top of the heap to third world status in one generation

[Gry]

Pandemics, Inc.
I fully expect the vast majority to scroll right on by, but for a small percentage, it
will provide a pathway that may well be significant.

https://emory.kfjc.org/archive/ftr/1200_1299/f-1251.mp3
https://emory.kfjc.org/archive/ftr/1200_1299/f-1252.mp3
https://emory.kfjc.org/archive/ftr/1200_1299/f-1253.mp3
https://emory.kfjc.org/archive/ftr/1200_1299/f-1254.mp3
https://emory.kfjc.org/archive/ftr/1200_1299/f-1255.mp3
https://emory.kfjc.org/archive/ftr/1200_1299/f-1256.mp3

https://emory.kfjc.org/archive/ftr/1200_1299/f-1256.mp3

 

[Gry]

Note from Gry do not press play with out understanding that it is not humanity at it's finest.
hh, here is some trash for you :

 

[h.h.]

That excuses your invasion. Killing Ukrainian babies and all.

 

[Gry]

Dear Republicans: We Tried Your Way and It Does Not Work​

Their "Reaganism" sales pitch was effective, and we’ve now had 42 years of the so-called Reagan Revolution: It’s time to say out loud that it hasn’t worked​

The 1970s were a pivotal decade, and not just because it saw the end of the Vietnam War, the resignation of Nixon, and the death of both the psychedelic hippie movement and the very political (and sometimes violent) SDS. Most consequentially, the 1970s were when the modern-day Republican Party was birthed.

Prior to that, the nation had hummed along for 40 years on a top income tax bracket of 91% and a corporate income tax that topped out around 50%. Business leaders ran their companies, which were growing faster than at any time in the history of America, and avoided participating in politics.

Democrat Franklin Roosevelt and Republican Dwight Eisenhower renewed America with modern, state-of-the-art public labs, schools, and public hospitals across the nation; nearly free college, trade school, and research support; healthy small and family businesses; unions protecting a third of America’s workers so two-thirds had a living wage and benefits; and an interstate highway system, rail system, and network of new airports that transformed the nation’s commerce.

When we handed America over to Ronald Reagan in 1981 it was a brand, gleaming new country with a prosperous and thriving middle class.

The seeds of today’s American crisis were planted just ten years earlier, in 1971, when Lewis Powell, then a lawyer for the tobacco industry, wrote his infamous “Powell Memo.” It became a blueprint for the morbidly rich and big corporations to take over the weakened remnants of Nixon’s Republican Party and then America.

They then moved on to infiltrate our universities, seize our media, pack our courts, integrate themselves into a large religious movement to add millions of votes, and turn upside down our tax, labor, and gun laws.

That effort burst onto the American scene with the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan.

By 1982 America was agog at the “new ideas” this newly-invented GOP was putting forward. They included radical tax cuts, pollution deregulation, destroying unions, and slashing the support services the New Deal and Great Society once offered people (because, Republicans said, feeding, educating, or providing healthcare to people made them dependent).

Their sales pitch was effective, and we’ve now had 42 years of the so-called Reagan Revolution.

It’s time to simply say out loud that it hasn’t worked:

Republicans told us if we just cut the top tax rate on the morbidly rich from the 74% it was at in 1980 down to 27% it would “trickle down” benefits to everybody else as, they said, the “job creators” would be unleashed on our economy.

Instead of a more general prosperity, we’ve now ended up with the greatest wealth and income inequality in the world, as over $50 trillion was transferred over 40 years from the bottom 90% to the top 1%, where it remains to this day. The middle class has gone from over 60% of us to fewer than half of us. It now takes 2 full-time wage earners to sustain the same lifestyle one could in 1980.

Republicans told us if we just deregulated guns and let anybody buy and carry as many as they wanted wherever they wanted it would clean up our crime problem and put the fear of God into our politicians.

“An armed society is a polite society” was the bumper sticker back during Reagan’s time, the NRA relentlessly promoting the lie that the Founders and Framers put the 2nd Amendment into the Constitution so “patriots” could kill politicians. Five Republicans on the Supreme Court even got into the act by twisting the law and lying about history to make guns more widely available.

Instead of a “polite” society or politicians who listened better to their constituents, we ended up with school shootings and a daily rate of gun carnage unmatched anywhere else in the developed world.

Republicans told us that if we just ended sex education in our schools and outlawed abortion, we’d return to “the good old days” when, they argued, every child was wanted and every marriage was happy.

Instead of helping young Americans, we’ve ended up with epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and — now that abortion is illegal in state after state — a return to deadly back-alley abortions.

Republicans told us that if we just killed off Civics and History classes in our schools, we’d “liberate” our young people to focus instead on science and math.

