions. In my first chapter of my new book, I point out that there is a public and commanding example of ZW Theory that was put into place by Elon Musk who figured out how to get his booster rockets for Space-X launches to fly back onto the landing sites and wait to be reused again and again. The former method of NASA's was to discard the booster rockets into the ocean and have to create them again, very wastefully. Musk's innovation satisfies four principles of ZW Theory:

1. It reuses the entire functional product (the whole booster rocket)

2. I avoids waste and saves money and effort.

3. It is immediately seen to be a leap forward and obsoletes the former method.

4. It requires no cultivation of personal consciousness by observers and adopters.

The research effort was put into this innovation by Space-X. It was not trivial.

Paul Palmer's avatar

Ralph:

Every time you mention recycling positively I write to you, trying to explain to you that the primary purpose of recycling is to shift systemic responsibility from industrial designers and manufacturers onto the weak shoulders of users and customers for solving the problem of the pollution of the earth with so-called waste and discards. Now you finally have aired someone who shows that this kind of systemic shift is not a lone claim but is a repeated, and expected way that industry tries to shift its responsibilities onto customers. I hope you will now find my description of recycling to be persuasive. Every time I write, I get the impression that you fail to appreciate this fact with respect to the recycling scam. Nick Chater marginally mentioned plastic waste, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. This is only one polluting product among thousands, even though the public has fastened on this particular example because it is so visible and egregious. My work has been in a particular field which scares many because it involves what people call "chemical waste" or "hazardous waste" or "toxic materials". I have shown, by operating my company Zero Waste Systems that these unwanted materials can yield to the same solutions as building materials, or appliances or plastics, namely a resort to science instead of magic, which is what recycling is. It is well known, and incontrovertible that recycling has always been a failure in every domain in which it is used. Clever people have twisted and distorted the recycling delusion into unrecognizable approaches which are still, when you apply an educated vision, still just forms of recycling, namely magical solutions without basis in science. Solving complex social problems always requires hard work, embodied in research. You cannot solve such problems, the way that recyclers attempt to do, by just waving your hands and coming up with the first simple idea that pops into your head of how to reuse some minor component in your waste product while discarding the larger function into a dump. The theoretical analysis of waste avoidance has some deep aspects that are not obvious. My early book was called Getting To Zero Waste but the much better 3rd Edition will be coming out soon. I hope you will look for it.

Fern Tishman's avatar

I can’t access sound or video.

Peter's avatar

In the box a the top of the page you will see 3 small dots ...

When you right click on them you can DOWN load a mp3 that you can listen to

Kerri larson mandick's avatar

Personal responsibility , social contract

Fuck off with your cphersion

Steve Skrovan's avatar

What does this mean? What is "cphersion?"