Why Are Things As They Are?

Hello Courageous Occupiers! Don’t be the Fly to the  Fascist Government Spider

“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

We Say Fight Back!

Police arrested more than a dozen Anti-Wall Street protesters in San Francisco on Wednesday after they occupied a Bank of America branch in the city’s financial district.
Roughly 50 protesters flooded into the building during an organized march that began at their downtown encampment and finished at the state building.
The protesters set up a tent inside the bank branch as more than 100 bystanders watched from outside and police in riot helmets arrested the occupiers one by one, bringing them to a waiting bus.
One protester waved a sign inside the building that read “make banks pay.” Another held up a sign to a local television station that said they were protesting the link between California’s public higher education system and the banks.  http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/17/us-protests-sanfrancisco-idUSTRE7AG06520111117

18 Big City Mayors Coordinated Nearly Simultaneous Violent Attacks on Occupiers.

Hundreds of police officers were involved, some of them wearing riot helmets. The overnight hours of Monday into Tuesday were chosen because Zuccotti Park would be at its emptiest. The operation was kept secret from all but a few high-ranking officers, with others initially being told that they were embarking on an exercise. …Reporters in the park were forced to leave. Paul J. Browne, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, said it was for their safety. But many journalists said that they had been prevented from seeing the police take action in the park, and that they had been roughly handled by officers. Mr. Browne said television camera trucks on Church Street, along the park’s western border, were able to capture images…(the coppers stole and destroyed around 5000 books…)  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/nyregion/police-clear-zuccotti-park-with-show-of-force-bright-lights-and-loudspeakers.html?_r=1&hp

University of Cal Bosses Cancel Tuition Hike Meeting, Fearing Bad People: Fearing potentially violent disruptions, University of California regents on Monday canceled a meeting scheduled for this week in San Francisco, while UC and Cal State students prepared for demonstrations Tuesday at campuses across the state.
The UC board had planned to hold its regular bi-monthly meeting Wednesday and Thursday at UC San Francisco’s Mission Bay campus but postponed the session after what officials termed credible threats.
University police had received reports that “rogue elements intent on violence and confrontation with UC public safety officers” were planning to join otherwise peaceful protests at the meeting,  http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-college-protests-20111115,0,3829929.story

CSU System Rams Through $500 tuition Hike and Tears up Profs’ Contract for Pay Raise: California State University trustees approved a 9 percent increase in tuition Wednesday during a raucous meeting that turned violent when demonstrators battled with police, shattering a glass door and sending an officer to the hospital with cuts.
Four people were arrested, but it was unclear if they were students or part of a group of some 70 union workers and activists who arrived by bus to protest the tuition hike, said CSU spokeswoman Claudia Keith. Two other CSU police officers suffered minor injuries.    http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2011/11/17/csu_trustees_ok_tuition_hike_as_violence_erupts/above Portland Occupier takes one for the Team. Now, China, will you please fly some drones over here so the reactionary thugs in charge cut this out? (photographer Randy L. Rasmussen)

Protesters Storm Kuwaiti Parliament: Kuwaiti leaders held crisis talks after protesters demanding the resignation of the premier, a key member of the ruling Al Sabah family, stormed the parliament in a sharp escalation of tension.
Opposition lawmakers warned of a growing political crisis after dozens of anti-government protesters muscled their way into Kuwait’s parliament during debates over efforts to question the prime minister about corruption allegations.
Local media reported the demonstrators briefly chanted before being forced out as hundreds of others protested outside on Wednesday.
Opposition parliament members have sought to question Prime Minister Sheik Nasser Al Mohammad Al Sabah over claims that government officials illegally transferred money to accounts outside the Gulf country.
Last month, Kuwait’s foreign minister resigned as the scandal grew.   www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/11/20111116204038300676.html

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Hillbillary’s Convoy Hit by Protesters in Phillipines while Obamagogue Declares Pacific a US Lake: Clinton was traveling through the Philippine capital when her procession was pelted by a crowd of youthful demonstrators protesting their government’s military ties to the United States. At least one paint balloon landed on the lead vehicle, splashing red pigment all over the windshield and hood. Other protesters got close enough to the armored cars to kick them, according to images captured by news photographers.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/checkpoint-washington/post/clintons-convoy-targeted-by-filipino-protesters/2011/11/16/gIQABiRDSN_blog.html?hpid=z5

