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The US Capitalist Class is Divided Over When — Not If, to Apply: The Iron Heel!
Extreme Fires and Floods — We Are at the Global Waming ‘Tipping Point’ If It’s Not Here, Its Near!
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 Deaths 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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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. Rax the Rich! — They Can Afford To Pay!
Reality Bursts the Trumpworld Bubble In a moment that feels biblical, the implacable virus has come to the president’s door. ate leads the willing, Seneca said, while the unwilling get dragged. For his entire life, Donald Trump has stayed one step ahead of disaster, plying his gift for holding reality at bay. He conjured his own threadbare reality, about success, about virility, about imbroglios with women, even about the height of Trump Tower. As president, he has created a bubble within his bubble, keeping out science and anything that made him look bad. He has played a dangerous game of alchemizing wishes to facts, pretending that he was a strong leader, pretending that the virus will magically disappear and that it “affects virtually nobody,’’ pretending that we don’t have to wear masks, pretending that dicey remedies could work, pretending that the vaccine is right around the corner. By Maureen Dowd
COVID-19 Lays Bare the Reality of ‘Small Government’ Conservatism With 200,000 dead, Americans are concluding that a more Rooseveltian Amazingly, America has become a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: “Where’s the government?” These are not born-again Bernie Sanders activists, but everyday people of all political stripes (including previously apolitical multitudes) who are now clamoring for big government intervention in their lives. Nothing like a coronavirus pandemic to bring home the need that all of us have — both as individuals and as a society — for an adequately funded, fully functioning, competent government capable of serving all. Instead, in our moment of critical national need, Trump’s government was a rickety medicine show run by a small-minded flimflammer peddling laissez-fairyland snake oil. By Jim Hightower
Americans are Becoming Climate Migrants Before Our Eyes While the US closes the doors on climate migrants from abroad, it must acknowledge that the problem has already come home In November 2018, I traveled with a caravan of thousands of Central American migrants as they marched across Mexico towards the US border. While some were seeking refuge in the US from gang violence or political persecution, many others were looking to escape something much more subtle: climate change. The Trump administration decried these climate migrants as “invaders” and attempted to build a wall to keep them out. But today, as much of the western US burns, and the country looks on in horror as San Francisco suffocates in an orange cloud of ash, we see that the US way of life is also gravely threatened by climate change. More than 8,100 wildfires have burned over 3.9m acres in California this year. The fires have killed 30 people, destroyed more than 7,500 structures, and displaced thousands in the state. Meanwhile in Oregon, half a million people were put under an evacuation order.By Alex Domash 
‘Know Who Didn’t Get a F***ing Break? The Children’: Outrage Over Melania Trump’s Recorded Comments on Imprisoned Kids The first lady accused parents and children of lying about the violence they faced in their home countries and claimed children were “taken care of nicely” in ICE detention centers. “‘Oh, what about the children, that they were separated?’ Give me a fucking break.” —First Lady Melania Trump By Julia Conley
Trump’s Positive Covid Test Was a Surprise That Many Saw Coming The president has been cavalier throughout the coronavirus pandemic. Now, a month before the election, this changes everything It is likely to go down as the biggest “October surprise” in the history of US presidential elections. Yet anyone who was paying attention could have seen it coming. Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus after claiming “it will disappear”, telling the journalist Bob Woodward he was downplaying it deliberately, failing to develop a national testing strategy, refusing to wear a face mask for months, floating the idea of injecting patients with bleach, insisting to one of his many crowded campaign rallies that “it affects virtually nobody” and, at Tuesday’s debate, mocking his rival, Joe Biden: “He could be speaking 200 feet away and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.” By David Smith
