Thousands of people have demonstrated today in Barcelona to protest against the order of entry into prison of the Lleida rapper Pablo Hasél. The concentration began at seven o’clock in the afternoon in the Jardinets de Gracia, where after half an hour the participants have chosen to advance along the Paseo de Gracia to the delegation of the Spanish Government.
”Where’s the Democracy..Who’s the Terrorist. Absolution for Pablo”
YOU FASCIST ARE THE TERRORISTS! #LlibertatPabloHasel https://t.co/15tNNshfMHLlibertat Pablo Hasel (@LlibertatHasel) January 30, 2021
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In a simple comparison, two headlines seem to say it all about the economic impact of the Covid-19 crisis: the first, from Business Insider, reads “Billionaires made $3.9 trillion during the pandemic” while the second, from The Guardian, shouts “Covid-19 has cost global workers $3.7 trillion in lost earnings.”
Post-it note reading “Eat The Rich” is seen on a student hall of residence building window, after new nationwide restrictions were announced during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Bristol, Britain
A classic case of robbing Peter to pay Paul, it would appear at first glance but of course, the world doesn’t work that way and the two ideas behind the headlines are not directly related.. But that doesn’t make the news any easier to swallow.
Frankly, I couldn’t care less about the world’s billionaires, and maybe one day soon I won’t have to. They seem intent on moving to Mars in their big rockets where their wacked-out ideas and dreams of a super-race can become a problem for the little green men to deal with.
However, their surging wealth has become a headline writer’s dream. Added to those already cited, the BBC trumpets that the increase in wealth of the 10 richest men in the world during the pandemic would cover the cost of vaccinating every single person on the planet. It’s not fair! It’s just not fair!
But it is no use bleating about this. Stuck at home while riding out this damned virus, we’ve been online around the clock, buying stuff we don’t need to have it delivered by Amazon, streaming hours and hours of online entertainment, addictively watching Tiktok and furiously messaging on social media, all activities that are unwittingly causing a boom in stock prices for all those global tech giants and their oddball owners – people like Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Bill Gates.
Not everyone is cashing in on our boredom. Nope, there are serial investors out there who pre-pandemic were already suffered from the condition of having way too much money at their disposal. People who share the outlook of 19th century American robber baron, John D. Rockefeller who admitted, “I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” Men like Warren Buffet, the so-called Sage of Omaha, who has made more than $20 billion since last March.
Unfortunately, his good fortune comes not by selling anything the rest of the world can use – like free care homes for the elderly and vulnerable or a reliable Covid-19 vaccine that everyone clamours to buy – it’s through investment of his existing billions.
All this would be easy to shrug off – oh well, that’s just the way it is – if it wasn’t for the incredible tsunami-like impact that the coronavirus pandemic has had on our national economies and our everyday lives that can be seen with a cursory glance at the graphs and tables that chart such effects.
While we each come to terms with our own new normal, the collective overview is alarming. Every major economy (except China) is struggling with rising unemployment. Up 11 percent in Italy in 2020 compared with 2019. Nearly nine percent in the US and France. Some 5.4 per cent in the UK and 4.3 in the European powerhouse, Germany.
Across the globe, shoppers have vanished with retail footfall down 97 percent in Germany, 78 percent in the UK, 65 percent in France and Canada, and 20 percent in the USA, still the biggest economy on the planet.
Global tourism has been crushed, with 2020 a total washout for everywhere from Thailand to Brazil to Italy and France. The airline industry? Devastated. This means millions of jobs lost, many of which may never return. Read more
There is no need to go on. Unless you’re a billionaire, let’s face it, the figures suck.
You can believe that as a result of the collapse in our economies, and the jobs that have followed down that big black hole, lost earnings from workers could quite easily total that estimated $3.7 trillion figure. Sure it will be even higher once the various government-backed furlough schemes and income support grants inevitably come to an end in countries like the UK.
It would be fun to paint the world’s billionaires as evil puppet masters bent on global domination and the development of a Mars-bound master race, sucking up the wages of the world’s workers so they can buy more rocket fuel and mansions built into mountains, but sadly the reality is far more prosaic…..
The shambolic handling of the Covid-19 crisis cannot be blamed on crooked billionaires scheming away in their secret island hideaways, but can be laid at the feet of the politicians operating in plain sight……..
http://www.scmp.com ›— Not since the middle of the 20th Century has racial purity been as dangerous … The 4,500 year old skull showed NO TRACE of the ARYANS’ DNA….
How Ancient DNA is Rewriting India’s History
– New DNA research on the Indus Valley civilization is changing what we know about the subcontinent’s early people. That affects modern people, too.
The studies are like dynamite under India’s present far right Government who base their supremacy claims on the Aryan myth, subverting the whole racist class and caste system.
“It was solidarity that won the reversal,” said Sharon Black of the Peoples Power Assembly. She pointed out that there was no avenue to restore the pages until the targeted groups alerted supporters and media and threatened legal action.
