"After corporate media lied America into a war and a financial crisis - data show they lied about a main source of price hikes — and brutal policies followed." Also consider this ..
"Warren Says First Republic Collapse shows deregulation boosted 'Too Big to Fail' Banks & "Ultimately taxpayers will be on the hook," said the Democratic senator from Massachusetts."
As "US politicians from both parties agree - the deficit doesn’t matter. In their bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, Biden and Republicans are boosting military spending to $886 billion while making it harder for poor people to receive food stamps and welfare."
As advertised, this is one of the most importantly educational films you can watch. This is not only the history you have not been - and won't be taught; it is the most important history that we need to know!
AS "8,000 gallons of latex were accidentally dumped in the Delaware River - and tap water across the country is laced with disturbing chemicals"! & ENDING ...
WITH "In 2021, the owner of one hedge fund called water in the US “a trillion-dollar market opportunity”. Meanwhile, other investors have been snapping up rights to the Colorado River. Capitalism is going to poison us all"!
Consider: "Inequality is reaching feudal proportions, where very few own almost everything ... & everyone else is crushed under the wheel of engineered destitution"! - FROM:
"Conservatives cast Chile as a success story in which the Neoliberal economists known as the “Chicago Boys” reversed socialist experimentation. This whitewashes the horrific crimes of Augusto Pinochet and the precarity his policies normalized." - FROM:
"A new report puts the loss of life from Afghanistan to Yemen at 4.5 million ... the bulk of them poor women and children who are victims of economic collapse and continuing trauma"!
"What if payments begin and millions—literally millions—of people default on their debt?" the Debt Collective asked. "What if seniors get their Social Security checks garnished en masse?"
"Spending on Militarism takes up the majority of the US federal discretionary Budget and it has grown faster than all other spending. If we keep up these patterns, we are hurtling toward a future where we can't afford the basics of a civilized society"!
"We keep hearing that our government can't afford nice things — or necessary things — for everyone," said the paper's co-author. "Yet militarized spending in the U.S. has almost doubled over the past two decades."
WHICH STARTS WITH THIS: "In his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, historian Paul Kennedy reassured Americans, that the decline the United States was then facing ... after a century of international dominance, was “relative and not absolute, and is therefore perfectly natural; and that the only serious threat to the real interests of the United States - can come from a failure to adjust sensibly to the newer world order.”
"Since Kennedy wrote those words ... we have seen the end of The Cold War, the peaceful emergence of China as a leading world power and the rise of a formidable Global South. But the United States has indeed failed to “adjust sensibly to the newer world order” .. using military force and coercion in flagrant violation of the UN Charter in a failed quest for longer lasting global hegemony.
"Paul Kennedy observed that military power follows economic power. Rising economic powers develop military power to consolidate and protect their expanding economic interests. But once a great power’s economic prowess is waning - the use of military force to try to prolong its day in the sun, leads only to unwinnable conflicts, as European colonial powers quickly learned after the Second World War, and as Americans are learning today.
AND ENDS WITH ... "Now that the “newer world order” that Paul Kennedy referred to is taking shape, economist Jeffrey Sachs has grave misgivings about the U.S. ability to adjust. As he recently warned, “Unless U.S. foreign policy is changed to recognize the need for a multipolar world, it will lead to more wars and possibly ... to World War III.” With countries across the globe building new networks of trade, development and diplomacy, independent of Washington and Wall Street - the United States may well have no choice but to finally “adjust sensibly” to the new order."
NB that "The Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) that President Dwight D.Eisenhower warned Americans about more than 60 years ago is still alive and well. In fact it’s now consuming many more tax dollars & feeding far larger weapons producers than when Ike raised the alarm about the “unwarranted influence” it wielded in his 1961 farewell address to the nation.
"The statistics are stunning. This year’s proposed budget for the Pentagon and Nuclear Weapons Work at the Department of Energy is $886 billion — more than twice as much, adjusted for inflation, as at the time of Eisenhower’s speech. The Pentagon ... now consumes, more than half the federal discretionary budget & so leaving priorities like public health, environmental protection, job training, and education to compete for what remains. In 2020, Lockheed Martin received $75+ billion in Pentagon contracts, more than the entire budget of the State Department & the Agency for International Development - combined.
"This year’s spending just for that company’s overpriced, underperforming F-35 combat aircraft - equals the full budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a new report from the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies revealed recently -- that the average taxpayer spends $1,087 per year on weapons contractors compared to $270 for K-12 education and just $6 for renewable energy"! - FROM:
"Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy borrowed his punishing work requirement proposal from the conservative think tank pushing to loosen child labor laws."
