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During This Economic Crisis, Capitalism’s Three Point Political Program:
1. Austerity,
2. Scapegoating Blacks, Minorities, and ‘Illegal Immigrants’ for Unemployment, and
3. The Iron Heel.
Daily News Digest March 7, 2017
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!
Image of the Day:
What Cities Looked Like Before the EPA 
Quotes of the Day:
The escalation of ‘executive orders’ during the last 100 years has lead to the establishment of law by decree or fiat by the Imperial Presidency. — Roland Sheppard
His eminence now has the power over our rights, as the Declaration of Independence states, to “. . . certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.. . .” — Roland Sheppard
To combat the rise of the Civil Right Movement, the “war on poverty” was first launched in 1964 along with the concept of “Black Politicians”. Malcolm X described this process in his Jan. 7, 1965 speech The Prospects for Freedom, at the Militant Labor Forum, in New York City (For complete an audio of the speech go here.): They have a new gimmick every year. They’re going to take one of their boys, black boys, and put him in the cabinet so he can walk around Washington with a cigar. Fire on one end and fool on the other end. And because his immediate personal problem will have been solved he will be the one to tell our people: ‘Look how much progress we’re making. I’m in Washington, D.C., I can have tea in the White House. I’m your spokesman, I’m your leader.’ While our people are still living in Harlem in the slums. Still receiving the worst form of education. But how many sitting here right now feel that they could [laughs] truly identify with a struggle that was designed to eliminate the basic causes that create the conditions that exist? Not very many. They can jive, but when it comes to identifying yourself with a struggle that is not endorsed by the power structure, that is not acceptable, that the ground rules are not laid down by the society in which you live, in which you are struggling against, you can’t identify with that, you step back. It’s easy to become a satellite today without even realizing it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power of economic dollarism. You can cut out colonialism, imperialism and all other kind of ism, but it’s hard for you to cut that dollarism. When they drop those dollars on you, you’ll fold though. After the assassination of Martin Luther King and the subsequent rebellions in the inner cities protesting his assassination, the Democratic Party’s “war on poverty” started laying dollars on any potential Black leaders and grooming Black Candidates.
After the assassination of Martin Luther King and the subsequent rebellions in the inner cities protesting his assassination, the Democratic Party’s “war on poverty” started laying dollars on any potential Black leaders and grooming Black Candidates. John Lewis, formally of SNCC, became enlightened, he forego the Black Panthers and saw the Democratic Party, symbolized by a jackass, as his party. Most of what W.E. B. Dubois described as the “talented tenth” were bought off by this process. The more radical concepts that Martin Luther King and Malcolm X had developed at the time of their deaths disappeared from the scene. No one took up where they left off. The governmental policy, directed towards the ‘leaders’ of the civil rights movement, of the carrot (dollarism) and the stick (assassinations) had proven to be successful. — Roland Sheppard, The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights Movement
Videos of the Day:
Tens of Thousands Demonstrate to Protect Britain’s Heathcare System
Comparing Canadian, U.S. and Cuban Health Care Systems
(Analysis: Healtcare Systems in Canada, U.S. and Cuba “This has contributed to the fact that, for several years now, the Caribbean nation exhibits an infant mortality rate below five, lower than the one of developed countries like the United States and Canada,” said the Cuban News Agency Granma. According to statistics by the World Health Organization in 2013, the United States stood at 5.2 child deaths per 1,000 births and Canada stood at 4.78.)
Miriam Makeba – Malcolm X
U.S.:
New Study Found No Link Between Immigration and Increased Crime in Forty Years of Data Politicians often claim that there is a relationship between immigration patterns and increased crime. In a study done at the University at Buffalo however, no links were found between the two. According to the findings, immigration instead appears to be linked to reductions in some types of crimes instead. It important that public policies be based on facts and evidence, rather than ideologies and unfounded claims that vilify certain segments of the U.S. population, without any facts to support them.
The U.S. Government’s Privacy Watchdog Is Basically Dead, Emails Reveal Thera’s a little knowFederal agency whose job is to ensure U.S. spy agencies protect privacy and other civil liberties even as they work to defeat terrorists and criminals, and to blow the whistle when that doesn’t happen. But the agency, known as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, is down to just a single voting member — which means it has been stripped of nearly all its powers, according to emails obtained by The Intercept. By Jenna McLaughlin
Memos Reveal Army Corps Knows Dakota Access Pipeline Violates Legal Requirement On March 3, MinnPost reported that four memos were pulled from the Department of the Interior website on the Army Corps of Engineers after Donald Trump took office, citing their removal signifies, “an attempt to make opaque some serious shortcomings in the Corps’ performance on DAPL that are little known and less understood.” by Michael J. Sainato
Trump Is Bankrupting Our Nation to Enrich the War Profiteers By Jonathan King and Richard Krushnic, Truthout 
Black Liberation/ Civil Rights:
Miami-Dade’s Policy of Holding Inmates for ICE Is Unconstitutional: Florida Judge by Kalhan Rosenblatt
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Feeds Slaves to the Prison Industrial complex: Thousands of ICE detainees claim they were forced into labor, a violation of anti-slavery laws. Tens of thousands of immigrants detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were forced to work for $1 day, or for nothing at all — a violation of federal anti-slavery laws — a lawsuit claims. By Kristine Phillips 
Devil’s Punchbowl — U.S. Concentration Camp For African Americans So Horrific It Was Erased From History Say the words concentration camps, and most will surmise the topic surrounds World War II and the Nazis; but the hard labor, constant threat of death, and barbarism these microcosmic hells presented weren’t unique to Adolf Hitler — in just one year, around 20,000 freed slaves perished in the Devil’s Punchbowl — in Natchez, Mississippi, U.S.A.
Labor:
FYI: Of the more than 80,000 chemicals currently used in the United States, most haven’t been adequately tested for their effects on human health.: Below is from an article that I wrote is June 1966. Without new workplace chemicals being tested, these chemicals will going untesed, killing more workers before their time.
The War at the Point of Production: The ‘Killing Fields’ of the United States Like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, world imperialism spreads War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death, throughout the world. Author Gore Vidal describes this era as ‘Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace’. One perpetual war, which is not openly publicized, is the war for profits. It takes place every single day at the point of production, and is killing increasing numbers of workers every year. Today, workers are used as ‘cannon fodder’ both in the war in Iraq and in the war for profits at home. Workplaces have become perpetual ‘killing fields’. According to Lisa Cullen, the author of A Job To Die For, “Every day, 165 Americans die from occupational diseases and 18 more die from a work related injury. On the same day, more than 36,400 non-fatal injuries and 3,200 illnesses will occur in America’s workplaces.” Every year 60,225 Americans die from occupational diseases while 6,570 more die from work-related injuries. In that same year, more than 13,286,000 non-fatal injuries and 1,168,000 illnesses occur in America’s workplaces. Again: “Each year, this unknown workplace epidemic extends into nearby communities to claim the lives of 218 innocent bystanders and injure another 68,000.”(1)
From a speech, by Peter Infante,that every President since Clinton has ignored: Cancer and Blue-Collar Workers — Who Cares?
I am going to start with my conclusions and then provide you with the basis for them.
Conclusion #1: A much greater national effort to the NIOSH budget for the purpose of developing in the study of occupational carcinogens is better control technology that will result in the required. Our failure to make that effort is resulting in a disproportionate (and preventable) cancer burden being borne by blue collar workers.
Conclusion #2: More funding needs to be allocated to the NIOSH budget for reduction of human exposure to carcinogenic substances found in the workplace. By Peter Infante Read More 
Ongoing Big Energy Crisis:
