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

<\/strong><\/em> Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences. (Marx)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Congratulations on the publication of<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

and the new edition of<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

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

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

Capitalist Schooling Works! \u00a0<\/strong> Eighty-one percent of Michigan\u2019s low-income 4th graders and 69 percent of all students are not reading proficiently<\/em>,\u00a0according to the Kids Count report issued Tuesday by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
\nOfficials with the foundation say proficiency is a key predictor of a student\u2019s educational and economic success.
\nThe report \u201cEarly Reading Proficiency in the United States\u201d found Michigan is one of just six states that did not make progress in reading over the past decade. The report concludes that if the reading trend continues, the country will not have enough skilled workers for an increasingly competitive global economy by the end of this decade.
\n\u201cWith almost half of Michigan\u2019s children living in low-income families<\/em>, these are truly alarming findings,\u2019\u2019 said Jane Zehnder-Merrell, Kids Count in Michigan project director at the Michigan League for Public Policy. \u201cWe\u2019ve disinvested in education over the past decade, and we can connect the dots from the lack of spending to these stagnating reading scores.\u2019\u2019 From The Detroit News: www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140128\/SCHOOLS\/301280063#ixzz2rrGskEmp<\/a><\/p>\n

Culture of cheating’ at Corona del Mar High \u00a0<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>The mother of a Corona del Mar High School student expelled in a grade-hacking scandal warned district officials of a widespread “culture of cheating” at the high-performing school.
\nNewport-Mesa Unified School District trustees announced early Wednesday they had voted to expel 11 students after they allegedly hacked into the district’s computer system to change grades and access exams.
\nSome parents warned that as many as 150 students could be implicated in the cheating, but haven’t been investigated.
\n“You cannot simply throw a handful of students to the wolves,” said one parent, whose child was expelled. “There are plenty more kids walking around your campus who are as guilty if not more so than any of the kids wrapped up in this scandal.”
\nThe parent suggested the school’s “smartest students” are “getting paid to do assignments, write papers and take online tests for other students.”
\n“CDM\u2019s atmosphere of cheating goes far beyond the students that you have marginalized,” the parent wrote in a letter.
\nLast month, the district confirmed that students attached a keylogger \u2014 a small device that can be placed in the back of a computer to monitor keystrokes \u2014 to several teachers’ computers to swipe logins and passwords, allegedly with the help of a private tutor.
\nWith the recorded information, the students allegedly changed grades and accessed English, science and history exams, some at the honors and Advanced Placement levels.
\nOut of the 398 students who graduated from Corona del Mar High last year, 99% of them attended college in the fall, with the majority of them enrolling at four-year universities, according to the school profile published by the district. \u00a0 www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-cheating-scandal-corona-del-mar-20140129,0,6632853.story#ixzz2rrDKtMwO<\/a><\/p>\n

Half-Wit USD Dean Says, “Adjust, Adjust, Adjust” to the Common Core<\/strong> \u00a0(but claims she doesn’t know why capitalist schools have bell schedules) \u00a0<\/strong>These are big changes. The teachers are concerned, too. Teachers haven\u2019t been prepared for the Common Core. But you\u2019ve got to invest in them.
\nI had 19 San Diego Unified teachers in my class this fall. All 19 of them, when I said, \u201cTell me about the Common Core, how are you feeling about it?\u201d All of them felt (Common Core) had potential. There was a continuum, but nobody said, \u201cThrow it out.\u201d So they all know that it\u2019s good stuff. It\u2019s just that they all don\u2019t know how to implement it. They need help. voiceofsandiego.org\/2014\/01\/27\/an-uncommon-challenge\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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

\"guthrie-war\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him.
\nWe draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters. (Marx, Capital).<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Your<\/a>Karzai Remembers Diem! \u00a0<\/strong>President Hamid Karzai has frequently lashed out at the U.S. military for causing civilian casualties in its raids. But behind the scenes, he has been building a far broader case against the Americans, suggesting that they may have aided or conducted shadowy insurgent-style attacks to undermine his government, according to senior Afghan officials.
\nKarzai has formalized his suspicions with a list of dozens of attacks that he believes the U.S. government may have been involved in, according to one palace official. The list even includes the recent bomb and gun assault on a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, one of the bloodiest acts targeting the international community in Afghanistan, the official said. The attack, which left 21 people dead, including three Americans, was almost universally attributed to the Taliban \u00a0…But Karzai believes it was one of many incidents that may have been planned by Americans to weaken him and foment instability in Afghanistan, according to the senior palace official, who is sympathetic to the president\u2019s view and spoke on the condition of anonymity. He acknowledged that his government had no concrete evidence of U.S. involvement and that the American role had not been formally confirmed.
\nU.S. officials, who have been informed of some of the claims, have reacted with incredulity and anger to the idea that they are trying to debilitate Afghanistan\u2019s government, which they have supported with hundreds of billions of dollars. \u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/karzai-suspects-us-is-behind-insurgent-style-attacks-afghan-officials-say\/2014\/01\/27\/a70d7568-8779-11e3-a760-a86415d0944d_story.html<\/p>\n

Obamagogue to Afghans: Mind if I keep my Drone bases when the Taliban takes over? \u00a0<\/strong> The risk that President Obama may be forced to pull all American troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year has set off concerns inside the American intelligence agencies that they could lose their air bases used for drone strikes against Al Qaeda in Pakistan and for responding to a nuclear crisis in the region.
\nUntil now, the debate here and in Kabul about the size and duration of an American-led allied force in Afghanistan after 2014 had focused on that country\u2019s long-term security. But these new concerns also reflect how troop levels in Afghanistan directly affect long-term American security interests in neighboring Pakistan, according to administration, military and intelligence officials. \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/27\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-exit-is-seen-as-peril-to-drone-mission.html?_r=0<\/p>\n