The Little Red Schoolhouse

And for our first lesson today Students, Meet the Empire, come home

At a meeting in Long Beach marked by violent disruptions, the California State University board of trustees on Wednesday voted narrowly to increase annual tuition by 9%, or $500, for next fall. With the increase, annual tuition for undergraduates will rise to just under $6,000.
The 9-to-6 vote was taken behind closed doors and out of public view after police removed chanting, whistle-blowing protesters from the meeting room. Several protesters were taken into custody after a group tried to storm the meeting room, shattering a glass door.

Fla Teacher Rejects Fake Peer Evaluator, is Suspended: Joseph Thomas, 43, a social studies teacher at Newsome High School, said he refused to schedule a peer observation because he feels the evaluator, Justin Youmans, is not qualified to judge him.
Youmans, 29, has his experience teaching elementary school and sixth grade, according to his school district biography. “He thinks like an elementary school teacher,” said Thomas, a teacher for 18 years.   www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/teacher-suspended-after-defying-hillsborough-school-districts-evaluation/1201139

Who Applied to be Detroit Schools Superintendent? Nobody. Why? Making because the Last Boss was fired after the School Board Prezzie kept Fondling himself in Front of her, again and again, and she complained, then sued,  Now, the job goes to an Insider (o good). Ridgeway’s salary as assistant superintendent was $121,500. As superintendent, Bennett’s salary was $21,700 per month – or about $260,000 a year — according to DPS records.
Her appointment comes after Roberts hired a search firm shortly after he took office in May.
He interviewed several people for the job of DPS superintendent and also chancellor of the new statewide district for low-performing schools, the Education Achievement Authority system. When asked their preference, the candidates all dropped out of the running for DPS superintendent.
DPS has not had a superintendent since former emergency manager Robert Bobb did not renew the contract of Teresa Gueyser last year in the middle of a sexual harassment scandal involving the former school board president. Gueyser this year won a $650,000 settlement in her whistle-blower lawsuit against DPS.   www.freep.com/article/20111116/NEWS01/111116046/DPS-names-Karen-Ridgeway-new-superintendent-Detroit-schools?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

What if San Diego Schools go Broke (a nice checklist): If schools really did go insolvent, it would mean a huge loss of control for the school district: Kowba would be fired and the state would appoint an administrator in his place. The school board would lose all power. The administrator would have sweeping powers to decide how to keep the school district afloat. Watch our San Diego Explained to understand what happens if schools go broke:  http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/education/schooled/article_8112fdcc-109a-11e1-b18d-001cc4c03286.html?success=1#user-comment-area

Congress’ School Lunch Policy—Let them eat Crap: See if you can score higher on this pop quiz than members of the U.S. Congress.
How much tomato paste must one slather onto a slice of pizza for it to qualify as a nutritionally adequate serving of vegetables for low-income schoolchildren?
A quarter-cup? A half-cup? Two tablespoons?
It’s a trick question. A tomato is actually a fruit. But let’s leave aside the horticultural definition and talk about how Congress failed the quiz. It chose 2 tablespoons, blocking sorely needed nutritional upgrades to the $11 billion federal school lunch programs. It did so because members’ brains (and quite possibly their bellies) are controlled by lobbyists.
Two tablespoons is about the amount of paste commonly found on the cardboard slices that pose as pizza in far too many school cafeterias. That amount will continue to qualify as a vegetable serving. Did I mention the frozen food lobby?
Let’s move on to another question. How many servings of potatoes, aka french fries, is it wise to serve to children before their diet becomes too laden with starch? Congress’ answer? An unlimited number!
And let’s not even go into the question of whether it is wise, as was suggested by the Department of Agriculture, that school lunches require at least half of the breads served each week be from whole grains. Congress pleaded ignorance, claiming it needed a better definition on what exactly is a whole grain.   www.kansascity.com/2011/11/17/3271993/congress-school-lunch-policy-let.html

