Daily News Digest November 9, 2022
Images of the Day:
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!
Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capilalism Has Been Aware of the Comming Catastrophe of Global Warming Over 5 Decades 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 very future of Humanity Is Now At stake!
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!
Quotes of the Day:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Government applied temporary humanitarian waivers to countries victimized by its unilateral coercive measures and other sanctions. Why were Cubans excluded from such temporary humanitarian relief? Worse still, while Covid claimed millions of lives around the world and filled my country with pain, the blockade intensified and generated difficulties and delays for the arrival of medical supplies and equipment essential to face it, particularly for the industrialization of Cuban vaccines. Even the acquisition of medical oxygen in third countries was hindered. When the blockade prevented the supply of pulmonary ventilators, Cuba developed its own domestic production with its own prototypes. How could it be explained that a small country like Cuba was able to defeat COVID-19 with its own resources and vaccines? At the worst moment of the pandemic and despite our limited resources, we collaborated by sending 58 medical brigades to 42 countries and territories, which were added to the more than 28 thousand of our health professionals who at that time were providing services in 59 nations. But the blockade affects the national production of antibiotics, analgesics, hypotensive drugs, cancer and heart disease treatments and other essential medicines that were previously available on such a large scale in our hospitals and pharmacies. The World Would Be Better Off Without the Blockade! Speech by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, at the United Nations General Assembly
Videos of the Day:
Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s Sister Speaks Out at U.N. Climate Summit as Pressure Grows on Egypt to Free Him
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!
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” ― Louis Brandeis
Georgia’s Governor Deputized GOP Vigilantes to Challenge 149,000 Voters Black voters in Georgia say the challenges issued by igilantes amount to a racist poll tax and a new Jim Crow. Maj. Gamaliel Turner was more than upset. Assigned by the Pentagon to the Naval base at Port Hueneme, California, Turner had called his hometown registrar in Columbus, Georgia, to find out about his missing absentee ballot. The soldier’s ballot wasn’t missing. They hadn’t sent the ballot because, he was told, “Mr. Turner, you have been challenged.” Challenged? Under a new law — SB 202 — signed by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp last year, self-appointed vigilante vote fraud hunters have, for the first time, the right to challenge an unlimited number of other voters: “There shall not be a limit on the number of persons whose qualifications such elector [voter] may challenge.”
Report: Big Shipping Companies’ Profits Increased 30,000 Percent Amid Inflation House Oversight lawmakers blame inflation partially on “excess corporate price hikes” during the pandemic. that corporate “profiteering” has been a major factor fueling inflation in the past two years, as executives have hid under the guise of inflation to fleece the public — all while bragging about it to their shareholders. The report was released Friday by the Oversight Committee’s Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy. It found that many industries have increased their profits precipitously within the last two years, taking advantage of uncertainty caused by the pandemic and other factors that set the stage for “excessive corporate price hikes,” like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the report reads.
U.S. Review Envisions Using Nuclear Weapons Against Non-Nuclear Attacks On the 2020 campaign trail, Joe Biden said the U.S. should never be the first to use nuclear weapons. “There is no first use doctrine we should be pushing,” he said. But a new administration review has reiterated the long-term policy that the U.S. will launch nuclear weapons in response to non-nuclear attacks. It once again underscores the power of the military-industrial-congressional complex to maintain the status quo, even when it poses civilization-ending dangers.
It doesn’t matter who is President: New Report Sheds Light on Pentagon’s Secret Wars Playbook The analysis suggests that the U.S. war in Somalia was waged with no clear legal basis. THE UNITED STATES has fought more than a dozen “secret wars” over the last two decades, according to a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law. Through a combination of ground combat, airstrikes, and operations by U.S. proxy forces, these conflicts have raged from Africa to the Middle East to Asia, often completely unknown to the American people and with minimal congressional oversight.
Environment: Ecosocialism or Ecocide!:
Officially discovered in the 19th century, Antarctica has not ceased to attract interest and excite the imagination. Probably, among other things, because this continent is unknown to most people. It is the driest, coldest and windiest continent in the world. The average temperature is -20°C during the southern summer, and about -60°C the rest of the year. In Antarctica, if you lose a glove, you lose a hand. Of course, speaking on average for a continent like Antarctica is not necessarily representative of the different climates in each region. The climate is very different between the Antarctic Peninsula, where the record heat was recorded in the summer of 2021 at 18.3°C… and the Vostok station, almost at the top of the dome, with 3.7 km of ice under its foundations, which recorded a nice -89°C in 1983. — Antarctica, The Only Continent (Almost) Spared vy Man
Single Billionaire Produces a Million Times More Emissions Than Average Person: Oxfam “To meet the global target of keeping warming below 1.5°C, humanity must significantly reduce carbon emissions, which will necessitate radical changes in how investors and corporations conduct business and public policy,” said one of the group’s campaigners.
Barbados PM Launches Blistering Attack on Rich Nations at Cop27 Climate Talks Mia Mottley warns of a billion refugees by the middle of the century unless governments act now to tackle crisis Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, has criticised industrialised nations for failing the developing world on the climate crisis, in a blistering attack at the Cop27 UN climate talks. She said the prosperity – and high carbon emissions – of the rich world had been achieved at the expense of the poor in times past, and now the poor were being forced to pay again, as victims of climate breakdown that they did not cause.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing. Global temperatures keep rising. And our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible.” “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.” — COP27: What Are They Saying at the Climate Summit?
