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Bipartisan Political Elite Implicated in For-Profit Education Fraud
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Bipartisan Political Elite Implicated in For-Profit Education Fraud
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8589-bipartisan-political-elite-implicated-in-for-profit-education-fraud
Danny Weil, Truthout: "The only way to describe $89,000 for a four-year degree with non-transferable credits from a non-academic college is as a fraud and a swindle, and that characterization possibly fails to convey the frustration and downright victimization students like Washington must feel. Like subprime mortgages, for-profit colleges are a scam driven by payment of commissions to sales staff known as recruiters. The payment of commissions to high-pressure salespeople is so central to the scam that the umbrella trade group for for-profits, the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities (APSCU), has sued the federal government to overturn its ban on incentive pay."
Dozens Killed in Wave of Attacks Across Iraq
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8614-dozens-killed-in-wave-of-attacks-across-iraq
Tim Arango, The New York Times News Service: "A string of deadly explosions and other attacks shook Iraq on Thursday, with bombings in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk resulting in the most fatalities. Over all, nearly three dozen people were killed and more than 100 wounded, according to security officials. By the standards of Iraq - where attacks occur daily, although at a much diminished rate compared with the height of the war - the wave of violence on Thursday was not extraordinary, although it was a reminder, after weeks of relative calm, that an organized insurgency remained active."
Michael Winship and Bill Moyers | I'm Big Bird and I Don't Approve This Message
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8626-i%E2%80%99m-big-bird-and-i-don%E2%80%99t-approve-this-message
Michael Winship and Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: "Imagine if you turned on your TV set someday soon and were greeted by Sesame Street, brought to you by the letter C, for 'creeping campaign cash corruption'.... On April 12, by a vote of 2-1, two of three judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found in favor of KMTP, a small public station in San Francisco, and struck down the federal ban against political and issue advertising on public TV and radio. For decades there's been a rule against turning those airwaves over to ads for political campaigns and causes. Now the court has ruled that the free speech rights of political advertisers take precedence."
Gulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8616-gulf-seafood-deformities-alarm-scientists
Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English: "Gulf of Mexico fishermen, scientists and seafood processors have told Al Jazeera they are finding disturbing numbers of mutated shrimp, crab and fish that they believe are deformed by chemicals released during BP's 2010 oil disaster. Along with collapsing fisheries, signs of malignant impact on the regional ecosystem are ominous: horribly mutated shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crabs and shrimp - and interviewees' fingers point towards BP's oil pollution disaster as being the cause."Got
Some Relationship Counseling for Feminism and the Left
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8581-some-marriage-counseling-for-feminism-and-the-left
Harriet Fraad, Truthout: "Marriage is the only form of deep connection our society enthusiastically endorses. People seek marriages for the same reason they are so hard to sustain. People need marriage to do the impossible job of compensating for social loneliness and collective disconnection. When marriages work, they can be a basis of deep, lasting and productive partnership in which people connect around collective actions, deeply held beliefs, shared trusted friends and family members, and intimate relational bonds. Although some marriage partnerships help people profoundly, most fail. Marriage was never, nor could it ever be, a substitute for a wider relational circle or social collectivity."
Self-Dealing and the War Service Industry, Part III: The Payoff
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8601-self-dealing-and-the-war-service-industry-part-iii-the-payoff
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "In this third installment of our series, we will go back and find out where their fellow government protagonists went after shamelessly helping KBR to the detriment of the government. It is a tale of government employees like Smith and Greenhouse trying to do the right thing but not being able to follow it through because of the brazen behavior of their bosses and fellow workers. Many of the people who were responsible for the lack of oversight and the acquiescence to KBR's demands flagrantly used their cozy relationships with KBR and other companies to land great post-retirement jobs. Their self-dealing shows a corrupted system that eats up honest government workers while rewarding those who don't rock the boat for contractors."
Paul Krugman | The Transformation of Ben Bernanke
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8563-the-transformation-of-ben-bernanke
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "I've been rereading Larry Ball's impressive and disturbing what-happened-to-Ben-Bernanke analysis - an analysis that, I happen to know, has caused much consternation in some circles. ('Surely it can't be just groupthink! There must be very good reasons the Federal Reserve hasn't done more!') And I think there's a way to further refine Mr. Ball's analysis, published on Feb. 28 on Vox, the Center for Economic Policy Research's online policy portal - a way that makes more sense of Mr. Bernanke's retreat from earlier positions, albeit one that still doesn't cast a very flattering light on the Fed."
