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Evergreen State College closed campus on Thursday and warned students and faculty to stay away because of an unspecified threat of "campus violence" - though it's just as likely they're using the episode as an excuse to shut down the protests that have effectively brought life on campus to a halt over the past week since a campus biology professor objected to a planned demonstration that asked white students and faculty to leave campus for a day.

America’s Best Economist Tells It Like It Is

The Middle Class Is Now The Company Store Class

Michael Hudson

Students usually don’t think of themselves as a class. They seem “pre-class,” because they have not yet entered the labor force. They can only hope to become part of the middle class after they graduate. And that means becoming a wage earner – what impolitely is called the working class.

More Hard Conclusive Evidence That The US Government Is In A Conspiracy Against The American People

https://normsaysno.wordpress.com/2017/05/27/trump-administration-proposal-would-increase-university-dependence-on-foreign-students/

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Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

If you want to understand why we're fragmenting as a society, start by looking at the asymmetric burdens imposed by inflation.

In our household, we measure real-world inflation with the Burrito Index: How much has the cost of a regular burrito at our favorite taco truck gone up?

The cost of a regular burrito from our local taco truck has gone up from $2.50 in 2001 to $5 in 2010 to $6.50 in 2016.

Welcome To Utopia University, "a wonderful place to learn everything your parents taught you was wrong."

"It's not based on reality, it's based on your reality"

 

"I will punch you if you're a fascist."

 

"our commitment to diversity means that nobody graduates until they think just the right way..."