{"id":11924,"date":"2014-01-19T00:06:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T08:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=11924"},"modified":"2014-01-19T00:08:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T08:08:15","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-draft-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-draft-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: For the “Abolition of private property.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We<\/strong><\/span> Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Luxemburg<\/a><\/p>\n

Mexico: Community Armed resistance \u00a0<\/strong>Armed vigilante groups who have risen up to combat the vicious Knights Templar drug cartel in the Mexican state of Michoacan were surrounding the city of Apatzingan, a main cartel stronghold, Monday morning and were threatening to invade the city, as Mexican government officials scrambled to defuse the situation.
\n\u201cWe have already circled Apatzingan,\u201d one of the self-defense leaders, Hipolito Mora, said in a radio interview Monday morning. \u201cI don\u2019t know if we have the capacity [to take it] or not, but we are obligated to do it, and we are going to do it.\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/worldnow\/la-fg-wn-vigilantes-mexico-michoacan-20140113,0,4957752.story#ixzz2qLq8L9J2<\/p>\n

Some Roots of Mexican Militias in US \u00a0<\/strong>The two dozen men standing guard on a rutted road that cuts through these lime groves and cornfields are just one small part of a citizen militia movement spreading over the lowlands of western Mexico. But as they told their stories, common threads emerged: Los Angeles gang members. Deported Texas construction workers. Dismissed Washington state apple pickers.
\nMany were U.S. immigrants who came back, some voluntarily but most often not, to the desiccated job market in the state of Michoacan and found life under the Knights Templar drug cartel that controls the area almost unlivable. They took up arms because they were financially abused by the extortion rackets run by the Templars. Because they had family killed or wounded by their enemies. Because carrying a silver-plated handgun and collecting defeated narcos\u2019 designer cellphones as war booty is more invigorating than packing cucumbers. Because they get to feel, for once, the sensation of being in charge. \u00a0\u201cEverybody\u2019s with us, all the people,\u201d said Edgar Orozco, a 27-year-old American citizen who left his job at a Sacramento body shop nine months ago to join the fight after the Knights Templar killed his uncle and cousin. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to disarm. Never.\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/a-mexican-militia-battling-michoacan-drug-cartel-has-american-roots\/2014\/01\/18\/30f96894-7f92-11e3-97d3-b9925ce2c57b_story.html?wprss=rss_world<\/p>\n

www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Luz9oxhzpsE<\/a><\/p>\n

Puerto Rico Teachers 2 Day Strike\u00a0<\/strong> Thousands of striking school teachers gathered Wednesday in Puerto Rico\u2019s capital and their leaders met with government officials to talk about recent changes to the retirement system that sparked a two-day walkout.
\nMany teachers traveled from as far as the western cities of Mayaguez and Aguadilla, some arriving in school buses at the island\u2019s Department of Labor, where the meeting took place on the final day of the strike. \u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/the_americas\/puerto-rico-teachers-launch-two-day-strike\/2014\/01\/14\/a7914374-7d89-11e3-97d3-b9925ce2c57b_story.html<\/p>\n

Book Coming From one of the Grenada 17 \u00a0<\/strong> \u201cWe Move Tonight\u201d is the name of a book written by one of the famous Grenada 17, and the author says it contains \u201cnever-before revealed material\u2019\u2019 about the 1979 overthrow of former Grenada Prime Minister Eric Gairy\u2019s government.
\nThe author is Joseph Ewart Layne, who was among the group that participated in the assault on the army barracks that signalled the start of action that led to the removal of Gairy\u2019s regime almost 35 years ago.
\n\u201cI am hoping to have an e-version of the book available as soon as 15 January\u2019\u2019 Layne said. \u201cHard copies would hopefully be available in limited amounts in Grenada from February. Thereafter, commencing from March, copies would be made available in other countries in the Caribbean and beyond.\u2019\u2019 \u00a0http:\/\/nowgrenada.com\/2013\/12\/ewart-layne-launch-book-grenadas-revolution\/<\/p>\n

100 Years ago<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Mother<\/a><\/p>\n

Michigan College Students Fight Demands of Donors\u00a0<\/strong>Names are intimate things. They belong to individuals to distinguish them from outsiders, and the extension of personal names to encompass other things suggests ownership of or affiliation with those other things.
\nSo when private names extend to encompass public property, it concerns us.
\nAt Grand Valley State University, it\u2019s hard to be ignorant of the people and companies who \u201csponsor\u201d our education. The names are plastered everywhere. From the DTE Energy Innovation Zone to the Mary Idema Pew Library, you know exactly who is behind our learning efforts.
\nIt may not be accurate to describe the naming as a \u201csale,\u201d but what else do you call an exchange of money for a good or service? GVSU is selling out. And what precedent is the sale of our buildings setting? \u00a0http:\/\/www.lanthorn.com\/article\/2013\/12\/sell-outs<\/p>\n

