Why Are Things As They Are?

Uprising in Oakland Ca Against Racist Murder of Oscar Grant: 8:50 p.m. Friday. Police make arrests after declaring unlawful assembly Police have arrested at least 100 people for unlawful assembly, though some could face other charges for throwing rocks and other crimes. At least 16 people have been processed on 6th Avenue between East 17th and East 18th streets, police said.A block away from the area where the arrests were made, about 40 people gathered and chanted, “Let them go, let them go,” and took pictures of those under arrest with cell phone cameras. www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-bart-shooting/ci_16533309

Future Campaign Slogans

2012 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2014 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2016 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2018 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2020 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2022 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2024 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2026 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2028 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2030 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2032 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2034 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2036 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2038 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2040 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2042 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2044 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2046 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2048 Time for a change, throw the bums out!
2050 Time for a change, throw the bums out!

Little Red Schoolhouse

Army Wants to Eat the Youngest, Targets Grade Six to Nine: CYBERMISSION! Civilian and uniformed Army personnel will serve as CyberGuides, on-line experts who will communicate over the web, and Ambassadors who visit schools to promote the competition and award prizes to Regional winners. How does the Army benefit from this? The Army is indebted to our American communities for their support. This is one way the Army can give back to America, by helping youth learn more about the areas of science, math and technology…Each student on the first-place state winning team will receive $1,000 in U.S. EE Savings Bonds. Students on second-place state winning teams will receive $500 in U.S. EE Savings Bonds. Each regional first –place winning team will receive $2,000 in U.S. EE Savings Bonds and a trip to compete at the NJ&EE in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area. National first-place winners receive an additional $5,000 in U.S. EE Savings Bonds. www.ecybermission.com/public/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx

In Chicago, Ron the Con Huberman Gives Up the Ghost: Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Ron Huberman (above) tried to argue against Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, point by point, during the October 27, 2010 meeting of the Chicago Board of Education. Lewis had criticized the Board for wasting teachers’ time and taxpayers money on a plethora of tests, expanded this school year out of the school system’s area offices. Huberman posed as a test expert, trying to refute Lewis’s critique of the Scantron and DIBELS tests, promising to meet with her to discuss the matter further. A week later, Huberman announced his resignation… by George N. Schmidt. www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=1758&section=Article

CSU Bosses to “Vote” on 15.5% Fee Hike (that would be a 242% Increase since 2002) No student vote taken, natch.
he California State University Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote on a 15.5 percent student fee increase next week.”The chancellor’s office is proposing to increase tuition in a two-step process to support 30,000 students this spring and give students and families more time for financial planning,” CSU spokesman Erik Fallis said on Monday.The fee increases will be taken up by the financial committee on Tuesday and by the full board on Wednesday.The first phase is a 5 percent mid-year fee increase, which will take effect in the beginning of spring. The second is a 10 percent fee increase starting in 2011-12 academic year. If both phases are adopted, fees for full-time undergraduate students will be about $4,779 by fall 2011, a 13 percent increase from this year.

Online Mis-education Is Cheap and Even More Alienating than Face to Face Test Prep! Good for Capital, bad for people but Some Profs Suck up To It: Across the country, online education is exploding: 4.6 million students took a college-level online course during fall 2008, up 17 percent from a year earlier, according to the Sloan Survey of Online Learning. A large majority — about three million — were simultaneously enrolled in face-to-face courses, belying the popular notion that most online students live far from campuses, said Jeff Seaman, co-director of the survey. Many are in community colleges, he said. Very few attend private colleges; families paying $53,000 a year demand low student-faculty ratios.
Colleges and universities that have plunged into the online field, mostly public, cite their dual missions to serve as many students as possible while remaining affordable, as well as a desire to exploit the latest technologies….The University of Florida has faced sweeping budget cuts from the State Legislature totaling 25 percent over three years. That is a main reason the university is moving aggressively to offer more online instruction. “We see this as the future of higher education,” said Joe Glover, the university provost….
“Quite honestly, the higher education industry in the United States has not been tremendously effective in the face-to-face mode if you look at national graduation rates,” he added. “At the very least we should be experimenting with other modes of delivery of education….
. “I would prefer to teach classes of 50 and know every student’s name, but that’s not where we are financially and space-wise,” said Megan Mocko, who teaches statistics to 1,650 students. She said an advantage of the Internet is that students can stop the lecture and rewind when they do not understand something. www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/us/05college.html?pagewanted=2&nl&emc=a1

