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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!
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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It’s called the Kern Water Bank. And it’s majority controlled by two of the state’s biggest agribusinesses: Paramount Farms, a division of Roll International, and Tejon Ranch Company. “I agree that it’s a big water bank, said Katy Spanos, an attorney with the California Department of Water Resources. Spanos said the state turned the huge underground aquifer over to a handful of big agribusinesses almost 20 years ago, in exchange for a cutback on their state water allotments.
But no money was exchanged. In fact, the state lost money, because it had originally paid about $70 million for the land the Kern Water Bank sits on.
Spanos told KPIX 5 the cost of building a bank is significantly more than that. “Water managers feel that this is the kind of thing that makes good sense,” she said. But not everyone agrees. “I don’t think in this country we are prepared to allow fresh water to be a privately controlled resource,” said Adam Keats, a senior attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity. — Big Energy Frackers Keep on Fracking With Their Own Private Water Supplies During Drought
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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.
Trump Shares Tweet Calling CDC, Doctors Liars After Surpassing His 20,000th Lie In the past 440 days, Trump, on average, has lied to the American people about 23 times per day. By Chris Walker
Chris Hedges: Don’t be Fooled by the Cancel Culture Wars Thee politically correct speech and symbols of inclusiveness, without a concerted assault on corporate power, will do nothing to change the system. The cancel culture — the phenomenon of removing or canceling people, brands or shows from the public domain because of offensive statements or ideologies — is not a threat to the ruling class. Hundreds of corporations, nearly all in the hands of white executives and white board members, enthusiastically pumped out messages on social media condemning racism and demanding justice after George Floyd was choked to death by police in Minneapolis. Police, which along with the prison system are one of the primary instruments of social control over the poor, have taken the knee, along with Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of the serially criminal JPMorgan Chase, where only 4 percent of the top executives are Black. Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world whose corporation, Amazon, paid no federal income taxes last year and who fires workers that attempt to unionize and tracks warehouse laborers as if they were prisoners, put a “Black Lives Matter” banner on Amazon’s home page. The rush by the ruling elites to profess solidarity with the protestors and denounce racist rhetoric and racist symbols, supporting the toppling of Confederate statues and banning the Confederate flag, are symbolic assaults on white supremacy. Alone, these gestures will do nothing to reverse the institutional racism that is baked into the DNA of American society. The elites will discuss race. They will not discuss class. By Chris Hedges
Abolishing Police Includes Abolishing ICE and Border ProtectionTo achieve the goal of abolishing police, we need to fight against all fronts of policing power.By A. Naomi Paik
Schools Are Struggling to Avoid Worsening Inequity When They Reopen One matter of dominant concern is how to re-engage with students who began working full-time after schools closed. By Eleanor J. Bader
The Opus Dei Supremes: In Dead-of-Night Ruling, Supreme Court’s Right-Wing Majority OKs First Federal Execution in 17 Years Condemning the state-sanctioned murder of Daniel Lewis Lee, critics accused the high court of enabling the DOJ to “short-circuit federal appellate process to allow it to execute people in the middle of a global pandemic.” By Jessica Corbett
Environment:
California Regulators Approve 12 New Permits for Chevron to Frack in Kern County As Tribes, conservationists and environmental justice advocates were celebrating a federal ruling temporarily halting operations by the owners of the Dakota Access Pipeline, anti-fracking activists in California were disturbed that California regulators are continuing to approve new permits for fracking in the San Joaquin Valley. By Dan Bacher
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
There is no democracy in the United States! — Just democracy for the 1%! When the order in the United States is economic and social inequality. The slogan ‘Law and Order’ means the maintenance of that order— Rich 1% First and the poorest of the 99% last!. Real democracy means that we all share the wealth equally! —Roland Sheppard
“Hamilton: the Musical:” Black Actors Dress Up like Slave Traders…and It’s Not Halloween Establishment historians write best sellers in which some of the cruel actions of the Founding Fathers are smudged over if not ignored altogether. They’re guilty of a cover-up.This is the case with Alexander Hamilton whose life has been scrubbed with a kind of historical Ajax until it sparkles. His reputation has been shored up as an abolitionist and someone who was opposed to slavery. Not true. By Ishmael Reed 
Black Agenda Radio for Week of July 13, 2020 With Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
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Black Agenda Report Presents: The Left Lens In this debut episode of the Left Lens, Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley introduce viewers to Black Agenda Report, question neoliberal confidence in Joe Biden’s 2020 chances, discuss why community control of the police is so critical to the development of the movement against racist policing, and end with a brief analysis of internationalism and solidarity. Danny Haiphong, BAR Contributing Editor, and Margaret Kimberley, BAR senior columnist
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Green Party is “Vital” to Growth of Grassroots Movement The movement against police oppression “is long overdue, but it needs political organization in order to create lasting change,” said Margaret Kimberley, longtime Green Party activjsf.
