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JKR

Rabble's own Duncan Cameron is showing us how Biden's full employment policies might help Canadians!:

Joe Biden calls for full employment. Will Ottawa do the same?; rabble.ca; Duncan Cameron; June, 1, 2021; https://rabble.ca/columnists/2021/06/joe-biden-calls-full-employment-will-ottawa-do-same

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U.S. President Joe Biden rejects the idea of an economy where workers have to compete for jobs. With an analysis you would expect from a social democratic government, Biden is calling for the U.S. to move to an economy where companies have to compete for workers.

In a full employment economy, it costs companies to maintain workers or hire new employees.

When Biden states that companies will have to compete for workers, that means businesses will have to provide wage increases. The wage increases amount to a redistribution of income from owners' profits to workers.

A redistribution of income -- from business profits to workers' wages -- is a classic social democratic policy objective.

Such a redistribution, should it occur, is the opposite of what has happened under neoliberalism, where workers' incomes have not kept up with investment income.

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NDPP

'All over the world cats make friends with cats and nowhere in the world do cats make friends with mice.' - Mao

"There's a sucker born every minute." - PT Barnum

 

Joe Biden to rich donors: 'Nothing would fundamentally change' if he is elected

https://www.salon.com/2019/06/19/joe-biden-to-rich-donors-nothing-would-...

Which promise do you think he's more likely to break - the one to his donors or the one to his chumps?

NDPP

Remarks by President Biden on the Economy

https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1399397005378473986

"...Biden promises that US richest 1% will pay to rebuild US economy. Our choice: broken promises or system change."

NDPP

"Joe Biden is trying to act like he's always been a friend of Black people. 'The state always adapts. An attempt to blend identity politics and intersectionality with imperialism,' said Ramiro Sebastien Funez on his podcast 'Unmasking Imperialism'."

The CIA's new 'woke' Facade (podcast)

https://www.blackagendareport.com/cias-new-woke-facade

 

(A similar political technique of 'woke' facadism, e.g. 'feminist foreign policy' etc, has long been an effective Canadian liberal-left attractant here. Many even seem to prefer the ersatz version to the real thing.)

NDPP

Return of the Lab Leak Conspiracy shows Biden is a Democrat with Trumpian Characteristics on China

https://www.blackagendareport.com/return-lab-leak-conspiracy-shows-biden...

"Joe Biden has been praised by liberals and even much the Left as a marked shift from Donald Trump's erratic and embarrassing presidency. This position takes on a decidedly class dimension whereby elites and their hangers on walk in lockstep with the Biden administration's political trajectory. Those heaping praise onto Biden ignore his neoliberal approach to domestic economic woes and express complete alignment with his foreign policy priorities.

Nowhere is this clearer than in Biden's approach to China. Biden's approach to China has built upon Trump's hostile position in every respect..."

NDPP

The Democrat-Republican Symbiosis (podcast)

https://www.blackagendareport.com/democrat-republican-symbiosis

"Like Democratic administrations before them, the Biden-Harris Whitehouse 'needs the Republicans to given them cover,' for failing to serve the needs of the people, said Dr Johnny Williams, a professor of sociology at Trinity College, in Hartford Connecticut.

Joe Biden's 'moderation leans towards the right,' while VP Kamala Harris has always been a cop,' said Williams."

NDPP

'Under Biden, Trump era attacks on the First Amendment are Thriving'

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/140167846514406150

"Unless Biden drops the Assange case entirely and ceases DoJ tactics against journalists and sources, no one can credibly say Biden supports a free press."

Notice once again the disgusting traditional babble practice of omerta when it comes to  criticizing American presidencies if they're Democrat?

 

JKR

G7 backs Biden's sweeping overhaul of global tax system
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London(CNN)Group of Seven finance ministers gathering in London agreed Saturday to back a global minimum tax of at least 15% on multinational companies. The G7 group also agreed that the biggest companies should pay tax where they generate sales, and not just where they have a physical presence.

