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Cuadrando la caja 09-4-23; economista cubano José Luis Rodríguez
Duración de clip: 15:32 mins / segs
Fuente original completa:
La historia económica del
socialismo, su relación con el mercado, las particularidades de
#Cuba,
los desafíos que ha enfrentado y enfrenta y las posibles estrategias
para superarlos están entre los temas abordados.
Cuadrando la caja 30-10-23; socialismo vs
neoliberalismo en Cuba
Jerónimo, el ‘tiktoker’
que habla de marxismo
Sep 20, 2020
El 5 de agosto de 1895
falleció, Friedrich Engels, pensador socialista.
A 125 años de su
muerte su legado reflejado en sus profundos y analíticos libros aún
sigue vigente. http://go.shr.lc/2MG49t8
Aug 5, 2020
✔ By
way of Twitter someone saw the pic below (not mines) in Instagram.
It
reads ◺ :
My
boss arrived at work in a new Lamborghini.
And I
said: “Wow,
that’s an outstanding car!”
He
answered: “If you work sufficiently hard, dedicate all your hours
and exert yourself to reach excellence, I’ll have another one next
year!”
Mueblería
en
Cuba de Manuel Milanés
y sus testaferros
Empresarios privados de Cuba
piden a Biden cumplir con apoyo prometido
Eliades
31-10-23;
Palestina, Cuba
- ofensiva revolucionaria
1968
¿Can we condition ourselves
to be heroes- Robert Sapolsky
11
mayo 2023
.."Es
incomprensible e inhumano que en medio de una crisis económica"
como la que enfrenta Cuba, el gobierno de Biden continúe con "las
políticas crueles y fallidas" de su antecesor Donald Trump
(2027-2021) contra la isla, dice la carta entregada al mandatario
estadounidense.. ..Los empresarios se desmarcaron así de
compañías estatales que han sido objeto de sanciones por parte de
Washington, entre ellas las administradas por militares cubanos.. ..Los dueños de negocios privados piden a Estados Unidos
que reestablezca en La Habana la emisión de visados de no inmigrante
para poder viajar y adquirir directamente los suministros que
requieren para sus negocios..
Manuel David Orrio- Cuba, el dilema y la campaña contra El toque
15/05/2024
.. Sin embargo, en
vez de combatir a El Toque con la ciencia económica – si
es posible – mediante medidas de gobierno que efectivamente
reduzcan o eliminen la inflación y la informalidad cambiaria, o por
medio de prensa o presencia en redes sociales que esclarezcan al
ciudadano; lo que se ha hecho y se está haciendo es intentar una
desacreditación mediante propaganda; particularmente se insiste en
ese carácter «enemigo» y se pretende desautorizar la cienticifidad
de los reportes de El Toque respecto a la tasa de cambio
informal. .. .. Conducido por la doctora en Ciencias
Filosóficas Marxlenin Pérez Valdés, el del 24 de marzo trató
sobre la macroeconomía; en éste participaron el doctor en Ciencias
Económicas José Luis Rodríguez ..
La historia no contada detrás de los operadores del Toque
8 mayo 2024
.. El objetivo
final de Estados Unidos con El Toque es
disminuir el gasto público en Cuba, afectar la producción nacional
y promover la dolarización de la economía cubana. .. ..
Surge la pregunta de por qué la OFAC no sanciona a los
responsables de El Toque por esta manipulación contraria a los
estatutos internacionales, considerando que la plataforma es operada
por cubanos en el exterior. La
inflación inducida es una estrategia de guerra utilizada por la
Comunidad de Inteligencia de Estados Unidos, que ha sido empleada
anteriormente contra Nicaragua, Argentina y Venezuela. ..
Before
Trump was anti-Cuba, he wanted to open a hotel in Havana
April 16, 2018
.. Relations between the
United States and Cuba have grown tense under the Trump
administration, which tightened
economic sanctions against the Communist Caribbean island in 2017.
“We do not want U.S. dollars to prop up a military monopoly that
exploits and abuses the citizens of Cuba,” Trump
declared in June 2017. “We will enforce the ban on tourism. We
will enforce the embargo.” Those who follow Cuba-U.S. relations
closely, as
I have for 40 years, may recall that Trump has not always been so
antagonistic toward Havana. Back when he was a real estate mogul, he
was happy to overlook the embargo – twice, in fact – for a chance
to open a Trump-branded hotel or golf resort in Cuba. In September
2016, when Trump was the Republican presidential candidate, Newsweek
magazine revealed that in 1998, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts
hired a consulting firm to explore business opportunities on the
island. ..
Donald
Trump registró en 2008 su marca comercial en Cuba para invertir en
hoteles, casinos, bienes raíces y otras actividades
23 de septiembre de 2020
Fidel
Castro says U.S. still owes Cuba many millions of dollars in damages
Aug.
14, 2015
✔ What
an opening salvo
by senior
writer Erin McClam ! ◺
Fidel
Castro doesn’t exactly sound ready to embrace the new spirit of
openness with the United States.
To
mark his 89th
birthday, the former revolutionary and Cuban president lashed out
at his longtime adversary in an essay that invoked the atomic bombs
dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki… ..He
also complained about President Richard Nixon’s removal of the U.S.
dollar from the gold standard in 1971…
Russia
calls
on US to compensate
Cuba amid escalating
global
tensions
10/24/23
..US's
economic, commercial, and financial blockade on Cuba have, according
to Volodin, inflicted colossal damage, amounting to an estimated $159
billion..
✔ “Hispanic”
commercial
media
in the U.S. won’t say
jack
of
course,
outta sight outta mind, following along their tried
and true blasted
mottoes. ◺
Russia writes off $32bn Cuban
debt in show of brotherly love
10
Jul 2014
Pensar la Historia con Eliades Acosta.
Eliades
17-10-23; Gaza, Filadelfia, capitalismo & guerras
Eliades
01-11-23; Gaza, bloqueo-ONU, ISIS, Cuba-ofensiva revolucionaria 1968
From
a 1986 study:
..compared
capitalist and socialist countries
in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account
the level of economic development. The World Bank was the
principal source of statistical data..
in measures of the physical quality of life (PQL), taking into account
the level of economic development. The World Bank was the
principal source of statistical data..
..However,
at the same level of economic devel-
opment,
the socialist countries showed more favorable out-
comes than the capitalist countries in all these measures. The
more favorable performance of the socialist countries was
evident in each of the 18 comparisons that could be made…
comes than the capitalist countries in all these measures. The
more favorable performance of the socialist countries was
evident in each of the 18 comparisons that could be made…
https://youtu.be/p5R_BtONquc ,02-6-23
Homeless
population across U.S. on the rise- Wall Street Journal review
https://youtu.be/IORHNscvnbk ,6-21-23
Why
the U.S. can’t end poverty
https://youtu.be/oMr5JjEOzkY ,3-07-23
The
big lie about sleep
When it comes to slumber, what matters most is how rich you are.
..
May 30, 2024
.. Researchers have found that stress is one of the strongest
indicators of poor sleep. Economic stress, in particular: Americans
in poverty report getting the least amount of sleep. In a 2022
survey, 87% of Americans polled said they lost sleep worrying about
their finances. And in a 2020 study, 13% of newly unemployed people
said they got four hours of sleep or less a night, half of what the
average employed person gets. In counties where about half the
population doesn't get enough sleep, many of which are in Alabama,
unemployment rates are twice as high as the US average, and median
household incomes hover around $35,000. ..
