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"Your Queen is trumped": Queen of Spades by the Kirov
Watching The Queen of Spades staged by a Russian company is often an unforgettable experience.
The Princeton Festival presents one opera annually, amidst other events. Its offerings usually alternate annually between 20th century and earlier operas. This year the Festival presented Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, now a classic work, in a very effective and moving production.
If you like your Ariadne on Naxos productions as playful as a box of puppies, then Opera Theatre of Saint Louis is the address for you.
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis took forty years before attempting Verdi's Macbeth but judging by the excellence of the current production, it was well worth the wait.
On June 16, 2016, Los Angeles Opera with Beth Morrison Projects presented the world premiere of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang's Anatomy Theater at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT).
In its compact forty-year history, the ambitious Opera Theatre of Saint Louis has just triumphantly presented its twenty-fifth world premiere with Shalimar the Clown.
The sharp angles and oddly tilting perspectives of Charles Edwards' set for David Alden's production of Jenůfa at ENO suggest a community resting precariously on the security and certainty of its customs, soon to slide from this precipice into social and moral anarchy.
Last week an audience of 50 assembled in the kitchen of a luxurious West Village townhouse for a performance of Marriage of Figaro.
In a recent article in BBC Music Magazine tenor James Gilchrist reflected on the reason why early-nineteenth-century England produced no corpus of art song to match the German lieder of Schumann, Schubert and others, despite the great flowering of English Romantic poetry during this period.
With the New York Premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas, the New York City Opera Steps Out of the Shadows of the Past
Opportunities to see Idomeneo are not so frequent as they might be, certainly not so frequent as they should be.
Not merely Don Carlo, but the five-act Don Carlo in the 1886 Modena version! The welcomed esotericism of San Francisco Opera's extraordinary spring season.
The early summer San Francisco Opera season has the feel of a classy festival. There is an introduction of Spanish director Calixto Bieito to American audiences, a five-act Don Carlo and two awaited, inevitable role debuts, Karita Mattila as Kostelnička and Malin Bystrom as Janacek's Jenůfa.
Now that the curtain has long fallen on the third and last performance of the Ring cycle at the Washington National Opera (WNO), it is safe to say that the long-anticipated production has been an unqualified success for the company, director Francesca Zambello, and conductor Philippe Auguin.
Most of the attention during this revival of Daniele Abbado's 2013 production of Nabucco has been directed at Plácido Domingo's reprise of the title role, with the critical reception somewhat mixed.
Four years ago, almost to the day (13th to 12th), I saw Melly Still's production of The Cunning Little Vixen during its first Glyndebourne run. I found myself surprised how much more warmly I responded to it this time.
This recital celebrated both the work of the Park Lane Group, which has been supporting the careers of outstanding young artists for 60 years, and the 90th birthday of Joseph Horovitz, who was born in Vienna in 1926 and emigrated to England aged 12.
Headed by General Director Luana DeVol, a world-renowned dramatic soprano, Opera Las Vegas is a relatively new company that presents opera with first-rate casts at the University of Las Vegas's Judy Bayley Theater. In 2014 they presented Rossini's The Barber of Seville and in 2015, Puccini's Madama Butterfly. This year they offered a blazing rendition of Georges Bizet's Carmen.
Ever since a friend was reported as having said he would like something in return for modern-dress Shakespeare (how quaint that term seems now, as if anyone would bat an eyelid!), namely an Elizabethan-dress staging of Look Back in Anger, I have been curious about the possibilities of 'down-dating', as I suppose we might call it. Rarely, if ever, do we see it, though.
Leading a very muscular Dutch Radio Philharmonic, Principal Conductor Markus Stenz brilliantly delivered Alban Berg's Wozzeck with a superb Florian Boesch in the lead and a mesmerising Asmik Grigorian as Marie his wife.
There can't be that many operas that start with an extended solo for double bass. At Holland Park, the eerie, angular melody for lone bass player which opens Pietro Mascagni's Iris immediately unsettled the relaxed mood of the summer evening.
Watching The Queen of Spades staged by a Russian company is often an unforgettable experience.
This is particularly true of the first-rate troupe of the Kirov Opera that still holds its regular St Petersburg season in the very building where Tchaikovsky's masterpiece premiered in late December, 117 years ago. That said, the closing performance of The Queen of Spades that the Kirov offered this year at the Kennedy Center is an experience I would much rather forget. While not horrible, it was inconsistent, careless, even sloppy – a step down from the opening night of Otello the week before, and a leap down from what this company is capable of doing with this most St Petersburg-esque of all operas.
