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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! And Now the Total Caronavirs Deaths in the United States are Over 20% of the Total Death in the Entire World!
Another Example Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Was Aware of the Danger of Cornovavirus Threat 4 Years Ago and Did Nothing!
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 War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. The very future of Humanity Is Now At stake!
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! 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!
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Quotes of the Day:
I know how you watch as you grow older, the corpses of your brothers and your sisters pile up around you. Not as a result of anything they have done, they were too young to have done anything. But what one does realize is that when you try to stand up and look the world in the face as if you had a right to be here, you have attacked the entire power structure of the western world! — James Baldwin
But since I was reading during the Coronavirus pandemic I was particularly interested in the close association between industrial pig production, environmental damage, and disease. As late as the 1940s, almost every US city with over 25,000 people used pigs to deal with waste. This declined rapidly after the Second World War, because scientists had found that feeding raw food to pigs promoted the spread of Hog Cholera (Swine Fever) and trichinellosis. The trichina worm was so common that 16 percent of Americans had the disease in 1940. To kill it and other diseases, rubbish had to be cooked to 212ºF, but that meant pigs were no longer a cost-effective means of rubbish disposal. But that didn’t end pig-associated diseases. As Anderson emphasises, the development of “large scale hog operations… created the conditions for new diseases to thrive.” The growth and concentration of pig operations make diseases more deadly and more widespread. Raising large numbers of animals in close proximity allows the swift mutation of diseases makes controlling the disease and disinfecting equipment and areas harder and creates opportunities for “repeated infection of new strains.” One disease, PEDv (part of the swine enteric coronavirus virus family) infected up to 10 percent of the US pig population between 2013 and 2014. Around eight million pigs died. — Pigs, Pork and Power in America
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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 ownership of the Reublicrats 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.
Today, May 9th, Due to Trump’s Incompetency, The U.S. Death Count is Now Over 80,000 Coronavirus Deaths!
Nancy Pelosi’s Life in the top One-Tenth of the 1 Percent Nancy Pelosi may be one of the most liberal members of the U.S. House, where she runs the Democratic caucus, railing against income inequality and the avarice of the 1 percent. But she also happens to be one of the body’s wealthiest members: In Washington, she lives in a multimillion-dollar Georgetown condo; she owns a 16-acre vineyard in Napa Valley and a 3,700 square-foot house in San Francisco’s tony Pacific Heights, according to her May 2015 financial disclosure statements. Her May 2015 financial-disclosure statements,showing income that places her in the top one-tenth of the 1 percent of Americans, may surprise some in light of the concern she’s expressed about income equality and the distribution of wealth. By Brooke Rogers
Pelosi Isn’t Dump She’s Just Demonstrating Her Capitalist Class Loyalties: Pelosi Support for Corporate Lobbyist Bailout Denounced as ‘Dumbest Political Maneuver You Could Possibly Make Right Now’ “Pelosi has run the House of Representatives by fiat for close to two months, and there hasn’t been a single word of protest as she locks every other member of the Democratic caucus out of policymaking.” “Pelosi has run the House of Representatives by fiat for close to two months, and there hasn’t been a single word of protest as she locks every other member of the Democratic caucus out of policymaking.” By Jake Johnson
Trump’s Astonishing Betrayal of the American People is Leaving Catastrophic Wreckage in Its Wake In this time of global pandemic and Great Depression economics, it seems almost quaint to think back just a few months and remember simpler days. Once upon a time, we were all consumed with the impeachment trial of the president of the United States, and worried about whether or not he had been bamboozled into betraying the nation to its cunning adversary, Vladimir Putin. It all seems so far away now as we face the daily onslaught of statistics showing Americans dying by the tens of thousands and 30 million people out of work.But then, the Russia investigation and the Ukraine scandal were really just an earlier chapter of the same story — the Donald Trump magnum opus called “American Carnage.” One atrocity leads inexorably into another. By Heather Digby Parton
Environment:
The Capitalist Mode od Industrial Meat Production is a Global Threat to Humanity and Other All Living Creatures!:
Pigs, Pork and Power in America Consider the pig. You might think of it as an animal that snuffles around the farmyard and ends up as bacon. If you are more acquainted with industrial agriculture you might think of it as one of the animals that frequently spends most of its life in a small pen, with thousands of others, before ending up as bacon. But, as this fascinating account of the role of pigs in American social, economic and gastronomic life shows, there is a lot more to the hog. J.L. Anderson argues that to understand the importance of the pig in American history you need to understand the way that capitalism has remade the environment to turn nature into commodities. It is not possible to separate pigs from the history of European colonialism in North America, the development of America’s cities and the creation of a mass working class. “Americans,” Anderson argues, “exercised power over hogs and attempted to transcend limits of production and consumption.” Reviewed by Martin Empson
Industrial Meat Production Kills!: Meatpacking Jobs Were Dangerous Before Pandemic — Now They’re Life-or-Death laughterhouse workers, who have one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, are walking off the job to protest even more hazardous working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.A worker who walked out at a Perdue plant in Georgia told a local CBS affiliate on March 23 that, “We’re not getting nothing — no type of compensation … no cleanliness, no extra pay — no nothing. We’re up here risking our life for chicken.”It is no surprise that, even in this time of crisis, giant meat companies like Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s Pride, Sanderson Farms, and others are neglecting their workers. Major meat companies are regularly the target of worker protection campaigns, animal cruelty investigations, and other scandals. But nothing has stopped them from maintaining their standard business practices at the expense of the most vulnerable workers trapped in their grips. By Taylor Ford
Civil Rights/ Black Liberation:
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Must have an irrational fear and hatred of all things African American.
