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Press TV
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:00 EST

Police at the University of California, Los Angeles have arrested 14 demonstrators, mostly students, and dispersed many others who were protesting to a rise in tuition fees.

An estimated 500 protesters repeatedly interrupted a UC Regents board meeting deliberating a 32 percent hike in undergraduate tuition fees - a move which was ultimately approved.

Some protesters planned to remain at UCLA as part of a 24-hour peaceful demonstration until the full board meeting which is scheduled to put the move to vote on Thursday.

The students were holding banners protesting the increase and shouting, "Cut from the top!"

Tuition at UC campuses would increase by $585 in the spring, and then another $1,344 next fall.

Daniel Tencer
Raw Story
Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:23 EST

Acosta: Obama 'inherited' civil liberties problems from Bush

A quickly-growing right-wing group that recruits serving soldiers and police officers and encourages members not to obey presidential orders has some watchdogs worried.

The Oath Keepers, founded earlier this year by a former staffer for congressman Ron Paul, say they aren't a militia group like the many others sprouting up around the country, because they don't need to be -- their recruits are already members of the armed forces or law enforcement agencies, says a report from CNN.

CNN's Jim Acosta reports that inductees to the group swear an oath of allegiance to the US Constitution that is modeled after the oath given to military recruits, but omits one key phrase: "I will obey the orders of the president of the United States."

Bill Hutchinson
New York Daily News
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:22 EST

The father of a boy who accused Michael Jackson of molestation in 1993 blew out his brains in his luxury New Jersey apartment, cops said Tuesday.

Evan Chandler, 65, whose son received a multimillion-dollar settlement from the King of Pop, was discovered in his 16th- floor waterfront pad in Jersey City with his gun still in his hand.

Chandler took his own life Nov. 5, Jersey City police spokesman Stan Eason said. The concierge of Chandler's building found the body.

"He [Chandler] was on his bed still holding the weapon with a single gunshot wound to the head," Eason said. "It's straightforward. Case closed. It's suicide."

Daniel Tencer
Raw Story
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:51 EST

'Birther' lawyer: Fort Hood proves soldiers should be allowed to disobey orders

Conservative commentators are ratcheting up anti-Muslim rhetoric in the wake of last week's Fort Hood massacre, with televangelist Pat Robertson leading the way with a declaration that Islam is "not a religion," but a "political system" bent on destroying all the world's governments.

In a commentary on his show, The 700 Club, Robertson noted that the alleged shooter in the Fort Hood massacre, Nidal Malik Hasan, had come to the attention of authorities prior to the rampage by emailing a radical cleric and trying to contact Al Qaeda.

Associated Press
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:51 EST

Teen accused of strangling, stabbing 9-year-old neighbor

Jefferson City, Missouri. - Blessed with a Friday off school, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante dug two holes in the ground to be used as a grave, authorities said. For the next week, she attended classes, all the while plotting the right time for a murder, they said.

That time arrived the evening of Oct. 21, when Bustamante strangled 9-year-old neighbor Elizabeth Olten without provocation, cut the girl's throat and stabbed her, prosecutors said.

Why?

"Ultimately, she stated she wanted to know what it felt like," Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. David Rice testified Wednesday during a court hearing over the slaying.

Allen McDuffee
Truthout
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:35 EST

About 25,000 children in on-base Air Force daycare centers will be forced to receive the H1N1 vaccine or face being barred from school, Truthout has learned following reports from concerned parents.

When a number of Air Force parents opened the November Child Development Center newsletter, they were outraged to learn that their children must receive the H1N1 vaccine. The newsletter article indicates that the Air Force is considering the H1N1 vaccine as part of the required seasonal flu vaccination.

David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Raw Story
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:30 EST

This video is from MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Nov. 17, 2009.

Democracy Now
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:41 EST

AMY GOODMAN: More than 49 million Americans, or one in seven, struggled to find enough to eat last year, according to a report from the US Department of Agriculture released on Monday. That's the highest total since the federal government began keeping track of what they call food insecurity. The numbers for 2008 shot up by three-and-a-half percent, or nearly 13 million people, from 2007, marking the greatest deterioration in access to food in a single year. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack called the numbers a, quote, "wake-up call," and President Obama described the report as, quote, "unsettling and troubling."

Census Turns to Kids for Help

Miriam Jordan
Wall Street Journal
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:25 EST

© U.S. Census Bureau
First graders at Union Avenue Elementary, near downtown Los Angeles, read a story last week about who should be counted for the Census

Los Angeles -- The U.S. Census Bureau is recruiting a new set of volunteers: kids.

Seeking to ensure strong participation in the decennial population count, especially in so-called hard-to-count neighborhoods, the bureau has decided children are key.

That has led it to settings like Arlene Paynes's first-grade class at Union Avenue Elementary School in this immigrant enclave on the edge of downtown. Last Thursday, the class gathered to read aloud a story titled Who Counts?

They learned about a boy named Joey who helps his grandmother, an Italian immigrant, fill out the Census form that arrives in the mail. The grandmother and grandchild decide that those who "count" in their household are Grandma, Mom, Dad, Joey, little sister Mary -- and even Mr. Macintosh, who occupies a spare room "until he finds a job." The only one who doesn't count: their cat Clover.

Phil Stewart
Reuters
Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:52 EST

© Reuters/Goran Tomasevic
U.S. soldiers stand in front of a base before they start a night mission in Baquba early June 28 , 2007.

Suicides in the U.S. Army will hit a new high this year, a top general said on Tuesday in a disclosure likely to increase concerns about stress on U.S. forces ahead of an expected buildup in Afghanistan.

The findings, released as President Barack Obama inches toward a decision to send up to 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, show the number of active-duty suicides so far in 2009 has already matched last year's record of 140 deaths.

"We are almost certainly going to end the year higher than last year," General Peter Chiarelli, the Army's vice chief of staff, told a Pentagon briefing.

"This is horrible, and I do not want to downplay the significance of these numbers in any way."

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