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March 13, 2013
Profit, Austerity and Criticizing the System
Updates on profit-driven scandals (horsemeat in Europe and fish in US); how long we work, Correa’s anti-austerity victory in Ecuador, and getting public benefits for public investment in sports stadiums. Major analyses of “internship” in US business and the basic contribution of Marxian economics. Description of Colorado worker self-directed enterprise and response to listeners on (a) mutual decision-making between residential communities and worker coops’ and (b) critique of Marxian debates on crisis causes.
Listen: http://www.democracyatwork.info/radio/2013/02/profit-austerity-and-criticizing-the-system/
Profit, Austerity and Criticizing the System ...... with Richard Wolff (audio link)
Profit, Austerity and Criticizing the System
Updates on profit-driven scandals (horsemeat in Europe and fish in US); how long we work, Correa’s anti-austerity victory in Ecuador, and getting public benefits for public investment in sports stadiums. Major analyses of “internship” in US business and the basic contribution of Marxian economics. Description of Colorado worker self-directed enterprise and response to listeners on (a) mutual decision-making between residential communities and worker coops’ and (b) critique of Marxian debates on crisis causes.
Listen: http://www.democracyatwork.info/radio/2013/02/profit-austerity-and-criticizing-the-system/
March 13, 2013
The Conquest of Nature
And What We’ve Lost
By Lewis H. Lapham
(This essay will appear in "Animals," the Spring 2013 issue of Lapham's Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.)
Having once made a similar error of judgment with an Australian koala, I know it to be the one the textbooks define as the failure to grasp the distinction between an animal as an agent of nature and an animal as a symbol of culture. The koala was supposed to be affectionate, comforting, and cute. Of this I was certain because it was the creature of my own invention that for two weeks in the spring of 1959 I’d been presenting to readers of the San Francisco Examiner prior to its release by the Australian government into the custody of the Fleishacker Zoo.
The Examiner was a Hearst newspaper, the features editor not a man to ignore a chance for sure-fire sentiment, my task that of the reporter assigned to provide the advance billing. Knowing little or nothing about animals other than what I’d read in children’s books or seen in Walt Disney cartoons, I cribbed from the Encyclopedia Britannica (Phascolarctos cinereus, ash-colored fur, nocturnal, fond of eucalyptus leaves), but for the most part I relied on A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, the tales of Brer Rabbit, and archival images of President Teddy Roosevelt, the namesake for whom the teddy bear had been created and stuffed, in 1903 by a toy manufacturer in Brooklyn.
Stouthearted, benevolent, and wise, the koala incoming from the Antipodes was the little friend of all the world, and on the day of its arrival at the airport, I was carrying roses wrapped in a cone of newsprint. The features editor had learned his trade in Hollywood in the 1940s, and he had in mind a camera shot of my enfolding a teddy bear in a warm and welcoming embrace. “Lost child found in the wilderness,” he had said. “Lassie comes home.” The koala didn’t follow script. Annoyed by the flashbulbs, clawing furiously at my head and shoulders, it bloodied my shirt and tie, shredded the roses, urinated on my suit and shoes.
The unpleasantness didn’t make the paper. The photograph was taken before the trouble began, and so the next morning in print, there we were, the koala and I, man and beast glad to see one another, the San Francisco Examiner’s very own Christopher Robin framed in the glow of an A-list fairy tale with Brer Rabbit, Teddy Roosevelt, and Winnie-the-Pooh, all for one and one for all as once had been our common lot in Eden. .....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175660/tomgram%3A_lewis_lapham%2C_going_the_way_of_the_great_auk/
Lewis Lapham: The Conquest of Nature....And What We’ve Lost
The Conquest of Nature
And What We’ve Lost
By Lewis H. Lapham
(This essay will appear in "Animals," the Spring 2013 issue of Lapham's Quarterly. This slightly adapted version is posted at TomDispatch.com with the kind permission of that magazine.)
