how big oil and big tobacco partnered with the Koch brothers to create the tea party
the billionaire's bankrolling the anti-government movement movement
Big Tobacco and Right-Wing US Billionaires Fund Anti-Regulation Hardliners
Libertarians and Corporate Power
http://accuracy.org/item/51-the-cato-institute-libertarianin-a-corporate-way/
The Heritage Foundation & The Koch Brothers
https://outline.com/YKbxSM
https://sensiblesafeguards.org/waronregs/
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 69%. (I'm a bot)
> Conservatives and culture warriors in Brazil have expressed delight after one of the country's most celebrated research institutes announced plans to host a Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan week later this year.
> Admiration for Thatcher and Reagan runs deep within the Bolsonaro government.
> In a speech in the White House gardens last year, Bolsonaro quoted Reagan and said he was a "Great admirer" of the former president and B-movie star.
> Bolsonaro's politician sons meanwhile have been photographed with Thatcher and Reagan memorabilia such as T-shirts, coffee mugs and model figures.
> Charles Gomes, a legal scholar and senior researcher with a focus on migration at Rui Barbosa House, cast doubt on the Thatcher and Reagan week's academic value.
> Bolsonaro's son Carlos was one of the first public figures to show support for Thatcher and Reagan week, along with former volleyball player turned conservative activist Ana Paula Henkel.
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Apparently in 2013 the German government did a risk analysis about the effects of a pandemic caused by a „novel Coronavirus“. I had no time yet to completely read it and most of you guys here probably don't speak german but I gave my best to sum it up.
That's the scenario:
- Starting in Asia in February, but its dimension/significance is only recognized there a few weeks later.
- Several people (10) enter Germany before the authorities receive the first official warning from the WHO. Two of them have contact with a lot of others (one working on an expo, one is a student coming home from his semester abroad).
- Although the measures provided for in the Infection Control Act and pandemic plans are being implemented quickly and effectively by the authorities and the health system, the rapid spread of the virus cannot be effectively halted due to the short interval between two infections.
- The incubation period is usually three to five days, but can range from two to 14 days. Almost all infected persons also fall ill (With the appearance of the first symptoms the infected persons are contagious).
- The lethality rate is high, at 10% of the patients, but varies in different age groups.
- At the peak of the first wave of the disease after about 300 days, about 6 million people in Germany are affected by Modi-SARS.
- The health system is faced with immense challenges that cannot be overcome (500,000 hospital beds (not all free ofc) vs. more than 4 million modi-SARS-patients)
- After the first wave subsides, two more, weaker waves follow until a vaccine is available three years after the first diseases appear.
- Over the period of the first wave (days 1 to 411) a total of 29 million people in Germany fall ill, during the second wave (days 412 to 692) a total of 23 million and during the third wave (days 693 to 1052) a total of 26 million people.
- Over the entire three-year period, at least 7,5 million deaths are expected as a direct result of the infection. In addition, the mortality of both those suffering from Modi-SARS and other diseases and those in need of care increases, as they are no longer able to receive adequate medical care or nursing due to the overload of the medical and nursing sector
Source: http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/17/120/1712051.pdf
Parallels are frightening and I hope they drew some conclusions based on this report.
Australia, NSW
The Confucius Classroom program, run in 13 NSW schools, had been paid for by Chinese government agency Hanban, and employed teaching assistants that were vetted by the Chinese government for "good political quality" and a love of "the motherland".
While a NSW Department of Education review into the program did not "discover any evidence of actual political influence being exercised", it found there were “a number of specific factors that could give rise to the perception that the Confucius Institute is or could be facilitating inappropriate foreign influence in the department".
Source: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/nsw-schools-to-scrap-confucius-classroom-program-after-review-20190822-p52juy.html
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> The gin mills were the foundation of the modern manufacturing factory in the the north - and a consequence of slave labor in the south.
A consequence of the huge subsidies the US federal government was paying to the north, funded by huge tariffs that crippled the south and their export industry. Hence why South Carolina threatened to secede from the union, leading to the nullification crisis.
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