The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, that is. See this article on the DNC chair's corporate cock-sucking, which is what it is. Note that both Sanders and Warren are against it and have proposed other bills to address the issue. Some excerpts:
"DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz just signed onto a bill that would
gut the agency conceived by progressive icon Elizabeth Warren. Rep. Schultz (D-Florida) is cosponsoring H.R. 4018,
which, among other things, delays the Consumer Financial Protection
Bureau’s regulations on payday lenders for two years. The regulations
are meant to stop the practice of 'turned' loans, which are additional
loans borrowers are forced to take on to pay back the abnormally-high
interest rates attached to payday loans, which then leads to a cycle of
debt for the borrower. According to an internal memo obtained by the Huffington Post, Schultz is not only cosponsoring the bill, but is enlisting Democratic support for the measure."
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
538 calls it for Clinton, again
538
is more convinced than ever that Clinton has it. And they're probably
right. Still, Sanders has galvanized us and we'll continue to organize
and fight for what's right despite the corrupt Dem Party machine.
Jill Stein on the DNC and Sanders
Dr. Stein is a Green Party candidate for President of the US. Some excerpts of this article:
“But unfortunately he [Sanders] is in a party that has a track record for basically sabotaging its rebels. [...] The Democratic Party has its ways of reigning people in if they try to rebel. The bottom line is that we are in political system in the U.S., which is funded by predatory banks and fossil fueled giants and war profiteers. So, we really need to reject that system, we say to reject the lesser evil so we can stand up and really fight for the greater good.”
“But unfortunately he [Sanders] is in a party that has a track record for basically sabotaging its rebels. [...] The Democratic Party has its ways of reigning people in if they try to rebel. The bottom line is that we are in political system in the U.S., which is funded by predatory banks and fossil fueled giants and war profiteers. So, we really need to reject that system, we say to reject the lesser evil so we can stand up and really fight for the greater good.”
Chomsky's 11 principles of oligarchy
See this article for the details. Just the bullet points follow.
1. Reduce Democracy.
2. Shape Ideology.
3. Redesign the Economy.
4. Shift the Burden.
5. Attack Solidarity.
6. Run the Regulators.
1. Reduce Democracy.
2. Shape Ideology.
3. Redesign the Economy.
4. Shift the Burden.
5. Attack Solidarity.
6. Run the Regulators.
We are live creatures
Continuing from the last post, see this article of the above name. E.g., this from p. 21 on embodied nonduality and its creative aspects, the latter emphasized in Bryant's synthetic a priori:
"Pragmatism is characterized by (1) a profound respect for the richness, depth, and complexity of human experience and cognition, (2) an evolutionary perspective that appreciates the role of dynamic change in all development (as opposed to fixity and finality), and (3) recognition that human cognition and creativity arise in response to problematic situations that involve values, interests, and social interaction. The principle of continuity encompasses the fact that apparently novel aspects of thought and social interaction arise naturally via increased complexity of the organism-environment interactions that constitute experience. Pragmatists thus argue that all of our traditional metaphysical and epistemological dualisms (e.g., mind/body, inner/outer, subject/object, concept/percept, reason/emotion, knowledge/imagination, and theory/practice) are merely abstractions from the interactive (enactive) process that is experience. Such distinctions are not absolute ontological dichotomies. Sometimes they serve us well, but oftentimes they serve us quite poorly, depending on what problems we are investigating, what values we have, and what the socio-cultural context is."
"Pragmatism is characterized by (1) a profound respect for the richness, depth, and complexity of human experience and cognition, (2) an evolutionary perspective that appreciates the role of dynamic change in all development (as opposed to fixity and finality), and (3) recognition that human cognition and creativity arise in response to problematic situations that involve values, interests, and social interaction. The principle of continuity encompasses the fact that apparently novel aspects of thought and social interaction arise naturally via increased complexity of the organism-environment interactions that constitute experience. Pragmatists thus argue that all of our traditional metaphysical and epistemological dualisms (e.g., mind/body, inner/outer, subject/object, concept/percept, reason/emotion, knowledge/imagination, and theory/practice) are merely abstractions from the interactive (enactive) process that is experience. Such distinctions are not absolute ontological dichotomies. Sometimes they serve us well, but oftentimes they serve us quite poorly, depending on what problems we are investigating, what values we have, and what the socio-cultural context is."
The splendor of the synthetic a priori
Synthetic a priori thought and magical thinking. See this
Bryant blog entry and wonder about the similarities and differences between
the above pairing. We know that Bryant thinks the Real is ofttimes
missing from philosophy and suffers therefrom, so how do we square this
with this magical creation of the synthetic a priori? And differentiate
it with the magical thinking that thoughts in themselves create reality?
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Marc & Sylvie
This is one of their dances at the country dance world championships, where they won the Masters Classic division.
Alisan Porter
By far the best blind audition on The Voice last night, and one of the best ever on the show.
New Systems: Possibilities and Proposals
Is the name of this article by The Next System project, which explores social democracy, economic democracy, participatory economics and whole systems change. There are viable alternatives to capitalism.
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