Daily News Digest August 3, 2016

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Daily News Digest August 3, 2016

Images of the Day:

The crowd that Jeremy Corbyn an ‘unelectable man’, who is unable to lead and motivate people to follow him, is able to attract in the pissing rain on a Monday night in Liverpool.ImageoftheDay The Perfect Dictatorship ImageoftheDay2The Invasion of IraqImageoftheDat  Quotes of the Day:

 In the final analysis, an election poses the question of which class will rule. The Capitalist Class or the Majority/the Working Class. They are the only social classes that can run society by their position to the means of production. Petty-Bourgeoisie Parties like the Green Party have no social basis to be independent of Capitalist Rule. A vote for them is for a continuation of Capitalism. I only give my support to a candidate of a workers’ party, independent of the capitalist class and their parlor tricks, like the (Labor Party in England) or to a Black candidate independent of the capitalist class and their parlor tricks. Halfway measures will only lead to defeat and demoralization. Just look at the results in Greece. — Roland Sheppard

It is to be expected that many will fall in battle and many be taken prisoner by the enemy before the final goal is reached. The ruling class today is the capitalist class. They maintain themselves in power by force and violence. They make the laws according to their own class interests. The revolutionary movement is a menace to their system. Therefore, it is an outlaw movement. Everyone who takes an active part in the struggle for the liberation of the working class takes a chance of going to prison. When the workers get on top they will reverse the order of things. The workers will make the laws then according to their class interests. They will outlaw their class enemies and put them in jail. That is what they are doing in Russia today. It is a very simple proposition. Absolutely natural, absolutely necessary. — James P. Cannon, The Political Prisoners

A true revolution of values will lay hand on the world order and say of war, “This way of settling differences is not just.” This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation’s homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into the veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice, and love. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. — Martin Luther King, Beyond Vietnam — A Time to Break Silence

 Video of the Day:

 The FDA is there to serve the drug industry, not the public says Dr David Graham of the FDA

U.S.

American Elections: Weapons of Mass Distraction Now that the agitprop babble of the conventions is behind us, we might ask, what is all this showman/woman/ship all about? Does the election of the president even matter? On some level perhaps, but the main utility of presidential elections is simply that it’s a weapon of mass distraction – creating a fiction that presidents actually rule and that voters actually determine the country’s destiny. by Gerald SussmanAmericanElectionsThere Are No Democratic or Green Saviors: Get in the Streets! Regardless of the outcome of November’s U.S. elections, what will count most is what happens in the streets. As Frederick Douglass put it plainly a century and a half ago, “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will.” by Pete DolackPeteDolack Lame Duck Obama Shows His ‘Compassion’ for the Starving!:  President Obama signs $8.7 billion food stamp cut into law On Friday, President Obama added his signature to legislation that will cut $8.7 billion in food stamp benefits over the next 10 years, causing 850,000 households to lose an average of $90 per month. The signing of the legislation known as the 2014 Farm Bill occurred at a public event in East Lansing, Mich. By Ned ResnikoffFoodStampsDocuments Reveal FBI Monitored Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein’s Activism The human rights campaigner was subject to surveillance due to her organizing in solidarity with Palestinians. By Sarah LazareHedyEpstein' Environment:

Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters:

Black Liberation/Civil Rights:

The Shadow Statistics Real Unemployment Rate for June 2016 is 22.9%. So we know that the statistics in the below article are a gross underestimation. I would estimate that total Black unemployment Would be Double or 46%. If you count those who have never entered the workforce the figures are even higher. The state of Black American is even worse given the new slavery of the Prison Industrial Complex. Roland Sheppard

Black Labor Force Participation Rate Under Obama Hits Rock Bottom – Lowest Level Ever Recorded: By Jim HoftPrisonIndustrialComplex Labor:

Strengthening workers’ rights should be Labour’s priority — The economy isn’t working for millions of our people. Real wages have fallen, insecurity and low-paid jobs are spreading, investment is stagnating, corporate scandals are multiplying and Britain is heading for another downturn. Economic failure is a central reason why people are no longer prepared to accept politics as usual. It’s one of the reasons I was elected Labour leader in a landslide 10 months ago – and why there can be no going back to a broken economic model or the politics of the past. Even Theresa May understands she has to pay lip service to change in the workplace and the boardroom. By Jeremy CorbynLaboursPrioityCorbyn pledges to scrap Blair union laws in favour of collective bargaining Jeremy Corbyn would require companies with more than 250 employees to accept new industrial laws under which they would have to recognise a specific union with which to bargain over pay. Aides to the Labour leader said a Corbyn government would “repeal” 1999 union legislation that was passed by a Labour government to introduce a new French-style framework of union rights CorbynSacapBlair

Economy:

WallStreetOnParadeEconomy: Author Michael Lewis: Rigged Markets Show Signs of a Desperate Slumlord: In the Afterword that appears in the paperback edition of “Flash Boys,” author Michael Lewis writes that following the publication of the hardcover edition of the book in 2014 and his appearance on 60 Minutes (in which he called the U.S. stock market rigged and mapped out the case against high frequency trading) “it has sounded like a desperate bid by a slumlord to gussy the place up to distract inspectors. In any case, the slumlords seem to realize that doing nothing is no longer an option: Too many people were too upset.” By Pam Martens and Russ Martens

Flash Boys, book review: Exposing the Wall Street shuffle According to Michael Lewis, the financial markets are rigged, with banks and big brokers operating ‘dark pools’ that can be exploited by high-frequency traders. This book exposes the scam, and describes how one group is trying to change the game. By Wendy M GrossmanFlashBoysWorld:

From the Genocide of Native Americans to Haiti, Spreading Disease Has Always Been a Weapon of Imperial Conquest: Beatrice Lindstrom: Human Rights Lawyer Fighting for Accountability for Cholera in Haiti Beatrice Lindstrom . . .appeared before the court as a lawyer with the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) and Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI).   She argued that the United Nations (UN) must be held accountable for its personnel introducing and spreading cholera in Haiti which has killed more than 9,000 and infected another 800,000 to date.   While there is little question that UN personnel brought and spread cholera to Haiti, the UN continues to argue it is immune from suit. The court has not yet decided whether the victims are going to get their day in court or not. by Bill QuigleyBillQuigleyIsrael Style ‘Democracy’: Palestinian Teenager Arrested For Criticising Israel On Facebook A Palestinian teenage girl has been arrested for criticising Israel on her personal Facebook page.  Qamar Manasra, a 16-year-old girl from Reineh, was apprehended by Israeli forces on July 19, who arrested her on charges of “incitement” for her posts on the social media giant.IsraelDemocracyHealth, Science, Education, and Welfare:

Inflation Hidden in Plain SightHealthCare