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Sunday, October 16, 2016

Foreign Influence & America's Choice - The Crucial Voice of the People

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Foreign Influence & America’s Choice

Defining the Education-Industrial Complex

Wow! It took this crap-fest of a presidential election to get the issue of foreign influence to the national stage. But seriously, we actually do need to talk about foreign influence in the inner workings of our government —in the making of our laws.
Sure, we should be appalled by foreign governments trying to influence our elections butforeign influence in our government is nothing new; it’s business as usual in the cesspool of Congress.878492
Oh, and I might as well be upfront with you. This blog isn’t about the presidential election. This is about BIG money in politics. This is about foreign interference in our lives on a regular basis.
So please, hang with me on this little, but disgusting, story. You need to know how multinational corporations stealthily exert foreign influence on Congress and pilfer our coffers. And even worse, the villains in this story are quietly working to privatize a whole public system and create a global monopoly on education. (Hidden Privatisation) TRUE STORY!
The story begins with the British-owned company Pearson Education Corporation. They aren’t the dreaded Russians but they are a foreign influence none-the-less.
Pearson provides publishing and assessment services to corporations and schools from Pre-K to higher education and …. professional learning (oh, that’s a story for another Foreign Influence & America's Choice - The Crucial Voice of the PeopleThe Crucial Voice of the People: