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Images Of the Day:
Due to Years of Austerity, Cuts to Public Health Care, And An Anti-Science and Profiteering President, The United States Now Leads the World In Coronavirus Cases and Deaths in the World!
Always Remember: That President Obama, With a Majority Democrat Legislature Supported the Wall Street Bailout and Remember, That he Established, in writing, the United States Capitalist Austerity Program. — The Race to the Bottom/Pauperization of the 99%!
Democracy?: 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!! Under Austerity, All of the World Will Eventually Be Pauperized, Humbled, and Desecrated Like Greece and Puerto Rico.! Socialism Means True Democracy, that the 99% Will Rule, Not the Few!
Quotes 0f the Day:
When the Union/Dusiness Partership Set Up the Two —Tier Wage System: Unqual Pay for Equal Work was Codified! — Roland Sheppard
We can no longer tolerate the American people paying, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. — Sen. Bernie Sanders
We need to do what the U.S. did during the World War II emergency when the federal government took over a quarter of the nation’s manufacturing capacity in order to turn industry on a dime into the Arsenal of Democracy to arm the allies to defeat Hitler, Mussolini, and Tojo. We need to do nothing less through the public sector now to defeat climate change. That is why our Ecosocialist Green New Deal focuses on public enterprise and planning to get the clean energy transformation done on the rapid time scale it needs to be done. We need social ownership and democratic administration of the key industries of the economy in order to coordinate the rapid conversion of all productive sectors 100% clean renewable energy and zero and soon negative carbon emissions. We need economic democracy to carry through the transition. We need ecosocialist solutions now. — Howie Hawkins
Videos of the Day:
United States:
The United States is not a Democracy (A government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly)! Only the 1%, through. their ownershipof the Reublicrats, who profit from war and the war budget, voted for War and the war budget — A policy, which Gore Vidal called a Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace. — The 99% Should Decide On War — Not Just The 1% Who Profit From War! Under a Democracy, The 99% would have the right to vote on the policy of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace! The United States takes from the poor and gives to the Rich. Tax the Rich! — They Can Afford To Pay!
Joe Biden’s War Powers An examination of the president’s 50-year record on U.S. militarism, the CIA, and executive power. IF YOU WENT back and looked at every foreign policy decision Joe Biden made — every single one — would you be any closer to understanding him? This week on Intercepted: Our editor-at-large and senior correspondent Jeremy Scahill and reporter Murtaza Hussain examined the past 50 years of Biden’s decisions, poring over hundreds of pages of archival copies of the congressional record and reviewing declassified CIA documents for mentions of Biden. The investigation is called “Empire Politician,” and it’s the result of this painstaking research into Biden’s historical record. Jeremy and Murtaza also analyze Biden’s recent pledge to withdraw forces from Afghanistan by September this year.
Biden’s Climate Plan: It’s Too Late for Gradualism President Biden gave us his climate plan on March 31. It was buried inside his American Jobs Plan. The 12,000-word Fact Sheet about it released by the White House hardly acknowledges the climate emergency. The plan is presented as a jobs through infrastructure program. The climate emergency demands a radical and rapid decarbonization of the economy with numerical goals and timetables to transform all productive sectors, not only power production (27% of carbon emissions), but also transportation (28%), manufacturing (22%), buildings (12%), and agriculture (10%). That emergency transformation can only be met by an ecosocialist approach using public enterprise and planning. By Howie Hawkins
Environment:
Water Profiteering — While Flint Drinks Lead, Nestlé Bottles Great Lakes Water and During California’s Drought, Nestlé BottlesWater!: Drought-Hit California Orders Nestlé to Stop Pumping Millions of Gallons Of Water Nestlé, accused of taking millions more gallons than it is entitled to, receives draft cease-and-desist order from state officials California water officials have moved to stop Nestlé from siphoning millions of gallons of water out of California’s San Bernardino forest, which it bottles and sells as Arrowhead brand water, as drought conditions worsen across the state By Maanvi Singh
Pacific Ocean — One of Capitalism’s Dumping Sites: Scientists: Up To 25,000 Barrels At DDT Dump Site In Pacific San Diego based researchers used underwater vehicles to map an area near Catalina Island that may contain more the 25-thousand deteriorating barrels of industrial waste. Many may contain the banned pesticide D-D-T KPBS Environment Reporter Erik Anderson has details.
