{"id":16265,"date":"2015-03-22T00:25:56","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T08:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=16265"},"modified":"2015-03-22T00:25:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T08:25:56","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-remember-the-commune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-remember-the-commune\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Remember the Commune!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"harvest of loneliness\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PcV2EOo-Xdc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mexico: Farmworkers Fight Back Again&#8211;and the state attacks <\/strong>Farmworkers protesting working conditions at Mexican export farms in Baja California blocked a major highway and occupied several government buildings as officials scrambled to quell a widening strike that threatens one of Mexico\u2019s most valuable harvests.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday morning authorities said they had reopened the Transpeninsular Highway after dispersing crowds and arresting dozens of protesters, but the situation remained tense with hundreds of police and Army soldiers descending on the region bracing for more protests.<br \/>\nThe laborers are demanding higher wages and government-required benefits that they say have been denied to them for years. They are targeting about a dozen agribusinesses that supply major U.S. retail and restaurant chains.<\/p>\n<p>Government and business officials, they say, have refused to address their concerns. \u201cNothing is resolved, and now things are getting hot,\u201d said Faustino Hernandez, a farmworker from San Quintin.\u00a0 ..About 30,000 people work in the agricultural fields in the coastal region of San Quintin, about 200 miles south of San Diego. It is one of Mexico\u2019s leading agricultural export regions, shipping tons of strawberries, tomatoes and cucumbers annually to the U.S.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/mexico-americas\/la-fg-baja-farmworkers-20150318-story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/world\/mexico-americas\/la-fg-baja-farmworkers-20150318-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RAW VIDEO: City College student recounts being pepper sprayed after violent protest\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ErP2Y3ONrW8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"first\"><strong>Vimeo: Police Attack CCSF Students&#8211;March 13\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/89070212\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">vimeo.com\/89070212<\/a> <\/strong>As City College of San Francisco (CCSF) students held their sit-in to demand the resignation of dictator Bob Agrella, police attacked them. At least one woman was thrown to the ground and police held a man on the ground and punched him.<\/p>\n<div class=\"description_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"hst-billboard\" data-expand-tooltip=\"Click to expand description\">\n<p>The one-man rule of Special Trustee Bob Agrella has been a disaster for CCSF students. Agrella and his administration have cut classes, while trying to give administrators a 19% pay raise; they have imposed a Payment Plan that discriminates against immigrant students, while decimating the Diversity Departments; they continue to push the policies of the illegitimate ACCJC accreditation commission, even though the courts have issued an injunction against it. Students demand Agrella&#8217;s immediate resignation, the reversal of his anti-student actions, and the democratic election of a new Board of Trustees.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymzynDpnQdg\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ymzynDpnQdg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>More than 1,000 students in India were expelled this week for openly cheating on highly important 10th and 12th grade exams<\/strong>. Since the Bihar School Examination Board tests started Tuesday, hundreds of students have smuggled in textbooks, used WhatsApp to text about the questions and caught answer sheets folded into paper airplanes, <a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/asia\/india\/more-than-1-000-students-expelled-for-cheating-in-school-exams-1.1475073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Gulf News reported<\/a>. Although cheating is not unusual in Bihar, India&#8217;s least literate state, the scandal went viral after local media published photos of parents climbing school walls to help their kids pass.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Should we shoot them?&#8221;<\/em> state Education Minister Prashant Kumar Shahi said at a news conference.\u00a0&#8220;On average, four or five persons are helping each student use unfair means.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/india-exam-scandal-hundreds-bihar-students-expelled-amid-unusual-cheating-practices-1853664\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.ibtimes.com\/india-exam-scandal-hundreds-bihar-students-expelled-amid-unusual-cheating-practices-1853664<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Napolitano-HS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16297\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Napolitano-HS.jpg\" alt=\"Napolitano HS\" width=\"613\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Napolitano-HS.jpg 613w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Napolitano-HS-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/><\/a>O and btw,\u00a0 the education agenda is a war agenda: class and empire&#8217;s wars. Who is running the Tx system?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Homeland Security&#8217;s Nazi Napolitano Doesn&#8217;t want to listen to student &#8220;crap&#8221;\u00a0 (video within)\u00a0 <\/strong>University of California President Janet Napolitano apologized Thursday for referring to a student protest as \u201ccrap\u201d during a meeting of the UC regents a day earlier in San Francisco. Her comment to regents Chairman Bruce Varner was captured on the university\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/stew\/2015\/03\/18\/uc-president-napolitano-caught-on-video-calling-student-protest-crap\/\">video stream.