{"id":24245,"date":"2019-10-06T00:33:22","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T08:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=24245"},"modified":"2019-10-06T00:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T08:35:12","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-legitimacy-crises-deepen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-legitimacy-crises-deepen\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Legitimacy Crises Deepen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>We Say Fight Back!<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What&#039;s fuelling the protests in Haiti? | Inside Story\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qusw4Ix6R0I?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"spaced spaced-xl spaced-top spaced-bottom\" style=\"text-align: center;\">CPS strike: Teachers and support staff, along with parks workers, will all strike on Oct. 17 if no contract deals reached<\/h1>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/resizer\/yVHYkH682CzNOW---5b1XInFaZc=\/1484x0\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/WJ2ILUHE2AI6TMFGHUBXEG4F54.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for chicago teachers strike\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p data-page=\"1\">The Chicago Teachers Union, school support staff and Park District workers will all go on strike together on Oct. 17 if they can\u2019t reach contract deals by then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p>The joint announcement late Wednesday by the three labor groups sets up the prospect of about 35,000 public employees in Chicago walking off the job at the same time.<\/p>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p>It also means that the 360,000 children who attend Chicago Public Schools will be out of class indefinitely if CTU and the city fail to settle their differences by then.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<div class=\" crd--cnt \">\n<p>But Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPS top brass announced late Wednesday that all schools will remain open during any walkout by teachers and staff.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/breaking\/ct-cps-strike-date-teachers-union-20191002-ziz56bhmkbevtaxqovv3wclnyy-story.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/breaking\/ct-cps-strike-date-teachers-union-20191002-ziz56bhmkbevtaxqovv3wclnyy-story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"lede-text-v2__hed\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Hong Kong to Enact Rare Emergency Rule for Mask Ban, Reports Say<\/h1>\n<p>Hong Kong will use an emergency ordinance for the first time in more than a half a century in order to ban face masks at public gatherings, according to local media outlets including the <a class=\"terminal-news-story\" title=\"SCMP: Hong Kong government to announce new law banning masks during public assemblies\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/terminal\/PYSFAPMB2SJR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South China Morning Post<\/a> and news channel TVB.<\/p>\n<p>The government will enact the Emergency Regulations Ordinance after a special meeting of the city\u2019s Executive Council on Friday, TVB reported, citing people it didn\u2019t identify. First passed by the British government in 1922 to quell a seamen\u2019s strike in Hong Kong\u2019s harbor, the law was last used by the colonial administration to help put down riots that rocked the trading hub in 1967.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-10-03\/hong-kong-to-ban-face-masks-after-meeting-friday-tvb-reports?cmpid=BBD100419_MKT&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_term=191004&#038;utm_campaign=marketsasia\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-10-03\/hong-kong-to-ban-face-masks-after-meeting-friday-tvb-reports?cmpid=BBD100419_MKT&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_term=191004&#038;utm_campaign=marketsasia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hong Kong protests continue in defiance of face mask ban\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5_3TTcFCpGA?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<div class=\"crd clln--it\" data-type=\"text\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"post-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ecuador fuel protests: 350 arrested as demonstrations continue<\/h1>\n<p class=\"article-heading-des\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Transportation in major cities continues to be paralysed as bus and taxi workers strike over cuts to fuel subsidies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive main-article-media-img\" title=\"Ecuador fuel protests: 350 arrested as demonstrations continue\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/mritems\/imagecache\/mbdxxlarge\/mritems\/Images\/2019\/10\/4\/d805e51d08b04145b1ad310238c937c4_18.jpg\" alt=\"Demonstrators clash with riot police during a protest after Ecuadorian President Moreno's government ended four-decade-old fuel subsidies [Daniel Tapia\/Ecuador]\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Protests over fuel subsidy cuts paralysed transportation around Ecuador for a second day on Friday as authorities held 350 people in jail for unrest triggered by President Lenin Moreno&#8217;s belt-tightening fiscal package.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Witnesses said bus and taxi services remained on strike after fuel prices soared on Thursday following\u00a0 Moreno&#8217;s fiscal measures earlier in the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Moreno &#8211; putting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/Ecuador.html\">Ecuador<\/a> on a more market-friendly track after years of left-wing rule and aligning policies to conform with a $4.2bn International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan &#8211; has scrapped decades-old fuel subsidies and announced tax reforms.<\/p>\n<p>That has infuriated transport unions, whose action has been joined by indigenous groups, students and other unions.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/10\/ecuador-fuel-protests-275-detained-demonstrations-continue-191004135117634.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/10\/ecuador-fuel-protests-275-detained-demonstrations-continue-191004135117634.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theanongroup\/videos\/413595942632960\/?t=50\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/theanongroup\/videos\/413595942632960\/?t=50<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/09\/26\/climate-strike-auto-strike-same-struggle-same-fight\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Climate Strike\/Auto Strike: Same Struggle, Same Fight<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"post_author_intro\">by<\/span> <span class=\"post_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/author\/laura-flanders\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Laura Flanders<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Twenty years after turtles and teamsters teamed up to battle the WTO in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-1999-dec-02-me-39707-story.html\">Seattle,<\/a> labor strikes and climate strikes are coinciding everywhere but in the media, and that\u2019s dangerous. If history is any guide, any minute now, some two-bit pundit or shameless president will pit workers against environmentalists so as to distract us from the real problem: the rich and the greedy and a value system that only cares about profits.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, as four million young people marched in the world\u2019s capitals for action on climate, countless more were on the picket line supporting autoworkers who are out on strike. Both sets of strikers have guts and smarts and a righteous sense of urgency, but the latter had a fraction of the coverage, so let\u2019s be clear: they\u2019re all on the same side \u2013 the side of a future that we can actually inhabit.<\/p>\n<p>Almost fifty thousand workers went on strike at General Motors Sept 16<sup>th<\/sup> after management and UAW negotiators failed to agree on a new contract. GM has bounced back from recession thanks to a taxpayer bailout, government tax breaks and contracts and a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/deal-saved-detroit-and-banned-strikes\/\"> brutal restructuring<\/a> of the workforce. Now, even though the company has made $35 billion in the last few years, they want concessions and yet more plant closures and layoffs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/09\/26\/climate-strike-auto-strike-same-struggle-same-fight\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/09\/26\/climate-strike-auto-strike-same-struggle-same-fight\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"filer-image-align-left lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/thumbs-prod.si-cdn.com\/CnIU9-Yd1HYUUiexAfvkk6qyGvs=\/fit-in\/600x0\/https:\/\/public-media.si-cdn.com\/filer\/4f\/c4\/4fc48587-681d-4fad-97d7-ed8bc9212e61\/oct2019_a10_greencornrebellion.jpg\" alt=\"A_Ted Eberle\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">When the Socialist Revolution Came to Oklahoma\u2014and Was Crushed<\/h2>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">Inside the little-known story of the Green Corn Rebellion, which blazed through the Sooner State a century ago<\/h4>\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\">\n<p>Ted Eberle, 68, a solid, rough-hewn man in a canvas vest and camouflage cap, drives the gravel back roads of southeast Oklahoma in a pickup truck that smells of deer meat. Speaking in a twanging drawl, he tells story after story about the area\u2014killings are a recurring theme\u2014as we rattle and jounce through low wooded hills, isolated farms and thickets full of wild hogs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeminole County was a refuge for outlaws when it was Indian Territory, and there are still places you don\u2019t go unless you\u2019re invited,\u201d says Eberle, a former county commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Seminole County was also the center of the last armed and organized insurrection against the U.S. government. This dramatic, quixotic uprising of impoverished tenant farmers\u2014mostly white, but including African-Americans and Native Americans\u2014made front-page news across the nation in the summer of 1917, but is now almost forgotten, even where it took place.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pw-hidden-cp\">\n<p>\u201cMost people around here have never heard of the Green Corn Rebellion,\u201d Eberle says. \u201cOr it might ring a bell somewhere, but they can\u2019t tell you what happened. Hell, I had two uncles that went to prison for it, and I don\u2019t even know how they got mixed up in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eberle knows the geography of the rebellion, though, and he\u2019s taking me to key locations, starting with a rocky, brush-covered hill on the Little River. \u201cThat\u2019s what they call Spears Mountain,\u201d he says .read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/socialist-revolution-oklahoma-crushed-green-corn-rebellion-180973073\/#g512hBhmfZTifzmb.99\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/socialist-revolution-oklahoma-crushed-green-corn-rebellion-180973073\/#g512hBhmfZTifzmb.99<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1cGUiGv\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">bit.ly\/1cGUiGv<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minneapolis Teamsters Strike Documentary Part 1\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m44DLk-IX1s?