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

US’ Outstanding work in Libya Spills into Egypt–in hands of Islamists\u00a0<\/strong>Islamist militants shot down an Egyptian military helicopter in the Sinai Peninsula with a surface-to-air missile over the weekend, raising new alarms about the terrorist insurgency that developed there in response to the military takeover last summer.
\nThe attack \u2014 described by witnesses, documented in a video released by the militants, and confirmed by three people briefed on the Egyptian government\u2019s investigation \u2014 validated longstanding fears that such weapons would spill into Egypt and beyond after the Libyan civil war tore open Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi\u2019s fearsome arsenals.
\nKnown as manpads, for man-portable air defense systems, the missiles can bring down commercial airliners if they are flying at low altitude, as during takeoff and landing. They also strengthen Sinai-based militants\u2019 hand against the Egyptian Army, and there is concern that the militants might seek to use the missiles on the Egyptian mainland, where terrorist attacks have become more frequent. On Saturday, four bombings killed six people in greater Cairo. \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/27\/world\/middleeast\/militants-down-egyptian-helicopter-killing-5-soldiers.html<\/p>\n

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

Veterans dying because of health care delays \u00a0<\/strong>– U.S. veterans are dying because of delays in diagnosis and treatment at VA hospitals.
\nAt least 19 veterans have died because of delays in simple medical screenings like colonoscopies or endoscopies, at various VA hospitals or clinics, CNN has learned.
\nThat’s according to an internal document from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, obtained exclusively by CNN, that deals with patients diagnosed with cancer in 2010 and 2011. The veterans were part of 82 vets who have died or are dying or have suffered serious injuries as a result of delayed diagnosis or treatment for colonoscopies or endoscopies. \u00a0http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/01\/30\/health\/veterans-dying-health-care-delays\/<\/p>\n

Why does the US keep losing wars? Maybe it is toxic leadership? \u00a0<\/strong>There are miserable bosses, and then there are toxic military commanders.
\nAir Force Maj. Gen. Stephen D. Schmidt was unquestionably among the latter in the view of some staff members under his thumb. A profane screamer, he ran through six executive officers and aide-de-camps in a year. He retired this month after an Air Force inquiry concluded that he was \u201ccruel and oppressive\u201d and mistreated subordinates. \u00a0…\u201cIt\u2019s very important that you have somebody who can lead you into a firefight who is not going to get you killed,\u201d said Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael S. Stough, a senior official on the Joint Staff www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/pentagon-investigations-point-to-military-system-that-promotes-abusive-leaders\/2014\/01\/28\/3e1be1f0-8799-11e3-916e-e01534b1e132_story.html?hpid=z5<\/a><\/p>\n

(These) “serious people who govern us know of no solutions to the paradoxes of the Middle East and Europe, the Far East and Africa except the landing of Marines. Being baffled, and also being very tired of being baffled, they have come to believe that there is no way out–except war–which would remove all the bewildering paradoxes of their tedious and now misguided attempts to construct peace. In place of these paradoxes they prefer the bright, clear problems of war–as they used to be. For they still believe that ‘winning’ means something, although they never tell us what.”
\n–C. Wright Mills (sociologist), The Causes of World War Three, 1958<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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

News From the Syrian Side \u00a0<\/strong>USA are funding terrorists on mis-information and the lies spread by Al Jazeera. With all the intelligence the USA are said to have, they are now intent on starting a World War over fake stories they see on their television. What is the world coming to, when the world\u2019s power brokers are basing life and death decision on a video that has been posted on YouTube, without even checking the validity of the film.
\nThey then try to say that Al Jazeera new is true yet the Syrian television news is lies. Even though the Al Jazeera news is based on YouTube films and the Syrian news is filming live. Every news story on Al Jazeera and the BBC starts with \u201cthis film cannot be verified\u201d when it comes to the numbers of deaths, they always say \u201cup to\u201d before the figure. They can say as many as they want, when they put the words up to before. On days when 5 people have been killed and these are Syrian soldiers. Al Jazeera would say that government troops have killed \u201cup to 100\u2033 people. It is a lie but because it has \u201cup to\u201d in front of it, they can say it. The damage is done, people watching the program only listen to the number and of course after the statement they would say this cannot be verified as we are not allowed in the country.
\nOnce they have shown the fake Youtube film they will then go to a reporter, \u201clive\u201d for the inside story. Only the reporter is not in Syria at all; they are in either Lebanon, Turkey even Israel. \u00a0http:\/\/friendsofsyria.co\/enemies-of-syria\/usa-admit-to-funding-terrorists\/<\/p>\n

US $ Fosters Afghan Barbarism\u00a0<\/strong>A $200 million program financed by the United States to bolster literacy rates among security forces has been plagued by weak oversight and accountability, according to a report by federal inspectors. The report, published Tuesday, suggests that half of Afghan police officers and soldiers still might not be able to read or write. The NATO-led coalition had set a goal of having 100 percent of Afghan military and police forces reach the equivalent of first-grade-level literacy, and for at least half to reach third-grade level, by the end of 2014. The Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction said some command officials estimated that half of the security forces were illiterate as of February 2013 and believed that the literacy targets might be \u201cunrealistic\u201d or \u201cunattainable.\u201d The report also challenged NATO\u2019s assertion that the program has been successful, saying the coalition\u2019s ability to measure improved literacy rates is \u201climited.\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/29\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-literacy-effort-stalls.html<\/p>\n

