Economic Update: Marianne Williamson on US Politics
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
- [S12 E29] Marianne Williamson on US Politics
In this week's show, Prof. Wolff presents updates on the decline/fall of Boris Johnson and the parallels with Trump; the Sri Lanka collapse and its lessons; Match Corp secretly funding sides in "culture wars" to keep customers, and the latest from UK's Conservative party. In the second half of the show, Wolff talks with Marianne Williamson on the basic social divisions of US politics.
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About our Guest: Marianne Williamson is a bestselling author, political activist, and spiritual thought leader. Marianne is the author of 14 books, four of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers. Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit that has delivered more than 14 million meals to ill and dying homebound patients-including victims of HIV/AIDS-since 1989. In 2004, she co-founded The Peace Alliance. In 2020, she ran for the Democratic nomination for president and eventually withdrew in favor of Bernie Sanders.
Links: peacealliance.... www.angelfood....
IG: / mariannewilliamson
Twitter: @marwilliamson
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Professor Wolf, please remind your viewers that Puerto Rico has suffered the same fate as Sri Lanka. The Puerto Rican government borrowed money (public bonds), wasted the money on no-bid contracts and corruption, and then it defaulted on its bond debts. The consequence was massive cuts to public services for the Puerto Rican people.
They also did it all with the help of the United States. We all remember when US corporations based in Puerto Rico paid no federal income tax. Life seemed good for Puerto Ricans, until that tax break was taken away, but since the rich Americans always find a way to enrich themselves, even if it's morally and ethically bankrupt, they will grab the opportunity, and that's what's happening now.
Marianne Williamson is one of the great lights of the modern era and I'm glad you had her on!
I feel like we are entering a time like the end of Clive Barker's Imagica. That's the world I'm looking forward to .
Thanks, Richard, for giving us positives in this very dark time. Thanks to Marianne Williamson for injecting hope for the future. I'm 71 and I'm not worried for me. I'm worried for the little children being born in this mess of oligarchs taking over everything.
Thank you for Marianne's clarity of thought in her contribution to sense making. Life is about human beings and the integrity of human life. Corporations are not people and money does not vote
All the criticisms of Trump and Johnson In the beginning of the program can also be leveled at Obama as well.
It goes back to all the presidents of both countries for the past 50 to 60 years at least. They were all bought and payed for.
I agree that people’s consciousness is changing, but the ruling class will not give up their power so easily. The transition to a new world will not be peaceful.
it just might. When their own children disown them. Which they do, throughout history. We have not yet reached a critical mass needed for this peaceful transition. Peaceful transitions needed because the enemy is ruthless cunning and equipped to wipe us out if there's a way to do it that wont have blow back on themselves. So they need to be peacefully persuaded otherwise and outlived. There must be millions of ways to infiltrate and corrupt them if you want to and don't fear contamination of course.
@@jacpratt8608 Their children wouldn't disown them because they themselves thing they're the "good guys". I'd love if a peaceful transition existed, but it's never been done in history, as far as I know.
That is why we cant let it happen. By putting marianne out there.
Thank you Prof. Wolff, and Marianne Williamson... what a missed opportunity for our country - and what a sad sack of **** we have in the White House now. Thank you MW for staying in the public eye, still spelling it out for all of us.
It's time to get onboard and support Marianne's campaign! #Marianne2024
Thanks for having Marianne on! We need more voices like hers to be heard.
Thank you, Professor Wolfe and Ms. Williams, for your perfect deconstruction of toxic corporate authoritarianism and how it has led to a total lack of a decent life for the majority of Americans. If progressives are to take back the country, we must come together, understand how we got here so we can fight for change and win.
I wish Marianne realized that the democratic party is dead to so many of us. We tried that route, it failed! I know a lot of people who will never vote for the duopoly again.
She might join the Forward party since she and Andrew Yang were chummy.
@@donnathedead7554 Good one!
Until we can get ranked choice voting a 3rd party will always be a spoiler. This is the only way that I have seen for us to save democracy. We need the freedom to vote for who we want to.
Guenevere Schwien
Agreed!
I’m thinking that rather than a corporate backed Tea-Party GOP, the best way to elect a much larger block of Progressive Democrats, ranked-choice voting is the best hope. Other than than flooding progressives with cash which resulted in Sinema
@@GuenevereSchwien Spoiler to who though? If neither candidate is remotely decent, why vote for either? I'm basically a communist and even I would have voted for Trump if 3rd party was not an option. We could be done with him forever by now if he had won. Mostly I wasn't voting for Biden because he sucks and maybe the DNC would finally get it through their fat, stupid heads we aren't going to vote for someone terrible just because we have a big bad Trump to terrorize us.
