Daily News Digest July 15, 2024
Images of the Day:This Year, the 1%’s Choice: Biden’s Titans Vs. Trump’s Titans
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”
Capitalism’s Gluttony is Demonstrated by It’s Quest for More and More Profits at the Expense of Humanity! 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 6 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 Five Horsemen of the the Apocalypse, Spreading Racism, War, Famine, Pestilence, Death, and Misinformation! 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:
Historically, Socialists have always considered the mass media to be one of the instruments of capitalist rule. Most liberals etc. have countered this argument by describing the press as being the “Fourth Estate,” the defenders of a free press and democracy, and independent of the capitalist class…. Bagdikian does not understand that the consolidation of the “Media Monopoly” is part and parcel of “the largest transfer of the national wealth in American history.”… Basically the consolidation of the mass media industry into a combination of six corporations (Now Five!), has destroyed any claims that the mass media, as the “Fourth Estate,” is defending democracy. These international corporations use the media to act in the interests of its owners and the Capitalist Class as a whole. In this sense, Orwell’s concept of “Big Brother” is becoming reality. Six “Big Brothers” now dispense the news as they see fit. If one “clicks” from news program to news program the same stories are on each network-sometimes at the same time! — Book Review: The Media Monopoly By Roland Sheppard
Vide0s of the Day:
NATO: The Global Military Behemoth
Shelby Green & Selah Goodson Bell on Utility Profiteering, Jane McAlevey on #MeToo & Labor
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/
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I cannot be Silent. ― Martin Luther King Jr.
To this day, we have a government and state apparatus that is designed to “protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” Democracy for white and wealthy men only! — Roland Sheppard, My Forefathers and The 1%’s Forefathers.
The Mainstream Worldview Is A Mass-Produced Artificial Psychosis People who still believe that the news media tell them the truth and that their nation and their world work pretty much the way they were taught in school are just as brainwashed and deluded as any QAnon cultist. People who still believe that the news media tell them the truth and that their nation and their world work pretty much the way they were taught in school are just as brainwashed and deluded as any QAnon cultist. The only difference is that their delusions are much more widely shared, and that the mechanisms used to brainwash them are much more high-budget and sophisticated. The mainstream worldview is really just a mass-produced artificial psychosis.’
Mainstream Media: Media Reform Information Center
A Revolution of Values: The West/Abdullah Administration’s Blueprint for Transformative Change in 100 Days. The West/Abdullah administration’s first 100 days in office would usher in a paradigm shift in American politics, rooted in the tripartite pillars of truth, justice, and love. This comprehensive plan, aptly described as a “revolution of values,” outlines a series of audacious initiatives designed to confront systemic inequalities and nurture a more equitable society. Key initiatives include:
- Immediate action on economic justice and poverty abolition
- Radical education reform and environmental protection measures
- Bold steps on healthcare access and gender equality
- Transformative foreign policy and immigration reform
- Concrete actions on racial justice and democratic reform
- Prioritization of workers’ rights and labor protections
Dr. Cornel West’s Campaign Addresses Unauthorized Digital Interference in Presidential Election The West/Abdullah independent presidential campaign today announced that it has taken significant action against what appears to be deceptive digital practices, potentially linked to organizations within the sphere of influence of established political entities. This statement comes after discovering that the domain URLs www.WestAbdullah.com, www.WestAbdullah2024.com, and www.WestAbdullah.org which were expected to direct to the official Cornel West and Melina Abdullah campaign website, are instead misleadingly redirecting visitors to an opposing candidate’s site, specifically www.donaldjtrump.com.”Our campaign is rooted in truth and the pursuit of justice, and we will firmly oppose any actions that compromise these principles,” stated Dr. Cornel West. “The essence of democracy is at stake when deceptive tactics are employed to mislead voters.” Although there is no direct accusation at this time, it has been confirmed that Clear Choice Action, understood to be a de facto subsidiary of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), has previously engaged in sending misleading text messages to voters in North Carolina. These messages falsely claimed that the pro-West political party, Justice for All, lacks a clear platform or stance on issues. This context raises concerns about the potential sources of the deceitful redirection of the mentioned URLs.
The Biden Administration Has Exposed The Brain Rot Of Western Liberals The brain rot of their worldview has a guy with an actual rotting brain as its official representative. At the NATO summit in Washington on Thursday the US president referred to Ukraine’s President Zelensky as “President Putin”, referred to Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump”, and said he is “following the advice of my commander-in-chief” on important military decisions. This man’s brain clearly does not work. It is done. Finito. No mas. Dementia has sunk in the rear naked choke, and Joe Biden’s neurology is tapping. Americans are watching live proof that their country does not require a president with functioning gray matter in order for decisions to get made and policies to be enacted in the Executive Branch of the US government. The wars and militarism have ticked on uninterrupted, the authoritarian agendas keep getting rolled out, and the same political status quo continues to be advanced. You could not ask for more conclusive proof that for all the fuss that gets made about US presidents and presidential elections, it is nothing more than a figurehead position for an empire that is not actually run by its official elected government.
