Sunday, October 31, 2021

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The Lyme Vaccine That Got Away: Twenty years ago, you could get a vaccine for Lyme disease. Now you can’t. What happened?

https://newrepublic.com/article/163658/what-happened-lyme-disease-vaccine?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily

 

Influenza (Flu) Vaccine (Inactivated or Recombinant): What you need to know

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/flu.pdf

 

Trump NYC Tower Debt Hits Watch List With Vacancies Rising

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-09-17/trump-tower-loan-moved-to-watch-list-as-retail-occupancy-falls?fbclid=IwAR1Be-dLxAA5eMdeA87nu5kD2_5ev1_jobMBNSgVuP0Z9qt-UbYLfW7E2T0

 

Taxing wealth is a fool’s errand

https://newrepublic.com/article/163670/taxing-wealth-fools-errand?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

SEPTA spent $7 million on McKinsey consulting contract amid COVID fiscal crisis

https://whyy.org/articles/septa-spent-7-million-on-mckinsey-consulting-contract-amid-covid-fiscal-crisis/?fbclid=IwAR11BDV_fd78xpJ-vPatR2YYAhqjCp0iWdEGEwwA_dRliI01DD0I8onGTYQ

 

CDC: Moderna Vaccine the Most Effective at Preventing Hospitalization.  Moderna’s vaccine is the most effective at preventing hospitalization, according to a new study by the CDC, but Pfizer and J&J’s vaccines are also highly effective.

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2021-09-17/cdc-moderna-vaccine-the-most-effective-at-preventing-hospitalization?fbclid=IwAR1HYhjil_gz874INF1K1UNLbGuPQn7oT1Kd78uMwfPb3QJnaQZPLlIUUd4

 

Economic Update: Occupy Wall Street: Analysis & Legacy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxSUYDka6jw

 

Capitalism Hits Home: The Labor History We Need to Celebrate - The One We Never Hear About

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtLvBbOv4gI

 

In Historic 1st, Minor League Players Hold On-Field Protest over Low Pay: At a historic baseball game on Coney Island yesterday, minor league baseball players of the High-A affiliates of the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies…

https://paydayreport.com/

 

A Public Bank for Public Money to Serve the Public Good

https://philapublicbanking.org/

 

Bringing Democracy & Critiques of Capitalism to the Mainstream w/ Occupy Wall Street - Prof Wolff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WbBDCltb0I

 

Occupy Wall Street & Democratizing the Workplace - Democracy at Work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml0XuNckyvk

 

Banning the Homeless Won’t Keep California From Burning: Los Angeles wants the unhoused out of its combustible canyons. But no one ever suggests banning the rich from those same hills.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163739/los-angeles-homeless-encampments-wildfire?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Gravitas US Edition: India seizes $2.7 billion of heroin from Afghanistan in Gujarat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef1_S4Fo8Zk

 

Sex Work by Susan Dewey

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781118430873.est0528

 

Alabama Amazon Workers May Get Another Crack at a Union: The warehouse workers’ fight enters its second round, just when everyone thought it was finished.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/amazon-warehouse-union-alabama-bessemer-election-vote-rwdsu-appelbaum

 

U.S. Billionaires Got 62 percent Richer During Pandemic. They’re Now Up $1.8 Trillion.  Billionaire wealth gains made during the COVID-19 pandemic could pay for half of Biden's $3.5 trillion budget package

https://ips-dc.org/u-s-billionaires-62-percent-richer-during-pandemic/

 

Participatory Budgeting Project

https://www.participatorybudgeting.org/what-is-pb/

 

Imagining an Accessible Future

https://www.jandjhale.com/post/imagining-an-accessible-future

 

10 Years Later: What was the impact of Occupy Wall Street?

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2021/09/17/10-years-later--what-was-the-impact-of-occupy-wall-street-

 

Mitch McConnell Is Getting Away With a Dangerous Debt Ceiling Gambit: The Senate minority leader is happy to risk economic collapse if it helps the GOP in the midterm elections.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163756/mcconnell-debt-ceiling-midterm-elections?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

COUNCILMEMBERS REACT TO RECENT NEWS OF ADVANCED MOLD GROWTH IN FRANKFORD HIGH SCHOOL, DEMAND ACTION AND TRANSPARENCY FROM SDP

https://phlcouncil.com/councilmembers-react-to-recent-news-of-advanced-mold-growth-in-frankford-high-school/?fbclid=IwAR03katWBTZnMVmdBbPbzqE-l53amunoGeihOmOxvLRjWq3k2I5434ODwnA

 