As expected, Vladimir Galouzine as Gherman easily out-sang the rest of the cast. Although he did opt for the lower, less "insane" key of A-major for the gambling house brindisi, his strong, powerful heldentenor high register garnered well-deserved applause. So did his acting, particularly in Act 3 in which Gherman's fragile psyche is gradually unraveling in front of our eyes. I would specifically point to an often overlooked duet of Gherman and besotted Liza at the Winter Canal, here made compelling in its stark contrast of distraction and devotion. However, there were several moments when the singer was taking liberties (or was it memory lapses?) with his part. In the opening arioso, the perfect high note arguably made up for the missing verb in the text; not so in the finale, when dying Gherman simply refused to declare how much he loved his "angel" and left maestro Gergiev holding the bag (i.e., the score) for a few incomprehensible (without the vocal line, that is) measures before being saved at last by the final chorus.
Mlada Khudoley's Liza was not particularly impressive in the opening act: indeed, in Scene 2 she was overshadowed not only by her girlfriend Pauline, performed by Zlata Bulycheva, but even by her maid (Maria Matveeva). Still, to her credit, Ms Khudoley improved steadily throughout Act 2, and did wonderfully in her famous Act 3 Winter Canal aria – at least in the lyrical opening section. No singer, no matter how fabulous, can ever save the unfortunate F#-minor cabaletta that follows (the reprise of it as a duet is more unfortunate still, particularly in the poetry department).
Lyubov Sokolova, whom I liked as Emilia in Otello, acquitted herself admirably as The Countess, with a rich low register and a proud arrogance of manner. I do regret not having had an opportunity to hear the illustrious Irina Bogacheva: she was showcased in this, her classic role on the earlier nights, with Sokolova as the Governess (Olga Savova, Sokolova's replacement in that cute cameo role on December 14th, was a regrettable choice).
Outside the fateful triangle of Gherman, Liza, and the "Old Hag," Alexander Gergalov's Yeletsky shone in his Act 2 aria but was nondescript elsewhere. I liked the gamblers – Sergei Semishkur's Chekalinsky, Fedor Kuznetsov's Narumov, Sergei Skorokhodov's Chaplitsky, and particularly Yuri Vorobiev's jolly and sonorous Surin. Evgenii Nikitin was, overall, a good Tomsky, although I preferred his highs to his lows, and his gambling house song to his ballad. I was prejudiced, of course: no one can ever quite recover from hearing Sergei Leiferkus in this role (see the Kirov's recent Queen of Spades DVD for details).
Set designer Alexander Orlov offered us a minimalist setting. The single backdrop of the narrowed stage showed a granite staircase rising toward a fragment of the Neva river embankment. The details marked the spot as the tip of the Vasilievsky Island, across the river from the original Winter Canal of Scene 6, and a place that some St Petersburg dwellers call "the end of the world" – a historically incorrect but strangely appropriate setting for this symbolist tragedy. The symbolically disinclined Petersburg natives in the audience – and there were many – were meanwhile puzzled by the fact that the staircase led in the wrong direction, so technically the characters were literally "walking on water." But most of the historical and geographical details that typically create the pageantry of The Queen of Spades were either skewed or eliminated. The absence of poor Liza's pianoforte, for example, turned the "real" period tunes of the Scene 2 duet and Pauline's romance into an unreal, theatrical pretend sung into the orchestra pit. When the pageantry did appear, it was glaringly self-aware: the figure of the young Countess haunting each scene dressed in her rococo splendor; three masked figures in black, revealed in Act 3 to be the personifications of the three cards; the Act 2 ball turned into a masquerade...
The theatricality (or perhaps the unreality) of the drama was highlighted by several tall curtains – some black, others white – that were used to separate scenes, characters, and events throughout the opera. A black curtain, specifically, enlivened the section of the ballroom scene in which masked Surin and Chekalinsky are haunting the increasingly unstable Gherman with a fragment of the three card ballad, while literally hiding behind it. It was also used to great effect in the last act, making its three scenes, in effect, run continuously, and thus increasing the tension leading towards the catastrophic dénouement. From the point of view of the overall direction and design, the curtain idea went beyond stage business, of course: it symbolically represented the opera's crushing contrasts of light and dark, day and night, life and death, real and surreal. Yet here, as at many points in this performance, a good idea was betrayed by its slipshod execution: the fabric was too light, which made the black look gray, and both black and white look cheap; it divided into unattractive sections, each flapping about seemingly with a life of its own, and all more Mary Poppins than Countess ***.
