Daily News 06/21
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Israel’s ‘Sabotage’ of Peace Agreement Working Again as Iran Closes Strait of Hormuz in Response to Lebanon Assault
Later is Too Late to act on Climate Change
Fracking During Colorado Drought 2009—2026:Big Oil has No Shame! Oil Protfist First Life Last! Colorado Drought
Fracking threatens Colorado’s water. Let’s protect what we can’t replace Did you know that every fracked oil and gas well in Colorado uses millions of gallons of freshwater—water that’s permanently removed from our shared water cycle? It’s no secret that Colorado has a water shortage. Millions rely on our rivers’ waters, but our supply is shrinking as climate change and drought intensify. At the same time, oil and gas fracking operations across the state are using and contaminating vast amounts of increasingly scarce freshwater. Each fracking well can consume 10 to 50 million gallons—often drawn from municipal or agricultural sources that communities depend on.Once water is used for fracking, most of it becomes so polluted with salts and toxic chemicals that it cannot be cleaned or reused. Most of this wastewater is disposed of by injecting it back underground, removing it from the natural cycle. That’s millions of gallons of water that Coloradans rely on, down the drain. What’s at risk:Fracking consumes huge amounts of water—but it also threatens the safety of what’s left. Leaks, spills, and well failures have led to contamination of groundwater and water wells. In rural and agricultural areas, that’s a direct risk to families, farms, and wildlife that rely on clean water every day. From Big Energy Frackers Keep on Fracking With Their Own Private Water Supplies During Drought:
More than 55 percent of all U.S. wells are operated in areas experiencing a level of drought.
Oil, Water Are Volatile Mix in West Energy Firms Buying River Rights Add to Competition for Scarce Resource By Stephanie Simon2009 Oil companies have gained control over billions of gallons of water from Western rivers in preparation for future efforts to extract oil from shale deposits under the Rocky Mountains, according to a new report by an environmental group that opposes such projects. The group, Western Resource Advocates, used public records to conclude that energy companies are collectively entitled to divert more than 6.5 billion gallons of water a day during peak river flows. The companies also hold rights to store, in dozens of reservoirs, 1.7 million acre feet of water, enough to supply metro Denver for six years.Colorado Big Oil … Ecocide!According to the National Geographic Society: “The human footprint is one of the most destructive forces in Earth’s history, fundamentally altering the planet at an unprecedented scale. Humanity consumes resources far faster than they can regenerate, driving rapid environmental degradation, mass biodiversity loss, and climate shifts that many scientists classify as a new geological epoch.” Yet, the planet is smiling, a big fat smile. It’s happy for the first time since, who knows when? Humans are taking measures to protect her precious ecosystems. The world community is waking up to the full extent of anthropogenic abuse by making it a crime to despoil our home planet. Finland’s Social Democratic Party (SDP), at its 2026 SDP Party Congress, supported the criminalization of ecocide. SDP has become Finland’s largest party. It supports a strong national, regional and international framework to criminalize mass environmental destruction, known as ecocide.
How Capitalism Kills The Game For Poor And Working Class People While Normalizing How Imperialism Oppresses and Kills Them. A single working mother could once take her child to a Yankees game for $40, ut today that money would not even cover the online service fees. Sporting events have been stolen from poor and working class people and are now reserved only for the wealthy elite. Capitalism has a way of rendering what was once accessible to, and tactile for the masses into distant memories that themselves become the only thing that can be possessed, which is not a bad thing until said memories become the only thing that can be possessed due to profound wealth and income iniquity. For myself, I remember a time when my single, working class mother and I could impulsively decide to go to a Yankees game or a Knicks game the same day they were being played. Moms would head to the Chemical Bank ATM, take out $40, and have the ability to purchase two decent seats along with refreshments for both of us to enjoy. Today, $40 would not even be enough to pay for the service charges that are tacked onto online ticket sales, which demonstrates the fact that attending sporting events are included in the growing list of things including, but not limited to, quality housing, healthcare, education, and access to healthy and nutritious foods that have been pillaged from poor and working class people as racial capitalism continues to solidify the obscene idea that only the bourgeois and elements of the petty bourgeois have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The use of sporting events by empires to appease, mollify, and distract the masses as well as act as a tool to demonstrate the superiority and exceptionalism of a given society is nothing new. For instance, in 1936 when the Olympic Games were hosted in Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler aimed to use the games as a massive propaganda tool to showcase the “superiority” of the Aryan race. To accentuate the propaganda tool, Hitler ordered over $30 Million in state spending to subsidize travel, build grand venues such as the Olympiastadion Berlin, and lower lodging and railway costs by as much as 50% – and even put measures in place to prevent price gouging and keep costs artificially low for tourists. By doing so, Hitler successfully engendered a pastiche of the so-called age of enlightenment, which provided a propaganda palette that portrayed a society of equal rights and liberal values which could not possibly carry out the litany of atrocities we now know took place during and after the 1936 Olympic Games. And centuries before the Third Reich, the Roman Empire instituted a similar praxis for its gladiatorial games by making them free for its citizens. The games were actually funded by the emperor and wealthy elites to provide “bread and circuses” as a form of propaganda to keep the masses happy and distracted from the empire’s decadence and perpetual imperialism. You would think the U.S. empire, which is responsible for more murderous atrocities and profound subjugation of colonized and oppressed people, both globally and domestically, than Nazi Germany would apply a similar praxis…but this would be a myopic way of thinking. At a time when U.S. empire is contemporaneously exercising barbarous imperialism in nearly every corner of the world from Latin America and the Caribbean, to the Middle East, and Africa rather than use sporting events to distract the masses from its bellicose activities, it’s instead using sporting events to normalize them. This, in part, explains why the U.S. and its legion of corporate henchmen could give a damn about the fact that the vast majority of poor and working class people cannot attend sporting events that have been seized by the capitalist dictatorship.
Trump Murdering People in Boats Is Not Stopping the Flow of Drugs Into US Aside from proving woefully ineffective at reducing drug production and trafficking, Washington’s militarized campaign, carried out in conjunction with regional governments, also risks increasing extrajudicial killings of unarmed civilians.
Elon Musk and the Politics of Trillionaire FascismElon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue, exploitation into spectacle, and mistakes its own deepest failures for its greatest successes. The media frenzy surrounding the prospect of Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire is not a celebration of human progress or individual initiative. It is a symptom of a deeper social and political crisis, one that exposes the power of class privilege, the corrupting forces of gangster capitalism, and a culture increasingly incapable of distinguishing wealth from worth or exploitation from human flourishing.
Luwig Institute Rate of Unemployment is 24.6%