What are the (R) delegate numbers overall so far,

and how do predicted future numbers trend at this point in time?

What do we think about this?

You mean French-Canadian there, right?

Not quite the same as contemporary French-French, French friends tell me. Canada sounds very cool.

I have only travelled across the Atlantic once, to visit Cuba. Must go again... Something pending. And I want to visit Uruguay, Argentina and Chile. And Canada. As regards the USA, the Cascadian (Salish) region seems most attractive.

I was taught some French in my (free, state-run) English grammar school in the '60s. When I first went to France I found that wasn't much use in the real world. Learned some more with French girlfriends, more time in France. When I came to Spain (and Catalonia) I had no Spanish, nor Catalan, but a basic grasp of French grammar helped me learn Castillian Spanish (and a smattering of Catalan) as I went along, sobre la marcha. I took no classes, but living with a Spanish partner, whose family all spoke first Catalan, then Castillian but who advised me to concentrate on Spanish because that's a much more useful, widely-spoken language, helped.

Of course speaking Spanish has allowed me to integrate myself, and has opened up this culture and the cultures of Latin America to me, filling my head with ideas. I think it helps me to think more clearly, in both languages - having some ability to compare and contrast. So many single-language speakers seem to speak without thinking too much about what they're saying. Straight from unspoken thought to tongue without, often, much reflection. I still have a kind of 'loop' in my head where I sometimes need to think about how to phrase what I need to say in Spanish before saying it, although often now, 30 years later, it's as fluent as my English.

There are many Brit expats living in (with apologies, but we do use this term in this way) English-speaking 'ghettoes' on the Spanish coasts and islands (with whom for a long time I rarely mixed). That looks and sounds a bit pathetic. British TV. Closed minds.

I recommend to all: Learn, learn, teach as much as you can. But preferably not through the use of obligation or force.

Duck and cover just wasn't an excercise for us in the '60s.

But you're right. The Great War of 1914-18 was the real thing all right. My German, French, Italian and other European friends here in Spain say the same. The end of the Old Order, entirely brought about by European elites squabbling amongst themselves, with entire peoples paying the price. All the young men of entire villages and towns gone. Cold wind blowing over empty fields.

Then part 2, 1939-45 following that bad French Treaty (Versailles) and the economic crash and depression caused by those same greedy selfish elites.

My father (British 8th Army despatch rider, Norton 500s, in North Africa, Middle East, Anatolia, Italy) told me, I paraphrase, "We came home from that war we'd won, with that recent experience, being demobilised but still with acces to arms. We said to our elites, this was your fault, again. We really do not want to have to do this ever again. Never again. So we're going to make a deal. We want socialism, this much socialism (education, health, heavy industries...). You will pay taxes, this much in taxes. We remain a capitalist, but mixed, economy. Either you accept this deal or we are going to go full Communist." The deal was, grudgingly no doubt, accepted. It was decided the Empire made no sense, the opposite in fact, and had to go...

We have not been aggressive warmongers since then. But we are certainly ready to defend ourselves and our friends. We sincerely hope our friends will not make that necessary, again.

There should be an independent 'electoral comission'

with the power to fine these networks big money for such behavior - and ultimately with the power to shut them down.

Your democracy, your republic is at stake.

But now more and more we do know.

All candidates who do not emphasise the environmental message need to be expelled from active politics. The alternative is mass (auto-)genocide.

Yes, I see. The motherjones article is clearly intended as a hit-piece.

These are all ideas I recall coming across in the '70s or late '60s, and reflective of social-scientific research quite popular back in the day.

The Sanders quote that comes closest to the above hidden false accusation merely poses what is, imho, an entirely reasonable question (then and now):

Think millennials have it tough? For 'Generation K', life is even harsher

"Hillary Helps a Bank—and Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons"

Funnels? Or Stovepipes?

A tsunami of environmental and therefore social catastrophe

There is a tsunami of environmental and therefore social catastrophe fast bearing down on us. That's not a priority for Ms. Clinton nor the GOP.

No surrender.

Did you know there's a tsunami of environmental and therefore social catastrophe fast heading our way, and that that's not a priority for your candidate?