Chicago’s Bonuses for Principals like Training Seals At Seal World—bark, fool! Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced Wednesday the criteria by which high-performing Chicago Public Schools principals will receive up to $20,000 in bonuses for boosting student achievement this school year.
Charter school principals will be eligible too, and the mayor announced that network chiefs — who oversee groupings of elementary schools and high schools — also can receive bonuses for driving significant gains at their schools.   www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-cps-bonuses-1110-20111109,0,4986382.story

Another One ya Cannot Make up. Arne Duncan Wants a Financial Literacy National ed Program: Education Secretary Arne Duncan said this week that schools should incorporate personal finance into lesson plans. He proposes that such instruction should start as early as kindergarten to combat widespread financial illiteracy.
“As important as reading and math and social studies and science, I think today more than ever financial literacy has to be part of that,” Duncan said at a speech at the Treasury Department. “To continue to have a population that is relatively illiterate in these matters I think has real negative consequences to our democracy.”   news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/duncan-calls-personal-finance-lessons-starting-kindergarten-134427341.html

Hey Arne! You Bankrupt Dunce, Il Duce of Schools! Here is a text to Assign

and a study guide

www.marxists.org/archive/dunayevskaya/works/1979/outline-capital/index.htm

The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor

The NY Times has a Sports Section, a Business Section, an Arts Section, a Dining Section, a Home Section, a Fashion (men’s and women’s) Section, and I thought this would finally be My War Section, but NO! It is the War Games Section: A military draft is now unthinkable in America. And so bullet-spewing first-person shooter games like Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 seem likely to continue to reign among men as the most consistently popular genre in video games. According to game companies and analysts, the expansion of gaming onto social networks (FarmVille, Sims Social) and cellphones (Angry Birds) is largely being propelled by women. But the core console and PC gaming world — where players spend $60 on a product that has cost tens of millions to create — is still mostly driven by the tastes of young and reluctantly middle-aged men.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/arts/video-games/battlefield-3-and-call-of-duty.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=recruiting%20the%20inner%20military%20hero%20in%20men&st=cse

Holy Cow! Look! Under our Drones! Libya has OIL!!! And all the Chinese Engineers are Gone! Officials boldly predict that by June, the country will once again be pumping 1.6 million barrels of oil a day, although independent experts say that is conceivable only if the country can avoid a relapse into violence.
The industry’s rapid pace of recovery is a beacon of hope at a time when the interim government is struggling to disarm militias, prevent competing tribes from fighting each other, and rebuild shattered cities.
Oil is the mother’s milk of Libya’s economy — before the war, it accounted for about one-quarter of the country’s economic output, 80 percent of government revenue and 95 percent of export earnings, according to United States government estimates.
“In a country like Libya, oil is everything,” said Paolo Scaroni, the chief executive of Eni, the Italian oil company that is by far the biggest foreign producer here. “At the end of the day, the government spends most of its time taking care of oil.”  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/business/global/oil-production-rises-quickly-in-libyan-fields.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2

Warmaker Obamagogue Stages Marines In Australia, Targeting China President Obama announced Wednesday that the United States planned to deploy 2,500 Marines in Australia to shore up alliances in Asia, but the move prompted a sharp response from Beijing, which accused Mr. Obama of escalating military tensions in the region.    The agreement with Australia amounts to the first long-term expansion of the American military’s presence in the Pacific since the end of the Vietnam War. It comes despite budget cuts facing the Pentagon and an increasingly worried reaction from Chinese leaders, who have argued that the United States is seeking to encircle China militarily and economically.
“It may not be quite appropriate to intensify and expand military alliances and may not be in the interest of countries within this region,” Liu Weimin, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said in response to the announcement by Mr. Obama and Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia. www.nytimes.com/2011/11/17/world/asia/obama-and-gillard-expand-us-australia-military-ties.html?hp

US Marionette Karzai Calls Loya Jurga to Prolong US Invasion that Protects his Corruption in order to Dodge another vote: Despite criticism from neighboring countries, threats from the Taliban and calls for a boycott from some political opponents, President Hamid Karzai has called a loya jirga, the traditional grand council of Afghan elders and leaders, in an attempt to gain popular support for a long-term partnership with the United States, Afghan officials and analysts say.   www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/world/asia/questions-cloud-meeting-of-afghan-elders-called-by-hamid-karzai.html?_r=1&hp

