Puerto Rico- a tragic story

[malaise]

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Charles Herbert Allen

The man who stole Puerto Rico.

"By the time Allen left Puerto Rico, the entire island was a crime scene."

https://www.latinorebels.com/2015/03/03/the-man-who-stole-puerto-rico/

Thank you, malaise. That film is about the best on the subject I have seen -- and I am an old and very angry Puerto Rican.

[malaise]

2. It is heartbreaking

[Kid Berwyn]

3. TY Hermana. The future is not theirs. We are making it ours.

From The Man Who Stole Puerto Rico:

But Allen’s real interest in Puerto Rico became apparent in his “First Report of the Governor of Porto Rico.” Here are some of his entries:

The yield of sugar per acre is greater than in any other country in the world. (p. 99) A large acreage of lands, which are now devoted to pasturage, could be devoted to the culture of sugar cane. (p. 39) Molasses and rum, the incidental products of sugar cane, are themselves sufficient to pay all expenses of the sugar planters and leave the returns from his sugar as pure gain. (p. 39) The cost of sugar production is $10 per ton cheaper than in Java, $11 cheaper than in Hawaii, $12 cheaper than in Cuba, $17 cheaper than in Egypt, $19 cheaper than in the British West Indies, and $47 cheaper than in Louisiana and Texas. (p. 40)

https://www.latinorebels.com/2015/03/03/the-man-who-stole-puerto-rico/

[malaise]

4. Thanks for that link

Rec

[peggysue2]

5. As tragic and horrifying and despicable as this is . . .

It doesn't take much of a stretch to realize that the same American greed heads would like nothing more than to extend this mindset and withering policy to the whole of the US. The lure of quick, endless wealth and power is the driver selling off resources like our National Parks and forests, allowing fossil fuel companies to extract to the bitter end, transitioning public education to charter/voucher schools, stripping the social safety nets, polluting everything etc., etc, etc.

The players are the same: hedge fund managers, real estate tycoons, vulture financiers, shipping magnates joined by the up-and-coming tech bros and crypto kings all looking to get in on the pennies-on-the dollar deals with no regulation, no accountability, no taxes made legal by a bought and corrupted governmental system.

Even the Big Lie is part of the mix: I'm not here for the tax breaks. I'm here to serve the people.

The US brought this nightmarish scheme to the modern world; now it's ready to eat itself.

Until we're all hollowed out.

[malaise]

6. Ding ding we have a winner

This is their global plan

[peggysue2]

7. Yes, malaise

Paradise for them. Hell for the rest of us.

Because enough is never enough.

Thanks for putting this up. I've bookmarked the vid so I can dig into more of what's offered on the platform.

[malaise]

8. Same here re the platform