Would you like to find ways to make your local community more resilient, more viable, more self-sufficient? Democratic-Socialism emphasizes appropriate technology to develop local communities, especially in rural areas. We'll look briefly at E.F. Schumacher's chapter on Appropriate Technology in Small Is Beautiful. Then we'll look at the example of a small town in Bavaria, called Wilpoldsried, which macgyvered its way out of where corporatist "development" had left it for dead and into a profitable future using Renewable Energies, the very best appropriate technology for small communities. More below.

From the Huffington Post:

“I am society’s child. This is how they made me and now I’m saying’ what’s on my mind and they don’t want that. This is what you made me, America”
~2pac~

I think a society's quality is exemplified by the way it treats it's vulnerable and least empowered members. Let's examine how we are doing.

Listen to Lee Camp on his first segment of Redacted Tonight. The longer, full show (26 min) is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4LvFkelz0I

(re-titled and edited a bit. Probably shouldn't have posted it at 1AM on a weekday too, lol!)

A few weeks back at the GOS one of our fellow C99Peeps recommended in a thread that I should cross post a Diary I had written over here as he/she thought it contained some useful information.

We must mirror the message of Bernie now, while it's fresh. The governments are misbehaving, taking our money, and giving we the People nothing for it. More accurately, government taxes the Middle class, gives it to the 1%, and leaves us with very little for our contributions. Imagine if the cost of war could be eliminated. Then we could all get tax breaks!

Now, I've been collecting flags for a fair number of years.

Here's this week's.........mystery flag.