UK finance minister Rishi Sunak announced the agreement in a video posted on Twitter Saturday, saying G7 finance ministers -- hailing from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US -- had "reached a historic agreement to reform the global tax system to make it fit for the global digital age and, crucially, to make sure that it's fair so that the right companies pay the right tax in the right places."
 

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NDPP

Re the above post. Chrystia Freeland claims this as her idea. And Biden does have a record of plagiarism. Actually it probably comes from the man who broke Glass- Steagal, Larry Summers, who advises both. As to it actually happening...Pull the other one it's got bells on. ' Nothing will fundamentally change.'

Biden keeps Trump's Tax Cuts for the Wealthy

https://youtu.be/DCZZAyRKYDg

'Joe Biden to wealthy donors: Nothing will fundamentally change.'

NDPP

'Do NOT Come!': Biden's immigrant-welcoming policy turns on a dime

https://youtu.be/xvWZ_LCmc8k

"Kamela Harris has concluded her first trip to Latin America with a clear message - not everyone is free to come to the land of the free."

 

Kamala Harris repeats Trump's message to immigrants

https://youtu.be/0yK1CYMYUrk

 Notice those here who cheered on Joe Biden for campaign promises say absolutely nothing as he breaks them.

NDPP

Shameful Dems Throw Ilhan Omar under the bus for TRUTH

https://youtu.be/0FpBnAGW9us

"You're not allowed to tell the truth about US foreign policy."

Some Canadian 'progressives' here observe the same prohibition.

JKR

Biden says US to buy and donate half-billion doses of Pfizer's Covid vaccine: 'We know the tragedy. We also know the path to recovery'
 

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Falmouth, England(CNN)President Joe Biden announced Thursday evening that the United States plans to donate 500 million Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine doses globally as part of his efforts to reassert US leadership on the world stage.

"America knows first-hand the tragedy of this pandemic. We've had more people die in the United States than anywhere in the world, nearly 600,000 of our fellow Americans," Biden said in remarks after meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

He added, "We know the tragedy. We also know the path to recovery."
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melovesproles

NDPP wrote:

'Do NOT Come!': Biden's immigrant-welcoming policy turns on a dime

https://youtu.be/xvWZ_LCmc8k

"Kamela Harris has concluded her first trip to Latin America with a clear message - not everyone is free to come to the land of the free."

 

Kamala Harris repeats Trump's message to immigrants

https://youtu.be/0yK1CYMYUrk

 Notice those here who cheered on Joe Biden for campaign promises say absolutely nothing as he breaks them.

Yeah, it's so glaring. If Trump had made this speech, the Liberal resistance would have been deafening but when it's the Democrats, we get crickets. 

Even sports fans tend to be more self-aware and critical of their own side than most political partisans these days. It's incredible how bad this has gotten.

NDPP

Democratic leaders support charges of 'anti-semitism' in response to Ilhan Omar's criticism's of Israeli war crimes in Gaza

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/12/omar-j12.html

"This week has seen another revolting example of the Democratic Party's support for Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian population of the occupied West Bank and Gaza. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the rest of her House leadership team publicly rebuked Rep Ilhan Omar for criticizing 'unthinkable atrocities' committed by Israel and the US.

As millions around the world looked on in horror and disgust including [some] Israeli Jews who protested with Israeli Palestinians, all wings of the Democratic Party, including the so-called 'progressive' Bernie Sanders, proclaimed Israel's 'right to defend itself', i.e., the right of a massively armed occupying power to indiscriminately bomb and kill those it illegally occupies.

Omar's statement triggered a right-wing response by 12 Jewish Democrats for suggesting that Israel and the US are guilty of any terrorist activity or atrocities. Last month a number of Democrats sent a letter to President Biden asserting that accusing Israel of 'committing acts of terrorism was anti-Semitic..."