The otherworldly green-colored (and much better draped) Act 2 pastoral did provide a nice contrast to all the black and white: a lively stylization of French rococo court entertainment, it sported a traditional separation of singers and their dancing doubles. The scene would have worked even better if the number of dancers had been curtailed: the endless leaf-decorated fauns made the stage a little over-crowded. The same can be said for the actual crowd scenes, particularly the opening Summer Garden party: the choristers in their elaborate costumes (costume designer Irina Cheredniakova) kept getting in each other's way; the striking hats alone required two extra feet of space around each wearer.
Overall, despite some controversial directing and designing choices, there were many attractive features in the Kirov production of The Queen of Spades. Alas, the same cannot be said for the performance – at least not on the night in question. This was probably the sloppiest work I have ever witnessed from the Kirov, inexcusable in a world-class opera company that has clearly demonstrated on so many occasions (and to me, as recently as five days earlier) that it can do better. In Act 1, the whole ensemble seemed to have forgotten how to count, sliding constantly out of sync with the orchestra and with each other. Among many ill-fated consequences, this problem doomed the chilly, barely accompanied quintet in the opening scene – the moment that Russian musicologist Boris Asafiev once called "the nerve center" of the opera that first and irrevocably ties together Gherman, Liza, and The Countess. Bad timing also ruined the little duet of Gherman and Yeletsky in the same scene: as the characters are expressing directly opposing sentiments in almost the same words but contrasting rhythmic profiles, its very incongruence, its "anti-duet-ness," depends on perfect, ironclad synchronicity for its effect. Thankfully, things improved somewhat as the opera progressed: still shaky in Act 2, the timing was acceptable (yet still not perfect) in Act 3. It must be added that this criticism applies to the soloists but not to the chorus, as steady and in sync as it has ever been. The same cannot be said for the orchestra, however: it did well, but did not impress me as much as it usually does. The bass clarinet solo in Act 2 Scene 2 and the horn chords that punctuated the Countess's death scene were two of many examples of imprecision ruining Tchaikovsky's bone-chilling effects.
So, if you missed the Kirov's Queen of Spades this season, do not despair. Instead, get yourself their (granted, much more traditional – pianoforte and all) DVD for Christmas and witness Russia's greatest opera company do justice to one of Russia's greatest masterworks.
Olga Haldey


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Donald Trump's Birtherism and Appeal to White Power Are a Road to Fascism
Revisiting Donald Trump's flirtation with the "birther" movement that goes back many years is worthwhile in understanding his current incarnation as the bellowing, vulgarian "king of the whites who feel displaced."
As reported in Talking Points Memo,
Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio introduced Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Wednesday at a rally by reminding everyone that they were both vocal members of the "birther" movement that questioned President Barack Obama's birth certificate.
Arpaio's comment came less than a day after the real estate mogul evaded a question about whether he thought Obama was a legitimate President....
Both Arpaio and Trump have been vocal members of the "birther" movement which claims Obama was born in Kenya.
In a September BuzzFlash commentary, we noted that Trumpism is really about coded white privilege. Trump may have started his campaign with scurrilous descriptions of Mexicans who seek refuge in the United States. However, in just a short period of time, he has fluidly moved from defaming Mexicans to denigrating Black Lives Matter protesters to slandering Muslims to once again evoking his "birther" movement credentials.
The "birther" movement is no small part of Trump's bombastic, demagogic appeal.
Sheldon Adelson Subsidizes Extremist Netanyahu Policies With Free Israeli Newspaper
There was a lot of media attention paid last week to billionaire Sheldon Adelson's purchase of the largest newspaper in Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Speculation abounded as to the motives of Adelson - a casino magnate who currently is positioned 15th in Forbes' US billionaire rankings - in buying the largest newspaper in Nevada.
Was Adelson trying to influence the 2016 political race, particularly by staking out a favorite GOP candidate in the Nevada primary, which is the fourth GOP primary contest next year? Is he also counting on using the paper as a platform to try to swing Nevada Republican in the presidential election? After all, this is a man who spent $150 million trying to defeat Barack Obama in 2012, according to U.S. News & World Report....
After all, Adelson owns another newspaper that most Americans know little about. It is called Yisrael Hayom, and it has the largest circulation of any newspaper in Israel. That may be due to the fact that is distributed for free: Adelson subsidizes it to the tune of some $40 million a year. The pages of Yisrael Hayom may be used by many Israelis for wrapping fish; nevertheless, it is a serious shaper of right-wing public opinion, due to its consistently extremist pro-Netanyahu positions.
The Economist, in an April 25 article, described the relationship between Yisrael Hayom and Netanyahu: "Yisrael Hayom is a freesheet owned by Sheldon Adelson, a casino mogul and supporter of Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister. Its headlines are routinely approved by the prime minister's office."
