Ascending The Globe Series: Part 1(Pillar 2b section): A Revelation for Mankind By Edward D.R. James
Obviously, the Revelation Model breaks the mold of our now obsolete economic paradigm. So going back, it would be interesting to know how many Republicans and Libertarians would agree to a universal healthcare, if its budget would have all green lights facing it. So much so that we will build more clinics, update more hospitals, hire more healthcare professionals, and dispense the needed medicine, therapy, equipment, and treatments to erase any doubts of rationing our medical care, or standing in long lines. The RM will denounce any disposition where the constraint of money imprisons the generosity and ingenuity of men and women. Let’s claim victory over our ailments as we all restructure the economy, together, using the pillars of the RM in a responsible feasible way. So if most Americans want to go single payer, then wait ‘til they get a load of this. I predict, when the Universal Single Payer comes into fruition, there will be dancing on the streets for weeks on end.
I say this with great confidence, because I know that the RM will finally correct one of the major criticisms we hold against our current model—that is the flaccid responses toward the various shapes and depth of abject corruption. The ongoing nonsense of our obsolete model turns a blind eye toward corruption in virtually every aspect of the economy. In contrast, because the Universal Single Payer may use a block-chain inspired technology, it will audit every single account and reform the entire global banking network. This checks and balance system will be intrinsic to the Universal Single Payer, and it will mitigate, if not eliminate the forces of corruption. Think about all the possible accounts of financial institutions that harbor not only the profits of tax evaders, but also the covert coffers of terrorism, all this talk about dark money, potentially undocumentable money that should’ve been appropriated through normal government channels, the profits of drug and human trafficking criminals, black market accounts, transactions of corrupted dictators from numerous countries, the list goes on and on. Perhaps unwittingly, some private banks appear to have been laundering the profits of evil deeds from time immemorial.
When the Universal Single Payer lifts this boulder of exploitation, who knows what will crawl out from under it. The Universal Single Payer will then use our collective wisdom, and stretch out the hand of clemency in exchange for “Full Disclosure”. Obviously, we will all have to discuss and deliberate on the details of this framework, but we will only endorse a democratic process. Should the process contain even the slightest hint of being governed by corporations, plutocrats, or oligarchs, then it is not the Revelation Model, and we will oppose any policy subjugating us to the interest and profits of the wicked few.
Not only will private bankers “bend the knee”, but all politicians will reform their campaign financing through this Revelation Model. We will urge the Supreme Court to overturn Citizens United. We will finance all political campaigns, and discuss the terms of regulating the access, quantity, and quality of all campaign marketing communications using the Universal Single Payer system. For example, through an independent peer-reviewed process, we may label political advertisements as baseless opinions, opinions based on skewed data, opinions based on balanced data, opinions based on partially verified data, and so on and so forth. Of course, the more verified and balanced the information, the higher the compensation and the more accessible the information will be for public view. At the very least, we need to place some daylight between these communications, to make some distinctions, and better assess our due diligence in this the era of easy fake news.
Furthermore, just as we pay our energy supply source independently from our energy infrastructure, as seen on our ComEd bill; our journalists will be regarded as independent contractors for the public’s source of information. Thus our journalists will be paid higher to report more relevant, verified, and balanced news, even if these reports doesn’t show their parent companies, affiliates, and advertisers in their best light. And because the Universal Single Payer will compensate both the employers and the employees independently, it will mitigate if not eliminate most tactics of the Zero Sum Game; where employers must battle unions and employees for wages, benefits, number of work hours, vacation pay, and maternity leave; or other social issues like cutting more taxes for the ultra-rich vs burdening more general taxes on middle and low income communities. That being said, these companies have no cause for alarm as they will have ample time to transition, to reform their standard operating procedures, practices, and corporate culture to come out on top—once we decide to activate this new economic system.
Musicians, actors, and artists who lost money because of the internet will be able to restructure the monetization format to receive capital through the Universal Single Payer. On the same token, video-bloggers who are hurting from Youtube’s demonetization campaign, or other social media entrepreneurs enduring hardships and limitations, can lick their wounds as they’ll be compensated well via the Universal Single Payer.
