Podcast appearances and mentions of laurie thomas

In this episode of From the Woods Today, Garrard County Extension Agent for 4-H Youth Development Eric Comley takes us on a virtual walk through some of our common wildflowers and the hotspots to get out in the woods and see something spectacular. As spring drifts into summer, our landscape will continue to change. Also on tap...Extension Forester Laurie Thomas discusses the characteristics of roughleaf dogwood, which is a small, flowering deciduous tree in the dogwood family. It can be used as an ornamental and is an important wildlife tree. ForestryWorks Program Coordinator also discusses a multi-state program that promotes forestry by providing forest industry-focused resources for Kentucky students, educators, and job seekers. 4.9.25 https://fromthewoodstoday.com

The debate over restaurants items being categorized as goods and services is heating up. Starting July 1st, businesses in California will have to inform customers of any fees before they get the bill, and many restaurants are not happy with it. As that date approaches, the California Restaurant Association sent a letter to Attorney General Rob Bonta this week, pushing him to remove restaurants in the list of businesses that must be transparent with junk fees.  For a closer look, KCBS Radio's Bret Burkhart and Patti Reising were joined by Laurie Thomas, Executive Director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and the owner of two neighborhood restaurants in San Francisco. 

We are continuing KCBS's State of San Francisco conversation this week and seeking to answer the question of what will it take to ensure that San Francisco thrives in the years to come?  Is it workers returning to offices? Does the city need more financial investment? Or should the focus be on building – or, in some cases, rebuilding – the communities and partnerships within the city by the bay? As with last time, KCBS Political Reporter Doug Sovern is our host and he is joined by a panel of guests who are striving to find the answers: Tanis Crosby, executive director of the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank; Laurie Thomas, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association; Larry Baer, president, CEO and part owner of the San Francisco Giants; Brandon Schneider, president and COO of the Golden State Warriors; and Alex Bastian, president and CEO of the Hotel Council of San Francisco.

It's a question that's been pondered ever since we emerged from the covid pandemic: what is the state of San Francisco? Some say that San Francisco has been spiraling into a ‘doom loop' ever since the pandemic passed as once thriving businesses and hotspots are now languishing. Others say that San Francisco might be down, but can never be considered out, that there is a future to still be excited for and that those who love the city by the bay will find a way to build back better, stronger.  So, where do things stand today and what will tomorrow bring for San Francisco?  As part of KCBS's deep dive into the status of the world around us, we have the State of San Francisco Conversation, Part One. KCBS Political Reporter Doug Sovern is our host and he is joined by a panel of guests to delve into these questions: Tanis Crosby, executive director of the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank; Laurie Thomas, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association; Larry Baer, president, CEO and part owner of the San Francisco Giants; Brandon Schneider, president and COO of the Golden State Warriors; and Alex Bastian, president and CEO of the Hotel Council of San Francisco.

In this episode of From the Woods Today, Laurie Thomas teaches us how to identify the different maple species found in Kentucky. We also have a segment on lichens. 1.10.24.   Watch Video From the Woods Today

In this episode of From the Woods Today, Laurie Thomas teaches us the basics of tree identification. We also have our What's Bugging My Tree segment, as well as a segment about late summer birds. 8.23.23 Watch Video From the Woods Today

Laurie has experienced more change than many of us could ever imagine. She left a senior position at Cameco to accept a job at UEX as their Vice President of Corporate Relations. During the beginning stages of working at her new job, tragedy struck.  Her son, Evan Thomas, lost his life in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash in 2018. An unbearable loss for Laurie, her husband, and their daughter.  After the crash, she was let go from  her job.  Still reeling from her grief, she learned that she needed to give herself more space to heal from the tragedy of losing her son. Laurie talks about her grieving process, losing her job, and how sometimes we have to put our ego aside and ask for help.  http://getyourgoat.ca/season-three

Bruce Hill, owner of the Italian restaurant Zero Zero, did his best to weather the uncertainty of the coronavirus. He secured PPP loans, applied for federal relief money, downsized his staff, and provided takeout and delivery. Still, he was forced to close. Hill says he isn't sure what else San Francisco could do to keep ailing restaurants downtown afloat. Laurie Thomas, head of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association, has some ideas — and says far from giving up, now is the time for urgent collaborative action. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of From the Woods Today, we talk about the important work done by a community reforestation program called Reforest the Bluegrass. We also discuss the eastern hemlock tree and Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, a pest that threatens the health and survival of the trees. Laurie Thomas also shares information about some upcoming youth programs. 3.30.22. Watch Video From the Woods Today

"So we see the light at the end of the tunnel. I'm trying not to use the word pivot anymore. I feel like I've pivoted so many times that I'm just pivoting in a big circle right now" - Tracey SylvesterWelcome to our one-hour special panel discussion on small businesses. In today's special episode we wanted to provide a broader understanding of the status of our small businesses by bringing together voices from small business owners, members of merchant associations which represent multiple small businesses across the City of San Francisco along with the San Francisco Treasurer & Tax Collector's Office and an economist to provide us insights on how the pandemic has impacted our small business community from the individual to the regional. Our voices in this episode are: Maryo Mogannam, President, San Francisco Council of District Merchants Associations,,Small Business owner, Tracey Sylvester, EHS Pilates, Adam Fowler, Director of Research Beacon Economics, Amanda Fried,Chief of Policy & Communications, SF Treasurer & Tax Collector's Office.For more insights into our Small Business Community please listen back to all of the wonderful voices of small businesses that we've produced over these past 13+ months. You can take a small business owner for a walk or drive through diving into all of our wonderful past interviews with: Jeff and Shannon of Blue Plate SF, manufacturing granola with Michelle of Nana Joe's, how our restaurants are struggling with Laurie Thomas from the Golden Gate Restaurant Association also the incubation of food entrepreneurs with Andrea and Pooja and Rome from the Bayview Bistro along with the Brad, Haley and Jay of Fire Fly restaurant as well as Martha and Mark talking about training formerly un-housed folks to become bakers at the Hayes Valley Bakeworks and what its like to make wine and operate a community store in the Bayview with Barbara of Gratta Winery along with Kristin about operating community centric multiple restaurants and Lisa sharing about operating a unique gift shop and the importance of employees

In this episode of From the Woods Today, Laurie Thomas gives a presentation on the characteristics and differences of the maples in Kentucky. We have a segment on timber prices and we also share some upcoming forestry and natural resources events. 4.28.21 Watch Video From the Woods Today

Laurie talks with four young performers from Albuquerque Academy’s virtual performance of Shaina Taub and Laurie Woolery’s musical adaption of Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Our chat includes new performance modes, funny things that happen in the Zoom room, and our love of New Mexico. FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls. Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

In this episode of From the Woods Today, Laurie Thomas teaches us how to identify trees in the winter time and shows us some resources to help. We also have another wildlife sounds from the forest segment. 2.17.20 Watch Video From the Woods Today

While change is the last thing we want in life, major transitions always have a way of catching up to us. But why do we try so hard to fight change?    It’s not that change is bad. Quite simply, dealing with life transitions like Chapter X is disruptive and challenging because it forces us to let go of the familiar. Your next chapter must have different definitions around it.   Perhaps a coach can help you get there. Today I’m speaking with Laurie Thomas, executive coach. She’s here to shed light on her experience with helping others dig deep within themselves for answers.   In this episode, we covered:   Who needs a coach — and what can coaches do for them? Which attributes are aligned most closely with successful outcomes in transitions One key exercise Laurie uses to help make unadventurous people more daring Why looking back over your life matters for healthy retirement planning The biggest reason why coaching isn't the same practice as therapy 3 pieces of advice on what to consider as you approach a life transition