Rich Countries Seek to Block UN From Working on Global Finance Reforms
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8609-rich-countries-seek-to-block-un-from-working-on-global-finance-reforms
Rick Rowden, Truthout: "An important fight between rich countries and developing countries over the question of UN involvement in researching and advocating for a new global financial architecture has spilled into the open in the weeks leading up to the April 21-26 quadrennial ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). At issue are apparent efforts by the rich countries to water down and block the key planks of UNCTAD's proposed work plan related to needed reforms in finance and the global financial architecture."
Report on Iran's Nuclear Fatwa Distorts Its History
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8617-report-on-irans-nuclear-fatwa-distorts-its-history
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service News: "The Barack Obama administration's new interest in the 2004 religious verdict, or 'fatwa,' by Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banning the possession of nuclear weapons, long dismissed by national security officials, has prompted the New York Times to review the significance of the fatwa for the first time in several years. Senior Obama administration officials have decided to cite the fatwa as an Iranian claim to be tested in negotiations, posing a new challenge to the news media to report accurately on the background to the issue."
Hang on to That Paycheck! ALEC "Sharpens Focus on Jobs"
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8625-hang-onto-that-paycheck-alec-sharpens-focus-on-jobs
Mary Bottari, PR Watch: "ALEC has a sweeping anti-union agenda that would cripple labor's ability to serve as an effective counterweight to corporate CEOs.... On collective bargaining, ALEC's 'Public Employee Freedom Act' declares that 'an employee should be able to contract on their own terms' and 'mandatory collective bargaining laws violate this freedom.' This ALEC bill and the 'Public Employer Payroll Deduction Policy Act' prohibit automatic payroll deductions for union dues, a key aspect of Walker's collective bargaining bill struck down by a federal court judge."
Money Struggles, Not Mommy Wars
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8618-money-struggles-not-mommy-wars
E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post Writers Group: "There is a profound class bias in our discussion of what mothers should or should not do. The public debate seems premised on the idea that all two-parent families have a choice as to whether one or both work. That's still true for the better-off. But this choice is denied to most American families. They have had to send two people into the workforce whether they wanted to or not."
The Botox of Late-Stage Capitalism
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8613-botox-of-late-stage-capitalism
Phil Rockstroh, Consortium News: "Wall Street is again flush with the electronic facsimile of the stuff once known as money. But this is a Botox Recovery: A superficial procedure, accomplished with a nerve paralyzing poison, reserved for the wealthy whose vanity has driven them to transform their faces into caricatures of corruption ... to acquiring a countenance, frozen as a creepy doll, incapable of showing emotion - a grotesque simulacrum of the human face."
The Bully Politics of Education Reform
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8615-the-bully-politics-of-education-reform
Paul Thomas, The Daily Censored: "To mask the bully culture of the U.S., bullying is confronted as a school-based problem among children (note the distraction of the R rating in the documentary on bullying addressed by Nancy Flanagan and Douglas Storm). Yet, the exact ruling class who denounces bullying among children are themselves bullies. So there is no surprise that the current education reform movement is characterized by bully politics."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Yes, There Is a Kindergarten Cop, and It's Not Arnold Schwarzenegger
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13452
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "On Friday, a six-year-old Georgia girl was handcuffed, arrested and taken to a police station after throwing a tantrum in her kindergarten class. No, BuzzFlash is not making this up! A Truthout staff member Skyped a message wondering how the police found handcuffs small enough for a toddler. Is there a now a vendor for the 'criminalization industry' manufacturing kiddy cuffs?"