How the Media’s Framing of the Budget Debate Favors the Right: They call it a $3.5 trillion spending bill. More accurately, it’s a $60 billion-a-year investment bill. Imagine how different the debate would be if the journalistic shorthand were that.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163768/reconciliation-budget-bill-media-framing-favors-right?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Donald Trump Demands Republicans Tank the Global Economy to Stop Voting Rights Bill

https://hillreporter.com/donald-trump-demands-republicans-tank-the-global-economy-to-stop-voting-rights-bill-113264?fbclid=IwAR3COm88uROEtFhl8yys3j7Oa_x9wcU-BU6i5lbAKVj8zqV6APssoMRIqW0

 

HIGHTOWER: What’s the ‘Quits Rate?’ And why is it skyrocketing?

https://www.stwnewspress.com/opinion/hightower-what-s-the-quits-rate-and-why-is-it-skyrocketing/article_38df375a-0b8a-11ec-86e4-fb8182e33a73.html

 

Can the Rest of the Nation Follow Alabama?

https://www.creators.com/read/jim-hightower/09/21/can-the-rest-of-the-nation-follow-alabama

 

Repair your own products? Corporations say no! | Jim Hightower

https://www.rgj.com/story/opinion/columnists/2021/08/27/repair-your-own-products-corporations-say-no-jim-hightower/5607757001/

 

Sustainability Needed Now More Than Ever

http://www.populist.com/27.17.McMillen.html

 

Clipped Wings, Tiny Pretzels

http://www.populist.com/27.17.ArtCullen.html

 

Investing in American Families: As America gears up for historic investments in roads and bridges to modernize the nation, it also needs to build out the social infrastructure that will empower all citizens to share in the prosperity.

http://www.populist.com/27.17.Conway.html

 

The Recovery: Where Are We Now?

https://cepr.net/the-recovery-where-are-we-now/

 

Is There a Sense of Impending Doom In the Air?

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/is-there-a-sense-of-impending-doom-in-the-air/

 

Gravitas US Edition: China's Communist Party orders a crackdown to "hide" a financial crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBkMe4TdHDQ

 

Families and Big Pharma

http://www.populist.com/27.17.Sandronsky.html

 

Letter: Medicare Must Reject Coverage for Aducanumab for Alzheimer’s

https://www.citizen.org/news/letter-medicare-must-reject-coverage-for-aducanumab-for-alzheimers/

 

How the 9.9 Percent Uphold Inequality: The superrich gain most from a top-heavy economy. But it’s the class of meritocrats just beneath them who justify the system.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163818/99-percent-upholds-inequality-book-review?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Can Capitalist China Survive Default? (w/ Prof. Richard Wolff) 09/22/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2xozZl_AWM

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Dogmatic & Extreme on the Left 09/22/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkbV2ISnfec

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Why Capitalism Overworks Us 09/24/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeygcQjzIC0

 

Ten Years Ago: The Cost of Education [10th Anniversary of Economic Update with Richard Wolff] 09/24/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrUJG6bXYpg

 

Disintegrating Systems in United States Could Not Cope with a Pandemic - Global Capitalism 09/26/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOvv6UtrpvE

 

Economic Update: Socialism & Worker Co-ops [REPEAT] 09/27/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HblfX5v76Ww

 

Bring Democracy to the Central Part of Modern Life: Work - Richard Wolff 09/28/21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BFxpjNq3Cw

 

Ask Prof Wolff: The Conservative Libertarian Hustle 092921

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvtDhDs2DGc

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Capitalism & Patriarchy - Cuomo, Cosby, Weinstein & Epstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gj5yaV_b9g

 

Republicans Don’t Want to Reform Public Education. They Want to End It.  Florida’s recent struggles over masks in schools augur a terrifying shift in the right’s approach to education policy.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163817/desantis-republicans-end-public-education?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

How America Screwed Up the Great School Reopening: Failing to mask fully, provide testing, consider community Covid rates, and support teachers has turned the fall term into a nightmare.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163835/america-screwed-reopen-schools-covid?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

WATCH TAX THE RICH ROADSHOW

https://taxtherich.com/the-roadshow/

 

Patriotic Millionaires

https://patrioticmillionaires.org/

 

Religion and Socialism Working Group activist Colleen Shaddox, along with her Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending U.S. Poverty co-author Joanne Goldblum, has given multiple talks online about their extremely well-reviewed book. You can access those interviews here.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=colleen+shaddox

 

Researchers, doctors call for regulators to reassess safety of taking acetaminophen during pregnancy

The painkiller, taken by half of pregnant women worldwide, could be contributing to rising rates of reproductive system problems and neurodevelopmental disorders like ADHD and autism.

https://www.ehn.org/acetaminophen-side-effects-pregnant-2655077008.html

 

