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The Script Neoliberalism has badly damaged the economy in half of America in order to make a very small percentage of Americans much better off than they once were. Neoliberalism has basically cannibalized our Heartland and rural economy in order to concentrate our economy into a couple dozen hot desirable urban areas and several dozen upscale resort towns. Hot desirable high tech urban areas are doing fairly well though rapidly rising housing costs there are making it impossible for many young people to buy homes without lots of down-payment assistance. High rapidly-rising housing costs are also driving low-income and even lower-middle-income residents out of high-cost cities and resort towns. Metro-Denver where my wife and I live is a good example. Here our non-tipped minimum wage is $12.32/hour and our tipped minimum is $9.30/hour. Both rates will rise in January by 2.5%. Our median household income is $87K. However, our median home sales price has risen to $704K and our median rent to $1825/month. Our current jobless rate is only 4.6%. Retail price inflation here in housing, healthcare, grocery costs, and utility bills is up by about 40% since 2018. Housing cost here is up by close to double since 2012 and by 550% since 1991. (St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank's MSPUS chart). In 1991 the Federal non-tipped minimum wage was $4.25/hour. Healthcare costs here including the rise in out-of-pocket costs is up by close to triple since 2014 and by close to 1000% since 2000. Utility costs and numerous other costs are up by 250% since 2000 also. In 2000 the Federal minimum wage was $5.25/hour. I can see why older married homeowners are much more supportive of Biden than younger mainly renters are. Young people have never seen the kind of inflation we are seeing now even though inflation was in the 6-7% annual range from 1987-1991 and even higher in the 1970s. Rents and home prices are skyrocketing in most of America as new housing construction has greatly lagged demand in most of America. A recent real estate industry study found that new housing construction has been about 5 million units less than demand since 2000. Our hottest most-desirable cities and towns are out of land and nothing short of declaring eminent domain over entire suburbs of single-family housing, some of it nearly new, will fix the problem in our most-desirable urban areas, which also have our highest median incomes. Cost-driven outmigration from high-cost cities is driving housing and other living costs up in nearby lower-cost cities too. There are several articles in Kansas City media, the Kansas City Star and others, going back several years, decrying the Denverization of Kansas City. Outmigration from our even higher-cost West Coast cities has been driving home prices up in Boise, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, and Salt Lake City too. There are still bargain cities in our Heartland such as most Southern Great Lakes cities, or many cities in the Deep South, but wages there are a lot lower too. Our older son lives in Valdosta, GA, where the median home sales price was $133K just a year ago, but don't plan on making more than $40K to $50K there either. Tallahassee is almost as affordable. In Metro-Detroit and the Cleveland, OH area there is plenty of affordable housing but both cities suffer high violent crime rates and a paucity of good-paying employment too. Numerous other Southern Great Lakes cities are affordable too. Obviously with Red Joe Manchin and his sidekick from Arizona relentlessly blocking the Democrat agenda on-behalf of Republicans Joe Biden's agenda is going nowhere. It is too bad that liberals and progressives didn't hold out on passing the infrastructure bill until the Build Back Better Act passed, as now Red Joe has reneged on his tacit agreement to the BBB Act before the infrastructure bill passed. Lots of average Americans are hurting but Red Joe like Republicans only cares about rich Americans and about maintaining his coal-fueled lifestyle. Likely absolutely no change is possible on climate change policy with Red Joe blocking every Democrat initiative. So we are in a stalemate hoping to break the logjam in the 2022 election. Republicans are going to vote in force so Democrats had better be ready to vote as close as possible to 100% of the electorate too. We really need at least 55 votes in the US Senate and control of the US House to have any chance of overcoming Red Joe and the other Blue Dogs and passing any of the Democrat agenda. Otherwise, we are going to lose our democracy to the Republican goal of a brutal right-wing rich makes right faux-Christian police and prison state banana republic dictatorship that liberals and progressives should seriously consider migrating away from. Mark Richardson- House of Public Discourse Member    