London housewife Barbara Carter won a “grant a wish” charity contest, and said she wanted to kiss and cuddle a lion. Wednesday night she was in a hospital in shock and with throat wounds. Mrs. Carter, forty-six, was taken to the lions’ compound of the Safari Park at Bewdley Wednesday. As she bent forward to stroke the lioness, Suki, it pounced and dragged her to the ground. Wardens later said, “We seem to have made a bad error of judgment.”
-- British news bulletin, 1976
Having once made a similar error of judgment with an Australian koala, I know it to be the one the textbooks define as the failure to grasp the distinction between an animal as an agent of nature and an animal as a symbol of culture. The koala was supposed to be affectionate, comforting, and cute. Of this I was certain because it was the creature of my own invention that for two weeks in the spring of 1959 I’d been presenting to readers of the San Francisco Examiner prior to its release by the Australian government into the custody of the Fleishacker Zoo.
The Examiner was a Hearst newspaper, the features editor not a man to ignore a chance for sure-fire sentiment, my task that of the reporter assigned to provide the advance billing. Knowing little or nothing about animals other than what I’d read in children’s books or seen in Walt Disney cartoons, I cribbed from the Encyclopedia Britannica (Phascolarctos cinereus, ash-colored fur, nocturnal, fond of eucalyptus leaves), but for the most part I relied on A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, the tales of Brer Rabbit, and archival images of President Teddy Roosevelt, the namesake for whom the teddy bear had been created and stuffed, in 1903 by a toy manufacturer in Brooklyn.
Stouthearted, benevolent, and wise, the koala incoming from the Antipodes was the little friend of all the world, and on the day of its arrival at the airport, I was carrying roses wrapped in a cone of newsprint. The features editor had learned his trade in Hollywood in the 1940s, and he had in mind a camera shot of my enfolding a teddy bear in a warm and welcoming embrace. “Lost child found in the wilderness,” he had said. “Lassie comes home.” The koala didn’t follow script. Annoyed by the flashbulbs, clawing furiously at my head and shoulders, it bloodied my shirt and tie, shredded the roses, urinated on my suit and shoes.
The unpleasantness didn’t make the paper. The photograph was taken before the trouble began, and so the next morning in print, there we were, the koala and I, man and beast glad to see one another, the San Francisco Examiner’s very own Christopher Robin framed in the glow of an A-list fairy tale with Brer Rabbit, Teddy Roosevelt, and Winnie-the-Pooh, all for one and one for all as once had been our common lot in Eden. .....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175660/tomgram%3A_lewis_lapham%2C_going_the_way_of_the_great_auk/
March 13, 2013
from Der Spiegel:
Both the European Union and Switzerland have drawn a line in the sand recently when it comes to excessive compensation packages. Now, Berlin too wants to cap salaries. For Chancellor Merkel, the move marks a U-turn, but with growing public discontent, she had little choice. By SPIEGEL Staff
There are many faces of injustice. A member of Volkswagen's executive board recently said that he thought it was unfair that he earned €6 million ($7.8 million) last year. Only €6 million.
In 2011, he and his colleagues had earned between €7.2 and 8.1 million. Yet in 2012, Europe's largest carmaker did even better, with record-high revenues, sales and profits. According to their contracts, the board members should also have seen their earnings increase. Instead, their pay was cut by about 20 percent.
The supervisory board of the Wolfsburg-based company wanted to set an example. The salary of VW Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn was reduced to €14.5 million, and the salaries of the remaining top executives fell as well. Several of them were unable to understand why. After all, they argued, it was only the salary of their boss, which would have increased to €20 million without the cuts, that had trigged the current debate over executive pay. .......................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/merkel-to-take-action-against-exorbitant-manager-salaries-in-germany-a-888332.html
Public opinion forces Angela Merkel to take action against exorbitant CEO pay
from Der Spiegel:
Both the European Union and Switzerland have drawn a line in the sand recently when it comes to excessive compensation packages. Now, Berlin too wants to cap salaries. For Chancellor Merkel, the move marks a U-turn, but with growing public discontent, she had little choice. By SPIEGEL Staff
There are many faces of injustice. A member of Volkswagen's executive board recently said that he thought it was unfair that he earned €6 million ($7.8 million) last year. Only €6 million.
