Daily News Digest May 30, 2022
Humanity Will Not be Covid Free, Until the Vaccines, Like the Salk Polio Vaccine, are Free For the Whole World!
Images of the Day:
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself. — Rachael Caron
Another Example Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Ws 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!
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”, is Still True for Today’s World!
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!
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!
Videos of the Day:
Cops Arrested Him for Filming in Public, But Things Took Bizarre Turn When the Case Went to Court
Quotes 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 th poor and gives to the Rich. Taxthe Rich! — They Can Afford to Pay!
Police Didn’t “Engage” Uvalde Shooter — The suspect was in the classroom for about an hour as police gathered outside while worried parents begged officers to enter the building and stop the gunman. Escalon claimed police during this time were evacuating other parts of the school and at some point tried to negotiate with the suspect. Eventually, a Border Patrol tactical team arrived and breached the classroom, killing the suspect in a shootout, according to Escalon. It’s unclear why it took so long for law enforcement to stop the gunman. Data shows that most “active shooter” attacks in the U.S. end within five minutes, according to FBI data, but the Uvalde attack lasted 20 times as long. CNN reported that there were about 100 federal agents and local police officers on the scene.
Ralph Nader: Corporate Criminal Law Heading for Extinction? What are Congress and the White House saying and doing about this growing corporate crime wave? Saying little and doing almost nothing. People laugh when they hear politicians solemnly declare that “no one is above the law,” extol “the rule of law” and “equal justice under the law.”Critics Call Biden’s $10,000 Student Debt Forgiveness Plan “Woefully Inadequate” The Biden administration will cancel up to $10,000 in student loan debt per borrower, according to sources with knowledge of the White House’s as-yet unannounced plans. While any amount of student debt forgiveness would be beneficial to a certain degree, experts have noted that the $10,000 amount will do very little to address the magnitude of the crisis. According to sources who spoke with The Washington Post, the forgiveness plan would erase debt amounts up to $10,000 for every borrower in the country that meets a certain set of criteria. Borrowers who earn incomes higher than $150,000 (or $300,000 for married couples filing their taxes jointly) would not be eligible for the student loan forgiveness, for example.
FRED: Federal Government; Consumer Credit, Student Loans; Asset, Level 
Environment —Ecosocialism or Ecocied!:
Six Decades on From Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, Birds Facing ‘Inexorable Decline’ Birds may face more threats than any other animal group because they live in — or migrate through — every habitat on Earth.
Addressing Crisis ‘Existentially Imperiling’ Its People, Vanuatu Declares Climate Emergency “We are in danger now, not just in the future,” said Prime Minister Bob Loughman.
Parents Demand Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty ‘For the Sake of the Children’ “We cannot remain silent as the fossil fuel industry and world leaders rob our children of a livable future,” parents from 32 nations wrote in an open letter. Ahead of next week’s 50th annual United Nations Stockholm environmental conference in Sweden, a global coalition of parents, grandparents, and caregivers on Friday joined thousands of worldwide advocates calling on countries to back a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to “give children a liveable planet.”
DIRTY OIL!: Alberta Oil Operations Leak Billions of Litres of Toxic Waste Per Year, Study Finds Forty years of largely unregulated growth have left 1.4 trillion litres of toxic tar sands/oil sands tailings sloshing around in “ponds” on the shores of the Athabasca River, devastating ecosystems and First Nations communities with neither plan nor budget for reclamation, says a new report from Environmental Defence. Forty years of largely unregulated growth have left 1.4 trillion litres of toxic tar sands/oil sands tailings sloshing around in “ponds” on the shores of the Athabasca River, devastating ecosystems and First Nations communities with neither plan nor budget for reclamation, says a new report from Environmental Defence. Using satellite imagery to map the growth of the tailings ponds from 1975 to 2020, the report also draws on the expertise of two Dene people: Jean L’Hommecourt, grandmother and board member of Keepers of the Water, and traditional land use specialist Mike Mercredi. Environmental Defence writes that the tailings themselves are the toxic byproduct that remains when bitumen is separated from its substrate of clay, sand, and silt using huge volumes of water and chemicals. The waste is then dumped into tailings ponds, on the theory that the solids will eventually settle to the bottom where they can be reclaimed and recycled. Unfortunately, not all the solids easily settle—Environmental Defence estimates the process can take up to 150 years. And “this extremely slow settlement process is a problem because industry has not shown they can safely store tailings for that long without causing environmental harm.
Civil Rights/Black Liberation:
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley East New York Community Land Trust Reports on NYPD Use of Vacant Land Boris Santos is Treasurer of the East New York Community Land Trust Board of Directors, and Debra Ayck is the Board’s Secretary. The Land Trust held…
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley John Parker’s Fact-finding Trip to Russia and Ukraine Black John Parker is a member of the Socialist Unity party and a senatorial candidate on the Peace and Freedom party ticket in California. He just returned
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley Greenville, North Carolina Organizer Explains Significance of African Liberation Day Mapinduzi is a Greenville, North Carolina community organization dedicated to advancing political education. Mapinduzi is planning African Liberation…
Economy:
Stagflation and Struggle: Capitalism’s New Era The world economy is wracked with turbulence, buffeted by a perfect storm of war, pandemic, and protectionism. A toxic combination of inflation and recession looms for capitalism. This is a finished recipe for revolutionary explosions everywhere. Share prices have been falling for weeks, as fear grips markets in response to war in Ukraine, rampant inflation, lockdowns in China, and the threat of a new slump. The FTSE All-World index is now on its longest losing streak since the middle of 2008 – on a par with when the subprime mortgage crisis led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Such erratic swings on the world’s stock exchanges are a reflection of the pessimism that haunts the ruling class. According to Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor: “We are not very far away from having something of a repeat of 2008, or even worse.” “Markets are falling not just because of higher interest rates,” asserted Luca Paolini, chief strategist at Pictet Asset he added. “The reality is a big chunk of the global economy is basically contracting.”Management. “The risk of a recession [in major economies] is significant,”
Stable Coin and Cryptocurrency Investors Are Not the Only Ones in Tears: Ten Crypto Mining Stocks Have Fallen by 50 to 80 Percent Year-to-Date In October 2008 a group or individual using the name Satoshi Nakamoto released a paper outlining a new system for digital cash called Bitcoin. To this day, no one knows who Satoshi Nakomoto really is. For all we know, he/it/they could have been a strawman for the fossil fuels industry. Why do we say that? Because the major beneficiary of crypto has been the fossil fuel industry which has seen a growing demand for its dirty energy from crypto mining companies while the big losers have been the environment, local communities and average citizens around the world hoping to breathe clean air and save the planet for their children and grandchildren.
World:
Education, Health, 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 Heslthcare!
World Leaders Must Commit to End Covid-19 Patents: Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus Decrying the “brutally unequal global rollout of Covid-19 vaccines,” Yunus wrote that “there is still time for world leaders to say never again.” Social entrepreneur and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus on Saturday called for a comprehensive waiver of intellectual property rules for Covid-19 vaccines and treatments, declaring that “freeing” the technology “from profit and patent is the key” to a global health system that puts human lives above corporate profit.