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“It’s sad to say, but women do not have much importance in westerns,” observed Anthony Mann, a master of the genre, in a 1957 Cahiers du cinéma interview. Made that same year, Samuel Fuller’s Forty Guns begins with a whopper of a scene that tells a different story. A small wagon plods across a vast landscape, still and quiet save for the rolling clouds and chirping birds. “Whoa!” calls the man holding the wagon reins, as a thunderous sea of hooves appears. Forty horsemen advance over a ridge at full gallop, led by a woman dressed in black astride a white stallion. Her riders rapidly bear down on the wagon like a lion on its prey, splitting to form a moving gauntlet on either side. The scene cuts between high- and low-angle shots as the men in the wagon cower from the dust and the harnessed horses rear, trapped and squealing, their vulnerability amplified by the visceral construction of space and contrapuntal sound. Then the woman and her forty guns are gone, as fast as they arrived. The men in the wagon gaze at the receding dust trail in shock. “That was no ordinary woman,” they seem to be thinking. And we realize: this will be no ordinary western.

Over the course of more than fifty years, Samuel Fuller surprised and provoked audiences with boldly original, convention-bashing films rooted in action-oriented genres. Already an accomplished journalist, novelist, and screenwriter and a decorated World War II infantryman by the time he began directing in 1949, Fuller cut his filmmaking teeth at Lippert Productions in the world of B movies, learning how to exploit limited resources to produce the maximum punch. The hard-hitting realism and outsize success of his Korean War film The Steel Helmet (1951) earned him a contract with Twentieth Century-Fox in the waning days of the studio system. Fuller got along well with Fox’s production chief, Darryl Zanuck, and directed such standout features as the seminal film noir Pickup on South Street (1953) and the visually sublime policier House of Bamboo (1955), but by 1956 he had eagerly left the studio in search of greater creative freedom.

It is Fuller’s most entertaining and audacious assault on classical and generic conventions up to this point in his career.

Forty Guns is one of six sensationalistic pictures Fuller subsequently completed through his independent production company, Globe Enterprises, between 1956 and 1961. The Globe years saw Fuller flinging off the corset of quality controls that had shaped his studio releases, embracing more loosely constructed plots, offbeat humor, jarring tonal shifts, and frequently daring content. Financed and distributed by Fox for $429,000—far less than Fuller’s typical outlay when he was under contract at the studio—Forty Guns was produced independently on Fox’s back lot and released at both the top and bottom half of double bills. The picture received positive reviews for its solid cast and fast-paced action but was not a box-office performer. Today, however, we recognize it as Fuller’s most entertaining and audacious assault on classical and generic conventions up to this point in his career—loopy, jarring, and, more than once, jaw-dropping. There’s even a tornado!

At the center of the film are the two main figures from the opening scene: the Wyatt Earp–like federal marshal at the reins of the wagon, Griff Bonell (Barry Sullivan), and the “high-riding woman with a whip,” Jessica Drummond (Barbara Stanwyck). Griff arrives in Tombstone with his younger brothers, Wes (Gene Barry) and Chico (Robert Dix), to deliver a warrant. They find their suspect under the employ of Jessica, a land baroness and the boss of Cochise County, who is weighed down by a younger brother of her own, the unhinged Brockie (John Ericson). A renowned lawman who has forsworn gunplay because he “can’t miss,” Griff hesitates to get involved in local matters but finds himself drawn to Jessica. Jessica is attracted to Griff’s confidence and capability—they mirror her own—but wants him to work for her. The pair’s romantic and familial loyalties come into seemingly insurmountable conflict when Brockie kills Wes on his wedding day, leading to a final showdown where Griff shoots through Jessica to kill Brockie.

While the story sounds rather tidy in summary, the plot of Forty Guns is rife with intrigue and action—juggling political corruption, theft, betrayal, an unwanted pregnancy, a serious maiming, three romances, four murders, and a suicide. Fuller had first submitted the screenplay in 1953, during his tenure at Fox, but Zanuck had found it excessive, unfocused, and overly violent, with too many subplots and villains detracting attention from the central love affair and the two sets of sibling relationships. In script notes, Zanuck zeroed in on the character of the “strong woman who runs the empire” as especially unconvincing: “It becomes too extreme when you develop the size of her dynasty and furthermore when you involve her in a dictatorship control not only over her own ranch but over the politicians and townspeople and everything else. This is just too much to swallow.” Yet Fuller largely retained the plot elements Zanuck found too unruly when revising the script for the Globe production, an illustration of how he used his creative control as an independent producer to expand the boundaries of convention—particularly those having to do with genre and gender.

The most playful way in which Forty Guns engages with genre is through campy double entendres that self-consciously exaggerate metaphors rooted in western iconography. Jessica berates Brockie for beating his pregnant girlfriend, snapping, “If you can’t handle a horse without spurs, you have no business riding,” while she later tells Griff about a cabin, “I was bitten by a rattler in there when I was fifteen.” He replies dryly, “Bet that rattler died.” As Wes develops an attraction to Louvenia (Eve Brent), the gunsmith’s daughter, he tells his brothers: “She’s built like a .40-40. I’d like to stick around long enough to clean her rifle.” After Wes and Louvenia kiss for the first time, she asks, “Any recoil?” (Their kiss dissolves from a shot, from Wes’s point of view, of Louvenia through the barrel of a rifle, a sexually suggestive ellipsis reworked as an homage by Jean-Luc Godard in Breathless three years later.) An even more explicit exchange occurs after Jessica asks Griff to replace her right-hand man: “I’m not interested in you, Mr. Bonnell. It’s your trademark. May I feel it?” When she reaches out her hand for his gun, Griff shakes his head, “Uh-uh.” “Just curious,” she innocently replies. He warns her: “It might go off in your face.” Along with the two communal bathing scenes (a Fuller thing), such exchanges provide unexpected moments of comedy within an otherwise dramatic narrative.