Another one bites the dust

"So the cause became #IStandWithIlhan while Ilhan Omar simultaneously doubles down on demonizing Palestinian resistance and praising Israel under pressure from the lobby! I reaffirm all my criticisms of her in the article above. Her latest comments are awful!"

https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1403356616410423300

Free Gaza! Free Palestine! Stop Apartheid Israel! Resist don't Collaborate!

NDPP

Biden seeks allies for war on China

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/06/biden-seeks-allies-for-war-on-chin...

"China is indeed rising to the 'enormous opportunities of this new age.' The US, well, not so much. And that is the crux of the whole situation. Europe won't line iup behind the US for its great war on China. And a war it is gonna be. The US can not win against China. How long will it take to recognize that?"

NorthReport

Even Wall Street Shills Understand Why the Democrats Failed

 

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/06/third-way-biden-2020-trump-postelection-r...

NDPP

"The warmongering new director of CIA front USAID, Samantha Power, is traveling to Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala this week as part of the neoliberal ''Biden Plan' to reassert US control over central America and destabilize Nicaragua's Sandanista government."

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1403740709564338181

'America's back!' - Joe Biden

laine lowe laine lowe's picture

Isn't Samantha Power a protegé of Michael Ignatieff back when he was teaching at one of those eastern Ivy League universities? She certainly had a good position under the Obama administration, possibly more high profile than head of USAID, but still she is not someone to be ignored and not an arms-length administrator of USAID. Shame of how the US uses these NGO bodies to still do their bidding.

NDPP

Power has always been a liberal imperialist and USAID could perhaps better be described as a PGO (Pro-governmental organization).

NDPP

WATCH: Joe Biden seems to get lost at the G7 summit in England...

https://twitter.com/JewishVoice/status/1403421687861764099

"Jill comes to the rescue..."

kropotkin1951

NDPP wrote:

WATCH: Joe Biden seems to get lost at the G7 summit in England...

https://twitter.com/JewishVoice/status/1403421687861764099

"Jill comes to the rescue..."

I think that this post is ageism. It merely shows a man who is past his retirement age acting normal for his age. People pushing 80 are not considered at the top of their game, by any sane system.

melovesproles

kropotkin1951 wrote:

NDPP wrote:

WATCH: Joe Biden seems to get lost at the G7 summit in England...

https://twitter.com/JewishVoice/status/1403421687861764099

"Jill comes to the rescue..."

I think that this post is ageism. It merely shows a man who is past his retirement age acting normal for his age. People pushing 80 are not considered at the top of their game, by any sane system.

Yeah I agree. Biden's age and mental faculties are not the problem. I'd be fine with a senile Biden if he was surrounded by leftwing advisors. The problem is he's a longtime advocate for American empire and credit card companies and he surrounds himself with people who are the same. 

NDPP

Speaking of which:

Corruption is profitable but does it have to be this profitable?

https://t.co/SB42MCoxPZ

"...Within the next few years Biogen will make a million times more money than it paid to Joe Biden's campaign."

kropotkin1951

NDPP wrote:

Speaking of which:

Corruption is profitable but does it have to be this profitable?

https://t.co/SB42MCoxPZ

"...Within the next few years Biogen will make a million times more money than it paid to Joe Biden's campaign."

I suspect that someone, in the Biden family of grifters, got a stock option or some such thing that makes the $76,000 look like chicken feed.

JKR

kropotkin1951 wrote:

I suspect that someone, in the Biden family of grifters, got a stock option or some such thing that makes the $76,000 look like chicken feed.

Where did the first pooch get that "amazing stock tip" from?!? That made $76,000 look like dog food!

JKR

NDPP

Um...Who's gonna tell him? (and vid)

https://twitter.com/sahouraxo/status/1405238427029676032

"In just the last 80 years alone, the US has:

  • overturned at least 80 governments
  • interfered in more than 85 foreign elections
  • tried to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders
  • dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries
kropotkin1951

JKR wrote:

kropotkin1951 wrote:

I suspect that someone, in the Biden family of grifters, got a stock option or some such thing that makes the $76,000 look like chicken feed.

