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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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The revolving door refers to the interchange of personnel, usually between businesss and government, but also between lobby groups, management consultants, think tanks and government, as well as between the media or public relations firms and government. The problem is that government officials can be unduly influenced, either by their previous employers or potential future employers, and this undermines the effectiveness of governments in regulating to protect the environment. There is also a revolving door between environmental groups and the industries they criticise which can give rise to similar conflicts of interest whereby environmental groups can be unduly influenced by business interests. What is more, the revolving door can help business interests gain unearned environmental credibility. Rex Babin, ‘Revolving Door’
Videos of the Day:
The Secretive Police Commission The Justice Department Doesn’t Want You To Notice PAR learns about life under lockdown with COVID-19 from a guest just released from 10 months of incarceration, and examines the secretive police commission created by Attorney General Barr.
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.
Dr. Richard Besser, former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, responds to President Trump describing health workers “running into death” as a “beautiful thing.” . . “What strikes me as not a beautiful thing is that we are sending essential workers into what would-be battle. We’re sending them into meat-packing plants and grocery stores. We’re sending them on public transit. We’re sending them out to health care facilities to take care of our loved ones and we’re not giving them the gear that we would give any other soldier going into battle. That’s not a beautiful thing. What it’s saying is we don’t care.” — TRUMP Said, “Doctors Running Into Death is a Beautiful Thing?!?”
The President of the United States voiced his support on Saturday for a protest against New York state’s public health orders that was backed by an anti-government militia and featured a slogan calling for the execution of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s senior immunologist. The “Re-Open NY” rally on Thursday in Commack, New York was organized by a group of Trump supporters who call themselves the Setauket Patriots, but also endorsed by the Long Island branch of the Oath Keepers, a national organization of current and former law enforcement officers and military veterans who think they are defending the nation from a range of imaginary threats posed by the federal government. ‑ Trump Salutes Long Island Protest Where “Hang Fauci” Sign Was Displayed
Trump’s New COVID-19 Czar Holds $10 Million In Vaccine Company Stock Options Elizabeth Warren slammed the “huge conflict of interest,” and demanded Moncef Slaoui “divest immediately.” Slaoui, a former pharmaceutical executive, was named “chief scientist” on Friday for President Donald Trump’s “Operation Warp Speed,” a COVID-19 vaccine development operation. In order to take the new role, he stepped down from his position on the board of directors of biotech company Moderna Inc., which is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But Slaoui still owns 155,000 Moderna stock ptions, totaling more than $10 million as of Friday, according to Business Insider. Slaoui’s economic interest in the company could influence government support for Moderna over other companies that may be more successful in their hunt for a vaccine. Moderna last month announced that it received $483 million in federal funding for vaccine development, which sent its stocks up 15%, CNBC reported. By Mary Papenfuss
The Lord Could Not Protect ‘Them Form the All Evil’ and the Coronavirus!: 180 In Quarantine After Person With Coronavirus Attends Mother’s Day Church Service in California Almost 200 people are being quarantined after possible exposure to coronavirus during a California church service on Mother’s Day.A day after attending an in-person service at an unidentified Butte County church last Sunday, one of the worshipers tested positive for coronavirus, health officials announced Friday. By Kate Feldman
The Coming Nuclear Menace: Hypersonic Missiles The United States is seeking to acquire “volumes of hundreds or even thousands” of nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles that are “stealthy” and can fly undetected at 3,600 miles per hour, five times faster than the speed of sound. Why so many? A Pentagon official is quoted in the current issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology as saying “we have to be careful we’re not building boutique weapons. If we build boutique weapons, we won’t—we’ll be very reluctant to—use them.” By Karl Grossman
Environment:
But there is also the possibility of future diseases, especially bacterial ones, originating in factory farms where animals live in crowded and inhumane conditions and routinely fed antibiotics. This has contributed to the widespread development of strains of bacteria that are resistant to commonly used antibiotics. Drug companies try to sell as much of their antibiotics as possible (just like other drugs) — for use in humans or farm animals (or pets). Thus, the profit motive directly leads to the overuse of antibiotics and the growing problem of new antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. — Interview With Fred Magdoff
This is certainly a time for bold programs from the left to help the mass of the people survive and recover. The left should push programs that enhance food security for those in need and for universal health care coverage and other social programs like routine paid sick leave from work. Once the economy begins to recover, let’s put people back to work building homes for the homeless and renovating dilapidated schools as well as for other social needs such as fixing other parts of a dilapidated infrastructure. — Interview With Fred Magdoff
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Economy:
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Worst U.S. Economic Activity Ever Reported
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April Retail Sales Fell the Most in Its 73-Year Reporting History
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Production and Manufacturing Tumbled the Most in Their 101-Year History
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Increasing New Claims for Unemployment Insurance and Insured Unemployed Confirm the Economy Fell Further in May, Albeit Likely at a Moderating Pace Second-Quarter 2020 Real Annualized GDP Contraction of About 50% (-50%) Will Surpass Anything Ever Seen
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If There Are Meaningful Efforts to Reopen the Economy, Third Quarter Activity Could Move Off Bottom in a Nascent L- or Shallow U-Shaped Recovery
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Benchmark Revisions to New Orders for Durable Goods Confirmed Major Downside Revisions Loom for Pre-Pandemic GDP Reporting
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S. Economy Already Was in Trouble Before the Pandemic, Because of Intensifying Federal Reserve Policy Malfeasance and Federal Government Fiscal Malpractice
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CPI no longer measures the cost of maintaining a constant standard of living.
