During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three Point Political Program: Austerity, Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, and The Iron Heel.
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 — The 99% Will Rule! — Not the Few!
Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only too often cancel the first. … — Friedrich Engels, The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Ape to Man
But what the new FDA finding demonstrates is that the Recombinetics gene-edited cattle do contain DNA unnatural to cattle, despite the claims of their developers to the contrary. Thus FDA does have the authority to regulate. Other researchers have in the past called on genetic engineers to rigorously exclude potential contaminating DNA, such as unwanted bacterial plasmid DNA, as part of standard experimental procedures (Wilson et al., 2006). This, Recombinetics apparently failed to do.FDA’s demonstration that gene-editing techniques can, unbeknownst to the developer, introduce foreign DNA is likely to be seen as a significant blow to the no-regulation argument. It is also a powerful vindication of the EU approach, which is to regulate gene-edited organisms as GMOs. — FDA Finds Unexpected Antibiotic Resistance Genes in ‘Gene-Edited’ Dehorned Cattle
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 ownership of the Republicrats and who profit from war and the war budget, vote 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
30+ Rights Groups Launch Campaign Demanding Law Enforcement Ban on ‘Authoritarian and Invasive’ Facial Recognition Technology “We need to ban this technology outright, treat it like biological or nuclear weapons, and prevent it from proliferating before it’s too late.” A diverse coalition of advocacy groups representing more than 15 million people launched a grassroots pressure campaign Thursday calling on local, state, and federal lawmakers to completely ban law enforcement use of facial recognition technology, which the organizations warn is “spreading like an epidemic” and poses a dire threat to fundamental privacy rights. By Jake JohnsonBureau of Land Management Votes to Slaughter 44,000 Wild Horses to Make Room for Beef Cattle he U.S. Bureau of Land Management voted to kill 44,000 of the 67,000 total wild horses in the country to make room for more beef cattle last Friday. The vote came two months after beef industry representatives testified on Capitol Hill, demanding that the agency kill all 44,000 wild horses currently held captive in BLM holding facilities and round-up the majority of the rest for sterilization.Trump Bombs New Silk Road with Tariffs The real target of Trump’s trade war is not, primarily, the Chinese, but the U.S.-based corporations that spent the last generation outsourcing
manufacturing capacity (jobs) to China. “The Belt and Road Initiative is tying the planet together, with China at the center.” Under dumbass cracker Donald Trump the United States is accelerating the process of its own decline even more quickly than had the warmongering Hillary Clinton won the White House in 2016. Trump has chosen to wage the worst war possible in terms of preserving what’s left of U.S. economic supremacy: a trade war with China. It is a conflict that will inflict huge and permanent losses on U.S.-based corporations and on every nation that attempts to collaborate with Trump’s anti-China trade schemes. The longer it lasts, the more the U.S. global trade posture will deteriorate, as China accelerates construction and deal-making on its world-shaking, historically unprecedented Russia-partnered project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). By Glen Ford, Black Agenda Repport Executive Editor
U.S. military pays Syrian rebels up to $400 per month: Pentagon Syrian rebels receiving U.S. military training to battle Islamic State militants are being paid $250 to $400 per month, depending on their skills, performance and leadership position, the Pentagon said on Monday. Syrian rebels receiving U.S. military training to battle Islamic State militants are being paid $250 to $400 per month, depending on their skills, performance and leadership position, the Pentagon said on Monday. Some 6,000 Syrians have volunteered to participate in the U.S. effort to train and equip a politically moderate Syrian military force. Warren said last week the effort had moved more slowly than expected due to complications vetting volunteers and bringing them out of Syria for the training. By David Alexander
Environment:
The Fire This Time!:
The Amazon is burning so a few can profit – Kick out capitalism! This summer has seen catastrophic fires in the Amazon, a consequence of environmental destruction in the interests of big business. This process has been accelerated under Bolsonaro. We say kick out Bolsonaro! Kick out capitalism!The whole world has watched over the summer as the Amazon rainforest has been ablaze. Brazilian president and right-wing demagogue, Jair Bolsonaro, has been at the centre of this environmental destruction. The catastrophe has set up a clash between Bolsonaro, his own ministers, world leaders, and protestors about the region’s conservation.Alarm bells began to ring when the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) in Brazil revealed that July saw the largest loss of vegetation in any single month since 2015, with a deforested area 212 percent higher than that of July 2017. By Felipe Libório And Lucy Dias, Esquerda
