{"id":24525,"date":"2019-12-14T23:48:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T07:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=24525"},"modified":"2019-12-14T23:48:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T07:48:57","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-angry-sock-puppet-show-masks-endless-war-and-austerity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-angry-sock-puppet-show-masks-endless-war-and-austerity\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Angry Sock Puppet Show Masks Endless War and Austerity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Fury in France<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Could the latest round of strikes spell the beginning of the end for Emmanuel Macron?<\/p>\n

France is paralyzed. Since a general strike began on Thursday, planes have been grounded, mail delivery stopped and schools closed, and trains remain in their depots. Even lawyers are staying home. Some 800,000 people took to the street across the country last Thursday, and another major demonstration is planned for today as the strike continues. As one participant put it to the French newspaper Mediapart<\/a>, the mass mobilizations are meant as a rebuke to \u201cMacron and his world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The uprising is in response to President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s proposal to drastically reform France\u2019s pension system. It\u2019s not the first major labor action of Mr. Macron\u2019s presidency: Similar mobilizations followed his plan to revise labor protections in late 2017<\/a>, as well as his cuts to the national rail service and overhaul of university admissions last spring. But this looks to be the largest. Will it decisively change France\u2019s political landscape?<\/p>\n

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With such a broad turnout, the labor movement believes it may achieve a repeat of the general strike of 1995, which shut down the country for weeks and forced President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Alain Jupp\u00e9 to abandon a similar pension reform. Union leaders hope that the threat of an economic standstill lasting through the Christmas holidays will give the government no choice but to capitulate and at the same time seriously weaken Mr. Macron\u2019s credibility through the remainder of his presidency.<\/p>\n

Mr. Macron \u2014 who has long thought himself uniquely capable of succeeding where his predecessors failed \u2014 is hoping to weather the storm once again. Despite the frequency of strikes and protests throughout his time in office, opposition parties have failed to convert this anger into a serious political challenge.\u00a0 www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/10\/opinion\/france-strike-macron.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Last Straw as Teachers in France Join Nationwide Strike<\/h1>\n

One of the many groups taking part in the massive general strike in France this week, and joining forces with the year-long Yellow Jackets movement, are the country\u2019s public school teachers. The \u201ccoup de gr\u00e2ce\u201d for teachers was the Macron administration\u2019s proposed teacher pension reform, in which retirement payments would be calculated based upon salaries earned throughout a teacher\u2019s career rather than their last paychecks.<\/p>\n

In other words, a teacher\u2019s earnings as a new graduate and during the years they gained experience and possibly pursued advanced training or specializations would carry equal weight in calculating the amount they would receive upon retiring from service in public education years and decades later.<\/p>\n

One teacher\u2019s union put it this way<\/a>. A retiree with a 40 year career in teaching might have finally attained a salary of 3,200 euros a month. Right now, they would retire with 2,281 euros a month, but after the reforms, that would decrease to 1,803 euros.<\/p>\n

All in all, it\u2019s a disingenuous way for a neo-liberal government to claw back the final thanks offered to yet another group of civil servants in the name of budgets and saving costs. But it is also another example of neoliberalism\u2019s war on public education.\u00a0\u00a0 www.commondreams.org\/views\/2019\/12\/10\/last-straw-teachers-france-join-nationwide-strike?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3lJcqMsLALkhxDk-paXEicsRGtfcSBRbpDQJbBbre74tEc7Ls-LK0N4d0<\/a><\/p>\n

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‘We Are Unstoppable, Another World is Possible!’: Young Climate Activists Storm COP 25 Stage<\/h3>\n
Protesters with Fridays for Future demand world leaders at the global climate summit urgently address the planetary emergency.<\/em><\/div>\n
Young activists took over and occupied the main stage at the COP 25 climate conference in Madrid, Spain Wednesday and demanded world leaders commit to far more ambitious action to address the ecological emergency.<\/div>\n
“Nobody has ever done an action like this before,”\u00a0said<\/a> youth climate striker Dylan Hamilton of Scotland, “the times are changing.”\u00a0\u00a0 portside.org\/2019-12-11\/we-are-unstoppable-another-world-possible-young-climate-activists-storm-cop-25-stage<\/a><\/div>\n
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Grand jury calls out \u2018data manipulation\u2019 in Miami-Dade, Broward school districts<\/h3>\n
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A scathing Florida grand jury interim report released Wednesday said the brazen and continued violation of state laws passed in response to the Parkland shooting was so severe that local school officials needed to be more severely penalized.<\/p>\n

