Breaking: South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik exchanged greetings with Kim Jong Un this morning before China's military parade, according to his office, as per Yonhap News. A rare moment of direct South-North contact in years. https://t.co/440HXkSjvc
Buy Nothing
In reading Robert Reich's new book, 'Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America' I came across something which is kind of like the 'Libraries of Everything' which Lee Camp wrote about, and which I featured in my last Open Thread. Why I didn't know about this project, considering that it was started literally miles away from my home, is beyond me.
Anyway this project is called 'Buy Nothing'. The project supports and enables people in sharing, recycling, all kinds of things. The project started on Bainbridge Island in WA state, and is now in something like 44 countries with 246,000 Buy Nothing communities. These communities help facilitate over 2.6M gifts per month.
From the Buy Nothing Webpage.
Been a busy holiday weekend. Didn't get a chance to read and respond to multiple posts on Saturday or Sunday.
So I'll riff off what I read yesterday, Monday.
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Would have been 79 today.
Some good funk on his keyboard.
~~ IWW Picnic Oakland 1939
The first myth to dispel is the notion that America is the shining city on the hill. Sadly the US is anything but...we are war profiteers spreading death and destruction around the world, that is the US business model. Another of the many myths is the idea Putin is the antichrist when in fact He is an Orthodox Christian in a secular nation with many faiths. The last myth I want to address is the concept that there are "chosen people" more important to "God" than any other. That belief provides for smug superiority and empowers them to mass murder the "unwanted". All of these myths (and many others) lead to the many wars and conflicts around the world.