Officials: 92 Air Force officers assigned to nuclear arsenal involved in cheating scandal<\/strong> \u00a0The number of nuclear missile launch officers under investigation for allegations of cheating has ballooned to 92, the Air Force said Thursday.
\nThe new total is nearly three times the initial 34 officers who were implicated in the scandal and nearly one-fifth of the force. The officers have been taken off their missile wing duties during the investigation into the cheating, which happened during a key proficiency exam, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James said at a Pentagon news briefing. \u00a0 usnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2014\/01\/30\/22508088-92-nuclear-missile-officers-implicated-in-cheating-scandal-air-force-says?lite<\/a><\/p>\n

\"china_air_force_2007\"<\/a><\/p>\n

China Making Air Force, Navy Upgrades<\/strong> \u00a0China\u2019s air force is fielding new precision-guided cruise missiles, long-range bombers and drones as its Navy expands its long-range punch, according to U.S. military intelligence officials.
\n\u201cWhile we would not characterize the modernization as accelerated,\u201d it\u2019s \u201cprogressing at a steady pace\u201d and is significant, Lee Fuell, a director at the Air Force\u2019s National Air and Space Intelligence Center, said in a presentation released today.
\nFuell\u2019s presentation and one prepared by the Office of Naval Intelligence for a hearing of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in Washington are the most detailed new public assessments of the Chinese air force\u2019s and navy\u2019s growing military capabilities.
\nChina is improving its air and naval power to blunt U.S. military power in the Pacific, project force farther from Chinese shores, and even blockade or invade Taiwan, the island democracy whose territory it claims.
\n\u201cGiven the pace\u201d of China\u2019s naval modernization, \u201cthe gap in military capability between the mainland and Taiwan will continue to widen in China\u2019s favor,\u201d \u00a0 www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-01-30\/china-making-air-force-upgrades-u-s-official-says.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Godfather of Camp Pendelton Pleads Guilty <\/strong>\u00a0Natividad “Nate” Lara Cervantes, who reportedly referred to himself as the “Godfather of Camp Pendleton,” pleaded guilty on January 21 to a kickback scheme in the awarding of construction and service contracts at the Marine base. lso pleading guilty for their parts in the scheme were Hugo Hernandez Alonso and Bayani Yabut Abueg Jr. and their companies, Hugo Alonso, Inc., and MBR Associates, respectively.
\nThe federal court accepted guilty pleas to bribery charges from Cervantes involving the awarding of at least six government construction and service contracts from 2008 to 2011.
\nAccording to court records, Cervantes received cash payments from Alonso and Abueg and remodeling work on “the Godfather’s” condominium. Cervantes admitted to accepting a bribe of $25,000 to assist Alonso in getting a $3.5-million flooring job at Pendleton.\u00a0<\/strong> www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2014\/jan\/24\/ticker-guilty-pleas-widening-defense-bribery-cases\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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

Top Brass Cleans Up in Retirement While Grunt Pay is Cut \u00a0<\/strong>A Pentagon commission on military compensation will review a 2007 increase in pensions for three- and four-star officers that made the retirement pay of some officers higher than what they made on active duty, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told a Senate panel Tuesday.
\nNavy Adm. James Winnefeld said the commission will examine the change as it examines all compensation issues.
\nThe pension change, largely unremarked on at the time, was first reported on by USA Today in 2012 and again this year in light of the cost-of-living cuts. \u00a0http:\/\/mobile.armytimes.com\/article\/20140129\/NEWS05\/301290016<\/p>\n

Convicted War Criminal Sgt Wants a New Lawyer (why are no generals charged?) \u00a0<\/strong>A U.S. Marine whose war crimes conviction was overturned on appeal wants a defense attorney from outside the U.S. Marine Corps.
\nSgt. Lawrence Hutchins III was scheduled to be re-arraigned Wednesday on charges he led an eight-man squad accused of kidnapping and killing a retired Iraqi policeman from his home in April 2006.
\nThat scheduled re-arraignment was delayed after Hutchins raised an issue of a conflict with his appointed Marine defense attorney.\u00a0Hutchins claims Marine Corps defense attorneys are all tainted because they work for the USMC command which has “unduly influenced” the case against him.
\nHe will be back in court in two weeks for another hearing on this conflict issue.
\nHutchins and his squad were accused of marching the man into a ditch and fatally shooting him in Hamdania, and then staging the body to look like the man had been planting bombs.
\nAfter a previous court martial, Hutchins was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
\nHe was freed from the Miramar Brig in July after Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruled that his constitutional rights had been violated at the time of his arrest.
\nAt the time, he told NBC 7, \u201cI am afraid that any future retrial will be tainted with the unlawful command influence that was a result of Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus’ comments back in 2009.\u201d
\nSource: www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/Lawrence-Hutchins-Marine-Camp-Pendleton-Oceanside-War-Crimes-Trial-242602661.html#ixzz2s70NKtDP<\/a><\/p>\n