US Funded Palestinian Genocide:
Nuclear War in Gaza —Bunker Buster Bombs are Depleted Uranium Bombs!: Biden Said He’s Not Sending Israel 2,000-Pound Bombs. He’s Sent 14,000 of Them. “They cannot be used in Gaza … without causing great human tragedy and damage,” Biden said of the bombs he sent Israel. In his much-anticipated press conference on Thursday, President Joe Biden claimed that he isn’t providing Israel with the 2,000-pound bombs that Israeli forces are using to kill Palestinians in Gaza — a statement that is patently untrue. Just since October, Biden has sent over 10,000 of these highly destructive bombs to be used in Israel’s assault — raising questions about whether this was another of Biden’s gaffes or simply a lie from Biden as his support among Democratic-leaning voters who are opposed to the genocide has cratered.
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’!
We Must Hold These Monsters to Account!
Extreme Heat Waves Broiling the US in 2024 aren’t Normal: How Climate Change is Heating up the World Less than a month into summer 2024, the vast majority of the U.S. population has already experienced an extreme heat wave. Millions of people were under heat warnings across the western U.S. in early July or sweating through humid heat in the East. Death Valley hit a dangerous 129 degrees Fahrenheit (53.9 C) on July 7, a day after a motorcyclist died from heat exposure there. Las Vegas broke its all-time heat record at 120 F (48.9 C). In California, days of over-100-degree heat in large parts of the state dried out the landscape, fueling wildfires. Oregon reported several suspected heat deaths. Extreme heat like this has been hitting countries across the planet in 2024.
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
Running on Empty You’ll notice no stammering or stuttering in this blatantly racist Biden rant from 1996 on the floor of the Senate, defending mandatory minimum sentences and an expansion of the federal prison system: Biden rant from 1996 on the floor of the Senate, defending mandatory minimum sentences and an expansion of the federal prison system:
We must take back our neighborhoods. Somewhere on the order of 70 percent of one population group in America [he’s talking about Blacks] will have children born out of wedlock. And another population group is 40 percent and the largest population group, racial group, in America it’s something like 25 percent. The reason why these folks are convicted felons ain’t because they have high IQs. They’re stupid. Most of them. They’re not only predators. They’re stupid. The real smart ones don’t get caught. We don’t know how to rehabilitate. We have no idea how to rehabilitate. A noble urging and instinct on our part, but the truth is when a criminal is rehabilitated, we don’t know whether it’s real or not to recognize it. And secondly, if we’re convinced it’s real we don’t know why he got rehabilitated. He literally, and I’m not being facetious, seen God. He may have come to religion. He may have decided that his son or daughter’s future was hanging in the balance. He may, whatever. We don’t know what happened. It may have been through the program he was in in prison. But we have no notion why. We used to have indeterminate sentences. We used to say that we would allow a parole board to decide when or when not someone was rehabilitated. So they’d march for a certain period of time before a parole board, usually good actors or actresses got parole and the ones who didn’t act so good didn’t get parole. So the law we wrote says, hey, if you got sentenced and convicted the federal judge has to give you an eleven-year sentence. He or she can’t say, I kind of like you and I understand that your background is such that your mother may not have loved you when you were seven and your father left you when you were one and by the way when you got to school you sat next to someone who was anti-social and that rubbed off on you and therefore we realize you had it tough. Can’t do that. They go to jail for eleven years. Flat. A friend said but what this is going to do Joe is fill up more prisons now that judges can’t put people on probation. He’s right. So I, along with others, sponsored a bill to spend more money to build federal prisons.
Labor:
Make America Great Again! It Should be a Working Class Slogan ‘Make American Great Again!’, was Trump’s slogan in 2020. And it found a resonance is the working glass, since their standard of living has been declining, since Nixon’s Wage Price Freeze in 1972! This was primarily due to the Default of the Labor Bureaucracy, who openly admit that they Are ‘In Partnership with their Employers’, the working class has no had raise in real wages for over 5o years! Due the Labor Bureaucracy’s collaboration with the Boss, Real Wages Have Been Cut Over 100% Since1974! — Wages Have Not Kept Up with Inflation! Since the Neoliberal Labor Bureaucracy declared itself to be in a (Domestic) Partnership with the Boss’ (‘Bedding the Boss!’!) was fully institutionalized starting in the mid-1980s, this ‘partnership’ gave birth to the one, two, three, etc. .. wage tier system! Selling out the futures of future young workers entering the labor force. And, since the lowest union wage is immediately the highest non-union wage, this wage tier system cut the wages of the entire working class.
Economy:
World:
China Building Two-Thirds of World’s Wind and Solar Projects Country on track reach 1,200GW of installed wind and solar capacity by end of 2024 – six years ahead of Beijing’s target The amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined, a report has found. Research published on Thursday by Global Energy Monitor (GEM), an NGO, found that China has 180 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale solar power under construction and 159GW of wind power. That brings the total of wind and solar power under construction to 339GW, well ahead of the 40GW under construction in the US.
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
From: The United States National Center for Biotechnology Information of the Institue of Health’s Essay Primary Pandemic Prevention: Factory Farms Cause Pandemics!
The Military Industrial Complex’s Disinformations: US Media Coverage of Anti-Vax Disinformation Quietly Stops at the Pentagon Canada-based news agency Reuters (6/14/24) revealed that the Pentagon, beginning in spring 2020, carried out a year-long anti-vax messaging campaign on social media. Reuters reported that the purpose of the clandestine psychological operation was to discredit China’s pandemic relief efforts across Southeast and Central Asia, as well as in parts of the Middle East. “We weren’t looking at this from a public health perspective,” a “senior military officer involved in the program” told Reuters. “We were looking at how we could drag China through the mud.”