Daily News Digest June 11, 2024
Images of the Day:
Thousands Continue to March in Support of Gaza in Multiple Cities Worldwide
Pakistan
Moraco
Greece
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”
The Rise of Capitalism was Under the Banner of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity! Now There is Less Liberty, More Inequality, and Less Fraternity of Humanity! Every Day, From Global Warming to Global War There is a New Example of Capitalism in Imperialist Decay!
Capitalism as a Failed System: World Capitalism 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: Austerity, Scapegoat Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal’ Immigrants for Unemployment, and 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! Globaly, With the Current Gaza War, The Right of Assembly is Under Attack! Due to Years of Austerity, Cuts to Public Health Care, And An Anti-Science and Profiteering President, The United States Still Leads the World In Coronavirus Cases and Deaths in the World!
The Majority of the World, Despite the Media Monopoly’s Lies, are Opposed to the Palestinian Genocide and Global Warming — The 1% Minority Funds Them! At, this Time in History, Capitalism is Exposing the Fact That it is Opposed to Majority Rule/Democracy!
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:
As Capitalist Governments are Becoming More Authoritarian: Professor Chomsky: We are in a unique moment of human history when there is a CONFLUENCE OF CRISIS ALL AT ONCE. All of them severe: the threat of destroying the environment, destroying biodiversity, pandemic, serious threat of nuclear war. BANGLADESH, which has been a victim for hundreds of years, happens to be kind of at the epicenter of an array of crises that it can’t solve on its own.
Podcasts/Videos of the Day:
Thousands In Bosnia, Montenegro Rally In Support Of Palestinians 
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 Republicrats 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. Tax the Rich! — They Can Afford ford To Pay! Both Parties Support U.S. Capitalism’s Wars! (The Only War the Democrats Opposed was the Civil War!)
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 D. Brandeis Quotes
Thousands of Anti-Israel Protesters Descend Upon White House An estimated 30,000 pro-Palestinian protesters started arriving outside the Executive Mansion around noon.
Capitalist ‘Lesser Evil’ Politics (The the ‘Guarding’ the Sheep Form the Wolf)
Patrick Lawrence: Scott Ritter Silenced by Liberal Authoritarians It is not difficult to be astonished these days, given how many things going on around us warrant astonishment. To pull something out of a hat at random, the Democratic apparatus has openly, brazenly politicized the judicial system—weaponized it, if you prefer—in its determination to destroy Donald Trump and now has the temerity to warn in the gravest terms that a second Trump term would mean… the politicization of American justice. … Here is Ritter recounting this incident in an interview with RT International: I was boarding the flight. Three officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said, “Orders of the State Department.” They had no further information for me. They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport.
To Abolish War, We Must Transcend Exploitative Interests Winning isn’t really the point anymore, at least from the point of view of the moneyed interests of war; what matters is waging it—that is to say, what matters is keeping the profits flowing.
All Branches of Government First and Foremost, Protect Profits — Not the Environment!: The Supreme Court’s Clean Water Act Decision Threatens the Nation’s Rivers It’s impossible to underscore the importance of healthy rivers: 60 percent of the drinking water supply in the United States comes from rivers. And while your tap water may be clean, unfortunately, tens of millions of Americans don’t have the same assurance, and this problem is only escalating, particularly with so-called “forever chemicals” like PFAS contaminating the national water supply. In 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a significant blow to the Clean Water Act with its ruling in Sackett v. EPA. The decision stripped away federal protections for millions of miles of streams and tens of millions of acres of wetlands nationwide. The decision drastically reversed safeguards that have upheld the integrity of rivers, water bodies, and public health for half a century by shifting the responsibility of safeguarding these vital water sources to individual states, where enforcement of protections varies greatly—if they exist at all.
Forest Service Must Follow the Law Like Everyone Else A recent column by the Anaconda Sportsmen Club disparaged the Alliance for the Wild Rockies for challenging the illegal Pintler Face logging project in southwest Montana in federal court. What they failed to disclose to you is that federal courts have already established as illegal the same type of actions the Forest Service has taken for Pintler Face. So, the Forest Service knew its approval of the logging project would likely be held to be illegal, but it authorized the project anyways.
