Once again, negotiations over Covid relief show the stark differences between the Democratic and Republican Parties. That America isn't shocked and horrified by GOP behavior is a testimonial to how well corporate media obscures these differences.

Several Republican senators and their aides have gone so far as to suggest that giving working people even a single $600 check will cause them to "live high on the hog" or will bring "communism" to America.

The same Republicans are enthusiastic when the very rich, their principal donors, get trillions in tax cuts and hundreds of billions in annual subsidies. When those pieces of legislation are being negotiated, "living high on the hog" is not a phrase you will hear.

Read more here.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Article: "New Calvinism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McConnell says "we're getting closer and closer" to deal on COVID relief" by Grace Segers.

Article: "GOP ex-lawmaker warns that $600 aid to workers will turn America into communist China" by Brad Reed.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Book: Rights of Man by Thomas Paine.

Quote: "The occupation of an hairdresser, or of a working tallow-chandler, cannot be a matter of honour to any person - to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression from the state; but the state suffers oppression, if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule. In this you think you are combating prejudice, but you are at war with nature" - Edmund Burke.

Article: "Lawmakers haggle over details as U.S. Congress closes in on $900 billion COVID-19 aid bill" by Richard Cowan, Susan Cornwell.

Article: "'This can't wait.' Why long food lines signal need for more coronavirus stimulus aid" by Lorie Konish.

Article: Tax Cuts: The B.S. and the Facts by Larry Beinhart. Large income tax cuts are followed by a bubble and then a crash.

Article: "Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner Are Moving To South Florida: Report" by Tiffany Razzano.

Article: "'We want them infected': Trump appointee demanded 'herd immunity' strategy, emails reveal" by Dan Diamond.

Article: "Trump: It's 'Terrific' 15% of Americans Have Had Covid-19" by Graeme Demianyk.

Article: "White House head of security has lost his lower right leg to COVID and spent three months in the ICU, friends reveal, as they plead for donations towards his 'astronomical' medical bills" by Katelyn Caralle.

Article: "Richard A. Horsley" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Joerg Rieger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "John Dominic Crossan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Jubilee (biblical)" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Romans 3:23". "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"

Article: "How the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have spread coronavirus across the Upper Midwest" by Brittany Shammas and Lena H. Sun.

Article: "The many strange long-term symptoms of Covid-19, explained" by Lois Parshley.

Article: "Denny's hostess quits on the spot when two anti-maskers falsely claim they are exempt from wearing facial coverings under the Civil Rights Act of 1964" by Valerie Edwards.

Article: "I really really hate anti-maskers!" by lark.

Book: "A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas" by Charles Dickens (free).

Quote: "There are some upon this earth of yours," returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name, who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived." - Charles Dickens.

Book: "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens (free).

Article: "Texas critical care doctor says nurses won't get COVID vaccine for 'politically motivated' reasons" by Meaghan Ellis.

Article: "Establishment Clause" by Wikipedia.

Article: "What's in the House Democrats' $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill?" (Heroes act, passed House May 15, 2020) by Grace Segers.

Article: "House passes $2.2 trillion Democratic coronavirus stimulus bill" by Jacob Pramuk.

Hour Two: Conversations With Great Minds: Everything You Know is Wrong: How the Federal Government Used ESP to Spy
- Dr. Edwin C. May PhD (Nuclear Physics), Founder/Director - Laboratories for Fundamental Research.

Article: "Stargate Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Quantum entanglement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Chinese Scientists Smash Quantum Entanglement Record" by Matt Swayne.

Article: "Quantum decoherence" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Faraday cage" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Star Gate Archives: Reports of the United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972-1995. Volume 1: Remote Viewing, 1972-1984 by Edwin C. May (Editor), Sonali Bhatt Marwaha (Editor).

Article: "How a Dog Actually "Sees" the World Through Smell" by Maria Popova.

Article: "Bird Senses and How They Use Them" by Melissa Mayntz.

Article: "The Physiology Of Balance: Vestibular Function" by Joseph E. Hawkins.

Article: "Human echolocation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The sixth sense: can humans detect the Earth's magnetic field?" by Robin McKie.

Article: "Phineas Parkhurst Quimby" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mary Baker Eddy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Church of Christ, Scientist" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Prayers don't help heart surgery patients" by Harvard Gazette.

Article: "Samuel L. Lewis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Synesthesia" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Timothy Leary" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Professor David Luke".

Hour Three: Conversations With Great Minds: Why America Hasn't Collapsed Yet
- Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System

TV: "The Crown".

Article: "The Crown Recap: What It Could Have Been: Devaluing The Pound" by Daniel Hart.

Article: "The 1967 devaluation of the pound".

Article: "Exchange rate" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Devaluation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Depreciation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Inflation" by Wikipedia.

Article: "1973 oil crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Federal Reserve" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Gold standard" by Wikipedia.

Video: Nixon imposes wage-price freeze.

Article: "Bitcoin" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Blockchain" by Wikipedia.

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