Fuller’s experimentation also extends into the realm of style, as he visually deconstructs three conventional western scenes: the showdown, the marriage, and the funeral. Griff’s initial confrontation with Brockie, after the latter shoots the local marshal in the leg, is not a classic showdown, won by the man who draws first and shoots straight. Instead, as Griff boldly strides toward the out-of-control Brockie, a rhythmic progression of shots builds, intercutting the approaching lawman’s legs, face, eyes, and point of view. The repetition of images develops suspense, while the percussive score and extreme changes in scale create an element of hysteria. Finally, Griff comes face-to-face with Brockie and pistol-whips the bewildered lad—a showdown won without a shot fired.

The presentation of Wes and Louvenia’s wedding is similarly daring, as Fuller turns the celebration into a prologue to the funeral. The nuptials themselves are not seen—only the couple’s joyful emergence from the church. Then a shot rings out while the families pose for a picture. Images of Wes and Louvenia are rapidly juxtaposed as they collapse to the ground. The bride lies trapped beneath her dead husband, crying like a wounded animal: “Wes! Wes!” The high-spirited, flirty young couple are married for all of thirty seconds—the end of which is about as extreme a tonal shift as we see charted in Fuller’s work. A slow dissolve then segues into Wes’s funeral. Typically, western funerals emphasize communal grief and the vulnerability of settlers on the untamed frontier. In Forty Guns, the three-shot scene reduces the ritual to its barest iconography: the widow, the hearse, and the act of mourning, here depicted through the town balladeer, Barney (Jidge Carroll), singing “God Has His Arms Around Me.” While Fuller’s Run of the Arrow (also 1957) respectfully engaged the tropes of the cavalry-and-Indian western while expanding their thematic application, Forty Guns utterly transforms its genre in startlingly novel ways.

Equally memorable is the character of Jessica Drummond, as written by Fuller and performed by Stanwyck, a sharp contrast to the typical helpmate or moral-conscience role fulfilled by most female protagonists in westerns. Fuller consistently worked tough, strong-minded women into his pictures—whether as supporting characters, such as Thelma Ritter’s streetwise Moe in Pickup on South Street, or as protagonists second to no man, such as Angie Dickinson’s canny smuggler Lucky Legs in China Gate (1957)—and from the very opening of the film, Jessica’s dominion over men is on display. When Griff goes to her house to deliver the warrant for her hired hand, the camera follows the paper as it is passed down the table, the length of the shot (and of the table) a visual illustration of the sheer number of men Jessica commands—not just the forty guns but also the politicians, judges, and marshal who are present. As Jessica and Griff languidly make love after the melodramatic appearance of the tornado, she tells him, “I need a strong man to carry out my orders.” “And a weak man to take them,” he replies, the deep shadows of Joseph Biroc’s high-contrast photography crisscrossing their bodies and spelling doom. Sullivan and Stanwyck clearly have fun with Fuller’s dialogue, their easy flirtation a reminder that they had shared the screen just a year before in Republic’s The Maverick Queen, also playing characters on opposite sides of the law. Stanwyck’s tough-cookie persona and a string of earlier turns as fierce women in westerns—The Furies (1950), Cattle Queen of Montana (1954), and The Maverick Queen among them—made her a natural fit for the part, but she gives this character subtle shading throughout, bringing not only determination and anger but also real desire, tenderness, and remorse to the role. Stanwyck did all her own riding and stunts for the film, including three takes of the vividly staged tornado sequence, in which she is dragged behind her horse. Fuller was quite impressed by her dedication, describing her as “a helluva gal” in his autobiography.

The thrilling appeal of a woman in command of a western empire is partially undercut by the film’s ending, however, a compromise Fuller would come to regret. After Griff wounds Jessica in order to kill Brockie, he assumes she will no longer love him. “You have to be big to forgive,” he observes. But the final scene finds a white-gowned and wounded Jessica running after Griff’s wagon as he leaves town, with Carroll crooning the film’s theme song: “But if someone could break her / And take her whip away / Someone big, someone strong, someone tall / You may find that the woman with a whip / Is only a woman after all.” Shorn of the land, money, and influence she used to try to secure freedom for herself and Brockie, and without the markers of prestige—the forty guns, white stallion, and black riding gear—that distinguish her throughout the film, Jessica retains only abstracted and feminized signifiers of power: she is strong because she can forgive and love. The ending’s affirmation of traditional gender roles does nothing to erase the rest of the film’s audacity, yet Fuller recognized it as unsatisfying. In later interviews and his autobiography, he suggested that he wanted to conclude the film with Griff shooting both Brockie and Jessica dead, then throwing away his gun in disgust; it was Fox’s marketing department, he claimed, that insisted a picture where the hero killed the heroine would never sell. Though both Fuller’s original script and the draft he used to produce Forty Guns contain the final scenes as shot, it is perfectly plausible that he received pressure from executives to create a more conventional conclusion. Regardless, Andrew Sarris reported that Fuller later so strongly preferred the alternate ending that he once publicly screened the film without the reconciliation of Jessica and Griff—his own version of a director’s cut. Can you imagine what it must have been like that night to see the film end with Griff killing the woman he loved in order to murder her brother? The finale would have been utterly unexpected, a little nuts, astonishing—and thus completely Fuller.


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Cyber security skill shortages remain a major risk to small businesses who are still struggling to defend against cyber breaches, an new survey shows.

The proportion of information security professionals who feel organisations are getting worse at defending against major cyber security breaches has leapt from 9% to 18% in the past three years, the survey by not-for-profit industry body, the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) has revealled.

Security industry leaders are increasingly putting emphasis on cyber resilience based on good detection and response capabilities, rather than relying mainly on defence technologies and controls.