Latest Research Shows Growing Out of ADHD is Unlikely

https://safeminds.org/news/latest-research-shows-growing-out-of-adhd-is-unlikely/?utm_source=mc&fbclid=IwAR1K-nXINC5KU0VgdgMCvYnvQc8mJAxoIQgl7wkKE2l_ORi7muz6Ar_vL1w

 

How do babies live with a 'hole in their heart' and what impact will it have on their lives?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2021-08-30/living-with-a-hole-in-heart-septal-heart-defect-symptoms/100400610?fbclid=IwAR1I56dpKIK1sMjl2ZSylnEHwe6hfIVebRgUWT0VUUGayymEfSr1tl8piRA

 

Microstructural Abnormalities Discovered in Autism Cases in the Orbitofrontal Cortex and Amygdala

https://safeminds.org/research/microstructural-abnormalities-discovered-in-orbitofrontal-cortex-and-amygdala-in-autism-cases/?utm_source=mc&fbclid=IwAR1Fw9ZLvUAboj7CFppbs3TfWaPlvNaxhucr6jzsxuA7J-2EFp1P86ZxvfA

 

What If Pandemic Aid Went to Tenants, Not Landlords?  As landlords refuse federal pandemic rental assistance, some places are simply cutting them out of the process.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163840/erap-cash-tenants-not-landlords?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The Staggering Costs of Sexual Harassment: Settlements offer a semblance of justice, but they don’t make victims of sexual harassment whole.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sexual-harassment-workplace-settlements/

 

How Andrew Cuomo Hurt Men, Too.  His abuses targeted women and men—the latter more insidiously.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cuomo-abuse-men-rbg/

 

What Should We Call Lab Meat? (Probably Not “Lab Meat.”)  It’s real meat, biologically speaking, not a plant-based imitation. But it didn’t come from a living, breathing animal. The words used to brand it could make all the difference—just ask GMO producers.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163857/lab-meat-marketing-gmo-foods?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

BILLIONS HIDDEN BEYOND REACH: Trove of secret files details opaque financial universe where global elite shield riches from taxes, probes and accountability

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/pandora-papers-offshore-finance/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjMyNTk2MjU0IiwicmVhc29uIjoiZ2lmdCIsIm5iZiI6MTYzMzI4NTI3NiwiaXNzIjoic3Vic2NyaXB0aW9ucyIsImV4cCI6MTYzNDQ5NDg3NiwiaWF0IjoxNjMzMjg1Mjc2LCJqdGkiOiJiZTM1MjAwZC0wNTlkLTQwMGQtYWEyZC1hYTFjYTYyMzg3OWEiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vYnVzaW5lc3MvaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMS9wYW5kb3JhLXBhcGVycy1vZmZzaG9yZS1maW5hbmNlLyJ9.MHfhMXkoIfP18-s6q22uJxUVHUZ8bMttyLs00niICAI&itid=gfta&fbclid=IwAR1uQs2az820lioNbbtv3qt4b3r5S5EHiObcI8nv1d0QPdoI-pUEaFbZbh4

 

The Worst Jobs in America

https://247wallst.com/special-report/2021/04/22/the-worst-jobs-in-america-2/6/

 

The Sackler Family Wants Immunity on Opioid Crisis and Here's Who's Helping Them

https://www.newsweek.com/sackler-family-wants-immunity-opioid-crisis-heres-whos-helping-them-1635397

 

U.S. faces a recession if Congress doesn’t address the debt limit within 2 weeks, Yellen says

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/debt-ceiling-us-faces-recession-if-congress-doesnt-act.html?fbclid=IwAR0iegoB5PIYrY2nOpmvTiMxDAH_6mzyGLCV419S5uUCv-fX43A2NAcu724

 

Your Guide to the Debt Ceiling Disaster Toward Which America Is Hurtling: We’ll give you the short version (because your time is valuable) and the long version (because you might have nothing better to do).

https://newrepublic.com/article/163878/debt-ceiling-filibuster-schumer-mcconnell?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

South Dakota Is a Moral Sewer and Should Be Abolished: Governor Kristi Noem isn’t the problem. The other Dakota is a make-believe state devoted to the preservation of wealth dynasties, and it should just go away.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163879/pandora-papers-abolish-south-dakota?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The Rising Toll of Autoimmune Diseases in Older People: Why the risk of these common disorders may be much higher than it was for our parents

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2021/autoimmune-diseases-rising.html

 

Help AARP Foundation End Senior Poverty for Good

https://videos.aarp.org/detail/video/6103431457001/help-aarp-foundation-end-senior-poverty-for-good

 

