Carl Petersen: Hate Did Not Win (So Far) Many candidates who ran on platforms based on their hatred of the LGBTQ+ community lost their races. Some others are still in the running. |
Carl Petersen: General Election School Board Candidates Finalized The Los Angeles County Clerk's preliminary certification of the primary results shows no change in the winners but a clear shift in momentum. |
Carl Petersen: Charter School Enrollment Continues To Decline With low salaries and poor working conditions, Citizens of the World Charter Schools is driving away high-quality, experienced educators. |
Dave Lefcourt: Political foolishness has reached its zenith in America Political foolishness has reached its zenith in America with Pres.Biden proclaiming Easter Sunday as "Trans Day of Visibility". A lot of Christians took umbrage w/ the president ignoring Easter. Didn't Biden's inner circle realize most people in America refer to themselves as Christian? Why not express the nation as becoming all inclusive, rejecting all discrimination against anyone as being un American. And leave it @that. |
Carl Petersen: A Politician Bought And Paid For The Charter School Industry spent millions getting Los Angeles Unified School District's (LAUSD) Nick Melvoin elected. It gets a good return on its investment. |
John Hawkins: Easter 2024 (poem) Not so good news for modern man. Are you sitting down. Of course you are. |
Dave Lefcourt: One week after terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall concert venue outside Moscow It's been a week since the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue outside Moscow. According to Russian investigators 139 people have been killed 137 of them gunned down indiscriminately & 2 died in the hospital. Thus far Russian security has detained 7 alleged perpetrators & 4 suspected accomplices. The suspects are now in custody & all identified as ethnic Tajiks. The investigation continues. |
Mike Rivage-Seul: Even for "Democracy Now" Putin's To Blame for the Rock Concert Massacre Even "Democracy Now," even Amy Goodman are not immune from disseminating Russophobia. They too can be fooled by the Grand Wurlitzer of U.S. propaganda. 4 |
Bob Gaydos: Taking any bets on Ohtani's story? A bookie was owed a lot of money, apparently, and Ohtani did, or didn't try to pay him off for his interpreter, but didn't notice a bunch of money missing from his bank account. Or something. |
Carl Petersen: LAUSD Candidate Sherlett Hendy Newbill on Special Education Would Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Candidate Sherlett Hendy Newbill confront the status quo and fight for the vulnerable students who depend on the District to provide the Special Education services that they need? |
John Hawkins: Sonnet: Morbidly Obese Wa A sonnet on Sakman Rusgdie in preparation for a review of his memoir on his recent stabbing by a fatwa guy, |
Carl Petersen: Hate on a Saturday Morning A group of "loving" and "kind" activists clutch their pearls over the label of "bigots" while they angrily denounce the LGBTQ community at a meeting of the Northridge East Neighborhood Council Education Committee. |
Carl Petersen: LAUSD BD1 School Board Endorsement: Sherlett Hendy Newbill Sherlett Hendy Newbill has the knowledge and experience needed to be the passionate leader that the students of Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) BD1 deserve for their member of the School Board. |
Dave Lefcourt: The FAA hires people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities including commercial airline pilots Apparently the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) "has placed a special emphasis on hiring employees w/ a severe intellectual disability, as well as vision & psychiatric disability. These include vacancies for the role of airline pilot and air traffic control specialist. It's well meaning not to discriminate against people in many-most instances but we need to draw the line somewhere. Airline safety being one of them. 1 |
Chuck Pennacchio: "Blown Opportunity. Now what? Post-State of the Union reflections" Panglossian optimism is not going to lead to unified Democratic government in the 2024 elections, as so many of my political friends seem to think and as so many MSM pundits and D-Party people gushed after Biden's State of the Union speech. 5 |
Carl Petersen: Special Education, Charter School Delinquent Debt, and the Computer Hack Videos of the six candidates for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) BD3 race facing questioning from the Northridge East Neighborhood Council Education Committee. |
Rob Kall: Do Not Vote For Biden in the Primary state's primary, but don't vote for Biden. Send a message to the Democratic Party leadership and Joe Biden that you don't want him. 8 |