Perpetual War
Oh Those Tricky Talibs! Foiled Again! For months, American and Afghan officials have been promoting a plan to persuade masses of rank-and-file Taliban fighters to change sides and join the government. The tactic, known as “reintegration,” is one of the big hopes for turning the tide in the war. But the Taliban, it appears, have reintegration plans of their own. On Monday morning, they claimed to have put them into effect.In Khogeyani, a volatile area southwest of the capital, the entire police force on duty Monday morning appears to have defected to the Taliban side. A spokesman for the Taliban said the movement’s fighters made contact with the Khogeyani’s police force, cut a deal, and then sacked and burned the station. As many as 19 officers vanished, as did their guns, trucks, uniforms and food. www.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/world/asia/02afghan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

War Criminal Hillbillary Demands that (US Funded) Khmer Rouge Be Tried for War Crimes:
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its tortured past by ensuring the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.In the capital of Phnom Penh, she visited a former school that served as the main Khmer Rouge prison and torture center and appealed for the Cambodian people and government to overcome a legacy of impunity for abuses. The government has refused to allow a U.N.-backed court trying top Khmer Rouge leaders to prosecute lower-ranking members. www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/01/hillary-clinton-urges-cambodia-bring-khmer-rouge-justice/

Election Hustle:

(Lucy Parsons: Never be deceived that the rich will permit you to vote away their wealth)

Jill Lepore on the History of US Voting: Americans used to vote with their voices—viva voce—or with their hands or with their feet. Yea or nay. Raise your hand. All in favor of Jones, stand on this side of the town common; if you support Smith, line up over there. In the colonies, as in the mother country, casting a vote rarely required paper and pen. The word “ballot” comes from the Italian ballotta, or little ball, and a ballot often was a ball, or at least something ballish, like a pea or a pebble, or, not uncommonly, a bullet. Colonial Pennsylvanians commonly voted by tossing beans into a hat. Paper voting wasn’t meant to conceal anyone’s vote; it was just easier than counting beans. Our forebears considered casting a “secret ballot” cowardly, underhanded, and despicable; as one South Carolinian put it, voting secretly would “destroy that noble generous openness that is characteristick of an Englishman.
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/13/081013fa_fact_lepore

Engels says: “The state is, therefore, by no means a power forced on society from without; just as little is it ‘the reality of the ethical idea’, ‘the image and reality of reason’, as Hegel maintains. Rather, it is a product of society at a certain stage of development; it is the admission that this society has become entangled in an insoluble contradiction with itself, that it has split into irreconcilable antagonisms which it is powerless to dispel. But in order that these antagonisms, these classes with conflicting economic interests, might not consume themselves and society in fruitless struggle, it became necessary to have a power, seemingly standing above society, that would alleviate the conflict and keep it within the bounds of ‘order’; and this power, arisen out of society but placing itself above it, and alienating itself more and more from it, is the state.”
Michael Moore Still Pimping for Dems and Building Nothing but Himself:
www.opednews.com/articles/A-Boot-to-the-Head–from-by-Michael-Moore-101029-792.html

Here is Just the Beginning of the Things Millionaire Moore has Been Lying About: westfallmike.tripod.com/Page10.htm

There Goes the Economy:

After the Fake Election, The Real Maneuver–More Class War from Above with the Fed (rolled into the Corporate State) Making the Rich Richer and the Rest Poorer, Doing Nothing About Household Debt, Massive Joblessness, Foreclosures, and War (never mentioned): in total, the Fed will buy $850 billion to $900 billion, just about doubling the amount of Treasury debt it currently holds. If the Fed’s bet is right, lower long-term rates should ripple through the markets, pushing down rates for mortgages and corporate bonds. That could encourage homeowners to refinance into cheaper mortgages, though it would not help the millions of Americans facing foreclosure. It could push businesses to make investments instead of sitting on piles of cash.
In a sign of its willingness to do even more, the Federal Open Market Committee, the central bank’s policy arm, left open the possibility of even more purchases beyond June, saying it would “adjust the program as needed to best foster maximum employment and price stability.”
…It was this impending gridlock that might have pushed Mr. Bernanke to move, said Laurence H. Meyer, a former Fed governor. “Bernanke has said that fiscal stimulus, accommodated by the Fed, is the single most powerful action the government can take for lowering the unemployment rate, when short-term rates are already at zero,” Mr. Meyer said. “He has nearly pleaded with Congress for fiscal stimulus, but he can’t count on it.” www.nytimes.com/2010/11/04/business/economy/04fed.html?_r=1&hp

