(Side note~ I updated the “Eat Cake” blog–)
Warrior Publications has this up on the racist rant of *cough* Ethical Oil, a pro-oil group.
Al Gore said in this article “there’s no such thing as ethical oil”….
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Newark parents fighting back
This just makes my morning! Bob Braun’s article here.
The explosion of personal anger occurred at 8:30 pm, two hours after the meeting at First Avenue School got off to a delayed and troubled start. Scores of residents who wanted to attend the meeting were kept outside in single-digit temperatures. Then some were allowed to enter an unheated cafeteria. Police officers, citing fire regulations, said the auditorium in the school was too crowded.
The venue clearly was chosen to keep the size of the crowd down.
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See…you can control the negative speech against you by making it harder for the mounting opposition to even get a space to stand.
Remember what I said in the previous blog about education and how it seemed like they were trying to separate kids from their parents by reducing the amount of time at home?
Well, this statement kind of supports that:
a letter to families that suggested if Newark children were home from school they would get into trouble, make the city “less safe” and cause crime to go up
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Where do I start? The insinuation is that parents don’t know how to raise their kids. That kids are little criminals just waiting for the opportunity to commit a criminal act.
Perhaps art and music instruction would be helpful here in creating and encouraging imaginations so that kids could entertain themselves while out of school, eh?
They could be painting, drawing, learning a new game, playing/practicing an instrument, playing tag outside, making snow sharks 🙂 , or doing something to give back, like shoveling an elderly/disabled person’s sidewalks, or running errands…the list is endless….
NSA using phone apps like Angry Birds to gather personal info
Well, I wish I could say I’m surprised, but no…nobody is going to design a game and give it away for free…ain’t gonna happen without some benefit for themselves. No free lunches, folks.
Here we have another case of taxation without representation…since a majority of people want this invasion of privacy to stop.
Update: Indiana HB1320
Update on this post on the power grab/information grab by Pence and his henchmen.
I found this summary of the bill– as you can see, it does not outline what information is being gathered. It does not say who is receiving this information. It does not outline how this benefits children and education. And why does the state need to provide backup when schools routinely backup their own records??
As I wrote on Diane’s blog–
It looks like Gates has his dirty little fingers in this–gathering more information for…what? or perhaps I should say…who? What kind of information are they gathering? Who will benefit from gathering this information?
The bill does not tell us. Highly suspicious.
I also found this excellent blog by Doug Martin (you might recall he posted on firedoglake).
If passed into law, HB1320 will probably hand another $3.7 million of our tax dollars to a private company which will sell off personal and confidential information of students and families to companies out to market their products and agenda to them.
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This new move is not a new one. In fact, HB1320 was probably inspired by a model bill drafted for various states by the American Legislative Exchange Council, the corporate sponsored bill-mill behind the scenes in Indiana and across the country bringing us school privatization, attacks on the postal service and unions, and the infamous Stand Your Ground Law.
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Yep. This has the smell of ALEC all over it.
Sherman and Crabtree
I’m not a big football fan, but have caught the controversy surrounding Richard Sherman and his opponent, Michael Crabtree.
I think the whole thing has been blown waaaay out of proportion. Sherman wasn’t threatening Crabtree with physical violence. Should he have toned it down a bit? Yes, in my opinion. But it’s not on the level of being a thug, as some have referred to him.
Ed Schultz was talking about it, and Sherman has questioned whether “thug” is the new word for the n-word. I don’t know, but I don’t think so.
I do find it interesting that the media, which framed this message in a way that almost guaranteed Sherman would be flamed for what happened. The video is cut off to *just* Sherman’s rant….instead of showing the entire context with Crabtree pushing Sherman away after Sherman offered to shake hands. That is why Sherman went off. Again, it wasn’t the wisest thing, but yeah, not a crime, either.
~~As a side note, MSNBC, via Ed Schultz, is once again trying to push Hillary Clinton for president with yet another talking head declaring that “everybody” wants Clinton for candidate. Bullshit.
I find it ironic that Ed is blasting the new super secret trade agreement, TPP, while promoting Hillary Clinton for president. She is in the back pocket of Wall Street, and Big Oil, and the war profiteers. Her husband signed NAFTA into law which drove our economy into the toilet…and here Schultz was promoting her. Unreal.
The Newark Five: Being heard
The Chalk Face has a video up of the Newark principals who were put on indefinite layoff (fired) for exercising their right to Free Speech. (hat tip GF Brandenburg)
This is probably the only place you’ll hear them…because no one in the mainstream media is covering this. It is a hot topic going by the amount of activity my blog has received. This should be a top story on the networks…and yet…*crickets*.
Why?
