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A fire broke out in Bangor around 3 p.m. A structure is on fire and a power line is down.
An ampm in Oroville was robbed Thursday by a woman who brandished a knife and hypodermic needle
Around 10:30 a.m. Thursday an aircraft made an emergency landing at the Chico airport. During the landing process the wheels caught fire.Chico fire was dispatched to the scene and put out the fire on the wheels.
Caltrans is lifting their one-way traffic control on the Buckhorn Grade's Capstone for the holiday weekend.
The bat was collected and taken to Butte County Public Health, where it tested positive for rabies.
CHP pilots were caught on camera making a daring rescue on top of Mt. Shasta, which officers said was the highest landing rescue in the CHP Northern Division's history
An attempted carjacking suspect was found in east Redding with a loaded handgun, but said he "made a mistake" and only needed a ride
A 17-year-old teenager was river rafting with friends near the Larkin Road boat launch ramp, before falling in and not resurfacing
Recreational marijuana could become legal in California come November. Redding's Deputy City Attorney talks about the impact on the city
The Chico police chief does not agree with an initiative to legalize recreational marijuana in California
CHP public information officers across the Northstate will now be utilizing social media
Not all the collectives in The City of Shasta Lake are on board with this new initiative known as the Adult Use Marijuana Act.
A Butte County man is heading out on a year-long humanist mission to West Africa next week
Shasta County firefighters demonstrated the dangers of fireworks Wednesday
"Bidet Bandit" sentenced to seven years after a string of burglaries earlier this year
Caltrans is warning drivers of possible delays they could see on I-5 while traveling during the 4th of July holiday weekend
180 three-foot marijuana plants were discovered in a van and trailer Tuesday morning during a traffic stop
A 73-year-old man was robbed of his pain medication Wednesday after his grandson, a known heroin addict, attacked him
Firefighters were at the scene of a mobile home fire in the town of Proberta south of Red Bluff late Tuesday night
Chico Police have released new photos of a man they say is still on the loose after robbing a US Bank in Chico Friday afternoon
Red Bluff police said a woman woke up in her trailer Tuesday to find a man sexually assaulting her
An alleged thief is behind bars thanks to tips from Redding citizens and some detective work by a gym owner
With warmer temperatures, more people are getting in the water, which means public safety agencies are seeing a spike in water rescues.
High Five Tour stops by Redding Veterans Home.
A man lead law enforcement on a chase early Tuesday morning.
Redding Police said an attempted carjacking occurred at a Redding Walgreens and the suspect has not been located
CAL FIRE law enforcement arrested a suspected arsonist Monday for suspicion of setting several wildfires in Butte County
The forecast is calling for several hot days, and while the temperatures are typical for this area, this is our first string of 100+ days this year. This time of year it is good to stay aware of the heat and avoid heat-related illnesses.
Cal Fire Prevention Specialist Cheryl Buliavac says, "if drones fly, firefighters can't"
PG&E will be flying low in Eastern Shasta County to check for drought-stricken trees on Thursday.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a state budget Monday that uses a slice of California's revenue surplus to boost assistance for the poor and send more money to universities but keeps other new ongoing spending commitments to a minimum.
Red Bluff police say 70-year-old Patrick O'Farrell was found alive in Tulare on Sunday
A woman was rescued Monday morning after jumping off of a bridge into the Feather River in Thermalito, according to Butte County CAL FIRE
26-year-old Christina Marie Burke of Redding was arrested Saturday for property and identity theft.
UPDATE, June 25th: The Redding Police Department have identified 33-year-old Gregory Kfoury from Great Falls, Virginia as being responsible for a hit-and-run that caused major injuries.
It was a typical day at Hinkle's Market on Market Street in Redding Tuesday, a cashier said. She added a woman came to the mart crying and asked to use the phone.
The Jetovator is basically a bike for the water, according to Joey Natale who is ranked number one in the world for his skills on the Jetovator
Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko had a face-to-face meeting with Governor Jerry Brown in Sacramento Thursday. The sheriff told the governor his concerns with crime initiatives Brown wants to put on the November ballot.
After Friday night's game at Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas Rob Sylvester of Chico will catch a flight to Miami, Florida for Saturday's Marlins game, then to eight more baseball parks in his quest to see 30 Major League Baseball games in 30 different ballparks in 30 days. Sylvester's baseball park adventure began on June 4th in Milwaukee and will end on July 4th at AT&T Park in San Francisco. "I've always wanted to do this, to see if you could see 30 games in 30 days," Sylvester said after landing in Arlington on Friday. "One day I got a schedule out and saw that it was physically possible," he said, estimating that his travels and tickets will cost him between $10-15,000. "I'm doing this on planes, trains and automobiles," he said. Besides being an avid baseball fan, Sylvester is also a lover of animals, which is why he's helping the Butte Humane Society raise money for a new shelter. "I think it's exciting," said Chelsea Beights of the Butte Humane Society, who is tracking Sylvester's progress on the organization's webpage. She adds that he's way ahead of schedule. "His goal was $100 per game. He's going to Game 20 today, and he has raised over $2,800 for Butte Humane," she said. Sylvester isn't doing this for publicity. He's had enough of that, as he was nearly killed in 2007 when scaffolding at Highways 149 and 70 landed on his Fed-Ex truck. He's also taking this journey in memory of his son, Nick, who died three years ago at the age of 21. "I think about him every day, every minute of every day, really," Sylvester said of his son. You can follow Rob Sylvester's ballpark excursion by logging onto www.krcrtv.com and clicking on the Fact Files.
The city installed fencing around the Redding Library in the hopes of keeping homeless from hanging out.
Sublime Cake Design will be featured on The Food Network on Monday.
A suspect of human trafficking was arrested Thursday in Sacramento after a victim was found at a market in Redding earlier in the week
Mercy Medical Center had 520 patient files inappropriately accessed by their business partner, naviHealth, earlier this month.On June 6, Dignity Health discovered that the information of 520 Mercy Medical Center Redding patients had been accessed without permission. The suspect worked for one of Mercy's business partners, naviHealth, who assists in their patient support.The information accessed by the suspect includes:
Butte County Sheriff's Detectives served search warrants at five locations from Gridley to the Forbestown area and arrested six people.
