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Student Debt Is a National Emergency – Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, June 4, 2014The Zero Tolerance Report – Brasscheck
In the coming weeks and months, we'll be reporting on the insane "Zero Tolerance" policy that's taken root in schools across the US. Schoolchildren are being treated with a harshness over minor infractions in ways that are similar to how prison inmates are treated. Why? Are schools institutions of learning for young people or are they prisons? School administrators need to figure it out... Here's the latest foolishness - but this time parents and children are fighting back.Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, April 26, 2014
What We Lose When We Rip the Heart Out of Arts Education
Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, April 21, 2014Truthdig – Israel’s War on American Universities – Chris Hedges
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, March 26, 2014Elizabeth Warren Blasts Government Profits on Student Loans
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 9, 2014Fwd: Filmed On A Pier In Oceanside, California
Do you support Carl Marx for President 2016? If this were a joke it would be funny, but this IS California. The sad fact is these people probably vote and reproduce! Here's the well informed, educated public Bette LaytonPosted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The heart of the medical-industrial complex – Video
How medicines do and don't make it to market. Prepare to be outraged. From our friends at Real Food. BrasscheckPosted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The truth about charter schools: Padded cells, corruption, lousy instruction and worse results – Salon.com
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 12, 2014The decade that changed everything Video
The 1980's. This was the decade that federal government criminality went into high gear. And it all started with an act of fraud and high treason... BrasscheckPosted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 12, 2014
Taibbi: Yuppie Prohibition League Denounces Pot Legalization
Matt T in RS ..With all the other nonsense going on in this country, it's amazing (but of course expected) that anyone with other things to do would find the time to denounce Colorado's legal marijuana experiment. Yet here they come, luminaries like MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, publishing mogul Tina Brown, and Yale blowhard-in-residence David Brooks, all hot to build a Wall of Decency around the New American Menace. They are the 21st-century version of the Anti-Saloon League, gathering now to denounce the perils of the legal recreational joint. Brown put it this way, in a tweet:Brooks I would expect. Tina Brown?? Used to think she was ok.... read more. . . legal weed contributes to us being a fatter, dumber, sleepier nation even less able to compete with the ChineseRight. Because marijuana, not China's bottomless supply of slave labor, is what's responsible for the West's growing trade imbalance.
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, January 4, 2014