There is not even enough time to turn around our awful educational system. Young ones are lost unless we figure out how to stop rape and pillage of earth and creatures and try to come up with a Grand Undo.

Much to think about. But it takes many minds. Some may be here. But this is US-centric. And tick, tick. I think too much of that, off antidepressants now and suffering symptoms.

There is an on-going media
black-out about it and about
what is being called the French
Revolution 2.0, which followed
on its heels when Hollande
shoved "employment reforms"
(quite "legally") through the
French parliament with the
result of there now being what
amounts to a massive general
strike in France - as only the
French can protest/revolt with
not only blocked roads and petrol
stations but refineries actually
set ablaze to state just some of
what is going on.

I have learned about this from
those fluent in French translating
articles from the French press at
Moon of Alabama as well as less
sporadically a couple of other
sites.

We badly need someone with
similar French linguistic as well
as internet research skills here
at c99p. German, too, because
I read scattered mentions of
"actions" happening there, too.
Not to mention protests and
strikes in Britain that the
Guardian is only barely
mentioning and then only in its
UK edition but not its US and
AU editions.

Then there were the students
who died on their way to a
peaceful protest at the parliament
in Papua New Guinea - met with
live fire from police before they
hardly got their march to
protest corruption even under
way. Heard about this last night
on BBC World radio.

In short, the world is erupting in
protest against neoliberalism
and its attendant now in-our-
faces corruption.

There is much to be learned
across borders. The hour is
late.

Tick. Tock.

I'll see if I can get the MoA
commentator, who posts at
Booman Tribune to cross-post
here.

Meanwhile, a c99p member,
Wendy Davis has been covering
much of this at her Café Babylon
site. This site has just been so
smothered with blather about
Daily Kos and (S)elections that,
well ... other people at other
sites, some long-term members
here, are way beyond where
most people posting and
commenting here seem to be.

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock.

Edited to add:

Apologies for punctuation,
spelling, and grammar errors.
I'm typing on a blasted phone screen

Bernie paved the way for a peaceful revolution, where passionate progressives hold politicians' feet to the fire. It remains to be seen how well this will work. They subverted OWS pretty well. However, the ideas never die. As wide spread misery grows the stability of the system erodes.

If peaceful protest fails, then more disruptive protests must arise. Interestingly, the world has been testing high tech means of disruptive protests that make it hard to completely quash the movement.

Remember: during the American Revolution only about 1/3 of the people supported independence.

Politics is more than rhetoric. It is how you live your life.

John Dewey has made this argument more thoroughly than anyone I have ever read. I am surprised
that so few outside of online forums like this even know who he is, let alone the meaning of his most powerful, precise words:

Democracy is much broader than a special political form, a method of conducting government, of making laws and carrying on governmental administration by means of popular suffrage and elected officers. It is that, of course. But it is something broader and deeper than that. The political and governmental phase of democracy is a means, the best means so far found, for realizing ends that lie in the wide domain of human relationships and the development of human personality. It is, as we often say, though perhaps without appreciating all that is involved in the saying, a way of life, social and individual.
The key-note of democracy as a way of life may be expressed, it seems to me, as the necessity for the participation of every mature human being in formation of the values that regulate the living of men together: which is necessary from the standpoint of both the general social welfare and the full development of human beings as individuals. John Dewey, On Democracy

In other words, as Bernie has been saying right along, We're all in this Together.

Too bad we are being told its Hillary's World and we're just living in it.

Petraeus overlapped HRC while she was SoS at USCENT Comm and head of CIA before he got a wrist slap. They were both operating at the behest of someone else. BHO happened to be POTUS.

Am I getting warmer?

ago on that very topic:

"The Birth of a Movement, the
End of Democracy"

It is worth reading and rereading
as are the 90+ comments it
garnered, most of which are
excellent in themselves.

I highly recommend everyone
not only read the essay and
comments but study them,
then contribute comments of
your own as you feel inclined.

http://caucus99percent.com/content/birth-movement-end-democracy

thank you