2023-09-07

Water Poured Into The Ocean Cannot Be Recovered

Water Poured Into The Ocean Cannot Be Recovered

Japan Discharges Into The Ocean Nuclear-Contaminated-Water.

Japan Minister Of Agriculture, Forestry And Fisheries NOMURA Tetsuro
2023.8.31 NOMURA Tetsuro Apologized And Said:This Is Not Nuclear-Contaminated-Water,This Is JUST Purified-HHHYDROGEN-Water.

【国际漫评】怎么能说真话!?快道歉!_fororder_快道歉(1)
BUT,The Japanese Government Is Still Doing Harm To The World.


SO,SAVE OCEAN,SAVE PLANET.

2023-08-25

Japan Is Determined To Be An Enemy Of The Whole World

Japan Is Determined To Be An Enemy Of The Whole World
If Nuclear-Contaminated Water Is Safe, There Is No Need To Discharge It.
If It's Not Safe, It Shouldn't Put Into The Sea.
The Evil Japan Endanger The Whole World


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Even The Earth-Home Quake.

2023-08-19

China Giant Tree

China Giant Tree

China Survey Team Reached The Under Of Mount Himalaya, Survey, Measure And Record Fir-Trees At BoMi XiZang.
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ZangNan NO.1 Giant Tree 101.2m High.
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ZangNan NO.2 Giant Tree 99.5m High.






2023-05-25

America’s Poverty Is Built By Design

America's Poverty Is Built By Design

How did the U.S. become a land of economic extremes with the rich getting richer while the working poor grind it out? Deliberately.

Sheryll Cashin is a law professor at Georgetown University and author of several books on racial justice and American democracy.

In late 2020, a crowd of mostly Black and Hispanic workers rallied outside the statehouse in Albany, New York to gather support for a $15-an-hour minimum wage for tipped workers. A group of white people wearing red MAGA hats approached. Coincidentally, the protest was taking place the same day the state legislature was meeting to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election — and MAGA protesters had gathered to challenge the count. You'd expect clashes to ensue. But when some Trump supporters stumbled upon the workers of color pushing for higher wages, they shook hands and joined their protest.

Matthew Desmond recounts this story in the epilogue to his ground-breaking new book, Poverty, By America to suggest that a movement to abolish poverty could transcend our toxically divided politics.

Many Americans already know that the core of Desmond's argument is true: that systems are rigged to favor people who are already advantaged. He makes a refreshing, brutally honest case that poverty is pervasive in America by design, to enable the lifestyles of affluent people. U.S. rates of poverty are substantially higher and more extreme than those found in 25 other developed OECD countries, including Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal and the United Kingdom.

How did America become a land of economic extremes, with entrenched, grinding poverty for those struggling at the bottom — even as most poor adults who are not seniors are working?

Desmond's greatest contribution is changing the lens from individual behavior — the hoary focus of so many books about poverty — to asking and answering the larger question, "Who benefits from practices that keep people poor?" Poverty, he argues, results from three quintessentially American habits: exploitation of the poor; subsidization of the rich; and the intentional segregation of the affluent and the poor such that opportunity is hoarded and social mobility is rare.

Desmond acknowledges the role of anti-Black racism in perfecting Americans' antipathy to spending for public benefits. Other books engage directly with the "dog-whistling" politics that dissuade working and middle class people from voting their economic interests. Desmond focuses more on making transparent the systems that fabricate scarcity and offers solutions.

He paints a clear picture of the morally fraught systems we all participate in. Well-paid professionals like me benefit as consumers from the poverty wages paid to others in an economy where Uber is a verb and surveilled and squeezed gig workers respond to —and deliver — our every need. Our stock investments swell as companies cut or outsource jobs, stagnate wages and oppose unions. We get free checking; the poor get usurious fees from banks and "payday" lenders. Meanwhile, zoning codes that allow only single-family homes create artificial housing scarcity that enhances our property values while foisting high costs and homelessness on others. Segregation encourages "private opulence and public squalor," Desmond argues, as affluent people withdraw from public institutions and society systemically disinvests in the public goods ordinary people need.