Currency War=Class War +Empires’ Wars: MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, the object of warfare is to take over a country’s land, raw materials and assets, and grab them. And in the past, that used to be done militarily by invading them. But today you can do it financially simply by creating credit, which is what the Federal Reserve has done. It’s created $600 billion. It hasn’t gone into the economy. The head of the Fed is known as “Helicopter Ben” because he talks about dropping money into the economy. But if you see helicopters, they’re probably not your friends. Don’t go out and wait for them to drop the money, because the money is all going electronically into the banks. And the Fed has said, we want to give the banks so much money that they will lend it out so you can begin to bid up prices on real estate again and pull the banks out of the real estate negative equity that it’s in. So the purpose, according to the Fed, is to raise the price of real estate, to inflate asset prices. But that’s not happening. The actual banks have lent less today than they did in 2007. So the money is going abroad. And it’s going abroad not really to buy foreign companies so much, but to speculate in currency.

Now, the Fed and the Congress, two weeks ago, said, “We want China to raise its currency by 20 percent.” This would create billions and billions of dollars of bonanza for Wall Street banks, and it would enable them to earn their way out of debt by essentially looting the China central bank, the Brazilian central bank, the Turkish central bank and the other central banks, because you can now borrow money in America at one percent. So you’d put down, let’s say, a billion dollars of your own—a million dollars of your own money, borrow $99 million of the bank’s money—that’s $100 million. You would buy Chinese currency, RMB, for $100 million. You then say, “Raise your currency by 20 percent,” which is what the Fed has asked them to do. That means that your million dollars now has turned into a $20 million gain, because $100 million is now worth $120 million. You’ve made a 200 percent profit. And for Wall Street, they deal in billions, not millions. And so, this would enable the banks to make up their money by buying out, essentially, foreign currency. They’re doing the same in Australia. It’s currency gamble.
www.democracynow.org/2010/11/5/new_600b_fed_stimulus_fuels_fears

US is Unlucky Thirteenth! Now, How About A Value Added Measure for This? Jeni Klugman, the director of the U.N.’s Human Development Report, explains what happens to the U.S. when this gap is factored in.
JENI KLUGMAN: Its overall Human Development Index falls by about 11 percent, which is quite significant. It’s much than, for example, Australia. When we adjust for other developed countries, the normal loss is much less.With inequality’s considered, the U.S. ranking for well-being drops from 4th to 13th in the world.
Tamara Draut tracks U.S. income inequality at the liberal think-tank Demos. She sees the U.N. finding as part of a long arc.
TAMARA DRAUT: The middle class has lost ground and lower income households have just been clobbered. That is the story of the last couple of decades. marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/11/04/pm-income-inequality-pushes-us-down-in-wellbeing-ranking/

With US Taxpayer Bailout and Workers Paid 50% Wages, GM Projects Billions For Stockholders, from Investments in China (but Buy American anyway): Although the United States, once GM’s primary market, is featured in the video and slide show, the lead pitch is about fast-growing emerging markets such as China, where the company said it is the top seller of automobiles and is experiencing tremendous growth. www.detnews.com/article/20101104/AUTO01/11040475/GM-could-see-profits-of-$13B-if-industry-improves
Danged Chinese Even Driving up Cost of Dungarees: demand from China, in particular, was rising. And as the economic recovery in the United States began, apparel makers and retailers placed orders for more inventory, spurring even more demand. As prices rose, speculators entered the market, driving prices even higher…the price of cotton (measured by cotton futures for December delivery) had hit a record high on worries that cold weather in China might have damaged some crops. …Cotton’s swooping increase has some apparel companies switching production to countries with lower labor costs or milder customs charges. Lululemon Athletica, the sportswear company, is moving some manufacturing from China to Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh, where wages are lower, and Bon-Ton is benefiting from reduced-duty production in Egypt and Nicaragua. www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/business/03cotton.html?src=me&ref=business

Currency Wars Can Become Hot Wars: Professor Huang is certainly right that no one would win a currency or trade war. But the root causes of today’s large and growing imbalances, especially the Chinese surplus due to China’s huge and prolonged manipulation of its currency, must be resolved soon or else such conflict is inevitable. The upcoming G20 summit in Seoul may offer a “last best chance” to avoid irreversible reactions in the US Congress and other countries.
blog.qq.com/qzone/622007896/1288668574.htmWe Say Fight Back!!

