Diane Ravitch has a blog up with a link to Mother Jones article on the hypocrisy of Bill (and Melinda) Gates. It’s a really great read on how slick Billy operates.
Category Archives: antitrust
Carerruption
…is a new term by Edushyster on the “caring” people trying to bankrupt public schools…. (hat tip Diane Ravitch)
Washington State Judge rules against Charters
Well, this is welcome news–a judge has ruled that public funds cannot be used for charters under private management. Yes!! A win for public schools!
Staley, Farmer’s Advocate
I found this while looking up farmers for the previous blog. I thought it was a great historical piece. He died in 1988….seems like yesterday, but now 25 years past.
Now the only ones with power are Big Ag factory farms. Why is it that we have no enforcement of antitrust laws?? Can someone tell me?
The History of Land Grabs
This post by Gene Logsdon is powerful. It’s personal, too, as I thought of losing my home and how devastating that was…
Logsdon mentions the Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith; I couldn’t find the exact author Logsdon mentions for the Highland Clearances, but I found this and this that seem to be the same subject.
It was stunning to read Logsdon’s piece on it and how often this has been used as a tool for the wealthy to grab even more for themselves. I thought back to the years I was growing up and how farmers were portrayed as backwards, slow, less sophisticated…and now I wonder at this being planned..
Feminist scholars made a connection between the Puritan Salem witch hunts and wealth. They stated that the women who were hanged were either poor which means low regard in the community, or they were single wealthy women whom owned land. This was significant then because women could not outright own land–they had to inherit it from their fathers or husbands. So the women owning land were a huge threat to the status quo. Land means power…and it came with rights not afforded to the ones without land.
Also, there was a prejudice against the single status of the wealthy women, because women who were married and wealthy were able to escape the noose….while the single ones were not.
The portrayal of farmers as hayseeds, something to look down upon reminded me of what they did with the women after World War II. (as a side note~ I found this amusing blog on the war propaganda.) It’s really stunning how much public opinion can be swayed against our better instincts and interests. One of the things I have read from the Depression survivors is that they didn’t go hungry because many were still in the country and could raise their own food. Now we’re “citified” and don’t have the resources to raise our own food….thereby more dependent on the food stamp program. Ironic, isn’t it??
In addition, I have to wonder at the web of how much this has contributed to climate change–not only adding more toxins to the environment by industry, but by cutting us off from the land–harder to see how we are destroying the environment when we don’t feel as connected to it, eh?
More on Chemtrails, aka geoengineering
There has been a solid mass of clouds in the mornings for the past week. The only time we used to see this is when it was going to rain or snow–otherwise, we saw clouds separately floating by. (and they had shapes like turtles and dragons and such :p)
I saw them spraying in the late afternoon, just before it got dark one day this week. I’m sure they’re spraying at night to make a solid cloud cover.
Also, when asking the previous question of who is profiting off of this, who has the power to do this, and who pretends to give a rip about people’s health….but the destruction left behind is evidence of the contrary….well, this might shed some light on that. A lot of money involved with two scientists being judge and jury and eliminating public input—broad public input. Note the same ones sponsoring tar sands are also sponsoring this–now what is that line you’re feeding me about geoengineering helping global warming?? People who advocate the tar sands are not interested in the environment. Bitumen is hazardous to the environment, to humans, to animals.
“The stakes are very high and scientists are not the best people to deal with the social, ethical or political issues that geoengineering raises,” said Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace. “The idea that a self-selected group should have so much influence is bizarre.”
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Word.
The hubris of scientists is amazing. They actually think they are superior to nature….when nature has repeatedly made fools out of scientists. And as pointed out–who are they to decide if this is the right thing to do? Arrogant and smug about how Keith is so smart he has it all figured out…including the disasters that await from geoengineering. Not.
They are making me ill. They are making others ill. They have freaking heavy metals in them—which any scientist would know that spraying neurotoxins over people will eventually build up in their bodies and make them ill. It is no coincidence when I jog with clear blue skies, I feel good afterward. And if I jog when chemtrails have been sprayed, I feel tired and as the other day illustrates, resulting in a migraine with pale and swollen face.