“These results reflect the difficulty in defending against increasingly sophisticated attacks and the realisation breaches are inevitable – it’s just a case of when and not if,” said Piers Wilson, director at the IISP.

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In one of the premier matchups on Major League Soccer’s Decision Day 2018, marking the final game of the regular season, soccer superstar Zlatan Ibrahimović and the LA Galaxy knew they needed a win against the Houston Dynamo to be guaranteed a spot in the knockout playoff round.

The Galaxy had won three of its previous four matches and was playing a Houston team that had the fourth-most losses in the league and was already eliminated from playoff contention with nothing to play for.

None of the 11 games Sunday kicked off quite like this one in sunny Los Angeles, as Galaxy striker Ola Kamara scored two goals in the first half to put his side in the driver’s seat for a Knockout Round clash with city rival Los Angeles FC, which was losing 1-0 at the time in the battle for first place in the Western Conference against Sporting Kansas City.

Cue the second half from hell, when the Galaxy surrendered three unanswered goals to eventually lose to the Dynamo, 3-2. LAFC would also go on to lose to Sporting KC, forcing itself into third place behind the rampant Seattle Sounders, who remarkably rose from last place early in the season to second after a 91st-minute winner from new signing Raúl Rudíaz.

The New York Red Bulls won their third Supporters’ Shield trophy in six years — an award given to the team with the most points at the end of the regular season — after a 1-0 win over Orlando City SC. The #SaveTheCrew party is only getting started, as the Columbus Crew also secured the fifth spot in the Eastern Conference with a 3-2 win.

So many teams, too many possibilities. It would be hard to find a more anticipated and volatile playoff race than the one that is about to commence, with four winner-take-all Knockout Round matchups slated for the coming days.

Eastern Conference

The Crew travels to Washington, D.C. to take on English legend Wayne Rooney and D.C. United, who are currently on a 10-match unbeaten run. New York City FC and the Philadelphia Union headline the other Eastern Conference matchup. Both clubs got a taste of one another on Decision Day in a 3-1 impressive victory for NYCFC.

Striker David Villa got on the score sheet, but it was only the club’s second win in a month. Both New York and Philly — and Columbus and D.C., for that matter — need to find their eye for goals quickly, as the ever-talented NY Red Bulls and the scoring machine that is Atlanta United wait in the wings.

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LAFC will host the luckiest team in Major League Soccer this season, Real Salt Lake, which earned a playoff bid after the Galaxy tragically lost to Houston. Mexican international Carlos Vela is seeking to guide LAFC to its first playoff victory after the organization earned the most regular-season points by any club in its inaugural season.

In the most unpredictable matchup in this first round, FC Dallas will host the Portland Timbers at Toyota Stadium, a place where Portland has struggled mightily in the past. Both teams fell by the wayside late in the regular season with puzzling losses after spending most of the season near the top of the standings.

Sporting KC and Seattle, the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds, respectively, deservedly earned first-round byes. Once the Knockout Round victors are determined, both teams will kick off in Conference Championships, which will begin Nov. 4, with the Conference Finals kicking off Nov. 25 and the MLS Cup set to take place Dec. 8.

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An elevated trailer in Ashland was destroyed Thursday evening after a blaze that started at the front quickly engulfed the entire home, firefighters said.

ASHLAND — An elevated trailer was destroyed Thursday evening by a blaze that started at the front and quickly engulfed the entire home, firefighters said.
The fire started shortly after 6:30 p.m. at 3454 Fallon Drive, authorities said. Smoke was visible from several miles away, and firefighters from Grand Caillou, Houma, Dularge, Little Caillou, Bourg and Montegut helped extinguish it.
The flames were under control in about 20 minutes, said Grand Caillou Fire Chief Mike Deroche Sr., though firefighters spent about an hour putting out hot spots. The trailer is unlivable, firefighters said, and an emergency crew was brought in to help the displaced family.
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A chihuahua named Princess was lost in the fire, residents said.
It is unclear what sparked the fire, though Dedra Jones, who lived at the trailer, said she thinks it was a cigarette that ignited a mattress.
As of Friday morning, the fire was under investigation by the State Fire Marshal's Office. It is unclear if anybody will be charged in the blaze.
Jones, 49, said she was home with other family members when she saw smoke.
"I saw nothing but smoke coming from the mattress in the front bedroom," Jones said. "The smoke (and flames) took over after we got out of it."
Jones said she had lived in the trailer with her children and other family members for 13 years. All her belongings were in that trailer, she said, including jewelry, clothing and electronics.

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POLICE officers in Aberdare are appealing for the public’s help in trying to identify these three men.

They were captured on CCTV causing criminal damage to six cars parked in the forecourt of West End Garages, Llewellyn Street, Trecynon, and r then running away from the scene.

The incident happened between 5pm on April 25 and 8am on April 26.

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An e-mail from the Gawker CTO (Tom Plunkett) has been posted online and it outlines the security improvements that Gawker are planning to implement after the recent massive breach of user passwords from their database.

As we mentioned recently, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking into the Gawker breach, which just goes to show how serious this case is.

The improvements are pretty standard security practice, but it just shows in these days of rapid development and the focus being on features rather than security – bad things can happen.

Gawker Media’s CTO has outlined a series of security changes designed to shore up the company’s IT operations following an attack last week that compromised up to 1.4 million accounts.

The company was unprepared to respond to an attack in which user data and passwords were posted to peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, wrote Tom Plunkett in an e-mail memo to Gawker staff on Friday. The e-mail was reposted on Jim Romenesko’s blog on the Poynter journalism site. A group called Gnosis claimed responsibility for the hack, which exploited a flaw in the source code of Gawker’s Web servers.