Why Does Congress Fight Over Funding Childcare But Not F-35s?  Real fiscal insanity is what Congress does year after year, taking most of its discretionary spending off the table and handing it over to the Pentagon before even considering the country’s urgent domestic needs.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/06/why-does-congress-fight-over-funding-childcare-not-f-35s?utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

 

Protecting Workers Will Help Protect Democracy: After firing employees who objected to company policy, Google is facing an unfair labor practices case with huge implications for the future of U.S. democracy.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/06/protecting-workers-will-help-protect-democracy?utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

 

The Science of Learning: Psychology teachers understand how students' minds work. Find out how to use what they know to design more effective lessons and classroom practices.

https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/science-learning?utm_source=neatoday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=211006neatoday&utm_content=science

 

As schools across America crumble, Congress can come to the rescue

https://educationvotes.nea.org/2021/09/24/as-schools-across-america-crumble-congress-can-come-to-the-rescue/?ms=neatoday&utm_source=neatoday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=211006neatoday&utm_content=infrastructure

 

Poll: Public's Support of School, Educator Pandemic Response Stays Strong.  "Educators are still the most trusted voice in our communities," says NEA President.

https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/poll-publics-support-school-educator-pandemic-response-stays?utm_source=neatoday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=211006neatoday&utm_content=poll

 

Educators Rebuff Latest Scheme to Expand School Vouchers: Pushed by former U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, so-called "Student-Centered Funding" would cut millions of dollars from L.A.'s neediest schools. Under pressure from educators and parents, school board members withdrew it from consideration.

https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/educators-rebuff-latest-scheme-expand-school-vouchers?utm_source=neatoday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=211006neatoday&utm_content=vouchers

 

Fighting Inequality After Occupy Wall Street: Policies to address America’s enormous wealth disparities are now on the political map in a way they weren’t before Occupy Wall Street.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/occupy-wall-street-inequality/

 

Was Occupy Wall Street More Anarchist or Socialist?  Two OWS participants debate the ideology at the core of the anti-capitalist movement.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/occupy-socialist-anarchist/

 

Abolish the debt ceiling before it commits austerity again: The GOP used the debt ceiling to force spending cuts in 2011. It can’t be allowed again.

https://www.epi.org/blog/abolish-the-debt-ceiling-before-it-commits-austerity-again-the-gop-used-the-debt-ceiling-to-force-spending-cuts-in-2011-it-cant-be-allowed-again/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=ea7483e0e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_09_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-ea7483e0e0-60170737&mc_cid=ea7483e0e0&mc_eid=bbd855ee75

 

Debt Limit Is Silly And Dangerous

https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2021/09/30/debt-limit-is-silly-and-dangerous/?sh=777cc7333b96&utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=ea7483e0e0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_09_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-ea7483e0e0-60170737&mc_cid=ea7483e0e0&mc_eid=bbd855ee75

 

Policy Briefing #14: Out of the Rack and Ruin

https://kairoscenter.org/policy-briefing-14-out-of-the-rack-and-ruin/?link_id=24&can_id=1d0923a39dd9395ca5e7b571495ca9ab&source=email-our-nation-cant-afford-not-to-change&email_referrer=email_1313642&email_subject=times-such-as-these

 

Vatican poverty conference features activist William Barber, message from pope: Barber is co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, a faith-led anti-poverty initiative.

https://religionnews.com/2021/10/04/vatican-poverty-conference-features-activist-william-barber-message-from-pope/?link_id=27&can_id=1d0923a39dd9395ca5e7b571495ca9ab&source=email-our-nation-cant-afford-not-to-change&email_referrer=email_1313642&email_subject=times-such-as-these

 

Making the case for an Alaska Homeless Bill of Rights

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/10/04/making-the-case-for-an-alaska-homeless-bill-of-rights/?link_id=30&can_id=1d0923a39dd9395ca5e7b571495ca9ab&source=email-our-nation-cant-afford-not-to-change&email_referrer=email_1313642&email_subject=times-such-as-these

 

America Is in the Midst of a Dramatic Labor Resurgence: All over the country, workers are winning concessions. What business calls a “labor shortage” is really labor power in action.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163936/america-midst-dramatic-labor-resurgence?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The Climate Case to #MintTheCoin: Having the Treasury issue a $1 trillion coin could both resolve debt ceiling problems and pave the way for the kind of spending needed to address the climate emergency.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163931/climate-mintthecoin-trillion-coin?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The Obscene Greed Behind the Saudi-Backed Takeover of Newcastle United: Six months after fans brought down the Super League, European soccer is more corrupt than ever.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163958/saudi-takeover-newcastle-united-obscene-greed?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Brexit Voter Stuns Question Time's Fiona Bruce With The Most Anti-Brexit Take: The audience member said it was "ironic" that the current crises were due to Brexit.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fiona-bruce-bbc-question-time-brexit_uk_615ff3e9e4b0c1ab4bb2b13b?d_id=2696160&ncid_tag=fcbklnkukhpmg00000001&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=uk_main&fbclid=IwAR1rmhzL2IkPmLkj6UTZAaJ4OyIG3ht6sk_UVmOMCQNP01faKobg0xNFyXg

 

As stocks soar to historical highs, some experts say conditions ripe for correction: One overvaluation indicator is higher than it was on Black Tuesday.

