News, Etc.

The neoliberal vultures of the IMF and EU are circling around Greece in attempt to feed on any austerity measures implemented in that country.

This is solely to bail out the idiots who created the economic mess in the first place.
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Of course a "Democrat" is trying to do the same thing in the United States:

Obama’s cynicism and dishonesty are perhaps most clearly revealed by his tax proposals, which are being presented by the media as an effort to increase taxes on the wealthy and corporations. In fact, the administration is strongly backing comprehensive “pro-growth” tax reform, which would significantly reduce the top income tax rate and the corporate tax rate in exchange for the elimination of certain loopholes in the tax code.

The administration’s plan, “Living Within Our Means and Investing in Our Future,” was presented to the “super committee” of six Republican and six Democratic congressmen that is tasked with submitting a proposal by December for at least $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. Any agreement reached in the coming weeks will inevitably be even more directly tailored to the interests of the corporate elite than Obama’s plan.

D.C. is completely and hopelessly corrupt.
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Principal abuse is the main reason so many teachers transferred out of a high-profile Bronx school.

The complaints by the Bronx Science social studies teachers are reminiscent of those made in a special complaint in 2008. At that time, 20 of the school’s 22 math teachers accused Rosemarie Jahoda, the math assistant principal, of harassing and intimidating new teachers. In 2010, an arbitrator ruled that both Ms. Jahoda and the school’s chapter leader, Peter Lamphere, should be transferred to other schools. City education officials did not follow the recommendation.

The years of turmoil and infighting have not failed to attract the attention of administrators at other high schools.

“It was a constant question in interviews: ‘Why are you leaving Bronx science?’” said a former social studies teacher who left this year. “A lot of the other administrators already knew why we were leaving, they just wanted to hear the story.”

Naturally the district will NEVER remove the administrators.