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

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

“I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
\nHow the Owl and the Panter were sharing a pie:
\nThe Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,
\nWhile the Old had the dish as its share of the treat.
\nWhen the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,
\nWas kindly permitted to pocket the spoon:
\nWhile the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,
\nAnd concluded the banquet by [eating the owl.]
\nLewis Carroll<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Owl<\/a>Capital’s Bulldog, Krugman, worries about inequality\u00a0<\/strong> 40 hedge fund guys made as much as 300,000, that\u2019s three hundred thousand, school teachers \u2014 almost a third of all high school teachers in America.
\nOK, teachers get benefits, so their total compensation cost is higher than their wage, so maybe it\u2019s only 200,000.
\nBut you should keep numbers like these in mind whenever anyone tries to shift attention from the one percent (and the .001 percent) to Americans who aren\u2019t even upper-middle class. \u00a0http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/<\/p>\n

Rolling Stone –27 Shocking Numbers That Reveal the True State of the<\/strong> Union
\n1. New income generated since 2009 that has gone to the top 1 percent: 95 percent
\n2. Financial wealth controlled by the bottom 60 percent of all Americans: 2.3 percent
\n3. Record combined wealth of the top 400 richest Americans: $2,000,000,000,000
\n4. Real decline in median middle-class incomes since 1999: $5,000
\n5. Percentage of Hispanic and African-American children living in poverty, respectively: 33.8 percent; 36.7 percent
\n6. Amount that food stamps will be cut in 2014: $5 billion
\n7. Federal minimum wage: $7.25
\n8. What the minimum wage would be if it had kept pace with gains in worker productivity since 1968: $21.72
\n9. Number of U.S. workers laboring at or below minimum wage: 3.6 million \u2013 the near equivalent of the population of Los Angeles.
\n10.Stealth taxpayer subsidy to the fast-food industry, paid out as safety-net benefits to McWorkers earning poverty wages: $7 billion \u00a0Read more: www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/27-shocking-numbers-that-reveal-the-true-state-of-the-union-20140128#ixzz2rrICP6ai<\/a>
\nFollow us: @rollingstone on Twitter | RollingStone on Facebook<\/p>\n

\"Detroit<\/a>above, Rouger Bill Boyer in Detroit School<\/em><\/p>\n

Barbarized By Capital and Racism, Detroit is the Deadliest City for kids (would you rather raise a child in Detroit or Havana?) \u00a0<\/strong>Children are dying in Detroit at a greater rate than in any U.S. city its size or larger, a Detroit News study shows.
\nMostly, they die of conditions resulting from prematurity \u2014 the top killer of Detroit kids \u2014 and violence, which ranks second.
\n\u201cThis is a public health emergency in the city of Detroit,\u201d said Dr. Herman Gray, executive vice president of pediatric health services for the Detroit Medical Center and former president of DMC Children\u2019s Hospital of Michigan. \u201cWe are losing our future in really socially unacceptable ways.\u201d
\nAll told, Detroit kids through age 18 died at a rate of 120 per 100,000 children in 2010, the most recent year for which complete data is available. Detroit was the only city whose death rate among children topped 100 per 100,000; Philadelphia, at 95.7, was a distant second. \u00a0From The Detroit News: www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140130\/LIFESTYLE03\/301300007#ixzz2rvnirNTp<\/a><\/p>\n

Why are we not rioting yet? \u00a0 House passes $100-billion-a-year farm bill that cuts food stamps but preserves crop subsidies \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>After more than two years of partisan squabbles over food and farm policy, the House passed and sent to the Senate Wednesday an almost $100 billion-a-year, compromise farm bill containing a small cut in food stamps and preserving most crop subsidies.
\nWhite House spokesman Jay Carney said shortly after the vote that President Barack Obama would sign the bill if it reaches his desk. \u00a0Read more: www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/house-passes-100-billion-a-year-farm-bill-cuts-food-stamps-preserves-crop-subsidies-article-1.1595313#ixzz2rvsU7eTE<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

US Fed Moves Roil International Markets \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>India central bank Governor Raghuram Rajan warned of a breakdown in global policy coordination after the Federal Reserve further cut stimulus, weakening emerging-market currencies from the rupee to the Turkish lira.
\nRajan, a former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, called for greater cooperation among policy makers weeks before finance chiefs from the world\u2019s top developed and emerging markets gather in Sydney. The Fed\u2019s Jan. 29 statement made no mention of developing economies.
\n\u201cInternational monetary cooperation has broken down,\u201d Rajan, 50, said yesterday in an interview in Mumbai with Bloomberg TV India, noting how emerging markets helped pull the global economy out of crisis starting in late 2008. \u201cIndustrial countries have to play a part in restoring that, and they can\u2019t at this point wash their hands off and say we\u2019ll do what we need to and you do the adjustment.\u201d
\nRajan raised interest rates this week along with central bankers from Turkey to South Africa as the Fed pressed on with a reduction in monthly bond purchases put in place to speed a recovery from the worst recession since the Great Depression. Emerging-market stocks have had the worst start to a year since 2008 as currencies from Argentina to Russia tumbled. \u00a0http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-01-30\/rajan-warns-of-global-policy-breakdown-as-emerging-markets-slide.html<\/p>\n

The Bogus New Industrial Revolution \u00a0<\/strong>Breathless headlines in recent months about a \u201cnew industrial revolution\u201d and \u201cthe promise of a \u2018Made in America\u2019 era\u201d suggest it\u2019s a renaissance. This week, when President Obama gives his State of the Union address, he will most likely yet again stress his plans to strengthen our manufacturing base.
\nBut we need to get real about the so-called renaissance, which has in reality been a trickle of jobs, often dependent on huge public subsidies. Most important, in order to compete with China and other low-wage countries, these new jobs offer less in health care, pension and benefits than industrial workers historically received. \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/26\/opinion\/sunday\/rattner-the-myth-of-industrial-rebound.html?hp&rref=opinion<\/p>\n