Round of Applause For Boeing! War Means Work! 30,000 Pound Bombs! Kablooey! Do Bombs Win Wars? Aerospace giant Boeing Co. has delivered the first batch of 30,000-pound bombs, each nearly five tons heavier than anything else in the military’s arsenal, to the U.S. Air Force to pulverize underground enemy hide-outs.
At a total cost of about $314 million, the military has developed and ordered 20 of the GPS-guided bombs, called Massive Ordnance Penetrators. They are designed to be dropped on targets by the Boeing-made B-52 Stratofortress long-range bomber or Northrop Grumman Corp.’s B-2 stealth bomber.
In an age of new emphasis on drones and lightweight weaponry, the Air Force’s purchase highlights the Pentagon’s ongoing need for defense contractors to build the kinds of big bombs and other heavy-duty ordnance they have produced for decades.
Packed with more than 5,300 pounds of explosives and more than 20 feet long, the giant bunker-busting bombs were tested at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the site of the first atomic bomb test during World War II.

Aptly Named, the Bomb Is not Big Kablooey but “Penetrator.” What would Reich Say?

The National Institute for Justice Less Lethal Weapons Guide (how we plan to smash you softly) Under its Less-Lethal Technologies Program, established in 1986, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ)—the research, development, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Justice—provides funds to identify, develop, and evaluate new or improved devices and other technology that will minimize the risk of death and injury to law enforcement officers, suspects, prisoners, and the general public. Many Federal, State, and local civil law enforcement and corrections agencies use less-lethal weapons and equipment to help minimize the loss of life and property. These devices are used to quell prison riots, suppress mobs, and subdue hostile individuals. NIJ has prepared this equipment review to inform Federal, State, and local agencies about the Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Nonlethal Weapons Program and the less-lethal weapons and equipment used by civil law enforcement agencies. This review does not address issues surrounding DoD’s Joint Nonlethal Weapons Program or issues related to nonlethal weapons research and development programs.   www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/205293.pdf

Crow Hopping to WW3, China Debates Military Strategy Putting India aside at the moment, Beijing’s main challenges come from their claims on the South China Sea and it reefs and atolls known as the Spratly group of Islands, and the Diaoyu (Japanese: Senkaku) group of Islands in the East China Sea. Both maritime areas are said to hold huge hydrocarbon deposits as well as minerals. They also hold huge military strategic advantage for China. The Spratly Islands are claimed in parts by Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei mainly, and China and Taiwan (which China claims as its renegade province). China claims the South China in its entirety. None of the China pushed agreements here has worked simply because China demands any exploitation has to be under China’s sovereignty conditions. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to which China is a signatory, is not accepted by Beijing on these maritime area disputes. Beijing’s demands are based on their own so-called historical evidence which do not stand to close scrutiny.
Hence this debate on military options. Taiwan is a special case. It is considered as a renegade province of China   http://www.southasiaanalysis.org/%5Cpapers48%5Cpaper4773.html

The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor

An Injury to One Precedes an Injury to All—extreme poverty spreads across land As the first decade of the 2000s drew to a close, the two downturns that bookended the period, combined with slow job growth between, clearly took their toll on the nation’s less fortunate residents.
Over a ten-year span, the country saw the poor population grow by 12.3 million, driving the total number of Americans in poverty to a historic high of 46.2 million. By the end of the decade, over 15 percent of the nation’s population lived below the federal poverty line—$22,314 for a family of four in 2010—though these increases did not occur evenly throughout the country.     After declining in the 1990s, the population in extreme-poverty neighborhoods—where at least 40 percent of individuals live below the poverty line—rose by one-third from 2000 to 2005–09. By the end of the period, 10.5 percent of poor people nationwide lived in such neighborhoods, up from 9.1 percent in 2000, but still well below the 14.1 percent rate in 1990.  http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2011/1103_poverty_kneebone_nadeau_berube.aspx

