Daily Archives: October 15, 2020

2020-10-15: News Headlines

news.un (2020-10-15). Social protection coverage in Asia and the Pacific 'riddled with gaps'. news.un.org More than half the population of the vast Asia and Pacific region lack any social protection coverage, leaving populations vulnerable to ill-health, poverty, inequality and social exclusion, a new UN report has found.

Jeff Schuhrke (2020-10-15). The Nightmare Facing the Poor and Working Class If There's Not Another Stimulus. zcomm.org With time running out and Republicans balking at more Covid relief, U.S. workers are facing a future of financial misery…

pip.hinman (2020-10-15). Cashless welfare card entrenches racism, poverty, corruption. greenleft.org.au &nbsp…

W. T. Whitney Jr. (2020-10-14). Poverty, racism, and inequality merge with COVID-19 to create 'syndemic'. peoplesworld.org The writer is a retired pediatric physician. It didn't seem to fit. The website of the Colombian Communist Party on Oct. 5 published a medical doctor's reflections on re-characterizing a disease. Félix León Martínez, MD, quoted extensively from an editorial appearing in the famous British medical journal Lancet. He and Lancet editor Richard Horton, MD, …

Rep. Ron Paul (2020-10-14). Can the US Federal Reserve End Racism? Eliminate Disparities in Income, Employment and Wealth? globalresearch.ca House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters and Senator Elizabeth Warren have introduced the Federal Reserve Racial and Economic Equity Act. This legislation directs the Federal Reserve to eliminate racial disparities in income, employment, wealth, and access to credit. | Eliminating racial …

_____ (2020-10-14). Gambling industry generates four times more taxes and jobs than fishing. truepublica.org.uk Britain, in particular, has a long and rich history of the gambling industry that goes back to around the 1500s. Spa towns such as Bath, Epsom, and Tunbridge Wells became popular after around that time for the wealthy. They enjoyed lawn bowling and dancing, as well as the medical benefits that spa towns were perceived …

Robert J. Burrowes (2020-10-14). 'We are Many, They are Few': Nonviolent Resistance to the Elite's COVID-19 Coup. globalresearch.ca On 16 August 1819, an estimated 60,000 pro-democracy and anti-poverty activists were peacefully protesting the utterly corrupt nature of the Parliament in Westminster and demanding the reform of parliamentary representation (which afforded less than 2% of people the right to …

WSWS (2020-10-14). New Zealand Green Party postures over tax, poverty. wsws.org The record proves that an incoming Labour-Greens coalition would be completely subservient to the demands of big business.

WSWS (2020-10-14). Hefty profits for top US banks as millions face social disaster. wsws.org As long-term unemployment rises, major Wall Street Banks JP Morgan and Citigroup have reported booming third quarter profits.

Zach Conti (2020-10-14). IMF Economic Reports: Inequality and Poverty Rising Amidst COVID Crisis. indybay.org Analyzing the economic crisis spurred by the coronavirus, the International Monetary Fund released the Global Financial Stability Report and the 2020 World Economic Outlook Report, "A Long and Difficult Ascent." The economic outlook report projects global economic growth to contract 4.4%.

Staff (2020-10-14). Activists Are Mobilizing to Help Incarcerated People Get Their Stimulus Checks. truthout.org For months incarcerated people and their families heard conflicting messages about whether they were eligible to receive the pandemic stimulus payments provided by Congress as the Trump administration attempted to block prisoners from receiving their checks. Last week a federal judge slammed the administration with an order to provide the stimulus relief, and now advocates across the country are working to ensure low-income people caged in state and federal prisons can apply for the much-ne…

Eric Levitz (2020-10-14). 3 Reasons Pelosi Should Take Trump's $1.8 Trillion Stimulus Deal. commondreams.org A constable knocks on a door before posting an eviction order in Arizona earlier this month. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/bb8161a8b2893567645450c25ed8b1e38b-eviction-usa.rhorizontal.w700.jpg

_____ (2020-10-13). Changing To An Ecological Way Of Valuing National Economies. popularresistance.org The Global South is adversely impacted by the many crises that exist in this world – the climate crisis, pandemic, recession, war to name a few. Although the Global South is wealthy in terms of culture, biodiversity, knowledge and more, the way the Global North defines what is valuable contributes to economic inequality between the North and South and exploitation of peoples and the planet. Now, my guests Arnie Saiki and Chanzo Greenidge are challenging that paradigm with a new concept of intemerate accounting. The idea is receiving growing support by Pacific Island nations. They explain what it is and how social…

Kathy Durkin (2020-10-13). Viral capitalism: Racist, sexist bosses kill jobs. workers.org Another 1.3 million people filed for unemployment benefits during the week of Sept. 28, adding to the ranks of the 12 million workers still jobless due to the pandemic. They and their families have lost health insurance, not provided by this ruthless capitalist government. Evictions and homelessness are on the . . . |

Dean Baker (2020-10-13). Waiting for a Vaccine: Killing for Inequality. counterpunch.org I have been harping on the fact that it is very likely China will be mass producing and distributing a vaccine at least a month, and quite possibly several months, before the United States. This should make people very angry. Even a month's delay is likely to mean tens of thousands of avoidable deaths and