Anne Ennis, who owns Brambley Cottage in the Garden Walk Mall in downtown Chico, is affected more than most by Friday's news that Britain voted to leave the European Union.
The Lausen Fire threatened homes in Oroville Thursday evening. It was contained at 6 acres
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives took a stand by taking part in a sit-in for about 25 hours
Meriam Park , a residential and business development that was put on hold after the '08 housing crash and subsequent recession, is making a comeback
Disabled youth learned and played sports, including water-skiing, at a week-long sports camp in Chico
Two new gun control proposals in the California Legislature could make it harder and more expensive to legally get concealed carry weapons (CCW) permits
The California Public Utility Commission decided Thursday to bump PG&E customer's gas bills up to improve PG&E's gas system.
Due to recent storage unit burglaries, Oroville police officers were patrolling the areas of local storage units when they discovered three suspects sitting in their vehicle with stolen property
A woman was knocked down at a Redding gas station Thursday morning after an elderly driver crashed his car between two gas pumps. The driver was arrested for DUI
California's Dept. of Fish and Wildlife said another wolf has been spotted in Lassen County
Thursday morning the Shasta County Bomb Squad detonated explosive items found at a residence near Corning
Two Shasta County men have been arrested after a drug bust and probation search in Bella Vista
Highway 99 reopened Thursday morning after a crash involving a CHP vehicle closed the road overnight
Stolen items are found during a warrant search; deputies said the suspect showed up later in a stolen car and was arrested
Multiple agencies participated in a wildland fire incident drill in Paradise to get trained and ready for the wildfire season
A town hall meeting was held in Chico, as the public, city leaders, and law enforcement discussed the Orlando mass shooting that was targeted at the LGBTQ+ community
Body of missing kayaker found in Lake Oroville
John Casiday said he was wearing the bulletproof vest because he has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
At 93-years-old Preston Hyde is in incredible shape. He can walk up steps with ease and even still drives."I never drank or smoked, and I walk on the treadmill 30 minutes a day," said Hyde. "My driver's license is good until I'm 98!" he laughed.On Wednesday, Hyde got the chance to fly in a Cessna L-19 "Bird Dog" liaison aircraft, similar to the one he flew as a spotter during World War II.Hyde spent three years flying over Germany during the war in the Ninth Air Force.Hyde had many stories of his time flying planes."I got up to the end of the runway 300 feet in the air, and the engine quit," He recalled. "You have about three seconds to make a decision...a life or death decision. I reached down and hit the fuel tank." Hyde said that was the right decision, because his life was saved.Hyde told another story of when he was flying over a runway with no radio. He suddenly ended up in the middle of a take off with other planes."I'm looking down from the plane I'm flying," Hyde recalled. "Here's six B-29 bombers. Engines all running ready to take off and I just flew in there with no radio and froze everything. I stopped the war right then," He joked.Hyde met Jim Ostrich, owner of the Benton Air Center, at a local event. Ostrich owns a plane almost identical to the ones Hyde used to fly. He offered him a ride Wednesday."I'm a Navy veteran myself," added Ostrich. "I'm going to give him, hopefully, a nice thrill ride."Hyde said the ride would bring back wonderful memories soaring over Europe during World War II.
The war veteran who was arrested last Friday at the Cinemark 14 movie theater in Redding was arraigned on Tuesday afternoon.
On Tuesday, the Red Bluff City Council rescinded last year's Stage III - Serious Water Shortage declaration due to increased precipitation last winter.
The Tehama County Coroner's Office said Cody Fulk, 24, was killed in a crash Tuesday morning after another driver tried to beat a train across the tracks.
The Redding Freedom Festival will take place on July 4 beginning at 9:00 p.m. at the Redding Civic Auditorium
Two women reported missing on Thermalito Afterbay in Oroville Tuesday evening have been found
The Chico City Council considered an ordinance Tuesday that would limit how much butane can be bought and sold
The Chico City Council passed its first reading on restricting butane sales Tuesday evening
Chico Unified School District is proposing a new bond measure to fund the next phases of their Facility Master Plan
Problems with illicit massage parlors and sex trafficking are expected to be curtailed through an ordinance in Redding, which made amendments Tuesday night after mixed public reaction
A third medical marijuana collective is opening soon in the City of Shasta Lake.
A 24-year-old man died Tuesday morning after getting in a car crash near Red Bluff.
CAL FIRE battled two fires Tuesday that burned about 100 acres combined in Butte and Tehama Counties
The Redding Fire Department is offering tips on how to stay safe while enjoying the outdoors and summer activities this summer
A woman was attacked in Redding Monday night after she gave a ride to a woman, who she did not know
The U.S. Forest Service announced a public information meeting will be held Tuesday night for the Pony Fire at the Happy Camp Grange
CAL FIRE/Butte County Fire Department will be conducting a control burn Thursday that will be highly visible during the morning hours in south Butte County.
One person was killed in a two vehicle crash Tuesday. The CHP said one driver was trying to beat a train near Highway 99 West and Tyler Road in Tehama County
Panda Express and Starbucks on Orodam Boulevard are the newest businesses to set up shop in Oroville, which has developed a reputation as a business-friendly city
An off-duty Redding Police officer recovered a stolen handgun, and other property, from a burglary suspect Saturday night before the suspect was able to get away
CAL FIRE has stopped the forward progress of a fire north of Oroville that started Monday afternoon
A man arrested on Friday night at the Cinemark 14 movie theater in Redding is still in jail on Monday and about a dozen people showed up at the Shasta County Courthouse to show their support
A woman killed in a rollover crash in Glenn County Monday morning has been identified
The Chico Police Officers' Association held its fourth annual Lance Utterback Memorial Golf Tournament Monday morning at the Canyon Oaks Country Club.
The cutting down of three 20-foot tall Laurel trees in the backyard of a Paradise family's home has led to claims, accusations and finger-pointing
A man wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying two knives was arrested at Cinemark 14 in Redding Friday night after he refused to cooperate with police
In the wake of the Orlando mass shooting, Stonewall Alliance is offering several support and self-care events for the LGBTQ community
Investigators said a Shasta Lake man stabbed an intruder in his home Saturday night, leaving the suspect in critical condition
Two cars blocked the intersection of Cypress Avenue and Churn Creek Road after a crash Saturday around 5:40 p.m.
