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School Colocation
Yeah, I didn’t know what “colocation” meant, either. The former post on Bloomberg at Diane Ravitch’s has led to a great discussion on it and there is a charter school troll there advocating Success Academy, a charter. A poster supplied a link to an insightful post here.
This is just absolutely wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Another link provided a report on Eva Moskowitz and Success Academy receiving preferential treatment from the DOE. Good Grief, can they be any more of an enabler?
More here,
The preceding also has a link to Juan Gonzalez’s column on the sardine-like atmosphere in the colocation schools. Shocking cannot even describe the overcrowded conditions that led to an autistic child disappearing. Good God.
…and $1300 on marketing…per child….are you kidding me?? That money could have been used for public schools in more education-oriented ways. It’s just mindboggling how dense and misguided this misuse of funds is…
…and how the public is being ignored:
Moreover, it is also clear from the abundance of comments at public hearings that the vast majority of parents oppose these proposals – and these parents’ choices are being ignored. Just check any of the Public comment analyses on the DOE webpage. In many of these summaries, every single parent who spoke opposed the co-location, as well as representatives of the Community Education Councils and elected officials.
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The public, that pays the taxes for the public schools, is…ignored.
Pushback on Menendez
DS Wright has this up on the pushback towards Robert Menendez for his efforts to destroy ongoing talks with Iran. It’s beyond comprehension.
Enbridge allowed to go ahead in Canada
Warrior Publications has a blog up on the ruling that it’s okay to allow a repeat offender access to its victims…
Part of the problem with the conditions set is that even though Enbridge must carry $950 million in insurance…one cannot replace what is lost with…money. You can’t eat money. You can’t breathe money. You can’t drink money. It won’t make a bit of difference if you have billions upon billions of dollars if you are made ill by breathing particulate, eating food grown in polluted soil, or trying to cleanse your kidneys and liver with petrochemically poisoned water.
We will not obey TPP
Wisconsin, bless their little hearts, have drafted a resolution that they are a “TPP-free” zone. The negotiations have been shielded from public scrutiny but the article states that bits have leaked out and…it’s scary as hell–a Monsanto lobbyist is leading the negotiations.
From the article:
Countries, including those in the European Union, could also find it increasingly difficult to ban, or even require the labeling of, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) if biotech companies determine that those countries’ strict policies restrict fair trade and infringe on the companies’ “rights” to profit.
To top it off, corporations would be allowed to resolve trade disputes in special international tribunals, effectively wiping out hundreds of domestic and international food sovereignty laws. Products labeled fair trade, organic, country-of-origin, animal-welfare approved, or GMO-free, could all be challenged as “barriers to trade.”
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It’s an attack on local autonomy….the right to decide what is best for your community.Good Grief, these corporations can.not.get.enough.profits. Greed, greed, greed.
Framing the news
Look at this segment on ABC News on the ruling that what the NSA is doing is Unconstitutional.
Just the wording alone is alarmist:
CIA Spy Ruling Could Be a Major Setback for the War on Terror
(sorry for the large type)
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The segment states that this is a victory for Edward Snowden. (!)
Wow. Just wow. Journalists…er, um, people who get a paycheck pretending to be journalists…who didn’t do their job in the first place, making it imperative for someone else–in this case Edward Snowden–to do what they should have been doing are putting this as a victory for him.
Instead, they should be saying this is a victory for our democracy.
This is a victory for upholding our Constitution.
They frame it as a blow to the war on terror when, as the judge states, there is no evidence that this has saved lives.
And eavesdropping on friendly countries…? How is that helping the war on terror? Is Angela Merkel a terrorist?
Boiling the frog…
Idle No More has a virtual “teach-in” up on the web (scroll down) by Sharon Venne. It’s a really interesting piece on the historical treatment of the indigenous and how s-l-o-w-l-y their culture and their land has been “disappeared”.
As she says in her talk, it goes on over such a slow period of time, that one doesn’t realize what is happening until it’s almost too late….like the frog put in a pan of water that the heat is turned up so slowly that the frog doesn’t realize it’s being boiled to death.
It’s really worth watching it all the way through–she has such a good story to tell of her own struggle to get an education. She tells the story of not being able to read until going to university. (By the way, Literacy Volunteers are out there to help folks learn to read–check with your local library). She was continually kept in stress mode by them not sending her monthly stipends on time so she could pay her rent. God Bless the administrator who helped her.
She makes an important point at about 29:00 minutes in– of what sounds like the precursor to “corporations are people, too”. If anything, we need to pay better attention to what is going on in other countries…especially to the poor and minorities…because it seems to be a worldwide power grab–given that there have been austerity measures all over the globe and attacks on teacher’s unions and such. More here.
And here.
Oklahoma earthquakes and fossil fuel wastewater
Another state joins in GMO food labeling
….but there’s one little issue–getting four other states to also require GMO labeling. Nice way to get the GMO labeling crowd off your back while appearing to actually do something.
Allen Dulles and his brother
Elliott at firedoglake has this preview of a book salon today at 5:00 p.m. EST. Wow. Just listening to the short video just sends the mind reeling….if there were any reason for limiting the power of the defense dept, and especially defense contractors, this is IT. Dulles had entirely too much power to manipulate situations towards his own personal goals instead of what was best. And his warped view of what freedom means is just stunning….it’s all about the money.
A wiki entry on JFK and Allen Dulles here.
I’ve read a couple of blogs on JFK and the CIA theories, and Huffpost mentions Senator Hart, who was on the Church Committee to investigate. He put it on the press’ failure to follow up on the witnesses being shot and other leads. He also states that nobody wants to put this out there because whomever did it is still “out there”. Well, I don’t know about that particular person or persons, since it was 50 years ago….but yeah, there are still mercenaries born every minute who would just as soon shoot you as look at you. It’s called courage, Gary, when you speak out even though you’re scared.
Another Presbyterian, Maggie Kuhn, spoke the phrase: “Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”
Funny that she and Allen Dulles could be of the same faith with such opposing views…
Eagle 
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