{"id":4290,"date":"2011-09-05T19:11:31","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T03:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=4290"},"modified":"2011-09-05T19:11:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T03:11:31","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-geronimo-has-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-geronimo-has-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Geronimo Has Won"},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fightback!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The core issue of our time is the reality of the promise of perpetual war and escalating inequality met by the potential of a mass, activist, class conscious movement to transform both daily life and the system of capitalism itself. <\/em><\/strong>
\nSuch a movement may be more democratic than not, internally, but in the US it will have to be forged by a relatively small group of dedicated people with unmeasureable energy who have a grasp of what class war, and imperialist war, is, as well as the grand strategy, strategy, and tactics of insurgent resistance struggling with and fighting against a vacillating majority now witlessly won to fascism, participating in the construction of their own oppression. <\/em><\/strong>richgibson.com\/LiveAsLambsAmongWolves.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

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

“The task of teachers, those obscure soldiers of civilization, is to give to people the intellectual means to revolt.” Louise Michel, anarchist and Paris Communard.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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New Boss Of Mich Bad Bank Failing Schools: what we have here is a failure of Mindset (not capitalism) : <\/strong>Teachers have a tendency to teach to the “whole” instead of the individual child, he said.
\n“That mindset needs to change. All 25 kids in classroom will need to have differentiated instruction to overcome deficiencies they have. That is something that does not occur in public education,” he said…Arthur Benson, a Kansas City school board member since 2008, said Covington did a terrific job there.
\n“Covington came in and addressed everything. He closed schools, cut $50 million from the budget, brought in Teach for America,” Benson said.
\n“He didn’t renew many teacher contracts, he started firing a lot of tenured teachers for cause. A lot of these were crappy teachers. He moved a lot of principals out and brought a lot in.”
\nCovington’s contract has upset Detroit’s teachers union. Its members were ordered to take a 10 percent pay cut this summer to help DPS reduce a $327 million deficit.
\nCovington will make $225,000 in his first year, plus a $175,000 signing bonus. He could make more than $1.6 million over four years.. \u00a0http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20110901\/SCHOOLS\/109010401\/Covington–Teachers-need-a-new-mindset<\/p>\n

School Embedded in Capitalism: In Michigan, Tourism Trumps School Start <\/strong>(and MEAP Prep) <\/strong> Tourism operators love Michigan’s law that keeps schools from opening until after Labor Day, saying it has added one to three weeks to the season and boosted revenues 25 percent.
\nBut the late start means teachers have fewer weeks to prepare kids for the Michigan Education Assessment Program tests that determine if schools make Annual Yearly Progress or are failing under federal and state laws. The tests start Oct. 11 this year www.detnews.com\/article\/20110903\/SCHOOLS\/109030351\/1026\/School-leaders-get-little-support-for-earlier-start<\/a><\/p>\n

Is Test Prep, \u00a0Prep, Prep, Prep, Prep–cheating? Or just more school stupidity? <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Teachers at Sweetwater High School who had just given standardized tests to most of their students went on to teach a five-day, 20-hour intervention course during spring break for 226 low-performers.
\nThe struggling students, pulled from initial testing in their weakest subject, took their exams in that subject after special training.
\nAdministrators credit the intervention and other innovations with helping bring about a marked increase in scores. Still, an anonymous complaint was filed with the state saying the additional instruction amounted to illegal test preparation. \u00a0http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2011\/sep\/02\/mid-testing-classes-aided-sweetwater-gains\/<\/p>\n

A Forewarning to Detroit and Mich Teachers from a KC educator about the New Boss, Covington: <\/strong>Within one year of hire and less than a year of his start date in July, 2009, Covington had hammered out his \u201cRight-sizing Plan\u201d set to transform the district in three phases. Phase 1 began immediately with the announcement that half of all the schools in the district would be shuttered and with half of all \u201csupport\u201d staff (custodians, secretaries, etc.) fired…richgibson.com\/covington.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Monarchy To Teachers: Beat those Kids so they Stop Rioting—and get some real Men! <\/strong>n response to the recent riots British schools have allowed for the return of corporal punishment. The use of force and other harsh penalties is now allowed by the British government.
\nSuch punishments, according to Education Minister Michael Gove will help “restore the authority of adults,” after the riots in London.
\nThe Minister also said that he would like to attract more men to work in schools as teachers, especially in the elementary grades so that they could demonstrate strength.
\nThis fall the government plans to begin a program to attract former military officers to schools. \u00a0http:\/\/english.ruvr.ru\/2011\/09\/02\/55534909.html\"\"<\/a> Above, Parasitical Monarch fearful of kiddies<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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

