Ex-LAPD officer Christopher Dorner
L.A. UNDRESSED BY RUTH FOWLER.
British journalist and screen-writer who wrote “Girl, Undressed,” based on her experience in the New York City sex trade, deconstructs the public outrage concerning Christopher Dorner, the deranged former LAPD officer turned cop killer. As usual, public notice focuses on the derangement and not what was in the mind and the experience of the perpetrator. Noting LAPD corruption and violence that goes back at least to the Rodney King days and has been repeated as recently as the violence against the Occupy movement, Fowler says Dorner may be but another of those “chickens” that Malcolm X said had come home to “roost” when authorities accustomed to everyday and publicly-condoned violence get a taste of their own medicine.
(Counterpunch)
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IS WORLD WAR I ABOUT TO START UP AGAIN?
Something like this is being suggested by several commentators, noting a similarity between the “tinder box” of international rivalries that led to WW I in Europe 100 years ago, and the “tinder box on the water” situation in Asia today as maritime disputes between China, Japan and other Asian powers erupt, and an Asian “pivot” by western entities like the U.S. and NATO add greatly to the conflagration-possibilities of conflict in Asia.
(World Socialist)
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SCAB WORKERS AND OBAMACARE IN NEW ENGLAND.
Stop and Shop is a string of grocery stores with 250 outlets in New England. A strike among their workers impends as negotiations fail over the plans of the company to deny health insurance coverage on grounds that new Obamacare system will allow such workers to get insurance through “exchanges.” With strike looming, the company sets up recruitment centers to hire 40,000 “replacement workers” (aka scabs).
(In These Times)
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CARIBBEAN CRUISE FROM HELL: CARNIVAL”TRIUMPH” LIES DEAD IN THE WATER OF THE GULF OF MEXICO.
Tug boats attempt to bring the disabled ship. with 4200 passengers on board, to Carnival’s site in Galveston. Sister ships called Legend and Elation provide meals to the stranded passengers, who are offered refunds for their ill-fated trips of a lifetime.
(Houston Chronicle)
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POST-SURGERY DISCHARGE IN ORLANDO: SO LONG DOC, I’LL SEE YOU AGAIN WITHIN 30 DAYS.
Such dialogue might well be heard, considering the record of post-surgery re-admissions of patients within a month of their discharges. Orlando Health’s re-admission rate of 13% is higher than the national average and, nationally, failures of hospital surgical units to “get it right the first time” is costing Medicare some $26 billion per year.
(Orlando Sentinel)
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Quote of the day…
What’s most remarkable about this willingness to endorse extremist policies because you “trust” the current leader exercising them is how painfully illogical it is, and how violently contrary it is to everything Americans are taught from childhood about their country. It should not be difficult to comprehend that there is no such thing as vesting a Democratic President with Power X but not vesting a GOP President with the same power. To endorse a power in the hands of a leader you like is, necessarily, to endorse the power in the hands of a leader you dislike.
Glenn Greenwald, on the tendency of “progressives” to support civil rights repressive actions by Obama administration.
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