“Our development efforts have been focused on new product while committing relatively little time to reviewing past work,” Plunkett wrote. “This is often a fatal mistake in software development and was central to this vulnerability.”

As a result, Gawker has done a security audit of the sites affected, which include Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin and Fleshbot.

Gawker is now mandating the use of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption for employees with company accounts using Google Apps. Also, if those employees have access to sensitive legal, financial or account data, two-factor authentication must be used, Plunkett wrote.

Most of the things would have been picked up if they had ever done any kind of internal ISMS audit (based perhaps on something like ISO27001) – which bans all chat applications except for Skype as that encrypts the chats.

Using things like SSL are pretty obvious and should be forced on all login pages on all web applications – with FireSheep bring that issues to the forefront recently.

I’d say the most sensible move would be considering moving away from the local database model and using something like OAuth – that would make sense.

Gawker also will not allow employees to discuss sensitive information on chat applications, including AOL’s Instant Messenger and Campfire.

For users of its websites, Plunkett wrote that Gawker wants to move away from storing information such as e-mail and passwords and use systems such as OAuth.

OAuth is an authentication protocol that allows people to use the same login information for multiple services and share data through an API (application programming interfaces). OAuth provides a token that grants access to different applications, which do not see users’ original login credentials. It is being used now by Google, Twitter and Facebook, among other services.

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So Apple pushed out it’s latest and great OS X version 10.10 called Yosemite, but it’s facing a bit of an uproar at the moment about some Spotlight privacy issues. For those who are not familiar, Spotlight is some kinda of super desktop search that searches everything on your computer (and now also the Internet) – which is not cool as every search means your physical location & search term is sent to Apple (and 3rd parties like Microsoft) every time you use Spotlight.

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The upside? Yosemite is pretty cool and also security wise it comes with patches for both POODLE and Shellshock.

Even so, Apple should know better than this and respect privacy by default as they surely understand how something like can blow up.

There’s growing disquiet over Apple’s desktop search app Spotlight, which sends queries for things back to the company’s servers to process.

Spotlight phones home in OS X Yosemite, version 10.10, and it is enabled by default: it can be switched off, but with Apple insisting that it now takes people’s privacy seriously, the software has raised some eyebrows. It appears Spotlight sends queries, along with your location, back to Apple over the internet so the company can suggest related things from the web using Microsoft’s Bing engine. Apple says it needs to see your queries so it can improve Spotlight’s algorithms for suggesting things.

So, for example, searching for “weather” on a Register Mac running OS X 10.10 reveals files, folders and installed applications (such as the Windows 8.1 weather app in Parallels) on the machine containing the keyword; that’s the local search part. This is what you’d expect to see.

But then Spotlight contacts Apple remotely to get recommended software from the Apple App Store, and a search by Bing for any relevant websites.

I can see why they turn it on by default though, the majority of users wont know what is happening and they will enjoy the richer search experience that Spotlight gives them now – ala Facebook style. Do something that pisses off a small subset of more technical users, and see how the public backlash is – if it’s not too bad you profit.

This has spread far and wide though, reaching some mainstream news sites – I’m not exactly sure if the average user will be enraged though as we seem to live in a post-privacy kind of society now where people accept companies collect their data.

Yosemite was released late last week after a string of betas were made available to developers, the first in June. The OS was finalized as Apple chief exec Tim cook started waving around his company’s alleged efforts to safeguard privacy; Cook hopes to use privacy as a differentiator in the iGiant’s ongoing battle against arch rival Google.

But the people behind Fix-macosx.com reckon Spotlight isn’t the only component of OS X Yosemite that unnecessarily phones home. “A myriad system and user processes are sending data to Apple in a default configuration, and we want to fix those, too,” they promise.

A collaborative project to identify additional data collected by Apple and other third parties has been set up by the Fix Mac OS X team. “This work is powered by Net-Monitor, our open-source toolkit for auditing phone home behaviour system-wide,” the developers add.

Apple’s collection of search queries in its cloud is not limited to OS X Yosemite: the Spotlight Suggestions and Bing Web Results are also included in iOS 8. “It has to do with sending data to Apple,” Sean Sullivan, a security advisor at F-Secure, told The Register. “It’s a being-spied-on-by-the-cloud issue.”

How to restore your privacy

Disable these options:

Disable Spotlight Options

  • Disable “Spotlight Suggestions” and “Bing Web Searches” in System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results.
  • Safari also has a “Spotlight Suggestions” setting that is separate from Spotlight’s “Spotlight Suggestions”. This uses the same mechanism as Spotlight, and if left enabled, Safari will send a copy of all search queries to Apple.
  • You’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d already disabled “Spotlight Suggestions”, but you’ll also need to uncheck “Include Spotlight Suggestions” in Safari > Preferences > Search.

There’s also a Python script to do it here – fix-macosx.py

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2 Responses to Apple’s OS X Yosemite Spotlight Privacy Issues

  1. bab October 21, 2014 at 8:16 am #

    Well, it’s not like Apple is hiding it — there is a very complete description in the “About Spotlight Suggestions & Privacy” button within the Spotlight prefpane.

    • Darknet October 21, 2014 at 6:15 pm #

      I wouldn’t exactly say putting it in the about pane or t&c is being open about it, being open is prompting you on update if you want to have it enabled and explaining the implications in plain English. Or just not having it on by default.