Geronimo is Winning<\/strong>\"\"<\/a> Two of bin Laden\u2019s wives had placed themselves in front of him. Amal al-Fatah, bin Laden\u2019s fifth wife, was screaming in Arabic. She motioned as if she were going to charge; the SEAL lowered his sights and shot her once, in the calf. Fearing that one or both women were wearing suicide jackets, he stepped forward, wrapped them in a bear hug, and drove them aside. He would almost certainly have been killed had they blown themselves up, but by blanketing them he would have absorbed some of the blast and potentially saved the two SEALs behind him. In the end, neither woman was wearing an explosive vest.<\/p>\n

A second SEAL stepped into the room and trained the infrared laser of his M4 on bin Laden\u2019s chest. The Al Qaeda chief, who was wearing a tan shalwar kameez and a prayer cap on his head, froze; he was unarmed. \u201cThere was never any question of detaining or capturing him\u2014it wasn\u2019t a split-second decision. No one wanted detainees,\u201d the special-operations officer told me. (The Administration maintains that had bin Laden immediately surrendered he could have been taken alive.) Nine years, seven months, and twenty days after September 11th, an American was a trigger pull from ending bin Laden\u2019s life. The first round, a 5.56-mm. bullet, struck bin Laden in the chest. As he fell backward, the SEAL fired a second round into his head, just above his left eye. On his radio, he reported, \u201cFor God and country\u2014Geronimo, Geronimo, Geronimo.\u201d After a pause, <\/em><\/strong>he added, \u201cGeronimo E.K.I.A.\u201d\u2014\u201cenemy killed in action<\/em><\/strong>.\u201d \u00a0 www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2011\/08\/08\/110808fa_fact_schmidle?currentPage=all<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Syed Saleem Shazad: <\/strong>Al-Qaeda was 100 percent sure that once Washingto declared war on AQ, the ruling regimes in the Middle East would have no option but to align themselves with Washington. The 9\/11 attacks were organized for a particular purpose: to provoke the United States and bring it into the Afghan trap. A Muslim backlash was certain to follow, and eventually this would lead to a direct confrontation between the West and the Muslim World. ..Victory against the West required a long struggle, planning, a winning war strategy….the second most important objective …in the wake of 9\/11 and the retaliation to it was to discredit the ruling Muslim regimes by bringing up the inherent contradictions in their political alliances with the West…it would be a slow and tedious process…(Inside Al Qaeda and the Taliban p138).<\/p>\n


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Chalmers Johnson: Going bankrupt: The US’s greatest threat, January 24, 2008 <\/strong><\/p>\n

There are three broad aspects to our debt crisis. First, in the current fiscal year (2008) we are spending insane amounts of money on “defense” projects that bear no relationship to the national security of the United States. Simultaneously, we are keeping the income tax burdens on the richest segments of the American population at strikingly low levels.
\nSecond, we continue to believe that we can compensate for the accelerating erosion of our manufacturing base and our loss of jobs to foreign countries through massive military expenditures – so-called “military Keynesianism”, which I discuss in detail in my book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic. By military Keynesianism, I mean the mistaken belief that public policies focused on frequent wars, huge expenditures on weapons and munitions, and large standing armies can indefinitely sustain a wealthy capitalist economy. The opposite is actually true.
\nThird, in our devotion to militarism (despite our limited resources), we are failing to invest in our social infrastructure and other requirements for the long-term health of our country. These are what economists call “opportunity costs”, things not done because we spent our money on something else. Our public education system has deteriorated alarmingly. We have failed to provide health care to all our citizens and neglected our responsibilities as the world’s number one polluter. Most important, we have lost our competitiveness as a manufacturer for civilian needs – an infinitely more efficient use of scarce resources than arms manufacturing. Let me discuss each of these. www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Middle_East\/JA24Ak04.html<\/a><\/p>\n