you send me...

honest you do....

while looking into the money trail that leads to the financing of the anti-union worker movement, I came upon some interesting guys..some old guys, some non profit guys, some shady guys..

I am stringing together some issues about one of those shady guys Art Rupe, who started Specialty Records a long long long time ago, recording such greats as Little Richard. Unfortunatley, Rupe took advantage of the black singers and paid them poorly, buying their publishing rights early on....he was concerned with making money for himself and not profit sharing... back then, the music business was dominated by Jews who routinely took advantage of the more talented black singers...Concerns about religious objections to the secularization of gospel music, combined with a contract dispute, resulted in his decision not to put out a pop record with gospel singer Sam Cooke

. He recorded but ultimately chose not to release two songs that later became big hits, "You Send Me"..can you imagine not ever hearing "You Send Me" by Sam Cooke????

and this is how Rupe and the wealthy rightwingers try to use propaganda to influence students:The National Forensic League is a non-partisan, non-profit
educational honor society established to encourage and motivate American high school students to participate in and become proficient in the forensic arts: debate, public speaking and interpretation. NFL is the America's oldest and largest high school speech and debate honor society. Since 1925, NFL has enrolled over 1.3 million students in fulfillment of its motto, "training youth for leadership."

Not much has been said about previous Public Forum Debate topic sponsorships and no one has said how much money was received for those sponsorships. It is clear that the NFL accepted a $150,000 sponsorship from the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation and the foundation was allowed to select the topic areas for February, March, and April.

Despite a request from the NFL to remove reference to the Rupe Foundation in Peele’s original blog post (which we honored), the NFL is now touting its relationship with the foundation. Each Public Forum Debate qualifier to the NFL National Tournament is designated as a Rupe Scholar and receives a plaque. The NFL has also setup a special Web site to provide topic resources for February, March, and April and recognize the Rupe Scholars.

It is not easy to find much information about the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation. Art Rupe appears to have made his money in the recording and oil & gas industries. It should also be noted that in addition to selecting the the public unions topic for April, they also provided a grant to the Cato Institute for a special issue of the Cato Journal...

....Art Rupe and Lanny Ebenstein became friends....here's excerpts from an interview with Brian Lamb about Rupe and Friedrich Hayek (not to be confused with Salma Hayek)...turns out that Rupe is one of the moneyhounds financing the anti- public worker advertising blitz going on now!
LAMB: August. Oh, thank you. I'm sorry. Von--what's it mean?
EBENSTEIN: Von was a title of nobility in the Austro-Hungarian empire. There were four levels of nobility; von was the lowest of those four levels. Its English approximation would be `sir.'
LAMB: Earlier in the discussion, you said that you were out in Santa Barbara, that you're an independent scholar. What's that mean?
EBENSTEIN: Independent scholar--I'm not affiliated with any university or college. I'm--I'm a writer, and I've--I've just written the book on Friedrich Hayek. I've revised several of--my--my father's books were some of the leading textbooks in the area of history of political thought and comparative politics. I've revised several of them, "Great Political Thinkers," "Introduction to Political Thinkers," "Today's ISMs." And I've also written on the--the British economist Edwin Cannan, who's at the London School of Economics. So I guess that's what an independent scholar is.
EBENSTEIN: Art also lives in Santa Barbara.
LAMB: How old a man is he?
EBENSTEIN: Art is 83.
LAMB: How much money did he put into this foundation?
EBENSTEIN: Well, the--the foundation at this point in time has about $15 million to $20 million of assets and in time it'll have something like $40 million to $50 million of assets.
LAMB: And how many people work there?
EBENSTEIN: At this point in time, there's Art, one secretary and yours truly.
LAMB: And so what do you do? I mean, wh--how do you get your--what's the plan?
EBENSTEIN: Well, at this point in time the foundation is still in the start-up mode. We're attempting to develop things like prizes and--and fellowships and research. And it's something that I think that we'd like to see the--the foundation play a role in the formulation of public policy and ideas.

and Lanny has been giving us the reasons why he thinks black folks are genetically inferior!Let's celebrate human genetic diversityBruce Lahn and Lanny Ebenstein
Nature, 8 October 2009

The current moral position is a sort of 'biological egalitarianism'. This dominant position emerged in recent decades largely to correct grave historical injustices, including genocide, that were committed with the support of pseudoscientific understandings of group diversity. The racial-hygiene theory promoted by German geneticists Fritz Lenz, Eugene Fischer and others during the Nazi era is one notorious example of such pseudoscience. Biological egalitarianism is the view that no or almost no meaningful genetically based biological differences exist among human groups, with the exception of a few superficial traits such as skin colour. Proponents of this view seem to hope that, by promoting biological sameness, discrimination against groups or individuals will become groundless.

We believe that this position, although well intentioned, is illogical and even dangerous, as it implies that if significant group diversity were established, discrimination might thereby be justified. We reject this position. Equality of opportunity and respect for human dignity should be humankind's common aspirations, notwithstanding human differences no matter how big or small. We also think that biological egalitarianism may not remain viable in light of the growing body of empirical data.
so the point being that the TEAM WENDY folks like Lanny think they are genetically superior to the working class!!
I've tried to find some other motive but can't...in some weird twisted way, the tight-wad Jewboys Lanny and Rupe could be blaming the Holocaust on unions and this is a way to get back at them...it's twisted, I know, but I've never seen such non-essential people like TEAM WENDY (non-workers) try so hard to keep essential people (workers) from thriving!

 and if these two hymie-town bozos think I'm above roasting them on the BBQ, they are wrong..wrong..wrong..