Hey OWS! Corruption is Part and Parcel of Capitalism, not a Fluke: As attention in the Olympus accounting scandal turns to whether funds used to cover up losses were funnelled to criminal groups, scrutiny is set to increase on deals not yet in the spotlight, including an ill-fated $780 million (493 million pounds) investment in technology firm ITX.  http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2011/11/19/business/business-us-olympus-deals.html?src=busln

Rep John Conyers Paramour, Monica the Thief, to Cost Detroit Again Detroit taxpayers may be on the hook for $75,000 to dig Monica Conyers out of a legal mess.
That’s how much the city of Detroit has agreed to pay to settle a lawsuit that claims Conyers – wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers – had a man fired for politically opposing her when she was a city councilwoman. Conyers is currently serving a 37-month prison sentence for bribery.
The Detroit City Council has not yet approved the settlement, which was on Tuesday’s agenda.
“I hope this is the last we hear of Ms. Conyers having an adverse effect on the citizens of Detroit,” said Robert Fetter, the plaintiff’s lawyer in the civil suit.

above convicted Detroit pols, Pimp Kirkpatrick, Skank Conyers, Rat Riddle.
The suit involves Theodis Collins, an employee at the Mariners Inn substance abuse center, who claims that Conyers pressured his employer to fire him because he wanted to recall Conyers from the Detroit City Council in 2009.   www.freep.com/article/20111109/NEWS01/111109063/City-Detroit-agrees-settle-lawsuit-against-Monica-Conyers-75-000?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Suburbanite Mayor of Detroit Plans to Gut an Already Decimated City Workforce and who will be left in Detroit then? Ernst & Young, author of the secret report on Detroit’s finances that Mayor Dave Bing is brandishing like a cudgel over the heads of workers and residents, faces lawsuits by the states of New York and New Jersey for actively helping Lehman Brothers cook their books for seven years.
Lehman, worth $600 billion, collapsed in 2008 in the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. Its collapse was a key factor in the Wall Street’s subprime mortgage meltdown.
Despite Ernst & Young’s reputation, Bing is demanding heavy concessions from city workers and residents, after meeting in an illegal secret session with the entire City Council Oct. 26 to discuss the firm’s report.
Bing met with leaders of the city’s 40 plus union s Nov. 8 and gave them a two week deadline to comply with his  demands.,,,       , according to recent reports, half of the city’s vendors, including those who supply parts for its buses, are going unpaid and the city is demanding deep “sacrifice” from its workers and residents.
According to Detroit’s 2010 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR), the city’s total debt is approximately $7.7 billion, including the $1.2 billion pension obligation certificates.
Also according to the 2010 CAFR, the city was scheduled to pay a total of $433,691,964 in debt to the banks in 2011. Of that, $216,418,043 was to be in interest alone. THE INTEREST ALONE IS FAR GREATER THAN THE CITY’S DEFICIT!
The U.S. government has bailed out the banks to the tune of trillions of dollars–time for the banks to put their heads on the chopping block, not the workers and people of Detroit. Detroit’s Mayor Frank Murphy enacted a moratorium on the city’s debt to the banks in the 1930’s, declaring that the PEOPLE’S NEEDS WOULD BE TAKEN CARE OF BEFORE ALL ELSE.   readersupportednews.org/pm-section/84-84/8453-detroit-mayor-dave-bing-demands-deep-cuts-based-on-ernst-a-young-report-firm-cooked-lehman-bros-books

Solidarity ForNever

NEA Pours Money into OWS, to Demolish OWS and turn it into an Obmagogue Organ

Dear Gregory Q (NEA Member) November 18 2011

I am asking you to volunteer as an Educator for Obama

President Barack Obama stood behind the public workers of Ohio as we fought Governor Kasich’s efforts to strip away our rights. He believes in public education and the vital role collective bargaining plays in creating great schools.

And right now, President Obama needs your support. As an Educator for Obama, you will have access to e-mail updates and special campaign briefings. We’ll also ask you to serve the campaign as a spokesperson, volunteer, activist and leader in your community.

In 2010, we saw firsthand in Ohio and other states what can happen when we fail to elect true friends of public education. Let’s not repeat that lesson at the national level. On Nov. 8, we also witnessed in Ohio and other states what can be accomplished when we stand together and fight for what we believe in. That is why I urge you to work with me, and thousands of your fellow educators, to re-elect President Obama.