The NYTimes United States of Subsidies (clickable research tool by state) <\/strong>Michigan spends at least $6.65 billion per year on incentive programs, according to the most recent data available. That is roughly: \u00a0672 dollars, per-capita, and 1\/3 of the state budget \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2012\/12\/01\/us\/government-incentives.html#MI<\/p>\n

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Sub Zero in Michigan? They’ll shut off your utilities anway…<\/strong>Nathan Blair was at home with his pregnant wife and 10-month-old daughter earlier this month when someone knocked on his door.
\nA few minutes later, a utility worker cut the electricity to Blair\u2019s Lincoln Park home because of an overdue DTE Energy bill, even as the temperatures that day dipped to 4 below. Blair, whose 7-year-old daughter was at school that morning, knew about the bill, but he did not expect his power \u2014 and his heat \u2014 to be cut during the same week the polar vortex gripped Michigan. \u00a0… In fact, gas and electric service for more than 25,000 DTE and Consumers Energy accounts was disconnected for nonpayment in January 2013, and through September, the latest figures available, the number of DTE accounts alone that were cut for nonpayment \u2014 169,407 \u2014 was higher than for the entire previous year, according to the Michigan Public Service Commission. \u00a0http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20140127\/NEWS06\/301270015\/<\/p>\n

Companies Fleeing Taxes Pay CEOs Extra as Law Backfires \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Ten years ago, Congress passed a law intended to penalize chief executive officers whose companies shift their legal addresses to tax havens.
\nIt hasn\u2019t worked out as planned. Companies have found ways around the law that create new rewards for executives. When Actavis Inc. (ACT) changed its incorporation to Ireland in October, the New Jersey-based drugmaker helped CEO Paul Bisaro avoid the law\u2019s bite by handing him more than $40 million of stock as much as three years ahead of its schedule, then promising him an additional $5 million to remain with the company.
\nThe payouts to executives highlight the ineffectiveness of the 2004 law, which contained a series of provisions aimed at reducing the tax benefits of reincorporating overseas. In the past two years, a fresh wave of companies has fled the U.S. system to avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes.
\nThe 2004 law has \u201cclearly been a failure\u201d in halting the tax exodus, said Edward Kleinbard, a professor at University of Southern California\u2019s Gould School of Law. \u201cAnd it now has the perverse result of putting money into executives\u2019 pockets sooner.\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-01-27\/companies-fleeing-taxes-pay-ceos-extra-as-law-backfires.html<\/p>\n

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Detroit: Subsidies for the Corporate\/Attacks on Pensions \u00a0<\/strong>The city has provided significant tax subsidies to a large number of enterprises as incentives to engage in development projects in downtown Detroit. In some years, the city handed out as much as $20 million to private interests. To the extent that the development would have occurred without these tax subsidies, or with less subsidies, the program was a burden on city revenues at a time when it was particularly damaging. In any event, the subsidies that have not yet been received should be treated as obligations of the city, in the same category as debt service and funding of future employee benefits, subject to readjustment to help resolve the cash flow crisis to the extent revenue is not increased to cover the demands on cash. \u00a0 www.demos.org\/publication\/detroit-bankruptcy<\/a><\/p>\n

US Department of Labor: Books that Shaped work \u00a0http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/100\/books-shaped-work\/title.htm<\/strong><\/p>\n

And you can suggest some faves too www.dol.gov\/100\/books-shaped-work\/form.htm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"corporate-welfare-piggy-bank-400x4001\"<\/a>Obamagogue–ette’s Guest at State of the Union: Government Motors Boss <\/strong>New General Motors CEO Mary Barra plans to attend President Barack Obama\u2019s State of the Union address as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama \u2014 a month after the company shed its government ownership and two weeks after Barra became the first female CEO of a major automaker.
\nBarra\u2019s attendance marks a reversal of GM\u2019s strategy of avoiding the political spotlight while the automaker was still fending off the derisive \u201cGovernment Motors\u201d moniker in recent years. \u00a0…While it\u2019s not clear whether Obama will mention Barra or GM during the speech, the president has consistently trumpeted the government\u2019s $49.5-billion bailout of GM as a success.
\nBarra \u2014 who gave Vice President Joe Biden a tour of GM\u2019s exhibit at the Detroit auto show earlier this month \u2014 will sit in Michelle Obama\u2019s box in the U.S. House balcony along with Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the vice president and at least 15 other invited guests \u00a0http:\/\/www.freep.com\/article\/20140128\/BUSINESS01\/301280027\/Mary-Barra-State-of-the-Union<\/p>\n

Tie me up! Beat me! Make me pay my Maid a fair wage!!!!\u00a0<\/strong>A few years ago, the Indian filmmaker Nishtha Jain set up a camera in her apartment. She wanted to tell a story about a relationship between unequals.
\nLakshmi, her 21-year-old housemaid, crawls across the floor with a rag, polishing the marble, while Ms. Jain, reading at a table, lifts up her feet and sets them down without a glance. Lakshmi prepares two cups of tea and gives one to Ms. Jain, who is seated in a chair, then, though a second chair is empty, sits on the floor to drink her own. Asked to join Ms. Jain and her friends at a lunch table, Lakshmi dissolves into helpless giggles. \u201cSee, they are sitting together like white people,\u201d she tells her sister later. \u201cAnd I am one black person amongst them.\u201d \u00a0…\u201cWe really look like jerks,\u201d Ms. Jain said. \u201cThis film was a damn bold and really tiring thing to do, because we look like creeps, and this is what we are. We cannot wash our hands of this. We are accepting a certain inequity.\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/29\/world\/asia\/a-maids-pay-and-choices-of-morality.html?hp<\/p>\n