Joseph Stiglitz- COVID has made global inequality much worse
March 1, 2022
Preview- Vladimir Putin
reveals what he admires about America
Where thousands
of
tech
workers
went
after
mass
layoffs
https://youtu.be/JmD9rohDnjQ
,8-02-23
Decoded 9-07-23; Is AI the end
of human supremacy?
A.I. ‐ Humanity's final invention?
"Mass
assassination
factory":
Israel using
AI to generate
targets
in Gaza, increasing
civilian
toll
,12-01-23
Artificial
intelligence outperforms the average human in a creative thinking
test
Evictions
skyrocket as rising rents squeeze low-income Americans
October
9, 2023
..However,
it’s important to note that while AI chatbots performed
exceptionally well, they did not consistently outperform the best
human performers. In some cases, highly creative individuals among
the human participants were able to compete with AI in generating
novel and imaginative responses..
The arc of creativity
November 1, 2023
..In
the digital age, creativity expanded beyond the realm of individual
minds to become a communal venture, facilitated by the unprecedented
connectivity of the internet. The concept of "open source,"
epitomized by platforms like GitHub,
allows coders from around the world to contribute to a single
project, effectively decentralizing the creative process. Similarly,
the rise of social
media platforms like Instagram and YouTube has democratized
artistic expression, allowing anyone with a smartphone to become a
content creator..
✔ I don't have a Facebook account, never have, but I found this cute meme on someone's FB which I subscribe to in his YouTube channel. ◺
New technique based on
18th-century mathematics shows simpler AI models don't need deep
learning
October
5, 2023
..They
also found that classical training algorithms that date back 50 years
work better than the more recently popular techniques. Their simpler
approach advances green IT and is easier to use and understand. The
recent success of artificial intelligence is significantly based on
the use of one core technique: deep
learning. Deep learning refers to artificial
intelligence techniques where networks with a large number of
data processing layers are trained using massive datasets and a
substantial amount of computational resources..
Neuromorphic computing
research: Team proposes hardware that mimics the human brain
November
6, 2023
The
dark side of competition in AI | Liv Boeree
AI
is dangerous, but not for the reasons you think | Sasha Luccioni
Upgrade (2018), written & directed by Leigh
Whannell.
One
of
the
best
sci-fi
thrillers
you've
never
seen
gets
a
second
life
on
Netflix
May
22, 2024
Instant
evolution: AI designs new robot from scratch in seconds
October
2, 2023
..But
the AI program is not just fast. It also runs on a lightweight
personal
computer and designs wholly novel structures from scratch. This
stands in sharp contrast to other AI systems, which often require
energy-hungry supercomputers and colossally large datasets. And even
after crunching all that data, those systems are tethered to the
constraints of human creativity—only mimicking humans' past works
without an ability to generate new ideas..
It looks like AI will kill
quantum computing
,01-11-24
A slice of New York 12-20-23;
AI 101
El Mapa 10-11-23; EE.UU regula
la IA en su guerra tecnológica contra China
A national security insider does the math on the dangers of AI
Apr 23, 2024
Jason Matheny, CEO
of the influential think tank Rand Corporation, says advances in AI
are making it easier to learn how to build biological weapons and
other tools of destruction. ..
Leonard Lopate 3-27-24; Max Bennett- evolution, artificial
intelligence
(1 hour podcast)
La inteligencia artificial desde una perspectiva marxista, con Rubén Zardoya
Por
esto la IA lo va a cambiar todo: la productividad ya se dispara en
los últimos 4 años
✔
En
Negocios TV ↑ comenté
lo siguiente :
Lo
sorprendente, para mí,
es que a pesar del aumento de esa
productividad como fruto de la IA, concurrente la inflación
sigue siendo alta… Dudo
que dicha
productividad se deba solo
a
la IA, otros factores juegan un papel, por lo menos en U$A, e.g. poco
desempleo, demanda debido al aumento salarial… En
fin, desajustes sistémicos
en la toma de decisiones dentro del capitalismo. ◺
https://youtu.be/TxFsqdnpit8 ,6-24-23
✔ Price
inflation, i.e. food, energy, etc, is seen as harmful by corporate
media pundits (and objectively it is, specially to lower-income
earners), but then the corporate pundits turn around and celebrate
whenever house prices climb… What gives? Inflation bad yet housing
inflation good? ◺
The
US has an empty office building problem. Here's what landlords are
doing about it
https://youtu.be/wbR9PNjRC4Q
,6-27-23
NYC kicks off plan to rezone
Midtown, turn offices to houses
August
17, 2023
New York City is rolling out a
plan to convert vacant offices into as many as 20,000 new housing
units by creating a multi-agency group to help developers cut through
red tape and rezoning a section of Manhattan known as Midtown South…
Biden
administration encouraging conversion of empty offices to affordable
housing
October
27, 2023
..Several
of the new measures will be designed to specifically encourage the
creation of new affordable housing units near transportation
hubs like bus terminals and subway stations.. ..Buttigieg said
that “over $35 billion in lending capacity” will be made
available to provide below-market rate loans to finance both new
housing construction and office conversions near transportation
hubs.. ..The Department of Transportation is also releasing
new guidance to make it easier for transit agencies to transfer
unused properties or buildings to local governments or nonprofit
organizations for conversion into affordable housing..
..These programs include low-interest loans, loan guarantees, grants
and tax incentives for developers..
✔ Palisades Center mall. ↓ ↓ Palisades Center mall.
Barnes & Noble, Ice skating rink.
military history section. 8-18-23, 4:32 PM
8-18-23, 3:53 PM
◺
Creditors come after Palisades
Center mall in court, seek foreclosure. What's at stake
Feb. 17, 2023
..Even
before the mall opened in 1998, the company had challenged its tax
assessment.. ..Among the largest malls in the nation.. These
are the top five landlords in NYC
✔ Buildings
& skyline
by
Brooklyn Bridge & City Hall #4,
5, 6
trains
station, Centre Street
August
20 2021
..Columbia
University is the largest landowner in New York City by the number of
addresses and manages over 5,000 apartments across 150 residential
buildings. While made up of mostly students, renters are
overwhelmingly happy with the buildings’ affordability and the
attentiveness of management..
Airbnb
no protege a sus huéspedes de las cámaras ocultas: esto es lo que
revela una investigación
How banning Airbnbs can
decrease rent in your city
Nov
8, 2023
..The
crackdown
was a turning point. Despite legal challenges and histrionics from
landlords, the city had all but vanquished short-term rentals. The
thinking behind the move was fairly simple:
New York City, where the average studio apartment costs
$3,016 a month, is the epicenter of the country's sweeping
affordable-housing crisis. By turning Airbnbs back into long-term
housing, people will have more places to lay their heads and
landlords will have more competition. In theory, this should make
housing in the city more affordable. ..
Impacto Económico Matutino | Mundo mercado inmobiliario en crisis
( Airbnb , Grecia,
China )
✔ Contrast vid above with → Arnie Arnesen
8-29-24; China demographics, immigration, racism
Aprueban el aumento de la renta estabilizada en la Ciudad de Nueva
York
18 de junio 2024
La junta de la Ciudad de Nueva York votó a favor de aumentar los
alquileres en un 2.75% en arrendamientos de un año y un 5.25% en
arrendamientos de dos años.