Thank you for your support,

Dennis Van Roekel
President, National Education Association

Van Roekel, $465,000 a year plus, personifies the Empire’s Bribe. You should not. You’ll lose.

AFT Boss Randi Weingarten is So Corrupt and Sold Out, the NYTimes wants her to be NYC School Boss Randi Weingarten can’t be the enemy anymore. She could be the reformers’ best friend, if only they’d let her. www.nytimes.com/2011/11/08/opinion/teaching-with-the-enemy.html?_r=4&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

Delta Rejects Fake AFL Union About 20,000 Delta flight attendants voted last November to reject union representation at the mostly nonunion carrier.   www.nytimes.com/2011/11/19/business/mediators-uphold-union-rejection-vote-at-delta.html?scp=2&sq=delta&st=cse

Fascism as a Mass Popular WorldWide Movement

Liberals and Social Democrats, always seeking to destroy class consciousness, pave the way for fascism and that appears in OWS Kristof’s right to suggest that the Occupiers aren’t “half-naked Communists aiming to bring down the American economic system.” This isn’t the “Project Mayhem” of Chuck Palahniuk novels — we’re talking about a movement that’s spurring people to move their money from “too big to fail” banks into credit unions. That’s not exactly “smash the system.” That’s more like a group of people seeking out a means to maximize their power within the system, or using consumer choice to preserve, enhance and improve the best parts of the system. As Matt Taibbi notes in a fitting companion piece to Kristof’s, “These people aren’t protesting money. They’re not protesting banking. They’re protesting corruption on Wall Street.”
Taibbi calls them “cheaters,” Kristof calls them “cronies,” but the concept of “corruption” is intrinsic to both critiques. In fact, one could well argue that the truest evidence of Wall Street corruption is the fact that prior to the economic collapse, what Wall Street was practicing wasn’t really “capitalism” at all.
And here, Kristof absolutely nails it:
Capitalism is so successful an economic system partly because of an internal discipline that allows for loss and even bankruptcy. It’s the possibility of failure that creates the opportunity for triumph. Yet many of America’s major banks are too big to fail, so they can privatize profits while socializing risk.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/occupy-wall-street-isnt-h_n_1035988.html

Germany: The Reich Tries to Rise Again Reporting from Berlin— Germany’s intelligence service came under sharp criticism Monday after revelations that a neo-Nazi terrorist group had been operating in the country virtually undetected for more than a decade and allegedly killed at least 10 people, most of them Turkish immigrants.
Authorities say a group calling itself the National Socialist Underground was responsible for the slayings of eight people of Turkish origin, a Greek and a policewoman, some of whom were shot in the face at point-blank range. The group is also suspected of involvement in more than a dozen bank robberies and a bombing.
The shocking details came to light after two members were found dead in an apparent suicide and a third turned herself in to police last week. Authorities arrested a fourth suspect Sunday.   www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-germany-extremists-murder-20111115,0,7046880.story

Penn State, like the USA, writing in Fascist Hysteria. School Spirit! Prayer. Well, Rape, child rape, coverups, hierarchy, secrecy, good ol boys,…willing to use violence……At Penn State, students overturned a media truck, hit an ESPN reporter in the head with a rock and made every effort at arson, attempting to set aflame the very heart of their campus. They raised their fists in defense of a man fired for allegedly covering up the actions of a revered assistant who doubled as a serial child rapist. The almost entirely male student mob was given the space by police to seethe and destroy without restraint.   www.thenation.com/blog/164535/penn-state-and-berkeley-tale-two-protests

Mexico, Governed by Drug Gangs, has a Violent Security Force!

