{"id":450,"date":"2010-05-22T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T21:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=450"},"modified":"2010-05-22T14:06:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-22T22:06:08","slug":"rouge-forum-update-people-vs-union-bosses-plus-dunkirk-and-matewan-and-wait-theres-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-update-people-vs-union-bosses-plus-dunkirk-and-matewan-and-wait-theres-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Update: People vs Union Bosses plus Dunkirk and Matewan! And wait! There&#8217;s More!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It is 70 Years Since Battle of Dunkirk <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brit Video-<\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJ_gDFmCcaE\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJ_gDFmCcaE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Churchill:<\/strong> We Will Fight Them on the Beaches&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Churchill speech on Dunkirk &quot;Fight them on the beaches&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ojtm7Pb1QLM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Little Red Schoolhouse Front:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Company Town: by Carl Sandburg<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>You live in a company house<br \/>\nYou go to a company school<br \/>\nYou work for this company<br \/>\nAccording to the company\u2019s rules<br \/>\nYou all drink company water<br \/>\nAnd all use company lights<br \/>\nThe company preacher teaches us<br \/>\nWhat the company thinks is right&#8230;.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/littlered-rosa2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-468\" title=\"littlered-rosa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/littlered-rosa2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/littlered-rosa2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/littlered-rosa2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Half of Detroit Kids Poisoned by Lead\u2013Not Good For High-Stakes Tests<\/strong>: \u201cthe higher the lead level, the worse a student&#8217;s scores on the Michigan Educational Assessment Program exam, or MEAP. Overall, 58% of roughly 39,000 DPS students tested &#8212; 22,755 children &#8212; had a history of lead poisoning, according to the study.Perhaps more startling: Of the 39,199 students tested as young children, only 23 had no lead in their bodies.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100516\/NEWS01\/5160413\/1319\/High-lead-levels-hurt-learning-for-DPS-kids&#038;template=fullarticle\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.freep.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100516\/NEWS01\/5160413\/1319\/High-lead-levels-hurt-learning-for-DPS-kids&#038;template=fullarticle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Students as Money\u2013Michigan Districts Pay Bribe for Best School Status<\/strong>: \u201che districts did not make the cut because of test scores or graduation rates but instead because they paid a marketing firm $25,000.\u201d From The Detroit News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20100517\/METRO\/5170337\/Metro-Detroit-school-districts-buy--best--status#ixzz0oAH0ylsv\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detnews.com\/article\/20100517\/METRO\/5170337\/Metro-Detroit-school-districts-buy&#8211;best&#8211;status#ixzz0oAH0ylsv<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Too Many Teachers; Not Enough Wars, Too Many Kiddies:<\/strong> \u201cMichigan State University has pushed its 500 graduating teachers to look out of state. As local jobs have dried up, it started an internship program in Chicago, which is a four-hour drive from the East Lansing, Mich., campus. Professors now go with students to the annual campus job fair to make sure they do not hover around the Michigan tables, but walk over to, say, North Carolina, Virginia or Texas.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/20\/nyregion\/20teachers.html?hp\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/20\/nyregion\/20teachers.html?hp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ongoing Failure of Racist Capitalist Schooling in Detroit:<\/strong> \u201cDetroit Public Schools fourth- and eighth-graders performed worst in the nation on a national reading test whose results were released this morning. Like math scores unveiled in December from the National Assessment of Education Progress, Detroit children&#8217;s reading scores are the worst in the 40-year history of the test.From The Detroit News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20100520\/SCHOOLS\/5200459\/DPS-students-at-bottom-of-national-reading-test-scores#ixzz0oVO3Lo8p\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detnews.com\/article\/20100520\/SCHOOLS\/5200459\/DPS-students-at-bottom-of-national-reading-test-scores#ixzz0oVO3Lo8p<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Detroit Mayor Can\u2019t Halt Barbarism<\/strong>: \u201cDetroit Mayor Dave Bing acknowledged that police and city officials don&#8217;t know how to stop the crime wave.