{"id":7062,"date":"2012-06-05T20:43:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T04:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=7062"},"modified":"2012-06-06T20:53:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T04:53:53","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-d-day-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-d-day-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: D-Day Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rouge Forum Conference Schedule is linked here <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/rougeforum2012.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/rouge-forum-2012-schedule-draft.pdf\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">rougeforum2012.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/rouge-forum-2012-schedule-draft.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RF2012AprUpdate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7117\" title=\"RF2012AprUpdate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RF2012AprUpdate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RF2012AprUpdate.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RF2012AprUpdate-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/RF2012AprUpdate-819x1024.jpg 819w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Red Square Revolt - Quebec Students on Strike, May 23 2012 report\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/baQEIu1JVUc?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>Chicago Teachers Union to Hold Strike Vote <\/strong> Karen Lewis and the officers and members of the Chicago Teachers Union announced at a packed press conference on Friday afternoon, June 1, 2012, that the union will conduct its strike authorization referendum during the week of June 4, with full results expected by June 8. Under the terms of the law known as &#8220;SB7&#8221; (for Senate Bill 7), the union is required to get approval from 75 percent of its members in order to move towards a strike. (Retiree members are not part of the union that participates in strike votes). \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.substancenews.net\/articles.php?page=3310&#038;section=Article\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.substancenews.net\/articles.php?page=3310&#038;section=Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mexico-Natonal-Union-Teachers-March.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7109\" title=\"Mexico Natonal Union Teachers March\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mexico-Natonal-Union-Teachers-March.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mexico-Natonal-Union-Teachers-March.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Mexico-Natonal-Union-Teachers-March-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a> National Union of Education Workers marched in Oaxaca Mexico to celebrate Teachers&#8217; Day as well as protest and demand the answers regarding missing persons and political prisoners from during the current administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UESF Members Vote 97% Yes in First Strike Vote <\/strong> At the General Membership meeting last night, 97% of the 1880 UESF members who participated voted to authorize a second strike vote. The overwhelming vote is a strong rebuke to the San Francisco Unified School District, which is attempting to take advantage of the budget crisis by extracting tens of millions of dollars from our pockets, and permanently eliminating a fair chunk of our contract.<br \/>\nLast night we sent a message loud and clear to the San Francisco Unified School District. It is time for the district to stop seeking unilateral cuts and sweeping program changes, and to start treating us with respect and to recognize what we have done to keep this district afloat.\u00a0 Al Qaeda \u201care our Islamic brothers,\u201d Mr. Boumana said. \u00a0\u00a0A spokesman for Ansar Dine in Timbuktu angrily rejected the picture drawn by residents and said that if people were fleeing the town, it was because they feared the United States might bomb the Islamists who now controlled it.<br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fascism_wisconsin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7116\" title=\"fascism_wisconsin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fascism_wisconsin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fascism_wisconsin.png 453w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fascism_wisconsin-265x300.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Corporate State Unionites Crushed by Christian Fanatic Cheesehead: <\/strong>Wisconsin&#8217;s Scott Walker credited god, prayer, and family for his election victory over the inept thugs of the Democrat Party and their opportunistic allies from charlatan grouplets like the Democratic Socialists of America, home to far too many dishonest &#8220;education leaders.&#8221; Union bosses wasted millions of member dues dollars in Wisconsin, disarming workers with the belief that corporate state fascism can be defeated in a ballot box. It cannot, no matter if it is represented by the Democrats or Republicans&#8211;two heads of the same snake that is the executive committee and armed weapon of the rich: US government. Industrial unions were never won by popular votes, but by direct action like the Great Flint Strike Against GM. Craft union of the AFL were frequently won with employer assistance, and now the entire AFL-CIO is little more than a Trojan Horse for the bosses. But, in the absence of a mass class conscious movement organized and disciplined to win equality and justice&#8211;barbarism rises. Come to the Rouge Forum Conference to help build a serious alternative.