Category: Economics / Economy / Income / Financial
The Majority Report.
I love the Majority Report with Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland. Here are some clips. People might wonder why so many at once. Because I have two monitors / computers. One I normally blog with and the other I constantly stream videos. Mostly news. If I am not in my Pink Palace I have my apple earbuds in listening to podcasts. I rarely do music. Those that follow me and know my history know that I have to constantly have that stream of new data, of idea and sound in to my head to stop the thoughts I don’t want. Granted, it has gotten less urgent over the last few years as I am getting better at coping, but I can not stand longish periods of only my own memories. The first thing I do when I leave my bed to get up is pull my hair back and put in my ear buds. At night when I go to bed I fill my mind with my own stories written based on the characters of books, movies, TV shows that I can fill my mind with writing my self into those stories, keeping the memories from coming up to the front of my mind or having a say. I had these videos ready to post for a while, but never found the time. Today is the time. I don’t expect everyone to watch all of them, but maybe bits or sections, or just the ones that interest you. Thank you for understanding. Hugs. Scottie
/ omarsshakir
https://www.hrw.org/
After briefly touching on the international politics around the 2007 blockade and election of Hamas in Gaza, Shakir explores how the Israeli government has supported and maintained Hamas’ rule as a part of their “policy of separation” between Gaza and the West Bank, and a central tool against the establishment of a Palestinian state. Wrapping up, Omar explores the obvious parallels between the current assault on Palestinians in Gaza and the 1948 Nakba that began the occupation, the recent discovery of Israel’s use of white phosphorus, and what a push for a ceasefire and an end to apartheid could look like.
/ omarsshakir
https://www.hrw.org/
Omar Shakir then joins as he jumps right into the history of the Gaza Strip, from the beginning of its occupation by Israel in 1967, through the establishment of their full blockade on people, goods, and aid in the wake of their military withdrawal in 2005, which launched the current era of strict apartheid and de facto Hamas rule.
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I am worn completely out and my day is not done.
Right from the start my day has been on my feet with little pauses. During those pauses, I quickly posted a few things I felt important. I got up at 3:30 am. I feed the cats, did all that stuff, handled a few things on the computers. Ron got up and informed me he had two appointments he failed to put into the calendar, one a doctor’s appointment and the other a Zoom meeting I needed to set my computer system up for. Ok, I got a quick shower and started doing the dishes from last night, kept dealing with cats. Then Ron left for his appointment and called me from the grocery store he stopped at on the way home. He had forgotten to take the cane he uses, and he was struggling to walk. I asked if he needed me to come get him. Nope.
When he got home, I had already set up the computer system, just needed him to sit and do a sound check. But when he pulled in to the driveway, he couldn’t walk, so I got his cane and helped him inside. Then I brought the few groceries in. I put them away. I got him settled in my Pink Palace and ready for the Zoom meeting with family and his brother in the nursing home.
As he did that, I started a red spaghetti sauce for supper. After his meeting He came out and I got him some lunch. I was struggling my self by now so I took even more medications. After he ate he went to bed, I finished making the sauce and got my own lunch.
After eating a great meal of Chicken Supreme with egg noodles and lots of the gravy, I took the remainder out of the large baking dish and put it into smaller containers, then washed all my dishes, his dishes, and the stuff I used to cook the meal. I then got stuff ready for Ron, who wants to make meatballs for the sauce.
I am beat, I am done. At this point, I don’t even care if we eat tonight. I have clenched my teeth so much my own teeth and jaw aches. My back won’t hold me well, my legs hurt and are so shaky. I have four open windows with many tabs, I did not answer any comments or read any other people’s blogs. I keep having pain shocks and muscle spasms, and I am afraid Ron is going to want me to help him more when he gets up. I have 10 minutes left of The Majority Report with Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland. Then I will shut the computers down and go to playing Halo. If you don’t hear from me tonight or you had something you needed a response to, I hope I can get to it tomorrow, but for today I have reached the end of Scotties rope. I know that has happened a lot lately, but the fact is with Ron hurting himself and us not having access to needed healthcare, and being rather lowering income, hell just say it we are poor now, things are much more demanding on me at this time in my life than ever before it seems. Plus I also am old, disabled, in bad health, and today very tired. Hugs, loves, Best wishes. Scottie
Bassem Youssef vs Piers Morgan ROUND 2 (incredible conversation)
Great history lesson on how Israel was created and the people already in Palestine. The person being interviewed, Bassem Youssef, goes back to 1914. Lance gives more information towards the 42 minute mark. This is a great listen if you want to know about this conflict. Hugs. Scottie
Got home at 7 am
Tried to write this three times from the ER. My old tablet simply wouldn’t let me log in to my blog. My phone would, but each time I finished typing I would try to set the categories and lost it all three times. So my morning.