Our podcast today is titled Confronting Evil: The Trump Voter’s Moral Duty to Defend Liberty. I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this podcast is a production of the Citizens Liberty Party News Network, for December 16, 2020. Our intent of this article is to persuade Trump voters that they have a personal, moral duty, to restore American liberty. We begin by noting the odd circumstance of being both in agreement with Victor Davis Hanson’s analysis of the chronology of the Democrat’s deep state “slow-moving coup,” and in disagreement with his interpretation of the implications of the coup for the future of liberty. We define a coup d'etat as an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power, conducted by an enemy of the existing government. The initial planning to unleash the American coup began on November 14, 2016, just two weeks after the election. According to Joe Schoffstall, writing in the Washington Free Beacon, Soros gathered with top Democrats in D.C to plot the coup. Schoffstall writes,   “Liberal billionaire George Soros is meeting behind closed doors with top         Democrats to plot a resistance strategy against President-elect Donald Trump and         Republicans. The three-day conference began Sunday at the Mandarin Oriental   hotel in Washington, D.C., and is sponsored by deep-pocketed liberal members        of the dark money Democracy Alliance donor network. The group will seek to       pick up the pieces from the 2016 election, plot its strategy for upcoming      elections, and map out a game plan to battle Trump during his first 100 days in     office.” Obama implemented the elements of the Soros plan, in Obama’s office, with Joe Biden, on January 5, 2017. In contrast to Hanson’s term of a “slow-moving coup,” our term for the Soros Democrat coup is sedition. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, Obama's Deployment of the FBI As A Political Weapon, https://bit.ly/37YXC5u, December 14, 2017). We link the Democrat election fraud of 2020 as a part of the on-going Soros coup of 2016. Unlike Hanson’s interpretation of the coup, we argue that the consequence of the election fraud is the end of Madison’s representative republic, with the installation of an illegitimate leader, also known as an unelected dictator. Like Maduro in Venezuela, Biden has seized power without the consent of the governed. His seizure of illegitimate authority is more than just the end of the Republic, it is the end of the American principle of individual liberty. Like Maduro, Biden seeks to impose socialism against the will of the majority of citizens. Biden fulfills one of Madison’s fears that the framework of government could end with a dominant faction over ruling a defenseless faction. In Biden’s case, it is not Madison’s fear that the majority of common citizens would dominate the minority natural aristocracy. Rather, Biden seeks to impose a minority ideology of Marxist slavery on the majority of middle and working class citizens. We allege that the coup’s last act of election fraud, in 2020, constitutes a premeditated evil act to deprive Trump voters of their God-given natural rights of liberty and self-government. We claim that the Democrat’s destruction of natural rights obligates Trump voters to confront the evil in order to restore their natural rights. The moral duty of Trump voters is obedience to Locke’s definition of the natural law. In other words, the Trump voter’s duty to confront Democrat evil is obedience to God’s natural law because it restores God-given natural rights. Hanson was one of the first national observers to label the Democrat’s activity as a coup. Beginning with his first column, in February 2017, Hanson has written a compelling series of articles describing how the coup was conducted. Hanson wrote his first article about the coup one week after Rush Limbaugh first wrote about the coup (The Barack Obama Shadow Government Coup Against Trump, February 15, 2017).       Limbaugh had written,           “The deep state, the embedded bureaucracy where the Obama shadow           government is doing everything it can to overthrow the Trump presidency... our    country today is not functioning as a representative republic.” In his February 21, 2017 article, titled, Seven Days in February, Hanson expanded on Limbaugh’s analysis that the nation was not functioning as a representative republic. Hanson wrote,   “Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the Ukraine whistleblower, boasted in two         recently discovered tweets of ongoing efforts to stage a coup to remove Trump…           the political and media opponents of Donald Trump are seeking to subvert his       presidency in a manner unprecedented in the recent history of American   politics…The question, then, arises: Why were former Obama-administration          appointees or careerist officials tapping the phone calls of an incoming Trump        designate (and Trump himself?) and then leaking the tapes to their pets in the        press? For what purpose?.. ending Trump one way or another is apparently the   tortured pathway his critics are taking to exit their self-created labyrinth of    irrelevance.” In his October 31, 2017, article, The Advantages of Liberal Insurance, Hanson suggests that the ruling class would suffer the humiliation of being exposed as illiberal, if the intent of their coup was uncovered. Hanson writes,           “The more fervently progressives seek to redistribute income, or use diversity quotas      to ensure proportional representation in hiring and           admissions, or suspend    constitutional free speech and due process to suppress individualism, the more likely         that socialist elites will risk being exposed or convicted as illiberal.” In his July 31, 2018, National Review article, The Origins of Our Second Civil War, Hanson shifts the consequences for the elites, from being exposed as illiberal and irrelevant, to precipitating a civil war. Hanson cites two major causes underlying the cause of the second civil war. He writes,           “How, when, and why has the United States now arrived at the brink of a veritable       civil war?           Globalization          Globalization had an unfortunate effect of undermining national unity. It created                   new iconic billionaires in high tech and finance, and their subsidiaries of coastal      elites, while hollowing out the muscular jobs largely in the American interior.           Illegal Immigration          Immigration was recalibrated hand-in-glove by progressives who wanted a new           demographic to vote for leftist politicians and by Chamber of Commerce   conservatives who wished an unlimited pool of cheap unskilled labor. The result was        waves of illegal, non-diverse immigrants who arrived at precisely the moment when    the old melting pot was under cultural assault.”   Several months later, Hanson sounded the “all clear” that the coup, and threat of civil war, was over. He wrote, with a sigh of relief, (February 17, 2019), in Autopsy of a Dead Coup, that the ruling class elites had been soundly driven back from the brink of civil war.           “The illegal effort to destroy the 2016 Trump campaign by Hillary Clinton         campaign’s use of funds to create, and disseminate among court media, and then salt         among high Obama administration officials, a fabricated, opposition smear dossier    has failed. So has the second special prosecutor phase of the coup to abort the Trump     presidency failed.” We disagree with Hanson that the coup had failed in 2018, because we assert that the coup of January 5, 2017, did not end in 2018. The coup ended in victory for the Democrats on November 3, 2020. We disagree with Hanson that the coup was the pre-cursor of a civil war. A civil war ends with one side subjugating the losing side to the winner’s ideology, and continuing as one nation. The Obama-Soros coup is a pre-cursor to the second American revolution, where Trump voters seek an absolute civil dissolution of the existing nation, and start over with a democratic republic. We agree with Hanson’s assessment that the coup established a political precedent in American politics that is permanent. Our argument is that the precedent of the coup means that Madison’s constitution is irreparably damaged, and cannot be rehabilitated. Hanson wrote on November 12, 2019,   “10) Precedent. The indiscriminate efforts to remove Trump over the       past three years, when coupled with the latest impeachment gambit, have now set a precedent in which the out party can use impeachment as a tool to embarrass, threaten or seek to remove a sitting president and reverse an election.” And, while Hanson’s careful 4-year analysis of the chronology of the coup is correct, he reaches the wrong conclusion about the significance and consequence of the election fraud in November of 2020. Like so many other skeptics of the evidence of the Democrat’s election fraud, Hanson continues to cling to the false belief that there is something of credibility and value in rehabilitating Madison’s flawed document. As long as Trump voters continue to be swayed by Hanson’s logic, those voters will also cling to the false belief that their liberties were not stolen, along with Trump’s victory, and that the United States can return to normal. In his National Review article, Trump Faces a Critical Choice About His Political Future, (November 26, 2020),  Hanson writes,   “But so far none of these advocates (of voter fraud) have produced the       requisite whistleblowers, computer data, or forensic evidence to prove         their astounding charges. If they do not produce evidence in a few days, then the   pilloried Republicans may well lose the Senate races in Georgia… What       matters now are the interests of the country first and Trump’s constituents   second.” We disagree. What matters now is restoring the liberties of Trump voters, because the United States constitutional government ceased to exist, after the election of 2020. We argue that Hanson has his priorities reversed. Without citizen liberty, there is no American nation, because liberty is the foundation of voluntary obedience to the rule of law. In other words, without liberty, the voluntary obedience to the rule of law is replaced by the socialist police state enforcement of the rule of law. We agree with the conclusion of Angelo Codevilla, that America, as you knew it, prior to November 3, 2020, is over. Codevilla writes, “This election (2020) is about whether the Democratic Party, the   ruling class’s          enforcer, will impose its tastes more strongly and arbitrarily than ever, or      whether constituencies (Trump voters) opposed to that rule will get some ill-    defined chance to strike back. Regardless of the election’s outcome, the        republic established by America’s Founders is probably gone… The (Marxist)       revolution long since destroyed the original American republic in the minds,   hearts, and habits of a critical mass of citizens. Loudly, (the Marxists) declare      that the rest of us are racists, etc., unworthy of self-     government. No one can undo   that (precedent).” In his article, Revolution 2020, written 5 weeks before the 2020 election, Codevilla explains why the transformation of the nation is beyond redemption. His explanation centers on the Marxist revolution in government principles that undermined Madison’s constitution. Codevilla writes,           “The ruling class was able to transform America’s constitutional regime because its   collective partisanship bridged the divisions between the federal government’s parts,         the states, as well as between public and private power…the ruling class effectively      repealed the Constitution and the laws of the United States.” Codevilla is correct that the mission of the ruling class revolution was not simply and solely about getting rid of Trump. Codevilla writes, “Let there be no doubt: the ruling class’s focus on Donald Trump has been incidental. America’s elites do not fear one pudgy orange-haired septuagenarian. They fear the (majority) millions of Americans whom they loathe, who voted for Trump, who gave his party control of House and Senate, and who will surely vote for folks these elites really should fear… For the ruling class, crushing Donald Trump is only incidentally its objective—that of crushing the spirit of independence in America’s “deplorable” population is its essential objective.” We agree with Codevilla that the ruling class intent is to crush individual liberty, in order to establish totalitarian, one-party global rule by the elites, which we call the global crony capitalist class. We argue that it is the moral duty of Trump voters to defend liberty, and that the defense of liberty means engaging the Democrats, and the crony capitalist class, in a second American revolution. As we explained in our earlier article on the moral justification of revolution, the second revolution can either take the path of a peaceful civil dissolution of the Former United States of America (FUSA), or it can easily devolve into a bloody violent revolution, the end of which ushers onto the field of battle, the second enemy of American freedom, the Chinese Communist Party. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, The Moral Justification for the Second American Revolution. The Citizens Liberty Party News Network, November 17, 2020, https://bit.ly/3lXpz2R). Our podcast today is the introduction of a much longer article, available for free at clpnewsnetwork.com The other sections of the longer article are: Section 1. The Moral Duty of Trump Voters to Defend Natural Rights of Liberty and Self-Government. Section 2. The Trump Voter’s Duty To Confront Evil. Section 3. The Trump Voter’s Strategy of Confrontation With Democrat Marxists. Conclusion: The Restoration of Liberty.   I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this podcast is a production of the Citizens Liberty Party News Network.