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Congratulation on the Publication of<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Pruyn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7138\" title=\"Pruyn\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Pruyn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Pruyn.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Pruyn-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Little Red Schoolhouse<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Human-Munition-Factory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7088\" title=\"Human Munition Factory\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Human-Munition-Factory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Human-Munition-Factory.jpg 1053w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Human-Munition-Factory-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Human-Munition-Factory-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Human-Munition-Factory-1024x1021.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Because every Kid is a Dollar Sign in Capitalist Schools: Harsher Truancy Laws <\/strong>On [Tuesday], May 15, 2012, deputies assigned to Lancaster Sheriff\u2019s Station\u2019s Target Oriented Policing (TOP) and Community Oriented Response and Enforcement (CORE) teams, made twenty-four arrests during a four hour \u201cTruancy Sweep\u201d operation.<br \/>\nOf the twenty-four people arrested, nineteen were juveniles, (16 truants and 3 warrants) and five were adults (4 misdemeanor violations and 1 Parole violation). The juveniles who were found to be \u201ctruant,\u201d were all issued citations and released to their parents or guardians.<br \/>\nThe operation was conducted in an effort to combat property crimes that occur during school hours.<br \/>\nParents are reminded that during normal school hours, all school aged children must be on a school campus, or if not attending school that day, then they must be at home.<br \/>\nThis includes those children who are being \u201cHome Schooled\u201d or who are on \u201cindependent study\u201d. \u00a0http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/2012\/05\/16\/lancaster-truancy-sweep-nets-24-arrests\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hot damn! New Reading Method! Sounding out Words, phonetically! <\/strong>In a hotel conference room near Flint, a room full of teachers and reading specialists are learning anew how to teach children to read.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve traveled from across the state to get here. They&#8217;ve paid hundreds of dollars, some out of their own pockets, to receive wisdom from a nurse frustrated by an education system she describes as &#8220;a big hot mess.&#8221;<br \/>\nTen years ago, that nurse, Nora Chahbazi, didn&#8217;t understand why her otherwise gifted daughter, whose parents had four college degrees between them, couldn&#8217;t read at grade level. For months, Chahbazi researched methods, pored over data and devised a strategy. Within a few hours, she helped her daughter leap from a struggling reader to an engaged one.<br \/>\nHer method, Evidence Based Literacy Instruction (EBLI), a synthesis of existing strategies and techniques first described by Diane McGuiness, a British psychologist, is gaining steam. Grand Valley University&#8217;s charter school network is training its teachers in the method, and bringing it to its Detroit schools in the fall. More than 3,000 teachers, most in Michigan, have been trained by Chahbazi.<br \/>\nEBLI uses simple strategies that enable students to break words into syllables and predict how they&#8217;ll sound. Results come quickly, helping motivate struggling readers to keep practicing. English is idiosyncratic, but there&#8217;s reason behind its madness: EBLI teaches how letters combine to form sounds (for example, the nine combinations of letters that produce the sound &#8220;sh&#8221;) \u2014 it&#8217;s not magic, but it&#8217;s surprisingly helpful. \u00a0http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20120531\/OPINION03\/205310402\/1026\/schools\/Reading-method-proven-help-struggling-readers<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Big Brother Tracking school kids with RFID\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yZvg2YllaPE?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 International Hot War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Obamagogue: Assassin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ObamaKiller2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7073\" title=\"ObamaKiller2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ObamaKiller2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ObamaKiller2.jpg 898w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/ObamaKiller2-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing else in Mr. Obama\u2019s first term has baffled liberal supporters and confounded conservative critics alike as his aggressive counterterrorism record. His actions have often remained inscrutable, obscured by awkward secrecy rules, polarized political commentary and the president\u2019s own deep reserve.<br \/>\nIn interviews with The New York Times, three dozen of his current and former advisers described Mr. Obama\u2019s evolution since taking on the role, without precedent in presidential history, of personally overseeing the shadow war with Al Qaeda.<br \/>\nThey describe a paradoxical leader who shunned the legislative deal-making required to close the detention facility at Guant\u00e1namo Bay in Cuba, but approves lethal action without hand-wringing. While he was adamant about narrowing the fight and improving relations with the Muslim world, he has followed the metastasizing enemy into new and dangerous lands. When he applies his lawyering skills to counterterrorism, it is usually to enable, not constrain, his ferocious campaign against Al Qaeda \u2014 even when it comes to killing an American cleric in Yemen, a decision that Mr. Obama told colleagues was \u201can easy one.