John Flannery, “LET FREEDOM RING”

There has been a national eruption after a police officer killed a black man, suffocated him, something like Eric Garner, 5 years ago, and this episode sets out to review the charging documents released by the Minneapolis authorities, what's missing, what we might know if we had the information, the misconduct of Trump contributing to this crisis, the demonstrations in the street protesting, how other leaders have actually been effective in such circumstances in the past, what to make of the violence in the streets in response to the lawlessness blacks have suffered, not to mention the poverty and indignities, and what our response should be to solve this horrendous American tragedy, something like the findings from the Kerner Commission in the '60s  John P Flannery, [email protected], @jonflan 

We discuss how we overturn the Trump advancing monarchy and restore the republic, how we can beat trump in the electioon, what to do about the danger of virus because of the re-opening, what capitalism has to do with the pandemic when it comes to the working man and woman, and why the Flynn case is so important to the rule of law - by John P Flannery, [email protected], @jonflan

In past podcasts, we've followed a series of topic, in this discussion we look for some of the root causes that brought us to this American Tragedy.  Of course, it's about Mr. Trump, and his flaws that have been transmitted to our nation in its disgrace, isolation and this pandemic - so we called this "treatment," Trump an American Tragedy.  John P. Flannery, [email protected], @jonflan

Trump harms the nation almost continuously, most recently, by reopening some states before the nation was ready, tearing open this still bleeding wound, after the effort at distancing had not yet run its course, and made worse no doubt, by Trump's recklessness, and we invoke Yeats' poem, the 2nd Coming, as a launching point for this discussion; then we talk about the injustice in the Courts, from the Flynn case in DC, to the young Georgia man, a person of color, killed while jogging through a middle class neighborhood.  by John P. Flannery, [email protected], @jonflan.

Every week there exist a series of acts by Mr. Trump that favor him and compromise the nation; thus we consider how we rightly refer to him as Public Enemy No. 1; in addition, we have had this dust up about Factory Farms and whether we may force workers to risk their health and even losing their lives going back to work after the farms were closed down because of the virus; we have a short interview about clean meat, requiring no slaughter of animals, and some poesy about our little farm; we hope you enjoy this week's podcast and you'll subscribe if you haven't already.  John P. Flannery, [email protected], @jonflan.

It is time we examine what we all know, why Trump is a loser, and we suffer because of it; those hurt most in this pandemic are those who have been ignored in the workplace who contribute the productivity for enormous growth but the workers don't share in that prosperity - thus, the "new serfdom," a comment on who should be Biden's VP; and what surprising thing has happened to the environment because of the pandemic.  by John P. Flannery, [email protected], @jonflan.  Subscribe if you haven't already.

The nation is getting mixed signals from the West Wing, a pretense at meeting the pandemic, and an election year demand to get everyone back to work, no matter if it's safe or not - the are-we-there-yet? discussion; also how our post office is at risk, how our jail and prison inmates across the nation are at risk in unsafe facilities, what the democratic party looks like for the Fall, a few words from Jane Goodall, and an old book by Thornton Wilder that never grows old - John P. Flannery, [email protected], @jonflan.

This 7th episode concerns itself first with the failure of Mr. Trump to save the nation from the coronavirus pandemic, rather he puts us at risk and in harm's way by falsely calling it a "hoax" - thus, we describe him as an existential threat; we discuss the illness of UK PM Boris Johnson; also the strange way Senator Bernie Sanders paused his presidential candidacy; a discussion of good friday, and how we may cope with our changed circumstances because of the virus.  by John P. Flannery, II - [email protected], @jonflan.

In our 6th Podcast Episode, we start out with a discussion of how Trump's misconduct in the Pandemic reveals him to be more like Jim Jones than a President; there is a segment on what else we need to do for our ailing economy than we've done; a segment on a businessman who has transformed his bow tie establishment into a supplier of K95 masks; a segment on the failure of our government to respect the public's need to know what exactly is going on; lastly, for (comic) relief, yours I hope, I've offered a selection from the King & I and my version of a song sang wonderfully by Julie Andrews.  Be kind.  Stay safe.  John P. Flannery - [email protected], @jonflan.

"The Big Leap Backwards" refers to Mr. Trump's continued failures.  Not entirely unlike Mao Zedong.  There's also a discussion about the deal that is the $2 Trillion stimulus package - and how it landed well short for Main Street and gave a $1/2 Trillion dollars to Wall Street.. A few points by Dr. Martha Calihan on good personal practices.  I finished up with a free form discussion about this week's good and bad news and what we, each of us, can do.  I hope you enjoy the discussion, and please subscribe so that you can get notice of my weekly podcast. Thanks.  John P. Flannery - @jonflan, [email protected]