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Even in Kansas, more passenger trains are sought

Hear ye, hear ye. The silent train revolution keeps going.  They can't stop the trains. 

Even in Kansas, where we used to live.  Side note:  When Julie would attend meetings in Washington DC on Capitol Hill, people would applaud when she said she was from Kansas, like it was a foreign country or planet.  

Even in Kansas, where we used to live, people in Wichita are trying to get the for-profit passenger train to continue north from Oklahoma City (it originates in Dallas) to Wichita. Then continue to Newton, where the tracks then lead to Kansas City.  

 

How Clinton Can Still Win Big

Here's how Mrs. Clinton can still win big. Name Bernie Sanders now as Domestic Czar in charge of implementing Gen Y's agenda, including $15 an hour and free college.

Gen Y would rush to his rallies, and Gen Y would be voting for Bernie, for themselves.  

Gen Y got Pres. Obama elected twice.  Having them remain unenthusiastic is a risky, and maybe defeating, tactic. 

We don't just read about 100 years ago, we actually live it.

History Repeats Itself: Part Three

In 1916, the workers wanted higher pay, just like in 2016.

In 1916, the work week was 60 hours, then 56 hours, but the workers were fighting for a 40 hour week and decent pay.

Just like today when Gen Y and workers demand $15 an hour, and the establishment - - Republican and Democrat- - refuse.

In Winston Churchill's book in 1916 about the workers' movement the movement is led, in part, by a leader named - - YES, YES, Unbelievable - - Sanders. 

If history does not repeat itself, it sure rhymes a lot.

That is a baby Trumpeter Swan trying frantically to get away from me (it succeeded, a win-win for both of us).  Trumpeter Swans in Wisconsin have increased ten fold in the last five years, a wonderful development.

Best 21st Century Journalist Retiring

Wistful.  NineShift scoops them all, even Wikipedia, in reporting that Peter Day, the Global Business reporter for BBC, has retired. His radio programs from around the world also contained the most insightful people, issues and perspectives on the 21st century. 

NineShift wishes Peter and his wife Romee a very nice next journey.  We remain wistful, missing his programs and his voice. 

Peter Day, left, with his wife Romee and me before his keynote for our conference in 2012.

History Repeats Itself: Part Two

Yes, there was a "Tea Party" in 1916 of older men who were left out of the new economic order.  Writes Churchill in 1916, "During the succession of precarious places with decreasing salaries he had subsequently held a terrified sense of economic pressure...."

"How had it happened? How had it happened to an honest and virtuous man, the days of whose forbears had been long in the land which the Lord their God had given them? "

"The bewildered, the helpless- - and there are many- - are torn from the parent rock, crushed, rolled smooth, and left stranded in strange places.....from the firm granite of seemingly stable and lasting things, into shifting shale..."

"Nor could he comprehend what had happened to him, and to the world of order and standards and religious sanctions into which he had been born."

Same today. Exactly the same today, as you can see in the polls, the Trump rallies, the data on income stagnation, the unemployment and wage level for those with only a high school degree.

Flower along the river bank where I was canoeing. 

History Repeats Itself: Part One

 In 1916 workers feeling left out of the new economy were upset with new immigrants, just like today.
They "never ceased to regard with resentment and distrust the hordes of foreigners trooping between the pillars (entrance to America),"  writes the American author Winston Churchill in his 1916 book The Dwelling Place of Light.

And the worst foreigners - - the ones so-called native Americans (interesting term they used in 1916) disliked the most - - YES, YES, unbelievable - - people from Syria!    Just like today!

Photo from summer canoeing. The water is crystal clear, just looks green from the reflection of the forest all around.

If history does not repeat itself, someone once wrote, it sure rhymes a lot.