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Daily News Digest May 16, 2016
As the Capitalist Robber Barons Steal from the 99% — Only the 1% Voted For Austerity — The 99% Should Decide On Austerity — Not Just The 1% Who Profit From Austerity!
Daily News Digest May 16, 2016
Image of the Day:
Middle East Perpetual Bombing Wheel
Quotes of the Day:
The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) has yet to recognize, for scientific reasons, our current geological epoch as the Anthropocene, or “Age of Humans”. The term was coined by Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer in 2000 due to the fact that humans are changing the face of the planet, and are clearly responsible for the current 6th mass extinction event and climate disruption. Eco-radicals — black-red-green — might prefer the term Capitalocene, or the “Age of Capital”. — Anthropocene vs Capitalocene: a Reflection on the Question, “What Have I Done?”
History locates this want as a consequence of capitalist propaganda undertaken in the U.S. in the early twentieth century— it is no more ‘natural’ than a toaster oven. The aggregating logic of capitalist ‘efficiency’ produced the environmental aggregates of global warming and climate crisis. The capitalist logic of more capitalism to resolve the consequences of already existing capitalism proceeds from the premise that manufactured wants need to be met rather than simply not manufactured. Current ‘trade’ deals rely of these manufactured wants as a form of political control by the corporate class. The choice is ours to reject manufactured wants in favor of self-determination. As the capitalist class understands, doing so would end capitalism and the economic order it represents.— Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis
The Romans left a legacy that is still evident in our life society today, from their road engineering to their communal baths, they left a lasting impact upon the civilized world. The Romans were an advanced race, far ahead of their time in many ways, and we can only thank our lucky stars that they did not invent Nuclear power, for if they had we would still be storing and guarding their Radioactive waste today. Let that sink in for a minute if you will, for we are doing exactly that, leaving our future generations with a huge, cancer causing problem that we do not know how to solve. Instead, we are forever indebting our children, and their children, and their children and their children with this immoral waste product of Nuclear energy production for generations to come. — If the Romans had Nuclear power, we would still be storing their Radioactive waste
Video the Day:
Rothschild Bank Now Under Criminal Investigation Over Missing $4 Billion in Global Corruption Probe
U.S.:
The Great Leap Backward: America’s Illegal Wars on the World by Luciana Bohne 
Former 9/11 Commissioner: ’28 Pages’ Clearly Expose Saudi Support: “Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia.” By Deirdre Fulton 
Declassified documents detail 9/11 commission’s inquiry into Saudi Arabia: Newly released files may show connections between low-level Saudi officials and a terrorist support network in southern California led to the 9/11 attacks By Philip Shenon
Environment:
The 1% are Profiting From their Flint Genocide: Flint Residents Told Their Poisoned Water Might Soon Cost Them Twice as Much: The lead-poisoned city’s rates are already among the highest in the nation by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer
Flint water contamination cover-up PROVES that both local and federal governments actively conspire to poison the population by J. D. Heyes 
Billions of dollars found in EPA’s ‘slush fund’ bank accounts… same agency that poisoned the children of Flint and is building its own private paramilitary force By J. D. Heyes 
In “Profound Loss for Maine’s Citizens,” Court OKs Sale of Town’s Water to Nestle: Decision “paves the way for a private corporation to profit from a vital public resource for decades to come.” By Andrea Germanos
The 1%’s Favorite Lawyer (Hired Liar): Exxon’s Lawyer in Climate Science Probe Has History Helping Big Tobacco and NFL Defend Against Health Claims by Steve Horn
Trade Deals and the Environmental Crisis by Rob Urie
‘Wholly Inadequate’: Environmentalists Decry EPA’s New Methane Rules: EPA released first rules to reduce methane leaks from oil and gas wells, but regs don’t apply to old facilities responsible for majority of toxic emissions by Nika Knight 
Pesticides, GMOs and Corporate Control: The Poster Child is Monsanto but Neil Young is the Main Act
Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters!:
Shell Oil Spill Dumps Nearly 90,000 Gallons of Crude Into Gulf: “This latest offshore oil disaster once again demonstrates the inherent dangers of fossil fuels, and the irresponsibility of allowing new oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico even as these spills continue to happen,” Marc Yaggi, executive director of Waterkeeper Alliance, said. By Lorraine Chow 
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
George Zimmerman and the Long History of Selling “Souvenirs”: Former neighborhood watch member George Zimmerman’s decision, one he has apparently reconsidered, to sell, as he describes, “the firearm that was used to defend my life and end the brutal attack from Trayvon Martin” is just an another link in the long chain of America’s historical obsession with selling and owning memorabilia connected with the murder of African Americans. by Shawn Leigh Alexander 
Labor:
CWA union says it faced “SWAT team armed with automatic weapons” after uncovering “massive Verizon offshoring operation in Philippines”: Photos and videos show what union reps say are armed police and a SWAT team “intimidating” them in the Philippines By Ben Norton
Economy:
93,482,000 Americans Out of Labor Force in March 
The Next Employment Crisis Is Here: Job Cuts At U.S. Companies Jump 35 Percent In April by Jon E. Dougherty
Shadow Government Statistics
World:
Populism, authoritarianism and constitutional crisis in Poland By Ben Gliniecki
Saudi Vision 2030: the desperate plan of a regime in crisis: Last week Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud announced Saudi Vision 2030, an ambitious plan that would see Saudi Aramco, the state oil conglomerate, partially sold off in a move that is supposed to wean the kingdom off of oil revenues by the year 2030. by Isa Al-Jaza’iri
WikiLeaks Reveal Brazil’s New Coup President Is ‘US Informant’: Senate-imposed President of Brazil Michel Temer met with U.S. Embassy staff on at least two occasions to brief them on the country’s politics. 
Zionist Israel Hides Its Crimes Behind Its Smears of Truth-Tellers by Paul Craig Roberts
Health, Education, and Welfare:
I am a Communist! by Andre Vltchek