Deutsch29 has an excellent blog up on the *cough* Center for Union Facts (CUF) running a full page ad in the NY Times. Upon closer examination, our old friend, Rick Berman, gun for hire, is behind CUF, among other organizations. Note the letter from his son, David. Pretty sad, eh?
AFT has a short video up on the 5 myths about school performance.
…because his family is….wait for it….the wealthy one percent.
He sounds like a holy terror. I feel sorry for anyone who gets in his way, because obviously no one is going to hold him accountable for his actions.
I disagree with the “if this kid were black” theme….if this kid were poor, yes, you would have me in complete agreement. But I’m not certain that if this were a black kid from a wealthy family, he would be put in jail. The wealthy have connections that poor folks don’t.
But this isn’t the only thing rich kids get away with–they also abuse drugs and are not sent to prison (there I would agree that black folk are unfairly sent to prison when white kids are doing the same thing). And, as this story also illustrates, they can get away with sexual misconduct.
Like the blogger says–there’s a different set of rules for some Americans. And Lady Justice is no longer blind in the eyes of justice….but serving the highest bidder.
….now get lost. And eat sh*t, too, while you’re at it (they dumped chicken manure on the homeless camp).
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!
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?
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?
Common dreams has a compilation by Sarah Lazare on the corporate take over of public schools.
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.
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