It was around 2 a.m. Friday that Irene Henrich heard a strange noise coming from the empty house next door that her granddaughter rents from her.
Shasta Humanity Project is set to unveil their first mobile house during a Fundraising event Saturday.
On Friday morning the City of Chico Parks Division hosted its annual Bidwell Park work day for Chico State upward bound students
Red Bluff dogs will soon have a designated place to run and play. Construction on a long-awaited dog park has begun.
A woman was arrested for DUI in Redding Friday morning after police said he hit a pedestrian who was also intoxicated
Beau Kothgassner, 26, was killed in a crash on Oak Run Road near Old Highway 44 Drive in Palo Cedro Friday morning
Two women from Tennessee were rescued from the Pacific Coast Trail in Shasta County after a rain and snow storm left them stranded in the mountains
With summer quickly approaching, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) is letting residents know what they should do to be ready to travel in California's summer heat.
Redding police are looking for Cindy Holcomb, 53, who is accused of stabbing another woman who came to her door looking for her husband.
After a fairly hot week across the Northstate we can expect to see a drop in our temperatures starting this weekend and lasting through next week.
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[S] Kundgebungsbericht: Stoppt Erdogans Krieg gegen die kurdische Selbstverwaltung
Seit Sommer 2015 führt der türkische Präsident Erdogan Krieg gegen die kurdische Bevölkerung. Beinahe täglich massakriert die türkische Armee ZivilistInnen und zerstört ganze Wohngebiete. Mit dieser Strategie möchte Erdogan seine Alleinherrschaft weiter ausbauen und eine Präsidialdiktatur errichten.
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Private Prison CEO Unconcerned About Hillary Clinton's Pledge to End His Industry
The chief executive of the largest private prison company in America reassured investors earlier this month that with either Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the White House, his firm will be "just fine." Damon Hininger, the chief executive of Corrections Corporation of America, was speaking at the REITWeek investor forum.
Private prisons have received a great deal of criticism this election cycle, first with Bernie Sanders campaigning to end for-profit incarceration, followed by Clinton taking up a similar pledge.
After The Intercept revealed that the Clinton campaign had received campaign donations from private prison lobbyists, a number of activist groups confronted Clinton, leading her to announce that she would no longer accept the money and later declaring that "we should end private prisons and private detention centers."
But Corrections Corporation is apparently not concerned. Asked about prospects under Trump or Clinton, Hininger argued that his company has prospered through political turnover by taking advantage of the government's quest for lower costs.
"I would say that being around 30 years and being in operation in many, many states, and also doing work with the federal government going back to the 1980s, where you had Clinton White House, you had a Bush White House, you had Obama White House, we've done very, very well," Hininger said.
"If we continue to do a good job on the quality, and with that, we can demonstrate savings both on capital voids, but also cost savings in our services, then I think we'll be just fine," he said.
"I think about the next President, whoever that is, if it's Hillary Clinton or if it's Donald Trump, there's be going to be so many things that he or she are going to have to deal with next year or next administration, both nationally and internationally, that I think having a view on our business, our industry is going to be really, really low on the priority list," Hininger said.
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Corrections Corporation was founded in 1983 by the former chair of the Tennessee Republican Party, who leveraged his political ties to win a number of government contracts to operate prison and immigrant detention facilities. The company has used its political influence to shape its rapid growth. Corrections Corporation used a third party advocacy group, the American Legislative Exchange Council, to lobby for "three strikes" and "truth-in-sentencing" laws that fueled the growth of prison populations, as well as for privatization laws that handed control of federal and state prison facilities to private operators. In recent years, the company's lobbyists played a role in promoting state laws that encourage local police to arrest undocumented immigrants.
The firm, which brought in $1.7 billion in revenue for the last fiscal year, has succeeded financially through aggressive cost-cutting measures. But critics say Corrections Corporation has endangered both prison guards and inmates by under staffing and failing to train employees, leading to multiple incidents of rape and killings at CCA-run prisons.
Corrections Corporation is receiving renewed attention this week as Mother Jones publishes a 35,000-word investigation of a CCA-operated prison in Louisiana. Reporter Shane Bauer spent four months working as a prison guard at the facility, documenting systematic neglect of medical care and rampant violence. Robert Scott, an inmate in the prison, lost fingers and limbs to gangrene after the prison largely ignored his requests for serious treatment. Bauer, who worked at $9 an hour with little formal training, found that the company failed to report multiple stabbings to the state government, despite laws that require documentation of such incidents.
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DNC Platform Leaves Door Open for No-Fly Zone in Syria, Refuses to Call for End to Israeli Occupation
The Democratic National Committee's Platform Drafting Committee quashed efforts by the Bernie Sanders campaign last week to insert language in the platform opposing a U.S.-led no-fly zone in Syria and calling for an end Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories.
The deliberations, which took place in St. Louis last week as part of a multi-step process to write the party's nonbinding platform, represent a tilt to a more hawkish direction for Democrats under presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The final platform will not be written until the convention in Philadelphia next month – a process that could possibly open it to votes from a much wider pool of delegates on the floor.
Arab American Institute President Jim Zogby, a Sanders appointee to the platform committee, explained that he was introducing an amendment that would, in part, read: "To this end, the Democratic Party does not support direct U.S. military intervention against the Assad regime, including the imposition of no-fly zones or safe zones."
This is also the current position of President Barack Obama, who while bombing ISIS units in Syria has rejected direct strikes against the Syrian government, saying that "we have learned over the last 10, 12, 13 years is that unless we can get the parties on the ground to agree to live together in some fashion, then no amount of U.S. military engagement will solve the problem."
Zogby's amendment faced opposition from a number of Clinton appointees to the committee. "I don't think we should define such decisions for the future president," said Wendy Sherman, a former senior State Department official. "I strongly urge that we oppose this amendment."
Former California Democratic Congressman Howard Berman, another Clinton appointee, also joined in opposition. "I don't think the platform looking at, and if it makes sense, pursuing that option," he said of the no-fly zone.
In the face of this opposition, Zogby withdrew the amendment.
Sanders's team also introduced an amendment to the draft platform's text on Israel and Palestine. The amendment affirmed U.S. support for Israel and the two-state solution, but also asked for the deletion of language condemning the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign and affirming an "undivided" Jerusalem.