By owning and controlling the monetary system we can incubate non-profit orgs and small businesses whose missions are aligned with civil rights, consumer advocacy, and social justice. They can all rest easy as they will witness their programs provide the opportunities for low-income families to move up, and improve their quality of life whether they live in the boondocks of a red state, or the ghettos of a blue city.
Scientists will enjoy robust compensation rates for their accurate, peer-reviewed studies. We will engineer a world where intentionally rigging, or cooking the books of scientific experiments will not be tolerated, and where suppressing pertinent information from the well-being of mankind will be severely penalized.
In the upper echelon of government bureaucracies, any person who has ever worked for a major for-profit corporation will not be allowed to take any office, nor be eligible to become a voting board member of any regulatory agency. Of course, they will be allowed to counsel any agency, but again will not have the authority to vote. These restrictions are needed to rectify the corruptive influences within our current culture, but may be lifted when corporations have had decades demonstrating their performances in complete alignment with the welfare of the people. This is to assure the best interest of denizens the world over; especially within crucial agencies such as the Departments of the Treasury, State, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, Education, Labor, Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Health and Human Services, Energy, Agriculture, Interior, FDA, EPA, CDC, FCC, SEC, just to name a few.
Contrary to the hot mess we have today, the survival and efficacy of any future governing agency will never rely on the money of those they must regulate; nor will they take orders from the industries they are charged to oversee, to do so would be a conflict of interest. Unfortunately, this foundation stone of integrity is severely lacking in the White House…and has been for some time. Prior to his inauguration, Donald Trump, back peddled from his “draining the swamp” campaign slogan; during his thank you tour in Des Moines, Iowa he confessed, “Funny how that term [“draining the swamp”] caught on…I hated it…that’s so hokey, that is so terrible, I said alright I’ll try it…then, I started saying it like I meant it, right? (as if to confess his infidelity)…” He then proceeded to explain that he would impose a 5 year ban on executive branch officials becoming lobbyists, but what he fail to mention was that lobbyists take their marching orders from the industries they represent, and they could still become board members, consultants, or whatever position furthering the endeavors these industries, just not “registered” lobbyists.
This softened stance seemed to telegraph his need to cushion the blows from a flurry of announcements regarding his quasi-establishment appointees. Indeed he jumped over the lobbyists and appointed board members of companies like Rex Tillerson, former CEO of ExxonMobil, also Steven Mnuchin, previously an executive officer of Goldman Sachs, and prior to heading the Department of Energy, Rick Perry, resigned as a board member of Energy Transfer Partners, the company slated to build the Dakota Access Pipeline. These are just some names of what has been called the richest White House cabinet and advisory staff in history, having a net worth of more than $63 billion dollars estimated by the watchdog activist group, Hedgeclippers.org.[xl]
Trump could not have forged a better cabinet of “controlled opposition” than the establishment themselves. He may have had limited experience in political office prior to his inauguration, but a true outsider would not gravitate towards decisions that would further the gains of the establishment. For those who still believe Trump “tells it like it is”, why is his battle cry not: “Making America’s Rich get Richer”? But that’s no different than Mitt Romney’s “47%” debacle, and Trump hates losers, so maybe at any given moment…he just “tells ya what ya wanna hear!”
In addition to appointing safety nets for the status quo, Trump uses another tactic straight out of the “Establishment’s” playbook…divide and conquer. More than just pitting us against each other with his dog whistles of law and order for minorities and immigrants, or his sensibilities for pardoning white supremacists, or prolonging failed ideologies of deregulation and detaxation to appease the corporatocracy; using his “Fake News” hammer, Trump has been pounding Orwellian values to confuse the masses. Any legitimate question the media presses him on—Trump casts doubt—swinging his hammer with accusations of being fake news. If he suggests we can’t trust anyone: independent journalists, peer reviewed scientific reports, and the likes…other than whatever he has to say, than this is no different than “Big Brother” brainwashing us with posters insisting that “Ignorance is Strength”. Let’s make doubly sure the other two Orwellian virtues “War is Peace, and Freedom is Slavery”, will never settle into our reality.