The Script Definition of evolution: From the Collins Dictionary, Evolution is a process of gradual change that takes place over many generations, during which species of animals, plants, or insects slowly change some of their physical characteristics. . For the past 40 plus years the evolution of this nation has been driven by the stimulus of the Cons (Rich Ultra Conservative Authoritarians). We have in truth adapted to them, evolved to their stimulus, and now have we become unsustainable, as we have adapted to their illusion. After 40 plus years have we adapted to them, have become a kind of Karen? What does it mean to be a Karin? Karen is a pejorative slang term for an obnoxious, angry, entitled, and often racist middle-aged white woman who uses her privilege to get her way or police other people's behaviors. . We feel there is nothing we can do? Except to cry and shake and look pathetic. I am being unfair, I know, but the political process has become a trap, and so many simply cannot see that. There is an illogic in trying to beat the game while the people that run the game change the rules to suit their advantage. That is the state of American politics and the media is there on all levels to support that. So the question, that begs to be answered is have we adapted ourselves to the Cons to a point where we have become non-survivable? That, I think is the key question that we must all ask ourselves. . Have we become self-correcting to the whims of the Cons? Do we give in or do what they think we should before they even ask? When our democracy is threatened do we think of our 401k and shut up? Do we automatically discount the incredible achievements of the “New Deal” when economics are talked about? Do you know the media is lying but don't care? Have the idiots in the Republican Party yelled and screamed your higher functioning brain into neutral? When progressives are on television do you see a radical that wants to raise your taxes? Have we forgotten what a nation trying to be better is who we were and now we just want to make money and the rest be damned? . Remember the “Purity” tests of not too long ago? How there were always those that would tear you apart for not toeing their line as to what you should believe. What we didn't know at the time but I'm sure many suspected was that there were Con trolls, looking to make sure the wounds inflicted were deep. The Cons paid for troll schools to give them the best of tools to make your life online as miserable as possible. To keep us divided as possible and cut each other's social media threats. And we followed right along with their claims of “Freedom.” . We have adjusted to them in every way possible. There is a pile of bullshit on television daily, the biggest lies given the same weight as truth. We live in a time of control and yet fight for imaginary freedoms long gone. We have literally sold our freedoms for the warmth and faux success of a norm that squeezes everything but orthodoxy out of us. Your job demands orthodoxy, your television tells you what to think, replaces it with what the owners want, and tells you that is all normal. Entertainment tells the story the backers want to be told, the government is the best that money can buy, and our lives feel more and more helpless and hopeless. That protections we once considered secure are now relative to the norms the rich Cons and the angry Regressives pass into law, whenever they are in power. . Have we evolved into a nation of Karen's, I guess for men Teds? How many times on Yahoo News do we see how someone “Owned” somebody else in the Con or Regressive ranks? That's what a “Karen or Ted” does! We have become so helpless that that's all we do!! Who cares? The Cons and Regressives have coopted patriotism and effectiveness. But it was always the “New Dealers” that won World War Two, beat Grandpa's Cons great depression, went to the moon, built the one time greatest infrastructure in the world, and had a nation of mostly happy people. That was what Progressives can do! What happened to those Progressives? Dissolved into purity contests and watching our nation turn into Russia. Substituting a fight against vaccines for one of white power of listening to Russian agents and some idiot dance troupe owner spewing lies and more lies. . There is only one way out because they have closed the trap tighter and tighter while we have listened to ground game and $15 dollars an hour as the fix for everything. We support a party that has only one real option, promising economic betterment as opposed to anything real. And when they can't deliver…Getting out of this will require a real evolution, not some fake bullshit! An evolution based on owning ourselves, setting our own norms, building ourselves and others, basing our lives in truth as reality, logic, ethics, and honesty of intent. To understand the Foundations Process is to simply own yourself. To enable the giant thinking machine on your neck. To replace emotion driven message with logic driven critical thinking. To own the “Meter of Me” and to recognize the flaws in the social norm, the faux warmth of being accepted by the Cons and the material replacement of real and enduring freedoms. We cannot work within a system, controlled by money, without morals and right and wrong, without truth, logic, or ethics, and expect to remain untouched as human beings. We live in the time of the intelligent animal, one devoid of the things that have made us a species of potential to become something truly special. . So I ask again have we in truth, devolved into a money-centric intelligent animal? Have we changed into something that cannot survive because what we have become is based on advantage and illusion? An abuse culture rooted in the past and the given advantage of being born of white skin and wealth. The choice is stark and becomes more so daily. The trap tighter and the warmth of giving in is easier, to accept. But there still is a choice, though becoming less viable daily. So perhaps it is time to ask the real questions. Do we choose to build starships or do we choose to build a planetary sewer of this Earth, which is now fighting back?  