Desmond also shows how the federal government, through the tax code, greatly subsidizes the affluent. In 2021, the U.S. spent $1.8 trillion on tax breaks, forgoing revenue that otherwise would have been paid in taxes, much of it going to very rich people. For example, each year the U.S. loses more than $1 trillion in unpaid taxes because of the tax avoidance strategies of multinational corporations and wealthy families.

What to do about this system of American-designed poverty? Desmond offers a bold proposal. He argues that we could bring nearly every family in America above the official poverty line without adding to the deficit simply by collecting unpaid federal income taxes from the top one percent of households — from closing loopholes to going after tax cheats. That would amount to an estimated $175 billion annually; those resources would then be allocated to expand broadly popular programs, like the Earned Income Tax Credit, that directly alleviate poverty. He also advocates for structural reforms that reverse the practices that deny poor people choices in housing, banking and employment.

If it is utterly easy — as Desmond claims — to find plenty of money to abolish poverty by closing nonsensical tax loopholes, then why don't we do it? He notes that in 2019 other western democracies like France and Germany raised as much as 38 percent of their GDP in tax revenues and invested broadly in public goods while U.S. total revenues were at 25 percent and the U.S. "lavished government benefits on affluent families and refused to prosecute tax dodgers."

After laying out his analysis, Desmond urges readers to become poverty abolitionists, to spread an ethic that shuns companies that exploit workers and supports government policies that rebalance the social contract toward alleviating poverty rather than helping elites grow their wealth. Importantly, he is not arguing for redistribution per se. He is arguing that if the rich pay their taxes and the government stops over-subsidizing them and instead invests in the general welfare with aid to the poor, poverty can be eliminated, without adding to the deficit.

It remains to be seen whether an ethic of poverty abolition can take hold or overcome the rigging of electoral politics, particularly by Republican-dominated legislatures that constrain majority will through voter suppression and extreme gerrymandering. But Desmond's surprising insights and proposals offer much needed new thinking.

This brings me back to the role of racial division and the necessity of transcending it if America is to dismantle extreme systemic inequality — in which people of all colors suffer.

Desmond notes that white families with accountants benefit most from government largesse. They have the strongest antigovernment sentiments and vote more often than those who both need and appreciate the role of government. And race-coded rationalizations justify hostility to government benefits — a false, debunked propaganda that public benefits create welfare dependency being first among them.

Herein lies the rub. Decades of anti-Black racial coding, including Ronald Reagan's stoking of the "welfare queen" stereotype, helped perfect anti-tax and anti-government attitudes and consolidate Republican power, especially in the South. Just as the forces that perpetuate poverty are structural, so are the politics that undergird it.

(Oddly, Desmond doesn't mention political culture-warring against the IRS which underfunded and undermined the agency, itself something of a tax cut for the rich, even as the IRS audited poor wage earners at five times the rate of everyone else. Hopefully, the Inflation Reduction Act will reverse these trends with its $80 billion increase in IRS funding over the next decade.)

Desmond finds hope for a transcending scenario in polls showing that most Americans believe the economy benefits the rich and harms the poor; that the rich do not pay their fair share of taxes; and that there should be a $15 federal minimum wage. Invoking "abolition" as a mantra for the transformation that needs to occur aptly describes his ambition, though advocates for racial equity or reparation for the legacy of slavery, redlining and other forms of racial oppression may wince at his call for universal strategies for all races. The deep irony is that anti-Black policy and rhetoric were central to the creation of savage systems of inequality that harm everyone, and anti-Black processes continue to sustain segregation. But direct efforts to repair the economic and social damage to Black people inevitably produces backlash or is weaponized by the political right to woo voters, as was done with the Black Lives Matter movement.