Let’s take a quick look at some of the things science has brought us: the application of chemicals for agriculture…and the illnesses that followed. DDT nearly drove the Eagle to extinction. Agent Orange not only defoliated Vietnam, but cause multiple birth defects for not only the Vietnamese, but the U.S. veterans, as well. And let’s not forget the horrible experiment of DES on women. A good video on it here.
And here’s a summary of scientists behaving badly. It’s ironic that it mentions Stephen Colbert. I saw on a promo ad tonight that Colbert is supposed to host David Keith. He said in a previous show that the guest “better not say anything bad” about Bill Gates because Bill Gates is a friend of Colbert’s. So, is that how it is, Stephen? You’re now actively promoting Bill Gates agenda and no one better say anything against megalomaniacal Gates? Yeah, not too credible. I gave Colbert waaaay more credit than that.
Oh…and the author better check up on the true nature of Orcas. They’re not whales, for one thing. And they only kill in captivity.
What they really think of the old
Fred Klonsky has a Chicago Tribune cartoon depicting retirees as dogs that need to be muzzled.
Kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
Klonsky also has a blog up on Moral Mondays. Update here.
This from Diane Ravitch on how to starve people so they’ll accept whatever crumbs you feel like giving them…
And in my corner of the world, Glenda Ritz continues to fight for her publicly elected position that received more votes than Pence.
Charter Schools: it’s all in the family.
Reign of Error; Kochs, et al, planning assault on Ed.
Patrick Walsh has a report up on Reign of Error, by Diane Ravitch.
Oh, and have you heard? It’s open season on teachers. The climate that No Child Left a Mind and Race to the Bottom have created—to punish students for not being perfect students and their teachers, who are under tremendous pressures to not have any stupid kids (said facetiously)–has now come to fruition. I’m sure Bill Gates, Eli Broad, Michelle Rhee, et al, are laughing themselves silly.
Jan Ressenger put up a link to this report from the Guardian on just how far the Kochs and their comrades are willing to go….not only to destroy public education, but continue attacks on working folks and unions…
SPN’s president, Tracie Sharp, told the Guardian that “as a pro-freedom network of thinktanks, we focus on issues like workplace freedom, education reform, and individual choice in healthcare: backbone issues of a free people and a free society.”
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I wonder if she could get the word “free” in there any more…was she wrapped in a flag, too?? Because that would *definitely* mean that this program was patriotic and would strengthen democracy…
...by destroying it…
“it’s for your own good” has to be the biggest lie ever told!
Side note~ someone in the comments section linked to the Yes Men video. Enjoy. (Be sure to click on Part 2–with Surviva-balls. Hilarious.)
Someone also kindly posted a link to a list of Kraft foods. Again…where are the antitrust laws? Why is one food manufacturer able to control so much of the market share? Not that junk food, which is the majority of crap that Kraft makes, is something healthy..what if folks were able to afford healthy made-from-scratch food…? We could do some serious damage to Kraft’s bottom line if we refused to buy their junk food and bought only fresh….and we’d be healthier, too.
Center for Media and Democracy has the scoop on SPN. (As a side note~ I haven’t been getting regular emails of the CMD for a few months now–it’s been spotty at best…interesting. I’ll have to make a note to keep checking their website for updates.)
True to nature, they hide their lobbying disguised to avoid paying taxes. Good Grief, these people know how to play the game of getting someone else to pay while they reap the benefits.
The mention of the Goldwater Institute raises huge red flags–Hillary Clinton was a Goldwater Girl. An excellent blog here on her history…er, her trying to re-write her history…and Bill’s.
The Clintons LOVE poor black people on welfare
• The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) that was dreamt up by past Republican administrations, was actually passed by Congress and signed by Clinton. This act was filled with vindictive measures aimed at the poor. Among other things, it set a five-year lifetime limit for cash assistance and gave the states power to adopt stringent restrictions in several other areas. Another key part of the Act, was the imposition for the first time of lifetime limits on welfare. Once a welfare mother uses up this lifetime limit, set at five years by the federal government, she and her children can never again receive federal cash benefits, no matter how desperate their condition and no matter what happens to the overall economy.