She's incredibly articulate. I part from her regarding the Democratic Party. I see no utility in continuing to organize within its ranks. The progressives who have been elected in recent years all sold out. All the party does is fund-raise and give lip service to progressive values. We need a mass movement of civil disobedience bolstered by trade unionism and third-party electoral activity.
right. the jackasses are a dead end road.
Exactly! The elites' movement toward total technocratic control, in the form of social media censorship, massive collection of personal data, dissemination of propaganda, and so on, continues at a rapid pace. If we pause to fiddle with the Democratic Party the opportunity to act effectively will be gone, I believe. The best approach at this point is massive sustained demonstrations of civil disobedience, preferably remaining as nonviolent as the powers that be will allow.
If you could organize a general strike then you could control the Democratic Party too. There's no time for Greens or worse any other third party to grow now. It'll be secessions that define the future.
Are you fine with Republicans taking away the right to contraception, gay marriage, making unions illegal? Are you fine with them keeping weed illegal? Dems have a bill in the senate to legalize it. Dems have a bill in the senate called the PRO Act that would enshrine the right to unionize and make it easier to form one without fear of retaliation from your employer. They can't pass it because they need 52 senators instead of 50. There are some democrats who are basically Republicans, but only like 2 of the dem senators were against raising the minimum wage, providing guaranteed paid family leave, fighting climate change, lowering drug prices. I really really don't get why people are fine with letting Republicans win even after they've taken rights away and shown us they hate workers. You KNOW a 3rd party will never win. 3rd parties are not even on the ballot in all 50 states. If you don't know they can't win, you're way too online and need to touch grass. Most voters will never vote for a 3rd party, but many times we've had people vote for democrats that actually support Medicare for All and other good things. Saying you're done with democrats is resigning yourself to a christian fascist hellscape and to tell anyone that's not what you're doing is a bold-faced lie.
We need protests, demonstrations, riots, unionization, and strikes. We also need to vote democrat so that republicans don't take these rights away from us like Ron Desantis has already started doing in Florida.
@@crhu319 Regardless of the details, I think it will be chaos that defines the future.
FDR was greatly admired in Britain for a wisdom that transcended party politics, his personal courage and his sense of fair play. Hang in there, Marianne!
(From GREEN FIRE, UK) 🌈🦉
And, yes, "Neo-Liberalism" is a fancy name for a balloon that rises, filled with nothing but hot air, an hallucination induced by an advertising industry in the pay of the Corporations. ☠
We must get off the corporate party treadmill and stop giving them what they want. We need to support 3rd parties and should have done this years ago. I appreciate what MW is saying but she’s doing more harm by sticking to the corrupt duopoly. I wish she would run 3rd party cause she would have a chance to wake up “the blue no matter who” people with blinders.
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#DumpTheDuopoly #DemExit #RepExit #ThirdParty #BallotInitiative #Organize #Mobilize #DirectAction #MutualAid #GeneralStrike #NoWarButClassWar #DownWithTheRulingClass #Solidarity
Its a great thought but the blue no matter who people are just blue republican sheep and are incapable of thinking just like the republicans.
She might join the Forward party since she and Andrew Yang were chummy.
She may be taking a softer approach so she can run for the D ticket again.
So many people here are in a God bubble. Invisible crutch to rely on is to FALL.
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Just wait. More will be coming out of the woodwork as conditions deteriorate.
Been a big fan of Marianne's for decades. She's brave and not afraid to speak Truth to power. So glad to see 2 of my faves in discourse for Unity and democracy. 👍🇺🇸❤
Exceptional programming, enlightening content, superb analysis. Thank you for shinning a light of logic into this maddening void.
The Roe overturning has been the tipping point. Almost half the population now gets it, they can't just use hope anymore, it takes action.
If by action you mean hysterical gnashing of teeth and virtue signaling, then yeah.
I feel like the USA is in one of those late stages of Monopoly where two players have snatched most of the slots and the rest of the players are just hoping to get to to jail cards to avoid paying rent on any of the other overpriced slots for the next three turns
was throwing the board symbolic for revolution?
Capitalism is identical to Monopoly, Im not trying to get my self worried over this, Im moving my passive income from real estate to stock investment and its compounding faster than i imagined.