Occupy Monsanto protests
Occupy Monsanto is organizing a protest on January 28th in Missouri — at their annual shareholders meeting:
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Protests Over GMO Food Labeling Come to Monsanto Annual Shareholder Meeting January 28
Monsanto Shareholders to Vote on GMO Food Labeling for the First Time
Activist Efforts Force Meeting to Be Broadcast LIVE Via Internet
CREVE COEUR, MISSOURI – Every January the shareholders of Monsanto Company come from all over the world to Creve Coeur, Missouri, in order to attend the company’s annual shareholder meeting. For the first time a shareholder has introduced a “GMO Food Labeling” resolution that will be voted on at the meeting. Unlike previous years the annual shareholder meeting will not be conducted completely behind closed doors, instead members of the media and public will be able to listen online. Activists have repeatedly asked for the video of the shareholder meeting to be streamed online but Monsanto has only met activists half way and will stream only the audio of the meeting. Outside of the shareholder meeting safe food activists will gather along Olive Blvd to urge shareholders to support the shareholder resolution.
WHO: Adam Eidinger, Monsanto Activist Shareholder, GMO Free Midwest Coalition, “Are We Eating Fishy Food?” GMO Art Cars, and Concerned Citizens
WHAT: Protest at Monsanto Annual Shareholder Meeting to Support Vote on “GMO Food Labeling”
WHEN: Noon to 3pm, January 28, 2014
WHERE: Olive Blvd at Monsanto’s East Campus Entrance, Creve Coeur, MO
If the shareholder resolution passes, Monsanto will be required to work with the Food and Drug Administration to label genetically engineered foods nationally. Monsanto’s executives oppose the resolution, but shareholders, many of whom are represented by faceless mutual funds, will have the final say on the chemical giant’s GMO labeling position.
You can read the text of the “GMO Food Labeling” shareholder resolution:
http://occupy-monsanto.com/new-monsanto-shareholder-resolution-supports-gmo-labeling/
Another shareholder resolution to be voted on at the company’s annual meeting is sponsored by activist investor John Harrington and deals with Monsanto’s potential liability to organic farmers. The protests at Monsanto will be the first since last October when more than 500 activists descended on the company’s headquarters for the March Against Monsanto.
For more information: www.occupy-monsanto.com
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Autistic Child found in New York
NBC News has this posted. The remains of the autistic child that disappeared from school have been found.
I was re-reading my blog on school colocation that had mentioned an autistic child had gone missing because the school was so overcrowded, he slipped out without being noticed. I wonder if this is the school…and if so, why aren’t the networks mentioning this? (I had seen the news on CNN before NBC website)
Wanna bet they won’t mention that school overcrowding via colocation with charters is responsible for this death?
Yeah, just like they’re *all over* the Newark school principal firings…er I mean indefinite layoffs (yeah, they were fired…)…haven’t heard a peep about it, but judging by the visitors to my blog on it, this is a hot issue.
The Law and Louisiana Teachers
This is why I love the law….if it is working properly (i.e., judges apply it fairly), then the “little guy” wins out even when being bullied by those bigger with $$ bank accounts. Woot.
The Octopus of inBloom…
Mercedes Schneider has an excellent blog up on all the twists and turns of school profiteering–who is involved, who’s making the $$ off of our kids. It’s an in-depth blog well worth the time of the read.
The comments are intelligent, as well. One of them links to this article. Bill and Melinda Gates are freaking insane. How detached from the real world does one have to be to think this is okay?? It’s not a true measurement of engagement in the lesson–it only measures arousal. The student could be thinking of something else, as one comment in the article illustrates, not what is being taught. Creepy doesn’t *begin* to describe this electronic gadget.
Note the very last paragraph where National Council on Teacher Quality, which receives funding from the Gates Foundation promotes this insanity. Remember, folks, Gates is now part of the Billionaires Media Message….gotta keep that in mind when reading anything positive on Gates, et al., because they’ve probably written it themselves or had any number of people they support financially do their dirty work for them.
Also, in the link Mercedes provided for her former post on this, is this gem:
First of all, it was Gates money that funded the inBloom data “cloud.”
Next, the sponsor of the webinar, EWA, has taken $2.7 million in Gates money since 2003.
Third, the Data Quality Campaign (DQC) has taken $13.5 million in Gates money. (In November 2013, I wrote this post on Aimee Guidera and DQC. Enlightening reading.)
Fourth, USDOE Assistant Secretary for Innovation and Improvement Jim Shelton used to work for Gates as the Gates Foundation director of its education division. Shelton is also a partner with the charter-market-creating New Schools Venture Fund (a connection to Education Undersecretary nominee Ted Mitchell) AND was a senior management consultant for McKinsey and Company (former employer of Common Core “lead architect” David Coleman).
Fifth, Fordham University professor Joel Reidenberg and others conducted a study on privacy issues and “cloud computing”… funded by Microsoft.
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Yep, it’s the revolving door with Jim Shelton…like the FDA. Anyone wanna bet Shelton will go back to Gates once his work to destroy public education is done?
Finally, another person posted this link of a group of Carbondale, Colorado parents getting together to fight for our public schools.
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