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Diaries

So many interesting HRC Diaries Showing up at TOP

Take a look at this one:
A 17 Year Old Meets Mrs. Clinton in 1991... And It Changes His Life: A Look At The "Real" Hillary.
It reads really really smoothly - effortless for the reader to sail through from beginning to end. By the time you are done all your objections to Hillary will be forgiven and forgotten.

Bernie's Magic Carpet Ride T-10: NY Polling Trend Lines

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We're featuring the NY polls every day until the election in 10 days on 19 April. NY has 247 delegates at stake. Plus, the little matter of momentum and narrative.

Bernie met the delegate math target in his WI win of 57% and will get another little bounce in Wyoming today. Then the magic carpet flies high as it can to get over the NY wall. Have you been noticing all the tremors beneath the other campaign and all the little cracks spreading throughout the NY wall? Cool, eh?
Below are the graphs from Huffpo. Also, Steppenwolf.

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Sword

It is an anachronism. It belongs to the era before computers. It is a fountain pen made by Parker. The body is gray-green with a silver top and a clip in a faded gold tone. If you look on the base you can barely see the engraved name of "Jack Wilson." The pen is so old it doesn't take cartridges. You fill it from a bottle of ink. This pen is a part of history. It belonged to my Dad.

Personal Resilience: Resources On Growing Food

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Good morning. Could we gather and share some of c99's favourite media resources on growing food?
Let's have a link collection of resources for growing food you like:
Internet site links, magazine links, government links, community links, store links, etc.
Let's hear about where you find help and information to grow your own food.
More yummy goodness below...

Local Resilience: Transition Town Totnes - the model for local sustainability

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Here is some information on the original Transition Town, Totnes in England, taken from their website
http://www.transitiontowntotnes.org/
Thanks to gulfgal for the transition town topic on this week's Wednesday OT.
I made four topic extracts:
1. Local Currency
2. Local Skills
3. Local Economy
4. Local Food
Please see more below.

Local Resilience: Democratic Socialism - Small Is Beautiful Part 1/4

The impact of Bernie Sanders is becoming the topic of 2016. Folks everywhere are marvelling at the popularity of his ideas. They're so mainstream! What is this democratic socialism he's on about? This diary series will explore the outlines of Bernie's economic philosophy. We will do so using an oldie, but a goodie, the post-WWII British economist E.F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful (1973). It is subtitled "Economics As If People Mattered."

We will follow the four parts of the book very closely and attempt to tie it to Bernie's economics, beginning in part two and onward.
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 :=)
Please follow me for more below for the democratic-socialist corrective to the dismal science.

Panama and WhichHillary

Lots of commentary has been devoted to HRC's flurry of flip-flops, one that could easily fill one of Imelda Markos's shoe closets. However, there are other questionable aspects of HRC's behavior unrelated to flip-flops. One aspect is her plan for HRC's policies on Wall Street Reform. On TOP there is an excellent pro-Hillary diary by Ollie Garchie. Unlike many anti-Hillary stories and pro-Hillary diaries "over there", the "tone" of OG's diary is laudable, factual and almost compelling.

Speaking of Margaret Archer, She's a Brilliant Social Scientist Who Deserves Our Study as Such


Intro
I wanted to get us thinking strategically and even forgivingly about this issue. I cross-posted this at TOP early this evening and got some interesting discussion. As I said in one of my replies to critical questioning:

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