Free Public Transit

Our future.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 08:34:00 +0000

The short future of the human race, as seen by our rulers, requires measures to protect their wealth and power to the end.

They have used excess cash created by central bank policy and have captured all loyal opposition parties and organizations.

Healthcare by fiat, and the destruction of women's rights by the gender scam are ongoing. More horrors can be expected.

By 2nd Law, growth is the problem. Cars promote sprawl and growth.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 22:45:00 +0000

The negative impacts of past growth are already clear with accelerating climate change and environmental degradation. They will become particularly pronounced when resource depletion makes it challenging to self-repair, as flooded cities and drought-stricken farmland is abandoned. In biological and physical systems, when growth stagnates, fragility sets in. Following even small crises, recovery times slow, and there arrives a tendency for larger-scale collapse.

http://nephologue.blogspot.com/2019/12/economic-growth-engine-of-collapse.html

"More from Less" not happening, not likely to happen

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 23:41:00 +0000

Global resource use has actually been accelerating faster than growth in the global economy. We are becoming more resource-intensive, not less. -Jason Hickel

http://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2021/02/demateralizing-economy-isnt-happening.html

Autosprawl collapse

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:11:00 +0000

Texas storm misery as 500,000 without power, stores run out of food, hospitals evacuated and seven million under boil water orders
https://t.co/2LpX8vxmSe
— The Sun (@TheSun) February 19, 2021

How will we pay for cars?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 07:48:00 +0000

Free Public Transit website to close down

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 06:34:00 +0000

Our website https://freepublictransit.org will soon be taken down after 14 years.

Why we should say "Fight Racism" not "Black Lives Matter"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 03:56:00 +0000

To achieve any progress for poor and working people anywhere, first we must be united. In the US the protests against racist police brutality have been given the name "Black Lives Matter." Sounds good at first. But, stop and think, what does that actually say.

First it is a truism, like "water is wet."
Second, it says nothing about why black people are being attacked, or what to do.
Third, it is ambiguous and raises more questions, such as what about disabled lives?
Fourth, it is divisive. It does not directly address oppressed in general.
Fifth, what is it's impact on people for whom English is a second language? Do they immediately interpret it as a fight against racism? Do Vietnamese lives matter? Korean? Polish?
Sixth, it is weak and liberal and sounds like something in church, not the streets.
Seventh, it can be used by racists to appeal to white oppressed and say: "see? no one cares about you."

The MSM has great power in shaping protest. They choose what's "popular" by what they feature. Let's not let them hijack the fight against racism.

Make your sign say "Fight Racism." It is unambiguous.

We had a choice...

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:39:00 +0000

We had a choice. Biosphere or cars. We chose cars.

What happens when you build a system where cars are more important than people?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 12:18:00 +0000

Desolante ... Thousands of cars form a mile-long line at Dallas food bank after unemployment benefits were reduced | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/TwsZ8jEL1P
— Andrea Mazzalai (@icebergfinanza) August 14, 2020

Movement for a Peoples' Party

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 11 Jul 2020 07:18:00 +0000

"Repair our aging and leaking drinking water pipes, meters and wastewater treatment plants. Expand bus lines, subway systems, high speed rail and other means of public transportation. Reduce public transit fares to broaden access and take more cars off the road. Create millions of living wage jobs modernizing the infrastructure that powers American life and commerce. Classify the internet as a public utility and bring the country online with universal high-speed community broadband that covers rural communities."

Movement for a Peoples' Party in the US calls for expanding bus lines and reducing public transit fares. This will not be enough to address the "unmentionable" problem: sprawl. However, as the movement grows, this could change. But if sprawl is not addressed, the party will fail.

https://peoplesparty.org/

US bet on sprawl and lost

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 22:55:00 +0000

So about that V-recovery? Sunday drive down Main Street and food bank line spotted. pic.twitter.com/KC3jfSdwUd
— Alastair Williamson (@StockBoardAsset) June 28, 2020

How US plan for massive spending before election will cause more unrest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 04:49:00 +0000

Join the fight against racism

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 12:37:00 +0000

For millennia, racism has been a strategy to keep people divided in the face of oppression. Today bankers and other financial crooks have used their corporate-controlled media to keep it alive and strong.

The key to their propaganda is to make people think that too many other people are racist or apathetic, and the task of winning them is too exhausting.

The recent rebellion in the US has exposed this lie. Most people are not racist. Most people see how it hurts everyone. Most people are sick of it. Most people want unity against oppression.

We must keep this going until this strategy of division is no longer usable.

Don't be naive about provocateurs

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 03:34:00 +0000

The purpose of provocateurs is to turn protest into riot. Then the corporate media can frighten people from joining the protest, and government can use violence.

How to spot:

First, be careful, they are usually uncover police
Dressed in black with strong boots, and good face covering
Taunting police from the front, throwing things from the back
No one seems to know who they are and they don't socialize
When in isolated area, they commit vandalism/graffiti
They are the ones to break the window and start looting, then leave quickly

If you can gather some people and catch one. Pull off their mask and take photos.

The narrative of the media and right-wing is that these provocateurs are just out-of-control left. Don't assume that to be true! Watch their behavior. Catch them.

Trump represents the actual ruling class

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 03 Jun 2020 01:59:00 +0000

Trump is not an anomaly. The US rulers are out of options. Except for military, they have no more ways to rule.

They have:

created trillions of dollars out of nothing -- made the problem worse
trotted out liberals like Biden -- further enraging people
tried undercover provocateur attacks to scare people -- exposed on social media
brought military force against peaceful protest -- exposing their "democratic" facade
tried to squeeze more money and power out of their control of SWIFT and CHIPS money transfer
started trade wars to squeeze allies and rivals

The US sprawl system is decaying. Many trillions of dollars are needed just to keep it running. There is no money to fix it. The only course is to abolish consumer-product based economy (especially cars) and focus on basics.

