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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 Who Profit From Austerity! Under Austerity, All of the World Will Eventually Be Pauperized, Humbled, and Desecrated Like Greece and Puerto Rico
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Quotes of The Day:
All demands for complete or gradual disarmament, for the abolition of secret diplomacy, for the dissolution of the great powers into smaller nationalities and all similar propositions, are absolutely Utopian so long as capitalist class rule remains in power. For capitalism, in its present imperialistic course, to dispense with present-day militarism, with secret diplomacy with the centralization of many national slates, is so impossible that these postulates might more consistently, be united into the simple demand ‘abolition of capitalist class society’. — Rosa Luxemburg
Videos of the Day:
US Nuclear Upgrade Began Before Trump Trump reportedly asked to expand the US nuclear arsenal tenfold, but a dangerous upgrade already began before he took office, says Hans Kristensen of the Federation of American Scientists
Coal Mining Families Say ‘No’ to Repealing Clean Power Plan The EPA held its only public hearing on its proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan in Charleston, West Virginia–but even in coal country, there was a lot of support for keeping the Obama-era regulation, says Liz Perera, Director of Climate Policy for the Sierra Club
Health and Human Services nominee Alex Azar, a former president of Eli Lilly should be indicted for price gouging, not picked to oversee a department vital to the public health, says Alex Lawson of Social Security Works
U.S.:
Yemen: Today’s Guernica On the market day of April 26, 1937, at the bequest of General Francisco Franco, a bombing of the Basque town of Guernica took place. It was carried out by Spain’s nationalistic government allies, the Nazi German Luftwaffe’s Condor Legion and the Fascist Italian Aviazione Legionaria. The attack, under the code name Operation Rügen, in which hundreds of people died, became a rallying cry against the brutal killing of innocent civilians. 80 years later, however, an even more criminal action is carried out against Yemeni civilians mainly by Saudi Arabia, with the complicity of the United States: By Cesar Chelala 
Environment:
What Does It Mean to Live in the Age of the Anthropocene? It’s another day in the age of the Anthropocene where a global game of musical chairs continues to play out. As humans continue to plunder and pillage the earth in a global economy that thrives on converting the living to the dead, more chairs get removed from the game.The game doesn’t care about your race, gender, or class it just needs your chair so those that think they are watching the game from afar can enrich themselves at the expense of the living. What these game managers do not know is they are part of the game as well. by Rob Seimetz
Ongoing Big Energy Crisis:
A map of $1.1 billion in natural gas pipeline leaks In seven years, pipeline incidents have killed nearly 100 people nationwide. When a crude oil pipeline is ruptured, it’s bad news, particularly if the oil gets into water, where it’s likely to impact wildlife or drinking water supplies. But when a natural gas pipeline busts, it can be far worse because of the volatility of the fuel, which is made up mostly of methane. Leaked natural gas can’t be recovered, it can build up in enclosed spaces and explode, and it is a potent greenhouse gas, with at least 30 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide over the long term. Between January 2010 and November 2017, the nation’s natural gas transportation network leaked a total of 17.55 billion cubic feet of mostly methane gas. By Jonathan Thompson
Intimidation Intensifies at Camp White Pine as Land Defenders Fight the Mariner East 2 Pipeline Resistance efforts by area residents and environmental activists at Camp White Pine have caused an 18-month delay in the completion of the Mariner East 2 pipeline through an area of Pennsylvania consisting of wetlands, family homes and small farms. But Energy Transfer Partners, known for its environmental and human rights violations at Standing Rock, has unleashed a campaign of harassment and intimidation, with the support of local law enforcemen By Jen Deerinwater
Civil Rights/ Black Liberation:
A Real or an Inflated Threat? Heather Heyer is killed in Charlottesville, VA while marching against a rally of white supremacists and neoNazis; Holocaust memorial sites are vandalized; nooses are found on college campuses; Jews begin leaving France; police shoot unarmed black people with alarming regularity in the U.S.; in Poland; a center of Holocaust mass murder, 60,000 from the far right march; in Springfield, MA, a note with violent content is left at a Jewish community center where children play; in the Berkshires of western MA, a swastika is left on a lawn sign that reads: “Love Trumps Hate.” Is the far right a real or exaggerated threat to what’s left of democracy around the world? Is it an inconvenient irritant or a clear and present danger to Jews and other minority groups? Are these examples of far-tight attacks a kind of canary in the coal mine? by Howard Lisnoff
