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“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.” ~ Andrew Carnegie

The subtitle of this book is "How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet." Okay so why am I reviewing a book that was published in 2017? Mostly it's because with the ascension of Bernie Sanders' second campaign, the elites are getting desperate. And so Michael Bloomberg to the rescue!

December 2 is day 336 of the Gregorian Calendar year,
Sweetmorn, The Aftermath 44, 3185 YOLD (discordian),
And let us not forget 13.0.7.0.17 by the Mayan Long Count

Just in case any Democrat still asleep wondering how we could ever get a Donald Trump after Obama... it was a perfect storm of events but this one clip serves as a stark reminder of how the Party failed us. https://t.co/IlW6caAtYd

— Xzamistletoe (@Xzamilloh) December 1, 2019

Incremental Change

Leftover Potluck

Another holiday come and gone. I hope yours was rewarding. Visiting with family can be a two edged sword - sometimes stressful and combative, other times pleasant and fulfilling. We see one another rarely these days so it tends to be pleasant. My Mom is 88, so I'm glad to spend some time with her while I can. Both my sisters were there this year, one having returned from a tour of teaching in China. They are close to the same age and they have had issues in the past, but all was well this year. This week I thought I would pull together several sources I've collected but not posted and serve a smorgasbord of ideas from food to politics to the economy. Let's begin by getting back to the garden...

As we all know, polls take sampling averages from historic trends.
For instance, old white people vote. Young brown people generally don't vote. That's just the way it is.
But what if that trend suddenly changes?

Via Stop Imperialism in Latin America, Nov. 29, 2018, counterpunch.org.  As the petition’s already in the commons, I’ll paste in the complete English version (there’s one in Spanish, as well.)  The situation for Morales supporters is getting worse everyday; the Tweets I’ve seen over the past few days have made smoke come out of my ears, and my heart and stomach sick.  I may bring a few at the bottom.

“Following months of destabilization, on November 10, 2019, the legitimate, constitutional, democratically-elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, was driven at gunpoint out of office and the country by the US and its allies, among them Bolivian fascists and several members of the Organization of American States (OAS), including Canada. This latest aggression follows centuries of colonial, imperialist, and neo-colonial conquest and plunder of the Indigenous-majority population of Bolivia.

It seems it was official yesterday that Tulsi reached the 200,000 unique donor threshold to qualify for the December debate!

Winter has finally hit. Shoveled all paths to the livestock three times between yesterday morning and this evening. Today's week's is a little short on words and long on videos.
Thought you might find information on the The 90+ Study interesting. It was initiated in 2003 and had followed individuals for 11 years at the time of the videos.

The Chilean protests forced the government to roll back its austerity measures, and even to hold a referendum on changing the Constitution, but the protesters still aren't satisfied.