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/stocks-soar-historical-highs-experts-conditions-ripe-correction/story?id=80303849&fbclid=IwAR0LjFYJygxcYkxE_keZK1AokYMWPJAWNKtcdcJO15VSlVaCqZpVtG9smqk

 

This crazy shipping crisis, explained

https://news.yahoo.com/this-crazy-shipping-crisis-explained-094340766.html

 

COVID-19 And The Flu: What You Need To Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8ET9p91OKo

 

How This Recession Could Set Us Back 30 Years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otEzs0hhy7s

 

World leaders reach landmark deal on a global corporate tax rate

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/08/oecd-reaches-deal-on-corporate-tax-after-ireland-agrees.html?fbclid=IwAR0sYNrZVfm3gNBme3KCE2o4Xezh3bBMtk5nu7jrZQjB2l_b9FwltkN7KHs

 

Big Pharma’s Revolving Door Is Imperiling Democracy: The industry’s titanic profits power a perpetual stranglehold over our government with only one goal in mind: raking you clean of every last dime.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163863/big-pharma-revolving-door-reconciliation?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Why Corporations Pay Millions for Executive Mediocrity

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/why-corporations-pay-millions-for-executive-mediocrity-2/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=dc7c618b-97db-43fc-8080-4216f95d2a4e

 

The Grand Larceny of Bank(er) Robbery

https://hightowerlowdown.org/podcast/the-grand-larceny-of-banker-robbery-2/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=dc7c618b-97db-43fc-8080-4216f95d2a4e

 

Over 50% of monthly income in PH goes to school supplies

https://manilastandard.net/business/biz-plus/365176/over-50-of-monthly-income-in-ph-goes-to-school-supplies.html

 

Welcome to the New Era of Vaccine Acceleration: First the Covid vaccine, now a malaria one: The race is on to beat zoonotic diseases as climate change spreads them all over the world.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163961/new-era-malaria-covid-vaccine?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Why use the zebrafish in research?  Since the 1960s, the zebrafish (Danio rerio) has become increasingly important to scientific research. It has many characteristics that make it a valuable model for studying human genetics and disease.

https://www.yourgenome.org/facts/why-use-the-zebrafish-in-research

 

America Is Running Out of Everything: The global supply chain is slowing down at the very moment when Americans are demanding that it go into overdrive.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/america-is-choking-under-an-everything-shortage/620322/?fbclid=IwAR0UmwPcpdXn3H9PVIJL5mpX8PSlseiqe9w1Aidzulrclr0OVcHoefCykQA

 

Big box stores are taking drastic steps to avert shipping delays. Small retailers are hoping for a holiday miracle.

https://theweek.com/business-news/1005879/big-box-stores-are-taking-drastic-steps-to-avert-shipping-delays-small?fbclid=IwAR1-HrgVkEWd-4G6VJoBiIrdsqBycJMb0-OG6g7TqWFSpGAzc9gDoJttS9Y

 

They Gave Black Mothers in Mississippi $1,000 a Month. It Changed Their Lives.  A basic income experiment in the state should teach national Democrats a lesson as they weigh a permanent Child Tax Credit.

https://newrepublic.com/article/163911/mississippi-basic-income-democrats-child-tax-credit?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Emails show Phil Bryant, Brett Favre ties to company linked to welfare embezzlement scandal

Bryant wanted to bring the Florida drug company Prevacus to Mississippi. Then came indictments.