The United States of America has always been a dichotomy, wrapped in an enigma, covered by an illusion. I'm not saying that that is bad, just saying if you want to understand who we are and why things are happening, you have to begin there.

Can Self-Defense Laws Survive in a Gun-Rich Country?   Taking the law into our own hands and claiming self-defense when someone is shot is the subject of the Kyle Rittenhouse and Ahmaud Arbery cases.   During two closely watched murder trials in two different states this past week, juries heard strikingly similar stories: men bought guns in the name of protecting the public and then told juries they killed unarmed people in self-defense.   In one case, Kyle Rittenhouse fatally shot two men and wounded a third in the unrest following a police shooting in Kenosha, Wis.    Another case involved Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, who was shot after being pursued by three white men suspected of breaking into a house in the neighborhood. In both cases, the defendants started shooting as the victims were trying to steal their guns.     In other words, their own decision to carry a gun became a justification to use it, lest it be wrested away from them,” said Eric Ruben, an expert on the Second Amendment at the S.M.U. Dedman School of Law in Dallas.   It is evident, from these two cases, that; our concept of self-defense has deep flaws that are treasured, but not prepared to deal with an era of gun rights expansion, political extremism, and rising violence in a situation where race is heavily influencing perceptions of threat.   A powerful vigilante strain.   As a result of the fact that our citizens have guns, every line has become blurred. The combination of "stand your ground" provisions and citizen's arrest laws has granted people license not only to defend themselves but to go after others as well.[See Source]   Defense is the act of defending. But what constitutes reasonableness? At what point must one retreat? And when is a citizen allowed to act as an aggressor on behalf of the state?   Rifts have appeared in several debates, starting with whether openly displaying firearms makes people feel safer at  the expense of everyone else, whether brandishing a gun constitutes a threat or self-defense, and whether people may benefit from self-defense claims if their actions contributed to the danger.   Migrant militia members accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer clashed with elected officials trying to make a so called  citizen's arrest. It was argued in St. Louis whether white residents who aimed guns at Black Lives Matter protesters were assaulting them or defending their homes. They pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and harassment, then were pardoned by the governor.   Nine plaintiffs who were among those injured or traumatized by the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, are suing the rally's organizers, alleging a plan and intent to engage in violence, but the defendants claim that the violence, in which one counterprotester died, was justified by self-defense.   People have the right to self-defense when they reasonably believe there is an imminent threat of harm, whether or not they are right. It is possible to mistake a realistic prop gun for a real weapon, for instance.   Some statutes, however, stipulate that someone cannot claim self-defense if they were the "initial aggressor" - in other words if they provoked or were doing something wrong at the time of the use of force. If an initial aggressor withdraws or backs away from an encounter they may regain their self-defense claim. The aggressor must also pose a threat of imminent harm.   It is provocation if you assault someone without justification. If you ask for an explanation of offensive words, address a sensitive subject, engage in an inconsiderate act, or travel near someone, it does not constitute provoking an encounter.   In the Arbery case, According to defendants Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and neighbor William Bryan, they were pursuing Mr. Arbery as part of a citizen's arrest, and he was shot after trying to grab one of their guns.   There is no mention of Mr. Arbery's voice in the proceedings, who may have had his self-defense claim.     What makes the perception that Ahmaud Arbery would have lived if he had complied instead of reaching for a gun, and hence it was his duty to comply. It would be good framing for Ahmaud Arbery if three guys rolled up on him with guns, he didn't know what their intentions were?   There has been a tendency in the United States to increase the right to self-defense rather than to protect those whose actions may harm others. As a result of "make my day" laws, people who harm intruders in their own homes are presumed to have acted in self-defense. Classic self-defense theory's "duty to retreat" has been undermined by laws requiring people who are in an area where they have a right to be to retreat, such as at a public protest, to retreat.   Most states require prosecutors to demonstrate that the defendant did not act in self defense, rather than requiring defendants to demonstrate that they did.   A new law in Utah, except for those accused of attacking a police officer, enables defendants to request a special hearing at which prosecutors must prove the accused was not acting in self-defense.    Despite the expansion of the legal framework for self-defense, experts say it has left certain key concepts like the "initial aggressor" poorly defined. As part of the trial of George Zimmerman, Mr. Zimmerman was accused of killing Trayvon Martin. In 2012, while visiting relatives in a gated community. Mr. Zimmerman, who was Hispanic, was deemed the first aggressor by prosecutors. He followed Mr. Martin on foot and in his car before Mr. Martin knocked him down. Mr. Zimmerman initially identified Mr. Martin as suspicious. The jury disagreed and acquitted Mr. Zimmerman.   Mr. Zimmerman was the only person armed in that case. In a situation where two strangers are armed, who is the "primary aggressor"?    In the Kenosha trial, Mr. Rittenhouse, now 18, was armed with a semiautomatic rifle that he was not legally allowed to own. After he shot and killed a man who he believed was trying to grab his gun, as well as a man who hit him with a skateboard in an apparent attempt to stop him, a nearby paramedic named Gaige Grosskreutz raised his hands in the air. In that moment, Mr. Grosskreutz said this week, he believed Mr. Rittenhouse racked his rifle and refused to accept his surrender.   Grosskreutz pointed his handgun toward Mr. Rittenhouse, although his concealed-carry permit had expi d. Mr. Rittenhouse fired one shot at Grosskreutz.   Both Grosskreutz and Rittenhouse said they were trying to save their own lives. According to philosopher Renee Jorgensen, who has researched self-defense and reasonable mistakes, one can look at the parking lot as a Wild West situation where neither man wrongs the other and neither is wronged by the other.   As white men, Mr. Rittenhouse and Mr. Grosskreutz took the law into their own hands to varying degrees that night, offering themselves as private guardians of public safety.   According to experts, self-defense, vigilantism, and policing are related practices rooted in deeply racialized American traditions in which Black people, particularly men, are seen as threats and white people are given the benefit of the doubt.   In an analysis of homicides after Trayvon Martin's death, the Urban Institute discovered that white perpetrators and black victims were 281% more likely to be ruled justified than white perpetrators and white victims.   In the Arbery case this past week, a defense lawyer objected to having high-profile Black pastors in the courtroom, arguing that their presence was “intimidating.”   The standard of reasonable fear applies to both self-defense cases and police use-of-force cases, although officers are given greater leeway than civilians. Many police killings have been viewed as being the product of implicit bias due to the reasonable fear standard.   Based on our research, scholars are considering ways to adapt self-defense laws to a nation awash in guns and counteract prevailing prejudices. GW law professor Cynthia Lee has begun work on a universal definition of what is considered an initial aggressor. Lee is known for her model statute on police use of force. A law like Wisconsin's would give prosecutors another option, allowing them to prove that the aggressor intended to provoke violence with a plan of retaliation, something that is difficult for prosecutors to do. There would also be special scrutiny when guns are involved, regardless of whether they were legal.   Displaying a firearm or pointing it at another person is a threatening act that could reasonably lead to death or serious bodily harm, in my opinion.   In closing, this writer would contend that walking around in public with a symbol of hate and white supremacy strapped to your shoulder period much less at a Black Lives Matter riot makes Rittenhouse the real initial aggressor in this case and we feel here in the House of Public Discourse that justice was not only not served in this case it was purposely circumvented by a racist judge.           