90 Years ago<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Lenin<\/a>www.marxists.org\/archive\/lenin\/works\/1917\/staterev\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tz5XOCD1wzU<\/a><\/p>\n

Susan Ohanian “I am working at posting fewer items and providing more depth. We can all rail at an outrage every 18 seconds, and I don’t deny that these outrages are stark, outrageous, and devastating. But they are presented to wear as down and blur our vision from WHY all this is happening.
\nThis is why I don’t post much about Michelle Rhee, charter schools, Randi Weingarten, the Gulan movement, and on an on and on. Yes, I worry about them and support people documenting their nefarious exploits. But I’m trying to push people–and myself–toward seeing the root cause of the attack on public schools: Capitalism.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

NYC’s Notorious School of NO \u00a0<\/strong>This principal runs a school of \u201cno.\u201d
\nStudents at PS 106 in Far Rockaway, Queens, have gotten no math or reading and writing books for the rigorous Common Core curriculum, whistleblowers say.
\nThe 234 kids get no gym or art classes. Instead, they watch movies every day.
\n\u201cThe kids have seen more movies than Siskel and Ebert,\u201d a source said.
\nThe school nurse has no office equipped with a sink, refrigerator or cot.
\nThe library is a mess: \u201cNothing\u2019s in order,\u201d said a source. \u201cIt\u2019s a junk room.\u201d
\nNo substitutes are hired when a teacher is absent \u2014 students are divvied up among other classes.
\nA classroom that includes learning-disabled kids doesn\u2019t have the required special-ed co-teacher.
\nAbout 40 kindergartners have no room in the three-story brick building. They sit all day in dilapidated trailers that reek of \u201canimal urine,\u201d a parent said; rats and squirrels noisily scamper in the walls and ceiling.
\nNO GYM OR ART: With no phys-ed or art classes, students are left to watch movies, including \u201cAlvin and the Chipmunks\u201d and \u201cFat Albert.\u201d
\nNO SPACE: Without enough space in the main brick building, kindergartners are taught in what sources say are rat-infested trailers.
\nPrincipal Marcella Sills is a frequent no-show; The Post found she missed every day of school last week but one.
\nAnd the principal \u2014 Marcella Sills, who joined PS 106 nine years ago \u2014 is a frequent no-show, sources say.
\nSills did not come to school last Monday. On Tuesday, she showed up at 3:30 p.m.
\nOn Wednesday, The Post found her at home in Westbury, LI, all day before emerging at 2:50 p.m. \u2014 school dismissal time. Wearing a fur coat, she took her BMW for a spin.
\nShe showed up at school Thursday, but not Friday. \u00a0 nypost.com\/2014\/01\/12\/no-space-no-books-no-leader-no-clue-at-citys-worst-elementary\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MarcellaSills.jpg\"<\/a>Their school provides them no textbooks, no supplies or art classes.
\nBut here are the underprivileged pupils of Far Rockaway\u2019s PS 106 \u2014 dressed to the nines in tuxes and gowns for an elaborate, wedding-themed bash they must pay to attend at the insistence of their do-nothing principal.
\nHardworking parents of kids at the notorious Queens \u201cSchool of No\u201d \u2014 many of whom live below the poverty line \u2014 are compelled to pay $150 to rent tuxes at Men\u2019s Wearhouse and buy gowns at David\u2019s Bridal, plus kick in $110 for the prom-like charade.
\nVideo from last June\u2019s function shows Principal Marcella Sills, on a dais, in a shoulderless white dress that could pass for a wedding gown, smiling \u00a0http:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/01\/15\/video-shows-do-nothing-principals-bizarre-bash\/ \u00a0(a video is embedded in the article)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