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"page-content news\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>\u201cI was caught on a mike with a word that was unfortunate. So I want to just say I apologize for that,\u201d Napolitano said at the start of the final day of the three-day regents meeting at UC\u2019s Mission Bay campus.<\/p>\n<p>Napolitano made her original remark when a few dozen student protesters got loud at Wednesday\u2019s regents meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The students were protesting not only the tuition hike set for next fall, but a new campus in Richmond being planned by UC Berkeley. The students had urged the regents to ensure that residents in the low-income community benefit from jobs and any new housing that result from the campus, which is still years from breaking ground.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, students had just called \u201cmike check!\u201d to announce their protest action. Some stood on chairs, stripped off their shirts and tossed fake money while yelling at the regents: \u201cRaise up Richmond! Not tuition!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As UC police faced the protesters to escort them out of the meeting, the video camera recording the meeting focused on Napolitano and Varner to her left.<\/p>\n<p>The president turned to Varner and said, \u201cLet\u2019s go.\u201d Varner couldn\u2019t hear her over the students\u2019 chanting, so she repeated: \u201cLet\u2019s go. We don\u2019t have to listen to this crap.\u201dhttp:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/UC-Prez-Janet-Napolitano-apologizes-for-calling-6145619.php<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Congratulations on the publication of:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Lynching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16290 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Lynching-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Lynching\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Lynching-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Lynching-802x1024.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Massacre-Paris-Commune.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Massacre-Paris-Commune.jpg\" alt=\"Massacre Paris Commune\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Massacre-Paris-Commune.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Massacre-Paris-Commune-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Teach the Commune!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2. The Paris Commune and Its Legacy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/clDZl40CJik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Capitalist Community College District Sucks up to Saudi Wahhabi Fascists <\/strong>Rancho Santiago Community College District will continue its consulting agreement with two Saudi Arabia technical colleges despite opposition from some faculty members who say the deal violates the district\u2019s values of equality and tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Ra\u00fal Rodriguez said during Monday\u2019s board of trustees meeting that working with the Saudi campuses does not mean the district, which operates Santiago Canyon College and Santa Ana College, endorses the Arab government\u2019s record on human rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally find a lot of the things that I\u2019ve read about \u2013 they\u2019re horrible, even barbaric by our standards,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the same time, I\u2019m an educator. We can, in a small way, contribute to helping set the conditions in that country for change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About 10 professors and other employees demanded during the meeting that trustees cancel the estimated $105 million deal\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/district-653635-deal-saudi.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.ocregister.com\/articles\/district-653635-deal-saudi.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>99 Percent of Louisiana kids take Common Corpse <\/strong>About 99 percent of Louisiana&#8217;s eligible public school students took Common Core-aligned tests Monday (March 16), Education Superintendent John White said. He called the participation rate an &#8220;unqualified success&#8221; and said, &#8220;Today&#8217;s assessment gives preliminary indications that concerns about widespread non-participation did not bear out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those concerns circulated for weeks, and were aired at a state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meeting this month. The board put off voting on a measure to ensure that school performance scores don&#8217;t suffer because of students boycotting the test, after White urged waiting for more participation data.<\/p>\n<p>Students are not penalized for skipping the tests, but they are recorded as scoring 0 for their schools and school systems, which affects school performance scores. These scores determine whether schools and systems continue to operate without state intervention or closure.<\/p>\n<p>Some educators and even Gov. Bobby Jindal have expressed concerns that zeroes also affect teacher evaluations,\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/education\/index.ssf\/2015\/03\/99_percent_of_louisiana_famili.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nola.com\/education\/index.ssf\/2015\/03\/99_percent_of_louisiana_famili.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Four Suicides at MIT <\/strong>the suicides of four students within the past year \u2014 including two this month \u2014 have prompted fresh soul-searching among students, administrators, and faculty about stress and how to tame it at a college that, statistics suggest, has an above-average rate of students taking their own lives.