Carl Petersen: Does SEIU 99 Think That Voters Are Stupid? With Graciela Ortiz's campaign for school board collapsing under an avalanche of ethical complaints, her desperate supporters go negative in an ironic way. |
Dave Lefcourt: Ukraine "just the usual endless war and profits repackaged as benevolence and fear mongering couched in white knighting" US Undersecretary State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland speaking on CNN regarding Ukraine said, "we have to remember that bulk of the money is going right back into the US to make those weapons", making it abundantly clear what the real US aim in Ukraine is. To benefit the weapons industry to make more weapons. |
John Hawkins: Film Review: Writer's Black: The He-Be / We-Be Blues Here is a favorable review of the film, American Fiction. Here I compare to the book it's based on, Erasure by Percival Everett, who also helped write the screenplay. |
Dave Lefcourt: Russian journalist has requested to interview President Biden Russian journalist Dmitry Kiselyov has requested to interview US Pres. Joe Biden. Kiselyov reasoned "Russians would appreciate the opportunity to hear Biden's take on how to stabilize the international situation, restore trust, and renew cooperation between the US and Russia amid the crisis ties between the two powers." But Biden's invested so much in money & weapons supporting Ukraine he's unlikely to grant such an interview. 1 |
Stephen Fox: Scientists recommend "Global Moratorium" for mRNA injections by Liberty Counsel in California's Desert Review This news is a profound and long overdue breakthrough to protect the health of several billion people, whose Health and Justice Ministers, and United Nations Ambassadors I will send this OpEdNews article graciously published by OpEdNews Founder, Rob Kall from Pennsylvania! We are winning this specific war which will eventually be recognized by Historians as WW III, a cruel, unprecedented monstrous insidious war of ATTRITION! |
Blair Gelbond: Imagining our Future" FORWARD INTO THE PAST - A New Birth: Interbeing As we engage in the "struggle" to create a world that works for all living beings--those of us who feel called to contribute to the healing of the Earth can expect to be sorely challenged. My sense is that we can all benefit from an awareness of our family's historical roots. We will also need to draw sustenance by consciously recalling the wisdom of elders and allies. That way we will realize that we are not "in it alone". 29 |
LIVE: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discusses 2024 priorities [Please view this with focus on 2024 to 3000} Get involved with the highest levels of the United Nations, please! Billions of lives depend on YOUR participation, which is welcome at almost all levels and almost all of the Nation's Mission at the United Nations in New York, Nairobi, Paris, Geneva, Tokyo, Montreal, and most important, at the Hague in the Netherlands! 7 |
John Hawkins: So Long, Good Night, John Pilger An appreciation of the work of John Pilger who died in London in December. |
Carl Petersen: School Board Candidate Looks To Take A Step Backwards Former Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board Members Tamar Galatzan and Mónica Garc-a brought the district the iPad scandal and MiSiS crisis. Now they back BD3 Candidate Dan Chang to continue their work. |
Dave Lefcourt: Biden said,"The United States does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world." Simply not true. Pres Biden authorized the US bombing of some 85 targets in Iraq & Syria yesterday in retaliation against suspected Iran backed militants that killed 3 US troops in Jordan. Biden said, "The US does not seek conflict in the Middle East or anywhere else in the world. Too much evidence exists the statement by the president is false. |
Oklahoma City! Future Site of USA's Tallest Building, 1907 feet, Commemorating Oklahoma's Statehood Year Personally, I think new architecture should be horizontal. Vertical prowess means little, in the long-range history of the future.... USA is going to have a lot of empty buildings, as I see it. 2 |
Carl Petersen: What Is the Plan For Charter School Co-Locations? With the deadline long since passed, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Superintendent Carvalho has not provided a policy for PROP-39 co-locations. Shirley Elementary finds itself under attack from a charter school again. |
MARK LEON GOLDBERG Founder UN Dispatch: "Suspending Funding to UN Relief Agency will only make things worse"! Hopefully, you will gain insights as to what is really going on in Palestine and Gaza after you read this vital article; please post your comments and please send it to as many of your friends, colleagues, family, and neighbors as possible, so we can save just a few Palestinian lives.... 1 |