Showing posts with label corporations. Show all posts
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HEY KIDS, DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME! Man sentenced to 18 months in prison for sending threatening emails to Ajit Pai, the FCC Commissioner that repealed Net Neutrality.

What an absurd "Justice" system we have... This seems like a long sentence for a Supposed Crime that did not actually do any harm. REMEMBER! DO NOT EMAIL ANY DEATH THREATS TO PUPPETS OF EVIL CORPORATIONS... 

IMHO: SOME "Crimes" are prosecuted harshly and some people get off with no punishment at all... For Example: The person that reported about the SECRET US DRONE KILLING PROGRAM was arrested but the people ACTUALLY DOING THE KILLING did not... Now the US Government has stopped reporting how many civilians are killed by our drones... Very similar to the TERMINATOR movies with robots raining death down from the skies...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629901/ajit-pai-death-threat-prison-sentence-net-neutrality

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/man-sentenced-threatening-murder-family-fcc-chairman

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/drone-war-documents-lead-to-a-third-indictment-of-apparent-intercept-source

Greta Thunberg is right ... ...but no one that has been indoctrinated into pursuing the "American Dream" will act, even after listening to her, until that dream is finally exposed and realized as the morally bankrupt farce it is; an earth and soul destroying delusion.

Younger people are learning by seeing how the natural world is being destroyed by the rich and powerful. Yet how empty are their lives. Although they seem to 'have it all' they are never satisfied and care little about hurting others or the natural world in their constant pursuit of even more riches and power.

That's why the young are reaching the point of saying, enough is enough, destroying. And are now attempting to get adults to wake up and do something about it.

Listen to little Greta make more sense than political and religious leaders, combined:

PS: In Greta's defense, for any naysayers concerning her diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome, see others with AS:

Hans Aspergers (February 18, 1906 - October 21, 1980) was an Austrian pediatrician, after whom Asperger syndrome (AS) was named. He wrote over 300 publications, mostly concerning autism in children. --

The Words Above Were Written by a Friend of mine... K Quen


and Greta Says: 
When haters go after your looks and differences, it means they have nowhere left to go. And then you know you’re winning! I have Aspergers and that means I’m sometimes a bit different from the norm. And - given the right circumstances- being different is a superpower.

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My Opinion...
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Buying Plastic Crap Does NOT Cause Ecstatic Dancing! It's TRUE! The Corporations That Make Plastic Crap WANT YOU TO BELIEVE That Lie but... I Have Tested this Theory. It Is Possible to Do Ecstatic Dancing in Clothes I Bought at The Thrift Shop. 

I Am Constantly Amazed that There are Businesses Like "The Real Real" That Sell to People Who WISH They Were Rich Trendy New Yorkers. A Friend of Mine was Wearing a Standard Shirt That Had (in GIANT LETTERS) "DKNY" - So I Asked Her What That Meant... She Said "Donna Karen New York" and Since I Had Never Heard that Name I asked Who is That? She Said: "A Famous Designer." It Seems to me that a BETTER Shirt would say "SZCA" Since her name was Sharon Z and She Lived in California... However I Did Not Tell Her That... I'm a Polite Person. I Would Never Satirize a Pathetic Dupe in Person. Unless they are Loudly Proclaiming That Jesus is the Only Way! Then, I am GLAD to Ridicule Those Mindless Vegetables. One Time I was attending a "Teach In" on Campus at College and... After the Event was Over I Asked The Man... "If You Believe That Premarital Sex Is A Sin, Doesn't That Reduce Your Chances of Getting Laid? He Admitted that Was True and Tried to "Spin" His Beliefs to Make Them Seem Wonderful... That Being a Virgin On Your Wedding Night was A Blessing... BOGUS! I Remember that Premarital Sex was a Blessing! and I'm Totally Glad I Did It... and I'm Totally Glad We Went to Planned Parenthood First So She Didn't Have a Baby in High School...  

This Brings Me To The TV SHOW "Keeping Up With the Kardashians." Danger-Danger Today They are Questioning IF They Should Buy a Gun For Protection! I Hope Their Followers DO NOT Buy a Gun Because... Having a Gun Makes You LESS SAFE. If You Add Up The Lives Lost to Increases in Successful Suicide, Increases in Gun Accidents and Increases in One Family Member Shooting Another During an Argument... That TOTALLY OUTNUMBERS the Lives Saved Protecting Your Family from "Bad Guys."

I Guess People Watch That Show Because It's Still On after a Couple of Years... I Have Heard That The People in That Show are Famous for Being Famous... I'm More Impressed by PEREZ Hilton... He is Famous for MOCKING Paris Hilton... Good Job PEREZ! Another TV Show That I Never Watch is "Jersey Shore." It's About Young People Arguing With Each Other While On Vacation... Why Would Anyone Watch THAT?  And Yet, I Know A Person That Says She Likes "Reality" Shows... and I Could Hear Arguing Coming Out of Her Phone. By The Way, A Kardashian Was Displaying Her Expensive Jewelry On TV ad Then She Got Robbed... Cause and Effect?