\u201d<br \/>\nFrom The Detroit News: <a href=\"http:\/\/detnews.com\/article\/20100520\/METRO\/5200490#ixzz0oXS41oWI\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">detnews.com\/article\/20100520\/METRO\/5200490#ixzz0oXS41oWI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is Lying in this PBS Newshour Broadcast On Detroit Schools? Everybody. As Usual.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/education\/jan-june10\/detroit_05-20.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/education\/jan-june10\/detroit_05-20.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bribe? What Bribe? Payoffs to Bobb Ok in Michigan Court: <\/strong>\u201cWayne Circuit Court Judge Susan Borman indicated today Detroit Public Schools Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb is entitled to receive part of his pay from private foundations. The issue &#8212; challenged by the district&#8217;s school board, a civil rights group and a coalition of teachers who oppose charter schools &#8212; was whether Bobb was in conflict of interest for accepting $89,000 of his salary from a foundation that supports private and charter schools. Bobb receives $280,000 in salary and $145,000 in supplemental income from foundations for fixing the school district&#8217;s finances.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20100521\/METRO01\/5210404\/Judge-indicates-private-supplement-to-Robert-Bobb-s-salary-is-OK#ixzz0obHqk6po\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detnews.com\/article\/20100521\/METRO01\/5210404\/Judge-indicates-private-supplement-to-Robert-Bobb-s-salary-is-OK#ixzz0obHqk6po<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Duncan Lies About Texas Textbook Standards Adopted May 21: <\/strong>&#8220;&#8221;Whatever Texas decides, I do not think there will be large ripple effects around the country,&#8221; Duncan said to CNN. &#8220;Textbook companies today have a real ability to customize textbooks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>We Say Fightback! Front: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/clenched_fist-in-sun1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-482\" title=\"clenched_fist in sun\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/clenched_fist-in-sun1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/clenched_fist-in-sun1.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/clenched_fist-in-sun1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/clenched_fist-in-sun1-300x297.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Puerto Rico Universities Occupied, Struck, and Shut for A Month+: <\/strong>\u201cThe students here have hunkered down, bringing the academic calendar to a halt. They are a month into a strike that has crippled an 11-campus system with more than 62,000 students, intent on persuading the administration to revoke austerity measures that they believe will unfairly hamper low-income students. Only one campus, for medical sciences, is operational.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/21\/us\/21students.html?hp\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/21\/us\/21students.html?hp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>BBC on the Brit Teachers\u2019 Test Boycott (watch the short video)<\/strong>: \u201cTens of thousands of children in England are missing their Sats tests as head teachers in hundreds of schools stage a boycott. About 600,000 10 and 11-year-olds were due to take the national schools tests from Monday. But heads and deputies from two big teaching unions voted for a boycott&#8230;\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/education\/10103165.stm\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/education\/10103165.stm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bangkok is Burning\u2013Tweetphotos: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tweetphoto.com\/23018649\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">tweetphoto.com\/23018649<\/a> (Rick Parkany photo)<\/p>\n<p><strong>IVAW Confronts Recruiters\u2013War is not a Game!<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IVAW confronts military recruiters in St Louis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fHz4a_sgqCg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Solidarity Forever Front: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/NEA-AFT-EI-bosses-McElroy-is-now-EI-exec-bd-and-Weave-EI-VP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-457\" title=\"NEA AFT EI bosses McElroy is now EI exec bd and Weave EI VP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/NEA-AFT-EI-bosses-McElroy-is-now-EI-exec-bd-and-Weave-EI-VP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/NEA-AFT-EI-bosses-McElroy-is-now-EI-exec-bd-and-Weave-EI-VP.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/NEA-AFT-EI-bosses-McElroy-is-now-EI-exec-bd-and-Weave-EI-VP-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Clockwise from top left, NEA boss Dennis Weaver Makes about $425 thousand a year. AFT&#8217;s Randi Weingarten who abandoned tenure and bargained merit pay, has not revealed her latest AFT salary. McElroy, former AFT top, is now at the Education International, joined by Reg Weaver, former NEA president who reported $686,949 in 2008!