NEA: Adjust, Adjust, Adjust to Our Common Core Regimentation \u00a0<\/strong>Sometimes it takes a little magic to get kids interested in math. That\u2019s why Master Teacher Melissa Romano uses magic tricks in lessons for her fourth grade classroom in Helena, Montana.
\n\u201cIt brings out their natural curiosity,\u201d she says.
\nHer magic math lessons align with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and to help other teachers benefit from them, she\u2019s posted them all on a new online network that was launched today by the National Education Association and BetterLesson, an education technology company.
\nThe web site, CC.BetterLesson, features Romano\u2019s and more than 3,000 classroom-ready lessons that are easily accessible, can be integrated into any curriculum, and are totally aligned with the CCSS. The lessons were developed and posted by more than 130 Master Teachers from every K-12 grade level for math and English Language Arts & Literacy \u00a0http:\/\/neatoday.org\/2014\/01\/15\/lesson-sharing-network-launched-by-nea-and-betterlesson\/?utm_source=nea_today_express&utm_medium=email&utm_content=betterlesson&utm_campaign=140115neatodayexpress<\/p>\n

5 Newark School Principals Suspended\u00a0<\/strong>At Newark\u2019s Hawthorne Avenue School, the test scores are up, higher than state-imposed goals\u2014and certainly better than those of the highly touted \u201cRenew\u201d schools favored by the administration. The hallways are quiet. Teachers and administrators get along. And this was all done despite central office\u2019s stripping away of faculty resources and shameful neglect of the building. So, in the crazy, bullying logic of Gov. Chris Christie\u2019s administration of city schools, it was time to suspend the school\u2019s successful principal, H. Grady James. He was just too good to be allowed to stay.
\nTime to suspend him\u2014and to try to smear his reputation by saying he was involved in some sort of \u201cincident\u201d now under \u201cinvestigation.\u201d The \u201cincident\u201d was a community meeting at the Hopewell Baptist Church last Wednesday where he spoke, praising the efforts of his students, teachers and parents.
\nJames was one of five principals indefinitely suspended in one day by Cami Anderson, Christie\u2019s agent in Newark. The others were Tony Motley, Bragaw Avenue School; Dorothy Handfield, Belmont-Runyon School; Deneen Washington, Maple Avenue School, and Lisa Brown, Ivy Hill School. \u00a0Four of the principals\u2014James, Motley, Handfield, and Washington\u2014had spoken at the community meeting two days earlier. They tried to answer questions from local residents worried about what would happen to their children as Anderson moves toward a wholesale transfer of public school assets to the KIPP Schools, a charter organization that operates TEAM Academy Charter Schools. \u00a0http:\/\/bobbraunsledger.com\/newark-school-boss-anderson-cracks-down-on-critics-suspends-five-principals-in-one-day\/<\/p>\n

The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Bases\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Cost of War in Iraq and Afghanistan? Here: nationalpriorities.org\/cost-of\/?redirect=cow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

MonarchoFascists of Qatar: Syria rebels’ tiny ally in the background <\/strong>he tiny emirate of Qatar, home to the world’s third-largest natural gas reserves and its highest per capita wealth, was once the opposition’s staunchest and most vocal supporter. In a conflict largely fueled by the financial and military support of outside patrons, Qatar’s deep pockets were a formidable asset.
\nEven now, although it has been eclipsed in influence by neighboring Saudi Arabia, Qatar plays an outsized role in the Syrian conflict.
\n“Yes, Saudi Arabia has played a more prominent role recently,” said Salman Shaikh, director of the Brookings Doha Center, a spinoff of the Brookings Institution in Washington. “But Qatar’s role, although in volume it perhaps has been a little bit less, is certainly \u2026 significant.”
\nBuoyed by its successful intervention in Libya \u2014 where it delivered arms, cash and other aid to rebels fighting to oust Moammar Kadafi \u2014 the Qatari government in 2011 turned its attention to Syria \u00a0http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-syria-funding-20140112,0,5673903.story#ixzz2qLqnJ6hW<\/p>\n

Iraq’s annual death toll highest in five years – UN<\/strong> \u00a0The United Nations says at least 7,818 civilians and 1,050 members of the security forces were killed in violent attacks across Iraq in 2013.
\nDecember alone saw at least 759 people killed, 661 of them civilians.
\nThe annual toll is the highest in five years, \u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-25568687<\/p>\n