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/29\/world\/obamas-leadership-in-war-on-al-qaeda.html?_r=2<\/p>\n<p><strong>TomGram on the Killer-in-Chief <\/strong> The distance we\u2019ve traveled in a decade can be measured by the Times&#8217; description of the equivalent of that \u201cpersonal scorecard\u201d today (and no desk drawer could hold it):<br \/>\n\u201cIt is the strangest of bureaucratic rituals: Every week or so, more than 100 members of the government\u2019s sprawling national security apparatus gather, by secure video teleconference, to pore over terrorist suspects\u2019 biographies and recommend to the president who should be the next to die. This secret &#8216;nominations&#8217; process is an invention of the Obama administration, a grim debating society that vets the PowerPoint slides bearing the names, aliases, and life stories of suspected members of Al Qaeda\u2019s branch in Yemen or its allies in Somalia\u2019s Shabab militia. The nominations go to the White House, where by his own insistence and guided by [counterterrorism \u2018tsar\u2019 John O.] Brennan, Mr. Obama must approve any name.\u201d<br \/>\nIn other words, thanks to such meetings &#8212; on what insiders have labeled \u201cterror Tuesday\u201d &#8212; assassination has been thoroughly institutionalized, normalized, and bureaucratized around the figure of the president.  Without the help of or any oversight from the American people or their elected representatives, he alone is now responsible for regular killings thousands of miles away, including those of civilians and even children.  He is, in other words, if not a king, at least the king of American assassinations.  On that score, his power is total and completely unchecked.  He can prescribe death for anyone \u201cnominated,\u201d choosing any of the \u201cbaseball cards\u201d (PowerPoint bios) on that kill list and then order the drones to take them (or others in the neighborhood) out. \u00a0 He and he alone can decide that assassinating known individuals isn\u2019t enough and that the CIA\u2019s drones can instead strike at suspicious \u201cpatterns of behavior\u201d on the ground in Yemen or Pakistan. He can stop any attack, any killing, but there is no one, nor any mechanism that can stop him.  An American global killing machine (quite literally so, given that growing force of drones) is now at the beck and call of a single, unaccountable individual.  This is the nightmare the founding fathers tried to protect us from. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175551\/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_assassin-in-chief\/?utm_source=TomDispatch&#038;utm_campaign=56245bc397-TD_Engelhardt6_5_2012&#038;utm_medium=email#more\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/175551\/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_assassin-in-chief\/?utm_source=TomDispatch&#038;utm_campaign=56245bc397-TD_Engelhardt6_5_2012&#038;utm_medium=email#more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fly-pretties.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7094\" title=\"fly pretties\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fly-pretties.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fly-pretties.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fly-pretties-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Islamofascists Capture Timbuktu (blowback from fake Libyan CIA Revo) <\/strong>Rebels who captured the city in northern Mali in April have imposed a form of hard-edged Islamic rule, prompting many residents to flee in fear and changing the face of what had been a tolerant and easygoing destination that drew tourists from around the world.<br \/>\nWomen are now forced to wear full, face-covering veils. Music is banned from the radio. Cigarettes are snatched from the mouths of pedestrians. And the look of the ancient mud-brick town is changing. A centuries-old monument, the shrine of a 15th-century saint, has been defaced; bars have been demolished; and black flags have been hung around town to honor Ansar Dine, or Defenders of the Faith, the radical Islamist movement that emerged from the desert and turned life upside down.  <em>\u201cWe have bad memories of you because of Falluja and Afghanistan,\u201d the spokesman, Sanda Ould Boumana, said by telephone. \u201cYou are not well placed to talk about liberty, when we see what is happening in Guant\u00e1namo, Iraq and Palestine.\u201d<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uesf.org\/uesf-members-vote-97-yes-in-first-strike-vote\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.uesf.org\/uesf-members-vote-97-yes-in-first-strike-vote\/<\/a> \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/03\/world\/africa\/in-timbuktu-mali-rebels-and-islamists-impose-harsh-rule.html?ref=global-home\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/03\/world\/africa\/in-timbuktu-mali-rebels-and-islamists-impose-harsh-rule.html?ref=global-home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Obamagogue Touts Bogus Spitting Image of Vietnam Vet to Build Support for Endless Wars <\/strong>Incessantly echoed by Hollywood and Washington since the concurrent successes of the Rambo and Reagan franchises, this legend was the central theme of President Obama&#8217;s Memorial Day speech kicking off the government&#8217;s commemoration of the Vietnam conflict.<br \/>\n&#8220;You were often blamed for a war you didn&#8217;t start, when you should have been commended for serving your country with valor,&#8221; he told veterans. &#8220;You came home and sometimes were denigrated, when you should have been celebrated. It was a national shame, a disgrace that should have never happened.