A new addition to the recommended Videos here on Progressives Chat is Hezakya Newz & Films.
I came across this YouTube video channel—which dates back nearly ten years—in January 2022. And, with this week ending February and beginning March, and with a planned blog topic coming soon (which will include this source), this is a good time to recommend it to readers here at Progressives Chat.
Much of Hezakya Newz & Films—described as “Music, Newz Parodies, Documentaries and Mash-Ups!!”—is like traveling through some history over the past few decades with news reports about issues which affected people politically and socially. (Fair warning: Numerous videos run more than one hour. But, there are plenty which are less than an hour—and some others run at a half-hour or less.)
It was not easy for me to select as examples just three videos. Due to not wanting to overwhelm this blog topic with excessive numbers of embedded videos, I chose to limit. I will summarize each one.
Published August 23, 2021: Part of the Family is a 1971 documentary broadcast on National Educational Television (NET), dissolved in 1970, but with some NET branding, replaced in 1969 by Public Broadcasting System (PBS). (Related article: We Lost One, We Don’t Want to Lose Another [Digitalized Version].) It documents the surviving family members of three young adults who were killed under political circumstance: Carmine Macedonio (1950–1970), from Long Island, New York, a soldier killed in the Vietnam War on December 7, 1970; Allison Krause (1951–1970), one of the four students who was killed after having been shot by the Ohio Army National Guard at Kent State University, in Kent, Ohio, on May 4, 1970; and Phillip Gibbs (1948–1970), one of two students—a married man with one son and whose wife was pregnant with their second son—who was killed by police gunfire at Jackson State University, in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 15, 1970. (Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes.)
Published June 24, 2021: “1978 Special Report: George Carlin’s 7 Dirty Worlds” is an interview with the legendary comedian (1937–2008), regarding Free Speech, and the “[United States] Supreme Court decision in FCC v. Pacifica Foundation that helped define the extent to which the federal government could regulate speech on broadcast television and radio in the United States.” (Duration: 13 minutes.)
Published November 30, 2018: “Rare Early 1980’s–90s Special Report: ‘AIDS’” is one video I have not watched, as of this publication date, and it is five hours in duration. (The comments—“I’m 62 now. Gay, lived through the [AIDS] years. I remember it like it was yesterday. Extreme horror. Intense constant fear. Friends dropping like flies all around me.… No offense but, for me, COVID–19 is a cakewalk”—have me moved to make time, coming up, to watch this.) As noted by Hezakya Newz & Films, it dates back to “June 1981 when the Centers for Disease Control [CDC] reported that five gay men in Los Angeles all died from a similar rare set of disease symptoms. Within two months 100 more gay men had died, and there was public awareness from [a] medical publication that some new disease existed.”
Marianne Williamson gets together this week with four ladies to discuss the “Congressional’ primaries.
Revolutionary Blackout host Compton Jay is not pleased. His video response, from February 3, 2022, is below. And, long story short, I am in agreement with his overall viewpoint. (It is just over two hours in its running time. But, it is worthy of viewing.)
Following his Substack piece, which was last week’s topic, Glenn Greenwald’s video is further commentary on the Democrats targeting Spotify’s Joe Rogan with censorship.
I will add the following: The Democrats are the Party of and for Censorship.
Note: I will have more to say on this in a future Progressives Chat. I made the choice to select Glenn Greenwald’s follow-up video as this week’s blog topic on Sunday [February 6, 2022]. I did have trouble—computer-related and Blogger-related—in which I came close to not successfully embedding the above video. While I am relieved, I am also not pleased. (I have already selected next week’s blog topic. So, even if something else comes up, I intend to leave that particular topic…be.)
“The emerging campaign to pressure Spotify to remove Joe Rogan from its platform is perhaps the most illustrative episode yet of both the dynamics at play and the desperation of liberals to ban anyone off-key. It was only a matter of time before this effort really galvanized in earnest. Rogan has simply become too influential, with too large of an audience of young people, for the liberal establishment to tolerate his continuing to act up. Prior efforts to coerce, cajole, or manipulate Rogan to fall into line were abject failures.”
Last week—well, Thursday, January 20, 2022—marked the one-year anniversary of Joe Biden having officially become the 46th president of the United States.
With his job-approval number still low—suggesting that, realistically, the incumbent Democrats will not be able to hold their majority in the United States House of Representatives (and, perhaps, United States Senate)—I came across some impressive content which helps to explain partly why Biden is terrible.
I submit this one excellent video, published to YouTube on January 21, 2022, by RT’s Caleb Maupin:
Old Man Stern
Former shock jock Howard Stern, who turned 68 on January 12, 2022, is reportedly guarded about COVID to a point in which he rarely leaves his residence.
Stern wants to, let’s say, ostracize people from society if they don’t get vaccinated. This would include denial of medical attention and care in hospitals.
Jimmy Dore had his fun with this, and the January 7, 2022 video is below, but I will mention this: In a 1990s book by Stern, he wrote how so much of NBC’s Saturday Night Live—and the people most famously attached to it (like original Not Ready for Primetime player Chevy Chase)—is no longer funny. He attributed this to the series, and much of its cast, with having gone from anti-establishment to becoming part of the establishment. Well, this is also what has happened with today’s Howard Stern.
Last month, Kim Iversen—who no longer publishes her videos to YouTube but who I was able to come across on Rokfin—told her viewing audience she will be voting for the Republican Party.
(Note to readers: An asterisk * appears before Kim Iversen’s name. This is how I will handle going forward any recommended Videos by any source not directly with YouTube.)
Iversen explained.
And I will quote the essential part of her statement in the following indents.
I think I have moved politically.
I always identified myself as liberal. My whole life—I have always been liberal.
The [Green Party] said they’re all about mandate and lockdown. They’re real iron fist about it. They said, “We’re about mandates. We’re about lockdowns. But, we’ll give you this. We’ll make sure your rent gets paid. We’ll get you food stipends. And you won’t lose your job or anything like that. But, we’re going to mandate you. Lockdown—and all that.” So, the Green Party is forever crossed off my list.
And, actually, at this point: I will never vote—until there is a real, serious shift in the political ideology of the Democrats (or in anybody in the Green Party platform themselves)—I will not vote for anyone—I don’t care how great candidate [he or she is]—I will not vote for [the Democrats] anymore.
I am calling it right now.
I will not vote for anyone who is a Democrat or a Green Party member. That means—they take money from the party, and the party expects them to fall in line. And because I feel, at this point, Democrats have done more damage to my life than any Republican has done to me…I will not vote for a single Democrat.
And, in fact, I am telling you right now.
I am voting Republican in both the next elections [2022 and 2024]. The election in the [2022] midterms—Straight Republican. I don’t care who they are. I won’t even look into them. I won’t even care. I’ll just go—“Republican!”
Because I know what the Republican platform is.
They’re against mandates.
Whether I agree completely with Kim Iversen—for her complete statement—is not important. What is important is that Iversen has informed and explained her position to her viewers. I understand. I very much understand. And, for me, I am rejecting the Democrats when it comes to my willingness to participate voting in general elections. If I was a resident in the state of Maine, with ranked-choice voting, I would assign the Democrats to last place. So, this video is one I appreciate. Perhaps readers will as well.
I will provide a link to the video below. Kim Iversen’s statement starts at about 30 minutes in. (I am not sure if I can embed the video. Progressives Chat is through Google. YouTube is owned by Google. And it may be that I cannot directly embed a video from Rokfin.)
