Thatcher, Reagan, and Those Revolting British Students

Britain: Unions warn of massive wave of strikes (& vow to work with students to fight Tory cuts)
Source: The Guardian Unite general secretary Len McCluskey vows to work with Students to fight government's Austerity agenda Matthew Taylor Sunday December 19 2010 21.00 GMT The UK faces the prospect of widespread and co-ordinated industrial action in the new year, with the leader of the largest trade union today warning that it is "preparing for battle" with the government over its "unprecedented assault" on the Welfare State. Len McCluskey, the newly elected leader of Unite, says union leaders...

America's biggest rip-off: college tuition bubble and student debt escalate
The financial magazine Forbes recently blew the whistle on how skyrocketing College Tuition is ripping off the public. Thanks to some colleges’ greed, and the federal and state Financial Aid subsidies that reward Tuition increases, “Higher Education’s price-earnings ratio looks like Nevada housing circa 2007″ at the height of the Real Estate bubble. “The financial data are making a College Education tougher and tougher to defend.” And ...

Gov. McDonnell unveils budget amendment proposals
» Gallery: Gov. Bob McDonnell presents his Budget recommendations to the legislature's money committees REVENUE: -Collect an additional $337 million in general fund taxes and transferred reserve cash. - ... -Collect an additional $337 million in general fund taxes and transferred reserve cash. -Use $191 million in cuts, consolidations and efficiencies recommended by a government reform and restructuring commission. Higher Education: -Add $3.7 million for College Tuition and grants. -Cu...

Nebraska Judge Tosses Illegal Immigrant Tuition Suit
Friday, December 17, 2010 By Timberly Ross, Associated Press Omaha, Neb. (AP) - A Nebraska judge threw out a Lawsuit Friday challenging a state law that allows some Illegal Immigrants to pay in-state College Tuition. Jefferson County District Judge Paul Korslund ruled the six Nebraskans who claimed their taxes were being spent in violation of federal law should have first gone to the Federal Government and could renew the challenge in state court if the Federal Government declines to act. T...

Students look to 2012 after immigration bill fails
Los Angeles -- Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, Hunger Strikes and sit-ins, a group of College Students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take their fight for immigrant rights to the states and the 2012 election after Senate Republicans blocked a key piece of Legislation. But it won't be easy. The Senate vote Saturday to toss the proposal that would have granted young Illegal Immigrants a route to legal status dealt a harsh blow to Student Activists who will face ...

Students look to 2012 after immigration bill fails
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Emboldened by months of phone calls to lawmakers, Hunger Strikes and sit-ins, a group of College Students and graduates in Los Angeles say they plan to take their fight for immigrant rights to the states and the 2012 election after Senate Republicans blocked a key piece of Legislation. But it won't be easy. The Senate vote Saturday to toss the proposal that would have granted young Illegal Immigrants a route to legal status dealt a harsh blow to Student Activists who will fa...

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America, a glimpse of your future, the coming dark ages. MuslimS IN BRITAIN Nearly one-third of Muslim College Students in Britain support killing in the name of religion, while 40 percent want to live under Islamic law, according to a secret cable from the U.S. Embassy in London that reviewed public polling data and government population predictions. A survey of 600 Islamic and 800 non-Islamic Students at 30 universities found that 32 percent of the Muslims believed in religious killing, whi...

Financial aid: Tax credit extended as college tuition continues to rise
Senate passes College Tuition Financial Aid bill as College Tuition continues to rise. Even with financial aid, are rising costs the only factor pushing Tuition beyond some Students' reach?...

Calls for 'anti-Semitic' student leader to quit after Facebook message about Jews
A radical Student leader who dismissed the violent Tuition fees Protests as ‘a few smashed windows’ has been accused of making anti-Semitic comments on a Social Networking site. Mature Student Clare Solomon, 37, president of the University of London Union, helped co-ordinate the Protests - during which a car carrying Prince Charles and Camilla was attacked - and declared herself proud of the students. Now there are calls for Ms Solomon, the daughter of a Royal Military po...

Where Does Hate Come From?
Daniel Little has a question: Hate as a social demographic : Every Democracy I can think of has a meaningful (though usually small) proportion of citizens who fall on the extreme right by any standard: Racist, White supremacist, hateful, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim, nativist, nationalist, or violently anti-government individuals and groups. In the United States we have many, many organizations that are basically racist and potentially violent hate groups. They provide a basis for...

DREAM Act Vote Scheduled For Saturday
Do it for the kids, their communities and the country’s long-term economic health. That’s the message Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was sending both Democrats and Republicans in the Senate with the DREAM Act scheduled to go up for a vote tomorrow. “This is an extraordinarily important moment for this country,” Duncan said in a Conference Call with reporters. “I can’t begin to predict what will happen tomorrow. But I’m very hopeful that the right thi...

Redistricting the right way
Across Virginia, roving bands of Young People are on a rampage for Democracy. No pikes or pickaxes here. Just computer mice and maps. Christopher Newport University is sponsoring a competition to see which college can draw the best state legislative and Congressional Districts, ones that are "compact; contiguous; equal in population; in compliance with the federal Voting Rights Act; encompassing communities of interest; and respectful of existing political subdivisions." The response h...