Students at GeorgeTown (Spy U.) Serve Uribe with Subpoena: Alvaro Uribe was served a subpeona as he was leaving the Georgetown campus after teaching a class in the Inter-Cultural Center. Please see this press release from International Rights Advocates/Conrad & Scherer for details on the case against Drummond and what they hope to get out of Uribe’s testimony:

The students attempted to serve Uribe multiple times November 3rd, but when campus police and University representatives who were present became aware of their aim, they vigorously protected Uribe, telling the students that they were not permitted to serve him. The students told the campus employees that they simply intended to hand him some papers and they would leave. The Georgetown administrators made clear that that they did not want Uribe to be served on Georgetown’s campus.

These actions demonstrate the perhaps uncomfortable role the Jesuit University Georgetown is taking in sheltering Uribe from the processes of the courts by legitimating his presence in the United States.

Despite tight security, a group of law students were able to touch him with the papers, inform him that he was served in the case against Alabama-based Drummond Company, and, when he refused to take the papers, drop them on the ground in front of him. This is part of the process of serving a subpoena to an individual.

Georgetown will be increasingly caught in the crossfire as groups work to bring charges against Uribe for the role of the DAS (the Colombian equivalent of the FBI) in collaborating with multinational or US companies in the murder of trade unionists.

Other criminal activity Uribe has been linked to, and which could give rise to legal actions in the near future, include: uribe-georgetown.org/blog/georgetown-students-alvaro-uribe-served-subpoena-to-speak-under-oath-about-military-paramilitary-ties/

French Strikes Continue!

Solidarity Forever
This Time He’s Not Alone:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwddmOYgKTM

Union Dues Eaters Spent Big on Electoral Shell Game: The people who Neil C poetically calls the Dues Eaters (union bosses),  blew a bundle on the electoral hustle.

Rather than organize workers, students, teachers and soldiers for general strikes, occupations, and mutinies, they seek to steer anger into voting booths, much akin to urging people to church where others will interpret fictional realities for them, demand to get paid for soothsaying, make promises about better days, explain away inequality and poverty as natural, and suggest that parishioners should contribute to funds designed to pay off past rape convictions (bankster bailouts).

Why would union bosses do this? Because they get paid to do it. Reg Weaver, ex NEA president= $686,949 for on year’s work, then on to Education International which doesn’t return phone calls from me asking exactly what he does there.

The Atlantic added up the Dues Eaters’ payoffs (and remember they couldn’t even drag EFCA out of The Obamagogue and never put a single payer health option on the table—because too many union hacks profit from the way things are– And where is Andy Stern, once the fellow who claimed he was the head of the biggest health care union in the USA? Here is Andy, workers’ hero: www.siga.com/?ID=144 )

“The nation’s largest union will have spent $40 million on the 2010 elections by Tuesday, including $17 million worth of TV, mail, radio and phone calls spread across four Senate races and seven House races, the NEA said today.

That’s almost as much as the $44 million the Service Employees has budgeted for midterm elections and not that far behind the $53 million the AFL-CIO’s deputy political director said the federation had originally budgeted (it’s apparently prepared to spend more).

…Obama enjoys the support of teachers’ unions, though it seems he may ask a lot of them if education reform gets underway in full–particularly if Republicans hold significant power in Congress. Obama has voiced support for unions, but he’s also drawn criticism for supporting mass teacher firings at a Rhode Island school.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/with-reform-on-the-line-national-education-association-spends-big/65368/

Baltimore Teachers Union (AFT) Rejects Bogus Contract so BTU Makes Rank and File Vote on Same Contract Again: 1,540 union members voted against the tentative agreement and 1,107 in favor. The union represents about 6,500 educators. (The contract links Pay to Test Scores). articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-10-14/news/bs-ci-teacher-contract-ratification-20101014_1_baltimore-teachers-marietta-english-tentative-agreement

It has to be mildly embarrassing, however, to American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten, who gave the draft language such a hopeful blessing. “We’re rewarding teachers for great teaching,” she said. The Post’s editorial page did not take the vote results kindly.
voices.washingtonpost.com/class-struggle/2010/10/much-praised_baltimore_teacher.html

