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Posted by Michael Butler, Monday, May 20, 2013Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream – NYTimes.com – Joseph Stiglitz
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, May 14, 2013WATCH Elizabeth Warren: Students Should Get ‘Same Deal’ On Interest Rates As Big Banks
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 10, 2013The Neoliberal Assault on Academia
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, May 3, 2013Act of Terror: arrested for filming police officers – video | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Posted by Harry Sifton, Monday, April 29, 2013Green, Healthy, & Safe Product Ratings & Reviews | GoodGuide
Posted by Harry Sifton, Friday, April 26, 2013THE MAN BEHIND AVAAZ | More Intelligent Life
Posted by Harry Sifton, Thursday, April 11, 2013Why Americans Are So Ignorant — It’s Not Only Fox News, There Are Some Understandable Reasons for it
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 11, 2013Fight the Enemies of Truth: Support the Spread of Knowledge | Global Research
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, April 9, 2013The Real Problem with Education: Students Hate School — And Here’s Why
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, April 4, 2013Adbusters: Mein Campus
AdB ..A cultural shift is happening on university campuses across North America. Students are lining up for mental health services faster than they can be treated. This shift is defining a generation and marks a profound change in the mental environment on campuses today. There was a time not so long ago when students used to reach out for help with a particular life crisis: a broken relationship, the death of a loved one, difficulty with a major decision. Today, however, students are complaining that their life is the crisis, an all-pervasive sense of bleakness about themselves and their future that didn’t exist a generation ago .. More than two-thirds of student health centers say they don’t have enough resources and counselors to deal with the growing numbers of clients. Thirty-four percent of centers have ongoing waitlists.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, March 30, 2013
Truthdig – How Schools Are Becoming Prisons
Posted by Michael Butler, Friday, March 29, 2013Democracy Now: Energy Nominee Ernest Moniz Criticized for Backing Fracking & Nuclear Power; Ties to BP, GE, Saudis
.. read transcript at Democracy Now
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Bloomberg hits the jackpot: NYC students can’t read, write, or do arithmetic
80% of kid's trying to go to community college can not read, write, or do arithmetic! These are the college bound one's. What about the rest of their high school graduate friend's? These poor kid's. Trusting in a school system with no responsibility built in, taught the children just that. Will politician's stand up and take their responsibility for this? And what of the parts of the system that created this problem? Politicizing education has really worked well. They now have government efficiency at it's best.. Principle's are now more politician than educator, although they must have been the latter at one time. How do you corect 12 years of no education when arriving in community college? What a staggering loss of potential for everyone. With California going to a more strictly government approved and controlled venue in education, I wonder what is happening here for all the rhetoric? b.a.Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, March 21, 2013
The novel resurgence of independent bookstores – CSMonitor.com
Posted by Harry Sifton, Monday, March 18, 2013Bloomberg hits the jackpot: NYC students can’t read, write, or do arithmetic
80% of kid's trying to go to community college can not read, write, or do arithmetic! These are the college bound one's. What about the rest of their high school graduate friend's? These poor kid's. Trusting in a school system with no responsibility built in, taught the children just that. Will politician's stand up and take their responsibility for this? And what of the parts of the system that created this problem? Politicizing education has really worked well. They now have government efficiency at it's best.. Principle's are now more politician than educator, although they must have been the latter at one time. How do you corect 12 years of no education when arriving in community college? What a staggering loss of potential for everyone. With California going to a more strictly government approved and controlled venue in education, I wonder what is happening here for all the rhetoric? b.a.Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, March 16, 2013
Brown University creates first wireless, implanted brain-computer interface
Are you interested in being one of the first "Elective Trans-humanist's"? Human trials are coming up tomorrow. Could this be a wireless smart meter for your brain? ALL the implication's are staggering and this technology evolves. b.aPosted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, March 6, 2013
How the Religious Right Is Helping De-Educate America’s Youth
Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, February 24, 2013The Inconvenient Truth Of Education ‘Reform’
Posted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, February 13, 2013Jared Diamond: Do Hunter-Gatherer Societies Raise Their Children Better Than Americans Do?
Posted by Michael Butler, Saturday, January 19, 2013Stirling Newberry: Aaron Swartz’ Blood for Oil [interesting..]
Newberry ..the reality is that control of a few key pieces of capital, knowledge, and resource, dominate over all the others. It was Derrida who quipped that two things would never be viritual: oil and Jerusalem, everyone wants the real thing. In this he encapsulated the problem: control over the keys to the mechanized economy and control over the brand equity of the "game itself" are the basis of all power .. Oil was called by Yergin "The Prize" and it exhibits a unique power because of its property of both creating fungible labor, and portability .. oil's power is that it allows people to avoid paying money to people they compete with. It is a trade off of rents .. everything in the West had to be turned into a rent, and that stream of rents had to match against the rents of oil. To make up the difference between what we sell, and what we buy – and that gap is oil, and oil in drag in the form of cheap exports, we must sell capital and "services," which includes education, and finance. Enter Intellectual Property, and the role of academiasomething to ponder .. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Saturday, January 19, 2013
Kevin Gosztola: How the Government’s Prosecution of Aaron Swartz Pushed Him Toward Death
Gosztola in FDL ..Just as the government sought to make an example out of NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, made an example out of former CIA officer John Kiriakou for “leaking” a name of an agent and is making an example out of Pfc. Bradley Manning for allegedly providing classified and non-classified information to WikiLeaks, it pursued Swartz hoping to convict him and set a precedent that would limit Internet freedom and the free flow of information. Meanwhile, banks like HSBC received no jail time for terrorist financing, not a single person from a Big Bank on Wall Street was prosecuted for major financial crimes that led to the 2008 economic collapse and those in the Bush administration and intelligence community, who authorized torture, were allowed to roam free. Do not expect his suicide to change anything. The government will continue to take up cases against Internet activists, who do no real harm, while looking the other way as white collar criminals and war criminals receive accolades, enjoy prestige and success and benefit from government welfare.. read more
Posted by Mike Blaxill, Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Fox “News” Claims that Algebra Classes Are a Conspiracy of Liberal Indoctrination
How bizarre!Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, January 13, 2013
A Model T Education: Public Schooling on the Assembly Line
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, January 10, 2013Study shows how to throw away negative thoughts
Really interesting research with consistent results...It seems to me you would want to do both...throw away negative thoughts and keep positive ones with you...enjoy life, be free of worry, you are beautiful and intelligent......do you feel your wallet getting thicker? It may be more valuable than green wrinkled paper/money..b.aPosted by Michael Butler, Monday, December 24, 2012
