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Another Example Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Was Aware of the Danger of Cornovavirus Threat Over 4 Years Ago and Did Nothing!: Under Capitalism — Human Lives Don’t Matter 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 Racism, War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death. The future of Humanity Is Now At stake!
Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, Under the Banner Headline: “There Is No Peace”
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! For Decades, Blacks Have Been Subjected to The Iron Heel! Currently, the US Capitalist Class is Divided Over When — Not If, to Apply It to Everyone!
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!
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!
Images of the Day:
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was an asymptomatic carrier of Salmonella typhi, the organism known to cause typhoid fever. Mallon worked as a cook for eight different families in and around New York city, infecting seven of the families she worked for. There were a number of deaths in these families as typhoid had a 10% mortality rate at the time. George Soper, a sanitary engineer enlisted by one of the families affected, is credited with discovering Mallon as the source of this outbreak and he followed her around, collecting samples of her urine and fecal matter for testing. — Typhoid Trump a Public Health Threat
The Federal government and each individual state have laws that serve to protect the general well-being of their citizens. In many instances this includes language allowing for observed quarantine, compulsory treatment and even detention. Trump is a public health threat and should be under mandatory quarantine until he is no longer a risk to the general public. The message from the White House should be congruent with science and encourage mask wearing and social distancing, as the right to free speech does not extend to circumstances that create a public threat. If he cannot adhere to these measures, the very measures that ensure the safety of millions of Americans, there is a little cottage in New York that is currently vacant and ready for its next occupant. — Typhoid Trump a Public Health Threat
Videos of the Day:
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!
‘Trump Is KILLING Americans’: As US Cases Top 9 Million, Stanford Study Ties President’s Rallies to Covid-19 Spread ‘Trump Is KILLING Americans’: As US Cases Top 9 Million, Stanford Study Ties President’s Rallies to Covid-19 Spread The analysis links 18 rallies to over 30,000 cases and 700 deaths—but doesn’t include events in October, when states saw infections surge. By Jessica Corbett
More Than 8 Million Have Been Forced Into Poverty Since COVID Relief Ended in US The massive $2 trillion CARES Act — which sent households one-time payments and boosted unemployment checks with an additional $600 a week through July — helped keep millions afloat, but more than 8 million people have been forced into poverty since the aid ended. “The relief was temporary, and much of it has now expired, so now we’re seeing poverty rise again,” says Megan Curran, a researcher at the Center on Poverty and Social Policy at Columbia University. “We know that families can be protected again, but it does require action at the federal level.” By Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh
Thought Police: Faux Outrage, Intimidation, and the Threat to Free Speech There’s a long history of faux outrage in reactionary U.S. media regarding the alleged threat of “leftist propaganda” in higher education. It’s common to hear laments on the right against “cultural Marxists” in the academy who indoctrinate America’s youth and poison their minds. And far-right media have developed a tried-and-true formula for how to stoke mass outrage within their base, centering on active misrepresentations of faculty speech and stoking support for authoritarian efforts to suppress dissent. By Anthony Dimaggio
Environment:
Radioactive Waste Could Be Killing Residents in Missouri Community In Missouri, federal scientists are finally linking today’s cancers to the nation’s nuclear warfare legacy. n Bridgeton, on the northern edge of St. Louis County, Missouri, a fire burns underground in a vast landfill, creeping closer and closer to a pile of radioactive waste from the World War II era that was dumped there back in the 1970s. This “subsurface smoldering event,” as these odorous, high-temperature chemical reactions are called, at the West Lake Landfill has burned continuously for almost a decade now, keeping nearby residents all too aware of the Superfund site in their backyard. For years, many of these residents have filed lawsuits against Cotter Corporation and Mallinckrodt, the companies responsible for dumping the radioactive nuclear waste in the unlined landfill (a former limestone quarry) as well as in open piles on a field near what’s now the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. These residents say that this waste has contaminated their homes. Many have sparred in open forums with officials from the Environmental Protection Agency. Others have met personally with EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler. All want answers to an unending list of questions. As Dawn Chapman, co-founder of the grassroots advocacy group Just Moms STL and a mother of three who lives 2 miles from landfill, told me, “The battles at this site never end.” By Austin Price
Federal Court Ruling in Rhode Island Suit Targeting Polluters Called ‘More Evidence of the Momentum Behind Climate Accountability Cases’ The appeals court decision dealt a blow to the fossil fuel giants named as defendants in the Ocean State’s historic climate liability lawsuit. In a major win for advocates of making fossil fuel giants pay for devastating climate impacts of their products, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Rhode Island’s historic lawsuit against oil and gas companies should proceed in state court, where it was originally filed in July 2018. By Jessica Corbett
