YouTube has the video Hear the Bern Episode 32 | Bernie Gets It Done (w/ Warren Gunnels).

Next time someone asks you what Bernie has accomplished in his career, send them this podcast and tell them that we had to leave the better part on the cutting room floor just to get it under an hour. Featuring veteran policy advisor to the Senator, Warren Gunnels.

If you want to understand what “Us, not me” means in practice, this is a good video to watch.

I am seeing some of my Hindu friends publishing more and more intolerant items about Islam. I was hoping this Tulsi Gabbard video might make them stop and think. They don’t seem to see in this video what I see. Tulsi Gabbard’s Unifying Keynote Address at Muslims for Peace Conference.

I put this here on my blog so that I have easy access to it as a response to the hate speech against Islam when I see it.

Just to be clear, I am in the cohort that Tulsi mentions that does not follow any spiritual path, nor believe in any religion, nor any supreme being. Maybe that’s why I feel it easier to let go of some of my childhood prejudices.

I should also say something about the word “tolerance”. I want to refer to a book I read, but I just cannot quite recall enough to bring it up to quote it. I guess this will have to do. Genuine Respect for Other Faiths.

Hindu Dharma believes that no particular religion is better than another; all genuine religious paths are facets of Bhagwan’s pure love and light, deserving tolerance and understanding. Hindu Sanatan Dharma not only teaches tolerance for other religions but respect as well.

I just found the book Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism by Rajiv Malhotra.

Rajiv Malhotra’s insistence on preserving difference with mutual respect not with mere tolerance is even more pertinent today because the notion of a single universalism is being propounded. There can be no single universalism, even if it assimilates or, in the author’s words, digests , elements from other civilizations –Kapila Vatsyayan

RT has the episode of the Keiser Report Trump: Easy to read (E1463).

In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss the former top trade negotiator for China, who claims that dealing with Trump is great that he is so easy to read, thanks to his non-stop tweeting. They also discuss Venezuela’s president, who is holding up a bitcoin hard wallet, just a year after the UK refused to return his country’s gold. In the second half, Max talks to Dr. Michael Hudson of michael-hudson.com about repo markets, national debt, China, trade wars, and more.

Max and Stacy go crazy over bitcoin again. I have always hoped that Max would have a conversation with Michael Hudson who could straighten out Max’s bitcoin mania.

Max did a great job of papering over Michael Hudson’s opinion of bitcoin. Hudson did manage to sneak in a subtle criticism of bitcoin, but Max carefully steered the conversation to make sure that the criticism was suitably subtle. Max just cannot seem to accept that a “currency” created out of nothing, like bitcoin, is just a non-government fiat currency. When he has to resort to baseless claims about human nature, you know he is getting to the point of desperation.

Bitcoin may remove the ability of a single entity from deciding how much of that currency is in circulation, but there are pros and cons to this difference. A straight up conversation around this between Keiser and Hudson would be great.

November 18, 2019

An interview by Laura Flanders popped up on my Facebook Timeline – Monopoly Capitalism: At The Breaking Point?.

Toward the end of the Michael Hudson segment he was able to tell Laura Flanders what he thought of BitCoin that he didn’t dare say to Max Keiser.

Laura Flanders: Some people talk about BitCoin and these other kinds of currencies. They were seen as radical at one point.

Michael Hudson: I don’t think so. It’s Fictitious money. It’s tax avoidance. It’s really criminal money. …