@@harlibassham8187 and yet every other monetary system thus far leads to even more poverty. quick one, do you do it yourself, I mean the stock investment diversification, we are on recession how is working out for you? if its possible i would like to double my passive income from my farm here in Portugal.
@@lisavartforlife2726 I'm not anti capitalism. Unfettered yes. No I don't do this myself, I tried however I lost part of my money , I work with a Pro Monroe Horcel I'm happy to share him with you, look him up on internet to verify before connecting.
As a borderline bitter millennial, I’m rooting for a crash of biblical proportions so maybe, just maybe we can afford buying homes. made a quick search on Monroe Horcel, good recommendation, I was at his conference before the corona break.
Thanks Professor Wolff for bringing us the wonderful humane Williamson, whom I support for president in 2024!
Me too. ❤❤❤❤❤
Marianne supported the war in Syria. Enough said.
She just supported the war in Ukraine too.
Did anyone else see this coming 40 years ago? I joined the workforce after discharge from the Marines in 1983 and this is exactly what I envisioned the U.S. becoming way back then. Is this a surprise to anyone?
Great show, with a wonderful guest...
Even though I think Marianne is one of the greatest thinkers of our time, I must disagree with her on one thing. She has identified what the democratic party no longer is, she's layed out the problems and has told us where the party is today. She has explained the consequences of working within the democratic party, and how it derails progressive action. I agree with every bit of that. But then she says that the democratic party can be corrected. I absolutely, whole heartedly do not believe an ounce of that idea. It's actually ridiculous to think that. The democratic party is completely owned, there's no way out. Furthermore, for many progressives, just the thought of the democratic party elicits such a vile disgust that the unwillingness to try to reform the party is too overwhelming for it to happen.
Agreed! The system is rotten, not just those who occupy it.
#DumpTheDuopoly #DemExit #RepExit #ThirdParty #BallotInitiative #Organize #Mobilize #DirectAction #MutualAid #GeneralStrike #NoWarButClassWar #DownWithTheRulingClass #Solidarity
The biggest problem I observe is that when delivering a message hardly ever the root of the problem is identified. The wealthy class is the one corrupting government and paying for the political system to work in their behalf. The political front parties and figures are only the expendable puppets of the puppeteers . Those puppeteers are never being made accountable. And never mentioned specifically as the source of the problems. This is class warfare not an establishment political game. The people doesn't comprehend the language of the left because the left needs to give a message with a proper language to be understood. A consistent language with a specific message.
@@1bouzouki Yes.
The peoples party then?
The solution is to 'primary' corp dems and get progressives elected as dems. I see this as the only short-term way. Once enough progressives get elected, they can form a third party.
I LOVE this person. RICHARD WOLFS understanding of life is profound. He has such understanding. Love, love, love him.
Marianne Williamson is a true inspiration in our very dark times.
Thank you. You are very smart and empathetic.
If us is so concerned about Taipei independent, why not return independent to Hawaii. U.S. needs to de-occupy the Hawaiian Islands, which it has been illegally occupying with no treaty of annexation. On January 16, 1893, United States troops invaded the Hawaiian Kingdom without just cause, which led to a conditional surrender by the Hawaiian Kingdom's executive monarch, Her Majesty Queen Lili'uokalani, the following day.
After living in Hawaii for 3 years I agree. The Hawaiian people hate us and for good reason.
Excellent!!
Marianne Williamson as US President would send a strong message of love and hope to the world.
It's just not her time. She'll just help djt.
Ugh. Williamson is one of the most counter-revolutionary figures I can think of. We needed systemic change yesterday, not in 50 years (best case scenario in this change the Democrats from the inside philosophy).
1. This idea has been tried for decades and the Democrats have actually moved further right.
2. There's no sign of actually battling by the handful of “good” Democrats people like Williamson say are on the right track (AOC, Bowman, even Bernie). They all happily keep voting for American imperialism, which is capitalism, which is destroying the world, bringing misery, & ushering in fascism.
^^THIS!
Dead right. In the UK, if you believe the Labour Party has had it's day as the representative party of the working-class, you are charged with ultra-leftism. Electoralism is finished now.
Love this Program! 💚
She explained plain and simple what's complicated for the majority to see. Dr Wolf and Ms Williamson Thanks .