Home prices rose for the fifth
straight month in June
August
29, 2023
..Cities
with the most price appreciation in June, year over year, were
Chicago, up 4.2%; Cleveland, up 4.1%; and New York, up 3.4%. The same
three cities also saw the most appreciation in May.. ..The
report showed the power of historically low inventory on home prices,
which maintained strength despite ongoing affordability challenges,
said Hannah Jones, economic data analyst at Realtor.com. Low
inventory is pushing prices higher because so few homeowners want to
sell their home and give up their ultra-low mortgage rate of 3% or 4%
to buy another home at 6% or 7%... ..Limited
home inventory, still-high prices and elevated mortgage rates meant
that both new and existing
home sales fell in June, though new
home sales remained well above the previous year’s level,”
said Jones…
Home
building sank in August amid crushing mortgage rates
September
19, 2023
..It
was the lowest level since June 2020.. ..But, looking
ahead, builders are still requesting permits for new residential
construction.. ..Permits were still 2.7% lower than a year
ago..
Leonard
Lopate 4-16-24; Victoria Newhouse, Margery Perlmutter- housing &
inequality
(1 hour podcast )
Where
home prices are most overvalued in the U.S.
May 14, 2024
Denmark
made home buying easier. America should follow its lead
May 29, 2024
How Trump's business in New
York could be affected by fraud ruling
Who is
Jared Bernstein, new chief White House economist?
Feb 14, 2023
.. where Republicans are expected to grill him over inflation
and Biden's proposed billionaire tax. Bernstein, who played the
double bass in jazz bands and worked as a social worker in New York
City, has long been a voice for progressive economic policy. He
served in the Labor Department under former President Bill Clinton
and then as Biden's chief economist when he was vice president. At
the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, he wrote and
testified to Congress extensively on the shrinking U.S. middle class,
a bedrock Biden theme. .. .. U.S. business groups worry
that Bernstein's labor ties and anti-free trade stance could hamper
efforts to bolster trade ties with other countries. "He
represents the status quo which is not to have a robust trade
promotion agenda or more free trade agreements," said Doug
Barry, former spokesman for the U.S.-China Business Council.
‘Finding
the money’,
the
documentary
that
has
DC power
brokers
on
edge
September
shake-up: Bitcoin's dip & what's next for crypto | insights &
predictions
✔ H’m, there’s much to cover here and not easy to given all the
technical & historical complexities which can take a lot of time.
I’m in agreement with Casey on some and not on others. For
example, at 9:38 she equates Argentina’s inflation (there’s been
different periods) to that of Venezuela’s. It’s a false
comparison given that in Venezuela (especially after Chavez passed
away in 2013) many merchants & importers speculated & hoarded
merchandise despite receiving dollars from the central bank for
imports. Similar thing happened when Salvador Allende’s government
was overthrown in 1973 with backing from the CIA. Venezuela’s
inflation right now has fallen dramatically and it has one of the
fastest rising economies. Argentina on the hand with the libertarian
darling Javier Milei, has the highest inflation in the world, mass
poverty, but he’s loved by the U.S. !
At 11:13 she correctly states is a system of control, likewise at
12:30 that the financial system is a rigged game, yet at 12:49
states that politics is a distraction, a fugazi (slang term for
fakery), all propaganda… Of course, much in politics is smoke &
mirrors, but so is finance & trading. It’s no wonder then that
the big boys spend a lot of moola in lobbying (influencing
legislation). At 11:14 she says taxation is theft, but fails to
differentiate between regressive taxation (payroll taxes, sales
taxes, etc) & progressive taxation (sales tax on luxury goods,
inheritance tax, etc ). For example, notable economists as Thomas
Piketty & Robert H. Frank have pointed out that decreased
progressiveness in U.S. tax policy after World War II has increased
income inequality. Another thing, I don’t believe the Federal
Reserve system by itself is the reason for the economic distress, far
from it, many factors at play. Way before its creation in 1913,
there were many bank & stock market crashes, such as the Panic of
1907 which convinced many for the need to establish a central banking
system. Many like Casey are against capital controls, but the
creation of the Federal Reserve gave it control to regulate
inflation, though far from ideal… It also facilitated the
internationalization of the U.S. dollar as a global currency…
Internally, it also permitted national banks to make mortgage loans
for farm land, which had not been permitted prior.
In what I most agree with Casey and others of similar persuasion
is that the U.S. dollar it’s in for a rocky road. Again, due to
many motives, principally perhaps for weaponizing its global currency
to blackmail others to do its bidding. I’ll cite one example :
Venezuela is due to join the BRICS this year, which is why Uncle Sam
in a race against history is playing hardball to delegitimize the
Venezuelan government. Venezuela by the way has the largest proven
oil reserves in the world, alongside MANY minerals NEEDED for
industry. The BRICS members are dumping each time more of the U.S.
dollar, and creating separate banking infrastructures which are not
the West-dominated SWIFT. ✌️ ◺
Se
cumplen 3 años desde cuando el gobierno salvadoreño adoptó el
Bitcoin como moneda de curso legal
En el Salvador este mes se cumplen 3 años que el gobierno
salvadoreño adoptó el Bitcoin como moneda de curso legal, la
apuesta del gobierno de que la criptomoneda mejoraría la economía
de los salvadoreños parece que no se cumplió, a la par del dólar.
Las expectativas parecen haberse desvanecido, ya que hoy en día el
uso de la criptomoneda es mínimo.
George
Yeo - U.S. dollar hegemony pushes the world to find an alternative
Some
of America's richest people are just not paying their taxes — and
millionaires alone could owe up to $34 billion
Oct
4, 2023
The
average American taxpayer pays $16,615
in income taxes annually — but for some of the wealthiest
Americans, that number is zero. That's because they're simply not
paying up.
IRS
data requested and released
by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the chair of the Senate Committee on
Finance, shows that over 10,000 high earners making at least $200,000
a year owed at least $100,000 each in unfiled taxes going back to tax
year 2017…
(notice
“smoke from tower” cloud formation at left.. ), 9-19-23 ↓ Haven't been in this area in years...
1
Centre Street building, vaults, 9-19-23
From
Warren St. & Church St., looking
to
“Jenga
stack” "blue-blend" building
in background
(56
Leonard st. ), 9-19-23
◺
56
Leonard Street
(known colloquially as the Jenga
Building[2]
or Jenga
Tower[3]
) is an 821 ft-tall (250 m), 57-story[1]
skyscraper on Leonard
Street in the neighborhood of Tribeca
in Manhattan,
New York City.
The building was designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog
& de Meuron, which describes the building as "houses
stacked in the sky."[4]
It is the tallest structure in Tribeca.[5]
…
Demystifying jury duty answers
to common questions about serving in New York State courts
February
24, 2024
..
individuals with felony convictions are generally
disqualified from serving on a jury. However, this ban has been
challenged by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which argues that
it disproportionately affects Black residents and violates the
Constitution. ..
Lo que vas a descubrir hoy
hará
cambiar tu vida
https://youtu.be/7lVhuuFUQhU ,05-02-23
The
secret habits that control your life- Wendy Wood
https://youtu.be/Ywec1MbeQDk ,5-26-22
2023 credit card debt statistics
July 17th,
2023
Fewer jobs than expected added
to U.S. economy in June
https://youtu.be/3nYJcIwkpHQ ,7-08-23
Economy to see
negative
impact
after
SCOTUS strikes
down
student-debt
relief
Jun
30, 2023
..With
inflation still historically high, many experts are worried that a
spending slowdown could portend a broader economic slowdown and
possible recession..