Instead, we’ve raised two generations of Americans that can’t even name the three branches of government, much less understand the meaning of the Constitution’s reference to the “General Welfare.”

Republicans told us that if we cut state and federal aid to higher education — which in 1980 paid for about 80% of a student’s tuition — so that students would have what they told us was “skin in the game,” we’d see students take their studies more seriously and produce a new generation of engineers and scientists to prepare us for the 21st century.

Instead of happy students, since we cut that 80% government support down to around 20% (with the 80% now covered by student’s tuition), our nation is groaning under a $2 trillion dollar student debt burden, preventing young people from buying homes, starting businesses, or beginning families. While students are underwater, banksters who donate to Republican politicians are making billions in profits every single week of the year from these bizarrely non-negotiable loans .

Republicans told us that if we just stopped enforcing the anti-monopoly and anti-trust laws that had protected small businesses for nearly 100 years, there would be an explosion of innovation and opportunity as companies got bigger and better.

Instead, we’ve seen every industry in America become so consolidated that competition is dead, price gouging and profiteering reign, and it’s impossible to start or find small family-owned businesses anymore in downtowns, malls, and the suburbs. It’s all giant chains, many now owed by hedge funds or private equity. Few family or local businesses can compete against such giants.

Republicans told us that if we just changed the laws to let corporations pay their senior executives with stock (in addition to cash) they’d be “more invested” in the fate and future of the company and business would generally become healthier.

Instead, nearly every time a corporation initiates a stock buyback program, millions and often billions of dollars flow directly into the pockets of the main shareholders and executives — while workers, the company, and society suffer the loss.

Republicans told us that if we just let a handful of individual companies and billionaires buy most of our media, a thousand flowers would grow and we’d have the most diverse media landscape in the world. At first, as the internet was opening in the 90s, they even giddily claimed it was happening.

Now a small group of often-rightwing companies own our major media/internet companies, radio and TV stations, as well as local newspapers across the country. In such a landscape, progressive voices, as you can imagine, are generally absent.

Republicans told us we should hand all our healthcare decisions not to our doctors but to bureaucratic insurance industry middlemen who would decide which of our doctor’s suggestions they’d approve and which they’d reject. They said this will “lower costs and increase choice.”

In all of the entire developed world — all the OECD countries on 4 continents — there are only 500,000 medical bankruptcies a year. Every single one of them is here in America.

Republicans told us if we just got rid of our unions, then our bosses and the companies that employ them would give us better pay, more benefits, and real job security.

As everybody can see, they lied. And are working as hard as they can to prevent America from returning to the levels of unionization we had before Reagan’s Great Republican Experiment.

Republicans told us if we went with the trade agreement the GHW Bush administration had negotiated — NAFTA — and then signed off on the WTO, that we’d see an explosion of jobs.

There was an explosion; lots of them, in fact, as over 60,000 American factories were torn down or left vacant because their products were moved to China or elsewhere. Over 10 million good-paying jobs went overseas along with those 60,000 factories.

Republicans told us global warming was a hoax: they’re still telling us that, in fact. And therefore, they say, we shouldn’t do anything to interfere with the profits of their friends in the American fossil fuel industry and the Middle East.

The hoax, it turns out, was the lie that there was no global warming — a lie that the industry spent hundreds of millions over decades to pull off. They succeeded in delaying action on global warming by at least three decades and maybe as many as five. That lie produced trillions in profits and brought us the climate crisis that is today killing millions and threatens all life on Earth.

And then, of course, there’s the biggest GOP lie of them all: “Money is the same thing as Free Speech.”

Five Republicans on the Supreme Court told us that if we threw out around 1000 anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws at both the state and federal level so politicians and political PACs could take unaccountable billions, even from foreign powers, it would “strengthen and diversify” the range of voices heard in America.

It’s diversified it, for sure. We’re now regularly hearing from racists and open Nazis, many of them elected Republican officials, who would have been driven out of decent society before the Reagan Revolution. American political discourse hasn’t been this filled with conflict and violence since the Civil War, and much of it can be traced straight back to the power and influence of dark money unleashed by five Republicans on the Supreme Court.

The bottom line is that we — as a nation, voluntarily or involuntarily — have now had the full Republican experience.

And now that we know what it is, we’re no longer listening to the Republican politicians who are continuing to try to sell us this bullshit.

We don’t want to hear Republicans sermonizing about deficits (that they themselves caused).

Or welfare (that they damaged and then exploited).

Or even whatever they’re calling “faith” these days, be it the death penalty, forcing raped women to give birth at the barrel of a gun, or burning books.

We’re over it, Republicans. A new America is being birthed from the ashes of the Reagan Revolution and you can’t stop it much longer.

Thom Hartmann May 26 2022. Having grown up in a republican household, I regret the decisions the party made.