U.S. Funded Palestinian Genocide:
UN: Israel-caused Famine to Encompass All Gaza by July, Killing as many as 19,800 a Month A new joint report from the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program warns that even as North Gaza is now facing famine, “it is highly likely that the rest of the Gaza Strip would be facing a risk of famine through July 2024, in a worst-case scenario.”
Everything About Israel Is Fake It’s a completely synthetic nation created without any regard for the organic sociopolitical movements of the land and its people, slapped rootless atop an ancient pre-existing civilization with deep roots. Everything about Israel is fake. It’s a completely synthetic nation created without any regard for the organic sociopolitical movements of the land and its people, slapped rootless atop an ancient pre-existing civilization with deep roots. That’s why it cannot exist without being artificially propped up by nonstop propaganda, lobbying, online influence operations, and mass military violence.
‘Historic, But So, So Late’: Israel Added to UN’s Child-Killing ‘List of Shame’ “It took a genocide that killed 15,000 children and maimed and scarred thousands more but the U.N. has finally and rightly added Israel to its List of Shame,” said one Palestinian observer.
Day After UN School Attack, IDF Brags About Striking Another Refugee Camp School Israeli forces carried out the strike on the Al-Shati UN school just after killing at least 40 in an attack on Nuseirat. Israel bombed yet another UN school in Gaza on Friday, just a day after Israeli forces massacred dozens of Palestinians in a UN school-turned-shelter in an attack that has been widely condemned as a likely war crime
Environment:
Fund Climate! — Not Genocide! One of Many Ways to Begin to End Global Warming: Expose ‘Greenwashing’ — Tax the Polluters 100%! After World War II Rosa Luxenburg Coined the Slogan: ‘S0cialism or Barbaism’! Now the Slogan Should Be: ‘Ecosocialism or Ecocide’!
Capitalism’s Wars for Oil: When Bodies Start Stacking Up From Climate Change-Related Disasters, Will These Monsters be Held to Account?
Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Weekly Average CO2 at Mauna Loa Week beginning on June 02, 2024: 427.02 ppm, Weekly value from 1 year ago: 424.47 ppm, Weekly value from 10 years ago: 401.85 ppm, Last updated: June 09, 2024.
Plastic Pollution Duringn Sex!: Microplastics Found in Every Human Semen Sample Tested in Study Chinese scientists say further research on potential harm to reproduction from contamination is ‘imperative’ Microplastic pollution has been found in all human semen samples tested in a study, and researchers say further research on the potential harm to reproduction is “imperative”. Sperm counts in men have been falling for decades and 40% of low counts remain unexplained, although chemical pollution has been implicated by many studies.
‘Summer of Heat’ to Take Aim at Wall Street for Funding Climate Chaos “We know that they’re enabling the fossil fuel industry, and we know that to end the fossil fuel era, banks like Citibank must stop funding fossil fuels,” an organizer said. Climate activists will engage in nonviolent direct action at Citigroup’s headquarters in New York next week to protest the bank’s large-scale financing of fossilfuel companies, organizers told Common Dreams on Friday. Five climate action organizations have banded together to create the “Summer of Heat,” a monthslong activism program targeted at Citigroup and other Wall Street companies for their role in the climate crisis.
Napa Valley has Lush Vineyards and Wineries – and a Pollution Problem Reports and emails show a landfill at the top of a hill is leaching dangerous toxins into the Napa River … What the more than 3 million annual tourists don’t see, however, is that California’s wine country has a brewing problem – one that has spurred multiple ongoing government investigations and created deep divisions. Some residents and business owners fear it poses a risk to the region’s reputation and environment. At the heart of the fear is the decades-old Clover Flat Landfill (CFL), perched on the northern edge of the valley atop the edge of a rugged mountain range. Two streams run adjacent to the landfill as tributaries to the Napa River. A growing body of evidence, including regulatory inspection reports and emails between regulators and CFL owners, suggests the landfill and a related garbage-collection business have routinely polluted those local waterways that drain into the Napa River with an assortment of dangerous toxins.