I Like Comedy Shows. Samantha Bee, Steven Colbert Monologues and John Oliver Make Me Laugh at Bizarro World Republicans. I Wonder IF There are Comedy Shows That MOCK Liberals? I Don't Think So... I Have on Occasion Watched FOX News and Those People Seem Angry All The Time... I Can Understand Why... Since Their Ideas Have Been Proven Wrong and Yet They Are Hired to Repeat Those Lies By Corporate Sponsors. It Must Be Unpleasant Work to Know That What You Say is False... and Yet, Day After Day Your Job is to Spread Insane Corporate Propaganda... That Must Cause Stress! 

I support an OPTIONAL Medicare For All Plan. If you want to buy health insurance from the government - do it. If you want to pay more for Corporate Corporate Plans - Do that!

I saw a "Stop Medicare For All" advertisement on TV and it's message was that you get faster service with the corporate controlled Healthcare System that we have now than a single payer system like Canada has. What is the REBUTTAL to that argument? I want to blog a reply but, they might be right!

Yes, they wait a longer time in Canada...

One unexpected consequence of a National Health Service would be that Healthcare Insurance Corporations would go out of business. Massive Layoffs... Big loss in the stock market...  Currently those Private insurance companies squeeze vast profits out of patients... SO... Those people that are getting rich will be fighting for their life. Frankly speaking, I would divest from any healthcare company because their stock value will go to zero if Medicare for All becomes Reality. I feel that most of the actual workers would get hired at government jobs because the quantity of service needed would increase... but the senior management positions would be eliminated... those guys would be in Deep DOO-DOO... after ripping off Patients for Decades they would have to go get a REAL JOB!

Critics are more skeptical of the government’s ability to administer coverage on such a large scale, pointing to longer wait times for certain care in some countries with single-payer systems. 

Americans spend far more on health care per person than other developed nations and supporters of a single-payer plan argue it could hold down costs by negotiating or requiring lower payments to doctors, hospitals and drug companies, while eliminating overhead associated with private insurance.

As a result, even though the government would spend much more on health care under Medicare for All than it does now, supporters argue that a single-payer system might reduce total national health spending by some estimates and that money currently going to premiums would help offset the new taxes on individuals and families.

Similarly wealthy countries tend to have both universal coverage (though not always a pure single-payer system) and healthier populations than the U.S., suggesting there’s a workable path to guaranteeing health care.  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/what-medicare-all-how-would-it-work-n1014256

Free Coloring Book Art - Medicare For All - Sanders Institute - print image and color with felt pens, pencils, crayons or Potatoshop
Free Coloring Book Art - Medicare For All
 Sanders Institute - print image and color with felt pens, pencils, crayons or Potatoshop
Free Coloring Book Art - Sanders Institute - print image and color with felt pens, pencils, crayons or Potatoshop
Connect the Dots at the Sanders Institute:
Free Coloring Book ART: Link to MORE, More More!
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/12/bernie-sanders-has-built-sanders.html

What IF We Taxed Corporations As If They Were People? We could Totally Afford MANY Wonderful Things... We could spend Billions on Infrastructure... This Year 60 Giant Corporations Paid ZERO Taxes... That's Right... Amazon Paid Nothing! on $11 Billion Dollars Profit...

We OUGHT To Repeal And Replace Trump's Tax Cut For The Rich Law... 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-taxes-zero-180337770.html
Headline: Amazon will pay $0 in taxes on $11,200,000,000 in profit for 2018...


Thanks to the new Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Amazon’s federal tax responsibility is 21% (down from 35% in previous years). But with the help of tax breaks, according to corporate filings, Amazon won’t be paying a dime to Uncle Sam despite posting more than $11.2 billion in profits in 2018.

Abolish the Electoral College. We Should Try Majority Rule in the USA. Remember, it gave us TWO Disasterous Presidents... George Bush the Son was the Worst President EVER and Trump is Number Two... Like when you go to the bathroom, Trump is Number Two...

Elizabeth Warren has MANY Great ideas about how to run the Country. We also ought to enforce Anti-Trust Laws. Some corporations have a monopoly and they should be busted up into smaller groups. Obviously, Google, Facebook and Amazon rule the world... What about others that Donate Millions to Politicians and then get favorable treatment... The Tax Cut for the Rich Law is a clear example that Trump and the Republicrimes are paid puppets... Notice that NO ONE went to jail for Bank Fraud in 2008-2009 when Bankers gambled away trillions of dollars and then got bailed out by Bush/Obama... 


The Electoral College was Intentionally Designed to keep the Masses from Selecting the President... The Founding Fathers wanted to Keep Power in their Own Hands... No Votes for Blacks or Women... only rich white men vote...

See? Corporations are NOT PEOPLE. Oil Pipeline Company Found Guilty of 2015 Oil Spill in Santa Barbara. No Jail Time for Executives... Just Fines...