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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption-processed shareaholic-media-target-hover-state\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_large\/public\/views-article\/cointelpro_targetedgroups.jpg?itok=aB29pObm\" alt=\"\" width=\"955\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"node__title managed-node-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Why We Should Teach About the FBI\u2019s War on the Civil Rights Movement<\/h1>\n<p>his month marks the 45th anniversary of a dramatic moment in U.S. history. On March 8, 1971\u2014while Muhammad Ali was fighting Joe Frazier at Madison Square Garden, and as millions sat glued to their TVs watching the bout unfold\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/zinnedproject.org\/2014\/03\/cointelpro-exposed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a group of peace activists<\/a> broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole every document they could find.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Forsyth, one of the people who broke in, explained<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2014\/1\/8\/it_was_time_to_do_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">!<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>I was spending as much time as I could with organizing against the war, but\u00a0I had become very frustrated with legal protest. The war was escalating and not de-escalating. And I think what really pushed me over the edge was, shortly after the invasion of Cambodia, there were four students killed at Kent State and two more killed at Jackson State. And that really pushed me over the edge, that it was time to do more than just protest.<\/p>\n<p>Delivered to the press, these documents revealed an FBI conspiracy\u2014known as COINTELPRO\u2014to disrupt and destroy a wide range of protest groups, including the Black freedom movement. The break-in, and the government treachery it revealed, is a chapter of our not-so-distant past that all high school students\u2014and all the rest of us\u2014should learn, yet one that history textbooks continue to ignore.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2016\/03\/01\/why-we-should-teach-about-fbis-war-civil-rights-movement?utm_campaign=shareaholic&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;fbclid=IwAR3RZ9svEhsl0AMAFUOwXKHPtrcWomux8aSmuWDj-P_fSa37lZnwD3CmKCk\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.commondreams.org\/views\/2016\/03\/01\/why-we-should-teach-about-fbis-war-civil-rights-movement?utm_campaign=shareaholic&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;fbclid=IwAR3RZ9svEhsl0AMAFUOwXKHPtrcWomux8aSmuWDj-P_fSa37lZnwD3CmKCk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NowThisPolitics\/videos\/502816043600092\/?t=10\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/NowThisPolitics\/videos\/502816043600092\/?t=10<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Donald Trump Jr., girlfriend to get $50,000 to speak at University of Florida<\/h1>\n<p><b>Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, his girlfriend <\/b>and a former television news personality, are slated to speak at the University of Florida next week. The $50,000 paycheck they\u2019ll receive for the event has sparked pushback. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-education\/2019\/10\/03\/donald-trump-jr-girlfriend-to-get-50-000-to-speak-at-university-of-florida-484844\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.politico.com\/newsletters\/morning-education\/2019\/10\/03\/donald-trump-jr-girlfriend-to-get-50-000-to-speak-at-university-of-florida-484844<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Southwestern community college. <br \/>3 cop cars for one handicap placard ?????? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tMxWZMKvXb\">pic.twitter.com\/tMxWZMKvXb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u2661mamas\u2661 (@_moran_iguess) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_moran_iguess\/status\/1179114340370137088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Southwestern investigates campus police after black student was handcuffed, cited for parking infraction<\/h1>\n<p>A video of Southwestern College police officers handcuffing and detaining a black male student \u2014 at one point taking him to the ground \u2014 after a suspected parking infraction earlier this week has fueled student concerns about police discrimination against people of color.<\/p>\n<p>The video, shot by another student and posted on Twitter, shows the student cursing and yelling while handcuffed on the Chula Vista community college campus, and asking what he had done to be arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m literally walking to my car and you\u2019re (expletive) arresting me, bro?\u201d the student yells at the officers surrounding him in the Tuesday incident.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/public-safety\/story\/2019-10-03\/forum-today-after-video-surfaces-of-police-handcuffing-college-student-for-parking-infraction\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/public-safety\/story\/2019-10-03\/forum-today-after-video-surfaces-of-police-handcuffing-college-student-for-parking-infraction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-vo_med wp-image-675396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Southwestern-College_3-800x533.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Southwestern-College_3-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Southwestern-College_3-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Southwestern-College_3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Southwestern-College_3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Southwestern-College_3-570x380.jpg 570w, https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Southwestern-College_3-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Southwestern-College_3-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: right;\">Morning Report: Southwestern Title IX Investigation Took an Unexpected Turn<\/h1>\n<p>Two years ago, investigators were looking into a Title IX complaint against Southwestern College professor John Tolli when they made a shocking find: Tolli\u2019s work computer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/education\/southwestern-officials-agreed-to-keep-quiet-about-professor-who-had-trove-of-nude-student-photos-sex-videos\/\">contained a trove of nude photos of himself and other students, plus videos of him having sex with a student in his office<\/a> and videos of him masturbating.<\/p>\n<p>Documents show one former student of Tolli\u2019s who had a sexual relationship with him told investigators that she\u2019d felt preyed on by Tolli\u2019s status, then pressured to stay quiet about their affair. She shared with the investigator an email in which he had told her that a complaint to the college would have no merit, so \u201csave yourself the embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, the biology professor said his behavior did not demonstrate that he was a bad teacher, it instead reflected that he was a bad husband.<\/p>\n<p>Southwestern officials refused to disclose the investigation documents to the school\u2019s newspaper, The Sun. It only released the documents after the involvement of a VOSD lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>A resignation agreement between the school and Tolli shows he was allowed to quietly resign, and Southwestern officials agreed not to mention the findings to prospective employers.<\/p>\n<p>He now works at San Diego City College.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/news\/morning-report-southwestern-title-ix-investigation-took-an-unexpected-turn\/?utm_source=Voice+of+San+Diego+Master+List&#038;utm_campaign=806249d7d4-Morning_Report&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_c2357fd0a3-806249d7d4-81862829&#038;goal=0_c2357fd0a3-806249d7d4-81862829\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/news\/morning-report-southwestern-title-ix-investigation-took-an-unexpected-turn\/?utm_source=Voice+of+San+Diego+Master+List&#038;utm_campaign=806249d7d4-Morning_Report&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_c2357fd0a3-806249d7d4-81862829&#038;goal=0_c2357fd0a3-806249d7d4-81862829<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RAW: Videos show fights at another Moreno Valley school after deadly on-campus incident | ABC7\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B9O3rnSgxa4?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<h1 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Second caught-on-video fight roils Moreno Valley schools, weeks after fatal attack on 13-year-old<\/h1>\n<p>One week after a 13-year-old boy died from injuries suffered in a sucker-punch attack by two students at a Moreno Valley school, a new video has emerged showing a group of girls fighting at another campus roughly six miles away.<\/p>\n<p>The fight broke out about 11:10 a.m. Wednesday at Sunnymead Middle School and was captured in a graphic video.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, an altercation between two 12-year-old girls begins inside a classroom. One walks over to another. As a teacher tries to restrain the first girl, instructing another student to call the police, the girl breaks free and strikes the other girl. The two fall to the floor, hitting each other as students start screaming. The first girl pulls the other\u2019s hair, while the teacher continues to try to intervene.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2019-10-04\/fight-breaks-out-at-moreno-valley-middle-school-week-after-boy-dies-from-sucker-punch\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2019-10-04\/fight-breaks-out-at-moreno-valley-middle-school-week-after-boy-dies-from-sucker-punch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Union-report-Oct-2-lead.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"single_title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Union Report: When Unions Open Their Own Charter Schools \u2014 Lessons From California\u2019s Kwachiiyoa Elementary<\/h1>\n<p>As difficult as it may be to believe nowadays, when teacher unions deem charter schools their mortal enemies, there was a brief period of time when they took a different approach. Affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers once created their own charter schools. They were to be established as models for how excellent schools could be if the best educational and labor practices espoused by the unions were followed.<\/p>\n<p>NEA\u2019s motto is \u201cGreat Public Schools for Every Student.