Rome's Kitchen is actually the incubator for my family to help us get to the next level” - Rome RogersIn this episode, our featured voice is Rome Rogers the founder of Rome’s Kitchen in the bay view hunters point neighborhood of San Francisco. Rome like many food entrepreneurs decided to take his love of food and hard work and invest in himself to pursue his dream of starting his own restaurant. Rome’s Kitchen is a unique Bayview mash-up of Italian and soul food. I’ll let Rome tell you more about how he came up with this unique blend of food and culture in the creation of his restaurant and catering business as well as the impact of covid-19 on his business.The Golden Gate Restaurant Association has pushed back at the City of San Francisco’s latest roll back of restaurant operations with the closing of Indoor Dining. The almost daily changes between cautiously reopening restaurants and our economy and the increase of Covid-19 cases are having a devastating impact on our small business owners. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association estimates that the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on our favorite neighborhood restaurants could be that Fifty Percent of them will shut down permanently. For more insights into how Covid-19 is impacting our restaurant businesses please listen to our Episode 11 interview with Laurie Thomas the Executive Director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association

I think if anything, there's been more light and more sort of like, an awareness, right. Of small businesses, and how people really need to support the small businesses to, continue to contribute to the economy.” - Pooja Rajani In this episode, our featured voices are Andrea Baker the founder of both Andrea Baker Consulting and the nonprofit En 2 Action along with Pooja Rajani the Director of Programs who leads the organization’s operations and project management.I first worked with Andrea back in 2015 in the production of our two-part series “Doing Business in the Bayview” which I recommend that you listen to for more context on her team’s efforts in working with the Bayview Hunters Point community economically and culturally to reinvent their community. You can find the two-part series in our archives on george koster dot com, click on voices of the community and on the archives.Doing Business in the Bayview Part 1 Doing Business in the Bayview Part 2Andrea and Pooja have been working tirelessly in the bayview hunters point community of san francsico from our last great recession in 2008 to today’s covid-19 pandemic and economic meltdown. Throughout this time Andrea and Pooja have helped to incubate, cultivate, advise and promote food and beverage entrepreneurs as well as artisans in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.Their work with small business owners enables them to execute their dreams of controlling their own destiny and provide an economic legacy for their families. The backdrop of today’s interview is covid-19’s impact on the small business restaurants that make up the economic and cultural fabric of our neighborhoods and their struggle to stay alive. For more insights into how Covid-19 is impacting our restaurant businesses please listen to our Episode 11 interview with Laurie Thomas the Executive Director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association 

“I think places like ours where you can come in, sit down and enjoy a full service dining experience; there’s something culturally refueling about that, about sharing a meal with folks” — Jeff Trenam, Owner, Blue Plate SFIn this episode, our featured voices are Jeff Trenam, Owner, and Shannon Walter the manager of Blue Plate SF a restaurant located on Mission and Valencia Streets in San Francisco.  The Covid-19 pandemic and economic downturn have hit our neighborhood restaurants very hard. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association has estimated that Fifty Percent of restaurants will be lost from the pandemic. Due to increasing coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, the City of San Francisco has paused its reopening plans that were scheduled this past Tuesday, November 3rd. The plan was to expand capacity such as increasing indoor dining to 50%, and now it will remain at 25%.Jeff and Shannon at Blue Plate SF are a wonderful example of small businesses reinventing their operations to adapt to the almost daily changes of the pandemic and its impact on our community and economy.To find out more about Covid-19's impact on San Francisco Restaurants, please listen to our interview with Laurie Thomas the Executive Director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association

Episode 60. November 6, 2020.   CLP topic: The Crony Capitalist Republican Party. Trump’s 4 Year Window of Opportunity to Replace the Crony Capitalist Republican Party With a Conservative National Sovereignty Party. Introduction: Our podcast today is titled Trump’s 4 Year Window of Opportunity to Replace the Crony Capitalist Republican Party With a Conservative National Sovereignty Party. I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this is the copyrighted Citizen Liberty Party News Network podcast for November 6, 2020. The most recent podcast of the CLP News Network is available for free. The entire text and audio archive of our podcasts are available for subscription of $30 per year, at the CLP News Network.com. We begin our podcast promoting a new political party by examining the logic of the Anti-Trump Lincoln Project to make our argument that the lobbyists and PR firms of the group constitute the authentic Republican Party of crony corporate capitalists. In other words, we deny that there is some shadow conservative version of Republicans, who are in competition with the so-called RINO wing of the Party. There is only one institutional Republican Party, and that is the RINO Republicans, who represent what Angelo Codevilla describes as America’s ruling class. We argue that there is a slight window of opportunity for Trump to replace the crony capitalist Republican Party with a new national sovereignty party that represents the interests of working and middle class citizens. We place our analysis of the Lincoln Project into the bigger analytical framework of 5 distinct American social classes, defined by their source of income and their political ideology. Following Codevilla, (The Ruling Class, 2010), and William Domhoff, (Who Rules America? Power and Politics in the Year 2006), we argue that the characteristics and attributes of the ruling class constitute a distinct social class awareness of their power and privilege, represented by the type of Republicans who make up the Lincoln Project. The ruling class is engaged in a gigantic global financial scheme to use the Republican Party, in conjunction with the agencies of the U. S. government, to skew income from the global economy to themselves. In our earlier articles, we identified the Marxist Democrat social class as earning income from skimming revenues from government spending, similar to the activities of the Biden family. We allege that this Marxist Democrat social class is developing a class consciousness of envy. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, The American Left’s Emerging Social Class Consciousness of Envy In Collusion With the Existing American Ruling Class Consciousness of Greed. CLP News Network, October 16, 2020). The ideology of the Marxist Democrat social class is based upon the concept of social justice, and that new allegiance is so strong that it overrides the prior Democrat emphasis on policies that favored the working class. The ideological commitment to Marxism is one explanation of why Democrat voters ignored the flaws of Biden. It was not the (D) behind Biden’s name, it was the (S) behind the names of 70 million Biden voters. The main voting block of constituents for the Marxist Democrats constitute the third social class of non-working poor who earn their income from government welfare payments. In the prior, traditional two party framework, before the advent of Marxist Democrat ideology, the Democrats claimed to represent the working class. The prior faux representation of the working class by Democrats would be called a false class consciousness, by Marx, which was effective in keeping Blacks and white working class voters voting for Democrats. Their social class awareness, now, is based upon grievance against the capitalist system, which is a class antagonism promoted by the elites in the Democrat Marxist social class. We explained that the Democrat Marxist have formed an alliance with the Ruling Class to promote a one-world global system of totalitarian rule. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, BLM Marxism and the Emerging Alliance With Global Corporate Crony Capitalism. CLP News Network. July 26, 2020). The logic behind this alliance, for leftists, is that their own ideology of envy is defective in producing economic value from production, and that they must be able to share profits with the large global corporations, in order to have the tax revenues they need to implement their communist ideology, similar to the big business/socialist collaboration model of China and Europe. The essential key to understanding the logic of the Lincoln Project is their hatred of Donald Trump, because Trump opposes globalism, and totalitarian globalism is the end goal of both the ruling class crony Republicans, and the Marxist Democrats. Trump represents the financial and political interests of both the working classes, and the middle classes, in American society. The ideology of the American working classes is to be left alone by government elites, in order to pursue the working class idea of happiness. They derive their income from skilled trades, service sector jobs, and manufacturing production. The American working class does not have social class consciousness. The ideology of the middle classes is upward occupational mobility, as represented by the “American Dream.” They earn their income from small business ownership and professional occupations. Codevilla suggests that the middle class has a budding social class awareness that can vaguely be seen in the “resistance” of their vote against ruling class elites, in favor of Trump, in 2016. Unlike the empirically identifiable social class consciousness of the ruling class and the Marxist Democrats, the American working and middle classes do not currently have a political party that represents their interests, based upon a social class consciousness of their own social class. And, while Trump represents their economic interests in his Make America Great policies on immigration and taxes, Trump does not have a coherent political strategy, after 2020, that would lead to the formation of a political party, designed to protect the working class and middle class, after he is gone. We conclude that the last 4 years of the next Trump administration offers a small window of opportunity for working and middle class voters to create a new political party. The first step in creating that new political party is the development of a social class consciousness that unites, or fuses, the economic class interests of working and middle class citizens with Jefferson’s philosophy in the Declaration. That potential new political party would be anethma to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, because it would disrupt their sources of income derived from the crony corporate Republican Party. In the absence of the new political party, the legacy of the Trump presidency will end just like the administration of Reagan, as a cult of personality, with the restoration of the hegemony of the ruling class Republicans. The mission of the Lincoln Project is to keep the institutional Republican organization operational in order to resume operations, after Trump. And, in the absence of creating working and middle class consciousness, America, as you know it, will be over. This podcast is the introduction, available at podbean, of a much longer podcast, The other sections of the podcast include: Section 1. The Logic of Hate of the Lincoln Project Republicans. Section 2. Trump, The Man and Trump, the Movement. Section 3. The Restoration of Ruling Class Republicanism. Section 4. The New Populist Fusion of a Working/Middle Class Conservative Political Party. Conclusion: The 4 Year Window of Opportunity to Replace the Crony Capitalist Republican Party. The full text and audio of the most recent podcast is available for free at clpnewsnetwork.com. The entire text and audio archive of all the CLP News Network podcasts are available for an annual subscription of $30.