Busted at Birth: Becoming Instantly Disposable in the United States
As I saw a clip the other day of CNN promoting a presidential debate - yet again - as some sort of gladiator event, I was disgusted by how the mainstream corporate media thrives on promoting conflict to attract viewers.
It's not just politics that becomes a caricature of a series of World Wrestling Federation bouts - it's also the superficial and sensationalist corporate media coverage of struggles for a just, equal and enlightened democracy. With all the courageous advocacy happening around the United States to achieve social justice, movements are often portrayed as some sort of pitched battle between "the forces of law and order" and activists. Corporate-run television, in particular, tends to reduce vital struggles over moral imperatives to viewer-attracting "clashes."
Activists around the country are making it very clear that the instances of violence that are the subject of protests - for example, police killings - occur within the context of systemic oppression. However, when covering protests, the mass media rarely reports that the overall goal of many of these actions is transformative change, nor do corporate outlets generally discuss the ways in which oppression has taken root in their own coverage.
Mass media does not reveal the perniciousness of the "white settler" narrative that has been handed from one US generation to the next - and how crucial it is to disrupt that narrative. Of course, with the change of narrative must come a metamorphosis in attitudes and institutional structures within the US.
Weapons Sales to Taiwan Show That for the US, Arming the World Is Profitable
China lodged an official protest against the Obama administration's announcement that Taiwan has been cleared to purchase $1.83 billion in US arms, according to The New York Times:
The Obama administration's announcement that it would sell $1.83 billion worth of arms to Taiwan, including two warships and antitank missiles, has drawn a swift rebuke from China, which threatened to penalize the companies that made the armaments and summoned a United States diplomat to register an official protest.
Although the sale is not remarkably large as far as US weaponry is concerned, it is of value to look at the transaction in the context of US weapons sales.
In the last two years, we have repeatedly noted how the US economy is heavily invested in the so-called "defense industry."
A BuzzFlash commentary this summer reported on a National Priorities Project analysis which found that 54 percent of all US government discretionary spending in 2015 - more than $598 billion dollars - is going to the military. That does not include funding for intelligence agencies (such as the CIA and NSA, which receive tens of billions of dollars), nor does it include the supplemental funds that were used to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which are still not over.
Funding for the military-industrial-complex is also buried in other congressionally budgeted line items, particularly when it comes to covert programs.
War - or just ratcheting up the potential for conflict through stockpiling armaments - is profitable. For example, the National Priorities Project found that Lockheed Martin "saw over $5.5 billion in profit, and paid its CEO more than $34 millionin 2014. And the $32 billion it received from the U.S. government made up more than seventy percent of its total sales."
Why Is a Hedge Fund Acquiring a Nonprofit Hospital System? Not Out of Good Will
What is motivating a hedge fund to acquire a Catholic nonprofit hospital system in the San Francisco Bay Area? Is it a burst of Christmas spirit? After all, the Daughters of Charity hospitals serve a significant number of poor people in medical need.
We are skeptical that the acquiring hedge fund, BlueMountain Capital Management fund, is simply serving as a compassionate Santa Claus.
A December 14 article on the San Francisco Chronicle's SFGate site posed the financial paradox of the acquisition, given that the hospital is known for its care for the poor:
Hospital officials said patients should not notice any major changes. "Patients should see the same level of care and attention and concern for their health," said Rick Rice, spokesman for Daughters of Charity. "We expect that service to continue."
Daughters of Charity, which is based in Los Altos Hills, had been losing about $150 million a year and was searching for a buyer for years. A New York hedge fund seemed an unlikely entity to take over a nonprofit health system that treats a fair number of poor and uninsured patients.
The Paris Climate Agreement Is Unenforceable: It's a Nonbinding Resolution
A December 13 Politico European Edition article discusses how the replacement of the word "shall" with "should" became a vital necessity to the signing of the final COP21 agreement. According to Politico, the last-minute switch to "should" - in reference to compliance with agreement goals by the signatory nations - was made at the request of the United States. President Obama was allegedly worried that the use of the word "shall" would require legal obligations of the US, ensuring almost certain defeat of ratification of what then would be deemed a treaty by the Republican-controlled Senate.
However, it can be speculated that other nations were also concerned about the legal implications of a mandate as opposed to voluntary compliance with the COP21 goals. In short, by replacing the word "shall" with "should," the nations most responsible for ruinous global warming policies will have a lot of wiggle room in implementing the final document.
The National Resources Defense Council, which generally praises the Paris talks, does, however, inadvertently admit its key failings in an article on the top "takeaways" from the accord:
It's not a formal treaty and it doesn't commit us [the United States] to any new international legal obligations.
It doesn't contain legally binding carbon targets.
Each country has put forth its own voluntary proposals for ambitious carbon reductions.