\u201d Here\u2019s what happened when the union tried to construct one great public school for 450 students.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, NEA created the Charter School Initiative. It was a project to build and support six charters around the country. The national union put $1.5 million behind the effort. Then-NEA President Bob Chase <a href=\"http:\/\/commdocs.house.gov\/committees\/edu\/hedcew5-141.000\/hedcew5-141.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told a congressional subcommittee<\/a> that \u201ccharter schools can become a positive vehicle for reform within public schools, depending on how they are developed, funded, structured and governed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chase was convinced that \u201cwhen charter schools are created along the lines that our members have chosen, professional educators applying best practices and teaming with parents and community members, that they do indeed offer hope for positive changes within our public school system as a whole.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the74million.org\/article\/union-report-when-unions-open-their-own-charter-schools-lessons-from-californias-kwachiiyoa-elementary\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.the74million.org\/article\/union-report-when-unions-open-their-own-charter-schools-lessons-from-californias-kwachiiyoa-elementary\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"posttitle\" style=\"text-align: center;\">University of Iowa tells faculty not to promote Greta Thunberg visit via UI social media<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/storyimage\/GA\/20191004\/ARTICLE\/191009848\/AR\/0\/AR-191009848.jpg&amp;MaxH=300&amp;MaxW=500\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subhead\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;This event does not fall within the scope of something we can promote&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>In the news that teenage globe-trotting climate activist Greta Thunberg \u2014 fresh off her viral admonishment last week before the United Nations \u2014 is participating today in an Iowa City protest, a University of Iowa environmental sciences professor saw opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we haven\u2019t already, I\u2019d like to suggest we put Greta\u2019s visit up on (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Facebook,\u201d UI professor Michelle Scherer suggested Thursday to colleagues in the UI College of Engineering, according to emails provided to The Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>Scherer, a civil and environmental engineering professor who serves as associate director of a National Science Foundation Sustainable Water Development Graduate Program, suggested the UI also share information about the Swedish teen\u2019s Iowa visit via its College of Engineering and IIHR \u2014 Hydroscience &amp; Engineering outlets.<\/p>\n<p>But a college communications and marketing team member shot down that suggestion, citing the university\u2019s \u201cpolitical activity\u201d guidelines and policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot use our channels to publicize or promote policy change,\u201d replied Jason Kosovski, director of marketing and communications in the Engineering College. \u201cWe are always free to publicize our research, even if it has policy impacts, but Greta\u2019s visit does not fit under the umbrella of university research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stressed faculty and staff not use college, center, or department channels to promote Thunberg\u2019s visit.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/education\/greta-thunberg-iowa-city-climate-strike-university-of-iowa-facebook-post-social-media-20191004?template=amphtml&#038;fbclid=IwAR3qxL4qN6eHh9rzXL3FOlTaL9CkKu5Buw6sibeK9n6y6f1igDZI8pZGKHY\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.thegazette.com\/subject\/news\/education\/greta-thunberg-iowa-city-climate-strike-university-of-iowa-facebook-post-social-media-20191004?template=amphtml&#038;fbclid=IwAR3qxL4qN6eHh9rzXL3FOlTaL9CkKu5Buw6sibeK9n6y6f1igDZI8pZGKHY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hothouse-School.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hothouse-School.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hothouse-School.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hothouse-School-150x66.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hothouse-School-500x218.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Many San Diego Unified Schools Are Nowhere Near Full<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">State data shows 94 schools reported enrollment below 80 percent capacity, and a dozen schools were at 50 percent capacity or less. But San Diego Unified isn\u2019t the only district grappling with declining student populations<\/p>\n<p>School is back in session, and San Diego Unified School District anticipates educating about 1,200 fewer K-12 students than last year.<\/p>\n<p>Student enrollment has declined steadily at the region\u2019s largest public school district in recent years. The district taught less than 103,000 students last year \u2013 7,700 fewer than just five years ago and 14,700 fewer than 10 years ago, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www-classic.sandi.net\/dar\/R_R\/Reports\/Demographics\/DistrictwideEnrtSince1985WithCharters.pdf\">district records<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And there is no sign the slide will slow anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>Budget documents show San Diego Unified officials anticipate a loss of about 1,500 more students next year, and again the year after, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Enrollment-Pages-From-SDUSD-Budget-2020-SACS-Report.pdf\">enrollment may dip below 99,000 students<\/a>.\u00a0 That\u2019s bad news for district leaders who are routinely left searching for millions of dollars in spending cuts. Since the state funds public schools on a per pupil basis, lost students means lost money \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed-data.org\/ShareData\/Html\/33371\">about $13,000 per student<\/a> annually for San Diego Unified, according to state data.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/education\/many-san-diego-unified-schools-are-nowhere-near-full\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/education\/many-san-diego-unified-schools-are-nowhere-near-full\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/9d0b119\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5090x3457+0+0\/resize\/840x571!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fca-times.brightspotcdn.com%2Fbf%2Fb2%2F18f39ed84b7587b6bd6a8d6a29d6%2Fcollege-admissions-bribery-78978.jpg\" alt=\"Gordon Caplan, right, arrives at federal court May 21 in Boston. He was sentenced Oct. 3 in the college admissions scandal.\" width=\"840\" height=\"571\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Attorney who paid $75,000 to rig daughter\u2019s ACT exam sentenced to 1 month in admissions scandal<\/h1>\n<p>Having already lost his bar license and co-chairmanship at a prestigious law firm, Gordon Caplan on Thursday received a final rebuke from the legal system he once sat atop when he was sentenced to one month in prison for conspiring to rig his daughter\u2019s college entrance exams.<\/p>\n<p>Caplan, a resident of Greenwich, Conn., paid $75,000 to ensure his daughter received a score in the 97th percentile on the ACT. Her test was fixed by William \u201cRick\u201d Singer, a Newport Beach consultant who has admitted rigging dozens of such exams for his wealthy clients by bribing test proctors and administrators.<\/p>\n<p>Once a co-chairman of the global law firm Willkie Farr and Gallagher, Caplan, 53, was ordered incarcerated by U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani over the objections of his attorneys, who had argued Caplan was so disgraced, his career so ruined and his family so wounded by his misdeeds that prison wasn\u2019t necessary.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2019-10-03\/attorney-sentenced-in-college-admissions-scandal?fbclid=IwAR2kKxrIthlcYIozpaiUuPOyFAfDEkfBrDqmAD9R3_zl-ON56ncVb4DTG0I\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2019-10-03\/attorney-sentenced-in-college-admissions-scandal?fbclid=IwAR2kKxrIthlcYIozpaiUuPOyFAfDEkfBrDqmAD9R3_zl-ON56ncVb4DTG0I<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/2cc1f1e\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3451x2301+0+0\/resize\/840x560!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fca-times.brightspotcdn.com%2F06%2F9c%2Fc0217c56485b97252429a3bae596%2Fgettyimages-1132943866.jpg\" alt=\"Igor Dvorskiy\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Key college admissions scandal figure will cooperate with feds in blow to accused parents<\/h1>\n<p>The head of a West Hollywood private school where dozens of wealthy parents allegedly had their children\u2019s SAT and ACT exams fixed signaled on Tuesday that he would plead guilty and cooperate with investigators, a blow to parents who have maintained their innocence in the college admissions scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The plea is a coup for prosecutors, who are likely to use the administrator to support their argument that William \u201cRick\u201d Singer and his clients were entwined in a criminal conspiracy to get their children into elite colleges.<\/p>\n<p>Igor Dvorskiy, director of the West Hollywood College Preparatory School, will plead guilty to conspiracy to commit racketeering no later than Nov. 20, according to a plea agreement filed Tuesday in federal court. He has agreed to cooperate with the government and testify at trial, if called. Melissa Weinberger, an attorney for Dvorskiy, declined to comment.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2019-10-01\/west-hollywood-test-administrator-to-plead-guilty\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2019-10-01\/west-hollywood-test-administrator-to-plead-guilty<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davcoelectric.com\/upload\/images\/img_93_full_PBGardens%20ES_050108%20066%20Entrance.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for palm beach fl schools\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline is-not-truncated\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Lost Decade: How Palm Beach County public schools cut pay for veteran teachers<\/h1>\n<p>Palm Beach County public schools cut the pay for veteran teachers by thousands of dollars over the past decade, relegating the county\u2019s most experienced educators to lower salaries than their predecessors even as the cost of living climbed.<\/p>\n<p>A typical 20-year teacher in Palm Beach County earns $3,000 less today than a typical 20-year teacher did in 2008, a Palm Beach Post analysis of school district salary records shows. A typical 15-year teacher earns $1,000 less than a 15-year teacher did a decade ago, while a 25-year teacher earns $2,100 less.<\/p>\n<p>Those salary declines were in real dollars. They become far greater when the effects of inflation are considered.