\u00a0 Among the efforts: MIT is encouraging students to talk about the psychological phenomenon called \u201cimpostor syndrome,\u201d a frequent feeling of being a failure despite a record of accomplishment. Students\u2019 battle against stress is reflected in a new Twitter hashtag circulating around campus: #peoplebeforePsets, or \u201cpeople before problem sets.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2015\/03\/16\/mit-students-open-about-stress\/dS61oA5tiKqjvVsJ5VZRAL\/story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2015\/03\/16\/mit-students-open-about-stress\/dS61oA5tiKqjvVsJ5VZRAL\/story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"321\" data-total-count=\"321\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obama-lies-about-troop-withdrawal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16309\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obama-lies-about-troop-withdrawal.jpg\" alt=\"obama-lies-about-troop-withdrawal\" width=\"500\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obama-lies-about-troop-withdrawal.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/obama-lies-about-troop-withdrawal-300x265.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><strong>Obamagogues&#8217; Empire&#8217;s Troops to Remain in Afghanistan (until the empire ends) <\/strong>The Obama administration is nearing a decision to keep more troops in <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about Afghanistan.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/afghanistan\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Afghanistan<\/a> next year than it had intended, effectively upending its drawdown plans in response to roiling violence in the country and another false start in the effort to open peace talks between the <a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More articles about the Taliban.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/t\/taliban\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Taliban<\/a> and the Afghan government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"325\" data-total-count=\"646\">As recently as last month, American officials had hoped that a renewed push to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table would yield the beginnings of a peace process and allow the United States to stick with its plan to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/28\/world\/asia\/us-to-complete-afghan-pullout-by-end-of-2016-obama-to-say.html\">drop the number of troops<\/a> in Afghanistan from just under 10,000 to about 5,600 by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"253\" data-total-count=\"899\">But those hopes have been dashed by signs that the Taliban remain deeply divided over whether to engage in talks, as they have been for years, and that the remaining Qaeda presence in the region is proving more resilient than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/13\/world\/asia\/data-from-seized-computer-fuels-a-surge-in-us-raids-on-al-qaeda.html\">officials had anticipated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"342\" data-total-count=\"1241\">As a result, Afghan and American officials are girding for another year of bloody fighting with the insurgents. Senior Obama administration officials broadly concluded during meetings over the last week that many of the roughly 10,000 troops and thousands of civilian contractors in Afghanistan would be needed well into 2016, officials said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"media-100000003582910\" class=\"media photo embedded has-adjacency has-lede-adjacency layout-small-vertical media-100000003582910\" data-media-action=\"modal\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Photo<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/03\/20\/world\/TROOPS2\/TROOPS2-master180.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-mediaviewer-src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/03\/20\/world\/TROOPS2\/TROOPS2-superJumbo.jpg\" data-mediaviewer-caption=\"President Ashraf Ghani sought flexibility on American troop withdrawal.\" data-mediaviewer-credit=\"Omar Sobhani\/Reuters\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-action-overlay\"><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"> <span class=\"caption-text\">President Ashraf Ghani sought flexibility on American troop withdrawal.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\"> <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Credit<\/span> Omar Sobhani\/Reuters <\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"453\" data-total-count=\"1694\">A change in the administration\u2019s plans would be further evidence of the continuing demands of America\u2019s longest war, which has raged on even after <a class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More articles about Barack Obama\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/o\/barack_obama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">President Obama<\/a> declared an end to America\u2019s \u201ccombat role\u201d in Afghanistan. It would also reflect the impact of events in Iraq last year, where Iraqi military units collapsed in the face of an offensive by the Islamic State and the administration was compelled to send troops back to the country.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/20\/world\/asia\/more-us-troops-seen-staying-in-afghanistan.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=first-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/20\/world\/asia\/more-us-troops-seen-staying-in-afghanistan.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=first-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"390\" data-total-count=\"390\"><strong>Pillar of the Farcical Arab Spring, Tunisia, unraveling <\/strong>The Islamic State and other extremists on Thursday sought to claim responsibility for the deadly attack that killed at least 21 people at the National Bardo Museum in Tunis. The authorities there arrested at least nine people suspected of being accomplices as major cruise lines indefinitely suspended stops in <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about Tunisia.