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Archive for March 15th, 2011
March 15th, 2011 - 10:54 pm § in Hypocrisy
Man bites Dog? Kudoes for Glenn Beck!
Glenn Beck, yes Glen Beck has exposed the footage used by the Fox machine to slander NPR as a fraud! I am speechless.[...]
March 15th, 2011 - 8:55 pm § in Hypocrisy
Protests Grow of Bradley Manning’s Treatment in Detention
Cruel and Unusual Punishment? By SPIEGEL Staff Activists protest the conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention in front of the US State Department in Washington on Monday. The conditions under which presumed WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning are being held have been tightened again. Even US pol[...]
March 15th, 2011 - 12:10 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Can We Outsource Higher Ed to China?
How to Export the American University: from University World News: (excerpted)….Shen Yang, deputy director-general of the department of international cooperation and exchanges in the Ministry of Education..””China has been doing extremely well sending student to all parts of the [...]
March 15th, 2011 - 9:00 am § in Schools & Colleges
CANADA: Medical Residents Charge Racism
Calgary Sun: OTTAWA – Three University of Ottawa resident doctors have filed complaints with the Ontario human rights tribunal. “The right to be free of discrimination is a basic human right, and we stand for that right,” said Al-Ghaithy at a press conference Wednesday to announce [...]
Haven’t Heard About Revolution In China?
Ed. My Chinese friends, probably defensively, say that China is building a democracy in its own, eventual way. I am skeptical. It seems to me that China’s system is a lot closer to Mussolini style fascism than to any sort of liberal democracy. China, in my opinion, may be the corporate s[...]
March 15th, 2011 - 8:46 am § in Uncategorized
Franken: Comcast is Threatening the First Amendment
Al Franken: “the First Amendment issue of our time. “I came here to warn you, …They’re coming after the Internet hoping to destroy the very thing that makes it such an important for independent artists and entrepreneurs: its openness and freedom.” “Let’s not let the[...]
March 15th, 2011 - 8:18 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
Basketball Score: Whites: 91 Blacks 59
This is not the score of some game. It is the college graduation rate of white vs black basketball players. Link.[...]
March 15th, 2011 - 1:07 am § in Misc.
VIDEO: TRINIDAD’S FESTIVAL
Video from NY Times about the commercialization of the bands in Trinidad’s traditional spring frestival. “Our oil will run out. Our gas will run out, but the creativity of our people will never run out.”[...]
Socialists around the world consider Obama their leader
THE INTERNATIONAL CADRES DEFEND THEIR OWN News Analysis by John Charlton of the Post and Email The International Socialist Review was concerned in 2008 that Obama would compromise on their principles. (Dec. 7, 2009) — The concern of common Americans that their federal government has b[...]