Accomplishing this would best be done by the will of the people, diligently collaborating to save mankind, and ascend the masses to a higher level of humanity. Enforcing our demands will take grassroots effort: networking, organizing, assembling, canvasing, contacting community and government leaders; and of course, protesting against the decisions of our leaders and agencies like the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Trump’s FCC, which I affectionately refer to as “Trump’s Ministry of Truth”, is a peculiar air of poison to democracy…in that its odorless danger stretches farther than any border, and subtly possess the deepest roots of our darkest prejudices.
The PBS Newshour aired an enlightening report in October 2017, which involved the Sinclair Broadcast Group, one of the largest owners of local TV stations, reaching over a third of American homes. The report said that “must run” strongly conservative, commentary clips of Boris Epshteyn, former Trump Administration member, and now chief political analyst for Sinclair; and weekly segments of the “Terrorism Alert Desk” are now mandated to air on all 173 Sinclair stations. “In some cases, stations have to run them as often as nine times a week,” claimed the PBS journalist, William Brangham. Continuing on he said, “This partisan tilt has many free speech advocates alarmed, because not only does Sinclair own such a large chunk of the marketplace already, but it’s hoping to get bigger still. If a proposed $4 billion merger with Tribune Media goes forward, Sinclair would now reach three out of four American households…Television remains the main source of news for many Americans. In 2016, 46% of adults said they got their news from local TV stations. And its information they trust; 41% of registered voters said they trust local news to tell the truth, while just 27% trust national news (According to the Pew Research Center, Politico/Morning Consult)…Sinclair even caught the eye of HBO’s John Oliver, who poked fun at how Sinclair sometimes forces conservative talking points onto the scripts that their local news anchors read (then he showed video clips of different anchors echoing the same phrases—verbatim)…Traditionally, to protect against any one company becoming too dominant, Congress has set certain caps on how many media outlets any one corporation can own in a given market, but the FCC recently changed those rules. Under the new leadership of Trump appointee, Ajit Pai, the FCC has now made it easier to approve Sinclair’s expansion. Tom Wheeler is the former chair of the FCC. He thinks these new changes are a blow to a free and vibrant press.”[xli]
When addressing the Harvard Kennedy School, Wheeler said, “The Trump FCC has, in one very short period, moved to change three basic rules that have been in place to protect the diversity of voices and avoid monopolization of the broadcast television market. We have a society in which the flow of information is crucial to a democracy. And when that free flow of information gets choked off by corporate consolidation, we ought to all worry.” PBS also said, “Eric Lipton of The New York Times discovered meetings and correspondence between Ajit Pai and Sinclair executives that he says raises questions about the company’s influence with the Trump administration.” Lipton was recorded saying, “He (Pai) met with the executive officers of Sinclair just a few days before Trump was inaugurated, where they made clear to him that they were looking for the Trump administration to roll back some of these restrictions that were essentially limiting their ability to get bigger. And it was just a matter of a couple of weeks when, all of a sudden, Pai was named chairman and he was actually rolling back the same rules that they had approached him on. And only as a result of rolling back these rules is Sinclair merger going to be able to go through.”41
People, please contact the FCC, the Oval Office, and your senators and representatives right away; voice your opinion on this matter. If by chance, bureaucratically-approved, fear-induced, political-brainwashing doesn’t light a flame under your bum, then what will—taking away the internet, as you now know it? Because that is exactly what Trump’s FCC Chairman is also planning to do!
Fast Company interviewed Tom Wheeler in July 2017. The article explained that, “In order to impose the net neutrality safeguards–which prevent ISPs from blocking, slowing, or delivering some internet traffic faster than others–a federal court said Wheeler’s FCC would have to reclassify ISPs as ‘common carriers’ under Title II of the 1934 Telecommunication Act. So it did, much to the displeasure of the ISPs.” It paraphrased Wheeler saying, “The Trump FCC is simply doing the bidding of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Charter…”[xlii]
Soon after the corporate attorney, Ajit Pai, approved the removal of these Title II protections, I imagined the vicious cycle of discrimination infecting all parties: ISPs discriminating against websites and content by charging more money or lowering their priority, then websites in some manner having to pass those costs on to its customers, visitors, and subscribers by charging subscription fees, then internet users having to lay down their list of demands and scrutinize against internet service providers and websites. By the way, on a lighter note, who else found it a disappointing “discovery” that watching Star Trek meant paying “this cover” charge? Unless we banish Pai’s obsession into a black hole, the troubling trend of subscription fees may “Kling-on” indefinitely. With the FCC’s actions, words, and phrases “set-on-stun”, I hope and pray Trump supporters will use “warp speed” when they turn and run.