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He spoke of countries like China and India “educating their children earlier and longer, with greater emphasis on math and science.” He told us that “in South Korea teachers are known as ‘nation builders’,” and that it was “time we treated the people who educate our children with the same level of respect.” He declared this to be the nation’s sputnik moment. He argued that the external threat, though now economic rather than military in nature, was as significant as that symbolized in 1957 by the unexpected Soviet leadership in space exploration. He called for a sustained American response to growing international competition, singling out the encouragement of innovation, the modernization of our infrastructure, and the funding of a general rise in educational performance as key needs now before us; and he used the same metaphor that had informed his earlier speech at Forsyth Tech– the metaphor of the overloaded airplane and the endangered engine. Speaking to Republicans keen to rapidly reduce the federal deficit, he said this on Tuesday:

I recognize that some in this Chamber have already proposed deeper cuts, and I’m willing to eliminate whatever we can honestly afford to do without. But let’s be sure we’re not doing it on the backs of our most vulnerable citizens. And let’s make sure what we’re cutting is really excess weight. Cutting the deficit by cutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may feel like you’re flying high at first, but it won’t take long before you feel the impact.[2]

So, in the wake of the State of the Union Address, are we now poised to reduce the federal deficit in ways that protect the engine of growth without adding further to the load on the back of our most vulnerable citizens? Sadly, it is likely that we are not. We are not because the Obama package is insufficiently radical to fundamentally alter the weight-engine ratio so vital to successful long-term air flight. We are not because, in the politics of contemporary Washington, members of Obama’s administration are obliged to seek common ground with a Republican Party, a section of which doesn’t want any federal airplane to fly at all, and the rest of whom seem determined to reinstall into that airplane the very engine that failed so badly less than three years ago.

To the Obama side of the Washington conversation, we should say this:

  • The airplane is overloaded. We can all see that. It is not, however, that the plane is overloaded because it has become unusually large. The Republicans are quite wrong on that. [3] It is rather that, as a plane of whatever size, the federal budget carries two huge and unnecessary burdens. It carries the burden of a health care system whose internal inflationary dynamics leave us spending a third more of our GDP on health care than do the best of the rest abroad, even though we still currently leave 50 million Americans without health cover of any kind. It also carries the burden of two major wars – the one George W. Bush chose to wage in Iraq, and the one Barack Obama chose to escalate in Afghanistan. We are literally now having to choose between butter and guns. U.S. military expenditure has more than doubled in a decade. At $895 billion (24% of all federal spending), the defense budget is larger even than that for health care, and twice that for all forms of federal welfare spending.[4] That would matter less if the military spending was to purpose, but it is not. Health care spending brings real relief to Americans battling life’s journey, but what does the military effort in Afghan bring us, or indeed even the Afghans? The current war is proving to be as much a quagmire as was the Iraq war before it. We’re now spending $100 billion a year in Afghanistan. By 2014, on present trends, we will have spent $700 billion there.[5] That is a lot of money that could have been better deployed elsewhere. The case for addressing health care costs was touched on by the President on Tuesday, but the case for bringing the troops home – directly and with speed – was not. That silence was one of the two sins of omission that the President committed in the State of the Union: the two that, for many of his progressive supporters at least, drained his speech of much of its credibility and force.
  • The other was his singular failure to address the current crisis in the funding and employment of those teachers of whom he spoke with such admiration. He failed to make the link between his goals and their condition when speaking at Forsyth Tech in December, and he failed to make the link again when repeating the same call to educational arms in the SOTU. In North Carolina right now, the state-wide university system is facing up to a15% budgetary cut, as indeed is the school system of which Forsyth Technical College is a key part. And North Carolina is in no way unusual. State budgets everywhere are in freefall, and this is no small matter when state and local governments contribute 15% of GDP and employ one worker in seven.[6] State revenues on average fell a staggering 30.8% percent in 2009, and are poised to fall further in 2010 when the cushioning impact of the original federal stimulus money runs out.[7] State pension funds made big investment losses in the depth of the recession, tax revenues fell, and demands on state welfare and health care budgets rose as unemployment and poverty intensified. State governors are already hunting ways of cutting parts of the Medicaid program that are discretionary, and making inroads into the pensions, job security and wages of state employees. Large numbers of education workers have already been laid off; and more will follow. This is hardly deficit-reduction that avoids pain to the “back of our most vulnerable citizens.” Cut the teachers, and you hurt the children – there is no way round that, you add to the pain – it is pain that in the short term can only be prevented by increasing federal spending assistance to state budgets that in many cases hover on the brink of bankruptcy.[8] The President may insist to hard-line Republicans that we need to cut more slowly and cut less, but where in the speech was there any defense of the argument that in our current conditions the federal government actually needs to spend more? All that was on offer was educational reform on the cheap – the modestly funded Race to the Top[9] – but the President deludes himself and us if he thinks that a general crisis of educational funding can be solved by intensifying competition between one underfunded state and another.

Not that the Republican answer was any better. It was, on the contrary, significantly worse.