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Yesterday I reposted an article about how relatively well-paid pharmacists at CVS were rebelling over how they were treated. They were rebelling with their feet, as part of the “Great Resignation. ” As the Con dominated media portrays it as “People not wanting to work” It is anything but. It is within the ideology of the Cons and their Monopoly Economy.  That there is no choice. If you want the things of success then you have to play their game and there is no other choice. You must literally sell your soul to them, make a lifelong deal with the Devil to keep the car and mortgage payments being made.  There are no other options, but them. They own your retirement that you may or may not get, they own the desperation every month of paying the bills that continually go up while your pay does not.  There is a bottom-line truth here that they do better, while you do not. That is the equation of the “Trickle Down”, monopoly economy. You do as they tell you or it will all be taken away from you! . The core ideals of the Foundations are owning yourself and having choices your entire life. I know I repeat this too often but it is real at the core of how our society now works.  “Having access to capital can make a genius out of an idiot and not having it can make an idiot out of a genius.”  The Cons restrict capital and dole it out at a high cost. Hoping for a huge profit in either your success or your failure. The Foundation's second economy is based on profit from the success of an individual.  It is a supplier of not only capital but also supports. In building an interwoven through success society, we go beyond what we are now. Not just in our technology as advancement is now measured, but also as an individual, society, and humanity. Those are the concepts behind the Foundation's second economy. We build human beings first and then societies, then humanity as a whole. That is what human-centric capitalism is about or the Foundations Process. . I have been watching the Expanse on Prime for the last couple of days and it struck me as to how the expectations of humanity were so low and those of technology so high.  But that is the pattern of what we as Americans, at least expect.  And of course, there is the civilization-ending war, the deceptions and ploys, factional maneuvering, and the power to poverty equation we see every day, now.  There is never a good time to change things. There are always a million reasons to not. There is chaos and the breakdown of law and order as reasons to leave it all as it is.  But I hope you will consider this, as technology improves and those that use it don't, it becomes only a matter of time until ego and greed will use it to gain power. Then other egos and greed will use it to defend themselves and we in the end destroy all that they fight for. . There is no good time but there is a time when what we have is not worth saving. What if we allow ego and greed to control who and what we are, to shut off the giant thinking machine on our necks, then it is just a matter of time…The Foundations. RC Romine