In 2011, he and his colleagues had earned between €7.2 and 8.1 million. Yet in 2012, Europe's largest carmaker did even better, with record-high revenues, sales and profits. According to their contracts, the board members should also have seen their earnings increase. Instead, their pay was cut by about 20 percent.
The supervisory board of the Wolfsburg-based company wanted to set an example. The salary of VW Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn was reduced to €14.5 million, and the salaries of the remaining top executives fell as well. Several of them were unable to understand why. After all, they argued, it was only the salary of their boss, which would have increased to €20 million without the cuts, that had trigged the current debate over executive pay. .......................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/merkel-to-take-action-against-exorbitant-manager-salaries-in-germany-a-888332.html
March 13, 2013
from truthdig:
Kill Anything That Moves
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
By Chris Hedges
Nick Turse’s “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam” is not only one of the most important books ever written about the Vietnam conflict but provides readers with an unflinching account of the nature of modern industrial warfare. It captures, as few books on war do, the utter depravity of industrial violence—what the sociologist James William Gibson calls “technowar.” It exposes the sickness of the hyper-masculine military culture, the intoxicating rush and addiction of violence, and the massive government spin machine that lies daily to a gullible public and uses tactics of intimidation, threats and smear campaigns to silence dissenters. Turse, finally, grasps that the trauma that plagues most combat veterans is a result not only of what they witnessed or endured, but what they did. This trauma, shame, guilt and self-revulsion push many combat veterans—whether from Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan—to escape into narcotic and alcoholic fogs or commit suicide. By the end of Turse’s book, you understand why.
This is not the book Turse set out to write. He was, when his research began in June 2001, a graduate student looking at post-traumatic stress disorder among Vietnam veterans. An archivist at the U.S. National Archives asked Turse whether he thought witnessing war crimes could cause PTSD. He steered Turse to yellowing reports amassed by the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group. The group, set up in the wake of the My Lai massacre, was designed to investigate the hundreds of reports of torture, rape, kidnapping, forced displacement, beatings, arson, mutilation, executions and massacres carried out by U.S. troops. But the object of the group was not to discipline or to halt the abuses. It was, as Turse writes, “to ensure that the army would never again be caught off-guard by a major war crimes scandal.” War crimes, for army investigators, were “an image management” problem. Those charged with war crimes were rarely punished. The numerous reports of atrocities collected by the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group were kept secret, and the eyewitnesses who reported war crimes were usually ignored, discredited or cowed into silence.
Turse used the secret Pentagon reports and documents to track down more than 100 veterans—including those who had reported witnessing atrocities to their superiors and others charged with carrying out atrocities—and traveled to Vietnam to interview survivors. A decade later he produced a masterpiece. Case after case in his book makes it painfully clear that soldiers and Marines deliberately maimed, abused, beat, tortured, raped, wounded or killed hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians, including children, with impunity. Troops engaged in routine acts of sadistic violence usually associated with demented Nazi concentration camp guards. And what Turse describes is a woefully incomplete portrait, since he found that “an astonishing number of marine court-martial records of the era have apparently been destroyed or gone missing,” and “most air force and navy criminal investigation files that may have existed seem to have met the same fate.”