Note: "Conservatives cast Chile as a success story in which the neoliberal economists known as the “Chicago Boys” reversed reckless socialist experimentation. This whitewashes the horrific crimes of Augusto Pinochet and the precarity his policies normalized." - FROM:
"Under the leadership of Governor DeSantis, the state of Florida has become hostile to Black Americans and in direct conflict with the democratic ideals that our union was founded upon," NAACP President & CEO Derrick Johnson said. "He should know that democracy will prevail because its defenders are prepared to stand up and fight. We're not backing down, and we encourage our allies to join us in the battle for the soul of our nation."
Note: "Days after Jordan Neely died after being held in a chokehold by a Marine veteran aboard a New York City subway train, the vet has identified himself, amid swirling questions about the use of the tactic, which is taught in basic training by the service"! - FROM:
& note: "Police arrested Maurice Jimmerson and four others in 2013 for murder. A jury acquitted two of them but for 10 years, Jimmerson has spent the majority of that time in a county jail, legally innocent"!!!
"Inequality is reaching feudal proportions, where very few own almost everything .. & everyone else is crushed under the wheel of engineered destitution"! - FROM:
"Biden is already discovering that there is not enough in the coffer to afford the kind of stimulus needed to simply feed people,to keep them housed, to help small businesses stay alive, to help schools reopen. But watch,he will find plenty of money for weapons makers, for the Federal Reserve to buy the garbage debt of over-leveraged corporations, money for hospital chains and pharmaceutical companies, and for banks and for all the members of the Neo-Feudal Aristocracy that he helped build and who are our new masters.
So - "The economy is working exactly as it is intended to work, the way it has been designed to work, to benefit the wealthy and to crush everybody else. The problem for The Mass of the rest of us - is that we didn't get the memo"!
So don't whine like a "fkn half-wit", there's plenty of info here to read, tho' RWNJs don't do so good with actual information do they?! Especially, IF idiots think that this Still Extant OWS forum is 'Pro-Biden' lol!!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 10 hours ago
"How Pundits’ Inflation Myth Crushed The Working Class"! by A.Perez, M.Cunningham Cook and David Sirota:
"After corporate media lied America into a war and a financial crisis - data show they lied about a main source of price hikes — and brutal policies followed." Also consider this ..
e tenebris - lux?!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 11 hours ago
"Regulation Won’t End Bank Crises. We Must Put Shadow Banks Under Public Control"! by C.J. Polychroniou:
"Regulations designed by banks to shield their interests will never be enough to halt banking crises, an economist warns."
"Warren Says First Republic Collapse shows deregulation boosted 'Too Big to Fail' Banks & "Ultimately taxpayers will be on the hook," said the Democratic senator from Massachusetts."
radix omnium malorum - est cupiditas!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 11 hours ago
Note "Debt Ceiling Hypocrisy: US boosts military budget while restricting food stamps for poor"!
As "US politicians from both parties agree - the deficit doesn’t matter. In their bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling, Biden and Republicans are boosting military spending to $886 billion while making it harder for poor people to receive food stamps and welfare."
MULTUM in parvo!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 12 hours ago
"COVID-19 Clawbacks, Spending Caps & Cuts; what House Republicans got in return for pushing the US to the brink of default"!
https://theconversation.com/covid-19-clawbacks-spending-caps-and-a-cut-what-house-republicans-got-in-return-for-pushing-the-us-to-the-brink-of-default-205958 meanwhile,
this: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/02/debt-ceiling-us-military-food-stamps/
Also note: http://occupywallst.org/forum/no-war-not-now-not-ever/#comment-1082147
fiat lux, fiat pax et fiat justitia ...
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago
"Israel: Justice minister says 'Jews are not ready to live with Arabs'"!
"Yariv Levin calls for judges who 'understand' that Jews leave cities where Palestinian citizens of Israel buy property"!
minima maxima sunt!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago
"What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy: The War Against The Third World"
As advertised, this is one of the most importantly educational films you can watch. This is not only the history you have not been - and won't be taught; it is the most important history that we need to know!
fiat lux; fiat pax; fiat justitia!!!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
"The USA is the world’s richest country. So why can’t I get a glass of clean drinking water?" by Arwa Mahdawi:
AS "8,000 gallons of latex were accidentally dumped in the Delaware River - and tap water across the country is laced with disturbing chemicals"! & ENDING ...