No One Does Like Sade  Helen Folasade Adu CBE (Yoruba: Fọláṣadé Adú [fɔ̄láʃādé ādú]; born 16 January 1959), known professionally as Sade Adu or simply Sade (/ʃɑːˈdeɪ/ shah-DAY), is a Nigerian-born British singer, songwriter, and actress, known as the lead singer of her eponymous band. One of the most successful British female artists in history, she is often recognized as an influence on contemporary music.[6][7] Her influence on music was recognized in the UK with an award of the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2002, and a was made Commander in the 2017 Birthday Honours.

House DJ Johnny mellows a bowl of jazz-funk fusion on the All-New House of Public Discourse Radio Network  Your source for Everything Progressive    Where Our House! Is Your House     

My spin focus is on the super hype disco-funk band known as Lakeside. Lakeside is an American funk band, best known for their 1980 number one R&B hit, "Fantastic Voyage".  

Dancing and Spinning the Supersounds of the Disco Kings not only is fun but brings backs memories of a time with the Crystal Ball Ruled. House DJ Johnny puts us in a time capsule of disco bliss.    The Bee Gees were a music group formed in 1958, featuring brothers Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb. The trio was especially successful as a popular music act in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and later as prominent performers of the disco music era in the mid-to-late 1970s. The group sang recognizable three-part tight harmonies; Robin's clear vibrato lead vocals were a hallmark of their earlier hits, while Barry's R&B falsetto became their signature sound during the mid-to-late 1970s and 1980s. The Bee Gees wrote all of their own hits, as well as writing and producing several major hits for other artists. The Bee Gees have occasionally been referred to as The Disco Kings.

Music is spiritual. Nothing is more spiritual to DJ Johnny than the music of one Evelyn "Champagne" King House DJ Johnny spins his favorite artist Evelyn "Champagne" King (born July 1, 1960) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. She is best known for her hit disco single "Shame", which was released in 1977 during the height of disco's popularity. King had other hits from the early through the mid–1980s including; "I'm in Love" (1981), "Love Come Down" (1982) and "Your Personal Touch" (1985).

We will enter the Quiet Storm with the super stormy sounds of Antia Baker. Anita Denise Baker (born January 26, 1958)[1] is an American singer-songwriter. She is one of the most popular singers of soulful ballads during the height of the quiet storm period in the 1980s. You're Inside the Quiet Strom with DJ Johnny on the House of Public Discourse Radio Network  

House DJ Johnny Takes Us Back To The Days of the Disco Funk Roller Rink. You up in the mix with the ALL-New House of Public Discourse Radio Network

House DJ Johnny Fires Up The Chronic and Spins the jazz-funk fusion of one of the most underrated bands ever Loose Ends. 

"The Blue Wave Is Coming!" We hear the tsunami siren call every election cycle from the "Any Blue Will Do" Democrats.   But politics ALWAYS seems to be on the cusp of a Blue Wave. Based on what we've seen backed up by data, do the Democrats not know HOW to surf?   This writer says no.    

The perils of running for local office are discussed by longtime House of Public Discourse member Linda Wade. She was a former candidate for the Oklahoma State Senate District 42.  Linda joins Jill Strehl on the Progressive Talk Zone to discuss running for government positions on a local and state level.       

