caucus99percent

free-range politics, organic community

Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

There is a systemic and fundamental change going on in the global economy and it's time to pay attention.
With our economy and financial media engineered toward consumption, falling commodity prices generally don't register for most Americans. However, there are significant shocks from a collapsing commodity market that need to be recognized as non-negligible.

First of all, consider the polls.
Bloomberg Poll.

Military 'Not Disputing' Assessment

"No one is free when others are oppressed."
Anon

I wrote a diary in 2010 over at DKOS on Human Rights. It got little to no interest. What interest there was concerned a perceived slight against Transgendered persons. Two years later I re-wrote that diary, adding to, and subtracting from the first one in hopes that folks would finally hear me. It didn't fly then either.

I am going to try again here.

There is an old Kurdish saying that goes, “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains.”

UPDATE 2/8/15 -

Federal Election Called For Oct. 19, Governor General Dissolves Parliament

in this place or in any other place
may there come abundant peace
grace, lovingkindness, and compassion
long life
ample sustenance, and salvation

may there be abundant peace from heaven
and good life
satisfaction, help, comfort, refuge
healing, redemption, forgiveness, atonement
relief, and salvation

In December 2013, Shaun Donovan, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, gave this warning:

"We are in the midst of the worst rental affordability crisis that this country has known."

Few paid attention to the warning, and of those who did, even fewer would have guessed that the crisis had only just started.