Executives who actually caused oil spill #walkaway with no prison sentence... but people that protest against building pipelines get locked up... as "Terrorists"... REALLY! I'm Not Making This Up. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/08/22/environmentalists-say-new-pipeline-protest-laws-restrict-their-freedom-speech/?utm_term=.8a97a4f71128
Energy and Environment: Harsh new anti-protest laws restrict freedom of speech, advocates say...

https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article218037870.html After months of trial and a week of deliberations, a Superior Court jury on Friday returned guilty verdicts on multiple criminal counts against Plains All American Pipeline in connection with the May 2015 crude oil spill near Refugio State Beach on the Gaviota Coast. Miles of coastline and near-shore waters were sullied, prompting a massive cleanup response from local, state and federal agencies.

“Santa Barbara County is frequently referred to as paradise,” Dudley said in a statement. “The visual crown jewel of our paradise is our beaches and mountains. This spill killed our marine life, harmed not just our beaches and ocean but also our businesses ...

and in good news...
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/08/jerry-brown-signs-new-laws-to-block-trumps-california-offshore-oil-drilling-plans/
Jerry Brown signs new laws to block Trump’s California offshore oil drilling plans...

Another Example of a Republican Law that Benefits Corporations and Harms People... However, we are fighting Back! Off Shore Oil Drilling Blocked by California Legislature...

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/09/08/jerry-brown-signs-new-laws-to-block-trumps-california-offshore-oil-drilling-plans/ Jerry Brown signs new laws to block Trump’s California offshore oil drilling plans...

Whale Swimming Past Oil Drilling Platforms
“Today, California’s message to the Trump administration is simple: Not here, not now,” Brown said. “We will not let the federal government pillage public lands and destroy our treasured coast.”

Brown signed SB 834 and AB 1775, two measures that ban the State Lands Commission from approving permits for new wharfs, piers, pipelines and other facilities anywhere in state waters along the entire California coast from the shoreline out to three miles offshore that could be used to expand new offshore oil and gas production.

The bills — which were modeled on a local law passed by Santa Cruz city voters in 1985 aimed at stopping oil drilling during the Reagan administration — were a top priority for environmentalists in Sacramento this year. A similar proposal was blocked last year by oil industry opposition.

Republicans believe "One Dollar One Vote" while Democrats believe "One Person One Vote" - Move to Amend the Constitution to overturn Citizens United.

We the People of the United States, in order to make democracy real and justice possible, to defend against oppression, to fight for the welfare of all, to liberate our minds and hearts, and to safeguard our pocketbooks from the clutches of corporations, do hereby declare our independence from corporate rule, shouting for all to hear that:
1. Corporations are not human persons and have no inherent inalienable human rights under the Constitution
2. Money is not speech. Money is concentrated capital and it cannot speak.
3. Communities have the right to decide what happens to their land, their homes, their health, their local businesses, and all their citizens--children, elders, sick and poor. Corporations do not. 

https://movetoamend.org/

Let's close all Coal Fired Power Plants and all Coal Mines. Burning Coal Causes Air Pollution and Global Warming... Even when we sell the Coal to Foreign Countries.

Attention Stock Market Investors: Sell All your Stock in Fossil Fuel Corporations and Buy Solar/ Wind Power. All of us can see the end of Oil, Gas and Coal... Get Out NOW!

Wildfires in the American West are Caused by Global Warming... Global Warming is Caused by Burning Oil, Gas and Coal... 

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/19/16789560/rick-perry-fake-energy-grid-crisis Energy Secretary Rick Perry wants to bail out coal and nuclear plants. He says the US energy grid is experiencing an urgent crisis — that its reliability and resilience are in immediate danger unless those power plants are saved.

There is no evidence to support this position, though Perry and his allies in the coal and nuclear industries repeat it like a mantra.

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EPA (Enable Polluters Agency) tries to Change Fuel Efficiency Standards to allow More Pollution, More Profits for Corporations.

http://time.com/5347862/epa-andrew-wheeler-fuel-efficiency-california/

Opposing California, New EPA Head Calls for Single U.S. Fuel Efficiency Standard. 

In General, California has stricter standards and car makers comply to California Requirements instead of designing two different styles of cars, one for California and One for the other states. 

How the US lost the War on Drugs in Afghanistan. Opium Poppy Harvests Larger Now Than Ever... Endless War helps US Corporations, Harms People.

and now there is an Opioid Crisis in the USA... Not really a Surprise as Afghan's Fund Their War on Narco-dollars...

While there is no "Mission" in Afghanistan, defense contractors make profits resupplying US Military. It's a classic case of Corporate Welfare...

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/08/obama-afghanistan-drug-war-taliban-616316


Move to Amend dot org - corporations are not people, money is not free speech. Legalize Democracy!

https://movetoamend.org/petition We, the People of the United States of America, reject the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling and other related cases, and move to amend our Constitution to firmly establish that money is not speech, and that human beings, not corporations, are persons entitled to constitutional rights.
https://movetoamend.org/

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During the 1950s Americans went into a Mad Panic about Communists taking over the world. We built thousands of Nuclear Missiles and Fallout Shelters. The US Congress had witch hunts (Joe McCarthy-HUAC) to expose "Commies" who worked in The Hollywood Movie business and blacklisted folksingers that were leading our young people astray with Labor Union Organizing songs.


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