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On Veterans Day Rember The Tiny Victims of Desert Storm 
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”
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 (Fascism)! 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!
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:
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle:Muckraking the Meat-Packing Industry: To expose the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.
Pandering to racist fears and white racial anxiety, Youngkin also stated he would ban from schools what the right wing is inaccurately describing as “critical race theory,” a term which actually refers to a body of legal scholarship, but which right-wingers like Youngkin are using as a catch-all to describe any discussion of systemic racism in the U.S. And Youngkin made the boldface and dangerous assertion that educators are destroying America. Days later, Youngkin received 50.6 percent of the vote, defeating Democrat Terry McAuliffe. Youngkin’s attack on Virginia teachers’ ability to discuss structural racism are just one example of the GOP’s ongoing attack on public and higher education — an attack that is closely aligned to a fascist politics that despises anyone who holds power accountable and sees as an enemy anyone who fosters liberating forms of social change or attempts to resist the right wing’s politics of falsehoods and erasure. — GOP’s Banning of Books and Attack on Teachers Expose the Party’s Rising Fascism
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury represents the temperature that books burn. In this alternate future world, firefighters are meant to start fires when a book is found. Guy Montag is the main character and the book follows his journey from being one of the firefighters to gaining his own opinions. People in that world realized the amount of power and knowledge that books hold. Knowledge leads to opinions and differing opinions lead to conflict. So they decided it was easier to get rid of it all to keep society in an orderly, one-minded line.
This book has many subtle meanings and motifs. For example, Montag’s wife, Mildred, is shown as very technology-dependent and seen as half-alive and empty. She could be a representation of what people are like without knowledge. Dystopian literature is meant to show us what could happen to the world with the absence of something or with a different form of leadership. Fahrenheit 451 is a land without knowledge and blind acceptance. This is a book often read in English classes for a good reason. Nearly everyone in the book has the same mindset that information is dangerous. The ones who don’t believe it is marked as crazy or unstable. While this book was published in 1953 during the Cold War, its message is still relevant today. It’s a book that shows the dangers of over-censorship and neglecting reality in favor of technology making it an amazing book to read, even outside the classroom. — Timeless Novel, Fahrenheit 451, Still Stands Relevant Today
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!
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Some 30,000 post 9/11service members and veterans have been desperate enough to take their own lives. A real day for veterans would provide mental and physical support services that would seek to reduce or eliminate these self-inflicted casualties.
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There are 40,000 homeless veteransin this country. A real day for veterans would address their physical and emotional needs and help them access permanent housing.
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One of every 10 post 9/11 veteranshas been diagnosed with a substance abuse problem. A real day for veterans would help them get treatment without stigmatization or shame.
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Fifteen percent of post 9/11 veterans suffer from PTSD. A real day for veterans would provide them with the mental health services they need to cope with the soul-damaging trauma they experienced.
Depleted Uranium Blamed For Cancer Clusters Among Iraq War Vets A discovery by American Free Press that nearly half of the recently returned soldiers in one unit from Iraq have “malignant growths” is “critical evidence,” according to experts, that depleted uranium weapons are responsible for the huge number of disabled Gulf War vets – and damage to their DNA. A growing number of U.S. military personnel who are serving, or have served, in the Persian Gulf, Iraq , and Afghanistan have become sick and disabled from a variety of symptoms commonly known as Gulf War Syndrome. Depleted uranium (DU) weapons have been blamed for causing many of the symptoms. “Gulf War vets are coming down with these symptoms at twice the rate of vets from previous conflicts,” said Barbara A. Goodno from the Dept. of Defense’s Deployment Health Support Directorate. A recent discovery by American Free Press that nearly half the soldiers in one returned unit have malignant growths has provided the scientific community with “critical evidence,” experts say, to help understand exactly how depleted uranium affects humans – and their DNA.
Nitrogen Emissions Can Overwhelm the Climate Benefits Of Storing Carbon In Agricultural Soil Nitrogen emissions can overwhelm the climate benefits of storing carbon in agricultural soil Two years ago, in a series of articles on Disrupting the nitrogen cycle, I described how fossil fuels and industrial agriculture have created a major rift in the Earth System’s metabolism, by releasing more than twice as much reactive nitrogen into the environment as nature alone has ever produced. “In particular, close to 200 million metric tons of synthetic fertilizers are used every year — and most of the reactive nitrogen they contain escapes into the broader environment, polluting air and water and disrupting ecosystems. … It is painfully clear that any serious effort to prevent ecological catastrophes in this century must include reining in the overproduction of reactive nitrogen.”
More than 25,000 Tons of COVID-19 Plastic Waste Polluting Ocean: Study As a global group of hundreds of scientists urged negotiators at COP26 to acknowledge the latest climate science by committing to “immediate, strong, rapid, sustained, and large-scale actions,” the head of the United Nations expressed pessimism Thursday that the talks will end with an agreement limiting warming to the key threshold of 1.5°C.