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/tunisia\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Tunisia<\/a>, a sign of the looming toll on the crucial tourist industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"251\" data-total-count=\"641\">The assault was the latest evidence that the extremist victories and cruelties in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere are emboldening like-minded militants to acts of violence around the world \u2014 including recent attacks in Paris, Ottawa and Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"322\" data-total-count=\"963\">The eagerness of the Islamic State and other jihadists to associate themselves with the killings in Tunis underscored the looseness of their proliferating networks, recalling the distant ties to both the Qaeda and Islamic State networks among the assailants who attacked the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris two months ago.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/20\/world\/africa\/miltants-isis-included-claim-tunisia-museum-attack.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=second-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/20\/world\/africa\/miltants-isis-included-claim-tunisia-museum-attack.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;module=second-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Lost Yemen? IS attacks Sana Mosques <\/strong>The Islamic State\u2019s \u201cSana\u2019a Province\u201d in Yemen claimed credit for the coordinated suicide attacks at two Houthi mosques in the capital today. More than 100 people were killed in the first major operation by the Islamic State inside Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>The suicide attacks were claimed by the \u201cMedia Office of Sana\u2019a Province,\u201d according to a translation provided by the SITE Intelligence Group.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State said that four \u201cknights of martyrdom wearing explosive belts\u201d attacked the Badr and Hashush mosques in Sana\u2019a, \u201cand blew up the headquarters of their polytheism.\u201d Additionally, the Islamic State claimed another suicide attack against \u201canother den of theirs in Sada\u2019a.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The jihadist group threatened further attacks against the Houthis, a Shiite rebel group that is backed by Iran. The Houthis seized control of Sana\u2019a and ousted the government of President Hadi last summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet the polytheist Houthis know that the soldiers of the Islamic State will not rest and will not stay still until they extirpate them, deter their assault, and cut off the arm of the Safavid project in Yemen, with power from Allah and His strength,\u201d the statement says.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwarjournal.org\/archives\/2015\/03\/islamic-state-claims-suicide-attacks-in-sanaa-mosques.php?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.longwarjournal.org\/archives\/2015\/03\/islamic-state-claims-suicide-attacks-in-sanaa-mosques.php?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prince-charles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prince-charles.jpg\" alt=\"prince-charles\" width=\"431\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prince-charles.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/prince-charles-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/a><strong>Billionaire Parasitical Philanderer with bad Genes in DC <\/strong>Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla played tourist on their first full day of their Washington visit on Wednesday, visiting several historic landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>And Charles the organic farmer got to do something in his wheelhouse: explore George Washington&#8217;s Pioneer Farm at Mount Vernon.<\/p>\n<p>There, he got up close and personal with a pair of chestnut-colored oxen, Jack and Jed, placidly chewing their cud (or whatever it is oxen chew), adorned with evil-looking horns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is he friendly?&#8221; he inquired of the oxen keeper, dressed in 18th-century garb like most of the staff at the historic home of the nation&#8217;s first POTUS. &#8220;Oh, very friendly,&#8221; came the response as Charles patted the ox&#8217;s head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to watch these,&#8221; Charles said, referring to the horns.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Charles, a posse of photographers and reporters recorded everything<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wealth Inequality in America\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QPKKQnijnsM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brainwashed about Inequality? No. Just Deranged. <\/strong>The fact that the 1 percent has so successfully shaped public perception testifies to the malleability of beliefs. When others engage in it, we call it \u201cbrainwashing\u201d and \u201cpropaganda.\u201d\u00a0We look askance at these attempts to shape public views, because they are often seen as unbalanced and manipulative, without realizing that there is something akin going on in democracies, too. What is different today is that we have far greater understanding of how to shape perceptions and beliefs \u2014 thanks to the advances in research in the social sciences.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that many, if not most, Americans possess a limited understanding of the nature of the inequality in our society: They believe that there is less inequality than there is, they underestimate its adverse economic effects,\u00a0they underestimate the ability of government to do anything about it, and they overestimate the costs of taking action. They even fail to understand what the government is doing \u2014 many who value highly government programs like Medicare don\u2019t realize that they are in the public sector.