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    1. John:

      Fan is stretching it. I voted for Kasich in the primaries. Later I was impressed with Trump’s standing up to the Clintons and the corporate media. Many of his positions were a significant improvement on the other choices. I was convinced that it was essential to close the book on the Bush-Clinton dynasties. I strongly recommend you read the commentaries I wrote during the campaign, particularly “Cut and Run.”

      On climate change, I am still looking for the intelligence necessary to have an opinion. See https://solari.com/blog/this-changes-everything/

      Change will come from what we each do in our everyday lives. It will not come from Washington.

      Questions welcome.

      Catherine

    1. They are improving the actuarial assumptions on SS and Medicare and Medicaid by lowering life expectancies. This is the backdoor of balancing the federal budget costs of “deplorables.”

  3. Regards the “Precariat”

    ‘A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All: The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningfu’l
    by Charles Hugh Smith is an excellent start at an answer to localized work for all with a “money” system based on such work.

  4. Catherine, have you seen the following brief article by Sean Kerrigan on Dmitri Orlov’s website? (http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2016/10/bureaucratic-insanity-is-progressing.html) The article discusses the thesis of his new book, Bureaucratic Insanity. It’s so interesting because I feel he’s right about bureaucrats’ level of frustration and rage – but at a deeper level, perhaps more evidence of a Chuck-E-Cheese-style op? I’d love to know your thoughts.

    Thanks so much for all you do!

    Kathy C.
    Chicago

    1. Kathy:

      Fascinating post. It is true that bureaucrats are being put in an impossible situation with more and more rules – in the aggregate which often do not make sense or are legally or financially overwhelming. And the threats to them are horrible. I am been reading Scott Adams series on safety and laughing my head off: http://dilbert.com

      I do think that Chuck E. Cheese technology is at work in a lot of these situation.

      This is why it is so important that we understand the model debate at the fundamental level is human vs. inhuman and power comes from choosing human and doing our best to stand for human in all that we say and do.

      I have ordered his book. Worth a look.

      Catherine

      1. Great, Catherine! I look forward to your review or comments (although I hate to contribute to your delinquency as a compulsive book buyer!).

        K

  5. Dear Catherine,

    Sharing with you (and interested subscribers) a glimpse of Heaven, a balm for the anxious soul (especially moving are the Barbara Bonney soprano bits): https://youtu.be/5QfJC7bXeZw . Proof positive that God exists.

    Enjoy!

    Teresa

  7. Hello Catherine,
    I am sending you a book called, “The Fourfold Path to Healing” by Dr. Thomas Cowan, MD. The
    chapter on the heart may be of particular interested to you, because
    it presents an interesting model of how the heart works that is
    different than the one now taught. The author contends that a new
    understanding of the heart could have profound implications for our
    society in more ways than just bodily health. Be well.

    Chad

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