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/17/gov-bryant-brett-favre-ties-company-linked-welfare-scandal/2973782001/

 

The Stubborn Persistence of Food Insecurity for American Families: New data from the Department of Agriculture suggests that families are increasingly losing access to nutritious meals.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164000/food-insecurity-pandemic-budget-reconciliation?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

A Second Major Seasonal Virus Won't Leave Us Any Choice: Businesses and schools must adapt, because the dual threat from COVID and the flu will be too severe.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/endemic-covid-manageable-risk-dual-threat-influenza/620044/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

 

Americans are ready to tax the rich: It’s not always clear what the public wants. But a new poll shows strong support for taxing the rich to pay for Democrats’ Build Back Better Act.

https://www.vox.com/2021/10/15/22723457/build-back-better-poll-democrats-bill-infrastructure-taxes?fbclid=IwAR1V5IwMfmX6-1DBoPieDkA7jwt-R3hHvaC895yabdecqIeeaZw6Gf5XOAI

 

Funding Universal Pre-K and Not Childcare Would Be a Disaster: What toddler teacher is going to stick around when she could work with 4-year-olds and make double the money?

https://newrepublic.com/article/163991/funding-universal-prek-childcare?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

American Law Firms Are Enabling Foreign Kleptocrats: Despite what you may have heard, the Pandora Papers did not let the United States off the hook for facilitating global corruption.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164029/pandora-papers-us-law-corruption?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

The Revenge of the Essential Worker: Striking John Deere workers watch salaried employees don hard hats, as if the uniform is all it takes to do an essential job.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164059/john-deere-strike-essential-worker?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Why the Capitalist Class Got Caught Off Guard by The Current Wave of Labor Strikes

https://duedissidence.com/2021/10/17/why-the-capitalist-class-got-caught-off-guard-by-the-current-wave-of-labor-strikes/?fbclid=IwAR1-BwrIR4STCDhFcleAoAE0svRXnmwyA5-1EHFgd6iMQPXtiXQtkwIsmyg

 

Facing chaos and needing a scapegoat, the Tories seek an endless fight with Europe

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/17/facing-chaos-and-needing-a-scapegoat-the-tories-seek-endless-fight-with-europe?fbclid=IwAR2J5KGyCwZLIrE-xNqTG6yaHLMr-eiGcxZmcYYitPCSgsPvkpcCOzFDriY

 

Daily Mail buries poll showing voters have turned against Brexit: If there was a vote to leave the EU tomorrow, only 36 per cent would vote out - compared to 52 per cent in 2016.

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/daily-mail-buries-poll-showing-voters-have-turned-against-brexit-295935/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sfeu&fbclid=IwAR3LJfNPRGpjOw1TteJTk6cb3cN-eLma-LXtOVe3PILW99-S3lqbiA-I3AU

 

Hearing aids without a prescription or an exam? The FDA takes big step toward making that happen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/10/19/fda-over-the-counter-hearing-aids/?fbclid=IwAR1c2qjui0xfj7rKQKJ3EFXys6CP1xRpdHxwzcz7tm3YenuNsXKKEIemuDQ

 

The Postal Service is slowing the mail to save money. Critics say it's a death spiral

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/08/1044016873/postal-service-slow-mail-save-money

 

USPS is about to charge you more for slower mail. Here's why. Systemwide changes at the U.S. Postal Service, including planned service slowdowns and price hikes, take effect in the beginning of October

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/01/usps-slowdown-prices-faq/

 

Want to Understand the Labor Shortage? Ask a Shrink.  The best economists right now are epidemiologists—and a psychologist in Texas who’s become the village explainer of the “Great Resignation.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/164080/pandemic-labor-shortage-great-resignation?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

MISERY AND DEBT ON THE LOGIC AND HISTORY OF SURPLUS POPULATIONS AND SURPLUS CAPITAL

https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/2/en/endnotes-misery-and-debt

 

The Simplest Fix to America’s Rent Problem

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/10/universal-basic-rent-section-8-voucher/620429/

 

Banks engaged in multi-million dollar lobbying effort to protect wealthy tax cheats

https://popular.info/p/banks-engaged-in-multi-million-dollar?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1Njg3MTAxLCJwb3N0X2lkIjo0Mjg3NzM5NywiXyI6IlYrVG9VIiwiaWF0IjoxNjM0ODQ2NTk2LCJleHAiOjE2MzQ4NTAxOTYsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0xNjY0Iiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9.BrfsNCvCRi0OB7jQ4GQZVXZWdcswoas_7VAP2PAdR3w

 

Law professor warns UK of ‘serious suffering’ from Johnson’s hard Brexit: “You tell great big fat lies, you sell magic bean fantasies. And then when reality stubbornly proves you wrong, you double down even harder."

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/michael-dougan-law-eu-brexit-cambridge-europe-296137/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=sfeu&fbclid=IwAR1Vv47oniNa_Rdnij0fxpdx-pdtwNy5j4RAO35ru0PawDWBhdOzPpMz21I

 

Help Wanted: What does the "labor shortage" mean for working people?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYFJ0Z-hBYU

 

A People's Guide to Capitalism: An Introduction to Marxist Economics

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Guide-Capitalism-Introduction-Economics/dp/1642591696

 

New whistleblower claims Facebook allowed hate, illegal activity to go unchecked

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/22/facebook-new-whistleblower-complaint/

 

Any Democrat Who Stands Against Lower Drug Prices Should Be Primaried in 2022: If you happen to be a constituent of one of these four Democrats, don't vote for them when they’re up for reelection.