<\/p>\n<p>Beset by a recession, new salary rules and reduced state financing, school district leaders froze teachers\u2019 pay in 2010 and 2011, then ditched a longstanding salary schedule that had rewarded senior teachers with larger raises.<\/p>\n<p>As the Great Recession faded into memory, the school district began to shift more money for raises to younger teachers, a sea change that boosted their starting pay by 14 percent in a decade but reduced salaries higher up the pay scale.<\/p>\n<p>The result: Thousands of veteran teachers earning thousands of dollars less than teachers at their experience level did just a decade earlier.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/20180727\/lost-decade-how-palm-beach-county-public-schools-cut-pay-for-veteran-teachers?fbclid=IwAR1dl2RBWIFjRrQpA6_1Xq8OCExPgyoYHCR0rz6HRYDPxnwGV8T7WLoACXM\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.palmbeachpost.com\/news\/20180727\/lost-decade-how-palm-beach-county-public-schools-cut-pay-for-veteran-teachers?fbclid=IwAR1dl2RBWIFjRrQpA6_1Xq8OCExPgyoYHCR0rz6HRYDPxnwGV8T7WLoACXM<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>The International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/resizer\/MY5Vez6u3H1O7AyyJ09J-N3Vtfg=\/1200x0\/filters:quality(100)\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-mco.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/WA6B3EDJNZGUFBCYQPPPBG5HEU.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">ISIS in Afghanistan is still able to field thousands of fighters despite hellacious fight to destroy it<\/h1>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">In April 2017, U.S. forces dropped one of the largest non-nuclear bombs on an ISIS cave complex in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Dubbed the \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2017\/04\/24\/mattis-in-afghanistan-amid-calls-for-troop-increase\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mother of all bombs<\/a>\u2019 it killed dozens of fighters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Former U.S. Afghanistan commander Gen. John Nicholson\u2019s decision to unleash such an immense display of American air power against a militant group that at the time was estimated to number less than a 1,000 fighters was highly criticized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">But, despite years of American bombardment and hundreds of counterterrorism operations launched against the militant group largely cornered in remote pockets of Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, ISIS fighters in Afghanistan number in the thousands while maintaining the ability to launch deadly high profile attacks across the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitycouncilreport.org\/atf\/cf\/%7B65BFCF9B-6D27-4E9C-8CD3-CF6E4FF96FF9%7D\/s_2019_481.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UN report <\/a>said ISIS terrorists in Afghanistan numbered between 2,500 and 4,000 fighters. A 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/media.defense.gov\/2019\/Jul\/12\/2002156816\/-1\/-1\/1\/ENHANCING-SECURITY-AND-STABILITY-IN-AFGHANISTAN.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DoD report <\/a>on Afghanistan estimates the size of the terrorist group to be less than 2,000 fighters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">ISIS\u2019 staying power marches on in the mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan despite major territorial losses in 2018, and immense pressure from sustained operations by Afghan and U.S. forces.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/04\/isis-in-afghanistan-is-still-able-to-field-thousands-of-fighters-despite-hellacious-fight-to-destroy-it\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/04\/isis-in-afghanistan-is-still-able-to-field-thousands-of-fighters-despite-hellacious-fight-to-destroy-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Iraq protests: Death toll rises to 20 as unrest spreads\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MzrP1oTihfY?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<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"ArticleHeader_headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Death toll climbs, unrest spreads in Iraq in days of protests<\/h1>\n<p>Iraqi security forces opened fire on thousands of demonstrators who defied a curfew in Baghdad on Thursday and exchanged fire with gunmen in southern cities, bringing to 27 the death toll from three days of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<p>The protests spread to other cities in predominantly Shi\u2019ite Muslim southern Iraq, where policemen said they increasingly encountered demonstrators carrying weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Two policemen and two protesters were killed late on Thursday in the city of Diwaniya some 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>In nearby Hilla <a href=\"\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a> protester was bludgeoned to death, according to police and hospital sources.<\/p>\n<div class=\" mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-11cwn6f aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04dc-military\/merlin_138667746_0a1c6a9f-f343-4fa1-a8d4-18415bda5c25-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04dc-military\/merlin_138667746_0a1c6a9f-f343-4fa1-a8d4-18415bda5c25-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04dc-military\/merlin_138667746_0a1c6a9f-f343-4fa1-a8d4-18415bda5c25-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1024w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/11\/04\/us\/politics\/04dc-military\/merlin_138667746_0a1c6a9f-f343-4fa1-a8d4-18415bda5c25-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 2048w\" alt=\"A ceremony last year where the names of four Special Forces soldiers killed in Niger were added to a memorial wall at Fort Bragg, N.C.\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-38f84cc2\" class=\"css-1l475rw e1h9rw200\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">After the Niger Ambush, I Trusted the Army to Find Answers. Instead, I Was Punished.<\/span><\/h1>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">It was the best week ever. It was the worst week ever. I welcomed new life, and saw how quickly life can be taken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">On Oct. 2, 2017, my wife, Brooke, gave birth to our second daughter, Eva. During the final months of Brooke\u2019s pregnancy, I was deployed to the West African country of Niger with Third Special Forces Group. I was lucky; my chain of command decided earlier in the year that I would be allowed to fly home for the birth, a decision that reinforced my trust in them. In hindsight, that decision left me grappling with how things could have been different if I had stayed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">While flying out of Niger was logistically very simple, especially compared with my previous deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, the timing was challenging because I was still getting familiar with the demands from recently deploying as a new company commander in charge of teams of Green Berets. Brooke was experiencing early contractions back at home in Fort Bragg, N.C., and there were constant phone calls and deliberations about when I should jump on a plane to be there on time and to maximize my 10 days of paternity leave&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Four of my soldiers, and five of their Nigerien partner force soldiers, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2018\/02\/17\/world\/africa\/niger-ambush-american-soldiers.html?module=inline\">had been killed in an ambush<\/a> by Islamic extremists outside the village of Tongo Tongo in northwestern Niger, near the Mali border. Never before had I felt so helpless.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/04\/magazine\/niger-ambush-army-accountability.html?te=1&#038;nl=at-war&#038;emc=edit_war_20191004?campaign_id=88&#038;instance_id=12832&#038;segment_id=17579&#038;user_id=75336de5acb455a7a2aadc151b13d255&#038;regi_id=85462422\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/04\/magazine\/niger-ambush-army-accountability.html?te=1&#038;nl=at-war&#038;emc=edit_war_20191004?campaign_id=88&#038;instance_id=12832&#038;segment_id=17579&#038;user_id=75336de5acb455a7a2aadc151b13d255&#038;regi_id=85462422<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fsan1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/71644342_1416875738491345_7841618943914541056_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&amp;_nc_oc=AQlqbTOGZkJi5JZaeiTsOH2VVFdJb3gBqjvlA4qQce_tNyp_rPQuWbd-87G4ps364_c&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fsan1-2.fna&amp;oh=5573180efbebcbc49d6cd456235633de&amp;oe=5E3393C5\" alt=\"Image may contain: outdoor\" aria-busy=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"card-title mt-1 mb-0\" style=\"text-align: center;\">LeDuff: Trump By Another Name at Detroit City Hall<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article_photo_item aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dd-res.s3.amazonaws.com\/photos\/trump_38281.jpeg\" alt=\"Featured_trump_38281\" width=\"320px\" data-id=\"38281\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember what happened when it was discovered that Donald Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer paid hush money to a porn star to keep her mouth shut about the president&#8217;s bedside manner? That lawyer, Michael Cohen is doing prison time for, among other things, violating campaign finance law.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here in Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan is being investigated by the city&#8217;s Inspector General for steering money and city resources to his girlfriend&#8217;s maternal health project. When the press asked to inspect records regarding the arrangement, Duggan&#8217;s staffers deleted some of them.<\/p>\n<p>Those records have since been recovered and are now available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/detroitmi.gov\/departments\/law-department\/recovered-myd-emails-0\">city&#8217;s website for free.<\/a> Still, the city is demanding $222,667 to release 400,000 other pages of documents to the press. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And now we get the news this week that Detroit is once again the most violent city in America. That&#8217;s a big deal, a barometer of what is truly going on in the Motor City and what progress, if any, we&#8217;re making. And yet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlinedetroit.com\/articles\/23368\/fbi_data_detroit_remains_most_violent_city_in_u_s\">nearly every local news<\/a> organization ignored the story.<\/p>\n<p>Consider that we&#8217;ve been told year after year by Police Chief James E. Craig that crime in the city was falling at record levels. But when you look at <a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2018\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018\/tables\/table-8\/table-8-state-cuts\/michigan.xls\">the FBI&#8217;s numbers,<\/a> violent crime today is exactly <a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2014\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2014\/tables\/table-8\/table-8-by-state\/Table_8_Offenses_Known_to_Law_Enforcement_by_Michigan_by_City_2014.xls\">what it was in 2014<\/a>, his first full year as chief. The needle hasn&#8217;t moved.