 

[Hempy McNoodle]

Reagan was taken out by the same regime that armed Nazis in Ukraine. His economic promising economic model was hijacked and rendered into something which could be weaponized against us all. Economic warfare.

 

[St. Phatty]

​ The Horrific Consequences of the GOP Merging Church & State Are Here​ In some distant place, Hitler must be smiling at the 6 Republicans on the Court’s growing conflation of church & state in America - because it's what helped make his horrors possible​ ​

The people that financed Hitler are smiling.

Chapter 2 – The Hitler Project « TARPLEY.net

tarpley.net

"In October 1942, ten months after entering World War II, America was preparing its first assault against Nazi military forces. Prescott Bush was managing partner of Brown Brothers Harriman. His 18-year-old son George, the future U.S. President, had just begun training to become a naval pilot. On Oct. 20, 1942, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being conducted by Prescott Bush.

Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over the Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.’s stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland “Bunny” Harriman, three Nazi executives, and two other associates of Bush.1"

Just 1 year later, Harriman's brother was appointed Ambassador to the Soviet Union.

"W. Averell Harriman
United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union
In office October 23, 1943 – January 24, 1946"

Their father, EH Harriman, made the money that E. Roland loaned to WW2 Germany, in the railroad industry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._H._Harriman


Yet obviously financing the alleged murder of 6 million Jewish people did nothing to hurt Prescott Bush's hopes for the US Senate.

The Jewish population of Connecticut liked Hitler's money lender Prescott Bush so much they elected him twice.

Prescott Bush - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The official US gov. conspiracy theory about WW2 is as termite ridden as some of the wood in my burn pile.

 

[Gry]

Phatty, congratulations on having figured out that a good deal of what we have been told about damned near everything
has been somewhat modified for public consumption.
Which does not make your fawning over Putin any more palatable.
Recall having read that as a young man, HW Bush took great offense at what his pop had done, which was why he enlisted as he did in WWII.
My thought on that, was that his values sure did change with the passage of time.

If one wishes to look it up, one will find that Allen Dulles was the corporate rep for Brown Brothers Herriman at the
Treaty of Versailles. It sent a chill down my spine which has never left me.
I was left with a suspicion that each war and conflict since was optional.
Everything that I have learned since has left me with the impression that is the case.
The stench of rot drifts up though the world's most expensive and extravagant propaganda.
The single most extravagant property in Georgetown, in DC, is the Herriman home, which was
insignificant compared to their home and property in VA.

Wondered who Tarpley was, he was an adherent of LaRoushe , who had a compound near to where I lived in my youth.
Used to go there and put up trip wires for his flunkies to stumble over when "on patrol".

 

[Hempy McNoodle]

Recall having read that as a young man, HW Bush took great offense at what his pop had done, which was why enlisted as he did in WWII.
My thought on that, was that his values sure did change with the passage of time.

Obviously, George Bush would not have been a good candidate unless he pretends to be against such shenanigans. Don't forget that his loyalties are to Skull and Bones just like his father, Prescott.

 

[Microbeman]

Reagan was taken out by the same regime that armed Nazis in Ukraine. His economic promising economic model was hijacked and rendered into something which could be weaponized against us all. Economic warfare.

Can you explain what was promising about his economic plan? In my opinion it is a plan dependent upon the wanton rape of the earth, a dependence on an annual growth of the economy. This is just plain stupid and only the multitudes with their dim thought processes see this as sensible. People like Trump and Biden. Perhaps these are the 'normies'.

 

[Gry]

Will share a little more than I generally do here.
It was Carter who was taken out, to provide Ronnie the means to implement the neocon program which has hurt this country and provided China with the strongest period of growth the planet has ever seen.
That was one of the ways they went after that administration, completely separate from that, they also did in his plan to decriminalize cannabis.
Carter ran on decimalizing cannabis.
What kept that from happening, was a well planned operation took down one of his sons over Coke.
The drug agency was fed the info in needed to entrap the kid by - well lets just say that the drug enforcement agencies in this
country take direction from the agency on a regular basis. That is and always has been the case.
President Carter was given an option of sacrificing his son's future, or abandoning his push for decriminalization.
One simple operation resulted in cannabis being set back 40 years.

 

[Cannavore]

 

[Gry]

That excuses your invasion. Killing Ukrainian babies and all.

Love the attempt to wash yourself clean while leaving the balance of us covered in baby blood.
Why would you not wish your entire country to be clean of such things ?
That is our invasion assjack, swastikas' and all, unless you have recently done away with your citizenship.
Can't help but notice you seemed to have abandoned your campaign to deny reality, guess you find
it more palatable to try to separate yourself from our national atrocities.