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TmZ Photos of War’s Barbarity<\/strong>\u00a0TMZ obtained 41 pictures that we’re told were shot in Fallujah in 2004. Two pictures show a Marine appearing to pour gasoline or some other flammable on the remains of what officials believe are 2 insurgents. Two other photos show the bodies on fire. You then see charred remains.
\nAnother photo shows a Marine crouched down next to a dead body and mugging for the camera.
\nStill another pic shows a Marine rifling through the pocket of the pants on a corpse.
\nWe have not included all of the photos. Many are just too gruesome. There are well over a dozen bodies in the pics and some are covered with flies and one is being eaten by a dog.
\nWe turned them all over to the Pentagon last week, and a Pentagon official tells us the pics have triggered a Marine Corps investigation.
\nRead more: www.tmz.com\/2014\/01\/15\/iraq-soldier-bodies-on-fire-marines-investigation-military-photos\/#ixzz2qWPEAnVw<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>www.tmz.com\/2014\/01\/15\/iraq-soldier-bodies-on-fire-marines-investigation-military-photos\/<\/a><\/p>\n

MIT study of Ghouta chemical attack challenges US intelligence \u00a0<\/strong>A new MIT report is challenging the US claim that Assad forces used chemical weapons in an attack last August, highlighting that the range of the improvised rocket was way too short to have been launched from govt controlled areas.
\nIn the report titled \u201cPossible Implications of Faulty US Technical Intelligence,\u201d Richard Lloyd, a former UN weapons inspector, and Theodore Postol, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), examined the delivery rocket\u2019s design and calculated possible trajectories based on the payload of the cargo.
\nThe authors concluded that sarin gas \u201ccould not possibly have been fired at East Ghouta from the \u2018heart\u2019, or from the Eastern edge, of the Syrian government controlled area shown in the intelligence map published by the White House on August 30, 2013.\u201d
\nBased on mathematical calculations, Lloyd and Postol estimate the rocket with such aerodynamics could not travel more than 2 kilometers. To illustrate their conclusion, the authors included the original White House map that depicted areas under Assad control and those held by the opposition. Based on the firing range and troop locations on August 21, the authors conclude that all possible launching points within the 2 km radius were in rebel-held areas. \u00a0http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/study-challenges-syria-chemical-attack-681\/?fb_action_ids=10201293337281527&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_ref=.Utqc88mV1uU.like&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B578562868889652%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.likes%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%22.Utqc88mV1uU.like%22%5D<\/p>\n

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Navy: Another one bites the dust \u00a0<\/strong>The Navy\u2019s acting number two civilian has resigned over allegations inappropriate conduct with a female subordinate on Wednesday, defense officials told USNI News.
\nRobert C. Martinage, the service\u2019s deputy under secretary of navy policy, plans, oversight and integration, had also been filling in as under secretary of the navy since the departure of former under secretary Bob Work in May.
\n\u201cSecretary of the Navy Ray Mabus asked for the resignation following a loss of confidence in Martinage\u2019s abilities to effectively perform his duties,\u201d according to a Wednesday statement from the service.\u00a0 news.usni.org\/2014\/01\/15\/acting-secretary-navy-martinage-resigns?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=acting-secretary-navy-martinage-resigns<\/a><\/p>\n

Suicide Rates for Young Vets Jump\u00a0<\/strong>The number of male veterans under the age of 30 who commit suicide jumped by 44 percent between 2009 and 2011, the most recent year for which data was available, according to numbers released Thursday by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Roughly two young veterans a day commit suicide.
\nSuicide rates for female vets also increased by 11 percent between 2009 and 2011. The suicide rate among veterans remains well above that for the general population, with roughly 22 former servicemen and women committing suicide every day.
\nThe troubling spike in suicide rates among younger vets comes as overall suicide rates for people using the Veterans Health Administration have held relatively steady in recent years. Suicide rates among older veterans decreased 16.1 percent between 1999 and 2010, while the overall population of older U.S. males ages saw a 27.3 percent increase in the rate of suicide over the same period. Read more: Suicide Rate Soars For Young Vets | TIME.com<\/a> swampland.time.com\/2014\/01\/10\/report-suicide-rate-soars-among-young-vets\/#ixzz2qWSYyiej<\/a><\/p>\n

