Daily News 09/07
Daily News Archives Since June 2026
Out of the eight-hour struggle which culminated in the strike of May 1, 1886, and its aftermath, the Haymarket tragedy, came international May Day. In Paris, France, on July 14, 1889, leaders from organized proletarian movements in many countries came together to form once more an international association of workers….At the first congress of the Second International, delegates listened to the story related by the United States representatives, considered a request from the American Federation of Labor for support of their eight-hour fight, and voted to make May 1, 1890, a day for an international eight-hour day demonstration. — Why I Do Not Celebrate Labor Day But I celebrate May Day!
El Niño set to become very strong, raising risks of extreme weather into 2027 Key messages
- El Niño is firmly established and is expected to strengthen further
- WMO Forecasts show near 100% likelihood that it will persist through February 2027
- Exceptionally warm tropical Pacific Ocean conditions support further intensification
- A very strong El Niño can significantly shift rainfall and temperature patterns worldwide and fuel extreme weather
- WMO and National Meteorological and Hydrological Services step up preparedness and early-warning efforts for an exceptional event
Forecasts from WMO’s Global Producing Centres indicate an “exceptionally high likelihood of nearly 100%” that El Niño will persist through to February 2027. This is the first time that a WMO El Niño/La Niña Update has been so unequivocal, reflecting the strong agreement within WMO’s extensive network. Fueled by exceptionally warm ocean conditions across the tropical Pacific, El Niño is expected to strengthen further during the coming months to a very strong intensity before peaking towards the end of this year, with climate impacts continuing well into 2027.
Fossil Fuel Inc. has Commited Depravd Indifference Ecocide for Profit!: Climate Change? The Oil Industry Knew!For Over 50 Years, the Oil Industry Knew the Connection Between Burning Fossil Fuels and Climate Change.:
Defense, Denial, and Disinformation: Uncovering the Oil Industry’s Early Knowledge of Climate ChangeAs early as 1959, oil industry executives understood the connection between burning fossil fuels and climate change. Soon thereafter, industry scientists confirmed beyond a reasonable doubt that the burning of fossil fuels contributed to anthropogenic climate change. In response, oil companies scrambled to promulgate climate change denial and disinformation in order to avoid government regulation. It was not until the late 1990s and early 2000s that oil companies began publicly acknowledging the scientific consensus on climate change and responded by promoting market-based solutions to mitigating emissions. Did they inform the public about the danger! As the World Warmed, they just went on producing their hazardous product! To them profits were more important than life! Their ecocidal decision is a criminal act against humanity and all life on the planet! ‘Law and Order’ capitalism protects them!
There Has Never Been a Decrease in the Burning of Fossil Fuel. In the Near Future Capitalism Will Kill off All Life as it Burns! The Last 12 Years has Been An Accleration of Global Warming!: Four periods of equal sized global fossil fuel emissions. The first period was 222 years the last only 12
El Niño set to become very strong, raising risks of extreme weather into 2027 Key messages
- El Niño is firmly established and is expected to strengthen further
- WMO Forecasts show near 100% likelihood that it will persist through February 2027
- Exceptionally warm tropical Pacific Ocean conditions support further intensification
- A very strong El Niño can significantly shift rainfall and temperature patterns worldwide and fuel extreme weather
- WMO and National Meteorological and Hydrological Services step up preparedness and early-warning efforts for an exceptional event
Forecasts from WMO’s Global Producing Centres indicate an “exceptionally high likelihood of nearly 100%” that El Niño will persist through to February 2027. This is the first time that a WMO El Niño/La Niña Update has been so unequivocal, reflecting the strong agreement within WMO’s extensive network. Fueled by exceptionally warm ocean conditions across the tropical Pacific, El Niño is expected to strengthen further during the coming months to a very strong intensity before peaking towards the end of this year, with climate impacts continuing well into 2027.
Brazoria County Communities Win Major Court Victory Against Texas GulfLink Oil Export TerminalBRAZORIA COUNTY, Texas — After years of organizing by residents and community groups based in Freeport, Surfside, Jones Creek, and surrounding Gulf Coast communities, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has vacated a critical federal approval for the Texas GulfLink crude oil export terminal, dealing a major blow to the controversial project. Texas GulfLink, developed by Sentinel Midstream, would ship crude oil overseas from a deepwater port roughly 27 nautical miles off the Brazoria County coast, connected to an underwater pipeline and onshore tank farm proposed for Jones Creek. Local residents, public health professionals, and elected officials have long opposed the project, warning it would deepen air and water pollution in a county already in violation of pollution and federal ozone standards, threaten flood-zone safety at the tank farm site, and raise the risk of spills along the Texas coastline. Earlier this year, the project received a boost in federal financing tied to a trade arrangement with Japan, even as community opposition intensified.
Voting Rights Groups Are Preparing to Confront ICE at the Polls
Trump’s “Beautification” Plan Has Turned Community Parks Into Policing Traps Trump’s plan to “make D.C. beautiful again” means more policing for the city’s residents.
‘Treated Worse Than Cattle’: 2,500 Tyson Workers Laid Off, Plant Shutters Overnight
The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter futureIt’s no surprise some analysts say we are already in the midst of the third world war, but ordinary people have more power than we think D
on’t look up! The world is a mess. The sky could fall in any day. Unending wars, expanding humanitarian crises, rising authoritarianism, dysfunctional democracies, rampant racial and religious extremism, and unchecked lawlessness cast a dark cloud as the west’s new political year begins. Set all that against a backdrop of staggering global economic inequality, corporate and individual greed, irresponsible government indebtedness, dangerous AI gambles, climate breakdown and proliferating nuclear weapons, and a truly apocalyptic global outlook begins to take shape. It’s enough to make anyone shut their eyes, cover their ears and utter a Munch-like scream. And it’s only getting worse.