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s undeniable that chronic underfunding of the Veterans Administration unduly harmed Vietnam-era soldiers. However, that lamentable failure was not what Obama was referring to. As the president who escalated the Vietnam-esque war in Afghanistan, he was making a larger argument. Deliberately parroting Rambo&#8217;s claim about &#8220;a quiet war against all the soldiers returning,&#8221; he was asserting that America as a whole spat on soldiers when they came home \u2014 even though there&#8217;s no proof that this happened on any mass scale.<br \/>\nIn his exhaustive book entitled &#8220;The Spitting Image,&#8221; Vietnam vet and Holy Cross professor Jerry Lembcke documents veterans who claim they were spat on by antiwar protestors, but he found no physical evidence (photographs, news reports, etc.) that these transgressions actually occurred. His findings are supported by surveys of his fellow Vietnam veterans as they came home. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creators.com\/liberal\/david-sirota\/the-legend-of-the-spat-upon-veteran.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.creators.com\/liberal\/david-sirota\/the-legend-of-the-spat-upon-veteran.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Nazi-woman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7124\" title=\"Nazi woman\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Nazi-woman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Nazi-woman.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Nazi-woman-211x300.jpg 211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is what multiculturalism looks like: Female US Praetorian Guard Want to kill more People <\/strong>Two female soldiers asked a federal judge to throw out the U.S. military\u2019s restrictions on women in combat, claiming the policy violates their constitutional rights.<br \/>\nU.S. Army reservists Jane Baldwin and Ellen Haring, in a lawsuit filed today in Washington, said policies excluding them from assignments \u201csolely because they are women\u201d violate their right to equal protection guaranteed by the Constitution\u2019s 5th Amendment. The complaint names Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Army Secretary John McHugh as defendants.<br \/>\n\u201cThis limitation on plaintiffs\u2019 careers restricts their current and future earnings, their potential for promotion and advancement, and their future retirement benefits,\u201d the women said in the complaint filed by Christopher Sipes of Covington &amp; Burling LLP in Washington.<br \/>\nThe Pentagon in February announced a change in policy that opened more than 14,000 additional positions to women across the armed services, most of them in the Army. Still, it stopped short of allowing women to serve in so-called ground combat assignments, including special forces and long range reconnaissance operations.<br \/>\nGeorge Little, a Pentagon spokesman, declined to comment on the lawsuit. He said in an e-mail that Panetta \u201cis strongly committed to examining the expansion of roles for women in the U.S. military, as evidenced by the recent step of opening up thousands of more assignments to women.\u201d Women on Duty<br \/>\nWomen make up about 14.5 percent of active-duty military personnel, according to Pentagon figures, and the Army is continuing to review whether infantry positions should be open to women in the future. It is also considering whether to let female soldiers attend its elite Ranger School. \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-05-23\/two-female-soldiers-sue-u-s-defense-secretary-on-combat-polic\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">mobile.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-05-23\/two-female-soldiers-sue-u-s-defense-secretary-on-combat-polic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Those Wacky Bilderbergers, Trapped in a World they never Made, (and hiding behind cops) <\/strong> A dull office park near Dulles International Airport took on the sheen of a Hollywood thriller this week, when an invitation-only cadre of global leaders gathered for a secretive meeting known as the Bilderberg conference.<br \/>\nHenry Kissinger and Bill Gates were chauffeured in. Fairfax County police established a security perimeter around the Westfields Marriott and prohibited a Washington Post photographer from snapping pictures from a public street. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/is-bilderberg-a-conference-on-world-affairs-or-a-powerful-global-cabal-depends-on-who-you-ask\/2012\/06\/01\/gJQA5uqx7U_story.html?tid=pm_pop\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/is-bilderberg-a-conference-on-world-affairs-or-a-powerful-global-cabal-depends-on-who-you-ask\/2012\/06\/01\/gJQA5uqx7U_story.html?tid=pm_pop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Naming the Bilderberg Conspirators (participants) <\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&#038;aid=31172\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&#038;aid=31172<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The International Economic War of the Rich on the Poor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Give-a-man-a-bank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7065\" title=\"Give a man a bank\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Give-a-man-a-bank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Give-a-man-a-bank.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Give-a-man-a-bank-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ireland Votes: &#8220;Screw Us! Beat Us! Make Us Write Bad Checks!&#8221; <\/strong>Irish voters backed the European Union&#8217;s fiscal treaty, endorsing the German-inspired budget rules as the debt crisis rages around the euro region.