I first became aware of The Kahn Academy, its plans for 'reforming education' and its ebullient Executive Director, Sal Kahn when I was sent a video of Kahn speaking at a TED conference (you can see the twenty minute video at http://www.khanacademy.org/ along with other videos of Kahn speaking at similar engagements).  For readers who are not aware of TED.com, they describe themselves as: TED is a nonprofit ...

FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 7:30PM First Congregational Church 2345 Channing, Berkeley Movie - PLUS Peter Phillips & Mickey Huff of Project Censored talking with John Pilger via Skype ...

[caption id="attachment_20326" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Anders Behring Breivik by AP"][/caption]   “When was it that multi-culturalism ceased to be an ideology designed to deconstruct a European culture, traditions, identity and nation-state?” Those are the words of Norwegian right-wing extremist turned terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. Now here are the words of a young, but becoming in ...

From a guest: NYC's former Chancellor, Joel Klein, now works for Murdoch, and has been put in charge of his "internal investigation" of this scandal. At the same time questions have been raised surrounding several no-bid contracts that the NY State Education Department and the NYC Department of Education intend to award Wireless Generation, the company that Murdoch bought immediately after Klein announced h ...

source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Many of America’s brightest historical minds recognized and communicated the obvious answer to US national debt: US government can create money instead of debt. Current law lets banks create what we use for money, which we then borrow at interest. This Orwellian “monetary” system is the opposite of money because it’s debt. Allowing banks to create what circulates instead of ...

The following is the Department of Justice's announcement from July 22, 2011 that they have finally settled the qui tam suit with whistleblower and former employee, David Goodstein and one other whistleblower regarding the fraud called Kaplan University and in this case the 'Surg Tech' program which was the subject of the qui tam, or False Claims suit against the corporation. David Goodstein was the whistle ...

This president will never do a single thing to oppose the the agenda of the ruling financial elite unless, of course, members of the ruling elite tell him to oppose something meaningless just for the sake of appearances. Question: Why did President Obama put Social Security and Medicare on the table in the budget negotiations when 80% of the people oppose cuts to these programs? Answer: The president is not ...

Gapwash from: Special Guest Found at:  http://forpublicschool.wikispaces.com/Dictionary+of+Reform This is an edited version that can be found above. The idea of working to close the so-called “achievement gap” in education is very similar to the concept of “greenwash” in environmentalism. Greenwash is the term used to refer to propaganda deliberately used by polluters to cover up what they are really doing. ...

By Saul Landau Rupert Murdoch finally got his you know what caught in the proverbial ringer – for his employees’ hacking, not for contributing to the prolonged murder of English-language journalism. Wars, revolutions, famines and disasters occurred and Murdoch’s “journalists” juxtaposed lurid “blood” photos with half naked “Zoozoos” who divorced “Googoos” to wed “HooHahs.” Stories on poverty, unemployment a ...

The Murdoch's and their former chief executive of News International testified before a House of Commons committee yesterday. Their hours of explanations can be summarized in a phrase: we knew nothing. (Image) Rupert Murdoch was too busy flying around the world milking his cash cow media properties to be at all involved. Number two son James was the executive in direct command and he heard nothing. Rebekah ...