Link: http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/06/anti-teacher-bizarro-world

Teacher and UTLA member Randy Childs explains why the supposedly pro-union LA mayor has jumped on the bandwagon in scapegoating teachers unions.

Link: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705363940/Utahs-15-billion-cyber-security-center-under-way.html

CAMP WILLIAMS — Thursday's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important in the long term for Utah's reputation as a technology center. "This will bring 5,000 to 10,000 new jobs during its construction and development phase," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said on Wednesday. "Once completed, it will support 100 to 200 permanent high-paid employees." This probably is for watching the American people.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/business/07trade.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

The Obama administration offered a proposal on Thursday to allow long-haul Mexican trucks to move cargo in the United States. The proposal, which the Mexican government greeted as a positive step, was the latest sign of a new willingness by the Obama administration to support free-trade measures backed by Republicans and by businesses despite objections from labor unions and other liberal constituencies.

Link: http://www.a-w-i-p.com/index.php/2011/01/06/tsa-airports-are-only-the-beginning

"Unless we abolish this vile agency, the TSA will carry its war on Americans from airports, bus stations, and political events to highways, shopping malls, even sidewalks." The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), notorious for groping and ogling naked passengers at checkpoints, has long claimed that its “mission” is “protect[ing] the Nation’s transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce.” You may ask how delaying travelers in enormously long lines “ensure[s] freedom of movement”; recall that these same jokers contend as well that their sexual assaults protect us. At least their double-speak and Orwellian “logic” are consistent.

Link: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100070734/what-is-happening-in-our-society-that-we-need-to-drug-five-year-old-children/

A report in today’s newspaper says that children with attention deficit disorder (ADHD) can’t switch off the default mode network (DMN) in their brains, the daydreaming function. Stimulant drugs such as methylphenidate may help to switch off this DMN, turn down the volume, as it were, and enable the ADHD sufferer to focus on a task. The drug companies are labeling normal childhood behavior as abnormal so they can get children hooked on drugs thus creating life long addicts and endless future profits.

Link: http://robertscourt.blogspot.com/2011/01/elite-openly-flaunts-plan-to-turn.html

Chilling future scenario funded by banks & oil companies depicts authoritarian cities where only the wealthy will be allowed to eat meat, drive cars and choose their own career – all in the name of preventing non-existent global warming

Link: http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21003198189967/

A new piece of technology may soon be coming to South Florida, but is already raising concerns from residents. The Miami-Dade Police Department recently finalized a deal to buy a drone, which is an unmanned plane equipped with cameras. Drones have been used for years in Iraq and Afghanistan in the war against terror. Many residents are concerned that the new technology will violate their privacy. It was just a matter of time before this happened to the American slaves.

Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2011-01-06-suicides06_ST_N.htm?csp=34news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A%2BUsatodaycomNation-TopStories%2B%28News%2B-%2BNation%2B-%2BTop%2BStories%29

The Army said more soldiers killed themselves or are suspected of doing so last year than in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas. The Army's largest post saw a record-high number of soldiers kill themselves in 2010 despite a mental health effort aimed at reversing the trend. The Army says 22 soldiers have either killed themselves or are suspected of doing so last year at its post at Fort Hood in Texas, twice the number from 2009. But the corporate media keeps telling us that American soldiers are happy and love fighting endless war...

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8243726/Female-Israeli-activist-could-be-sent-to-prison-for-praying-at-Wailing-Wall.html

An Israeli activist who defied orthodox Jewish custom by leading a group of women in open prayer at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall has been told to expect years in prison for breaching the peace. Expect years in prison for breaching the repression.

Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/activists-decry-second-class-citizen/

Human rights activists and some constitutional scholars are denouncing a proposal by a group of state lawmakers to create a "second class" of US citizenship that would apply to children of illegal immigrants. This sounds like slavery.

Link: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/obama-chooses-jpmorgan-exec-william-daley-chief-staff/

Obama chooses JPMorgan exec. William Daley as new chief of staff. JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive and former commerce secretary William Daley was chosen Thursday to be President Obama's new White House chief of staff, according to published reports.

Link: http://www.truth-out.org/a-pledge-resistance-defend-social-security-and-defund-empire66591

For the third time in the last 20 years, establishment voices with high-profile slots in traditional media are trying to convince the public to accept cuts to Social Security by endlessly claiming such cuts are necessary, without giving coherent evidence to justify the claim.

Link: http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/06/bottomless-greed-at-uc

A GROUP of top executives at the University of California (UC) have signed a letter demanding pension increases for the highest-paid administrators while students and lower-wage workers at the university face austerity measures.

Link: http://charleston.thedigitel.com/news/thousands-dead-fish-wash-folly-beach-26480-0106

In an as-of-yet unexplained phenomena much like the one that took place in Arkansas earlier this week, thousands of dead fish have washed up on the shore of Folly Beach. Early reports are saying the fish likely died as a result of the cold water, but to be sure, SCDNR crews are out on Folly Beach collecting samples. According to the brief in The Post and Courier, "From the Folly Beach pier, there is a line of dead fish as far as one can see in both directions."