The amendment also called for giving Palestinians "an end to occupation and illegal settlements so that they may live in independence, sovereignty, and dignity," as well as rebuilding Gaza.
"We have an opportunity here to send a message to the world … that America hears the cries of both sides. That America wants to actually move people towards a real peace." Zogby said, explaining that Sanders was personally involved in the writing of this amendment.
"It is an occupation, occupation is evil," academic Cornel West, a Sanders appointee, retorted, insisting that the Sanders camp only wanted both sides to be treated equally.
The Sanders campaign, however, did not ask for references to Palestinian terrorism or delegitimizing Israel to be deleted.
Philanthropist Bonnie Schaefer, who was appointed to the committee by the DNC, protested the language. "As a Jew, as a gay Jew, a Zionist, Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East as we all know. The only place in the Middle East where I can walk down the street with my wife, hand in hand, and not be afraid," she said.
Shortly before it was voted on, Zogby made one final plea.
"You can go and walk down the street of Tel Aviv holding the hand of your wife. I can't get in the airport without seven hours of harassment because I'm of Arab descent," Zogby said, addressing Schaefer's comments. "The treatment of people of Arab descent just going there is discriminatory, the people who live there suffer horrific discrimination. We have to be able to call it what it is. It's an occupation that humiliates people."
The amendment was voted down five to eight. Only Sanders's appointees voted for it.
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Ukraine: US-geführtes Militärmanöver "Rapid Trident" hat begonnen
Im Westen der Ex-Sowjetrepublik Ukraine hat das jährliche US-geführte Militärmanöver "Rapid Trident" ("Schneller Dreizack") begonnen. Bis zum 8. Juli üben rund 1800 Soldaten aus vierzehn Staaten einschließlich des Gastlandes mit schwerer Kriegstechnik, wie Präsidialamtssprecher Andrej Lyssenko am Montag in Kiew mitteilte. Mit insgesamt vierhundert Soldaten stellen die USA und Kanada den größten Teil ausländischer Truppenkontingente.
Für die Ukraine nehmen vor allem erfahrene Kämpfer aus dem Kriegsgebiet im Osten teil, teilte die prowestliche Führung in Kiew mit. Die Ostukraine wird von einem bewaffneten Konflikt zwischen Regierungseinheiten und rechtsradikalen Milizen auf der einen und prorussischen Aufständischen auf der anderen Seite erschüttert.
Im größten Flächenstaat
Erdoğan bedauert Abschuss von russischem Kampfjet - Anzeige wegen Militäreinsatz
Nach Moskauer Angaben hat sich der türkische Präsident Recep Ayyip Erdoğan für den Abschuss eines russischen Kampfflugzeugs entschuldigt. Erdoğan habe an den russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin geschrieben, dass der Abschuss keine Absicht gewesen sei. Das sagte Kremlsprecher Dmitri Peskow am Montag in Moskau. In der Türkei kündigte die Regierung eine eigene Erklärung an. Die türkische Luftwaffe hatte im vergangenen November ein russisches Kampflugzeug Suchoi Su-24 abgeschossen, das aus Syrien angeblich kurz in den Luftraum der Türkei eingedrungen war. Ein Pilot kam ums Leben. Danach hatte Russland die Beziehungen zur Türkei weitgehend eingefroren. Präsident Erdoğan sowie der damalige türkische Außenminister
"Das wäre echt eine Katastrophe"
Mit dem Wahlsieg der Konservativen in Spanien brechen für die linken kommunalen "Regierungen des Wandels" noch härtere Zeiten an –
VON CARMELA NEGRETE, 27. Juni 2016 –
Die Wahlen am Sonntag in Spanien haben gezeigt, dass das Schüren von Ängsten vor einer möglichen Regierungsbeteiligung von Podemos ihre Wirkung auf das Wahlvolk nicht verfehlt hat. Bürgerliche Medien beschworen venezolanische Verhältnisse im Fall eines Wahlsieges der Linkspartei herauf. Auch die aktuelle Debatte um den Brexit und eine generelle Angst vor Veränderung haben wohl viele Spanier – entgegen den anderslautenden Umfragen im Vorfeld der Wahlen – davon abgehalten, ihr Kreuz
Hillary Clinton Hints at Giant, Trump-Like Giveaway to Corporate America
Hillary Clinton gave a big speech in Raleigh on her plans for the economy on June 22. It was full of Bernie Sanders-like rhetoric about "outrageous behavior" by business and Wall Street.
But it also included a dog whistle that only huge multinational corporations would hear, telling them that she plans to deliver on one of their greatest dreams and slash their longterm taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Here's what Clinton said:
Let's break through the dysfunction in Washington to make the biggest investment in new, good-paying jobs since World War II. … In my first 100 days as president, I will work with both parties to pass a comprehensive plan to create the next generation of good-paying jobs. Now, the heart of my plan will be the biggest investment in American infrastructure in decades, including establishing an infrastructure bank that will bring private sector dollars off the sidelines and put them to work here.
An infrastructure bank to rebuild America's tattered infrastructure is a reasonable idea, and was also proposed by Barack Obama when he was running for president in 2008. Certainly America's tattered roads, bridges and sewers desperately need an upgrade.
The question is where the money for it would come from. Republicans would never let it be paid for with borrowed money, and in 2011 they blocked a proposal by Obama to fund it with a surtax of 0.7 percent on incomes over $1 million.
But last year, behind the scenes, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quietly tried to lay the groundwork for a classic Washington, D.C., bipartisan solution — i.e., the kind of deal that both parties' big donors adore and regular Americans would despise, if they ever heard about it.
Under U.S. law, multinational corporations based here theoretically must pay taxes on their profits earned anywhere around the world at a rate of 35 percent. However, they don't have to pay U.S. taxes on overseas profits until they repatriate the money back to the U.S.
This creates incentives for U.S. multinationals to use financial engineering to appear to earn their profits in low-tax countries — for instance, Apple's tiny Irish subsidiary is bizarrely profitable — and then leave the money overseas.
Congress granted corporations a tax holiday in 2004 that let them bring back their profits at a tax rate of about 5 percent, or one-seventh of what the normal tax law required. Clinton, then a senator from New York, voted for it, as did Schumer.