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Backstabber-cartoon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-458\" title=\"Backstabber cartoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Backstabber-cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Backstabber-cartoon.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Backstabber-cartoon-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/a><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In 2008, Reg Weaver, then President of NEA, had a total compensation of $686,949. This is about $200,000 more than any NEA president before or since. NEA\u2013explain Weaver\u2019s 2008 pay!<\/strong><\/em> We checked the web site below for accuracy, matching it against the LM2 forms that NEA must file, and the site is on point. More than 375 NEA employees made more than $100,000 in 2008.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/neaexposed.com\/leadership.htm\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">neaexposed.com\/leadership.htm<\/a><br \/>\nThis is an accurate link to the LM2 report: <a href=\"http:\/\/neaexposed.com\/documents\/08LM2Staffcompensation.pdf\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">neaexposed.com\/documents\/08LM2Staffcompensation.pdf<\/a><br \/>\nPhotoCopy of 2008 and 2009 NEA filings: <a href=\"http:\/\/richgibson.com\/neaSALARY.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">richgibson.com\/neaSALARY.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Washington D.C. AFT Scams Election to Force Through Concessions: <\/strong>\u201c&#8221;She&#8217;s got to get this knucklehead on the ballot because he didn&#8217;t file petitions,&#8221; he said. He added that there can be no contract ratification without an elections committee because that panel is responsible for administering not only regular but &#8220;special&#8221; elections. That would include a contract vote.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/dcschools\/2010\/05\/wtu_two_votes_one_fine_mess.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">voices.washingtonpost.com\/dcschools\/2010\/05\/wtu_two_votes_one_fine_mess.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Michigan Education Association Salaries: Count the $100,000 plus Club <\/strong>Members:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MEA Salaries 2008 to 2009\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/23507557\/content\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.7729220222793488\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"23507557\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">          (function() { var scribd = document.createElement(\"script\"); scribd.type = \"text\/javascript\"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = \"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/javascripts\/embed_code\/inject.js\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })()        <\/script><\/p>\n<p>And in a note from Jack Gerson, here is the very low-down on the <strong>California Teachers Association $100,000 Gang in Power because They Sell Labor Peace for Dues Income:<\/strong><br \/>\n(1) CTA has 32 &#8220;Managers&#8221; &#8212; salary range between $172,857 and $221,612<br \/>\n(2) CTA has 9 &#8220;Staff Attorneys&#8221; &#8212; salary range between $78,419 and $150,620<br \/>\n(3) CTA has 152 &#8220;Professional Staff&#8221; &#8212; salary range between $78,419 and<br \/>\n$134,728<br \/>\n(4) CTA has 20 &#8220;Supervisors&#8221; &#8212; salary range between $72,158 and $110,100<br \/>\nCompensation and fringe benefits for CTA&#8217;s three executive officers&#8217;<br \/>\n(President David Sanchez; VP Dean Vogel; Secretary-Treasurer Gail Mendes). Combined compensation for the three is $660,000.<br \/>\nTravel expense budget for the three is a combined $410,000. Benefits and<br \/>\n&#8220;other administrative expenses&#8221; for the three is a combined $300,000.<br \/>\nOakland teachers earn between $40,000 and $70,000 per year. The Oakland<br \/>\nEducation Association is a CTA affiliate. Oakland teachers have trouble<br \/>\nmaking ends meet, and often ask why CTA dues are so high.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steve Brill in the NYTimes Mag on Ed Reform and the Bogus Unions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/23\/magazine\/23Race-t.html?src=me&#038;ref=general\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/23\/magazine\/23Race-t.html?src=me&#038;ref=general<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why the sudden shift from long-simmering wonk debate to political front burner? Because there is now a president who, when it comes to school reform, really does seem to be a new kind of Democrat &#8211; and because of a clever idea Schnur had last year to package what might otherwise have been just another federal grant program into a media-alluring, if cheesy-sounding, contest called Race to the Top. It has turned a relatively modest federal program (the $4.3 billion budget represents less than 1 percent of all federal, state and local education spending) into high-yield leverage that could end up overshadowing health care reform in its impact and that is already upending traditional Democratic Party politics. The activity set off by the contest has enabled Schnur\u2019s network to press as never before its frontal challenge to the teachers\u2019 unions: they argue that a country that spends more per pupil than any other but whose student performance ranks in the bottom third among developed nations isn\u2019t failing its children for lack of resources but for lack of trained, motivated, accountable talent at the front of the class.