<br \/>\nLed by Prime Minister Enda Kenny, the yes side won by about 60 per cent to 40 per cent, according to figures published today on the referendum count officer&#8217;s website. Treaty supporters were ahead by 326,000 votes. \u00a0http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/irish-voters-back-austerity-pack-20120602-1znw3.html<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Lost the Eurozone? <\/strong> As Spain\u2019s economic crisis deepens and uncertainty swirls over Greece\u2019s future in the euro zone, the guardians of the increasingly fragile European monetary union are near a moment of truth: Can they muster the will and resources to keep the euro zone from breaking apart? \u00a0The question has grown more urgent since the release of data Friday showing a record-high rate of unemployment in the euro zone, poor job creation in the United States and a manufacturing slowdown in China. Combined, those signals have fueled fears of a second global recession.<br \/>\nOn consecutive days last week, two of the most powerful figures in Europe \u2014 Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank, and Olli Rehn, the most senior economic official in Brussels \u2014 warned that the future of the euro zone was in doubt. In the words of Mr. Rehn, the union might well disintegrate unless policy makers took steps to bind the euro\u2019s 17 nations closer together. \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/04\/business\/global\/euro-zone-nears-moment-of-truth-on-staying-together.html?ref=global-home<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Jobless Eurozone <\/strong> The jobless rate in the 17-nation euro zone reached 11 percent in March and April, the highest since the start of the data in 1995, Eurostat, the European statistical agency, said in Luxembourg. The previous record had been 10.9 percent in February, Eurostat said, after it revised the March figure upward from the 10.9 percent initially estimated.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have an economy that\u2019s freezing up, it\u2019s clearly not creating jobs,\u201d Peter Dixon, global equities economist at Commerzbank in London, said. \u201cBut right now policy makers\u2019 main concern is to ensure that the peripheral countries\u2019 governments and banks can stay afloat. Given that, the real economic data is taking a back seat.\u201d \u00a0http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/02\/business\/global\/daily-euro-zone-watch.html?_r=1&amp;emc=tnt&amp;tntemail0=y<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Jobless USA <\/strong> Another bad month for the U.S. job market is lengthening the list of perils facing the global economy.<br \/>\nAmerican employers added only 69,000 jobs in May, the fewest in a year and not even close to what economists expected. For the first time since June, the unemployment rate rose, to 8.2 percent from 8.1 percent. It was the third month in a row of weak job growth and further evidence that, just as in 2010 and 2011, a winter of hope for the economy has turned to a spring of disappointment.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is horrible,\u201d said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at High Frequency Economics, a consulting firm.<br \/>\nThe job figures, released Friday by the Labor Department, dealt a blow to President Barack Obama at the start of a general election campaign that will turn on the economy.<br \/>\nThey also deepened the pessimism of investors, who even before the report was released were worried about a debt crisis in Europe with no sign of solution and signs of a slowdown in the powerhouse economy of China.<br \/>\n\u201cThe U.S. is not an island, and what happens abroad matters here,\u201d said Diane Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow Financial. \u201cThe weakness in Europe, in particular, has a global reach and is affecting us.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Dow Jones industrial average fell 275 points, its worst day of the year, \u00a0http:\/\/newsandtribune.com\/local\/x1647294590\/Bleak-U-S-jobs-report-a-danger-to-global-economy<\/p>\n<p><strong>These should be the only Living Monarchs <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/monarch-butterfly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7099\" title=\"monarch butterfly\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/monarch-butterfly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/monarch-butterfly.jpg 614w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/monarch-butterfly-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a>What a funny lot we are. One summer, there are riots in the streets and talk of &#8220;Broken Britain&#8221;; 10 months later, there&#8217;s bunting everywhere and almost everyone&#8217;s declarig how marvellous the Queen is, and, by extension, that we&#8217;re pretty good, too. Small wonder no one since the Normans has been able to get to grips with us.<br \/>\nYesterday, the only explosions heard in London were fusillades from the 41-gun salute fired by the King&#8217;s Troop, Royal Horse Artillery in Horse Guards Parade, which began the day&#8217;s festivities. Then, for the Queen, it was off to the Derby, riding down the straight at Epsom in an open-top limousine as an estimated crowd of 150,000 looked on and cheered as mightily as if she&#8217;d won the race itself \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/this-britain\/diamond-jubilee-street-parties-bunting-is-this-broken-britain-7813558.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/this-britain\/diamond-jubilee-street-parties-bunting-is-this-broken-britain-7813558.