Month: June 2019

Hunting in the wilderness: How Bill de Blasio, Kirsten Gillibrand and others are straining to connect with Democratic primary voters

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, and the junior senator from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand, are both running for president. But a third candidate from New York seemed to get a far more rapturous reception in South Carolina this weekend: Andrew Yang, the tech entrepreneur whose campaign is largely predicated on his call for a $1,000 monthly cash payment to every American. In amusing contrast to his understated, affable manner, Yang appeared to have the most boisterous klatch of supporters following him around from event to event, perhaps rivaling only Bernie Sanders for that distinction. Rep. James Clyburn, the grand poobah of the weekend’s festivities, introduced him as “the leader of the Yang Gang” to roars of approval at Clyburn’s namesake Fish Fry, held Friday night in Columbia.
— Read on www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-hunting-in-the-wilderness-20190624-crqqdlymijantaem775bfjjnzq-story.html

Debt Slavery – Why It Destroyed Rome, Why It Will Destroy Us Unless It’s Stopped

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end up being overthrown by tyrants or develop internal rivalries as some families decide to “take the multitude into their camp” and usher in democracy, within which an oligarchy emerges once again, followed by aristocracy, democracy, and so on throughout history.
— Read on www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/02/debt-slavery-why-it-destroyed-rome-why-it-will-destroy-us-unless-its-stopped/