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Infamous Drug Cartels
Another Example of Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Was Aware of the Danger of Cornovavirus Threat Over 5 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!
The future of Humanity Is Now At stake! Since World War I, ‘the war to end all wars’, there have been perpetual wars for perpetual peace, this Laura Gray’s cartoon from the front page of The Militant August 18, 1945, Under the Banner Headline: “There Is No Peace”
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!
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!
Quotes of the Day:
More than $11.9 billion of repairs or maintenance on roads, buildings, utility systems, and other structures and facilities across the National Park System has been postponed for more than a year due to budget constraints. Collectively they are known as “deferred maintenance.” Addressing deferred maintenance is a critical focus area of our core mission to preserve parks and provide a world-class visitor experience. In addition to funding appropriated to the National Park Service for construction and deferred maintenance projects, the Great American Outdoors Act, passed on August 4, 2020, established a National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund that will help address deferred maintenance needs in the National Park System. With adequate funding and proper investment, deferred maintenance can be reduced to a manageable level. — What is Deferred Maintenamce?
While naming PG&E at fault for not properly maintaining or inspecting their power lines was expected, the news of how frequent close inspections were made was surprising to many. “I just learned this today, so I’m still processing it, but it makes me angry” said Teri O’Rourke, who had lost two close friends in the Paradise wildfire. “There was a line, that they knew had issues that hadn’t been inspected carefully since before 9/11. And they did nothing. I don’t know if it was to save money, or if it was standard practice or something, but no reason can justify that. People I know are dead simply because a company we pay didn’t want to send a few guys out to check something that was wrong. For years. I’m sorry, I don’t know what else to say.” The CPUC investigators themselves noted a similar reaction but within the bounds of the reports objectivity. “The identified shortcomings in PG&E’s inspection and maintenance of the incident tower were not isolated, but rather indicative of an overall pattern of inadequate inspection and maintenance of PG&E’s transmission facilities,” said CPUC investigators. With PG&E currently in bankruptcy in San Francisco, the findings by CPUC only adds to the mountains of evidence against PG&E acting in a responsible way. — PG&E’s Lack of Power Line Maintenance Found to be Cause of the Paradise Wildfire (PG&E’s Deferred Maintenance — R.S.)
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, who profit from war and the war budget, voted 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! Every ‘Tax. Reform’ From President Kennedy has Been an incrase in taxes from the Poor,the Woking Class, and the Middle Class, to the Rich! —The United States takes from the poor and gives to the Rich. Tax the Rich! — They Can Afford To Pay!
Another handful of heroes, like WikiLeaks founder and journalist/publisher Julian Assange, are similarly persecuted when they exercise their right to publish what the whistleblowers have revealed about U.S. war crimes around the world. In addition to the 1.4 million top secret U.S. government spies, another 4.25 million “Intelligence Community” employees have some type of special clearance but don’t necessarily work in secure and undisclosed locations. That’s a total approaching some six million people in the U.S. spy business, not to mention the tiny proportion in the business of directly ordering and planning assassinations, kidnappings, death squad wars, covert and overt wars, drone wars, regime change military coups, cyber wars, media disinformation wars, industrial spying wars and all the rest. Jim Lafferty’s October 5 Los Angeles Progressive article entitled, “With Military Actions in 159 Countries, America is Now the World’s Police Force,” adds yet another dimension to the U.S. national and international war crimes horrors. (See socialistaction.org). Lafferty is the recently retired 30+ year Los Angeles director of the National Lawyers Guild, a present board member of the LA area ACLU and a founder/steering committee member of Assangedefense.org. — Julian Assange and the CIA-USA Daily Wars Against Humanity
Dometic Private Armed Forces Raise the Specter of Fascism: “Business Improvement Districts” Quietly Privatize he Policing of Public Space Woven into the municipal fabric of the U.S. is a little-known mechanism of privatization and corporate control: the Business Improvement District (BID). In hundreds of urban centers, invisible borders designate zones wherein local governments have granted control of the commons to private interests. Within the bounds of a BID, its corporate operators are empowered to contract for-profit companies to clean streets, make aesthetic and tourism upgrades and, more insidiously, enforce “security” in collaboration with police. In practice, this often results in the exclusion and harassment of populations that businesses find “undesirable” — anyone that is perceived as a threat to consumer activity and profit, and especially the unhoused.