Antonin Scalia Is an Affirmative Action Fool on the Supreme Court
Antonin Scalia was appointed to the Supreme Court three decades ago; he will have served on that "august" body for 30 years as of 2016. As perilous as the condition of the United States is, it's amazing that the nation has not yet imploded from the force of Scalia's judicial brutality.
After all, Scalia is the Donald Trump of the Supreme Court, casting forth rulings and remarks that poke through the edge of the envelope of both the law and civil society. That may be why some publications, a handful of politicians and a couple of pundits criticized Scalia's racist comments during oral arguments in the latest affirmative action case to appear before SCOTUS. During a hearing this week, Scalia, according to ThinkProgress, stated, "Black students don't need affirmative action because they benefit from a 'slower track,'" and asserted that Black students would, in general, benefit from "less advanced school[s]."
CNN reported that Minority Leader Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) ripped into Scalia in his Thursday morning opening Senate remarks:
Reid read Scalia's full comments on the Senate floor Thursday morning and tore them apart.
"These ideas that he pronounced yesterday are racist in application, if not intent," Reid said. "I don't know about his intent, but it is deeply disturbing to hear a Supreme Court justice endorse racist ideas from the bench on the nation's highest court. His endorsement of racist theories has frightening ramifications, not the least of which is to undermine the academic achievements of Americans, African-Americans especially."
Scalia doesn't render judicial opinions so much as he issues partisan diatribes that include enough legal mumbo jumbo to make it appear as if his fish wrap of law is actually respected jurisprudence - rather than a week-old newspaper that last held a rancid cut of carp.
Over the years, Scalia has rendered court-watchers dismayed but helpless, as his outrageous comments and legal opinions spew forth unchecked. In 2009, we noted one particularly shocking written legal finding that didn't raise much of a stir nationally. In an appeal to the Supreme Court to re-hear the case of condemned prisoner Troy Davis, based on possibly exonerating evidence that had been disclosed since his original trial, Scalia wrote that he opposed a new trial. Why? Because, Scalia argued - and we are not making this up - there is apparently nothing in the Constitution that prohibits the execution of a person who is convicted and later produces exonerating evidence.
Those Who Champion the "American Dream" Are Leading Us Into a Nightmare
It's a bit of a mind-bender to reflect upon Donald Trump in relation to one of the finest novels in the US canon, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. Indeed, many an English major may consider it sullying to the legacy of the book to cite it at all in reference to Trump.
Still, some parallels beg consideration. The book's protagonist, Jay Gatsby, is a romantic dreamer who wishes to by loved by a woman who is not of his class. However, there is something more to Gatsby's desire, which can be interpreted as a yearning for the mythical "American dream."
At the conclusion of the book, Nick Carraway - the narrator of the novel who is sympathetic to Gatsby - writes of Gatsby's futile pursuit of an ineluctable fantasy:
He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city....
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms further.....
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Dreams, after all - the ones that visit us when we are asleep - are beyond our control.
International Weapons Merchants and Domestic Gun Industry Thrive Off of Death
In this time of mounting global militarism and war profiteering, it is worth recalling some of the lyrics of Bob Dylan's inimitable "Masters of War":
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.
Can there be be a more fitting song to listen to while reading an article such as Glenn Greenwald's report on how the stock prices of the weapons industry have surged since the most recent attacks in Paris? Greenwald writes:
Note how immediate the increases are: The markets could barely wait to start buying. The Dow overall is up today only .12 percent, making these leaps quite pronounced. Reuters, as published on Fox Business, starkly noted the causal connection: "Shares of aerospace and defense rose sharply on Monday in reaction to the attacks in France." The private-sector industrial prong of the Military and Surveillance State always wins, but especially when the media's war juices start flowing.
Business is good for the the world's defense companies, war contractors and arms manufacturers. What country is number one, when it comes to exporting hundreds of billions of dollars worth of military weaponry and equipment? Why the United States, of course, according to The CheatSheet, which notes that the US led the pack with 31 percent of global arms exports from 2010 to 2014.
Police Who Brutalize and Kill People of Color Are Agents of a Racist State, Not Freelancers
Politicians and police chiefs frequently like to label police violence and the murders of people of color as the work of a few bad apples. However, racist policing is endemic to law enforcement in big and small cities alike, because the police in large part function as an occupying force in communities of color - a force that consistently implements policies that perpetuate institutional racism.