 

[Gry]

God Bless Smedley Butler, the man has been a heroic figure to me all of my life.
Few men learn the error of their ways and still manage to stand as tall as he.

It is important to understand the men behind the cabal did not accept defeat.
The cabal members were investors of Brown Brothers Herriman.
Men of that standing know damned good and well that the law does not apply to them.
They did not cease in their efforts, but rather they have continued at full tilt ever since.
Which is precisely why we are dealing with the situation we have today.
This is and always has been a war between classes.

 

[Gry]

What is below, I found on the you tube link above, I was somewhat impressed.

This man is oddly forgotten, not mentioned, and purposely omitted by many in government and the military. I myself never served but have the utmost respect for Major General Smedley Butler. I learned about him from my attorney after the collapse of the world economy in 2008 that was bandaid wrapped and still continues to a heavy crash in the near future. My attorney was also a friend and told me to shut off the tv and focus on 9/11, Major General Smedley Butler, and the USS Liberty as a start to occupy my mind during what came to be 99 weeks of unemployment. Let me just say...I was floored immediately following reading a few books and then watching many videos by different individuals for perspectives. I opened my mind up and allowed myself to listen to anyone that was willing to speak about anything from the past, present, or the future rather than turning my head away as we are trained to follow the narrative laid out from our childhood thru adulthood. My attorney said that I am not one to take orders and I agreed. Even up til this very day I am one to prefer a scene of togetherness collectively. Before 2008 I was successful according to the American Way and I unknowingly was a worshiper of money along with all material things. I was living a lie. People around me may not say it but that give me that look - "loser, bum, poor, and what's your problem, etc etc etc YET NEVER SAY ANYTHING. I somehow kept a property filled with old things of value or of value to me so they live on. I lived an amazing life for 30 or so years. Spent every dollar my labor earned while being robbed by the federal tax on ones labor since it was not implemented temporarily as they said it would be - permanent is allow government knows. It is June 13th 2020 and the real enemies of the world are putting all of us against one another thru the media, social media, and various motions. I am sorry to say it is working. The police, citizens, and even history is targeted. Hate is at an all time high. The Art of War states all battles are won before the first shot is fired - paraphrased don't wanna upset anyone not as if I would be worried. We will be destroyed as individuals unless we come together and expose the enemies that lay in the shadows making us all look like fools. I bow to no one, no man, no woman, no god, no one. I do not take orders. I know there is a divine creator and power. I will not chose a religion and be divided. The divine is in all of us so no need to kneel, stand, or throw money at anything. I understand what Major General Smedley Butler was saying and for that I live and speak in his honor everyday even while being told by my father he no longer loves his only son. I forgive him and tell him I love him regardless. The truth is something we all must seek to find and even then question later. The truth hurts and sets one free to seek further to prepare those that see the world for what it is to then be rewarded in death from this physical dimension. Life is beautiful, it's hard - ITS SUPPOSED TO BE. I will continue this journey and speak as loud as I can to those around me even if the world crushes itself before my very eyes. This battle can not be won with guns it must be won thru intellect by joining our minds to win back our souls that have been suppressed since birth. I love you all and still have faith in people.

 

[Gry]

Bless the grave of Smedley Butler and curse the grave of Allen Dulles.

 

[audiohi]

Chomsky: Maintaining Class Inequality at Any Cost Is GOP’s Guiding Mission​

https://truthout.org/articles/choms...equality-at-any-cost-is-gops-guiding-mission/

 

[Gry]

If you need me to spell it out:
The CIA was plan B for those behind the cabal.
Why did we abandoned the most spectacular ally we ever had for a bunch of Nazi bastards in WWII ?
Because a very tiny handful of very wealthy men which viewed themselves as separate from the rest us, and
their desire of what was most profitable for them, rather than what was good for our country.
It is of course entirely possible that I am completely mistaken and a blithering idiot.

 

[armedoldhippy]

Hitler & Germany took their cues on Zyklon-B from the US using it on migrant laborers coming in from Mexico. all the Nazis did differently was up the amount of gas used. US also sprayed immigrant workers with DDT and literally baked their clothing at such a high temp to "prevent the spread of disease" that many folks' shoes melted. WTF? a "nation of immigrants" so long as they were white/northern European...nothing has changed, not really.

 

[Hempy McNoodle]

Hitler & Germany took their cues on Zyklon-B from the US using it on migrant laborers coming in from Mexico. all the Nazis did differently was up the amount of gas used. US also sprayed immigrant workers with DDT and literally baked their clothing at such a high temp to "prevent the spread of disease" that many folks' shoes melted. WTF? a "nation of immigrants" so long as they were white/northern European...nothing has changed, not really.

Me thinks this be incorrect^

 

[Gry]

MoA - Ukraine - For Laughs