This month has seen a surge in corporate mergers and acquisitions on a scale not seen since before the 2008 financial meltdown. Last Thursday, Berkshire Hathaway, led by multi-billionaire Warren Buffett, announced plans to buy H. J. Heinz, the food condiment maker, for $23 billion. The same day, American Airlines and US Airways announced plans for an $11 billion merger._____
The previous week Michael S. Dell and a group of private equity backers announced plans to buy out computer maker Dell Inc. for $24 billion, and Liberty Global agreed to a $16 billion deal to buy British cable television provider Virgin Media.
No surprise Randi Weingarten and the AFT she is selling down the river received a million from the Gates Foundation.
This mole, this fraud, needs to be run out of the union and replaced by a teacher like Karen Lewis.
Weingarten is a lawyer. She has NO business whatsoever heading a teachers' union.
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Make no mistake about it: current school reform is destroying the lives of children. Here in Vermont, my so-called progressive governor, Peter Shumlin, eager to show his chops to the National Governors Association, cheerfully laps up their Kool-Aid. He’s pushing algebra and geometry as requirements for a high school diploma. Longtime public school superintendent and now managing director of the National Education Policy Center, William Mathis calls the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) crisis the new urban legend. In reality, for some Vermont kids, lumberjack skills are much more important than algebra and before we proclaim algebra more important than music and the arts, we must again ask, Important for whom? Mathis points out that there are more STEM-qualified workers than jobs available and of the nation’s nine million people with STEM degrees, only about three million work in STEM fields.
Of course there is no shortage of people with STEM degrees; it's yet another manufactured crisis to get more people to go into debt for jobs that don't exist.
People should be onto this game by now.
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Jodi Arias's lawyers tried to get the death penalty removed, but so far they have been unsuccessful in doing so, at least for the time being.
After failing to win a mistrial or stay of the death penalty option in the lower court earlier this year, her defense attorneys sought relief Friday from the state’s highest court, which quickly rejected it. Her trial is set to continue Monday with the death penalty still on the table if prosecutors can secure a first-degree murder conviction.
An Arizona Supreme Court spokesperson said a decision on the death penalty matter will come at a later date.
"What it does is then takes the death penalty away as an option as a punishment for Jodi Arias," said attorney Brent Kleinman. "The goal in this is to say okay, if she's found guilty, her worst punishment would then be life in prison."
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