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine if this were Washington, and the director of the FBI was faking crime numbers. Imagine if the deputy director of the FBI was sent to prison for accepting bribes. Imagine if the FBI organized crime task force was caught not once \u2013 but twice \u2013 stealing drugs and money from the Mexican drug cartel. But that&#8217;s what happened in the Detroit police department under Chief Craig.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadlinedetroit.com\/articles\/23391\/leduff_trump_by_another_name_at_detroit_city_hall?fbclid=IwAR1A37LSR4t7fbHQsUVg8_NQ491XPHRCF7IMbfMnnzx2oIY0BIh_bGwBAC8\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.deadlinedetroit.com\/articles\/23391\/leduff_trump_by_another_name_at_detroit_city_hall?fbclid=IwAR1A37LSR4t7fbHQsUVg8_NQ491XPHRCF7IMbfMnnzx2oIY0BIh_bGwBAC8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption-processed shareaholic-media-target-hover-state\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/users\/user20544\/shadow.jpg\" width=\"724\" height=\"648\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"node__title managed-node-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8216;Eye-Popping&#8217;: Analysis Shows Top 1% Gained $21 Trillion in Wealth Since 1989 While Bottom Half Lost $900 Billion<\/h1>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The top one percent owns nearly $30 trillion of assets while the bottom half owns less than nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the <a href=\"http:\/\/gabriel-zucman.eu\/uswealth\/\">mountain of statistical evidence<\/a> showing the severity of U.S. inequality, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplespolicyproject.org\/2019\/06\/14\/top-1-up-21-trillion-bottom-50-down-900-billion\/\">analysis<\/a> published Friday found that the top one percent of Americans gained $21 trillion in wealth since 1989 while the bottom 50 percent lost $900 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Bruenig, founder of the left-wing think tank People&#8217;s Policy Project, broke down the Federal Reserve&#8217;s newly released &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalreserve.gov\/releases\/z1\/dataviz\/dfa\/\">Distributive Financial Accounts<\/a>&#8221; data series and found that, overall, &#8220;the top one percent owns nearly $30 trillion of assets while the bottom half owns less than nothing, meaning they have more debts than they have assets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The growth of wealth inequality over the past 30 years, Bruenig found, is &#8220;eye-popping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Between 1989 and 2018, the top one percent increased its total net worth by $21 trillion,&#8221; Bruenig wrote. &#8220;The bottom 50 percent actually saw its net worth decrease by $900 billion over the same period.&#8221;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/06\/14\/eye-popping-analysis-shows-top-1-gained-21-trillion-wealth-1989-while-bottom-half?utm_campaign=shareaholic&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;fbclid=IwAR1_uFRSHfDhE7uOnLxdBoAiDitn5upIlbcW8zohG-3a2uQ_5gLrhPjx2Jw\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.commondreams.org\/news\/2019\/06\/14\/eye-popping-analysis-shows-top-1-gained-21-trillion-wealth-1989-while-bottom-half?utm_campaign=shareaholic&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_source=facebook&#038;fbclid=IwAR1_uFRSHfDhE7uOnLxdBoAiDitn5upIlbcW8zohG-3a2uQ_5gLrhPjx2Jw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/labor411.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ggmce-730x386.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labor411.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ggmce-730x386.jpg 730w, http:\/\/labor411.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ggmce-250x132.jpg 250w, http:\/\/labor411.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ggmce-768x406.jpg 768w, http:\/\/labor411.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ggmce-400x212.jpg 400w, http:\/\/labor411.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ggmce.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">GM Manages To Find $22 Million To Pay CEO As It Closes 5 Plants And Lays Off 15,000 Workers<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cGeneral Motors CEO Mary Barra might be the most unpopular CEO in the United States right now after GM announced it is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moneyandmarkets.com\/gm-slashing-15000-jobs-closing-five-plants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">slashing up to 15,000 jobs<\/a>\u00a0and closing up to five plants in North America.<\/p>\n<p>Barra has been shredded from all sides for the decision, including from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Very disappointed with General Motors and their CEO, Mary Barra, for closing plants in Ohio, Michigan and Maryland. Nothing being closed in Mexico &amp; China. The U.S. saved General Motors, and this is the THANKS we get! We are now looking at cutting all @GMsubsidies, including\u2026 for electric cars. General Motors made a big China bet years ago when they built plants there (and in Mexico) \u2013 don\u2019t think that bet is going to pay off. I am here to protect America\u2019s Workers!\u2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/labor411.org\/411-blog\/gm-manages-to-find-22-million-to-pay-ceo-as-it-closes-5-plants-and-lays-off-15000-workers\/?fbclid=IwAR3ZNE9cICKHWvJ3lVSXzTTZDoZ3n-X4QHU7MewYQkTrwv8qZZG1OEDeJjo\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">labor411.org\/411-blog\/gm-manages-to-find-22-million-to-pay-ceo-as-it-closes-5-plants-and-lays-off-15000-workers\/?fbclid=IwAR3ZNE9cICKHWvJ3lVSXzTTZDoZ3n-X4QHU7MewYQkTrwv8qZZG1OEDeJjo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ford Rouge Complex Historical Footage\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HNblfHUDU0?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<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Manufacturing index falls to lowest level in decade: ISM<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Manufacturing contracted for a second consecutive month in September, falling to its lowest level of activity in a decade, according to the Institute for Supply Management (ISM).<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s production manufacturing index slid to 47.8, down from 49.1 percent in August. Any reading below 50 percent indicates contraction.<\/p>\n<p>New orders, production and employment measures were all in negative territory, while a gauge of supplier deliveries held in positive territory, even though it dipped from the previous month.<\/p>\n<p>Markets slumped on the news, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 185 points, or 0.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Trade was one of the main factors weighing down manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGlobal trade remains the most significant issue, as demonstrated by the contraction in new export orders that began in July 2019. Overall, sentiment this month remains cautious regarding near-term growth,\u201d said ISM Chairman Timothy R. Fiore.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/463823-manufacturing-index-falls-to-lowest-level-in-decade-ism?fbclid=IwAR0Bb2_et2lfgOkV_UQpxmVssdcwM5Butz61EHltgZ9pBa1ZqtnUTZpfCSg\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/463823-manufacturing-index-falls-to-lowest-level-in-decade-ism?fbclid=IwAR0Bb2_et2lfgOkV_UQpxmVssdcwM5Butz61EHltgZ9pBa1ZqtnUTZpfCSg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/72596f8\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/2048x1365+0+0\/resize\/840x560!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fca-times.brightspotcdn.com%2F12%2F0b%2Fd4bbc3916d22373a0d5ff824a36e%2Fsdut-gina-champion-cain-20160906\" alt=\"Gina Champion-Cain\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Receiver in $300M Gina Champion-Cain fraud case uncovers at least $12M to $14M in assets<\/h1>\n<p>A preliminary report by the receiver in the Gina Champion-Cain fraud case reveals a tangled web of more than 60 businesses and properties \u2014 many encumbered by debt and high payroll \u2014 plus dozens of bank accounts, leaving the enterprise with an initial value of $12 million to $14 million.<\/p>\n<p>Court-appointed receiver Krista Freitag, however, cautioned that it so early in the investigative process that the financial assessment could change considerably as she unravels what could be even more business entities and possible third parties who might have aided Champion-Cain in her enterprise.<\/p>\n<p>Freitag issued the report Thursday in connection with her continuing assessment of a now largely defunct business empire that was brought down by a liquor license loan scheme that the Securities and Exchange Commission says defrauded investors of $300 million. The SEC has charged Champion-Cain and her companies \u2014 American National Investments and its subsidiary ANI Development \u2014 with a \u201cmulti-year $300 million scheme\u201d where instead of using investor money to make high-interest loans for individuals seeking alcohol licenses, she directed \u201csignificant amounts of investor funds\u201d to a company she controlled.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/business\/story\/2019-10-04\/receiver-in-300m-gina-champion-cain-fraud-case-uncovers-at-least-12m-to-14m-in-assets\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/business\/story\/2019-10-04\/receiver-in-300m-gina-champion-cain-fraud-case-uncovers-at-least-12m-to-14m-in-assets<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>The Emergence of Fascism as a Popular Mass Movement and <\/u><\/strong><strong><u>The War on Reason<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.s-nbcnews.com\/j\/newscms\/2019_35\/2933596\/190715-jeffrey-epstein-mn-0845_8cd39bd5fb9bb4f2f9642e0ba8cfd97e.fit-760w.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for clinton epstein\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"link-2c1f7a73\" class=\"css-1j5ig2m e1h9rw200\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Mossad&#8217;s Jeffrey Epstein Raked In $200 Million After Legal and Financial Crises (Ruling Depravity File)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s biggest client had deserted him, his money management firm had lost more than $150 million during the financial crisis, and he was a registered sex offender. But after he started a new company with a wildly speculative business plan in 2012, Mr. Epstein had no problem pulling in cash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">His start-up, Southern Trust, reported more than $200 million in revenues over the next five years, according to a review of previously unreported financial statements filed in the Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Despite a name that calls to mind a financial services firm, the fledgling company with a handful of employees said it was developing a DNA data-mining service. Southern Trust was trying to gauge customers\u2019 predisposition to cancer by \u201cbasically organizing mathematical algorithms,\u201d Mr. Epstein told Virgin Islands officials as he sought a lucrative tax break in 2012.