In War Crime, Trump Sinks Civilian Iranian Tanker, Disables 2 Others
Tyrant Trump Is Lucky in the Cowardice of His Enemies Democratic leadership’s refusal to pursue impeachment signals to Trump that he has two-plus unchallenged years to ravage the lives and livelihoods of millions of people here and abroad.
Iran war likely to drag on for another six months, ex-US defense secretary warns Leon Panetta tells Guardian US is risking ‘forever war’ and says Pentagon ‘turmoil’ sending message of weakness
Plurality of Canadians See US as ‘Enemy’ Thanks Almost Entirely to Trump: Poll
Health Care for All — End ‘For-Profit’ Healthcare!:
How We Get To Medicare For All … America’s Outlier Healthcare System: Expensive, Wasteful, Complicated, Deficient. The delay and denial of lifesaving care doesn’t happen in other wealthy countries the way it does here. The United States is an outlier. Its health care is the most expensive in the industrialized world, while its outcomes rank at or near the bottom… Thirty million Americans—almost 10 percent of the population— have no health insurance whatsoever. Millions more are underinsured. Though they have health insurance, it does not cover the care they need at a cost they can afford. Even those with supposedly adequate coverage often have high deductibles, causing them to delay care until their health issues are too severe to ignore. The problem is that in the United States, health care is implicitly treated like a commodity, like the latest iPhone or simply a service, like plumbing or electrical work in a home. Of course, health care is not just another commodity or service. It is literally a life-and-death matter. Unlike the government, which has the power to tax, can control its currency, and is not going out of business, companies can only stay in business if they turn a profit. That means that health insurance corporations must ensure that they don’t pay out more in benefits than they collect in premiums, and the premiums can’t be too large or their customers will go elsewhere. To make the numbers work and earn a large enough profit to keep shareholders happy, these companies must seek to entice those who are healthy and therefore not in need of health care, by offering benefits like gym memberships. They must carefully screen to cherry-pick the healthiest of the population and avoid covering those likely to need expensive care. If their enrollees do get sick, insurance companies can restrict what treatment patients are able to get by limiting the doctors and hospitals that are in-network. The companies can delay or even deny prescribed treatments, if they are expensive and supposedly uncertain of success, by requiring pre-authorizations. Indeed, insurance companies refused to insure anyone with pre-existing conditions, such as birth defects, pregnancy, and job-related injuries, until the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act prohibited that discriminatory practice designed to reduce expenses and bolster profits.
Let The People Vote on Healthcare!
One of the captions in the above cartoon reads: : “When Trillions are spent on war, but health care reform has to be revenue neutral.”
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 ‘govern’ 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 that be a democracy and part of the democratic way.
Below are some quotes about what is wrong with proposed health bill passed by the United States House of ‘Representatives’.
There’s no polite way to put it. If you’re one of millions who voted Democrats into Congress and the White House last year to enact universal health care, you’ve been played and betrayed. Instead of recognizing a human right to health care, the White House and congressional Democrats have enshrined into law a corporate right to profit on the delivery or the non-delivery of health care. Health insurance will be mandatory, like car insurance, and government subsidies will enable everyone to purchase the shoddy, deceptive and defective products of the private insurance industry, which already rakes off fully one out of every three health care dollars in tolls for nothing more than standing between patients and their health care. — Played, Betrayed, Health Care Delayed: House Passes Bailout For Private Insurance Companies by Bruce A. Dixon.
A very complex, mandatory private insurance scheme recently passed the U.S. House. The public is being overwhelmed by sound bites on one hand about how great it is, on the other, how terrible. We are hearing few of the details that are actually in the bill. Having read the bill, it is clear now that what started as health reform has emerged from the political process as health “deform,” building on the worst, not the best of the current system.If passed, this law will move the U.S. farther from universal health care, making it harder than ever to accomplish health care justice in the future. If Congress does not have the courage to stand up to the private insurance industry now, it will be even more difficult in the future, especially after giving the industry trillions of new dollars through this terrible legislation. Let’s call this what it is: another corporate bailout on the backs of working people. The legislation institutionalizes permanent inequality in health care. Unlike Medicare where all beneficiaries have a single plan, this bill further divides the U.S. system into tiers based on ability to pay. It creates basic, enhanced, premium and premium-plus plans. A basic plan will provide only 70 percent of the coverage of a “reference benefit package,” one that includes even fewer services than most insured people have today. The bill doesn’t even mention coverage for essential services like vision and adult dental care except in the most costly premium-plus plan. Out-of-pocket costs remain sky high. Everyone will be required to pay monthly insurance premiums. Some low-wage workers will receive taxpayer subsidies on a sliding scale. The lowest income people will have full subsidies. But remember, this is not money for care, it is support only to buy insurance. The legislation creates a law to let these corporations increase what they charge people as they get older. In fact, they can be charged up to twice as much as younger people for identical coverage. The legislation makes it illegal to not buy health insurance. The penalties are described in a section of the legislation called “Shared Responsibility.” This will let the IRS impose a tax of up to 2.5 percent of modified adjusted gross income for not having health insurance. People on the financial edge, people fighting foreclosure to stay in their homes or people who are unemployed all or part of a year will not be able to afford the insurance premiums or the penalties for not having insurance.We will all be drowning in paperwork, which will continue to drive up administrative costs. Right now, insurance administrative waste is about 30 percent of every health care dollar— or about $1 billion a day. Adding more people to an insurance-based system will result in even more money going into this bottomless pit. — We Need Health Care, Not Insurance, by Carol Wilson
Actually, the democratic way would be to have a national referendum on health care so that those who are being raped and pillaged, by the health industry, be able to vote on health care! We need to have a national referendum on health care!