Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Records Tampered With at FISA
The three most controversial paragraphs of DOJ Lawyer James A. Baker's 2002 testimony to congress have disappeared.- hmmm I wonder whyyyyy .....
Friday, January 27, 2006
The Educational System Was Designed to Keep Us Uneducated and Docile
It's no secret that the US educational system doesn't do a very good job. Like clockwork, studies show that America's schoolkids lag behind their peers in pretty much every industrialized nation. We hear shocking statistics about the percentage of high-school seniors who can't find the US on an unmarked map of the world or who don't know who Abraham Lincoln was.
Fingers are pointed at various aspects of the schooling system—overcrowded classrooms, lack of funding, teachers who can't pass competency exams in their fields, etc. But these are just secondary problems. Even if they were cleared up, schools would still suck. Why? Because they were designed to.
How can I make such a bold statement? How do I know why America's public school system was designed the way it was (age-segregated, six to eight 50-minute classes in a row announced by Pavlovian bells, emphasis on rote memorization, lorded over by unquestionable authority figures, etc.)? Because the men who designed, funded, and implemented America's formal educational system in the late 1800s and early 1900s wrote about what they were doing.
Almost all of these books, articles, and reports are out of print and hard to obtain. Luckily for us, John Taylor Gatto tracked them down. Gatto was voted the New York City Teacher of the Year three times and the New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991. But he became disillusioned with schools—the way they enforce conformity, the way they kill the natural creativity, inquisitiveness, and love of learning that every little child has at the beginning. So he began to dig into terra incognita, the roots of America's educational system.
In 1888, the Senate Committee on Education was getting jittery about the localized, non-standardized, non-mandatory form of education that was actually teaching children to read at advanced levels, to comprehend history, and, egads, to think for themselves. The committee's report stated, "We believe that education is one of the principal causes of discontent of late years manifesting itself among the laboring classes." - (more) -
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Ohrah comes clean on pathological liar author, Frey.
Dipsy-doodle publisher still doesn't get it.
Update on Oprah's website message board: they removed all book discussion.
Now that's taking the bull by the horns!
the Moussaoui trial is heating up again. SF Chronicle covering it and gov. may have to release some new docs.
There are enough weird stories about Moussaoui to have a whole page, if you don't already.
See the Global Free Press
"[Iraq beheadee]Berg attended the University of Oklahoma for a time, and Moussaoui, who was arrested in August 2001 in Minnesota when he tried to enroll in flight school, had lived in Norman, Okla., where the school is located. "
Threads -
Moussaoui and:
CIA: You got some 'splainin' to do!
There are enough weird stories about Moussaoui to have a whole page, if you don't already.
See the Global Free Press
"[Iraq beheadee]Berg attended the University of Oklahoma for a time, and Moussaoui, who was arrested in August 2001 in Minnesota when he tried to enroll in flight school, had lived in Norman, Okla., where the school is located. "
Threads -
Moussaoui and:
- Net Jets (executive rent-a-jet co. that may have shadowed flight 93)
- Nick Berg, beheaded in Iraq video subject
- U. of Oklahoma student who blew himself up with stadium-bound bomb
- the flight school
- FBI
- Norman, OK (turning into a Roswell of spook activity??)
CIA: You got some 'splainin' to do!
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
@ This Guy Sucks! Tell MSNBC adverisiers You are NOT equal to Osama Bin Laden because you
oppose the unelected (p)resident!
What the blogs say: Chris Matthews
- MSNBC - Osama Bin LadenSaturday, January 21, 2006
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Oprah responds to book scandal - removes discussion thread from website message board.
Technorati: other blogs commenting on Oprah, A Million Little Pieces, James Frey,
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Monday, January 09, 2006
A goog article on Abramoff-the-mobster - here.
"No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people . . . support your revolution," Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast.
Sunday, January 08, 2006
More Thoughts on King Kong
After seeing the latest remake of Kong the digital ape sure looks like Koko the gorilla. Especially in scenes with Naomi Watts. She looks a lot like Koko's kitten pal!
Saturday, January 07, 2006
Interesting news on FBI whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, from wotisitgood4:
SIBEL (EDMONDS): Watch the Department of State. Watch people who are involved with the countries I mentioned above. Watch their careers, where they were stationed, what jobs they held, what were their areas of expertise, where these interests overlap. Were they involved with weapons procurement ever? Would anything in their resumé indicate knowledge of and experience in not one, but several of these countries I have mentioned?
Because you know, it is not very often you can find someone with the requisite linguistic and cultural training necessary for working with several countries simultaneously, as well as the acumen and right mindset for these kinds of adventures. There can't be many.
Look out for the organizations they're involved in. Look at where these memberships overlap. Two major lobby groups that have come out in one way or another have been the American-Turkish Council and AIPAC. They're not the only ones, but you can start with them. Look at their members, their leaders past and present. Look at where these names overlap with the qualities I mentioned above.
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Technorati: other blogs commenting on F.B.I., Turkey, Sibel Edmonds,
AIPAC -
SIBEL (EDMONDS): Watch the Department of State. Watch people who are involved with the countries I mentioned above. Watch their careers, where they were stationed, what jobs they held, what were their areas of expertise, where these interests overlap. Were they involved with weapons procurement ever? Would anything in their resumé indicate knowledge of and experience in not one, but several of these countries I have mentioned?
Because you know, it is not very often you can find someone with the requisite linguistic and cultural training necessary for working with several countries simultaneously, as well as the acumen and right mindset for these kinds of adventures. There can't be many.
Look out for the organizations they're involved in. Look at where these memberships overlap. Two major lobby groups that have come out in one way or another have been the American-Turkish Council and AIPAC. They're not the only ones, but you can start with them. Look at their members, their leaders past and present. Look at where these names overlap with the qualities I mentioned above.
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Thursday, January 05, 2006
... oh, about that billionaire slimeball who owns that mine where 12 workers died ... here's pix from his big wheel wedding. Pig.
(looks like he married his granddaughter)
(looks like he married his granddaughter)
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
From Rev. Billy -
Great PHOTOS of the Stop Shopping Choir on Main Street "USA". By St. Fred Askew. He took the anti-war Jesus photo I use on the homepage of Camp Shut Down. You go , Fred!
Letter from the Disneyland Jail
Great PHOTOS of the Stop Shopping Choir on Main Street "USA". By St. Fred Askew. He took the anti-war Jesus photo I use on the homepage of Camp Shut Down. You go , Fred!
Monday, January 02, 2006
The Hidden State Steps Forward
In the Nation Jan. 6 iss.
by JONATHAN SCHELL
... Thus has Bush informed the members of a supposedly co-equal branch of government of what, unbeknownst to themselves, they were thinking when they cast their vote. The alarming argument is that as Commander in Chief he possesses "inherent" authority to suspend laws in wartime. But if he can suspend FISA at his whim and in secret, then what law can he not suspend? What need is there, for example, to pass or not pass the Patriot Act if any or all of its provisions can be secretly exceeded by the President? (more)
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