source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com
Activist Post is an outstanding source for revealing factual reporting. The following documentation reminds us of the details of Orwellian unlawful US government dictates/dictatorship that corporate media obfuscates. I’ve written that by any objective definition, the US government is no longer a constitutional repbulic, but most accurately understood as fascism.
For context, here is a summary of my 30-years’ experience working with US “leadership” in government, economics and corporate media:
I teach US History, Advanced Placement (AP) US Government and AP Macroeconomics. As a “hobby,” I helped grow the citizen’s lobby, RESULTS, that led to two UN Summits (1990 World Summit for Children- the largest meeting of heads of state in world history – and the 1997 Microcredit Summit- topic of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize). US political leadership of both parties reneged on each and every public and private promise to act for ending poverty from these two UN summits. Leadership rejects saving a million children’s lives each month despite the fact that in every historical case it also
The August 12, 2001 article "New data prove that two-tier society is a fact of California life" by Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee is apparently not on their site any more. I'm copying it from here because it needs to be preserved as an example of the California Establishment realizing the problems they helped create:
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Sixteen years ago, two academic researchers took note of the powerful economic and social forces that were just then beginning to sweep through California and made what many thought was a very bold, even risky, projection about the state.
University of California, Davis, economist Philip Martin and Washington-based sociologist Leon Bouvier concluded in 1985 that with the state's population expanding dramatically due to immigration, and its economy shifting from old-style manufacturing to high technology and services, seeds were being sown for socioeconomic fragmentation.
"The large increases projected for Hispanics and Asians in the labor force suggest a continuation of the emerging two-tier economy," Martin and Bouvier wrote in a research paper published by the Population Reference Bureau,
As someone who runs a teacher quality organization, clearly I'd love it if that statement were even remotely accurate but,to be blunt, it's dead wrong. The 'teachers matter' refrain has been spouted so much in the past ten years that, predictably, we've lost important perspective. The truth is that SES and family background still swamp school effects by a 3:1 margin.In spite of these odds, we can still have daily reminders that teachers matter plenty. But we do schools and teachers an injustice by inflicting upon them superhero powers, especially when we also wrongly insist that superhero status can be achieved just by being basically smart and stupendous results are possible no matter what curriculum is used.Make no mistake about it. Overcoming the learning deficits of many poor and
By Terry Morrone
We’re in a class war and we’re losing. The rich are getting richer and everyone else is getting poorer. We’re abusing the planet through global warming and pollution. Unless we make radical changes, we’re heading for poverty, starvation and constant war. The whole world is in crisis, not just the United States. The amoral behavior of corporations and their allies in government are causing most of our problems. They don’t care how many people they kill in their quest for money and power. Imagine a world without laws. That’s what exists now for the rich and powerful. But our identification with the rich and the respect we give to anyone with money, no matter how they got it, is also a problem.
In this report I’m going to briefly describe the destructive behavior of our major corporations and banks. Then I’m going to suggest a list of remedies that I and others advocate. There seems to be a consensus on what has to be done among a group of progressive economists I’m familiar with.
I’m putting this picture here in a shameless attempt to get sympathy for our fight to save our pensions. If you’re not willing to call your Illinois state senator and house member so that this poor, sweet, old teacher can live out the remaining days of her life on the $43,000 a year an average retired teacher in Illinois receives, what kind of heartless person are you?
I mean, if the Wall Street wheeler dealers can blame the financial crisis on a public school teachers, why can’t I be allowed to pull on your heart-strings?
Just a little.
Did you read Charles Blow in the NY Times today?
The Wall Street Journal reported last week on some 40 states that use prepaid debit cards to issue payments like unemployment benefits and child support.
Old school.
Billie Holiday.
Michelle A. Rhee butted heads frequently during her three-year tenure as schools chancellor of
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This was written by Horace B. Lucido, a retired physics instructor, author and educational consultant, and a founding member ofEducators and Parents Against Testing Abuse.
By Horace B. Lucido
Sports referees make split second decisions. Judges and doctors do too, sometimes decisions that are life changing. Despite the subjective nature of their judgments, they are given respect and trust because of their training and experience, and we most often accept their decisions as valid.
This was once the same type of respect given to our public school teachers, the professionals who work in the classroom. But since the onslaught of state and national high-stakes testing regimes, too many
"For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms. They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and wasted, upon the gentle breeze. So will it be with present feelings. They must be deepened into decision, or be entirely dissapated by delay." Theodore Cuyler
"The deepest principle of human nature is the desire