Wildfire Smoke Prematurely Killed Over 50,000 Californians In a Decade – Study Exposure to toxic particles also led to $432bn in health expenses between 2008 and 2018 More than 50,000 people have died prematurely in California over a decade due to exposure to toxic particles in wildfire smoke, according to a new study. Wildfires create smoke containing PM2.5, tiny particles roughly one-thirtieth of a human hair that can embed themselves deep in the lungs and enter the bloodstream. The particles have been linked to numerous health conditions and premature death. Previous research has found that the wildfire smoke is exposing millions of people in the US to the harmful pollutant.
Radioactive Tritium from Monticello Reactor Leaked to the Mississippi River The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has formally apologized for multiple false assurances from its staff that a major leak of radioactive tritium from Xcel Energy’s Monticello nuclear reactor had not reached the Mississippi River — the drinking water source for 20 million people, including, 3.7 million in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area. In opening remarks to an NRC-sponsored public hearing at the Monticello (Minn.) Community Center May 15, 2024, senior NRC Branch 1 Environmental Project Manager Stephen Koenick, made jaws drop around the room when he quashed and corrected the NRC staff’s oft-repeated claims that 820,000 gallons of radioactive tritium-contaminated cooling water, that leaked from the 53-year-old reactor, had not been detected in the Mississippi. Koenick said, “I would like to take a moment to address and clarify some miscommunication regarding the presence of detectable tritium in the Mississippi River. I know we … reported there [was] no indication [that the] tritium leak made it to the Mississippi. However, … in our Draft Environmental Impact Statement we … conclude there were some very low concentrations of tritium in the Mississippi River.” In this extremely rare and incriminating confession, Koenick went on: “So we apologize for this miscommunication.” (Transcribed from cellphone recording of the hearing.)
The US Fire Season is Heating Up. Are We in for Severe Blazes and Burns? Extreme temperatures and flammable grass fed by a wet winter are among this year’s biggest risks, experts say This week’s broiling heatwave in the US south-west is just the start of what experts warn will be a brutally hot summer, setting the stage for an active wildfire season – even in places that don’t burn often.
Wildfire Smoke Prematurely Killed Over 50,000 Californians in a Decade – Study Exposure to toxic particles also led to $432bn in health expenses between 2008 and 2018 Wildfire smoke prematurely killed over 50,000 Californians in a More than 50,000 people have died prematurely in California over a decade due to exposure to toxic particles in wildfire smoke, according to a new study. Wildfires create smoke containing PM2.5, tiny particles roughly one-thirtieth of a human hair that can embed themselves deep in the lungs and enter the bloodstream. The particles have been linked to numerous health conditions and premature death. Previous research has found that the wildfire smoke is exposing millions of people in the US to the harmful pollutant.
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
Labor:
The War at the Point of Production: The ‘Killing Fields’ of the United States: Lawsuit Claims Company Knowingly and Illegally Dumped Cancer-Causing Waste “Several hundred victims have come forward with cancers and other conditions caused by exposure,” said an attorney. AMississippi auto parts company illegally dumped toxic waste for more than 50 years, poisoning workers and sparking a cluster of cancer cases, according to a lawsuit filed this week by a group of former employees. The lawsuit, filed June 4 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, names EnPro Industries and multiple other corporate entities as defendants in the case, alleging they participated in illegally discharging trichloroethylene (TCE) into the environment, contaminating soil, air and groundwater, and knowingly exposing workers to the cancer-causing chemical.
Economy:
Nvidia Hit a $3 Trillion Market Cap Last Week; Dark Pools Are Making Over 300,000 Trades in the Stock Weekly The much-hyped artificial intelligence chipmaker, Nvidia (ticker NVDA), reached a market cap of $3 trillion on Thursday, beating out Apple as the second most valuable company, just behind Microsoft. This morning, Nvidia’s 10-for-1 stock split will become effective, reducing its share price to, ideally, entice more retail investors. Year-to-date, Nvidia’s stock price is up 144 percent through the closing bell on Friday. 
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 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
For Wildlife, The Next Pandemic Is Already Here Disease from megafarms has killed hundreds of millions of wild birds and mammals I am a conservation biologist who studies emerging infectious diseases. When people ask me what I think the next pandemic will be I often say that we are in the midst of one – it’s just afflicting a great many species more than ours. I am referring to the highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza H5N1 (HPAI H5N1), otherwise known as bird flu, which has killed millions of birds and unknown numbers of mammals, particularly during the past three years.