RT (2020-10-13). An 'accidentally-cut cable' brings down entire voter registration system in Virginia right before deadline to register. rt.com Virginia's entire voter registration system has been felled by a rogue cable, according to the state's info-tech agency, which blamed an "accidentally-cut" line for an outage that may stop procrastinators from voting altogether. | The 'Citizen Portal' that allows Virginian residents to register online to vote in the 2020 election was knocked out on Tuesday morning — the last day state residents were allowed to register, the Virginia Board of Elections has revealed, posting notices to its website and Twitter account. | This morning we were alerted by VITA that a fiber cut near the Commonwealth Enterprise S…

WSWS (2020-10-13). Poverty in Germany: Power cuts for 289,000 households. wsws.org Hundreds of thousands had no lights, no warm water, could use neither stoves nor refrigerators, could not do laundry and had no access to radio, television or the internet.

news.un (2020-10-13). Stand in solidarity with world's poor, UN chief says in message for International Day. news.un.org The UN Secretary-General has called for solidarity with all people living in poverty, during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Jeff Schuhrke (2020-10-13). The Nightmare Facing the Poor and Working Class If There's Not Another Stimulus. commondreams.org Pres­i­dent Trump and con­gres­sion­al lead­ers have been say­ing for months that a sec­ond $1,200 check is on the way. But with­out anoth­er relief bill, even this mea­ger finan­cial assis­tance will not materialize. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/ancelrent.jpg

Staff (2020-10-12). Headlines for October 12, 2020. democracynow.org Trump Resumes Rallies, Declares He Is "Immune" as WH Doctors Refuse to Say If He Tested Negative, Fauci Says His Words Taken Out of Context in New Trump Ad, WH Blocks CDC Order on Face Masks on Public Transportation as U.S. COVID-19 Cases Continue to Rise, Stimulus Talks Still at Impasse After Dems and GOP Reject Latest WH Offer, SCOTUS Hearings Kick Off in Senate as Amy Coney Barrett's Anti-Abortion Beliefs in Spotlight, Trump-Biden Debate Canceled After Trump Refuses to Participate in Virtual Format, SC Senate Debate Turns into Candidate Forum After Lindsey Graham Refuses Coronavirus Test, Judge Rejects Trump E…

Brett Wilkins, staff writer (2020-10-12). 'Deep Sense of Despair': UNRWA Chief Says Palestinians Suffering Dual Pandemics of Covid-19 and Poverty. commondreams.org "In Gaza, people are going through the garbage," said Philippe Lazzarini. "More people are fighting to provide one or two meals a day to their families." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/kids_7.jpg

Staff (2020-10-12). Trump's narcissism has become a monster Republicans can't control. therealnews.com Jim Zogby talks about the impact of Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis on the Supreme Court, the stimulus package, and potential violence leading up to the election.

Farooque Chowdhury (2020-10-12). Amidst pandemic, while billions struggle for survival, billionaires' wealth tops $10 trillion. mronline.org Billionaires are "smart" enough. Their wealth now, in this pandemic, tops trillions of dollars.

Editor (2020-10-12). Rich get richer, poor get poorer — and sicker. workers.org "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer." The old cliché is still true — obscenely true. In six months, March to September — when the working class was clobbered by COVID, mass unemployment and a rise in white supremacy — the rich got richer. Specifically, the collective wealth . . . |

Dean Baker (2020-10-12). The Washington Post Has Never Heard of the International Monetary Fund. cepr.net That would seem to be the case from reading the paper's editorial on the need to take steps to reduce extreme poverty in developing countries. The editorial never once mentions the proposal before the International Monetary Fund to substantially increase the special drawing rights available to developing countries. This measure, which has the support of …

Global Research News (2020-10-12). Seeds of Destruction, Globalization of Poverty, Globalization of War: Three Important Books From Global Research Publishers. globalresearch.ca Global Research brings you a selection of three books that help give some context to the current state of the world and the power dynamics that got us here. Unfortunately, these books remain rather relevant, if not more so than …

Karen Conner (2020-10-12). Trump's Triple Failure: Virus Control, Stimulus, and the Trade Deficit. cepr.net See article on original site Given the precarious state of the economy, President Trump's reckless decision to walk away from stimulus negotiations last week was a consequential act of political malpractice. He has since flipped and flopped on this by the hour, but his actions have been particularly rash given his administration's failure to even …

Chuck Collins (2020-10-12). Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes, and Pandemic Profiteers. globalresearch.ca We bring to the attention of our readers this important study by the Introduction | Billionaires dominate our politics, culture, and economy. Their wealth, as this report shows, has concentrated mightily …

WSWS (2020-10-12). Poverty to soar after Labor backs Australian budget. wsws.org The swift passage of the budget's key measures demonstrates a close political partnership.

RT (2020-10-11). Money laundering time? Covid-19 can survive on CASH for 28 days, study claims. rt.com Coronavirus can survive on certain surfaces, including banknotes and mobile phone screens, for nearly a month in cooler climates, new research by Australian scientists suggests. | Covid-19 is able to survive in the open for a significantly longer length of time than was previously thought, according to a study by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) "Establishing how long the virus really remains viable on surfaces en…