♥️ PERFECTLY EXPLAINED & ARTICULATED
Wow Marianne, what an xcelent powerful summation in a nutshell! Couldn’t agree with you more. Here’s looking up to you for your dedicated and difficult work.
Thus far, she's got my vote!
Great guest this week. Thank you D@W.
🎵The Professor and Marianne 🎶…..sorry. I couldn’t not. I just love both these people!
It's very inspiring to see this.
Thanks, professor! Marianne takes clarity to a higher level- as do you!
I am not a Marxist, but I am pro-worker, and I love Richard Wolff's perspectives.
Speaking the language of Marx, whiile saying your not actually a Marxist. Curious
Thanks!
Fantastic show. MW was as clear and correct as a human can be.
"It is with great sadness that I must also conclude that my country has sunk to such political and moral depths that it is now an apartheid regime. It is time for the international community to recognise this reality as well."
Michael ben-yair, former attorney general of Israel
We should be careful quoting individuals that we don't know of (first hand) even if it helps to get our point across. This very well might be an accurate quote, but it's inappropriate to post it in this forum. It's not integrately relatable, there buddy 😒
She just can’t quit her democratic party ex-boyfriend.
He’s just not into you Marianne…
Her intellectual limitation doesn’t understand that capitalism is the real root of the problem.
This household would vote for her in a heartbeat BUT it is highly unlikely that change can be achieved by peaceful means alone. Anybody with just a modicum of global history knows that it usually takes two factions: One committed to peaceful change, the other committed to violence.
Yeah I think she needs to read up more on geopolitics. I was pretty shocked at the start of the Ukrainian conflict when she advocated for more weapons to be sent to Ukraine. She's ignorant when it comes to the extent of the Military Industrial Complex and CIA involvement in countries around the world. Capitalism is at the heart of these issues.
Actually she’s a multimillionaire with celebrity friends so the Dem party is made for people like her
Another really (really) outstanding segment. Once again, Williamson's courageous voice is so valuable. She gets it.
Marianne Williamson. You will lose. Why, you do not understand language. because you use incorrect language, you give these criminals permission to continue business as usual.
She's a sheepdog for the DNC. If she really cared, she'd be working on rank code voting and supporting a third party.
#DumpTheDuopoly #DemExit #RepExit #ThirdParty #BallotInitiative #Organize #Mobilize #DirectAction #MutualAid #GeneralStrike #NoWarButClassWar #DownWithTheRulingClass #Solidarity
Thanks for the great, informative interview. What will bring about the necessary changes in the west? Aside from the awareness of the need for major changes, a total collapse of the corrupt, u.s. owned economic system will do the trick. From the ashes, we'll build a new system - truly by and for the people.
Williamson is one of the main people i think progressives should glom the most onto so primary isn't too crowded. Let's work together
I glom with you.
Love listening to Marianne!
I understand I'm outside the mainstream commenters here... I know that Professor Wolff is critical of the Soviet Union, as he should be. But, while speaking to a Marxist, she compares communism and Nazism? It's almost like she's trying to distance herself from the interview to avoid future, right wing attacks. That, and her spiritualism is scary.
Her direct interview with him, which was far longer, makes that perfectly clear. She
got 12 minutes as a quid pro quo, and even while he attempted to steer her away
from their "differences"...she managed to cast doubt. ( not that any of this will
actually make any difference to this echo chamber who aren't capable of understanding
any distinctions and have no clue what any of the words mean. )
Good point! thanks: I didn't catch that at first.
"We are rapidly approaching an era where people vs government becomes a worldwide phenomenon." ~ John McAfee
Who do governments serve?
What do they do to serve?
I don't think your probing deep enough with this question
that's libertarian--enough said.
Unfortunately, gov't is not the problem and the public is ignorant to that fact. The system is the problem.
@@egbutler114 who creates the system? the people work in government with their policies... who sets the policies? The elites that own corporations...
We will have a progressive helpful president.
Love Marianne Williamson!
Marianne is omitting major destructive American forces such as maniacal religion and blind patriotism in her calculations. It's not just about neoliberal policies (she should have defined that term, because even political scientists don't agree on it.) U.S. decline is also a function of hyper-religiosity foisted by the few on the majority of the South and Midwest. This religiosity offers an escape hatch to solving problems, because rather than blaming problems on specific, conscious policy decisions, the 'true believers" can instead attribute those decisions to a "lack of godliness." It's simplistic thinking, and that is what religion aims to promote.