I did not get much sleep but that is OK, I did not expect to the day after steroid shots. I woke at 3 am, rolled over to see Ron was laying there awake. I moved to snuggle, and he said he was in trouble. I asked him what was going on, thinking his leg he twisted several weeks ago was acting up from the four hours or more of going shopping at only three stores yesterday morning. Spent over 400 dollars on groceries, but we hit good sales on large packages of meats that Ron could split up and wrap, then put in the large freezer. We will have thick pork chops, pork strips, steaks, ham steaks, different kinds of chicken, ribs, hamburg, and a lot of other meat I can not remember. But Ron couldn’t walk by the time we headed home and I had to help in the house while I carried the bags in with my damaged shoulders I just Thursday had steroid shots in, my back, and my legs. But I had made sure the bags were light enough, except the freezer insulated bags Ron shoved all the meats packages in. Those were single two handed carrying while walking slowly. Couldn’t use my cane with both hands full.
But that was not his main problem. A couple of years before Ron retired and while we had dental insurance Ron’s dentist retired. I was having a lot of dental work done with the idea of having it finished before he retired. But he had to retire a year early. But Ron refused to see my dentist or get another. Recently he broke a tooth and still wouldn’t see a dentist. On and off it has been bothering him, he doesn’t eat hard food much, and used a lot of tooth pain stuff.
This morning at 3 am he told me he couldn’t swallow and his mouth, gums, and teeth were really hurting bad. He was sure he had an infected mouth. First he said he wanted to go to convenient care. We got up, I started the coffee and fed the outside cats, Tupac came in for the morning. Ron called the closest ER, which was the Cape Coral hospital, and asked if convenient care was open and would handle his need. They told him no, he would have to come to the ER. So at 4 am we pulled into the ER parking lot. We were the only people in the waiting room, and Ron got triaged right away. After about 30 minutes, Ron and I were taken to an exam room. After the nurse checked him in for both his infected mouth and his twisted leg we had a short wait until the doctor came in. He looked at Ron’s mouth saying it was very inflamed and infected, and then looked at Ron’s leg. He said he did not think Ron had anything broken but the leg was swollen. He ordered X-rays, and a prescription for antibiotics such as penicillin. We waited for the portable X-ray person. Soon she arrived and took the X-ray, so then we waited for the doctor to read it and come back. The doctor said it was not broken but as he suspected there was soft tissue damage. He recommended a dentist and an orthopedic doctor check. He left and we waited for the nurse. She came in with pills for Ron and his discharge orders, along with a couple pages of dentist places for low income people along with regular dentist offices and the same with orthopedic doctors. We left with Ron hobbling out using one of my canes. We arrived home at 7 am.
I helped Ron into bed, made a new pot of coffee and sat to type this. Ron’s stubborn refusal to do what is needed is seriously affecting our money situation. I have tried to address that with him, but as he has aged he has gotten more anxieties and more reluctant to take care of things that need doing. Especially about his healthcare. But now I am going to get something to eat. Hugs. Scottie
Scamvangelical Posts Candidates For 30 School Boards
PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: Wommack says homosexuals should have a “warning label on their foreheads.” Wommack says he prayed away “the curse of mildew.” Wommack says Jesus protects Christians from COVID by “turning off your virus receptors.” Two dozen Christians get infected with COVID at Wommack’s illegal bible conference. Wommack says he knows COVID is “no big deal” because his wife and son were “raised from the dead.”
