Daily Archives: January 24, 2023

2023-01-24: News Headlines

infobrics (2023-01-25). India, Russia Explore Coop in Biotech, AI & Quantum Tech & Oceanography. infobrics.org Russian and Indian scientists, representatives of universities and relevant ministries took part in the 12th meeting of the Russian-Indian Working Group on Science and Technology…

Anjoulie Woodhead (2023-01-24). Concerns of Growth, Pandemic, War and Inflation Top World Economic Forum Agenda. indybay.org World Bank Cuts Global Growth Forecast as Developing Countries Struggle with Debt…

Josh Bivens (2023-01-24). This Is Absurd. The Debt Ceiling Must Be Abolished. commondreams.org

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen announced last week that the federal government had reached the statutory debt limit and that her department had begun "extraordinary measures" to meet required spending obligations. It is estimated that by July these extraordinary measures will no longer be able to keep some spending obligations from being missed.The fact that the statutory debt limit can inject such chaos into the American political system and economy is truly odd. The debt limit measures nothing coherent and has no relationship to any serious measure of the economic burden imposed by the nation's d…

Lynda Carson (2023-01-24). Debt limit crisis threatens Social Security and Bay Area subsidized housing renters. indybay.org Lydia Gans Photo Of A San Rafael Tenant Meeting In 2005 That I Helped To Organize With Housing Activist Marion Brady, To Help Save Section 8 Tenants From Losing Their Housing Vouchers. That's Me Standing Near The Back Of The Room In A Red Top And Black Sweater Reading Some Information That I Helped Pass Out To The Tenants:…

Danny O'Brien (2023-01-24). In Cuba, housing is a right! workers.org Portland, Oregon I work at a congregate shelter for people experiencing homelessness in Portland, Oregon, where the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development considers 5,228 people homeless. Of those, 3,057 are unsheltered in Multnomah County alone. My experience in working there has shown me that there is limited cooperation . . . |

Lyn Neeley (2023-01-24). Oregon nurses fight for a decent contract. workers.org In Portland, Oregon, nurses and community supporters rallied Jan. 20 in front of Providence Hospital corporate headquarters. Thousands of nurses in three Providence hospitals have been working since fall 2022 without a contract that would ensure basic safety standards and incorporate their union's common-sense proposals. Portland, Oregon nurses rally for . . . |

WSWS (2023-01-24). Ontario teacher unions seek to soften up members for major concessions as opposition grows among rank and file. wsws.org While CUPE's sellout materially weakened the education workers in their struggle, conditions remain highly favourable for the development of a mass working class movement against capitalist austerity and an end to real-terms wage cuts.

WSWS (2023-01-24). Shooting at San Diego shelter highlights the rise in violence against the homeless. wsws.org The shooting was the second directed against the Alpha Project since the downtown San Diego shelter opened five years ago.

WSWS (2023-01-24). Workers, students denounce inequality at youth protest against French pension cuts. wsws.org "It's very visible that Macron is more on the side of the bosses and not the population. You can see it every day. He wants to force us to work all the time, to create more and more precarious people."

americanthinker (2023-01-23). California seems to find a new way to chase away residents every day. americanthinker.com This time, they've cooked up a new 'wealth tax.'

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). Harry the 'Traitor' and Lynch 'the Grinch': The Corporate Media's Automatic Smear Machine. transcend.org 19 Jan 2023 – Whatever we think of the Harry and Meghan Markle saga, it matters when the son of the current king and brother of the future king writes in his new book, 'Spare': "Does the Crown generate tourism income that benefits all? Of course. Does it also rest upon lands obtained and secured when the system was unjust and wealth was generated by exploited workers and thuggery, annexation and enslaved people? Can anyone deny it?"

Editor (2023-01-23). Shocking inequality: Richest 21 Indian billionaires have more wealth than 70 crore Indians. mronline.org Under the Modi government, India's ruling classes have joined the ruling classes of the rest of the world in intensifying exploitation and earning super profits.

Editor (2023-01-23). Shocking inequality: Richest 21 Indian billionaires have more wealth than 700,000,000 Indians. mronline.org Under the Modi government, India's ruling classes have joined the ruling classes of the rest of the world in intensifying exploitation and earning super profits.

isabella (2023-01-23). New Report on Extreme Wealth and Potential Wealth Tax Revenue. inequality.org

Shannon Dawson (2023-01-23). Ed Reed Had 'Billionaires' Set To Invest In Bethune-Cookman, Football Hall Of Fame Player Says. newsone.com Before his dismissal from the head coach position, Ed Reed had tapped some wealthy investors like Shaquille O'Neal to help improve Bethune-Cookman's campus conditions, football hall of famer Edgerrin James said.

Staff (2023-01-23). Warren Slams Republicans for Creating 'Economic Chaos' to Protect the Rich. commondreams.org Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Monday took aim at the Republican Party for creating what she called a "manufactured crisis" as a potential fight over the debt ceiling looms, slamming the GOP's threats to public spending as the party works to make it even easier for the wealthy to avoid paying taxes. On MSNBC's "Morning Joe," …

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). Solving the Debt Crisis the North American Way. transcend.org 20 Jan 2023 – Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today.

Rania Khalek (2023-01-23). Who's Responsible for Africa's Debt Trap: China or the West? thealtworld.com U.S. politicians and corporate media blame China for debt crises in African countries, yet African governments owe three times more debt to private Western lenders than to China. Furthermore, interest rates on Western private loans are almost double those on Chinese loans. | Tim Jones, Head of Policy at Debt Justice in the UK, explains the reality behind the African debt and how the only just way forward is its cancellation.

Tanupriya Singh (2023-01-23). $10 billion in aid has been promised to Pakistan's flood survivors but many questions remain. peoplesdispatch.org Pakistan received nearly $10 billion in funding pledges for post-flood recovery at a conference in Geneva this month, but 90% of this money will be in the form of loans, at a time when Pakistan is already facing a severe debt crisis and worsening socio-economic conditions…

Dr. Mark Trozzi (2023-01-23). UK Data Shows: The mRNA "Vaccine" Bioweapon Is Working. globalresearch.ca

Editor (2023-01-23). Chris Hedges: The Plague of Social Isolation. scheerpost.com The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a dangerous social isolation.

WSWS (2023-01-23). Google lays off 12,000 workers as tech jobs bloodbath intensifies. wsws.org The announcement by Google that it is laying off 12,000 workers is the latest in the intensifying jobs bloodbath in the technology sector internationally and the spearhead of a drive by the financial elite to impose the inflation crisis on the backs of the working class.

Rania Khalek (2023-01-23). Nickel & Dimed: How Restaurant Lobbyists Scam Workers to Keep Wages Low. thealtworld.com Restaurant workers are being put into food safety courses where the fees then fund the industry's anti-worker lobbying against minimum wage increases. The National Restaurant Association has raised millions over the years through its ownership of ServSafe, the de facto food-safety training course for the industry. | Teo Reyes, Chief Program Officer at ROC United, breaks down the ServSafe scam and the National Restaurant Associations' decades-long fight to prevent minimum wage and subminimum wage increases.

Sarah Anderson (2023-01-23). America's inequality problem in one statistic. nationofchange.org If you work for a big corporation, your boss likely made more money on January 2 than you will this whole year.

WSWS (2023-01-23). Texas prisoners on hunger strike against solitary confinement. wsws.org Texas is currently holding more than 3,000 inmates in what the TDCJ refers to as "restrictive housing." Of those, more than 0 have been held in solitary confinement for at least 10 years and 138 for at least 20 years.

WSWS (2023-01-23). UK: Mother collapses from hunger at South Tyneside Food Bank. wsws.org Approximately six million people are already reporting that they did not eat due to lack of money in the past month and 76 percent of adults that they are having to try and cut back on spending.

Antonio C.S. Rosa (2023-01-23). The WEF and WHO — Are They Running a Death Cult? A WHO/Pharma Controlled Worldwide Tyrannical "Health System" transcend.org 10 Jan 2023 – Let us never let an abject power-hungry non-elected criminal like Klaus Schwab, with his roots in the Third Reich, and his NGO, the World Economic Forum, dominate humanity. May sheer solidarity, togetherness of thought and will power, overcome the pathological objectives of the psychopaths' wish for power and money dominance.

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