The incentives haven't changed since then, so profits held overseas by U.S. multinationals have accumulated again and have now reached an incredible $2.4 trillion. That's about 65 percent of the 2015 federal budget and 13 percent of the entire U.S. economy. If U.S. multinationals had to pay the statutory tax rate on that, they'd owe the government about $695 billion.
The prospective Ryan-Schumer deal doesn't have many details. But it would change the law so that profits earned by U.S. multinationals overseas, including the $2.4 trillion overseas now, would be taxed whether or not they were brought back to the U.S. — while also radically reducing the tax rate on those overseas profits. This would essentially make the 2004 tax holiday permanent. That's why Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has called such plans "a giant wet kiss for the tax dodgers."
Trump's official tax plan would do exactly the same thing. His ally, billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn, has pledged to fund a Super PAC with $150 million to make it happen.
In the short run, both Trump's plan and the Ryan-Schumer framework would provide a burst of tax revenue from the money collected on the $2.4 trillion currently overseas. In the long run they would significantly reduce U.S. taxes on multinationals. They would also, if they instituted lower tax rates for overseas profits than for those earned in the U.S., provide an even greater incentive for big corporations to use accounting shenanigans to appear to "earn" profits in other countries.
But how do we know this is what Clinton was talking about?
According to her platform, she will pay for increased infrastructure spending via some unspecified "business tax reform." Despite promises back in December that she "will have more to say on her vision" about business tax reform, she's been curiously silent.
However, when she met with the New York Daily News editorial board in April, she explained that the source of the infrastructure money "may be repatriation."
Then there's her statement this week that her infrastructure bank would "will bring private sector dollars off the sidelines and put them to work here." That phrase — bringing corporate money "off the sidelines" — is a favorite of both Democratic and Republican elites to describe slashing the tax rate on overseas profits. For instance, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., used it in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, as did economists writing for the New America Foundation, a liberal think tank.
That's why Clinton can honestly predict that she will "break through the dysfunction in Washington" and "work with both parties." Both parties want to deliver a massive tax cut to their huge corporate patrons.
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Der Clown hinter Gittern
Der palästinensiche Artist Abu Sakha sitzt seit über einem halben Jahr in sogenannter Verwaltungshaft – einer Maßnahme der israelischen Justiz, die ohne Anklage, Prozess und Urteil auskommt.
Von KLAUS PETRUS, 27. Juni 2016 -"Die Zirkusschule hat mir gegeben, was ich als Kind nie hatte: Selbstbewusstsein, Vertrauen, Respekt." Mohammad Faisal Abu Sakha bei einem Training der Palestinian Circus School in Bir Zeit bei Ramallah. Foto: KLAUS PETRUS
Montag, der 14. Dezember 2015: Ein damals 23-jähriger Palästinenser verlässt sein Elternhaus in Jenin und wartet auf
Islam und Homosexualität: Die Geschichte einer verlorenen Liebe
Ein muslimischer Attentäter hat im amerikanischen Orlando 49 Besucher eines Schwulenclubs regelrecht hingerichtet. Das hat etwas mit dem heutigen Islam zu tun. Vergessen wird dabei, dass der Islam eine Jahrhunderte andauernde Tradition sexueller Freiheiten besaß. Sie wurde nicht zuletzt durch den Einfluss des christlich-westlichen Abendlandes zunichte gemacht. -
Von FABIAN KÖHLER, 27. Juni 2016 -Abu Nawas 757 bis † 815) ist ein Vertreter der klassischen arabischen Literatur. Foto: Wikipedia
Hätte Abu Nuwas seine Liebesgedichte ein paar tausend Kilometer weiter westlich und ein paar Jahrhunderte später geschrieben,
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Brexit is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions
The decision by UK voters to leave the EU is such a glaring repudiation of the wisdom and relevance of elite political and media institutions that – for once – their failures have become a prominent part of the storyline. Media reaction to the Brexit vote falls into two general categories: (1) earnest, candid attempts to understand what motivated voters to make this choice, even if that means indicting one's own establishment circles, and (2) petulant, self-serving, simple-minded attacks on disobedient pro-leave voters for being primitive, xenophobic bigots (and stupid to boot), all to evade any reckoning with their own responsibility. Virtually every reaction that falls into the former category emphasizes the profound failures of western establishment factions; these institutions have spawned pervasive misery and inequality, only to spew condescending scorn at their victims when they object.
The Los Angeles Times' Vincent Bevins, in an outstanding and concise analysis, wrote that "both Brexit and Trumpism are the very, very, wrong answers to legitimate questions that urban elites have refused to ask for thirty years"; in particular, "since the 1980s the elites in rich countries have overplayed their hand, taking all the gains for themselves and just covering their ears when anyone else talks, and now they are watching in horror as voters revolt." The British journalist Tom Ewing, in a comprehensive Brexit explanation, said the same dynamic driving the UK vote prevails in Europe and North American as well: "the arrogance of neoliberal elites in constructing a politics designed to sideline and work around democracy while leaving democracy formally intact."
In an interview with The New Statesman, the political philosopher Michael Sandel also said that the dynamics driving the pro-Brexit sentiment were now dominant throughout the west generally: "a large constituency of working-class voters feel that not only has the economy left them behind, but so has the culture, that the sources of their dignity, the dignity of labour, have been eroded and mocked by developments with globalisation, the rise of finance, the attention that is lavished by parties across the political spectrum on economic and financial elites, the technocratic emphasis of the established political parties." After the market-venerating radicalism of Reagan and Thatcher, he said, "the centre left" – Blair and Clinton and various European parties – "managed to regain political office but failed to reimagine the mission and purpose of social democracy, which became empty and obsolete."
Three Guardian writers sounded the similar themes about elite media ignorance, stemming from their homogeneity and detachment from the citizenry. John Harris quoted a Manchester voter as explaining that "if you've got money, you vote in. If you haven't got money, you vote out," and Harris added: "most of the media . . . failed to see this coming. . . . The alienation of the people charged with documenting the national mood from the people who actually define it is one of the ruptures that has led to this moment." Gary Younge similarly denounced "a section of the London-based commentariat [that] anthropologised the British working class as though they were a lesser evolved breed from distant parts, all too often portraying them as bigots who did not know what was good for them." Ian Jack's article was headlined "In this Brexit vote, the poor turned on an elite who ignored them," and he described how "gradually the sight of empty towns and shuttered shops became normalised or forgotten." Headlines like this one from The Guardian were prescient but largely ignored:
Though there were some exceptions, establishment political and media elites in the UK were vehemently united against Brexit, but their decreed wisdom was ignored, even scorned. That has happened time and again. As their fundamental failures become more evident to all, these elites have lost credibility, lost influence, and lost the ability to dictate outcomes.