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/03\/business\/jeffrey-epstein-southern-trust.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/03\/business\/jeffrey-epstein-southern-trust.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"spotlight aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fsan1-2.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/67117805_765404557195103_1785520906852892672_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&amp;_nc_oc=AQmi6jznrgKvMm5yDqPb7S_bXfIK6Qy5g__cMSBRHi4LHySY00_IjnXivuCQm2DUxv4&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fsan1-2.fna&amp;oh=94dded1960082d5ad96a247e2c16dde9&amp;oe=5E3813C3\" alt=\"Image may contain: 1 person, smiling, text\" aria-busy=\"true\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"Post-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-reactid=\"166\">The Silencing of Kashmir: Arundhati Roy on India, Modi, and Fascism<\/h1>\n<p><u>India\u2019s clampdown on<\/u> the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir is entering its third month, and while the right-wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exerted tight control over the flow of information out of the region, a bleak picture has nonetheless emerged. Thousands have been imprisoned, including political leaders. Movement is tightly restricted. Phone lines have been cut off. Modi appears set on ending Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s special semi-autonomous status and bringing it fully under the control of New Delhi, a move that residents of the Muslim-majority region strongly reject. Arundhati Roy, India\u2019s most famous novelist and a passionate voice for Kashmiri self-determination, joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss the Kashmir crisis and India\u2019s troubling rightward tilt.<\/p>\n<p><b>Arundhati Roy: <\/b>It is a place where you have had people fighting for self-determination for 70 years. They\u2019ve been saying it with their blood. I don\u2019t think they could have been clearer<\/p>\n<p><b>AR: <\/b>Every single person who has a voice at all has been arrested. Anybody who dares to speak up is being picked up, anybody on the street.<\/p>\n<p><b>MH: <\/b>That\u2019s my very special guest today. Joining me from her home in New Delhi, the acclaimed, award-winning, novelist, essayist, activist, environmentalist, antiwar campaigner Arundhati Roy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll ask her about the bromance between Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and U.S. president Donald Trump, about why the world doesn\u2019t seem to give a damn about the horrific situation in Kashmir, and about how Kashmiris are trying not just to survive but to resist.<\/p>\n<p>On August 5th, the government of India, under the prime ministership of Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, launched a massive military clampdown in the long-disputed Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir. Tourists were ordered out, movement for locals was restricted, communications with the outside world \u2014 landlines, cellphones, the internet \u2014 was cut off.<\/p>\n<p>There were curfews, checkpoints, night raids, attacks on peaceful protesters by Indian security forces. The detention without trial of up to 4,000 Kashmiris \u2013 including three former chief ministers of the state.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/10\/03\/deconstructed-podcast-kashmir-india-arundhati-roy\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">theintercept.com\/2019\/10\/03\/deconstructed-podcast-kashmir-india-arundhati-roy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hong-Kong-Cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24255\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hong-Kong-Cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hong-Kong-Cartoon.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hong-Kong-Cartoon-150x102.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Hong-Kong-Cartoon-500x341.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/10\/03\/the-new-york-times-called-a-famous-cartoonist-an-anti-semite-repeatedly-they-didnt-ask-him-for-comment\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The New York Times Called a Famous Cartoonist an Anti-Semite. Repeatedly. They Didn\u2019t Ask Him for Comment.<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"post_author_intro\">by<\/span> <span class=\"post_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/author\/j2lk4jrlkqajsdlvj\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ted Rall<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Earlier this year the Portuguese cartoonist Ant\u00f3nio Moreira Antunes drew one of the most controversial political cartoons in history. His cartoon about U.S.-Israeli relations sparked so much controversy that\u00a0<em>The New York Times,\u00a0<\/em>whose international edition published it in April, decided to fire its two staff cartoonists, neither of whom had anything to do with it. Then the\u00a0<em>Times<\/em>\u00a0permanently banned all editorial cartooning.<\/p>\n<p>Antunes took the most flak from the <em>Times<\/em>\u00a0itself, as it furiously backpedaled from its own editorial decision to publish his cartoon. In five news stories and editorials, the Newspaper of Record unreservedly described Antunes\u2019 cartoon as anti-Semitic. American media outlets followed the\u00a0<em>Times\u2019\u00a0<\/em>lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not anti-Semitic, I\u2019m anti-Zionist,\u201d Antunes told me. \u201cIn the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I am in favor of two countries and I am against all annexations made by Israel.\u201d The <em>Times<\/em> censored Antunes\u2019 side of the story from its readers.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/10\/03\/the-new-york-times-called-a-famous-cartoonist-an-anti-semite-repeatedly-they-didnt-ask-him-for-comment\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/10\/03\/the-new-york-times-called-a-famous-cartoonist-an-anti-semite-repeatedly-they-didnt-ask-him-for-comment\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>Solidarity for Never<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/10\/02\/PDTN\/20e26b87-ac02-4807-90af-ffc0da3a76fb-Best_UAW_ABCD.jpg?width=540&amp;height=&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Sources helped decipher pseudonyms used by the government to identify four current and former UAW officials implicated in an alleged embezzlement scheme. They are (clockwise): Gary Jones, aka &quot;UAW Official A&quot;; Dennis Williams, aka &quot;UAW Official B&quot;; Danny Trull, aka &quot;UAW Official C&quot;, and Amy Loasching, aka &quot;UAW Official D.&quot;\" width=\"540\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/10\/02\/PDTN\/20e26b87-ac02-4807-90af-ffc0da3a76fb-Best_UAW_ABCD.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/10\/02\/PDTN\/20e26b87-ac02-4807-90af-ffc0da3a76fb-Best_UAW_ABCD.jpg?width=400&amp;height=400\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">UAW leaders help feds investigate president Gary Jones<\/h1>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">\u00a0A top deputy to United Auto Workers President Gary Jones and one of the union&#8217;s most powerful officers are helping federal prosecutors build a criminal case against the labor leader for embezzling union funds, The Detroit News has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Former deputy Danny Trull and retired UAW Secretary\/Treasurer Gary Casteel have met with investigators and provided an insider&#8217;s view of an alleged conspiracy and cover-up involving more than $1 million spent on personal luxuries, according to federal court records and six sources familiar with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The government is building its case at the same time that 46,000 UAW members are striking General Motors Co. nationwide. The corruption investigation\u00a0\u2014 marked by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2019\/08\/28\/fbi-raids-president-jones-house-bribery-probe-explodes-into-view\/2139985001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">federal raids<\/a> and criminal charges against 11 people linked to the UAW and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV\u00a0\u2014 raises questions about whether\u00a0Jones and the union&#8217;s senior leadership can sell a new contract to the UAW-GM rank-and-file.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Trull and Casteel join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2019\/09\/13\/uaw-boss-gets-prison-break-helping-feds-probe-bribery-scandal\/2311953001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">a team of former UAW officials<\/a> who have cooperated with the investigation into labor law crimes, kickbacks, bribes, and embezzlement and helped prosecutors secure nine convictions.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2019\/10\/03\/feds-shred-uaw-solidarity-while-targeting-president-gary-jones\/2427048001\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/2019\/10\/03\/feds-shred-uaw-solidarity-while-targeting-president-gary-jones\/2427048001\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/08\/28\/PDTN\/f17d36f7-0714-4103-835e-bc65c5849d57-Pearson_mug.jpg?width=180&amp;height=240&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Vance Pearson\" width=\"180\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/08\/28\/PDTN\/f17d36f7-0714-4103-835e-bc65c5849d57-Pearson_mug.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/08\/28\/PDTN\/f17d36f7-0714-4103-835e-bc65c5849d57-Pearson_mug.jpg?width=284&amp;height=355\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">GM strike, day 20: UAW director charged in federal probe put on leave<\/h1>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">A United Auto Workers\u00a0regional director charged in a widening federal union corruption investigation has been placed on leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Vance Pearson, a member of the union&#8217;s international executive board and the director of UAW Region 5, began leave on Friday, according to a statement from the UAW\u00a0provided to the Detroit Free Press, which first reported the news. Pearson was charged last month with\u00a0embezzling union funds, mail and wire fraud, and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">UAW spokesman Brian Rothenberg declined to comment. Pearson&#8217;s attorney did not immediately respond.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/general-motors\/2019\/10\/05\/gm-strike-day-20\/3879242002\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/general-motors\/2019\/10\/05\/gm-strike-day-20\/3879242002\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/10\/04\/PDTN\/2fb3ab8b-84cd-44e6-9f62-42ffc0283b83-100419-tm-GM_HQ_Strikers028.JPG?width=540&amp;height=&amp;fit=bounds&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"UAW members picket in front of GM's headquarters at the Renaissance Center on Friday.