WITH "In 2021, the owner of one hedge fund called water in the US “a trillion-dollar market opportunity”. Meanwhile, other investors have been snapping up rights to the Colorado River. Capitalism is going to poison us all"!
spero meliora!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
Consider: "Inequality is reaching feudal proportions, where very few own almost everything ... & everyone else is crushed under the wheel of engineered destitution"! - FROM:
"Conservatives cast Chile as a success story in which the Neoliberal economists known as the “Chicago Boys” reversed socialist experimentation. This whitewashes the horrific crimes of Augusto Pinochet and the precarity his policies normalized." - FROM:
respice; adspice; prospice!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
McCarthy Warns That Social Security and Medicare Are the GOP’s Next Target! Human Hating GOP!
CAVEAT!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
“Turning His Back on Student Debtors” .. Biden’s Debt Deal Ends Freeze on Loan Payments for Millions! (Video)
radix omnium malorum est cupiditas!
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
"The Uncounted: How Millions Died Unseen - In America’s Post-9/11 Wars"!! by Simon Tisdall
"A new report puts the loss of life from Afghanistan to Yemen at 4.5 million ... the bulk of them poor women and children who are victims of economic collapse and continuing trauma"!
fiat lux et fiat justitia!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
What is this "it" that you are referring to?! Meanwhile, back in the real world, do carefully consider:
"GOP Tax Cut Plan Would Add $3.5T to Deficit, Congressional Budget Office Finds"! - https://truthout.org/articles/gop-tax-cut-plan-would-add-3-5t-to-deficit-congressional-budget-office-finds/
"America’s Addiction to War Comes with a 15 Trillion Dollar Price Tag"! -- by Jeffrey D. Sachs: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57596.htm - from ...
which "To surmount the debt crisis, America needs to stop feeding the Military-Industrial Complex!"
ad iudicium?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
Note "CNN’s Town Hall didn’t hold Trump accountable; It Normalized his lies"! [Sasha Abramsky]
And closely consider that: "This media spectacle served to normalize the immoral and the destructive"!
angius in herba!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
"Student Debt Provision in Biden-GOP Deal - Could Be 'Catastrophic,' Campaigners Warn"!
"What if payments begin and millions—literally millions—of people default on their debt?" the Debt Collective asked. "What if seniors get their Social Security checks garnished en masse?"
caveat et fiat jusititia!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
"Spending on Militarism takes up the majority of the US federal discretionary Budget and it has grown faster than all other spending. If we keep up these patterns, we are hurtling toward a future where we can't afford the basics of a civilized society"!
"We keep hearing that our government can't afford nice things — or necessary things — for everyone," said the paper's co-author. "Yet militarized spending in the U.S. has almost doubled over the past two decades."
Also note - https://www.commondreams.org/news/dem-food-aid-cuts-pentagon - by J. Johnson
and finally, this -- https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/will-us-push-to-help-end-ukraine-war by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies
caveat!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
"Can the U.S. Adjust Sensibly to a Multipolar World?" by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J. S. Davies:
WHICH STARTS WITH THIS: "In his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, historian Paul Kennedy reassured Americans, that the decline the United States was then facing ... after a century of international dominance, was “relative and not absolute, and is therefore perfectly natural; and that the only serious threat to the real interests of the United States - can come from a failure to adjust sensibly to the newer world order.”
"Since Kennedy wrote those words ... we have seen the end of The Cold War, the peaceful emergence of China as a leading world power and the rise of a formidable Global South. But the United States has indeed failed to “adjust sensibly to the newer world order” .. using military force and coercion in flagrant violation of the UN Charter in a failed quest for longer lasting global hegemony.
"Paul Kennedy observed that military power follows economic power. Rising economic powers develop military power to consolidate and protect their expanding economic interests. But once a great power’s economic prowess is waning - the use of military force to try to prolong its day in the sun, leads only to unwinnable conflicts, as European colonial powers quickly learned after the Second World War, and as Americans are learning today.
AND ENDS WITH ... "Now that the “newer world order” that Paul Kennedy referred to is taking shape, economist Jeffrey Sachs has grave misgivings about the U.S. ability to adjust. As he recently warned, “Unless U.S. foreign policy is changed to recognize the need for a multipolar world, it will lead to more wars and possibly ... to World War III.” With countries across the globe building new networks of trade, development and diplomacy, independent of Washington and Wall Street - the United States may well have no choice but to finally “adjust sensibly” to the new order."
respice; adspice; prospice!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
Consider that .. "Conservatives Hate Tenure - Unless It’s for Clarence Thomas"! by Tom Nichols:
And so now carefully, closely & calmly consider "The hypocrisy of GOP attacks on college teachers"!
multum in parvo!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
NB that "The Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) that President Dwight D.Eisenhower warned Americans about more than 60 years ago is still alive and well. In fact it’s now consuming many more tax dollars & feeding far larger weapons producers than when Ike raised the alarm about the “unwarranted influence” it wielded in his 1961 farewell address to the nation.