\u201cSchool district noncompliance with state-level laws has been a persistent problem,\u201d the report stated. \u201cIt is clear to us that, once our terms end and the threat of public shaming or indictment is no longer on the table, compliance will never be satisfactory.\u201d<\/p>\n

The grand jury recommended that tougher penalties could include the withholding of state money, criminal charges and the removal of superintendents, administrators or school board members.<\/p>\n

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…The grand jury asserted that the districts are intentionally manipulating data they report to the state, playing games with the requirement that all campuses have armed security and excluding charter schools out of school safety planning, creating \u201cunnecessary chaos.\u201dIt specifically called out Miami-Dade and Broward school districts for manipulating discipline data in the School Environmental Safety Incident Reporting System, known as SESIR.<\/p>\n

The report cited the Broward Teachers Union\u2019s school safety and discipline survey of 2019, \u201cwhere a number of teachers describe reporting SESIR-eligible incidents perpetrated by students in their classrooms to administrators, only to later have those same students returned to their classes without being disciplined at all, or in some cases, after some sort of \u2018conference.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEven more troubling are the instances where teachers claim to have referred students for discipline, only to be told by administrators to modify their own conduct to curtail the student\u2019s behavior, or worse, to be told that the perpetrator cannot be disciplined because of a disability, and thus, is allowed to remain in class without consequence and continue disrupting the learning environment of the other students,\u201d the report read.\u00a0\u00a0 Read more here: www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article238322818.html?fbclid=IwAR3yNs9KoeJxay-NKxxf_ZlotXWe6eF-sUFPkO0NXnzVELmvI3BcCSZ6i30#storylink=cpy<\/a><\/p>\n

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Detroit teacher: I’ll never forget day my students saw mutilated body on way to school<\/h1>\n

I remember that morning when a group of second-graders was walking to Hutchinson Elementary-Middle school. Two of those students were mine.<\/p>\n

As they were walking, they saw a large, black garbage bag in the middle of the street. Suddenly, they realized that a hand was hanging out of the bag. When the students came to school, they told the principal about the bag in the street with the mutilated body. The district sent counselors to talk to the students about what they saw. They didn\u2019t want the students to discuss the incident with other students. But they reassured the students that they could talk to any adult in the building if they needed to.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

When my students came to class, they told me what happened. I was so hurt and fearful for them to have seen such a horrifying sight. I didn\u2019t know what to do or how I could help them. The only thing that I could do was listen. I remember trying to maintain my regular routine as much as possible.<\/p>\n

I tried my best to be calm and not show any anxiety. I had to teach as if nothing had happened. But was that the right thing to do?\u00a0\u00a0 www.freep.com\/in-depth\/news\/columnists\/rochelle-riley\/2019\/12\/14\/detroit-teacher-my-students-saw-mutilated-body-way-school\/3740008002\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Morning Report: San Diego Unified Is Now Eyeing Layoffs<\/h1>\n

San Diego Unified is again considering layoffs<\/a> to help close a $70 million budget hole expected next year, reports VOSD\u2019s Ashly McGlone.<\/p>\n

Just two months ago, the district was projecting a $58 million deficit, but officials didn\u2019t explain what caused the budget hole to shoot up by $12 million, and did not respond to questions about the rise.<\/p>\n

More budget cut details will emerge in coming months, but in a presentation to the district\u2019s school board trustees on Tuesday\u2019s night, the district laid out \u201cstrategic layoffs of certificated\/classified as needed in March\u201d as a \u201cpotential shift\u201d and listed a hiring freeze, spending freeze and program shifts among solutions.<\/p>\n

Across-the-border raises for the district\u2019s 10,500 employees blew up the district\u2019s balanced budget, creating a big new structural deficit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When the district was forced to make cuts in 2017, principals and other administrators said the cuts caused chaos in their schools<\/a>. Clerical positions went vacant, the district slashed custodial staff and special education staffing dipped so low<\/a> that parents feared for their students\u2019 safety<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 www.voiceofsandiego.org\/topics\/news\/morning-report-san-diego-unified-is-now-eyeing-layoffs\/?utm_source=Voice+of+San+Diego+Master+List&utm_campaign=f69e4877a2-Morning_Report&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c2357fd0a3-f69e4877a2-81862829&goal=0_c2357fd0a3-f69e4877a2-81862829<\/a><\/p>\n

