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Qualitative Difference

I believe we should write a lot about all of Bernie's DNC picks, as I want to know more about all of them.

Here's something from Cornel West to give a taste of his brilliance. I, for one, am very interested in what he will say at the Convention. I can learn a lot from him, and from the other choices Bernie made. I don't even want to mention the other names because I'll get sidetracked in awe over them.

I think we're long overdue for another Banjo Interlude

Not from me, this time, though. This is my friend "Whitey", and his composition "Can of Cream Corn"...only playable by him, because he is the only banjo player that plays the way he does. He invented a whole new style. I played opposite him in a jam a couple weeks ago, and was just amazed watching him play (my banjo).

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o5SvLVhCeY]

I Don't Think Hillary Is Going to Act on This

Today at Truth-out.org Dahr Jamail chronicles the continuing degradation of the ecosystem which nurtured humankind from primate to homo sapiens. The title, "Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration Has Passed the Point of No Return," says it all. The impacts from ocean acidification and oxygen depletion, coral bleaching and disappearing Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets as well as glacial melting occurring at unanticipated rates far ahead of predictions.

FBI investigation widens: Clinton Initiative and Terry McAuliffe Under Investigation

We've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. And when it does, will we even know for sure that the shoe is dropping?

Because this looks like a shoe dropping right now--

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/23/politics/terry-mcauliffe-fbi-doj-federal-i...

Strange, Ominous, and Unreal

A storm is coming. A political storm, an economic storm, a global storm of catastrophic climate change consequences, an existential storm that will rage from the shores of America to the Pacific Rim, from the steppes of Eurasia to the oil fields of the Middle East, from the vanishing ice cap of the polar north to the vanishing ice cap of the polar south and everywhere in between.

Edith Wharton . . .

The End Of The World

Allow me to briefly recapitulate. The London Interbank Offer Rate, or Libor as it's commonly called, is supposed to be the interest rate international banks charge their most credit worthy customers, other banks.

It is primer than prime and the basis for most other calculations of interest rates, the amount charged to purchase money, throughout the global economy.

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