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Taibbi: Obamagogue Still Hugging Fave Bankster Jamie Dimon \u00a0<\/strong>When the board of JP Morgan Chase gave its blowdried, tirelessly self-regarding CEO a whopping 74 percent raise<\/em> \u2013 after a year in which the Justice Department blasted the bank with $20 billion in sanctions \u2013 it was one of those rare instances where Main Street and Wall Street were mostly in agreement.
\nEveryone from the Financial Times to Forbes.com<\/a> to the Huffington Post decried the move. The Wall Street pundits mostly thought it was a dumb play by the Chase board from a self-interest perspective, one guaranteed to inspire further investigations by the government. Meanwhile, the non-financial press generally denounced the raise as a moral obscenity, yet another example of the serial coddling of Wall Street’s habitually overcompensated executive class.
\nBoth groups were right. But to me the biggest news was how brutal an indictment Jamie’s raise was of the Obama\/Holder Justice Department, which continues to profoundly misunderstand the mindset of the finance villains they claim to be regulating. read more: www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/blogs\/taibblog\/jamie-dimons-raise-proves-u-s-regulatory-strategy-is-a-joke-20140130#ixzz2rvmSAW3E<\/a>
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What Obamagogue forgot in the State of the Union \u00a0<\/strong>You didn\u2019t hear about expanding Social Security, a sensible plan supported by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others. You didn’t hear about getting to full employment (but you did hear some conservative rhetoric about how unemployment is really about workers not having the right skills, which has been repeatedly debunked). You didn’t hear about bringing justice to criminal bankers who prey on hard-working Americas. You didn’t hear about asking the rich to pay their fair share in taxes, or putting a financial transaction tax on Wall Street, or backing off the grotesque Trans-Pacific Partnership, or ending too-big-to-fail, or taking real action to get the money out of politics.
\nInstead of tapping into the full power of the federal government to tackle our most urgent problems, Obama meekly suggested that government might, in certain cases, be obligated to do something. A little something. At some point. \u00a0 ….Meanwhile, half the entire population is living at or near the poverty line, while the rich have never had it so good in America. But no biggie.
\nObama\u2019s theme tonight was America as the Land of Opportunity. \u201cOpportunity is who we are. And the defining project of our generation is to restore that promise.\u201d
\nOK, maybe not big opportunity. How about small opportunity? For some folks. Um, not really. Well, what did you want, a pony? \u00a0 www.alternet.org\/economy\/state-union-america-land-small-opportunity?paging=off&current_page=1#bookmark<\/a><\/p>\n

PIGS, BRICS, and now the Fragile Five (fizzle, fizzle) \u00a0<\/strong>The new name, as coined by a little known research analyst at Morgan Stanley last summer, identifies Turkey, Brazil, India, South Africa and Indonesia as economies that have become too dependent on skittish foreign investment to finance their growth ambitions.
\nThe term has caught on in large degree because it highlights the strains that occur when countries place too much emphasis on stoking fast rates of economic growth. The new catchphrase also raises pressing questions about not just the BRICs but about emerging markets in general. \u00a0http:\/\/articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/2014-01-30\/news\/46829513_1_brics-foreign-investors-turkey<\/p>\n

The Emergence of Fascism as a Popular Mass Movement\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Meet the New Boss of NSA (still watching you) \u00a0<\/strong> In nominating Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers as the new director of the National Security Agency on Thursday, President Obama chose a recognized expert in the new art of designing cyberweapons, but someone with no public track record in addressing the kinds of privacy concerns that have put the agency under a harsh spotlight.
\nMr. Obama\u2019s decision to pick a military officer, rather than a civilian versed in civil liberties issues, was made weeks ago, when he rejected his own advisory panel\u2019s recommendation that the N.S.A. and the United States Cyber Command have separate leaders. By law the command, the Pentagon\u2019s four-year-old cyberwarfare organization, must be headed by a military officer.
\nThe result is that Admiral Rogers, now the head of Fleet Cyber Command, the Navy\u2019s fast-growing cyberunit, will find himself in the public cross hairs in a way he has never been during a 33-year military career. Starting with his confirmation hearings, expected to begin as soon as next month, the admiral will be pressed on how he would carry out a series of changes that Mr. Obama announced two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

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Solidarity for Never<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Sold out Steelworkers Stabbed by Supremes\u00a0<\/strong> The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to employers on Monday by ruling that a group of unionized steel workers does not have to be paid for the time they spend “donning and doffing” safety gear before and after their shifts.
\nThe unanimous ruling came in a case involving workers at a U.S. Steel Corp plant that was closely watched by industries that employ workers who wear safety clothing.
\nThe decision will make it harder for unionized workers to seek pay for time spent changing clothes before and after work if it is not specifically addressed during labor negotiations. Such claims have been the subject of widespread litigation nationwide.
\nFederal labor law excludes “changing clothes” from the time for which unionized employees must be paid, unless they have negotiated otherwise. The Supreme Court clarified on Monday that safety gear generally fits within that definition, resolving a question that had split lower courts.
\n“A good bit of the uncertainty was cleared away,” said Lawrence DiNardo, an attorney for U.S. Steel.
\nThe workers’ lawyer, Eric Schnapper, said there will now be litigation over how the ruling applies in other cases involving different types of equipment, particularly those arising in the meatpacking and poultry-processing industries. \u00a0 www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/01\/27\/usa-court-labor-idUSL2N0L10RM20140127<\/a><\/p>\n