Laurie talks to film and commercial producer, actor, writer and FUSION family member Ross Kelly about his work in The Seven, Paris in March, the human face of products, and the lure of New Mexico.FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Episode 59. October 19, 2020 CLP topic category: Democrat Police State Socialism Title: The American Left’s Emerging Social Class Consciousness of Envy In Collusion With the Existing American Ruling Class Consciousness of Greed. Introduction. Our podcast today is titled The American Left’s Emerging Social Class Consciousness of Envy In Collusion With the Existing American Ruling Class Consciousness of Greed. This is the Citizens Liberty Party News Network podcast for October 19, 2020. Our podcast topic begins in the aftermath of the 2016 election with the entry of the term “resistance” by Democrats into the American political lexicon of social justice. Resistance is a new term in American political discourse, and our podcast explores how the idea of the left’s resistance to the election of Donald Trump explains a new class consciousness emerging among Democrat voters. We contrast the left’s resistance to Trump with Angelo Codevilla’s insight that the resistance could also mean the resistance of Trump voter’s to the power of the American ruling class. (Codevilla Angelo, Revolution 2020.The American Mind, September 23, 2020. https://bit.ly/3jvV83k). Codevilla creates a hypothetical dynamic in class consciousness between BLM Democrats and middle class Trump voters, using the concept of resistance. Codevilla states, “The party of the ruling class—that this party, having lost the 2016 elections, would refuse to accept popular rejection and launch a full-court “Resistance” against the voters who had rejected them. But that is what happened. In fact, the election’s outcome had resulted from the general population’s resistance to the ruling class further solidifying its oligarchy. Hence the self-described “Resistance” was but a continuation of its longstanding oligarchic revolution.” In an earlier article, we explained that the American ruling class, which we call crony corporate capitalist globalism, has a well defined and established class consciousness of greed. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, The Unintended Consequence of the BLM Marxist Allegation of “White Supremacy.” CLP News Network. September 28, 2020 https://bit.ly/3lgOmip). We explain that the left is in the early stages of developing a class consciousness of envy. In contrast to the left’s emerging class consciousness, we argue that the American middle class has not yet begun to develop a class consciousness. The dimly perceived resistance to the ruling class of Trump voters that Codevilla sees is a latent middle class consciousness that has the potential to develop. We explain that the left’s emerging class consciousness is facilitated by its alliance with crony corporate capitalism. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, BLM Marxism and the Emerging Alliance With Global Corporate Crony Capitalism. CLP News Network. July 26, 2020). We predict that the collusion between BLM Democrats and the ruling class will cause the American middle class to develop a class consciousness consistent with the predictions of Nash equilibrium theory. We place the start of left’s emerging class consciousness of envy around 1985, with a new development in the globalist corporate behavior that shifted the traditional allegiance of large corporations from national sovereignty, to an allegiance of a one-world global government. Applying Nash equilibrium theory, the shift in tactics by the crony capitalist class caused a change in the status quo arrangement of power, which caused the left to change its behavior. Prior to 1985, the essence of the two party arrangement between Democrats and Republicans was special financial group interest negotiations over the distributing the spoils of plunder. All of the political party special interest elites, what Codevilla calls the ruling class, shared a common cultural value that the end goal of the American political system was to grow the economic pie bigger in order to allow them to plunder the system by distributing the spoils to their voters, after an election. Prior to 1985, the BLM Democrats did not make changes to the two party status quo power arrangement because no other group in society was making changes to the political status quo. After 1985, that national elite interest in growing the domestic economy changed, and the national special interest two party consensus about plunder, that held the political system together, eroded. In response to the change in global capitalism, the Democrats shifted their ideology from being a political party whose mission was to extract plunder for the working class to a political movement of global socialism, in collusion with global crony capitalists. The left’s growing class consciousness of envy is in the process of replacing the former allegiance of the Democrats from the party of the working class, to the party of the oppressed, within the existing two party framework of American politics. In other words, in the absence of changes to the status quo, prior to 1985,  the two party American political system had settled into a Nash equilibrium. As a result of the changes that BLM Democrats are making to the new global power arrangement, we predict that the middle class will adapt to the changes by becoming more aware of their own vulnerability, and begin the process of protecting their own class interests. In the existing two party system, neither the Democrats, nor the Republicans, represent the interests of the middle class. Consequently, the middle class will be forced to create a new political party. The great predictive value of Marxist class conflict theory is the insight that the capitalist class always co-opts its opposition by undermining the ideology of its enemies. The crony corporations are currently in the process of undermining the emerging leftist class consciousness of envy by buying off the leaders of BLM and elite Democrats in order to convert the movement into a political force that supports global crony capitalism. It is likely that as the middle class begins to develop its own class consciousness, that the ruling class will attempt to subvert its new enemy. The crony capitalist class sets the terms and limits for the left’s social justice movement, and nothing about the left’s goal of cultural social justice disrupts the elite’s power or threatens their unequal wealth distribution. As Emily Jashinsky writes in her Federalist article, How Capitalists Enrich Themselves By Co-Opting Social Justice Movements, BLM Democrats are attacking cultural values, not global capitalist hegemony. Jashinsky writes,           “Corporations are partially motivated by a sincere interest in helping    the black community by announcing donations and flooding social media with their statements of solidarity. But they also fear losing       business for staying silent, and they are increasingly convinced shifts     in consumer preferences make their overtures good for business too.” The elements of both grievance and entitlement of the new class consciousness of envy explains leftist social class behavior. We argue that the social class behavior of American leftists is based on the collective social psychology, not the individual leftist’s psychology, of envy. The envy of leftists is based upon the concept of group relative deprivation perceived by the entire social class as undeserved, unfair, collective disadvantage. We agree with Walker and Smith that social group deprivation reliably predicts political protest and active attempts to change the social system. (Walker, Iain, Smith, Heather, Feeling Relative Deprivation: The Rocky Road From Comparisons to Actions, Cambridge University Press, 2002). As a social class, leftists envy the unfairly obtained wealth of the ruling class. In their world-view, the wealth of the rich eluded the entire class of non-wealthy, not because of the absence of merit, but because an unfair capitalist economic system deprived the entire BLM under-class of obtaining a fair distribution of wealth. The social class envy creates a feeling of resentment and grievance in the Democrat socialist voting constituency. The sense of grievance causes a sense of entitlement to the wealth because, in the BLM perspective, the rich did not justly earn their wealth. Someone else built that wealth. Rather than attack the ruling class, we argue that the left uses the allegation of middle class white supremacy as a way of projecting a false race-based class consciousness onto all White people. The BLM Democrats imagine a hypothetical existence of a white race-based consciousness that allows all White people to be seen by BLM Democrats as a social class, similar to their own leftist class consciousness, based upon envy. In contrast to Codevilla’s use of resistance of Trump voters to the ruling class, the term “resistance” by Democrats translates to opposition to tolerating any more of the unfair, middle class white supremacist system of capitalism, in spite of the election results in 2016. The left’s emerging class consciousness of envy is based on the historical animosity of class envy between people who have succeeded financially in America, and people who have not. The historical class animosity, from 1787 onwards, was often called “sectional animosity,” between the commercial North and the agrarian South. In the earlier period, the wealthy in the North competed for power with the wealthy in the South. In the contemporary setting sectional animosity is converted to a race-based animosity between citizens in metro regions, and citizens in the interior of the United States. The left packages the ideology of grievance into the theoretical Marxist class conflict between workers and the capitalist elite. The packaging and placement of race-based grievance does not fit into the Marxist class conflict because the grievance of the left is based upon the notion of “white supremacy” not economic class exploitation. Race-based envy does, however, fit neatly into America’s two party hegemony. William Domhoff explained the utility and permanence of the two party system in Who rules America? Power and Politics in the Year 2006,           “The two-party system provided yet another demonstration of just           how the two-parties really compete with each other, only as rivals in           their unblinking servitude to money and power. The two-party system           learned to translate insurgent concerns into a “public opinion” that           permitted an ongoing renewal of the legitimacy of the existing power           structure. The two parties did not take opposite positions on the           permanent wartime economy and offer voters a choice between them.” After 1985, both the BLM Democrats and the Republican crony capitalists favor globalism, but for different reasons. The socialist Democrats embrace globalism because they sense an opportunity to gain unelected power to extract profits from the seamless global corporate economy, in a global socialist administrative state. The left’s ideology of racial envy is best seen as a modification of the ruling class hegemony of exploitation, not as a revolutionary overthrow of America’s ruling class. Reparations for slavery to overcome the current unfair wealth distribution is an emulation of the ruling class ability to rip-off the political system. In this case the intent of the BLM Democrats is to gain their fair share of plunder by ripping off the middle class, in collusion with the ruling class, within the existing institutional structure of the two party system. As Domhoff explains,           “This (BLM) dogma asserts that it is more damaging to progressive           interest to challenge the two-party system than to accept the need to           stay within it. The more the evidence demonstrates that their own           dogmatism has produced only bleak disasters, the more they ascribe           those disasters to those who rejected their groundless faith-based           strategy of “working within the Democratic Party.” As Codevilla explains,           “The black-clad burners and looters were the very opposite of a           proletariat and that, Marxist rhetoric aside, they never attacked the           wealthy or the powerful—not Wall Street, nor major corporations,           certainly not any government, never mind Google, Facebook, or           Twitter, America’s most powerful monopolies, or corporate officials.           Instead, they received financial contributions from these sources.” Promoting the class envy of White people heightens the sense of oppression and grievance of the BLM Democrat constituencies, and eventually leads to a one-party dictatorship that does not require voting to maintain power. That anti-democratic authority system would not disrupt the ruling class’ ability to use the agencies of government to direct the flow of global financial benefits to themselves. The new tyranny would only require that the ruling class share profits with its new junior partner, eliminating the need for any further BLM political resistance to Trump voters. This podcast is a copyrighted production of the CLP News Network. The podcast is the introduction of a much longer article. The other sections of the podcast include: Section 1. The Consciousness of Greed of the American Ruling Class. Section 2. The BLM Democrat Politics of Envy. Section 3. The Emerging BLM Democrat Concept of Social Class Consciousness. Conclusion: The Radical Egalitarianism of the Democratic Republic of America.   The full text and audio of the most recent podcast is available for free at clpnewsnetwork.com. The entire text and audio archive of all the CLP News Network podcasts are available for an annual subscription of $30.

