Tuesday April 10, 1906
San Francisco, California - Police Attack Protest of Workingmen
I'm a recent refugee here from DK. I had relegated myself to lurk status over there, not commenting since 2013 and not posting a diary since 2011. I enjoy a political argument as much (if not more) than anybody, but I enjoy principled debate, where the exchange of ideas is paramount, not the exchange of personal insults, which is what DK has degenerated into over the years.
The pundits are all abuzz about whether or not Bernie Sanders has a "path to victory" in the Democratic primaries. Handicapping the horse race in all its minutiae from "the true math" to speculation over superdelegates and the size of campaign war chests fills the airwaves and plugs the tubes of the internets.
They are talking, largely, about a victory within the arcane electoral rules set up by the parties, but they are generally studiously ignoring the elephant in the room - the struggle of the 99% to achieve political and economic power.
Underneath all of the bloviating and rhetoric, power is what the so-called insurgent candidacies are really about.
In the latest round of Bill Clinton playing whack-a-black, I choose to disagree with the assessment of some Hillary supporters who feel Bill Clinton was unfairly treated after his reaction to a few Black Lives Matters (BLM for short) protestors, which included his impassioned defense of the policies he put in place to be "tough on crime" back in the nineties.
The little seen world of global weapons trade ... is about to be exposed.
Monday April 9, 1906
Boise, Idaho - George H. Shoaf Reports for Appeal to Reason
By now, everyone that's been paying attention knows of the Panama Papers and the scandal that has erupted across the globe.
FYI, this diary has also been crossposted over at Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/9/1513067/-Taibbi-Why-the-Banks-S...
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.
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.