What the end of Biden's student
debt relief plan means for the wider economy
June
30, 2023
As
millions of borrowers start making payments again, that money will be
directed away from consumer goods, and retailers could see sales cut
by as much as 2%, economists say…
What
Supreme Court ruling against Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan
could mean for the U.S. economy
Jun
30, 2023
..For
example, more than 40 million Americans have student loan debt, while
about 287 million do not, said Tim Quinlan, senior economist at Wells
Fargo Economics..As
recession threatens, Supreme Court student loan forgiveness ruling
may hurt the economy
June
30, 2023 ..Under
Biden’s blueprint, about 26 million Americans would have had more
than $400 billion in student debt wiped out. Some borrowers would
have seen up to $20,000 of their obligations erased..
Biden admin to wipeout billions in student loans
https://youtu.be/3YrVZNNVl0I ,7-15-23
Biden
cancels $9B in student loan debt; other borrowers struggle to reach
loan servicers
2023 student loan debt statistics; average student loan debt
Jul 16, 2023
U.S.
national debt hits $33 trillion for the first time
Sep
19 2023
The
US economy grew at a blistering rate despite high interest rates
October
26, 2023
..The
US economy’s strength isn’t expected to continue, as it faces a
number of headwinds, including soaring
bond yields and the
resumption of student loan repayments. .. ..Fed
Chair Jerome Powell has said the US central bank needs to see
“below-trend growth” to be assured that inflation is on track to
slow to 2%, the Fed’s inflation target, since red-hot demand could
be putting some upward pressure on prices. .. ..In addition to
the resumption of student loan repayments this month and soaring
yields, the United States is also dealing with trillions of dollars
in federal debt, two ongoing wars, and the possibility of a
government shutdown next month. …
Bankruptcies
on
the
rise
following
end
of
COVID relief
measures
and
high-interest
rates
Dec.
18, 2023
✔
Wheeler
Av. (Amadou
Diallo Place)
& Westchester Av., The
Bronx, 9-12-23 ◺
Refrán:
“Árbol
que crece torcido, su tronco
jamás
se endereza.”
Child
poverty in the US jumped and income declined in 2022 as coronavirus
pandemic benefits ended
September
12, 2023
..In
a statement, President Joe Biden blamed congressional Republicans for
failing to extend the enhanced child tax credit and vowed to restore
it.. ..Opponents objected to extending the credit out of
concern that the money would discourage people from working and that
any additional federal spending would fuel inflation, which climbed
to a 40-year
high...
Why pharmacy workers are going
on strike amid widespread store closures
Why
U.S. hospitals
are
closing
at
an
alarming
rate
Infant mortality rate
increases 3% in 2022, rising for 1st time in 2 decades: CDC
November
1, 2023
Why
the rate of single men in the US looking for dates has declined
Oct
17, 2023
Have Republicans lost their
last grip on reality?
2:00
– 2:42
“..the Putin faction..wants America to resemble Hungary, Russia..
Russian
trolls
and propaganda..” 5:45
– 6:42
“..the Putinification of the Republican party.. do
away with social welfare state of America.. social
media is the weapon Putin is using..”
✔
Russia
is able to outspend the West in social media Tom? Really ?
Haven’t
you said
the U.S. has enough moolah to budget
both the war in Ukraine and equip
Israel? With
enough wiggle room also to stir up a splendid little war on China
with Taiwan one can add...
◺
7:40 “..Republicans are taking money from the gun industry..” ✔ Are
those Russki
or Amerikun
guns Tommy? ◺
9:40
– 11:01 “..U.S.
Supreme
Court in
2010 voting
to decriminalize bribery of politicians (Citizens
United).. the
deciding vote in that was Clarence Thomas..” ✔ Hey
THC
don’t
be hating,
perhaps Clarence is a fun party animal to be around.. Toga toga ! TomTom
plays
the blame Putin card for
all evils but
then
points the finger at
the “Reagan revolution” 7:53
– 8:10
…
◺
The
dark roots of modern conservatism
✔ I commented the following in Majority Report's YouTube post, the moderator did permit it :
No
no no, you’re
both
wrong,
the
dark roots of modern U.S. conservatism are Putin / Orbán.
They’re an evil time traveling organizing
duo
! Wait,
or is it the other way around?...
🎶 I’m
a Bircher we’re
Birchers,
wouldn’t
you like to be a belcher too ? 🎵
In
April 1947, Joseph Stalin told visiting U.S.
Republican
politician Harold Stassen that
he and Franklin Roosevelt never indulged in the name-calling game of
“totalitarians” v. “monopoly capitalists.”.. Conservative
historian
Paul Kengor wrote
in
Dupes:
How America’s adversaries have manipulated progressives for a
century : “..FDR’s
appraisal of Stalin was one of the most naïve assessments
of any major foreign leader in the history of the American
presidency...”
◺
¿The
great demise of American democracy
✔ 2:34
On
the issue of “oligarchic” Russian-”state run” media spewing
out fake news versus the West’s “democratic marketplace of
ideas”,
Thom
yomps
muddying the waters. This
is why:
Some
years ago he hosted a program on Russian media called “The big
picture with Thom Hartmann”. It aired in YouTube, cable, satellite,
from the RT
America news network... Thom
co-produced the program, retaining full editorial control of
programming, and RT provided studio and carriage. Hosted it for 7
years until
9/29/17. RT
network
by
that time had been dropped
or close to, by various providers at the behest
of the U.S. federal government. Ukraine,
Europe, also followed suit banning RT coverage. Microsoft removed
it
from their
app store in 2022. RT
had the largest viewership in YouTube…
So
what was Thom doing in RT if he vehemently
disagrees
with the Kremlin? He wasn’t censored by it. Isn’t
it
two-faced
in his part? Was
he duped
into being a
“useful idiot” by
conniving “KGB boss” Vlad' Putin?
3:20 He considers the public broadcasting in the U.S. as largely
independent of the government, while
in Russia and Hungary as not being the case… The media in the
U.S. actually is divided between two capitalist factions, the
neoliberal and the neoconservative, each self-serving depending on
domestic & international issues.
See the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in the U.S...
Fascism
in the U.S. & Europe is home-grown, not imported from lower-GDP Putin’s
Russia or Orbán's-NATO-Hungary...; but
Thomas is frightened to recognize that Western social democracy
has
failed to rein in the oppressive forces of capitalism, which instead
it fosters...
◺
Political violence gaining steam in America...on BOTH sides of the aisle
Will
the GOP cause
WWIII? Not all
of the drumbeats
are
coming
from
outside
the building
✔ THC
puts forth ◺ : 0:08 – 0:19 “..basically 2 groups working
really hard to devastate the United States’ gov’t..”
✔ OK, let’s
pass on the super-wealthy for now (they always have), and move on to
his second group… ◺
2:00 – 7:50 “..on top of that you got Putin, and Xi, and MBS in Saudi Arabia…
Hamas now.. interested in tearing down the United States..”
✔ Whew, THC can
at times even give the likes of Sean Hannity a run for their money in
neo-xeno-McCarthyite
reactionism ! Insists in the fifth
column foreign
influence. How
much does AIPAC or Israeli lobbying is spent in U.S. politics Tomás?
