We should measure the wealth of a society not at its Apex but at it's Base
-Andrew Jackson
Free Speech TV tells you the news you don't get otherwise. This is not spam, but just one observer reporting the facts. For instance if GM has a faulty ignition switch or something that costs a dollar per car, and they don't spend that extra dollar then 114 people die. What are 114 lives worth? You hear about wage theft. It would be not paying overtime. My Dad had a job starting in late 1966 where he wasn't paid for coming in on Saturday. He says it wasn't so bad because traffic was lighter and he could get more done at the office without interruptions. Even so I saw it as a rip-off. There are travel times to places such as Jim Cooper working four SC Edison and they would travel to jobs. In those days when he got overtime he would brag he was getting paid a dollar a minute. But what if you weren't paid for travel times from job to job once you reported in? Then there are those jobs where you show after work rather than showering before work such as a steel plant, or perhaps some nuclear facility where you are exposed to radiation. This preparation time for work should be counted in salaries. In my own writings I have talked about the real truth behind Christianity- - and we won't go into that now except to say that the Gnostic Marcion had a lot to do with the creation if the literary character Paul aka Saul of Tarsus. Of course the corporate media won't talk about keeping the internet free, and won't attack the Koch Brothers or the pharmaceutical companies, if these people are paying the bills, and you see ads for this companies on that station.
Let's talk about Senator Bernie Sanders. The big truth about Sanders is that he suddenly rose to fifteen percent (or more than ANY one Republican candidate) within a couple weeks of his announcing. There was the clip of Sanders dressing down Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan in 2003 for his ignorance of the fact the United States is losing manufacturing jobs big time. Alan Greenspan said America was still number one with the greatest economy and the highest standard of living. Keep in mind this is 2003 when we only had a four trillion dollar national debt, but the economy showed many of the same sicknesses it does today. In 2008 Greenspan saw the light and admitted his thinking was flawed on a lot of economic issues. Bernie Sanders has pulled 42% in a couple of statewide polls and had a good chance of winning the New Hampshire primary outright, which is something Eugene Mc Carthy didn't even do. Mc Carthy only pulled 42% or so against Johnson in March of 1968, and it was enough to scare Johnson out of running again. And we cross Sanders with Hillary who apparently voted for wire taps, and of course she voted for the Iraq war in 2003. But most indicting of all, Hillary Clinton voted to change the personal bankruptsy regulations to make it harder for ordenary citizens, but all the while making it easier for the big banks to be "too big to fail". Of course you can't opt out of your six or seven percent student loan debt even if you used to be able to declare bankruptsy because thanks to Hillary and others, you can't do that any more. The media says that Hillary has "gone to the left" on major issues, but this is merely a well constructed myth.
Yesterday before dinner I was reading more stuff about Ukraine trying to get a sense of balance of the issue. It’s true that getting rid of the pro Russian president of Ukraine was a democratic act of the parliament or whatever. The Russians have never explained why a fair, democratic vote was invalid. On the other hand you can’t get around the fact that Canada, the US, and Ukraine were the only three countries at the UN that didn’t condemn the Nazi party when they had a chance, all not to offend Ukraine. That’s a pretty blatant endorsement. I haven't talked about Stewart Sutcliffe in a while. We need the perspective of those who have passed to the "other side" on some issues. Stu says that "N" symbol the Ukrainians use really isn't the same as a Nazi symbol, and the sort of "Nazi" activity is fundamentally different from what Adolph Hitler advocated. Stu says "It's really a vertical Z for Ziggy symbol". This symbol was being used over two decades ago on Sirius B. Actually if you stick one more line in the symbol it could be the NY Yankees symbol. But as I just said, you can't get around the fact that the parliament of their own country by a democratic process- - voted to change governments. The Russians have no answer for that. And it isn't as if Putin is suddenly a nice guy either. He's still an egomaniac bully who has lied to his own countrymen something fierce. And the thing is the people at RT (Russian television) are far more articulate in presenting the pro Russian point of view trying to make it sound reasonable and logical- - than Putin himself is when he talks. When Putin opens his mouth your first instinct is to think "Where there is a real liar". On another topic- - of all the women I'm considering hooking up with now, Stu still wants me to try anew and form a closer relation with Loretta Hill. That's his vote.
[Saturday] They
had the Mc Laughlin group on just now.
The first two topics were kind of a four to one conservative
pile-on. The Charlston church shooting
was not racial and had no apparent cause.
Maybe it was mental illness - - maybe it was drugs. But it means nothing and says nothing about
the state of race relations in this country and most of all is something we
should just forget and not read anything into such as the need for major new
gun control legislation. And the
concencus on the Pope’s encyclical on global warming is ‘something which
degrades the Catholic Church and the papacy’.
And of course they say that the Pope isn’t qualified to speak on any subject
other than birth control and abstinence prior to marriage. Then they talked about Donald Trump and
naturally this crowd didn’t like Trump’s entering the Presidential race. Pat Buchannon was the one guy talking sense
here. Because he reminded us that Trump
wants to crack down on China’s trade and intellectual property theft practices,
and Trump was against the US going to war in Iraq in 2003 and Trump is also
against unrestricted immigration. Of
course the Republicans talk out of both sides of their mouth on immigration
depending on what mood they’re in today.
Then there was a fourth topic on the droning of an Islamic leader. Earlier in the evening Rocky was out with his
family showing off all the various fruit trees we have around here. I didn’t know we had a mango tree. There was some middle aged married couple
and a younger brunette daughter in shorts but I can’t figure out the relation
and didn’t ask. Later Rocky and Louise
gave me about two thirds of a brown cigarette.
I got medication from Donnie in the west hall. Jeopardy is on now. Bill is out of the room. I had the ABC news on prior to this.
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