MMT -- helicopter money, and why it won't work

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 25 May 2020 23:27:00 +0000

It’s too late for America to recover. It left it too long. It was arrogant and conceited, paying for things it didn’t need, like wars and mega-mansions, but not those it did. So it didn’t invest when it should have, but now the bill is due, but nobody can pay it. What do you call a society like that? Bankrupt. Just like most Americans are, only they don’t know it. What do you call a whole society of people, after all, who die in debt?America’s broke, my friends.

https://eand.co/im-not-that-i-m-negative-america-really-is-screwed-13b47653e4ed

This article sums up the dilemma of the US, but then goes on to recommend helicopter money. It leaves out what all the economic and political "experts" leave out: sprawl.

Dropping cash on top of a failed consumer-product based system just adds fuel to the fire. The system won't change, it will still be based on individual purchases, and there will be even less money for public goods. The article does a good job of distinguishing between these.

The US needs to unwind sprawl. Make cities car-free, make education and healthcare free. Guarantee housing.

As empire collapses US working class fights back - @paydayreport

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 23 May 2020 06:25:00 +0000

Strikes and labor organizing are on the rise as essential workers grapple with safety concerns while on the job. Meatpacking plants, city sanitation and healthcare are some of the industries where workers are striking or organizing.

https://www.wunc.org/post/labor-organizing-pandemic-asheville-nurses-await-consequential-union-decision

for more see paydayreport.com @paydayreport

Oil is worth $120,000 per barrel. Not a typo.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 21 May 2020 03:33:00 +0000

Anti-China campaign will backfire

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 19 May 2020 09:42:00 +0000

In the US, both political parties are ramping up anti-China feeling.

There are several problems with this plan:

To strike back, China need only announce intent to sell US government bonds.
Racism tends to kill its host. East Asians in the US will become estranged.
The US has very a serious problem -- a crumbling infrastructure.

The last point is the most important, and the least discussed. There is plenty of chatter in the US political about everything except the second law of thermodynamics. To put it simply, things decay.

Engineers calculate that the US needs $3T just to make infrastructure safe. But, on top of that, sprawl infrastructure needs constant energy input.

It will take the US many years to unwind sprawl. In that time it should not be provoking other countries.

What is coming for the US -- Virus is just getting started

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 09 May 2020 07:43:00 +0000

US bankers have already looted the cash-register. By direct FedReserve gifts of printed money to banks and by gifts of borrowed money through the federal government.

There is little left to steal, but the virus is just getting started. People are scared to work, and unable or unwilling to spend money. Long slow stagflation with much suffering is here.

There will intense campaigns to increase all possible divisions among the people and between the people and foreign countries. Racism will be the major weapon, but other divisions such gender and age will also be used.

People need to become politically active. Join or form local groups. These groups can push government to provide free services or provide them itself. Get away from sprawl and individualism and move to urban communal sharing. Think about how to deal with armed right-wing gangs.

Suburbs should become farms again. Cities should be car-free.

US got caught in between virus and economy -- now in deep trouble

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 06 May 2020 03:34:00 +0000

There is no doubt that quick response is necessary when dealing with an exponentially spreading virus.

Yet some countries, notably the US, tried to dodge the problem. Mathematically, they could have lost a couple million lives and come out with little economic disruption.

That failed when it became obvious that an overflow of healthcare facilities would make this plan a very noisy and unpleasant affair.

So they changed horses and tried to mitigate viral growth with "stay home" and "personal distance."

These weak measures got them into the worst of both worlds. Now any direction they go will fail.

Suppression of virus -- would require measures that would lead to major social upheaval.
Continue Stay-home -- social upheaval plus economic stagnation.
Open up all -- return to virus exponential growth, which increase fear of going to work.

Astroturf group begging for a chance to spread the virus

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:08:00 +0000

photo by @joshuabickel

Billionaires have bailed themselves out. Now they want us back at work. They organized astroturf groups to beg for death. But there are people are really suffering. The money handed to the banks and hedge funds should have been used to make healthcare, education, and public transit free. In addition, everyone should be guaranteed housing.

#Autosprawl #Meltdown

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 07:57:00 +0000

Two iconic photos taken today. The first, cars lined up at the @safoodbank. The second, a mass grave being filled in NYC’s Hart Island park. pic.twitter.com/H8suMFgeLd
— Scott Gilmore (@Scott_Gilmore) April 10, 2020

The corona virus has exposed for all to see that the US system is unsustainable. People have cars, but cannot afford food. According to engineers the US sprawl infrastructure needs $3T in maintenance and repair just to make it safe. The #autosprawl system has been a misallocation of resources. It was already crumbling and now its fragility is obvious.

This is why helicopter money will not work -- #autosprawlmeltdown

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 00:19:00 +0000

Hundreds of cars wait to receive food from the Greater Community Food Bank in Duquesne. Collection begins at noon. @PghFoodBank @PittsburghPG pic.twitter.com/94YFaO7dqX
— Andrew Rush (@andrewrush) March 30, 2020

Free public transit now in 17 US metro areas due to corona virus

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 02:33:00 +0000

The US count of free public transit in response to Corona virus is now 17 metro areas. This will take pressure off people who need to get to essential jobs. Healthcare, cleaning, trash pickup, power supply, food transport, food delivery... there are many just to keep the basics working.

The US Congress is actually discussing handing over trillions of dollars to billionaires. This money would be better spent on free services.

Instead of bailing out hedge funds, why not have universal free healthcare, free public transit, free education, and guaranteed housing.