Just last year in the UK, Labour members chose someone to lead Tony Blair's party – the authentically left-wing Jeremy Corbyn – who could not have been more intensely despised and patronized by almost every leading light of the British media and political class. In the U.S., the joyful rejection by Trump voters of the collective wisdom of the conservative establishment evidenced the same contempt for elite consensus. The enthusiastic and sustained rallying, especially by young voters, against beloved-by-the-establishment Hillary Clinton in favor of a 74-year-old socialist taken seriously by almost no DC elites reflected the same dynamic. Elite denunciations of the right-wing parties of Europe fall on deaf ears. Elites can't stop, or even affect, any of these movements because they are, at bottom, revolts against their wisdom, authority and virtue.
In sum, the west's establishment credibility is dying, and their influence is precipitously eroding – all deservedly so. The frenetic pace of online media makes even the most recent events feel distant, like ancient history. That, in turn, makes it easy to lose sight of how many catastrophic and devastating failures western elites have produced in a remarkably short period of time.
In 2003, U.S. and British elites joined together to advocate one of the most heinous and immoral aggressive wars in decades: the destruction of Iraq; that it turned out to be centrally based on falsehoods that were ratified by the most trusted institutions, as well as a complete policy failure even on its own terms, gutted public trust.
In 2008, their economic worldview and unrestrained corruption precipitated a global economic crisis that literally caused, and is still causing, billions of people to suffer – in response, they quickly protected the plutocrats who caused the crisis while leaving the victimized masses to cope with the generational fallout. Even now, western elites continue to proselytize markets and impose free trade and globalization without the slightest concern for the vast inequality and destruction of economic security those policies generate.
In 2011, NATO bombed Libya by pretending it was motivated by humanitarianism, only to ignore that country once the fun military triumph was celebrated, thus leaving a vacuum of anarchy and milita rule for years that spread instability through the region and fueled the refugee crisis. The U.S. and its European allies continue to invade, occupy and bomb predominantly Muslim countries while propping up their most brutal tyrants, then feign befuddlement about why anyone would want to attack them back, justifying erosions of basic liberties and more bombing campaigns each time someone does. The rise of ISIS and the foothold it seized in Iraq and Libya were the direct by-products of the west's military actions (as even Tony Blair admitted regarding Iraq). Western societies continue to divert massive resources into military weaponry and prisons for their citizens, enriching the most powerful factions in the process, all while imposing harsh austerity on already suffering masses. In sum, western elites thrive while everyone else loses hope.
These are not random, isolated mistakes. They are the by-product of fundamental cultural pathologies within western elite circles – a deep rot. Why should institutions that have repeatedly authored such travesties, and spread such misery, continue to command respect and credibility? They shouldn't, and they're not. As Chris Hayes warned in his 2012 book Twilight of the Elites, "given both the scope and depth of this distrust [in elite institutions], it's clear that we're in the midst of something far grander and more perilous than just a crisis of government or a crisis of capitalism. We are in the midst of a broad and devastating crisis of authority."
It's natural – and inevitable – that malignant figures will try to exploit this vacuum of authority. All sorts of demagogues and extremists will try to re-direct mass anger for their own ends. Revolts against corrupt elite institutions can usher in reform and progress, but they can also create a space for the ugliest tribal impulses: xenophobia, authoritarianism, racism, fascism. One sees all of that, both good and bad, manifesting in the anti-establishment movements throughout the U.S., Europe, and the UK: including Brexit. All of this can be invigorating, or promising, or destabilizing, or dangerous: most likely a combination of all that.
The solution is not to subserviently cling to corrupt elite institutions out of fear of the alternatives. It is, instead, to help bury those institutions and their elite mavens and then fight for superior replacements. As Hayes put it in his book, the challenge is "directing the frustration, anger, and alienation we all feel into building a trans-ideological coalition that can actually dislodge the power of the post-meritocratic elite. One that marshals insurrectionist sentiment without succumbing to nihilism and manic, paranoid distrust."
Corrupt elites always try to persuade people to continue to submit to their dominance in exchange for protection from forces that are even worse. That's their game. But at some point, they themselves, and their prevailing order, become so destructive, so deceitful, so toxic, that their victims are willing to gamble that the alternatives will not be worse, or at least, they decide to embrace the satisfaction of spitting in the faces of those who have displayed nothing but contempt and condescension for them.
There is no one, unifying explanation for Brexit, or Trumpism, or the growing extremism of various stripes throughout the west, but this sense of angry impotence – an inability to see any option other than smashing those responsible for their plight – is undoubtedly a major factor. As Bevins put it, supporters of Trump, and Brexit, and other anti-establishment movements "are motivated not so much by whether they think the projects will actually work, but more by their desire to say FUCK YOU" to those they believe (with very good reason) have failed them.
Obviously, those who are the target of this anti-establishment rage – political, economic and media elites – are desperate to exonerate themselves, to demonstrate that they bear no responsibility for the suffering masses that are now refusing to be compliant and silent. The easiest course to achieve that goal is simply to demonize those with little power, wealth or possibility as stupid and racist: this is only happening because they are primitive and ignorant and hateful, not because they have any legitimate grievances or because I or my friends or my elite institutions have done anything wrong. As Vice's Michael Tracy put it:
Elites' reaction to Brexit mimics their reaction to Trump: blame the amorality of ordinary people rather than reckon with elite failure
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 24, 2016
Because that reaction is so self-protective and self-glorifying, many U.S. media elites – including those who knew almost nothing about Brexit until 48 hours ago – instantly adopted it as their preferred narrative for explaining what happened, just as they've done with Trump, Corbyn, Sanders and any number of other instances where their entitlement to rule has been disregarded. They are so persuaded of their own natural superiority that any factions who refuse to see it and submit to it prove themselves, by definition, to be regressive, stunted and amoral.
