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Another view of the "changing face of America" - ann arbor.com

School maintenance guy fired after 30 years for being white. As white people slip from majority to minority status over the next decade or so, look for stuff like this to get more and more commonplace and obscenely obvious.

A new sex text scandal emerging from the top levels of the Detroit PD - Detroit News

This is both funny and sad. Maybe Detroit needs to follow the lead of that city in California that also had a scandal-tainted police force and just disband the DPD completely and contract with the sheriff's office for police services. Seriously.

Flint area serial killer suspect is arrested - Detroit Free Press

Hmm...I hope so. Let's see the evidence though first.

On behalf of a grateful empire - KTVB-TV

Medal of Honor winner's widow can't afford the cost of attending the award ceremony in Virginia,

What American conservatives can learn from the anarchists - The American Conservative

What indeed?

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Flint fearful of 'killer among us' - Detroit News

This rumor has been going around for a while, but now it has made it to an "official news" source. To wit: An unknown white male is stalking black men in the Flint area and stabbing them. 13 in all and five of them fatally. Even comes with police artist's sketch. Unfortunately the suspect looks like about ninety percent of white males between the ages of 30 - 40. Who is trying to ignite a race war?

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“Free Market Capitalism” is an Oxymoron - Kevin Carson (C4SS)

"The state played a central role in creating the defining characteristic of capitalism as we know it: the wage system. Had free markets been allowed to develop peacefully, with the peasant majorities remaining in control of their land and with free access to the means of subsistence, labor markets would likely have taken a much different form. Employers would have had to compete with the possibility of self-employment, available to the vast majority of the population. But thanks to Enclosures and similar land expropriations over a period of several centuries, the majority of the population was turned into a landless proletariat totally dependant on wage labor for its subsistence."

Flint, Michigan's Best Hope? Bulldoze most of the city - Slate (Gordon Young)

"First, he says, shrinking cities must accept that they're not going to regain their lost populations anytime soon. Abandoned houses and buildings should be leveled and replaced with parks, urban gardens, and green space. Eventually, incentives can be used to lure residents into higher density neighborhoods that have been reinvigorated with infill housing and rehab projects. While there are no hard numbers, local governments could save money by reducing infrastructure costs, and the housing market would stabilize, if not improve." Progress? Sounds more like triage.