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Containing all of Mr. Emory's work on Covid-19 and the Ukraine War, the latest 32GB flash drive is now available! (The last iteration of the drive is almost two years old.) WFMU-FM is podcasting For The Record–You can subscribe to the podcast HERE. Read more »
News & Supplemental
- The Eyes Over Mike Johnson: the CNP’s Texas Template for God’s Power Grope Nov 10 Christian Nationalism isn't simply on the rise in the United States. It's already at the top, thanks in no small part to the Council for National Policy (CNP) and the myriad of groups operating under its theocratic umbrella. The Supreme Court is dominated by a hard right majority and there's even the CNP's planned mass purges - starting with the government but not ending there - under the 'Schedule F'/Project 2025 label. That's all part of the grim context surrounding a series of reports around the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson that should raise serious questions about just how much influence the leading Christian Nationalist hold over new Speaker of the House. But thanks the House and Supreme Court aren't the only government institution under Christian Nationalism sway. States Republicans are increasingly adopting Christian Nationalist laws, with Texas leading the way under the way under the vision of CNP pseudo-historian David Barton. It turns out Johnson and Barton are long-time allies who share the same vision for the future. A vision in line with the 'discipleship' form of authoritarian Christianity now mainstreamed in the CNP-dominated network of 47,000 churches in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Which also happens to be a denomination grappling with a sex abuse mega-scandal hauntingly reminiscent of the Catholic Church's mega-abuse scandal. A mega-scandal with a number of major CNP figures operating as abusers or enablers. It's that broader intersection of Mike Johnson's ties to Christian Nationalism with this growing SBC abuse mega-scandal that we're going to look at in this post. Read more »
- The Newest Flash Drive, Current As of FTR#1310 Is Now Available Sep 13 Containing all of Mr. Emory's work on Covid-19 and the Ukraine War, the latest 32GB flash drive is now available! (The last iteration of the drive is almost two years old.) WFMU-FM is podcasting For The Record–You can subscribe to the podcast HERE. Read more »
- R.I.P. Daniel Hopsicker Aug 27 Over many years, it was Mr. Emory's privilege and honor to have interviewed Daniel Hopsicker frequently and at length. In the wake of his passing from cancer on 8/22/2023 at the age of 72, we mourn the loss of this professional, and yet can be very glad for his having shared his work with us. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs "pretty convinced" Covid came from a U.S. Bio-Lab. WFMU-FM is podcasting For The Record–You can subscribe to the podcast HERE. Mr. Emory emphatically recommends that listeners/readers get the 32GB flash drive containing all of Mr. Emory's 43 years on the air, plus a library of old anti-fascist books on easy-to-download PDF files. Read more »
- Heads We Win, Tails You Lose Your Retirement: Private Equity, Pension Funds, and the CRE Double Down Jun 20 There's blood in the water. With regional banks potentially looking at years of trouble ahead and interest rates well above the historic lows, distress is permeating the US commercial real estate (CRE) markets. That's been the CRE news, with the private equity now palpably excited about all the distressed real estate that's bound to come on the market. A supply and demand dislocation that can turn blood in water into a gold laced silver lining for the entities with cash on the sidelines. As we've seen, being the 'cash on the sidelines' opportunistically waiting for things to fall apart or blow is a big part of the 'Heads we win, tails you lose' private equity business model. A business model also rooted in the fact that the fund managers charge high fees whether they're investments pan out or not. So we shouldn't be surprised to learn that one of the big investment opportunities private equity has been steering billions of dollars of public pension money into in recent years is...*drumroll*...commercial real estate! With plans on shoveling billions more into the sector going forward. JP Morgan is now predicting these pension funds are going to create a 'floor' in the CRE markets. Yes, private equity-led pension funds are going to save the CRE market from complete collapse. At least that's the plan. A plan that's going to pay its private equity managers handsomely no matter how it pans out. It's all part of how American's growing retirement crisis is translating into private equity's growing opportunity. The kind of crisis-driven opportunity that pays handsomely whether the underlying crisis grows or not. Read more »
- Saul Invictus on Vacation Last Week Jun 17 Patreon subscribers should note that Saul Invictus, our hard-working Patreon master was on vacation last week. Hence, no new talks were recorded after Sunday's visit with Monte. Saul works a full time day job and his efforts are not only welcome, but, frankly, heroic in light of such considerations.NOTE THAT ALL OF THE CONTENT ON THIS WEBSITE IS OFFERED FOR FREE. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs "pretty convinced" Covid came from a U.S. Bio-Lab. WFMU-FM is podcasting For The Record–You can subscribe to the podcast HERE. Mr. Emory emphatically recommends that listeners/readers get the 32GB flash drive containing all of Mr. Emory's 43 years on the air, plus a library of old anti-fascist books on easy-to-download PDF files. Read more »
