Rep. Kennedy's Democratic Response

Experienced Financial Analyst Warns of Huge Collapse

Well-known financial analyst Jim Rogers is expecting the biggest financial collapse of his life-time in the next few years according to the web site linked to below.  This startling prediction is contained in an interview he gave to Business Insider.

Other experts have been giving similar warnings over the last several years.  The main problem is the increasing appearance of economic "bubbles" which are cropping up again, according to Rogers.

His interview here is filled with historic facts providing context -- and a most urgent warning.  

Experienced Financial Analyst Warns of Impending Economic Collapse

A Useful Corporation Watchdog

The link below takes you to a web site which usefully monitors corporations and their misuse of power.  Though British-based, the web site has much useful information and many resources to help the citizen monitor global corporations.

We live in a time of unprecedented corporate power, with often dire consequences for the earth's people.  If information is power, this web site can help reverse the current flow of power.   

http://www.corporatewatch.org

Staying Abreast

Today I will be up-dating my knowledge of current events.  I will have more to say later.

In the meantime, I am almost finished with Move Fast and Break Things, a path-breaking work by Jonathan Taplin.  This is a book which is difficult to over-praise, what with its ample research and breadth of understanding regarding the underminers of democracy.  About this, too, I will have more to say soon.

Move fast and reconstruct things? 

Have Transgender Advocates Gone Too Far?

 This subject is not one I would have been likely to deal with in the past.  However, as transgender advocates have moved into the public schools to lecture to students reportedly as young as elementary age, it is appropriate to begin to examine this issue more closely.

Personally, I am for the maximum freedom for most people, excluding the harming of others or oneself.  In this particular rather narrow case it appears harm has been done.  You are invited to see for yourself in the following brief example.

Born a boy, Patrick Mitchell spent the past two years living as a girl after being diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Then six months ago, the unthinkable happened - 14-year-old Patrick changed his mind. Full story: https://t.co/8wZoArDsne #60Mins pic.twitter.com/yOV2lSJxRY

— 60 Minutes Australia (@60Mins) January 15, 2018

Greek Church Condemns Racism; Joins Conference

Photo of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King at link below

The Greek Orthodox Church in America has joined with other Christians in condemning racism in America and around the world.  They have  joined with numerous other Christian churches in a new effort to oppose racism.   There is more information at the link below.

On this national holiday honoring Rev. King, his message is more pertinent -- and urgent --than ever.   


Greek Church Condemns Racism

Saturday Poetry

SONG OF MYSELF

by 

Walt Whitman

                    1

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you,
I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, formed from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
Creeds and schools in abeyance,
Retiring back awhile sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,
I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,
Nature without check with original energy. 


excerpt from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Progress for Workers

Quick Link --

New York City has come up with an innovative way to support workers' right to organize -- by making it easier to join non-union organizations which advocate for higher wages and benefits.  This appears to be a major advance for workers.   
 

The New York Times article:
Progress for Workers

Is There an Intelligent Choice on Marijuana Policy?

As the federal Department of Justice announces U. S. attorneys will no longer look the other way in states which have legalized recreational marijuana use, the rational individual looks for a smart alternative.  Is there an approach other than legalization on the one hand, and going after individual users on the other?

The people at an organization called Smart Approaches to Marijuana say yes.  You can read more about there mission at the link below.

Surely, we do not need another "Big Tobacco" in this country.  And recreational marijuana use does, afterall, involve smoking -- an activity which is not healthy no matter what you put in the pipe.  


A Smarter Choice on Marijuana?