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Violent kids take over Florida\u2019s classrooms, and they have the law on their side<\/h1>\n

O<\/span>ut of the blue, the student balled his fists and punched his teacher in the face, pummeling her until she was dazed and crying, a police report says.<\/p>\n

By the time a calm returned to Northeast High in Oakland Park, two teachers and an aide were in ambulances. The special needs student wasn\u2019t arrested because he \u201ccannot tell the difference between right and wrong behaviors,\u201d a police sergeant wrote in his report.<\/p>\n

Three days later, the teen was back on campus.<\/p>\n

In school after school, students are erupting with violence. They stab or beat teachers. They throw furniture. They stalk and attack classmates, turning schoolrooms into danger zones where the rights of violent students with disabilities trump all others.<\/p>\n

In an eight-month investigation, the South Florida Sun Sentinel found that a sweeping push for \u201cinclusion\u201d enables unstable children to attend regular classes even though school districts severely lack the support staff to manage them.<\/p>\n

State and federal laws guarantee those students a spot in regular classrooms until they seriously harm or maim others. Even threatening to shoot classmates is not a lawful reason to expel<\/b> the child.\u00a0\u00a0 projects.sun-sentinel.com\/teenage-time-bombs\/how-schools-manage-violent-kids\/?disable-dss&fbclid=IwAR29xK0OolvPaSeQ77aYMxW1F5BsnIBFLvHk3b8tLzTytu4rJJ2_jGuPmOY<\/a><\/p>\n

University of California Is Sued Over Use of SAT and ACT in Admissions<\/span><\/h1>\n
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A coalition of students, advocacy groups and a largely black and Hispanic California school district filed suit against the University of California system on Tuesday to stop it from using standardized test scores in its admissions. The move, if successful, could shake up the testing industry and radically reshape college admissions.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs say the college entrance tests, the SAT and ACT, are biased against poor and mainly black and Hispanic students. By basing admissions decisions on those tests, they say, the system illegally discriminates against applicants on the basis of their race, wealth and disability, and denies them equal protection under the California Constitution.<\/p>\n

They argue that the use of standardized tests<\/a> has led to the creation of a vast test-prep industry<\/a> that privileges affluent families who can afford to send their children to tutoring. Other measures \u2014 like grades and teacher recommendations \u2014 would provide a fairer way of judging students, the plaintiffs say.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is illegal wealth and race discrimination that damages the futures of tens of thousands of deserving students each year, who could excel at U.C. campuses of their choice,\u201d said Mark Rosenbaum, directing attorney at the nonprofit Public Counsel, which is representing some of the plaintiffs.\u00a0\u00a0 www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/10\/us\/sat-act-uc-lawsuit.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Afghanistan war metrics were manipulated to highlight battlefield success, according to bombshell WaPo report<\/h1>\n
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America\u2019s longest war continues to drag on as U.S. forces are amid one of its heaviest bombing campaigns since the start of the conflict 18 years ago as Washington seeks to force the Taliban into a settled peace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But in the backdrop, war metrics that have been used to push positive public sentiment and stay the course in a war U.S. officials have acknowledged as unwinnable were manipulated to tout successes and emphasize particular strategies were moving in the right direction, according to a an explosive story from the Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In documents obtained through a government records request by the Washington Post, a senior National Security Council official said the Obama administration and Pentagon pushed metrics that portrayed the 2009 decision to surge 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in an inaccurately positive light.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt was impossible to create good metrics. We tried using troop numbers trained, violence levels, control of territory and none of it painted an accurate picture,\u201d the NSC official said in a 2016 government interview, according to the Washington Post\u2019s government documents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe metrics were always manipulated for the duration of the war,” t<\/strong><\/em>he NSC official said, the Washington Post reported….<\/p>\n

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Sopko told the Washington Post that the documents it obtained showed \u201cthe American people have constantly been lied to\u201d about the state and progress of the conflict.\u00a0\u00a0 www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/12\/09\/afghanistan-war-metrics-were-manipulated-to-highlight-battlefield-success-according-to-bombshell-wapo-report\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Congress Learns Pentagon Wasted $1 Trillion, Promptly Gives It Bigger Budget<\/h1>\n

