Lannan Foundation's Tactical Air Defense Services/Nation Magazine Link?

Until a few years ago, Sharron Lannan Korybut sat on the board of directors of the Lannan Foundation next to her father, Patrick Lannan (who was paid an annual salary of $249,000 in 2008 by the Lannan family’s foundation for being the Lannan Foundation’s president, according to foundation's Form 990 financial filing for 2008). And, according to the New York Times (6/22/97), the daughter of the Lannan Foundation’s president married Alexis Korybut-Daszkiewicz in 1997. The Times also noted that the Lannan Foundation was established by “the late J. Patrick Lannan Sr., the Chicago financier who was a longtime director of the ITT Corporation…”

Recently, the apparent son-in-law of the Lannan Foundation president apparently landed himself a job as the president and chief executive office of Tactical Air Defense Services, a Florida-based firm that trains air combat fighter pilots for the U.S. war machine and the military forces of some foreign governments. As a recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission by Tactical Air Defense Services observed:

"...The Board of Directors of Tactical Air Defense Services, Inc. has, as of November 24, 2009, appointed Mr. Alexis Korybut to serve as its President and Chief Executive Officer, in addition to his current position as Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Company.

"Mr. Korybut brings to the Company extensive management, administrative, and financial experience, and with his more than two years of tenure with the Company, relevant military contracting and aviation experience…"

Ironically, the Lannan Foundation whose president is the apparent father-in-law of the Tactical Air Defense Services’ president also subsidizes alternative media groups like The Nation/Nation Institute, Democracy Now! Productions and the Foundation for National Progress/Mother Jones magazine in a big way.

In 2008, for example, The Nation Institute was given three grants totaling $545,000, by the Lannan Foundation (according to the Lannan Foundation’s Form 990 financial filing for 2008). That same year Democracy Now! Productions was given three grants, totaling $375,000, by the Lannan Foundation. And in 2008, three grants, totaling $475,000, were given by the Lannan Foundation to Foundation for National Progress/Mother Jones magazine. In 2005, the Lannan Foundation also gave $535,000 in grant money to The Nation/Nation Institute alternative media group.

Not surprisingly, neither The Nation, Democracy Now! nor Mother Jones magazine has apparently provided its readers, listeners or viewers with much information about either the historic or current business activities of Lannan family members or about which transnational corporate stocks are contained in the investment portfolio of the Lannan Foundation. Yet, according to its Form 990 financial filing, on December 31, 2008 the Lannan Foundation owned $942,000 worth of Microsoft stock, $953,683 of Disney Company stock, $1,267,640 worth of Wells Fargo stock, $1,389,789 worth of Coca-Cola Company stock, $1,580,982 worth of Wal-Mart stock and $44,145 worth of Goldman Sachs stock.

Black Male Worker Jobless Rate Under Obama: 19.5 Percent

The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for African-American male workers over 20-years of age in the United States under the Democratic Obama regime jumped from 16.7 to 19.5 percent between December 2009 and January 2010; while the “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for all African-American workers—youth, male and female--jumped from 15.6 to 17.3 percent between December 2009 and January 2010, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for African-American female workers over 20 years-of-age also jumped from 12.4 to 13.3 percent between December 2009 and January 2010; while the “ not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for African-American youth between 16 and 19 years of age was still 43.5 percent in January 2010.

The number of unemployed African-American workers jumped from 2,775,000 to 3,059,000 between December 2009 and January 2010, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” figures; while the number of unemployed white workers jumped from 10,928,000 to 11,952,000, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” figures. In addition, the number of unemployed Hispanic or Latino workers jumped from 2,890,000 to 3,132,000 between December 2009 and January 2010, according to the “not seasonally adjusted” data.

The official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Hispanic or Latino male workers over 20 years of age also jumped from 12.8 to 13.8 percent between December 2009 and January 2010. For all Hispanic or Latino workers over 16 years of age (which takes into account the 37.3 percent “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate for Latino youth), the official “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate jumped from 12.9 to 13.9 percent between December 2009 and January 2010.

For white male workers in the United States over 20 years of age, the official “not seasonally adjusted” jobless rate increased from 9.6 to 10.7 percent between December 2009 and January 2010, while the “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for white female workers over 20 years of age increased from 6.8 to 7.1 percent between December 2009 and January 2010.

The “not seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate for Asian-American workers was still 8.4 percent in January 2010, while the official “not seasonally adjusted” national jobless rate for all U.S. workers jumped from 9.7 to 10.6 percent between December 2009 and January 2010.

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ February 5, 2010 press release:

“…Employment fell in construction and in transportation and warehousing…

“…In January, the unemployment rate of veterans from Gulf War era II (September 2001 to the present) was 12.6 percent, compared with 10.4 percent for nonveterans. Persons with a disability had a higher jobless rate than persons with no disability—15.2 versus 10.4 percent…The unemployment rate for the foreign born was 11.8 percent, and the rate for the native born was 10.3 percent…

“The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) continued to trend up in January, reaching 6.3 million…

“About 2.5 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force in January…These individuals…wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey…

“Among the marginally attached, there were 1.1 million discouraged workers in January…Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them…

“Construction employment declined by 75,000 in January, with nonresidential specialty trade contractors (-48,000) accounting for the majority of the decline…

“In January, transportation and warehousing employment fell by 19,000, due to a large job loss among couriers and messengers (-23,000)…

“…Employment in state and local governments, excluding education, continued to trend down….

“The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for…December was revised from -85,000 to -150,000…”