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Must honestly believe black people get all the breaks, have it easier than whites.
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Must believe black people are naturally inferior to whites, lazy, prone to criminality, less intelligent, etc.
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Must believe racism ended with either (1) the civil rights movement or (2) slavery.
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But must hide these beliefs under a thin veneer of civility. For instance: must never use the N-word (in public) must never beat or kill a black person (unless on the police force) must never light a burning cross on a black person’s lawn (and get caught) must never tweet or express these views publicly in a way that can be traced back to you.
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Enjoyment of rap music, black culture or black sexual partners optional. Fox News viewership preferred.
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No experience necessary. Apply within.
Labor:
Shadow Government Statistics Alternate Unemployment Charts The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official existence in 1994. That estimate is added to the BLS estimate of U-6 unemployment, which includes short-term discouraged workers. The U-3 unemployment rate is the monthly headline number. The U-6 unemployment rate is the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) broadest unemployment measure, including short-term discouraged and other marginally-attached workers as well as those forced to work part-time because they cannot find full-time employment.
The seasonally adjusted ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment Rate for March 2020 is 35.7%.
Economy:
Since the 2008-2009 The Bailed Out 1% Recovered —There Has Never Been Never Been A Recovery For The Working Class! In Fact the Real Unemployment Has Been Over 10% Unemployed Since 1994!:
For example, it is normal in a recovering or expanding economy for the labor force participation rate to rise as people enter the work force to take advantage of the job opportunities. During the decade of the long recovery, from June 2009 through May 2019, the labor force participation rate consistently fell from 65.7 to 62.8 percent. https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm — Paul Craig Roberts, The Diminishing American Economy
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Headline April 2020 Unemployment Really Was Around 20%, Not 15%
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About 7.5 Million People in the April Household Survey Were Misclassified as Employed Instead of Unemployed, per the BLS
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Headline April U.3 Unemployment at 14.7%, Should Have Been 19.5%
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The BLS Had Disclosed the Same Surveying Error Last Month; Where Headline March 2020 U.3 Was 4.4%, It Should Have Been 5.3%
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Per the BLS, Headline Data Will Not Be Corrected: “To maintain data integrity, no ad hoc actions are taken to reclassify survey responses.”
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Nonetheless, Headline April Unemployment Soared to Historic Highs from March: U.3 from 4.4% to 14.7%, U.6 from 8.7% to 22.8% and ShadowStats from 22.9% to 35.4%
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More Realistic, Those Same Unemployment Numbers, Corrected: U.3 from 5.3 % to 19.5%, U.6 from 9.6% to 27.7% and ShadowStats from 23.7% to 39.6%
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April 2020 Payrolls Collapsed by an Unprecedented 20.5 Million Jobs
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Annual Growth in April 2020 Money Supply Measures Soared to Historic Highs
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Economic Activity Has Collapsed to Great Depression Levels, with the Federal Reserve Creating Unlimited Money
Shadow Government Statistics Alternate Unemployment Rate, Inverted Scale (1994 to April 2020)
U.S. Unemployment Reaches 14.7 Percent – Chart from Great Depression Shows Risks Ahead The data is out this morning and it’s not pretty. Nonfarm payrolls collapsed by 20.5 million jobs in April and the unemployment rate rose to 14.7 percent. The United States is now seeing the worst unemployment rates since the Great Depression. We prepared the above chart from data available at the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) archives at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Following the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, it was not until August 1931 that the unemployment rate reached 15.01 percent. We’re now at 14.7 percent unemployment from a rate of 3.5 percent just two months ago in February. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
Winston Churchill: A Modern Myth Today marks the 75th anniversary of VE-Day. From the beginning of the coronavirus crisis, the ruling class have pushed the idea of ‘national unity’ and the ‘Blitz spirit’ to distract from the class divide. And Boris Johnson has attempted to present himself as a modern-day Winston Churchill – another supposedly ‘great’ war leader. A man’s reputation is like his shadow: it is often much bigger than the man himself. Such is the case with Winston Churchill. In a nationwide TV poll in 2002 he was voted ‘The Greatest Briton of all Time’, and even forty years after his death not a day passes without some TV or radio programme, some magazine or newspaper, praising his outstanding qualities as a statesman, orator, great military strategist and saviour of his people.
Health, Science, 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 ‘governn’, 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 to be, a democracy and part of the democratic way. — Roland Sheppard, Let the People Vote on Healthcare!
Healthcare Workers Fighting the Pandemic, Fighting the Cuts! In the midst of the most severe public health crisis in living memory, hospital workers are being laid off, healthcare funding is being slashed, and hospitals are demanding a 20% pay cut from all its workers, as Trump and the billionaire class attempt to force working people to pay the bill for the crisis. Join a national call with frontline healthcare workers and organizers to discuss the fightback that nurses and healthcare workers across the country have led for PPE and Medicare for All, and how we organize to oppose the coming wave of austerity, for a healthcare system based on human need, not corporate need.
The Value of Life
Shadow Government Statistics s Flash Commentary, Issue No. 1435