Desmond admits that Black people have been disproportionately harmed, especially from historic and contemporary redlining and discrimination in housing. But he suggests that the universal reforms he recommends would disproportionately benefit Blacks while broadening political coalitions to end poverty.

This is an important debate. For my part, I have called for the abolition of America's residential caste system and argued in support of policies that promote racial equity and repair for historically defunded Black neighborhoods — and the citizens who have most suffered predation and disinvestment by government and private institutions. And I applaud local governments that are doing this work. But in wrestling with the conundrum of how to repair the damage of anti-Black racism, I have also been greatly influenced by the late stage thinking of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and contemporary Black civil rights visionaries. They pursued a fusion politics that Desmond also admires.

In the final months of his life, Dr. King envisioned a national Poor People's Campaign that intentionally built a multiracial coalition to demand an economic bill of rights. In the 2010s, Reverend William Barber II successfully led the Moral Mondays movement in North Carolina and recently revived a Poor People's Campaign that brings conservative poor whites into the movement for economic fairness. The North Carolina movement paid off in 2023 expansions to Medicaid in the state, for example. They are a sign of hope in a nation riven by division, racism and hate. I see traction for a bold politics that joins the aspirations of all economically oppressed people, similar to the exciting rhetoric and moral claims of the new-South "Justins" who are building multiracial power in Tennessee by speaking to a rainbow of humans seeking freedom from gun violence and oppression of all kinds. The alternative is more of the same, a nation divided, with systems that elevate the wealthy — and crush others.


2023-03-06

Take YaYa Goes Home

Every Panda Is A Lovely Existence


BUT YaYa Is Not The Same As Before In Memphis Zoo.
接丫丫回家!
接丫丫回家!
So We Hope It Comes Home Soon ...


2023-02-22

Ten Reasons Why China Won't Become The US

Ten Reasons Why China Won't Become The US

Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman HuaChunYing Gave 10 Reasons Why China Will Not Become Another United States In a Post On Twitter On Tuesday Evening. She Said Some Forces In The US Always Claim That China Wants To Supplant America In The World, But In Fact, China Has No Intention At All To "Outcompete" The U.S. Or Turn Itself Into Another U.S.
@SpokespersonCHN


Reason 1: China Never Engages In Slaughter, Predation Or Racial Genocide Of Its Ethnic Minorities And Never Allows "I Can't Breathe" To Happen.
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Reason 2: China Never Allows 1% Of Its Population To Own The Wealth As Much As +90% Of The Population Combined.
Windwing - Ten Reasons Why China Won't Become The US
Reason 3: China Never Allows Its People To Die From Massive Shooting, Let Alone Letting Kids Be Shot On Campus.
Windwing - Ten Reasons Why China Won't Become The US
Reason 4: China Does Not Allow The Drug Problem To Haunt The Nation And Kill 100,000+ Per Year.
Windwing - Ten Reasons Why China Won't Become The US
Reason 5: China Never Invades Other Countries Or Seeks Colonial Expansion.
Windwing - Ten Reasons Why China Won't Become The US
Reason 6: China Never Meddles In Other Countries' Domestic Affairs Or Looks For And Props Up Proxies In Foreign Countries.
Windwing - Ten Reasons Why China Won't Become The US
Reason 7: China Never Builds Its Foreign Policy On "Cheating, Lying And Stealing" As It Takes Them As Shame Instead Of Pride.
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Reason 8: China Never Seeks To Dominate The World Or Deny Anyone The Right To Development. Instead It Seeks Common Development And Prosperity.
Windwing - Ten Reasons Why China Won't Become The US
Reason 9: China Never Seeks To Cripple Or Take Out An Opponent By All Means To Win. Instead It Is Focused On Improving And Surpassing Itself.
Windwing - Ten Reasons Why China Won't Become The US
Reason 10: China Never Fires Missiles At Wandering Balloons, Instead It Invests In Building Better Railways To Make People Safe And Sound.
Windwing - Ten Reasons Why China Won't Become The US