In his brilliant, mesmerizing and incisive analysis of race in the United States, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates cogently addresses this reality:
At this moment the phrase "police reform" has come into vogue, and the actions of our publicly appointed guardians have attracted attention presidential and pedestrian. You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all fine and applicable, but they understate the task and allow the citizens of the country to pretend that there is real distance between their own attitudes and those of the ones appointed to protect them. The truth is that the police reflect America in all of its will and fear, and whatever we might make of the country's criminal justice policy, it cannot be said that it was imposed by an oppressive minority. The abuses that have followed from these policies - the sprawling carceral state, the random detention of black people, the torture of suspects - are the product of democratic will.
We have seen, in recent times, the emergence of a passionate movement of primarily young Black people who have been uncompromising in demanding an end to the incessant anti-Black police violence, as part of a longer-term transformation of a racist society.
Some Corporate-Owned Colleges Get Certified as Nonprofits to Evade Financial Scrutiny
For-profit college companies' first priority is reaping a financial windfall, not providing a quality education. Recently, BuzzFlash reported on the bankruptcy of one such higher-education company, which left students saddled with billions of dollars in federal debt after the investors had made money off of billions of dollars in federal tuition loans.
There has been some renewed White House interest in reining in for-profit colleges - but in the absence of congressional action, little can be done.
Recent analysis by The Century Foundation has found that some inventive college corporations - in an attempt to preempt a crackdown on for-profit college schemes - have found a new way to reap the financial rewards of luring students into substandard colleges: convert themselves into IRS-approved nonprofit organizations. Once they receive nonprofit status, these companies then reconfigure themselves to channel a large chunk of their educational functions to the for-profit providers with whom they are linked:
Unfortunately, the conversion to nonprofit status is susceptible to abuse by covert for-profits—schools that obtain the nonprofit label yet continue operating like for-profit institutions—leaving consumers and taxpayers more vulnerable than ever.
Covert for-profit colleges can exist because while the Department of Education relies on the Internal Revenue Service's judgment of which institutions are and which are not valid nonprofits, the IRS rests its determination on the declarations and self-regulation by the trustees of these nonprofits, based mostly on an honor system. As with other taxpayers, the IRS relies on the honesty of the individuals and corporations that file tax returns, an honesty that is tested only in case of an audit, which often takes place years afterward.
The report, however, notes that the IRS examines less than a percent of nonprofits annually, therefore leaving a high probability that for-profit colleges seeking to escape scrutiny by becoming officially non-profit - in terms of IRS status - can function without government oversight indefinitely.
Twenty Wealthiest Americans Now Own More Than 50 Percent of US Population
Despite the ongoing scrutiny of income inequality and a plethora of advocacy efforts aimed at reversing the trend, the redistribution of wealth upward continues at a dizzying pace.
That's the conclusion of an analysis released today of the Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest Americans. Conducted by the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), the report indicates that the net worth of the top 0.1 percent of the US population continues to swell:
The United States is becoming, as the French economist Thomas Piketty warns, a hereditary aristocracy of wealth and power....
The level of U.S. wealth inequality has grown so lopsided that our classic wealth distributional pyramid now more resembles the shape of Seattle's iconic Space Needle.
The bulge at the top of our wealth "space needle" reflects America's wealthiest 0.1 percent, the top one-thousandth of our population, an estimated 115,000 households with a net worth starting at $20 million. This group owns more than 20 percent of U.S. household wealth, up from 7 percent in the 1970s. This elite subgroup, University of California-Berkeley economist Emmanuel Saez points out, now owns about as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent of America combined.
The Growing Mob Mentality in the United States Will Lead to Our Self-Destruction if Unchecked
Before the recent election in Canada, I read an email from the progressive Council on Canadians (Le Conseil des Canadiens) warning that another xenophobic government led by Conservative Party Prime Minister Stephen Harper would lead the nation further down the path of suffering.
In the end, Liberal Party Candidate Justin Trudeau ended the nearly 10-year right-wing rule of Harper in October of this year. However, after the terrorist attack on the Planned Parenthood Center in Colorado on November 27, my mind returned to a quotation from that Council on Canadians' email that warned that fear and those who incite it lead a nation to its basest inclinations: "Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering."
That is a perilous path, but it is one that the United States is experiencing with violent and not infrequently lethal outcomes: attacks on providers of medical services to women, racist shootings by police and white civilians, violence against migrants, killings of people because of their gender identities, brutal treatment of protesters, and the massive number of deaths caused by US military intervention abroad among other legacies of this nation's violent, racist and exclusionary history.
A Tampa Bay Times November 28 article recounts how "thousands cheer[ed] on insult-throwing Donald Trump at [a] Sarasota rally" on Saturday.
NRA Ensures People Suspected of Being Terrorists Have Right to Buy Guns
It's been more than a decade since then Attorney General John Ashcroft prohibited the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) from stopping people on the US government terrorist watch list from purchasing guns.