Africa is Burning Right Now More than the Amazon and Nobody Even Knows Africa’s Forest is Buring more than the Amazon But Nobody Cares More Fires Now Burning in Angola, DR Congo Than Amazon Blazes burning in the Amazon have put the World on notice, but Brazil is actually 3rd in the world in wildfires over the last 48 hours, according to MODIS satellite data analyzed by Weather Source. Weather Source has recorded 6,902 fires in Angola over the past 48 hours, compared to 3,395 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and 2,127 in Brazil. Bit it seems nobody cares about the fires burning in Africa right nowTargeting the Tongass National Forest for Amazon-like Destruction One wonders if Trump and his administration are aware of what is happening in the world or if they care the Earth is under deadly stress by no less an enemy than humans. Are they so certain their crackpot theories are valid, that global warming is a hoax, that it’s fine to keep cutting down forests, that burning the Amazon is good for ranchers, that pollution is good for business, that poisoning children by neurotoxins in their food is an unavoidable part of food production? By Evaggelos Vallianatos
Pipeline Permit Scandal Highlights Confusion Amid Push to Build Plastics Plants For the past 42 years, the Beaver County Conservation District in western Pennsylvania has hosted their Maple Syrup Festival, an annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast featuring syrup made from maple trees in a park in Beaver Falls. It’s a huge event in this county, population 164,742; organizers expected up to 40,000 attendees at last year’s festival, which included a Civil War re-enactment, pony rides, and craft demonstrations like bobbin lace making. But with the arrival of Shell and its $6 billion plastics manufacturing plant, currently under construction in Beaver County, the conservation district assumed more serious responsibilities than throwing a maple syrup festival — including permitting the fossil fuel pipelines feeding the massive plastics complex. By Sharon Kelly
Lithium Mining for “Green” Electric Cars is Leaving a Stain on the Planet Lithium is found in the brine of salt flats. In order to obtain lithium, holes are drilled into the flats to pump the brine to the surface. This allows lithium carbonate to be extracted through a chemical process. Last week, Bloomberg published a report detailing how the boom in lithium mining is irreversibly destroying the local environment of northern Chile’s Atacama desert. Mining for lithium means means removing large amounts of water, which means depleting the water supply for locals. According to the report, the Tilopozo meadow in Chile used to be a shelter for shepherds traveling at night, yet has become barren due to lack of grass or water. That puts a severe strain on local farmers. By Nicole Karlis
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Labor:
Those Workers Who Are Not Counted As Umemployed: Severance Pay: Corporate Obligation to Long-Term Workers In recent months there have been a number of large retail companies that went into bankruptcy, most notably Sears and Toys “R” Us. In these and other cases, the public is naturally concerned about the plight of long-term workers who have often spent decades working for the same company. We know from much research that many of these workers will never be able to find employment again at comparable wages, especially older workers in their 50s and 60s. In situations where workers are fortunate enough to have unions, they are generally entitled to some amount of severance pay, based on their years of employment. However, with the share of the private sector workforce in unions now under 7.0 percent, most workers can expect nothing if their employer shuts the doors. By Dean Baker
Trade Deficit Narrowed from June, Yet the Third-Quarter 2019 Deficit Is on Track for Net Deterioration
Government-Shutdown Distorted And Delayed Data Have Begun To Surface
Reporting Delays Artificially Boosted The Headline Benchmarked Gdp
The Shutdown-Delayed September 3rd Annual Benchmark Revisions to Construction Spending Showed Much Weaker Activity Second-Quarter 2018 to Date
Benchmark-Revised GDP and Current FOMC Economic assumptions Are Overstated As a Result
Consider that Revised Nominal Year-to-Year Construction Spending Turned Negative in 4q2018 and After, Previously Holding Positive Until 2q2019
Last Time Nominal Annual Construction Spending Growth Turned Negative Was in the 1q2008 Onset of the Great Recession
Previous to the Construction Benchmarking, a Negligible First Revision of Second-Quarter GDP to 2.04% (Initially 2.06%) Annualized Real Growth, Accompanied Initial Estimates of GDI at 2.11% and GNP at 3.18%
GDP Benchmark-Revised Patterns of Rapidly Slowing Real Annual Growth Continued New Recession Remains in Play
Payroll Employment Growth Was Hit by Massive Preliminary Downside Benchmark Revision of 501,000 (-501,000) Jobs; Major Implications for FOMC Easing and Next Round of GDP Benchmarking
Why Is JPMorgan Chase Always in the Middle of Scandalous News? Fake Gold Anyone? “In the last three years, bars worth at least $50 million stamped with Swiss refinery logos, but not actually produced by those facilities, have been identified by all four of Switzerland’s leading gold refiners and found in the vaults of JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the major banks at the heart of the market in bullion, said senior executives at gold refineries, banks and other industry sources.” If your bank is under a criminal probe for potentially rigging gold and silver markets, it doesn’t help your case to have $50 million in fake gold bars sitting in your vaults. Nonetheless, this is what Reuters reported last week:“In the last three years, bars worth at least $50 million stamped with Swiss refinery logos, but not actually produced by those facilities, have been identified by all four of Switzerland’s leading gold refiners and found in the vaults of JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the major banks at the heart of the market in bullion, said senior executives at gold refineries, banks and other industry sources.” By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Seize 20 Tons of Cocaine Found on a Container Ship Owned by Wall Street Mega Bank, JPMorgan Chase
World:
England: ‘For the Many — Not the Few!