Where did the first pooch get that "amazing stock tip" from?!? That made $76,000 look like dog food!

Just business as usual in the US kleptocracy. How many millionaires does he now have in his family? After his years of service not only does he have a good pension but also at least five of his close family circle have become rich. Not bad for a poor kid with nothing to his name when he went into public service. Democracy has never looked better, to the people milking it.

NDPP

What President Biden and his media chorus revealed about their war-fighting capabilities

http://johnhelmer.net/what-president-biden-and-his-media-chorus-revealed...

"President Biden spent 33 minutes speaking at his press conference to a group of US reporters pre-selected, coached and programmed by name, organisation and text of question. This operation made it impossible to allow Russian reporters to attend. Biden demonstrated he can rehearse, recite, repeat.

Biden's 33-minute performance demonstrated the clinical motor and cognitive symptoms which remain state secrets in Washington. They are now better understood in Moscow than by US experts on the 25th Amendment.

When Putin was asked by a Russian reporter if he has 'any new illusions as a result of the meeting?', he replied: 'I didn't even have the old ones, and you're talking about the new ones. Where did you get the idea about illusions? There are no illusions and there can be no illusions..."

Oh yes there can. Here there are many.

NDPP

Biden sides with private prisons over immigrants

https://youtu.be/Is-jPQHv-OY

Ole White Joe for immigrant private-prisons.

JKR

Biden makes Juneteenth a U.S. federal holiday, commemorating end of slavery; CBC News; June 17, 2021

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Black Americans rejoiced Thursday after U.S. President Joe Biden made Juneteenth, June 19, a federal holiday, but some said that, while they appreciated the recognition at a time of racial reckoning in the country, more is needed to change policies that disadvantage too many of their brethren.

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"This day doesn't just celebrate the past. It calls for action today," Biden said before he established Juneteenth National Independence Day. His audience included scores of members of Congress and Opal Lee, a 94-year-old Texas woman who campaigned for the holiday.
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NDPP

Margaret Kimberley: How Not to Celebrate Juneteenth

https://blackagendareport.com/freedom-ride-how-not-celebrate-juneteenth

"Juneteenth has become the latest iteration of liberal capture of Black politics, opportunistic virtue-signalling and the intentional misrepresentation of America's history. An opportunity to discuss resistance against oppression has been turned into a substance-free, feel good day..."

NDPP

Biden's China policy gets ASEAN cold shoulder

https://twitter.com/GarethPorter/status/1405630587340267528

"Pentagon hopes for ASEAN states to allow US forces to use their territory for missiles are in shambles. After Vietnam's cold shoulder last year, the Philippines has again postponed the US request for 'more study' and nobody else is interested."

But good vassal Canada staunchly backs Biden's Sinophobic anti-China warparty.

NDPP

Julian Assange rots in jail as US slaughters First Amendment

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/18/julian-assange-rots-in-jail-as-u...

"So while Biden claims to support free speech, actions speak louder than words. Prosecuting Julian Assange speaks loudest of all. If Assange is convicted under the Espionage Act, that will kill off the first amendment once and for all."

NDPP

Tara Reade: 'I told my story but...'

https://on.rt.com/bamj

"... there are countless others too afraid of the Democrat protection machine to come forward..."

NDPP

'Biden rallies western allies in bid to counter Chinese influence'

https://twitter.com/JoshC0301/status/1405377001515536384

"How anyone can look at these headlines and not conclude that the US and Europe are leading a white supremacist alliance trying to maintain western dominance is incredible to me."

Me too.

NDPP

Biden Budget Fails to Address Extinction Crisis

https://twitter.com/deepgreenresist/status/1401944999588241418

"The Biden administration's budget to address the extinction crisis for the year 2021 is $22 million."

