CDC – UnChain our Democracy

It Feels Awful to be Right by Frank Kashner

April 16, 2020July 22, 2021Frank1 Comment

“The most deaths and the greatest economic destruction“ I feel a little like Cassandra, the mythological woman whose curse was to see the impending future but have nobody believe her. I saw the future because historian Nancy MacLean, in her book Democracy in Chains, accurately portrayed what has been happening in the United States over […]

KochNet – $1 billion to cut CDC

March 30, 2020March 30, 2020FrankLeave a Comment

From The Intercept – thanks Ann J. Charles Koch Network Pushed $1 Billion Cut to CDC, Now Attacks Shelter-in-Place Policies for Harming BusinessLee Fang March 26 2020, 3:20 p.m. Americans for Prosperity, the pro-corporate pressure group founded and funded by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, wants employees to return to work despite desperate pleas from public […]

Betting our Lives

March 11, 2020February 2, 2023FrankLeave a Comment

A Koch inspired Trump strategy of gutting the CDC and ignoring science and medical experts, or a strategy based upon medical science and good government. Which do we prefer? We are betting our lives on it. Heather Cox Richardson March 11 “…If we can slow (Covid19) down, we can help to make sure that hospitals […]

Gut the Gov, Deny the Crisis

March 1, 2020March 1, 2020FrankLeave a Comment

From Robert Reich on Inequality Media – 3/1 excerpt Koch Network – Trump follows their strategy Trump has taken several other steps, all of them backward. He has eliminated a National Security Council position that coordinates responses to pandemics. He has ignored an expert panel’s warning that the US is badly unprepared for global health […]