Our podcast today is titled “The Unintended Consequence of the BLM Marxist Allegation of “White Supremacy.” I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this podcast is a copyrighted production of the Citizens Liberty Party News Network, for September 28, 2020. Our podcast examines the use of the allegation of “white supremacy” by BLM Marxists, and its unintended consequence of instigating a class consciousness among White citizens. We argue that the allegation of “white supremacy” today, plays the same type of political propaganda purpose for Black Marxists as the issue of slavery played during the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and then 70 years later, in the first Civil War. In the early history of the Nation, the term “sectional animosity” was used to describe the two irreconcilable cultures between the commercial North and the agrarian South. Today, the term sectional animosity between two alien cultures has a historical continuity with the ideological animosity between Marxists and conservatives, not over the credibility of the allegation, but over the stark difference in the mission of America, much like the issue of slavery did then, in the sectional animosity between the North and the South Slavery, then, served as a convenient ground of dispute between the two alien cultures, in the same way that Marxist white supremacy plays today between the alien cultures of Marxists and natural rights conservatives. Something real, slavery, then, acted as the precursor agent to solve the historical animosity between North and South, in the same way, today, that something real, racism, acts as the agent to impose Marxism on natural rights conservatives. Madison attempted to combine two alien cultures under one government, and now, Madison’s flawed arrangement is allowing two distinct ideologies  to, once again clash, over the future of the nation. We argue that Madison did not get the right institutional framework in place to ameliorate the sectional animosity. His grand compromises over slavery, in order to get the new constitution ratified, left the issue of slavery to fester, before the start of the Civil War, and after the Civil War ended. When the 38 elites (one delegate signed twice, once for himself, and once for his buddy, who could not make it to Philadelphia that day), walked out of the Convention, on September 17, 1787, they knew that their compromises on slavery would lead to Civil War. We agree with Ta Nehisi Coates, a Black Marxist writer at The Atlantic, who claims that the Civil War did not solve the issues of sectional or ideological animosity. Coates argues that the Civil War solved nothing, and, therefore, that reparations are due to Black people for the ensuing racism, after the War ended. In contrast to Coates’ conclusion about reparations, we argue that the conclusion of the Civil War did not provide the common cultural or moral values that bound the citizens together into a shared national mission of individual liberty because Madison’s constitution was not a moral document, but rather a legal framework of economic and financial civil rules of procedure. We argue that the genesis of modern racism in America is not 1619, and that the ensuing racism is not due to white supremacy. The modern version of racism began with the globalism of the large corporations, around 1985. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, The Origins of Modern Racism in the United States and Black Economic Dysphoria Under Global Corporate Crony Capitalism and the COVID Economic Lockdown Shock (June 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3625160). As in 1787, and later in 1860, there are now two distinct cultures, and two different nations in America. As the British observer in America noted, in 1860, there were two nations operating under one government. The British observer stated:           “In order to master the difficulties of American politics, it will be very           important to realize the fact that we have to consider, not the action of           rival political parties, or opposing interests within the limits of one           body politic, but practically that of two distinct communities or   peoples, speaking indeed a common language, and united by a federal     bond, but opposed in principles and interests, alienated in feeling and        jealous rivals in the pursuit of political power.” Further, we argue that today’s conflict cannot be solved peacefully under Madison’s flawed document because its civil rules of procedure permanently elevated the power of the natural aristocracy over the howling masses. The ongoing racial hatred in America is due to a defect in the Preamble of Madison’s constitution, which failed to link his constitution to Jefferson’s Declaration, that all men are created equal. For Madison, a “more perfect union” was a union that corrected the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation by permanently placing men who had “virtue” in unchecked economic power. “A more perfect union,” said Thomas Paine, about Madison’s flawed Preamble, “meant a nominal nothing without principles.” For BLM Marxists, a more perfect union means a communist tyranny. Madison’s flawed, vacuous Preamble can mean anything to whoever happens to control the U. S. Supreme Court at that moment in time. Madison’s two-class arrangement makes the constitution vulnerable to the ascendancy of the elite Marxists, who assume the authority and functions previously reserved by Madison for the natural aristocracy. We raise the same issue about a future civil war that Edward Pollard raised in 1866, in his book, The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates. Pollard wrote,   “It is obvious that the controversy is no narrow one of party, that   it involves the traditions and spirit of government, and goes to   the ultimate contest of constitutional liberty in America. Regarding these issues, the question comes forcefully to mind:           Has the past war merely laid the foundation of another? The      pregnant lesson of human experience is that few nations have      had their first civil war without having their second.”   The essence of the ideological division today is over the difference between a society founded on individual freedoms, and a society organized under Marxist collectivism. No force on earth will make the BLM Marxists suddenly decide to become individualist patriotic citizens, and give up their dream of imposing Marxism on the citizens. The ideological conflict between Marxist collectivism and conservative individualism is permanent and irreconcilable. That Marxist ideological recalcitrance will lead to a second civil war, unless a peaceful civil dissolution occurs first. In its relationship to Marxist class theory, the term white supremacy is used by BLM Marxists to describe the dynamics of the American social class of white capitalists who exploit the disadvantaged under classes. In the logic of BLM Marxists, the white capitalist ruling class has an objectively verified, identifiable class consciousness that allows the Marxists to target the White capitalist class as a collectivist group. The term white supremacy of the capitalist class has been broadened by BLM Marxists to include all White people, not just the capitalist class, who benefit from white privilege. In contrast to the objectively verified class consciousness that the BLM Marxists project onto all White people, all White people do not identify themselves by race. White people, as a collectivist entity, do not possess a class consciousness in the same way as the term is used by Marxists to identify the ruling capitalist class. In other words, White people in America do not think of themselves as a collectivist social class, and do not think of themselves as a part of a white supremacist nation. Following Madison’s idea about economic and commercial factions, between the natural aristocracy and the common citizens, White people today think of themselves in terms of economic and social status, and vote for either the Republican Party or the Democrat Party to represent their financial interests. White people, applying Marxian analysis, do not have class consciousness. However, one of the unintended consequences of the continued invocation of the term “white supremacist” by BLM Marxists, is that the Marxist ideology will cause the formation of racial class consciousness among White people, who had never before identified their common political and economic interests with other White people. The media and cultural agencies will continually reinforce the message that all White people are racists, leading to the realization by White people that BLM Marxists consider White people to be an identifiable collective social group. There is nothing in Marxist theory that suggests that the outcome of a new White class consciousness will lead to a pre-determined communist state. A more plausible outcome of emerging White class consciousness is a revolutionary ideology of radical egalitarianism, based upon an individualistic entrepreneurial society. The historical antecedent of that radical egalitarianism is found in the agrarian populist philosophy of North Carolina, as described by Cecil-Fronsman, in his book, Common Whites: Class and Culture In Antebellum North Carolina. Cecil-Fronsman quotes an observer traveling through the South in the early 1800's.           “The observer remarked that common whites, in North Carolina, were           "...extremely tenacious of the rights and liberties of republicanism.           They consider themselves on equal footing with the best people in the           country, and upon the principles of equality, they intrude themselves           into every company." The feelings of social and political equality of common North Carolina White people arose from the priority they attached to attaining self-respect and economic independence from the Southern plantation elite. They believed that their own moral worth as individuals did not derive either from their initial endowment of labor, or from their accumulation of property from market transactions. Paul Escott notes, in Many Excellent People, that           “North Carolina’s yeomen were, in reality, a self-directed, stubborn           and independent group. Theirs was a traditional way of life based           upon subsistence farming. It was neither luxurious not easy, but it           offered self-reliance and self-respect.” Escott goes on to write, that from the eyes of the plantation elite, the (White) yeomen were not respectable, and tended to view them as unreliable and in the same class as free blacks and slaves. In other words, it is more likely that the nascent white class consciousness will not be built upon the existing dialectics of the Marxist antagonistic relations between workers and the capitalist class, but will be built upon the social class awareness that Hobbes and Locke were correct that the best social welfare outcomes are achieved under a regime of private property and individual initiative. The philosophical mistake made by BLM Marxists is to substitute the concept of “white supremacy” of all White people for the more cogent Marxist economic theory of ruling class exploitation. The white supremacy of all White people, as a social class, does not fit into the Marxist ideology, but the categorization of the American ruling class does have a collectivist class consciousness that fits neatly into the Marxist two-class theory. The American white ruling class is now busy undermining the Marxists with the tools of co-option and collaboration. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, BLM Marxism and the Emerging Alliance With Global Corporate Crony Capitalism. (July 25, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3660493). BLM Marxists would probably have attracted more middle class White citizens if the Marxists had stuck with Marx’s original two-class distinction between the ruling class and the proletariat. Following the ruling class theory of American history, promoted by Angelo Codevilla, most White citizens can easily see the unelected power of the ruling class, and realize that the two track justice system generates unfair, unearned, advantages for the ruling class. The common name of this current political condition is “the swamp.” Our term for Codevilla’s American ruling class is a kleptocracy of global crony corporations, which is composed of the senior executives of the 1500 large global corporations who favor a one-world government. We call that system global crony corporate capitalism. We argue that the only peaceful solution to the ideological divisions between BLM Marxists and natural rights conservatives is a civil dissolution of the current 50 states into two new nations, one of which embraces the philosophical roots of individualism of Hobbes and Locke. The other new nation is founded on the collectivist Marxist principles of social justice envisioned by the Black BLM Marxists, and funded by the insane “open society” globalism of George Soros. The ultimate consequence of the market branding of the  BLM allegation of  “white supremacy” and the end goal of BLM Marxism, for the second new nation is a totalitarian dictatorship of the proletariat, with an unspecified economic system, and untested ideas of a communist, one-class society, ruled by Marxist elites. We predict that the on-going invocation of “white supremacy” will create a white consciousness among working class and middle class citizens, commonly called the petty bourgeois by Marx. Marxist theory is defective in its treatment of the middle class because Marx only identified conflict between the working class and the ruling class. We conclude that the solution for liberty lies in the direction of more individualism, and less central government, in a state sovereignty economic commonwealth of independent entrepreneurial producers of the American petty bourgeois. This podcast is the introduction of a much longer article, available at clpnewsnetwork.com. The other sections of the longer article include: Section 1. Sectional Animosity As The Historical Antecedent of BLM Marxist White Supremacy Animosity. Section 2. A Second Civil War Over White Supremacy or the Second Revolution Over Individual Liberty? Section 3. Radical Egalitarianism as the Unexpected Outcome of the Unintended Consequence of the BLM Allegation of White Supremacy. Conclusion: The Restoration of Jefferson’s Natural Rights Republic.   The full text and audio of the most recent podcast is available for free at clpnewsnetwork.com. The entire text and audio archive of all the CLP News Network podcasts are available for an annual subscription of $30. I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this podcast is a copyrighted production of the CLP News Network.