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Veterans Sexually Assaulted in VA Clinics and Hospitals
Read the Article at Care2
http://www.care2.com/causes/veterans-sexually-assaulted-in-va-clinics-and-hospitals.html
As Romney Courts Latinos, GOP Cuts Their Services
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/04/as-romney-courts-latinos-gop-cuts-their-services.php?ref=fpb
Two-Paycheck Couples, Working Because They Must
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/two-paycheck-couples-are-quickly-becoming-the-norm/2012/04/18/gIQALSzlRT_story.html?hpid=z2
Investigation: Two Years After the BP Spill, a Hidden Health Crisis Festers
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/article/167461/investigation-two-years-after-bp-spill-hidden-health-crisis-festers
Christian Right, Targeting Gay Kiss, Is at It Again
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13450
Catholic League Promises to "Mobilize" Religious Groups Against Jon Stewart
Read the Article at BuzzFeed
http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/catholic-league-promises-to-mobilize-religious-g
Owner of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut Is 12th Corporation to Drop ALEC
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/04/19/467264/kfc-taco-bell-and-pizza-hut-owner-is-the-12th-corporation-to-drop-alec/
Click here for more BuzzFlash headlines: http://www.buzzflash.com/
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<p>Thursday 19 April 2012</p>
<font><strong>Bipartisan Political Elite Implicated in For-Profit Education=
Fraud </strong></font><br />
Danny Weil, Truthout: "The only way to describe $89,000 for a four-year deg=
ree with non-transferable credits from a non-academic college is as a fraud=
and a swindle, and that characterization possibly fails to convey the frus=
tration and downright victimization students like Washington must feel. Lik=
e subprime mortgages, for-profit colleges are a scam driven by payment of c=
ommissions to sales staff known as recruiters. The payment of commissions t=
o high-pressure salespeople is so central to the scam that the umbrella tra=
de group for for-profits, the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Un=
iversities (APSCU), has sued the federal government to overturn its ban on =
incentive pay."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
zw9%2BYFRRIxZr5Ao5E7eehBYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Dozens Killed in Wave of Attacks Across Iraq</strong></font><=
br />
Tim Arango, The New York Times News Service: "A string of deadly explosions=
and other attacks shook Iraq on Thursday, with bombings in Baghdad and the=
northern city of Kirkuk resulting in the most fatalities. Over all, nearly=
three dozen people were killed and more than 100 wounded, according to sec=
urity officials. By the standards of Iraq - where attacks occur daily, alth=
ough at a much diminished rate compared with the height of the war - the wa=
ve of violence on Thursday was not extraordinary, although it was a reminde=
r, after weeks of relative calm, that an organized insurgency remained acti=
ve."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
6be73jStY0%2B2XgNgIdtXExYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Michael Winship and Bill Moyers | I'm Big Bird and I Don't Ap=
prove This Message</strong></font><br />
Michael Winship and Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: "Imagine if you turned on yo=
ur TV set someday soon and were greeted by Sesame Street, brought to you by=
the letter C, for 'creeping campaign cash corruption'.... On April 12, by =
a vote of 2-1, two of three judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals=
found in favor of KMTP, a small public station in San Francisco, and struc=
k down the federal ban against political and issue advertising on public TV=
and radio. For decades there's been a rule against turning those airwaves =
over to ads for political campaigns and causes. Now the court has ruled tha=
t the free speech rights of political advertisers take precedence."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
cRjePJ24V7rUnzKSXXaN%2FhYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Gulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists</strong></font><br =
/>
Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English: "Gulf of Mexico fishermen, scientists and =
seafood processors have told Al Jazeera they are finding disturbing numbers=
of mutated shrimp, crab and fish that they believe are deformed by chemica=
ls released during BP's 2010 oil disaster. Along with collapsing fisheries,=
signs of malignant impact on the regional ecosystem are ominous: horribly =
mutated shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking c=
laws, eyeless crabs and shrimp - and interviewees' fingers point towards BP=
's oil pollution disaster as being the cause."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
VrmT9v2%2F5A88B4YetbArXhYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Some Relationship Counseling for Feminism and the Left</stron=
g></font><br />
Harriet Fraad, Truthout: "Marriage is the only form of deep connection our =
society enthusiastically endorses. People seek marriages for the same reaso=
n they are so hard to sustain. People need marriage to do the impossible jo=
b of compensating for social loneliness and collective disconnection. When =
marriages work, they can be a basis of deep, lasting and productive partner=
ship in which people connect around collective actions, deeply held beliefs=
, shared trusted friends and family members, and intimate relational bonds.=
Although some marriage partnerships help people profoundly, most fail. Mar=
riage was never, nor could it ever be, a substitute for a wider relational =
circle or social collectivity."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