  • The Tea Party version, delivered by Michelle Bachmann, was literally terrifying in its indifference to data.[10] Facts seemed to exercise no constraint on the pursuit of fantasy there. Correlations slid into causes with no explanatory linkage. Governments spent. Unemployment rose. The rise in unemployment invalidated the spending. There was no financial crisis in the Bachmann telling of this story. No recession caused by the collapse of the credit system. No notion that unemployment may have been higher but for government spending. Just high corporate taxes sending jobs overseas; and this in the very week that the UNC comparative report on corporate taxation publicized by Bloomberg Businessweek showed that “U.S. multinational corporations paid 26 percent on average, compared with a global average of 25 percent.” [11] Instead of facts, we were treated to statements of faith: a belief “in lower taxes, a limited view of government, and the exceptionalism of America.” That faith put every department of government on notice, with the possible exception of the Pentagon – that departments faced no recognition of the importance of their function, and no ultimate solution to their existence but closure. Rand Paul has already named HUD, the Education Department and the Commerce Department as departments to be closed, yet collectively those three are responsible for at most 5 percent of the total federal budget. This is not a case of legitimate worries about the deficit driving policy. It is a case of pure anti-statist dogma masquerading as serious economic thought, and needs to be labeled and resisted as such.
  • Paul Ryan was little better. He painted a picture of an ever expanding deficit and associated taxation, as though federal spending was the only thing that would ever grow – that the economy and its tax base would not. Nowhere in his response was there any mention of the $690 billion added to the federal deficit over 10 years by the permanent tax cuts for the top 2% of U.S. income earners on which he and his colleagues had insisted.[12] Instead, his was the standard, “cut the deficit, free up the private sector” argument, as though federal spending was the barrier to private sector investment and hiring again. As he put it, “limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper.”[13] But corporate profits and cash retention levels rose rapidly in 2009 and 2010, as investment levels remained sluggish.[14] What stood in the way of private sector investment and job creation then – and what stands in its way now – is not government spending. Indeed there is strong evidence that many U.S. businesses are concerned about the adverse impact on their sales and tax position of too rapid an implementation of Republican Party-induced austerity.[15] It is a lack of confidence in consumer spending that is currently holding back private sector investment; and it is high levels of unemployment, job insecurity and home foreclosures that is holding back consumer confidence. Republicans like to look to the UK as testimony to their case, glorying in the Conservative-led coalition’s cutting of public spending. But watch what you wish for: rapid deficit-reduction in the UK tipped the whole economy back into recession in the last quarter of 2010. Consumer confidence there is currently at a 30 year low, and unemployment is steadily rising. A fifth of recent university graduates in the UK are now unemployed, the highest rate of graduate unemployment there in more than a decade. The Obama administration may not be doing enough to pull this economy round, but the real vandalism is not theirs. The real vandalism lies on the Republican side of the aisle.

In the cloistered world of Washington, Republican prejudice against the developmental role of government acts as a magnet, pulling the focus of debate away from the fundamental progressive reforms of foreign policy and public investment so vital to our long-term prosperity. The State of the Union Address is always political theatre at its most carefully orchestrated. It is always the one moment in the annual political calendar when the nation has the opportunity to hear the president’s general understanding of our internal and global condition, and glean his view of how best to strengthen both. It is always the one moment when the entire Washington class goes on television together. But given what members of that class are currently choosing to say to one another – given what passes as conventional wisdom in Washington these days – they would do themselves (and us) greater service by gathering together less often and gathering in public rarely at all. Because whatever else they were discussing last Tuesday, it was not the true state of the union. It was anything but the true state of the union. What should disturb the rest of us most is that on Tuesday our political leaders seemed so blissfully unaware of the level of their disconnect from reality.

[1] For commentary on that speech, see https://www.davidcoates.net/2010/12/09/president-obama-and-this-generation%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Csputnik-moment%E2%80%9D/

[2] The full text is at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/01/25/remarks-president-state-union-address

[3] Contrary to the Republican claim that the federal government is too large, the share of GDP passing through the hands of both US federal and state governments is actually less than that going through the hands of governments in other major industrial democracies – less currently than any major western government but those in tiny Switzerland and Luxemburg. In fact, taking the post-war period as a whole, “non-defense federal spending has been fairly steady at 2-3% of GDP. Defense spending registers as larger (often substantially larger) than non-defense spending, and state-and-local–governments are responsible for almost two-thirds of total government spending.” It is, of course, state and local government spending which is now so under pressure (see footnote 7). This from Bruce Chadwick, Government Spending as a Proportion of GDP, available at http://www.chadwickresearch.com/blog/?p=124

[4] Data at http://www.usgovernmentspending/com

[5] Figures from Katrina vanden Heuvel, ‘The costs of war,” The Washington Post, December 21, 2010. For the argument that the war in Afghanistan is not going well, see Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe, Failure, not Progress, in Afghanistan, available at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-greenwald-and-derrick-crowe/failure-not-progress-in-a_b_797215.html

[6] David Wassel, “What Sent States’ Fiscal Picture into a Tailspin?” The Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2011, p. A5

[7] Data at http://www.census.gov/govs/state/. And at US Census Bureau, State Government Finances Summary: 2009, available at www2.census.gov/govs/state/09statesummaryreport.pdf. Commentary at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/05/AR2011010505798.html

[8] See James Politi, ‘Move to allow state bankruptcy,” The Financial Times, January 22-3, 2011, p. 4

[9] So far, we have seen 13 states winning, so 39 losing: 13 winners, plus Washington DC.

[10] The full text is at http://nationaljournal.com/congress/full-text-michelle-bachmann-response-to-the-state-of-the-union-20110125

[11] “The Fact Checker: Obama’s 2011 State of the Union Address,” The Washington Post, January 26, 2011. General Electric apparently paid 11.5 percent of its revenue in corporation tax, while Siemens paid the German government 29 per cent of its!

[12] The increase in the CBO’s new projection – of a federal budget deficit of $1.5 trillion in 2011 – some 9.8 percent of GDP – was explained by the CBO director as almost entirely the result of the tax package agreed by the President and Congressional Republicans in December. (Details in Lori Montgomery, “CBO projects U.S. budget deficit to reach $1.5 trillion in 2011, highest ever,” The Washington Post January 27, 2011). For calculations on the cost of permanently extending the tax cut to the top 2% of U.S. taxpayers, see http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/11/bonus_tax_cuts_fade.html

[13] The full text is at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20029571-503544.html

[14] For the latest data on sluggish investment, see Adam Hersh, The Missing Ingredient in Our Recovery, Center for American Progress, January 28, 2011: available at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/01/recovery_gdp.html

[15] For data on U.S. business unease with the Republican deficit cutting agenda, see James Politi, “US business cool on cutting deficit,” The Financial Times, January 24, 2011

David Coates holds the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments, New York: Continuum Books, 2010.

He writes here in a personal capacity.

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Horses for Courses? The Candidates and the Economy.