Along these lines, blind patriotism (often a function of low education and hyper-religiosity) has enabled the ratcheting up of the U.S. Department of Defense budgets such that in 2023, we will spend 75% of our discretionary budget (well over $1 trillion) on the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs. This is criminal. But Americans allow it because they are the most brainwashed developed nation on Earth, and the vast majority of the U.S. population believes that if you oppose the military, you're not a patriot.
Marianne has spent far too long parroting the "neoliberal" line. Religion and patriotism are enabling horrible decision-making among the political elites, and the recent Supreme Court decisions about public prayer in Washington State and tax dollars being used to fund explicitly religious schools in Maine foretell and even greater dumbing down of the American population. Once we reach that threshold of stupidity from which there is no return, the elites can finally create the New Slave Class they have been aiming for since Ronald Reagan.
Marianne and Richard miss all of this analysis, and it's because neither of them is formally trained in how to think about government, governmental budgets, comparative politics, political psychology, or religion and patriotism. Their thinking has not evolved in years----mostly because they never have anyone on their respective platforms to politely challenge them and enhance their political growth. This is a wash-rinse-repeat approach, and it offers very little to the audience.
Don't know if I thoroughly agree with all of your talking points, but the arguments are compelling and articulate 👍
@@RobbyLakeMusic I really like both of them, but I think we really need to look at the foundational power of maniacal American religion in our calculations. This, plus the corporate overtaking outlined in the 1971 Powell Memo, have served almost exclusively to get us to this hideous place we’re now in.
@@briananderson8428 Isn't religion just another tool of control, to keep the lower classes good little slaves? At least, this has certainly been the case with Western religions and any others commandeered by capitalism. I don't think you will deprogram the masses BEFORE freeing them. I think it will happen naturally when the power is taken from their masters.
@@donnathedead7554 Hi, Donna. The main way to begin freeing the masses is to TAX CHURCHES. TAX CHURCHES. It's one of the only ways we can exert immediate, legitimate, and legal policy influence on the horrible mess American maniacal religion has made of the United States. Taxing churches will bring in hundreds of billions from wealthy communities that have churches on nearly every city street corner (prime real estate) and put out of business thousands of American churches that are in poor areas with tragically vulnerable parishoners and adherents.
PS: Religion is pernicious to far more than the plebeian "lower classes." The middle class of the U.S. also has been utterly poisoned by the folklore, tales, and delusions of the hyper-religious elites.
Beautifully said!
What sources would you suggest offer better coverage of these issues? I'd appreciate help in finding them.
Thankyou.
I would encourage everyone to learn our Founding Father's views on political parties and standing armies.These Enlightenment scholars warned us over 200 years ago about their dangers. We are all now paying the price for our collective ignorance, naiveté and gullibility.
We all know what political parties are, but I'd like to know precisely how to define "standing army,' and names of viable alternatives
@@janelliot5643 Do you know? The suggestion made was a reference to "history"...so why
not investigate the "history"...rather than expecting someone else to do it for you?
Any one that cannot listen to well informed minds like Professor Wolff, even Mary Ann Williamson, author of " THE COURSE IN MIRACLES " also others books might should keep their minds open. It is only my opinion, not that it means much. HAVE A WONDERFUL DAY.❤️ I also took Mary Ann's courses when she spoke in Los Angeles, CA. SHE HAS HER ABILITIES TO TEACH. I WAS ALSO PLEASED SHE RAN FOR PRESIDENT. Caring, compassionate woman. ❤️
The US government is not governing , what a calamity , no ?
Marianne Williamson is truly the sharpest claw on the paw.
If only the majority of US citizens and the world citizenry have knowledge and views like Marianne and Prof Wolff! We would then have peace and real prosperity and civility in the world.
Marianne Williamson is so wonderful! Beautiful, true, and powerful words, a profound challenge to the amoral, corrupt corporate capitalist system...
Your discussion about Sri Lanka at six minutes. Wow, isn’t that how feudalism works? Capitalism is merely a veneer paste it over feudalism to make you believe it is different. We do not live in capitalism, it is feudalism.
Neo-feudalism, yes.
Love Marianne.
Dear Richard, if I had a piece of wood for every time you've hit the nail on the head since Capitalism Hits The Fan,I'd have a fine oligarchical mansion LOL! Keep it up! From a friend in Texas
Social media is a double edged sword. It can be a negative influence on society, spreading hate and conspiracy theories, but it can also help minorities find each other and spread their message, which can be very positive.
