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Daily News Digest April 13, 2016
Image of the Day:
Capitalism Doesn’t Work!
Quotes of the Day:
. . . We published three journal articles showing that babies born in the West Coast in the nine months after Fukushima had a 16% jump in defective thyroids, compared to little change in the rest of the country. It’s time that health researchers stop its corrupt approach to Fukushima, and produce some actual statistics on changes in disease and death rates among affected populations – in Japan and in other countries. Not coming to grips with the truth will only raise the chance of another catastrophic meltdown in the future, raising the already-enormous number of casualties from nuclear power. — Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties
That is the argument; but as Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, observes: ‘The notion is that the economy’s poor economic performance is not due to the failure of economic policy but to people hoarding their money. The Federal Reserve and its coterie of economists and presstitutes maintain the fiction of too much savings despite the publication of the Federal Reserve’s own report that 52% of Americans cannot raise $400 without selling personal possessions or borrowing the money.’ — The War on Savings: the Panama Papers, Bail-Ins, and the Push to Go Cashless
This is neoliberalism hard at work. It champions privatization of public assets, one of its founding principles, or put another way, when the chips are down and prices at rock bottom, and when the people are looking down in despair, shift state assets to private enterprise. This is a universal principle of neoliberalism. The Chinese understand the neoliberal game and feast upon it. — Greece Loses its Soul
Videos the Day:
John Oliver on the Shocking Errors in Credit Reports and Background Checks That Ruin Lives\
Democracy Spring: Over 400 Arrested at U.S. Capitol Protesting Corruption & Money in Politics
U.S.:
Obama’s Partner, Rahm Emanuel is Also ‘Good at Killing People’: A death in police custody: what really happened at Chicago’s Homan Square?
Environment:
What Fidel Said, and Why It Matters for Earth Day by Susan Babbitt
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef: Biodiversity and Marine Life Threatened — The Day Nemo Died: Coal, Bleaching and the Great Barrier Reef By Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Lawsuits Charge that 3M Knew About the Dangers of Its Chemicals By Sharon Lerner
Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters!:
Fukushima Five Years After: Health Researchers Turn Blind Eye to Casualties by Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman
Radioactive wild boars rampaging around Fukushima nuclear site: The animal population has been left unchecked since the disaster in 2011 By Will Worley
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
Black Agenda Radio for Week of April 11, 2016
- Capital in the Twenty-first Century Black Liberation Movement
Mississippi Schemes to Dismember Tax Base of Black Capital City:
Blacks Should Stop Going Down the Democratic Party “Rabbit Hole”:
“Dead End” Capitalism Can’t Provide a Recovery for Workers: Listen to BAR Radio, Read more
By Maya Schenwar 
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