The Big Lie Known as ‘Net Zero’ Will Lead Us to Climate Disaster How a perfectly decent phrase is used and abused at COP26. Last week, at the UN climate negotiations, the International Energy Agency announced that pledges made thus far could hold warming to 1.8 or 1.9°C. Yet an investigation published on Sunday by The Washington Post found that countries’ pledges are based on faulty data. And a report released on Tuesday by Climate Action Tracker, a research group that monitors action on greenhouse gas emissions reductions, found that the targets will, at best, keep temperatures to 2.7°C (5°F). That same day, the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) published its annual Emissions Gap report, which matched the Climate Action Tracker’s findings: current pledges will lead to 2.7°C.
Civil Rights/ Black Liberation:
Labor:
The Big Lie: A ‘Labor Shortage’! The Reality is that a living-wage shortage, a hazard pay shortage, a childcare shortage, a paid sick leave shortage, and a health care shortage jobs are in short supply. The truth is workers cannot afford to go back to work in todays’ world!
Economy:
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Broadly, October Consumer Inflation Just Jumped to a Four-Decade High, Back to the Days of Runaway Inflation in the Early 1980s
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October 2021 Annual PPI Final-Demand Goods Inflation, and Annual and Monthly Construction Inflation Jumped to Historic Highs (Final-Demand Series Created in 2009)
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Despite Highly Questionable Headline Payroll-Employment Gains, October 2021 Payrolls Continued to Hold Well Shy of Economic Recovery
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Worst-Ever 12-Month, Quarterly and Monthly Real Merchandise Trade Deficits (Third-Quarter and September 2021) Continued Pummeling U.S. Economic Activity, Despite FOMC Happy Hype
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November 2021 FOMC Announced It Would Taper Its Regular $120 Billion in Monthly Asset Purchases by $15 Billion in November and by Another $15 Billion in December 2021; Such Would Continue, Assuming the Rather Doubtful Presumption of No Further Economic Downturn, or That No “… Risks Emerge That Could Impede the Attainment of the [FOMC] Committee’s Goals”
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University of Michigan’s October Consumer Sentiment Continued to Hold Near Its New Pandemic Trough
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“Advance” Third-Quarter 2021 Annualized Real GDP Growth of 2.02% Was Entirely in Increased Inventories, Where Final Sales Declined at an Annualized Pace of 0.07% (-0.07%), the First Decline Since the Great-Recession, Outside of the Initial Pandemic-Collapsed Quarters
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Separately, Third-Quarter ShadowsStats Corrected GDP Contracted by 0.05% (-0.05%)
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Headline Year-to-Year GDP Inflation Hit a 38-Plus Year High of 4.53% • September 2021 Money Supply Growth Continued Surging at Record High Levels
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Preliminary-October 2021 Monetary Base Growth Softened Minimally
Shadow Governmenr Statistics 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.
The Fed’s Board of Governors Is Blocking the Release of Former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan’s Trading Records Former Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan made “over $1 million” trades in and out of S&P 500 futures throughout his tenure at the Dallas Fed, which began in September 2015 and ended with his resignation on September 27 of this year over his scandalous trading. Trading in S&P 500 futures is a market-timing device used by hedge funds and day traders. No individual with market-moving information at the Federal Reserve should ever use such a device.
World:
Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as Existential Threats to the US Why do Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.? The promise of socialism and their resistance to US class warfare. One of the extreme ironies of the latest attack by the settler-colonial regime of the United States against the national democratic project of Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua, the second poorest nation in the Americas, universal healthcare and education are guaranteed to the population as a human right, while in the U.S. those kinds of basic human rights are distant dreams. The day after the so-called progressive block of legislators in the U.S. House of Representatives surrendered to President Joe Biden and the right-wing corporate wing of the party on the Build Back Better legislation that offered some minor and temporary relief for workers and the poor, many of those same “progressives” voted for the RENACER Act. The RENACER Act is a vicious piece of legislation meant to undermine the ability of the Nicaragua government to protect the human rights of its people and to punish the people for having the temerity to support their government and their anti-colonial project.
Cuba Faced With Reactionary Provocation on 15 November: How to Defend the Revolution? The demonstration called by the so-called Archipelago Platform on 15 November is clearly a reactionary provocation that serves the interests of imperialism. Cuba faces an extremely serious economic situation. The organisers of the 15 November march (permission for which has been denied by the authorities) intend to take advantage of it to launch a process that they hope will lead to the overthrow of the Cuban Revolution, the restoration of capitalism and the destruction of the planned economy. Faced with this situation, we clearly and unequivocally place ourselves at the defence of the Cuban Revolution.
The world is Starving: But There is Plenty of Food to Go Around At present, 800 million people are not eating sufficient amount of food, and 45 million are on the brink of starvation. This is a striking indictment of a society where the richest earned $4tn in the first year of a global pandemic. Over the past few months, the stark reality is that 23 million people in Afghanistan have faced acute food insecurity, and 9 million are at “emergency levels”, according to the IPC (Integrated Food Security Phase Classification). On the tiny island nation of Madagascar alone, 300,000 people face famine of the highest classification. There are 16 million people in Yemen facing acute food insecurity. The list goes on.
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!
The United States the Victims of the ‘War on Terrorism’: A Real Day for Veterans
Environment: 
