Tag: Trinity House
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Small and large mother-in-law / Cadillac
Small MIL/Caddy: Trump to Close Voice of America’s Overseas Offices and Radio Stations. The push to close the offices appears to contradict a federal judge’s order from April, which required Trump officials to resume operations at V.O.A. Cadillac: I hate to see any shortwave station abandoned. I used to enjoy shortwave. Mother-in-law: VOA never fulfilled…
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Mass does the right thing!
Via Bloomberg: The Carney Solution (which I’ve been recommending for a long time) is catching on! Massachusetts has decided to stop screeching about “democracy” and start SUPPORTING ITS OWN PEOPLE. It will raise taxes, including a millionaire tax, and use the money to compensate for federal research cuts. It will also CROWDFUND the research, which…
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Don’t just shout there, DO SOMETHING.
Dems are holding a “science fair” to show off some projects canceled by Trump and Elon. Dammit, protesting doesn’t help. You should be FUNDING THE SCIENTISTS instead of showing them off. You have billionaires on your side who are allegedly pro-science. Get them to set up a new system of aristocratic patronage. Most of the…
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Easy to see, hard to see
Random thought that seems pretty good at the moment. Our main problem now is not monopolies on selling, it’s monopolies on buying. (Yes, I know it’s called a monopsony, but that’s an Economist Word and I won’t use it.) A monopoly on buying is unfamiliar because most people don’t experience it. It only affects the…
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This is what happens
Headline: Columbia funding cuts set dangerous precedent This is what happens when you let politicians sponsor your research. The truly dangerous precedent was set in 1946, not 2025. Dependence on federal money started in 1946, and the danger was already obvious by 1958. My dad saw it, and a much more famous dude named Eisenhower…
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No sympathy
I note that the “mayor” in Spokane has joined other “mayors” in a court brief opposing Trump’s cuts to research funding. No sympathy. The corruption of federal funding has been blatantly obvious and perfectly well known inside academia. Everybody knows it and everybody keeps taking it. For christ’s fucking sake, EISENHOWER warned about it in…
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More dust to wait for
Via DailyMail, with the usual caution about DailyMail’s usual wild exaggerations. Trump, working with ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST RFK, has ordered several agencies to stop their Twitter and other public output for a while. We don’t know yet what this means. He undoubtedly remembers how the agencies spent most of their PR time bashing Trump. I noticed…
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Beehiiv’s Mutual Benefit Society
Earlier I read about this and LOVED the idea. Now I’ve read the Society’s website. It’s the Media Collective. The info on the site matches what I read before, and also clarifies the revenue method. What I read before: Health insurance: Monthly stipend and concierge service with our network of insurance partners. Legal support: Pre-publication…
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Trinity House again
Somebody has proposed eliminating NIH after its tyrannical genocide during the “virus”. The agency needs to be punished by elimination for goddamn sure. There’s no real solution for the Public “Health” torturers except elimination. We’ll never get a Nuremberg for the torturers, but we can stop paying them. BUT: NIH also funds quite a bit…
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Got what they wanted
Well, the media and Wall Street got what they wanted. Now they can have fun for four years, and the empire can decay even faster for four years. I hope and pray that harsher rulers and nastier media and more destructive billionaires will speed up the growth of effective alternatives and bottom-up organizations like Mutual…
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More from IOOF in the 1920s
Continuing from previous item. The annual report of the Wisconsin state IOOF for 1921 proves that the organization was truly an insurance provider and a mutual company, along with its social functions. Note the payments of sickness benefits and life insurance. The income was well beyond the payouts, and the lodge maintained a large investment…
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Where Harding got his purpose
Eureka Lake started me reading about the Odd Fellows. They have maintained their original functions pretty well for 200 years. They work for peace, tolerance, mercy, and fellowship. A 1920 magazine from the Virginia state lodges shows how their steady purpose responded to Wilson’s brutality and unceasing propaganda. This attitude may have been widespread at…
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Mutual is NOT dead.
While researching IOOF for Eureka Lake I realized that the IOOF is NOT dead yet. It hasn’t devolved into a drinking club or sold out to commercial insurance firms like most other societies. It still runs modern retirement homes in at least three states, and has active lodges and new members in many cities. Trinity…
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Anniversary
The Odd Fellows were a prominent Fraternal Benefit Society. After returning to the topic I started looking up info again. Turns out today is an anniversary of the movement. From the Fraternal Monitor magazine in 1918: = = = = = START QUOTE: In 1918 the fraternal benefit system will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of…
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Smart idea
Seen on Quora. Every ship coming in and out of the Baltic has to pass through the narrow straits around Copenhagen. In the 1700s Denmark charged a toll of 1% of the cargo’s value, to finance maintaining its ports. The ship had to dock and let the tax collector board to pay the toll. An…
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