The Verge has the article Mozilla partners with news subscription service Scroll to build an ad-free internet.

Scroll is an upcoming news subscription service that promises to let you read all your favorite news websites ad-free in exchange for a monthly fee.

I am glad to see this finally happening. I first suggested this idea in April 2010 in the post Monetizing Internet Content.

Other posts that I have made on this topic include the following.

1. Why Does John Oliver Not Know How To Monetize Internet Content?
2. Monetizing Internet Content – A Working Example
3. Monetizing Internet Content – One More Time
4. Monetizing Internet Content – Refresher Course

I have signed up for a trial subscription to Scroll. I think this could change the face of the internet in ways I have been advocating for quite a while. See my list of previous posts that is shown above. In that list, I have posts from as early as 2014.

Bernie Sanders’ explanation, the other night on the meaning of Socialism (Democratic Socialism) was far too complicated. I think our Declaration of Independence explained it very nicely.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

Socialism happens when people in a country gather together in government to preserve those inalienable rights. If a powerful bully tries take away people’s right to pursue happiness, then the people’s government steps in to prevent the powerful bully from interfering with our inalienable rights. A country that would stand by, and let a powerful bully take away those rights for some of its residents is not a country living up to the promise of our own Declaration of Independence. Anybody who would promote the right to rob others of their rights is not being true to the social contract we rightfully believe we have all agreed to.

How did we forget what our founders thought was self-evident?

Oneness Of Humanity has the article MintPress News Debunks Falsified Narratives About Venezuela.

Venezuela coup d’état shill Joanna Hausmann failed to disclose she is the daughter of Ricardo Hausmann, member of the board of the central bank of Venezuela during the 1980s/90s and Chair of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank Development Committee – before the Venezuelan people roundly rejected his failed neo-liberal economic and financial policies, and elected Hugo Chavez president in 1999.

So reports MintPress News’ investigative journalist Kei Pritzker … in a devastating, calmly understated, smart and tough debunking of the repugnant lying-narrative “sales pitch” deployed in United States President Donald Trump’s attempt to illegally overthrow Venezuela’s democratically elected President Nicolas Maduro.

YouTube has Kei Pritzker’s video A Millennial’s Guide to Promoting Regime Change In Venezuela that was embedded in the above article.

YouTube has the video How NeoCons Are Helping the Bankers to Take Over #Venezuela.

Venezuela latest news. More information on the coup in Venezuela from human intel sources as well as from a few books and globalist publications.

V Rex Cullum has suggested this video. This is a source that I had never seen before. I have watched about 80 minutes of this before my energy ran out. There is probably more good stuff, when I recover my energy.

Jake Morphonios does mention the Rothschilds a few more times than I would like, but he is starting to wear me down on that objection. At least he hasn’t made the ridiculous claim that the Rothschilds own the USA Federal Reserve Bank.

A lot of what Jake Morphonio says matches what I have been reading in Michael Hudson’s books and articles. My most recent reading from Michael Hudson is J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception. Hudson has the expertise to explain the why’s behind the what’s of economics that has been going on lately and talked about by Jake Morphonios. This is not to dismiss Jake Morphonios’ expertise.

Here I solve the mystery of my flunking Freshman Humanities at MIT. I wrote a paper on Plato’s The Republic. The paper got the highest grade that I achieved in that class, a D+. My complete grade for the semester was F.

In my paper, I complained about the logic of the dialogue between Socrates and his students. It turns out, the paper the professor chose to read in front of the class was one written by a friend. My friend’s paper gave high praise to a certain section on Socrates that I had warned him about. I told him that the section he liked was circular logic.

After all these years, I think I found my vindication in Michael Hudson’s book J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception. This was a vindication for my distaste for the logic of Socrates.

All these years, over 50 of them,I couldn’t quite figure out the link between Sophist and Socrates. I always assumed the word sophistry was derived from the name of the playwrite Sophocles. WikiPedia straightened me out in the article on Socrates. Emphasis added by me.

However, in The Clouds, Aristophanes portrays Socrates as accepting payment for teaching and running a Sophist school with Chaerephon.

I wonder why my non-engineer humanities professor didn’t know this to reward me for figuring out the flaws in Socrates’ logic on my own.

YouTube has the video Bernie Sanders: Nicaragua Interview (8/8/1985).