Why Far-Right Paramilitaries are Not Just “Vigilantes” Trump’s call for the Proud Boys and other armed far-right paramilitaries to “stand by” has finally shed light on the real threat of physical intimidation around the election, to add to the threats of cyberattacks and abuses of the legal system. His call to arms is also a reminder why calling far-right domestic terrorists merely “vigilantes” minimizes and even trivializes the threat, for several reasons. A vigilante can be defined as “a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate),” or more broadly “a self-appointed doer of justice.” This very definition does not cover the threat or use of violence which does not uphold “justice” against “crime,” but actually targets people based on how they were born or what they believe. By Zoltan Grossman
Will the 2020 Election Be Decided in the Streets? As November approaches, beware the white mobs, militias, and posses that are desperate to establish their own brand of justice. The white mobs didn’t care whom they killed as long as the victims were Black. They murdered people in public with guns and rocks. They set fire to houses and slaughtered families trying to escape the flames. In East St. Louis in July 1917, white vigilantes lynched Blacks with impunity. By John Feffer
Progressive Groups Are Mobilizing to De-Escalate Far Right Violence at the Polls Trump’s summoning of poll watchers isn’t unique to this year, but grassroots coalitions aren’t taking any chances. In preparation for potential voter intimidation this year, the Women’s March, Working Families Party, Movement for Black Lives Electoral Justice Project, United We Dream and other organizations are mobilizing “election defenders” to de-escalate tense situations as well as provide voters with personal protective equipment and water on Election Day. “So far, more than 6,000 people across the country have signed up to be election defenders,” Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell told Truthout. “Trump is operating from a place of weakness, not strength, and the single best way to avoid a contested election is for voters to repudiate him at the polls b an overwhelming margin. And if Trump still tries to steal the election, you can expect us to raise our voices like never before.” By Ella Fassler
The Trump Clan Robber Baron: If Kushner Companies Default on Near-Record Loan, Taxpayers May Be on the Hook After the news broke in May of last year that government-sponsored lending agency Freddie Mac had agreed to back $786 million in loans to the Kushner Companies, political opponents asked whether the family real estate firm formerly led by the president’s son-in-law and top adviser, Jared Kushner, had received special treatment. “We are especially concerned about this transaction because of Kushner Companies’ history of seeking to engage in deals that raise conflicts of interest issues with Mr. Kushner,” Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Tom Carper, D-Del., wrote to Freddie Mac’s CEO in June 2019. By Heather Vogell
As People Go Homeless and Hungry — Bailouts For Rich Polluters!: A $100 Billion Lifeline While Most Americans Are Being Left Behind’: Report Details Massive Fed Bailout of Fossil Fuel Industry Oil and gas companies have issued nearly $100 billion in bonds since the Fed launched its corporate rescue program in March, according to a new analysis, a no-strings-attached bailout of the fossil fuel industry pushed by the Trump administration. “Big Oil is exploiting Covid-19 to go on an unprecedented borrowing binge, and the Trump administration is to blame.”Oil and gas companies have issued nearly $100 billion in bonds since the Fed launched its corporate rescue program in March, according to a new analysis, a no-strings-attached bailout of the fossil fuel industry pushed by the Trump administration. By Kenny Stancil
Environment:
First-Ever Analysis Reveals How America’s Top 100 Law Firms Are ‘Accelerating the Climate Crisis’ “Law firms write the contracts for fossil fuel projects, lobby to weaken environmental regulations, and help fossil fuel companies evade accountability in court.” The top 100 legal firms in the United States “are accelerating the climate crisis” through their litigation, transactions, and lobbying on behalf of polluters, according to a first-ever report of its kind released Thursday by a newly launched law student organization. By Jessica Corbett
Civil Rights/Black Liberation!