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In a recent study respondents on average thought that the top fifth of the population had just short of 60 percent of the wealth, when in truth that group holds approximately 85 percent of the wealth.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/14\/weve_been_brainwashed\/?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=socialflow\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.salon.com\/2012\/06\/14\/weve_been_brainwashed\/?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_medium=socialflow<\/a><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Water Shutoffs Resume for nearly 150,000 in Detroit <\/strong>The Detroit water department is prepared to hang about 800 shutoff notices a day on doors across the city, a department official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The water department plans to start hanging the shutoff notices at homes of delinquent residential accounts beginning sometime in mid- to late-April, &#8230;This time last year, more than 150,000 of the city&#8217;s 323,900 DWSD accounts were delinquent.<\/p>\n<p>The water department&#8217;s aggressive shutoff campaign last year \u2014 crews were shutting off about 3,000 delinquent accounts per week at one point \u2014 spurred an outcry among activists who criticized the city&#8217;s policy for its treatment of poor people and those with medical problems.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2015\/03\/20\/residential-water-shutoffs\/25048153\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.freep.com\/story\/news\/local\/michigan\/detroit\/2015\/03\/20\/residential-water-shutoffs\/25048153\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Starbucks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16304 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Starbucks-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"Starbucks\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Starbucks-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Starbucks.jpg 642w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Beverly Hills Bakery Workers paid two dollars an hour\u00a0 <\/strong>The workers said that for months they were paid as little as $2 an hour to do cleaning and landscaping work at the Rolling Hills Estates home of Ana Moitinho de Almeida and her husband, Goncalo. The workers say they slept on the floor of the laundry room.<\/p>\n<p>They say they were also forced to work up to 17-hour days at the bakeries for less than minimum wage and no overtime pay. One worker was paid only $100 for a month\u2019s work, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The Almeidas are accused of multiple labor violations, as well as human trafficking and retaliation, after several workers who cooperated with a state investigation into wage theft claims were fired.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-guest-worker-visa-lawsuit-20150319-story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-guest-worker-visa-lawsuit-20150319-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Emergence of Fascism as a Popular Mass Movement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vel-OeI_bgk\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vel-OeI_bgk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Victims of US Gitmo War Crimes Struggling in Uruguay <\/strong>Dhiab is a Syrian, and he spent 12 years in Guantanamo. Now he lives in Montevideo with three other Syrians, a Palestinian and a Tunisian, all former prisoners at the U.S. detention facility in Cuba. In a week\u2019s worth of long and candid conversations, he acknowledged that the transition to life in a Latin American capital has not been easy.<\/p>\n<p>The first days of feel-good images \u2014 the spruced-up men waving from their balcony, welcoming neighbors bringing gifts of yerba mate \u2014 have given way to a more uncomfortable limbo. It\u2019s been hardest on Dhiab. The marks of a dozen years in a cell and the hunger strikes he held there show in his gaunt 43-year-old frame, his beard flecked with gray. He hobbles around on crutches, still wearing the Army green T-shirt and sweat pants given to him in Guantanamo. The infamous orange uniform \u2014 a Bob Barker brand 65-35 poly-cotton blend made in El Salvador \u2014 hangs in his closet for safekeeping.<\/p>\n<p>While free \u2014 in theory \u2014 to leave Uruguay, the men do not yet have passports. Dhiab hardly ever goes outside now. He feels the promises made to him have been betrayed. He wants his own house, his family brought from Syria, enough money to live with dignity and start a business. He demands that the United States own up to its responsibility for having imprisoned him without charge for more than a decade, finally releasing him with a letter from the State Department saying there was no information he or any of the other men had any role in \u201cconducting or facilitating terrorist activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And so, Dhiab has returned to exercising the one right he had in Guantanamo: to refuse. He no longer accepts the $600-per-month stipend from the Uruguayan government. He has stopped having regular hospital visits despite a long list of health troubles. He has no income, phone or job prospects. He predicts the tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes he nibbles might last a couple more weeks, and when they\u2019re gone, he has a plan.