Not too long ago U.S.
relations with Saudi Arabia and Turkey were, let’s say diplomatic,
and I’d bet THC
didn’t
fret or J'Accuse...! cuz both
went along more or less with U.S. foreign policy… The
argument can additionally
be made that Europe’s military & economic security has been
undermined by the U.S. negative influence over the old
country, case in point
war in Ukraine &
cheap, reliable energy from Russia & chips from China, abandonment of
Iran nuclear deal framework
(JCPOA) of
2015... ◺
While
at the same time provoking China - MEP Clare Daly
✔ So, by Thom
Hartmann’s sequiturs in previous videos, then Dublin’s MEP
Clare Daly is another one of Putin's sock puppets… A destabilizing force
against empire! ◺
Why
the left
supports
Palestine | Victor Davis Hanson
✔ Behind all their bluster, U.S. conservatives (republicans) & liberals (democrats) are more alike than dissimilar... ◺
Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez calls AIPAC ‘racist and bigoted’
November
1, 2023
Ritchie
Torres vs. the NYC DSA: Bronx congress member battles with leftists
angry over his support of Israel
October
30, 2023
..Torres
also slammed the New York City chapter of the
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) the day after when the
left-wing organization promoted
a pro-Palestine rally in Midtown. ..
Ben Shapiro SLAMS Tucker
Carlson over anti-war stance on Israel-Palestine, SIDING WITH THE
LEFT
Tucker Carlson, Theo Von
DESTROY America Second Speaker Mike Johnson over Israel aid gift
↓ Reportaje en el noticiero ruso, Vesti Nedeli, sobre eventos en Gaza, 11-11-23
Tulsi
Gabbard: This should be disturbing to all Americans
Tulsi Gabbard recaps the historic pro-Israel rally in Washington, D.C. and discusses the anti-Israel sentiment from some members of her former party.
✔ “Hindutva”,
ex-Democratic U.S. House of Rep. member, Tulsi
Gabbard,
like
so
many U.S. politicians, unsurprisingly flip-flops
to the highest bidder (opportunists
when not extremists).
Poses
as favourable to Russia.., but
consistently anti-China, and anti-Muslim… If you wanna rattle her
noodles,
in a dichotomy 🤪 , ask her if she
supported China
then in “repressing” the Uyghur
(Sunni
Muslims) minority population in Xinjiang who
engaged in terrorist activities (i.e.
ETIM
group backed by the West )…
◺
0:41 “..standing up to antisemitism..”
1:55 “..the feeling in the air was one of hope, of love..and
freedom..”
2:05 “..the contrast between that versus the violent mob of
pro-Hamas protesters..”
3:27 “..there’s a group of people within Congress who are
blatantly..Islamist terrorist apologists..”
✔ Hope
and freedom that the Palestinians are denied by Western-backed
Zionism for
DECADES.
The police & corporate media in the U.S. & Europe have
rather acted to say the least, scornfully, towards peaceful
pro-Palestine rallies (which includes many Jews attending &
organizing).
Most
of the protests, absolute majority, worldwide, are pro-Palestine!
Why? Because settler
Israel
has lost the facade, the moral high ground it never really had
(public
relations built).
The
violence & racism against Jews throughout history came at the
hands of Christians, Europeans, not Muslims… Tulsi
no
doubt
is in favour
of a McCarthyite witch-hunt against Muslim members or
supporters in
Congress.
Why
isn’t murderously suicidal ISIS / ISIL / Daesh / Qaeda / Takfiris then rallying behind
“their
Palestinian
brethren”
and
attacking Israel ? ... 💡 ◺
Mehdi
Hasan on genocide
in Gaza, the silencing
of Palestinian voices
in U.S. media
& Trump's fascism
10:46
– 10:59 ✔ Ms.
Goodman,
in MSNBC and in CNN (even
in Democracy Now!..) you also rarely see any Russian, Syrian,
Iranian, Venezuelan, Cuban, North Korean, in extended discussions in
behalf
of their respected countries… ◺
22:00
– 22:35 Arab
and Muslim world’s response to Israel..
23:24
–
24:46 “..Hypocrisy
of
Saudi Arabia and UAE in their brutal assault on
Yemen, and
of course Iran who sets itself as a champion of the Palestinian
people, when
Bashar al-Assad was killing
many of his own people, including Palestinian refugees, Iran
and Russia were perfectly happy to arm and support Assad as he did
that..”
Irán ofrece ayuda humanitaria a refugiados palestinos en Siria
Irán y Siria organizan actividades en apoyo a la causa Palestina en
el Día Mundial del Al-Quds
Palestina y Siria conmemoran el Día Mundial de Al-Quds
Siria anunció nuevos ataques del régimen israelí a sus bases
militares
✔ Pretty
much I agree with Mehdi and the Democracy
Now! hosts’ opinions, but not
when it comes to Russia and Ukraine, Syria, Iran.. and the reason,
as Mehdi himself mentions,
is the importance of context 7:27
– 9:39,
29:20
– 30:35.
The
U.S. & European “left” if I may say, have a certain
patronizing streak when it comes to naming who’s progressive or
democratic. Most
of the world’s population do not see Russia as the aggressor, but
that Western “left” dismisses that… If
the Ba'athist party would’ve been overthrown in Syria by the
so-called Arab
Spring revolutions,
does
Mehdi really think an Eden would've replaced it ?
The
so-called peaceful opposition are (were) nothing more than Salafi jihadists,
yes sponsored by Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar,
Turkey, and Israel. The predecessors to the ones backed by the U.S.
against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Mehdi
can’t seem to muster the courage or honesty to inquire or say
publicly, why does Israel constantly attacks Syrian territory? Why
doesn’t ISIS ever attack Israel and vice versa? If
Mehdi rightfully condemns Israel for its barbarism, why is it so hard
for him to connect that the Zionist regime fully backs Ukraine in its
war against Donbass and Russia?… If
Mehdi really believes Syria and Iran are equally hypocritical and
criminal as Israel, then he presumably agrees 100% with Western
sanctions against both countries! If
the U.S. is on the wrong side of history when it comes to the Israeli
& Palestinian question, what then makes Hasan
believe the U.S. & Europe are 100%
correct
when it comes to Ukraine against Russia ? Or
on the Venezuelan or Cuban issues?
Anyways,
that’s how I see the Western “democratic
left”
on
foreign
policy..., it
is
not fully consistent, it’s
selective in the geopolitical puzzle. That lack of clarity negatively
interferes in coalescing forces for broader
political
changes. ◺
27:15
- 27:33 “..when Evan Gershkovich from the Wall
Street Journal is wrongly imprisoned in Russia, we all campaign for Evan
to be released. When
Ukrainian journalists are killed, we
all speak out and are angry about it, but
when Palestinian journalists are killed in a level we’ve never seen
before..where is the outcry here in the West?..”
✔ Again,
just because Evan was arrested for spying in Russia, why does Mehdi
must assume that he’s innocent ? He
wouldn’t feel the same way if it was vice versa. Evan’s
parents are Jewish immigrants who settled in the U.S. after leaving
the Soviet Union via the U.S.
Refugee Resettlement Program in the 1970’s... Mehdi
Hasan certainly must be familiar with Operation Mockingbird.. and
/ or the movie “Argo”
(2012)... "Funny" how Hasan and others of his profession in the West, in the same context don't denounce the U.S. government's persecution of publicist Julian Assange, nor the death & torture of U.S. citizen / journalist Gonzalo Lira in an Ukrainian dungeon ! ◺
Periodistas extranjeros ingresan a Kursk ilegalmente
Cuatro personas fueron declaradas culpables del atentado en el Crocus
City Hall - Moscú
Leonard
Lopate 4-19-24; Batya Ungar Sargon- class divide in the U.S., foreign
policy
(1 hour podcast)
✔
I disagree on key issues with
both.. I'll see if in social media as X (Twitter) I can reach
either... ◺
Op-Ed
TV 8-29-23; rise of right-wing extremism
White
House calls on Republicans to act on gun control after Fourth of July
weekend killings – as it happened
5
Jul
2023
“..Popular education should be
the paramount care of the paternal love of Congress. Morals
and enlightenment are the
poles of a republic; morals
and enlightenment are our prime necessities..” - Simón
Bolívar,
address at Congress of Angostura, February 15th,
1819.