Indeed, since Ashcroft issued the order after 9/11 not to interfere with people suspected of terrorist involvement from buying firearms, BuzzFlash has been calling attention to the contradictions embodied by those in the NRA and Congress who say that we need guns to protect ourselves against terrorists, while also ensuring that people they suspect of being terrorists can purchase guns without hindrance. Regardless of what you think of the existence of the terrorist watch list in the first place, the hypocrisy is striking.
As a November 20 Associated Press (AP) article noted,
People on the U.S. government's terrorist watch list often can't board commercial airliners, but they can walk into a gun store and legally buy pistols and powerful, military-style assault rifles....
According to a March analysis by the Government Accountability Office, people on the FBI's consolidated Terrorist Watchlist successfully passed the background check required to purchase firearms more than 90 percent of the time, with more than 2,043 approvals between 2004 and 2014. The office is an investigative branch of Congress....
Under current federal law, however, association with a terrorist organization doesn't prohibit a person from possessing firearms or explosives.
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LDS is most certainly NOT a Christian denomination. It is a cult dreamed up by an crazy man in the 1800's.The position in the new document is even more dangerous than their former, all or nothing, stance.This seems to be the latest scheme of religious groups in America. It's the new and improved version of homophobia shrouded in faux kindness and compassion.Run, run away from these people as fast as you can.
Yes, the LDS are actually a heretical cult and have nothing whatever to do with any Christianity I know?They are basically nuts the lot of them.
Give it a rest. A pot calling the kettle black is ludicrous. Why would you call one group of superstitious fuckwits heretical and bad and not the others? The roman cult, prots, anglicans, muslims. orthodox, animists, religious jews, etc. are all the same. They're all composed of leaders who are too lazy to get real work and loony members who chose a bizarre lifestyle requiring them to believe at least 10 uncomprehensibly silly things before breakfast. And it gets worse as the day goes on. (I live in Las Vegas, which is not too far from SLC and is infested with Mormon missionaries, some of whom are seriously cute, and who can, rarely to be sure, be had, ala LATTER DAYS. Don't run away from them until you've checked them out.)
The 'Pink' report states that the report says that gay people do not "choose" their orientation. This is inaccurate reporting on the original document. It actually says "they may not be free of this challenge." i.e. not free of the CHALLENGE, that means they will still struggle with the problem. If you pull texts out of context, you can make them mean anything you like.e.g. Paul tells the Corinthian women to 'keep silent in church.' If one pulls this statement out of the context it was written in, then the implication is that 'women can't teach, preach, or pray.' And some have done just that! And Paul never said that: read it again!This 'Pink' quote will now be re-quoted, and eventually people will believe it. You need to be more careful!
hi, I am lds, and I loved the write-up.. Many of my friends plus a sibling, brother in law + uncle are gay, I think it is about time that some of the less homophobic members got noticed.. but I guess a lot of people enjoy to focus on the more negative instead.. oop I am being a bit hypocritical here.. but you know what I mean! It was refreshing to read a nice clear fair presented non attacking view point- until i read the comments. you are entitled to your own opinion on weather you think we are all nuts but it may be unfair to call us non christian, sure there may be some members more christian living and some less so as is in every denomination.. all in all a great post I thought tho, thanks.
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LOS ANGELES — Even though their names surfaced in discussions about deals — and nothing happened — Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap both claimed to have been completely calm Thursday.
Jefferson was so at peace about the NBA's trade deadline, Big Al counted Zs instead of rumors.
"Y'all was more worried about it than me. I was asleep," the Jazz center said before Friday's practice. "Like I said, if it happens, it happens."
Millsap coolly passed the time leading up to the 1 p.m. player movement cutoff by perspiring in a gym instead of sweating over his name being mentioned all over the place in rumors and reports.
"I didn't hear anything," he said, "so I was good."
Whether or not they truly weren't nervous at all, both players were convincing in expressing gratitude that the deadline is in the past.
So is the rest of the Jazz team, which remained intact after the team defied predictions and didn't do any wheeling and dealing.
"Let's go back to work," Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin said. "We are who we are. We're where we are. So it's good to get past the date so we can go on with the business of just trying to get better."
Added Corbin: "Like me, they were getting tired of hearing about it. They've been trying to put it out of their minds."
The Jazz had Thursday off — not counting general manager Dennis Lindsey & Co. They practiced Friday and will play again tonight against the Los Angeles Clippers for the first time since beating Golden State on Tuesday.
The way they're playing, having won three straight, they're excited to attack the final third of the season with the same group that compiled a 31-24 record in the first two-thirds.