Afraid of Being Pulled Over by Police? You Should Be “Quit resisting,” cops yell at compliant young man who was thrown to the ground, beaten, arrested and hospitalized for severe injuries to his face and arm, allegedly in retaliation for “resisting arrest” by driving to a safe, well-lit area before submitting to a traffic stop for a broken tail light. by John W. Whitehead
Black Friday? Thought solemnity —bowed heads, hands held,
streams of consciousness, Blessings counted the day before:
Flowing water; No rockets’ red glare; No bombs
bursting in air over dead bird, cranberry, pumpkin pie feasts was a prelude Thought our ship came in, Redressing ships making us
Sales Thought it was about Reparations—or 99%
demands on the way… By Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Israel Gives African Migrants A Choice: Accept Deportation or Indefinite Imprisonment “Israel will pay Rwanda $5,000 for each African migrant it accepts, and $3,500 to each African who leaves. The Israeli government will even cover the airfare.” As President Trump makes plans to deport up to 55,000 Haitian immigrants out of the United States, his right-wing ally in Israel has similar plans to resolve his own refugee problem. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to deport or imprison 40,000 African asylum seekers against their will, in a move that has drawn criticism from the United Nations, human rights groups, and the refugee community in Israel. By David Love
Labor:
Economy:
Shadow Government Statistics Corrected Real GDP Nominal GDP Deflated by Implicit Price Deflator Corrected for Roughly Two – Percentage Point Understatement of Annual Inflation Quarterly to 3q2017, Seasonally – Adjusted [ShadowStats, BEA]
Nobel Laureate Stiglitz Says Bitcoin Should Be “Outlawed” The Nobel laureate economist, Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University, appeared on Bloomberg television yesterday and had this to say about Bitcoin:“One of the main functions of government is to create currency. And Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight. So it seems to me it ought to be outlawed. It doesn’t serve any socially useful function.” By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
Where is China going: back to the planned economy or strengthening capitalism? At the recent 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, held on 18-24 October in Beijing, Xi Jinping took the opportunity to let the world know that China is a “mighty force” soon to reclaim its rightful position as the “Middle Kingdom”, i.e. the centre of humanity. Behind all the bluster, however, one could detect unease at the prospect of growing internal instability that flows from the impending crisis of capitalism. Zhan Dou Zhe and Dan Morley
Health, Science, Education, and Welfare:
African scientist alleges U.S. Dept. of Defense manufactured the Ebola outbreak of 2014 Never forget that the Ebola outbreak of 2014 took place in Africa, and to this day there are enormous questions about whether the U.S. Dept. of Defense manufactured / weaponized that Ebola strain. Dr. Cyril Broderick, a Professor of Plant Pathology, wrote in 2014 that he believes Ebola was manufactured and deliberately released in Africa as a weaponized viral strain. His article, which originally appeared in The Liberian Observer, was later censored off that website. However, you can find his original article at InfiniteUnknown.net, or search for for “weaponized Ebola” at GoodGopher.com.Further supporting the notion of a weaponize Ebola release in Africa, Prof. Jason Kissner wrote in 2014: We can now be extraordinarily confident that the U.S. government is lying, in key material respects, about the latest Ebola outbreak–and not just because it lies about nearly everything of political consequence. This article shows that there are compelling reasons to believe we are being told three big lies about Ebola. It also offers a simple, rational, yet disturbing, explanation that very tidily accounts for all three lies. The explanation supposes that the current Ebola outbreak consists in an act of U.S.-linked bioterror.
Be Aware of the Dark Side of Sports Media Ken Reed, author of several books, weekly columns, and the Sports Policy Director for our League of Fans, is arguably the leading contemporary essayist of sports at its best and at its worst. Ever hear of him? Probably not. His truth-telling rarely makes it onto radio, television and the sports pages or into the sports publications such as Sporting News, because he writes about the greed, the covered-up dangers, the exploitation of youngsters by greedy owners and coaches, and way in which sportsmanship is most often pushed to the sidelines — all issues that the sports industry works tirelessly to suppress and squelch. by Ralph Nader
During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three Point Political Program: 1. Austerity, 2. Scapegoating Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal Immigrants’ for Unemployment, and 3. The Iron Heel.