I went to the link in the story above. This guy is one hell of a piece of shit hate preacher. He wants a complete take-over of civilian life, politics, government, every aspect of your life he wants to control. It is a total power grab for him and his followers, in the name of his god of course. Someone has to speak for god, he was just the one chosen to rule your life. Some of the batshit crazy stuff in the article will chill you on what these people believe. And they’re doing it by stealth and then steam rolling over ever right of others to form their perfect society in the name of their god, you know the one that god wants so to hell with your wants or needs. And as you can see they will break the law because god’s will is far more important than the laws of men. Plus once in power they will brook no disagreement with them, 1st amendment be damned. Some quotes listed below. There is much more of the danger these people represent in the article and the Joe My God post also.
“We have enough people here in this school we could elect anybody we want,” he said at a meeting of the Citizen’s Academy, an event held at Charis by the Truth & Liberty Coalition, a nonprofit organization also founded by Wommack. “This county ought to be totally dominated by believers.”
When voters in 30 school districts go to the polls Tuesday (Nov. 7), they will find ballots primed with candidates recruited and trained by Transform Colorado, a movement, launched by Truth & Liberty, “that unites Christian leaders to restore biblical values in the public square,” according to its website.
As in Woodland Park, where Wommack succeeded in getting his chosen candidates elected to City Council and gaining a majority on the school board, the goal, in the words of one victor, is to oppose “the teachers’ union and their psycho agenda.”
Truth & Liberty has lately served as Wommack’s main tool in reversing Colorado’s shift from red to blue, a tragedy he blames on “demonic” liberals. As proof, Wommack has claimed his “spies” in the local school system had found hundreds of obscene books. He warned that public schools taught fourth graders how to have anal sex and that they placed litter boxes in classrooms for students who identified as dogs or cats.
Wommack is harsh in his opposition to LGBTQ rights. The day after five people were killed and 18 injured in a Nov. 19, 2022, shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Wommack said he was “not endorsing” violence against LGBTQ people but complained they received too much sympathy, calling homosexuality “one of the major threats of the devil.”
But once elected, Woodland Park’s new conservative majority worked quickly — sometimes meeting in private, she alleged, in violation of state law — to turn the district upside down.
The district became the first and, so far, only locality in the U.S. to adopt the controversial American Birthright social studies curriculum, which has been rejected by Colorado’s State Board of Education. Since it was adopted, some students have been required to perform make-up work to qualify for college admission.
The school board also put a gag order on faculty and staff who disagreed with the changes, firing some who aired their concerns anyway. Recently, more than 80 teachers and staff signed a letter condemning the new “culture of fear and silence” and calling for solutions that “prioritize our children’s futures over politics.”
The district now budgets more than $200,000 a year for legal fees, more than 10 times its legal budget five years ago.
Despite the controversy, Wommack has given the new board his full support. Charis bused nearly 100 students to a May meeting where a vote was being held to elect a new superintendent, displacing hundreds of parents and teachers who were barred by capacity regulations. Some citizens now gather as much as five hours early at board meetings to make sure they can speak and vote.
Students from Charis, which operates a Practical Government school, also often sign up for many of the limited public speaking slots, using their allotted time to criticize “violent, extreme radicals, communists and socialists taking over our schools.”
It would be a useful voting guide for me to know who to vote against.
Bet they are only sending the voting guide to people on the church mailing lists.
Which hopefully someone will leak.
People ask: how do we know who the stealth candidates are so we can vote against them? This is how. Look for who the christfascists are voting for and vote for anyone else. It’s not perfect (some can still slip through) but it will help.
I agree with the idea but…how do I find out who the Republicans are supporting? I can sometimes know when I see school board candidates signs on the same lawn as a Trump one but, mostly, I have to try and read between the lines on their webpages to see if they’re idiots or not…and some hide it really well!
My favorite….
They’re not just targeting trans kids. For example, in states where these extremists have seized control of education, they’ve banned books, pedagogical content and practices and entire subjects, adopted curricula and standards and materials that turn the clock waaaay back on the rights and recognition of BBIMP, immigrants, Jews, people practicing minority religions, women and girls, disabled people as well LGBTQI+ people.
American Talibangelists…
Before you know it, women and girls will be banned from schools.