Laurie talks to award-winning director and theatre educator Gil Lazier about Americana, academia, and how all the world is truly a stage.FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

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In this episode we feature the voice of Laurie Thomas, the Executive Director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association. The Golden Gate Restaurant Association has been around since 1936 and has supported the efforts of local small business owners to address such issues as collective labor agreements, racketeering and food rationing during World War Two. Over the decades the association helped its members market their restaurants through creating an annual Dining Guide, and setting up a purchasing guide along with group insurance and workers compensation programs. The Association’s education program offers the only Food Safety training of its kind in the State of California by partnering with the San Francisco Department of Public Health and is a Certified Test Site Administrator with the National Registry of Food Safety Professionals along with proctoring the Food Manager Certification Exam.

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Introduction. Our podcast today is titled The U. S. Covid Economic Recovery Plan, and begins with an alternative to the conventional political view that the U. S. economy will “bounce back” to pre-lockdown levels. We tend to abstract from the conventional economic wisdom that “bouncing back” to the economy that existed prior to March 17, 2020 is a great idea. The economic structure in America was already deeply flawed and damaged from 20 years of economic integration with the rest of the world and particularly China. (Vass, Laurie Thomas, U.S. National COVID Economic Collapse and the Collapse of the U.S. Dollar. (April 14, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3575761). The rate of private capital investment had already begun to decline in the last two quarters of 2019, primarily due to the structural weaknesses in the economy that limited capital investment opportunities in small, high tech ventures. Nondurable goods manufacturing decreased 3.1 percent in the 4th quarter, primarily reflecting a decrease in food and beverage and tobacco products manufacturing. Durable goods manufacturing decreased 2.4 percent, which was more than accounted for by a decrease in motor vehicles, bodies and trailers, and parts manufacturing. The last two quarters of 2019 economic performance would not represent the kind of economy that would be desirable to “bounce back” to, and while we do not dwell on the logic or reality of the arguments supporting the “bounce back” view, we disclose our ideological predisposition that the entire notion of “bouncing back” is wildly naïve and Pollyanna optimistic.   We argue that the 70% of the U. S. economic structure that was locked down resembles the shambles of the German economy after May 8, 1945. Part of the German economy that was connected to large global corporations was still functioning, but the domestic economic structure in Germany had been reduced to rubble. The full extent of the U. S. economic damage has not been experienced yet, because the economic damage to the commercial rental market and the mortgage loan market have not yet been reflected in the data on the number of citizens who no longer have an income to pay rent or mortgages. We argue that the domestic spending part of the U. S. GDP has been reduced to rubble by the covid lockdowns, but that 30% of the corporate crony capitalist economy that is connected to the global economy is still functioning. Something like the Marshall Plan is required for the U. S. economy, to repair the economic damage caused by the lockdowns. The goal of the covid economic recovery plan is to build a free enterprise, new venture creation, entrepreneurial economy in each metro region that operates independent of the global crony corporate capitalist system. One mission of the Marshall Plan was to prevent the spread of Communism in Europe. We argue that the contemporary U. S. covid recovery plan must also prevent the spread of Chinese communism, which entails a policy response to limiting the damage caused by the promotion of the China trade deals by crony corporate capitalism, such as the members of the Business Roundtable and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. The political power of global corporate crony capitalism is responsible for implementing the trade deals with China, which weakened the industrial diversity of the U. S. domestic economy, leading to a bifurcation between a global corporate part, and a domestic consumer spending services sector part. As a result of the bifurcation, the domestic services sector accounted for 70% of all GDP, and 80% of total civilian employment. The economic effect of the lock down was worsened because of the lack of economic diversification in the U. S. economic structure. The economic recovery plan aims to restore a balance in the GDP between domestic investment in manufacturing and consumer domestic spending. Private domestic annual  investment in manufacturing should be increased from around 12% of GDP to about 25%, as a result of this plan. Total private employment in the services sector should drop from around 80% to around 60%, or to about 50 million workers. Total manufacturing employment in both direct production and indirect supply chains should increase from around 12 million workers to around 20 million workers, or to around 16% of total private employment. We argue that the U. S. covid economic recovery plan has the following policy goals: Target private sector capital investment in the 280 metro regions with a population over 150,000, the minimum size for self-renewing, self-generating entrepreneurial economic growth. Target private sector capital investment to new product technology commercialization and new venture creation, within those 280 regions. Integrate the current Trump economic opportunity zones policy into an advanced technology cluster strategy in each metro region, so that technology firms that like to located close to each other can trade with each other and share tacit knowledge. Integrate the existing Trump advanced skill training apprenticeship program into the advanced technology cluster strategy so that future new ventures, in each metro region, have a consistent supply of highly trained technology workers. Provide each region’s private commercial real estate consulting firms with new econometric models developed by the Bureau of Economic Analysis to order to target capital investment to the development of regional industrial value chains and inter-industry supply chains that service the new technology clusters. Modify the existing SEC crowdfunding rules for raising private capital by broadening the scope of the existing Reg D Rule 506, and creating new forms of regional closed end funds that target capital to the region’s new and existing firms in the emerging technology clusters. Implement an explicit system of regional tacit technology knowledge creation and diffusion using blockchain technology to share regional technological knowledge among investors and entrepreneurs. The great economic benefit of the U. S. covid economic recovery plan is that it is private-sector driven, allowing private financial and business interests in each region to select the policy approach best suited to that region. By fixing the regional economies in 280 metro regions, the nation’s economic weakness of over-dependence on consumer spending, and inadequate business investment would be fixed. In addition, the rate of capital investment in small, high tech firms would increase, leading to a recovery in America’s technological superiority, that would not be easily stolen by the Chinese Communists. In other words, we argue that this plan does not require much Federal government oversight, regulations, or increased federal taxes to implement. The Federal government’s role is to collect the economic data, and organize the data into regional econometric models that can be used by citizens interested in promoting regional economic growth in each metro region. This introduction is a part of a much longer podcast, available for free, for one week, at www.clpnewsnetwork.com. The other sections of the longer podcast include: Section 1. An Economic Policy Dispute With the Neo-classical Productivity School. Section 2. Re-Envisioning Regional Economies as the Blockchain Knowledge Creation Engines of Economic Growth. Section 3. Using BEA Models to Target Regional Capital Investment to High Growth Technology Clusters. Section 4. Commercial Real Estate Regional Industrial Technology Parks and the Regional Geographic Scope of the Economic Recovery Plan. Section 5. Regional Capital Market Infrastructure. The entire historical archive of all CLP News Network podcasts are available for an annual subscription of $30. I am Laurie Thomas Vass, and this is the copyrighted CLP podcast for May 20, 2020, and is titled, The U. S. Covid Economic Recovery Plan.