Social media network Facebook is relied upon by millions of people around the globe for communication. But under billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow owners, Facebook serves the interests of profit, not people. Facebook launched its latest attack on leftists and people’s organizations shortly after the inauguration of President Joe Biden.
Tunisia. Tunis. January 26. 2021. Confidence vote for the government reshuffle.. parliament besieged by young people from popular neighborhoods and opposition movements.. repression and arrests….
This day of rage, as it was called, represented the first conscious attempt to merge the two moments of the anti-government protest movement of these days: the mass and proletarian one of the periphery (not only from the city but from the most marginalized regions of the country) and that of the youth of the opposition. militant and framed in parties and organizations of the revolutionary and student left..
Once again the Mechichi government responded with repression: every single street leading to the square in front of the parliament was cordoned off and manned by hundreds of policemen and dozens of armored vehicles, even the entrances to the neighborhood within a radius of two kilometers were closed and garrisoned by vehicles equipped with water cannons, even from within the parliament some Social Democratic deputies as well as a liberal from a party of the ruling coalition expressed their complaints about a session held in a “parliament transformed into a besieged barracks”.
But the interior ministry has focused most of its forces on an intersection along the 4 km freeway connecting Ettadhamen to the Bardo which was heavily manned with the aim of not letting the demonstration leave the borders of the district and not letting it reach the young people in front of parliament. Despite the great participation in both the march and the sit-in, the huge deployment of men managed to stop the march, not without a fierce opposition, while at the Bardo the young people who tried to break through the police cordon to reach the parliament square, 50 meters ahead, once again they were loaded and targeted with tear gas. VIDEO(Video ->Warning Facebook Link)
The day of mobilization, however, ended in the heart of the capital: in fact, some of the demonstrators from both the march and the sit-in reached the center in small groups where they reassembled a few hundred meters from Avenue Bourguiba but also here the presence large numbers of police forces rejected and dispersed the young people.
On the same day, the funeral of the young Haykel Rahchdi the first martyr’s movement, who died after being hit in the face by a tear gas canister fired by the police, was held in the town of Sbeitla, 250 km from the capital, the funeral was attacked with charges and tear gas, reigniting the revolt in the city throughout the day and until late at night.
On the whole, the day of January the 26th showed a strong determination on the part of young Tunisians, often adolescents and who have not experienced the 2010-2011 Uprising, to take back the streets, not to retreat or be frightened by the police intimidation by expressing the will to bring down the system or the government and reactionary opposition to it.
Their slogans full of anger and yearning for social gains and freedom and, once again for the liberation of the 1.500 youth arrested in the last days, show once again that in post-revolt Tunisia the restoration of a police regime in the form of parliamentary democracy is underway, who still speak of “democratic transition” in good faith he should “go to school to the masses”.
A report warns that radiation levels in some areas of the nuclear plant are high enough to kill a person in a few hours.
With just over a month to go before the commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the accident at the Fukushima-1 nuclear power plant, the Japan Nuclear Regulatory Authority published on Tuesday a draft of the internal report on the investigation of the breakdown that indicates that in some Radiation levels remain extremely high in areas of the plant, which could delay the process of dismantling the complex, local media report.
According to the document, the contamination concentration was located near the fifth floor of the reactor buildings in Units 2 and 3. In terms of dose, the radiation detected would be equivalent to several sieverts per hour, which means that if a person entered the affected area they would absorb a fatal dose in just a few hours. In addition, analyzing the work carried out after the accident in March 2011 following an earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the document underlined the importance of ensuring the operation of ventilation within the plant units.
Action report on autonomous blockade of petrochemical industry in so-called Beaver, Pennsylvania.
On Thursday morning, a collection of autonomous activists blockaded the sole access road to the Shell Polymer’s office in Beaver, PA to protest the transformation of the Ohio Valley into a manufacturing hub for the petrochemical industry. Shell Polymers is a subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, and they are constructing an ethane cracking facility in Beaver that will be used to turn fracked gas into plastic.. Read Full Article—Anonymous Contributor
.Following months of riots, building barricades, and stand-offs with police trying to evict encampments, in late September of 2020, Philadelphia Housing Action was able to claim victory, after the city of Philadelphia offered unsheltered families and individuals access to housing in formerly vacant buildings, a process which people had already begun in the months prior, as homes owned by Philadelphia Housing Authority were squatted. In the end, upwards of 75 homes were handed over by the city, which included many homes which had been previously squatted. Here Philadelphia Housing Action looks back at 2020 with analysis and a timeline on what all went down. Read Full Article—It’s Going Down
A riot broke out in Tacoma, Washington as hundreds took to the streets following a police officer running over people attending a sideshow.
After a pig drove through a crowd of people with a police vehicle, militants set flaming barricades and smashed windows of Pierce County Corrections jail in Tacoma, Washington on Sunday night.
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