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CPI no longer measures full inflation for out-of-pocket expenditure.
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With the misused cover of academic theory, politicians forced significant underreporting of official inflation, so as to cut annual cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security, etc.
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Use of the CPI to adjust retirement benefits, private income or to set investment goals impairs the ability of retirees, income earners and investors to stay ahead of inflation.
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Understated inflation used in estimating inflation-adjusted growth has created the illusion of recovery in reported GDP.
The Fed’s Chair and Vice Chair Got Rich at Carlyle Group, a Private Equity Fund with a String of Bankruptcies and Job Losses Private equity funds have been variously called “merchants of debt,” “vultures,” or “corporate raiders.” What a private equity fund typically does is to buy up companies by piling debt on the balance sheet, selling off valuable assets like real estate, extracting giant dividends for the private equity partners to the detriment of workers and customers, and then, frequently, letting the company collapse into bankruptcy while laying off thousands of workers or liquidating the whole company. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
Donald Trump’s Megalomania and Boris Johnson’s incompetence Have Increased the Coronavirus Death TollNativist demagogues are the worst leaders to have in charge during a real crisis because they specialise in exaggerating non-existent threats The US and UK are the nation states that have performed worst in the world in coping with the coronavirus pandemic. Americans and Britons make up more than a third of the 300,000 people worldwide who have died from Covid-19. They have paid the ultimate price for their governments’ slow and incompetent response to the spread of the disease. By Patrick Cockburn
The Good Turk: The True Story of Armenia’s Forgotten Schindler Twenty-five years before Oskar Schindler would save the lives of more than a thousand Jews from Nazi Germany, Cemil Kunneh protected hundreds of Armenians from genocide. By Robert Fisk 
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
Nancy Bailey: Who Does the Biden/Sanders Education Unity Panel Unite?: Nancy Bailey is well aware of the dangers to public education today, especially the threats of privatization, data mining, and technological takeover. She saw that the campaigns of Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders created an education unity group and she wondered who was included and who was not included. Here is her analysis. She begins with who was left out:
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For example, parents of children with disabilities struggle to teach their children during Covid-19. Classes for their children were never fully funded before the disease. Sen. Bernie Sanders promised better in his Thurgood Marshall Plan. Searching with a magnifying glass, I see no representation for students with disabilities on this panel. Many want to say good riddance to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and her boss. But educators and parents fighting for public education, and the ninety percent of students who attend public schools, deserve a more inclusive group of people to push back on harmful school reform. The Biden/Sanders Unity Education Task Force leaves much to be desired. For example, parents of children with disabilities struggle to teach their children during Covid-19. Classes for their children were never fully funded before the disease. Sen. Bernie Sanders promised better in his Thurgood Marshall Plan. Searching with a magnifying glass, I see no representation for students with disabilities on this panel.
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Black and brown parent advocates have started a petition to make the education task force more inclusive.Where are the scholars from the: National Education Policy Center? Network for Public Education? Defending the Early Years? Economic Policy Center? Where are teachers from the Badass Teachers Association, or representation by those who organized and marched in the Red for Ed rallies? What about parents and school board members who fight for children?
Civil Rights/BlackLiberation:
Shadow Government Statistics Public Comment On Inflation Measurement Consumer Price Index Has Been Reconfigured Since Early-1980s So As to Understate Inflation versus Common Experience