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If unions are the Democratic Party\u2019s base, then teachers\u2019 unions are the base of the base. The two national teachers\u2019 unions &#8211; the American Federation of Teachers and the larger National Education Association &#8211; together have more than 4.6 million members. That is roughly a quarter of all the union members in the country. Teachers are the best field troops in local elections. Ten percent of the delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention were teachers\u2019 union members. In<strong> the last 30 years, the teachers\u2019 unions have contributed nearly $57.4 million to federal campaigns, <\/strong>an amount that is about 30 percent higher than any single corporation or other union. And they have typically contributed many times more to state and local candidates. About 95 percent of it has gone to Democrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2008, Rhee &#8211; a Klein prot\u00e9g\u00e9e, who founded the New Teacher Project after teaching in Baltimore for Teach for America &#8211; proposed huge salary increases for those teachers who would give up lifetime tenure guarantees and lockstep compensation and agree to have their performance linked to student test-score improvements. Those who didn\u2019t volunteer could keep their current pay scales and job security. For two years, the union refused to allow Rhee\u2019s offer to be put up for a vote. Rhee persisted &#8211; \u201cI\u2019m not big on the collaborative, warm and fuzzy approach,\u201d she says &#8211; and became a hero of the reformers.<\/p>\n<p>Despite efforts by both sides to save face for the union by preserving the language of tenure, the deal that Weingarten and Rhee negotiated in April actually achieved more than Rhee sought in her original offer.<strong> The new contract unambiguously, if subtlely, strips tenure of its core job-security protections. &#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;\u201cThat President Obama did this is a total game changer<\/strong>,\u201d says Pastorek, the Louisiana schools superintendent, who is a Republican working for a Republican governor, Bobby Jindal. \u201cIf he really sticks to this, <strong>education will never be the same.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Spy Vs Spy: <\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/spy-eye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-460\" title=\"spy eye\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/spy-eye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/spy-eye.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/spy-eye-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Weatherman Bill Ayers, Once a Liberal With a Bomb, Now a Liberal Seeking Grants, <\/strong>Defines Terrorism for the New Yorker (a full professor turns to Webster\u2019s): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/letters\/2010\/05\/17\/100517mama_mail1#ixzz0o3AAnHw5\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/letters\/2010\/05\/17\/100517mama_mail1#ixzz0o3AAnHw5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iran Contra\u2019s Dewey Clarridge Runs Private Spy Agency in Pakistan and Afghanistan for Pentagon<\/strong>: \u201c raised questions about whether the United States has outsourced some of its most secretive and important operations to a private army many fear is largely unaccountable. The C.I.A. has relied extensively on contractors in recent years to carry out missions in war zones.<br \/>\nThe exposure of the spying network also reveals tensions between the Pentagon and the C.I.A., which itself is running a covert war across the border in Pakistan&#8230;(but wait, there\u2019s less)&#8230;<br \/>\nThe Times is withholding some information about the contractor network, including some of the names of agents working in Afghanistan and Pakistan.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/16\/world\/16contractors.html?hp\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/16\/world\/16contractors.html?hp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>FBI Recruits With a Happy Face in Dearborn:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FBI Recruiting Station in Dearborn\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UNimGKJCNkY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Perpetual War Front:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Endless War 3 - Campaign: Iraq War\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rhiSdfbnswY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sailor, Being Redeployed, Suicides:<\/strong> \u201cthe man was upset because he was set to deploy soon\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/may\/20\/swat-standoff-ends-in-suicide\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/2010\/may\/20\/swat-standoff-ends-in-suicide\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Afghans are Coming! The Afghans Are Coming!