Bill Clinton has certainly laid his Mack game down heavy in the black community. Maybe that’s why the African-American community has been so thoroughly duped by lip service, prominent public appearances and appointments, and an office on Harlem’s 125th (although Clinton certainly hasn’t used it much).~~~~~~~~
Ahem. There are white people on food stamps, as well. The Clintons, along with the Kochs, et al, don’t like POOR people. Period.
We can’t talk about Bill Clinton’s love for his “black race” without mentioning Rwanda. You remember what happened in Rwanda? If you don’t, then I suggest you rent the movie “Hotel Rwanda” and be prepared to be thoroughly disgusted. Bill Clinton not only refused to intervene to save over one million people from being hacked to death, but he even declined to convene his Cabinet to discuss the crisis.
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I highly recommend Hotel Rwanda. Just don’t watch it and Schindler’s List on the same weekend. I actually had to call my son after watching them both one weekend….I needed to talk to a sane human being…
And let’s not forget this piece on the secretive group Hillary Clinton belongs to. As I’ve said on many occasions…it never ceases to amaze me how people who call themselves Christian act nothing like Christ. Who would Jesus bomb, Hillary?
I’ve read this piece before, but this sentence just packed a punch:
It emerged, he [Reverend Don Jones] says, as a third way, a reaction against both separatist fundamentalism and the New Deal’s labor-based liberalism.
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…a reaction against….the New Deal’s labor-based liberalism. In other words: unions….working folks….public education…social security…medicaid…..livable wages…(and the environment, too, but that would come later).
…and if you listen carefully to conservative media, you’ll hear subtle and outwardly snide attacks on Roosevelt’s New Deal. Get it, now?
And this:
Niebuhr and Tillich’s combination of aggressiveness in foreign affairs and limited domestic ambition naturally led Clinton toward the gop. She was a Goldwater Girl who, under the tutelage of her high school history teacher Paul Carlson (whom Jones describes as “to the right of the John Birchers”), attended biweekly anticommunist meetings and later served as president of Wellesley’s Young Republicans chapter.
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…she attended biweekly anticommunist meetings. Wellesley…if the movie “Mona Lisa Smile” is any indication, is a conservative’s utopia…so Young Republicans chapter there? Pretty hard to swallow that this was a fluke -a flash in the pan….especially when one turns a critical eye to Hillary’s record. I mean, if they call themselves Democrats, but act as Republicans…
“Mind conservative but a heart liberal” tells me that she is like so many guys who say they’re “socially liberal, but fiscally conservative”. What this means is: I’m selfish and self-absorbed. And I don’t follow my heart. I let my purse strings do the thinking for me. In other words, I choose money over God. (Jesus said that we could only serve one Master–money or God. Not both.)
Okay, there is more to write, but I’m really tired from the day and need to call it quits.
Suzuki showing support for First Nations
David Suzuki is supporting the Elsipogtog protests. Thank you, David!
Meanwhile, the trucks arrive in convoy. Another pic here.
Harper spies on the peaceful group. Note that their own intelligence says they do not see them as a violent threat….yet, they show up in riot gear and tear gas the peaceful protestors. I’m glad to read that they are also protesting Enbridge, which is in my own backyard. “We want to keep the people and environment safe…” bwahaha, that’s rich. If you really cared about the environment, you wouldn’t be building a pipeline to begin with.
(DN also covered this happening in the U.S. towards nonprofit groups that big business perceives as threats. Big Brother has arrived.)
Lastly, this pic of a smiling female Warrior.
My other blogs on energy and fracking here, here, and here, and here.
The War against Teachers
Reclaim Reform has this somber post up on the worldwide attack on the teachers, the teacher’s unions, and free speech, as well. The last video (world wide) really got to me–treating these folks like animals! Take note that World Bank demanded the austerity measures….
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