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he Record
Discarded Lives
- Homeless in USA (20 million vacant homes, 500,000 homeless)
- Poverty in USA (43 million languish below poverty line)
- Forced Migration (Refugees) caused by USA wars
- Wartime displacement (“global war on terror” wars): 37 million to 59 million people (September 21, 2020 Brown Costs of War Project “Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars”)
Waste of Lives
Deaths in USA-waged Wars
800,000 (estimated) deaths (through November 2019): civilians, U.S. and allied troops, contractors, security forces, opposition fighters, media workers and humanitarian workers across warzones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen (Statista February 2020).
- U.S. deaths Afghanistan 2001- present 2,216 (casualties 22,266)
- Iraq war 203-2011: 4,497 (casualties 36,710) (continuing)
- Other interventions in Iraq, Syria, Yemen 2014, 2017 (161 casualties) (continuing)
- Deaths in USA coronavirus: 234,345
Waste of Money
U.S. Wars through $ FY 2020
- $6.4 trillion obligated for U.S. wars in Afghanistan Pakistan, and Iraq (not including other U.S. wars, occupations, and hostile foreign engagements)
- Afghan deaths 360,000
- One day of Iraq War = $720,000,000
U.S. Elections
“The total cost of the 2020 election,” as estimated by OpenSecrets, “will nearly reach an unprecedented $14 billion—making it the most expensive election in history and twice as expensive as the previous presidential election cycle.
“Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is the first candidate in history to raise $1 billion from donors.”
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urchased Presidency
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (Joe Biden) |
Donald John Trump (incumbent) |
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Total raised $1,378,937,038 |
Total raised $863,552,249 |
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Total spent $1,144,674,025 |
Total spent $809,029,495 |
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Spent by Democratic candidates and groups: $6.9 billion |
Spent by Republican candidates and groups $3.8 billion |
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The Carelessness of Separation
Isolation, Further Threatening Security
United States officials have weakened U.S. security by weakening international efforts or withdrawing from international organizations or agreements
- Global Compact for Migration
- Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
- Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
- Open Skies Treaty
- Paris Climate Agreement
- Trans-Pacific Partnership
- United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency
- World Health Organization
- World Trade Organization
Also
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accine Global Initiative rejected
COVAX is an international initiative, a “genuinely global effort,” aimed at distributing COVID-19 vaccines to countries worldwide. It is being led by the World Health Organization, the GAVI vaccine alliance and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations.
It consists of pooling resources, investing in the development of at least nine vaccine candidates, securing lower-cost bulk access, and distributing two billion doses to all participant countries (proportionally, with health workers and vulnerable groups vaccinated first) by the end of 2021.
The United States is the only country to have publicly rejected the COVAX initiative, and is “very nearly alone in refusing to join COVAX and withdrawing from the World Health Organization.”
Non-participants in the global effort to develop and distribute coronavirus vaccines
- Belarus
- Kazakhstan
- Malaysia
- Russia
- United States of America
- Small island countries or micro-states (five)
There are 183 participant countries that have joined formally or expressed their intent, Their combined population makes up “93 percent” of the world’s eligible population.
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f Americans (or any people) believe that Biden-Trump, Pence-Harris, their puppeteers, paymasters, and partnered plutocrats, and the parties under whose banners they campaign are going to improve conditions, or even pretend to work toward improving conditions in either domestic or foreign affairs — then these Americans and others are deeply deluded, and sorely mistaken.
The record of these old liners speaks for itself. It portrays a band of con artists and wastrels severing a Union awaiting its more perfectness; a band of callous self-serving sons (and daughters) bent on inflicting unspeakable and everlasting injury on both foreigners and fellow Americans.
Sources
“Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars” by David Vine, Cala Coffman, Katalina Khoury, Madison Lovasz, Helen Bush, Rachel Leduc, and Jennifer Walkup September 8, 2020 https://investigativereportingworkshop.org/news/displaced-news/
PDF: Brown “Costs of War” https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/files/cow/imce/papers/2020/Displacement_Vine%20et%20al_Costs%20of%20War%202020%2009%2008.pdf
Statista “The Death Toll Of Wars Since 9/11” by Niall McCarthy February 4, 2020 ttps://www.statista.com/chart/20699/estimated-number-of-deaths-in-selected-warzones/
ThePrint Srijan Shukla May 30, 2020 https://theprint.in/world/paris-deal-to-who-the-11-organisations-donald-trumps-us-has-pulled-out-of-weakened/432486/
Paris deal to WHO, 11 organizations Donald Trump’s US has pulled out of (or) weakened…. Donald Trump has now targeted at least 11 global cooperation bodies or pacts.
Center for Responsive Politics “2020 election to cost $14 billion, blowing away spending records” by OpenSecrets.org October 28, 2020 https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/10/cost-of-2020-election-14billion-update
OpenSecrets.org “Biden” “All the numbers for the 2020 election cycle based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on 10/23/20” https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/joe-biden/candidate?id=N00001669
OpenSecrets.org “Trump” “All the numbers for the 2020 election cycle based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically on 10/23/20” https://www.opensecrets.org/2020-presidential-race/donald-trump/candidate?id=N00023864
Worldometer “Coronavirus” https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries
European Centers for Disease Control: America: 637 652 deaths; the five countries reporting most deaths are United States (228 668), Brazil (158 969), Mexico (90 773), Peru (34 362) and Colombia (30 926). https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases
Since December 31, 2019 and as of October 30, 2020
45, 120, 596 cases of COVID-19 (in accordance with the applied case definitions and testing strategies in the affected countries) have been reported, including 1, 182, 408 deaths.
“Coronavirus Global Response: Commission joins the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility (COVAX) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_20_1540
August 31, 2020: the European Commission has confirmed its interest to participate in the COVAX Facility for equitable access to affordable COVID-19 vaccines everywhere, for everyone who needs them. As part of a Team Europe effort, the Commission is today also announcing a contribution of €400 ($468) million in guarantees to support COVAX and its objectives in the context of the Coronavirus Global Response.
Axios “Vaccine initiative now covers almost entire world, but not U.S. or Russia” by Dave Lawler https://www.axios.com/covax-initiative-vaccines-china-joins-trump-russia-26dce1f3-1b81-47af-8b7d-199900a928f3.html
Associated Press “China joins COVAX coronavirus vaccine alliance” by Huizhong Wu October 9, 2020 https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-xi-jinping-taiwan-china-archive-aae1708207d3510a434d35aec994d4d1
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