Laurie talks to theatre artist, educator, entrepreneur, and visual artist, Dodie Montgomery. Topics include life and art in Seattle, gardening, tequila, great theatre experiences, and paintings of women in hats.FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to FUSION Executive Director, Dennis Gromelski, about civic engagement, arts and culture, the open road, New Orleans meets Albuquerque, the joy of cooking, college ball, and The Grateful Dead. FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls. Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to Julia Youngs, Accelerations Program Manager for Creative Startups, about the changing face of entrepreneurship locally and globally, urban design, running marathons, the life of theatre, and her passion for Flamenco. FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls. Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to actor Trey Caperton about being a student of theatre, life and love in the time of COVID-19, and the little beauties of New Mexico.FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to theatre artist, writer, poetry lover, and Netflix Finance Associate Evan Garrett about production - production of immersive theatre, poetry, film and television, politics, and a new normal in L.A.FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls.Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Our second episode is with Laurie Thomas, executive director of the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and a San Francisco restaurateur behind Rose’s Cafe and Terzo in Cow Hollow. We ended up recording this episode on the fly, truly, because of the big news that recently dropped from San Francisco Mayor London Breed. She has placed a temporary 15-percent cap on the often-excessive commission fees charged by third-party delivery apps to restaurants, which can reach up to 30 percent or more. We discuss the Mayor’s decision to help support San Francisco restaurants with this order (and through other ways), talk about some of the confusion surrounding the use and terms of these delivery apps, and Laurie shares additional thoughts about the massive challenges our restaurants are currently facing. Two-Top:1. Alamar KitchenDetails of the Restaurant Workers Relief Program:• Meal pickup address: alaMar Kitchen at 100 Grand Ave in Oakland.• Meals will be distributed by contactless curbside pickup: Wed–Sun 4pm–6pm, first come, first served, as funding allows. Please pull up in your car on Valdez St. Walk-ups are also welcome. • Everyone must show some identifying paperwork to prove recent employment at a restaurant. A paystub will suffice in most cases.Updates: @alamaroakland 2. Fiorella and Bi-Rite Market: Pay It Forward TuesdaysEvery Tuesday at Fiorella’s Richmond (2339 Clement St.) and Russian Hill (2238 Polk St.) locations, they will hand out 100 free meals to healthcare workers, members of the restaurant industry (including the farmers, purveyors, and drivers who continue to provide food to restaurants), and grocery store workers. The meal is a choice of pizza (margherita, mushroom, or pepperoni) or pasta (cacio e pepe or pomodoro) from Fiorella, plus a fresh seasonal salad from Bi-Rite. At pick up, proof of employment is requested (current badge or paystub from March or April) for those currently employed (or recently laid off).Orders can be placed in person or over the phone at 415-829-7097 for pickup at the restaurant’s Russian Hill location, or 415-340-3049 for the Outer Richmond, 4:30pm–9pm every Tuesday.Updates: @fiorellaitalian and @biritesfIf you’re reading this in a podcast service, you can access the actual links in our episode notes at ontheflytablehopper.buzzsprout.com.If you’re a Bay Area business or individual and want to be featured in On the Fly, please fill out the form at bit.ly/ontheflyguest.Support the show (http://www.venmo.com/Marcia-Gagliardi)

Laurie talks to FUSION Co-Founder, Jacqueline Reid about new normals. the suspense of Annie Baker's The Antipodes, initial steps, the spirit, New Mexico, and turtles. FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls. Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to actor, director, and curator of FUSION's short play festival The Seven, Jen Grigg. They discuss the upcoming festival's theme and Jen's process of reading and selecting from over five hundred submissions. They also share thoughts on acting process, creativity during quarantine, and the passions in Jen's life that nurture her artistry. FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls. Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks with poet, educator, actor, musician and Deputy Director for the City of Albuquerque's Cultural Services Department, Hakim Bellamy, about the city's strategies for sustaining Albuquerque's artists and arts organizations during the pandemic. They also take on the creative process of poetry, Hakim's earliest storytelling, his love for the Southwest, and his experience with Annie Baker's play The Antipodes.FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls. Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

Laurie talks to Alec Squires, a directing student at NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts, about his recent switch from an acting to directing focus, his work as a photographer, and his passion for long-distancing running.FUSION Forum Podcast is sponsored by FUSION Theatre Company, New Mexico’s professional producing theatre company since 2001. Located in the Arts and Cultural district of downtown Albuquerque, FUSION makes its creative home within The Forum, a community inspired multi-venue space. The interviews in this podcast are dedicated to capturing the activities, passions, and tangential paths artists utilize to nurture their creative souls. Laurie Thomas is a Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Chair of FUSION. She is a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and host of FUSION Forum Podcast.

In this 40th episode of From the Woods Kentucky, co-hosts Renee Williams and Laura Lhotka interview Laurie Thomas for an overview of "What is a Tree?". Episode 40 - What is a Tree?

In this 34th episode of From the Woods Kentucky, co-hosts Renee Williams and Laura Lhotka interview Dr. Matthew Springer and Laurie Thomas for an overview of woodland and wildlife management plans. Episode 34 - Management Plans

In this 23rd episode of From the Woods Kentucky, co-hosts Renee Williams and Laura Lhotka interview Laurie Thomas for an overview of the Great Backyard Bird Count. Episode 23 - Great Backyard Bird Count

In this 15th episode of From the Woods Kentucky, co-hosts Renee Williams and Laura Lhotka interview Dr. Ellen Crocker, Dr. Carmen Agouridis, and Laurie Thomas for an overview of citizen science. Episode 15 - Citizen Science

In this 13th episode of From the Woods Kentucky, co-hosts Renee Williams and Laura Lhotka interview Laurie Thomas for an overview of Christmas trees. Episode 13 - Christmas Trees

In this sixth episode of From the Woods Kentucky, co-hosts Renee Williams and Laura Lhotka interview Laurie Thomas for an overview of fall colors. Episode 6 - Fall Colors

Laurie Thomas (1:30), mother of late Humboldt Bronco Evan Thomas; The grossest things we've ever eaten (10:55); Reacting to online threats to PM Trudeau (19:20); An inspiring story from the HSC (26:50); Global's Reggie Cecchini (35:30) on Trump's prime-time address; Mexico travel tips (41:55); and the Athletic's Murat Ates (49:45) on a special Valentine's Day card-making event. 

Solving Webcomic Issues We All Face. Today’s discussion… Consistency and Continuity. Christina (Sombulus), Liz (Adrastus), and Robin (LeyLines) are back for another Long-Form Take-Over!  Today we’re answering two listener questions: ‪Laurie Thomas of Oeclair asks:  How much do you or your readers care about consistency of characters over time? I have difficulty keeping my drawing […]

THIS WEEK - The Premiers Plate! Finals! Heartbreak! Chokes! Brawls! Laurie Thomas! Ross Aloisi! Niche gags that about 7 people will get! Plus - Glenn Moss Wins, Paul Izzo Loses, Dan Says Things About Fixturing & Stefan Mauk Bashes An Assistant Manager.

i talk to Laurie Thomas aka Cetriya about art stuff mostly. we discuss her kickstarter, some OG artist, conventions, and reasons why Farscape is the best thing ever