Deferred Maintenance: With Regards to Aging Infrastructure, We Can Pay Now Or Pay Later The list of America’s infrastructure shortcomings is long, and deferred maintenance is near the top. A 2019 report from the non-profit, non-partisan Volcker Alliance warned that repairs to the nation’s aging infrastructure (roads, highways, and other critical public assets) could cost more than $1 trillion, or about 5 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. eflecting the poor condition of U.S. infrastructure, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave it an overall grade of C- in 2021.Congress is considering a $1.2 trillion, eight-year bipartisan physical infrastructure package that includes about $579 billion in new spending on roads, broadband, and other public works projects.
Drug Lords of Capitalism: ‘Therapeutics Nationalism’? Poor at Risk of Being Left Behind as Rich Buy Up New Covid Drug “The U.S. government should challenge Merck to license molnupiravir more broadly. Public health experts are voicing increased concern that poor countries—already denied adequate access to coronavirus vaccines—could be left behind once again as rich nationsrush to buy up supplies of Merck’s promising new Covid-19 drug before it has even won regulatory approval.
Biden’s FEMA Ignores Puerto Rico’s Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance to Build a Clean Energy GridFEMA plans to spend $9.4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure instead The Biden Administration has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help Puerto Rico transition to a greener and more resilient energy future, but it’s on the verge of making a multibillion-dollar mi$take.
The US Has Become a Tax Haven for the Vile and the Vicious The U.S. contribution to the global concentration of wealth, the Pandora Papers help us understand, has become frighteningly enormous. We’ve become accustomed, over recent decades, to see Americans front and center whenever a blockbuster new report spotlights the world’s super rich. Last month, for instance, Bloomberg reporters tracked down the world’s 25 richest families. Ten of the 25 happened to come from the United States. No other nation had more than four.
Environment: 
Chevron Rules!: Big Oil Frackers Are Exempt From Governor Newsom’s Request to Voluntariy Reduce Water, But Big Oil Companies are the Almond, Walnut, and Pistachio Growers/Farmers in the Big Valley are exempt,! : Newsom Asks Urban Users to Voluntarily Reduce Water Use As Nut Growers Suck Up Water Sejal Choksi-Chugh, Executive Director of the San Francisco Baykeeper, believes that “it’s nuts” to ask California’s urban water users to voluntarily reduce water use while allowing almond, walnut, and pistachio growers to use large amounts of water – enough to flood all of Rhode Island and Delaware to waist-deep – during a record drought
From: Big Energy Frackers Keep on Fracking With Their Own Private Water Supplies During Drought. From pages 133-135 of the book, Two Californias: the truth about the split-state movement by Michael DiLeo and Eleanor Smith:
Cheap Water + New Land = Big Money
More than 227,000 acres in this part of the valley, known as the Westlands Water District, are owned by Chevron USA Inc., Tejon Ranch Company, Getty Oil Company, Shell Oil Company, McCarthy Joint Venture A, Blackwell Land Company, Tenneco West Inc., and Southern Pacific Land Company,
‘The big corporations grow permanent, high-cash crops: almonds, pistachios, olives, and grapes, not exactly dinner table fare,” stated Thomas Schroeter, a Bakersfield attorney and former member of the defunct Kern County Planning Commission.
Loopholes Are Exempting Oil and Gas Industry’s Radioactive Waste From Regulation Pittsburgh — In the wake of growing concerns over the oil and gas industry’s handling of radioactive waste, activists and policymakers are working to change laws that exempt the industry from safety regulations. For decades, national environmental organizations have tried unsuccessfully to close federal loopholes that exempt the oil and gas industry’s radioactive waste — which has been linked to elevated cancer rates — from regulation. Industry and government reports indicate that these exemptions persist because the cost of treating the waste as hazardous would be tremendous.