Interview with Burlington Mayor Bernie Sanders (I-VT) following his trip to Nicaragua in summer 1985.

This video shows how I got the impression that Bernie Sanders had a good understanding of Latin America back in 1985. This is why I was so surprised that he couldn’t take a much stronger stand in support of the elected government of Venezuela in the face of what Trump is trying to do to that country.

Foreign Policy has the article How Venezuela Struck It Poor.

The tragic — and totally avoidable — self-destruction of one of the world’s richest oil economies.

This article gives a quite different look at the issues in Venezuela than what I have been presenting on this blog. I don’t endorse it, nor do I deny what it is saying. I just add all this information into my big storehouse in my brain in the hopes that someday I may figure something out.

As I read this story and its contradictions to my previous held beliefs, I did also notice some self contradictions in the narrative it was weaving. However, I do not consider these self-contradictions enough to discredit the article. Of course, I can detect the story’s bias against socialism and its preference for oligarchic capitalism, but I still try to keep an open mind.

YouTube has the video Venezuela Explained with Jimmy Dore.

Jimmy Dore fills in for Jesse Ventura. Producer Brigida Santos and Jimmy Dore explain the crisis in Venezuela where opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself interim president in an effort to unseat sitting president Nicolas Maduro. RT Host Rick Sanchez talks about the history of Venezuela and the impact of US involvement in Latin America.

Even RT’s “expert” does not seem to be aware of what Chavez and Maduro have tried to do to solve the problems that the “expert” mentions. Both Chavez and Maduro have been trying to diversify the Venezuelan economy. The fact that Venezuela does not have an oil refinery is not a choice that Venezuela made. The choice was decided by USA oil companies who controlled Venezuela’s oil industry in collusion with Venezuelan oligarchs before Chavez . The reason for that choice was that it made Venezuela incapable of showing any independence in their own oil industry. It was the USA who encouraged Venezuela to buy all its food from foreign sources rather than developing a domestic food industry. Chavez and Maduro have tried to change that policy and tried to foster a domestic food supply.

YouTube has the movie The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, Chavez, The 2002 Coup.

THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
DIRECTED AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY KIM BARTLEY AND DONNACHA O’BRIAIN IRELAND, 2003
74 MINUTES IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
HUGO CHAVEZ ELECTED PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA IN 1998, IS A COLORFUL, UNPREDICTABLE FOLK HERO, beloved by his nation’s working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history’s shortest-lived coup d’état. It’s a unique document about political muscle and an extraordinary portrait of the man The Wall Street Journal credits with making Venezuela “Washington‚s biggest Latin American headache after the old standby, Cuba.”

I have heard the phrase “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”, but I never knew where this came from. On YouTube there are only 6,700 views. We must make this go viral with widespread sharing. Just think what the USA will be like if the oligarchs get any more control of our media. This is what will happen to Bernie after he becomes President if we are not careful.

The Atlantic has the article It’s Foreign Policy That Distinguishes Bernie This Time.

He’s challenging American exceptionalism in a far more radical way than his 2020 competitors are.

Yes, Bernie has done some fine things with foreign policy. This is probably why I am so disappointed in the areas of foreign policy that he flubs. Read the article to see all the good stuff, and they didn’t even mention his stance against the war in Yemen.

My complaints with Bernie are on three issues. He uses “The Russians are coming!!!” hysteria about their interference in our elections in 2016. without even thinking of comparing their lack of impact to the impact of our own oligarchs’ news media interfering in our elections with all the lies they tell.

He conceded far too much of the oligarchs’ lies about Venezuela as if he doesn’t know that the USA has been fighting an economic war on Venezuela for 20 years. Our main issue in our unlawful war is that Chavez and Maduro have been too nice to the poor and working class in Venezuela at the expense of Venezuelan and USA oligarchs. What the oligarchs are doing to Maduro in Venezuela is a textbook lesson on what the oligarchs will do to Bernie Sanders after he is elected.

He also seems to accept too many of the oligarchs’ news media lies about Assad in Syria. Our illegal interference is mainly because Assad chose not to build the pipeline that Saudia Arabia wanted through Syria, but instead opted for the pipeline that Russia wanted. Fortunately, Russia saved Obama’s bacon when he was about to take foolish action over the false flag chemical attacks in Syria that Obama accused Assad of perpetrating.