Washington Post Attacks Baltimore Teachers Who Vote NO and Praises Duncan/Weingarten Tryst: NO DOUBT the resounding rejection of a new teachers contract in Baltimore is embarrassing to U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. The same day he was touting it as a model of how collaboration with the unions drives reforms, the city’s teachers were saying no to the labor pact. Mr. Duncan — and others who hyped the tentative contract as groundbreaking reform — have more than one cause to be red-faced. Not only did the contract fail, but education officials accepted less change than is needed in the evaluation, assignment and compensation of teachers in their attempt to win union support….The real model for national reform is the Washington, D.C., teachers contract negotiated by Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/17/AR2010101702724.html

Meet the New Sellout, Same As the Old Sellout: Vote Until the Bosses Win! md.aft.org/btu/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=99e9f26a-824e-420c-94e3-59278d9bab52

Dues Eaters Can’t Even Organize the Airlines: Thousands of flight attendants at Delta Air Lines Inc have for a third time rejected unionization, dealing a major setback to labor..
www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6A27M620101103

D.C. AFT Testifies Against their Own Laid Off Members in Court: The Washington Teachers’ Union’s legal challenge to the layoff of 266 educators in October 2009 effectively ended Friday, when a union attorney told a D.C. Superior Court judge that it could find no evidence that Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee contrived a budget crunch to justify the job cuts.

“We didn’t find anything that would warrant further briefing,” attorney Brenda C. Zwack told Judge Judith Bartnoff.

Last November, Bartnoff denied the union’s bid for a preliminary injunction barring the District from firing the 266 educators. She said the union had failed to prove its allegation that Rhee’s hiring of more than 900 new teachers in the spring and summer of 2009 left a glut of new instructors, allowing her to create a sham financial crisis that fall.
The layoffs were also unusual because they were executed not by traditional seniority standards (“last hired, first fired”) but by criteria that allowed principals to make cuts primarily according to “school needs.”

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/29/AR2010102906751.html?hpid=sec-education

NEA and Boss’ Alliance to Tax the Working Class Fails Twice in San Diego:
www.fox5sandiego.com/news/kswb-props-fail,0,1868013.story
Another Counterfeit Marxist to Run Brazil on Behalf of Wall Street: Brazilian President-elect Dilma Rousseff named a market-friendly transition team on Monday as she prepares to take the helm of a booming economy that runs the risk of being tripped up by heavy government spending and an overvalued currency.

Rousseff, who based her campaign on extending the legacy of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, won her first election on Sunday as Brazilians voted overwhelmingly for continuity.

After a bitter campaign in which she offered few specifics on her policy plans, Rousseff chose a seven-member transition team that draws heavily from the moderate wing of her left-leaning Workers’ Party, a close aide told Reuters.

Chief among them is Antonio Palocci, a well-regarded former finance minister under Lula who is popular with Wall Street and is likely to take a prominent post in Rousseff’s administration, potentially chief of staff au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/8241171/brazils-rousseff-starts-market-friendly-transition/

Spy vs Spy:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzazd6XXgZw
Mercenary Spies on the Loose: The Pentagon investigation concluded that the official, Michael D. Furlong, set up an “unauthorized” intelligence network to collect information in both countries — some of which was fed to senior generals and used for strikes against militant groups — while masking the entire operation as a more benign information operations campaign.

The inquiry concluded that “further investigation is warranted of the misleading and incorrect statements the individual made” about the legality of the program, according to Col. David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman.

Reached by telephone on Thursday, Mr. Furlong was angry about the conclusions of the investigation, saying that nobody from the Defense Department ever interviewed him as part of the inquiry.

“This is a lot like kangaroo court justice,” Mr. Furlong said.

He said that his work had been approved by a number of senior military officers in Afghanistan, and that he had never misled anyone about what he was doing. www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/world/asia/29intel.html?_r=1&hp

Sure, Snatch em, Bag Em, Jail Em, Hide Em, and then smash em up a bit. It’s Legal
CIA lawyer: U.S. law does not forbid rendition
By Jeff Stein

Daniel Pines, an assistant general counsel at the CIA, has asserted in a law journal that the abduction of terrorism suspects abroad is legal under U.S. law, even when the suspect is turned over to countries notorious for torture.

“There are virtually no legal restrictions on these types of operations,” Pines asserts in the current edition of the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal.