Club Nouveau is an American R&B group formed by record producer/performer Jay King in 1986 in Sacramento, California following the breakup of the Timex Social Club.   The group was signed by Warner Bros. Records, on which Club Nouveau released its first three albums. Club Nouveau's go-go version of Bill Withers' song "Lean on Me" won a Grammy award for Best R&B Song in 1987  

House of Public Discourse Radio Network in house jock DJ Johnny braves the elements to spin the Classics for the group Earth, Wind, & Fire sponsored by the hit show The Environmental Coffeehouse with Sandra Schoelles  

House of Public Discourse Radio Network personality DJ Johnny gets livid with his master mix tribute to the funk band Confunkshun  

House of Public Discourse Radio Network DJ Johnny Plays Tribute to the Disco Funk Band Heatwave sponsored by the Liberal Redneck Show with Joe Lee!!

House DJ Johnny is always on the beat with rhythm and serves up the smooth jams-like hot butter on breakfast toast on the all-new House of Public Discourse Radio Network

Johnny Ques Up The Wind Up with the funkiest mix from the Brothers Johnson    Where our House is Your House

CLASSIC Kool & the Gang Greatest hits mix by House of Public Discourse DJ Johnny. Sponsored by Salem for Congress. Please donate here Salem needs your Support  

DJ Johnny Will Be Mixing His Tribute to The Band Shalamar Just One of the Best Disco/Funk Bands Ever You Never Get Tried Of Playing Their Records. What a duo Jody Whatley and Howard Hewitt both went on to solo careers.  

DJ Johnny Smokes a FaTTy and Blows Up The Wheels of Steel

Get Out the Lemon Pledge DJ Johnny done broke out the musty dusty funky shit in the 4/4 crossfade mix beat

The debate about the Vaccine is reaching bat shit crazy status.

America's No 1 Source for the Old School DiscoFunk Mix DJ Johnny on the All-New houseofpublicdiscourseradio.com  

House DJ Johnny spins a slow song baby-making music sweep on the All-New houseofpublicdiscourseradio.com  

DJ Johnny mixes two hours of nonstop solid gold R&B hits from the '90s. This mix is essential for your music collection and Johnny starts out at about 80 BPMs and finishes around 160. 

Cameosis is the fifth album by the funk/soul band Cameo, released in 1980. It is generally regarded by fans as the band's best album overall.  

DJ Johnny Spins some oldies but goodies on the all-new House of Public Discourse Radio Network 

DJ Johnny hosts the All-New House of Public Discourse Radio Network's Classic Quite Strom.   

House Dj Johnny takes us on a time ride master mix through the Top 40 Danceclub Genre.  

House DJ Johnny Mixes Live on the All-New House of Public Discourse Radio Network

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The Family Matterz Podcast on the All-New House of Public Discourse Radio Network! Today's Very First Broadcast covers the oftentimes under-diagnosis effects of  PSTD  has on both individuals and families! Let's Lend an Ear to a very informative conversation about the issues that are affecting not only families in the Black community. But our society overall.    

Part 1 There are always going to be a few losers in life, no matter how wealthy your family is. We all know this to be true in the abstract. In reality, the situation is often troubling. This is no longer a question of opinion; it is a matter of fact, not after this week's publication of stunning research on enduring family wealth dynasties in the United States.

The Whispers are an American group from Los Angeles, California, who have scored hit records since the late 1960s. They are best known for their two number-one R&B singles, "And the Beat Goes On" in 1980 and "Rock Steady" in 1987. www.houseofpublicdiscourseradio.com  

Today: Special guest, Johnny Hill, joins to discuss VP Harris's water wars, our climate crisis, and global inactivity to take the refugee population. Johnny is a lifelong student of politics and author. He is an unapologetic Independent Progressive Activist and the founder of the House of Public Discourse Radio Network on iTunes, Spotify, iHeart Radio. https://houseofpublicdiscourseradio.c... Welcome to the House of Public Discourse Radio Network  

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Leadership is taught, not genetic and it's a fundamental skill everyone should master. Let's take a dip in the vast study of Servant Leadership, THE management style that brings progress to the Progressive Movement.      

Recreating Old Nightclub Mixes Is Therapy For Me  My Meditation, My Yoga, My Place of Release!

Ease Drop on Chris & Johnny planning the Show  

We Welcome House Member Kerri Barber and Her Sidekick, Andy, from the Hair of the Dog Show! Now Running on the All-New houseofpublicdiscourseradio.com your source for everything progressive! Where Our House, Is Your House   Russia has enacted a prohibition on "extremist groups" in its election laws. Before you join the bandwagon and cry 'foul' discover what exactly they are so afraid of and why it all looks eerily familiar to U.S. politics.