The Major Historical Role of the Police 
Cornavirus Exposes Systemic Racism: COVID-19 Death Rate For Black Americans Twice That For Whites, New Report Says Black Americans are becoming infected with the coronavirus at a rate three times that of whites and they are twice as likely to die from COVID-19, according to a new report from the National Urban League, based partly on data from Johns Hopkins University. A key focus of Thursday’s report is the impact of the pandemic and how the disease has followed the contours of the larger society in falling especially hard on Blacks, Latinos and Indigenous people. State of Black America Unmasked paints a “bleak picture” of COVID-19 and people of color, the league’s CEO, Marc Morial, said. The pandemic “exposed the fault lines in America’s social and economic institutions,” the authors of the report said. By Scott Neuman
Letter from LA: To Rehabilitate Prisoners, Rehabilitate Jails When newly elected Sheriff Jim McDonnell appointed me to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Inmate Welfare Commission in 2015, I had no idea of what I was getting into. To be honest, I’d never heard of the commission, so I went to my computer to check it out. I was astonished to learn that it had $25 million to spend on inmates’ welfare annually ($35 million today). McDonnell knew of my research on the LAPD and of my interest in education that he hoped I would bring to the Inmate Welfare Commission. The Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is the largest in the United States serving the most populous county of more than 10 million people, covering more than 4,000 square miles. The department employs 18,000 men and women with a budget of more than $3 billion a year. It also has the nation’s largest jail system, usually housing about 17,000 inmates at any one time. (In April, about 5,000 inmates who were jailed only because they could not post bail were released due to COVID-19.) Sheriff’s deputies arrest more than 300,000 suspects each year and close to a third of them are jailed. Thirty-five percent of them are judged to be mentally ill. The custody division that oversees the jails is a gigantic bureaucracy with more than 5,500 employees to run its seven overcrowded jails. By Wellford “Buzz” Wilms
Labor:
The Diminishing American Economy Since June 2009 Americans have lived in the false reality of a recovering economy. Various fake news and manipulated statistics have been used to create this false impression. However, indicators that really count have not supported the false picture and were ignored. For example, it is normal in a recovering or expanding economy for the labor force participation rate to rise as people enter the workforce to take advantage of the job opportunities. During the 11 years of the long recovery, from June 2009 through September 2020, the labor force participation rate consistently fell from 65.7 to 61.4 percent. —Paul Craig Roberts, The Diminishing American Economy (Updated)
Economy:
Shadow Government Statistic 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.September 2020 Shadow Unemployment Rate is 26.9%
Shadow Government Statistic Alternate Inflation Charts The CPI chart on the home page reflects our estimate of inflation for today as if it were calculated the same way it was in 1990. The CPI on the Alternate Data Series tab here reflects the CPI as if it were calculated using the methodologies in place in 1980. In general terms, methodological shifts in government reporting have depressed reported inflation, moving the concept of the CPI away from being a measure of the cost of living needed to maintain a constant standard of living.
World:
Education, Health, Science, 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 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
Congress and the Taxpayers: A Double Standard on Health Care Reform? Millions of Americans may be anxious about the cost and long-term security of their job-related health benefits. And over 35 million Americans worry because they have no health insurance coverage at all. But not members of Congress, their staffs, and other federal employees. They enjoy special health care privileges that are denied to the rest of Americans. Members of Congress and other federal jobholders can choose from among dozens of alternative health plans each year, irrespective of their families’ health condition. And when federal workers move to different jobs within the federal sector, they are able to keep the coverage of their chosen plan without any interruption of benefits. They can even keep their chosen plan when they retire. Few other Americans enjoy such health care security. By Robert Moffit
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Total Recovered: 4,736,621
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Active Cases: 2,545,390
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Serious Critical: 14,19
Illinois: Supreme Court Accepts Appeal in Major School Funding Case A well-educated citizenry is essential to democracy. The Education Law Center reports good news for the schools and students of Illinois: On September 30, the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in Cahokia Unit School District No. 187 v. Pritzker, a case challenging inadequate and inequitable school funding that could potentially alter the landscape of school funding jurisprudence in the state. The plaintiffs in the Cahokia lawsuit are twenty-two, low-wealth school districts across the state. They filed their lawsuit in 2018, charging that the State of Illinois has persistently underfunded their schools, depriving their students of their right to a high quality education under the Education Clause of the Illinois constitution By Diane Ravitch
Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, Under the Banner Headline: “There Is No Peace”
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