The few incidents of wanton killing in Vietnam—and this is also true for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—that did become public, such as My Lai, were dismissed as an aberration, the result of a few soldiers or Marines gone bad. But, as Turse makes clear, such massacres were and are, in our current imperial adventures, commonplace. The slaughters “were the inevitable outcome of deliberate policies, dictated at the highest levels of the military,” he writes. They were carried out because the dominant tactic of the war, as conceived by our politicians and generals, was centered on the concept of “overkill.” And when troops on the ground could not kill fast enough, the gunships, helicopters, fighter jets and bombers came to their assistance. The U.S. Air Force contributed to the demented quest for “overkill”—eradicating so many of the enemy that recuperation was theoretically impossible—by dropping the equivalent of 640 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs on Vietnam, most actually falling on the south where our purported Vietnamese allies resided. And planes didn’t just drop bombs. They unloaded more than 70 million tons of herbicidal agents, 3 million white phosphorus rockets—white phosphorous will burn its way entirely through a body—and an estimated 400,000 tons of jellied incendiary napalm. “Thirty-five percent of the victims,” Turse writes, “died within fifteen to twenty minutes.” Death from the skies, like death on the ground, was often unleashed capriciously. “It was not out of the ordinary for U.S. troops in Vietnam to blast a whole village or bombard a wide area in an effort to kill a single sniper,” Turse writes. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/kill_anything_that_moves_20130312/
Chris Hedges: Kill Anything That Moves
from truthdig:
Kill Anything That Moves
Posted on Mar 12, 2013
By Chris Hedges
“Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam”
A book by Nick Turse
Nick Turse’s “Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam” is not only one of the most important books ever written about the Vietnam conflict but provides readers with an unflinching account of the nature of modern industrial warfare. It captures, as few books on war do, the utter depravity of industrial violence—what the sociologist James William Gibson calls “technowar.” It exposes the sickness of the hyper-masculine military culture, the intoxicating rush and addiction of violence, and the massive government spin machine that lies daily to a gullible public and uses tactics of intimidation, threats and smear campaigns to silence dissenters. Turse, finally, grasps that the trauma that plagues most combat veterans is a result not only of what they witnessed or endured, but what they did. This trauma, shame, guilt and self-revulsion push many combat veterans—whether from Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan—to escape into narcotic and alcoholic fogs or commit suicide. By the end of Turse’s book, you understand why.
This is not the book Turse set out to write. He was, when his research began in June 2001, a graduate student looking at post-traumatic stress disorder among Vietnam veterans. An archivist at the U.S. National Archives asked Turse whether he thought witnessing war crimes could cause PTSD. He steered Turse to yellowing reports amassed by the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group. The group, set up in the wake of the My Lai massacre, was designed to investigate the hundreds of reports of torture, rape, kidnapping, forced displacement, beatings, arson, mutilation, executions and massacres carried out by U.S. troops. But the object of the group was not to discipline or to halt the abuses. It was, as Turse writes, “to ensure that the army would never again be caught off-guard by a major war crimes scandal.” War crimes, for army investigators, were “an image management” problem. Those charged with war crimes were rarely punished. The numerous reports of atrocities collected by the Vietnam War Crimes Working Group were kept secret, and the eyewitnesses who reported war crimes were usually ignored, discredited or cowed into silence.
Turse used the secret Pentagon reports and documents to track down more than 100 veterans—including those who had reported witnessing atrocities to their superiors and others charged with carrying out atrocities—and traveled to Vietnam to interview survivors. A decade later he produced a masterpiece. Case after case in his book makes it painfully clear that soldiers and Marines deliberately maimed, abused, beat, tortured, raped, wounded or killed hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians, including children, with impunity. Troops engaged in routine acts of sadistic violence usually associated with demented Nazi concentration camp guards. And what Turse describes is a woefully incomplete portrait, since he found that “an astonishing number of marine court-martial records of the era have apparently been destroyed or gone missing,” and “most air force and navy criminal investigation files that may have existed seem to have met the same fate.”
The few incidents of wanton killing in Vietnam—and this is also true for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—that did become public, such as My Lai, were dismissed as an aberration, the result of a few soldiers or Marines gone bad. But, as Turse makes clear, such massacres were and are, in our current imperial adventures, commonplace. The slaughters “were the inevitable outcome of deliberate policies, dictated at the highest levels of the military,” he writes. They were carried out because the dominant tactic of the war, as conceived by our politicians and generals, was centered on the concept of “overkill.” And when troops on the ground could not kill fast enough, the gunships, helicopters, fighter jets and bombers came to their assistance. The U.S. Air Force contributed to the demented quest for “overkill”—eradicating so many of the enemy that recuperation was theoretically impossible—by dropping the equivalent of 640 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs on Vietnam, most actually falling on the south where our purported Vietnamese allies resided. And planes didn’t just drop bombs. They unloaded more than 70 million tons of herbicidal agents, 3 million white phosphorus rockets—white phosphorous will burn its way entirely through a body—and an estimated 400,000 tons of jellied incendiary napalm. “Thirty-five percent of the victims,” Turse writes, “died within fifteen to twenty minutes.” Death from the skies, like death on the ground, was often unleashed capriciously. “It was not out of the ordinary for U.S. troops in Vietnam to blast a whole village or bombard a wide area in an effort to kill a single sniper,” Turse writes. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/kill_anything_that_moves_20130312/
March 13, 2013
Profit, Austerity and Criticizing the System
Updates on profit-driven scandals (horsemeat in Europe and fish in US); how long we work, Correa’s anti-austerity victory in Ecuador, and getting public benefits for public investment in sports stadiums. Major analyses of “internship” in US business and the basic contribution of Marxian economics. Description of Colorado worker self-directed enterprise and response to listeners on (a) mutual decision-making between residential communities and worker coops’ and (b) critique of Marxian debates on crisis causes.