"The statistics are stunning. This year’s proposed budget for the Pentagon and Nuclear Weapons Work at the Department of Energy is $886 billion — more than twice as much, adjusted for inflation, as at the time of Eisenhower’s speech. The Pentagon ... now consumes, more than half the federal discretionary budget & so leaving priorities like public health, environmental protection, job training, and education to compete for what remains. In 2020, Lockheed Martin received $75+ billion in Pentagon contracts, more than the entire budget of the State Department & the Agency for International Development - combined.
"This year’s spending just for that company’s overpriced, underperforming F-35 combat aircraft - equals the full budget of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a new report from the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies revealed recently -- that the average taxpayer spends $1,087 per year on weapons contractors compared to $270 for K-12 education and just $6 for renewable energy"! - FROM:
"Unwarranted Influence, Twenty-First-Century-Style"! by Ben Freeman & William D. Hartung: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57528.htm + for an alt link - see:
https://tomdispatch.com/unwarranted-influence-twenty-first-century-style/
fiat lux et fiat pax!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
Really?! So was it always a USA/KSA plot?!! Or, was the Zionist Apartheid Entity in it too?!!!
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/18/9-11-hijackers-cia-recruits/ from which, please consider:
https://www.floridabulldog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Canestraro-Declaration-dated-20-July-2021.pdf
sub rosa?
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
"Dark Money’s Behind The Debt Ceiling Plan To Punish The Poor"! [Julia Rock & Andrew Perez]
"Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy borrowed his punishing work requirement proposal from the conservative think tank pushing to loosen child labor laws."
fiat lux et fiat justitia!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
Note: "Conservatives cast Chile as a success story in which the neoliberal economists known as the “Chicago Boys” reversed reckless socialist experimentation. This whitewashes the horrific crimes of Augusto Pinochet and the precarity his policies normalized." - FROM:
respice; adspice; prospice!
[-] 1 points by beautifulworld (23736) 1 week ago
Advisory: Florida unsafe for black Americans
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/naacp-travel-advisory-florida-says-state-hostile-to-black-americans/
"Under the leadership of Governor DeSantis, the state of Florida has become hostile to Black Americans and in direct conflict with the democratic ideals that our union was founded upon," NAACP President & CEO Derrick Johnson said. "He should know that democracy will prevail because its defenders are prepared to stand up and fight. We're not backing down, and we encourage our allies to join us in the battle for the soul of our nation."
This is not a high point in our history.
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
Note: "Days after Jordan Neely died after being held in a chokehold by a Marine veteran aboard a New York City subway train, the vet has identified himself, amid swirling questions about the use of the tactic, which is taught in basic training by the service"! - FROM:
"A Marine Vet Used a Chokehold Leading to a Man's Death. The Technique Taught in Basic Training, Faces Fresh Scrutiny." ... by Konstantin Toropin - https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/05/09/chokehold-death-new-york-city-leads-questions-about-use-of-marine-corps-training.html
Also note: https://www.mintpressnews.com/george-floyd-murder-israel-us-police-training-neck-of-black-america/284564/ by Professor David Miller
e tenebris - tenebris?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
So, "Why has this Georgia man been behind bars for 10 years awaiting trial?!" - by Andy Pierrotti:
& note: "Police arrested Maurice Jimmerson and four others in 2013 for murder. A jury acquitted two of them but for 10 years, Jimmerson has spent the majority of that time in a county jail, legally innocent"!!!
fiat lux et fiat justitia!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
"Inequality is reaching feudal proportions, where very few own almost everything .. & everyone else is crushed under the wheel of engineered destitution"! - FROM:
"Biden is already discovering that there is not enough in the coffer to afford the kind of stimulus needed to simply feed people,to keep them housed, to help small businesses stay alive, to help schools reopen. But watch,he will find plenty of money for weapons makers, for the Federal Reserve to buy the garbage debt of over-leveraged corporations, money for hospital chains and pharmaceutical companies, and for banks and for all the members of the Neo-Feudal Aristocracy that he helped build and who are our new masters.
So - "The economy is working exactly as it is intended to work, the way it has been designed to work, to benefit the wealthy and to crush everybody else. The problem for The Mass of the rest of us - is that we didn't get the memo"!
So don't whine like a "fkn half-wit", there's plenty of info here to read, tho' RWNJs don't do so good with actual information do they?! Especially, IF idiots think that this Still Extant OWS forum is 'Pro-Biden' lol!!
et temet nosce!