It may be difficult to believe right now, but eventually the nightmare will be over. The race for the presidency will end, and we will be free of the daily media diet of who is ahead, who is behind, and who might get ahead as others falter. Time and again right now, the bulk of the media – across the entirety of the political spectrum – focus entirely on the race, in the process distracting us from the course over which the race is being run. But when the race is over, reconstructing/improving that course will be the over-riding task facing whoever wins. So can we please start talking now, in a systematic way, less about the candidates and more about their programs?

When we do, a very early item will need to be the state of the US economy. For as the world economy slows down, and (as the IMF says1) prospects for global economic growth dim, it is all the more essential that the US economy grows as quickly as possible and as effectively as it can. Economic growth eases all the resource constraints on public policy; whereas its absence erodes the capacity of individuals to prosper and social reform to flourish. So the strength of the US economy matters – it matters to all of us regardless of our politics – and currently that economy is not strong, certainly not as strong as it needs to be if full-scale economic recovery is to be both substantial and prolonged.

There are many signs of present and future underperformance in the relevant data sets. The data on growth and trade record current net investment levels some 25% down on pre-crisis trends, labor productivity rising at only 0.3% per year, the trade deficit with China at a record high, and net infrastructure spending at currently zero. The portents in the data on employment and job creation are likewise troubling. Even after 74 months of unbroken job growth, the ratio of job seekers to job openings is still 1.5:1; the jobs being created are more heavily low-paid than the ones being lost; and the number of those wanting full-time work but only getting involuntary part-time work remains around six million. For most workers, real wages remain stuck at little more than 2004 levels, and more than four workers in ten currently earn less than $15 an hour. Ethnic inequalities in wages and unemployment remain frozen; unemployment among young workers, workers over 55, and the long-term unemployed remains intractable; and the new time-bomb of student debt is currently running at the daunting total of $1.3 trillion and rising.2 There is anger in the land, and much of that anger has its roots here – in the large numbers of hardworking Americans who see troubled economic times ahead, and precious little economic improvement in their immediate conditions.

What political lessons should be drawn from these economic times? These three at least.

1.The fault does not lie primarily with the policies and practices of the Obama Administration, no matter how often that linkage is asserted by Republican presidential candidates as they campaign. On the contrary, if it is legitimate at all to attribute possession of a recession to a sitting president, the one from which we are still struggling to recover actually belongs to George W. Bush. It began on his watch, not on Obama’s. The recession started in January 2008. The credit crisis occurred the following September. The President in both months was a Republican, not a Democrat; and the recession left to the incoming Democratic Administration by the outgoing Republican one was truly horrendous. The recession of 2008-9 was not a minor affair. On the contrary, it threw a huge shadow forward, constraining the Obama Administration as it did so. The US economy shed a million jobs in November and December 2008 alone, as the official rate of unemployment began its steep rise to 10% by the middle of 2009, and as many as one in six American workers experienced unemployment either side of the presidential handover of power. As the Obama Administration took office, there was one January day when more than 72,000 American workers were laid off in just 24 hours, with every likelihood of similar days to follow. Far from blaming the Obama Administration by making it responsible for the crisis, it is more appropriate to congratulate the incoming Obama team on eventually stopping the bleeding. Levels of economic growth and rates of job creation are significantly higher now than they were in 2009. Levels of unemployment and even poverty are lower. The Obama Administration can be faulted – on an honest day it might even fault itself – for not doing enough to lift the economy out of recession as quickly as it could have done. But it cannot, and should not, be blamed for putting the US economy into recession in the first place. Responsibility there lies on the other side of the aisle.

2. Which also means that the economic policies currently being advocated by leading Republican presidential candidates are more likely to return us to recession than to generate further economic growth. Those candidates tell us, on a very regular basis, that the economy is stalling because tax levels are too high (particularly on the rich3) and because the business community is overburdened with regulations and controls. Yet it was precisely that mixture of trickle-down economics and business deregulation that the Bush Administration pursued between 2001 and 2007: a mixture that generated fewer jobs in the upturn of the US business cycle than any upturn since 1945: remember the widespread talk then of a “jobless recovery” under George W. Bush.4 It was also a policy-mix that the Bush Administration entirely abandoned in 2008: giving a tax break to low-income earners in early 2008 in an attempt to retrigger economic growth (that is, replacing trickle-down economics with trickle-up5) and by the fall of that year abandoning light-touch regulation in favor of a bevy of stimuli packages, bank controls and bailouts. It was Henry Paulson, not Tim Geitner, who first introduced the Temporary Asset Relief Program (TARP). It was the Administration of George W. Bush, not that of Barack Obama, which effectively nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (in September 2008) and introduced an emergency $700 billion rescue package a month later6 When Republican candidates these days criticize Obama’s economic policies, and advocate a return to pre-Obama ones, they forget that the Obama Administration simply picked up, and carried on, from where Bush/Paulson had left off. They also choose to ignore that what they are advocating as an alternative economics to that of the current Administration spectacularly failed on the last occasion that it was attempted.