"..La educación popular debe ser el cuidado primogénito del amor
paternal del Congreso. Moral y luces son los polos de una República,
moral y luces son nuestras primeras necesidades.."
- Discurso de Simón
Bolívar
ante el Congreso de
Angostura, 15
de febrero de 1819.
✔ Anteayer, 20-7-24, colgué
el enlace siguiente en WhatsApp
a un vídeo
↓ ◺
¿Cómo se vive la islamofobia en Latinoamérica y España?
✔ El mismo día
me responde un integrante del grupo llamado Pereyra diciendo así ↓ ◺
Porque las mujeres en los paises musulmanes las obligan a estar vestidas igual a 1400 años atrás?
Porque los musulmanes a los que no son de su religión les llaman infieles?
Porque en los paises musulmanes no tienen libertad de elegir a cualquier persona?
✔ Al día siguiente, 21-7-24, le respondo de la siguiente manera ↓ ◺
Bueno, l@s
musulmanes defienden su
cultura e historia mejor que yo podría
hacerlo, pero haré
unos apuntes. El
hiyab,
el
nicab, el
burka,
vestimentas
de mujeres, sus
diseños
o
símbolos
en este caso, no son
universales
para todos los países
de mayoría
musulmana, que
no todos son árabes!
El
hiyab
es
usado
por las mujeres en
presencia de personas que no son
de su familia inmediata. Se
podría
decir en términos
occidentales que una mujer no se vestiría
de la misma manera frente a su esposo que delante de su papá o
hermano… En
el judaísmo
(entre
sectas), hay leyes y
tradiciones de vestimentas para hombres y mujeres… Pues
sí
chicharronero, costumbres
alimentarias y días
religiosos donde no se
trabaja...
El Corán
aconseja a que los hombres bajen su mirada hacia las mujeres que no
sean de su familia.. pero
en sí no
tiene requisito que las mujeres se cubran el rostro con un velo o
cubran sus cuerpos completos (Sura
An-Núr
24:31)...
El
chador usado en Irán
se generalizó como prenda común desde el siglo 18... En 1936 el
monarca Reza Shah lo prohibió en su política
forzosa
por occidentalizar el país...
¿Cuántos
casos de pedofilia no han ocultado las jerarquías
eclesiásticas
?
El
cristianismo es la mayor religión
en el mundo, el Islam segunda
y
avanza más.
Saltan
varias preguntas y hay que reflexionar con honestidad, paciencia,
voluntad.
Occidente
da lecciones pomposas de civilidad entre géneros,
pero vemos que en la vida
social deja mucho que desear : la
disparidad en ingresos y oportunidades, los
feminicidios, las
violaciones sexuales, prostitución,
en promedio desaparecen
cada día
2,300
niños
en U$A.. Un desastre
político.
La tal “liberación
de las mujeres” en Occidente (bikinis, cosméticos,
“concursos de belleza”, “cirugías
cosméticas”,
etc) ha sido otro mecanismo de lucro o explotación,
al promover
complejos de inferioridad o
superioridad. La
mentalidad mercader y
politiquera occidental
padece bipolaridad, antes llamaban bárbaros
a sociedades que usaban poca vestimenta, y luego tacharon a otras de
reprimidas! Sin ni
siquiera tomar en cuenta los climas distintos
o el uso de la
energía…
Varios parlamentos
europeos han aprobado leyes prohibiendo vestimentas musulmanas en
espacios públicos!
Entonces amig@s, ¿dónde
queda relegada la
libertad de credo tan
ufanada por Occidente, y cuando ladraba
en podio
contra
la “atea” URSS ? Hay
que rescatar la memoria, la
conciencia.
En Irán,
las mujeres
superan a los hombres en matriculación a la universidad... Según
la UNESCO, en
2020
solamente
un 18% de las universidades públicas de América Latina tienen
mujeres rectoras.. Según la Asociación Europea de Universidades,
en
2020, solo
el
15%
de los rectores de las universidades miembros de 48 países eran
mujeres, frente a un 85% de hombres.. Si
el Islam es tan retrógrado
en comparación
a “la modernidad”, ¿cómo
es entonces que prohibe la usura (la riba) ? Me
imagino que aquí
en el foro tod@s sabemos que en países
musulmanes hubieron descubrimientos importantes en astronomía,
la arquitectura, el álgebra,
la cirugía,
el café, etc. Cuando
la Europa cristiana estaba sumida en el oscurantismo, paralelo
a la Reconquista, en
Ándalus-península
ibérica, había una era dorada, varias
creencias
convivían.
Incluso el árabe
influyó mucho en el
idioma español
(arabismos),
especialmente en el léxico.. En
Malula (localidad
en Damasco-Siria),
aún se habla
la lengua del tiempo
de
Cristo en
Palestina, el
arameo. Entre las dos
últimas poblaciones que lo hablan.
Pereira,
gallego, usted
alega que en el mundo musulmán
no tienen libertad de elegir a cualquier persona
(claro claro, como en Occidente cualquier zapatero, campesino,
fritero,
puede hacerlo) ; pero si tomamos a Siria, Bashar
Ásad, el presidente, es alauita.
Los
alauitas son una rama del chiismo, y en Siria componen el 12% de la
población.
Los
cristianos representan el 10%.
La elite occidental lucha contra
el Islam, o contra ciertos países
de orientación
antiimperialista / antisionista, no por un amor a la libertad o al
progreso, sino utiliza tal dogma oportunista para desalentar
poblaciones, dividir,
y cambiar régimenes.
Creó,
financió,
amamantó,
grupos salafistas, yihadistas, al-Qaeda, ISIS, etc, contra Yugoslavia
en los 1990’s, los
Contras
en Nicaragua en los 1980’s,
etc. Hordas
que han destruido patrimonios anteriores
y posteriores al Islam, y
en su MAYORÍA
asesinado a otros
musulmanes! Extraño
eh, tan suicidas pero nunca atacan a Israel ni
Israel a ellos… Libia
cuando Gadafi tenía
el mayor estándar de vida en África.. pero le importó
eso a la OTAN
para invadirla y emplear
mercenarios? En la
Siria baazista, de rumbo
socialista, panárabe, se
pueden ver mujeres sin
usar el hiyab,
igual cuando
Hussein en Irak, y no hay que ser genio para saber
cuál
postura tomó
Occidente hacia ellos..
La hipocresía
occidental no tiene fronteras, fíjense,
apoyaba la dictadura del Shah Pahleví en Irán,
la espantosa
policía
secreta (SAVAK), pero en tal tiempo supuestamente las mujeres eran
libres…
Le
aseguro almirante Piri
Reis 🗺️ , que los
musulmanes no llaman infieles a quienes no lo son… Todo
lo contrario, el Islam reconoce a otras religiones monoteístas..
