Okay, the Russia thing was funny. "Omigod the Russians hacked the DNC database and discovered everything the DNC hid from the American people!" Thus concludes the tragedy of Hillary Rodham Clinton, who almost became an American feminist icon by marrying into her husband's business.
Yesterday we decided to brave the cold and ride our bikes to yoga. Cold is relative of course, was up to 40F with a wind. Thinking about the Water Protectors spurred us on, up there in North Dakota where cold is damn cold.
I've been reading about this for a few days in various locations, then I ran across this essay by Bob Henson at Weather Underground that covers most of it. Lots of images and links, well worth a read.
The entire Southeastern United States has been in a drought this entire year. There has not been significant rainfall for some time, including Transylvania, County in North Carolina where I spend much of my time.
The election distraction lingers on. Meanwhile everyone is gearing up to spend like crazy for the "holidays". The only real way to try to stop the onslaught we are making on the climate is to change our habits in a big way. What better way to start than by not spending except for what we really need to live?
Note: I published this on TOP/DK
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/9/1594327/-The-globe-of-globaliz...
The globe of globalization does not exist. Is there safe land we can return to?
This essay is really just a slightly edited email reply I sent to an old friend I’ve known since grammar school. I’ll be 81 next month and he’s a year older so it isn’t as if we haven’t had time and experience enough to analyze what is going on in our lives, our country, our planet, and our minds. I’m afraid I just let my annoyance show, but I think it may just be time. The paragraphs between the asterisks are the pertinent part of an email he sent me.
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The Sensible Futures Party.
Our platform:
1) phase out fossil fuel production according to the general template given here
2) a community garden in every suburb -- use eminent domain to take over vacant lots
3) redirect the military toward climate change mitigation work
We'll ne'er see the likes o'ye again.
Revolutions through out history, while not all the same in nature or cause, do have a common thread that runs through every revolution, the disenchantment of the masses. This isn't to say that just because we don't agree with the prevailing Zeitgeist, we should over turn the apple cart so to speak. I firmly believe that we have to expose the prevailing Zeitgeist for the fraud that it truly is, through a sustained information campaign, ie a propaganda war if you will.