President Maduro Proposes to Reduce Capitalist Consumerism The environmental imbalance and crisis created in nature are comparable to the conditions of inequality and injustice that capitalism has created against humanity,” he said. On Tuesday, at the High-Level Segment at the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27), Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro urged countries to change consumption patterns fostered by capitalism. in order to preserve life on the planet.
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Labor:
Economy:
Welcome to Election Day from Hell: Run on a Major Crypto Exchange; Hurricane Forecasted to Hit Third Most Populous State; Billionaires Behaving Badly Increasingly, Americans are telling us that they no longer listen to the news – because they feel it is a threat to their peace of mind and wellbeing. That might be a short-term fix but working diligently each day to make one’s society less dystopian is likely a better long-term plan. Everything crazy and corrupt and Orwellian about life in the United States in this era of corporate and billionaire control feels like it is coming to a head today – for better or worse. Crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, who has sluiced tens of millions of dollars into this year’s elections (hoping to make crypto more dangerous than it already is) is today watching a major run on his crypto exchange, FTX. According to analytics firm, Nansen, in the past 24 hours FTX has witnessed an outflow of $653 million.
Quietly, the Fed Releases Its Financial Stability Report and Lines Up a Scapegoat One minute after the stock market closed on Friday, the Federal Reserve mailed out a link to its newly-released Financial Stability Report to folks who have signed up to get press releases from the Fed. For those of you who have been reading our reports on the Fed for years – its unaccountable money printing and bailouts of Wall Street, the opaque activities of the trading floors owned by the New York Fed, its unchecked conflicts of interest, and its brazen, and as yet unprosecuted, trading scandal – you might suspect that the Fed would have pulled a lot of punches in its “Financial Stability Report.” You would be correct.
World:
Cuba’s Victory at the UN For the thirtieth consecutive year nations of the world have voted overwhelmingly to approve a Cuban resolution calling for an end to the U.S. economic blockade. The most recent vote, on November 3, had 185 nations favoring the resolution, the United States and Israel opposing, and Ukraine and Brazil not voting.Cuba has withstood the blockade for 60 years, a duration equal to one-fourth of the years of U.S. national existence. Cuba has lacked the resources and powerful allies that would have been necessary to force the U.S. government to backtrack. Cuba has relied on ideals, high principles, and supportive consensus, as epitomized by the yearly votes in the General Assembly. These majorities have attested to the blockade’s cruelty, immorality, unfairness, and illegality under international law. An opportunistic and powerful U.S. ruling class does not budge.
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 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
From:Capitalism Can’t End Homelessness!: . . . The problem of homelessness is one that is endemic to the capitalist mode of production. As Friedrich Engels wrote in The Housing Question: “The house owner in his capacity as capitalist has not only the right, but, in view of the competition, to a certain extent also the duty of ruthlessly making as much out of his property in house rent as he possibly can. In such a society the housing shortage is no accident; it is a necessary institution and it can be abolished together with all its effects on health, etc., only if the whole social order from which it springs is fundamentally refashioned.” Another method currently being used by the capitalists to address the problem comes through their use of state power. This is the preferred choice of former President Trump, who recommended at the America First Agenda Summit on July 27 that hundreds of thousands of homeless people be removed to the outer reaches of the city and placed in tents. This is already being done in Denver, which is under Democratic Party control. Denver City Council voted in February to commit another $3.9 million toward “Safe Outdoor Spaces,” a so-called “homeless site” that offers people living homeless on the streets temporary shelter in ice fishing tents on fenced-in sites with portable toilets, power and Wi-Fi. This coming from a city that has had an urban camping ban since 2012. Their solution is to make camping illegal and then force the homeless into designated tent cities. But like the so-called “overflow facilities” for unaccompanied minors at the border, the Democrats like to sanitize the state’s callous attitude to the most vulnerable with euphemisms. Democratic Mayor Michael Hancock agrees with Trump on the solution to the housing crisis, because the two parties fundamentally agree on the need to protect capitalism at any cost. Socialist Revolution has a different solution, one that would guarantee quality housing to everyone. This has been laid out in our program which includes capping rent at 10% of wages and nationalizing vacant housing. However, this plan will never happen under capitalism and homelessness will remain a festering sore on society. A system that requires poverty cannot solve poverty. Engels understood the solution: “As long as the capitalist mode of production continues to exist, it is folly to hope for an isolated solution of the housing question or of any other social question affecting the fate of the workers. The solution lies in the abolition of the capitalist mode of production and the appropriation of all the means of life and labor by the working class itself.”
The Voice of the 1%!: Washington Post Claims Voters Want Cuts in Social Security and Medicare The second paragraph of a Washington Post article on the Republicans’ economic agenda told readers: Some fiscal hawks are pushing dramatic spending reforms and overhauls of entitlement programs including Social Security and Medicare, while others are insisting that simply blocking future Democratic legislation and attempting to repeal some of President Biden’s signature achievements will represent enough of a shift toward fiscal responsibility to appease voters.