"We've got a great group of guys, some hard-working guys," Jazz guard Randy Foye said. "They understand what our goal is and where we want to be when the 82 games are up and try to make a push at these playoffs."
To the Jazz's credit, they were professional in the way they dealt with trade talk, saying the right things in the locker room and doing the right things on the court during a distracting time.
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The best part about going forward might not be a sense of relief of not being moved elsewhere.
"The only relief I see about it is that y'all can't ask any more questions about it," Jefferson said.
That prompted wise-cracking media to ask about this summer's offseason, which will be a wild one for the Jazz. Jefferson and Millsap will both be unrestricted free agents, and Utah will only have five or six players under contract for the 2013-14 campaign.
"I don't know, man. What's the day?" Jefferson said, chuckling when asked about this summer. "I can't read into the future."
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PTI - POLL-AS-RESULT 7 - Amguri: AGP's Prodip Hazarika defeate...POLL-AS-RESULT 7 - Amguri: AGP's Prodip Hazarika defeated APCC President Anjan Dutta's daughetr Angkita Dutta by 1,620. Contributed by NAMPA / PTI. Badarpur: Sitting Congress MLA Jamal Uddin Ahmed retains his seat by defeating AIUDF's Abdul ... Namibia Press Agency, 1 month ago
Rana Tamuly memorial play contest begins
Sanjoy Kr Hazarika GOLAGHAT, June 25 - Noted filmmaker Munin Barua inaugurated the inaugural edition of the Rana Tamuly Memorial All Assam One-act Play Competition at Golaghat Commerce College on Friday. The drama contest is being organised by the ...Assam Tribune, 2 days ago
Will BJP's Assam win intensify ethnic tension there?
Indian northeastern state Assam's greatest son till date, Dr Bhupen Hazarika, in one of his most famous lyrics, wrote: Ami Axomiya Nohou Dukhiya, buli xantona lobhile nohobo. Translated in English as: We being Assamese can't always be sure that ...Dhaka Tribune, 1 month ago
Majuli to be a district in August
Staff Reporter GUWAHATI, June 27 - The first Cabinet meeting of the BJP-led government in the State, held under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, today took several key decisions that include appointment of TET teachers and ...Assam Tribune, 22 hours ago CM asked to implement schemes on priority Assam Tribune, 3 weeks ago
Contributions of Prof Umesh Goswami recalled
CORRESPONDENT JALUKBARI, June 26 - The first Prof Umesh Chandra Goswami Memorial Lecture was organised on Saturday in the Phanidhar Datta Seminar Hall, Gauhati University, on his first death anniversary. Dr Syamal Roy, a biologist of international ...Assam Tribune, 1 day ago
Shoot-at-sight orders against poachers demanded
Correspondent TEZPUR, June 24 - Reacting strongly to the unchecked poaching of rhinos at Kaziranga National Park, AASU adviser, Dr Samujjal Kumar Bhattacharyya has demanded that the new BJP-led Assam Government take exceptional measures like ...Assam Tribune, 3 days ago
People urged to follow path of Bishnu Rabha
Correspondent GOALPARA, June 24 - Bishnu Rabha Divas was organised by the Goalpara district administration and the Cultural Centre, Dudhnoi in association with the Bishnu Rabha Divas Udjapan Committee, constituted by the Goalpara District ...Assam Tribune, 3 days ago
Jagiroad College community felicitates Piyush
Correspondent JAGIROAD, June 23 - The Jagiroad College community on Tuesday accorded a warm felicitation to the newly-elected MLA of Jagiroad constituency, Piyush Hazarika. The felicitation function organised at the college auditorium was also ...Assam Tribune, 4 days ago
World Music Day celebrated at Mangaldai
MANGALDAI, June 23 -- The 34th edition of the World Music Day was celebrated on Tuesday evening at Mangaldai with the participation of veteran and young local artistes. On the occasion, a simple function was organised at the Youth Club by the bank ...HT Syndication, 4 days ago Cancer hospital celebrates Yoga Day HT Syndication, 5 days ago World Environment Day observed across State Assam Tribune, 3 weeks ago Architects body to celebrate Environment Day Assam Tribune, 3 weeks ago
Book on poetry released
Correspondent PATACHARKUCHI, June 20 - A book on verse titled Janasamudrar Sito Par written by poet Purandar Patgiri was released on Sunday in a function at Bajali College by Dr Surajit Barman, principal, North Kamrup College in the presence of a ...Assam Tribune, 1 week ago
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Hello Kitty is one of the most recognized characters, and now…she's a card! With just a few punches, she's complete. Love the red glimmer paper, the perfect effect for the bow. The bow was created with our old butterfly punch and a circle, but you can create a very similar bow with the heart punch (twice).
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