eV%2F%2FyMoF75w0kf2Dw6x1LBYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Arti=
cle</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Self-Dealing and the War Service Industry, Part III: The Payo=
ff</strong></font><br />
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "In this third installment of our series, we will go =
back and find out where their fellow government protagonists went after sha=
melessly helping KBR to the detriment of the government. It is a tale of go=
vernment employees like Smith and Greenhouse trying to do the right thing b=
ut not being able to follow it through because of the brazen behavior of th=
eir bosses and fellow workers. Many of the people who were responsible for =
the lack of oversight and the acquiescence to KBR's demands flagrantly used=
their cozy relationships with KBR and other companies to land great post-r=
etirement jobs. Their self-dealing shows a corrupted system that eats up ho=
nest government workers while rewarding those who don't rock the boat for c=
ontractors."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
OTwlk7xr6cIaZ%2B55pYv0UBYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Paul Krugman | The Transformation of Ben Bernanke</strong></f=
ont><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "I've been rereading Larry Ball's impressive a=
nd disturbing what-happened-to-Ben-Bernanke analysis - an analysis that, I =
happen to know, has caused much consternation in some circles. ('Surely it =
can't be just groupthink! There must be very good reasons the Federal Reser=
ve hasn't done more!') And I think there's a way to further refine Mr. Ball=
's analysis, published on Feb. 28 on Vox, the Center for Economic Policy Re=
search's online policy portal - a way that makes more sense of Mr. Bernanke=
's retreat from earlier positions, albeit one that still doesn't cast a ver=
y flattering light on the Fed."=20
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
X4%2FE9W7DHc%2FDYxwEuv4RVxYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Arti=
cle</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Rich Countries Seek to Block UN From Working on Global Financ=
e Reforms</strong></font><br />
Rick Rowden, Truthout: "An important fight between rich countries and devel=
oping countries over the question of UN involvement in researching and advo=
cating for a new global financial architecture has spilled into the open in=
the weeks leading up to the April 21-26 quadrennial ministerial meeting in=
Doha, Qatar, of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UN=
CTAD). At issue are apparent efforts by the rich countries to water down an=
d block the key planks of UNCTAD's proposed work plan related to needed ref=
orms in finance and the global financial architecture."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
oeQ1GPzbBGhv2prhdxL7exYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Report on Iran's Nuclear Fatwa Distorts Its History</strong><=
/font><br />
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service News: "The Barack Obama administration's=
new interest in the 2004 religious verdict, or 'fatwa,' by Iran's Supreme =
Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei banning the possession of nuclear weapons, lo=
ng dismissed by national security officials, has prompted the New York Time=
s to review the significance of the fatwa for the first time in several yea=
rs. Senior Obama administration officials have decided to cite the fatwa as=
an Iranian claim to be tested in negotiations, posing a new challenge to t=
he news media to report accurately on the background to the issue.”
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
WAQw99B6w94j3OM3PrSgDhYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Hang on to That Paycheck! ALEC "Sharpens Focus on Jobs"</stro=
ng></font><br />
Mary Bottari, PR Watch: "ALEC has a sweeping anti-union agenda that would c=
ripple labor's ability to serve as an effective counterweight to corporate =
CEOs.... On collective bargaining, ALEC's 'Public Employee Freedom Act' dec=
lares that 'an employee should be able to contract on their own terms' and =
'mandatory collective bargaining laws violate this freedom.' This ALEC bill=
and the 'Public Employer Payroll Deduction Policy Act' prohibit automatic =
payroll deductions for union dues, a key aspect of Walker's collective barg=
aining bill struck down by a federal court judge."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
vtxq0hvDIesGXRSw3dh3whYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Money Struggles, Not Mommy Wars</strong></font><br />
E.J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post Writers Group: "There is a profound class =
bias in our discussion of what mothers should or should not do. The public =
debate seems premised on the idea that all two-parent families have a choic=
e as to whether one or both work. That's still true for the better-off. But=
this choice is denied to most American families. They have had to send two=
people into the workforce whether they wanted to or not."
<br /><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D=
RslzlcMLrFXBWlFGLUVS5xYZSXQTLhWT"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>The Botox of Late-Stage Capitalism</strong></font><br />
Phil Rockstroh, Consortium News: "Wall Street is again flush with the elect=
ronic facsimile of the stuff once known as money. But this is a Botox Recov=
ery: A superficial procedure, accomplished with a nerve paralyzing poison, =
reserved for the wealthy whose vanity has driven them to transform their fa=
ces into caricatures of corruption ... to acquiring a countenance, frozen a=
s a creepy doll, incapable of showing emotion - a grotesque simulacrum of t=
he human face."
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