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Movement for People’s Party Aims to Unseat Duopoly in 2024 “We have to do more than just create a new party,” said Nick Brana, national coordinator for the Movement for a Peoples Party (MPP).
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Black Caucus Protects Cops, Not the People Most of the Congressional Black Caucus are “opportunists” who have “joined the neoliberals to derail any real attempt at challenging the devastating power of the police,” said Clarence Tay
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Economy:
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Soaring Gold and Silver Prices Reflect Intensifying Investor Concerns for Inflation Risk and Systemic Instabilities
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Rising Gold Prices Suggest Central Banks and Treasury Departments Are Not Doing Their Jobs; Any Related Market-Dampening Interventions Should Prove to Be Short-Lived
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Annual Growth in June 2020 Money Supply Measures Set Record Highs; Consider That June Money Supply M1 Year-to-Year Growth Hit 37%
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June 2020 Financial-Weighted U.S. Dollar Just Turned Negative Year-to-Year
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July 30th Second-Quarter 2020 Gross Domestic Product Initial Reporting Should Show Unprecedented, Annualized Real Contraction of About 50% (-50%)
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Consensus Forecasts Are Centering on a More-Modest Record Plunge of 35% (-35%), Yet, Bottom Bouncing Headlines for Some April and May Numbers Were Not Reliable
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June and July Reopening Instabilities Threaten Hopes for a Meaningful, Nascent Upturn; Protracted Recovery Likely Will Be L-Shaped, Not V-Shaped
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First Full Second-Quarter 2020 Headline Reporting: Household Survey Employed Plunged at an Annualized Quarterly Pace of 49.1% (-49.1%), as Corrected by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for Continuing Misclassification Errors
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May 2020 U.S. Trade Deficit Deepened Sharply, Signaling Second-Quarter GDP Trouble Both Collapsing May Exports and Imports Signaled a Collapsing Global Economy
House Hearing Today Examines Wall Street’s Brand of Capitalism Versus the Health of the U.S. Economy The House Financial Services’ Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets will convene a hearing at noon today that is titled: “Promoting Economic Recovery: Examining Capital Markets and Worker Protections in the COVID-19 Era.” You can watch the hearing live at this link. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
Serbia: protests and state violence expose the crisis of the Vučić regime Weeks after declaring a landslide electoral victory, the regime of Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vučić and his Serbian Progressive Party is facing growing dissatisfaction and civil unrest. There are many legitimate reasons for the unrest. Most people are angry over the criminal mismanagement of the COVID-19 crisis, and deeply concerned about the looming economic disaster. Up to 300,000 workers are expected to lose their jobs this autumn. However, the protests erupting all over the country are mostly amorphous, relatively small in size and without clear demands. This makes them easy pickings for right wing provocateurs and an unprecedented campaign of police brutality and state repression. By Marko Svetozarević
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
“No Return to the ‘Old Normal’ for Foreseeable Future,” Warns WHO Chief “If the basics aren’t followed, there is only one way this pandemic is going to go. It’s going to get worse and worse and worse.” By Andrea Germanos
Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, Under the Banner Headline: “There Is No Peace”
Torture is as American as Apple Pie: US History Is Defined by the Use of TortureTorture has been used by the United States since its inception to control people and suppress uprisings. By Aysha Choudary and Salima Hamirani