<\/strong>&#8220;..assaulted Kandahar Air Base, the main military base in southern Afghanistan, on Saturday night, military officials said, in the second attack on a major base in a week&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/23\/world\/asia\/23kandahar.html?hp\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/23\/world\/asia\/23kandahar.html?hp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Emerging Fascism Front: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nazi General Anton Dostler Execution - Italy  1945 - ENG SUB\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4iEY6WoGm6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Banned In Israel\u201381 Year Old Dangerous Chomsky:<\/strong> \u201cThere were two basic points,\u201d Professor Chomsky told the interviewer. \u201cOne was that the government of Israel does not like the kinds of things I say \u2014 which puts them into the category of I suppose every other government in the world. The second was that they seemed upset about the fact that I was just taking an invitation from Birzeit and I had no plans to go on to speak in Israeli universities, as I have done many times in the past, but not this time.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/18\/world\/middleeast\/18chomsky.html?scp=2&#038;sq=chomsky&#038;st=cse\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/18\/world\/middleeast\/18chomsky.html?scp=2&#038;sq=chomsky&#038;st=cse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Detroit Cop Murders Seven Year Old Girl:<\/strong> \u201c&#8221;This is what it is like in this city now,&#8221; said Khristian Jackson, a 15-year-old Southeastern 10th-grader. &#8220;People don&#8217;t fight in school no more. They shoot.&#8221; From The Detroit News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detnews.com\/article\/20100518\/METRO01\/5180359\/Aiyana-s-teacher-asks---When-is-enough-enough?-#ixzz0oKbggyvZ\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.detnews.com\/article\/20100518\/METRO01\/5180359\/Aiyana-s-teacher-asks&#8212;When-is-enough-enough?-#ixzz0oKbggyvZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 13\u2013Cleveland Cops Attack High School Students\u2019 Walkout in Support of Teachers and Their Own Education. Students Charged with Violating Daytime Curfew, Assault, Resisting Arrest, and others Suspended from Collingwood High School for a Week.<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cleveland Police Brutalize Student Protesters\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RpmjnDW-Ys8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The There Goes the Economy Front:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/torn-dollar-by-suburbandollar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-463\" title=\"torn-dollar-by-suburbandollar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/torn-dollar-by-suburbandollar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/torn-dollar-by-suburbandollar.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/torn-dollar-by-suburbandollar-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><strong>Hey Grad! Wanna Job? Go to SDSU and Be a Police Spy: <\/strong>\u201cAnd on San Diego\u2019s \u2013 and at San Diego State in particular, we\u2019re seen a huge increase in the federal employers, everybody from the FBI to CIA, SPAWAR, they\u2019re all coming to campus and saying we want to be more closely connected to your students so we can recruit the next generation of workers.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbs.org\/news\/2010\/may\/17\/job-market-recent-college-grads\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.kpbs.org\/news\/2010\/may\/17\/job-market-recent-college-grads\/<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nThe Racism Gap: <\/strong>\u201cstudied the same 2,000 black and white families between 1983 and 2007, and found that the racial wealth gap \u201chas more than quadrupled over the course of a generation.\u201d At the bottom of the economic pyramid, at least 25 percent of black families in 2007 could draw on no assets whatsoever to see themselves through the economic storm.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Wealth, Race and the Great Recession\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feconomix.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2010%2F05%2F17%2Fwealth-race-and-the-great-recession%2F#?secret=nxc7ivChRh\" data-secret=\"nxc7ivChRh\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><br \/>\nThe Heavens Weep: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Heavens_Weep_for_Androgyne-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-464\" title=\"Heavens_Weep_for_Androgyne-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Heavens_Weep_for_Androgyne-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Heavens_Weep_for_Androgyne-1.jpg 512w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Heavens_Weep_for_Androgyne-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Heavens_Weep_for_Androgyne-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Bush\/Obamagogue\/BP Disaster (Klare):<\/strong> \u201cthe Obama administration\u2019s Interior Department followed in the infamous footsteps of the Bush administration.\u00a0 In 2009, it \u201cexempted BP&#8217;s calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis.\u201d\u00a0 (And, of course, mere weeks before the explosion, the president was urging yet more deep-water off-shore drilling and reassuring Americans that it wasn\u2019t terribly dangerous, while less than two weeks before its oil rig blew, BP was vigorously lobbying to expand its exemptions.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175249\/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_the_oil_rush_to_hell\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175249\/tomgram%3A_michael_klare%2C_the_oil_rush_to_hell\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jamaica and Carribean Worry About BP\u2019s Illegal Oil Invasion:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/news\/US-fears-oil-spill-could-reach-Cuba_7634116\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.jamaicaobserver.com\/news\/US-fears-oil-spill-could-reach-Cuba_7634116<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>On the Hey Look! It\u2019s Magic! Front: <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Snake Handling Church Service\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ObhvOeNCKhs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBeat Me! Rape Me! Make Me Write Bad Checks!<\/strong>\u201d:Tens of thousands of people filled St. Peter&#8217;s Square on Sunday in a massive show of solidarity with Pope Benedict XVI over the clerical sex abuse scandal.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fgw-pope-20100517,0,2416907.story?track=rss&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fgw-pope-20100517,0,2416907.story?track=rss&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Baptist Fanatic Rents a Boy:<\/strong> \u201cThe good minister expressed gratitude that his rent boy \u201cdid let me share the gospel of Jesus Christ with him with many Scriptures in three extended conversations.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/16\/opinion\/16rich.html?src=me&#038;ref=homepage\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/16\/opinion\/16rich.html?src=me&#038;ref=homepage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Child Kidnapper Praises God For Her Conviction in Haiti<\/strong>: \u201cBut it emerged that the children were not orphans&#8230;\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8688496.stm\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8688496.stm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hide the Kids. Here Come the Witch-hunters<\/strong>! \u201c\u201cif a child under the age of 2 screams in the night, cries and is always feverish with deteriorating health, he or she is a servant of Satan.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/22\/us\/22beliefs.html?hp\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/22\/us\/22beliefs.html?hp<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3lpNeSZNq70\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3lpNeSZNq70<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Classic Hidden History (not in the Texas Standards):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 19 1920 Battle of Matewan:<\/strong> \u201cOn May 19, 1920 ten people were killed at Matewan in the deadliest gunfight in American history.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matewan.com\/History\/battle2.htm\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.matewan.com\/History\/battle2.htm<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matewan Massacre &amp; Battle of Blair Mountain \/ Byzantine\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R1CCZE9dMB0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Sayles Fact-based film Matewan clip:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"AMERICAN COAL MINER WAR: After Matewan\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nn5W6xDBNKc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>May 23 1934<\/strong> \u2013 The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the &#8220;Battle of Toledo&#8221;, a five-day mel\u00e9e between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 23 1945<\/strong> \u2013 World War II: Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS, commits suicide while in Allied custody.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thanks to<\/strong> Bob, Rick, Adam, Gina, Eva, Candace, Sally, Sandy, Crystal, Shelly, Perry and Kathy, Dr KRG, Pete, Steve, Ricky, Hal, Sharon E, Patrick, Sharon, Elaine, Erin (twice), The Susans, Dana, Chase, Yvonne, George and Sharon and Danny (Substance is looking good), Billy P, Karl, Arturo, Val C, Daniel, Ruben, and Edgar.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck to us, every one.<\/p>\n<p>r<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is 70 Years Since Battle of Dunkirk Brit Video-&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJ_gDFmCcaE\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lJ_gDFmCcaE<\/a> Churchill: We Will Fight Them on the Beaches&#8230; The Little Red Schoolhouse Front: Company Town: by Carl Sandburg You live in a company house You go to a company school You work for this company According to the company\u2019s rules You all drink company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":489,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}