El
verso coránico
(Sura
At-Tawba 9:5) es
tergiversado por intereses mezquinos, “maniqueos”,
de
la misma forma que ese cristianismo en otras épocas
fue usado para avasallar otras
civilizaciones.
El
adjetivo no es infiel sino idólatra. Sacado
fuera de contexto cuando Mahoma
y
seguidores eran perseguidos y
para evitar conflictos emigraron a Medina.
La
iglesia católica
después
del primer Concilio de Nicea, tachó
otras sectas
cristianas de herejías..
✔ Hasta hoy 22-7-24 no me ha respondido. ◺
✔ El 24 de julio 2024
coloco el siguiente enlace en ese grupo de WhatsApp y con el
comentario debajo
: ◺
La "novedosa” campaña electoral de Venezuela
La
Voz de América;
perdón,
de la CIA, creada
el 1 de febrero 1942,
comienza
maltrecha
: “..sin recursos..la
oposición..”
O sea, la
bachaquera maricori,
perteneciente a una de las familias más
ricas en Venezuela. Todo
eso que ella alega 0:19 es lo que precisamente ell@s,
de la oposición,
ordenada por el amo del Norte, hicieron, y peor, con las guarimbas en
Venezuela. 0:50
Inhabilitada por qué
VOA? En otro país
estuviera presa. 1:32
“..tú
no tienes campaña
donde no tienes acceso a medios..” Ahí
el caso de RCTV, el canal golpista del 2002 y evasora de impuestos!
1:50 No señores
del cuento, Maduro no miente, los monopolios mediáticos
no son imparciales sobre Venezuela y tantos otros asuntos. Redes
sociales frecuente
han
censurado mensajes
del gobierno bolivariano y cerrado cuentas de quienes discrepan con
esa línea
oficial derechista. Basta
con solo buscar en un motor de búsqueda para ver que los algoritmos
favorecen
resultados negativos al gobierno venezolano. Son
sicarios de destrucción
masiva. Llevan
una avalancha preparando el terreno de descrédito
porque saben su derrota electoral
es asegurada
el 28 de julio. Lloriquean dizque
por un bloqueo
a
una
docena
de páginas web en 🇻🇪 . En
otro vídeito
de la VOA por ejemplo veía
que dentro de
🇻🇪 bloqueaban acceso a talcualdigital.com/
y
a runrun.es/ ... Bueno,
ayer
y hoy decidí
probar.
Usé
una red privada virtual (RPV o VPN) con localización
en Venezuela... No tuve dificultad en ver tales pasquines. A
estos compulsivos no se les puede creer ni la hora.
✔ Al
día
siguiente me contesta el
mismito
Pereyra
con ◺ ↓
Si
Venezuela esta en tan buenas condiciones porque razon hay tantos
venezolanos en la RD?
✔ Ese
mismo día,
25-7-24, entonces
le
contesto así : ◺ ↓
Y
habrá
que ver qué
clases de venezolanos, clases sociales eh. ¿Por
qué
tantos dominicanos en Puerto Rico, en U$A ? Que Dios no quiera,
supieras las razones si alguna vez 🇺🇸 le impusiera un bloqueo
a nuestra querida RD.
✔ Ah
pero el señor
viene
con esta el
mismo día ◺ ↓
La
clase que he visto estan taxiando en carros y motoconcho hombres y
mujeres tambien en salones de belleza, camareras y camareros.
Parece
que tu vives en un pais que no es RD.
Una
pregunta
Si
tanto odias a los Estados Unidos que haces viviendo en New York?
✔ Para
acabar le dije
: ◺ ↓
Aunque sus inquisiciones
suelen tener sesgo, trataré de ponerle luz.
A ver :
Le
pregunté sobre la demografía venezolana porque hace meses hablaba
con un taxista, dominicano, de Santiago de
los Caballeros, creo que ha estado en EEUU desde inicio
de los 2000s. Él
le decía a otra persona que allá en RD se ven much@s
venezolanos en los medios de comunicación y que antes eso no se
veía… Pensé, que esos no son exactamente “proletarios”.
Bueno, pa’ no entrar en detalles engorrosos, casual le dije que
Maduro y el PSUV lideran las encuestas para ganar las elecciones el
28 de julio. No le dije que a pesar de la campaña informativa
tendenciosa contra el proceso bolivariano, de la migración
venezolana se han beneficidado varios países en la región. De su
fuerza de trabajo, capitales / inversiones, y sin duda para distraer
o culparlos de problemas sistémicos en
esos países.
Escudriñe
Pereyra, estos temas y otros, no se deje llevar solo por Radio Bemba.
Mire
otro dato, Petrocaribe beneficiaba a países de la cuenca caribeña,
y “sin embargo” EEUU lo torpedeó con sus medidas coercitivas
unilaterales, lo mismo con su sabotaje al Nord Stream 1-2 en
el mar Báltico…
Sigamos
“Quijotes”. ¿Siente usted Dom Pérignon la gana, la
xenofobia, el rencor, odio, hacia venezolanos en RD de la misma
manera que contra haitianos francófonos? Hay “burgueses”
haitianos con inversiones digamos en Punta Cana, etc. La mayoría
de haitianos en RD, con papeles y sin, o nacidos en RD, pueda que ni
apoyen lo poco que queda del gobierno haitiano.. A pesar de ello,
¿también les aconsejaría que se vayan ? En medios por
dominicanos es frecuente oír de una invasión haitiana (lleva más
de un siglo ya), su criminalidad rampante, madres pariendo en
hospitales públicas, amontonando escuelas (¿será un pretexto pa’
privatizar ? ) ; pero que yo sepa ninguno encaja que sin embargo, la
economía dominicana, o la macroeconomía, ha sido laudada de
pujante, por varios años… ¿Cómo es posible si los haitianos son
un lastre ? ¿Los apagones y falta de agua en RD es culpa de esa
migración haitiana, o le conviene a importadores de plantas
eléctricas y embotelladoras?
En
2003 el fraude y quiebra del banco Baninter, la del Banco Peravia en
2014 ¿quién fue? ¿Esos tricolores aman a su país, a la nación?
A no ser que tantas tierras, fincas, zonas francas, el parque CODEVI,
el Grupo M, polos turísticos, de construcción, entidades
internacionales, se benefician de la inestabilidad en Haití...
Cóntrale, ese vudú es fuerte mi hermano! ¿Quién le pone el
cascabel al gato?
En
el nativismo político de la gente MAGA (los de Trump), se oye la
misma retórica sobre una invasión por la frontera (aunque sus
antepasados también era inmigrantes o colonos) , pero sin embargo
la economía creció pospandemia, un desempleo bajo en términos
recientes, la inflación ha estado alta aunque bajó y no haya sido
la mayor históricamente. No me place inmiscuirme en la política
dominicana al no manejar de lleno su experiencia y anhelos. En
conversación con dominicanos aquí en U$A, incluso de quienes
albergan “críticas” más acérrimas hacia RD que las mías, y no
solo del gobierno eh, les he dicho que hay que tomar en cuenta la
dependencia, la carencia de soberanía, el entreguismo oligárquico,
que la corrupción en RD ha sido auspiciada por esas clases y el tío
$am.
Occidente
no le ha perdonado a Haití que haya sido la primera y única nación
de esclavos en liberarse. Tengo una hipótesis de que la ocupación
haitiana en RD 1822 tuvo su devenir debido a la deuda onerosa
impuesta por Francia a esa parte de la isla. Hoy la RD por sí sola
claro no puede resolver esa disyuntiva, por lo tanto Francia,
Canadá, U$A, deben desarrollar una clase de Plan Marshall. ¿Pero
en verdad ese ideal práctico pesa más que digamos intereses
crematísticos, de plusvalía ?