Gates’ “Doody” or How I lost all those wars\u00a0<\/strong>The former defense secretary is naming names. Vice President Joe Biden? A comical \u201cmotormouth\u201d who, though he is \u201csimply impossible not to like,\u201d presumes to know more about counterterrorism than an experienced Special Operations general. He is \u201crelentless . . . in attacking the integrity of the senior military leadership\u201d and, for good measure, \u201chas been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.\u201d The former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel is \u201chell on wheels, . . . a whirling dervish with \u00adattention-deficit disorder.\u201d Tom Donilon, President Obama\u2019s second national security adviser, is suspicious and distrustful of the uniformed military leadership to the point of stating in a meeting that it was \u201cinsubordinate\u201d and \u201cin revolt\u201d against the White House. At one point in an Oval Office meeting, Donilon was so querulous about military operations that Gates contemplated walking out in anger. \u201cIt took every bit of my self-discipline to stay seated on the sofa.\u201d \u00a0…I was constantly amazed and infuriated at the hypocrisy of those who most stridently attacked the Defense Department for being inefficient and wasteful but would fight tooth and nail to prevent any reduction in defense activities in their home state or district no matter how inefficient or wasteful.\u201d The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, is depicted as a small-time hack who telephones Gates to lobby, at one point, for Defense Department funding for research on irritable bowel syndrome. With wars going on in Iraq and Afghanistan, Gates recalls, \u201cI didn\u2019t know whether to laugh or cry.\u201d When Gates tried over a breakfast to describe to Nancy Pelosi, then speaker of the House, what he saw as the facts on the ground in Iraq, \u201cshe politely made clear she wasn\u2019t interested\u201d in reaching a bipartisan agreement. He describes Pelosi close to exploding at a White House meeting on an early decision of Obama\u2019s to keep troops in Iraq until near the end of 2011: \u201cShe drummed her fingers on the table and had a white-knuckled grip on her pencil.\u201d She looked, he says, \u201clike she had swallowed an entire lemon.\u201d He also recalls a hearing at which Senator Patty Murray of Washington (where Boeing is a major employer) was reading from prepared notes, and says with disdain that \u201cno one had bothered to remove the Boeing letterhead from her talking points.\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/19\/books\/review\/duty-a-memoir-by-robert-m-gates.html?nl=books&emc=edit_bk_20140117&_r=0<\/p>\n

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US Airstrike Kills Mom and 7 Kids\u00a0<\/strong>Another US air strike against an Afghan village has ended in tragedy last night, with reports that the attack destroyed a home, killing a woman and seven children, and injuring at least one other civilian. \u00a0http:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2014\/01\/15\/us-air-strike-killed-woman-seven-kids-in-central-afghanistan\/<\/p>\n

Taliban Retaliates for US Murder of Mom and Kids \u00a0<\/strong>As country director for the International Monetary Fund, Wabel Abdallah spent years navigating the shoals of scandal in Afghanistan\u2019s financial sector. Vadim Nazarov, a top political officer at the United Nations, dedicated himself over the past nine years to looking for a peaceful solution to the Afghan war. Dhamender Singh Phangurha, a British candidate in the coming elections for the European Parliament, was here on a consulting contract.
\nAll three happened to be dining Friday at a popular Lebanese restaurant in downtown Kabul, where they were among 21 people killed in an attack for which the Taliban has claimed responsibility. Among the foreigners here, now roughly a few thousand, the attack underscored a shifting reality as the war winds down: life for international workers may be becoming more dangerous and circumscribed.
\nFor years, foreigners have enjoyed relatively unrestricted activity in the capital, including access to a handful of Western-style restaurants and weekly parties brimming with music and alcohol. Though attacks were common enough, they rarely targeted Western civilians, and the danger could be ignored as the presence of the Western military coalition persevered and even expanded. \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/19\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-restaurant-attack.html?hp&_r=0<\/p>\n

Mexico: Troops Attack Self Defense Groups Fighting Cartels\u00a0<\/strong>Twelve people are reportedly dead in the southern Mexican state of Michoacan after federal troops clashed with vigilante \u201cself-defense\u201d groups late Monday, following government demands that the groups stand down in their fight against the Knights Templar drug cartel.
\nThe newspaper Reforma, citing \u201cpreliminary reports from state sources,\u201d reported that seven civilians were killed in the municipality of Mugica, and that two civilians and three soldiers were killed in the municipality of Paracuaro.
\nThe self-defense groups had taken up positions recently in these and other communities surrounding the city of Apatzingan, considered a stronghold of the Knights Templar, their sworn enemies. \u00a0http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/worldnow\/la-fg-wn-mexico-violence-20140114,0,139208.story#ixzz2qjEb7ddl<\/p>\n

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Another Kid Marine Murdered by Camp Pendleton\u00a0<\/strong>A Marine died on his first day of training at Camp Pendleton while performing a treading water test in a pool.
\nPfc. Joshua Islam, 18, of Union County, N.C., died Monday, according to Col. Sean Gibson, spokesman for Camp Pendleton.
\nThe test was scheduled to last 30 minutes. It is unknown at which point during the test Islam died. A cause of death has not yet been determined.
\nCol. Gibson said the “safety standards are extremely high” at Camp Pendleton and that “incredible care is taken by those in the pool.” \u00a0http:\/\/www.10news.com\/news\/camp-pendleton-marine-dies-during-treading-water-test<\/p>\n