$11 Million Per Minute in Fossil Subsidies ‘Add Fuel to the Fire’, IMF Study Shows The coal, oil, and gas industries received US$5.9 trillion in worldwide subsidies in 2020—a mind-bending $11.2 million per minute, every minute of every hour of every day in the year—the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revealed in an analysis released this week. An independent analyst said the report shows the subsidies “adding fuel to the fire” of the climate emergency, The Guardian reports, with not a single country pricing fossil energy in a way that reflects its full supply and environmental costs. “Explicit subsidies that cut fuel prices accounted for 8% of the total and tax breaks another 6%,” the paper writes, citing the IMF. “The biggest factors were failing to make polluters pay for the deaths and poor health caused by air pollution (42%) and for the heat waves and other impacts of global heating (29%)”
Civil Rights/ Black Liberation:
If the Will is There! — There is a way!”: What Else Biden Can — and Should — Do to Fight the Texas Abortion Ban The judicial back-and-forth on the abortion law shows why the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Texas won’t be enough. . . . If the president meant what he said in vowing to “launch a whole-of-government effort” to protect the right to abortion in Texas, then we must demand that he live up to his word swiftly. S.B. 8 will not be the last of such schemes. The Food and Drug Administration should immediately permit the sale of medical abortion pills in pharmacies and through the mail, rather than in person through a medical professional. The pills should be made available on demand without prescription. There are other untapped federal resources that should be deployed in this crucial fight, if the government is truly committed to protecting what is left of the right to an abortion. “The U.S. government could stake out places and supply personnel for abortion provision, governed by federal laws, that are not subject to state restrictions or, for that matter, to lawsuits under laws like SB8,” wrote Mary Ziegler and Rachel Rebouché in the Washington Post. “Federal employees would be immune from lawsuits commenced by private citizens.”
Malik Miah: United States: R Kelly’s Conviction Sends Message That Black Girls and Women Matter R&B singer R Kelly was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking, on September 27, following a decades-long scheme to recruit women and underage girls for sex. Once one of the biggest names in popular music, he could face decades in prison. It is a victory for Black girls and women. Historically, they have not been listened to in rape and sexual violence cases. Rape culture is prevalent in society, including in the African American community. Because of systemic racism, many in the Black community fear raising the issue of rape by Black men, as this could lead to false charges by whites, especially white women.
Labor:
Economy:
Michael Roberts Blog: A Hobbled Recovery Along Entrenched Fault Lines! Oh dear. The IMF has lowered its forecasts for world economic growth this year and next.
“The global recovery continues amid increasing uncertainty, more complex policy trade-offs. The global recovery continues but momentum has weakened, hobbled by the pandemic. Fuelled by the highly transmissible Delta variant, the recorded global COVID-19 death toll has risen close to 5 million and health risks abound, holding back a full return to normalcy. Pandemic outbreaks in critical links of global supply chains have resulted in longer than expected supply disruptions, feeding inflation in many countries. Overall, risks to economic prospects have increased and policy trade-offs have. 
Shadow Government Statistics Daily Update (October 10th to 12th)
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How Can the U.S. Economy Be Minimally Recovered, With September 2021 Payroll Employment Still 3.3% (-3.3%) Shy of Recovering Its Pre-Pandemic/ Pre-Recession Peak, Otherwise Weaker Than at the Troughs of the Last Seven Recessions Back to 1957, the 2007 Great Recession Excepted?
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Initial Estimate of the August 2021 Real Merchandise Trade Deficit Showed a Continuing Trend for the Current Record Trade Deficit to Hold for a Third Consecutive Quarter
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Paralleling Weakening Quarterly Contractions in Housing Starts and New-Home Sales, August 2021 Real Construction Spending Continued in Early Trend for a Third-Quarter 2021 Quarterly Decline, Following a Second-Quarter 2021 Drop • Second-Quarter 2021 GDP Inflation Held at a 40-Year High, Amidst Mixed Revisions to “Final” Estimates of the GDP, GDI and GNP
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Net of Surging Inflation and Extremely Volatile Commercial Aircraft Orders, August 2021 Real New Orders for Durable Goods Dropped 1.6% (-1.6%) Month-to-Month
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Continuing Downtrend in August Real Retail Sales Was Consistent With the Contracting Retail Trade Employment and Flat Leisure and Hospitality Jobs into August
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S. Real Median Household Income Fell by 2.9% (-2.9%) in 2020, With the Official Poverty Rate Jumping by 1.0% to 11.4%
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August 2021 Manufacturing and Mining Held Down Respectively by 2.2% (-2.2%) and 8.0% (-8.0%) from Recovering August 2018 Peak Activity in Industrial Production
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August CPI Inflation Notched Lower to 5.3%, from Its 5.4% 13-Year Peak in June and July, with the August ShadowStats Alternate Backing off a Notch from Its 41-Year Peak of 13.4% in July
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August PPI-FD Monthly Annual Inflation Set Its Fifth Consecutive Series High
World:
Health, 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 pass universal healthcare for themselves, but 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!