I would have agreed with you 10 years ago but I think we are at the point where the negative out ways the positive.
Totally correct, I also have thought the two Countries just have hand puppets used to distract or fake real positive change. Us had some cultural change under it generally not for the better.
I hope Marianne runs for President in 2024 against Joe Biden. It's not impossible that she could win. And even if she didnt, it would be enough just to push the Overton window further left. That in and of itself would be such a good deed in a weary world.
Who would be her running mate in your opinion if she ran?
@@MrDXRamirez I am unsure. I suspect there are a lot of qualified progressive candidates whom she knows personally who would both be a great fit and would not overshadow her.
Larry Lessig comes to mind, but I imagine there are multiple people she could choose from, all fine choices.
It almost doesn’t matter who her running mate is. Obviously winning should be the goal, but even if We were to assume that she couldn’t win - which we shouldn’t assume - Just the fact that someone is out there saying what needs to be said, putting the message out into society, into the zeitgeist we find ourselves in is almost enough by itself.
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I think she would have a real chance. The fallacy of the "lesser of two evils" should be put forth front and center. No thinking and reasonable person could say that Marianne is any shade of evil. She's frankly amazing.
@@MIDixons Oh, I agree! She'd very likely be the only voice speaking up for the working class. And clearly that message resonates with people. If she could gain enougb support, and if her campaign "ran through the finish line" as if she was in last place, even if she polled way ahead... she could do it. Hell yeah.
Authoritarian populist on the right, and
Progressive populist on left.
And, the DNC got rid of the second choice 🤨
Dems on covid was the most authoritarianism push we've seen realistically
thank-you for addressing issues that are relevant to our survival. speak out now while you still can.
Mw 2024
Marianne has such an eloquent way of communicating the more complex nuances of our stark economic reality here in the US.
She would make a great candidate for president 😉
Perhaps I'm stupid but I don't understand why governments around world are bankrupt. OK there is rampant corruption but doesn't the money trickle down? Oh. I forgot about tax havens and multimillion dollar mansions In England, for example, that no one lives in. However, I have read EP Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class numerous times and it always takes me back to understand the real problems confronting us today even though times have changed.
A canadia political scholar said u.s. will be a dictatorship in 2030. That is what happen to nazi germany. They didnt see it coming.
Brilliant, 21st Century perspective from Marianne Williamson.
Academia and journalism should combine into one occupation. I've been thinking, we rely on eachother regulary for information & communicating to our audience- its the same one!
- We're transparent and knowledgeable about eachother's methods.
- We both seek to deliver the truth, simple or detailed
- Academians can speak directly to their audeince and get more rapid responses from a large pool of equally resonsible, knowledgeable, and well-meaning replicators. We won't have to hope we piss off someone on an editorial board. Audience members can prove replication thorugh methodology and be held accountable to do so.
- Journalists offer transparency of institutions something academians rely on for archival research.
- We accomplish education of our the world better than a university and for-profit news ever could
"Non-violent" is not up to Marianne and those who agree with her. It is also up to the 500 richest people.
Michael Brooks was right about everything, including liking Marianne Williamson right away
Please use "white supremacism" rather than "white supremacy." Supremacism is the belief in supremacy. Saying "white supremacy" actually gives tacit agreement to this horribly destructive idea.
It took me a second, and then I was mad at myself for not seeing it.
@@aaroncarson1770 Very easy to miss. I've noticed this one propagated out across almost all media. This is how memes (in the sense of memetics, not funny pictures) work, and why it's important to call them out when they could have dangerous implications.
Really, the reason we had a strong economy was the fact that the fed was juicing the markets. That statement has been invalidated a while ago. Now we are paying the price after 13 years to get inflation under control and it is not going to get better until we raise interest rate higher than the inflation, unless we want to kick the can further which is what the fed will do later this year when they start feeling the pressure from the markets.
We should be looking at Huey Long, not FDR, in my humble opinion
Greedy people would do anything to pursue their greed so to hell with people & everything but greed will destroy the greedy eventually.
I see Williamson as confused and adding to the non-sensical babble that keeps us paralyzed.
Please don't platform her, Richard. Look into her background.
Two of my favorite people...ty
Here for Marianne Williamson
I love Marianne
I LOVE Marianne Williamson.
Yep, Bernie got shafted. Amazing he didn’t become an Independent.
Excellent show.
