During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three Point Political Program: Austerity, Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, and The Iron Heel.
The Capitalist Austerity Program = It’s Become the Race to the Botom! The 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 — The 99% Will Rule! — Not the Few!
On 15 October 1966, in Oakland, California, Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton met and set up the Black Panther Party for Self Defence. The Party would exist, despite heavy repression, until 1982 and ran a variety of programmes from free breakfasts for school children and community health clinics to armed citizen patrols and monitoring of the police. Another little-mentioned fact about the group is that in the 1970s it had a majority female membership.
Quotes of the Day:
“I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals. In such an economy, the means of production are owned by society itself and are utilized in a planned fashion. — Political views of Albert Einstein
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.
Environment:
Why Typhoon Hagibis packed such a deadly, devastating punch in JapanStorm’s track, intensity, and 24- to 48-hour rainfall totals stand out from past storm events Typhoon Hagibis proved to be extraordinarily devastating for northern Japan when it struck this weekend, unleashing more than three feet of rain in just 24 hours in some locations, causing widespread flash flooding as well as river flooding. The storm has killed at least 58, according to the Japanese public broadcaster NHK. By Andrew FreedmanBayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Mess Poses Major Risk to Atchafalaya Basin “It is a crime against nature,” Jody Meche, president of the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, said while scanning the Bayou Bridge pipeline right-of-way on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin, the country’s largest river swamp in a designated National Heritage Area. By Julie Dermansky
The Problem With Partnerships and Roundtables When the laws regulating forest practices, endangered species, clean air and water were put on the books, it was well before the 1990s when our society became enthralled with neoliberalism that elevated economic utility and job creation above all in matters of public policy. Public resource managers now face local political pressure to base every decision on its financial impact to the local economy. During the last 25 years, public land managers have developed a “creative” new approach to administering laws which give local communities a voice and even quasi-control over land-use decisions through an array of public-private partnerships, roundtables and stewardship agreements. In all these partnerships, agencies seek to find local environmental representatives to represent the public view in these processes. By Jim Britell
When will the world’s wells run out of water? Within three decades, almost 80% of the lands that depend on groundwater will start to reach their natural irrigation limits as the wells run dry. In a world of increasing extremes of drought and rainfall, driven by rising global temperatures and potentially catastrophic climate change, the water will start to run out. By Tim Radford
Managing Water in an Unpredictable Climate In southern Nevada, the problem is drought. Nineteen years of declining snowpack in the mountains that make up the Colorado River water basin has caused Lake Mead, the region’s primary source ofdrinking water, to drop about 130 feet. By Katherine Long
Pipes for a water intake pump sit on dry land in front of Pyramid Island near Boulder Beach on May 13, 2015, in Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada.
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Black Agenda Radio for Week of October 14, 2019 Black Agenda Radio on the Progressive Radio Network is hosted by Glen Ford and Nellie Bailey. A new edition of the program airs every Monday at 11:am ET on PRN. Length: one hour.
NYT “1619 Project” More Pro-American Exceptionalism Than Anti-Slavery Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford The New York Times’ “1619 Project” essays on the arrival of African slaves in Jamestown, Virginia “is not a critique of American exceptionalism – it is an attempt to told slavery into American exceptionaism,” said Josh Myers, professor of African American Studies at Howard University. “Africans were not seeking to become Americans; they were seeking to be free,” said Myers.
Phony Progressives Follow Trump Lead on Venezuela Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford So-called progressives sound just like Donald Trump when they describe Venezuela’s elected government as a “dictatorship,” said Nicholas Evan Ayala, co-editor of Anti-Conquista. “A lot of Democrats pretend to be anti-war, yet fail to see that every intervention they advocate follows a long history of US evil…leading to the deaths of millions of people,” said Ayala.
Corporate Domination is Central to Food Issues Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford The lack of food outlets in Black neighborhoods is part of the larger reality of labor exploitation and corporate domination, according toAshante Reese, professor of anthropology at Spelman College and author of “Black Food Geographers: Race, Self-Reliance, and Fund Access in Washington, DC.” “A handful of corporations control nearly all of our food,” said Reese,” and the labor part of the problem “goes wholly unnoticed by most people” concerned with food issues.
Halt – Don’t Expand – Mass Incarceration in New York Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford The Black Alliance for Just Immigration supports the “No New Jails NYC” campaign to prevent the city from building 12 new prisons to replace the cells that will be lost when the infamous Rikers Island prison is finally shut down. “There will be jails everywhere in Black neighborhoods,” said Ben Ndugga-Kabuye, of the Alliance. “Jails and policing are a product of enslavement and capitalism, and they do not make our community safe in any way.” Prisoners Scapegoated While Rich Loot Society In an essay titled, “What Kind of Society Are We?” New York state prison inmate Donti Mitchell says citizens outside the walls should not be resentful that he is allowed to attend free college courses. “What really upsets me is how public education is being gutted. Society pays more for prison than education,” said Mitchell. “Stop being so gullible as to believe I am the cause of your problems.”
Prisoners Scapegoated While Rich Loot Society Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford In an essay titled, “What Kind of Society Are We?” New York state prison inmate Donti Mitchell says citizens outside the walls should not be resentful that he is allowed to attend free college courses. “What really upsets me is how public education is being gutted. Society pays more for prison than education,” said Mitchell. “Stop being so gullible as to believe I am the cause of your problems.”
Labor:
Economy:
Wall Street’s Mega Banks Report Earnings Today, Capping the Craziest Banking Era in U.S. History The mega banks on Wall Street report earnings this week led off by JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Wells Fargo this morning.Among the items of interest in JPMorgan Chase’s written presentation was that it spent $6.7 billion in this past third quarter buying up its own stock and thus boosting its stock price artificially beyond outside investor demand. The third quarter buybacks of its stock came on top of spending $5 billion in the second quarter and $4.7 billion in the first quarter, bringing its net repurchases of its own stock just so far this year to a whopping $16.4 billion — money that could have otherwise gone to loans to small businesses to kickstart innovation and job growth in America. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Not Falling Prey to Vultures The IMF program has failed, and the debt is unsustainable. What happens next? The Macri government leaves behind another failed IMF agreement, an economy in shambles, soaring poverty, and a large dollar-denominated debt burden. The move to extend maturities on some domestic debt is not a solution to the problem. It postpones the restructuring of the entire debt to the next government. How that restructuring will proceed is unclear because there is no orderly international process for addressing unsustainable sovereign debt. By Lara Merling – Leo Baunach
World:
Anti-Austerity Protests in Ecuador: Ecuador: Lenin Moreno’s Government Sacrifices the Poor to Satisfy the IMF Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno has been cutting government spending since signing an Extended Fund Facility (EFF) agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in February of this year. This policy has benefited multinational corporations, the banks, and in general, powerful economic groups at the expense of the middle and working classes, who are being pushed toward poverty and extreme poverty. By Wilma Salgado
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!
Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Mess Poses Major Risk to Atchafalaya Basin “It is a crime against nature,” Jody Meche, president of the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, said while scanning the Bayou Bridge pipeline right-of-way on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin, the country’s largest river swamp in a designated National Heritage Area. By Julie Dermansky
Citing ‘Moral Duty to Take Radical Action,’ Over 700 Scientists Endorse Mass Civil Disobedience to Fight Climate Crisis “We believe that the continued governmental inaction over the climate and ecological crisis now justifies peaceful and nonviolent protest and direct action, even if this goes beyond the bounds of the current law.” By Jake Johnson
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