Morning resilience c99ers. Some of you are living in rural areas on acreages. I'm in a village in rural Ontario, planning to buy an acreage next year, when our last child graduates high school. I've made a list of property search criteria for the happy day when we can go look. I wonder if it might be helpful for you, and also if you might have additions, modifications, links, resources, and/or stories of your property search to share.
More below the grass.

The mind control is everywhere. The only way to become more free is by leading an intentional counter-culture lifestyle, practicing daily conscientization in one's own being and using every single opportunity to conscientize one's children.

The single best place to conscientize one's immediate family, especially the children, is the Family Dinner Table. More below.

him in the hallway?

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Pope meets with Bernie Sanders, thanks him for addressing Vatican on the 'moral economy'

Vatican City - Pope Francis met US presidential candidate Bernie Sanders on Saturday morning before leaving for a visit to the Greek island of Lesbos, a participant at the meeting said.

How well do you know the democratic socialism that Bernie is reviving across the continent? When you discuss with friends what Bernie means, do you have the full picture? Corporatist capitalism has erased most of FDR's New Deal democratic socialism and today's people have no memory of it. It is most helpful to have a general overview of the benefits of democratic socialism when talking with capitalist-formed people.
Here's Part One: http://caucus99percent.com/content/local-resilience-democratic-socialism...
This diary series explores the outlines of Bernie's economic philosophy. We do so using a famous book that came out when a young Bernie Sanders was forming his economic philosophy: Small Is Beautiful (1973), by the post-WWII British economist E.F. Schumacher. It is subtitled "Economics As If People Mattered." We follow the four parts of the book very closely and attempt to tie it to Bernie's economics. Have no fear: there's no technical language, or math, or any Marx. Well, it's a long-form essay and the language is from the 70s, but so am I :=) Don't be deterred: read it in stages.

If you'd like to see a town that has transitioned to democratic socialism, see Totnes, a small market town in Devon, England, the town that created the Transition Town movement:
http://caucus99percent.com/content/local-resilience-transition-town-totn...
http://www.transitiontowntotnes.org/
Please follow me for more below for the democratic-socialist corrective to the dismal science.

Good morning early birds. Here's a little bit of seed for thought over coffee. Tear along the edge for more.

Many Bernie-supporters currently discuss the Vatican visit and other issues. That is understandable BUT the danger is that we lose time and energy that we need to help Bernie win NY. Let's use the time to phonebank or canvass NOW!

Bernie asked for our help:

Dear friend,

So when you're in the market for some heavy weaponry, up to and including guided missiles, you don't need a friendly government. Or an arms broker. Or the dark web. You can just go to Facebook!

Once upon a time, there was this commune where all the creatures tried to get along. There was always an inherent contradiction because some critters are herbivores and some critters are carnivores. But, hey, a critter's gotta do what a critter's gotta do. There was an unwritten law (mainly because most critters, including this alligator, can't write) that the Kings of the commune were Pigs. This followed the model of all critters are equal except some critters are more equal (i.e.

all kinds of people, wasting time. They're writing diaries such as this one:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/4/12/1514587/-No-I-Will-Not-Vote-Blue...

when they could be posting here to an appreciative audience. Instead they're being hiderated into oblivion.

We need to recruit these people.

          It suddenly (about 10 minutes ago) occurred to me that the readers of this blog may not be aware of the significance of moving from Kearney, Nebraska to Medford, Oregon.
          I am not just moving from the High Plains to a mountainous Mediterranean environment. I am also moving into the heart of "The State Of Jefferson" and as a "free thinking", socialistic, atheistic native of Oregon this is a big deal.