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Solidarity Fornever<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Van_Roekel_and_Duncan_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7078\" title=\"Van_Roekel_and_Duncan_\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Van_Roekel_and_Duncan_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dickens&#8217; Pickwick helps define Opportunism (that those who oppose high stakes tests, because of merit pay, and refuse to note the social context of corporate state schooling-of course many of them sup on NEA&#8217;s money)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><em>\u201cSlumkey for ever!\u201d roared the honest and independent.<br \/>\n\u201cSlumkey for ever!\u201d echoed Mr. Pickwick, taking off his hat.<br \/>\n\u201cNo Fizkin!\u201d roared the crowd.<br \/>\n\u201cCertainly not!\u201d shouted Mr. Pickwick.<br \/>\n\u201cHurrah!\u201d  And then there was another roaring, like that of a whole menagerie when the elephant has rung the bell for the cold meat.<br \/>\n\u201cWho is Slumkey?\u201d whispered Mr. Tupman.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d replied Mr. Pickwick, in the same tone.  \u201cHush, don\u2019t ask any questions.  It\u2019s always best on these occasions to do what the mob do.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cBut suppose there are two mobs?\u201d suggested Mr. Snodgrass.<br \/>\n\u201cShout with the loudest,\u201d replied Mr. Pickwick.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does NEA urge Rep Assembly Delegates to Visit in DC at the Rep Assembly? The Memorial to the Bogus &#8220;War on Terror&#8221;&#8211;that would be war for empire and profits. <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/memorial-911.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7081\" title=\"memorial 911\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/memorial-911.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/memorial-911.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/memorial-911-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Former San Diego EA Prezzie on the CTA as Frenemy <\/strong> For the past six years, SDEA has intentionally deemphasized our relationship with our state affiliate CTA (the California Teachers Association) and focused on doing things our own way. Here\u2019s why.<br \/>\nSDEA employs our own staff, who work directly for us and not for CTA. This is big deal because CTA\u2019s staffers tend to be very conservative in their advice to local unions. Theirs is a traditional union model where \u201cexpert\u201d staff provide services to \u201cgrateful\u201d members (remember, we pay their very large salaries!). They see state lobbying instead of local organizing as the most important role of the union. CTA staff analysis of school districts\u2019 budgets also tends to line up with the districts\u2019 own analysis, which as we know is wrong every single year.<br \/>\nHere\u2019s an example of how SDEA sees the world fundamentally differently than CTA: When we were bargaining our current contract, then-SDEA Executive Director Steve Johnson met with CTA budget analyst Angela Su to get some help costing out parts of our contract proposals. Angela Su advised us that we were crazy to be seeking a three-year contract, and that our best bet was to take a one-year deal with concessions. We ignored her advice and fought for a three-year contract that gets our concessions paid back in the third year. And we won. We won doing it our way, not theirs.<br \/>\nNow CTA is at it again, trying to convince SDEA leadership that our members should accept concessions as inevitable. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/thebreakfastclubsandiego.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/13\/the-bell-curve-why-cta-is-really-our-frenemy\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">thebreakfastclubsandiego.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/13\/the-bell-curve-why-cta-is-really-our-frenemy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For those Who Really, Really Believe they are Members of PBS <\/strong><br \/>\nTom Karlo, the general manager of public broadcasting operation KPBS, owned and operated by San Diego State University, makes $215,262 a year, according to state salary records obtained by the Sacramento Bee under the California Public Records Act. That\u2019s a little less than the $218,004 made by his predecessor, Doug Myrland, who retired in 2008 on a generous state pension following a 2007 tempest that arose after KPBS cancelled Full Focus, a news show popular with local political cognoscenti.<br \/>\nAccording to its most recent financial statement, KPBS received $6,894,767 in \u201cSan Diego State University transfers,\u201d but Myrland was always adamant that the cash didn\u2019t give the citizenry any say in how he ran the TV and FM stations. \u201cKPBS has been in existence for 46 years, and NEVER has it been a collective, or even a participatory democracy,\u201d he famously announced. \u201cI make decisions in the same way every General Manager before me did. We aren\u2019t elected officials \u2014 every budget line item and every personnel decision and every bit of information we collect is not everybody else\u2019s business. Just because you give a contribution or pay taxes doesn\u2019t give you the right to decide \u2014 or even influence \u2014 what goes on the air and what doesn\u2019t.\u201d \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2012\/may\/30\/radar-Tom-Karlo-KPBS\/\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2012\/may\/30\/radar-Tom-Karlo-KPBS\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Emerging Fascism as a Popular Mass Movement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BBC News - June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XJBnHMpHGRY?