\" width=\"540\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/10\/04\/PDTN\/2fb3ab8b-84cd-44e6-9f62-42ffc0283b83-100419-tm-GM_HQ_Strikers028.JPG\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/10\/04\/PDTN\/2fb3ab8b-84cd-44e6-9f62-42ffc0283b83-100419-tm-GM_HQ_Strikers028.JPG?width=500&amp;height=310\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ex-UAW communications directors call for union&#8217;s entire executive board to resign (fits of false nostalgia)<\/h1>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">Two former communications\u00a0directors for the United Auto Workers are\u00a0calling for &#8220;radical remediation&#8221; of the international union\u00a0amid a widening federal corruption probe that reaches the highest levels of the organization&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">The Rev. Peter Laarman, who ran the union&#8217;s public relations department from 1985 to 1990, and Frank Joyce, who ran it from 1990 to 2002, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2019\/10\/04\/amid-corruption-allegations-uaw-needs-fresh-start\/3863727002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-track-label=\"inline|intext|n\/a\">an op-ed for\u00a0the Detroit Free Press<\/a> on Friday night, broke what they called an &#8220;institutional code of silence&#8221; to give a scathing rebuke of the UAW leadership for abandoning the practices of the formerly &#8220;squeaky-clean organization built by the union\u2019s earlier generations.&#8221; They called for the resignations of the UAW&#8217;s entire international executive board and the assistance of the Canadian auto workers union to help reconstitute the leadership.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/general-motors\/2019\/10\/04\/former-uaw-communication-directors-call-resignation-union-board\/3870952002\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detroitnews.com\/story\/business\/autos\/general-motors\/2019\/10\/04\/former-uaw-communication-directors-call-resignation-union-board\/3870952002\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"asset-headline speakable-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Labor Pains<\/h1>\n<p><em><strong>In Michigan, Michael Grimes, former senior official in the General Motors Department of the United Auto Workers International Union (UAW), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/olms\/regs\/compliance\/enforce_2019.htm\">pleaded guilty to one count<\/a> of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Michigan, Michael Grimes, former senior official in the General Motors Department of the United Auto Workers International Union (UAW), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/olms\/regs\/compliance\/enforce_2019.htm\">pleaded guilty to one count<\/a> of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>In Iowa, Theodore E. Watson, former business manager for Insulators Local 74, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/olms\/regs\/compliance\/enforce_2019.htm\">sentenced to 18 months<\/a> in prison followed by three years of supervised probation.\u00a0 Watson was also ordered to pay restitution of $125,443.\u00a0 On April 15, 2019, Watson pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement and one count of mail fraud.<\/p>\n<p>In Pennsylvania, Tony J. Liesenfeld, former President and Secretary-Treasurer of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/olms\/regs\/compliance\/enforce_2019.htm\">charged in a one-count<\/a> information with wire fraud in the amount of at least $77,716.<\/p>\n<p>In the District of Columbia, Audonus Duplessis, former President of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 2463, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/olms\/regs\/compliance\/enforce_2019.htm\">pleaded guilty to one count<\/a> of interstate transportation of stolen property for transporting $11,300 of stolen union funds from Washington, D.C. to Virginia to purchase a Dodge Charger for his personal use.\u00a0 The total embezzlement by Duplessis was more than $80,000.<\/p>\n<p>In Maryland, Annette Jones, former President of American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 331, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/olms\/regs\/compliance\/enforce_2019.htm\">sentenced to two years<\/a> in prison followed by three years of supervised probation.\u00a0 Jones was also ordered to pay restitution of $82,180. \u00a0On May 7, 2019, Jones pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, Frank Cognetta, former Secretary-Treasurer of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1-D, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/olms\/regs\/compliance\/enforce_2019.htm\">sentenced to two years<\/a> in prison followed by three years of supervised release. On March 11, 2019, Cognetta pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy. (Labor Racket weekly)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>The fight that created the UAW racket today:<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Great Sit-Down - Yesterday&#039;s Witness in America\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E2Py_vNt4fc?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>Spy versus Spy<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has written a memoir to be released in Sep\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r_nLgwVMxVs?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<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/10\/04\/impeachment-brought-to-you-by-the-cia\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Impeachment, Brought to You by the CIA<\/a><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"post_author_intro\">by<\/span> <span class=\"post_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/author\/3abre\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rob Urie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For the first time in half a century, the political left in the U.S. is ascendant. Bernie Sanders is holding his own in the primaries. A group of well-considered programs to save the environment and provide good jobs and health care for all is gaining political traction. And the need is dire. The climate is warming, the seas are polluted and fished out and industrial agriculture threatens to end life on the planet. So, it\u2019s time to change the subject?<\/p>\n<p>Despite occasional warm gas passed in a leftish direction, establishment Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/02\/05\/nancy-pelosi-medicare-for-all\/\">never had any intention of allowing a left political program<\/a> to move forward. After four decades of asserting that they \u2018believe\u2019 climate science, the moment has arrived when the only political path forward is to take on their donors. Whatever your assessment of their motives, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer have no intention of doing this.<\/p>\n<p>Following the electoral fiasco of 2016, the DNC defended itself in court by arguing that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2019\/08\/reminder-dnc-lawyers-to-court-we-do-not-owe-voters-an-impartial-or-evenhanded-primary-election.html\">it has no obligation to provide a fair and open primary<\/a>. In fact, the DNC ran a disinformation campaign against Bernie Sanders, used Superdelegates to overturn primary results, miscounted and misplaced ballots in crucial state primaries and violated its own charter in the allocation of funds to the candidates. In other words, they stole the primary election.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/10\/04\/impeachment-brought-to-you-by-the-cia\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/10\/04\/impeachment-brought-to-you-by-the-cia\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>The Magical Mystery Tour<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/e9b075c\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5184x3456+0+0\/resize\/840x560!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fca-times.brightspotcdn.com%2F46%2Fc7%2Ff24fdb0d46d791469a23106ba096%2Fapphoto-iran-self-immolation2.JPG\" alt=\"APphoto_Iran Self Immolation\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Dying after setting herself on fire, \u201cBlue Girl\u201d spotlights Iran\u2019s women\u2019s rights movement<\/h1>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body RichTextBody\">\n<p>Sahar Khodayari understood the law: Women in Iran are forbidden to enter sports stadiums. But the 29-year-old wanted to watch a soccer match \u2014 a benign activity hundreds of thousands of women around the world enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>So, in March when her favorite team was playing, Khodayari did what other Iranian women have done in order to watch live sports events: She disguised herself as a man. Donning a blue wig and long overcoat, Khodayari made her way toward Tehran\u2019s Azadi Stadium, but she never made it inside. A security guard caught her and arrested her. When she found out in early September that she faced six months in prison, Khodayari set herself on fire outside the courthouse where she had been summoned. She died in a Tehran hospital less than two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Khodayari\u2019s death has made her the face of a social media campaign pressuring authorities to officially end their long-running ban on females entering stadiums. To many, the young woman has also become a symbol of the Islamic Republic\u2019s restrictive laws governing women. Using the hashtag \u062a\u0627_\u0646\u06cc\u0627\u062f_\u0646\u0645\u06cc\u0631\u0645#, which means \u201cuntil she comes I won\u2019t go,\u201d Iranians have flooded social networking sites with messages of outrage, heartache and despair.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2019-10-04\/death-of-irans-blue-girl-casts-spotlight-on-iranian-women-and-a-growing-movement-for-equality\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2019-10-04\/death-of-irans-blue-girl-casts-spotlight-on-iranian-women-and-a-growing-movement-for-equality<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment- size- wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/deadstate.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-28-at-10.28.44-PM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1036px) 100vw, 1036px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deadstate.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-28-at-10.28.44-PM.png 1036w, https:\/\/deadstate.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-28-at-10.28.44-PM-300x210.png 300w, https:\/\/deadstate.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-28-at-10.28.44-PM-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/deadstate.