The Foundations Codex The Nineteen Points of Agreement (abridged version) Point 1 Democracy has proven to be the most successful form of government. Capitalism has been shown best able to distribute wealth amongst its citizens. There are different forms of democracy but “social democracy” best exemplifies the Founding Fathers vision of “We the people” with the base of governing springing directly from the people through the democratic process. Those seeking an “authoritarian democracy” by driving policies, placing the power of governance into the hands of a sham government with the real power in an elite based on wealth are wrong. They have taken the nation away from the founding principles and into the realm of an economic monarchy, much as the British system, which we fought the Revolutionary War against. Economic Democracy or the ownership of the process, by the many, is the best method to restore the balance and direction of society. Point 2 It is the mandate of this document to create the framework used to build the structures for the future to advance upon. We waste the many for the benefit of the few! It is the mandate of those that agree to this document to drive the creation of structures that will build the individuals that will in turn drive the great civilization of our future. From education that ensures the availability to all, opportunity to use their abilities and talents to the maximum to driving technologies that are beneficial to humanity regardless of economic gain. The building of a structure that allows the growth of individuals and finding ways to use that talent is the path to the future. Point 3 We live on a Universal Continuum that includes all that we can touch and affect through our actions or words. Though the Universal Continuum extends to near infinity we are each responsible for those persons, environments, and ideals that we touch. Destructive actions toward any of the aforementioned except in self-defense is against the individual mandate. The equal relationship of rights and responsibilities is central to humanity's path to the future. Point 4 You have the right to be who you are. But you also have an equal responsibility to be more than you are today and every day! It is the expectation of the membership of this agreement that anyone joining this organization shall not be destructive to the organization, fellow members or themselves. Respect in all matters and to all persons is imperative for this organization to succeed! To become more than we are as beings is the highest achievable goal! The balance of rights and responsibilities in all matters is the heart of the Agreement philosophy. Point 5 God is what God is! Religion has long been the accepted link between humanity and the associated deity of that group. It is not the place of the Foundations to tell its members how they should practice their religion. But let it be known that no religion or individual owns God or shall be excused from actions that use faith as a tool for violence, intimidation, or abuse. It is imperative that all members agree that faith is an individual responsibility. Point 6 A person is a person is a person. There shall be no distinction between men and women, or other differences. We are all members of the Universal Continuum and our interactions must be guided by mutual respect. For all of our differences we are much more alike than different. It is point of view, multitude of languages, inherent concepts and expectations that make us appear so different. There will always be people that deserve hatred because of his actions but to hate someone because of whom they are is against the precepts of this agreement. Point 7 Authoritarianism is the greatest weapon of the Intelligent Animal and those that practice it will be our fiercest enemies! Whether it is economic, religious or personal it must not stand! It is the mandate of all those that are of agreement, that in all forms it is to be resisted. It is the responsibility of those that agree to advance the ideal of leadership from a community of equals as brought forth in the Declaration of Independence. “We the People” is our beginning point! True advancement can only be found in the consensus of the people and not from the barrel of a gun or a stranglehold of economic monarchy. True democracy can only be found in the majority of the political spectrum. Repression and violence are found at both extremes of right and left as both expound the authoritarian creed. Point 8 Our mandate is to the future. Many feel that the future is beyond our reach. The Intelligent Animal conveys the ploy that it is not worthy of their efforts and so they take all they can regardless of its implications to future generations. Those that agree, shall always be the guardians of those to come! We shall be their voice and their advocate in all matters large and small. Those that agree shall oppose the Intelligent Animal in its efforts to build a planetary sewer for those yet to come. We are no longer what we were and not yet what we will become but we must guard the future. Point 9 Access to the truth without point of view and/or preconceived concept is the right of all Americans and by extension all Human Beings. It is only through understanding the truth without concept or point of view that true progress in the state of mankind can be achieved. Knowledge is the great leveler of society and builder of civilization. It is the mandate of the holders of this agreement to always and to the best of its ability give absolute truth in all matters while also demanding it from others. The three pillars of democracy and humanity are: Truth without point of view, ethics and logic! Point 10 We must choose to have and build as much in common with each other as possible to survive. The ability to communicate is imperative. There must be common language and agreement as is humanly possible. It is the mandate of those willing to join The Agreement