Ministers set to meet bank chiefs
The chancellor and the business secretary will meet the heads of the biggest UK banks later in a bid to restrain them from paying big bonuses. George Osborne and Vince Cable are hoping they will agree to pay themselves less and lend more. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has said the government would "not stand idly by" if they were too high. But Labour dismissed his words as "hot air" aimed at repairing his reputation after the recent Student fee Protests. The coalition is a...

Young Spaniards adrift with 40 pct jobless rate
People wait in line at a government employment office in a Madrid suburb. Y... Demonstrators march in Madrid to Protest government Austerity measures. You... Young Spaniards are adrift in an Unemployment market that leaves a staggering 40 percent of under 25-year-olds searching in vain for a job. Even well qualified young graduates find they are shut out of the work place year after year. Spain's overall Unemployment Rate, just under 20 percent, is already the highest in the European Union. Bu...

Barack Strangelove, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Obama
Recently, I was reading a liberal web site and enjoying a huge sense of Schadenfreude at their outraged sense of betrayal at President Obama. But one of them linked to a compilation of what they thought of as their grievances against the president, and it was remarkably enlightening. As I read the list, I found myself nodding along. Yup, he really has done all that. And dang, I'm in favor of almost all of all those. (No, not the Child Soldiers. And I'm still disgusted over his response to the ...

Highlights of Gov. McDonnell's proposed budget
Major provisions of Gov. Bob McDonnell's proposed Budget: —Collect an additional $337 million in general fund taxes and transferred reserve cash. —Use $191 million in cuts, consolidations and efficiencies recommended by a government reform and restructuring commission. —Add $3.7 million for College Tuition and grants. —Cut Virginia Commonwealth University's Tuition revenues in half in 2012 unless it moderates rate increases of 24 percent this year and trims operating cost...

College tuition: Judge throws out suit against illegals
College Tuition suit claimed Nebraskans' taxes were subsidizing illegals' education. Judge rules plaintiffs should seek federal action....

Neb. college tuition rates will remain low for illegal immigrants
A judge in Nebraska says some Illegal Immigrants can pay in-state College Tuition rates....

Neb. judge tosses illegal immigrant tuition suit
OMAHA, Neb. — A Nebraska judge on Friday threw out a Lawsuit challenging a state law that allows some Illegal Immigrants to pay in-state College Tuition. The Lawsuit filed in January on behalf of six Nebraska residents claimed their taxes were being used to support the state’s Immigration-tuition law in violation of federal law. The Lawsuit named the University of Nebraska Board of Regents and other state college boards as defendants and asked the judge to prevent schools officials ...

How The New Tax Law Will Affect You
The average Taxpayer will save $3000 in 2011 because of the new tax law. But many families will be able to save much more by taking advantage of Tax Breaks for being married, having Children, paying for child care, going to college or investing in securities. There are even Tax Breaks for paying local sales taxes and using Mass Transit, and a new Social Security Tax Cut for nearly every worker who earns a wage. … The law extends most of the tax cuts for two years, including lower rates f...

What will the big new tax law mean for you?
WASHINGTON – It's the most significant new tax law in a decade, but what does it mean for you? Big savings for millions of Taxpayers, more if you have young Children or attend college, a lot more if you're wealthy. The package, signed Friday by President Barack Obama, will save Taxpayers, on average, about $3,000 next year. But many families will be able to save much more by taking advantage of Tax Breaks for being married, having children, paying for child care, going to college or inve...

What Will The New Tax Law Mean For You?
H&R; Block breaks it down Associated Press The law extends most of the Tax Cuts for two years, including lower rates for the rich, the Middle Class and the working poor, a $1,000-per-child Tax Credit, Tax Breaks for College Students and lower taxes on capital gains and dividends At the request of The Associated Press, The Tax Institute at H&R Block developed detailed estimates for how the new law will affect families at various income levels next year : —A single Taxpayer making $50,...

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE? Higher educations price-earnings ratio looks like Nevada housing circa 20
Higher Education BUBBLE? Higher education’s price-earnings ratio looks like Nevada housing circa 2007. “The financial data are making a College Education tougher and tougher to defend. If we were to follow the lead of college marketing departments and treat Tuition as an investment, what price-earnings ratio-or P/E-would we assign to it? Unlike a traditional stock, both the price and the earnings are fairly opaque (a warning signal in and of itself), but let’s mak...

The Coming College Education Bubble
Higher education's price-earnings ratio looks like Nevada housing circa 2007. The overwhelming cultural consensus of the post-WWII generation was that if you are middle-class, then you simply must own your own home and your Children must go to college. Out of that cultural consensus emerged a complex system of Tax Breaks and special Lending deals designed to make sure that the number of Americans who bought houses and bachelor's degrees was as high as possible--or maybe more so. Many people now...

McDonnell punishes VCU for tuition increase
Gov. Bob McDonnell said Friday that he has withheld state money equal to half of Virginia Commonwealth University's 24 percent Tuition increase as a message to colleges and universities about rising Tuition rates. Noting that tuitions for Virginia Students have doubled in the past 10 years, McDonnell said, "That is unacceptable." McDonnell on Friday proposed a number of Budget amendments in remarks to the General Assembly's money committees. The room was lined with Lobbyists. VCU raised Tuition ...