Thank you
Great to see Williamson on, she said it was third parties that truly initiated great change, yet she believes we must ranform the Democratic party... maybe both must occur. I dont see establishment dems leaving or changing...and they seem to live forever
You are the special grand jury
I am accusing every candidate endorsed by our Democratic Party and every public official who identifies as a Democrat of being guilty of misprision of a felony. But this only applies if you have not spoken up against the US Supreme Court’s failure to order the US Attorney of New York to empanel a special grand jury.
This is a crime when public officials, who have a higher duty than individual citizens, to insure the law is faithfully executed by intentionally refusing to insure the case against the accused is judged in court and guilt is or not determined, or if obstruction of justice or a cover up occurred during investigation of the evidence.
The reason for this is that every US citizen has a duty to insure alleged crimes are investigated and a grand jury hears the evidence and a vote to indict the alleged criminal(s). Regarding the incident wherein over 3,000 people were murdered on 9/11, the evidence does not show who the suspects/criminals were, but it does prove the people who submitted National Institute Standards and Technology (NIST) to congress lied. Additionally, the 9/11 Commission Report is also full of lies, so those who served on this commission share part of the guilt for those lies.
And third the ethics of all structural engineers requires each one of them to speak up (American Society of Civil Engineers) when science disagrees with alleged structural failures (collapses) of buildings.
www.lawyerscommitteefor9-11inquiry.org/
In this url/link you can hear the video tape statement by New York Fire Department Captain Richard Patterson. And he alleges that there were men with rifles and they prevented him and another fire department supervisor from entering World Trade Center building seven. These armed men’s act was illegal because the fire department cannot be legally ordered/prevented from attempting to put out a building fire.
Question: Who ordered these men with rifles?
The group Lawyer’s Committee for 9/11 Inquiry submitted their case to the US Supreme Court and this court refused to order the empanelling of a special grand jury.
Therefore I am accusing every candidate endorsed by our Democratic Party and every public official who identifies as a Democrat, and every leaders of every Washington State legislative district and County of being guilty of misprision of a felony.
I claim our elected public officials and candidates do not understand the lies that have been told in the NIST and 9/11 Commission reports as explained in the link to the video lecture
3, 641 architects and engineers also say NIST lied. Of course you may not have an engineering degree. Neither do I. I understand the lies as they were pointed out in the videos/lecture. Some 320 skilled commercial and military pilots (Pilots for 9/11 Truth) have also said they believe the NIST and 9/11 Commission reports are full of lies regarding the airplanes.
A good video/lecture as to why we need a FBI investigation or Congressional investigation of 9/11
part one WTC7
ua-cam.com/video/DXAuYjcjjPo/v-deo.html
Part 2: NIST’s false statements about the Twin Towers' collapse
ua-cam.com/video/J6F16xBQPMU/v-deo.html
Resolution demanding the FBI investigate why there are so many lies in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST), the 9/11 Commission reports, and why was Susan Lindauer denied a speedy trail.
WHEREAS 3, 641 architects and engineers (AE911truth.org), and some 320 skilled commercial of military pilots (Pilots for 9/11 Truth), are saying that there is scientific irrefutably evidence proving that the TOTAL collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001 were destroyed by explosives and incendiaries and not ONLY due to fire and airplanes,
WHEREAS never before nor after 9/11 has any steel high rise building totally or party collapsed only due to office fires having all its concrete floors turn to sand or dust,
WHEREAS Dr. David Ray Griffin lists included over 100 lies or omissions in the official 9/11 Commission report. This article is an excellent summary/companion to Dr. Griffin's newest book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions,
WHEREAS Dr. Leroy Hulsey and his PhD students concluded in their four-year study of the collapse of WTC7, that this steel high rise building did not collapse due to fire,
WHEREAS the Lawyers Committee for 9/11 Inquiry submitted direct evidence to the US Justice Department and they refused to empanel a special grand jury, therefore US Attorney for the South District of New York is guilty of misprision of a felony regarding this 9/11 crime,
WHEREAS after the US Court of Appeals failed to order the US Attorney to empanel a special grand jury, and the US Supreme Court refused to hear and overturning the Court of Appeals refusing to order the US Attorney to empanel a special grand jury,
WHEREAS Susan Lindauer was indicted on March 11, 2004 and jailed from Oct. 2005 until Sept. 2006, (2.5 years). All total she was under indictment for four years and some eleven months without a trial. On January 16, 2009, the US Justice Department decided to not continue with her saying it would no longer be in the interests of justice,
WHEREAS after 9/11, only 40 percent of the Democratic caucus in Congress were in favor of authorizing Bush’s war against Iraq,
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED we demand the FBI investigate why there are so many lies in the National Institute of Standards and Technology report and the 9/11 Commission report.
Her mental illness was official according to two court-appointed doctors determined, according to a ruling last fall by US District Judge Michael Mukasey. “The defendant is suffering from psychotic disorder not otherwise specified, delusional disorder, hallucinatory phenomena, and mood disturbance that render her mentally incompetent to the extent that she does not understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings against her and is unable to assist properly in her defense at this time.”
My Comment: this is official US government cow dung! Send me an email dickmcmanus55@aol.com and I will reply with my attached research paper regarding Susan Lindauer having been denied a speedy trial.
And President Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001,
PhD Scientists for 9/11 Truth
facebook.com/groups/1891989141184043/
Richard McManus
Chief Warrant Officer-3/counterintelligence special agent (more like an FBI agent than CIA officer), US Army retired, combat paramedic South Vietnam, BS psychology and nursing, Everett, WA,
There is no country at the border with the US trying to take it over, so no, it cannot be like the "Berlin Wall". The way that the situation looks right now also requires a certain level of armed defence on the side of the people in case of fascist-corporate aggression, which seems extremely likely to happen in a country where things were always settled with guns. Very misguiding comparison from Marianne Williamson.
Sep 3, 2020 Krystal Ball: At the People's Party Convention you said "take it from me, I saw from the INSIDE what the Dem party will do to make sure they keep their neoliberal grip on power." Can you expand on that? And did running for president and going through that experience change your view and relationship to the Dem party?
Marianne: I'll talk to you about that after November 3rd.
Krystal and Saagar: *laughing-
- UA-cam: "Marianne Williamson: Why I Spoke At People's Party Convention" | The Hill
in ol'Blighty, the Conservative party is also known as the cons, the confidence tricksters.
Marianne would blame the slaves for a slave uprising. It is the slavers that create the issue. She covers for slavers. My very coherent and critical response is not visible on this platform.
14:00 not true, Richard Wolfe.
There's Mick Lynch making phenomenal ground against British corporate media
You can easily add Biden to your list of spenders.
But that would mess up the "narrative of Wolff" would it not?
@Down with Corporate Amerika What makes you think that it's socialist or that it works,
or will continue to work? And who is John? As for the U.S. it is a illegitimate, unconstitutional
criminal government...that FDR, fiat, and socialist ponzi schemes destroyed and we sucked
in the rest of the world too...as for the "Wolff narrative"...Michael Hudson has effectively destroyed that
and you can find that elsewhere here easily enough...as it will be posted here everytime Wolff
makes new video, posts excerpts from videos, all Ask Prof Wolff videos etc. Who knows
maybe someday you'll read it and then you can post an argument...rather than making
assumptions regarding what a 12 word question implies?
Marianne - sings it out clear as a bell. Only the grasp of neo lib started much earlier than 30 years ago. It might have been simmering since end WW2, but it was ratcheted up hard by early 70s, (having had ringside seat) Feels like a runaway train sometimes.
Sorry she doesn't look healthy . Very sensitive exposé but not a workable solution offerings here ...🙄
She has always had that gaunt look, especially compared to the physiques that we are used to seeing here in north america. She is healthy.
Like a true politician, Williamson will acknowledge the plight of the working class and poor but offers no system solution to Capitalism. For real system change there needs to be a new system.
She is working on it. She is not a corporate democrat.
While I do like many of her answers, she seems to have an infantile understanding of class consciousness at best.
Well she’s a multimillionaire who wants political power so there’s that.
The basic law of physics. What ever moves, it has direction, and that applies to capitalism too. From George Washington to Joe Biden, the direction of capitalism has been to talk about Democracy but never there has been democracy. So getting to democracy within capitalism is just a dream that never will materialize.
The understanding of "non-violent" move to achieve democratic life is another dream.
Capitalism will not allow change of direction, unless a stronger force to topple current system. again we need force to change direction of movement. It is physics 101.
roosevelt feared fascism and communism. fascism is awful but i don't fear communism. it's the only thing left. Mao.
That blabber u had on at the end is a perfect example of what's called Americans exceptionalusm. What a card. Keep it going at all cost. Don't topple the system. It can be patched up. Sorry Mr Wolf ur slightly disappointing now