In a comprehensive report released Wednesday, New York-based Human Rights Watch documented 234 cases which the group says represent serious abuse by marines and other security forces in several Mexican states.
The 220-page report, more than a year in the making, paints a tableau of murder, torture and sexual assault of detainees; “forced disappearances” (i.e., kidnappings where the victim never appears again); efforts by armed forces to hide their crimes by tampering with evidence; intimidation of families of victims if they complain or speak out; virtually no serious investigations by civilian or military authorities of the allegations. (See footage below.)   latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/11/mexico-marines-human-rights-watch-abuses-felipe-calderon.html

US Created and then Sponsored Fascist From Khmer Rouge To be Freed A tribunal backed by the United Nations that is trying top leaders of the Khmer Rouge announced on Thursday that a sister-in-law of the regime’s former leader, Pol Pot, was unfit to stand trial and should be released because she suffers from dementia.    As minister for social affairs, the defendant, Ieng Thirith, 79, was the most powerful woman in the Khmer Rouge government, which was responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million people from 1975 to 1979 through execution, torture, forced labor, starvation and disease.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/world/asia/sickly-defendant-khmer-rouge-genocide-trial-in-cambodia-may-be-freed.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y

The Magical Mystery Tour

27 Thousand Superstitious Fanatics Attend Mass Coven at Ford Field in Michigan The 24-hour Christian prayer rally this past weekend in Detroit drew 27,400, among them a lesbian who “is now working to change her lifestyle,” according to the Detroit organizer for The Call.
“It was phenomenal,” said Apostle Ellis Smith of Jubilee City Church, who was The Call’s outreach coordinator to Detroit churches. “It was unprecedented in so many ways.”
The Call, led by controversial preacher Lou Engle of Kansas City, was denounced by some local clergy who said Engle and his supporters were intolerant of a range of groups, including gays, Muslims, Catholics and African-Americans.
But Smith called that criticism “dumb stuff” that “never came to pass” during the event.  http://www.freep.com/article/20111116/NEWS01/111116042/Christian-prayer-rally-Call-draws-27K-Ford-Field-protestors-claim-hate-preached?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

above is Bishop Flinn, Child Porn herder

KC Bishop Cuts Deal to Dodge More Rape/coverup Charges In a deal to avoid a second round of criminal charges, a Roman Catholic bishop in Kansas City has agreed to meet monthly with a county prosecutor to detail every suspicious episode involving abuse of a child in his diocese for the next five years.  The bishop, Robert W. Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, was indicted in October by a grand jury in Jackson County for failure to report a priest accused of taking pornographic pictures of girls. Bishop Finn is the first American prelate to face indictment on charges of mishandling an abuse case.
The agreement announced on Tuesday between Bishop Finn and the prosecuting attorney of neighboring Clay County, Daniel White, leaves the bishop open to prosecution for misdemeanor charges for five years, if he does not continue to meet with the prosecutor and report all episodes. But victims’ advocates criticized the deal as cozy and ineffectual, compared with previous agreements between bishops and prosecutors….The investigations in Kansas City stem from the bishop’s supervision of the Rev. Shawn Ratigan, who has been accused of taking photographs of the crotches of girls as young as 6 in local parishes and homes over many years. The bishop learned of the photos last December after a technician fixing the priest’s computer expressed serious alarm, but the diocese did not turn them over to the police until May. In that period, Father Ratigan is accused of taking more lewd photographs of girls at places including a church-sponsored Easter egg hunt.  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/16/us/kansas-city-bishop-makes-deal-to-avoid-more-criminal-charges.html

Best thing in History of the World

Man Buys Mini Van. Loaded with Coke! When a San Jose man took his used minivan in, the mechanic found half a million dollars of cocaine inside the frame.
When the man, who bought the 2008 Chrysler minivan for $14,000 last year, took the car in to the shop recently, the mechanic offered to see why one of the windows wouldn’t roll down all the way. That’s when he discovered that the door panels were crammed with coke.  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/minivan-cocaine.html

The Worst Thing in the History of the World

Dad crashes car in Detroit and flees, leaving young daughters behind Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver they say caused a crash on the city’s east side Wednesday before fleeing the scene, leaving his two daughters, and infant and a toddler, in the car.  http://www.detnews.com/article/20111116/METRO05/111160453/Dad-crashes-car-in-Detroit-and-flees–leaving-young-daughters-behind

PSU’s Jerry Sandusky at Work Below and the Grand Jury Report Here  http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/uploadedFiles/Press/Sandusky-Grand-Jury-Presentment.pdf