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Labor:
Health Workers Sue Trump Labor Secretary, OSHA Over ‘Unconscionable Delay’ of Protections Against Infectious Disease “Doctors, nurses, respiratory techs, and other healthcare professionals have been treating Covid-19 patients for the better part of a year without basic workplace protections.” —Randi Weingarten, AFTThe Trump administration has refused to resume work on new federal regulations—tabled in 2017—despite the coronavirus pandemic. After months of healthcare professionals battling—as well as contracting and dying from—Covid-19, a coalition of labor unions on Thursday sued the U.S. Labor Secretary and the federal workplace safety agency over the “unconscionable delay” in issuing strong protections from infectious diseases for frontline workers. By Jessica Corbett
Economy:
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Third-Quarter 2020 GDP
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Economic Rebound Continues to Falter
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Advance-Estimate, Third-Quarter 2020 GDP Growth Exploded at an Unprecedented, Annualized Real Pace of 33.08%
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The Third-Quarter 2020 GDP Annual Year-to-Year Decline Also Narrowed to 1.78% (-1.78%), from 9.03% (-9.03%) in Second-Quarter 2020
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Third-Quarter GDP Activity Held Well Shy of Recovery, Even Though It Rebounded Sharply from a Record Annualized 31.38% (-31.38%) Second-Quarter Plunge
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The Level of Real, Inflation-Adjusted Third-Quarter GDP Was the Lowest Since First-Quarter 2018
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Unlikely Annualized Fourth-Quarter 2020 Real GDP Growth of 15.2% Still Would Be Needed for a Full Economic Recovery This Year
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Instead, Key Monthly Economic Series Have Been Locking Fourth-Quarter Activity Into a Faltering, L-Shaped Recovery
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Quarterly Real Gross Domestic Product 1q2000 to “Advance” Estimate 3q2020, Billions of 2012 Dollars Seasonally-Adjusted [ShadowStats, BEA]
Graph 5: ShadowStats Corrected-Inflation Real GDP (2000 to “Advance” Estimate Third-Quarter 2020) Graph 6: ShadowStats Corrected-Inflation Real GDP, Yr-to-Yr (2000 to “Advance” Third-Quarter 2020) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 86 88 90 92 94 96 98 100 102 104 106 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Index Level, 1q2000 = 100 ShadowStats Corrected-Inflation Real Gross Domestic Product Nominal GDP Deflated by Implicit Price Deflator Corrected for Roughly Two-Percentage Point Understatement of Annual Inflation 2000 to “Advance” 3q2020, Seasonally-Adjusted [ShadowStats, BEA
Despite Its Five Felony Counts, the Federal Reserve Has Entrusted $2 Trillion in Bonds to JPMorgan Chase Imagine that your neighbor across the street had been criminally charged with five felony counts for financial crimes in the past six years and admitted to committing each and every crime to the U.S. Department of Justice. Would you put one-third of all of your money in a safe, give that neighbor the combination, and ask him to hold the safe in his house for you? You would probably be suited up for a straight jacket if you did something like that. That’s effectively what the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, has done when it comes to JPMorgan Chase. As of this past Wednesday, the Fed has a $7 trillion balance sheet and $2 trillion of its agency Mortgage-Backed Securities are sitting at JPMorgan Chase, the bank that the Department of Justice has charged with five criminal felony counts since 2014 – all of which it admitted to. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
How Venezuela Has Held Back COVID-19 in Spite of the U.S. Sanctions Stranglehold on Its Economy Not for one minute during this pandemic has the United States stopped trying to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. A seam of cruelty runs through U.S. policy, which by its sanctions regime prevents Venezuela from open trade of its oil to import key medical equipment to help break the chain of the virus and heal those infected by it. Billions of dollars of Venezuelan government money have been seized by banks in the North Atlantic world, money which President Maduro says is needed to fight COVID-19; even though Maduro’s government says that the money held by the Bank of England can be turned over to the United Nations to buy goods for Venezuela, the government of the UK refuses to part with the funds. Despite this, Venezuela’s people have been able to hold down the rate of infection, and its medical workers have been able to heal large numbers of those who have been infected with COVID-19. Former Venezuelan Ambassador to Mexico María Lourdes Urbaneja Durant was the second health minister in the government of former President Hugo Chávez. She is trained in the fields of social medicine and public health, training which made her a natural leader in the Bolivarian Revolution’s attempt to shift the foundation of medical care from the private to the public sector. In mid-October, I spoke to Ambassador Urbaneja, who left her embassy post in Mexico last year to return to Venezuela, where she has been weathering the storm of this pandemic. By Vijay Prashad
CITGO Medical Aid Funds Used for Terrorist Plans in Venezuela The Simon Bolivar Foundation was used as a front for sending money to right-wing politicians. The candidate for the National Assembly Jorge Rodriguez denounced that the financial resources of the Citgo Petroleum Corporation (CITGO), which the Simon Bolivar Foundation (SBF) supposedly managed for medical aid, were used to finance terrorist plans in Venezuela.