- Grateful, Tearful Farewell to Roy of Hollywood: Rest In Peace, My Brother Apr 21 Since 1987, For The Record and the other Archive Shows and lectures I have recorded over the decades have gone out on the Southern California airwaves from Santa Barbara to the Mexican Border. Those broadcasts were realized by Roy of Hollywood, real name Roy Tuckman. His long-running program has held down the midnight to 5am slot on Monday through Thursday nights (technically Tuesday through Friday mornings) for more than 40 years. Early on Thursday morning (4/20/2023), Roy passed away roughly two months short of what would have been his 85th birthday. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs "pretty convinced" Covid came from a U.S. Bio-Lab. WFMU-FM is podcasting For The Record–You can subscribe to the podcast HERE. Mr. Emory emphatically recommends that listeners/readers get the 32GB flash drive containing all of Mr. Emory's 43 years on the air, plus a library of old anti-fascist books on easy-to-download PDF files. Read more »
- Latest Patreon Talks: Reflections on Assassinations of MLK and RFK and Mind Control (Four Articles Posted) Apr 10 Mr. Emory's Patreon Archive continues to grow: In addition to brilliant exposes by Hal Sanderson and "Monty" about the intelligence community, fascism and the new age and ground-breaking research about the depth and scope of Nazi penetration of U.S. intelligence, the most recent talks revisit the assassinations of MLK and RFK, as well as the subject of mind control. Dr. Jeffrey Sachs "pretty convinced" Covid came from a U.S. Bio-Lab. WFMU-FM is podcasting For The Record–You can subscribe to the podcast HERE. Mr. Emory emphatically recommends that listeners/readers get the 32GB flash drive containing all of Mr. Emory's 43 years on the air, plus a library of old anti-fascist books on easy-to-download PDF files. Read more »
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Following up information presented in Miscellaneous Archive Show M23 and FTRs 129, 163, this broadcast features the landmark research of Peter Vogel on the Port Chicago explosion of 7/17/1944. One of the largest man-made disasters in history, the Port Chicago explosion claimed the lives of 320 sailors, 220 of them African Americans. Subsequently, African-American sailors refused to continue loading ammunition at Port Chicago and were convicted of Mutiny. Officially the explosion of conventional munitions aboard an ammunition ship, the E.A. Bryan, the Port Chicago blast was actually the test of an early atomic weapon, the autocatalytic uranium hydride lateral implosion experimental device—named the Mark II. After relating Peter’s long odyssey exploring the explosion and the official dissembling that surrounds the event, the program relates the fascinating documentary trail confirming the nature of the explosion and the chronology of this early, significant step in the development of the atomic weapons.
Program Highlights Include: Peter’s proof that a sufficient amount of fissionable material for testing a fission weapon was available in 1944 (despite official pronouncements to the contrary); the negative reactions of Edward Teller (father of the H‑bomb) and Donald Kerr (director of Los Alamos National Laboratory) to Peter’s inquiries about Port Chicago; the tremendous interest of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in this (supposedly conventional) explosion; the background of Captain William Parsons (the point man for the Los Alamos research on Port Chicago); the characteristics of the explosion that pinpoint it as being a nuclear fission blast; correspondence among some of the principals in the Manhattan Project confirming that the Port Chicago explosion was a test of the Mark II; indications that the Germans were working on a uranium hydride weapon; Soviet espionage on the Manhattan Project that indicated awareness of the test of Mark II; the possible significance of the Port Chicago explosion for the revocation of Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance; the significance of the Port Chicago explosion in the history of African-American civil liberties.
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The Eyes Over Mike Johnson: the CNP’s Texas Template for God’s Power Grope Christian Nationalism isn't simply on the rise in the United States. It's already at the top, thanks in no small part to the Council for National Policy (CNP) and the myriad of groups operating under its theocratic umbrella. The Supreme Court is dominated by a hard right majority and there's even the CNP's planned mass purges - starting with the government but not ending there - under the 'Schedule F'/Project 2025 label. That's all part of the grim context surrounding a series of reports around the new Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson that should raise serious questions about just how much influence the leading Christian Nationalist hold over new Speaker of the House. But thanks the House and Supreme Court aren't the only government institution under Christian Nationalism sway. States Republicans are increasingly adopting Christian Nationalist laws, with Texas leading the way under the way under the vision of CNP pseudo-historian David Barton. It turns out Johnson and Barton are long-time allies who share the same vision for the future. A vision in line with the 'discipleship' form of authoritarian Christianity now mainstreamed in the CNP-dominated network of 47,000 churches in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Which also happens to be a denomination grappling with a sex abuse mega-scandal hauntingly reminiscent of the Catholic Church's mega-abuse scandal. A mega-scandal with a number of major CNP figures operating as abusers or enablers. It's that broader intersection of Mike Johnson's ties to Christian Nationalism with this growing SBC abuse mega-scandal that we're going to look at in this post.
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