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.
Millionaires in Congress continuing the “Let Them Eat Cake” campaign…and look the other way while people go hungry…
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.
Once again, Glenda Ritz is under threat of losing her authority granted to her by the citizens of Indiana….who voted more for her than Pence.
Calling all Hoosiers…send out emails to have your voice heard. Don’t let Pence become a dictator!
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.
Diane Ravitch has an account of a teacher’s experience in a Gulen charter school. Unreal.
No books. And teachers with 100 students limited to 25 copies per day. Money missing from their paychecks unaccounted for. Seriously?
All of this is flying under the radar because the mainstream media is not only not covering the Newark 5, they’re not covering the criminal and unethical activities of people running charter schools.
…but they’ll be more than happy to run story after story of bad teachers in public schools…
Mi’kmaq Warriors will begin a speaking tour on the environmental protests against fracking, but also pipelines and tar sands.
“We are all being systematically displaced within our own traditional territories,” Patles explained. “Once they destroy our territories and these resource companies are gone, we will be the ones left with destroyed land and poisoned water.”
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Again, we have the disaster capitalism…take the resources without even paying for them, and then leave poisoned land and water. And no, I don’t think the Mi’kmaq would take money even if it were offered to them. Their spirituality cannot be bought…and the Earth is seen as connected to the Creator…
You can’t buy clean air, clean water, nor clean land after it’s been poisoned. This point seems to always be lost on politicians and energy companies who couldn’t care less what happens to people after the fact…
In the latest gang rape of a woman from India. I can’t even wrap my brain around elders ordering this brutality. What kind of sick mind thinks this is okay??
Blessings to her and hopefully gaining strength from this…
**edited to add: to elaborate more on my previous post on domestic violence–I don’t mean to give men a pass for violence when I look for the cause behind it, such as heavy metal toxicity or steroids. I do try to look for reasons other than surface reasons.
I think ultimately, the man makes that decision to hit her because:
1. He can.
2. Society has not strongly condemned such action, so he doesn’t feel the pressure NOT to hit or rape her.
3. Women and children are still looked upon as possessions.
4. Economic inequality plays a role in women being seen as second class.
5. If she stays home instead of working outside the home, she is extremely vulnerable and society has not valued her being at home nor made provisions to help her if she needs to leave an abusive situation. The opposite will happen, where she is pressured to stay in the relationship by society.
Occupy Monsanto is organizing a protest on January 28th in Missouri — at their annual shareholders meeting:
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NEWS ADVISORY |
CONTACT: Mark Bohnert – 314-265-5140, markbstl@gmail.com |
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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