Teóricamente,
si uno pudiera conversar con tod@s los
venezolanos en RD u otro país, y ellos expusieran en contexto la
realidad en Venezuela y su entorno, usted
Pereyra los mandaría a empacar pa’ Venezuela si no concuerdan con
su posición política ? Cientos
de miles ya han regresado pero de ello no se oye en los medios
libre$.
A
gran
diferencia
de dominicanos
y otros emigrantes en U$A y otros países, sobre la emigración
cubana y venezolana
en particular, hay una industria del odio. ¿A qué me refiero ?
¿Exagero? En “redes sociales” hay influencers, en la TV
noticieros y
documentalistas
que viven de esa industria. Es
lo que esa directiva, financiada por el gobierno 🇺🇸 exige.
Arremeten contra sus países natales, apuestan a que la situación no
mejore, es
su chanchullo, su botella, sin tener que trabajar!
Tampoco
tiene que contestar.
Digamos
que usted esté en un cargo gubernamental, en U$A donde prefiere,
¿legislaría pa’ que expulsen del país, de las escuelas, de los
trabajos, a quienes protestaron y protestan contra sus guerras y las
de Israel ? ¿Se lanzaría espetándole al gringo de pura cepa, si
hubiese sobrevivido, quien le disparó a Trump, a que se largue no sé
a dónde ? Al taxista santiaguero le dije que U$A está dividido, y
cada mitad cree o piensa que la otra no quiere lo mejor para
“América”… No se debe confundir la crítica y praxis
constructiva hacia un gobierno, estado, sistema, con un odio
irreflexivo hacia la gente de a pie. En U$A hay una democracia
fallida, hasta lo admiten muchos gringos de buena fe. Fíjense, la
MAYORÍA de cubanos y otros en 🇺🇸 quieren un levantamiento
del bloqueo, pero no ocurre.. decide la minoría gusanera / mafiosa…
Una MAYORÍA en 🇺🇸 quiere una tasa tributaria más alta
para los ricos, mas no ocurre.. Una MAYORÍA desea una cobertura
médica pública y universal, tampoco pasa paisa.. Una MAYORÍA
quiere mayores regulaciones sobre la obtención de armas, y de alto
calibre, ¡qué va eso no deja dinero! Un montón de otras. Serán
apátridas ingratos y malnacidos. No se hacen realidad debido a
leyes cabilderas, procapitalistas, y con tentáculos internacionales,
no solo regionales.
Tengan
buen día tod@s. 🙏
2 Netflix shows that are
highly praised by psychologists
June
5, 2024
Viktor Frankl on why idealists are real realists,6-07-72
https://youtu.be/loay2imHq5E ,01-03-17
Remembering Pablo Yoruba Guzmán, Young Lords co-founder, Afro-Latino
leader, legendary journalist
,11-28-23
✔ In
a cold February 2003 saw
Pablo at
a anti-war protest, remembered
him
as a TV reporter. I didn’t tell him I knew who he was. I was with
my then-girlfriend, and asked him where the protest began, which he
pointed at and told us to be careful, something like that. She and me
afterwards
visited
St. Patrick’s cathedral
in the area, guarded outside
by
agents with assault rifles.. I looked at one of them and he nodded..
◺
Jon
Stewart on health care, pharma, and taxes.
August 29, 2023
Why
record heat can be much deadlier in prisons
09.10.2022
.. Corrections officials across most of the nation have not
prepared for warmer summers and record heat waves. .. ..
Many
prisons turn to the lowest tech heat solution: ice. In Missouri,
prisoners can get a pitcher of ice three times a day on hot days, but
only “if they have the means to purchase the larger container from
the commissary. Otherwise, they have a cup,” reports
the Kansas City Star. ..
Dr.
Eliades Acosta 06-12-23; Leo Strauss y el neoconservadurismo en EEUU.
Entre
41:32 – 50:28
Does
the U.S. execute people with mental illness ? It's complicated
April 11, 2017
.. Insanity can shield you from being put on trial, found
guilty or executed. But serious mental illness can’t. Dylann S.
Roof, who killed nine African-American churchgoers in Charleston,
S.C., in 2015, has been sentenced to death despite some
evidence of mental illness. .. .. Yes. The Supreme Court
has repeatedly declined to shield mentally ill people from the death
penalty, saying only that people who are insane cannot be executed.
.. .. Dylann S. Roof represented himself during the sentencing
phase of his trial and refused to allow the jury to hear evidence of
mental illness. He wrote in a journal that psychology was “a Jewish
invention.” Court
papers unsealed after the trial indicated that he had “social
anxiety disorder, a mixed substance abuse disorder, a schizoid
personality disorder, depression by history and a possible autistic
spectrum disorder.” .. .. Mr. Dunham argues that if Mr.
Roof had the delusional belief that mental illness did not exist, it
was a mistake to deem him capable of making rational decisions on
whether to present evidence of his condition, “because his views
about mental illness were themselves a product of his mental
illness.”
U.S.
exonerations hit a record high in 2022
05.20.2023
.. Today, a majority of Americans may not agree. In a series of recent
surveys that polled more than 12,000 people, law professors Brandon
Garrett and Gregory Mitchell found
that more than 60% of Americans “consider false acquittals and
false convictions to be equally bad outcomes,” and a “sizeable
minority” viewed wrongful acquittals as worse than wrongful
convictions. Mitchell and Garrett also found that in mock trials,
those more concerned about wrongful acquittals than wrongful
convictions were more than twice as likely to convict after viewing
the same evidence. ..
Massive psychology study
offers an unprecedented look into how personality and intelligence
intertwine
August 13, 2023
The magic of six degrees-
researchers prove there are just six degrees of separation in a
social network
August 20, 2023
Cognitive distancing appears
to enhance decision-making performance, new study reveals
Want to effortlessly boost
your memory, learning, and cognitive skills? Neuroscience says
embrace these 5 simple habits
August 25, 2023
New
study:
everyday
pleasures
can
boost
cognitive
performance
September
17, 2023
..That’s
a finding of a new NYU
Tandon School of Engineering study involving MINDWATCH, a
groundbreaking brain-monitoring technology..
Aug 25, 2023
Reasons to consider morning
sex
✔ Oh God another reminder.
◺
But beautiful (2021)- Samara Joy
,7-17-21
But beautiful (song)
One of five
songs written by Burke and Van Heusen featured in the Paramount
Pictures movie Road
to Rio (1947), it was introduced by Bing
Crosby[1]
and is also associated with his leading lady Dorothy
Lamour. The song was a hit in 1948 for Frank
Sinatra (reaching the No.14 spot), Bing Crosby (#20), Margaret
Whiting (#21) and Art
Lund (#25).[2]
..
The
hidden powers of everyday ritual
Dec 11, 2023
.. A “ritual” comes into being when ordinary behavior is
repeated until it begins to harden into recognizable action patterns
we call “routines.” Routines are efficient ways of getting jobs
done by creating sets of automated, repeatable actions. Routines
simplify our lives by offloading complex actions from working memory,
so we do them without much cognitive effort. Our morning grooming
routine gets us ready for the day. Our house-cleaning routines
simplify keeping our living spaces in order by turning a series of
actions into a semi-automatic action set. Routines are behavior on
automatic pilot. ..