Like Old-Time Piracy: The US Seizes Venezuelan Oil and Sells It sanctions wheerby the U.S. seeks to destabilize the Bolivarian revolution.The U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s administration sold over 1.1 million barrels of refined petroleum that were onboard the Luna vessel, which was seized by the United States from Iran on August 14, 2020
Britain: Corbyn Suspension – This Means War! By suspending Jeremy Corbyn, the right wing has thrown down the gauntlet. A full on witch-hunt is underway – to purge the left and make Labour a reliable party for big business. The left must mobilise and boldly fight back. The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn is a declaration of war. In reality, the Labour right wing has been ruthlessly fighting a war against the left for years now. In this time, the Blairites and bureaucrats have made several declarations of war. Their aim is nothing short of a total liquidation of the party’s left wing. We must not allow this. We must fight back immediately, mobilizing the hundreds of thousands of left-wing Labour Party members who are shocked and appalled at this brazen attack.
Editorial: Jeremy Corbyn’s Suspension is a Declaration of War “Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension from the Labour Party is a declaration of war by the leadership against all socialists. It throws down the gauntlet to the entire left to rally in defence of the leader who brought socialism back as a major force in British politics.” The ostensible reason for Corbyn’s suspension rests on a sleight of hand by which anyone who dares to query contentious allegations is deemed guilty of the claims under dispute. So for making the widely shared observation that “the scale of the problem [of anti-semitism in the Labour Party] was dramatically overstated for political reasons,” Corbyn is labelled “part of the problem.”
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
Oregon Universal Pre-K Ballot Measure Could Be Watershed Moment in US Education Measure 26-214 would create a tuition-free universal preschool system for 3- and 4-year-olds in Multnomah County. Thanks to the efforts of a committed coalition of local organizers, unions and educators, residents of Oregon’s Multnomah County will soon vote on Measure 26-214, which, if passed, will create a tuition-free, year-round, full-day universal preschool system. Its schools will be open to all 3- and 4-year-olds in the county, which comprises Portland and surrounding areas. The program will be funded through a progressive income tax on high earners, and will pay preschool teachers and assistants a living wage, significantly above the local minimum.The passage of this measure would symbolize truly exemplary progress for early childhood education in the United States, as circumscribed access and systemic underfunding have ensured that, for U.S. preschools, success has been scattered and failures widespread. By Tyler Walicek
Experts Warn Trump HHS ‘Endangering People’ by Covering Up Key Covid-19 Hospitalization Data “We’re now in the third wave, and I think our only way out is really open, transparent, and actionable information.” As surging coronavirus hospitalizations across the U.S. push already-strained medical facilities to the brink of full capacity, internal documents obtained by NPR show that the Trump administration is withholding from the public critical hospital data that experts say would be extremely useful in helping communities prepare for, track, and overcome Covid-19 outbreaks.NPR reported Friday that the documents—which are based on hospital data collected and analyzed daily by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—”highlight trends in hospitalizations and pinpoint cities nearing full hospital capacity and facilities under stress. They paint a granular picture of the strain on hospitals across the country that could help local citizens decide when to take extra precautions against Covid-19.” By Jake Johnson
Quotes 0f the Day:
Shadow Government Staisticsts Flash Economic Commentary, Issue No. 1450