All jokes aside, bringing some balance to this narrative, last year Chairman Pai did sit down with the PBS Newshour journalist, William Brangham, and explained his motivation to roll back the Title II, “net neutrality” protections. Pai stated, “My concern is that by imposing those heavy-handed economic regulations on internet service providers big and small, we could end up dis-incentivizing companies from wanting to build out internet access to a lot of parts of the country; low-income urban and rural areas, for example…What we’re trying to do going forward is figure out a way that we can preserve that free and open internet that consumers want and need, and preserve that incentive to invest in a network that will ultimately benefit even more consumers going forward.”[xliii]
However, former FCC Chairman Wheeler, had a rebuttal to Pai’s answer, saying, “So let’s go to what the ISPs tell their financial regulator. You know there’s an important thing that the ISPs have, a lobbying message at the FCC and the Congress that is designed to accomplish their goals of giving them free rein. But then over at the SEC, they are under the penalty of law, required to tell the truth. How does what they say in their financial filings differ from what they say at the FCC? Well, in their financial filings they say they are spending a constant amount–they say they are spending about 15% of revenue on infrastructure investment…[later] Comcast had their quarterly report and reaffirmed they are spending 15% of revenue on building infrastructure. So if this is the best thing the Trump FCC can come up with, the impact on infrastructure argument, then they are playing a pretty weak hand.”43
If deception is a dog-eared page in the “Establishment’s” playbook, then why aren’t we spotting them sooner and calling them out on it. To me the unfortunate truth are that legions of voters may be using this dismal economy and Corporatocracy culture to rationalize discrimination…to carelessly perpetuate the socio-economic supremacy complexes that has ravaged the histories of countless nations. They may tell themselves that a downward budget justifies a darkened bias against people who appear different: different accents and language, different skin tones and facial features, a different tradition, belief, and ethnicity, different abilities, age, gender, and tendencies for intimacy.
They may boastfully wield Tiki torches, parading about strapped in body armor, and from the spittle off their tongue waves the banner of hate from a bygone era…or at least some thought so.
They may be like the Georgian Police Lieutenant attempting to soothe the nerves of a fearful white motorist he had stopped, by saying, “But you’re not black. Remember, We Only Kill Black People.”—subtly conditioning, perhaps, the notion that “all lives are suppose to matter???”
They may hold NRA cards and recklessly stand their ground claiming, “The shadow government’s taken over; we can’t possibly regulate our ‘Child Killing’ AR-15s!”
They may be like Nikolas Cruz and post a YouTube comment stating “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.”
For those who find themselves feeling trapped in this pit of despair…I ask you…if we take away this economic rationale, this God forsaken culture we’ve been duped into holding on…and instead turn it around; take ownership and control of the money and political systems, will you then open yourself up to accept less spoken truths in the wisdom of scripture? God said that each of us are perfect as we are—yet, where’s the sermon glorifying this perfection through our diversity? God said his plan is perfect—yet, where’s the sermon saying “it is perfect when we collaborate and celebrate in this diversity”? Let’s not wait any longer, and let’s be that walking embodiment and action of these sermons. As the Good Book points out, when we are all in agreement, IS when God’s presence feels stronger in our midst.
For us to get there…on that mountaintop—as Dr. King so eloquently referred to—for all of us to come together in agreement, we absolutely need stronger provisions of transparency and “net neutrality”. Keep in mind, normal business cycle or not, when the next economic collapse arrives, the establishment will stifle the internet and the people’s ability to organize against them. If the President leaves Pai at the helm, they can slow down and shudder all things “in the best interest” of our middle and low income communities. They can block out the information and tools that conflict with the plutocracy’s interest…or effectively block out our data—“loading, loading, loading, loading…timed out”. The FCC’s ruling will allow the elite to throttle up fast lanes and promote their problem-reaction-solution; yet another economic perversion, a regurgitation of the same rigged “Corporatocracy” game.