Obamagogue Double Crosses Union Bosses (but mainly the ranks) \u00a0<\/strong>Labor leaders who have spent months lobbying unsuccessfully for special protections under the Affordable Care Act warned this week that the White House\u2019s continued refusal to help is dampening union support for Democratic candidates in this year\u2019s midterm elections.
\nLeaders of two major unions, including the first to endorse Obama in 2008, said they have been betrayed by an administration that wooed their support for the 2009 legislation with promises to later address the peculiar needs of union-negotiated insurance plans that cover millions of workers. \u00a0Their complaints reflect a broad sense of disappointment among many labor leaders, who say the Affordable Care Act has subjected union health plans to new taxes and mandates while not allowing them to share in the subsidies that have gone to private insurance companies competing on the newly created exchanges.
\nAfter dozens of frustrating meetings with White House officials over the past year, including one with Obama, a number of angry labor officials say their members are far less likely to campaign and turn out for Democratic candidates in the midterm elections.
\n\u201cWe want to hold the president to his word: If you like your health-care coverage, you can keep it, and that just hasn\u2019t been the case,\u201d said Donald \u201cD.\u201d Taylor, president of Unite Here, the union that represents about 400,000 hotel and restaurant workers and provided a crucial boost to Obama by endorsing him just after his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton had won the New Hampshire primary. \u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/labor-union-officials-say-obama-betrayed-them-in-health-care-rollout\/2014\/01\/31\/2cda6afc-8789-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html?hpid=z1<\/p>\n

It’s easy to be for Empire, Yet Against the Common Core (new methods, old lies) \u00a0<\/strong>The state\u2019s largest and most powerful teacher\u2019s union on Saturday issued a declaration of \u201cno confidence\u201d in state Education Commissioner John King, a symbolic but unprecedented gesture calling for King\u2019s removal from his post by the state Board of Regents.
\nNew York State United Teachers\u2019 80-member board of directors unanimously approved the resolution Saturday during the board\u2019s regular meeting.
\nThe resolution states that the board declares \u201cno confidence in the policies of the Commissioner of Education.\u201d Earlier this month, NYSUT president Richard Iannuzzi announced that he would seek the action in an interview on Time Warner\u2019s \u201cCapital Tonight\u201d program.
\nNYSUT\u2019s board also withdrew its support for the state\u2019s new Common Core learning standards \u201cas implemented and interpreted in New York\u201d until the State Education Department \u201cmakes major course corrections\u201d and \u201csupports a three-year moratorium on high-stakes consequences from standardized testing.\u201d blog.timesunion.com\/schools\/2484\/2484\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Spy versus Spy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes, Virginia, the US Does Do Industrial Espionage: Snowden \u00a0<\/strong>There is \u201cno doubt\u201d the U.S. engages in industrial espionage, Edward Snowden said in an interview in which he also asserted that he worked alone in disclosing mass surveillance by the National Security Agency.The former U.S. government contractor, now a fugitive in Russia, told a German television station that if a company such as Germany\u2019s Siemens AG were found to have information useful to the U.S. government, the NSA would use it, he said.Snowden dismissed accusations from members of Congress that he acted as a foreign agent. www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-01-27\/snowden-says-no-doubt-nsa-engages-in-industrial-spying.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Spy Agencies Scour Phone Apps for Personal Data \u00a0<\/strong>When a smartphone user opens Angry Birds, the popular game application, and starts slinging birds at chortling green pigs, spies may be lurking in the background to snatch data revealing the player\u2019s location, age, sex and other personal information, according to secret British intelligence documents.
\nIn their globe-spanning surveillance for terrorism suspects and other targets, the National Security Agency and its British counterpart have been trying to exploit a basic byproduct of modern telecommunications: With each new generation of mobile phone technology, ever greater amounts of personal data pour onto networks where spies can pick it up.
\nAccording to dozens of previously undisclosed classified documents, among the most valuable of those unintended intelligence tools are so-called leaky apps that spew everything from users\u2019 smartphone identification codes to where they have been that day. \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/28\/world\/spy-agencies-scour-phone-apps-for-personal-data.html?hp<\/p>\n

The Magical Mystery Tour<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"anti<\/a>Soldiers of Superstition Split a Nation (likely to work out as well as Afghanistan) <\/strong>The Philippine government and the country\u2019s largest Muslim insurgency group negotiated the final details of a peace accord on Saturday that many hope will end more than 40 years of violence that has killed tens of thousands of people and helped nurture Islamic extremism in Southeast Asia.
\nThe agreement will create an autonomous Muslim-dominated region in the restive south of the predominantly Christian country, handing much of the responsibility for security there to local authorities as well as a large share of revenues from the region\u2019s wealth of natural resources. The militants have agreed to disarm, with many expected to join Philippine security forces. \u00a0 Although many challenges to sustained peace remain \u2014 notably that some militant groups have refused to join the agreement \u2014 the deal with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is considered a signature achievement for President Benigno S. Aquino III. Mr. Aquino has vowed to end the conflicts on the island of Mindanao that have bedeviled the Philippines for more than a century and that would eventually hinder the nation\u2019s ability to expand its economy and catch up with more prosperous neighbors.
\n\u201cThe agreement represents the culmination of decades of excruciating diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the conflict in Mindanao,\u201d said Richard Javad Heydarian, a political science lecturer at Ateneo de Manila University. \u201cThis provides an unprecedented opportunity to end one of the world\u2019s longest-running intrastate conflicts.\u201d
\nThe groups left out of the agreement are the most violent in the southern Philippines, including the Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf<\/em>, which has carried out kidnappings, bombings and beheadings for more than a decade and says it wants to set up a strict Islamic state.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/26\/world\/asia\/philippines-and-rebels-agree-on-peace-accord-to-end-insurgency.html?hp&_r=0<\/p>\n

