Lots of face time with Rhee on MSM outlets after DC Mayor with close ties with NYC big-wigs, suggests powerful forces are at play to advance a neoliberal agenda whose chief aim in education is abolishing the teacher unions. Joel Klein was a patron of Rhee. Current mayor Bloomberg implemented mayoral control of schools involving the NYPD later overturned by New York Senate. Klein, friend of “education reform” advocates Bill Gates and Eli Broad, is expected to run for mayor.

It’s not easy to put the steam coming out your ears back, as Michael Moore found out after year with a lying president.

While the press goes with the BP flow while some experts recoil at the stoppage of relief well drilling.

The energy independence mantra conjuring the misapprehension that more offshore drilling and similar rapine measures promulgated by corporatist politicians will reduce imports ignores the simple fact that the U.S. exports a rising share of its petroleum products to other countries.

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The long and winding Khyber Pass.

On May 16, at 8 PM ET/EP, join Animal Planet in a two-hour journey through the lives of more than 900 elephants that roam Kenya’s National Samburu Reserve. From the producers of LIFE and PLANET EARTH, THE SECRET LIFE OF ELEPHANTS, shot in glorious high definition, provides an intimate window into what it’s really like to be an elephant by focusing on several dozen of these creatures.

From a series of videos documenting the Deepwater Horizon response.

The Colonel has advised that this is very silly.

“A rule change two years ago by the federal agency that regulates offshore oil rigs allowed BP to avoid filing a plan for handling a major spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project – exactly the kind of disaster now unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico.”