Here\u2019s a fun little thought experiment: Imagine a \u201cbig government\u201d bureaucracy embarked on a wildly ambitious project of social engineering \u2014 only to discover, almost immediately, that it had little hope of meeting its stated objectives. Reluctant to admit defeat, or jeopardize funding for its endeavors, this federal agency proceeded to deliberately mislead the public about how badly its project was going, and the likelihood of its ultimate success. Over an 18-year-period, these pointy-headed bureaucrats and their allied elected officials conspired to shovel roughly $1 trillion of taxpayer money into an initiative that exacerbated the very problems it purported to solve \u2014 and got 2,300 Americans killed in the process!<\/p>\n

Now imagine that a major newspaper published a bombshell report meticulously documenting this bureaucracy\u2019s conscious efforts to mislead the American people whom it claimed to serve, so as to ensure that it could carry on squandering our blood and treasure with impunity.<\/p>\n

Would Congress reward that bureaucracy with a $22 billion budget increase hours later, with self-identified \u201csmall government\u201d conservatives leading the call?<\/p>\n

This week, we learned that the answer is \u201cof course.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Washington Post<\/em> published<\/a> \u201cThe Afghanistan Papers,\u201d thousands of pages of war documents that our government did not want us to see, and which the paper only secured after a protracted legal battle. Those documents include nearly 2,000 pages of notes from interviews with generals, diplomats, and other officials who played a central role in waging America\u2019s longest war. Here is some of what the Post<\/em> uncovered: …<\/p>\n

John Sopko, the head of the federal agency that conducted the interviews, acknowledged to The Post that the documents show \u201cthe American people have constantly been lied to.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/em>nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/12\/afghanistan-papers-ndaa-congress-defense-bill.html?fbclid=IwAR2hosg0YF2MUu1dKjZ2Dg4yiJbZZU-13WarZFEpXjyBpOlVG7aHXXCK-Ds<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cTactics without strategy is a good way to fail.\u201d<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

Links to the WAPO Series on the Afghan War Lies, Failures, and Death<\/em><\/h1>\n

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House Passes $738 Billion Military Bill With Space Force and Parental Leave<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

A bipartisan<\/strong> group of lawmakers agreed to give troops a pay raise and the president his Space Force, while jettisoning a slew of measures that would have reined in the president\u2019s war powers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The House on Wednesday passed a $738 billion military policy bill that would authorize the creation of the Space Force championed by President Trump as the sixth branch of the military and secure paid parental leave for more than two million federal workers.<\/p>\n

The 377-to-48 vote reflected broad bipartisan support for the compromise package, one of the nation\u2019s most expensive military policy bills to date. It passed over the opposition of a bloc of progressive Democrats and libertarian-minded Republicans who objected to its steep price tag and its omission of provisions they had proposed to limit the president\u2019s power on an array of military matters.<\/p>\n

Most House Republicans threw their support behind the measure, joining with Democrats to ensure its passage. It was part of a year-end burst of bipartisan legislating that has broken out this week, even as the Democratic-led House moves toward impeaching Mr. Trump.\u00a0\u00a0 www.nytimes.com\/2019\/12\/11\/us\/politics\/house-ndaa-space-force-leave.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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Why the Afghanistan Papers Are an Eerie Reminder of Vietnam<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There was one quote in the Afghanistan papers that stopped me. It was almost as if I had read this before in the Pentagon Papers. In 2015, an unnamed National Security Council official said<\/a>, \u201cIt was impossible to create good metrics. We tried using troop numbers trained, violence levels, control of territory and none of it painted an accurate picture.\u201d With regard to Vietnam, the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) constantly inflated \u201cbody counts\u201d\u2014the number of dead Vietnamese\u2014as a metric of impending victory. This is clear in both the Pentagon Papers and in the papers at the Johnson Library (Austin, Texas).<\/p>\n

One soldier who worked in MACV would often go along with the generals to observe the battlefield. His words, collected<\/a> by Toshio Whelchel, are worth reading: \u201conce we flew over an area after a B-52 raid and the devastation was incredible. There were all these plastic bags out there with our guys supposedly counting bodies of enemy killed. But they were merely picking up body fragments\u2014anything to put in the bag\u2014and counting each one as a single kill.\u201d\u00a0 www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/12\/11\/why-the-afghanistan-papers-are-an-eerie-reminder-of-vietnam\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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No \u2018End Date\u2019 for U.S. Troops in Syria<\/h1>\n

