Like many others, I have been hanging on every statement made by Bernie and his campaign since the Primaries 'ended'. He has chosen his words carefully, using semantics which most of the time leave room for an interpretation other than "he will eventually concede and endorse".
On July 23rd in Philly, The People's Convention will let anyone who attends vote on ratifying planks for a People's Platform at an all day event at the Historic Arch Street Meeting House.
The common comment:
Hillary Clinton has admitted her past mistakes.
One: admitting your mistakes when all the data shows you that they were indeed mistakes is hardly groundbreaking.
Two: admitting a mistake is not the same thing as learning from it
The ideal of course is not making the mistake in the first place based upon the data at the time especially when many others warn that it would be a mistake in the first place.
When you mention revolution, most people’s thoughts tend to scenarios that begin with pitchforks, proceed to guillotines, and end up in the Gulag. No doubt there are revolutions that have ended badly, betraying the people for whom they were putatively staged and directing violence at them rather than the overseers of the regime that made revolution necessary.
Many Hillary supporters may be outraged at the reach around being carried out on Bernie supporters by the Democratic Party.
I expect this humid and somewhat glutinous embrace to continue well into November; so Hillary Supporters better get used to it, but don't worry, if things go as planned it will end sometime in January 2017 when positions in the administration are doled out.
The socialist government of French President François Hollande has decided to play hardball with both the student and trade union movements, setting up a showdown with a very uncertain outcome. The government threatens to completely outlaw protests against the recently passed labor reform bill that would dismantle the social safety net currently enjoyed by French workers.
On Friday, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the case of Gavin Grimm v Gloucester County School Board to proceed in district court.
GCSB had asked that the case be put on hold while they prepare a writ of certiorari...an appeal to the Supreme Court.
There are the 4 major components to economic growth.
1) Energy
2) Resources
3) Workforce growth
4) Productivity increases.
We’ve hit peak oil, peak fish, peak iron. Workforce growth peaked at around 1970 in the US. Of these 4 components only productivity has been increasing during the last 30 years. This is why 6% to 12% economic growth hasn’t been seen in decades.
This story, the video, Finding Freedom Amid Ruins: The Free Runners of Gaza fills me with such sadness... too much to contain alone in my room in front of my screen. It all seems so sci-fi-dystopia but it's real. Haunting.
Clara sat in an aisle seat at the performance hall of the Hochstein School of Music and Dance, smiling at us, holding her sheet music, because she would lead off the evening's program. Relaxed, she happily chatted with her mother, brother, sister-in-law, one niece and our adult children. Clara was about to walk onto a stage for the first time in decades and perform, but looked as if she had not a care in the world. I, on the other hand, was terrified.