The Heavens Weep

BP Still Killing the Gulf: A survey of the seafloor near BP’s blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico has turned up dead and dying coral reefs that were probably damaged by the oil spill, scientists said Friday. The coral sites lie seven miles southwest of the well, at a depth of about 4,500 feet, in an area where large plumes of dispersed oil were discovered drifting through the deep ocean last spring in the weeks after the spill. www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/science/earth/06coral.html?_r=1&hp

Magical Mystery Tour

Nemesis: A California man faces a charge of beating a Jesuit priest who allegedly molested him and his brother more than 30 years ago. Amy Cornell, a spokeswoman for the Santa Clara County district attorney, said Wednesday that William Lynch faces one count of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury. His attorney says his 44-year-old client will plead not guilty. Authorities allege Lynch beat the Rev. Jerold Lindner severely on May 10 after tracking him to his retirement home and confronting him. Lynch and his younger brother reached a $625,000 settlement in 1998 over the alleged abuse, which the brothers say occurred in 1975 while on camping trips. The 65-year-old Lindner has denied abusing anyone and has not been charged. www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/11/03/us/AP-US-Priest-Attack-Arrest.html?hp

Kill the Rapist Priest?: still waiting for the Catholic church to acknowledge his pain. In the
second of two articles, he tells Chris Lloyd how he confronted his past. “I WOULD kill him,” says Mark Dixon coldly, referring to the priest who sexually abused him years before he was in his teens. While telling in shocking detail what he suffered at the hands of Father David Taylor, the youth chaplain of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle in the early Eighties, Mark, now 38, has appeared calm, recalling without hyperbole events from 25 years earlier that to this day remain vividly with him. How, as an altar boy at St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Coundon, County Durham, he was groomed and then abused by the predatory priest. Last April, Taylor was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for his crimes against Mark and two other boys who attended his youth clubs in Seaham 25 years ago. He is due to be released later this
year, but for Mark, there is no easy way out of the pain that remains after all the years.
Having thought long and hard about what he would do if he ever again came face-to-face with the priest who abused him when he was ten, he replies: “Yes, I would. I would kill him.
groups.google.com/group/alt.politics/browse_thread/thread/e2676c1249c996a4

The Rapid Emergence of Fascism as a Mass, Popular, MultiTentacled Movement:

“Bourgeoisie democracy BREEDS fascism…The more workers place their trust in legalism, in constitutionalism, in bourgeois democracy, the more they make sacrifices to save the existing regime, as the “lesser evil’ against the “menace” of fascism, the heavier become the fascist attacks and the more rapid the advance to capitalism. To preach confidence in legalism, in constitutionalism, in the capitalist state, means to invite and guarantee the victory of fascism.” R. Palme Dutt, Fascism and Social Revolution, 1935.p49

Best Thing in the History of the World

Lori Out of Jail, Again, only to go Back?
A Peruvian court granted parole on Friday to U.S. citizen Lori Berenson after she served 15 years of a 20-year sentence for collaborating with leftist insurgents

Berenson, who will turn 41 next week, was freed in May but sent back to jail in August when judges ruled her release was flawed because police had failed to confirm where she would be living in Lima while on parole for five years.

Her lawyer, Anibal Apari, who fathered a boy with Berenson while she was behind bars, said the ruling was legally sound. She is expected to leave prison in the next 24 hours, but is required to live In Peru until the end of her parole. www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/11/05/world/americas/news-us-peru-berenson.html?hp
Detroiters Solve the Problem of Vacant Buildings on Halloween: —Detroit recorded 169 fires during the three-day Angels’ Night weekend, up nearly 42 percent from last year.

Despite the increase, city officials called the volunteer effort a success and thanked volunteers today.

www.detnews.com/article/20101101/METRO01/11010374/Detroit-Angels’-Night-fires-up-42-

Worst Thing in the History of the World

Remember, November 6th 1985, US press reveals at least part of the Regan Iran Contra Affair.

Never Forget

November 6, 1939: Sonderaktion Krakau was the codename for a German operation against professors and academics from the University of Kraków and other Kraków universities at the beginning of World War II.

It was carried out as part of the action plan to exterminate the Polish intellectual elite known as Intelligenzaktion, especially in those centres, such as Kraków, which were slated by the Nazis to become culturally German.

Thanks to Perry, Bob, Neil C (‘dues eaters) Adam and Gina, BP, Jack G in Oakland on the scene, Sherry, Ben, Peter M, Steve R, Ricky, Sandy, Ann D, Victoria, Billy P, Tom H, Bonnie MacD, Kathy K, Wayneo, Doug S, Joe C and B, Bill B and the Blanks, Ginger, Tammy, Tanya, Ray, Mike R, Marisol, Sam S, and Arturo. Plus Amber.

Good luck to us, every one.

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