to speak English. This does not discount other traditions or peoples. This gives us a common ground when we meet or work and we choose to celebrate our common humanity! We must have strong foundations in order to resist the pull of a schizophrenic reality and proceed to a better future. Point 11 We will be truthful and honest in all transactions! While it is not the purpose to drive the truth in a hurtful way it is the basis for the betterment of mankind. The honest and full truth will always be the path to the future. The future will be made, not in the great things but in the everyday transactions between individuals. It is in the simple eloquence of the every day that progress is best measured and lasting advancement is possible. Truth only has its greatest value when it presented without the point of view or preconceived concept. Truth is the foundation of the future! Point 12 The agreement is not to promote the creation of nor shall it ever be a political party. To become a political entity is to risk the pressures that have warped today's existing parties! This agreement is to promote their best influence on the actions of political parties for the overall good of humanity. This agreement is dedicated to removing the undue influence of corporations and the Deceptican’s from America’s elections. “One person, one vote” shall always be the mandate of this agreement! Point 13 There are distinct expectations for private and public life. It should be the expectation that privacy in one’s private life is their right! But no such expectation should be expected in public life- including the workplace. The workplace and interaction within must be professional and respectful- whether to a coworker or to a client or customer. With in-house surveillance which on one hand protects management and employees also shows the interaction of all involved. This agreement is committed to professional and respectful interactions between all parties. There is no right to being stupid! In one’s private life there is an expectation of privacy unless an individual is committing fraud, violence or breaking the law in other ways. But as always the must be evidence of a crime and proper procedure as is expected in rule of law. Point 14 Mankind does not have dominion over the Earth! We, humans, are but the end of a long line of other inhabitants of the Earth. The true nature of our situation is more as renters than owners. Actions without care for the damage to our Earth’s environment cannot be supported. This agreement commits to the enhancement of Earth's Environmental Envelope and it is our mandate to drive technology in that direction. This agreements commitment to enriching the Universal Continuum demands our action. Point 15 Education is of paramount importance and all have a right to its benefits! It is the power of the individual to evolve through education that is the core of our effort to protect and enhance the future. Our goals can only become real through the development of the individual to his or her potential. The development of inherent, learned or developed abilities in each individual, tempered by logic and ethics is the only reasonable route to a greater society. It is the mandate of those that agree to begin the building of a great human civilization by building great individuals. Point 16 Healthcare is a right and not a privilege! There is a responsibility to live as healthy as possible. Good health is paramount in striving to reach an individual’s full potential! Healthcare is a crucial component in the advancement of Humanity! Point 17 We agree to build a second economy and lead the movement to restrain the economic monarchy of today’s Deceptican’s! It is the mandate of those that agree, to lead the fight against the economic, social, and political abuses of the Decepticans. Their actions are the single most dangerous factor against the continuance of America’s political democracy. The capture of a majority of the Supreme Court the packing of and emasculation of regulatory agencies, gridlock in Congress, ownership of distributors of information, and the ability to control the Prime Economy make the Decepticans a foe of great power and great danger to the United States of America and the World. Point 18 If we are happy in life and our country is stable then the Decepticans have failed! The Decepticans have been at war with the American people for more than thirty years. Their hatred for the unions and the middle class has led them to build up China to the point where it is able to challenge the United States both militarily and economically. They have waged upon the American people with an economic, political, and social war of destabilization to meet their ends. As students of the Milton Freedman School of Economics, they strive to create disruption in our society to create an atmosphere where everyone is in a constant “survival mode.” In order to create political power to coerce Americans to do things not in their best interest. Point 19 We will fail before we succeed for we pursue an ideal beyond today’s humanity’s ability to achieve. We also accept that we will not see many of the fruits of our labors to benefit our future descendants! It is in failure that most is learned. Success will follow in the natural course of events. Those that agree can only truly fail by quitting and it is our pledge to the human race, future society, and the Universal Continuum to never quit learning, strive to become more, and build a great civilization for humanity. It is to us, we that accept the agreement mandate to become the shoulders that those yet to come to build their future. For them to become more than we and they in turn become the shoulders that future human beings build their lives and civilization. It the mandate of each individual member to become a transitional being in the ascent from Intelligent Animal to Human Being.

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