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Birds attack peace doves freed from pope’s window \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Two white doves that were released by children standing alongside Pope Francis as a peace gesture have been attacked by other birds<\/em>. <\/strong>As tens of thousands of people watched in St. Peter\u2019s Square on Sunday, a seagull and a large black crow swept down on the doves right after they were set free from an open window of the Apostolic Palace. One dove lost some feathers as it broke free from the gull. But the crow pecked repeatedly at the other dove. It was not clear what happened to the doves as they flew off. While speaking at the window beforehand, Francis had appealed for peace in Ukraine, where anti-government protesters have died. From The Detroit News: www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140126\/RELIGION\/301260030#ixzz2rYw5wgW3<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ireland’s Abusing Priests Cost the Religious State \u00a0<\/strong>The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that a 49-year-old Irish woman was entitled to compensation for the government\u2019s failure to protect her from sexual abuse as a child when she attended a publicly financed Roman Catholic primary school in the 1970s.
\nThe ruling overturned a series of legal decisions by Irish courts over the past decade, which all found that the state could not be held responsible for inhuman and degrading treatment suffered by children in state-funded schools.
\nThe Irish government had argued that despite its having underwritten the school, its liability did not extend to the school\u2019s management or the actions of its personnel. But the court found that there was an \u201cinherent obligation of a government to protect children from ill-treatment, especially in primary education when they are under the exclusive control of school authorities, by adopting special measures and safeguards.\u201d
\nIt noted further that Ireland \u201chad to have been aware of the level of sexual crime against minors through its prosecution of such crimes at a significant rate prior to the 1970s.\u201d
\nLegal commentators said the judgment not only opened the door for hundreds of similar cases in Ireland but could pave the way for actions in other European nations where the education systems rely on similar managerial structures. \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/29\/world\/europe\/court-faults-ireland-in-abuse-case.html?hp&_r=1<\/p>\n

How Crazy is Your Hometown? \u00a0<\/strong>The Most and Least Bible-Minded Cities in America<\/strong> \u00a0http:\/\/www.americanbible.org\/features\/americas-most-bible-minded-cities<\/p>\n

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The Best and Worst Things in the History of the World<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Superbowl Schmooperbowl—Abolish the NFL \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Last fall, the National Football League scored a huge victory in California, helping push through a new law barring most professional athletes from filing workers’ compensation claims in the state.
\nBut that win has come at a cost.
\nPublicity from a high-profile battle over the legislation prompted players from around the country to file more than 1,000 injury claims just prior to a September deadline \u2014 a huge influx that could cost the nation’s top professional sports leagues hundreds of millions of dollars to resolve. \u00a0In the first two weeks of September, current and retired players filed 569 claims against NFL franchises, 283 claims against Major League Baseball clubs, 113 against National Hockey League teams and 79 against NBA squads, a Los Angeles Times analysis of state workers’ compensation data found.
\nNearly 70% of the filings include allegations of head or brain injuries caused by repetitive trauma. Most of these athletes appeared to have never played for a California team; they filed claims based on repetitive injuries they say were sustained in part during road games played in the state. It is those claims that are now barred under the new California law.
\nAmong the athletes rushing to beat the deadline were sports legends such as Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino, Baltimore Orioles pitcher Jim Palmer and Houston Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon, as well as many lesser-known retirees, some suffering serious physical impairment. A number of active players, including San Francisco 49ers standouts Michael Crabtree and Frank Gore, also filed claims.
\nwww.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-nfl-claims-20140201-dto,0,6484587.htmlstory#ixzz2s8NQld93<\/a><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan to Hustle for Chrysler (of bailout and Buy American Fame) \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Chrysler Group LLC has tapped legendary folk singer Bob Dylan to star in its main Super Bowl ad this year, according to a report in Billboard magazine.
\n\u201cDylan will star in a new commercial for Chrysler, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the campaign, as the latest in the automaker\u2019s series of cinematic Super Bowl ads that have starred Eminem, Clint Eastwood and Berry Gordy in recent years,\u201d the music industry magazine reported Wednesday. \u201cAn as-yet-unidentified track from Dylan\u2019s catalog will provide the soundtrack for the commercial.\u201d
\nFrom The Detroit News: www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20140129\/AUTO0101\/301290118#ixzz2rvnJQ7PW<\/a><\/p>\n

The 1st Bookless Library t<\/strong>he nation\u2019s first bookless library so far appears to be a success.
\nBiblioTech, the nation\u2019s first \u2013 and only \u2013 bookless public library recently opened in San Antonio.<\/strong> \u00a0Stocked with 20,000 e-books, 600 e-readers for adults and 200 for children, 48 computers, and 10 laptops and 40 tablets, the $2.3 million library has been compared countless times to an Apple Store with its rows of glossy devices. \u00a0http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Books\/chapter-and-verse\/2014\/0128\/America-s-first-bookless-public-library-appears-to-be-a-success-video<\/p>\n

So Long<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike Carole Feraci and Earth Kitt, Pete Seeger sang for the demagogue Obama. news.yahoo.com\/us-folk-singer-pete-seeger-dead-94-080222388.html<\/a> \u00a0 comcast.rayconniff.info\/media\/nixon.html<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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