Listen: http://www.democracyatwork.info/radio/2013/02/profit-austerity-and-criticizing-the-system/
Profit, Austerity and Criticizing the System ...... with Richard Wolff (audio link)
Profit, Austerity and Criticizing the System
Updates on profit-driven scandals (horsemeat in Europe and fish in US); how long we work, Correa’s anti-austerity victory in Ecuador, and getting public benefits for public investment in sports stadiums. Major analyses of “internship” in US business and the basic contribution of Marxian economics. Description of Colorado worker self-directed enterprise and response to listeners on (a) mutual decision-making between residential communities and worker coops’ and (b) critique of Marxian debates on crisis causes.
Listen: http://www.democracyatwork.info/radio/2013/02/profit-austerity-and-criticizing-the-system/
March 13, 2013
Capitalism: Critiques and Alternatives
Updates on defeats for Walmart, recovery for the tiny minority, Qatar royalty buys, and European moves to limit exec pay and tax financial transactions. Analysis of capitalism’s history, its critics, and the alternatives they proposed. Discussion of workers’ cooperative in Wisconsin and an analysis of the difference between capitalist competition and competition among cooperatives.
Listen: http://www.democracyatwork.info/radio/2013/03/capitalism-critiques-and-alternatives/
Capitalism: Critiques and Alternatives....featuring Richard Wolff (audio link)
Very good show. Worth a listen.Capitalism: Critiques and Alternatives
Updates on defeats for Walmart, recovery for the tiny minority, Qatar royalty buys, and European moves to limit exec pay and tax financial transactions. Analysis of capitalism’s history, its critics, and the alternatives they proposed. Discussion of workers’ cooperative in Wisconsin and an analysis of the difference between capitalist competition and competition among cooperatives.
Listen: http://www.democracyatwork.info/radio/2013/03/capitalism-critiques-and-alternatives/
March 12, 2013
[font size="1"]Eurostar services have been cancelled due to the snow (Picture: PA)[/font]
All Eurostar train services between London and Paris have been cancelled today due to snow and freezing weather conditions.
Travellers at St Pancras station in London saying they need to get to Paris ‘urgently’ were told to come back tomorrow morning, when they will be handed numbered tickets depending on how early they arrive.
[font size="1"]Pedestrians walk on a snow-covered street in Cambrai, northern France. (Picture: Reuters)[/font]
The first 700 have been promised places on the first train to run, with others following on later services – all in batches of 700 passengers at a time.
Angry ticket-holders have bombarded the company’s Twitter accounts with questions and complaints, saying the firm was failing to provide enough help and information. ......................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/12/snow-causes-chaos-for-travellers-on-eurostar-channel-tunnel-train-services-between-london-and-paris-3537230/
London Crawling; Slow Tango in Paris
[font size="1"]Eurostar services have been cancelled due to the snow (Picture: PA)[/font]
All Eurostar train services between London and Paris have been cancelled today due to snow and freezing weather conditions.
Travellers at St Pancras station in London saying they need to get to Paris ‘urgently’ were told to come back tomorrow morning, when they will be handed numbered tickets depending on how early they arrive.
[font size="1"]Pedestrians walk on a snow-covered street in Cambrai, northern France. (Picture: Reuters)[/font]
The first 700 have been promised places on the first train to run, with others following on later services – all in batches of 700 passengers at a time.