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/after-12-years-in-guantanamo-ex-detainees-find-little-solace-in-uruguay\/2015\/03\/21\/4d376006-c1e5-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html?hpid=z3\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/after-12-years-in-guantanamo-ex-detainees-find-little-solace-in-uruguay\/2015\/03\/21\/4d376006-c1e5-11e4-a188-8e4971d37a8d_story.html?hpid=z3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>San Diego Media Execs are Bullshit, so say the reporters <\/strong>\u201cThe people who should be here are [U-T San Diego publisher] Doug Manchester or [NBC 7 San Diego president and general manager] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/on-air\/about-us\/Richard-Kelley-114833694.html\">Dick Kelly<\/a>\u201d and other execs, said NBC 7 senior producer Paul Krueger, who had joined with J.W. August and CBS 8\u2019s David Gotfredson to raise money for a legal bid to unseal warrants in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McStay_family_murder\">McStay family slayings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Krueger, Gotfredson and August \u2014 formerly of KGTV-10News but now with NBC as an investigative producer \u2014 told the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists how they laboriously contacted dozens of media outlets, raising $300 from each to pay for the discounted services of Kelly Aviles, an attorney with the <a href=\"http:\/\/firstamendmentcoalition.org\">First Amendment Coalition.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite collecting about $14,000 from local affiliates, national networks and even CNN, they failed to unseal the warrants.<\/p>\n<p>But the threesome honored at a Hillcrest bar during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunshineweek.org\">Sunshine Week<\/a> didn\u2019t seal their lips when it came to discussing news media responsibilities. \u201cThe fact that it took us countless hours to cobble together a group of media outlets willing to put out $300 each \u2014 which is what media executives pay for lunch \u2014 is to me an embarrassment,\u201d Krueger told the 35-person gathering at The T Lounge.<\/p>\n<p>Gotfredson, an investigative producer, soon added: \u201cIt\u2019s shameful that one media outlet couldn\u2019t afford an attorney to challenge\u201d San Bernardino County officials who balked at opening records in the McStay case.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/politics\/2015\/03\/20\/local-media-barons-slammed-as-awol-in-1st-amendment-fight\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">timesofsandiego.com\/politics\/2015\/03\/20\/local-media-barons-slammed-as-awol-in-1st-amendment-fight\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Solidarity for Never<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treachery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16312 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treachery-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"treachery\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treachery-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treachery-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/treachery.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>Michigan EA Boss Gets Rich, and Richer, as a dues eater <\/strong><span class=\"-newsgate-macro-cci-drop-initial-\">Here&#8217;s something you probably didn&#8217;t know \u2014 the president of the state&#8217;s largest teachers union is headed toward a pension fit for a one-percenter thanks to a sweetheart deal he enjoys with the state teacher retirement system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If that sounds a little odd, that&#8217;s because it is. Steven Cook, who&#8217;s headed the Michigan Education Association since 2011, hasn&#8217;t worked directly for the Lansing School District for two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Cook maintains an arrangement with the school district, and through that agreement, he still contributes to the Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System. Last year, the Lansing district contributed $51,976 to the system on behalf of Cook, even though he has no official responsibilities in the district. The MEA reimburses the district for the unusual provision that allows Cook to collect a much larger pension than he would otherwise get.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise, Cook makes a whole lot more now as president of the teachers union than he did as a paraprofessional with the district. The payments the MEA contributes to the system now on his behalf are far greater than what he once made and have served to nicely plump his pension benefit.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MEA&#8217;s LM-2 report, which unions file with the U.S. Department of Labor<em><strong>, Cook made a comfortable $203,144 in 2014. The average public school teacher in Michigan earns about $55,000.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cook could collect a state pension of up to $105,000 a year once he retires.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/ingrid-jacques\/2015\/03\/19\/jacques-union-boss-big-pension\/25040027\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/ingrid-jacques\/2015\/03\/19\/jacques-union-boss-big-pension\/25040027\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Spy versus Spy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"187\" data-total-count=\"187\"><strong>A lawyer who had represented the Pakistani doctor who helped the <a class=\"meta-org\" title=\"More articles about the Central Intelligence Agency.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/c\/central_intelligence_agency\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">C.I.A.<\/a> hunt <a class=\"meta-per\" title=\"More articles about Osama bin Laden.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/b\/osama_bin_laden\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\">Osama bin Laden<\/a> was shot dead Tuesday in northwestern <a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about Pakistan.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/pakistan\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Pakistan<\/a>, the local police said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"175\" data-total-count=\"362\">The lawyer, Samiullah Afridi, was attacked in Peshawar by two men on a motorbike. A breakaway faction of the Pakistani Taliban known as Jamaatul Ahrar claimed responsibility.