Link: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/01/woman_disrupts_congress_as_rep.html

A woman interrupted U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) today as the congressman read a passage from the Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives. The exercise of reading the Constitution as the newly elected 112th Congress opened session for the year had been running smoothly for some time, with each congressperson reading a few lines from the document. But as Pallone took his turn, reading the line, "No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President," a woman in the gallery shouted, "Except Obama, except Obama, help us Jesus!"

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27206.htm

Deregulation allows the banks to create as much bogus money as they want in the form of credit. When a bank issues a loan to someone who can't repay the debt, it's counterfeiting, which is the same as stealing. This is what the banks did in the lead-up to the Market Meltdown of '08; they issued trillions of dollars of mortgages to people who had no job, no income, no collateral, and a bad credit history. The banks abandoned all the standard criteria for issuing loans, so they could increase the quantity of loans they produced. Why? Because bankers get paid on the front-end of the transaction, which means that when they make a loan, they mark it as a credit on their books so they can draw a hefty salary and a fat bonus at the end of the year. In other words, there are powerful incentives for bankers to do the wrong thing, which is why they act the way they do.

Link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27208.htm

This year, 2011, marks the beginning of baby boomers receiving Social Security checks and they should be alerted of past perennial Republican attempts to partially privatize the program. Heaven forbid that plans prevail to invest a certain amount of those checks in the stock market, as many pension plans have taken a bath in the current meltdown. While there have been past GOP plans to partially privatize the program, fortunately they have all failed. So far the Social Security trust fund remains tempting for the gamblers and other risk takers on the market.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/06/wikileaks-secret-whaling-deal?intcmp=122

American diplomats proposed Japan reduce whaling in exchange for US help cracking down on the anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd, leaked cables reveal Japan and the US proposed to investigate and act against international anti-whaling activists from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as part of a political deal to reduce whaling in Antarctic waters.

Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/06/two-packages-maryland-explosion-us

FBI's joint-terrorism taskforce investigating explosion at buildings 20 miles apart, which left two workers slightly burned. The packages were sent to state government buildings 20 miles apart, and released smoke and the smell of sulphur when they were opened. Two workers were slightly burned, but not seriously, the Associated Press reported.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/01/06

Years of demonizing public employee unions as part of a right-wing assault against the labor movement now seems about to pay off. That's due in part to state budgets that have been driven near bankruptcy largely by the Wall Street-led crash, and the political cover provided by otherwise liberal Democrats such as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. He is seeking a reasonable-sounding one-year pay freeze that adds a bipartisan patina to the growing union-bashing.

Link: http://www.infowars.com/alex-jones-dea-uses-drug-war-to-spy-worldwide/

The United States government allegedly infused drugs into our inner cities in order to keep minorities down and destabilize world governments. Radio host Alex Jones says it wasn’t just about destabilizing inner cities and financing revolutions overseas. It was also about the 100 of billions of dollars laundered in drugs through large western banks, they then lobbied Congress to expand prison complexes they own and sell stock in.

Link: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011/01/06/the-rich-can-already-call-it-a-year/

Well, 2011, it’s been nice. But I think we’ve worked enough already. In any case, we’ve already made enough money. Time to call it a year. This is a ridiculous idea, right? Yet, as the Canadian Financial Post reported at the beginning of the week, “Top CEOs will have earned average workers’ full annual pay by 2:30 p.m. today.” The “today” in question was Monday, January 3, the first business day of the year. Here’s their explanation:

Link: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/01/06/gordon-duff-monsters-among-us-cry-little-sister-music-video/

To Live or Die for a Real America.. I talked with one of my good friends last night. He was in Vietnam in the 1960s, as was I. He spent much of his life working in intelligence, not a safe and warm occupation during the cold war, when there may have been honor in the word “intelligence.” There was always that fine line, America supporting brutal dictators or America defending world freedom. My good friend has had enough, someone who genuinely loves America, perhaps one of the best people I know. He looks around him and sees a country and a people he no longer respects. We differ on many things but not this, few Americans, when honest with themselves, will differ on this, not anymore. There is one thing being said, silently with too many, loudly with some: How did we let this happen?

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2011/jan2011/bank-j06.shtml

The number of people in the US filing for bankruptcy rose by 9 percent last year to 1.53 million, as more working families fell victim to job losses, plunging home values and unforgiving creditors. The figure was the highest since 2005 when changes in the bankruptcy laws making it more difficult and costly to file led to a sharp decline in the number of Americans seeking court protection. The recent spike in cases—despite the added costs and legal hurdles—is indicative of just how desperate large segments of the American population are despite the official claims of an economic recovery. But the corporate media keeps telling us we are in the midst of a recovery...

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/20111673859747484.html

Israel's foreign minister has accused Turkey of anti-Israel incitement and likened the country to Iran on the eve of its 1979 Islamic revolution, saying Ankara's policies were to blame for the breakdown of ties with the Israel. How can bloodthirsty little Israel alienate so many people, so many countries and survive?

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/01/2011168265100969.html

State media says authorities arrest 55-year-old woman who entered the country without visa and with "spying equipment". An American woman has been arrested in Iran on charges of spying, the Associated Press news agency has reported. Authorities arrested the 55-year-old woman near the border town of Norduz, 600km northwest of the capital Tehran, after she entered the country without a visa, the news wire quoted the state-owned IRAN newspaper as saying on Thursday. The report said that the women was carrying hidden spying equipment, without elaborating on what that equipment was or when she was arrested.