Angry ticket-holders have bombarded the company’s Twitter accounts with questions and complaints, saying the firm was failing to provide enough help and information. ......................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://metro.co.uk/2013/03/12/snow-causes-chaos-for-travellers-on-eurostar-channel-tunnel-train-services-between-london-and-paris-3537230/
March 12, 2013
Dollars for Docs Mints a Millionaire
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein
ProPublica, March 11, 2013, 11 a.m.
Dr. Jon W. Draud, the medical director of psychiatric and addiction medicine at two Tennessee hospitals, pursues some eclectic passions. He’s bred sleek Basenji hunting dogs for show. And last summer, the Tennessee State Museum featured “African Art: The Collection of Jon Draud.”
But the Nashville psychiatrist is also notable for a professional pursuit: During the last four years, the 47-year-old Draud has earned more than $1 million for delivering promotional talks and consulting for seven drug companies.
By a wide margin, Draud’s earnings make him the best-paid speaker in ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database, which has been updated to include more than $2 billion in payments from 15 drugmakers for promotional speaking, research, consulting, travel, meals and related expenses from 2009 to 2012.
Payouts to hundreds of thousands physicians are now included.
Draud is not the only high earner: 21 other doctors have made more than $500,000 since 2009 giving talks and consulting for drugmakers, the database shows. And half of the top earners are from a single specialty: psychiatry. ...................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.propublica.org/article/dollars-for-docs-mints-a-millionaire
Dollars for Docs Mints a Millionaire (big bucks to shill for Big Pharma)
Dollars for Docs Mints a Millionaire
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein
ProPublica, March 11, 2013, 11 a.m.
Dr. Jon W. Draud, the medical director of psychiatric and addiction medicine at two Tennessee hospitals, pursues some eclectic passions. He’s bred sleek Basenji hunting dogs for show. And last summer, the Tennessee State Museum featured “African Art: The Collection of Jon Draud.”
But the Nashville psychiatrist is also notable for a professional pursuit: During the last four years, the 47-year-old Draud has earned more than $1 million for delivering promotional talks and consulting for seven drug companies.
By a wide margin, Draud’s earnings make him the best-paid speaker in ProPublica’s Dollars for Docs database, which has been updated to include more than $2 billion in payments from 15 drugmakers for promotional speaking, research, consulting, travel, meals and related expenses from 2009 to 2012.
Payouts to hundreds of thousands physicians are now included.
Draud is not the only high earner: 21 other doctors have made more than $500,000 since 2009 giving talks and consulting for drugmakers, the database shows. And half of the top earners are from a single specialty: psychiatry. ...................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.propublica.org/article/dollars-for-docs-mints-a-millionaire
March 12, 2013
Even less mobile phone competition on the way.....
(Bloomberg) Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE)’s proposal to combine its T-Mobile USA unit with smaller MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) won approval from U.S. competition and telecommunications authorities.
Allowing the fourth- and fifth-largest U.S. wireless carriers to combine will benefit American consumers as the mobile market continues to strengthen, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski said in an e-mailed statement today. Benefits include more high-speed wireless service, the agency said in an order.
The combination is unlikely to harm consumers, and may help T-Mobile become a stronger competitor, the Justice Department said in an e-mailed news release announcing it closed its investigation into the deal.
“The FCC’s approval marks another significant milestone in bringing our two companies together,” John Legere, president of T-Mobile, said in an e-mailed statement. “We look forward to completing the transaction.” ..............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-12/fcc-approves-merger-of-t-mobile-and-metropcs-agency-says.html
March 12, 2013
Illinois: 4 teens die after car plunges into creek: 'I don't know what to say'
from the Chicago Tribune:
Four students from Wilmington High School died when their car plunged into a creek in rural Will County, an official, an official said.
The overturned car containing the bodies of two boys and two girls, ages 15 to 17, was found in Forked Creek on Ballou Road west of Warner Bridge Road around 7:30 a.m., Will County Sheriff's spokesman Ken Kaupas said.
The area is between Wilmington and Peotone. .................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-crews-at-scene-of-car-in-water-in-will-county-20130312,0,5368665.story
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