Daily News 09/17
Daily News 09/17
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10 Most Corrupt US Presidents in History The United States might not be the most corrupt country in the world but like every other country in the world, it does have its share of corrupt leaders. Speaking of corrupt leaders, some people may say that Donald Trump was the most corrupt President in US history while others would say that rank goes to Joe Biden or even Well, in some ways they may be right because each of these American Presidents was corrupt. Take Donald Trump for instance, who used his position to enrich himself and his family, filled his administration with former industry lobbyists, and sought to prevent an investigation into his shady business practices. That’s corruption, right? However, regardless of whatever Trump, Biden, or Obama committed while in office, some past US presidents would certainly give them a run for their money. So, who were the most corrupt Presidents in US history? Some of the answers won’t surprise you at all but others would be pretty shocking. So brace yourself as we show you 10 of the most corrupt US Presidents in history beginning with number ten.
When Karl Marx, the political theorist of working-class liberation, studied the nature of the capitalist state, he revealed that it was established as an instrument for the domination of workers and the oppressed by means of laws, courts, judges, elected officials and the military. According to Marx, different groups of capitalists fight among themselves for control of the state apparatus and consider it booty to be plundered after winning that battle. “The state…,” he wrote, “is truly a sphere for the fomentation of the most scandalous acts of corruption, of all the scandals of the bourgeoisie, and the arena for its total putrefaction.” — Corruption: Part and Parcel of the Capitalist System
Capitalism isn’t broken because it’s corrupt, corruption is how it works People like to say, “capitalism just needs a few tweaks” or “it’s good except for the corruption.” But that’s backwards: corruption isn’t a glitch in capitalism it’s the operating system. Capitalism rewards those with money and power for bending the rules. That’s why giant corporations can price-gouge, pollute, underpay workers, and buy politicians while small businesses get crushed by the very market forces we’re told are “fair.” It’s why mega-retailers can waste food by the ton while people go hungry, and oil companies can profit off climate destruction while the rest of us pay the cost. In theory, competition should keep things efficient and innovative. In reality, once a business becomes powerful enough, it spends more resources manipulating markets and lobbying governments than improving products or treating workers well. Capitalism concentrates wealth until a few hands steer entire economies making “free markets” anything but free. If democracy is the best way to govern people, why not apply democracy to the economy too through co-ops, stronger labor power, and systems that put human wellbeing over profits? Until we stop pretending the current setup is inevitable or “natural,” we’re stuck in a rigged game that serves billionaires first and everyone else last.
“Our findings indicate that flaring is responsible for five times more methane entering the atmosphere than we previously thought,” says Genevieve Plant, lead author and assistant research scientist at the University of Michigan. — Research shows oil field flaring emits nearly five times more methane than expected
Methane Made in America The U.S. supply system for liquefied natural gas keeps growing, and so does the ability to observe America’s methane emissions from satellites. This report spotlights fifteen of the highest-emitting methane sources in the three U.S. oil and gas basins that export the most LNG to Europe: the Permian, Appalachian, and Haynesville basins. It also assesses, for the first time, what we know — and don’t know — about potentially responsible operators for these sites and for other large methane plumes throughout those basins.
US ‘super-emitters’ of planet heating methane identified by satellite analysis Energy Transfer, whose CEO is a major Trump donor, named as biggest single methane producer in new rankings Down a short gravel track in a largely nondescript corner of Louisiana sits a gas processing facility, operated by a company whose chief executive is a major donor to Donald Trump. It may be the largest emitter of methane in the US. The Energy Transfer site, located near the city of Shreveport, is named as the biggest single “super-emitter” in new rankings of US oil and gas operations for the largest releases of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that is rapidly overheating our planet, according to a new UCLA study, which is based on satellite data.
* * * * The US was classified at “preparedness level 5” (PL5) – the highest level, and one that indicates resources are fully deployed – for 48 consecutive days, close to double the 10-year average for days at the level per year. — ‘We’re near a breaking point:’ firefighters say US government is failing them amid intense wildfire season
Video: Global warming set to cross threshold sooner than expected, U.N. report finds
The Climate Crisis – A Race We Can WinClimate change is the defining crisis of our time and it is happening even more quickly than we feared. But we are far from powerless in the face of this global threat. As Secretary-General António Guterres pointed outin September, “the climate emergency is a race we are losing, but it is a race we can win”. No corner of the globe is immune from the devastating consequences of climate change. Rising temperatures are fueling environmental degradation, natural disasters, weather extremes, food and water insecurity, economic disruption, conflict, and terrorism. Sea levels are rising, the Arctic is melting, coral reefs are dying, oceans are acidifying, and forests are burning. It is clear that business as usual is not good enough. As the infinite cost of climate change reaches irreversible highs, now is the time for bold collective action.
Hundreds of Groups and Lawmakers Demand Trump Not Give Private Developer Part of Yosemite “The federal government should be protecting our national parks, not parceling them out behind closed doors to benefit the wealthy and politically connected,” said one campaigner.
Microplastics in soil pose global threat by acting like ‘Trojan horse’ to deliver toxinsExclusive: Plastic surfaces form hotspots with an increase of antibiotic-resistant genes, study finds
Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report saysGlobal push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times
Freedom of navigation: another pillar of the postwar world order is crumbling Since Trump’s return to power, we have commented on the accelerating decline of US imperialism. The pillars of the postwar world order are rapidly crumbling – or even collapsing outright. Today, as Iran holds the United States in a chokehold with its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, we are witnessing the collapse of another pillar of this world order: American hegemony over the seas.
Iran War Has the U.S. Military on the Brink of a “Breakdown” As the U.S. military faces relentless attacks on its bases, the Iran conflict is “ultimately unsustainable,” one U.S. official told The Intercept.
Something is rotten in the state of Ukraine Not that you would have heard about it in the western media, but Ukraine has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals reaching the highest echelons of law enforcement in the last few days. On Monday, 14 September, the Prosecutor General fled the country while filing criminal cases for corruption against the heads of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAPO). The reason he fled? Allegations that his office was at the heart of a racket extracting protection money from hundreds of scam call centres. Behind these corruption scandals is a very serious struggle for political power among different oligarchic factions. No wonder a majority of Ukrainians polled (54 percent) think that corruption is a greater threat to the country’s development than the Russian military aggression (39 percent)!