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
The New Jim Crow: After Being Cut Off by GOP Senator, Stacey Abrams Releases 6-Minute Rundown of Georgia’s Attack on Voting “In Fulton County, our largest county and one that is predominantly African American, the number of drop boxes will be reduced from 38 to eight.” In the video, Abrams provides a thorough account of the anti-democratic features of the new Georgia law, which she says:
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criminalizes the distribution of water or food to voters waiting in long lines;
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“codifies voter caging, meaning that an individual can challenge the eligibility of an unlimited number of voters in their county”;
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removes Georgia’s secretary of state from the state’s board of elections;
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authorizes the state Legislature to appoint a majority of members on the state’s board of elections, “stacking it with their allies”;
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allows the state’s board of elections to unilaterally replace local election officials;
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limits the number and location of ballot drop boxes;
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requires voters without a driver’s license or state ID to “surrender their personal information and risk identity theft just to receive an absentee ballot”;
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reduces the time frame to request an absentee ballot by 109 days and stops the request period 11 days before the election;
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bans mobile voting units used by 11,000 elderly and disabled voters last year in Fulton County;
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sets a new minimum standard of just eight hours for early voting;
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prohibits early voting locations from operating outside of specific hours; and
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“eliminates the online absentee ballot request portal, forcing county boards to manually enter every application.” By Kenny Stancil
North Carolina Deputies Shot Andrew Brown Jr. Five Times, Autopsy Finds The FBI has opened a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of the Black man last week. Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina, was shot five times, including in the back of the head, according to an independent autopsy report released Tuesday by his family’s attorneys. Also Tuesday, the FBI announced a federal civil rights investigation into last week’s shooting of Brown by deputies serving drug-related search and arrest warrants. By Ben Finley and Jonathan Drew
Labor:
Economy:
How the Federal Reserve Is Increasing Wealth Inequality The Fed’s low-interest-rate policies have stabilized the economy and turbocharged the stock market. But those who don’t own lots of stocks haven’t benefited anywhere near as much as those who do. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the Federal Reserve has gotten plenty of kudos for moves that have helped stabilize the economy, kept house prices from tanking and supported the stock market. But those successes have obscured another effect: the inadvertent impact the Fed’s ultra-low interest rates and bond-buying sprees are having on economic inequality. By Allan Sloan and Cezary Podkul
The ‘Fox Protecting the Chickencoop’!: SEC’s Gary Gensler Picks a 20-Year Wall Street Bank Defender for His Crime Chief The only thing worse than SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s pick for Director of Enforcement at Wall Street’s so-called watchdog is the way corporate media is attempting to spin it. The only thing worse than SEC Chairman Gary Gensler’s pick for Director of Enforcement at Wall Street’s so-called watchdog is the way corporate media is attempting to spin it. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
Britain: Shock, Sleaze, And Scandal – Kick Out This Criminal Government! British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in hot water over alleged remarks that he would rather see ‘bodies pile high’ than bring in lockdowns. Real or fabricated, it is clear that the Tories’ priority is profits over lives. Mobilise against this rotten government! By Adam Booth
Education, Health, Science, and Welfare:
As Long as Capitalism and Big Pharma Keep Profiting From the Vaccines, The Global Capitalist Pandemic Crisis Will Not End!
The government of the United States can pass laws in a few days to spend tens of trillions of dollars for war and the bailout of Wall Street and the bankers. Yet, those who pass universal healthcare for themselves, but cannot spend even one trillion dollars for universal health for those who are ‘governed’! This is what is considered, by the powers to be, a democracy and part of the democratic way. — Roland Sheppard, Let the People Vote on Healthcare
During This Pandemic, Capitalism is Pro-Death — Not Pro-life!: Amid Widespread Disease, Death, and Poverty, the Major Powers Increased Their Military Spending in 2020 Last year was a terrible time for vast numbers of people around the globe, who experienced not only a terrible disease pandemic, accompanied by widespread sickness and death, but severe economic hardship. By Lawrence Wittner
Among COVID-19 survivors, an increased risk of death, serious illness Major study details numerous long-term effects of COVID-19, pointing to massive health burden Researchers showed that COVID-19 survivors — including those not sick enough to be hospitalized — have an increased risk of death in the six months following diagnosis with the virus. They also have catalogued the numerous diseases associated with COVID-19, providing a big-picture overview of the long-term complications of COVID-19 and revealing the massive burden this disease is likely to place on the world’s population in the coming years.
Nestlé Chairman Who Said Water is Not a Human Right and Now is Accused of Stealing Millions of Gallons of Water
Another Example Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Was Aware of the Danger of Cornovavirus Threat Over 5 Years Ago and Did Nothing!: Under Capitalism — Human Lives Don’t Matter Capitalism Does Not, and Never Has, Worked for the Masses! In Its Death Agony, Capitalism Is Traveling About The World Like The Four Horsemen of the The Apocalypse, Spreading Racism, War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. The future of Humanity Is Now At stake!
Since World War I, ‘the war to end all wars’, there have been perpetual wars for perpetual peace, this Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, Under the Banner Headline: “There Is No Peace”
During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three-Point Political Program: 1.Austerity,2. Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, and 3. The Iron Heel! For Decades, Blacks Have Been Subjected to The Iron Heel! Currently, the US Capitalist Class is Divided Over When — Not If, to Apply It to Everyone!