US military budget is $740,500,000,000. Far more for extinction than against.

NDPP

Biden packs courts with Trumpers

https://youtu.be/3gqt1IT57qY

"If you voted for Joe Biden, you're a chump. US presidents have way too much in common."

NDPP

With support of Biden, federal court backs Trump's police-state assault on peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/pers-j25.html

"The Biden administration sided with the former Trump officials, arguing that the case should be thrown out. The Biden administration's intervention in the Lafayette Square case is further confirmation that there exists no constituency within the ruling class for the defense of democratic rights, with both reactionary factions of the ruling class arguing in court for the use of state violence against domestic political opposition."

NDPP

'Two Against: US & Israel'

https://twitter.com/amandaruthprice/status/1407740770598199297

"UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopts resolution calling for an end to the US embargo against Cuba, with 184 votes in favor. 2 against: US, Israel. 3 absentions, Colombia, Ukraine, UAE."

'Nothing will fundamentally change': Joe Biden to donors

josh

A letter from 73 Democrats in the US House of Representatives, including a number in leadership positions, urges President Joe Biden to make a number of moves to reverse what they call the Trump administration’s “abandonment of longstanding, bipartisan United States policy” on Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Among other things, the letter sent Wednesday calls for Biden to firmly consider Israeli settlements illegal and the West Bank occupied, two things the Trump administration stated that it would no longer do.

https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/73-congressional-democrats-to-biden-call-israeli-settlements-illegal-672006

NDPP

Lipstick on a Pig: Why Biden is fawning over Israel's new government

https://www.mintpressnews.com/why-biden-fawning-over-israel-new-governme...

"Biden is keen on rebranding the US relationship with Israel, not because Israel has changed, but because Washington suffered so much humilitation at Netanyahu's hands..."

NDPP

Did Joe inadvertently pay for Hunter Biden's wild night at Chateau Marmont?

https://nypost.com/2021/06/22/did-joe-inadvertently-pay-for-hunter-biden...

"...Hunter's escapades with Yanna are a glimpse into the president's son's debauched lifestyle, but it also raises questions about how much his finances were mingled with Joe Biden's. Did one of the credit cards used to pay Yanna belong to Joe Biden?"

JKR

Someone seems to have a very bad case of Biden Derangement Syndrome!

NDPP

Biden Orders Airstrikes in Syria & Iraq

https://twitter.com/s_m_marandi/status/1409413929990754304

"Biden murdered 4 young anti-ISIS heroes last night. 'The international community', western 'human rights' bodies and the 'free and civilized world' will either justify the slaughter or remain silent. The men had families, but that's not important. A child died too but things happen."

alan smithee alan smithee's picture

Sorry

NDPP

'Send the list to lesser-of-two-evils crowd'

https://twitter.com/asadabukhalil/status/1409506793986789376

"The Biden administration thus far: supported Israeli war on Gaza; bombed Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan; coddled the same despots that Trump supported (when liberal media feigned outrage over that support); and almost declared war on China. Send the list to lesser-of-two-evils crowd."

Geoff

Biden has chosen to follow in Donald Trump's footsteps when it comes to the embargo on Cuba. Clamp down hard in the name of 'human rights', because Washington and its allies are such proven champions of the downtrodden. I expected more from Joe, the enlightened one, on this file.

josh

I didn't expect much different from this administration when it came to foreign policy.  And so far they're meeting my low expectations.  The change is in domestic policy, the conduct of the presidency, and respect for the rule of law.  Those aren't minor concerns.

NDPP

The trashing of the First Amendment, the criminalization of free speech and journalism via the Assange prosecution are hardly indications of exemplary presidential conduct or 'respect for the rule of law', but heinous attacks on both. Heinous also is the disgusting and complicit silence of the Dem fanclub at home and abroad.

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