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/10/20/any-democrat-who-stands-against-lower-drug-prices-should-be-primaried-2022?utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

 

As prices rise, so do risks for Biden: Soaring prices are becoming an economic and political minefield for the Biden administration

https://theweek.com/business/1006247/inflation-as-prices-rise-so-do-risks-for-biden?utm_campaign=afternoon_newsletter_20211023&utm_source=afternoon_newsletter&utm_medium=email&refid=20E8D3B3314CD84F82A7DD5120915E94

 

Republicans and Wall Street Are Smearing Biden’s Bank Regulator as a Commie: The red-baiting is a red herring. Saule Omarova’s real sin in the eyes of bankers is that she knows the secrets of their derivatives casino.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164106/saule-omarova-wall-street-attack?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Fast Furniture Is an Environmental Fiasco: Furniture waste has grown appallingly in recent decades. So have shipping emissions.

https://newrepublic.com/article/156208/fast-furniture-environmental-fiasco?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

All the ways to use your phone with one hand: And no, you don't have to be Mr. Fantastic or Elastigirl.

https://www.popsci.com/use-your-phone-with-one-hand/?utm_source=Camden+Contacts&utm_campaign=d070df7153-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_10_22_04_44&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_387276506e-d070df7153-514821738#affinity=Phones

 

Corporate Taxes Will Not Go Up, and Guess Who’s Entirely to Blame?  The Democrats’ Plan B on taxes isn’t bad. But the whole revenue debate shows that changing the “economic paradigm” is going to take a while.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164128/corporate-taxes-sinema-biden-budget?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

How Four-Year Colleges Helped Kill Free Community College Tuition: One of the best ideas in Build Back Better is dead, and the higher-ed lobby deserves some blame.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164150/free-community-college-biden-manchin?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Preventive Health Guidelines: Adults

https://www.monmouth.edu/hr/documents/preventive-health-guidelines-adults.pdf/

 

Democrats Urged to Seize 'Historic Chance' on Billionaire Wealth Tax: Following Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's objection to raising the corporate tax rate, the party has turned to Sen. Ron Wyden's proposal.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/10/26/democrats-urged-seize-historic-chance-billionaire-wealth-tax?utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

 

Covid Shows How Fragile & Wrong Neoliberal Trade Policies Are: Perot was right & so were Henry VII, Alexander Hamilton, and Deng Xiaoping -- It’s time for America to recover our gutted middle class & to ensure our national security

https://hartmannreport.com/p/covid-shows-how-fragile-and-wrong

 

Opinion: Colorado should vote on a publicly funded, privately delivered health care system.  The General Assembly asked for this recommendation, now it should put it in front of the voters

https://coloradosun.com/2021/10/12/medicaid-health-care-public-option%20opinion/?mc_cid=51d897791f&mc_eid=9b5d49cf52

 

HB19-1176 - Health Care Cost Savings Act of 2019

https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb19-1176

 

Ed Weisbart, DCEs mch 9 23 21

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4yGQDOeAVI

 

The “Billionaire Tax”: What It Is and Why We Need It

https://krc-pbpc.org/research_publication/the-billionaire-tax-what-it-is-and-why-we-need-it/?fbclid=IwAR2dS-Are51ZE__m8V3UtHV60NM_zz165R7w3V-VHMLEu_byscw1qrhHw4Q

 

Tax Haven, South Dakota: If we stopped letting the rich hide their treasure in the Mount Rushmore state, would anything change?

https://newrepublic.com/article/164133/abolish-south-dakota-tax-haven?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Elon Musk rips Democrats' billionaire tax plan

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/578555-elon-musk-rips-democrats-billionaire-tax-plan?fbclid=IwAR07Q-p8Han1I8quVOfZoJMby_JZUC2ZK_KTweXVZewd6nS9O57RMULKWfw

 

Hedge Fund Apps Want You to Believe They’re Redistributing Wealth From Wall Street to You

But like most of the tech industry, they’re actually in the business of collecting your personal data.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164169/delphia-hedge-fund-apps-inequality?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=stories

 

Leaving Paid Family Leave Out of Build Back Better Is a Tragedy: Have we learned nothing about the needs of caregivers from the pandemic?

https://newrepublic.com/article/164204/paid-family-leave-cut-build-back-better?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Lewis Hamilton details F1 exit plan after emotional return

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/f1-autosport/1513453/Lewis-Hamilton-details-F1-exit-plan-emotional-return-Mercedes-factory

 