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-28-at-10.28.44-PM-1024x716.png 1024w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1036\" height=\"724\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title entry-title left\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Preacher stops to check his phone while speaking in tongues<\/h1>\n<div id=\"proper-ad-deadstate_content_1\">\n<div id=\"proper-ad-deadstate_content_1\">\n<div id=\"proper-ad-deadstate_content_1\">\n<p>as a kid, my religious parents sometimes took us to huge events put on by a Catholic charismatic movement called Southern California Renewal Communities (SCRC). During the services held in large stadiums in Los Angeles attended by thousands of people, there were moments when the entire crowd would start speaking in tongues. I remember chills running up and down my body as the huge chorus of voices would harmonize in a massive, yet whispered Middle Eastern-ish cadence.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I think people who speak in tongues are either deluded or con artists, but that doesn\u2019t change the beautiful image of that memory \u2014 which makes me feel bad for the kids who have to sit through a service put on by Preacher <strong>Perry Stone<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadstate.org\/preacher-stops-to-check-his-phone-while-speaking-in-tongues\/?fbclid=IwAR2g52CoRq3BeOq8QdD8QtOoAId6xTVb_EvUUDF8wwZuUVBij0v5MhexSjw\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">deadstate.org\/preacher-stops-to-check-his-phone-while-speaking-in-tongues\/?fbclid=IwAR2g52CoRq3BeOq8QdD8QtOoAId6xTVb_EvUUDF8wwZuUVBij0v5MhexSjw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/resizer\/LDT6365sZDuU8Gt60YlC5VkwR70=\/325x0\/smart\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-advancelocal.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6YXZQ75UNVEFRG22LGHJSWGUH4.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 761px) 700px, (min-width: 360px) 600px, 325px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/resizer\/LDT6365sZDuU8Gt60YlC5VkwR70=\/325x0\/smart\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-advancelocal.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6YXZQ75UNVEFRG22LGHJSWGUH4.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/resizer\/1ZtPQwscC71kqaEtKqSQJTGRutY=\/700x0\/smart\/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-advancelocal.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/6YXZQ75UNVEFRG22LGHJSWGUH4.jpg 700w\" alt=\"Lawrence M. Ventline\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h1 class=\"headline-basic\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Former priest charged with indecent exposure in Huron County<\/h1>\n<p id=\"DFC5EA6QNRAR3LKSKI5ABMVVDI\" class=\"article__paragraph--left\">A former Catholic priest restricted from public ministry by the Archdiocese of Detroit after a sexual abuse complaint is now facing a criminal charge of indecent exposure.<\/p>\n<p id=\"2BLAYK4TTJBNTGOUICO4Q4XYPY\" class=\"article__paragraph--left\">The early morning of Aug. 26, 70-year-old Lawrence M. Ventline entered Murphy\u2019s Bakery, 110 W. Huron Road in Bad Axe, and exposed his genitals, according to Police Chief David W. Rothe. Police were notified the next day.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/saginaw-bay-city\/2019\/10\/former-priest-charged-with-indecent-exposure-in-huron-county.html?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_campaign=mlivedotcom_sf&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;fbclid=IwAR1pwgiYUU-5N3jutAsi4eDlRo63neHUr1_UG76zfwwZgyTTl3nrgkje3fI\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.mlive.com\/news\/saginaw-bay-city\/2019\/10\/former-priest-charged-with-indecent-exposure-in-huron-county.html?utm_source=facebook&#038;utm_campaign=mlivedotcom_sf&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;fbclid=IwAR1pwgiYUU-5N3jutAsi4eDlRo63neHUr1_UG76zfwwZgyTTl3nrgkje3fI<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>The Best and Worst Things in the History of the World<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SonyClassics\/videos\/379516776283439\/?t=15\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/SonyClassics\/videos\/379516776283439\/?t=15<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-item__title \" style=\"text-align: center;\">The Las Vegas Shooter, Two Years Later<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-item__thumbnail-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/paddockpalast.jpg\" alt=\"The Las Vegas Shooter, Two Years Later\" width=\"\" height=\"446\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item__header\">\n<figure class=\"article-item__thumbnail article-item__caption-alignleft\"><figcaption>Greg Palast, left, at 11 years old, and Steve Paddock in elementary school in 1964. <small>(Photos courtesy of Greg Palast)<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-item__content am2-content\">\n<p>Paddock. Palast. We sat next to each other at Fernangeles Elementary School, and later at Poly High in Sun Valley, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Steve was a chess prodigy and a math whiz.<\/p>\n<p>He finally got to use his extraordinary gift to do complex ballistics calculations that allowed him to murder 58 people in Las Vegas in just minutes from a distant hotel window. That was two years ago this week.<\/p>\n<p>Steve should have gone to MIT, to Stanford. He didn\u2019t. For that, he needed Advanced Placement calculus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item__content am2-content\">\n<p>If you went to \u201cBevvie\u201d\u2014Beverly Hills High\u2014you could take AP calculus. Or AP French. We didn\u2019t have AP calculus. We didn\u2019t have AP French. We weren\u2019t Placed, and we didn\u2019t Advance.<\/p>\n<p>According to a state investigation led by Tom Hayden, our high school was situated on top of a toxic dump site. No surprise there.<\/p>\n<p>In Sun Valley, Steve and I were required to take classes called \u201celectrical shop\u201d and \u201cmetal shop\u201d so we would be trained to man the drill presses at the local General Motors plant. Or do tool-and-dye cutting to make refrigerator handles at GM, where they assembled Frigidaire refrigerators and Chevys.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/articles\/the-las-vegas-shooter-two-years-later\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.truthdig.com\/articles\/the-las-vegas-shooter-two-years-later\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, USA  [Amazing Places 4K]\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GOGbVBF2qSA?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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TRump-Nixon-Snke-Best-worst.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24277\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TRump-Nixon-Snke-Best-worst.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TRump-Nixon-Snke-Best-worst.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TRump-Nixon-Snke-Best-worst-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/TRump-Nixon-Snke-Best-worst-500x392.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><u>So Long<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGFAUthMo0E\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGFAUthMo0E<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-1vkm6nb ehdk2mb0\">\n<h1 id=\"link-198f4085\" class=\"css-fnr6md e1h9rw200\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"balancedHeadline\">Overlooked No More: Robert Johnson, Bluesman Whose Life Was a Riddle<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"css-1ifw933 e1wiw3jv0\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Johnson gained little notice in his life, but his songs \u2014 quoted by the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and Led Zeppelin \u2014 helped ignite rock \u2018n\u2019 roll.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"css-11cwn6f aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/09\/30\/obituaries\/30overlooked-johnson1\/00overlooked-johnson1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp&amp;disable=upscale\" sizes=\"((min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1004px)) 84vw, (min-width: 1005px) 60vw, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/09\/30\/obituaries\/30overlooked-johnson1\/00overlooked-johnson1-articleLarge.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 600w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/09\/30\/obituaries\/30overlooked-johnson1\/00overlooked-johnson1-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 774w,https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2019\/09\/30\/obituaries\/30overlooked-johnson1\/00overlooked-johnson1-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&amp;auto=webp 1548w\" alt=\"A photo booth portrait of the blues musician Robert Johnson. It was taken around 1930 and is one of two confirmed photographs of him.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">Little about the life Robert Leroy Johnson lived in his brief 27 years, from approximately May 1911 until he died mysteriously in 1938, was documented. A birth certificate, if he had one, has never been found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">What is known can be summarized on a postcard: He is thought to have been born out of wedlock in May 1911 in Mississippi and raised there. School and census records indicated he lived for stretches in Tennessee and Arkansas. He took up guitar at a young age and became a traveling musician, eventually glimpsing the bustle of New York City. But he died in Mississippi, with just over two dozen little-noticed recorded songs to his name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AUyKnEiv70Y\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">youtu.be\/AUyKnEiv70Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">And yet, in the late 20th century, the advent of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll would turn Johnson into a figure of legend. Decades after his death, he became one of the most famous guitarists who had ever lived, hailed as a lost prophet who, the dubious story goes, sold his soul to the devil and epitomized Mississippi Delta blues in the bargain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">In the late 1960s, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sf11p3hfZl0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Rolling Stones<\/a>, <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PE9HvSdcaL4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eric Clapton<\/a> and <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zyhu2ysqKGk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Led Zeppelin<\/a> covered or adapted Johnson\u2019s songs in tribute.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/25\/obituaries\/robert-johnson-overlooked.html?fbclid=IwAR13xYhe2YAmj_d7kgm9U-H3ihDTC7wNXbA4prrTCyH1kZaAmrexrvWHus8\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/25\/obituaries\/robert-johnson-overlooked.html?fbclid=IwAR13xYhe2YAmj_d7kgm9U-H3ihDTC7wNXbA4prrTCyH1kZaAmrexrvWHus8<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4_Ql7ncX978\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4_Ql7ncX978<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Say Fight Back! &nbsp; CPS strike: Teachers and support staff, along with parks workers, will all strike on Oct. 17 if no contract deals reached The Chicago Teachers Union, school support staff and Park District workers will all go on strike together on Oct. 17 if they can\u2019t reach contract deals by then. 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