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  • Reply to: Koch Draws on Big Tobacco for New PR Hires   9 years 2 months ago
    I've noticed a change in how information is presented on Public Television and Radio. Has any in depth research been done on the influence of the KOCHS there? Thank you.
  • Reply to: Jeb Bush Addressed Secret Coal Industry Retreat   9 years 2 months ago
    Are there any Solar Panel or Battery "barons" Or maybe a Windmill Baroness?
  • Reply to: Secrecy Surrounds Half Billion Handout to Charters   9 years 2 months ago
    Business media reported that charter school debt returned,18%, in interest payments to Wall Street, in 2014. Gates worked with Capital Impact Partners, an offshoot of NCB (a government-created bank, for cooperatives) to fund charter schools like those partnered with Netflix CEO, Reed Hastings. It's ironic because Hastings has called for the end of democratically elected boards of education. The charter school plot is far from the spirit of a cooperative. It is, instead, public goods taken over by oligarchs. The final sequence in the plot, is the replacement of public schools with the Gates/Pearson/Zuckerberg-backed, for-profit Bridge International Academies.
  • Reply to: Secrecy Surrounds Half Billion Handout to Charters   9 years 2 months ago
    Gates (and his villainthropic partner, Buffett), have made claims about their great largesse for years so, why are they still on the richest men lists? Granted, it's difficult to spend down, when your company plots with Pearson, to hawk curriculum for the standards, you promoted. The Department of Education shills for tech companies. It doesn't take much, in the way of real business production, to buy Washington D.C. and state governments. In the past, Microsoft, employed 1/2 the number of Americans as the 50th largest company, a number that is in decline.
  • Reply to: New Emails Reveal WI GOP Weighing Another Attack on Open Records   9 years 2 months ago
    What some scumbags. Every citizen in WI should be outraged. Good thing we have investigative groups like CMD to catch all the sneaky, appalling stuff the WI repubs do.

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