Indeed, media reaction to the Brexit vote – filled with unreflective rage, condescension and contempt toward those who voted wrong – perfectly illustrates the dynamics that caused all of this in the first place. Media elites, by virtue of their position, adore the status quo. It rewards them, vests them with prestige and position, welcomes them into exclusive circles, allows them to be close to (if not themselves wielding) great power while traveling their country and the world, provides them with a platform, fills them with esteem and purpose. The same is true of academic elites, and financial elites, and political elites. Elites love the status quo that has given them, and then protected, their elite position.
Because of how generally satisfied they are with their lot, they regard with affection and respect the internationalist institutions that safeguard the west's prevailing order: the World Bank and IMF, NATO and the west's military forces, the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, the EU. While they express some piecemeal criticisms of each, they literally cannot comprehend how anyone would be fundamentally disillusioned by and angry with these institutions, let alone want to break from them. They are far removed from the suffering that causes those anti-establishment sentiments. So they search and search in vein for some rationale that could explain something like Brexit, or the establishment-condemning movements on the right and left, and can find only one way to process it: these people are not motivated by any legitimate grievances or economic suffering, but instead they are just broken, ungrateful, immoral, hateful, racist and ignorant.
Of course it is the case that some, perhaps much, of the support given to these anti-establishment movements is grounded in those sorts of ugly sentiments. But it's also the case that their revered elite establishment institutions in finance, media and politics are driven by all sorts of equally ugly impulses, as the rotted fruit of their actions conclusively prove.
Even more important, the mechanism that western citizens are expected to use to express and rectify dissatisfaction – elections – has largely ceased to serve any correction function. As Hayes, in a widely cited tweet, put it this week about Brexit:
I don't want a future in which politics is primarily a battle between cosmopolitan finance capitalism and ethno-nationalist backlash.
— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 24, 2016
But that is exactly the choice presented not only by Brexit but also western elections generally, including the 2016 Clinton v. Trump General Election (just look at the powerful array of Wall Street tycoons and war-loving neocons which – long before Trump – viewed the former Democratic New York Senator and Secretary of State as their best hope for having their agenda and interests served). When democracy is preserved only in form, structured to change little to nothing about power distribution, people naturally seeks alternatives for the redress of their grievances, particularly when they suffer.
More importantly still – and directly contrary to what establishment liberals love to claim in order to demonize all who reject their authority – economic suffering and xenophobia/racism are not mutually exclusive; the opposite is true: the former fuels the latter, as sustained economic misery makes people more receptive to tribalistic scapegoating. That's precisely why plutocratic policies that deprive huge portions of the population of basic opportunity and hope are so dangerous. Claiming that supporters of Brexit or Trump or Corbyn or Sanders or anti-establishment European parties on the left and right are motivated only by hatred but not genuine economic suffering and political oppression is a transparent tactic for exonerating status quo institutions and evading responsibility for doing anything about their core corruption.
Part of this spiteful media reaction to Brexit is grounded in a dreary combination of sloth and habit: a sizable portion of the establishment-liberal commentariat in the west has completely lost the ability to engage with any sort of dissent from their orthodoxies, or even to understand those who disagree with them. They are capable of nothing beyond adopting the most smug and self-satisfied posture, then spouting clichés to dismiss their critics as ignorant, benighted bigots. Like the people of the west who bomb Muslim countries and then express confusion that anyone wants to attack them back, the most simple-minded of these establishment media liberals are constantly enraged that the people they endlessly malign as ignorant haters refuse to vest them with the respect and credibility to which they are naturally entitled.
But there's something deeper and more interesting driving the media reaction here. Establishment journalistic outlets are not outsiders. They're the opposite: they are fully integrated into elite institutions, are tools of those institutions, and thus identify fully with them. Of course they do not share, and cannot understand, anti-establishment sentiments: they are the targets of this establishment-hating revolt as much as anyone else. These journalists' reaction to this anti-establishment backlash is a form of self-defense. As NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen put it last night, "journalists today report on hostility to the political class, as if they had nothing to do with it"; but they are a key part of that political class and, for that reason, "if the population — or part of it — is in revolt against the political class, this is a problem for journalism."
There are many factors explaining why establishment journalists now have almost no ability to stem the tide of anti-establishment rage, even when it's irrational and driven by ignoble impulses. Part of it is that the internet and social media have rendered them irrelevant, unnecessary to disseminate ideas. Part of it is that – due their distance from them – they have nothing to say to people who are suffering and angry about it other than to scorn them as hateful losers. Part of it is that journalists – like anyone else – tend to react with bitterness and rage, not self-assessment, as they lose influence and stature.
But a major factor is that many people recognize that establishment journalists are an integral part of the very institutions and corrupted elite circles that are authors of their plight. Rather than being people who mediate or inform these political conflicts, journalists are agents of the forces that are oppressing them. And when journalists react to their anger and suffering by telling them that it's invalid and merely the by-product of their stupidity and primitive resentments, that only reinforces the perception that journalists are their enemy, thus rendering journalistic opinion increasingly irrelevant.
Elites are usually elite for good reason, and tend to have better judgment than the average person. #confessyourunpopularopinion
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) December 4, 2013
Brexit was a tantrum — British voters had good reason to be angry, but what they did won't make anything better. https://t.co/41AIMdVTv8
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) June 24, 2016
Brexit – despite all of the harm it is likely to cause and despite all of the malicious politicians it will empower – could have been a positive development. But that would require that elites (and their media outlets) react to the shock of this repudiation by spending some time reflecting on their own flaws, analyzing what they have done to contribute to such mass outrage and deprivation, in order to engage in course correction. Exactly the same potential benefit was generated by the Iraq debacle, the 2008 financial crisis, the rise of Trumpism and other anti-establishment movements: this is all compelling evidence that things have gone very wrong with those who wield the greatest power, that self-critique in elite circles is more vital than anything.
But, as usual, that's exactly what they most refuse to do. Instead of acknowledging and addressing the fundamental flaws within themselves, they are devoting their energies to demonizing the victims of their corruption, all in order to de-legitimize those grievances and thus relieve themselves of responsibility to meaningfully address them. That reaction only serves to bolster, if not vindicate, the animating perceptions that these elite institutions are hopelessly self-interested, toxic and destructive and thus cannot be reformed but rather must be destroyed. That, in turn, only ensures that there will be many more Brexits, and Trumps, in our collective future.