Benghazi Lies (2) Senate report: Attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi could have been prevented \u00a0<\/strong>A long-delayed Senate Intelligence Committee report released Wednesday faulted both the State Department and the intelligence community for not preventing attacks on two outposts in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, in 2012.
\nThe bipartisan report laid out more than a dozen findings regarding the assaults on a diplomatic compound and a CIA annex in the city. It said the State Department failed to increase security at its mission despite warnings, and blamed intelligence agencies for not sharing information about the existence of the CIA outpost with the U.S. military. \u00a0The committee determined that the U.S. military command in Africa didn\u2019t know about the CIA annex and that the Pentagon didn\u2019t have the resources in place to defend the State Department compound in an emergency.
\n\u201cThe attacks were preventable, based on extensive intelligence reporting on the terrorist activity in Libya \u2014 to include prior threats and attacks against Western targets \u2014 and given the known security shortfalls at the U.S. Mission,\u201d the panel said in a statement. \u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/senate-report-attack-on-us-compound-in-benghazi-could-have-been-prevented\/2014\/01\/15\/5e197224-7de9-11e3-95c6-0a7aa80874bc_story.html?hpid=z1<\/p>\n

The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the absence of a real understanding of the
\ninteraction between politics and economics a war
\nagainst the whole economic system, to say nothing of
\nits reorganisation, is quite out of the question (Georg Lukacs)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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UnderDemagogue Biden: No Bailout for Detroit but Plenty for banksters, auto bosses, Karzai, Egyptian Coup Fascists, Israel, AQ in Syria, etc….<\/strong>Asked by The Detroit News if the Obama administration would provide assistance to help exit Chapter 9 or if the city needed to do it, Biden said the city had to do it.
\n\u201cThe city will do it on its own, but there\u2019s no reason why the federal government can\u2019t do what we\u2019re already doing,\u201d Biden told reporters after wrapping up a dinner at Roma Cafe with Detroit Mayor Michael Duggan. \u201cThere are things that the city was entitled to, to begin with, that aren\u2019t new monies but they are monies that have been reorganized and brought back in at the mayor\u2019s disposal.\u201d
\nBiden said Duggan didn\u2019t seek federal funds during the dinner and didn\u2019t ask for a check: \u201cNo. Matter of fact that was the one thing he didn\u2019t ask for,\u201d Biden said.
\n\u201cWe didn\u2019t talk about money at all,\u201d Duggan said. \u201cWe talked about strategy.\u201d \u00a0From The Detroit News: www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140115\/METRO01\/301150136#ixzz2qdW393rv<\/a><\/p>\n

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Detroit’s Deal So Bad, Judge Rejects it \u00a0<\/strong> A judge overseeing Detroit’s bankruptcy again rejected a deal Thursday to end a crippling financial agreement with major banks, dealing a blow to officials who want to put the issue behind them as they work on a broader plan to get the city out of Chapter 9 in the largest public filing in U.S. history.
\nJudge Steven Rhodes turned down a $169 million compromise, saying “it’s just too much money.” He had rejected a $230 million deal on the same grounds in December. \u00a0http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/detroit-bankruptcy-judge-rejects-deal-banks-21562714<\/p>\n

Banks embracing a housing-bubble favorite: interest-only loans \u00a0<\/strong>one housing-bubble favorite \u2014 the interest-only loan \u2014 will remain a common offering to well-heeled home buyers, despite new rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The rules, which took effect last week, exclude interest-only loans from “qualified mortgage” status, which protects lenders from liability over defaults.
\nBankers don’t seem worried about affluent clients missing payments. With high-end home prices on the rise, they have recently embraced jumbo mortgage lending, including interest-only mortgages. That trend continued this week as the banks reported earnings, with Bank of America Corp. saying 36% of its fourth-quarter mortgages were jumbo loans, up from 23% of originations in the first quarter.
\nIn a conference call with analysts Wednesday, BofA Chief Executive Brian Moynihan said the bank is making non-qualified mortgages to the rich and holding the loans as investments rather than selling them. www.latimes.com\/business\/realestate\/la-fi-interest-only-loans-20140118,0,2906726.story#ixzz2qp0MVrW9<\/a><\/p>\n

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