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-3\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"256\" data-total-count=\"618\">He was part of a panel of lawyers who had represented Dr. Shakil Afridi, his fellow tribesman whose conviction by a tribal court in 2012 was seen as punishment for his role in a fake vaccination scheme that he organized at the behest of the C.I.A. in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"129\" data-total-count=\"747\">Mr. Afridi, the lawyer, left the case in May 2014, citing threats to his life, and fled for a while to the United Arab Emirates.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/18\/world\/asia\/taliban-faction-kills-lawyer.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150318&#038;nlid=2254121&#038;tntemail0=y&#038;_r=1\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/18\/world\/asia\/taliban-faction-kills-lawyer.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150318&#038;nlid=2254121&#038;tntemail0=y&#038;_r=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Magical Mystery Tour<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Prosperity-pastor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16266 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Prosperity-pastor-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Prosperity pastor\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Prosperity-pastor-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Prosperity-pastor-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Prosperity-pastor.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"681\" data-total-count=\"2449\"><strong>On God&#8217;s Banker <\/strong>Think of medieval popes waging the Crusades \u2014 raising armies, sacking \u00adcities and conquering territory \u2014 in the name of Jesus Christ. Or prelates torturing apostates and heretics during the Inquisition. Or Pope Pius V expelling Jews from the Papal States in 1569. Or Pope Pius XI signing the Reichskonkordat with \u00adHitler, which, in return for winning a measure of freedom for German Catholics \u00adunder the Nazis, assured silence from the Holy See over the forced sterilization of 400,000 people and then only the faintest of \u00adobjections to the Holocaust. Or more \u00adrecently, bishops and other church officials concealing widespread and repeated child sexual abuse by priests.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-4\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"474\" data-total-count=\"3537\">All of these and many other well-known acts of complicity with the ways of the world are touched on in Gerald Posner\u2019s new book, but its main subject is a somewhat more arcane form of corruption. \u201cGod\u2019s Bankers\u201d provides an exhaustive history of financial machinations at the center of the church in Rome, from the final decades of the 19th century down to Pope Francis\u2019 sincere but as yet inconclusive efforts to reform the church\u2019s labyrinthine bureaucracy (the Curia) and the Vatican Bank (named Istituto per le Opere di Religione, or Institute for the Works of Religion, also known as the I.O.R.).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"474\" data-total-count=\"3537\">That the Vatican has a bank at all is surprising when taking in the long view of church history. During the Middle Ages, the papacy developed into an aristocratic and feudal institution dependent for much of its income on rents and taxes collected in the Papal States of central Italy. This came to an abrupt end with the final unification of Italy in 1870, which deprived the church of its lands and feudal income, leading to several decades of acute financial insecurity.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-5\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"644\" data-total-count=\"4181\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Gods-Bankers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16302\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Gods-Bankers.jpg\" alt=\"Gods Bankers\" width=\"232\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Gods-Bankers.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Gods-Bankers-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>Popes of this period \u2014 Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XI \u2014 publicly denounced lending money at interest (usury) while at the same time accepting massive loans from the Rothschilds and making their own interest-bearing loans to Italian Catholics.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/22\/books\/review\/gods-bankers-by-gerald-posner.html?emc=edit_bk_20150320&#038;nl=books&#038;nlid=2254121&#038;_r=0\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/22\/books\/review\/gods-bankers-by-gerald-posner.html?emc=edit_bk_20150320&#038;nl=books&#038;nlid=2254121&#038;_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Best and Worst Things in the History of the World<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stan Midgley on George Pierrot Presents TV Show!\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/biqcNty4Fhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>So Long<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Samuel Charters: Blues Man <\/strong>\u201cFor me, the writing about black music was my way of fighting racism,\u201d Mr. Charters said in his interview with Mr. Ismail. \u201cThat\u2019s why my work is not academic, that is why it is absolutely nothing but popularization: I wanted people to hear black music.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/19\/arts\/music\/samuel-charters-foundational-scholar-of-the-blues-dies-at-85.html?_r=0\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/19\/arts\/music\/samuel-charters-foundational-scholar-of-the-blues-dies-at-85.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sam Charters - Singing the Blues at UConn\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5PVDj263dVM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Say Fight Back! Mexico: Farmworkers Fight Back Again&#8211;and the state attacks Farmworkers protesting working conditions at Mexican export farms in Baja California blocked a major highway and occupied several government buildings as officials scrambled to quell a widening strike that threatens one of Mexico\u2019s most valuable harvests. 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