What Biden Can’t Do on Student Debt—and What He Won’t Do: Activists argue that the President could cancel student debt with the stroke of a pen, fulfilling a campaign promise. Newly uncovered documents suggest that Biden has been “reviewing” the issue for months.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-biden-cant-do-on-student-debt-and-what-he-wont-do?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_103021&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_recirc&bxid=5f108bc3a1573c18f411ce44&cndid=61660189&hasha=c2e7b902faa70db20b1eaaead145c496&hashb=d66eda798d13296a4f50fdc8f2311240bd954c47&hashc=b797ec0058e74865fbe009ec53ab7d2888433ec403939f5df0581e6b656d5101&esrc=subscribe-page&mbid=CRMNYR012019

 

EXPERT WARNS THAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE GOING TO START GETTING HACKED.  HE SAYS THAT COMPANIES WANT TO "INCREASINGLY MANIPULATE YOU."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/yuval-harari-human-hack

 

Big Oil Is Winning Big This Week: At the oversight committee hearing convened by Representative Ro Khanna, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Shell executives all but admitted they have no plans to renounce climate misinformation.

https://newrepublic.com/article/164208/exxon-shell-chevron-oversight-hearing?utm_medium=notification&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=pushly_launch

 

Economic Update: Native Americans & American Socialists Oct 4, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd__Yqy9sfI

 

Prof. Wolff: China & the Fracturing of the American West Premiered Oct 4, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj25dL0I4nY

 

America's Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy. Oct 4, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS-7Cymfg_I

 

Wolff Responds: Pandora Papers' Lessons Oct 6, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBJWSxJNRy4

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Talk of Inflation and How It's Being Used Oct 7, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-P3k9TBiJQ

 

Guest Richard Wolff On The Pandora Papers and Libertarian Lies Oct 8, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txe790gOmQU

 

Economic Update: How U.S. Workers are Really Treated Oct 11, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwGjXtj4bkQ

 

PPU Debate - Capitalism vs. Socialism Oct 13, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVx57ilss2Q

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Living in Capitalism, Believing in Socialism Oct 14, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcKGjULLHgs

 

Prof. Richard Wolff: What's Wrong With the Nobel is Wrong With Economics Premiered Oct 15, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6PnhjbpcpA

 

Ask Prof Wolff: When Population Stops Growing Oct 15, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LC_Qxj1xDc

 

Wolff Responds: Not Labor Shortage Labor Resistance!  Oct 16, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5vkq0N7tOU

 

Economic Update: Signs of System Decline Oct 18, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbp66UGcxhQ

 

Wolff Responds: BS Economics to Excuse Capitalism Oct 19, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N-OKSYSoDI

 

COVID, China and Supply Chains for Profit -Economic Update Oct 19, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1WUAzSSYTo

 

Ask Prof Wolff: Cooperation Jackson and Humboldt Oct 20, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBe8PuXVmyY

 

Ask Prof Wolff: US Colonialism Oct 22, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUgEhHgQ3p8

 

Economic Update: Cornel West on "Black Prophetic Fire" Oct 25, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW0JB-dxsgM

 

Cornel West Tells the Grim Truth About COVID in the U.S. - Economic Update w/ Richard Wolff Oct 26, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcjgbFW3jJA

 

Puerto Rico Remains a Colonial Territory of the U.S. - Richard Wolff Oct 26, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5jK1xX2e6Y

 

Wolff Responds: Bringing the People into Politics Oct 29, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj_ZRsuNu0w

 

The Sickness IS The System w/Professor Richard Wolff Premiered Oct 29, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BlHj_7k6Ts

 

Richard D. Wolff's MARXIST PERSPECTIVE on the current Working Class CRISIS! (Interview w/Wolff!) Oct 31, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_19LgJg5tJE

 

Prof. Richard Wolff: Coping with Left Despair Premiered Oct 29, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nee86umAe4

 

Richard Wolff on Shelter & Solidarity Oct 31, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1T9qrgKzQE

 

Noam Chomsky - Tipping Points: Environmental & Political (interviewed by David Barsamian) Oct 12, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_HfDtXKB5c

 

Rethinking the Civic Imagination & Manufactured Ignorance in the Post Pandemic World - Noam Chomsky Oct 13, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MsLADSQvjQ

 

Noam Chomsky on the Consequences of Capitalism Streamed live on Oct 13, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8UciV-Frr8

 

Capitalism Hits Home: Americans Face Mass Evictions Oct 28, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S03CeXzb0s

 

Who Would SURVIVE the Collapse of Civilization? - Graham Hancock Oct 26, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw-w30pOkzY

 

Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Education of an Educator Oct 21, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLF6qf2iU5Q

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