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>Barbarism Tearing at Mexico&#8211;the US Colony <\/strong> Pink and baby blue flags representing the 49 victims of the 2009 daycare fire that spread grief across Mexico were held aloft by demonstrators during a solemn protest commemorating the third anniversary of the tragedy. Parents marched from Mexico City&#8217;s main plaza, or Zocalo, to the Angel of Independence monument Sunday, led by rows of small children pushing baby carriages in honor of the dead.<br \/>\nThe June 5, 2009, fire at the ABC daycare center in the northwestern city of Hermosillo also left more than 70 toddlers and infants with serious burns. In the three years since, outraged and still-grieving parents have held emotional protests calling for justice for their children.<br \/>\nCorrespondent Ken Ellingwood reported in The Times in July 2009 that the &#8220;incident and its aftermath reveal much about what is wrong with Mexico,&#8221; and are widely seen as a low point under President Felipe Calderon.<br \/>\n&#8220;Impunity. Corruption. Lack of transparency. Aloof politicians who are most nimble when ducking blame. Bureaucracies that bury you in red tape,&#8221; Ellingwood wrote, describing the tell-tale traits that leave many residents disenchanted.<br \/>\nThree years on, the owners of the ABC center and high-level public officials in the state of Sonora &#8212; some with reported ties to First Lady Margarita Zavala &#8212; remain free (link in Spanish). Suspicions remain that the fire may have been intentionally set among boxes of tax records at a state government-leased warehouse next door to the daycare center. \u00a0http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/world_now\/2012\/06\/mexico-abc-fire-protest-corruption-hermosillo-parents-justice.html<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Spy versus Spy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fifItoMPTw\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3fifItoMPTw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Endless Ties between Journalists and US Spies <\/strong><strong> <\/strong>Alice A. Thuermer, a former Associated Press journalist who accompanied her husband on CIA postings around the globe, died May 6 at her home in Middleburg. She was 92&#8230;During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, she accompanied her husband, a clandestine CIA officer, to postings in India, Germany and Ghana. \u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/obituaries\/2012\/06\/01\/gJQAsgsj7U_story.html<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blackwater Mercs Say the CIA Made them do it <\/strong> Five ex-Blackwater executives, facing federal firearms charges in connection with a gift of weaponry to a Middle Eastern monarch, have come up with a new explanation for how it occurred: It was a CIA operation.<br \/>\nIn court papers filed last month in Raleigh, the defendants say the gift of five guns to King Abdullah II of Jordan during a royal visit to Blackwater&#8217;s Moyock, N.C., headquarters in March 2005 was requested, directed and authorized by the Central Intelligence Agency.<br \/>\nAttorneys for the five have filed declarations from two retired CIA officials, including a former Jordan station chief, who say they are familiar with the circumstances of the king&#8217;s visit and would be willing to testify about it. <a href=\"http:\/\/hamptonroads.com\/2012\/06\/exblackwater-executives-finger-cia-weapons-trial\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">hamptonroads.com\/2012\/06\/exblackwater-executives-finger-cia-weapons-trial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>China Arrests American Spy <\/strong> Reacting to what could be the biggest intelligence breach in China in years, the Chinese government detained a security official early this year who is suspected of passing information to the United States, a person with knowledge of the case said Friday. \u00a0 \u00a0The official is believed to be an employee in the Ministry of State Security, China\u2019s main intelligence agency. The United States and Chinese governments have not given any hint publicly of the discovery of the spying suspect. If the case were to be brought into the open, it could become another point of friction in a year of sharp diplomatic tensions between Washington and Beijing. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/02\/world\/asia\/china-is-said-to-detain-official-spying-for-united-states.html?_r=1&#038;ref=global-home\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/02\/world\/asia\/china-is-said-to-detain-official-spying-for-united-states.html?_r=1&#038;ref=global-home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oopsie Moment&#8211;US General Removed After announcing secret invasions of N. Korea <\/strong> The Pentagon announced the replacement of the commander of United States Special Operations in South Korea after a media report quoted him as saying that American and South Korean troops had been parachuting into North Korea on spy missions, a statement denied by Washington and the government in Seoul. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/06\/world\/asia\/american-general-in-south-korea-replaced-after-spy-report.html?_r=1&#038;ref=global-home\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/06\/world\/asia\/american-general-in-south-korea-replaced-after-spy-report.html?_r=1&#038;ref=global-home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>The Magical Mystery Tour<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Monsignor-Lynn-Perv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7075\" title=\"Monsignor William Lynn returns to the courthouse after lunch recess during his trial in Philadelphia\" src=\"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Monsignor-Lynn-Perv.