The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
SOURCED TRANSCRIPT: THE ULTIMATE HISTORY LESSON / A WEEKEND WITH JOHN TAYLOR GATTO
(ALL HOURS + Links, Notes, and References)
58 pages — a truly astonishing read
2011-07-02 Gatto Transcript and Sources
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John Taylor Gatto: The Ultimate History Lessons (Video)
John Maguire: John Taylor Gatto on 14 Educational Principles of the Elites
Eagle: How the Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State
When I saw this story this morning I could hardly believe it was real. But I have checked and it is. You can click through to download the CDC .pdf report.
I find it highly ironic that this story is appearing in a conservative religious website, because much of this enormous spread of venereal disease is arising because the Theocratic Right has done everything it can to stop useful sex education in the U.S. leaving teens, particularly teens in Red value states, completely unprepared to practice safe sex. Not surprisingly, the incidence of unintended pregnancies and STDs in those states are much higher than in Blue value states.
CDC: 110,197,000 Venereal Infections in U.S.; Nation Creating New STIs Faster Than New Jobs or College Grads
TERENCE P. JEFFREY – CNS News
Continue reading “SchwartzReport: US Venerial Disease Outpaces New Jobs or College Grads”
More evidence of the degradation of the marine environment. In 20 years natural seafood may be a memory.
Acidic Ocean Hits Pacific Northwest
ERIC NIILER – Chemical & Engineering News
Yet more evidence of environmental degradation. We simply cannot seem to achieve the political will to save the world in which we live, and on which our own wellbeing depends.
Most U.S. Rivers and Streams in Poor Biological Condition
ZACH RAUSNITZ – Fierce Government
The best law money can buy. And you aren't even going to be able to seek redress when your health is damaged.
‘Monsanto Protection Act' Slips Silently Through US Congress
RT (Russia)
America's Three-Tiered Justice System
Wednesday, 20 March 2013 00:00
By Mike Lofgren, Truthout | News Analysis
Big shots are above the law, the government now admits, but a three-tiered justice system has Congress churning out new bills to keep the prison industry booming.
“Equal Justice under Law,” is the motto inscribed on the frieze of the United States Supreme Court building.
Sticklers for semantics say that the modifiers “equal” and “under law” in the Supreme Court's motto are redundant, because justice by definition is equal treatment under a system of written and publicly accessible rules. Whether that is the case is precisely what is at issue in America today.
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Tier I: The Great and the Good
Tier II: The Great Unwashed
Tier III: The Untouchables
Singapore’s Lessons for an Unequal America
New York Times, 18 March 2013
Inequality has been rising in most countries around the world, but it has played out in different ways across countries and regions. The United States, it is increasingly recognized, has the sad distinction of being the most unequal advanced country, though the income gap has also widened to a lesser extent, in Britain, Japan, Canada and Germany. Of course, the situation is even worse in Russia, and some developing countries in Latin America and Africa. But this is a club of which we should not be proud to be a member.
Some big countries — Brazil, Indonesia and Argentina — have become more equal in recent years, and other countries, like Spain, were on that trajectory until the economic crisis of 2007-8.
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Concerns, have we.
Google Glass: The opposition grows
“Stop The Cyborgs” is a new site that attempts to bring a balanced trepidation to the unbalanced idea that we'll all be walking round with Google's outer brain strapped to our faces.
The opposition will congregate in dark corners.
They will whisper with their mouths, while their eyes will scan the room for spies wearing strange spectacles.
The spies will likely be men. How many women would really like to waft down the street wearing Google Glass?
It won't be easy. Once you've been cybernated, there's no turning back. Which is why the refuseniks are already meeting in shaded corners of the Web.
One site is called “Stop The Cyborgs.” It claims to be “fighting the algorithmic future one bit at a time.”
It's going to take a lot of bitty fighting, but the people behind this site — they're naturally anonymous, in an attempt to stop Google spying on them — say they're fighting Google Glass in particular.
They say that it will herald a world in which “privacy is impossible and corporate control total.”
Some would say that, thanks to Googlies and other bright, deluded sparks, we're there already. The Lord and Master Zuckerberg explained to us a long time ago that he knows us better than we do and that we don't actually want privacy at all.
Still, the people behind this anti-cyborg movement claim that there's no way you'll ever know that someone wearing Google Glass is recording your every word and movement.
There's no way of even knowing if someone else is recording you through their glasses from somewhere in the cloud.
And how are we, whose egos are already more fragile than a porcelain potty, supposed to feel when we know that a glasses-wearer has one eye on us and another on our Klout score or teenage sexting pictures?
The site explains: “Gradually people will stop acting as autonomous individuals, when making decisions and interacting with others, and instead become mere sensor/effector nodes of a global network.”
Continue reading “Yoda: Google Glass — Dark Side of the Force? + Big Data RECAP”
“Inspired in part by the open source movement, public spaces are emerging where people congregate to share ideas, make cool projects, teach, and brainstorm with collaborators on everything from coding to cooking. With no leaders, they have one rule: “Be excellent to each other.” Take a tour of the hackerspace Noisebridge, located in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District, with co-founder Mitch Altman.”
With educational institutions failing to provide young-people with the information and skills they need to succeed in an ever-evolving planetary-landscape, the hackerspace movement is helping to fill the void. Kids are coming out of schools ignorant, disempowered, lost, and disinterested. Entrepreneurial spirit and constructive risk-taking are in their death-throws as a result. Alternative educational/cultural spaces are needed now more than ever to rejuvenate this untapped generation of human potential.
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