Top general is confident he can keep pressure on the Islamic State, but a recent watchdog report says the group could reconstitute.<\/em><\/h2>\n

Less than two months after U.S. President Donald Trump demanded all U.S. troops withdraw from northeastern Syria for the second time, the general in charge of all U.S. forces in the Middle East now says he has no orders to leave the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have an end date,\u201d Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, told a small group of reporters in Bahrain on Saturday.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Roughly 500 U.S. forces will remain in northeastern Syria with their Kurdish-led partners, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), to continue fighting the remnants of the Islamic State, McKenzie said during a visit to Bahrain for the Manama Dialogue security summit. Under Trump\u2019s directive, the troops will primarily be stationed in the Deir Ezzor province to guard the region\u2019s rich oil fields, but the Defense Department insists<\/a> that the mission is part of the broader campaign to defeat the terrorist group.<\/p>\n

Despite a recent Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria and ensuing turmoil in the region, McKenzie said in a separate interview with Foreign Policy <\/i>that he is confident the coalition can effectively hunt the Islamic State from its more limited position in Syria and a nearby outpost in Iraq. Operations against the militants resumed over the weekend, with coalition forces killing and injuring multiple fighters in a Nov. 22 raid in the Deir Ezzor province\u00a0\u00a0 foreignpolicy.com\/2019\/11\/25\/no-end-date-for-u-s-troops-in-syria\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Airstrikes called in as Taliban attempt to breach Bagram Air Base<\/h1>\n
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A series of airstrikes were called in following a failed attempt by the Taliban to breach Bagram<\/a> Air Base, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, according to a Resolute Support spokesman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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U.S. and Afghan<\/a> forces were pulled into a nine-to 10-hour firefight after a suicide bombing targeted a medical facility that was under construction near the base, a source on the ground told Military Times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Taliban fighters then barricaded themselves inside the medical facility they attacked and were hit with a series of airstrikes Wednesday evening, according to a Resolute Support spokesman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nearly 1 Million Vets Face Food Stamps Cut<\/h1>\n

About 900,000 veterans and 5,000 active duty troops face cuts in their food stamp benefits beginning Thursday as $5 billion is automatically trimmed from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) program for low-income families.<\/p>\n

“The coming benefit cut will reduce SNAP benefits, which are already modest, for all households by 7 percent on average, or about $10 per person per month,” according to an analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.<\/p>\n

“Nationwide, in any given month, a total of 900,000 veterans nationwide lived in households that relied on SNAP to provide food for their families in 2011,” according to an analysis of census data, the Center’s report said.<\/p>\n

The SNAP program received a boost under the 2009 Recovery Act, or stimulus bill aimed at lifting the nation out of recession, but that temporary increase will expire Thursday as Congress continues to debate a new farm bill which would separate farm subsidies from food stamp benefits.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 www.military.com\/daily-news\/2013\/10\/29\/nearly-1-million-vets-face-food-stamps-cut.html?fbclid=IwAR0NT8AsomekyaGigTRKteCLq5PtVmQFijjE8DDTXXu2-lXAydkzGXIGh-4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Navy removes an ordnance disposal unit commander<\/h1>\n

The Navy has relieved a commanding officer over one of its Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Units of his duties, officials said Friday.<\/p>\n

Capt. Oscar Rojas, commander, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One (EODGRU1) in Coronado relieved Cmdr. Sean Kido of command over Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Eleven (EODMU11) Thursday \u201cdue to a loss of confidence in his ability to command,\u201d the Navy said in a statement that provided no details. The mobile unit is based in Imperial Beach.<\/p>\n

Cmdr. Evan Colbert, former commanding officer of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Six, has temporarily assumed the responsibilities of EODMU11 commanding officer.<\/p>\n

EODMU 11 locates, identifies, recovers and disposes of explosive ordnance, including chemical and nuclear weapons. It is one of three such units in San Diego.\u00a0\u00a0 www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/news\/military\/story\/2019-12-13\/a-navy-ordnance-disposal-unit-commander-is-removed<\/a><\/p>\n

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