3. This much then follows: that the only public policies likely to lift the US economy onto a higher growth path are policies that directly tackle each of its weaknesses in turn: and that the two Democratic candidates are the only ones even attempting that type of agenda. The Republicans are not. They have a blunt “tax cuts solve all problems” approach to this issue. It is the Democrats who have the more nuanced policies. And for all that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton disagree with each other, and are starting to clash sharply, the truth is that they share many similar policies and objectives. Indeed, their similarities here exceed their differences. Both argue that the best way to trigger sustained economic growth is to make the distribution of economic gains fairer and more equal. Both support equal pay for women, and the ending of gender and racial inequality. Both are advocating a substantial stimulus package based on infrastructure spending financed by closing corporate tax loopholes – one geared to the creation of a clean-energy future. Both are proposing the raising of the minimum wage, the curtailing of CEO pay, and a redistribution of income downwards: to simultaneously reinvigorate the American middle class7 and stimulate consumer demand at the bottom of the income ladder.8 Both are in favor of strengthening trade union rights and extending collective bargaining.9 Both want to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States, and both for the moment oppose the signing of the TPP as it is presently constituted. These are vital, necessary policies. There is sharp disagreement between them, of course: on whether the US banking system is best disciplined by making banks smaller or by regulating big banks more tightly; on how to handle issues of student debt and the expansion of health coverage; and on whether the export of manufacturing jobs is best solved by a fundamental break with free trade or with its careful extension. The debate on those should help settle which Democratic candidate is making the sharpest break with established neo-liberal orthodoxies, and so is best placed to deliver growth and prosperity in 2017. But it should not settle whether the next president needs to be a Democrat or not. The weakness of the Republican economic alternative should already have settled that in the minds but all but the most intransigent and myopic of undecided voters.

It is remarkable how issues that consumed the Republican Party when the Obama Administration was in its heyday now consume them not at all. Once the talk in Republican circles was all about the desperate impact of public debt on economic recovery, and of the vital need to prune that debt before all else. But not anymore: now leading Republican candidates outdo each other with their commitments to tax cutting, leaving the debt to sort itself out as the accidental bye-product of the growth and employment they claim that trickle-down economics will automatically and rapidly deliver. This is a sensible shift of focus, because the debt problem was always a false one.10 The rise in public debt was caused by the recession, not the other way round, and by public policy made necessary in response to it; and debt totals were always going to settle back to manageable levels just as soon as growth and prosperity returned – as indeed we have seen.

The Republican problem – on the economic agenda at least – is that instead of learning the proper lessons of the last 12 months of the George W. Bush presidency, its leading candidates have instead merely replaced one set of nonsense with another. Ted Cruz talks of the need to return to the gold standard – the one that in the 1930s helped trigger the Great Depression.11 Donald Trump brags of an ability – unique to himself – to eliminate the federal debt entirely in eight years, while simultaneously cutting taxation.12 But to do that would require an even more brutal version of the slash-and-burn approach to discretionary spending of the kind we have just seen from the Conservatives in London since 2015, with the same dismal impact on poverty and growth: increasing the first and lowering the second. The tragedy for the Republican Party is that their primary contests have already weeded out any Republican with a serious understanding of how modern economies work, and of the vital role of targeted public spending in generating sustain growth and competitiveness.

The economic conversation between the eventual Democratic presidential candidate and a Marco Rubio, a Jeb Bush or even a John Kasich might have been one held on a level playing field. But combine any mixture of Sanders/Clinton on the one side and Cruz/Trump on the other, and the evidence is clear. All the economic intelligence is on one side: which is why the one true way to send the economy into a tailspin will be to vote Republican in November.

2 For these data sets, see David Coates, Flawed Capitalism: The Anglo-American Condition and Its Resolution. Newcastle UK: Agenda Publishing, forthcoming. Details at http://agendapub.com/index.php/flawed-capitalism

3 Jim Tankersley, “The huge divide in the presidential race that no one is talking about,” The Washington Post, March 3, 2016: available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/03/03/the-huge-divide-in-the-presidential-race-that-no-ones-talking-about/

5 Details in David Coates, Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments. New York: Continuum Books, 2010, p. 43. Available at http://www.amazon.com/Answering-Back-Responses-Conservative-Arguments-ebook/dp/B0050BKON2/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460489363&sr=1-5

6 Details in Making the Progressive case: Towards a Stronger U.S. economy. New York: Continuum Books, 2011, p. 14. Available at http://www.amazon.com/Making-Progressive-Case-Towards-Stronger/dp/1441186506/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1460489363&sr=1-6

7 Ben Casselman and Andrew Flowers, “The Numbers Behind Hillary Clinton’s Economic Vision,” posted at FiveThirtyEight, July 13, 2015: available at http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-numbers-behind-hillary-clintons-economic-vision/

8 TPC, An Analysis of Hillary Clinton’s Tax Returns. March 3, 2016: available at http://taxfoundation.org/article/details-and-analysis-hillary-clinton-s-tax-proposals

9 Joe Davidson, “Clinton, Sanders respond to union questions ignored by GOP hopefuls,” The Washington Post, March 29, 2016: available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/03/29/clinton-sanders-respond-to-union-questions-ignored-by-gop-hopefuls/

11 Paul Krugman, “Crazy About Money,” The New York Times, March 25, 2016: available at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/opinion/crazy-about-money.html

12 For details, see Fact Checker, “Trump’s nonsensical claim he can eliminate $19 trillion in debt in eight years,” Washington Post, April 3, 2016: available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/04/02/trumps-nonsensical-claim-he-can-eliminate-19-trillion-in-debt-in-eight-years/

David Coates holds the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University. He is the author of Answering Back: Liberal Responses to Conservative Arguments, New York: Continuum Books, 2010.

He writes here in a personal capacity.

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Basel (Switzerland),   Young India shuttler Riya Mookerjee has qualified for the main draw of the Yonex Swiss Open.

In her qualifying match, 19-year-old Mookerjee defeated Laura Sarosi of Hungary 21-15, 21-10 in the 30-minute affair late on Tuesday. She will take on Linda Zetchiri in the first round of the main draw.

Meanwhile, the Indian men’s doubles pair comprising Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Chirag Shetty got the better off Chinese Taipei combo of Lee Fang-chih and Lu Chia-Pin 21-15, 17-21, 21-19 in 51 minutes.

Another Indian pair of Krishna Prasad Garaga and Dhruv Kapila registered a hard-fought 21-17, 19-21, 21-18 victory over Germany’s Bjarne Geiss and Jan Colin Volker.