‘This Is Incredible,’ Says Corbyn, as Voter Registration Surges Amid Boris Johnson’s Chaotic Lurch Towards UK General Election “This Brexit crisis has now come down to a simple question about whether we live in a democracy: can we allow Boris Johnson to force No Deal on our country, without all of us having our voice heard?” Labour Party politicians and pro-democracy groups celebrated Wednesday as more than 100,000 people reportedly registered to vote in a 48-hour period this week amid mounting chaos in the U.K. government in anticipation of a possible general election in October. By Julia ConleyMore than 100,000 apply to register to vote in UK in 48 hours Young people make up bulk of new applications, with Britain poised for snap general election More than 100,000 people have applied to register to vote since the start of the week, with young people making up the bulk of the surge against the backdrop of a momentous 48 hours in British politics. On Monday, 52,408 applications were submitted, according to government figures, followed by 64,485 on Tuesday.
Cuba Sends Doctors & Teachers to Hurricane Hit Bahamas bvAs is always the case with Cuban cooperators in other parts of the world, in the face of these disasters, everyone will [also] contribute their efforts in the recovery stage.” Cuba’s government confirmed on Wednesday that they have sent a number of doctors and teachers to areas of the Bahamas which have been hit by Hurricane Dorian. The Cuban workers will assist local authorities in emergency relief, though they will also stay afterwards to help rebuild the country’s medical and education services in the affected areas. Health, Education, and Welfare:
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 ‘govern’, pass universal healthcare for themselves, but they cannot spend even one trillion dollars for universal health for those who are ‘governed’! This is what is considered, by the powers the to be, a democracy and part of the democratic way. — Roland Sheppard, Let The People Vote on Healthcare!
Brexit, Boris, and British Parliament Come to a Head After 3 Years
Bureau of Land Management Votes to Slaughter 44,000 Wild Horses to Make Room for Beef Cattle he U.S. Bureau of Land Management voted to kill 44,000 of the 67,000 total wild horses in the country to make room for more beef cattle last Friday. The vote came two months after beef industry representatives testified on Capitol Hill, demanding that the agency kill all 44,000 wild horses currently held captive in BLM holding facilities and round-up the majority of the rest for sterilization.
Trump Bombs New Silk Road with Tariffs The real target of Trump’s trade war is not, primarily, the Chinese, but the U.S.-based corporations that spent the last generation outsourcing
Targeting the Tongass National Forest for Amazon-like Destruction One wonders if Trump and his administration are aware of what is happening in the world or if they care the Earth is under deadly stress by no less an enemy than humans. Are they so certain their crackpot theories are valid, that global warming is a hoax, that it’s fine to keep cutting down forests, that burning the Amazon is good for ranchers, that pollution is good for business, that poisoning children by neurotoxins in their food is an unavoidable part of food production? By Evaggelos Vallianatos
Shadow Government Statistics Daily Update (September 5th to 6th – Revised) – July 2019
Why Is JPMorgan Chase Always in the Middle of Scandalous News? Fake Gold Anyone? “In the last three years, bars worth at least $50 million stamped with Swiss refinery logos, but not actually produced by those facilities, have been identified by all four of Switzerland’s leading gold refiners and found in the vaults of JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the major banks at the heart of the market in bullion, said senior executives at gold refineries, banks and other industry sources.” If your bank is under a criminal probe for potentially rigging gold and silver markets, it doesn’t help your case to have $50 million in fake gold bars sitting in your vaults. Nonetheless, this is what Reuters reported last week:“In the last three years, bars worth at least $50 million stamped with Swiss refinery logos, but not actually produced by those facilities, have been identified by all four of Switzerland’s leading gold refiners and found in the vaults of JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the major banks at the heart of the market in bullion, said senior executives at gold refineries, banks and other industry sources.” By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Health, Education, and Welfare: