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One political party proposes that the primary issues of the current midterm elections are these: 1. The price of gas. 2. Crime. 3. Inflation. |
Gas has gone up (though it’s gone down $1.20 per gallon where I live the past week). Much of this is due to Putin having invaded a sovereign nation and countries responding by cutting | |
back on buying gasoline from Russia. But what is equally responsible for big gas prices and often goes unnoticed by much of the capitalist driven media is that oil corporations are making
a killing on gas at this very difficult time. Big oil is gouging families at the pump and making off like bandits: From July to September this
year, Valero made $2.82 billion in profits, a 500% boost in just one year. Exxon’s profits of nearly $20 billion was their highest quarter ever recorded. Shell made $9.5 billion in profits–more than twice what they made in the third quarter of last year. Do not vote for politicians bought and paid for by Big Oil. Lay the blame for inflation at the gas pump where it belongs—on Putin and the greed of Big Oil and Wall Street. Increased crime? I think this is a crime—that gas corporations and their shareholders are getting rich while ordinary citizens are getting stuck with exorbitant prices as we all protest Russia’s Ukrainian invasion. |
Early voting is underway for the U.S. midterm elections, and this year, voters have to contend with suppressive new restrictions. Global News | I also think it is a crime to declare, contrary to all evidence, that the last election was “stolen” and using this lie to invade the capitol building and to enact over 460 laws to restrict voting for the poor and people of color in |
particular. In other words, destroying democracy is a crime. Lies that take away other peoples’ rights are a crime. Trying to erase voting rights laws hard won by Dr. King and thousands of others is a crime (this means you, chief judge
Roberts.) Invading our nation’s capital violently is a crime (over 700 people have been charged so far for that crime). Wanting to kill social security, earned by the wages of workers throughout their lives, is a crime. It is elder abuse. |
Yes, there is inflation in food prices also. Some of this is due to the war where Ukraine and Russian agricultural products are important for fertilizers as well as soybeans, sunflower and wheat. Whole countries | Congresswoman Katie Porter joins MSNBC‘s Chris Hayes to discuss how corporations are hiking prices and generating record profits—all under the guise of “inflation.” |
in Africa are undergoing severe starvation because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. But food companies too are making record-breaking profits through price gouging and failing to return to prices previous to
the pandemic with its supply problems. Future generations will pose one question to all adult Americans alive in 2022: “Daddy, what did you do when American democracy was being destroyed?” Will our answer be, “I voted to save
money at the gas pump and grocery store”? Or are bigger issues at stake in election 2022? To be continued |
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A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Awareness with Social Justice In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the
meaning and practice of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the future that promises personal, social, and global healing, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, leading the way toward a gentler and more ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate activity. “Well worth our deepest consideration…Puts compassion into its proper focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register | |
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