Bottom-line, regardless of any party affiliation, the one common ground all Americans must gather and stand together on—is our right to keep the internet neutral. So if you hated the TPP and the corporate-overreach it represented, then you ought to be outraged with President Trump’s FCC and the heavy-handed corporate-overreach, Chairman Pai had been all too familiar representing. The corporate Democrats don’t exactly get a free pass on this either—I was disappointed to find out that it was President Obama, who initially appointed Ajit Pai as an FCC commissioner back in 2012. Although I question that decision, it doesn’t change the almost comedic irony that promoting the telecom profit attorney to chair the FCC…is like allowing the Star Wars, Dark Sith Lord to train the younglings at the Jedi Temple—“If you only knew the Power of the Dark Side!”
However…in spite of the millions of Americans outraged by Chairman Pai’s push to neuter net neutrality with his awkward fetishes for light touch regulations, his high-jacking of the very definition of “open internet”, and his blessing of the unholy Sinclair-Tribune matrimony; Trump’s pro forma promises to fight for American democracy predictably has…all but gone limp. This is proof positive that once again the Corporatocracy and Trump’s Ministry of Truth…only look to serve each other’s agenda. Chairman Pai’s degrading “Open Internet” policy will be as open as the “Patriot Act” is patriotic—marinated and stuffed with enough loopholes and controls for the establishment that eventually…it will cannibalize its namesake—earning a more fitting title, “Open Casket Internet”. Surely, such heinous acts and contempt for the will of the people must be considered a dereliction of duty, a malfeasance, and at minimum…grounds for Chairman Pai’s removal from office.
Therefore, I recommend we each follow a simple plan of action I’m calling…
“Don’t FCC with my Net Neutrality:”
1-Demand that President Trump fire Chairman Pai and fire all commissioners who voted against the internet’s Title II status, or we will not re-elect him for President. Additionally, should the movement for his impeachment go forward, we will join rank and add our efforts to that cause. We also demand that Commissioner Clyburn be designated as the new FCC Chairwoman, since she has dissented Pai’s campaign from the very beginning.
2-Demand that our Senators and Representatives call for Pai’s resignation, and the resignation of all commissioners who voted against the internet’s Title II status, or we will not re-elect them.
3-Boycott the Internet Service Providers (ISP) who supported Chairman Pai and the efforts to downgrade our Title II protections. Additionally, we demand that these Internet Service Providers follow the same guidelines as the Title II protections, subject to unannounced audits to verify the authenticity of reports and transparencies.
4-Pledge and Do Business with ISPs who follow the same guidelines as the Title II protections, being subject to unannounced audits to verify the authenticity of reports and transparencies.
5-Demand our government Approve and Build out a new Publicly Owned and Operated Internet Service Provider that will perform at or better than a Title II status: higher quality and performance levels, showing more transparencies, etc.
Comparable to the RM’s free healthcare and free education, will be the RM’s free access to information—that means a free Title II internet. Ultimately this will keep all the major private ISPs in check—letting them all know—“Don’t FCC with my Net Neutrality”. And just as the RM recognizes the right for private banks to remain private, so too will the RM recognize the right for private ISPs to remain private. Similarly, the more these private ISPs operate at or better than the performance and transparency levels of the public ISP, the more the private ISPs will get paid. I hope by now, you can all see that the construction of a public ISP can be placed on the fast track when we decide to implement the RM; especially since its 2nd pillar will expand our constitutional right to create, issue, and control the money and credit systems.
Paralleling the people’s control over money is the people’s control over information. They both weave and flow in tandem in more ways than one. In fact, I profoundly believe both to be identical twins. Money is meant to serve the people, not for us to feel enslaved by it. Equally so, is the intention of information and intellectual property—its primary role is to benefit us all, earthlings in all varieties, organic and inorganic alike. To best represent this intention for information, we must enact the next pillar.
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