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The zionist fifth column is attacking the free speech advocates at the OPEN HILLEL at Swarthmore COLLEGE..........Adolf Dershowitz , bruce Seiden and Roy Cohn Gottlieb use HARVARD LAW SCHOOL corrupt lawyers to prevent discussion of the occupation of Palestine..........see BY WAY OF DECEPTION , Operation Greylord , THE LAW IN THESE PARTS and FIVE BROKEN CAMERAS.
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The zionist media cabal pretends that israeli bullies are above the law because judas goats are entitled to more subsidies for the kosher nostra goonsquads
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Bayside Middle School students in grades 7 and 8 will soon have an opportunity to bring iPhones, iPads and other mobile electronic devices to class in limited instances.
The Fox Point-Bayside School Board on Monday approved a pilot initiative for the upper-level middle-schoolers known as Bring Your Own Device. The policy is optional and will require parents sign a permission slip.
District Administrator Rachel Boechler said the effort could have a number of benefits, including increasing student enthusiasm for learning and using 21st Century tools to augment traditional classroom activities. Teachers will be empowered to determine when mobile devices will be allowed in class.
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Can a javascript function be called from django HttpResponseredirect or some other django function
What you can do is setup some sort of communication between the two, ala AJAX. Have the javascript side periodically poll the django server for information, at which point django can tell the javascript what to do (do this function, run that process). Or figure out how to do comet.
OTOH, If you're talking about server-side js, sure, why not? It'd be the same as calling a perl function, or a ruby function (feed the interpreter the correct instructions to import/define/call that function).
It's not clear that's what you want to do though...
In addition to JS in templates you can use async (AJAX) calls to communicate with the server. This allows you to call Django funcs at your views without too much hassle.
No. The Django view is called by a request of a User to an Url. It is possible that this is a Javascript-Call, but javascript cannot be called from Django, sorry.
You can also use Dajax, it's an easy way to use AJAX libraries on django: Dajax


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John S. BaileyThe Children's Museum of Arkansas is John Bailey's pride and joy since he returned home to Little Rock in 1991. His wife, Patti, played a big role in putting together the museum, which opened in November 1993.
They both work at Bailey Corp., the diversified real estate firm established by his parents, Virginia and Dr. H.A.T. Bailey.
"I've had some great examples to follow." said Bailey, who is corporate president and chief executive officer.
Before returning to lead Bailey Corp., Bailey employed his finance and banking degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in an 11-year investment career at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
There Bailey was attracted to the fast-paced world of trading Euro dollar futures and monitoring interest rate fluctuations.
The 37-year-old businessman was named a director at First Commercial Bank in Little Rock in March 1994. Bailey is active in the Little Rock Boy's Club where he has served as a director for two years.
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Oak Island became a town in 1999 with the merger of Yaupon Beach and Long Beach. With a population of about 6,800, it's the state's largest beach town.
The town shares Oak Island, the barrier island, with Caswell Beach. The island contains a commercial district that includes a Food Lion grocery store, restaurants and shops that cater to crowds of beach visitors in the summer. Housing is mostly single-family, also a blend of homes for full-time residents and second homes or beach rentals.
With the opening of a second bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway in November 2010, the town grew to take a large mainland area with the potential for much greater commercial and residential growth.
Oak Island prides itself on ample water access, including 65 public beach access points plus fishing docks and piers, boat ramps and other access points on the Intracoastal Waterway and Davis Canal, according to the town's website. Town recreation facilities include eight parks, and Oak Island owns an ocean fishing pier and a golf course.
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Father of the Bride is by far the best of Steve Martin's later work, at some points even harking back to his glory days with Carl Reiner (The Jerk, The Man With Two Brains). Father of the Bride is a remake of the 1950s classic with Spencer Tracy and Elizabeth Taylor but could not be more different. Martin's portrayal of the over-cautious father who is struggling with letting go of his daughter and, as he sees it, giving her to another man is unrepeatable. His descent into almost madness is sheer genius climaxing in the fantastic supermarket scene. Further comedy is injected when Martin Short (Innerspace) turns up as the indecipherable wedding co-ordinator, seemingly intent on spending all of Steve Martin's money! Short and Martin play off each other brilliantly, a fond reminder of Three Amigos, showing the fact that they are both greatly underrated these days. Diane Keaton (The Godfather) is perfect as Martin's wife, the level headed other half to Martin's anxiety-ridden character. The films great asset is that whilst being outrageously funny, it never ceases to be anything but completely realistic, I know people who have watched this and said it was a painful reminder watching Martin behaving as they did under the same situation! Though this should not put you off buying this film, it's a modern classic and no mistake. I gave this film 4 stars though I think the film really deserves 5, I deducted one for the DVD because of the lack of extra features. But the film itself is faultless.
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Governor Scott Walker Continues Reign of Terror
Pondering menacingly while relaxing upon his throne of skulls (thank you Ben Domenech for that mental image), it seems the Governor has decided to maliciously target state workers yet again.
The general wage increase would be the first in four years for most rank-and-file employees and the first in five years for most managers, according to the administration.
Act 10 freed up so much cash than in addition to tax cuts/freezes and expanding the voucher program, the Governor has decided to toss a few bucks towards his loudest enemies.
My suspicion is that the Governor is playing for the long game, trying to expand his possible 2016 coalition to include a sizable portion of unionized workers who would otherwise vote Democratic. He snagged 38% of their vote in the heat of the recall battle last June. I suspect more actions like this will make that number grow, much to the frustration of his enemies. Or perhaps he doesn't hold a grudge and felt they were due for a raise, but that seems too turn-the-other-cheek, even for a radiant man like Walker.
While it may seem daft, think about it from the perspective of a state worker who has seen their check "inflate" with their dues no longer automatically deducted. Now they're seeing a raise they have been waiting on for several years, thanks in no small part to a man their union boss insisted was trying to destroy them. It's extremely tempting to dip your toe in the waters on the other side of the partisan divide. Now multiply that one worker scratching their head by a few thousand, and you begin to see the picture.
As for the words of the union activists who predicted the death of the middle class, massive cuts and layoffs, and hinted at red asphalt and sidewalks, looks like we may need to rename the "Dick Morris Rule" of predictions.
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