The most concise and useful history, analysis, and set of remedies regarding the financial crisis  is found right here in Numerian's latest post, What to do About the Banks.   He's the internet poster who has been warning about the calamity facing the economy since 2005 on The Agonist.   Read this post, which deserves to go viral, and listen to William K. Black's testimony before the House Financial Service ...

California is dying! With their so-called concern for the fiscal responsibility of California, the front and center of their demolition policies, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said Wednesday, the 22ndd of April, that they supported controversial plans to rein in the costs of retirement benefits for public employees.  They say the costs are escalating out of contro ...

Our soldiers are disposable.  Rumsfeld, Bush’s Secretary of Defense, said, "You go to war with the army you have---not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.”  Well, the army we have sucks.  Not the soldiers on the line, but all the ones at the top have to go.  We had a scandal back in 2007 when we discovered that Bush et al forgot to budget for the soldiers they broke while they were busy ...

Albany, NY, April 22, 2010 Mr. Perkins, you must be a very dangerous and powerful man. Yesterday the tabloids were filled with editorials and articles denouncing you for holding hearings about charter schools; today, there are even more. If charters are public schools and receive public money, why should they object to oversight hearings by a legally constituted body of the New York State Senate? I am a his ...

On Saturday, April 24, 2010 one of the most pernicious enemies of public education will be sworn in as a member of the California State Board of Education. At 5:00pm at a small church on 129 S. Gless St. in Boyle Heights, Benjamin Austin (AKA Ben Austin AKA The Beverly Hills Barrister) will be rewarded with a post he couldn't be less qualified for. The Green Dot Public Schools - Parent Revolution (née Los A ...

Michael Collins I enjoyed Sterling Newberry's excellent article of April 19, Liberal Democrats on the Verge of Historic Takedown.  The numbers were certainly there for a Nick Clegg - Liberal Democrat stampede if only Clegg had the ability to finish off the old parties, as he refers to Labour and the Conservatives. Last night's party leaders debate was a must win.  Clegg had to differentiate himself by showi ...

Detroit Teachers and the fight against Walton, Gates, the Skillman Foundation their tributaries, minnions and the awful historical agency of tallywhacker Robert Bobb Defend Public Education / Save Our Students will meet this Saturday at 4:30 pm at the Gracious Savior Church, 19484 James Couzens (northbound Lodge service drive north of Seven Mile Rd. in Detroit, MI).    All teachers and community members in ...

Harvard's billions and the coming economic meltdown Larry Summers, the Obama administration economic advisor could be responsible for unilaterally destroying the Harvard University endowment fund (Harvard Corporation) as a result of the Milton Friedman market advice he gave the Harvard fund's management during his awful tenure as Harvard University president from 2002 to 2006. Summers, who currently operate ...

I read in today’s Times that the Afghani want peace and jobs and that the “enemy population” would all but dissolve if they could find gainful employment. “In a recent survey, Kandaharis favored negotiations with the Taliban by a margin of 19 to 1 over continued fighting. Five of six Kandaharis viewed the Taliban as ‘our Afghan brothers,’ while four of five also said most members of the Taliban would stop f ...

I don’t agree with the ideology of charter schools and what they can do. I have been a proud BAMN student organizer in BAMN for at least 8 months now (since October, 2009 and present) and I’m doing my best to defend public education. Another thing about BAMN is that they support student activism; I do also! ...