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Monsignor-Lynn-Perv.jpg 563w, https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Monsignor-Lynn-Perv-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><strong> Monsignor William Lynn, <\/strong>who in his 12-year job as secretary of the clergy supervised hundreds of priests, is accused of conspiracy and child endangerment and, if convicted, faces the possibility of 28 years in prison.<br \/>\nProsecutors say Lynn, 61, the highest-ranking U.S. clergyman to go to trial in the church pedophilia scandal, covered up child sex abuse allegations, often by transferring priests to unsuspecting parishes.<br \/>\n&#8220;Keep the priest in the ministry, keep the congregation in the dark,&#8221; said assistant District Attorney Patrick Blessington in his closing statement in Common Pleas Court. &#8220;That was the plan. You saw it over and over again.&#8221;<br \/>\nLynn&#8217;s motive was to protect the church from scandal and avoid any potential loss of money, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vatican, Opposing Safe Sex with Boys, Also opposes Safe Sex For Girl Scouts <\/strong> Should there be any doubt left about how the Vatican views women after clamping down on American nuns late last month, the leaders of the billion-strong Catholic Church have now set their sights on the devilish Girl Scouts. No, it\u2019s not about the sinful cookies, but a claim that the Girl Scouts are associating with \u201cquestionable\u201d groups that the church believes do not strictly adhere to their tenets. In particular, the Vatican believes that several groups the Girl Scouts endorse, including M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res and Oxfam, both of which cater to the poor but also advocate safe sex and condom use to stop the spread of AIDS, might be a bad influence on the impressionable young women. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/05\/15\/vatican-investigating-girl-scouts-for-links-to-safe-sex-education-groups.html\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/05\/15\/vatican-investigating-girl-scouts-for-links-to-safe-sex-education-groups.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Glossolalia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cQ4114XO-Xo?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>Snake Bit <\/strong> Mack Wolford, a flamboyant Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia whose serpent-handling talents were profiled last November in The Washington Post Magazine, hoped the outdoor service he had planned for Sunday at an isolated state park would be a \u201chomecoming like the old days,\u201d full of folks speaking in tongues, handling snakes and having a \u201cgreat time.\u201d But it was not the sort of homecoming he foresaw.<br \/>\nInstead, Wolford, who had turned 44 the previous day, was bitten by a rattlesnake he had owned for years. He died late Sunday. \u00a0<em>If the reason you are guilty is an untrustworthy snake, why trust that new snake<\/em>? \u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/serpent-handling-pastor-profiled-earlier-in-washington-post-dies-from-rattlesnake-bite\/2012\/05\/29\/gJQAJef5zU_story.html?hpid=z5<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Snake Handlers at Jolo, West Virginia\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iUdc5h10zTo?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>Christian Zombie Eats Man&#8217;s Face; Martyred <\/strong> On the Saturday morning before he would make headlines for chewing off a man&#8217;s face &#8211; before he would come to be known tragically as the &#8220;Miami Zombie&#8221; &#8211; Rudy Eugene held his Bible and kissed his girlfriend goodbye.<br \/>\nEugene&#8217;s on-again, off-again girlfriend said he woke her up at 5:30 a.m. to say he was going to meet with a &#8220;homeboy.&#8221; She said she found it strange he was rummaging the closet so early in morning. He didn&#8217;t name the friend or say where he was going.<br \/>\nHe planted a kiss on her lips and said, &#8220;I love you.&#8221; Shortly after, he left the central Broward apartment he shared with her. \u00a0http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2012\/05\/30\/150625\/girlfriend-recalls-unusual-start.html<\/p>\n<p><strong>After Two Imperialist World Wars, let us not have #3 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WW II : RARE COLOR FILM : D-DAY : JUNE 5TH 1944\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lvZCDfhoNxA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>So Long<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Doug Dillard Band - Remington Ride\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9Wz03j-NlxQ?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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XdUrg2Cqxdw&#038;feature=relmfu\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XdUrg2Cqxdw&#038;feature=relmfu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\/p<\/p>\n<p>p<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Say Fight Back! Rouge Forum Conference Schedule is linked here <a href=\"http:\/\/rougeforum2012.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/rouge-forum-2012-schedule-draft.pdf\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\">rougeforum2012.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/06\/rouge-forum-2012-schedule-draft.pdf<\/a> Chicago Teachers Union to Hold Strike Vote Karen Lewis and the officers and members of the Chicago Teachers Union announced at a packed press conference on Friday afternoon, June 1, 2012, that the union will conduct its strike authorization referendum during the week [&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-7062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062","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=7062"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7137,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7062\/revisions\/7137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}