Hi guys!
Sorry I missed the last one, with family in town I haven't had a second to do anything but clean and entertain, lol!
I sent them all off to Disney Land as present for my wife's graduatio, for a few days of a quite house for me, and of course, to allow me to able to hang with my C99P Peeps for tonight's primary. 
Yes, there are people on this world who hate Bernie Sanders' supporters so much that they have posted the "recipe" for this very real, very dangerous and possibly fatal homemade (you can get all the ingredients at Walmart!) explosive device. [WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS AS IT MAY LEAD TO INJURY OR DEATH]
Corporatist economics creates giant, global business organizations and concentrates property ownership into the hands of oligarchs. Corporatist economics creates massive obstacles to property accumulation for ordinary individuals.
"True dat, G, but how does that relate to local or personal sufficiency? Such topics seem to be more macro-economic in nature, rather than local or personal. What gives?"
Well, I have little hope of democratic-socialism ever being imposed from the top down. Nor should it. Democratic-socialism should be built from the bottom up. We need to work democratic-socialist principles into the social fabric of our local communities and spread the good news from there.
Very, very few progressives know anything about democratic-socialist principles; we've been immersed in corporatist culture all our lives. We know what we're against, but we struggle to imagine the alternative and how to implement it. This series presents the alternative; you can find it in the Resilience Group's essay queue. Part 4 starts below.
It is a long interview but makes one wish for the return of this witty perceptive voice.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/05/09/jon-stewart-returns-shred-thin-sk...
clock in the sky says quarter to twice
we roll again
So the world, it was supposed to end yesterday. But, it didn't.
This is common. The world, it is, forever, recurrently, rhythmically, ending. Or so, some, always, are saying. But, it never seems to actually, happen.
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Edward Snowden (yes, that one) has an interesting piece up over at The Intercept on the moral and ethical difference between leaking for personal benefit (yes, that is bad and deserving of punishment) and whistleblowing to expose corruption and abuse (yes, that is good and should not be punished).
I think an important consideration besides qui bono is also the power relationship of the discloser (to use a neutral term) to the establishment status quo and whether the disclosure is perceived as advancing the establishment's objectives or sabotaging them.
Take for example the Greenpeace exposure (also a nice neutral term) of TTIP proposals yesterday. One could argue that Greenpeace is powerful, but not very in relationship to sovereign governments and certainly the individual members are not very powerful at all. Then there is the fact that public knowledge reveals policies that most people would not support. In Germany TTIP polls only 15% favorable and I'd predict that number would fall except that most of that 15% (which is pretty rock bottom but not as bad as United States citizens is about their Congress) have a vested interest (personal benefit) from its passage.
Have no doubts about it, if Germany doesn't approve TTIP it won't happen.
Anyway here are some excerpts to think about.
Today was the first day to mail in your absentee ballots for CA primary.
Just confirmed my registration, and applied for a mail ballot. I would register to vote here in my university town, but marijuana felons can't vote here. So I'll just keep doing absentee votes for CA like I did in 2012.
Former top aide to Ed Rendell, John H. Estey is scheduled to plead guilty to wire fraud in Federal court in Harrisburg on Tuesday. He apparently created a scheme to funnel illegal campaign contributions to state law makers.
I pick Washington and Eisenhower.
